At present, the development of the test process design process for civil aircraft mainly relies on the process personnel to manually review relevant test information and write test process documents, which results in low efficiency of test process development and cannot effectively guarantee the standardization and normalization of process documents. The development of technology has made the unit under test more complicated, which lengthens the functional test cycle, and cannot meet the actual needs of current product production and maintenance. This paper proposes the research based on the Automatic Test Markup Language (IEEE 1671 ATML) and the Signal and Test Definition (IEEE-1641 STD), and builds an automated integrated test system that meets the requirements of automated integrated testing of domestic civil aircraft ground functions. Among them, the development and management of integrated test cases have realized the inheritability, reusability and sharing of test cases; the secondary packaging drive technology of test resources realizes multi-variable and multi-channel online real-time monitoring; the machine based on interface control files It supports bus protocol management and test operation, and realizes the flexible configuration of bus communication protocol in the test process.


According to series difficulties occurred in the overpass with legs construction process of the traditional overpass roadway in the mine,a new construction method of a legless overpass with the coal pillars of the roadway sidewall as the support platform of the overpass roadway was firstly provided.With the reinforcement of the coal pillars in the roadway sidewall,the sufficient strength requirement of the coal pillar could be reached in order to replace the concrete legs in the traditional overpass technology with legs.The new technology could effectively solve the construction difficulties,high risk,long construction period,high cost and other problems of the previous concrete legs occurred in the sidewall blasting expansion construction under the conditions of the belt conveyor and multi pipelines in the main transportation roadway and would be simple in technology and reliable in economy.Obvious experiment effect of the new technology was obtained.


To control the diameter size of the carbon nanofilaments (CNFs), SF? was incorporated in the source gases (C₂H₂/H₂) during the initial deposition stage. The source gases and SF? were manipulated as the cyclic on/off modulation of C₂H₂/H₂/SF? flow in a thermal chemical vapor deposition system. The characteristics of the CNFs formation on the substrate were investigated according to the different cyclic modulation processes and the substrate temperatures. By SF? + H₂ flow injection during the cycling etching interval time, the diameter size of CNFs was extremely decreased. The cause for the decrease in the diameter size of the individual CNFs by the cyclic on/off modulation process of C₂H₂/H₂/SF? flow was discussed in association with the slightly enhanced etching ability by the incorporation of SF?.


Based on a quantum dynamical invariant of motion, I, we study the classical limit of a semiclassical Hamiltonian composed by a full quantum harmonic oscillator plus a classical particle plus a "semiclassical" coupling quartic term. The motion-invariant is closely related to the uncertainty principle. The classical limit (CL) is determined by the relationship between I and the total energy of the system, defining an adimensional invariant Er. We find that the CL coincides with the results of a purely classical treatment. Both invariants allow to follow the transit between quantum nonchaotic to the classical chaotic regime. Particularly, with Er we define the threshold above which chaos appears, and the interval during which both regimes co-exist.


The interrelation of thermodynamics and statistical properties of quantum systems can be demonstrated with comparatively little mathematical effort using two state systems (or two state particles). Basic results are summarized for this model system. The entropy can be interpreted as the entropy of mixing particles in their low and high energy state. Thus, an apparent single component system can be considered as a two component system with variable particle numbers. This result has recently been generalized for elementary bosonic and fermionic systems or particles with many different excited states. In this case, one has to take into account as many components as different internal states of the particles are available. The numbers of particles of each component, however, are not constant but depend on the temperature at thermal equilibrium according to statistical principles.


In the context of railway systems, the application performance can be very critical and the radio conditions not advantageous. Hence, the communication problem parameters include both a survival time stemming from the application layer and a channel error probability stemming from the PHY layer. This paper proposes to consider the framework of Markov Decision Process (MDP) to design a strategy for scheduling radio resources based on both application and PHY layer parameters. The MDP approach enables to obtain the optimal strategy via the value iteration algorithm. The performance of this algorithm can thus serve as a benchmark to assess lower complexity schedulers. We show numerical evaluations where we compare the value iteration algorithm with other schedulers, including one based on deep Q learning.


In their focal article, Holt and Seki (2012) point out the importance of focusing on individual uniqueness when leading in culturally diverse environments. We agree that this is a critical point, as leaders must recognize and appreciate the unique contributions that each follower can make based on his or her cultural complexities in order to lead to successful collaborations and outcomes. However, what does a global leader do when the person or group they are attempting to influence has drastically different beliefs or values to the point of hostility? How should a global leader appreciate uniqueness in and respond to groups that may in fact be largely hostile to that leader and his or her goals? In today's global economy, the idea of leaders operating in culturally hostile environments is not just an issue faced by the military. Government agencies such as USAID, as well as nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and government contractors often operate in environments where individuals and groups may subtly or actively oppose the work of these organizations' leadership. For example, numerous NGOs and government agencies work hard to provide food, water, medical care, and other basic resources for famine-stricken countries such as Somalia (Associated Press, 2011). Leaders of these organizations may often find themselves working hard to win


'Development of ready to eat mint coriander sauce' with objectives to standardize the method of preparation, preservation and shelf-life of the sauce is reported here. Mint, coriander, other ingredients and the prepared sauce were analyzed for their physicochemical, phytochemical and sensory characteristics. It was observed that solids were separated, so guar gum and CMC were added in the combination of 0.3%+0.3% and homogenization was carried out at 7400 RPM for 7–8 minutes at 20°C to improve the consistency. The samples were stored in five batches i.e. control, preserved with KMS, preserved with sodium benzoate, preserved with combination of KMS+ sodium benzoate and thermal processed sauce for a storage interval of four months. The results observed that the control sample retained shelf life of 30 days while the samples preserved with sodium benzoate remaining for acceptable quality for four months.


Strongly criticizing Soviet sources for their failure to show the methods that lead them to conclude that 20 million Soviet citizens perished during World War II, Diadkin calculates that if one includes the consequences of the drop in the birth rate, the total loss amounts to at least 40 million. He is unaware that in a 1971 monograph the Soviet demographer Boris Urlanis calculated the loss to be 45 million, using a simple and clearly stated method. Diadkin estimates war casualties to have been 30 million. Without any further evidence regarding cause of death, he contends that this higher figure shows that the actions of the Soviet leadership were comparable to those of Hitler. In his introduction, Eberstadt is more explicit: "The losses inflicted by the Soviet state upon its own people rivaled any the Germans could inflict on the battlefields." Diadkin also estimates "unnatural" deaths during 1929-37 and 1950-54. But the abundant flaws of his work make it impossible to view it as a contribution to knowledge. At best it may serve to stimulate further study of the subject. Diadkin's trial and incarceration indicate that in the USSR this work was treated as anti-Soviet propaganda rather than scholarship. Ironically, this may prove to be its primary function in the United States if the figures and conclusions uncritically enter the literature of the cold war.


"Adipopharmacology" connotes the adipotargeting studies aimed at drug discovery. Here we focus on adipopharmacology of nerve growth factor, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, ciliary neurotrophic factor and metallothioneins. Because these factors improve glucose, lipid and antioxidant metabolism, we named them metabotrophic factors (metabotrophins).


This paper discusses the rationale for designing a simple trust-management system for public-key infrastructures, called KeyNote. The motivating principles are expressibility, simplicity, and extensibility. We believe that none of the existing public-key infrastructure proposals provide as good a combination of these three factors.


Lactoferrin and lactoperoxidase have antimicrobial effects against oral pathogens. This randomized, double‐blinded, placebo‐controlled parallel group study tested the efficacy of a lactoferrin and lactoperoxidase‐containing tablet (LF + LPO tablet) in improving the oral hygiene status of older individuals.


The present work had as objective evaluate the effect of temperature and pretreatment in color apple slices var. Granny Smith, measured it in CIELa*b* space using a computer vision system, during the process of enzymatic browning. The applied methodology consists of the following activities a) Application of different conditions of temperature (10, 25 and 40 ° C) and pre-treatment (control, blanching and sulphited) to apple slices to analyze enzymatic browning, b) Extraction of information color during the process of enzymatic browning and c) relate the changes in color, temperature and pre-treatment. The results show that the experimental work along the browning process occurs reduction and increased parameters L, a* and b* parameters, also significant differences in the parameters L, a* and b* when applied different pre-treatments and temperatures. Finally, the equations that model the relationship between the parameters L, a* and b*, based on the factors pre-treatment (P), time (Tp), and storage temperature (Ta) confirm that the parameters L, a* b* are related to the evaluation factors. However, the lower values of R2, it is not possible to use them to predict the process.


Journey to the West praises the human world through the description of the natural beauty and the existence of the intelligent monsters who are nurtured by beauty, praises the human being with the monsters' desire and pursuit of becoming human beings and praises the seekers of times of peace and prosperity by the transformation of Monkey King from a natural being to a socialized one. So it highlights human-oriented thought from a high perspective.


The particle-in-a-box (PIB) system is used as a simple example in order to illustrate the basis of the quantum variational principle. After the general exposition of the variational principle demonstration, a quadratic polynomial trial function is applied to the PIB hamiltonian and the different steps of the demonstration are followed and reproduced for this particular case.


