The LTE-NR Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) mechanism can dynamically allocate spectrum resources for LTE and 5G users according to traffic requirements, which can realize smooth evolution from 4G to 5G. Since LTE and NR share control channel resources on the shared spectrum, the resource which can be used for NR downlink control channel is limited. To cope with this, the Cross Carrier Scheduling (CCS) from Secondary Cell (SCell) to Primary Cell (PCell) has been considered as a solution. However, the CCS from SCell to PCell will bring great challenges in some aspects, such as the PDCCH blind decoding for UE. In this paper, the problem caused by SCell scheduling PCell and the impact on the communication specification design are introduced and analyzed. In addition, several technical solutions are presented. The analysis shows that these technical solutions can effectively solve the PDCCH blind decoding problem caused by CCS from SCell to PCell, which has great reference value for operator to deploy LTE-NR dynamic spectrum sharing.


Electric steering engine servo system is essential part for guided missile flight control.It manipulates the rudder depend on electric signal from command model equipment or sensors,to control angle position or flight path stable automatically.Static,dynamic performance and robust of system are very important for the flight control.Sliding mode control is widely considered as a high robust control.However,it has the main drawback: chattering problem.A new higher-order sliding mode,which conquers chatter problem in traditional sliding mode,is introduced in this paper.Relative controller is designed for electric steering engine.Simulation results show that,the system has robustness as well as precision in despite of uncertain and disturb under bound.


Features and basic analysis process have been introduced.Taking random copolymerization polypropylene(PP-R) pipe extrusion as an example,the process of flowing field analysis and inverse designing for a die was introduced.By using Polyflow software the complex flow of the melt could be predicted.


It is very difficult to explore with structural unit in mature exploration regions.According to exploration and production practices,the concept and the division method of exploration unit in mature region were proposed,and were used to guide geologic study,well arrangement and input-output ana-lysis.In Yanjia-Yong'an region of the northern steep slope of the Dongying Sag,a case study was carried out in the nearshore subaqueous fan lithologic reservoir from the upper Es4 to the lower Es3.The relationship between geologic conditions and exploration capabilities was analyzed with "exploration unit".The key problems were pointed out so as to guide exploration and improve efficiency.


The purpose of this study was to find out how the Application of Pendengaran Penglihatan Learning Alat Improve Student Learning Outcomes in PAI Subjects Class VII 6 at SMP Negeri 7 Makassar and to determine student learning outcomes using Pendengaran Penglihatan Learning Alat in PAI learning class VII 6 in SMP Negeri 7 Makassar. This research is a Classroom Action Research (CAR) which consists of two cycles, where each cycle consists of two meetings. The sample in this study was class VII 6 students at SMP Negeri 7 Makassar with a total of 28 students. The techniques used in collecting data in this study were observation, interviews, tests, and documentation. The test consists of two types, namely pre-test and post-test, the pre-test is carried out at the beginning of the meeting before the students are given treatment or the learning process by applying Audio Visual learning media while the post-test is carried out at the end of each meeting in each cycle. The data analysis technique used in this study is to use the formula for calculating the percentage and average value (Mean) for both student activity sheet data analysis and student learning outcomes. The results of this study are the application of Audio Visual learning media in PAI subjects is able to increase the sense of responsibility individually and in groups and the application of this Audio Visual learning model can improve student learning outcomes in PAI subjects. Thus the increase in student learning outcomes can be proven by the value of students who have increased and are getting better. The average value in the pre-test is 69.28 with a percentage of 42%, the average post-test value in the first cycle is 76.96 with a percentage of 71.42% and the post-test average value in the second cycle is 91, 42 with a percentage of 92.85%. The data proves that student learning outcomes can increase and have met the class success indicator, namely 80% with the application of Audio Visual learning media.


In terms of the current overall situation in China, life expectancy for women is significantly higher than that of men. Since 1998, life expectancy for both men and women has increased significantly, but the gap between them has widened until 2018. To analyze the reasons for the difference in life expectancy between men and women, this paper used data on mortality and life expectancy of different age groups from 1998 to 2018, and the Arriaga life expectancy decomposition method, to research both the age and the pathological factors, and to make recommendations to the government and social organizations.


Purpose – To examine what search capabilities are desirable in web‐based scholarly e‐book systems.Design/methodology/approach – To present the author's opinion and interpretation about what search capabilities are desirable in web‐based scholarly e‐book systems through investigating studies of information seeking behavior and exploring current multimedia and hypertext techniques.Findings – The findings are several desirable browsing and known‐item search features of web‐based scholarly e‐book systems.Originality/value – The author's suggestion on the implementation of a dedicated, user‐oriented and user‐friendly interface, which includes the search features recommended in this paper to unleash the power of multimedia and hyperlinks.


Concentration risks, particularly concentrations in credit risk, have played a key role in the financial instability of the banking sector in 2008. This paper examines different objectives in managing credit concentration risk. The suitability of different measures and presentation techniques is discussed and illustrated in the context of a case study. We also look deeper into "measures", examining the contributions and interactions of migration, name and sector concentration risk on the portfolio. 1 Diane Reynolds is Senior Director, Product Management at Algorithmics Inc. She may be reached at email@example.com. 2 Many thanks to Patrick Tobin, Financial Engineering student at Algorithmics for his work on the case study and preliminary (internal) white papers (August 2008) upon which this work relies heavily. Replicating Portfolios in Algo Risk Re Analyzing Concentration Risk


A structural transition at T ≈ 322 K from the Pmmm to Pmma phase is found to coincide with an anomaly of resistivity. Another structural phase transition doubling the lattice parameter c, which has been postulated earlier to accompany a low-temperature magnetic transition in TbBaCo2O5.5, is observed in a single crystal DbBaCo2O5.5 by means of the X-ray and neutron diffraction. The low temperature phase does not belong to the space group Pcca that has been chosen earlier as the highest subgroup of the Pmma. The transition is of the first order with the temperature hysteresis, between T ≈ 100 and T ≈ 200 K, which probably explains anomalous magnetic properties in this temperature range.


As the diversity of the land and resource data,it has different metadata content and integrality restriction description information. The land and resources data management platform need both the common requirement of metadata based data searching and individuality description for different kinds of data. Firstly,the characteristic of the land and resources data is analyzed in this paper.Then the metadata expanded modeling based land and resources management technology is studied in the next part. The technology realized the function of customization of the metadata model,which includes metadata factors grouping,defining and thematic modeling.In the end,the achievement is validated by the case study of the land and resources data management platform of Shanxi Province,China.


Butyl benzyl phthalate (BBP; Santicizer 160 Plasticizer) was fed to 3 groups of 10 male and 10 female Charles River CD rats for 6 wk at target doses of 500, 1500, and 3000 mg/kg/d. Control groups of 6 males and 6 females received untreated diets for the same period. Body weight gains were decreased at the 1500 and 3000 mg/kg/d levels. Hindlimb stiffness was noted at the 3000 mg/kg/d level and was more prevalent in males. Stiffness was apparently reversed after withdrawal from BBP exposure for 2 d. Microscopic examination of central and peripheral nervous system tissues did not reveal any compound-related pathological changes. Thus, there were no morphological changes in the nervous system that could be related to the apparently reversible hindlimb stiffness.


Objective To analyze the genotypes of adenovirus(Ad)strains isolated from young children with acute respiratory infection syndrome during 2004-2006.Methods Seven human adenovirus strains isolated during 2004 and 2006 were detected with tissue culture,PCR with adenovims specific-primers and sequencing for hexon and fiber genes.Results The results showed that all 7 adenovirus strain belonged to adenovirus genera B.3 of the 7 isolates were Ad3,BJ060605-1,BJ060316-and BJ040228 had high homology of nucleic acid.98.9%-100%.Three of 7 were Ad7,the homology of nucleic acid of BJ050520.BJ060421-4 and BJ040226 were 97.6%-100%.Strain SX060418-1 was 100% homologic with Ad11 strain L08232(GenBank).Conclusion Little variation of fiber gene was found for 2004 to 2006 isolares and the typing with fiber sequencing is similar with that of hexon gene of adenovirus isolates.

Key words:
Adenovirus; Fiber gene; Genetic characteristics


Following a rigorous, carefully concerns and communication between the publisher and the authors of the article published in Positif : Jurnal Sistem dan Teknologi Informasi to article entitled "APPLICATION OF BILLING SYSTEMS IN CONTAINER DEPOT" Vol 6, No 1, pp. 29-37, 2020.
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It discloses a method for producing an aluminum alloy sheet having excellent bending properties for use in forming panels for automobiles. Aluminum alloy, 0.50 to 0.75 wt% Mg, from 0.7 to .85 wt% Si, 0.1 to 0.3 wt% Fe, 0.15 to 0.35 wt% Mn, the remainder Al , and used as consisting of unavoidable impurities, casting semi-continuous casting to the ingot. The cast alloy ingot after hot rolling and cold rolling, subjected to a solution heat treatment to the formed sheet. And quenching the heat treated sheet to a temperature of about 60 to 120 ° C., winding the sheet into a coil. The coil, the cooling rate of less than 10 ° C. / hr, pre-aging the coil by annealing from an initial temperature of about 60 to 120 ° C. to room temperature. In another aluminum alloy, 0.0 to 0.4 wt% Cu, 0.3 to 0.6 wt% Mg, from 0.45 to .7 wt% Si, .0 to .6 wt% Mn, 0.0 to 0.4 wt% Fe, 0.06 wt% or less Ti, balance being Al, and using those consisting of unavoidable impurities, casting semi-continuous casting to the ingot. The cast alloy ingot after hot rolling and cold rolling, subjected to a solution heat treatment to the formed sheet. And quenching the heat treated sheet to a temperature of about 60 to 120 ° C., winding the sheet into a coil, to cool to room temperature.


