Mathematical prediction of dry etch results have been difficult, if not impossible, over the years due to the complexity inherent in plasma processing. With device requirements tightening combined with the high cost of running test masks, it becomes even more important for process engineers to have some means by which to model accurately this increasingly complex activity. In this paper, a correlation between a novel, plasma chrome etch model and empirical data will be presented. Practical effects of chrome loading are also discussed. From the empirical data side, studies on the photomask chrome etch process using e-beam resists were carried out following strict design of experiments (DOE) format. Photomask chrome etch processes with different resists (ZEP and positive CAR) were investigated using a Unaxis VLR 770 ICP etcher and an AMAT Tetra etcher. A Toshiba EBM-3500B (50KeV) was used for the pattern writing on positive CAR resist. A KLA-Tencor P12-EX profiler, Leica LWM 250 UV CD optical measurement system, and a KLA-Tencor 8250XP-R CD SEM were used for metrology and product characterization. Significant etch performance differences were shown on these etchers irrespective of the resist type used. A special measurable number was defined and found to have a linear relationship with etch movement on both AMAT and VLR etchers.


Light projection tomography system is illuminated using a light source (130). Some of the tubes (107) including the object is placed within the area illuminated by the light source (130), the tube including the object (107) is, the object of interest having a feature of interest (114) including. Detector (112) is positioned to receive radiation from the object of interest (114). Lens including an optical field larger element (1) (103) is disposed in the optical path between the object area and the detector (104), whereby a plurality of objects in the tube (107) including the object light rays from the surface (Zn) (130) is, at the same time focusing on the detector (104). Tube containing the object (107) is movement towards the relatively detector (104), lens (103) results in multiple views of the object space to create an image of the feature of interest in each view It operates as.


1. One feeding trial was conducted to study the effects of different dietary levels (0-3-6-9%) and combinations of lard, soybean oil, and flax seed oil on the fatty acid composition of the egg yolk lipid. Special attention was given to the compositional stability of these fats. The results were evaluated by response surface modeling. 2. The apparent deposition rate of total lipid and fatty acids as well depended on both the dietary level and the metabolic pathway of the fatty acids (de novo synthesis, rate of transfer,...). 3. The U/S-ratio of the yolk fat varied from 2.0 to 3.1. The major changes in yolk fatty acids were within the C18-unsaturates, whereby changes in C18-PUFAs were balanced by proportional changes in oleic acid. The results indicated no de nove synthesis for the C18-PUFAs. The maximum incorporation levels for linoleic and linoleic acid were 33.5 and 19.8%, respectively. The ω-6/ω-3-ratio's of the yolk fat were obviously higher than those of the respective dietary fat combinations. 4. No differences in sensory characteristics were observed


This study examines to what extent professionals were able to predict accurately parents' responses to a questionnaire on the impact of the handicapped child. There were signficant differences between parents' and professionals' responses. When compared to parents' actual responses, professionals tended to overestimate the negative impact of the handicapped child on family relationships. They overestimated the extent to which parents reported community rejection and lack of support. They also underestimated parents' ability to use appropriate teaching and behavior management techniques in the home. The service needs of families of handicapped children are discussed in light of these findings.


Abstract We present the results of astrometric and photometric observations of comets and minor planets obtained at the Kiev comet station (Code MPC 585) of the Astronomical Observatory of Kyiv Shevchenko National University in 2006-2009. The 2318 position observations of 176 comets, 302 observations of 57 numbered minor planets, and 220 observations of 30 unnumbered minor planets were obtained. The accuracy of the astrometric observations of the comets is analyzed.


Alpinia officinarum Hance is a very popular spice and has been widely applied in medicine,food and food preservation.In the present study,a review on the chemical composition,extraction methods,bioactivity,and the application foreground of essential oil of Alpinia officinarum Hance was given.


Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) represent fundamental powerful processes in which energy is transferred from the Sun into interplanetary space. Their origin, 3D structure, and internal magnetic field configuration are to date not well understood. Unprecedented data provided by the instruments onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) allow for the first time the resolution of fine structures within CMEs, which can help to deduce their 3D configuration. A set of "structured" CMEs was identified from the full set of SOHO/LASCO observations, while their solar source regions were inferred from complementary analyses of SOHO/EIT, SOHO/MDI, and ground-based H-alpha measurements. From the characteristic distribution of the CMEs source regions, a generic scheme of 3D configuration is deduced, according to which the projected white-light topology of a CME depends primarily on the heliographic position and orientation of the source region's underlying neutral line. The cylindrical geometry found in the structured CMEs implies that they are organized along an axial direction. Furthermore, the typical dimensions of structured CMEs exhibiting extreme projections (viewed along their axis or perpendicular to it) were investigated. The measured dimensions indicate that these CMEs would be better approximated by elliptic cones, rather than by the classical cone of circular cross section. The dimensions of halo CMEs originating near Sun center are expected to agree with those obtained for the structured events. In order to understand the CME topology better, an elliptical cone model was developed as an improvement to the existing circular cone model, in an effort to fit and reproduce a set of halo CMEs from LASCO.


This article reviews papers presented at the 7th International Conference on AIDS in Florence which reflected the theme of the relationship between knowledge and behavior change. Many of the cases presented were descriptive and lacked rigorous hypothesis testing, but were in the direction of smaller scale hypothesis testing. Abstracts MD4041, 4069, and 4045 reported a lack of a relationship between good knowledge and behavior change among South African university students, English STD clinic attenders, and California family planning (FP) clinic clients. Neither perception nor lack thereof of risk related to behavior change. Abstracts MD4049 and 4053 identified factors which may be related to translating risk perception to behavior change: presence of a permanent relationship among gay men, and self affirmation among gay men. Among injecting drug users, other risk factors were low socioeconomic status (MD 4035), lack of self efficacy among men (MD4031) and women (MD4077), machismo (MDMD4007), nitrites, cannabis, and alcohol (MD4071), and education level MD4085). Social skills and self efficacy were repeatedly the more important intervening variables. Education and skill building intervention (MD4135) were related to increased skills in prevention of risky sexual and drug behavior among California high school students. Counseling interventions were difficult to assess in terms of behavior impact (MD 4281, 4026, 4203). Associations rather than causal links were found in many studies (WD1,4,4130). In 1 study the stage of readiness to stop high risk behavior was a critical component of self efficacy. Some studies found behavior changes over time that were inconsistent or incomplete but were unable to explain why. MD4039 found that the number of salient messages was related to prevention behaviors. WD4275 found the AIDS education has short term effects only on attitudes and knowledge. WD4102 found no correlation between knowledge or attitudes prediscussion, post, or 3 months later. WD4111 found no relation after safe sex workshop stressing condom use. WD4123 compared multiple and intensive interventions and found reduction in risky sexual behavior. Risk reduction with seropositive HIV clients was effective in short term sexual behavior changes (WD4050). Health workers needed retraining and supervision (WD4031).


Literature has shown that considerations of learning styles are important in the educational process of health professionals. Among other variables, differences of learning styles may be influenced by language, culture, and heritage. The purpose of this study was to describe the learning styles of nursing students at an Hispanic-serving university. This study discusses the influence of gender and ethnicity on learning styles and the role of academic acculturation in nursing education.


Colorectal cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed and lethal cancers worldwide. It is the resultant of multistep processes caused by the accumulation of genetic/epigenetic aberrations. The different therapeutic strategies like radiotherapy, chemotherapy and surgery, used individually or in different combinations, do not remove tumors or their progression all the time. Besides, these procedures involve surrounding cells and tissues. In case of surgery, which is possible only before metastasis, even a single cancer cell left out during surgery, cause further cancer. Focus has been laid in developing agents that could specifically target the cancer cells and leave out the remaining normal cells. This also attempt at total recovery. This was how the focus was laid on viral agents. Over the last two decades, due to various advancements in molecular biology, virotherapy has seen various developments. A special class of viruses called oncolytic viruses have been used as a therapeutic strategy against cancer. These agents have various inherent and engineered factors like enhanced tissue tropism, thereby providing high selectivity; armed with transgenes to deliver therapeutic genes and to perform tumor selective replication, all these factors proving them improved and evolved mechanisms, when compared with other cancer therapeutics. These oncolytic viruses provide greater protection in association with herbal remedies. The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed account of some of the current observations, developments and insights made in the field of oncolytic virotherapy for targeting colorectal cancer cells. A panel of five oncolytic viruses i.e. adenovirus, herpes virus, reovirus, vaccinia virus and new castle disease virus that are under clinical studies for targeting colorectal cancer cells have been discussed.


Absorption of positive pions on {sup 16}O at 65 MeV has been measured with a large solid angle detector, covering also noncoplanar kinematics. Cross sections for reactions leading to little explored final states with three or four energetic nucleons ({ital ppp},{ital pd}, and {ital ppd}) have been determined. These processes contribute about 1/3 to the total absorption cross section. Roughly 1/10 of all charged coincidence events involves the emission of a deuteron. Evidence for backward-peaked direct deuteron emission in the {ital pd} and {ital ppd} channels has been found.


