Among all cancers, colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer related death. Liver and lung are known as the main metastatic sites of colorectal cancer, on the other hand the metastasis of adrenal is clinically rare. Formerly, metastases were detected at autopsy, but due to improved imaging and diagnostic techniques, many of these lesions now can be detected on routine followup imaging. Patients with adrenal metastasis are considered having systemic spread and therefore unsuitable for surgical resection. That's why, isolated adrenal metastasis presents a therapeutic dilemma in colorectal cancer patients. In this case, we report an adrenal mass in a patient with colorectal cancer to whom rectosigmoidectomy, colectomy and adrenal metastasectomy were performed. The adrenal mass was benign. For solitary and resectable lesions adrenalectomy can be performed and prolonged survival can be achieved in selected patients. Also, this enables to achieve right histopathological diagnosis.


Concrete is the most widely used construction material in the world. Its high compressive strength and mould-ability into the desired shape has awarded it a separate place among all the construction materials. In the current exhaustive research work, waste tyre rubber fibres in different proportions 2%, 5% and 10% by weight of coarse aggregates have been used as partial replacement of coarse aggregates in concrete of grades M25 and M30 to carry out behavioral study of concrete. Later 1% superplasticizer admixture (Fosroc Conplast SP 430G8) by weight of cement is also added to study the change in behavior of tyre rubber fibre reinforced concrete. Specimens of 14 different proportions (from S1 to S14) were prepared from the combination of above ingredients. A series of tests like compressive strength test, flexural strength test and workability tests were performed on the designed specimens. From the study it is observed that the use of tyre rubber fibres reduces the compressive strength and workability of all the grades of concrete. Though its use in concrete enhances the flexural strength and hardness of concrete considerably. Use of 1% superplasticizer admixture by weight of cement is further proved beneficial to the concrete and has improved compressive strength, workability, flexural strength and hardness of tyre rubber fibre reinforced concrete.


The Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer (UVCS) of the Solar and Heliospheric (SOHO) mission has been developed for spectroscopic and polarimetric determinations of temperatures, densities and flow velocities in the extended solar corona. The instrument consists of a visible light (VL) polarimeter, and two ultraviolet (UV) spectrometers, optimized for the H I Lyman (alpha) (Ly-(alpha) ) line ((lambda) 1216 angstrom) and for the O VI doublet ((lambda) (lambda) 1032/1037 angstrom). The stray-light profile of the Ly-(alpha) holographic grating has been measured, in a laboratory set-up, in both the spatial and spectral directions. The observed profile has been found to be a combination of two components: the scattering from the grating surface, and the Fraunhofer diffraction due to the vignetting of the grating. An analytical expression for the scattering component of the grating point spread function (PSF) has been derived from a simple model of the grating surface roughness. The stray-light profile generated by the analytical expression of the grating PSF gives a good fit of stray-light profile measured in the laboratory. This instrument function has been used in the analysis of in-flight UVCS observations of the profile of electron scattered Ly- (alpha) from the solar corona. These observations have resulted, for the first time, in the most direct measurement of the coronal electron temperature.


is the need of today's era. In every field like data management, data communication, e-commerce etc. The security task is being complicated as there are variety of data to secure as different level of data security is needed based on the data type. In this paper we have discussed and analyse the image data security. Image cryptography, data hiding, image entropy and image XOR. Based on these parameters we have analysed the previous research work and discussed the advantages and gaps.


Trial by following Spring and Autumn is actually a way by treating Spring and Autumn as a permanently dependable law work for people to follow for all social behaviors.The practice demonstrates typically the constitution of the Confucian mode of discourse;that is,it expands its discourse power by regarding the classical documents as the value basis and discourse resources,so as to set up an all-embracing ideological system.Against that basis,it also adopts"psychological speculation"and"analogy",which makes more flexible and casual the hermeneutics used by the Gongyang School.Therefore,the Confucian hermeneutics of Spring and Autumn in the Han dynasty has a strong mysterious color and hence reached its logical terminal.


An automatically generating and uploading method of the thumbnail image of a picture in ASP.NET was introduced.The image was redrawn by using the DrawImage() method of the Graphics class and by selecting appropriate parameters to achieve the thumbnail image.The result shows that the method is characterized by its high speed,high compression ratio and high quality of the thumbnail image.


The present invention relates to a kind of antibacterial modified chitosan spray and preparation method thereof.This preparation method comprises and prepares modification of chitosan, prepare Fructus Gardeniae oil, prepare jasminoidin, prepare spirulina polysaccharide and the step such as spirulina polypeptide and preparation chitosan spray.Spray of the present invention is applied to treatment men and women's property pruritus vulvae and fungal infection, courses of infection, folliculitis, vaginitis, also be applied to the treatment etc. of decubital ulcer and skin Chronic inflammation, application is very extensive, and it reaches more than 99% to the antibacterial ability of staphylococcus aureus, escherichia coli, streptococcus, Candida albicans, bacillus pyocyaneus or other fungus.


The cake-cutting problem is a long-researched question of resource allocation. The problem asks the following: How can a group of players fairly divide a continuous resource (the cake) in an efficient manner if each player has a personal valuation of portions of the resource? The definitions of "fair" and "efficient" can easily complicate the problem. A concept of fairness must be defined at a given problem's outset. Efficiency often refers to using the least amount of divisions (cuts of the cake) possible while still maintaining fairness. The sub-problem of unequal shares asks how the participants can best divide the cake unequally, according to some predetermined ratio. In the case that this ratio is rational, the accepted method for division by unequal shares is the Cut Near-Halves algorithm [1]. Number theory is applied to this problem in a new way, with the express purpose of besting the efficiency of the Cut-Near Halves algorithm. The result is a novel method for division that is both more efficient and optimal more often than Cut Near-Halves. The new algorithm is described and its effectiveness is empirically analyzed.


Objective To explore the inhibitory effects of He Ne laser repeated irradiation on the collagen synthesis of cultured scar fibroblasts. Methods Cultured fibroblasts derived from hypertrophic scars (HS) were irradiated with He Ne laser for 30 min at various power densities (10 mW/cm 2, 50 mW/cm 2, 100 mW/cm 2 and 150 mW/cm 2), once a day for 3 consecutive days. In 24 h after repeated irradiation collagen production and type I procollagen mRNA level of fibroblasts were measured with the incorporation of [ 3H] proline and blot hybridization techniques respectively. Results Collagen synthesis and type I procollagen mRNA level remained unchanged when the laser was irradiated at the power density of 10 mW/cm 2 or 50 mW/cm 2. Compared with control, collagen synthesis and type I procollagen mRNA level were significantly decreased at the power density of 100 mW/cm 2 or 150 mW/cm 2 ( P 0.05). Type I procollagen mRNA level at the power density of 150 mW/cm 2 was lower than that at 100 mW/cm 2 ( P 0.05) . Conclusion Repeated He Ne laser irradiation at the power density of 100 mW/cm 2 or 150 mW/cm 2 can suppress collagen synthesis of cultured fibroblasts in HS. The cause of suppression may be associated with down regulation of type I procollagen mRNA expression.


I was interested to read the recent article by Meire and Farrant (1978), since I too have been studying the cost advantages and disadvantages of the various recording systems. This study comparing Polaroid, bromide paper and transparent photographic media is now available from the DHSS (1978) having been presented at the Third European Congress on Ultrasonics in Medicine. The conclusions are similar in that the Vidicam system using bromide paper was favoured by our busy ultrasound department both for its convenience and economy. However, all the participants in our study preferred to retain the Polaroid system to enable representative images to be sent back immediately with the patient.


In this article, we work with the concept of aesthetic infantilization and the need to address the literary critic of biopolitics. Our interest is centered on the potential of refl ective literature, as it provides an important space for analyzing the theory and aesthetics of the literary text.


The design of the next generation synchrotron radiation ring is based on a low‐emittance storage ring with large numbers of zero‐dispersion straight‐section for insertion devices. As a candidate, the Chasman‐Green lattice is likely to be the most promising to be investigated. In this paper, field gradients and edges which are not perpendicular to the optic axis are proposed to introduce the bending magnets for a low‐emittance Chasman‐Green lattice. The horizontal beam emittance of a large ring is generally expressed as1 (1) ex=Cqγθ3F(ψ)/Jx, where Cq=3.83×10−13 m, γ=Lorentz factor of the stored beam, θ=bending angle of a dipole magnet, F(ψ)=emittance form factor as a function of the betatron phase advance per half cell ψ, Jx=partition number of the horizontal betatron oscillation.The form factor F(ψ) depends on the lattice structure and is expressed for the symmetrical cell as (2) F(ψ)=(1/ρθ3)(1/ρθ) ∫ρθ0(γη2 +2αηη'+βη'2)ds, where H=γη2+2αηη'+βη'2 is the Courant–Snyder dispersion invariant, ρ is the magneti...


College graduates' employment problem is one of common concerns in today's society.The cause of its existence lies in objective factors related to economy,educational development as well as subjective reasons related to graduates' unrealistic career choices.The government should take strategic actions in policy regulation and establishment of career guidance of universities and formulate supportive policies in information exchange of job market and communication between enterprises and job-hunters.


The paper elaborates the method of adopting integration method to construct the well-digging,through taking the injection-wind well's construction for a certain mineral station as example,it introduces the application to practice the integration method to construct well-digging of erect well,and then concerns on discussing the construction situation of adopting the integration method to construct erect well.At last,it points out the merits and faults of the integration method construction,which will provide a reference for similar project construction.