Applied behavior analysis (ABA) has been considered the gold standard intervention for individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) for over 60 years. ABA, as a therapeutic intervention, dates to the 1960s and first appeared in studies conducted by Ole Ivar Lovaas. ABA gained the attention of many practitioners in 1987 when Lovaas reported children who received 40 hours or more of ABA treatment per week had significantly better outcomes than children who received 10 hours or less of ABA treatment per week after 2 or more years of intervention (Lovaas, 1987). Lovaas and his team of trained student therapists used interventions informed by behaviorism to target self‐stimulatory behaviors, play skills, and expressive language skills among other targeted goals and found that 47% of children in the experimental group achieved a normal score for intellectual and educational functions compared to 2% of children in the control group (Lovaas, 1987).


There is a misunderstanding of " Cemingweizhi" -a term commonly existed in the papers and books of Qin Dynasty. In fact it is a general term for alliance. "Weizhi" is one step of alliance, and an etiquette developed forms the customs; it was influenced by people's attitude and felling. The distinguishing social roles played by kings and officials were established by history. No special ceremonies were devoted to set up the relationship. So it is not correct to treat the term " Cemingweizhi" as a kind of ceremony to establish the relationship between kings and officials.


WE ARE PRONE to dwell upon our hobbies, and this tendency has caused a selection of this particular subject of progressive exophthalmos. In its various aspects it becomes the concern of the general surgeon, the endocrinologist, the ophthalmologist and the neurological surgeon. It is protean in its manifestations, and in its etiology there are many unanswered questions. Progressive exophthalmos is actually an inexact term for the subject matter of this lecture. If accurate it would cover all manner of proptosis, namely, protrusion of the eyes from circulatory causes, intracranial and orbital neoplasms, metastatic lesions, and infections. These, varieties are not within the present scope of consideration. Bilateral progressive exophthalmos would be a more accurate title. This condition varies greatly in its severity and in its importance to the patient, ranging as it does from a mild degree to a few instances of such extent as to endanger the life of the patient and present the surgeon with responsibility for the preservation of vision and life. Twenty-four years ago a patient with an unforgettable appearance was led into our clinic. He was totally blind, and fiery red masses protruded from both orbits. The lids were withdrawn behind these masses. In the depths could be seen the roughened yellow cornea, and there was pus within the anterior chambers of the eyes. According to the history that was given, a thyroidectomy had been performed some six months previously for diffuse toxic goiter. It was followed by the abeyance of the patient's nervousness, tremor, and rapid pulse. Within a few weeks after operation, however, his eyes became more prominent and this protrusion had progressed up to his then hopeless state (Fig. 1). At that time I was unaware of such extreme increases in exophthalmos occurring after the relief of the evidences of thyrotoxicosis. In this case the inevitable termination from meningitis or brain abscess was forestalled by the suicide of the patient. Such an experience left an indelible imprint. Shortly thereafter a nurse was referred to the clinic. She was rapidly losing vision from choked discs associated with bilateral progressive exophthalmos which likewise had followed a thyroidectomy performed some nine months before. Neurological investigation revealed no intracranial lesion to account for the choked discs. In association there were numerous retinal haemorrhages and the patient had retained insufficient vision to identify persons a short distance away. With the recollection of the earlier case before us, an immediate search of the literature was made. It was found that such occurrences were by no means rare. A large number of deaths had been reported. There was little available


Water pricing and recuperation of the costs of irrigation investment have been litigious issues for many decades in the dry area of Nyanyadzi because the community view irrigation as a development expenditure, financed by donors and the government for backward areas through lowering of food prices and reduction of tariffs. The soaring charges for irrigation water are questioned, as well as, the diminutive percentage of farmers who fundamentally recompense the charges. The failure to institute clear cost recuperation and water pricing methods has threatened the viability and sustainability of irrigation projects in the study area. The study used both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. The study revealed that where the economy is usually subsidized, convalesce the cost of water delivery is much more complicated and difficult. In the case of establishing user fees, these should be estimated as a percentage of the "traditional user's capability for payment" derived from irrigation benefits (the net increase in farmers' income as a result of irrigation). Nyanyadzi has an opportunity in irrigation led development, if stakeholders address critical challenges in the planning, design, water delivery and maintenance of its irrigation systems. Since Nyanyadzi faces severe budgetary difficulties in financing irrigation projects, it is obligatory to consider the foundation on which irrigation projects operate and impose the principle of self sustaining. Sustainable methods of irrigation evaluation and collection of fees must be considered in light of Nyanyadzi's economic and technical environment. The research noted that water use efficiency is required in order to maximize the benefits farmers derive from the irrigation projects and extraordinarily high user fees should be avoided in the project development stages, where the payment capability is much less at the beginning than at the maturity stages of irrigation projects.


Arsenate exerts a catalytic effect on the oxidation of pyrogallol by atmospheric oxygen, on the catalytic oxidation of pyrogallol by metallic iron, and on the presumably enzymatic production of CO2 by Elodea canadensis.


This paper presents a novel approach for fabricating lead-based layered perovskite films. The perovskite structure was formed during the transfer of a perovskite-unform monolayer onto a substrate. ...


The Educational Clinic at the Iowa State Teachers College has three purposes: (1) providing testing and psychological services for the college students; (2) providing, for third-, fourth-, and fifth-year college students, laboratory experiences in several areas of special education and in counseling psychology; and (3) providing consultant services to the public schools. This study is limited to the specific area of remedial-reading problems in children in the public schools as developed through the second and third purposes listed above. The study was made to determine the extent to which the clinic helped pupils who had been referred because of reading difficulties. The clinic records showed that about two hundred


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The effect of aluminium and copper as alloying additives on the high-temperature characteristics of zinc single crystals subjected to mechanical tension is presented. The influence of twinning and basal slide on the single crystal deformation, and the condition for «jerky flow» and prismatic slip occurence have been determined. A strong relation between the critical shearing stress, producing prismatic slip, and temperature and concentration of the alloying elements has been observed


Summary Plant floristic composition of Mocickie Meadows situated in the Leniwa NoteRiver valley exhibits considerable variabil- ity. Semi-natural communities of high natural value s, primarily from the Phragmitetea class, are domin ant. Semi-natural character of the examined communities was particula rly common in the case of marshy and wet sites on w hich utilisation was either significantly reduced or completely aban doned in recent years. The natural value of these c ommunities can be preserved if the domestic Agro-environmental Progra m is implemented. The study presents characteristic s of floristic and soil variability of ecological meadow communities son organic soils. Analyses of floristic com position and moisture content variability of the following syntaxonomic u nits were carried out: Phalaridetum arundinaceae va r. with Urtica dioica, com. Angelico-Cirsietum oleracei and ass. F ilipendulion ulmariae and Polygonum hydropiper var. with Rumex cris- pus. In addition, results of nature valorisation fo r the above-mentioned plant communities were descri bed. The performed soil drillings and pits made it possible to describ e soil morphological structure and to carry out the ir typological, natural and functional classification. Basic physical and c hemical properties were determined using methods co mmonly employed in soil science.


In the struggle to prove the perseverance of ؤivilizations, some nations tend to cancel the identities of others. In this regard, Muslims must have their own position derived from the age long experience of the Islamic civilization in order to strike the same chord between the various nations and peoples of the
Islamic belief. This experience is far away from denying the identities of the others but rather it nurtured these differences and enabled the diverse races and religions to contribute to a common cause to develop knowledge, culture and civilization. As of today, it is a challenge to put back this practice at the frontline of own cultures and blend with the otherness as it used to be.
Perhaps, through the teaching of Arabic to the non-Arabs is one of the best approaches to expose the Arabic Islamic culture to the others since language itself is a live representative of the culture of its speakers.

Keywords: Culture – Syria –Japan – Francophone – American


A brief discussion on the ills of portraiture painters. Includes a poem dedicated to Squires. Biographical notes. 7 bibl. ref.


Linking nursing variables with patient outcomes. A challenge for computer-based systems. Enabling student nurses to use the information superhighway. ABSTRACT: [Healthstar] Nursing graduates must be sophisticated in the use of information technologies and understand how these technologies interface with various health care systems. The purpose of this project was to evaluate the impact of a newly developed Internet course, focusing on current information technologies, on 20 RN-to-MSN students. Author-developed instruments were used to measure weekly computer use, perceived computer skill, and knowledge related to the information superhighway. The Stronge & Brodt Nurses Attitudes Toward Computerization Questionnaire was used to assess attitudes toward computerization. Qualitative data was elicited using weekly evaluation forms. When compared to 23 students at a similar stage of their nursing program, quantitative findings indicated that, at the end of the semester, students in the pilot course had more computer knowledge, reported greater computer skill, and used computers more. Qualitative findings suggested that pilot students: * Were connected with nursing networks and expressed their intent to maintain these networks. * Were able to use current health information found on the Internet in their nursing practices. * Used skills learned in the pilot class to complete projects in other classes. * Communicated with classmates via the Internet, thus forming a potentially valuable professional support system. * Used the library and librarians early in their programs. * Understood the relevancy of telemedicine and the Internet to the future survival of nursing in a changing health care arena. While the authors caution that an adequate infrastructure must be available to support such an endeavor, they emphasize that knowledge of the relevancy and use of the information superhighway is crucial to the future survival of nursing in a rapidly changing health care arena. Taking a bite out of CRISP strategies on using and conducting searches in the Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects database. ABSTRACT: [Verlagsinfo] In diesem Band werden die Grundlagen des Computers, der EDV und der Software-Programme leicht verständlich erklärt. Beschrieben wird ferner die EDV-gestützte Arbeit auf den Stationen, z.B. Bergen 1997 Bergen, P. Der Umgang mit Computern ist nicht so schwer, wie es scheint.