Biodiversity loss in farmlands is widely documented, and agriculture intensification has been identified as a main driver of this decline. Numerous agri-environmental policies have been implemented to assess the negative impacts of agricultural intensification on biodiversity. However, most published studies focus on land-use scenarios, thus neglecting the economic dimension. We develop a bio-economic spatially explicit modelling across 620 small French agricultural areas, which couples a public decision maker under budgetary constraint, regional economic agents in a context of uncertainty and breeding bird dynamics. Using dynamic models, we analyse the direct impacts of several current economic scenarios of the Common Agriculture Policy on common bird communities through five ecological indicators, all related to breeding populations of birds in farmlands: the farmland bird index (FBI), a generalist bird index (GBI), the Shannon diversity index, a community specialization index (CSI) and a community trophic index (CTI). We consider these indicators to scan various functional traits of bird communities. Trends in the different indicators are significantly contrasted pending on economic policy scenarios. Scenarios promoting intensive crops lead to small but specialized communities with more granivorous species, hence a low trophic level for the community. By contrast, promoting extensive grasslands increases the population size, enhances high trophic level but decreases community specialization. Evaluation of agricultural policies should not rely on a single indicator per taxonomic group. In the context of potential reversal of current bird declines, bio-economic modelling, involving farmland incomes, is proposed as a relevant support for decision making about sustainable agri-environmental policies. Promoting extensive grasslands is essential for the sustainable management of bird communities and agriculture. We, however, reveal more complex economic effects and synergies between public incentives, which appear to give interesting leverage for enhancing the bio-economic effectiveness of agricultural policies.


Background Tofacinitib (Pfizer) is an oral Janus kinase inhibitor, recently approved for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Although its mechanism of action has been explored in circulating cells, in particular neutrophils and lymphocyte, its effect on dendritic cells development remains still to be elucidate. Monocyte-derived dendritic cells are a subset of inflammatory DC derived from circulating monocytes and have a key role in inflammation and infection. Objectives The aim of this project is to evaluate the effect of Tofacitinib on inflammatory monocyte-derived dendritic cells (Mo-DC) from RA and PsA patients, and in particular on the ability of monocyte to differentiate into dendritic cells, an important step in innate immunity. Methods Mo-DC were isolated from blood of RA and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients by magnetic separation. Monocyte were plated in presence/absence of GM-CSF/IL-4 cocktail for 7 days, to acquire immature dendritic cell phenotype. To evaluate the effect of Tofacinitib on Mo-DC differentiation, monocyte were treated with 1 µM Tofacinitib (or DMSO as control) for 15 min prior to cytokine stimulation. CD209 (immature DC marker) and CD14 (monocyte marker) were evaluated by flow cytometry in the CD11c positive population. Phagocytosis was investigated by the analysis of dendritic cell uptake of soluble antigens through two different mechanisms: non-specific macropinocytosis (using Lucifer Yellow), and receptor-mediated endocytosis (using DQTM Ovalbumin).1 Western blot analysis was utilised for analysis of NOX5 and Actin protein expression on the total cell lysate. Results The pre-treatment of Mo-DC with Tofacinitib inhibited Mo-DC differentiation in RA and PsA patients, as shown by reduced CD209 surface marker expression, and a mirrored increase of CD14 marker. The decreased ability of monocyte to differentiate into dendritic cells was translated into a function impairment of phagocytic ability, as observed by the decreased uptake of both DQTM Ovalbumin (receptor-mediated endocytosis) and Lucifer Yellow (micropinocytosis) PsA cells treated with Tofacinitib. Low phagocytosis was observed in RA patients.NOX5 has previously been shown to play a key role in Mo-DC differentiation,2 therefore we sought to investigate whether Tofacinitib could exert is effect on Mo-DC development through modulating NOX5. NOX5 protein expression was significantly decreased in Mo-DC pre-treated with Tofacinitib in PsA, and to a lesser extend in RA patients. Conclusions Together, these observations suggest a novel mechanism of action of Tofacinitib in RA and PsA, by inhibiting Mo-DC development, which may alter migration of DC to the joint and subsequent activation of the immune response. References [1] Luque A, Cárdenas-Brito S, Olivar R, Aran J. Assessment of Human Dendritic Cell Antigen Uptake by Flow Cytometry—BIO-PROTOCOL. http://www.bio-protocol.org/e974 (accessed Jan 23, 2018). [2] Marzaioli V, Hurtado-Nedelec M, Pintard C, Tlili A, Marie J-C, Monteiro R, Gougerot-Pocidalo M-A, Dang PM-C, El-Benna J. NOX5 and p22phox are two novel regulators of human monocytic differentiation into dendritic cells. Blood2017. Disclosure of Interest V. Marzaioli Grant/research support from: Project funded by Pfizer, M. Canavan: None declared, S. Wade: None declared, C. Low: None declared, D. Veale: None declared, U. Fearon: None declared


The oocysts studied were concentrated from the contents of the colon and caecum of the cottontail rabbit. The concentration method of Benbrook (1929) has been found to serve best.


The wisdom society is the latest iteration of the idea of collective intelligence, which has accelerated due to social media and other online collaborative tools. This chapter offers a background on information, collective intelligence and its elements, virtual environments, and theories that relate to collective intelligence. Benefits and issues related to collective intelligence are detailed, and conditions for optimum collective intelligence, including its transformation through virtual environments, are explained. Individual and group dynamics, and group models are also discussed in terms of their impact on collective intelligence in virtual environments.


Nanostructured SnO2 thin films were prepared by carbothermal evaporation method. Morphological, structural and optical properties of the SnO2 thin films, before and after 8 MeV Si ion irradiation to fluences varying from 1 × 1013 to 1 × 1015 ions cm−2, were well characterized using atomic force microscopy (AFM), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), x-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman spectroscopy and photoluminescence spectroscopy (PL). XRD studies revealed the presence of SnO2 and Sn nanoparticles in the as-deposited samples. AFM and FESEM studies on the irradiated samples revealed formation of nanoring-like structures, at a fluence of 1 × 1015 ions cm−2, with a central hole and circular rim consisting of nearly monodisperse SnO2 nanoparticles. PL studies revealed strong enhancement in UV emissions upon 8 MeV Si ion irradiation. A growth mechanism underlying the formation of SnO2 nanorings involving self-assembly of SnO2 nanoparticles around nanoholes is tentatively proposed.


In spite of timid steps towards accommodating some type of private (in fact, corporate) usage, current and past mobile generations - from first (1G) to third (3G) - are focused on public use. However, as 3G networks are (to be) deployed on top of existing second generation (2G) networks, with IP becoming ever more pervasive, and with the advent of reconfigurable radio, the opportunity is there, looking forward towards fourth generation (4G), to really start focusing on private, unlicensed use at par with the envisioned use of 4G systems as an extension of existing public systems. Indeed, our perspective of 4G is not one of only higher data rates and a public service focus (that was from the start the perspective for 3G-Phase 2, what some call IMT-2010). What is at stake is a different concept of service, more than yet another technology revolution, and this constitutes a bigger challenge: the focus is now squarely on the user, not on operators/service providers. That said, some aspects of 4G, namely the integration of heterogeneous networks, will provide operators, already in the short term, with essential tools to manage their increasingly complex networks and provide seamless, efficient access to information, ie, to remain competitive.


The optical surface analysis code (OSAC) is used to predict the optical performance of the Hubble Space Telescope. We describe the analysis in detail and compare some of the results with those of a standard optical transfer function analysis. Also, we discuss the mathematical foundation of the OSAC code and describe in detail the error data that were used as input. OSAC is shown to be a valuable tool for separating and analyzing the effects of misalignments, figure errors, and mid and high frequency statistical mirror surface errors on optical performance.


The invention relates to a device for fixing an attachment (10) to a body (11) of a vehicle, comprising at least one support part (16) which is attached to the car body and onto which the attachment can be placed. Said support part has a surface (22) which serves to fix the attachment to the support part and which is inclined at an angle such that the incline increases in the direction of placement of the attachment. To simplify and reduce the cost of assembly the invention provides for the attachment (10) to have a sliding base (26) which rests against the inclined surface and for a clip connection to be embodied between the support part and the attachment whose clip elements automatically click into each other after the sliding base (26) has completed a sliding path on the inclined surface.


Britain annexed the Afghan territory in India by signing "Durand Agreement"with Afghanistan in1893,and Pashtun was divided into two parts. This was the historical root of Pashtunistan issue. After the partition of India,Pashtunistan was ruled by Pakistan,which led to the territorial dispute between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Meanwhile,with the rise of nationalism Pathans began to actively fight for national rights.The above two aspects constitute the main content of Pashtunistan issue. Thereafter,the problem experienced the evolution from conflict to mitigation,then to complexity,and gradually became the key factors which impacted the AFG- PAK relationship,regional security of Central and South Asia,as well as the regional cooperations.


A bstrAct Obstructed hemivagina and ipsilateral renal anomaly (OHVIRA) is a rare anomaly of the urogenital system. The characteristic triad of this syndrome, which was initially reported in 1950, is didelphys uterus, obstructed hemivagina, and ipsilateral renal agenesis (Embrey 1 ). The prevalence of congenital Müllerian duct anomalies is reported to be 1%. 2 A 24-year-old girl got admission to MGH on 15.3.2019 with lower abdominal pain and difficulty in the passing of urine. Her menarche was established 6 months back with a regular cycle and associated with dysmenorrhea. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) established the diagnosis of OHVIRA. She underwent surgery for drainage of the hematocolpos and excision of the vaginal septum and urethral dilatation with cystoscopy followed by an uncomplicated recovery and the patient had normal menstrual cycles after surgery.


Objective
Summing up the care experience about a patients with acute illness and frailty.

Methods
Taking care of the patients based on the acute care for the elderly unit model (ACE), using the methods of admission assessment, interdisciplinary team, function-centered care model, ward environment design, early care transition planning and meeting with family members.

Results
The patient was discharged 10 days later, without function decline or complication related to admission.

Conclusions
ACE unit model is a successful care model which take a holistic care for old patients in order to maintain the function during hospitalization.

