Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLI) is a powerful tool for in vitro and non-invasive in vivo biomolecular and cellular investigations. Fluorescence lifetime is an intrinsic characteristic of any fluorescent dye which, to some extent, does not depend on excitation intensity and signal level. However, when used in vivo with visible wavelength emitting fluorophores, FLI is complicated by (i) light scattering as well as absorption by tissues, which significantly reduces fluorescence intensity, (ii) tissue autofluorescence (AF), which decreases the signal to noise ratio and (iii) broadening of the decay signal, which can result in incorrect lifetime estimation. Here, we report the use of a large-frame time-gated single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) imager, SwissSPAD2, with a very short acquisition time (in the milliseconds range) and a wide-field microscopy format. We use the phasor approach to convert each pixel's data into its local lifetime. The phasor transformation provides a simple and fast visual method for lifetime imaging and is particularly suitable for in vivo FLI which suffers from deformation of the fluorescence decay, and makes lifetime extraction by standard fitting challenging. We show, for single dyes, that the phasor cloud distribution (of pixels) increases with decay broadening due to scattering and decreasing fluorescence intensity. Yet, as long as the fluorescence signal is higher than the tissue-like phantom AF, a distinct lifetime can still be clearly identified with an appropriate background correction. Lastly, we demonstrate the detection of few hundred thousand A459 cells expressing the fluorescent protein mCyRFP1 through highly scattering phantom layers, despite significant scattering and the presence of the phantom AF.


The purpose of this paper is to present a new generic deterministic Petri net (PN) model for the integration of flexible purchasing system (FPS), flexible manufacturing system (FMS) and flexible assembly system (FAS) using kanban system in a pull environment. In the methodology and/or approach used in this paper, firstly the basic building blocks of the system are developed. The building blocks are then combined together to get a PN model that integrates FPS, FMS and FAS. The model integrating FPS, FMS and FAS is called flexible integrated system in this paper. Integrated Network Analyser and Lingo software are used for performance evaluation of the system. The performance evaluation of the PN model is based on solution of linear programming. The throughput is bounded by the utilisation of the bottleneck station.


Exploring the antecedents and outcomes of inclusive leadership Abstract Despite extensive literature on leadership style and its impact on affective organizational commitment, few studies have explored the relationship between inclusive leadership and affective organizational commitment. To address this gap, this study aimed to examine how inclusive leadership influenced affective organizational commitment through perception of inclusion; and the moderating role of perceived organizational support. Data was collected among 240 respondents from LinkedIn platform using an online questionnaire. The study revealed the following results: a) inclusive leadership was positively related to affective organizational commitment and b) perception of inclusion mediated this relationship; c) perceived organizational support was positively related to perception of inclusion, d) there was no significant effect for perceived organizational support moderating the relationship between inclusive leadership and perception of inclusion. Practical implications for managers and organizations are discussed.


On-surface self-assembly of several types of microgels prepared via the precipitation polymerization of (N-isopropylacrylamide) (NIPAM) with N,N′-methylenebisacrylamide (MBA), acrylic acid or acrylamide as comonomers is investigated with the aim to establish the main factors that govern the formation of periodic loosely packed (PLP) two-dimensional arrays. A core–shell structure is detected for all microgels, with the thickest shells being observed for the microgels containing acrylic acid or acrylamide. The main factor driving the formation of PLP arrays and determining the microgel separation is found to be the presence of large low-density shells around the highly cross-linked cores of the microgels. This key observation of our experiments has been explained by the developed theoretical model that proves to adequately describe the experimental findings. The size of microgel dry-state "footprints" can be reduced by making use of plasma-etching. The periodic microgel arrays are used as masks for the preparation of patterns of reactive silanes with controllable separation between the patterned features. Sputtering of gold onto the periodic microgel arrays followed by washing out the microgels in ultrasonic bath is proven to be an efficient way of preparing perforated gold films with PLP holes.