The impact of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) on the traditional role of aeronautical ground test facilities over the next 15 years is assessed via a National Research Council study. More powerful scientific computers and more efficient numerical algorithms should result in the ability to practically compute the flowfield about a complete aircraft with the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations at a unit cost three orders of magnitude lower than at present. No dramatic change in the cost of testing in ground facilities is foreseen because more efficient computer-enhanced facility operation is partially offset by increased power and labor costs. From the user viewpoint, the risk in development of a new aircraft or engine is so great that use of proven methods of verification by means of test facilities will not change significantly. In the next 15 years CFD and ground test facilities will be utilized in a complementary rather than competitive mode of obtaining design data and the end result will be a better product.


This paper presents data collection and collaborative community events organised within the project Digital Natives on the North Sami language. The project is one of the collaboration initiatives on endangered Finno-Ugric languages, supported by the larger framework between the Academy of Finland and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The goal of the project is to improve digital visibility and viability of the targeted Finno-Ugric languages, as well as to develop language technology tools and resources in order to assist automatic language processing and experimenting with multilingual interactive applications.


Extracts of root bark, stem bark and the latex collected from the green fruits of Garcinia mangostana gave α-mangostin, β-mangostin, γ-mangostin, garcinone-E, methoxy-β-mangostin and a new geranylated biphenyl derivative 3-hydroxy-4-geranyl-5-methoxybiphenyl. The latex of G. mangostana consists of more than 75% of xanthones which have strong antibacterial (anti-MRSA and -VRE), anti-inflammatory, antifungal and a number of other biological activities. Hence the presence of the above highly bioactive compounds in large quantities should be the causative factor for G. mangostana's medicinal value in indigenous medicine.


McCallum, Alicia; Sketris, I.; Rodrigues, G. et al. ''Self-Reported Use of Handheld Computers: A Survey of Nova Scotia Pharmacists.'' Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association 33, no. 1 (2012): 4–11. Mobile devices offer advantageous access to evidence-based medical information and decision support tools. There is scant literature, however, on the use of this technology by pharmacists. This Canadian study addresses this gap and finds that commonly stated barriers to adoption included a lack of specific training, a perception that information was difficult to keep current, technological impediments such as screen size or printing limitations, and expense. Compared with nonusers, users tended to be younger and relatively new to the profession.


Background: Cervical Cancer is a cause of significant disease worldwide. Human papiloma virus (HPV) is the cause of Cancer cervix in 100% cases. Effective intervention to prevent HPV associated diseases can therefore prevent cervical Cancers and genital warts. Primordial prevention of cervical Cancer can be achieved by increasing the knowledge of the general population, especially at the rural setup as a cervical Cancer is undiagnosed up to later stage and changing the attitude of women in related to cervical Cancer. The present study was conceptualized and designed in order to assess knowledge and attitude of rural women. Objectives: To assess the knowledge and perceived barriers to prevention of cervical Cancer among women attending gynecology outpatient department (OPD) and to find an association between knowledge and perceived barriers with sociodemographic variables. Material and Methods : The present descriptive study was designed in order to access the knowledge, attitude and belief of rural women based in rural setup of B. G. Nagara. A sample size of 1000 women attending Gynaecology OPD between 25-55 years was targeted. Simple random sampling technique was adapted for the sample collection. Pre tested questionnaire were used for data collection. Results : The study, albeit small and simple has thrown out a gamut of realizations related to the complete lack of knowledge and awareness not only regarding cervical Cancer but also other aspects of women's health among the populations Keywords: Cervical Cancer, Human papiloma virus (HPV)


Dipole moments have been determined by using the mixtures of diluted solutions of aniline, o-chloro aniline, p-chloro aniline, ethanol, 2-butoxy ethanol and 2-methoxy ethanol in carbon tetrachloride at 30° C based on Debye's polarization method and Huysken's method. The results are interpreted that the complex dipole moment for the halogen substitution of acceptor complexes is greater than the mono substituted acceptor complexes. But the case is reversed in halogen substitution of donor complexes.


CBIR is the application of computer vision to the image retrieval problem, which is searching for digital images in large databases without textual descriptions or label information. Successful retrieval of relevant images from large-scale image collections is still a very challenging task. The SVG standard allows representing complex graphic vector-based primitives, offering several advantages with respect to classical raster images which make it a well format to the CBIR system. In this paper, we propose a prototype system based on SVG technology and emphasize the method of similarity measurement, also covers the implementation of the principles, which provides CBIR services.


Figs. 3 and 4. It can be seen that both materials exhibit a fine, uniform microstructure without any evidence of prior particle boundaries. The grain size in both cases is in the range 6-8 ASTM and the microporosity present is discrete and uniformly distributed. This type of structure is extremely amenable to forging so that even alloys which can normally be produced only in the cast form have been forged (in one blow on a high energy rate machine) to a finished shape. The microstructures after being worked are very similar to those of the preforms shown in Figs. 3 and 4. Properties have been determined from specimens taken from the load cell forging blank shown in Fig. 2 and these have been compared with data for the same alloys produced by conventional routes. For example, Table I shows such a comparison for En24 and 12%Cr stainless steel. A close similarity exists between the properties of Osprey forgings and the longitudinal properties of conventional forgings, but the Osprey values for elongation and impact are superior to the transverse conventional results. Such properties, however, do not necessarily iridicate suitability


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We investigate a new, free space, off-axis pumping method for pumping PCF lasers and amplifiers. Experiments show that the lasing performance is improved compared to standard on-axis pumping, while maintaining all other advantages. Conventional methods for free space pumping of active double clad fibers involve mainly on-axis coupling of the pump beam through a dichroic mirror. In recent years there were many efforts to separate the laser and pump beam directions with various off-axis (sidewise) pumping configurations. With off-axis pumping the pump and laser beams are separated and do not share the same optical axis when coupled into the fiber (outside of the fiber). Most of the off-axis pumping methods are realized in all-fiber configurations by various methods [1, 2]. However, most of these methods are not suitable for air clad photonic crystal fibers (PCFs), often suffer from low damage threshold due to adhesives, mechanical instability and in many cases require special processing of the active fibers [1].


In this paper, we study on weak symmetries of almost Kenmotsu(κ, µ, ν)-spaces. For each α, γ, δ 1-forms and any vector field X weget α + γ + δ =X (κ)κ , if a (2n + 1)-dimensional almost Kenmotsu(κ, µ, ν)-space is weakly symmetric and for each e, σ, ρ 1-forms weget e + σ + ρ =X (κ)κ , if a (2n + 1)-dimensional almost Kenmotsu(κ, µ, ν)-space is weakly Ricci symmetric.


We have calculated the density of the quantum state in the conduction band (NC) for series stress addition to GaAs thin film along [100], [010] and [001] direction. We present here the results of our investigation of the electronic parameter affected by the stress. Within the range of 0.02–0.2 GPa, we find that the value of NC decreases about 1.0 × 1021 cm–3 from the free status of films. The results reveal that the stresses on GaAs film are extremely important and impact its electronic properties.


The article outlines the main factors influencing the formation and development of inclusive education in Ukraine. The study analyzes the foreign and domestic experience of modern inclusive trends in education. The research reveals that systematic institutional changes are needed for the development of an inclusive environment in domestic education. This is, first of all, educators' professional thinking and public consciousness. The paper describes the main system-forming factors influencing the formation and development of inclusive educational processes in Ukraine. They are the following: axiological, conceptual and terminological, legislative, regulatory, financial and economic, personnel, scientific and methodological, educational and methodological, material and technical, organizational and social ones.


In order to conduct comprehensive judgment on young basketball players' physical quality and basic technique scientifically and systemically, this study establishes the combination evaluation model of young basketball players' physical quality and basic technique, uses fuzzy analytic hierarchy process to determine the weight of each level indicator and calculate the combination weights of the lowest level indicators, and carries through a comprehensive evaluation of the different young basketball players' physical quality and basic technique using Topsis method. The evaluation results truly reflect the comprehensive situation of every athlete, and the use of the indicators in the evaluation model to establish the RBF neural network model making the evaluation modeled. This model provides a new idea for the comprehensive evaluation of young basketball players' physical quality and basic technique, and is conducive to the timely monitoring and regulation on training for coaches and young basketball players.  2013 Trade Science Inc. INDIA


The utility model discloses a novel work piece presss from both sides tightly device, including the base, the one end of base is provided with the fixed column and the other end is provided with the cam, its characterized in that, and the one end of being close to the fixed column on the base is provided with the slide rail, and the slider setting that can fix the work piece is provided with fixed guide passage between slide rail and cam on the slide rail, be provided with the reset spring of ejector pin on an ejector pin through fixed guide passage and the fixed guide passage, and the terminal surface and the cam of ejector pin contact the terminal fixed vertical pinch -off blades that are provided with of ejector pin. It is preferred, the bottom of pinch -off blades links to each other with the slider is fixed. It is preferred, the terminal surface of ejector pin is the sunken terminal surface corresponding with the cam surface. It produces the fish tail at the surface to the clamp force in -process great and that the work piece is removing that the work piece pressed from both sides tight department easily to avoid pressing from both sides tight in -process.