Key words:
Case study; Frailty; Acute care for the elderly; Care model


Background New technologies create possible new ways of action, interaction, and learning which is extremely relevant in the field of oral health education. There is a lack of protocol in using an immersive interactive ludic-educational interface to motivate oral hygiene practice in children by means of augmented reality. Objective This study aims to present a protocol on the development of a serious game to motivate oral hygiene practice in children. Methods A serious game will be designed by augmented reality techniques to improve toothbrushing effectiveness of children aged 6 to 10 years. The functional structure of this interface is activated by means of movements recognized by Kinect (Microsoft Corp). The toothbrushing technique will be available in the game, enabling the children to execute the movement in the virtual environment. By identifying errors, this game will be tailored to improve the oral health of children by correcting the technique and teaching the user the adequate toothbrushing method. A template analysis will be performed to identify barriers and facilitators in each scenario. Results After the implementation of the virtual interactive and immersive panels, enrollment will begin and evaluations will be made by means of questionnaires distributed to participants who interact with the game. Thus, an analysis of the product efficacy will be conducted. The expected outcome will be to obtain a digital instrument to motivate oral hygiene practice and enhance health awareness in children. Conclusions The serious game will support the prevention of oral diseases by sharing scientific research in the school environment and community. International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID) PRR1-10.2196/10987


In this paper, a novel priority-based wavelength assignment algorithm, Minimum Influence Threshold Method is proposed. Through simulation in three representative network topologies under different dynamic traffic loads,the results show that the method can not only meet the different QoS requirements of the client layer service, but also utilize the finite networking resources efficiently with reduced blocking probability.


Algae fouling can cause a transmembrane pressure (TMP) increase or fl ux decrease during ultrafi ltration of surface waters. In this study, chemical preoxidation coupled with in-line coagulation was investigated as a pretreatment step for algae fouling control. The coupled strategy was able to control the fl ux decline. Also, the treated water quality could be improved. Chemical preoxidation by potassium permanganate composites (PPC) and chlorine (Cl>2) removed algae cells by both cell death and adsorption, which could also alleviate the load on the ultrafi ltration unit. During the coupled treatment, the electrostatic forces between algae cells and the fl ocs weaken. The cells could be packed by in situ formed hydrous manganese dioxide and fl ocs. The fl ocs would be trapped on the cake layer and the algae fouling for ultrafi tlration could be controlled.


Equipment support exercises is an item of complicated systems engineering.Based on the thought of hall three-dimensional structure,combined theories and practice of equipment support exercises,the paper puts forward three-dimensional structure of management of equipment support exercises,analyzes and studies integrated management of equipment support exercises with time-dimension,knowledge-dimension,logic-dimension,and explores elementarily theories and methods of application for the domain of integrated management of equipment support exercises.


All modern Basque dialects have at least 5 contrastive vowels /i, e, a, o, u/. One Basque dialect, Zuberoan, has developed a contrastive sixth vowel, the front rounded high vowel /y/. This development is arguably due to sustained contact with neighboring Gallo-Romance languages. This paper supports empirically the historical development of the /u/ vs. /y/contrast and provides a detailed analysis of the contexts that inhibited the /u/ > /y/sound change. Fronting was inhibited when the vowel was followed by an apical sibilant, a tap /r/or an rT cluster (where r is a rhotic, and T an alveolar obstruent), arguably due to coarticulatory effects. Fronting occurred when /s./, /r/ or non-coronal rhotic-obstruent clusters followed /u/. Zuberoan /u/-fronting illustrates the importance of language contact and phonetics in the phonological analysis of historical developments.


The article considers problems of preparation of the competent mathematics teacher. We contemplate the problem of revealing of pedagogical conditions and means which help to introduce modern models of training in the program of preparation of the future mathematics teachers. Also we focus on the role of special courses «Modern models of training» and «Intellectual education of pupils». We give examples of educational tasks which stir up informative activity of students and create conditions for formation of their professional competence.


Sequence analysis was performed on viral RNA isolated from bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) that died during two chronologically and geographically separate epizootics in North America. Both dolphin morbillivirus (DMV) and porpoise morbil-livirus (PMV) were detected in bottlenose dolphins that died during the 1987 U.S. Atlantic coast epizootic. Our results indicate not only that these viruses are not species specific, but also that both viruses were present in North America before outbreaks in the Mediterranean and Irish Seas. Samples taken along the Atlantic coast showed a statistically significant trend with DMV in the north and an increasing incidence of PMV in samples isolated farther south. In the 1993 Gulf of Mexico epizootic, only PMV was detected in bottlenose dolphins that died. Thus, DMV and PMV are implicated as the causes of the earliest known aquatic mammal morbilliviral outbreak, the U.S. Atlantic coast epidemic; PMV is implicated in the Gulf of Mexico epidemic. The presence of two pathogenic morbilliviruses that may circulate together or separately complicates the epidemiology of cetacean morbilliviral diseases. The only morbilliviruses known before 1989 were human measles virus, canine distemper virus, rinderpest, and peste-des-petits-ruminants virus (1). Recently, newly characterized morbilliviruses have been shown to be epizootic-associated pathogens in pinnipeds and cetaceans. Phocine distemper virus (2) was associated with a massive epizootic of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) in northwestern Europe (3) in 1988. During the harbor seal phocine distemper virus outbreak, PMV was isolated from harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) that died along the Irish coast (4). DMV (5), was isolated during an epizootic of striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) morbillivirus epizootic caused a tenfold increase in bottlenose dolphin stranding along the U.S. Atlantic coast from New Jersey to Florida (8,9). More than half of the inshore population of bottlenose dolphins in this area may have died. Morbillivirus-related strandings of bottlenose dolphins along the Gulf of Mexico coasts of Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas were also observed from October 1993 through April 1994 (10,11). Using reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), we examined tissue lysates made from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded lung tissue from stranded dolphins from the Atlantic epizootic and frozen unfixed lung tissue from the Gulf of Mexico epizootic (11,12). RT-PCR-positive cases were subsequently characterized by sequence analysis of segments of the morbillivirus P gene in regions with the greatest diversity between DMV and PMV. We sequenced segments of the morbillivirus P gene from 29 dolphin specimens (1 striped and 28 bottlenose dolphins) …


The sprint performance on natural and artificial grass of 5th generation was assessed. Sixty eight young male soccer players, which were divided in two groups according to their age [children (n=36; 12.1±0.5y) and adolescents (n=32; 14.2±0.4y)], performed 30-m sprint tests with and without handling the ball on natural and artificial grass. The performance was recorded during 0-10m, 10-30m, and 0-30m running distances. It was found that children were significantly faster during 0-10m running distance on the artificial compared to natural grass when handling the ball while adolescents revealed no differences in sprint performance between the surfaces irrespectively of the ball condition. In running distances 10-30m and 0-30m, children were significant faster in the artificial compared to the natural grass either with or without ball, while the adolescents were significantly faster in the artificial grass only without handling the ball. Children run faster on artificial than natural grass while adolescent soccer players are faster in artificial grass when they do not have to handle the ball. It is clear that children should be more careful when play soccer on artificial grass because the ball is moving faster and greater skill is needed in order to avoid injuries.


The problem of skyline computation has attracted considerable research attention. In the categorical domain the problem becomes more complicated, primarily due to the partially-ordered nature of the attributes of tuples.
 In this paper, we initiate a study of streaming categorical skylines. We identify the limitations of existing work for offline categorical skyline computation and realize novel techniques for the problem of maintaining the skyline of categorical data in a streaming environment. In particular, we develop a lightweight data structure for indexing the tuples in the streaming buffer, that can gracefully adapt to tuples with many attributes and partially ordered domains of any size and complexity. Additionally, our study of the dominance relation in the dual space allows us to utilize geometric arrangements in order to index the categorical skyline and efficiently evaluate dominance queries. Lastly, a thorough experimental study evaluates the efficiency of the proposed techniques.


In green and smart buildings, the main purpose of a demand-controlled ventilation system is to prevent over ventilation which leads to energy saving through automatic adjustment of ventilation damper while it maintains thermal comfort for occupants and indoor air quality in an acceptable range. These complex systems include sensors and actuators. Several problems such as system failure or performance degradation can arise due to faults in each component. A major contribution of this paper is to test and implement diagnostic directed acyclic graph as the fault detection and diagnosis method in demand-controlled ventilation systems. The introduced simulation framework is a helpful operation platform for this means. In this study, different types of faults such as sensor faults including wrong sensor readings or noisy sensors, and actuator faults such as a stuck damper actuator or stuck heater actuator are modeled, simulated, and injected into the system. Based on the framework, fault detection and diagnosis using diagnostic directed acyclic graphs are proposed. The results show that better energy efficiency can be achieved with automatic fault detection and diagnosis.


This article provides an overview of matters relating to the UNIDROIT Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment, as it applied to aircraft by virtue of the Aircraft Equipment Protocol.


Objective To learn the current sanitary condition of Olympic catering industries in Haidian district of Beijing,and therefore to provide evidence for health administrative departments to enact corresponding projects in inspection and surveillance.Methods In 2007,sanitary condition of 110 Olympic catering industries was inspected and examined according to "GB14934-94"and other national standards.The data were analyzed by chi-square test.Results The qualified rate of the selected samples of catering industries in Haidian district was 79.25%,which was higher than the average rate(72.53%) in Beijing.The difference was statistically significant(χ2=28.57,P0.05).In the samples in Haidian district,the qualified rates of cold dishes,fresh fruit juice and fruit tray,quick fried vegetable,soy cooked vegetable and cooked meat were comparatively low,which were 66.01%,57.45%,67.31% and 72.64%,respectively.Out of 153 samples of cold dishes,coliform bacterial flora in 48 samples,Pathogenic Escherichia coli in 1 sample and proteus in 13 samples were detected.Among the 106 samples of cooked meat,pathogenic Escherichia coli in 27 samples,nitrite in 1 sample and proteus in 8 samples were detected.The qualified rate of the catering industries in Olympic stadiums in Haidian district was 76.30%,which was lower than the average level(96.23%) in Beijing.The difference was statistically significant(χ2=10.20,P0.05).The qualified rate of the catering industries around Olympic stadiums or Olympic contracted hotels was 75.48%,which was significantly higher than the average rate(67.20%)in Beijing.The qualified rate of the centralized food supplement industries in Haidian district was 100%.The spot-check pass rate of catering businesses ranked A or B by quantitative rank management in Haidian district was 85.40%,and the major problem was over-standard of coliform bacterial flora.Conclusion The overall sanitary status of catering industries in Haidian district was better than the average level in Beijing.However,the sanitary condition of cold dishes and some other food should be improved.The general sanitary level of catering industries around Olympic stadiums and hotels should be enhanced.