The invention relates to a domestic/medical monitoring system, in particular to a monitoring method and a system for remote diagnosis and treatment which have network support platform service and can monitor and record data automatically for 24 hours on end. The method comprises the following steps: a network service platform is erected on the Internet, and a doctor and a patient are connected through the Internet and the network service platform; and the patient acquires related data through a dedicated monitoring probe, after being detected and recorded by the related monitoring probe, patient monitoring data are firstly transmitted to a mobile multimedia terminal and then to the network service platform via the Internet and are pushed to the doctor at last. The method and the system have the beneficial effect of connecting the doctor and the patient through the Internet and the network service platform which is erected on the Internet; the patient acquires the related data through the monitoring probe, and the data is transmitted to the network service platform timely; and the doctor acquires the latest monitoring data of the patient timely through the service platform, and remote diagnosis and treatment/appointment can be carried out. The method and the system can realize timely interaction between the doctor and the patient and solve various problems such as queuing, registration, waiting and the like to the greatest extent.


The aim of this paper is to explore the articulation of certain basic concepts in the Whitean theory of historiographical discourse, based on the conviction that by establishing a contrast with a not too developed notion of science and with a narrow concept of ideology, White ends up resorting to tropology as a deep grammar of the ordinary language instantiated in narrative. By exploring and criticizing some of the blind spots of White's three-cornered approach to narrative, science and ideology, and some of the consequences of this very restrictive use of tropology, this article intends not only to contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the Whitean proposal, but also to encourage its deepening.


Abstract In the early nineteenth century new social, educational, and professional opportunities made it possible for women musicians to achieve levels of financial success and professional status which they could not attain in any other occupation. At the same time they continued to face obstacles such as their exclusion from all‐male professional organizations like the Royal Society of Musicians, a benefit society for musicians experiencing financial hardship. By the late 1830s the first generation of female students at the Royal Academy of Music were entering the London musical scene just as stories of destitution among once‐famous women singers and debates over women's role and rights were particularly acute and well‐publicized. These circumstances led the singer Elizabeth Masson, who had tried unsuccessfully to gain admittance to the all‐male RSM, to found a comparable society for women. Founded in 1839, the Royal Society of Female Musicians included many of the leading female musicians of the time. ...


Lifestyle Medicine (LM) practice targets six behavioral domains: nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress reduction, social support, and avoidance of addictive substances. To date, no formal study of LM practitioner perspectives of ideal behavior for these domains has been conducted. Our objective was to describe the behaviors that comprise ideal/adherent patient behavior for each of the six domains, focusing on nutrition, as reported by practicing LM providers.

 We conducted an (online) survey of members of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine in the summer of 2019 (n = 612). Respondents were asked to describe ideal patient behavior for each domain in their own words. Their textual responses were coded line by line, with multiple codes assigned when relevant. Similar codes were collapsed to develop a more parsimonious code-set for each area. Counts and rankings for each set of codes was calculated, with key quotes extracted associated with top ranked codes.

 A total of n = 471 respondents provided any free-text answer on ideal patient dietary behavior. Out of the total n = 471 providing an answer, specific individual behaviors were mentioned most frequently were as follows: eat whole foods (85%), eat plant-based (85%), be motivated and open-minded (20%), reduce unhealthy fats or limit/eliminate oil (19%), practice moderation in total intake (12%), eat more fruits & vegetables (13%), and reduce carbohydrates (10%). The most common meta-theme that emerged focused on the foods that one should eat (e.g., plant based, whole foods, water), followed by foods that one should not eat (e.g., processed foods, unhealthy fats, dairy, meat). The next most common meta-theme mentioned related to the desirable characteristics of the patient themselves (motivated, open-minded; complies with provider instructions etc.) and promoted specific behaviors (moderation, fasting, cook own food). A final common meta-theme related to overall guiding principles for healthy nutrition (sustainable, flexible and balanced).

 Results of this analysis suggest that LM providers most commonly prescribe dietary behavior changes focusing on emphasizing whole or unrefined plant foods, while also finding positive patient attitude and compliance important.

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Zhao Chen: Although the effect of trade liberalization on export in Asia is widely investigated, this paper asks a more specific research question, which is, what is the effect of trade liberalization on export of energy and environmental goods and services. The focus of this paper is policy-relevant, where the contribution of different factors on export of energy and environmental goods and services is investigated. The authors built a framework where those factors are grouped into home country factors, foreign country factors, natural factors, and mutual interest factors. Within this framework, institutional factors from both home country and foreign countries could well be addressed if required data are available.


Identification of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) based on molecular analysis has been introduced just few years ago. This method used some specific primers for Xoo and can be done quickly. The purposes of this research were to identify isolate Xoo originated from five locations in Indonesia and to determine the level of pathogenicity of these bacteria. Studies were conducted in the greenhouse and the Molecular Biology Laboratory of ICABIOGRAD, from 2011 to 2012. Bacterial isolates were taken from five regions in Indonesia, namely: West Sumatra, West Java, Central Java, South Sulawesi, and West Kalimantan. The specific primers of Xoo were Xoo2967, Xoo80, and Xoo. Results showed that 216 isolates could be grown to form yellow colored colonies, which belongs to a criterian for Xoo. Molecular analysis demonstrated that 189 isolates were Xoo and 27 isolates were not. Amplification of DNA of the isolates resulted a 337 bp PCR product for primer Xoo2976, 700 bp for primer Xoo80 and 534 bp for primer Xoo. Pathogenicity tests of the Xoo isolates showed xa5, Xa7, and Xa21 resistance genes were still effective againts BLB pathogens originated from those five regions, with percentage of resistance were 93.57, 77.49, and 85.37%, respectively.


Anticolonialism is a revolutionary philosophy, a philosophy of revolution. Simply put, it is the struggle for freedom from slavery, settler colonialism, and imperialism. It is the theory and practice of the decolonization of nation-states, as well as of the decolonization of practices of knowledge production, consumption, dissemination, and the entire enterprise of education. It also works to decolonize minds, bodies, and imaginations. Anticolonialism challenges dominant practices of knowledge (and ignorance) production to highlight the intersection of gender, race, and class in what is known and not known about the past as it plays out in the present in education and beyond. Anticolonial scholarship and activism focus on intersectional accounts of history to investigate class- and gender-based forms of violence in some of the most celebrated nonviolent movements. Highlighting the psychic dimensions of domination and resistance is central to the anticolonial project, which elaborates on the boomerang effects of domination and the perils of privilege. This insight is central to imagining a sustainable world of social solidarity and reciprocity.
 The success of an anticolonial approach to education lies in creating capacities to critically reflect on colonial discourses, institutional structures, educational policy, practice, and pedagogical strategies. The anticolonial project brings to light the psychic life of domination and resistance, which colludes with flaws in the criminal justice system that work to funnel too many children of color out of school and into juvenile and justice systems. Anticolonial educational strategies begin with an intersectional approach to disrupting the school to prison pipeline—a devastating neocolonial formation. Twenty-first-century anticolonial educators and activists learn from the work of student activists in the Mississippi civil rights movement and their creation of Freedom Schools. The radical conceptions of pedagogy, citizenship, and power developed in Freedom Schools have important implications for thinking about the role of education in building a multiracial/multisexual anticolonial democracy in the 21st century.


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School is both time and space of experience and citizenship. Students as individuals, create and recreate meaning on how to be in school and society, different affiliations that sustain their identity and the various spheres of participation. When defining citizenship we noted three dimensions: the person, the social ties and participation. Based on school climate – which we assume is what actors mostly represent and feel of their organization – this study takes four dimensions into account: relationships with various school stakeholders, equity, safety and working conditions. The sample included 3617 students from 5th to 12th grade education originating from 13 schools. The data instrument is a questionnaire on school climate, experiencing school aspects and the value attributed to being a citizen. School climate is globally positive, except for the working conditions dimension. The added value of the citizenship dimension varies according to different dimensions. School climate, experiencing school and the citizenship value have highly statistically significant relationships among all dimensions. The most favorable school climate appears consistently linked to the feeling of belonging, to teachers' democratic leadership and to the valorization of citizenship dimensions. These results suggest that school climate and its relation to the meaning that students give to citizenship come from the relevance of the care of relationships between the different school actors.


Received 11/6/2000; revised 11/28/2000; accepted 12/6/2000. For correspondence or reprints contact: Shyh-Jen Wang, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, 160, Sec. 3, Taichung Harbor Road, Taichung 407, Taiwan. Tel: (886)4-23741349, Fax: (886)423741348, E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com A 25-year old female, was admitted in intensive care with coma and shock, 6 h after intravenous injection of heroin. The patient regained consciousness after treatment with naloxone. Weakness of bilateral lower limbs was exhibited during her stay at the Intensive Care Unit. A Tc-pyrophosphate whole body muscle scan revealed areas of increased radioactivity involving left and right gluteus muscle and right biceps femoris muscle, which is most likely due to rhabdomyolysis secondary to heroin intoxication.


At the Rijnhuizen tokamak project a double pulse multiposition Thomson scattering diagnostic has been operational since 1996. It has been installed for the study of small scale structures in electron temperature (Te) and density (ne). This diagnostic measures Te and ne with high spatial resolution (3 mm full width at half maximum, i.e., 2% of the minor radius) and high accuracy (3%–4% of Te and 2%–3% of ne in the range of 50 eV–6 keV and ne=5×1019 m−3.) In this article an extensive error analysis is performed on both statistical and systematic deviations. It is found that the instrument function of the detection branch has a smoothing effect on the noise. This reduces the statistical error on the Te and ne measurements on each spatial position, because the resolution of the instrument is oversampled. The long tail of the instrument profile of the entire diagnostic has a significant effect on the systematic deviations in the Te and ne determination. However, it does not affect the relative size of the smal...