A high number of whitefish, Coregonus lavaretus , from Lake Thun, Switzerland, display gonad malformations. We tested the hypothesis that exposure to sediment-borne contaminants during the embryonic life results in the development of malformed gonads later in ontogeny. The investigated contaminants were 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT), which may leak from residues in the lake sediments as consequence of former ammunition dumping into Lake Thun, as well as sulfonated naphthalene formaldehyde condensates (SNFC), which are introduced into the lake from wastewater disposals of a nearby tunnel construction site. Experimentally, whitefish eggs were exposed during 52 days from fertilization until hatching to a) an artificial sediment (control), b) an artificial sediment spiked with TNT (0.5mg·kg -1 dry weight), c) SNFC compounds dissolved in water (3µg·l -1 of each naphthalene-1-sulphonate, naphthalene-2-sulphonate, naphthalene-1,5-disulphonate, naphthalene-2,7-disulphonate), and d) sediment from Lake Thun sampled in an ammunition dumping area. To mimic in situ exposure of the eggs to the sediment-water-interface under laboratory conditions, we developed a novel contact incubation technique. After hatching, fish were reared in tap water for three years until they reached sexual maturity, and were then examined for the presence of gonad malformations. No malformations were observed in the control, in the TNT and SNFC treatment groups. In fish incubated during the embryonic stage on Lake Thun sediment, 2 out of 117 adult males (1.7%) displayed malformed gonads, which is significantly lower than levels of gonad malformations in wild whitefish from Lake Thun (on average 29% in males, 12% in females). The results from our experiment provide no evidence that sediment contamination with TNT or SNFC compounds is a causative factor for the induction of gonad malformations in Lake Thun whitefish.


Extremal combinatorics studies the maximum or minimum size of discrete structures under given constraints. For example, a classical question studied by Mantel in 1907 asks, "What is the maximum number of edges that a triangle-free graph can have?". The field enjoyed surprising growth in the last century fueled by its connection to other fields of mathematics and theoretical computer science that were later discovered. Naturally, numerous tools and methods have been developed in the course of advancement. One of the most successful tools among which is the so called probabilistic method. Probabilistic combinatorics on one hand refers to the study of this universal framework which can be potentially applied to any combinatorial problem, and on the other hand refers to the study of random objects such as the Erdős-Rényi random graph. Ramsey theory refers to a large body of results in mathematics whose underlying philosophy is captured succinctly by the statement that "Every large system contains a large well-organized subsystem." As an example, for positive integers k, define the Ramsey number R(k) as the minimum integer n in which every red, blue edge-coloring of Kn, the complete graph on n vertices, contains a red or blue monochromatic Kk. Ramsey's theorem, first proved in 1930, asserts that R(k) is finite. Surprisingly, the problem of quantitatively estimating R(k) remains as one of the central open problems in combinatorics, despite more than 80 years of endless efforts. The three fields mentioned above, extremal combinatorics, probabilistic combinatorics, and Ramsey theory are three key areas in discrete mathematics that I am interested in. They share many central questions and it is often difficult to make a clear distinction between the fields. In fact, many of the problems that I have studied lies on the boundary of these areas, which is one reason that I was attracted to them.


Nepal's political system is in rapid transition following the end of the Maoist People's War and overthrow of the King in 2006, and the subsequent formation of a Federal Democratic Republic in 2007. A radical-left coalition, led by a Maoist party in 2008, won an electoral majority (surpassing the two biggest parties that ruled the country in the post 1990 period). The conflict period animated the political agency of people in diverse localities with profound implications for state processes particularly the manner in which, and the types of institutions the central state and donors sought to engage. Such 'institutional choice' (Ribot, Chhatre, and Lankina 2008) by the state and donors significantly structured local autonomy and centralised authority. While the conflict produced pressure for decentring centralised control – coming from all directions including developmentalism and the feudal polity – the conflict was indeed more complex in terms of claims to greater autonomy at multiple scales and directions.


Objective By systemic laboratory investigation and review of literature,to establish a standardized diagnosis method for acquired hemophilia A.Methods By using clinical diagnosis,general coagulation test,APTT test with incubation correction,dilution test,Nijmegen assay,assessing FⅧAb by Bethesda method and exclusion test,5 cases were diagnosed as having acquired hemophilia A.Results All 5 cases were diagnosed as having acquired hemophilia A by this standardized procedure of diagnosis.Conclusions This standardized diagnostic procedure has practical clinical value for the diagnosis of acquired hemophilia A.