Abstract This research is motivated to determine the level of students' critical thinking skills. Every student has a level of thinking skills that vary in understanding a problem so that the way of thinking of students in response to existing problems are also different. The purpose of this research 1) analyze the critical thinking ability of students to understand the material Flat quadrilateral based on the elements of reasoning and intellectual standards of reasoning Model Critical Thinking Paul and Elder in class VII SMP Negeri 7 Padang 2) describe the factors that cause students of class VII SMP Negeri 7 Padang at the level of certain TKBK. Type research is descriptive and qualitative research methods. Samples that all students in grade VII consists of eight classes and sampling was conducted by sampling proposive. The results showed that TKBK students to understand the material Flat quadrilateral obtained by students at the level of TKBK 4 (0%), TKBK 3 (74.71%), TKBK 2 (15.88%), TKBK 1 (8.82%), and TKBK 0 (0.59%). The general factors that cause students to be at a certain level such TKBK a) Students are not able to determine the important information in question b) Students have not been able to determine the concept or formula correctly c) The student has not been able to sketch the images that are requested in the matter correctly d) students in identifying and resolving problems is not appropriate for the less scrupulous e) Conclusions given students lacking or unclear. Key Word : Mathematic,  Critical Thinking, Critical Thinking Ability Levels.


In the present study, the applicability of Mespilus germanica modified by Fe2(MoO4)3 nanocomposite in trihalomethanes (THMs) removal from aqueous solutions has been delineated. Numerous techniques including Brunauer–Emmett–Teller, Fourier transform infrared, X-ray diffraction, and scanning electron microscopy were employed to show the characteristics of this novel material. Via employment of a batch adsorption technique, the impact values of 30 mg L–1, 50 mg, 7.0, 50 min were considered as the ideal values for THMs, adsorbent mass, pH value, and contact time, respectively. Equilibrium data obtained have been to the adsorption isotherms, Langmuir, and Freundlich model best fits the experimental results. Kinetic modeling of showed that the pseudo-second-order equation was most appropriate for the description of THMs adsorption by sorbent nanocomposite. The maximum adsorption capacities for CHCl3, CHCl2Br, CHClBr2, and CHBr3 were found to be 28.5, 15.3, 13.15, and 4.27 mg g–1, respectively. The thermodynamic parameters including enthalpy, entropy, and Gibbs energy were calculated for the adsorption. The negative value of (ΔG°, ΔH°, and ΔS°) confirmed the sorption process was exothermic reflects the affinity of M. germanica modified by Fe2(MoO4)3 nanocomposite for removal THMs process requires heat from aqueous solutions.


other branches of government. The only problem with this chapter is that it is too abbreviated, running only 11 pages, and leaves too many aspects of this intriguing scheme unelaborated. Neal Tate follows with a chapter laying out the possible causes of both types of judicialization throughout the world, and adduces the usual list. The remaining chapters—23 of them—are a potpourri: Some focus on a single country, some present cross-national research, and some offer policy critiques. A few utilize Vallinder's framework, some mention it in passing, while a number ignore it altogether. Some present adequate background material; others offer little or none. The noteworthy chapters fall into two categories. The first is composed of country overviews and historical narratives. The second is made up of papers that combine rich background and analytical material in insightful ways. Martin Shapiro provides an engaging overview of the judicialization of politics in the United States. His major point is that pulling the courts into politics will in the end necessarily diminish the distinction between the judiciary and other institutions of government. Part of the power and prestige of courts has traditionally rested on the very differences between them and legislatures and executives, power and prestige that will be sacrificed as more partisan issues end up on judicial dockets. Peter Russell analyzes the impact of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on the Canadian judiciary. He argues that the courts have actually been quite restrained when called upon to interpret the Charter. The Charter's most important long-run impact may not therefore be a heightened judicialization, but a shift in political attitudes. Specifically, its emphasis on individual rights could well erode the collectivist traditions of both Tory and social democracy. Martin Edelman provides an engaging glimpse into the Israeli situation. Jewish immigration to Palestine was accomplished by various organizations that served state-like functions. After independence, these groupings carried on as political parties, factionalizing almost every aspect of life. The military and the courts emerged as the only institutions that transcended the narrow partisan world most Israelis lived in. In recent years, as political paralysis has engulfed the Knesset, the role of the courts has grown.


This study aims to apply an approach using machine learning for predicting students' employability. The researchers conducted a case study that involved 27,000 information (3000 observations and 9 features) of students' Mock Job Interview Evaluation Results, On-the Job Training (OJT) Student Performance Rating and General Point Average (GPA) of students enrolled in OJT course of School Year 2015 to School Year 2018. Three learning algorithms were used such as Decision Trees (DT), Random Forest (RF), and Support vector machine (SVM) in order to understand how students get employed. The three algorithms were evaluated through the performance matrix as accuracy measures, precision and recall measures, f1-score and support measures. During the experiments Support Vector machine (SVM) obtained 91.22% in accuracy measures which was significantly better than all of the learning algorithms, DT 85%, RF 84%. The learning curve produced during the experiment displays the training error results which were above the one for validation error while the validation curve displays the testing output where gamma was best at 10 to 100 in gamma 5. This concludes that the model produced with SVM was not underfit and over-fit. This study is very promising that lead to the researchers to be motivated to enhanced the process and to validate the produced predictive model for further study.


An combination unit for protection against overvoltages with a preferably U-shaped lower part (1) and a having with this steckverbindbaren an overvoltage protection element plug-in module (2), wherein the lower part (1) contacted with connection conductors the plug contacts (6) and the cartridge (2) so that has corresponding connector elements (5) and wherein between the cartridge holding means or locking means acting are provided (2) and lower part (1), which engage in the insertion position of the parts into each other and are releasable by manipulation and / or unlatched to the plug-in module (2) to refer to create, in which the removal of the plug-in module located in the insertion position is facilitated and where no additional components to facilitate removal are necessary, it is proposed that between the lower part (1) and plug-in module (2) acting spring element (4) is provided which, when plugged-in plug-in module (2) is prestressed and in dissolved or entrastetem Haltemit tel or locking means, the plug-in module (2) counter to the connecting direction displaced into a removal position, and that the spring element (4) by at least one plug contact (6) or by a plug element (5) is formed.


The aim of the article is to study the metaphorical models of death in the military-poetic discourse of the participants in the Joint Forces Operation. Materials and methods . The method of semantic-cognitive modeling of metaphorizing is relevant for solving this problem . Results . An analysis of the text fragments of the military-poetic discourse made it possible to identify the main metaphorical models of death. Within the boundaries of the metaphorical model DEATH – IMPIOUS SACRIFICE death is apprehended as one of the characters in the triumphal celebration of the Forces of Evil that is presided by their sinister overlord – War. A modification of this metaphorical model is DEATH – PAYMENT. Death in this model is perceived as the price that combatants pay for peace in their country. In the metaphorical model DEATH – HARLOT death is presented as the spiritual assistant of the Devil that "was drunk with the blood of the saints". In addition, in this metaphorical model the formula "death seduces" has a clear parallel with the expression "kiss of death". In this case, it is not just the physical death of the individual but also the death of the Ego. The DEATH – CONTINUATION OF THE LIFE model develops the idea that the conscious life of a person continues in a certain form after death, however, this is not in the sense of immortality but in the sense of transformation. The archetype of sacrifice in the metaphorical model DEATH – THE ACTION OF ATONEMENT helps to show the desire of combatants to sacrifice their lives in the name of the Homeland and their family and friends. In this representation of death, we deal with a model that focuses on the basic dogma of Christianity – the idea of the vicarious sufferings of Christ. The metaphorical model DEATH – OBLIVION identifies death as emptiness, purposelessness and meaninglessness of existence. The metaphorical model DEATH – PEACE recognizes death as the rest of combatants from a prolonged stay in life-threatening circumstances, significant emotional impact, mental and physical stress, psychosomatic exhaustion. In the metaphorical model DEATH – THE BEGINNING OF A NEW LIFE death is interpreted in terms of the dialectical interaction of life and mortal principles of human existence. Conclusions . An analysis of metaphorical models demonstrates the cognitive rooting in combatants' consciousness of the models of death based on mythological, religious and philosophical ideas.


As continuously monitored by firefly luciferase bioluminescence, rat liver mitochondria incubated under State 4 conditions slowly synthesized ATP by phosphorylation of endogenous adenine nucleotide. This ATP production was sensitive to upcouplers and respiratory inhibitors and was partially sensitive to atractyloside. A lag as long as 1 min occurred between complete inhibition of respiration and complete inhibition of ATP production. No lag was observed for inhibition by uncoupler or atractyloside. The lag after respiratory inhibition was shortened by concentrations of uncoupler well below fully uncoupling levels. During the lag, ATP was formed when exogenous ADP was added. The magnitude of ATP formation was a decreasing function of the time interval between the addition of respiratory inhibitor and the addition of ADP. Formation of more than 2 pmol of ATP/g of protein was consistently observed at intervals of 10 s or less. The initial rate of formation of this ATP approached the rate of oxidative phosphorylation in the absence of inhibition. Safranin was employed to monitor membrane potential (A*). Under conditions where 2.25 pmol of ATP/g of protein was formed after 10 s of KCN inhibition, there was an accompanying 35% rapid decrease in A* as compared to a control with no ATP synthesis. By extrapolation, 100% of A* (the major component of the proton electrochemical gradient, Ab"+) was equivalent to 6.4 pmol of ATP/g of protein. This high ATP equivalence of the energized state agrees well with predictions of the chemiosmotic hypothesis but appears to be inconsistent with a chemical coupling hypothesis or with more recently advanced microscopic versions of chemiosmotic coupling.