A mechanism for supply chain coordination models the entire supply chain with multiple members in four stages to satisfy customer demand with minimum total costs. Previous coordination mechanisms research applied restrictive assumptions on the number in the supply chain stages and members in each stage, disallowing a case of multi-product. Flow networks concept is proposes as a coordination mechanism for supply chains with multiple members, multiple stages and multi-products, where each product is composed of several basic components. A supply chain optimizer (SCO), actually an e-hub, gathers supply chain state information. After necessary computations, it informs members of the supply chain of optimal decisions for their orders. Results from sample cases using the mechanism show above 20% reduction in total costs of the supply chain.


The Coulomb blockade across Fe and Pd nanoislands grown on single-crystalline MgO insulator films on Fe(001) was investigated with scanning tunneling microscopy. In $I(U)$ spectra of individual islands, the characteristic steps of the Coulomb staircase were observed as a function of island size. A detailed analysis of the Coulomb staircase energetics in terms of the island capacitance reveals the expected linear behavior for electrostatic interactions. For ferromagnetic Fe islands, however, a significant offset of 1 eV was found, which is missing in the case of nonmagnetic Pd islands. This effect is explained by the spin dependence of the electronic transport across the MgO barrier in combination with a quasihalf-metallic density of states of the Fe islands, as corroborated by first-principles electronic-structure calculations.


A health drink was prepared by using various extracts of the fruits like sweet orange, grapes, Apple, carrot, banana. It was further evaluated for antioxidant activity, antimicrobial activity and stability studies. Physiochemical and Organoleptic parameter were evaluated like pH, viscosity, density, colour, odour and taste were also taken into consideration. In-vitro free radical scavenging activity by using beta-carotenes bleaching & lipid per oxidation method for the formulation was performed. The inhibition activity of the health drink on the peroxide ion of linoleic acid was measured by folic thiocyanate method in comparison to methanolic extract of green tea, ginkobiloba, vit. E, and BHA as positive controls. The antimicrobial activity was performed by Agar disk diffusion and Agar ditch diffusion methods using various strains of bacteria. Microbial growth was determined by measuring the diameter of the zone of inhibition. The health drink formulation of various fruits exhibited strong antioxidant activity and moderate antimicrobial activity. The health drink also showed promising stability studies.


Percutaneous cholecystostomy offers a potentially important type of therapy for critically ill patients with acute cholecystitis who present high risk when undergoing laparotomy or laparoscopy under general anesthesia. It offers a distinct advantage for these kinds of patients by avoiding the risks of the surgical intervention. Percutaneous cholecystostomy is a safe and effective minimally invasive procedure with a high success rate and low procedure-related complications. It should be considered not only in temporary management of calculous cholecystitis, but also in definitive treatment in cases of acalculous cholecystitis.


The TiO2 nanofibres (NFs), prepared with the electrospinning method, acted as the photoanode in a photoelectrochemical cell (PEC) for hydrogen generation. The fabrication parameters of Ti/PVP (polyvinylpyrrolidone) fibres were determined with the field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) method. The structure and morphology of the TiO2 fibres were characterized by using X-ray diffraction (XRD), FE-SEM, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM). The average diameter of the TiO2 fibre is 132 ± 16 nm. A three-electrode potentiostat was used to study the photoelectrochemical properties of the photoanode. The density photocurrent reached the saturation value of 80 mA·cm–2 at 0.2 V under the irradiation of a Xenon lamp.


The cultural properties are damaged by various causes according to the characteristics of material, the condition of preservation, and the period of time. Especially, biodeterioration makes lots of damages in organic properties than inorganic ones. The damages of wooden cultural properties by insect...


This chapter examines the figure of ekphrasis in Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, and focuses on the so-called 'Painter scene' that appears in the 1602 quarto. This is the most obviously ekphrastic moment in the play, in which its protagonist, Hieronimo, encounters a Painter and commissions a visual artwork based on his plight. Critics of the play have tended to rely upon the traditional conception of ekphrasis as paragone, and argue that the representational contest implicit in this scene ultimately demonstrates the superiority of drama. By contrast, this chapter seeks to question the paragonal model of ekphrasis, and argues that The Spanish Tragedy highlights drama's interdependence with, rather than superiority to, other forms of representation. The chapter also suggests that the play's interest in ekphrasis opens up larger questions about borrowing, imitation, and collaboration. The Spanish Tragedy highlights the illusionistic aspects of theatrical representation, and its reliance upon a cunning juxtaposition of various forms of 'counterfeit' art.


ABSTRACT Arbitration literature has well covered the doctrine on non-disputing third-party (NDTP or 'amicus') participation in investor–state disputes. This is little help to potential NDTPs navigating doctrinally undetermined questions relating to participation, such as whether they can attach evidence to their briefs. A playbook is needed. This article explains how NDTPs obtain such privileges, and the principles according to which NDTPs gradually alter arbitration procedures over time. To analyse which arguments succeed, which fail and why, the article applies the heuristic 'play within structure' (Huizinga, Gadamer, Ost and Eskridge). The theory highlights 'negative space' where rules are not yet fixed. This exploration contributes to the debate about the legitimacy of investment arbitration as a whole and touches on the dynamics of alleged common law 'transplants' to international investment arbitration. Notwithstanding theory, the unifying intention is to surface upcoming NDTP participation rule choices and articulate the pre-understandings an NDTP must navigate to succeed.


A promising method for the diminishing of loss upon the welding of microstructured optical fibers with suspended core is proposed. The method is based on the application of the nitrogendoped optical fiber whose thermally expanding core serves as the mode coupler. The loss related to the welding of the conven� tional fiber (Corning SMF�28 and OFS Clearlite 980) and the suspendedcore microstructured fiber (with a core diameter of about 2 µm at wavelengths of 1060, 1310, and 1550 nm) using a conventional welding device is experimentally studied. The welding loss (less than 0.5 dB) in a wide spectral range is several times less than the loss corresponding to the existing methods for the coupling of conventional and microstructures fibers.


Shoot tip and nodal segment explants from field grown plants were used as experimental materials in this investigation. All explants were cultured on MS medium supplemented with various plant growth regulators. For surface sterilization of explants, HgCl2 (0.1%) for 2 minutes was found to be most effective for complete killing of surface pathogens and getting healthy tissues. Shoot regeneration was observed from both shoot tips and nodal explants for the studied plant. Various concentrations of BAP (0.1, 0.2, 0.3mg/l) and GA3 (0.1, 0.2, 0.3mg/l) were used for shoot multiplication. In case of BAP, the highest length of shoot was recorded 4 cm and the highest percentage of shoot multiplication (73%) was noticed in MS+0.2mg/l BAP. And in case of GA3, the highest response for shoot multiplication (82%) was noticed in MS+ 0.1 mg/l GA3.But among all of the media formulations used in this experiment, the highest response for shoot multiplication (95%) within7-10 days was noticed in hormone free MS media. In case of root regeneration, the highest percentage (96%) of root induction was recorded in MS medium supplemented with no hormone.
Asian Australas. J. Biosci. Biotechnol. 2017, 2 (1), 81-88


The vehicle will generate an amount of current while the electric vehicle just starting to regeneratively brake. In order to avoid the impact of high current on the traction battery, a novel electrohydraulic hybrid electric vehicle has been proposed. The main power source is supplied by the electric drive system, and the hydraulic system performs the auxiliary drive system that fully exerts the advantages of the electric drive system and the hydraulic drive system. A proper regenerative braking control strategy is presented, and the control parameters are determined by the fuzzy optimization algorithm. The simulation analysis built the model through the united simulation of AMESim and MATLAB/Simulink. The results illustrated that the optimized control strategy can reduce battery consumption by 1.22% under NEDC-operating conditions.


Polysaccharides from natural products is one kind of important biological materials,it possesses many biological activities and health care functions,and can be used as effective components for all kinds of drugs and health products.Soybean meal can be made into different molecular weight ranges of soluble polysaccharides,oligosaccharide,and some monosaccharide through micro-biological,enzymatic,oxidative or physical degradation.Recent progresses on development of degradation method in soybean meal polysaccharide were reviewed in this paper.


Twenty nine advanced bold seeded macrosperma x microsperma derived lines of lentil alongwith check were evaluated in ten environments for six quantitative traits and data were subjected to regression analysis and also the analysis to detect the presence of crossover and non-crossover interactions. Four genotypes HPLC 8855, 8883, 8894 and 8895 were identified to be promising using regression analysis, whereas five genotypes HPLC 8829, 8887, 8888, 8892 and 8895 against standard check Vipasha were identified as potential ones by using crossover and non-crossover interactions concept. Of these genotypes, HPLC 8895 has been identified as high yielding genotype having specific adaptability and responsiveness to higher introgen regimes both by regression analysis and crossover and non-crossover interactions concept.


In order to get high efficiency of code design and convenience of software debugging,we applied unified modeling language(UML)and model-driven architecture(MDA)to the embedded system based on MSC1212.Firstly,Simulink/Stateflow toolbox in MATLAB was used to model and simulate complex event drive.Then stateflow coder was used to translate stateflow into efficient C code..By replaceing the blank C function with the low-layer function of the target system based on MSC1212t,he code of the embedded software was rapidly generated.Experimental results show that the code works well in the embedded target system.It has better performance and higher code efficiency than that generated by hand.