Particle organic carbon (POC) in riverine systems is a critical component in the global carbon cycle, and it could provide information on human activities in particular land use in their representative drainage areas. In present study, soil and plant in the riparian zone and algae and POC in river waters were sampled in the Jinshui River Basin. Stable carbon isotopes analysis and elemental C / N ratios measure were applied to investigate the seasonal change of concentration, sources and their contributions of POC in river. The results showed that the POC concentration in river had remarked seasonal variations in the Jinshui River, in a decrease order of summer, spring, autumn, and winter. Larger quantity of soil organic matters and plant debris were washed into the river in spring and summer due to intensive rainfalls, and higher temperature was in favor of algal growing and which could produce more endogenous POC. Additionally, the POC concentration in slightly disturbed zone (i.e., upstreams) was obviously lower than that of moderately disturbed zone and intensely disturbed zone (i.e., middle reach and downstreams). These showed that seasonal change and human disturbance such as change of land use had a great influence on the concentration of POC in the Jinshui River. Qualitative analysis using stable carbon isotope (啄C), elemental C / N ratios and the relational graph indicated that the major sources of POC in river were soil organic matter, C3 plants, and algae, and contribution from plankton and C4 plants were minimal. Ternary analysis model further revealed tempo鄄spatial variabilities of the sources and their contribution of POC in river. The results showed that the


In this paper the author sets up, estimates, and tests an explicit model of aggregate labor supply based on the intertemporal substitution hypothesis. The model is derived as the optimal decision rule of an infinitely-living household maximizing an intertemporal CES utility function over consumption and leisure. The evidence suggests that for aggregate employee hours the model is rejected, but that for the total number of employees in employment the estimates are broadly consistent with the theory. The assumed constant elasticity of substitution is estimated at around 0.2, and this estimate implies a short-run real wage and real interest rate elasticity of labor supply of the same order. Copyright 1987 by Royal Economic Society.


There were four Du Fu's poetry sentences:"the first chill outside of its emerald tiles","much moon beside the highest wisps of clouds","the early morning bell is wet beyond the clouds",and "the high wall,autumn sinks down" in the Origin of Poetry by Ye Xie(1627-1703).Four sentences were given for an example to explain where poetry is at its most perfect,its subtlety lies in a boundless reserve of the implicit and in the thought reaching what is faint an indistinct;what it refers to lies at the conjunction between the explicable and the inexplicable;the words seem to be about one thing,while the meaning lies in something else.This paper is a detailed explanation to four example sentences.


The consolidation process of dispersed powders of refractory nitrides under high pressures was studied. The sequence of stages of pressure sintering was considered. These are: the densification of a porous powder body by its compression under a pressure of 1-4 GPa without increasing temperature; the isobaric hot deformation process with increasing temperature up to the sintering temperature. The consolidation of nitride powders in compression is analyzed on the basis of consideration of the deformation process of a porous body. The results of an experimental investigation of the relationship σ mean = kσ 0 f(θ) in comparison with the theoretical one for plastic materials are shown (σ mean - mean compression stresses; θ - porosity of the powder body; σ 0 - the compression strength; k - coefficient = 2/3). The influence of pressing under high pressures on the substructure characteristics of TiN and the phase composition of Si 3 N 4 specimens has been investigated.


The author reveals the causes of the increase of the role of cello in XX century composers' works. The influence of performing art on cello and piano music evolution at the example of creative work of L. Bokcherini, B. A. Romberg, and A. F. Serve is considered.