Effects of various rare-earth (RE) dopants (Y 3+ , La 3+ , Ce 3+ , Pr 3+ , Nd 3+ , Sm 3+ , Eu 3+ , Gd 3+ , Tm 3+ , Dy 3+ , Er 3+ , and Yb 3+ ) on the dielectric, ferroelectric, and pyroelectric properties of Sr 0.5 Ba 0.5 Nb 2 O 6 (SBN50) ceramics were investigated. In the present studies, the doping concentrations of all the RE dopants were fixed at 1 mol%. Their potential usefulness in pyroelectric applications was discussed based on their measured pyroelectric detectivity figure of merit (FOM). On the basis of our studies, for RE dopants with atomic numbers smaller than Nd, their dielectric constants were greatly increased, while for RE dopants with atomic numbers larger than Sm, their dielectric constants as well as dielectric losses became smaller. Among various dopants, Eu-doped SBN showed the most improved ferroelectric properties. Its remnant polarization (P r ) was increased to 4.86 μC/cm 2 as compared with 3.23 μC/cm 2 obtained in undoped SBN50. On the other hand, Gd-doped SBN exhibited the largest pyroelectric coefficient of 168 μC/m 2 K, which was over three times of that of the undoped sample (49 μC/m 2 K). The work shows that Gd-doped SBN exhibits the greatest potential for pyro-applications because it bears the largest FOM of 0.45 x 10 ―5 Pa ―0.5 [Correction: After online publication on 11/05/2008, an error was found in this article. The original value, 1.35 x 10 ―5 Pa ―0.5 , was incorrect. The data has been replaced with the correct value.].


Hand osteoarthritis (HOA) represents a common presentation of osteoarthritis, significantly affecting patients' quality of life and daily activities. The 2018 EULAR recommendations underline the importance of a multidisciplinary approach, combining non-pharmacological and pharmacological treatments. Yet, the role of balneotherapy (BT) in the HOA therapeutic regimen remains unclear. This review seeks to bridge the gap by exploring recent randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that investigate the potential benefits of BT as a complementary intervention for managing HOA. This scoping review investigates original research articles published between January 2003 and August 2023 through a comprehensive search across MEDLINE (PubMed), Google Scholar, and Web of Science. The findings from this scoping review contribute to the growing corpus of evidence indicating that BT, particularly when employing specific methods like mud packs and mineral-rich baths, presents a promising role in reducing pain and enhancing functionality and quality of life, particularly in the initial phases of the condition. These findings highlight the potential therapeutic efficacy of BT interventions and support their inclusion as a complementary approach in managing HOA and preventing its progression. However, further research and the undertaking of larger-scale trials are imperative to validate these preliminary findings.


We investigate the effects of matter-enhanced (MSW) transformation of neutrinos in the Early Universe on the primordial helium yield (Yp). We find that Yp is affected much more by the MSWinduced alterations in the neutrino energy spectra than by the associated change in expansion rate. Specifically, the absence due to transformation of low energy electron neutrinos can significantly affect neutron-proton weak interconversion rates through the lifting of Fermi-blocking of neutron decay at low energies and through halting low-energy neutrino capture on neutrons. We find that the change of Yp within a causal horizon is −0.005 ≤ δYp ≤ 0.013 for m2νμ,τ −m2νs ≤ 10 eV in the case of νμ,τ -νs-νe mixing, with the lower limit at m 2 νμ,τ −m2νs ≈ 100 eV, and −0.002 ≤ δYp ≤ 0.020 for m2νe −m 2 νs ≤ 1 eV 2 in the case of νe-νs mixing.


Amiodarone is an iodinated antiarrhythmic agent that is effective in the treatment of atrial and ventricular arrhythmias. A number of side effects are seen, including pulmonary loxicity and thyroid dysfunction. A patient with both amiodarone-induced pneumonilis and hyperthy roidism who exhibited abnormal gallium activity in the lungs, as well as diffuse gallium uptake in the thyroid gland is presented. The latter has not been previously reported and supports the concept of iodide-induced "thyroiditis" with gallium uptake reflecting the inflammatory response.


XBRL (extensible Business Reporting Language) is a freely available, digital data encoding language and global standard for exchanging business information electronically between financial data producers and users. The purpose of XBRL is to standardize the automation of business intelligence (BI). Therefore, organizations, companies, firms, government agencies etc., could prepare and exchange their financial statements via XBRL instead of using pdf, html, doc, xls which might create some problems and consumes more and more time.
In this study, there was given an overview, historical development of XBRL, benefits and uses of XBRL. Also it is exemplified the usage of XBRL in the World, with special focus on Balkan countries and Turkey. At the end, some suggestions about XBRL usage are made for Balkan countries and Turkey.
Keywords: XBRL, Electronic Financial Reporting, XML.


The annual incidence of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) is approximately 0.1% in the general population, 1.3% in hospitalized patients, and 1.8% among the elderly between 65 and 69 years old.1,2 Pulmonary embolism (PE) subsequently develops in 25% of individuals, with a 15 to 20% mortality rate.1 There are few data concerning venous thromboembolism in ALS and other neuromuscular disorders. We examined the occurrence of symptomatic DVT in patients with ALS enrolled in the placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trials of topiramate, creatine, and celecoxib performed by the Northeast ALS (NEALS) Consortium from 1998 to 20043–5 (see table E-1 on the Neurology Web site at www.neurology.org).

Seven hundred patients with ALS were enrolled in three studies: 296 in the topiramate trial, 104 in the creatine trial, and 300 in the celecoxib trial. We excluded patients receiving topiramate because 6% of patients given topiramate, vs 1% of patients given placebo, had an episode of DVT or PE.3 The increased incidence …


Probability experiments illustrate how apparently random events are ultimately governed by the laws of probability. A large number of trials are usually necessary for experimental data to converge to a theoretical prediction. Having students electronically combine their data into a shared spreadsheet provides an efficient and powerful way to collectively analyze a large amount of information. In this activity, seventh-grade students use a shared spreadsheet to collaboratively investigate what happens when they roll a pair of dice. They compare the case of two 6-sided dice with the case of a 4-sided die rolled with an 8-sided die.


Recently, there has been some discussion in the literature about the effects of the anisotropy in the spatial density of dark matter in the Solar neighbourhood arising from the motion of the Sun through the Galactic halo. In particular, questions have been asked about the orbital motions of the Solar system's planets and whether these motions can be effectively constrained by the radiotechnical observations collected by Cassini. I show that the semilatus rectum p, the eccentricity e, the inclination I, the longitude of the ascending node Ω, the longitude of perihelion ϖ, and the mean anomaly at epoch η of a test particle of a restricted two-body system affected by the gravity of a dark matter wake undergo secular rates of change. In the case of Saturn, they are completely negligible, being at the order of ≃0.1 millimetres per century and ≃0.05–2 nanoarcseconds per century: the current (formal) accuracy level in constraining any anomalous orbital precessions is of the order of ≃0.002–2 milliarcseconds per century for Saturn. I also numerically simulate the Earth–Saturn range signature Δρ(t) arising from the dark matter wake over the same time span (2004–2017) as covered by the Cassini data record. I find that it is as low as ${\simeq}0.1{-}0.2\, \mathrm{m}$, while the existing range residuals, computed by astronomers without modelling any dark matter wake effect, are of the order of ${\simeq}$ 30 m. The local dark matter density ϱDM would need to be larger than the currently accepted value of $\varrho _\mathrm{DM}=0.018\, \mathrm{M}_\odot \, \mathrm{pc}^{-3}$ by a factor of 2.5 × 106 in order to induce a geocentric Kronian range signature large enough to make it discernible in the present-day residuals.


A PET(Polyethylene Terephthalate) cover shield for an LCD(Liquid Crystal Display) is provided to attach a cover shield made of PET to an LCD module with stability and improve productivity. An LCD includes a cover bottom(127), a reflector(121) mounted on the cover bottom, a plurality of fluorescent lamps(123) arranged in parallel on the reflector, a support side(125) for fixing the fluorescent lamps, a diffusion plate(129) mounted on the fluorescent lamps, and a plurality of optical sheets(119) located on the diffusion plate. The LCD further includes a support main(117) for enveloping the edges of the diffusion plate and the optical sheets, an LCD panel(113) that is mounted on the optical sheets and has a printed circuit board, a top cover(111) that envelops the edge of the LCD panel and is combined with the support main and the cover bottom, a lamp driving circuit mounted on the backside of the cover bottom, and a cover shield(131) located on the cover bottom. The cover shield includes hooks and is made of PET.


The theoretical model of a human eye lens is presented. This model accounts effects of the spatial interaction of scatterers arising due to existence of closely-packed system of particles and the complexity of refractive index of their material. The calculations of transmission and scattering spectra for a monodispersive and polydispersive systems of scatterers were done. The influence of absorption on transmission spectra formation was analyzed.