Author for correspondence: Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street SE, MMC 195, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA Tel.: +1 612 625 2991 Fax: +1 612 625 4406 firstname.lastname@example.com Despite advances in systemic chemotherapy, the survival of patients with peritoneal metastases from colon cancer remains poor. In contrast, the median overall survival rate after complete cytoreduction, hyperthermic intaperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) and systemic chemotherapy is about 30–50 months, and the 5-year survival rate is about 30–50%. Treatment with cytoreductive surgery (CRS) plus HIPEC is associated with significant morbidity and potential mortality, so careful patient selection is critical to maximize the potential success of this treatment. The best candidates have the following characteristics: few co-morbidities, excellent performance status, no extra-abdominal disease, low peritoneal cancer index (PCI) score (<20), limited small bowel involvement, prolonged disease-free interval between primary cancer treatment and peritoneal metastasis and completely resectable disease (CC-0/1). For patients with highgrade colorectal cancers (including signet ring) or extensive peritoneal disease on imaging studies, preoperative systemic chemotherapy is recommended and may increase the proportion of patients who can receive complete cytoreduction. Diagnostic laparoscopy is also useful in selecting appropriate patients and avoiding non-therapeutic laparotomy in patients with borderline characteristics. Finally, depending upon the outcomes of ongoing randomized trials, prophylactic HIPEC may be useful for patients with high-risk cancers who do not have established metastases.


Mammalian prosomatostatin (PSS) is cleaved at a dibasic Arg-Lys site to produce somatostatin-14 (SS14) and at monobasic Arg and Lys sites to yield SS-28 and PSS(l-lo, (antrin), respectively. Furin, PC1, and PC2 are three recently discovered mammalian endoproteases localized either to the constitutive (furin) or regulated (PC1, PC2) secretory pathways. In this study we have compared the heterologous processing of PSS in transiently transfected endocrine (AtT-20 pituitary) and nonendocrine (COS-7 monkey kidney, PC12 pheochromocytoma) tumor cells. We have correlated the efficiency of processing of PSS to SS-14, SS-28, and PSS+lo, with (i) secretion through the constitutive or regulated  pathways;  (ii) endogenous expression of mRNA for furin, PC1, and PC2; and (iii) exogenous expression of PC1 and PC2 in cells that do not contain these enzymes in order to delineate the putative role f these enzymes in mediating PSS cleavage at dibasic and monobasic sites and to localize the proteolytic events to specific compartments of the secretory pathways. COS-7 and PC12 cells expressed only furin, secreted constitutively, and processed PSS preferentially at monobasic sites to SS-28 (40-43%) and antrin (27-29%). Processing, however, was inefficient as suggested by large amounts of unprocessed PSS. In contrast, AtT-20 cells showed regulated secretion, expressed all three endoproteases (with high levels of PCl ) , and processed PSS efficiently to mainly SS-14. P C l , but not PC2, exogenously coexpressed with PSS in COS-7 cells produced significant conversion to SS14 but not 89-28. This tudy shows that PSS is capable of monobasic cleavage in the constitutive secretory pathway. Such processing could be mediated by a furin-like enzyme but is relatively inefficient. PC1 can effect dibasic cleavage of PSS whereas PC2 is without influence on PSS processing at least within the constitutive secretory pathway. Although monobasic and dlbasic processing of PSS in COS-7 cells correlates with furin-like and PC1 activity, respectively, the relative inefficiency of such processing suggests that compartmentalization of proteolytic events in secretory vesi-


Background: There is a growing recognition of the relationship between fat and bone. Relationships between adiposity and fracture appear to be site specific and in general obese individuals tend to have greater bone density. This latter association is partly explained by the presence of adipokines although the precise mechanisms are not fully understood. We explored the associations between serum leptin and adiponectin, and bone health at baseline and longitudinally, in a cohort of older men and women. Methods: 219 men and 178 women were recruited from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study between 1998 and 2003. Demographic and lifestyle factors were obtained through a nurse administered questionnaire. Serum samples were taken and adipokine levels were measured by ELISA. Areal bone mineral density (aBMD) was assessed using a Hologic QDR 4500 and then repeated a mean (SD) of 4.4 (1.0) years later. Relationships were assessed between sex-specific standard deviation (SD) scores of adipokines and bone health parameters using linear regression before and after adjustment for demographic and lifestyle factors. Results: The mean age of participants at baseline was 63.9 (2.5) years in men and 65.8 (2.7) years in women. The median (IQR) for leptin was 9.78 (5.48–21.56) ng/ml and adiponectin was 3.55 (2.11–6.40). In both men and women, lower leptin levels and a higher adiponectin:leptin ratio, were associated with lower femoral neck aBMD. Similar relationships were found with lumbar spine aBMD, with the exception of with leptin in women. These relationships were attenuated after adjustment for age, height, weight for height residual, smoking, alcohol, prudent diet score, and physical activity. No evidence was found of a cross-sectional association between adiponectin and aBMD. Greater percentage loss of lumbar spine aBMD between baseline and follow up was associated with lower baseline adiponectin levels and adiponectin:leptin ratio in men but not women. These relationships were robust to adjustment. Conclusion: These findings provide further evidence of the importance of leptin in bone health. They also demonstrate a potential sexual dimorphism pertaining to the role of adiponectin in determining the rate of bone loss within the spine. Further work is required to replicate these associations and to fully delineate the underlying mechanisms. Disclosure statement: The authors have declared no conflicts of interest.


We thank Lee and Baer for highlighting the benefits of increasing private hospital participation at all levels of medical training. They raise an interesting point that differences in patient characteristics may help to explain the willingness of some patients to participate in medical training. Admittedly, our study was not designed nor powered to perform this level of multivariate analysis. Our focus was instead on the overall proportions of patients in each setting that would consent to seeing students during the course of their care. We reasoned that it was these overall proportions that were important to answer the question whether students placed in private hospitals could expect to be disadvantaged by reduced access to patients. However, certainly from our personal experience (as a medical student and clinicians), it would appear that overexposure to trainees may negatively impact on some patients' receptiveness towards students. Public hospitals are not only the training ground for the majority of medical students and junior doctors, but also for nursing and the allied health disciplines. From our experience, this understandably leads to 'student fatigue' among some public hospital patients who might otherwise be obliging participants. The suggestion that higher education may make a patient more sympathetic to the needs of medical students is interesting. While this is logical, previous studies have suggested that the effect of education is minimal if present at all. Less formal education does not appear to preclude a patient from seeing the value of participating in the education of Australia's future doctors. The above studies and our own data suggest that irrespective of patient characteristics, there is a high level of support for participation in medical education. We agree that our results could reasonably be extrapolated to more advanced trainees and hope that this encourages key stake holders to utilise better the training opportunities that exist in private hospitals. We would also point out that private hospitals benefit from public funds, either through direct funding or through the service of clinicians who have been trained in the public system. Therefore, we would argue that even if private hospitals do not have a legislative obligation to participate in medical training, they still have a moral obligation to contribute to the ongoing sustainability and improvement of the Australian health care system.


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This paper presents the planar spiral inductor structure modeled by ANSYS HFSS. Meanwhile, footprint of spiral inductors is manufactured to validate the simulated results. Scattering parameters are utilized to extract L and Q to compare the simulation results with measured data. While changing the geometric parameters such as the metal width (w), spacing between traces (s), the number of turns (n), and inner diameter (din), varies in the performance of spiral inductors are detailedly analyzed. By using the technology of planar spiral inductors, a novel chip-package co-design method is optimized for low noise amplifier (LNA) application.


The dictionary defines communication as a process by which information is exchanged between individuals to reach a common understanding and agreement. The dictionary also reminds us that the root, the Latin root of the word "communication" is "comunis facere". Communication is concerned with sharing and participation - concepts which are the ingredients of trust. Sharing and participation have little to do with the way public mass media – all over the world – functions. Still today many government officials and a lot of development experts see communication as a one way street: information and instruction send from a wise sender to an ignorant receiver. Through this paper, an attempt has been made to highlight some of the important aspect of communicating effectively.


A combined Position-Reflectometry Galileo receiver on board a low cost unmanned aerial platform (UAV) was developed in the framework of the Combined Positioning-Reflectometry Galileo Code Receiver for Forest Management project (COREGAL) with the main aims of evaluating the accurate positioning in areas where no GNSS ground infrastructures are available and of investigating the forest biomass mapping. In this context, the Soil and Vegetation Reflection Simulator (SAVERS) was employed to simulate GNSS-R data in order to analyze the GNSS-R sensitivity to biomass, to create a Look Up Table (LUT) of GNSS-R reflectivity and to carry out a biomass retrieval test. SAVERS simulated the mean power of the reflected GNSS-R signals by applying the integral bistatic equation taking into account the scattering contributions from soil and vegetation. It was shown that the GNSS-R sensitivity to forest biomass can be enhanced by filtering out the incoherent component of the signal, i.e. by using a long coherent integration time. A LUT was created by running SAVERS for a realistic range of the input parameters. Moreover, a GNSS-R synthetic dataset was generated for the case of a cork oak open forest in Portugal and a retrieval test was carried out. A neural network with two hidden layers was trained on the LUT and the forest biomass was estimated from the synthetic data. The biomass mean retrieval error was approximately 10 t/ha.