This article aims to determine the socio-space segregation between newcomers and natives having the same genealogy in Denpasar, Bali. The study was focused on three aspects: determining the factors that influence the occurrence of socio-space segregation; the factors that most influence the shape of such interactions; and its influence on the spatial. The approach taken was descriptive qualitative, through verification at Housing Complex Padang Galeria, West Denpasar. The final result was: bigotry against region of origin, both the migrants and natives became the forerunner to the segregation of socio-space; the most influential factors for the socio-space segregation was customary (pakraman) village institution itself that binds its members in a teritorial unity, spiritual and member togetherness; socio-space segregation phenomena were abstract when transformed into mental maps will show multinodes in the sub-villages in the region of pakraman village.


In the early 1980s, West Bank Data Base Project director Meron Benvenisti added a new word to the vocabulary of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict when he pronounced Israel's incorporation of the West Bank and Gaza into Israel "irreversible." The word at once described the hopelessly quiescent situation existing at the time and, by setting inhibiting psychological parameters to further debate, helped to promote an atmosphere in which Israel's momentum became virtually unstoppable. With the publication in August 1989 of a RAND Corporation report entitled The West Bank of Israel: Point of No Return?, written by former CIA official Graham Fuller,1 another formative word was added to the West Bank-Gaza political lexicon. Describing the new situation created by the intifada, Fuller declared that "the ultimate emergence of a Palestinian state on the West Bank [is] inevitable" (p. v). "Inevitable," like "irreversible," is a word with an intrinsic value-a word that, rather than simply describing the present, describes and therefore helps to create the future. The assessments implicit in loaded words like this carry a significance well beyond the mere definition of the words. In each case the fact that a respected analyst from a respected institution has posited the concept makes it a part of the debate and a part of policy planning for the future.


The transcription factor Prox1 plays a crucial role in intermediate progenitor maintenance and hippocampal neuron differentiation during adult neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus region of the hippocampus.


Ventricular septum defect (VSD) is an often lethal complication caused by myocardial infarction. We report a rare case of post‐myocardial infarction ventricular septum rupture in a patient after extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (eCPR). In the bedside echocardiography after VA ECMO cannulation, we noticed the circular, hypertrophied left ventricle with the disintegrated inter‐ventricular septum (maximum dehiscence 3.3 cm), accompanied by decreased left‐ventricular ejection fraction and the right ventricle being compressed by the left ventricle's free septal wall. There was no pressure‐relevant inter‐ventricular separation resulting in left‐to‐right‐shunting and therefore resulting in a fully functional uni‐ventricular heart.


Three block polyurethane samples [differing in hard (urethane) to soft (macroglycol) segments ratio] dissolved in 2-butanone, are investigated. Rheological results obtained in the range 10–25 °C led to the hypothesis of an order-disorder transition associated with H bonds being discarded. The critical concentration and the characteristic molecular weight for entanglements, Mc, are estimated approximately from linear viscosity results. Mc decreases as the percent of hard segments in the polyurethane increases, a result which is correlated with short-distance chain parameters such as length and molecular weight per bond and characteristic ratio. Annealing clear solutions at temperatures around 0 °C causes haziness; on heating, a clearing temperature is detected at Tc≈15 °C. This transition coincides with a maximum observed in complex viscosity η* versus temperature curves. These results are probably due to incipient crystallization of soft segments domains. This hypothesis is compatible with differential sc...


Objective
To evaluate the effect of dexmedetomidine pretreatment on Toll-like receptor 4(TLR4)/nuclear factor kappa B(NF-κB)signaling pathway during intestinal ischemia-reperfusion(I/R)in rats.

Methods
Twenty-four male Sprague-Dawley rats, weighing 180-220 g, were divided into 3 groups(n=8 each)using a random number table method: sham operation group(S group), intestinal I/R group(I group)and dexmedetomidine pretreatment group(DP group). Intestinal I/R model was established by occlusion of the superior mesenteric artery for 1 h followed by 2-h reperfusion in anesthetized rats.Dexmedetomidine 100 μg/kg was intraperitoneally injected at 30 min before ischemia in DP group.Blood samples were collected from hearts at the end of reperfusion for determination of the serum intestinal fatty acid binding protein(I-FABP)level by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.The intestinal tissues were obtained at the end of reperfusion for examination of pathologic changes and for determination of tumor necrosis factor-alpha(TNF-α)and interleukin-1beta(IL-1β)contents(by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay)and expression of TLR4, MyD88, phosphorylated NF-κB p65(p-NF-κB p65)in total protein and NF-κB p65 in nucleoprotein(by Western blot). The degree of intestinal tissue damage was graded using Chiu′s scoring system.

Results
Compared with S group, the Chiu′s score and concentrations of I-FABP in serum and contents of TNF-α and IL-1β in intestinal tissues were significantly increased, and the expression of TLR4, MyD88 and p-NF-κB p65 in total protein and NF-κB p65 in nucleoprotein was up-regulated in I/R group, and the Chiu′s score was significantly increased, the expression of MyD88 and p-NF-κB p65 was up-regulated(P 0.05). Compared with I/R group, the Chiu′s score, serum I-FABP concentration, and contents of TNF-α and IL-1β were significantly decreased, and the expression of TLR4, MyD88 and p-NF-κB p65 in total protein and NF-κB p65 in nucleoprotein was down-regulated in DP group(P<0.05).

Conclusion
The mechanism by which dexmedetomidine pretreatement mitigates intestinal I/R injury may be related to inhibiting activation of TLR4/NF-κB signaling pathway in rats.

Key words:
Dexmedetomidine; Intestine; Reperfusion injury; Toll-like receptor 4; NF-κB


IT has been repeated bv the public press, and assumed by the country, chiefly on the basis of reports emanating from Washington, that the act of March I4, I900, whatever may have been its shortcomings in other directions, has at least firmly established the gold standard in the United States. The belief is generally prevalent that the election of a president pledged to the cause of free silver would no longer be a source of danger to our monetary system, because the gold standard has been placed by the new legislation beyond the reach of executive control; that the mere action of a future Secretary of the Treasury hostile to gold could not cause public or private obligations to be paid in silver; and that nothing could now be done for silver except by new and positive legislation, a contingency, which would be impossible so long as the Senate and the Executive favor gold. Hence we are assured that we may rest free from all danger of the "silver issue," which we hear on all sides is now " dead." On the strength of this belief, political lines are being drawn, and a plan of campaign is being formed. That there has been a subtle game of politics played


Differentially 4-uniform permutations over F22k , especially those with high nonlinearity and high algebraic degree, are cryptographically significant mappings as they are good choices for the substitution boxes (S-boxes) in many symmetric ciphers. For instance, the currently endorsed Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) uses the inverse function, which is a differentially 4-uniform permutation. However, up to now, there are only five known infinite families of such mappings which attain the known maximal nonlinearity. Most of these five families have small algebraic degrees and only one family can be defined over F22k for any positive integer k. In this paper, we apply the powerful switching method on the five known families to construct differentially 4-uniform permutations. New infinite families of such permutations are discovered from the inverse function, and some sporadic examples are found from the others by using a computer. All newly found infinite families can be defined over fields F22k for any k and their algebraic degrees are 2k − 1. Furthermore, we obtain a lower bound for the nonlinearity of one infinite family.


Since the beginnings of ion implantation in 1970, the beam lines used in ion implanter machines have undergone a long history of innovation and development not only for commercial manufacture of semiconductor diodes, transistors, ultra-large scale integrated circuits, and SiO2 insulating layers, but also in more recent years for making high resolution displays using thin film transistor (LCD/TFT) or active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) techniques. Also, high current proton implantation beam lines have been developed for induced exfoliation to make solar cell and other types of membranes. As wafer size has increased to 300 mm, dose range to 108 and energy range to 104, major innovations have been made in beam lines to meet these needs as well as achieving: high implant uniformity over the entire wafer surface; improved ion specie and ion energy purity; lower and lower particulate counts; small angular range of ion trajectories impinging on the wafer especially in medium current machines; high wafer throughput especially at very low energies; and the transition from high current and high energy batch implanters to serial implanters. Beam lines designed to transport and mass analyze uniform flood beams to implant large TFT and AMOLED display panels are also described.


For a control box with concentrated power consumption, high heat generation, and small volume requirements, the paper designed a new piezoelectric fan cooling system. The system used piezoelectric ceramics as the fan blade drive module, could achieve directional, efficient and reliable heat dissipation, ensured stable and safe operation of key components. The composition and characteristics of the new piezoelectric fan module were introduced in detail. The simulation results were compared by Flotherm software based piezoelectric fan module in off and on states.


This paper analyzes the fault information of ship's course control system, and establishes a fault diagnosis model based on fuzzy nerve network algorithms. Using the fuzzy logic processing data so as to make full use of the experience and knowledge, using the nerve network so as to avoid some problems of the complications fault tree diagnosis system, such as matching conflict, combination explosion, and infinite recursion. Also adopting the improved BP arithmetic to train the nerve network which can solve the problems of convergence speed and convergence surge. The fault diagnosis result shows this fault diagnosis system has strong robustness and generalization. That method uses model free diagnosis, so that is easy to learn by self and perfect system function constantly, and has some theories and engineering application value.