To evaluate the clinical effects of Peridopril on the patients with chronic congestive heart failture (CHF).Methods Forty-two patients with congestive heart failture treated with dioxin and diuretics without evident effects were treated by Perindopril.The dose began with oral 2 mg,once a day and gradually increased to 4 mg.The treatment period was 10 to 14 days.Before and after treatment, the changes of left ventricular diastolic internal diameter,systolic internal diameter and left ventricular ejection fraction were measured by an echocardiography,and the changes of the blood pressure, heart rate and the syndromes should be obeserved dynamically.Results After peridopril treatment for 2 weeks,17 patients had evident-effect,20 patients had the effect and 5 patients had no effect.The total effective rate was 88.1%.Conclusion The treatment outcome of peridopril on the patients with congestive heart failture is effective and safety.It can increase the life quality of the patients with congestive heart failture.


The fundamental dynamic characteristics of an elevated railway subjected to harmonic moving loads are investigated. The elevated ballast railway is analytically modeled as three different cases, with Case A indicating a simply-supported beam, Case B a two-parallel-beam system that is simply supported and inserted with a viscoelastic layer, and Case C an expansion of Case B through addition of two semi-infinite beams with viscoelastic foundation on two sides. The resonant conditions of these three cases are especially emphasized and studied in details. Finally, the resonant curves of an elevated railway to harmonic moving loads are presented, which are useful to railway engineers and may be used as preliminary design aids.


Thiess to operate coal mine in Australia for a further three years HOCHTIEF's Australian subsidiary Thiess Pty Ltd. has been awarded an extension of its contract for services at the South Walker Creek Coal Mine in Australia. The company of the Leighton Group will perform coal mining and all services related to coal processing and transport for a further three years for client BHP Mitsui Coal Pty Ltd. The contract represents a volume of almost EUR 215 million. The mine is situated 40 kilometers west of Nebo in Central Queensland. Currently mining more than 100 million tons of coal and over 100 million tons of iron ore per year, Leighton is the world's biggest contract miner. HOCHTIEF is one of the leading international providers of construction-related services. With nearly 47,000 employees and a sales volume of EUR 15.51 billion in FY 2006, the company is represented in all the world's major markets. In the USA, the biggest construction market in the world, HOCHTIEF is the No. 1 general builder via its subsidiary Turner. With its Group company Leighton, HOCHTIEF is market leader in Australia. The HOCHTIEF service offering in the fields of development, construction, services, concessions and operation covers the entire value chain of construction. Further information is available at www.hochtief.com/press.


In December 2019, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division ("DOJ") settled charges that certain National Association for College Admission Counseling ("NACAC") rules governing college…


Funding Opportunity Purpose The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to provide resources in support of advancing research on primary immunodeficiency diseases. These resources are currently (1) a registry of individuals with primary immunodeficiency disease; (2) a repository of cells and other materials to aid primary immunodeficiency disease research; and (3) educational opportunities to provide training, disseminate information, and encourage collaborative research on primary immunodeficiency disease. Applicants must propose plans to maintain and improve these resources. Complete details available at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/ guide/rfa-files/RFA-AI-13-054.html.


The study investigated the relationship between principals' leadership styles and administrative effectiveness in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. Six research questions were answered while six hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted a correlation research design. The population was made up of 8,452 teachers in 258 public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. Stratified random sampling technique was used to draw a sample of 40 senior secondary schools and 588 teachers who participated in the study. The instruments used for data collection were "Principals' Leadership Styles Scale (PLSS) and Administrative Effectiveness Scale (APQ)". The PLSS and AES were validated with reliability indices of 0.81 and 0.80 established using Cronbach alpha. Pearson Product Moment was used to answer the research questions while the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. It was found among others that: democratic, autocratic, transactional and transformational leadership styles have a strong positive relation with administrative effectiveness in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. It was also found that laissez-faire leadership style had low relationship with administrative effectiveness among public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. It was concluded that principals' leadership styles such as democratic, autocratic, transactional and transformational leadership styles significantly influence administrative performance of public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. It was recommended among others that principals should properly use the combinations of democratic, autocratic, transactional and transformational leadership styles since they are significant in the achievement of administrative effectiveness in secondary schools in Rivers State.


Systems of (j1 (proton), h±2 (neutron)) configurations are examined for the purpose of studying the role of neutron-proton correlation. Residual interactions of o+ QQ type are assumed. Protons and neutrons are strongly coupled by the attractive neutron-proton interaction (both short range and long range) which causes rotational features with the axial symmetry in two-proton and two-neutron systems. However, because the coupling of protons with neutron holes is weak, this leads the two-proton and two-neutron hole system to show no rotational property with the axial symmetry. In the former system, the ground K=O+ band and also an excited K = 1 + band appear, provided that j 1 and h are large and the QQ interaction is strong. Exact wave functions of the ground band members and K = 1 + band members are very similar to projected states from intrinsic wave functions given by the aligned coupling scheme.


This paper describes a new equivalent-circuit model for the thickness shear mode resonator with a surface viscoelastic layer operating near film resonance. The electrical impedance of the film is represented by a simple three-element parallel circuit containing a resistor, a capacitor, and an inductor. These elements describe the film's viscous power dissipation, elastic energy storage, and kinetic energy storage, respectively. Resonator response comparisons between this lumped-element model and the general transmission-line model show good agreement over a range of film phase conditions and not just near film resonance.


The idea that the success of some ethnic groups limits the opportunities of others was a major theme of the Chicago School ecologists, who argued that ethnic groups naturally engage in zero-sum contests for prized occupations. This idea underlies the saturation theory of entrepreneurship, which holds that, in urban economies, the presence of highly enterprising groups impedes the entry of less-enterprising groups into small businesses. I test this theory, analyzing census data on retail enterprise in the urban North in 1900. I found virtually no evidence that retail enterprise among highly entrepreneurial ethnic groups (e.g., Russians and Italians) depressed retail enterprise among less-entrepreneurial ethnic groups (e.g., Irish and Blacks). I reject the saturation theory and conclude that the results support the theory of the ethnic division of labor, which implies that the activities of highly enterprising groups are compartmentalized into occupational niches and thus do not adversely affect other groups.


The author examines the complex issues of safety and health of workers at work. Examining the Legislative Decree 626 of 19 September 1994, supplemented by D.Leg.vo 242 of 19 March 1996 and the other on D.Leg.vi emphasizes the need to bring together the various devices of the law in a uniform body of law


Some insects caught on RV Gaveshani, while on a cruise in the Arabian Sea in May-June 1986 is reported. Of the 23 insects caught, 16 were lepidopterans. An interesting flight behaviour of Psychota sp. is described


A motor know a motor with at least one cylinder and a cooling system, the coolant circulates. A gas fuel system includes a heating and a Gaskraftstoffinjektor. LPG fuel is heated by extracting heat from the engine from the engine coolant and providing this heat to a heating liquid flowing through the fuel flow. The heated gas fuel is injected directly into a mother cylinder. A liquid fuel system with an injector injects liquid fuel directly into the engine cylinder as an ignition source one. A sensor measures the Auslasskuhlmitteltemperatur from the heater and provides a signal to a controller provided so that the engine can operate in a normal or a heat management mode, while reducing the extracted from the engine coolant motor heat.


Considering the basic earthquake mechanism to be due to the material softening at the focal region, we propose two models in the finite element scheme to simulate the effects of thermal state on earthquake occurrence. The tectonic stress field is assumed to remain constant during such a process, but a change of temperature at the focal region will cause a thermal stress field locally to be superposed on the tectonic stress field. The faulting plane is simulated by a joint element which under the influence of the stress field will deform elastically at first, then plastically and finally into the softening stage. Two material models are hereby proposed for the focal region. In model 1, the material strength parameters are independent of the temperature change but the material softening is related to the plastic volumetric strain resulting from the displacement field, the model is used outside the fault zone. In model 2, the material parameters are independent of the plastic volumetric strain but is related to the temperature change that causes thermal softening, the model is used inside the fault zone. The nonlinear models are employed to analyse the displacement and stress field due to the dislocation movement of the faulting plane. An incremental thermo-elasto-plasticity theory is used. The results of the simulations are compared and discussed.


. For any primitive proper substitution σ , we give explicit constructions of countably many pairwise non-isomorphic substitution dynamical systems { ( X ζ n ,T ζ n ) } ∞ n =1 such that they all are (strong) orbit equivalent to ( X σ ,T σ ). We show that the complexity of the substitution dynamical sys- tems { ( X ζ n ,T ζ n ) } is the essential difference that prevents them from being isomorphic. Given a primitive (not necessarily proper) substitution τ , we find a stationary simple properly ordered Bratteli diagram with the least possible number of vertices such that the corresponding Bratteli-Vershik system is orbit equivalent to ( X τ ,T τ ).


The information on the status of greening of the city of Orenburg using culture and leisure parks as the example is discussed. A qualitative evaluation of green stands is presented. A comparison of species diversity of parks using binary similarity measure by Jaccard and the coefficient of floristic similarity of tree and shrub flora by Ochiai (A. Ochiai) was made. To determine the degree of similarity of tree and shrub flora in Orenburg parks the formula of Paul Jaccard was used since the formulas for calculating the coefficient of floristic similarity according to other authors as Kulchinsky, Serensen, Braun-Blanque, are "equivalent". We have chosen the formula of Ochiai (A. Ochiai) to confirm the accuracy of research results because it differs from other calculation formulas of floristic similarity and eventually using the formula of Ochiai (A. Ochiai) we have confirmed the correctness of the calculations by the formula of Paul Jaccard. The results of the research are presented graphically in tabular form for easy visual comparison. The comparison of the largest and the smallest coefficients of species diversity is made, the recommendations on plant care activities in certain parks are proposed.


Environmental endocrine disruptors(EDs) are widely distributed in the environment,and can threat the human and wildlife health by interfering with the normal endocrine balance.This paper reviews the "low-dose effect",the "mixture effects" of EDs,and the adverse effects and related mechanisms of EDs on human or animal reproduction and development,behavior and intelligence,immune function,obesity,diabetes,cancer and other abnormalities or related diseases.The direction of future development in this field is also discussed.