Abstract The mandate to deliver correctional education to incarcerated individuals emanates from the United Nation Declarations, Conventions and Standards. Consequently, numerous countries worldwide utilize correctional education as a rehabilitation programme to transform offenders into law-abiding and productive citizens upon release. But, there are still miscellaneous debates on the effectiveness of correctional education. High recidivism rates seem to be a global challenge. The assumption is that correctional education may help in reducing crime and recidivism rates. Literature suggests that correctional education changes behaviour, improves self-confidence, reduces recidivism rates and transforms offenders into law-abiding citizens on release. Convergent mixed methods design was adopted to investigate the transformative effect of correctional education. This study was conducted to former incarcerated individuals who attended correctional education programmes during incarceration period in South Africa. Questionnaires and in-depth interviews were utilized as data collection instruments. Quantitative and qualitative data were given equal status in the research field. Quantitative findings demonstrate with an overwhelming majority that correctional education transforms offenders. Qualitative findings confirm that correctional education changes behaviour, boosts self-confidence and transforms offenders into law-abiding and productive citizens. Based on these findings, this study concludes that correctional education transforms offenders since it boosts self-esteem and confidence, revives humanity, improves literacy levels, equips with skills and transforms offenders into law-abiding and productive citizens on release. This study recommends increased implementation of vocational education programmes. This aspect may help in reducing crime, recidivism rates, poverty and inequality. Equally, this study recommends international research on the effect of correctional education on recidivism rates.


BACKGROUND
Oral squamous cell carcinoma develops through a multistep of genetic mutations, and the process can be morphologically recognized as oral epithelial dysplasia. To evaluate the hypothesis that distributional alterations of proliferating and stem cells may be a useful index to estimate the grading and development of epithelial dysplasia, we examined the distribution patterns according to stratified cell layers.

METHODS
Sixty-two oral dysplasia cases according to the histological grades were immunohistologically examined and the nuclear expression of Ki-67 and p63 antigens was counted according to epithelial layers as labeling index.

RESULTS
The Ki-67 labeling index in the basal and suprabasal layers and that of p63 in the basal layer showed a significant difference between low- and high-grade groups of epithelial dysplasia.

CONCLUSION
The architectural alteration of proliferating cell and stem cell distribution in the layers of epithelial dysplasias may provide useful information to evaluate the grading of oral epithelial dysplasias.


Summary: A direct teratogenic effect of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) on the fetus has been postulated. However, there may also be a primary effect of AEDs on placenta, with secondary consequences to the fetus. Thirteen carefully medically controlled epileptic women were followed prenatally and perinatally. Placentas from all were investigated morphologically and in two with electronmicros‐copy. In nine patients, the placentas were studied with respect to insulin and insulin‐like growth factor (IGF‐I and IGF‐II) receptor activity. In this pilot study of a group of carefully medically controlled epileptic women with low levels of AEDs, the results did not differ from normal controls. The possibility of adverse effects of higher concentrations of AEDs cannot be excluded, however.


A method was presented for determination of bisphenol F(BPF), bisphenol A(BPA), bisphenol F diglycidyl ether(BFDGE) and bisphenol A diglycidyl ether(BADGE) in 3 aqueous-based food simulants (water, 4% acetic acid, 20% ethanol) by reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography(RP-HPLC)with fluorescence detection and gas chromatography with mass selective detection(GC/MSD). All the calibration lines in the range of had correlation coefficients greater than 0.9998 and detection limits of less than bisphenols/L. Precision at was under 3.1%. Recoveries of bisphenols simultaneously spiked to aqueous food simulants exceeded 95% for BPF and BPA but about 80% for BFDGE and BADGE. However, recoveris of BFDGE and BPADGE respectively spiked increased upto 95%. Detection limits in recovery test were less than bisphenols/L. In migration test bisphenols were determined by RP-HPLC coupled with confirmation by GC/MSD. Can coatings of epoxy phenol, modified epoxy, epoxy ester phenol and thermoset vinyl were exposed to the 3 aqueous food simulants. BPF, BFDGE and BADGE were not detected in all the can coatings but BPA was detected in 4% acetic acid and 20% ethanol in all the can coatings except modified epoxy.


A few months ago the problem of instability electricity supply emerge again in Indonesia especially in some cities in West Sumatra region. The generators could not feed their proper electricity supply because of the dry season and the lack of water supply. In August 14,2003 some USA's big cities like New York, Detroit, Boston, Cleveland and Toronto in Canada suffered from the longest black out in their history of electricity supply. Meanwhile buildings with PV solar electricity support still could do their function uninterrupted. In comparison, the problems of electricity supply and demand in urban/city area are bigger than similar problem in rural area. The constant increase of population and building density are some reasons of the high increase of electricity demand in cities. Sometimes the public service authority cannot fulfil this demand. The black out case in USA and Canada has proven that the use of PV solar electricity in buildings is very useful and safe. It shows also that the integration of the PV technology in buildings is already well known and dependable. It could cut the daily peak electricity demand in big cities and could function as a supporting sub system in the whole electricity supply system in these cities. This paper will discuss the use of PV system in buildings and its electricity product calculation in a very simple way to help architect. It will use some climate data for Jakarta. The calculation will illustrate the mean electricity product for Jakarta in different year seasons and the comparison of using PV electricity in some office buildings.


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Lay members of the Guideline Development Group involved in this guideline update contributed to the formulation of the recommendations summarised here. Patient organisations were among the registered stakeholders who were consulted at both scoping and development stages.

About 5% of the population of the United States and United Kingdom have stages 3-5 chronic kidney disease (CKD; estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) <60 mL/min/1.73 m2),1 2 and about 15% of these people have anaemia according to World Health Organization criteria.2 Overall more than 100 000 people in the UK have anaemia of CKD.3 Anaemia of CKD develops as renal disease progresses, and it is mainly caused by erythropoietin deficiency; other contributory factors include deficiency of iron, folate, or vitamin B12; blood loss; and infection or inflammation. This article summarises 2006 and 2011 guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) on the management of anaemia of CKD,3 4 and it also highlights key points of the 2015 update.5

NICE recommendations are based on systematic reviews of best available evidence and explicit consideration of cost effectiveness. When minimal evidence is available, recommendations are based on the Guideline Development Group's experience …


In order to realize the high precision control in the motor drive system of hybrid electric vehicle,it needs to test the rotor position and motor speed on real-time.The main sensors used for testing the rotor position and motor speed include photoelectric encoder and resolver.As a kind of position sensor,salient-rotor-variable-reluctance resolver can be widely used in many fields for its mechanical firmness and reliability.This paper mainly studies on the structure of stator and rotor,the influence of air-gap length by rotor sharp,the winding way of excitation output winding,deduces the formula of back-EMF,carries out dynamic experiment on resolver and presents the waveform of back-EMF under working status.


The present invention relates to a process for producing N-cyclohexylmaleimide (CHMI) with high yield. The first reaction of reacting maleic anhydride with cyclohexylamine in a toluene solvent to produce N-cyclohexylmaleamic acid, and isobutyl alcohol is added to the N-cyclohexylmaleamic acid to obtain N- Secondary reaction to produce cyclohexylmaleamic acid isobutyl ester and tertiary reaction of N-cyclohexylmaleamic acid isobutyl ester to produce N-cyclohexylmaleimide (CHMI) through imidization reaction According to the method of the present invention consisting of the reaction, it is possible to mass-produce CHMI in high yield.


Distinct letters x and y alternate in a word w if after deleting in w all letters but the copies of x and y we either obtain a word of the form xyxy · · · (of even or odd length) or a word of the form yxyx · · · (of even or odd length). A simple graph G = (V,E) is word-representable if there exists a word w over the alphabet V such that letters x and y alternate in w if and only if xy is an edge in E. Thus, edges of G are defined by avoiding the consecutive pattern 11 in a word representing G, that is, by avoiding xx and yy. In 2017, Jeff Remmel has introduced the notion of a k-11-representable graph for a non-negative integer k, which generalizes the notion of a word-representable graph. Under this representation, edges of G are defined by containing at most k occurrences of the consecutive pattern 11 in a word representing G. Thus, word-representable graphs are precisely 0-11-representable graphs. Our key result in this paper is showing that any graph is 2-11-representable by a concatenation of permutations, which is rather surprising taking into account that concatenation of permutations has limited power in the case of 0-11-representation. Also, we show that the class of word-representable graphs, studied intensively in the literature, is contained strictly in the class of 1-11representable graphs. Another result that we prove is the fact that the class of interval graphs is precisely the class of 1-11-representable graphs that can be represented by uniform words containing two copies of each letter. This result can be compared with the known fact that the class of circle graphs is precisely the class of 0-11-representable graphs that can be represented by uniform words containing two copies of each letter. Applied Algebra and Optimization Research Center, Department of Mathematics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Republic of Korea. email@example.com Department of Mathematical Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. email@example.com Department of Mathematical Sciences, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea. email@example.com Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom. firstname.lastname@example.com Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk State University, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia. email@example.com


Economical developments of countries depend on effective use of their natural reseources. Increase in development level, leads to provide new information on natural reseources because of making effective management strategies. Geographic information systems are one of the means in obtaining that kinds of information. These techniques, also help in use of these information for producing mapping in systematic way. Remote sensing and satellite images are also used for providing data for geographic information systems as a carthographic material. In this study, useability of remote sensing and geographic Information Systems (GIS) in land use mapping were discussed and the studies related to the subject were summarized.