Reorganizing the Rust Belt is a compelling analysis of union organizing by the AFLCIO's largest, fastest-growing, and arguably, its most innovative union, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Lopez seeks to understand what differentiates the SEIU's unsuccessful efforts from its successful ones, and to identify how conservative, business union locals sometimes transition into lively social movement local unions. He begins by applying social movement literature ideas to SEIU campaigns, but refines and even changes its traditional focus. He argues that political process theory's emphasis on favorable conditions—political opportunities, organizational resources, and cognitive liberation—does not help to explain the events that he studied. Instead, he adopts a social constructionist perspective that views collective action as an accomplishment of "self-conscious actors who struggle against the barriers to solidarity, effective organization, and strategic and tactical success" (pp. 14–15). How do organizers turn obstacles into tangible victories? His skillful ethnography (with participant observations, interviews, and archival research) allows for an insider's view of the SEIU local and the nursing home workers it organized. These workers typify low-wage, postindustrial service workers who make up a growing proportion of our economy. In Part One, Lopez traces two SEIU nursing home campaigns to show how an unsuccessful campaign in one year played an important part in setting the stage for a victory the next year. The legacy of business unionism played a crucial role in the defeat. The site of the study, Pittsburgh, PA, is a former stronghold of the Steelworker's Union (USWA). The local union hall once occupied by the USWA, symbolic of "old labor," is now the home of the SEIU Local A, a symbol of the future of labor in the service industry. Although one might guess that the former presence of the Steelworkers' union would serve to sensitize workers to the idea of unionism and make union organizing there easier, Lopez found the opposite to be true. Many workers had negative views of unionism and thought that it was partially responsible for the city's deindustrialization. The face-to-face tactics adopted by the SEIU in its second (successful) campaign allowed organizers to confront workers' negative perceptions and to offer a new vision of participatory, social movement unionism. It was not the tactic per se (face-to-face meetings), or the extent of employer opposition (it was greater during the second, successful campaign), or workers' grievances (they were present during both campaigns), but the content of the messages transmitted during those meetings (dealing with workers' negative feelings toward unions), and the mobilization of networks of pro-union workers to participate in collective action that "enabled workers to reconstruct their lived experience of unions" and form a cohesive group of workers willing to participate to win. Since many AFL-CIO unions have adopted a style of unionism called business unionism (which advocates that unions "service" workers as if they were customers), conducting social movement-like campaigns requires substantial organizational change. Abandoning business unionism requires hard work and may be resisted by top union officials or local-level leaders. How unions move toward social movement unionism is the focus of the second part of the book. Lopez investigates the transformation of union organizational dynamics by studying two interconnected campaigns: one against the privatization of several public sector nursing homes, and the other over new labor contracts for county workers. The first was pitched as a social justice struggle, which allowed coalition and community work that made internal union organization and workers' expectations about servicing less important. This was a struggle largely outside the traditional union concerns that enabled the union to maintain its business union structures while activating community allies. But the second effort was clearly a "union" struggle, which mandated that the union accom-


AIM:To compare the antimicrobial effect of Er:YAG laser combined with different root canal irrigants on Enterococcus faecalis in root canal. METHODS:120 single-rooted human teeth infected with Enterococcus faecalis for 4 weeks were randomly divided into 6 groups( n = 20). From each group,10 teeth were randomly selected and the dentin bacterial counts at different depths were measured and served as baseline data. The rest teeth of each group were treated with Er:YAG laser + 52. 5 g/L NaClO + normal saline( NS) + distilled water( DW)( group A), Er:YAG laser + strong acid electrolytic water( SAWE) + NS + DW( group B),Er:YAG laser + 30 mL/L H 2 O 2 + NS + DW( group C); Er:YAG laser + NS + DW( group D),52. 5 g/L NaClO( group E) and NS( group F) respectively. The numbers of bacteria on the surface of root canal wall at different depths( 0 ~ 100,100 ~ 200,200 ~ 300 μm) in-side dentinal tubules before and after treatments were counted and the bacterial reduction were analyzed by means of one-way ANOVA. RESULTS:On the surface and at different depths of dentine,the bactericidal efficiency of group A,B,C,D and E were significantly greater than that of group F( P 0. 05). And on the surface and at 0 ~ 100 μm depth,the bacterial reduction of A,B,C,D and E groups were similar( P 0. 05). At depths of 100 ~ 200 μm and 200 ~ 300 μm,the groups A,B and E still possessed similarly high bactericidal efficiency( P 0. 05). But the bactericidal efficiency of groups C and D were significantly lower than group A,B and E( P 0. 05). The bacterial reduction in group D and was the least and lower than that in group C( P 0. 05). CONCLUSION:Er:YAG laser combined with NaClO or SAEW has strong effects for disinfection of Enterococcus faecalis in root canal at different depths.


The utilization of grain legumes such as Leucaena leucocephala by the feed industry is limited because of uncertainty about their nutritional quality. Although the analyzed total amino acid and energy contents of many grain legumes are quite similar, their protein qualities and metabolizable energy values are quite variable. Leucaena leucocephala seeds were analyzed for chemical composition and amino acids profile. The analyzed nutrient composition indicated that leucaena seeds are potential source of protein and energy. The protein content was 31.1% and the calculated metabolizable energy of the seeds was 2573.26 kcal/kg. Amino acids profile of leucaena seeds were 1.39% lysine%, 0.36% methionine, 0.35% cystine, 2.62% arginine, 4.63% glutamic acid, 0.87% threonine, 1.38% glycine, 1.11% alanine, 1.11% valine, 0.93% isoleucine, 1.81% leucine and 0.71% methionine + cystine. Antinutritional Factors (ANFs) were 0.75% tannin and 697.50 mg/100g phytate. Leucaena seed was incorporated at 0, 3, 6, 9 and 12% in broiler chicks' diets. One hundred twenty one-day old unsexed broilers (Ross 308) were used. The performance revealed that, the overall feed intake and body weight gain were significantly (p<0.01) depressed with the inclusion of 6, 9 and 12% leucaena seeds in the diet.


It is our goal to establish new teaching structure whose center is students.Constructivism and Education Technology is the basic theory of modern distsnce education.Teaching system,course resources system,supporting service of teaching and learning and studying system are the four key elements of modern distance education.Therefore it is important to adjust well the relationship between them and bring their positive effect into full play.


In this letter, we present a novel method of solving the Generalized Waterfilling problem (GWFP) using equivalence with a waterfilling problem (WFP) which has a closed form solution. Consequentially, a class of WFPs with only one-step called `1-step' WFP is used to derive a low complexity algorithm which has the smallest worst case complexity reported. The proposed algorithm is verified by simulations.


Antimicrobial peptides( AMPs) are a series of short peptides with antibacterial activity against foreign pathogens,which are widely distributed in organisms. AMPs,owning advantages such as wide spectrum antimicrobial properties and little probability to cause pathogens' drug-resistance,can significantly improve the animal and plant disease resistance. In the present report,we summarize the biological characteristics,classification and action mechanism of antimicrobial peptides,intensively review the research progress of antimicrobial peptides from several different sources in the prevention and control of rice bacterial blight,blast and sheath blight,and raise the existing problems and future development proposals.


Visum et Repertum is the result of doctor's examination, about what he saw, what the discovery, and what he heard, with regard to the injured person, their health impaired person, and the death of person. Theoretically, child abuse is defined as treatment of physical, mental, or sexual commonly done by those who have responsibility for child welfare. The purpose of this study to describe the results of Visum et Repertum about child abuse in Bhayangkara hospital Manado period July 2015 to June 2016. This type of research is descriptive implemented. Results of the study were obtained from 112 cases the victims are most commonly found in adolescents aged 14 years to 17 years as many as 68 cases. More violence experienced by women as many as 107 cases, in males only occurs as much as 5 cases. Sexual violence experienced by children during a period of 1 year were 100 cases and the total of  physical violence were 12 cases. For a place that is often incident on the incidence of child abuse are Polresta Manado as many as 95 cases. This study proves that the results of Visum et Repertum can be found any physical or sexual abuse in children Keywords: Visum et Repertum, child abuse.


Human GLUT9 (hSLC2A9) is a urate/hexose transporter expressed predominantly in the liver and kidney where human urate homeostasis is achieved. hSLC2A9 has two splice variants: 9a and 9b differing in their N‐termini and targeted differentially within polarized epithelia. The transporter shows trans‐acceleration between urate and hexoses, however, the mechanism is unknown. Hydrophobic residues in TM7 of GLUTs have been shown to play a role in hexose selectivity.


Human beings are the only species that can perceive the existence of time. However, each culture has its own conceptualization of time, and thus there are different models and attributes for a particular time concept. This paper tries to identify and analyze the Russian and Chinese expressions for the concept of time, so as to establish the linguistic differences in both cultures respectively.


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The Lower Tana River forests in coastal Kenya represent lowland evergreen riverine tropical forest types that are rare in Kenya and probably in Africa. We assessed the bird species composition and forest conditions of 14 forest patches within the Lower Tana River valley each February and October between 1999 and 2004. Vegetation structures showed variations of different strengths in individual forest patches, but only canopy height differed significantly across sites. Overall, canopy cover was correlated directly with canopy height but inversely with bare ground. A total of 155 bird species of 43 families comprising 9 forest specialists (FF), 27 forest generalists (F), 42 forest visitors (f) and 77 species associated with savannah/woodland ecosystems were recorded from the 14 forest patches. The overall bird species composition did not differ significantly across these forest patches, but similarities in species composition of different strengths were evident across the sites.


Objective To study the mRNA expression of MCT1 and MCT2 genes in human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and paracarcinoma liver tissue (PCLT). Methods The semi-quantitative analysis of MCT1 and MCT2 genes mRNA expression in human HCC and PCLT was conducted by RT-PCR method and electrophoresis band opacity density (OD) comparison analysis method in 25 patients with HCC. Results The mRNA expression of MCT1 was significantly higher than MCT2 in HCC and PCLT, in HCC the mRNA expression of MCT1 and MCT2 genes were significant higher than that in PCLT. Conclusions The high expression of mRNA of MCT1 and MCT2 genes in HCC indicates that these genes may take a significant role on lactate and other monocarboxylate transmembrane transportation and on pH regulation in tumor cells.