The number of international marriages in South Korea has drastically increased since the year 2000, and among these, the proportion of couples with a Korean husband and foreign wife accounts for more than 70%. At the same time, the number of children resulting from an international marriage has also risen dramatically; this tendency is especially evident in preschool children below 6 years of age. This review article shows some of the similarities and differences between children from international marriages and those from non-international households with respect to their growth, development and language skills. (Korean J Pediatr 2009;52:417-421)


Silk fibroins are widely used in skin wound healing and tissue engineering scaffolds. This study sought to observe proteins adsorption and biocompatibility. Bradford protein assay revealed that the amount of adsorbed proteins was significantly less than that on PVA. The Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate Polyacrylamidege Electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) indicated that more proteins adsorbed onto PVA than that PSFFs. Identification of adsorbed proteins by Western blotting revealed that there was lesser amount of fibrinogen on PSFFs than on PVA. Histologic observation after 10 days PSFFs implantation in shin and muscle of rat showed that some capillaries and microvessels grew in PSFFs, PSFFs and peri- tissues were mixed with each other, many fibroblasts, myocytes and lipocytes could be observed in PSFFs due to good biocompatibility. Keywords—protein adsorption; fibrinogen; Porpous Silk Fibroin Films (PSFFs)


We first propose a novel multi-domain routing paradigm that transforms the routing problem from heuristic-algorithm-based computation to artificial-intelligence-based data analytics. Numerical results prove that our proposal can achieve excellent routing accuracy, and significant signaling reduction.


The developments in battery grid alloys are described according to these design objectives: sufficient cranking power, adequate reserve capacity, low water loss, extended service life, reasonable cost, and increased manufacturing efficiency. SLI battery grids are lead alloyed with either antimony or calcium. Lead-calcium alloys dominate usage in original and replacement equipment. This is due to the economic advantage of reduced/eliminated tin contents and the favorable effects of aluminum which acts as a composition stabilizer.


Abstract A real-time Raman mapping system for detecting and discriminating a range of industrially relevant materials such as glasses and various minerals is presented. The system is built from components that are suitable for industrial conditions. Together with a signal processing and a chemo-metric model, the system was shown to be capable of discriminating between the test materials. We argue that the approach is a novel alternative to established sorting sensors.


Prior research indicates that the influence of abilities on performance may change as a function of practice. The present research examined how learning styles influence the relationship between abilities and task performance. The styles examined were massed versus distributed practice. Two hundred nine Ss were asked to complete measures of spatial visualization and perceptual speed. They then practiced a complex skill acquisition task for 4 hr under conditions that allowed them to pace their rate of practice. Analysis of several dependent measures revealed that perceptual speed contributed to task performance for Ss who massed their practice (n = 33), whereas spatial visualization contributed to performance for Ss who distributed their practice (n = 61)


The effects of cold atmospheric-pressure plasma jet (CAPPJ) were investigated on germination and early seedling growth of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L) seeds. A two-electrode argon CAPPJ system with and without an additional grounded electrode [accelerating grounded (AG) electrode] was used at different exposure times. After 16 h of observation, the germination rates increased by 4 and 7 times, without and with using an AG electrode, respectively, for 1 min of plasma exposure. An increase in shoot fresh weight was observed, especially at 10 min exposure time. A high dry weight of root and shoot at 1 min-AG exposure time was observed. The root:shoot ratio was lower in plasma-treated seedlings, compared with the control plants. The study found that the O-radical emission line (777.4 nm) enhanced 5 times, due to the presence of an AG electrode, which increased the axial electric field and led to the formation of more streamers. The three stated effects (O-radicals, enhancement of the electric field and streamers) could be the cause for the stimulation of seed germination and seedling growth parameters when using the CAPPJ. The scanning electron microscope images showed the etching of the seed surface layers, which was more pronounced when an AG electrode was applied. The results of the current study indicate that the germination rates increased due to the increase of O-radical concentration and the etching of the seed surfaces.