Objective To explore the protective effects of cattle encephalon glycoside and ignotin(CEGI) on retinal cells of retinal degeneration mice(rd mice) in vitro,investigate its function and effects on retinal or optic nerve damage or degenerative diseases,and offer the basis on treating similar clinical diseases.Methods The retinal cell suspension of rd mice was separated in vitro,the effects of CEGI and nerve growth factor(NGF) on cell activity were observed by MTT test and trypan blue dye exclusion test.Results MTT test showed CEGI(8.00 mg·L-1,0.04 g·L-1,0.20 g·L-1) and NGF(0.04 mg·L-1,0.20 mg·L-1) could promote the activity of retinal cells obviously,especially CEGI(0.04 g·L-1) and NGF(0.20 mg·L-1),the cell proliferative rate of which were 130.0%±21.8% and 124.0%±13.3%,respectively.If two drugs were combined to use,the rate could reach 132.0%±9.1%,compared with control group(100.0%±10.1%),there was statistical difference.Moreover,living cell proportion of CEGI group(0.04 g·L-1) was significantly higher than the control group at most time points(except for 5 minutes) from trypan blue dye exclusion test.And NGF group(0.20 mg·L-1) also protected retinal cells,while primarily at short time points(from 5 minutes to 1 day),and there were statistical differences compared with control group(all P0.05).Conclusion CEGI can promote growth and development of retinal cells,and have the protective effects on retinal cells of rd mice.


Abstract The research subjects are regeneration investments, initiated and/or carried out by the public sector. Regeneration investments are an integral part of modern city management and the urban renewal process. This process should respect the changing needs of local communities and the individuals who constitute them. However, the main aim of regeneration investments is to restore former functions to degraded space or switch to new ones, respecting the principles of sustainable development. The management of regeneration investments depends on many factors. These include the external and internal environment. The diversity of these factors may mean that the same factor is beneficial for one participant, and unfavourable for another. An understanding of their diverse strength and direction of impact is very important for stakeholders. The study attempts to identify and systematize the determinants of investment management in the regeneration process, especially in the context of new challenges and socio-economic phenomena. The research thesis states that identification and systematization of regeneration investment management determinants is essential for making rational investment decisions. Hence, the study results may prove useful to decision-makers. The innovativeness of the study lies in approaching regeneration investments from the perspective of particular groups of stakeholders. Research methodology requires the application of a method of document analysis, a method of analysis and logical design.


This paper describes the development process of the network-based humanoid to provide services in home environment. To provide successful service, various sub-systems of the robot need to be coordinated effectively. So the paper introduces a coordinated framework which makes it possible to interact with humans while executing various tasks by various robots. Using a task script, operator can easily describe tasks and it regulates actions of the sub-systems while the robot is performing the task. Many strategies and algorithms are developed and some of technologies are described: autonomous biped walking and real-time modification of collision-free path, interaction ability with humans and environments such as a face, a voice or object recognition, and manipulation in contact environments. We also talk about emergency situations and safety issues. The results of our demonstration show plural humanoids can execute the task efficiently and be suitable for providing services in human environments, such as a restaurant or a home.


According to the high temperature corrosion influence on the boiler heating surface in power plant,using arc spraying process,the high temperature corrosion mechanism and property of Q235 steel with arc sprayed PS45,FeCrAl and 4Cr13 alloy coating are studied.In condition of 77 h corrosion at 700 ℃ and 3~4 mg/cm2 Na2SO4+K2SO4 salt film amount,the results of kinetic thermal corrosion test and analysis show that the velocity of thermal corrosion of PS45,FeCrAl and 4Cr13 alloy coatings is v=0.38t-0.59,v=1.35t-0.12 and v=1.79t-0.23 respectively.The composition and structure of coatings are analyzed,the results show that PS45 alloy coatings is better than FeCrAl and 4Cr13 in high temperature corrosion(Na2SO4+K2SO4) on Q235 steel surface,that's because the content of Cr in PS45 alloy is the most and the Cr2O3 film on coatings is of fairly good continuity,compactness and stability.


Manipulated images and videos, i.e., deepfakes have become increasingly realistic due to the tremendous progress of deep learning methods. However, such manipulation has triggered social concerns, necessitating the introduction of robust and reliable methods for deepfake detection. In this work, we explore a set of attention mechanisms and adapt them for the task of deepfake detection. Generally, attention mechanisms in videos modulate the representation learned by a convolutional neural network (CNN) by focusing on the salient regions across space-time. In our scenario, we aim at learning discriminative features to take into account the temporal evolution of faces to spot manipulations. To this end, we address the two research questions 'How to use attention mechanisms?', and 'What type of attention is effective for the task of deepfake detection?' Towards answering these questions, we provide a detailed study and experiments on videos tampered by four manipulation techniques, as included in the FaceForensics++ dataset. We investigate three scenarios, where the networks are trained to detect (a) all manipulated videos, (b) each manipulation technique individually, as well as (c) the veracity of videos pertaining to manipulation techniques not included in the train set.


Magnetization curves of both Er2Fe17 and Tb2Fe17 were measured on single crystals along the c-axis in the temperature range of 5-350 K and in a magnetic field up to 160 kOe. Two simulation techniques were used for micromagnetic modeling of magnetization curves of these compounds: (I) a vector-moment model and (II) a method based on the Neel-phase approach. Both simulation methods lead to identical results for the "regular" anisotropy types "easy axis", "easy cone" and "easy plane". However, in the case of a metastable anisotropy energy minimum along the c-axis the used simulation methods yield different results. Sets of anisotropy constants K1(T), K2(T) of Tb2Fe17 and Er2Fe17 were obtained using both simulation approaches the for temperature range 5÷300 K © MISM2005. All rights reserved


A former consultant orthopaedic surgeon has been struck off the UK medical register for trying to cover up a serious surgical error.

Edward Jago operated on the wrong part of a patient's knee but failed to tell the patient when he discovered his mistake, a medical practitioners' tribunal found. He made a false note in the patient's records and continued to deny his error in three interviews with his employers, St Helens and Knowsley NHS Trust.

The patient sustained a twisting injury to his left knee when playing football aged 15. He had four operations on the knee between …


It is shown that joint-framework linear polyimidourazoles with preset spatial structure can be obtained by copolymerization of bis-(3,5-dioxo-1,2,4-triazolin-4-yl)alkanes with N,N'-(alkane)bisimides of cis-4-cyclohexene-1,2-dicarboxylic acid. On the basis of stereochemical data, obtained from the study of a model reaction and from an analysis of the Stewart-Brigleb models consideration, it has been established that the cyclohexene ring in synthesized polyimidourazoles adopts a predominantly semi-chair conformation with pseudoequator urazolyl group, which has a perpendicular orientation with respect to the six-member carbon skeleton.


For scaling of the gradient of misfit function, we develop a new pseudo-Hessian matrix constructed by combining amplitude field and pseudo-Hessian matrix. Since pseudoHessian matrix neglects the calculation of the zero-lag auto-correlation of impulse responses in the approximate Hessian matrix, the pseudo-Hessian matrix has a limitation to scale the gradient of misfit function compared to the approximate Hessian matrix. To validate the new pseudoHessian matrix, we perform frequency-domain elastic full waveform inversion using this Hessian matrix. By synthetic experiments, we show that the new pseudo-Hessian matrix can give better convergence to the true model than the old one does. Furthermore, since the amplitude fields are intrinsically obtained in forward modeling procedure, we do not have to pay any extra cost to compute the new pseudo-Hessian. We think that the new pseudo-Hessian matrix can be used as an alternative of the approximate Hessian matrix of the Gauss-Newton method.


The authors report the use of massage in a case of severe self‐injurious behaviour in a girl with Cornelia de Lange syndrome, after failing to elicit a response to conventional management for 10 years. Improvement was dramatic and the possible mechanisms are discussed.


We live in a society in which the roles of the individual tend to be both specialized and compartmentalized. Because of the fragmentation of one's relationships it is difficult for an individual to establish a clear identity and to demonstrate to others, and thus oneself, that one is a person of worth. Marriage is a very private relationship and couples are able to develop a social system with its own nomic structure that reflects their attributes and interests. It is a place where one's roles are brought together and decisions are made with regard to how one will perform those roles. An individual's investment in the marital relationship as indicated by time and resources is substantial. It is also an intimate relationship with a high level of emotional involvement and substantial rights and obligations. The primary interaction provided by the marital relationship is thus particularly well suited to the development of a clear definition of the individual's self and worth. Because of these attributes, marriage tends to be strongly related to the well-being of individuals. However, these attributes also often cause conflict and anger in the marital relationship. The benefits of marriage are strongly related to the fact that marriage is a very private relationship. However, because the marital relationship is very personal and private, it tends to be unstable and this instability undercuts many of the benefits derived from marriage. The privacy of marriage also makes effective societal intervention to achieve societal goals particularly difficult.


Cut one kind of coal Overburden pressure side local grouting is not isolated village relocation mining method, according to the geological information and villages mine location, determining cut in the side face protective pillar Cut boundary line distance toward full face from mining compared to determine both the size Overburden isolated grouting area control. Construction of the control region to a plurality of seam grouting drilling direction, with a final hole depth of 15 to 40 times above the coal seam mining height; when mining coal face to Bored distance 10 ~ 30m, the drill grouting hole injecting coal fly ash slurry into the formation of the upper face layer separation until the face control area mined by grouting, grouting complete eye-side cut mining. Cut side suitable for topical extracting coal, coal to reduce the pressure loss Cut side, increase the recovery ratio, and the whole face isolation Overburden mining compared grouting, less filling, the filling of low cost, subsidence control effect, cut-side pressure can be achieved without the coal mining village relocation.