Using a novel measure of contract strictness based on the ex-ante probability of a covenant violation, I investigate how lender-specific shocks impact the strictness of the loan contract that a borrower receives. Exploiting between-bank variation in recent portfolio performance, I find evidence that banks write tighter contracts than their peers after suffering payment defaults to their own loan portfolios, even when defaulting borrowers are in different industries and geographic regions than the current borrower. The effects of recent defaults persist after controlling for bank capitalization, although compression in bank equity is also strongly associated with tighter contracts. The evidence is most consistent with lenders using their default experience to make inference about their screening ability and adjusting contracts accordingly. Finally, contract tightening is most pronounced for borrowers who are dependent on a relatively small circle of lenders, with a one standard deviation increase in lender defaults implying covenant tightening nearly equivalent to that of a two-notch downgrade in the borrower's own credit rating.


W Tr TH the decline and fall of the Federalist Party, Thomas Jefferson might well have thought that his troubles were over. But the twentieth century had several surprises in store for him. In I974, Fawn Brodie, with considerable skill, made her case for a sexual affair, and, in i996, Conor Cruise O'Brien, with considerable animus, made his case for a different kind of affair. Then, in i998, the combined forces of DNA and FBI trained their weapons upon the sage of Monticello.1 Jefferson has learned now, if he did not know before, what it is like for a sinner to fall into the hands of an angry God. James Hutson's article on "a controversy rejoined" is actually quite benign. It is well researched, well expressed, nicely nuanced, reasonable, and restrained. He does not, for example, propose tearing down the Jefferson Memorial or defacing any of the words inscribed thereon. His thesis is a modest one: "The Danbury Baptist letter must be understood in the political context in which Jefferson wrote it and . . . it was designed by the third president to respond to a malignant and persistent Federalist campaign of political defamation." One should immediately concede the overall political milieu-more, the intense partisanship-in which Jefferson thought, wrote, and spoke in the early years of his first term. The campaign of i8oo had been, to put it simply, brutal. It was time for reconciliation, a reconciling made more likely if all could agree that "every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle," as Jefferson stated in his First Inaugural.2 But his opinion regarding the proper relationship between the church and the state did rest upon an unshakable principle: namely, that religious tyranny was the most vicious of all tyrannies, the one most to be feared, the one most zealously to be guarded against. As history so clearly demonstrated. Parenthetically, it should be noted that persons polarize around Jefferson, and around the First Amendment, to some degree based on their sense of the liveliness, on one hand, or the


Purpose: To present a case study describing incorporation of silicone oil into a traumatic macular hole following surgical correction. Methods: Case report Results: A nine-year-old male presented with a traumatic macular hole. After waiting for spontaneous closure, pars plana vitrectomy with standard 1000 centistroke silicone oil tamponade was performed. Postoperatively, spectral-domain optical coherence tomography, demonstrated closure of the macular hole, but with infiltration of silicone oil into the foveal architecture. A second surgical approach with different attempts to remove the retained silicone oil's bubble was successfully performed using a soft-tip cannula. However, the macular hole reopened intraoperatively. Therefore silicone oil was replaced with no infiltration and adequate closure of the macular hole. Conclusion: Previous reports have demonstrated small droplets of retained silicone oil within the retinal layers, but to our knowledge, this is the first report of a large globule of oil becoming incorporated into a healing macular hole.


Background: Finding out the sources, the chronological sequence of the germs and the formation of the structure of the human orbit remains a pressing task for morphologists. A comprehensive study of the features of development, formation, topographic and anatomical changes in the structures of the orbit (in particular, the muscles of the eyeball, blood vessels and nerves), the dynamics of their syntopic changes during the erly prenatal period of ontogenesis is important to determine the structure, preconditions and time of occurrence of their congenital malformations Material and methods: Using a complex of methods of morphological examination 30 series of consecutive histological sections of human embryos and prefetuses aged from 3 till 8 weeks od IUD (3.0-30.0 mm parietal-coc-cygeal length (PCL)) were studied. Results: at the 3 rd week of IUD the orbital region is represented by the place of close contact of the neuroectoderm of the optic vesicle with the adjacent integumentary ectoderm, as well as the mesenchyme surrounding this place of contact. In embryos of 3.5 mm PCL, the rudiment of the optic stalk is observed as a result of the transformation of the junction of the area of the eye rudiment with the brain. Conclusions: extraokular muscles (except for the inferior oblique muscle) was detected at the end of the 5th week of IUD. The rudiment of the inferior oblique muscle develops from a single mesodermal islet located in the mesenchyme medially and below the eyeball. Simultaneously with the rudiments of the extraokular muscles, the trochlear and abductor nerves are develop and ingrown into the orbit. 3. The development of blood vessels of the orbit occurs from two sources – from the islands of local angiogenesis, which begins in the 5th week of IUD, and from extraorganic vessels, which can be traced in the form of a vascular network at the end of the 6th week of IUD. The combination of both sources is observed at the end of the 7th week of IUD. 4. The embryonic period of ontogenesis is the first critical period in the development of the human orbit, due to the formation of the muscles, nerve and vascular structures.


In this review paper, we estimate the percent of the US population represented by Ethiopian immigrants to be very small at about .015 percent of the total. Many Ethiopians fled their home country due to famine, violence and political repression. Many have experienced culture shock and an adjustment of their status in migrating to a new land. Thus, the likelihood of developing psychological problems has been and continues to be very high. In the literature, we found the most common mental problems encountered by Ethiopian immigrants to be somatic illnesses, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorders, and suicides. A significant number of Ethiopian immigrants also have issues of substance abuse related to alcoholism and drugs. Thus, the community faces a significant mental health burden. We relied on previous survey studies done in the United States and Canada to get an understanding of the types of mental health problems experienced by the community. There is under-utilization of mental health services by the Ethiopian community under the current provisioning of healthcare. We estimate the appropriate level of mental health expenditures for the Ethiopian immigrants to be $20 million pro-rated based on US national per capita mental health expenditures while accounting for the extent of under-utilization of such services. The role of stigma, traditional beliefs, prejudices and superstitions regarding mental illness, access and affordability account for the under-utilization of mental health services. We offer public health perspectives, policy options and suggestions for future research direction based on our review of the literature.


This paper proposes the preliminary results on a novel control architecture based on model predictive control (MPC) for cable-driven parallel robots (CDPRs) and applies them to a three degrees of freedom (3-DOF) robot with a suspended configuration, leading to a cable-suspended parallel robot (CSPR). The goal of the control scheme is ensuring accurate path tracking of the reference end-effector path, while imposing a priori positive cable tensions. To handle the nonlinearities characterizing the dynamic model that governs this kind of multibody system and to keep the computational effort low, a position-dependent MPC algorithm with an embedded integrator is designed to compute the optimal cable tensions required to track the end-effector commanded path. Such tensions must belong to the feasible domain defined through a lower bound, which is slightly greater than zero, to ensure that cables pull the end-effector, and an upper bound, to represent the maximum stress that cables can withstand without breaking. The resulting controller is nonlinear, although it performs a local linearization in the prediction at each time step to reduce the computational effort. The optimal tensions are then transformed into the commanded motor torques through the inverse dynamic model of the servomotors driving the winches, since no force measurement is adopted in the controller implementation. The control architecture is designed and numerically validated through a spatial CSPR with lumped end-effector, and driven by three cables (i.e., with a non-redundant configuration). Four different paths are assumed to highlight various features of the proposed controller.


Nowadays transportation is a rapidly growing service industry in Indonesia. Taxi Max is
Cipaganti new transport service division of PT Citra Graha. Taxi Max which has been
operating in Bandung and Jakarta tried to enter Surabaya by relying on the superiority
completeness facilities. In order to compete with other existing similar industries, Taxi Max
'Cipaganti need to pay attention to the characteristics of consumer behavior of taxi users,
especially in the city of Surabaya. The results of sampling showed that the majority of taxi
users are female (54%), aged 16-25 years (79%}, students (67%), and income s:Rp
1,500,000 (45%). Based on lifestyle, the majority of consumer users Taxi Max are The
Socialite (29%) and The Affluent (21%). The results also showed that the excellence of Taxi
Max with a high level of satisfaction lies in good taxi condition (3. 79), the comfortable
atmosphere in a taxi with full facilities (3.96), the cleanliness in the taxi (3.87), comparable
rates to the facilities provided (3. 56}, security service to destination (3. 79), hospitality of taxi
driver (3.65), the driver has good knowledge of the destination path (3.66). While the lack of
taxis Max with low satisfaction level are on ease of finding a taxi public places (2.96), the
ease of booking a taxi (3.18}, easy to remember phone numbers (3.16}, affordable rates
(3.44), and the appearance of taxi driver uniform (3:53). The results of the questionnaire
were then used to design a marketing strategy (BP) with a focus on the variables that need
to be maintained and variables that still need to be improved.