In The Lonely Voice (1963), Frank O'Connor argues that the short story is the literary form best suited to expressing the otherwise unheard angst of submerged populations, at giving voice to the lonely misfit out of step with a more contented majority. O'Connor would likely approve of David Crouse's second collection as it chronicles some moments of quiet desperation in the lives of unexpectedly sympathetic male misfits crying out in lonely voices from a variety of stations. As the title indicates, we encounter many of these men as present circumstances force them to acknowledge, once again, and in many cases against their wishes, that they have a history, that they carry around a former, regrettable version of themselves that may arise again at any moment. Or the characters are still on the ropes and stomaching and/or giving the blows that will lead to a break between selves, surviving the experience they will someday look back on as the marker between the men they have become and the men they used to be. These blows come in many forms: a former wife's potentially career-shattering book, a father's suicide, the imminent loss of a job, divorce, a son's attempted suicide, loneliness, the disappearance of a lover, a wife's discovery of a disturbing addiction. This is literary fiction, so more important than the blows the characters endure is the way they respond and what their reactions reveal about their character. In the complex psychological world of these stories—a world in which characters are not always good witnesses to their own motivations—a heightened awareness of past mistakes and failures does not necessarily lead to an avoidance of the same mistakes the next time around. Instead, these stories implicitly suggest, the mistakes themselves and the interesting trouble the characters get into as a result of these mistakes bring the characters (and careful readers) as close as we can come to powerful emotional truths, the raw material of character itself. Even to classify what the characters do to get themselves into trouble as "mistakes" is problematic in the world these stories forge as many things which could be classified as "mistakes"—for sound reasons based in mainstream morality—may be the best expression of a more primal being. In most cases, the men in this collection no longer enjoy the protection that a false personality, a comfortable material situation, or some other self-delusion might provide. In every case, we see these characters laid bare, and through the laying bare, come to better understand the nature of the mystery informing their actions and our own. Distance from and closeness to self and others is important in this collection. In the collection's titular story, Sweets, a forty-four-year-old man who has just punched his girlfriend's ex in a bar realizes how much he and this ex have in common. Crouse writes, "[Sweets] felt sorry for the man in the bar now, for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. He probably didn't want to have a history either, right? He probably wanted that very much." The person you damage, the person from whom you might expect you'd like to distance yourself, is likely to be the very one with whom you have the most in common. On one level, the man in the bar is the man back there; on another level, Sweets is the man back there as his present self ponders the question implicit in this phrase: "how much, if at all, have I changed?" Similarly, the very characters convention might compel a reader to condemn may be the ones closest to the reader in his or her secret moments. In addition to Sweets's redemption through his capacity to empathize with someone he's punched, he is further redeemed in "The Man Back There" in a quick, almost throw-away moment of aesthetic appreciation for moonlight on a river. The collection is filled with small redemptions like this. The characters in these stories are never coddled or protected, but their dignity is always maintained in quiet ways the characters themselves might not even notice or credit. These moments remind us that we come closest to understanding one another when we acknowledge, rather than run from, the selves we hide.


In this article we present an exploratory approach to enrich a WordNet-like lexical ontology with the synonyms present in a standard monolingual Portuguese dictionary. The dictionary was converted from PDF into XML and senses were automatically identified and annotated. This allowed us to extract them, independently of definitions, and to create sets of synonyms (synsets). These synsets were then aligned with WordNet synsets, both in the same language (Portuguese) and projecting the Portuguese terms into English, Spanish and Galician. This process allowed both the addition of new term variants to existing synsets, as to create new synsets for Portuguese.


The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by a severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 virus (SARS-CoV-2) Infections were first detected in Wuhan, China in late 2019 and the infection has recently spread worldwide and been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization The disease presents with a spectrum of respiratory manifestations that range from asymptomatic cases, to patients with mild and severe symptoms, either with or without pneumonia Symptoms include fever, upper respiratory tract coryza, cough and acute lower respiratory tract infection Asthmatics have, thus far, only shown slightly higher risk for hospitalisation but not for mortality However, this may change in South Africa Asthmatics are advised to keep their asthma under control and to continue using controller medication It is critical for all of us, especially asthmatics, to practice 'social distancing', wash hands frequently and practise sneeze and cough etiquette


We show that, assuming GCH, if is a Ramsey or a strongly Ramsey cardinal and F is a class function on the regular cardinals having a closure point at and obeying the constraints of Easton's theorem, namely, F ( ) F ( ) for and < cf(F ( )), then there is a conality-preserving forcing extension in which remains Ramsey or strongly Ramsey respectively and 2 = F ( ) for every regular cardinal .


Elections to Preserve Status Quo: Electoral Autocracy and Stability in Azerbaijan Electoral autocracies have become the world's most common form of non-democratic rule. In hegemonic autocracies in particular, where the president, or his party, always wins by more than 70 percent of the vote, the electoral process comes across as mere window-dressing. Still, both the regime and the opposition take elections seriously. Why? What role do elections play? The article deals with this question while focusing on the Azerbaijani 2013 presidential election, and consists of three parts. The first is a theoretical introduction dedicated to electoral autocracies and authoritarian stability. The next summarizes the election, stressing its purpose for the opposition. The third part analyses whether and how the election contributed to strengthening the authoritarian regime. The study concludes that developments during and after the election year are an illustration of what in previous research is sometimes referred to as the politics of insecurity. Even though the opposition "lost", the relative success of their campaign indicated that change might, after all, be possible. The regime, depending on regular multi-party elections for its democratic alibi, did not appreciate the uncertainty and tried to minimize it by using the "three pillars" on which authoritarian states' stability can be said to rest: legitimacy, repression and cooptation. (Published: January 2016) Citation: Sofie Bedford (2015) »Val for att bevara status quo: elektoral autokrati och stabilitet i Azerbajdzjan». Nordisk Ostforum 29 [1]. http://dx.doi.org/10.17585/nof.v29.247


Technology is an integral part of all our lives. As educators, we must embrace new technologies as our students grow and develop around them. Current technologies allow us to communicate, record and engage more effectively. One such technology allowing us to do this is the interactive whiteboard (IWB). IWBs are quickly being introduced into schools across the nation and worldwide and, as such, educators need to explore the implications of having them in the classroom. It is also important to explore student attitudes to IWBs. As attitudes play an important part in student interest and engagement levels, it is important to determine current attitudes towards IWB use in the classroom and explore links between background factors and attitudes. Through a mixed methods approach, the current study used questionnaires to ascertain current attitudes towards IWBs and classroom observations were used to measure student engagement and teacher approaches. Students' attitudes towards IWBs are positive and can be positively linked to student engagement. Contrary to initial expectations, one type of IWB use was not more effective in terms of engagement than another. However, what proved to be most effective in terms of student engagement occurred when teachers alternated between teacher-centred approaches and studentcentred approaches. IWBs can be used to engage students in learning and the findings of the study indicate that teachers should alternate between student-centred and teacher-centred approaches in short clumps of time, thereby facilitating student interaction and high engagement levels.


Ionospheric perturbations affect the propagation of electromagnetic waves. These perturbations, besides being a problem for space communications, satellite navigation, and Earth observation techniques, could also be used as another Earth observation tool. Several recent studies showed correlations with earthquakes with ionospheric anomalies, but almost all of them use ground stations to measure the Total Electron Content (TEC) variations, and, in particular, the ones occurring after an earthquake. Here, a preliminary study is presented on how the ionospheric scintillation measured with GNSS-R instruments over oceanic regions shows a small, but detectable correlation with the occurrence of earthquakes, which in some cases occurs before the earthquakes. This study uses GNSS-R data from NASA CYGNSS Mission to measure the ionospheric amplitude scintillation (S4) for 6 months from March 2019 to August 2019, applying a statistical analysis based on confusion matrixes, and the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves to correlate S4 anomalous variations to earthquakes. A small positive correlation is found between the ionospheric scintillation and the earthquakes during the six previous days. However, the study has some weakness because (a) a small number (∼45) of large (M > 6) earthquakes over oceanic regions are studied, (b) the region studied is close to the geomagnetic equator, where ionospheric scintillations are usual, and (c) the overall correlation is small.


The results of studies of the spatial distribution of heavy metals (Pb, Cu, Ni, Co) in the surface layer of bottom sediments of the Kaliningrad Bay are presented. It occupies the north-eastern half of the Vistula Lagoon, the largest lagoon-type basin of the Baltic Sea, located in its south-eastern part. The studies were carried out in three sedimentation areas identified by morphological, hydrodynamic and lithological features – the estuaries of the Pregolya River, the Baltic and the south-western. The contents of heavy metals were studied in 29 samples of bottom sediments collected in all sedimentation areas. The spatial distribution of the studied heavy metals in the Bay is very heterogeneous. The limits of changes in the concentrations of Co are from 0.81 to 15.3 mg/kg, Cu from 1.6 to 28.4, Ni from 2.0 to 25.7, and Pb from 1.2 to 16.4 mg/kg. In the Bay, zones of increased content of trace elements in the bottom sediments of the Bay were identified. One of these zones is located in the middle of the estuary area, where silty deposits are prevalent. It contained the highest concentrations of Co (15.3 mg/kg) and Ni (25.7 mg/kg) for the Bay. Another area with high concentrations of heavy metals is located in the south-western sedimentation zone in the places where the thinnest of bottom sediments, clayey silts, develop. Here the maximum concentrations of Cu (28.4 mg/kg) and Pb (16.4 mg/kg) were found for the Bay. The lowest concentrations of heavy metals were found in the sandy deposits of the Baltic area. The average values of the concentrations of the studied metals in the bottom sediments of the Kaliningrad Bay do not exceed the geochemical background, as well as the clarke in the earth's crust, that is, in general, the technogenic component of heavy metals is not traced in the sediments of the Bay.