An $A$-cellular space is a space built from $A$ and its suspensions, analogously to the way that $CW$-complexes are built from $S^0$ and its suspensions. The $A$-cellular approximation of a space $X$ is an $A$-cellular space $CW_{A}X$ which is closest to $X$ among all $A$-cellular spaces. The $A$-complexity of a space $X$ is an ordinal number that quantifies how difficult it is to build an $A$-cellular approximation of $X$. In this paper, we study spaces with low complexity. In particular we show that if $A$ is a sphere localized at a set of primes then the $A$-complexity of each space $X$ is at most 1.


This paper is concerned with studying the forgetting factor of the recursive least square (RLS). A new dynamic forgetting factor (DFF) for RLS algorithm is presented. The proposed DFF-RLS is compared to other methods. Better performance at convergence and tracking of noisy chirp sinusoid is achieved. The control of the forgetting factor at DFF-RLS is based on the gradient of inverse correlation matrix. Compared with the gradient of mean square error algorithm, the proposed approach provides faster tracking and smaller mean square error. In low signal-to-noise ratios, the performance of the proposed method is superior to other approaches.


Solubility products of alkaline-earth-metal fluorides and enthalpies of solution of alkaline-earth-metal chlorides have been determined in water and water–t-butyl alcohol mixtures containing up to 40 wt % of alcohol. Using the classical assumption of an equivalent change of solvation with the solvent media of tetraphenylarsonium and tetraphenylboride ions, it was, from these data and data obtained previously, possible to estimate ionic enthalpies, entropies and Gibbs free energies of transfer of alkaline-earth-metal cations from water to the mixtures. The results are discussed in terms of the structure of the water–t-butyl alcohol mixtures.


One of the main concerns of Cloud storage solutions is to offer the availability to the end user. Thus, addressing the mobility needs and device's variety has emerged as a major challenge. At first, data should be synchronized automatically and continuously when the user moves from one equipment to another. Secondly, the Cloud service should offer to the owner the possibility to share data with specific users. The paper's goal is to develop a secure framework that ensures file synchronization with high quality and minimal resource consumption. As a first step towards this goal, we propose the SyncDS protocol with its associated architecture. The synchronization protocol efficiency raises through the choice of the used networking protocol as well as the strategy of changes detection between two versions of file systems located in different devices. Our experiment results show that adopting the Hierarchical Hash Tree to detect the changes between two file systems and adopting the WebSocket protocol for the data exchanges improve the efficiency of the synchronization protocol.


Using different seismic waves, this paper analyzes the seismic energy of V-type eccentrically braced steel frames with ten-storied three-span, fifteen-storied three-span and twenty-storied three-span, and studies the influences of ground motion characteristics and structural properties on the interlayer hysteresis energy de-mand distribution and energy dissipated of each member. Studies show that the peak ground motion acceleration has significant influence on the interlayer hysteresis energy demand distribution and energy dissipation of each member. Ground motion spectral characteristics, duration and structural characteristic give less affection of the interlayer hysteresis energy demand distribution. The structural damping ratio has significant influence on the hysteresis percentage of the total input energy, but the damping ratio does not change the total dissipated energy of the structures under earthquakes.


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The present invention generally provides a method for preparing an oxynitride film on a substrate. A surface of the substrate is exposed to oxygen radicals formed by ultraviolet (UV) radiation induced dissociation of a first process gas comprising at least one molecular composition comprising oxygen to form an oxide film on the surface. The oxide film is exposed to nitrogen radicals formed by plasma induced dissociation of a second process gas comprising at least one molecular composition comprising nitrogen using plasma based on microwave irradiation via a plane antenna member having a plurality of slits to nitridate the oxide film and form the oxynitride film.


Cheek and Johnston (Journal of Mathematical Biology, 2023) consider a continuous-time Bienaym\'e-Galton-Watson tree conditioned on being alive at time $T$. They study the reproduction events along the ancestral lineage of an individual randomly sampled from all those alive at time $T$. We give a short proof of an extension of their main results to the more general case of Bellman-Harris processes. Our proof also sheds light onto the probabilistic structure of the rate of the reproduction events. A similar method will be applied to explain (i) the different ancestral reproduction bias appearing in work by Geiger (Journal of Applied Probability, 1999) and (ii) the fact that the sampling rule considered by Chauvin, Rouault and Wakolbinger (Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 1991) leads to a time homogeneous process along the ancestral lineage.


The kinematics analysis and working space simulation are carried out in order to control the jointed robot accurately for eggplant picking robot with four degree—of—freedoms.The kinematics model of eggplant picking robot is founded by means of the Denavit—Hartenberg method and the for- ward kinematics solution is completed.The inverse kinematics solution is obtained by reduced inverse transformation method according to working characteristic of the robot.The robot's working space is worked out and simulated through the Matlab software.The simulation results show that the fruit and vegetable picking arthral robot with four degree—of—freedoms meets the expectations for eggplant pick- :ng in greenhouse.The rationality of the structure and frame is validated by the picking experiment.


Let $\mathcal K$ be a complete quasivariety of completely regular universal topological algebras of continuous signature $\mathcal E$ (which means that $\mathcal K$ is closed under taking subalgebras, Cartesian products, and includes all completely regular topological $\mathcal E$-algebras algebraically isomorphic to members of $\mathcal K$). For a topological space $X$ by $F(X)$ we denote the free universal $\mathcal E$-algebra over $X$ in the class $\mathcal K$. Using some extension properties of the Hartman-Mycielski construction we prove that for a closed subspace $X$ of a metrizable (more generally, stratifiable) space $Y$ the induced homomorphism $F(X)\to F(Y)$ between the respective free universal algebras is a closed topological embedding. This generalizes one result of V.Uspenskii concerning embeddings of free topological groups.


The invention provides a linseed oil fat emulsion oral solution, a beverage and a manufacturing method thereof. The linseed oil fat emulsion oral solution is prepared by raw materials including refined linseed oil, refined lecithin, glycerol, bacteria-free pure water, antioxidant, stabilizer, pH regulator, flavoring agent, spice and the like. The manufacturing process comprises the steps that: under the protection of nitrogen, the refined linseed oil and the refined lecithin are dissolved by heating into oil phase liquid; the glycerol, the antioxidant, the stabilizer, the flavoring agent, the spice and the bacteria-free pure water are dissolved by mixing into water phase liquid, the oil phase liquid is slowly added into the intensely-stirred water phase liquid in order to form colostrum liquid by means of high-speed shearing, pH of the colostrum liquid is regulated to the range from 6.5 to 8.5 by a little pH regulator, the colostrum liquid is then emulsified by a high pressure homogenizer and filtered by a microporous membrane filter, and the linseed oil fat emulsion oral solution containing 1%-50% of linseed oil is obtained after filling, sealing, microwave sterilization and heating sterilization. The linseed oil fat emulsion oral solution is used for the field of healthy food, the linseed oil fat emulsion oral solution with 5-50% of high concentration can be used as nutritious healthcare beverage; and the linseed oil fat emulsion oral solution with 1-20% of low concentration can be used as dining and popular beverage.


Five bryozoan species were encountered in a 15-day survey of freshwater habitats in New Zealand. Listed in order of decreasing frequency these were: Fredericella sultana, Plumatella repens, P. emarginata, Paludicella articulata, and one plumatellid species not previously described. Micro- structural features of the floatoblast annulus separate the P. repens specimens into two distinct varieties, named here P. repens typica and P. repens rugosa. Paludicella, reported almost 100 years ago from the City of Dunedin waterworks, was still found only in a single reservoir of that city. Species distribution did not correlate significantly with water tempera- ture, current velocity, pH, or total dissolved solids. Two additional species believed to occur in New Zealand, Fredericella australiensis and Plumatella fungosa, were not seen in this brief survey. An iden- tification key is provided for New Zealand bryozoans.


The increase in youth violence and aggression in the past 50 years has been called an "epidemic." This epidemic has had a tremendous impact on society. From an economic and public health perspective, primary prevention of youth violence is obviously desirable.


The effect and protected countermeasures of Qincun reservoir dam construction in Zhejiang province to the fish resources were recorded. 31 species of fish,belonging to 14 families and 5 orders,of which 11 kinds were national protective aquatic resources were found .Meanwhile,70 species of food organism,belonging to 6 phylums and 4 kinds were found. The ecological types of each fish were summarized according to their biological characteristics:fish living surroundings,food type,migration and reproductive feature.And based on the reality of exploitation of reservoir,the negative influences were set forth of aforesaid biological characteristics in an ecological view.The main reasons of species-diversity serious loss were considered as separation of river,inundated spawning places and destroyed fish living surrounding caused by reservoir constraction. In order to reduce these influence and to protect fish resourses,the protective countermeasures were put forward,including establishing artificial-breeding station,conservative reserve,etc.


The effects of systematic sampling and temporal aggregation on the seasonal cycle model (see Miron, 1993) and the seasonally integrated process (see Hylleberg et al., 1990) are discussed. The temporal aggregation theory is used to improve the sequential test for monthly seasonal unit roots of Rodrigues and Franses (2003). It is shown by simulation that the monthly sequential test has better finite sample properties than the BM test (see Beaulieu and Miron, 1993). The new test is applied to monthly US Industrial Production and, contrary to the BM test, rejects the presence of any seasonal unit root.