Objective To observe the influence of Benazepril Hcl and Losartan on serum matrix metalloproteinases-1 (MMP-1),MMP-9,tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-1 (TIMP-1) and TIMP-4 levels in patients of congestive heart failure. Methods Ninty patients of CHF were stratified by randomized,contrastive assigned to Benazepril Hcl group (10mg/d of Benazepril Hcl for 8 weeks),Losartan group (50mg/d of Losartan for 8 weeks) and Benazepril Hcl added to Losartan group (10mg/d of Benazepril Hcl and 50mg/d of Losartan,both for 8 weeks).The serum levels of MMP-1,MMP-9,TIMP-1,TIMP-4 before and after treatment were detected.Results After treatment of drugs,the levels of serum MMP-1,MMP-9 significantly decreased (P0.01),the levels of serum TIMP-1 significantly increased (P0.01),further more,serum TIMP-1 of Benazepril Hcl added to Losartan group significantly increased than other groups (P0.05),the levels of serum TIMP-4 had no change.Conclusion Benazepril Hcl and Losartan can adjust the levels of MMPs,TIMPs in patients of congestive heart failure,Benazepril Hcl added to Losartan can adjust significantly the levels of MMPs and TIMPs,which may induce a direct effect on the myocardial remodeling.


This invention achieves an electrochemical element and a cell for a solid oxide fuel cell of high capabilities, and preparation methods for these, wherein the contact between a dense and highly hermetic electrolyte layer and an electrode layer has been improved, while the processing temperature during the electrolyte layer formation is kept low. The electrochemical element has an electrode layer (3), and an electrolyte layer (4) layered onto the electrode layer (3). The electrode layer (3) has a plurality of pores that are open on the surface in contact with the electrolyte layer (4). The pores are filled with microparticles comprising the same constituents as the electrolyte layer (4).


Parenteral preparations are sterile, pyrogen-free liquids (solutions, emulsions, or suspensions) or solid dosage forms containing one or more active ingredients, packaged in either single-dose or multidose containers. They are intended for administration by injection, infusion, or implantation into the body. The term parenteral derives from the Greek word: para which means outside and enteron which means intestine. Parenteral preparations may contain excipients such as solvents, suspending agents, buffering agents, substances to make the preparation isotonic with blood, stabilizers, or antimicrobial preservatives. The addition of excipients should be kept to a minimum. When excipients are used, they should not adversely affect the stability, bioavailability, safety, or efficacy of the active ingredient(s), or cause toxicity or undue local irritation. The manufacturing process should meet the requirements of Good Manufacturing Practice. The quality of starting materials, the design and maintenance of the equipment and the method of manufacture must be such as to ensure the stability of the active substance and the final product which is sterile and free of pyrogens and particulate matter. This review describes an overview of parenteral drug delivery system. Firstly, different routes of administration, formulation of parenterals, their types and containers used are pointed out. In the second part, various Preformulation and pharmaceutical factors affecting parenteral administration, general manufacturing procedure and evaluation tests of parenterals are reviewed.


A wrongly chosen software development method often leads to the increased development cost or possible failure of a project. Therefore, a software development method should be systematically evaluated in order to measure its suitability for a particular type of project settings. Recently, there is an increasing interest in using usability test to evaluate the usability of software products and processes. In this paper, we will investigate the guidelines on using two usability testing techniques namely Walk-Through and Questionnaire, which are chosen due to the minimum involvement of human subjects. We describe the recommended ways of creating the usability test materials, analyzing the collected data, and creating a report based on the usability test results. The test is carried out to evaluate the use of Scrum method in the Tabung Baitulmal Sarawak (TBS) web-based system. The results presented in this paper are expected to provide software engineers with a systematic guideline in performing Walk-Through and Questionnaire as their usability testing techniques.


The awareness and study of eastern North American-eastern Asian plant disjunctions is traced from the time of Linnaeus to the beginning of the twentieth century. Thomas Nuttall's previously overlooked contribution to this topic is discussed, and an annotated appendix of the taxa that he attributed to eastern Asia and North America is presented. Charles Darwin's influence on the thoughts and writings of Asa Gray is also discussed, based on published and unpublished letters and manuscripts in the Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University; the role that this correspondence played in the development of Gray's phytogeographical ideas and Darwin's theory of evolution is considered. A brief summary of the writings of Adolf Engler, and other nineteenth century botanists, pertaining to these disjunctions and their bearing on an understanding of vegetational patterns in the northern hemisphere is also given. The significance of the late nineteenth century explorations in China in making known the full extent of disjunctions between eastern Asia and North America has provided the basis for further work beyond the exploratory and theoretical stages of this fascinating pattern of plant disjunction. The discontinuous distribution of the same or closely related taxa of plants between eastern North America and eastern Asia is but one of several patterns of disjunction that become evident when the flora of the temperate Northern Hemisphere is considered (Raven, 1972; Thorne, 1972; Wood, 1972; and others). Many of these patterns have been termed Tertiary relict disjunctions. Of these, however, the "classic" eastern North American-eastern Asian pattern is undoubtedly the best known and most often cited example of the disjunct occurrence of closely related taxa on two continents separated by thousands of kilometers. Despite the fact that most of the shared taxa in the two regions have been shown to be distinct from one another (the relationships are primarily closely related species of the same genus, or closely related genera of the same family), other factors noted by biogeographers that have strengthened the impression of a biological connection between the two regions are climatic and ecological similarities. The similarities of the forests of Japan, central China, and the southern Appalachians in appearance as well as in ecological associations are in many instances so great that a sense of deja vu is experienced by botanists of one of the regions visiting the other. Another important factor that has served to emphasize the floristic relationships between eastern North America and eastern Asia is the fact that this particular disjunction pattern was the first to be recognized by botanists. Moreover, the discovery and significance of this pattern figured in the discussions surrounding Darwin's theory of evolution, and it has been discussed not only by plant geographers but by botanical and scientific historians as well. The purpose of this paper is to trace briefly the historical aspects of the recognition of this distribution pattern and the accumulation of facts pertaining to it, and to summarize the major contributions to the study of this pattern that have been made from the time of Linnaeus to the beginning of the twentieth century. Special mention of the contribution and observations of Thomas Nuttall is inI We thank M. Byrnes for her help in the preparation of the manuscript, 0. T. Solbrig, Director of the Gray Herbarium, for allowing access to the Darwin and Gray material in the Archives of the Gray Herbarium, and L. McWood, Archivist, for her patience and helpfulness. We also thank D. Kohn, B. G. Schubert, and P. F. Stevens for reading the manuscript and for their comments, and P. H. Raven, who suggested that we attempt this contribution. Lastly, we are grateful to B. Bartholomew and the library of the California Academy of Sciences for providing a copy of Miquel's paper of 1868, and to P. H. Raven and the Missouri Botanical Garden for providing copies of other literature that we were lacking. 2 Harvard University Herbaria, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138. ANN. MISSOURI BOT. GARD. 70: 423-439. 1983. This content downloaded from 126.96.36.199 on Fri, 24 Jun 2016 04:59:20 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 424 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN [VOL. 70 cluded inasmuch as his penetrating insights into the relationships between the eastern Asian and eastern North American floras, as well as his phytogeographical observations, have to our knowledge hitherto passed unnoticed. EARLY RECOGNITION OF THE FLORISTIC SIMILARITIES BETWEEN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA AND EASTERN ASIA-


Wearable sports devices like GPS watches and heart rate monitors are ubiquitous in sports like running or road cycling and enable the users to receive real-time performance feedback. Although rock climbing is a trending sport, there are little to no consumer electronics available to support rock climbing training during exercise. In this paper, we investigated the acceptance and appropriateness of wearables in climbing on different body parts. Based on an online survey with 54 climbers, we designed a wearable device and conducted a perception study with 12 participants in a climbing gym. Using vibro-tactile, audible, and visual cues while climbing an easy route and a hard route, requiring high physical and cognitive load, we found that the most suited notification channel is sound, directly followed by vibro-tactile output. Light has been found to be inappropriate for the use in the sport of climbing.


The purposes of this study were to measure the humidity, fat, protein, ash, and total carbohydrates and to quantify the lysine and tryptophan content in the whole seed, the endosperm and the germ seed of four QPM maize genotypes (CMSQ993027, CMSQ993037, CMSQ983051, CMSQ983015) and two controls (Roque I variety, white maize and SBS400, yellow), as well as to estimate the in vitro digestibility of the protein in the dough. This study was carried out in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico, in 2005. The experimental design was completely random, with six treatments and three replicates. There was no significant dierence for fat, ash and carbohydrates. Mean protein in the QPM maize crops was 10.38 and 10.31, whereas for the white and yellow control crops it was 10.93. The lysine and tryptophan content in the QPM V6 endosperm was twice as much as that of the control varieties. The QPM V3 had the greatest tryptophan content. The in vitro digestibility of the protein of the dough of the control and QPM V6 maize was 68 and 70% respectively, and it was 78% in QPM V6 maize flour for "atole"


The mathematical model used for describing the desulphurization process with CaCO3 in the middle temperature fume at 450 - 1050 ℃ is established based on crystal model. The desulphurization reaction progress and mechanism with CaCO3 in the middle temperature zone can be better understood, and the hot decom-position process of CaCO3 and the effected degrees of temperature and crystal diameter on the ratio of hot de-compounding can be simulated accurately by the means of computering this model, which provides us with the-ory gist to apply the desulphurization technology of middle temperature fume in China environment protection use.


Malformations of the vagina obstructing labor are of such rare occurrence that this case has been deemed of sufficient interest to warrant recording. REPORT OF CASE History. —Mrs. E. W., aged 33, a primipara, seen at the Copp Hospital, Sept. 4, 1923, had been in labor five hours. Her father had died of pneumonia; her mother, two brothers and two sisters were living and well, and there were no chronic diseases in the family. She had had measles and pertussis in infancy; otherwise her health had been good. She began to menstruate at the age of 13; the periods were regular, of the twenty-eight day type, and lasted four days; there was no pain; she passed no clots, and her last period had occurred Nov. 26, 1922, making her confinement expected for Sept. 2, 1923. The patient had been married three years, and this was her first pregnancy. Examination. —The


In the proposed paper, we demonstrate zero dispersion (ZD) in chalcogenide (As<inf>2</inf>Se<inf>3</inf> and AS<inf>2</inf>S<inf>3</inf>) glass Photonic Crystal Fiber (PCF) with square arrangement of air holes in the cladding using Improved Fully Vectorial Effective Index Method (IFVEIM) with different hole-to-hole spacing and air hole diameter.