In this paper, we propose a new watermarking method for images using the lifting wavelet transform. Utilizing the watermarking method, we can divide watermarked content into watermark and original content perfectly after watermark detection, and hence realize digital watermarking for multimedia contents like medical images, electric documents, computer programs, and data, etc., for which it is desired to restore original content from watermarked one


Blue mould caused by Penicillium italicum is an important and devastating storage disease of citrus fruits. Control of the pathogen is based on primarily fungicide applications. In present times, biological controlling method of storage diseases is getting more prevalent due to the hazardous effects of fungicide residues on fruits. In this study, 176 Pseudomonas fluorescens and 24 yeast isolates were obtained from healthy orange surface. From the total 200 isolates, 40 P. fluorescens and 16 yeast isolates were inhibited blue mould development on orange surface. The antagonistic effects of these isolates were tested on PDA. All the P. fluorescens isolates that prevented lesion development on orange surface, inhibited the P. italicum growth by antibiosis on PDA. On the other hand, the yeast isolates did not produce any inhibition zone, with had not having any antibiosis effect. A P. fluorescens isolate (Pf8a) which produced the widest inhibition zone and one isolate from the yeasts were selected for further studies. The yeast isolate was identified as Candida famata. The antagonistic isolates were inoculated simultaneously, after 2, 6 and 24 h and before 2, 6 and 24 h the inoculation of P. italicum. The research was conducted under the temperature conditions of 10 o C and 24 o C. The results revealed that P. fluorescens isolate gradually lost its efficiency and could not inhibit the blue mould development. The yeast, C. famata could inhibit the blue mould effectively, but it required a minimum incubation of 6h at 10 o C and a minimum incubation of 24h at 24 o C for


JMML and CMML are poor prognosis myeloproliferative/myelodysplastic overlap syndromes that pose significant therapeutic challenges to pediatric and adult oncologists, respectively. Currently, hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) is the only proven curative therapy for both. Still, HSCT cures only ;50% of patients with JMML, and it is not a viable option for the majority of CMML patients, given their advanced age and comorbitities. A paucity of experimental systems that fully recapitulate features of these diseases represents a substantial barrier to the development of novel therapies. Xenograft models of human acute leukemias that use ever-improving strains of immunocompromised mice have allowed for seminal investigations, including the identification and characterization of leukemia stem cells and preclinical testing of novel therapies. However, xenograft models for nonacute leukemias have lagged behind, owing to inefficient engraftment in most of the immunodeficient murine strains used thus far. In their article, Yoshimi et al demonstrated the great capacity of human CMML and JMML samples to engraft immunocompromised mice with transgenic expression of human stem


Objective To discuss the outcomes of anterior cruciate ligament(ACL) reconstruction(ACLR) using the individualized in-situ double-bundle techniques by arthroscopy.Methods Preoperative MRI and 3D-CT scan were performed to obtain individual data of ligament foorprint.During the operation,the ACL insertions on the femoral condyles and tibial plateau,and the width of femoral intercondyle notch(WFIN) were precisely measured.ACL footprint over 14 mm and width of intercondylar fossa over 12 mm were taken as the inclusion criteria.82 patients,52 male,30 female,mean age of 25.2 years,were selected to perform the double bundle ACLR procedure.All patients were followed up for 15 months in average.KT2000,Lysholm and IKDC Score,Lachman and Pivot Shift exams were adopted pre-and post-operatively.Statistical analysis was performed by SPSS software,version 15.0.ResultsAccording to pre-operative MRI and CT scan,the shape of lateral femoral condyle had three kinds:Quadrilateral,intermediate shape,triangle.Among them,the quadrangle condyle is most suitable for double bundle ACLR,triangle condyle need intraoperative careful measurement,and the ACL insertion site had two kinds of arrangement on femoral and tibia sides:straight and oblique.The pre-and intra-operative measurements of ACL footprint length were totally matched in 65 cases.The pre-and intra-operative WFIN were totally matched in 71 cases.The post-operative 3D-CT showed bone tunnels on both femoral and tibial sides were accordant with preoperative design in every case.Lysholm and IKDC scores showed good results.Lysholm scores increased from(49.3±9.2) to(93.7±8.0),and IKDC scores became normal in 77 cases(94%).77 cases showed no rotation or anterior-posterior instability.Four cases showed 3-4 mm anterior-posterior displacement in KT2000 test;one case failed and needed revision.All cases were satisfactory in the final results.Conclusions Comparing to healthy knee,the shapes of lateral femoral condyle,the ACL insertion site arrangement on femoral and the tibial sides may have important value in pre-operative evaluation,but the final decision of performing double-bundle ACLR should better be made during the operation.The individualized arthroscopic in-situ double-bundle ACL anatomical reconstruction can maximally restore the rotation stability of knee.