The attapulgite clay adsorption properties for heavy mental ions are investigated.The cation exchange capacity(CEC)of the clay is 40.44 mmol/(100 g)tested by the ammonium chloride-anhydrous ethanol method.The effects of different conditions on the adsorption properties of Cr6+ are discussed.The results show that optimum conditions are as follows.Adsorption temperature is 30 ℃,adsorption time is 30 min and the pH is 7.In such condition,the attapulgite clay saturation adsorption capacities for Cr6+、Cu2+、Mn2+、Fe3+ are 48.93,32.72、10.22、4.85 mg/g,respectively.


The aim of this study was to examine the impact of the relative age on the power, speed and agility of young U13 and U14 players. The study was conducted on a sample of 60 young soccer players born in 2001 and 2002. Within both age groups, players are divided into two categories according to relative age, whether they were born in the first or second half of the year. Anthropometric measurements and measurements of motor abilities were made to assess explosive power, speed and agility using the tests: standing long jump, vertical jump, sprint at 30 meters with passing time at 10 meters, zig-zag running without a ball and Ajax test 5x10m. Statistically significant differences were found in body height and weight, as well as in tests to assess power in a sample of U13 players. In U14 group, differences were found in tests of power and running speed, while there were no statistically significant differences in anthropometric variables. According to the results obtained, it can be said that the relative age is an important factor that leads to the appearance of differences in the test results of motor skills of young U13 and U14 soccer players. Therefore, the effect of relative age must be taken into account when selecting young soccer players during adolescence.


In order to employ the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), biologically fit mosquitoes able to compete with their wild counterparts, suitable field sites for mass release of sterilized male mosquitoes, and appropriate methods of rearing genetic sex-separation (GSS) mosquito strains are required. The life history traits and biological fitness of four laboratory-reared, southern African Anopheles arabiensis strains were investigated. Despite being colonized at different times, the four strains demonstrated comparable levels of biological fitness. Three sites in the Kruger National Park were assessed as possible SIT field sites. Mosquito collections were conducted at each site during three summer months. Anopheles arabiensis was predominant at Malahlapanga during each collection period, establishing Malahlapanga as the most appropriate site for SIT field trials. A standard larval diet was shown to be appropriate for rearing An. arabiensis GSS. This work formed the laboratory basis for the evaluation of a SIT strategy for South Africa.


News exposure and opinion formation increasingly occurs through social media channels, and more specifically, alternative news has been enjoying increased popularity and readership. Alternative news sources tend to focus more on sensationalized and highly opinionated content, often with a lower regard for journalistic standards and unbiased analysis/reporting. While alternative news itself is not a new phenomenon, social networks provide a channel where information diffusion occurs rapidly, where news is difficult to tie to a source, and where the required level of journalistic quality is falling [9]. Moreover, the spread of alternative news has also been tied to the advancing of malicious agendas such as the spread of misleading of political information.


[1] Energetic particles in the solar wind are accelerated at interplanetary shock waves associated with corotating interaction regions (CIRs) and propagate in the presence of a spectrum of magnetic turbulence, which causes pitch angle scattering upstream of the shock. Besides normal diffusive transport, we study the possibility of superdiffusive transport characterized by Levy random walks. We consider the relevant propagator, which is a power law with slope 2 < μ < 3, instead of being a Gaussian, as for standard diffusion. We show that in the case of superdiffusive transport, the time profile of particles accelerated at a travelling planar shock is a power law with slope γ = μ−2, rather than an exponential decay as expected in the case of normal diffusion. We consider a data set of interplanetary shocks in the solar wind, the CIR-associated forward and reverse shocks detected by Ulysses between January 1992 and May 1993. We find that the time profiles of energetic electrons, with energies between 42 and 290 keV, correspond to power laws, with slopes γ≃ 0.60–0.98, implying superdiffusive transport. These results show that the propagation of energetic electrons in the turbulent environment of the solar wind is intermediate between ballistic (or scatter-free) and diffusive, in agreement with the results of recent numerical simulations. Our results promise to have application in models of shock particle acceleration and represent a new tool for the interpretation of the observed particle profiles throughout the heliosphere.


At present the Hartmann wavefront sensor design has not been sufficiently supported by necessary researches. The motion and structure of focal spots in the region of strong intensity fluctuations and in the presence of phase dislocations of wave function have not been adequately explored.


BACKGROUND
Arm wrestling has been recognized as a popular and potentially dangerous competition. Reports on injuries related to arm wrestling are increasing. The most important of these injuries are humeral shaft fractures. The generally accepted theory states that the shoulder joint is actively internally rotated against the opponent while the elbow is fixed in flexion resulting in enormous violent torque forces across the humeral shaft.

METHODS
The reported fracture morphology seems similar so we theorized that the basis of this fracture type is the bone structure. There is no experimental model of the arm wrestling fracture other than a virtual one. We assess morphology of the humeral bone by means of the bone cutting procedures and to verify the theory that the structure of humeral bone is a basis of the arm-wrestling fracture by means of newly developed model on human bones.

RESULTS
Results of the study suggest that the humeral shaft fracture morphology during arm wrestling is based on the spiral structure of the bone combined with the direction of the revolving, rotational force during the match.

CONCLUSION
The safety rules of the arm-wrestling match based on results of our experimental study and the literature metaanalysis are also formulate.


Sleep stage classification is one of the mostcritical steps in effective diagnosis and the treatment of sleep - related disorders. Sleep stage scoring is the first step to diagnostic of sleep disorders and it is scored by the conventional method known as thevisual sleep stage scoring based on human.The first is the new feature of EEG signal using a simple statistical technique and the results prove that the various sleep stages can be discriminated more clearly at significant levels (p<<0.05). Second, the dimension reduction is proposed based on the Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) technique that explores possible correlated multi-sources to improve the sleep stages classification at 95.42% accuracy by using random forest classification. We also propose a systemto classify the wake and sleep stages with high rates of sensitivity and specificity.The Kruskal–Wallis test is used to examine the significance ofthe features. Non-significant features are discarded. The minimal-redundancy-maximal-relevance feature selectionalgorithm is then used to eliminate redundant and irrelevantfeatures. A review has been conducted on the EEG based identification of sleep disorders with the above said techniques.The performance of our proposed system is evaluated fordifferent multi-class classification problems. The minimum overall accuracy rates obtained are 95.31% and 86.64% fornested 5-fold and subject cross-validation, respectively.


Berry et al. [1] studied the between-trial variation in the effect of vitamin E on mortality in 22 trials, concluding in the abstract that 'vitamin E intake is unlikely to affect mortality regardless of dose.' However, their discussion of the vitamin E literature is biased to such an extent that it does not provide a proper context for their paper. Berry et al. referred to Meydani et al.'s small trial with 617 participants followed up for 1 year [2], stating that this 'trial demonstrated a protective effect of vitamin E supplementation on upper respiratory tract infections for elderly residents in nursing homes' [1 p. 38]. In their ITT analysis reported in Table 3, Meydani calculated 13 P-values, one of which was significant, but very marginally so at the level of P1⁄40.048 [2]. Such a P-value in a series of 13 calculations is explained by random fluctuation and does not 'demonstrate' that vitamin E is protective. Thus, Berry did not pay attention to the multiple comparison problem in Meydani's paper. In addition, Berry et al. ignored our analysis of 21,796 ATBC Study participants followed up for 4 years, which showed no overall effect of 50 mg/day vitamin E on common cold incidence [3]. However, even though we found no overall effect, we found a statistically highly significant 28% reduction in common cold incidence in a subgroup of elderly less-smoking city dwellers [3]. This finding led us to analyze the heterogeneity more thoroughly and we found that vitamin E increased or decreased common cold risk in old participants depending on their smoking background and residential neighborhood [4]. We also found significant modification of the vitamin E effect on pneumonia risk by the age of smoking initiation [5]. The concept of heterogeneity in vitamin E effect was underscored by further analyses of the ATBC Study focused on pneumonia and tuberculosis [6–8]. Thus, strong evidence of heterogeneity in the effect of vitamin E on respiratory infections was published well before Berry's study [3–5]. Whereas those findings do not prove that the effect of vitamin E on mortality is also heterogeneous, the prior information indicates that age and smoking should be considered as potential modifying factors when examining the effects of vitamin E. The heterogeneity in the effect of vitamin E on respiratory infections motivated us to test whether the effect on mortality was also heterogeneous. We found strong evidence that the effect of vitamin E on the mortality of ATBC Study participants is modified by the combination of age and dietary vitamin C intake [9]. In 11,448 ATBC participants aged 50–62 years who had higher than median vitamin C intake, vitamin E supplementation increased all-cause mortality by 19% (95% CI: 5– 35%), whereas in 872 participants aged 66–69 years, who had higher than median vitamin C intake, vitamin E decreased mortality by 41% ( 56% to 21%). Furthermore, harm from vitamin E in the young ATBC participants was restricted to the follow-up period after 3.3 years of supplementation, so that thereafter mortality was increased by 38% (17–63%), whereas vitamin E had no effect on mortality over the earlier period. Berry reported that in their between-trial comparison 'there is little evidence that these covariates (age and followup duration) matter as regards any effect of vitamin E' [1 p. 34]. Berry's findings are based on trial-level mean ages and durations of the trials. Our withintrial analysis of the ATBC Study suggests that Berry's findings are not valid. Finally, the ATBC Study used a vitamin E dose of 50 mg/day, which is among the lowest, that have been used (Berry's Table 1). Thus, it seems that it may be primarily the subject characteristics and not the dose that determines whether vitamin E causes harm or benefit. Nevertheless, when there is difference in mortality between two vitamin E levels, it is obvious that there must be dose–dependency, which refutes Berry's conclusion. In line with the negative findings of most vitamin E trials, our study suggests that vitamin E self-supplementation by the general public should be discouraged; however, our study also indicates that further research on people over 65 years is warranted [9].