The airport must be integrated into community planning processes if its full potential for serving the community is to be realized. Towards this end, in 1967 the airlines instituted an airport facilities planning effort called the Airport Master Plan Report Program. These reports seek to identify airport improvements required for balanced airport capabilities in four broad categories: (1) Airport utilization— including air traffic control; (2) airport capabilities—including runway capacity; (3) surface transportation—on and off the airport; and (4) terminal facilities—passenger and cargo. The findings from the reports are presented to municipal planners, who in their turn, must develop a total planning concept which integrates airports into the life of each community and of the nation.


FQAM a method of operating a base station is provided in a wireless communication system that supports (Frequency-Quadrature Amplitude Modulation). The method includes the ratio of the channel quality information and the data region includes the steps of determining a modulation and coding level based on the Gaussian information-Gaussian (non-Gaussian) the method comprising the steps of: receiving from the terminal information and the channel quality information and the non- do.


Objective To study the infectious rates and features of E6 genes of HPV52 in cervical cancer patients in Guangdong province and provide epidemic data for development of HPV vaccine suitable for Chinese population.Methods DNA samples of 130 cervical cancer tissues from patients in Guangdong province were amplified by HPV-specific PCR with consensus primers,then the E6 genes of HPV52 were sequenced for mutation analysis.Results Eight HPV52-positive cases were found in 130 cases and the infectious rate of HPV52 was 6.15%.E6 region nucleotide variation in 3 of the 8 cases were characterized by PCR-directed sequencing.Conclusion Compared with the HPV52 prototypes published in GenBank,several new point mutations at the E6 genes of HPV52 were found in only one case out of the three cases subjected to PCR-directed sequencing and these mutations are closed to those found in Hong Kong.


Objective To summarize the characteristis of cerebrospinal fluid(CSF) in AIDS patients complicated with cryptococcal meningitis.Methods Retrospective analysis were performed in 405 AIDS patients admitted from January 2009 to December 2011 in Beijing Ditan Hospital.India ink smear,latex agglutination assay and fungal cultures were used to detect Cryptococcus neoformans in CSF of 53 confirmly diagnosed AIDS patiens complicated with cryptococcal meningitis.Positive rate and coincidence rate of the different methods were analyzed.According to levels of CD4+T lymphocytes cells in 405 AIDS patients,comparative analysis of cryptococcal infection rates were performed between groups.Results Of all 53 cases diagnosed cryptococcal meningitis,23 cases(43.4%) were fungal culture positive,25 cases(47.2%) were India ink smear positive,and 53 cases(100.0%) were latex agglutination assay positive.With fungal culture as a standard method,the coincidence rate of India ink smear was 69.6%(16/23),the coincidence rate of latex agglutination assay was 100.0%(23/23).Cryptococcal infection rates in 405 AIDS patients with CD4+ T lymphocytes cell counts of 100 cells/μl,101~349 cells/μl and 349 cells/μl were 19.5%(39/200),8.4%(11/131) and 4.1%(3/74),respectively.There was significanct difference(Z =-3.3533,P 0.05) in CD4+ T lymphocytes cell counts among 3 groups.77.4% cases was effective with antifungal therapy.Conclusion With the reduction of CD4+ T lymphocytes cell counts,risk of cryptococcal infection increased in AIDS patients.Latex agglutination assay for cryptococcus antigen is a sensitive and specific test for early diagnosis of cryptococcal meningitis.Early diagnosis and treatment of cryptococcal meningitis are good for prognosis.


【Task】 A It discloses a method and system for estimating the state of charge of the battery (SOC) and health (SOH). The method of the present invention, based on the values of current and SOC obtained during the charging and discharging cycle of the battery, by estimating the value of the circulating constant determined by the battery parameters, to accurately determine the battery SOC.


A multicast QoS routing algorithm was presented based on the adaptive immune genetic algorithm.By using this algorithm,not only the crossover probability and mutation probability could be adaptively adjusted according to the need of population evolution,the Pareto optimal solution could as well be obtained by means of introducing the immune operator,guaranteeing at the same time the diversity of population.Meantime,the process of individual competition,propagation,and perish in natural world and living beings could be approximately simulated.This algorithm exhibited a better space contraction capacity and local refining ability,and could improve the convergence speed and searching accuracy.Thus this algorithm could overcome the early-maturing problem of genetic algorithm.The simulation result justified the efficiency of this algorithm.


Emigrant state and county were widely set in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasty.The setting of emigrant state and county in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasty affected the setting and the system of districts widely and deeply.The overflowing of districts,the setting of other kind of special districts,the decline of the system of districts and so on were all related with the setting of emigrant state and county.But the advantage of setting of emigrant state and county in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasty was bigger than shortcoming.


Dry milk powders and functional ingredients frequently contain high levels of viable bacterial spores, some of which may result in growth of toxigenic Bacillus spp. in reconstituted and temperature‐abused foods. Samples from nonfat dry milk (NFDM), infant milk formula (IMF), coffee creamer, lecithin, and cocoa powder were subjected to a short heat treatment followed by enrichment in tryptone phosphate glucose yeast extract (TPGY) broth at 32 °C for 12–25 hours to obtain cell densities of 106 CFU ml–1. DNA was extracted using a modification of established protocol, leading to the development of an optimized method for each food system. Purified DNA was amplified by rep‐PCR using extragenic sequence‐targeting primers and optimized for each food. PCR fingerprints from each food were analyzed electrophoretically for banding patterns earlier correlated to that of enterotoxigenic Bacillus spp. and Bacillus cereus positive control DNA fingerprints. Reverse passive latex agglutination (RPLA) and Bacillus Diarrhoeal Enterotoxin Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (Tecra Diagnostics) confirmed the presence of HBL and NHE enterotoxin production in NFDM, Coffee creamer, infant milk formula, and two lecithin samples but not in cocoa powder. These results demonstrate the utility of rep‐PCR not only as a tool for bacterial genotyping, but a unique means of quality control and hygiene monitoring in food microbiology. (© 2006 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


The business world saw numerous examples of ethical transgressions. Raj Rajaratnam, founder of Galleon Group, and Rajat K. Gupta, a former director of Procter & Gamble and former head of McKinsey & Co., were convicted of insider trading. And Barclays Bank, UBS, and Royal Bank of Scotland paid fines for their role in conspiring to manipulate LIBOR interest rates.


A plasma etching apparatus is provided to generate ion concentration and ion energy of various plasma by changing high frequency power to upper and lower electrodes under control of high frequency power source devices. A plasma etching apparatus includes a plurality of upper high frequency power sources(30,31), a plurality of lower high frequency power sources(32,33), a switching unit(40), and a control unit(50). The plurality of upper high frequency power sources apply high frequency power to the upper electrode. The plurality of lower high frequency power sources apply high frequency power to the lower electrode. The switching unit separately turn-on/off the plurality of upper and lower high frequency power sources to adjust ion concentration and ion energy in a chamber. The control unit controls an operation of the switching unit to produce specific ion concentration and ion energy in the chamber.


This article explores the ways and activities designed on the Whole Language Approach to foster learners' integrated language skills and their ability to understand and appreciate great English literary works. Based on the major principles of Whole Language instruction, the course syllabus requires that learners read and write on massive amount of English literary


The paper presents a semi-tutorial review of lithographic feed antennas, with an emphasis on issues that become important at extremely high frequencies. One of the most fundamental facts about antennas deposited on a dielectric substrate is that they couple primarily into the dielectric half-space rather than into the air. The stronger coupling into the dielectric implies that some special form of substrate geometry is required in order to achieve high coupling efficiencies. A number of substrate lens geometries are investigated, as well as thin membranes and micromachined horns. The basic geometric configurations of commonly used lithographic antennas, including elementary dipoles and slots, broadband double-dipole and double-slots, and the very broadband bowtie, equiangular spiral, and log-periodic antennas are examined. Some basic facts are reviewed about the antenna pattern and frequency-dependent impedance of these devices. Some issues, particularly the finite surface impedance of thin metallic films, which are specific to very high frequencies are considered. Experiments performed at MST to explore the capabilities and limitations of antenna-coupling at frequencies as high as 30 THz (10 /spl mu/m wavelength) are also described.


Quantum Gibbs state sampling algorithms generally suffer from either scaling exponentially with system size or requiring specific knowledge of spectral properties \textit{a priori}. Also, these algorithms require a large overhead of bath or scratch/ancilla qubits. We propose a method, termed the minimal effective Gibbs ansatz (MEGA), which uses a quantum computer to determine a minimal ensemble of pure states that accurately reproduce thermal averages of typical observables. This technique employs properties of correlation functions that can be split into a lesser and greater part; here, we primarily focus on single-particle Green's functions. When properly measured, these correlation functions provide a simple test to indicate how close a given pure state or ensemble of pure states are to providing accurate thermal expectation values. Further, we show that when properties such as the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis hold, this approach leads to accurate results with a sparse ensemble of pure states; sometimes only one suffices. We illustrate the ansatz using exact diagonalization simulations on small clusters for the Fermi-Hubbard and Hubbard-like models. Even if MEGA becomes as computationally complex as other Gibbs state samplers, it still gains an advantage due to its ease of implementation without any \textit{a priori} information about the Hamiltonian and in the efficient allocation of available qubits by eliminating bath qubits and using a minimal number of ancilla.