Interaction between aeolian and fluvial systems occurs widely on the surface of the Earth and plays an important role in the development of arid landforms. The most distinctive characteristics of dryland geomorphology by this interaction is that rivers are associated with deserts. Increasingly, more researchers have focused their study on the combination of desert and river landforms in arid zone. But such research are often limited to qualitative description of local areas and there have been fewer detailed examinations at a relatively large scale.Based on the principles of landscape ecology and with the help of GIS techniques as well as using landscape diversity and isolation indices, this article analyzes the characteristics of the spatial patterns of different landscape types of deserts and rivers in 12 deserts(sandy lands) within 10 watersheds in northern China, using the Hotan River as an example for the western regions and the Xiliao River for the eastern regions. The results show that on the whole, at the scale of watershed and sandy land, the landscape structure in the interior regions is much more complicated than that in the exterior regions, while its fragmentation degree is lower. Landscape structure is similar in the exterior regions. In the interior regions, however, landscape indices vary: from the west to the east, landscape diversity decreases, while landscape fragmentation degree increases gradually. At the scale of channel and sand dune, in the buffer zone, the structure of the dune landscape is comparatively more complicated in the Hotan River than the Xiliao River, but the fragmentation degree is lower. Landscape fragmentation is inversely related to the distance from the river course, that is, fragmentation degree decreases with increasing distance from channels, while richness increases with this distance. In terms of dune types, sand dunes in the Xiliao River basin are mainly fixed and semi-fixed, while in the Hotan River Basin, complex mobile dunes dominate. The proportion of the area of the main dune type decreases as their distance from the river increases. The fragmentation degree of different landscape types decreases as their distance from the river increases, but the main type of dune landscape becomes increasingly complicated further from the river course. Aeolian landform is a product of long-term interactions of various agents including water and wind, reflecting landscape heterogeneity at different scales. At the watershed/desert scale, climate, topography, vegetation, and hydrology dominate the formation of landscape patterns, while at the cannel/dune scale, the role of cannel patterns and directions of wind and water are more prominent. In future study, vector index should be introduced to make possible comprehensive analysis of the river corridor effect on desert distribution and to reveal the mechanisms and driving forces of river and desert landscape pattern formation in arid environments.


Sheaf-like and layered CeO2 with micro/nanocomposite structure were synthesized by a simple and friendly hydrothermal method and used in lean methane combustion. The relationship between the CeO2 s...


This essay takes the position that American society and its police would benefit from a robust system of university-based police education. This is not a new idea but rather an old one never realized. Unfortunately, though we were on a path toward developing just such an enterprise 50 years ago, along came criminal justice, the monster that ate police education.


Numerical simulation is strongly bound with high performance computing. Programming scientificsoftwares requires at the same time good knowledge on the mathematical numerical models and alsoon the techniques to make them efficient on today's computers. Indeed, these last twenty years, wehave experienced the rising of multi-level parallel architectures. The work in this thesis dissertation ismultidisciplinary by designing a reusable parallel numerical library for solving Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellmanequations. Such equations are involved in various fields such as in biomedical, geophysics or robotics. Inparticular, we will show interests in path planning and shape from shading applications. We show thatthe methods to solve these equations such as the widely used fast marching method, are not designedto be used effciently in a parallel context. We propose a buffered fast iterative method which givesan interesting parallel scalability. This dissertation takes interest in the challenge to find compromisesbetween abstraction, performance and maintainability in order to combine both software reusability andalso sequential/parallel reusability. We propose code abstraction allowing algorithmic and data genericitywhile trying to keep a maintainable and performant code potentially parallelizable