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The invention discloses a whip switching sprinkler and a switching method. The whip switching sprinkler comprises a fixing unit and a switching mechanism, wherein the fixing unit has at least two effluent functions and the switch mechanism is arranged in the fixing unit. The whip switching sprinkler further comprises an oscillating arm which can swing relative to the fixing unit, a rotating wheel which can rotate relative to the fixing unit and a water distributing plate which synchronously rotates and connects the rotating wheel, wherein the fixing unit is switched to drive the oscillating arm to swing; the oscillating arm swings to drive the rotating wheel to rotate; the rotating wheel drives the water distributing plate to rotate; and the effluent functions are switched by rotation between the water distributing plate and the fixing unit. Switching power is provided by switching and the switching power is converted into water distributing plate rotating power so as to switch the effluent functions.


We study the sensitivity of future low energy neutrino experiments to extra neutral gauge bosons, leptoquarks, and R-parity breaking interactions. We focus on future proposals to measure coherent neutrino-nuclei scattering and neutrino-electron elastic scattering. We introduce a new comparative analysis between these experiments and show that in different types of new physics it is possible to obtain competitive bounds to those of present and future collider experiments. For the cases of leptoquarks and R-parity breaking interactions we found that the expected sensitivity for most of the future low energy experimental setups is better than the current constraints.


Industrial applications are often based on dynamic measurements. The analysis of these measurements, however, is usually based on static analysis. Therefore, many National Metrology Institutes (NMIs) are developing methodologies for the analysis of time-dependent, i.e. dynamic, measurements. This article demonstrates and discusses how industrial applications can benefit from NMI-level measurement analysis and the evaluation of dynamic uncertainties.


HPA/MCM-48 was prepared by impregnation, and characterized by IR. The photocatalytic property of HPA/MCM-48 for the decolorization of water-soluble dyes (including methylene blue, methyl violet and rhodamoine B) were studied using ultraviolet lamp. The influencing factors on degradation efficiency of methyl violet such as dosage of catalyst and illumination time were studied. The optimum calalytic conditions were as follows: the concentration of water-soluble dyes for 10mg/L, amount of catalyst of 1.67g/L, and illumination time of 2h with ultraviolet radiation. Under these conditions, the degradation efficiency of HPA/MCM-48, methyl violet was better than methylene blue and rhodamoine B.


Objective To observe the effect of Tiandan Tongluo capsule in the treatment of symptomatic epilepsy after stroke.Methods 84 consecutive patients with symptomatic epilepsy after stroke as the research object,randomly divided into observation group and control group,each of 42 cases.The control group received routine treatment,the observation group on the basis of Tiandan Tongluo capsule,treatment for 12 weeks.Observation and control condition of two groups of patients with symptomatic epilepsy.Results Total effective rate in the observation group was 81.0%,the total efficiency in control group was 54.8%,the curative effect of treatment group was significantly better than the control group,the difference was statistically significant(P0.05).Conclusion Tiandan Tongluo capsule on the symptomatic epilepsy after stroke.


The aim of this presentation is twofold. The immediate inspiration for this presentation was an article published in a socio-economic journal published in the summer of 2011 presenting the findings of research funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the years 2005 to 2009 on the transformation of corporate governance regulation in the UK, Germany and the US. The presentation also (almost) coincides with the 10 year anniversary of the first German Corporate Governance Code which was presented in February 2002 and of the first Austrian Corporate Governance Code which was presented in October 2002.The presentation aims to contribute to the debate on legal transplants which analyses whether and to what extent the legal rules of one jurisdiction can be transplanted into another legal system. It is an empirically observable fact that legal transplants have occurred throughout legal history and continue to occur today. Starting with Montesquieu's famous book, L'Esprit des Lois which was first published anonymously in 1748 and has since been subject to many re-editions and translations the topic of legal transplants has continued to fuel academic interest right through to modern times.Corporate Governance Codes are a good test case for academic theories on legal transplants. This is because they are an obvious transplant. This is evidenced by terms such as the term 'corporate governance code' itself or the term 'comply or explain' both of which are used in the context of otherwise German language publications. Moreover, the succession of events starting with the adoption of the first code in the UK and then its quick spread across Europe including Austria and Germany show that a transplant has occurred. Transfers are generally believed to be easy to identify when they involve legal rules that are introduced in rapid sequence in various places.Given that the spread of codes occurred roughly 10 years ago, it seems appropriate to examine how the originally UK code was received. The presentation will focus on Austria with glances across the border to Germany. Both countries have adopted corporate governance codes. Both countries did this because they felt that they needed a code that was like the UK code. The presentation will reject that proposition that political forces are the only criterion which explains why the German and Austrian Corporate Governance Codes are different from the UK Code which both were taking inspiration from. It will show that incumbent Austrian and German legal doctrine also determines the way in which transplanted rules are understood. Before this is done I will give a short overview of what has been said so far about transplants and about the influence of politics on transplants.


In recent years, motion capture technology to measure the movement of the body has been used in many fields. Moreover, motion capture targeting multiple people is becoming necessary in multi-user virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) environments. It is desirable that motion capture requires no wearable devices to capture natural motion easily. Some systems require no wearable devices using an RGB-D camera fixed in the environment, but the user has to stay in front of the fixed the RGB-D camera. Therefore, in this research, proposed is a motion capture technique for a multi-user VR / AR environment using head mounted displays (HMDs), that does not limit the working range of the user nor require any wearable devices. In the proposed technique, an RGB-D camera is attached to each HMD and motion capture is carried out mutually. The motion capture accuracy is improved by modifying the depth image. A prototype system has been implemented to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method and motion capture accuracy has been compared with two conditions, with and without depth information correction while rotating the RGB-D camera. As a result, it was confirmed that the proposed method could decrease the number of frames with erroneous motion capture by 49% to 100% in comparison with the case without depth image conversion. CCS Concepts •Human-centered computing → Mixed / augmented reality; Virtual reality; Collaborative interaction;


The present paper deals with the results of the comparative morphology on the urohyal bones on the right-eye flounders, pleuronectidae fishes in Korean waters. The results obtained are as follows : 1. The position of the tip of sciatic part is quite different depending on the genera and species of the fishes. The sciatic part of the genera, Platichthys and Cleisthenes, is very short extending to the middle portion of the main part. In the fishes of Eopsetta and Tanakius, it is also very short extending to the anterior 1/3 of the distance from the tip of main part. The fishes of Verasper and Dexistes have a short sciatic part which extends toward the posterior 1/4 of the distance from the tip of main part. The fishes Of Limanda, Clidoderma, Glyptecephalus and Microstomus have a long sciatic part which extends as long as the main part. However, those of Kareius and Pleuronichthys have a very long sciatic part extending twice long as the main part. The tip of sciatic part of the fishes belonging to Eopsetta, Verasper, Limanda, Platichthys, Tanakius and Glyptocephalus is a truncate form. It is pointed upward in the fishes of Kareius, Pleuronichthys, Clidoderma and Microstomus, but pointed forward in Cleisthenes and Dexistes. 2. The size and form of the cardiac apophysis vary with the developmental grades of the urohyal bone. The fishes of Eopsetta, Verasper, Platichthys, Tanakius, Kareius and Dexistes possess relatively large apophyses and those of Pleuronichthys and Clidoderma have small apophyses. Intermediate size of the apophysis is found in the fishes of Limanda, Microstomus and Cleisthenes. A long and barlike apophysis is found in Glyptocephalus. Three kinds of the cardiac. apophysis are found in the fishes examined, i. e., lateral wing in Eopsette, Verasper, Limanda, Platichthys, Tanakius, Glyptocephalus, Kareius, Pleuronichthys and Clidoderma, pointed forward in Microstomus and Cleisthenes, and truncate with a well-developed inner ridge type in Dexistes. 3. The angle of the main part and sciatic part varies from 30 to 60 degrees in the fishes studied except for the fishes of Pleuronichthys, Clidoderma and Microstomus which show a semi-elliptical form.


An immunologic relation between Group A streptococcal cell wall antigen or antigens and human heart tissue has been shown with both antistreptococcal and antiheart sera (1-3). The present work demonstrates that the sera from patients with streptococcal disease may exhibit antibody to heart-related streptococcal antigen. This antibody was reactive with cross-reactive streptococcal antigen in gel diffusion plates and could be completely absorbed from serum with heart tissue but not with tissue from other organs. The antibody was also reactive with human heart by immunofluorescence and could be distinguished from other heart-reactive autoantibodies demonstrable by this technique. Antibody to heart-related streptococcal antigen was shown to occur in the sera of a number of patients with uncomplicated streptococcal infection and in the sera of the majority of patients with non-suppurative sequelae, including rheumatic fever, rheumatic heart disease, and glomerulonephritis. These data thus provide evidence for induction of autoantibody to heart by antecedent Group A streptococcal infection in man.