Wireless LAN technology is becoming increasingly popular for a wide variety of applications. After evaluating the technology, most users are convinced of its reliability, satisfied with its performance and are ready to use it for large-scale and complex wireless networks. Originally designed for indoor office applications, today's Wireless LANs can be used for both indoor peer-to-peer networks as well as for outdoor point-to-point and point-to-multipoint remote bridging applications. Wireless LANs can be designed to be modular and very flexible. They can also be optimized for different environments. For example, point-to-point outdoor links are less susceptible to interference and can have higher performance if designers increase the " dwell time " and disable the " collision avoidance " and " fragmentation " mechanisms described later in this section. Traditional LANs (Local Area Networks) link PCs and other computers to one another and to file servers, printers and other network equipment using cables or optic fibers as the transmission medium.


The problem of sexual harassment in schools creates devastating emotional, psychological, and educational effects among students. More than three-fourths of students report that they have been sexually harassed at school. The effects of this harmful torment can range from feelings of embarrassment and anxiety to suicidal thoughts and a significant drop in school attendance and learning (pp. ix–xi). The author of the book Students Harassing Students, Dr. Jan Cantrell, notes that although more school sexual harassment policies were put into place between 1993 to 2001, sexual harassment in schools still increased during this period (p. 3). In light of increased bullying in schools and recent school-related suicides stemming from sexual harassment, the content of this book serves as an apt response to a growing issue in schools. Students Harassing Students presents three main goals: to educate parents and educators on the scope of the problem of sexual harassment; to inform students that they can receive help; and to convey the knowledge that sexual harassment among students can be decreased (p. xi). Cantrell relays these points through setting up each chapter systematically to illustrate a case study and clear definitions, legal issues, suggested solutions, and thoughtful preventions related to the chapter topic. There are many strengths to Cantrell's book. It is quite clear that the author feels strongly about this subject, has gathered extensive information on the topic, and understands the school environment. Cantrell references large-scale, comprehensive reports, and past and current case law and policies, thereby giving a thorough look into the different components of this serious issue. The content of the book is spread among ten chapters which address the following topics: the scope and frequency of sexual harassment in schools; the definition sexual harassment; guidance for teachers and counselors on identifying and targeting sexual harassment behaviors; preventing harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students; addressing electronic manifestations of sexual harassment; legal issues and policy development; and finally, addressing parents, students, and administrators. Cantrell defines sexual harassment using a description from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). This definition states that like all other forms of sexual assault, "sexual harassment includes a wide range of behaviors including unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature, when submission to or rejection of this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment". Cantrell goes beyond merely looking at occurrence rates of sexual harassment in schools- she provides insight on why such incidents occur. The author succinctly outlines the reasons for peer-on-peer sexual harassment: the student is unaware that his/her action is sexual harassment;


This study aimed to verify whether organizational performance implies different configurations of the information architecture, measured from a set of 16 attributes which were defined in line with the approach discussed by Davenport (1998) and McGee e Prusak (1994). The organizational performance was defined according to the Balanced Scorecard model proposed by Kaplan e Norton (1997). A structured questionnaire based on the Likert Scales was applied at 61 plastic manufacturers in the state of Sao Paulo in 2003. The results suggest that companies showing higher performance levels appear to focus greater attention on the development of their information architecture than those with lower levels of performance. A detailed analysis of some of the attributes revealed important factors which deserve special attention on the part of companies in the plastics industry.


Some United States metropolitan areas with rail transit systems enjoy ridership and productivity success while others do not. This study examines the experiences of 11 U.S. metropolitan areas with between one million and five million persons to better understand why some areas are successful and others are not. A particular focus is the role of service planning decisions in facilitating transit success. We find that successful transit systems are those that: 1) articulate a clear, multidestination vision for regional transit; 2) rely on rail transit as the system's backbone; 3) recognize the importance of the non-CBD travel market; 4) encourage the use of transfers to reach a wider array of destinations; 5) recognize that rail transit alone is not enough to guarantee success; and 6) recognize the importance of serving regional destinations.


Transforming growth‐factor β1 (TGF‐β1) influences a number of specific functions of adrenocortical cells in several animal species. The aim of our study was to evaluate by immunohistochemical analysis the presence and distribution of TGF‐β1 in normal adrenal tissue and in different adrenal tumours.


Holographic interferometry is sensitive to micro-displacement, and it can be used to measure the surface changes of an object in a non-contact and visual way. The interference fringes generated through the coherence of holographic images are used to measure the vibration and deformation of the object. With the continuous development of digital holography, the digitized holographic interferometry can be utilized to obtain a qualitative and quantitative analysis on the displacement and deformation, which improves the measurement accuracy and has important guidance on the analysis of surface mechanical changes. Holographic interferometry has some research basis in dentistry, which is mainly used to measure and analyze the deformation of teeth and the surrounding bone, the transmission and dissipation of forces, and the changes in the stability of restorations and implants. The research progress of holographic interferometry in the field of oral biomechanics is reviewed in this article.

Key words:
Holography; Interferometry; Oral medicine; Biomechanics


Mycotoxin is a kind of toxic secondary metabolites produced in the growth and multiplication process of mould,and it widely exists in forage. Mycotoxin includes aflatoxin,ochratoxin,fumonisin,zearalenone,trichothecin mycotoxins,etc. Nowadays,many people have reported on the toxicity of single kind of mycotoxin. The research on the joint toxicity of many kinds of mycotoxins would be the research focus of f mycotoxins in the future.


The author tells what a five-day transatlantic crossing from Southampton to New York was like for him, as a passenger, aboard the QUEEN ELIZABETH 2. He explains why he and many others still find the voyage to be a very special experience.


by of a that findings about the effects of positive and negative leader displays of emotion, the authors examined whether team performance would be facilitated by leaders displaying happiness or by leaders display ing anger. They also examined whether those ef fects could be explained by follower emotions ("searing sentiments") or by follower inferences about performance ("cold calculations"). Which leader display is more effective, and which mech anism explains the results? If you cannot guess the ending, then the authors made an effective topic choice.


Oil was extracted from Inner Mongolia linseed by aqueous method. The optimal extraction conditions of linseed oil were obtained by orthogonal experiment based on single factor experiment as follows:solid-liquid ratio 1∶ 15,pH 11,extraction temperature 75 ℃ and extraction time 3. 5 h. Under these conditions,the yield of linseed oil was 22. 17%. The linseed oil extracted by aqueous method had pure odor and taste,the moisture and volatile matter content was 0. 11%,and the acid value was 0. 38 mgKOH /g.


Purpose – This article aims to cover the experience of working with the new framework/criteria for specialist neuro‐rehabilitation services to meet the needs of patients with rare or complex conditions to achieve eligibility for a level 1 status.Design/methodology/approach – Royal Leamington Spa Rehabilitation Hospital is currently collecting the full UK Rehabilitation Outcomes Collaborative (UKROC) dataset for all in‐patient episodes. A number of tools for measuring rehabilitation needs were gathered by the multi‐disciplinary team (i.e. costing of the service including staffing, building, equipments, etc.), and a range of clinical measures including needs: (the rehabilitation complexity scale); inputs: the Northwick Park nursing and therapy dependency scales (NPDS, NPTDA); and outcomes: the UK functional assessment measure (UK FIM+FAM) which are collated on the national UKROC database.Findings – These measures have been used to assess the level of a patient's complex needs and to help formulate bandings,...


Chitosan/barium titanate (BaTiO3) composite hydrogel elastomers were prepared in the presence or absence of an applied direct-current (dc) electric field. Scanning electron microscopy was used to observe the microstructure of the elastomers and the dispersion of particles in it. Tests of the storage moduli (Gs) of the elastomers were investigated with a dynamic mechanical analyzer. On this basis, the G increment and increment sensitivity were explored. The results show that the particles were sequentially dispersed, and the values of the G values for the elastomer were higher under an external applied dc electric field; this indicated that the composite elastomers exhibited excellent electric field response. Furthermore, the electric-field response of the composite elastomers changed with the particle concentration, and the maximum response occurred when the mass fraction of BaTiO3 was 2.0%. The G value of the composite elastomer with a BaTiO3 weight percentage of 2.0 increased with increasing electric field; this revealed that the composite elastomer had a positive electric field response. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2015, 132, 42094.


Environmental vulnerability is crucial to understand the sustainability and viability of the existence of human activities. In this context, a problem now em...


The dispersal policy adopted by successive governments in NSW to expel Aborigines from their living areas and separate them from one another is discussed with respect to eastern Wiradjuri country from 1909 to 1929.


Doctors deal with death and inequality every day, yet attitudes persist within the medical profession that may contribute to both of these.

The death of the football player, Justin Fashanu, was reported in an uncharacteristically dignified way. We were offered the portrait of a gifted striker whose career was ruined because he was gay, his life ending in sordid shame. We seem comfortable with the notion of homosexuality as a tragic, often fatal flaw, shared by a long list of admired figures including Oscar Wilde, Rock Hudson, Gianni Versace, and George Michael.