Abdominal aortic aneurysms often rupture without warning or prior symptoms. They have a high mortality rate and are now the third most common cause of


Total and insoluble gum were measured in four jet fuels which had been in desert storage in steel drums for four years. A straight run fuel was the most stable, thermally cracked fuel was the least stable, and catalytically cracked fuel was intermediate in stability. In a laboratory study of stability, gas oils were treated in various ways, including hydrogenation, acid or caustic washing, and redistillation, then blended with a stable gasoline to make a simulated jet fuel and stored at 43.3/sup 0/C (110/sup 0/F) for six months in the presence of excess air. While all the treatments improved the stability, acid treatment and hydrogenation gave the most improvement. Increasing the amount of oxygen over the fuel during storage increased the amount of gum formed. A small laboratory apparatus for measuring filterability of jet fuels was developed. There was no correlation between filter-plugging tendency and insoluble gum content of a fuel. The insoluble gums were examined with an electron microscope, and it was found that filterability behavior was related to the character of the deposit. An amorphous type deposit rapidly plugged the filter, while a crystalline type deposit did not.


In today's era of competition the efforts are being made globally to reduce the mining production cost, one way to improve the mine productivity is to improve availability and Utilization of the mining Equipment by introducing a condition based preventive maintenance system. Real time monitoring system provides a cost effective mechanism to collect information from various sensors and measure the performance of the equipment which presently is taken care of by manual methods. Most of the Excavationma chinery in the underdeveloped countries is still operating without any monitoring system, as it is impossible to replace the machinery due to its high procurement cost. The sensors installed at different locations measure physical parameters such as pressure, temperature, oil levels and vibrations. Data acquired can be used to check if the acquired signal level is above or below the set values so that desired action is taken to avoid major breakdown of the equipment. Primary importance of sending the monitored data to the remote central computer with the help of network communication technology is that the timely action is taken by the managers and technicians to remove the faults to reduce downtime and improve Equipment Performance.


Navigation services, such as used in cars, are widely used nowadays. Many applications, positioning technologies and techniques have been developed to make navigation systems easier to use. However current navigation systems suffer from different aspects of uncertainty such as incomplete or inaccurate positional data. This paper reviews aspects of uncertainty which should be considered when developing navigation systems. A proposed approach, based on rough set and fuzzy set theories, is explained and implemented in an application.


The purpose of this study was to examine the construct equivalence and compare the latent means of serious leisure, happiness, life satisfaction scale depending on degree of participation in leisure sports activities. Conducted in 2013 in the Busan and Gyeongnam areas, this research selected 222 people by utilizing non-probability sampling techniques. This paper utilized multi group analysis and latent mean analysis in AMOS version 20.0 program to examine the difference among each of variables. The results are showed as following. Configural, metric, and scalar invariance indicate that different scores on the scale can be meaningfully across the groups. According to degree of participation, there existed statistical differences among serious leisure, happiness, life satisfaction of the participants in leisure sports activities.


In the invention, a bacillus psychrosaccharolyticus obtained by screening is used for preparing an efficient complex microorganism seaweed fertilizer. The bacillus strain in the invention is named as bacillus psychrosaccharolyticus and preserved in the Common Microorganism Center under China Microorganism Strain Preservation and Management Committee with a preservation number of CGMCC No.4519. The bacillus psychrosaccharolyticus not only has the capacity of carrying out forced degradation on cellulose and starch but also has a wide antimicrobial spectrum; the bacillus psychrosaccharolyticus strain can be compounded with the traditional common strain for bacterial manure; then mixed zymocyte liquids, plant growth factors, immunoregulation factors, active extractives from seaweed, amino acids, organic matters and trace elements are prepared into an efficient complex mircoorganism seaweed fertilizer with an active viable count of 0.2 billion/g to 1 billion/g and an organic matter content of 20-40% according to a certain proportion. The fertilizer has remarkable capacity in combating plant diseases and insect pests and promoting growth. With the fertilizer, the yield of crops can be increased by more than 30%.


Many hybrid algorithms which estimate car's position and velocity from GPS signals and INS signals suffer from the unknown GPS noise characteristics such as S/A noise. The unknown characteristics make it impossible to remove the noise completely. As a result, the estimated position information from the hybrid algorithms will be contaminated with undesirable position errors. It is very desirable and effective to use a digital road map to correct the position error, which is known as a map matching method. In this paper, a novel map matching method is proposed. The effectiveness of this algorithm is verified by the real road experiments. For experimental testing, a car navigation system is built with a DSP chip. It uses one GPS receiver, one vehicle speed sensor and one vertical gyroscope.


Oxygen saturation in cutaneous microcirculation has a great potential for the characterization of skin physiology. However, just using the hyperspectral imaging technique, the maps of oxygen saturation in cutaneous microcirculation could not be obtained with high resolution. Thus, in this work, two techniques, hyperspectral imaging and skin optical clearing technique, were used for the oxygen saturation measurement.


The positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PAL) and thermally stimulated current spectroscopy (TSC) have been employed to study defects before and after electron irradiation in InP which has undergone a high-temperature annealing in iron phosphide ambience. It is found that the concentration of defects in SI-InP after electron irradiation increases and the complex defects are formed as well. The positron mean lifetimeτ_m increases about 18ps and more defect peaks are also found in the TSC after irradiation. The characterization of defects and the influence of defects on material property are discussed simply in this paper.


Chinese materia medica Tong-Guang-San( Marsdenia tenacissima) is used for treatment of cancer. Developing a bioactive fraction from this plant with optimized components as antitumor agent or chemosensitizer is of great importance. This paper reports results of methodological research for quality control of extract of total glycosides( ETG),a chemosensitive fraction screened out. In our study,ETG at the concentration of 10 μg /mL did not affect the growth of human leukemia cell line K562,human cervical carcinoma cell line HeLa,human hepatoma cell line HepG2 and human oral epidermoid carcinoma cell line KB-3-1( Cell viability 98%),but when 10 μg /mL ETG was used in combination with paclitaxel,the cytoxicity of paclitaxel against above tumor cells was significantly increased. By employing a Phenomenex Luna C18 column as stationary phase,methanol- 0. 1% HAc as mobile phase for gradient elution,and 6 ester derivatives of tenacigenin B( 1-6) as reference markers,an HPLC method was used for the qualitative analysis of ETG,with well separation of 25 components and identification of the 6 structurally characteristic markers. The summed peak area for 1-6 accounted for 43. 39% of the total peak area. The quantitative analysis of reference 1 was also completed,with relative standard deviations( RSD) for peak area,repeatability of measured concentration and stability of sample within 0. 16%-0. 55%,linear range of 0. 86-6. 45 μg,and recoveries of 100. 4% ±1. 2%. The method was applied in the determination of total glycosides of Marsdenia tenacissima with reference 1 amount of 0. 74%.


This research is based on a corpus of 648 business names in Portugal containing the names of European countries or capitals, as well as the derived demonyms. The corpus was obtained through an online directory where the search was made by keyword. The corpus thus obtained was analyzed into formal and semantic categories according to activity type and geographical location. The data were compared and the graphs obtained allowed for an objective reading regarding the use of these names in Portugal. The results reflected a trend towards choosing references to Europe in the designation of Portuguese businesses. We deliberately left out toponyms and demonyms referring to Portugal, not only because they already have been reported in one of our previous studies (Coimbra / Moutinho, 2008), but also because here we were interested in researching the faces of Europe in Portugal.


The notions of L-sobriety and L-spatiality are introduced for the category L-BiTop of L-bitopological spaces. Such notions are used to extend the known adjunction between the category L-Top of L-topological spaces and the category Loc of locals to one between the category L-BiTop and BiLoc. Also, the concepts of localic regularity and localic compactness are introduced in the mentioned category.


Green's function analysis of ideal hard surface circular waveguides is proposed with application to excitation and scattering problems. A decomposition of the hard surface waveguide into perfect electric conductor and perfect magnetic conductor waveguides allows the representation of dyadic Green's function in terms of transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) waveguide modes, respectively. In addition, a term corresponding to a transverse electromagnetic (TEM) mode is included in the representation of the Green's dyadic. The TEM term is extracted in closed form from the eigenmode expansion of TM and TE modes in the zero‐cutoff limit. The electric field distribution due to an arbitrarily oriented electric dipole source is illustrated for representative TM, TE, and TEM modes propagating in the ideal hard surface circular waveguide. The derived Green's function is used in the method of moments analysis of an ideal hard surface waveguide excited by a half‐wavelength strip dipole antenna. In addition, the scattering of the TEM mode by a thin strip is studied in the ideal hard surface circular waveguide.


Background: Cervical cancer is a major concern of health risk, moreover the leading cause of cancer causing deaths in women of rural India. This study was aimed to assess the risk of cervical cancer development in association with polymorphisms in XRCC4, XRCC5, XRCC6 and XRCC7 genes in rural population of south-western Maharashtra.Methods: This study included 350 cervical cancer proven cases and 400 age and sex matched controls. We used polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) to analyze the association XRCC4, XRCC6 and XRCC7 gene polymorphisms with cervical cancer development in women of Western Maharashtra.Results: The result from our study showed that allele frequencies of selected genes were not statistically different between the groups for XRCC4, XRCC5 and XRCC6. 6721 >T allele of XRCC7 (6721G>T) (OR= 2.34; 95% CI= (2.34 (1.60-3.43); p= <0.0001) significantly increased the risk of cervical cancer.Conclusions: This study indicates that XRCC7 gene polymorphisms play a role in modifying genetic susceptibility of individuals towards cervical cancer among women from rural Maharashtra. This case-control study also revealed negative association of XRCC6 gene in cervical carcinogenesis in the rural Indian population.