Historically, evangelicals held that God communicated truth through men in such a way that it could be understood and serve as a divine guide for thought and life. This objective truth was expressed in statements that were to be believed and obeyed by all people. The Bible was given in historic contexts, so some of it, though true and to be believed, was limited in its intended audience for expected obedience, in which case the Bible itself would indicate its intended audience. If people followed reasonable guidelines for getting at the meaning intended by God and expressed in the text, they could understand objective, unchanging truth. Their understanding would bear an adequate and reliable correspondence with ultimate reality. Although Scripture is infallible, one's interpretation of it is not infallible in every detail because understanding is limited by one's preunderstanding, spiritual receptivity, level of intellectual acumen, mastery of and faithful adherence to the disciplines of hermeneutics (classically de ̃ned) and the amount of hard work invested in the eˆort. Recently some evangelicals have said that the older optimism is naive and unwarranted, that we mortals could never be expected to get at the mind of God with accuracy through a written revelation. The best we can hope for is that the most learned and talented among us, at least, with great eˆort may be able to join successfully the two horizons of their own consciousness and the Biblical text and spiral upward toward closer approximations of truth, which, gratefully, we still believe exists. We are constantly reminded that the intent of the Bible authors, not to mention the intent of God, is forever out of reach because of the limitations of human language, the blinding eˆect of preunderstanding, and the cultural encapsulation of the text.


The current study purpose refers to the university extension, addressing the concepts of university, organization, knowledge andextension. We sought to answer the following question: Does the outcome that has been generated through projects on extension practices developed by ICS/UFPA actually fulfill the guidelines of the National University Extension Policy? The pursued objective consisted in a general analysisof the extension practices of the Institute of Health Sciences (ICS) at the Federal University of Para (UFPA) in the light of the National University Extension Policy (NUEP), comprehending dialogical interaction, interdisciplinary and interprofessionalism, teaching-research-extension inseparability, impact on student training, and impact and social transformation envisaged within the Policy Extension of UFPA. The research methodology comprehended a quantitative and qualitative approach supported by bibliographic and documentary supply. It was consulted the collection of various documents, given more evidence to those focused on the university extension in 2012, contained into several instances of UFPA. A number of 80 projects and 60 reports of extension of ICS were selected for analysis in the year 2012. The results revealed that the guidelines of PNEU fell far short of being reached by the ICS products, when it came to interdisciplinarity and interprofessionalism, teaching-research-extension inseparability, and impact and social transformation. Furthermore, there was little participation by teachers, students and administrative technicians of ICS in such activity. It was concluded that the extension model of ICS consists is a welfare model, developed through service provision.


Sapir-Whorf hypothesis offers a new perspective for the study of traditional Chinese political culture.The spread of "One word can make a country prosper or decay" can be viewed as a way to analyze traditional political culture.Deeply rooted in Confucius' and Mencius' understanding of language communication in human intercourse,it was the basis for political communication in ancient China.As a Chinese-style "magic bullet theory",it existed in a particular political structure and context,finding its expression in the political practice of feudal dynasties,especially in the rise and fall of power hinging on the emperor himself,strict control of information communication and enhanced superiority of the emperor and the inferiority of officials.


With the bridge construction of Chongqing G3 contract section in Chongqing-Hunan Expressway as the case,the article introduced the key technical measures of 40m T-beam transportation and erection construction under large-longitudinal large-downslope condition,providing the reference for the beam transportation and erection construction of simi-lar bridge engineering.


The objective of this study was to develop a data base and analytical model which could, in the long term, lead to a design and optimization methodology for the design of collecting surfaces for use in electrostatic particulate precipitators. Response to varying in-plane rapping intensities was measured in the in- and out-of-plane directions. The dynamic response was obtained as a function of time, location, rapper and plate configuration. These data were obtained on full scale plates. In addition, laboratory scale experiments were conducted to determine the effect of dust on surface response. The data obtained show that the dynamic response of the collecting surface is extremely complex. The stress waves generated by rapping travel at sonic velocities. These waves cause both complex in-plane and out-of-plane accelerations. The in-plane accelerations reach a maximum prior to the out-of-plane accelerations. Dust will dampen the response. Based on these findings it is evident that additional work should be undertaken to evaluate the contribution of each acceleration mode, and intensity, on dust removal and reentrainment.


Includes interviews with the following scientists: Charles Townes, Nobel Prize for invention of the maser and the laser, University of California at Berkeley Anne Foerst, Massachussetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Divinity School Arno Penzias, former Research Director at Bell Labs, New Jersey, Nobel Prize winner in 1978 Mehdi Golshani, University of Technology, Tehran Pauline Rudd, Glycobiology Institute, University of Oxford Brian Cantwell Smith, Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science, Indiana University Bruno guiderdoni, Paris Institute of Astrophysics Joel Primack, University of California at Santa Cruz Mark Pesce, co-creator of Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), Principal Engineer for Shiva Corporation John Polkinghorne, Anglican Priest, Past President of Queen's College, Cambridge, former Professor of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge John Rodwell, Professor of Plant Ecology, Lancaster University and Anglican priest Kenneth Kendler, Medical College of Virginia, Director of the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics at Virginia Commonwealth University


Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals are the manifestation of underlying electrical phenomena of heart, which are responsible for its various functionalities. ECG is used as an important non-invasive tool by the cardiologists to diagnose and assess a wide range of cardiac ailments. With advancements in wireless body area network (WBAN) technologies, significant research has been done in recent decades to develop low-cost personalized remote health monitoring systems for next-generation of e-healthcare solutions. With ever increasing number of cardiovascular patients, WBAN-enabled ECG telemonitoring has generated significant interest among the biomedical community. Ambulatory ECG enables remote monitoring of vital heart parameters and allows early medical interventions in case of lifethreatening heart diseases. However, existing ECG monitoring systems still suffer from various challenges, such as limited autonomy, bulkiness, limited functionalities, etc. In recent years, compressed sensing (CS) has emerged as a promising framework to address these challenges. Low-complex and highly energy-efficient data reduction procedure of CS makes it an attractive choice over traditional wavelet-based techniques for embedded on-node ECG data compression in resource-constrained telemonitoring applications. The main objective of the present dissertation is to explore the CS framework for multichannel ECG (MECG) signals. CS-based signal processing involves two operations: 1) CS encoding, where the data is linearly projected over a lower dimensional subspace using a sensing matrix to get the compressed measurements of the signal, 2) Signal reconstruction (decoding), where the original signal is reconstructed in a sparse domain using incomplete signal measurements. In the present thesis, there are three major contributions. First work focuses on efficient MECG signal encoding using an eigenspace CS approach. Second and third works contribute towards faithful signal reconstruction when low signal measurements are available at low data rates (or at high compression ratio).


The report describes the development and functions of the initial version of a catalytic materials properties database that the authors have named CATMAT. The CATMAT menus, data structure, screen and reporting layout, and part of the properties data were developed by Fourth Floor Databases, Inc., using the 4th Dimension database management software by ACI US, Inc. The database and compiled properties data, which are intended for use by catalytic combustion device designers, include thermomechanical properties of substrate, supporting oxides, and active catalytic materials. A user manual for this initial version is attached to this report as an appendix. The initial set of data includes some 85 materials with properties in tabular and parametric form.


Different morphologies of α+β microstructures were obtained in a commercial Ti-6Al-4V alloy by cooling at different rates from the single β-phase region into the two phase region. The effect of such morphologies on mechanical properties was studied using hot compression tests in a Gleeble thermomechanical simulator. A variety of complex morphologies could be obtained since the cooling rate has a significant influence on the β to α phase transformation and the resulting morphological development. While most of the β phase transformed to colonies of α at high cooling rates, it was possible to obtain a complex mixture of a colonies, grain boundary a and lamellar structure by decreasing the cooling rate. These complex morphologies each exhibited distinctive mechanical properties and characteristic dynamic phase transformation behaviour during deformation as a function of strain rate.


A previous analysis into the dynamic behavior of the flapper-nozzle component of an electrohydraulic servovalve was performed after linearization of the equations relating to control piston flow [1,2]. This paper reports results for first-stage gain and for dynamic behavior when linearization has not been performed. Good agreement has been achieved between results calculated from the non-linear theory presented and experimental results.


Relying on sheaf theory, we introduce the notions of projected barcodes and projected distances for multi-parameter persistence modules. Projected barcodes are defined as derived pushforward of persistence modules onto $\mathbb{R}$. Projected distances come in two flavors: the integral sheaf metrics (ISM) and the sliced convolution distances (SCD). We conduct a systematic study of the stability of projected barcodes and show that the fibered barcode is a particular instance of projected barcodes. We prove that the ISM and the SCD provide lower bounds for the convolution distance. Furthermore, we show that the $\gamma$-linear ISM and the $\gamma$-linear SCD which are projected distances tailored for $\gamma$-sheaves can be computed using TDA software dedicated to one-parameter persistence modules. Moreover, the time and memory complexity required to compute these two metrics are advantageous since our approach does not require computing nor storing an entire $n$-persistence module.


Objective To investigate the effects of fast-track-surgery program and tradition care in gastric cancer.Methods Between February 2008 to June 2008,50 cases of gastric cancer were divided into fast-track-surgery program group and tradition care group equally.Results All patients in both groups were cured.The mean hospital stay was significantly shorter,the time of restoring gastrointestinal function earlier,and average hospital cost significantly lower in fast-track-surgery program group than tradition care group(P0.05).The inflammatory factor levels in two groups were elevated,but more significantly in fast-track-surgery program group than in tradition care group(P0.05).Conclusion For the patients with gastric cancer,fast-track surgery is a safe and effective perioperative treatment program.