Based on the existing database access techniques,the distributed object CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) techniques are imported to construct the CORBA/Webbased database integrated architecture in the distributed computing network environment.All kinds of the heterogeneous data resource files can be encapsulated to the CORBA objects,and the corresponding transitional program Wrappers are designed in the CORBA server,the client finish the connection access of the aim data resources through the Wrapper. The paper still gives the implement instance of the XML file access in the end.


ABSTRACT In the present context of fast warming in the Antarctic Peninsula (AP), understanding past and recent environmental dynamics is crucial to better assess future environmental responses in this region. Very detailed geomorphological maps can help to interpret the interaction between glacial, periglacial, and paraglacial systems. The Holocene environmental sequence on Byers Peninsula, an ice-free area in the westernmost part of Livingston Island (Maritime Antarctica), is still poorly understood. This paper focuses on the geomorphology of the Cerro Negro, a volcanic plug located on the southeast fringe of this peninsula. The distribution of landforms and deposits generated by different geomorphological processes provides insights into the Holocene environmental dynamics on Byers Peninsula. During the fieldwork campaign in January 2014, an accurate geomorphological map of Cerro Negro and its surroundings was generated. Four geomorphological environments were identified: hill, north slope, southern escarpment, and marine terraces and present-day beach. Periglacial landforms are abundant, especially patterned ground features (blockstreams, sorted stone circles, stone stripes). All these cryoturbation landforms, except blockstreams, are active under present-day climate conditions. In addition to a sequence of Holocene marine terraces and slope deposits, such as talus cones and rockfalls, there is a glacial moraine adjoining the northern slope of the hill. From the morphostratigraphic correlation between the active and inactive landforms, we infer three main phases describing the paleoenvironmental evolution in this area: (1) maximum glacial expansion; (2) Holocene glacial retreat, lake formation, and intense periglacial dynamics; and (3) deglaciation of the Byers Peninsula and widespread periglacial processes. The Cerro Negro has been a nunatak for most of the Holocene; the lake located near the summit of this hill appeared when most of the Byers Peninsula was still covered by glacial ice. This study constitutes an example of how an accurate geomorphological characterization of a small area can complement other approaches to generate a better understanding of the paleoenvironmental evolution in the region.


The communication operation of the calling center is advanced along the development of the technology, which needs high language expressing and computer operating ability for the seat represent, hence the number of the employed persons is more scarce. Aiming at the subject, the realtime management method of the data recording system, the invention divides the speech communicating operation needing to be made into the databank into the operation needing the dialog ability and the data recording operation recorded to the computer after listening to the speech content, and can use the network technology to share the information in the remote places and complete in the same operation, thereby building a right, fast, high efficient operation corresponding system with low cost.


This paper mainly expounds the background of national credit management information platform for food industry enterprises,analyzing the feasibility and prospective to build this national information platform based on the internet of things.It is the binding and collision between a new business field and a technological application.In the meantime,the main business content of the national information platform and the design structure of internet of things should be included in this article,it has obvious benefit to run the business logic on the Internet of thing structure.At the critical period of the national credit management system construction and the internet of things development,the combination promotes the development of the related areas.


This paper made a synthetic comparison in the initial investment and operating cost aspect for the civil building of envelope heat preservation,passive solar energy technology and three possible kinds of heating source systems——solar energy hot water,coal-burning center heating and electricity-regeneration boiler in Lhasa.The results show that civil building heating in Lhasa should be based on the envelope heat preservation and the passive solar energy utility,and the solar energy hotwater heat source presents better efficiency.


Summary. Gregarina tibengae sp. n. (Apicomplexa: Eugregarinida) is described from larvae and adults of Zophobas atratus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Trophozoites are solitary, attached to intestinal epithelium or located between epithelium and peritrophic memb rane. Epimerites are spherical, ellipsoid, ovoid, or conical; protomerites are very broadly ovoid to depressed ovoid; deutomerites ar e obovoid to broadly obovoid. Association is precocious, caudofrontal and biassociative. Assocations are located between intestinal epith elium and peritrophic membrane; early associations are axial-symmetric, late associations bilateral-symmetric. Primite protomerites are v ery broadly to depressed ovoid in early associations, broadly obovoid to very broadly obovoid in late associations. Primite deutomerites ar e obovoid to broadly obovoid, panduriform, with truncated posterior end. Satellite protomerites are very broadly ovoid to depressed ovoid ; satellite deutomerites are obovoid to broadly obovoid, or cylindrical, panduriform, with truncated and emarginated posterior end. Total l ength of association 96 to 611 µm. Gametocysts are spherical, form 7-12 sporoducts. Oocysts are ellipsoid and measure 5.8 by 4.3 µm. The y dehisce in chains.


MAPFIRST HIP SEQUENCE TO FIRST SUB-REGION OF WARP FIELD The present invention provides a unique System and method that facilitates obtaining high performance and more Secure HIPs. More specifically, the HIPS can be generated in part by caching pre-rendered characters and/or pre-rendered arcs as bitmaps in binary form and then Selecting any number of the characters and/or arcs randomly to form a HIP Sequence. The warp field can be pre-computed and converted to integers in binary form and can include a plurality of Sub-regions. The warp field can be cached as well. Any one Sub-region can be retrieved from the warp field cache and mapped to the HIP sequence to warp the HIP. Thus, the pre-computed warp field can be used to warp multiple HIP Sequences. The warping can occur in binary form and at a high resolution to mitigate reverse engineering. Following, the warped HIPSequence can be down-sampled and texture and/or color can be added as well to improve its appearance.


This paper presents an investigation into the road-holding ability of a vehicle equipped with a roll-plane hydraulically interconnected suspension system. Ideally, the roll-plane hydraulically interconnected suspension system has the capability to decouple the roll mode from all the other vehicle suspension modes. However, anti-roll bars are unable to decouple the warp mode from the other modes, and therefore they limit the travel of the wheels and weaken the road-holding ability of a vehicle on uneven road surfaces. In this paper, vehicle dynamic analysis is carried out with three different configurations: a vehicle with only a spring–damper as a benchmark vehicle; a vehicle with a spring–damper in conjunction with anti-roll bars; a vehicle with a spring–damper in conjunction with a roll-plane hydraulically interconnected suspension. Simulations and corresponding experimental verification with different road excitations are then implemented. The experimental results agree well with the simulations under low-frequency road excitations. The results demonstrate that, when the vehicle undergoes off-road driving, the anti-roll bars weaken the road-holding ability of the vehicle while the hydraulically interconnected suspension system has a negligible effect.


Strange uterine draining characterized as a seeping from uterine form which is irregular in volume, routineness or potentially timing that has been available for most of the most recent a half year. Assessment of the patients was by history taking, general and nearby assessment, research facility examinations, transvaginal ultrasonography, hysteroscopy and dilatation and curettage with biobsy. To evaluate the Role of Office Hysteroscopy in finding of Abnormal Uterine Bleeding and its Histopathological Correlation in Child Bearing Period. This examination was imminent observational investigation carried on 100 ladies of conceptive age bunch from 18-40 years took care of Benha college emergency clinics between November 2018 to November 2020 to assess the symptomatic and restorative function of office hysteroscopy in anomalous uterine draining and its histopathological connection in ladies inside kid bearing period. Office hysteroscopy had affectability of 88%, explicitness of 84,2%, positive prescient estimation of 96%, negative prescient estimation of 61.5% and demonstrative precision of 87% for diagnosing the intrauterine reason for unusual uterine dying. Office hysteroscopy is a straightforward, essential and generally safe outpatient strategy which permits a satisfactory investigation of the uterine cavity under visual control.


31Background: AGS-003 is an immunotherapy consisting of autologous dendritic cells electroporated with amplified total tumor RNA plus synthetic CD40L RNA and is currently being tested in combination with standard of care to extend survival of newly diagnosed metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) patients in the Phase 3 ADAPT clinical trial. We set out to establish a model system based on the Renca mouse model to more thoroughly study the AGS-003 mechanism of action and identify optimal combination therapies, including with a PD1 checkpoint inhibitor (aPD1 CPI). Methods: Mouse DC precursors were processed in a similar manner to how human monocytes are processed to manufacture AGS-003. Mature DCs were injected s.c. to treat BALB/c mice in an orthotopic syngeneic RCC model. This model system was utilized to test the efficacy and mechanism of action of the AGS-003-like homologous mouse DCs in combination with a murine monoclonal antibody PD1 CPI (anti-mPD1). Results: Murine DCs with similar properties to AGS-...


New media arts are an innovative genre of artworks in which artistic expression is explored and developed by the artist. This genre of new media arts is created in a vast number of ways. Currently, digitized collection systems are commonly used by galleries and museums for traditional art [1]. The need for documentation and archiving complex new media artworks is now increasingly crucial for future preservation and representation. This study aims to establish criteria of aesthetic media representation for media archived in an interactive digital space and explores a generic solution for an interactive digital space. Based on the Interactive Art Taxonomy [2], visitors to the digital space can create, interact, and experience the new media art. This taxonomy demonstrates that archiving of the content can take place for documentation and future preservation in the strategic context for the creation. This digital archiving process proposed will be a useful model to be adopted or adapted by universities, museums, and other institutions in terms of archiving media arts practices.