Case:
 A 61-year-old female with no significant past medical history, except hospitalization for COVID-19 pneumonia complicated by myocarditis ten months prior, presented to the emergency department with worsening chest pain over the last two weeks. The admission electrocardiogram (ECG) was without ischemic changes. The initial impression was that the patient's symptoms were attributed to her prior myocarditis. However, a repeat ECG obtained six hours later, due to worsening chest pain, demonstrated ST-segment elevations in leads V2, I and AVL. Emergent coronary angiography was performed, showing a 90% occlusion of the proximal LAD, which was managed with a drug-eluting stent. Admission platelet count was significantly elevated at 1,049,000mm
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 , which resulted in a hematology consultation. Her further work up included a positive JAK2-V617F mutation and negative BCR-ABL1 translocation, which confirmed the diagnosis of essential thrombocythemia. During the prior hospitalization for her COVID pneumonia, she underwent invasive coronary angiogram for suspected myocardial infarction in the setting of elevated troponin, which showed a mild, non-obstructive lesion in the proximal LAD. She underwent a cardiac MRI that demonstrated both sub-epicardial and mid-wall late gadolinium enhancement consistent with myocarditis.

 Discussion:
 Essential thrombocythemia is a clonal myeloproliferative disease caused by a pathological expansion of megakaryocytes, which results in excess platelet production. Essential thrombocythemia leads to a hematologic hyper-viscosity and subsequent increased risk of vasomotor, thrombotic and hemorrhagic manifestations. Myocardial infarction as the primary clinical presentation of essential thrombocythemia is rare but an important risk factor that should be considered in patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes and elevated platelet counts, both with and without traditional cardiovascular risk factors.


The cultural and linguistic landscape of the United States has been changing rapidly in the last three decades. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 21.1% (60.3 million) of the population in the United States speak a language other than English at home [1]. It is expected that these numbers would increase to about 43% by the year 2020 [2]. Correspondingly, speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in the United States are seeing a rise in their caseload of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) clients [3]. SLPs are often faced with clients who speak a language or belong to a culture different from their own. Kritikos [4] reported that 95% of SLPs serve at least one client from a CLD background. Yet, a vast majority of SLPs in the United States are monolingual English speakers. There continues to be a stark minority of bilingual SLPs [5] and a mismatch between the proportion of CLD clients and the available proportion of bilingual service providers. Only 6.5% of American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) members identify themselves as bilingual service providers. Spanish-English bilingual SLPs conWith the rapid rise in our culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) clientele, it is essential to understand the clinical self-efficacy of speech-language pathologists (SLPs) serving these clients and to examine the efforts we have taken as a field to better prepare our future clinicians. Studies from the past 25 years that examine SLPs' clinical self-efficacy in CLD service delivery were located using electronic databases and manual searchers. A total of 13 articles were identified. A review of the existing studies indicated that reports on clinical self-efficacy among SLPs working with CLD clients has not markedly improved during the last two decades. Nevertheless, there is a positive trend in two areas: (1) the availability and access to training and resources for SLPs, and (2) the willingness to work with more CLD clients. Factors that are barriers to bilingual service delivery still need to be addressed. Future implications for stakeholders are discussed.


The present invention relates to a light-transmissive element (106, 200, 500) which has light controlling properties. The light-transmissive element (106, 200, 500) comprises a plurality of first particles (206) and a plurality of second particles (208). The first particles (206) are configured to control the transmission of light of a first wavelength range being infrared light. The second particles (208) are configured to control the transmission of light of a second wavelength range being visible light. The first (206) and second particles (208) may independently be redistributed in an enclosure (207) enclosing the particles. Redistribution is enabled by an applied electric field which causes the particles to move in the enclosure (207). Thus, transmission of light of the first wavelength range and transmission of light of the second wavelength range is thereby independently controlled by the first (206) and second particles (208) respectively.


Abstract The Study on the patient is in a clinical researcher is not necessarily pose before after before after dwichim (Pronation) pose with neck-in-law (RAO, LAO) to chwalyoungbeop subjective evaluation experiment looked at objectively. Overview evaluation is a result of measuring the angle of the space between the vertebrae in PACS image C 2 ~C 3 , C 3 ~C 4 , C 4 ~C 5 , C 5 ~C 6 , C 6 ~C 7 , in the angle of the C 7 ~T 1 47.4 ° ± 3.3, 50.5 ° ± 2.3, 52.7 ° ± 4.2, 53.2 ° ± 1.9, 53.2 ° ± 2.3, 55.2 ° ± 2.3 was found to show increasing the angle between the ball and the median nerve in the lower neck sagittal grows. In a comparison of the measured angles in foraminal image was not significantly different (P> 0.01). Subjective evaluation Recever Operation characteristic to the top, the upper neck hole (foramen) C2 ~ C3-up than conventional 45 ° angle of the lower neck, C 3 ~C 4 , were observed in the well 50 ° C 5 ~C 6 , C 6 ~C 7 , the C 7 ~T 1 was observed at 55 ° well observed experimental results video recession neck vertebrae son-in-law, son-in-law taken place in an objective evaluation, subjective evaluation of the upper neck after case could be observed at 50 °, well in the lower neck 55 °.


Solmaz, Melih M.S., Purdue University, August 2014. Search for New Physical Phenomena via Displaced Muon Signatures with the CMS Detector at the LHC. Major Professor: Ian P. Shipsey. The first search at the LHC for long-lived neutral particles decaying to pairs of muons by using only the muon chambers is presented. Events were collected by the CMS detector during pp collisions at p s = 8 TeV and selected from data samples corresponding to 20.5 fb 1 of integrated luminosity. No background events are expected after the full analysis selection. Expected upper limits are derived for a model which predicts a heavy scalar decaying to two long-lived particles, each of which can decay to muon pairs. Combined expected upper limits with an analysis utilizing the CMS silicon tracker to search for the same signature are also presented.


The fluorescence properties, both intensity and fluorescence lifetime, of NADH and FAD, two coenzymes of metabolism, are sensitive, high resolution measures of cellular metabolism. However, often in vivo measurements of tissue are not feasible. In this study, we investigate the stability over time of two-photon auto-fluorescence imaging of NADH and FAD in live-cultured tissues. Our results demonstrate that cultured tissues remain viable for at least several days post excision. Furthermore, the optical redox ratio, NADH fluorescence lifetime, and FAD fluorescence lifetime do not significantly change in the cultured tissues over time. With these findings, we demonstrate the potential of sustained tissue culture techniques for optical metabolic imaging.


In August, 1974, the definition of the stop sign in New South Wales was changed to correspond with accepted international practice. Driver behaviour was observed at ten open, free flowing, orthogonal intersections posted with stop signs and at two similar intersections posted with give way signs. Observations were carried out once before and twice after the date of the change. The behaviour of the drivers approaching the signs was recorded in relation to that of the other drivers with whom they interacted (a).


Students in interpreting courses often learn following a very practical approach. These types of courses usually utilize role-plays to perfect students' interpreting skills and develop the necessary terminology needed during interpreted-mediated events. Adding service-learning components to these types of courses, can provide students with tremendous opportunities to practice and improve their interpreting skills while increasing their social awareness. This article discusses a qualitative analysis of a service-learning project conducted at a non-profit clinic in Dallas, Texas. The participants were university students enrolled in a Spanish-English interpreting class who reflected on the experience through written questionnaires, guided reflections, and an oral interview. The article discusses themes that emerged using these analytical tools. It also examines the balance between service and learning during the project. In addition, the article examines what students learned through the experience that was not covered during class lectures and discussions.


Incorporating atomically thin graphene into proton exchange membranes (PEMs) via scalable and facile processes presents the potential for advancing energy conversion and storage applications while mitigating persistent issues of undesired species crossover.


Professional engineers are often asked to provide free advice but it is less easy to say no when the client is a charity or community group with little or no funding. There is also much evidence to suggest that providing pro bono advice to local communities is actually good for business in terms of networking opportunities with other volunteer professionals, increased employee satisfaction and improved public perception. This papers describes the work of ProHelp, an initiative by the Business in the Community charity to help engineers and other professionals provide coordinated and effective support to local community projects in the UK.


Introduction: The workplace is one of the most significant environments where people spend most of their time. Lack of acoustic comfort is one of the most important factors that threaten the health and well-being of employees in these workplaces all days. The purpose of this study, while identifying the symptoms caused by noise problems among employees, is to identify the main parameters and investigate the role of architecture in the expansion of unhealthy workplaces.
Method and material: The current study was conducted among the employees of three administrative buildings in Urmia city (Road and Urban Development, Construction Engineering Organization, and Airport). The sample size was 226 out of 309 employees were selected based on Morgan's table.The required data were collected through a questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation) and the Friedman test by SPSS-25 software.
Results: The average ranks of the symptoms showed that fatigue (4.62), hearing problems (6.05), headache (6.30), muscle pains (7.01), high stress (8.41), quick anger (8.55) and distraction and poor concentration (8.58), were among the most symptoms caused by a noise among employees. Also, disturbances caused by other people's conversations (59.22%) and overcrowding and lack of individual speech privacy (41.99%) were among the most parameters, having frequent noise complaints.
Conclusion: The results of the investigation indicated that the inefficient environment design and lack of spaces flexibility, inappropriate placement and lack of acoustic insulation of surfaces inside noisy uses, high environment density and lack of sufficient space for employees, lack of installation systems maintenance, were among the most reasons for frequent noise complaints.


The conference on Geomorphology and the Changing Environment in Europe was held at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest and Veszprem. The number of participants was approximately 130, half of which were from Hungary and the rest from 22 other countries, mainly in Central and Eastern Europe. The Pannonian or Carpathian Basin, crossed by the Danube, formed the scenic backdrop of the meeting which started in good weather and ended in snow in mid-April.


This paper describes the new method of the finite element analysis based on the product cycle design. Based on the simulation software, combined with the Mohr strength theory, analyze the cabinet in several classic conditions of stress, then have the final test on the cabinet in the consolidated operating conditions.