Fashanu's obituaries should have given an account of a courageous man who fought to overcome many adversities–abandonment by his parents to the orphanage, racial prejudice, and homophobia. Rather than allow whispers about his sexuality, he "came out" in 1990, braving further rejection, by his younger brother, his team mates, his manager, and the press with speculation of scandals with MPs. Despite all of this he was determined to continue with football. He …


Abstract A total of 16 wild species of the genus Lathyrus grown wildly in the region of Thrace (Turkey) were collected, identified and examined for karyotype analysis. The species diversity found in this work includes approximately one fourth of all the Lathyrus species in Turkey. Collected specimen were identified as L. niger (L.)Bernh. subsp. niger, L. palustris L. subsp. palustris, L. laxiflorus (Desf.) O.Kuntze subsp. laxiflorus, L. tuberosus L., L. undulatus Boiss., L. sylvestris L., L. sphaericus Retz., L. setifolius L., L. annuus L., L. gorgoni Parl. var. pilosus C.C.Townsend, L. cicera L., L. hirsutus L., L. clymenum L., L. ochrus (L.)DC, L. nissolia L., L. aphaca L. var. aphaca. The chromosome number of all studied taxa except L. palustris L. subsp. palustris (2n=42) was determined as 2n=14. x=7. Studies of karyotype analyses among some species of Lathyrus including L. niger subsp. niger, L. palustris subsp. palustris, L. tuberosus, L. undulatus (endemic for Turkey) L. gorgoni var. pilosus, L. clymenum L., L. ochrus (L.)DC and L. aphaca L. var. aphaca have not been investigated in Turkey. Hence, this data is also the first report on the karyotype analysis of those six species grown in the Thrace region.


In all the countries that experienced the fall of communist regimes, democratic, anticommunist movements are creating a typology of the historical process that, however much the details may differ from one national movement to another, nonetheless has a common structure. This model divides history into four periods.


The success of Mohs surgery depends on correct interpretation of the slides. This retrospective study investigated how often pathologists detected incompletely excised basal cell carcinoma (BCC) during revision of Mohs slides in 1653 BCCs treated with Mohs surgery. Thereby, we determined risk factors for incompletely excised BCCs. Incompletely excised BCCs were detected in 31 cases (2%), in which defects < 20 mm in diameter were an independent risk factor (odds ratio 3.58, 95% confidence interval 1.55-8.28). Other studied variables (i.e. aggressive subtype, previously treated BCC, location on nose and < 2 Mohs stages) did not affect the risk of incompletely excised BCCs. This study showed that the additional review of Mohs slides increased accurate interpretation, especially in large BCCs. Therefore, the additional review of Mohs slides might prevent skin cancer recurrence.


The demand for high capacity on-board hydrogen storage systems for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles has stimulated tremendous efforts in materials research and development. Recent research efforts have focused on materials that are composed of hydrogen bound to light elements including borohydrides, MOFs, amide-hydride combination systems,1 and ammonia borane.2-3 With a hydrogen capacity of 19.6 wt.%, ammonia borane (NH3BH3, AB in short) shows promise for hydrogen storage, however, decomposition gives a volatile side product, borazine, that will poison PEM fuel cells. In addition, the desorption of hydrogen from this chemical hydride has a sufficient barrier to render the kinetics too slow at temperatures below 80 C. Our recent effort to modify the kinetics and thermodynamics of H2 release from AB by replacing one H with an alkali metal, i.e., alkali amidoboranes (MNH2BH3, M = Li and Na) provided some improvement.4 These amidoboranes release large amount of hydrogen (exp. 10.9 wt.%) with no measurable borazine formation, however, the kinetics for H2 desorption are still insufficient. Previous investigations on hydrogen release from complex hydrides revealed that mass transport or mobility of the reacting species is one of the kinetic controlling factors. The mobility of the species can be enhanced substantially upon dissolution in a solvent. Here we investigate the reactivity of AB dissolved in tetrahydrofuran (THF) with a suspension of LiH and observe the formation of LiNH2BH3 and enhanced reaction kinetics with an interesting dependence on AB concentration. More than 2.8 equiv of hydrogen can be released in two steps at a temperature as low as 40 C.


The purpose of this paper is to present the review of certain face recognition techniques. Although the existing methods perform well under certain conditions but illumination, occlusion, pose, structural components, facial expression and quality of images are still the challenging problems. In reviewing these techniques we have compared the performance of various techniques used for face recognition. The performances are compared in order to state advantages and limitations of each technique discussed.


Supported by the environmental archaeology information system of Yangtze Delta region, and based on data of more than 500 sites in the period of 7000-2500 aBP, the authors analyzed the distribution density, lowest residential level and impact buffer in this area. Further more, the potential relationship between sites spatial distribution characteristics and dynamics with water level in this region has also been discussed.


We investigate learning control over molecular fragmentation in a series of similar molecules. We interpret the physical mechanism underlying control in terms of an intuitive picture that is based upon ab initio molecular structure calculations.


Today the unsolved issue of correlation of the concepts "criminalistic characteristic of crime" and "information model of crime" causes the debatable propositions of the criminalistic characteristic of crime itself and other scientific researches based on them (e.g. issues of building the model of person committed a crime) and has negative influence on the efficiency of using the existing projects in the law enforcement bodies' activities. The study is aimed at considering scientific opinions on this range of problems, revealing the causes of arising discussions and elaborating proposals on their elimination. According to the analysis of different viewpoints of the considered issue the causes of difference of opinions are the following: 1) ambiguous interpretation of the term "model" in different scientific researches; 2) researchers do not take account of the model types when elaborating theoretical propositions of information model of criminal event. Criminalistic characteristic of crime is considered as information model of crime. The author proves the necessity to distinguish the model types (descriptive and dynamic) when elaborating its propositions. The data of the descriptive model can be used as initial concepts when elaborating theoretical propositions of the dynamic information model of crime. The above-mentioned models can be used jointly or independently during the criminal event investigation. The definitions of the concepts of types of information model of crime are provided. The features of methodology of their building are noted. The author's opinion on the place of criminalistic characteristic of crime in the science system (considering the model types) is given.


Traditionally, image processing based on Markov Random Field (MRF) is often addressed on a 4-connected grid graph defined on the image. This structure is not computationally efficient. In our work, we develop a multiple-trees structure to approximate the 4-connected grid. A set of spanning trees are generated by a new algorithm: re -- weighted random walk (RWRW). This structure effectively covers the original grid and guarantees uniformly distributed occurrence of each edge. Exact maximum a posterior (MAP) inference is performed on each tree structure by dynamic programming and a median filter is chosen to merge the results together. As an important application, image denoising is used to validate our method. Experimentally, our algorithm provides better performance and higher computational efficiency than traditional methods (such as Loopy Belief Propagation) on a 4-connected MRF.


Considering the opposite outcome—for example, survival instead of death—may affect conclusions about which subpopulation benefits more from a treatment or suffers more from an exposure.


We performed a study of Facebook users to examine how they coped with limitations of the Facebook privacy settings interface. Students graduating and joining the workforce create significant problems for all but the most basic privacy settings on social networking websites. We therefore created realistic scenarios exploiting work/play boundaries that required users to specify access control policies that were impossible due to various limitations. We examined whether users were aware of these problems without being prompted, and once given feedback, what their coping strategies were. Overall, we found that simply alerting participants to potential errors was ineffective, but when choices were also presented, participants introduced significantly fewer errors. Based on our findings, we designed a privacy settings interface based on Venn diagrams, which we validated with a usability study. We conclude that this interface may be more effective than the current privacy settings interface.


phate', primarily 2,3-DPG, over levels observed in ACD bloods. Years later the importance of this metabolite in controlling hemoglobin function revealed the possibility of a qualitative as well as quantitative improvement of red cells during storage. It may well be that no one solution will be found that ensures the maximum preservation of all blood components. But in the search each step in the development must be monitored for its effect on important measureable parameters. It must be recognized that modifications will not affect all phases of metabolism in the same direction. Thus a pH favorable for maintenance of ATP is destructive for 2,J-DPG. The pH of ACD and CPD solutions are 5.00 and 5.13, respectively: collected blood equilibrates a t pH 7.00 and 7.10. By titration the base requirement of both solutions and blood is twice as great for ACD as for CPD. Since a greater proportion of base is required for adjustment of pH of whole blood than for plasma, the chief effect of acidity is intracellular. Factors affecting cell membranes have not been extensively studied. The use of non-penetrating sugars, for maintenance of water balance during collection might be worth considering.


This paper describes a soft three-axis tactile sensor composed of a soft-rigid multi-material structure embedded with microfluidic pressure sensitive channels. The sensor contains two types of microchannels filled with a liquid conductor for different sensing purposes: one for detecting normal forces and the other for detecting shear forces. While normal forces are measured by a single microchannel, shear forces are detected by a microchannel divided into six segments for an increased spatial resolution. The proposed sensor provides a total of seven output signals based on the direction of the applied force, making it possible to decouple force elements in x, y and z axes.


The utility model discloses a composite solar seawater desalting device. The device body consists of a water storage tank, a solar panel heat collector, a liquid distribution box, a condensing evaporation pipe, a diversion plate, a heating surface, a composite paraboloid light-concentration heat collector, a normal-temperature evaporator, a fresh water box and a hot water storage box. The solar energy is absorbed by the panel heat collector and the composite paraboloid light-concentration heat collector so that film falling and film evaporating are carried out on the seawater and the steam is collected and condensed so as to obtain the fresh water, thus finishing the seawater desalting process. When being condensed, the steam generates latent heat that is used for generating secondary steam or raising the temperature of the seawater, thus realizing the multi-efficiency utilization of seawater. The composite solar seawater desalting device does not require an auxiliary electric apparatus, can be started quickly, has high water yield, and is particularly suitable for islands, sea boats and remote areas.


from any hitherto recognised. Its nearest clinical affinity is to that form of acute poliomyelitis which affects the brain rather than the medulla (acute polio-encephalitis) ; but it is to be distinguished therefrom by a supervention of progressive stupor, a feature which in acute polioencephalitis is notably absent. The localised limb paralysis that is a distinctive feature of acute poliomyelitis has not been observed in acute encephalitis lethargica.