Our objective in this project is to develop an improved body-powered hand for toddlers from one to four years of age. The primary design goals are for a hand of acceptable cosmesis to provide useful grasp for children in their play activities while requiring minimal harness force and motion inputs. Guiding constraints for this endeavor are that the hand be safe, simple, rugged, lightweight and low-cost. The hand must be affordable and easy to maintain as well as a functional and attractive device that children will want to use and parents will not be reluctant to show. Observation of toddlers suggests a focus on achieving stable spherical and cylindrical grasp patterns, with some fine-tip prehension. Grasping tests confirm the effectiveness of various combinations of grasp geometries, foams and skins. Modifications of a CAPP II gripper for bidirectional control reduces input cable excursion requirement by 50% while doubling the force output. A cable-free device provides easy object insertion for grasp, while a hand equipped with a nonbinding clutch mechanism provides secure capture.


Intermittent erosion and corrosion tests were performed as a function of erosion angles, corrosion times and the frequency of erosive and corrosive treatment cycles. The intermittent erosion and corrosion tests gave rise to higher volume losses than the sum of the separate volume losses due to dry erosion and continuous corrosion. Increasing the frequency of exposure to erosion and corrosion increases the volume loss for a given total amount of erosion and corrosion. The maximum volume loss is found for an erosion at the angle of 45˚. Erosion produces grooves with ridges and shear bands. Corrosion took place on the shear bands and took the form of pitting. Grain-boundaries are the weak areas to cause fracture due to shear force and sever corrosion.


This article provides new evidence on the administration of justice in peripheral areas of the Neo-Babylonian empire (626–539 B.C.E). It demonstrates that itinerant judicial collegia constituted an element of the court system of this period. Judges from central Babylonia travelled as far as to the Transtigridian region in order to hear cases and render verdicts. The paper reconstructs the structure of one of such panels; it examines its hierarchy, jurisdiction and bureaucratic practices.


The proliferation marker Ki‐67 labels cell nuclei in the G1, S, M, and G2 phases of the cell cycle. We used Ki‐67 immunohistochemistry to quantify proliferating glial cells in brain tissue sections from twenty‐four patients, comprised of multiple sclerosis, normal brains, and other neurological disease controls. Glial proliferation was greatly increased in MS lesions when compared with control brain white matter. Both actively demyelinating/early remyelinating plaques and chronic inactive plaques of long standing often displayed large numbers of glial cells in the proliferative cycle. The bulk of these proliferating cells were of oligodendroglial lineage in the MS plaques. Ki‐67 positive macrophage/microglial lineage cells were largely restricted to acute lesions. The finding of increased numbers of proliferating oligodendroglia in most MS plaques, regardless of disease duration or activity state, indicates that the MS brain is capable of recruiting unexpectedly large numbers of new oligodendrocytes over long periods of time. The factors within the MS plaque microenvironment that provoke new oligodendrocyte generation and their subsequent loss still need to be identified. J. Neurosci. Res. 65:308–317, 2001. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


The invention provides an apparatus of controlling flat motor work and a method thereof, and a communication terminal, relates to the communication terminal field and aims at reducing a signal interference of a flat motor on an antenna located near the flat motor and increasing performance of the communication terminal. A technical scheme is characterized in that the apparatus of controlling flat motor work comprises a controller, a base-band processor and a logic circuit; the controller is used for outputting a first control signal; the base-band processor is used for outputting a second control signal; the second control signal is used for carrying out superposition on the first control signal; the logic circuit is electrically connected to the base-band processor and the controller respectively, is used for receiving and processing the second control signal output by the base-band processor and the first control signal output by the controller, and then outputs an electrical signal used for making the flat motor execute a rotation or pause motion.


Four methods for identification of the parameters and time delay in a linear time-invariant system are compared. The four techniques are (1) least squares, (2) "Extended" Kalman Filter, (3) filtered maximum likelihood, and (4) Fast Fourier Transform. The input and output data are obtained by simulating a second order system, and noise is added to the output data. Five parameters in the system transfer function are identified: the gain constant, two pole locations, one zero location, and the time delay. The results show that the filtered maximum likelihood technique is superior with noisy measurements. All the methods identified the parameters and time delay with noiseless measurements.


In this paper we present a full identification system for a tactile fingerprint sensor. We will describe the general working principle of the sensor, the full process of the fingerprint recognition algorithm and the test results obtained with the entire system.


Environmental administrative litigation was very important for the prevention of pollution and prevention of ecological impairment,and had been paid great attention in many countries and regions.Of all the developments and changes concerning environmental administrative litigation,the extension of standing to sue for environmental public interest was the most remarkable one.


Taxonomic decisions made by palaeontologists are often based on a few morphological features preserved in the fossil material. This practice may sometimes lead to the description of new species based on single specimens, which are, in fact, extreme or aberrant morphological variants of known taxa. Ancient DNA (aDNA) analysis of the Late Pleistocene specimens from the archaeological site Petits Guinards (Creuzier-la-Vieux, Allier, France), described as a new vole Microtus (Sumeriomys) bifrons, did not confirm the species distinctness of the studied population. The genetically examined specimens belonged to Stenocranius anglicus and/or Microtus arvalis, the dominant species at the site. Our findings show that it is risky to describe new fossil taxa on the basis of phenotypic outliers or morphologically aberrant, rare specimens that do not fall within the previously known population variability. We also highlight the importance of ancient DNA in resolving taxonomic and nomenclature problems and classifying fossil mammals of the Late Pleistocene age.


C5 alcohols are considered alternative fuels because they emit less greenhouse gases and fewer harmful pollutants. In this study, the combustion characteristics of 2-methylbutanol (2-methyl-1-butanol) and isopentanol (3-methyl-1-butanol) and their mixtures with primary reference fuels (PRFs) were studied using a detailed chemical kinetic model obtained from merging previously published mechanisms. Ignition delay times of the C5 alcohol/air mixtures were compared to PRFs at 20 and 40 atm. Reaction path analyses were conducted at intermediate and high temperatures to identify the most influential reactions controlling ignition of C5 alcohols. The direct relation graph with expert knowledge methodology was used to eliminate unimportant species and reactions in the detailed mechanism, and the resulting skeletal mechanism was tested at various homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine combustion conditions. These simulations were used to investigate the heat release characteristics of the methyl-su...


Some numerical experiments on estimating errors in a solution using the integral equation method are discussed. The new error estimating method can be used to evaluate a local error of the solution as well as the global error of the entire solution using an average. A performance index of the error is introduced that uses the integral equation itself and it is examined in a simple 3-D Laplace problem which has several kinds of nonuniform boundary mesh. The experimental results show that the index gives a good estimation of the margin of error and that it uniformly converges with respect to the number of elements (nodal points). >


The CHIPS experiment will comprise a 10 kton water Cherenkov detector in an open mine pit in northern Minnesota, USA. The detector has been simulated using a full GEANT4 simulation and a series of event reconstruction algorithms have been developed to exploit the charge and time information from all of the PMTs. A comparison of simulated CCQE nu_mu and nu_e interactions using 10 inch and 3 inch PMTs is presented, alongside a comparison of 10% and 6% photocathode coverage for 3 inch PMTs. The studies demonstrate that the required selection efficiency and purity of charged-current nu_e interactions can be achieved using a photocathode coverage of 6% with 3 inch PMTs. Finally, a dedicated pi-zero fitter is shown to successfully reconstruct a clean sample of pi-zero mesons despite the low 6% photocathode coverage with 3 inch PMTs.


fibroids, or even a carcinoma. The chief advantage of the operation is that when the uterus has been removed a very efficient fascial shelf can be reconstructed from the total depth of the broad ligament down to and including the utero-sacral ligament. The chief recommendation of this shelf is that by sewing the round ligaments together, and anchoring them to the triangular ligament, they form under the bladder neck a kind of Millin's sling, made of round ligament. The effect that this has upon stress incontinence is most beneficial. Once a surgeon is used to this method he will find it easier to perform than Fothergill's operation. The great criticism of vaginal hysterectomy in the past has been its liability to produce a subsequent hernia of Douglas's pouch. In my small series, in which every case has been personally examined by me, I have found one such hernia, and I operated on it at once, so that I should have a clean bill to present to this Meeting. I have now altered the technique of the operation and direct special attention to the suturing of the utero-sacral ligaments across Douglas's pouch. With improved technique and greater experience, hernia here should become uncommon. A film was shown by the author to illustrate his own technique. Anxsthesia, post-operative care and results were then discussed, and the author continued: I should like to conclude with a plea for a bold surgical handling of all women with prolapse, regardless of their age. This is a most distressing and disabling condition, limiting the social activities of the citizen. The day of pill and pessary gynecology is passed, and I am happy to say that I have inserted no rings or Napier's pessaries, or any other contrivance in the last two years. There is no more grateful, and no more rejuvenated person than the successfully operated upon prolapse patient and there is no more pathetic spectacle than the woman who has worn a ring for twenty or thirty years, with stress incontinence, which a ring never cures, and pessary ulceration and vaginitis, not to mention the possibility of a cancer developing from the ring. We should not, therefore, deny the benefit of surgery to any of these cases. The following speakers also contributed to the Discussion: Mr. V. B. Green-Armytage; Mr. Wilfred Shaw; Mr. Arthur Gemmell; Mr. Leslie Williams; Professor C. H. G. Macafee; Mr. William Hawksworth; Mr. A. J. Wrigley; Mr. Everard Williams; Mr. C. M. Gwillim.