This study focused on the design of teaching that include learning context of
learners, characteristics of learners, and learning tasks given to learners. Thirdly it
has an important role in the design of teaching that will be done by teacher in the
classroom. Learning context related to alternative teaching model that will be used
which has been adapted to the curriculum and the subject of the subject matter so
that the learning objectives to be achieved can be in harmony. Characteristics of
learners are traced in this study include personality tendencies, hemispheric
dominance, and learning styles. The last is the planning aspect of learning tasks for
learners. This section has a position as one measure of the success of teaching at the
same important information that will be used as a teaching evaluation. Teachers are
required to design learning tasks that will accommodate all aspects evaluated, such
as student achievement related to the objectives of the curriculum and subject matter,
the achievement of students with respect to alternative models used, the achievement
of students with the characteristics of the development itself. Learning model used is
the STAD cooperative learning. In this study presented the results of the design of
teaching relating to learning context of learners, characteristics of learners, and the
learning task that has been done in SMAN 1 Manyar, Gresik, includes the step of
observation, planning, implementation and evaluation.


control may enable safe anticoagulant treatment to continue by reducing the dose of the oral anticoagulant for the duration of the new treatment (for example, in an influenza epidemic where prophylactic antibiotics must be given to bronchitics). If bleeding does complicate treatment with oral anticoagulants doctors may be unaware of how to deal with the problem. Vitamin K (fat soluble) given intravenously in a dose of 5-10 mg will reverse the effect of this form of anticoagulant treatment in three to eight hours, but both the delay and the rebound resistance to further treatment can be substantial problems: the resistance may persist for up to two weeks. An alternative-which can stop severe bleeding quickly-is to raise the concentrations of the affected coagulation factors by fresh-frozen plasma or factors II, IX, and X concentrate (obtainable commercially or through regional transfusion service centres). A A SHARP


The constant rise in energy prices leads to an increase in the cost of thermal energy, which is used in heat supply systems for industrial and residential premises. Therefore, improving the accuracy of measuring the heat supplied to consumers is an urgent task. Instrumental metering of heat energy requires regular measurement of the temperature of the coolant in the pipelines of the heat supply system. There is an opinion that all the problems of measuring temperature when accounting for thermal energy have been solved. However, this is not the case. The analysis shows that the systematic component of the error in measuring the temperature and the temperature difference between the supply and return pipelines, especially in conditions of small values of the difference, makes a significant contribution to the instrumental error of accounting for thermal energy. The article discusses solutions to minimize these errors in temperature measurement, taking into account the consumption of thermal energy. Keywords: temperature measurements; measurement error; thermal energy; thermodynamics; metrology.


Niger (Guuizotia abyssinica Cass.) is one of the important minor oilseed crops of India. In World, niger is grown over an area of about 1.74 m ha with a production and productivity of 0.58 m t and 388 kg ha -1 respectively (Anon., 2017). India is considered to be the chief niger producing country in the world grown over an area of about 3.9 lakh ha with respect to area, production and productivity of 0.99 lakh tonnes and 333 kg/ha and it ranks first with respect to area, production and productivity. In India, it contributes to about 2% of total edible oil production (Hansons et al., 2002). In Karnataka, niger is cultivated over an area of about 14000 ha with a production and productivity of 5000 tonnes and 357 kg/ha, respectively (Anon., 2017). Generally niger is being cultivated under rainfed situations both as sole and inter crop. Being a minor Kharif oil seed crop, it is grown under lower or poor management practices leading to lower crop productivity.


The study aimed to investigate the effect of a wisdom-based training program on the development of wisdom of gifted students in the secondary level in the kingdom of Bahrain. In order to achieve this objective, the researchers answered  this question: "Is there a valid positive impact for the implementation of a wisdom-based training program in the development of gifted students' wisdom skills in the secondary level in the kingdom of Bahrain? The sample of the study consisted of (24) gifted students from the secondary level divided equally into two groups: experimental group and control group. The wisdom tool  was applied in the pre-test and post-test processes on the two groups, whereas the wisdom-based training program was applied on the members of the experimental group only over (22)  training sessions in the second term of the academic year (2014/2015). After the statistical analysis, the results revealed statistically significant differences in the post-test levels of reflective and dialogic dimension skills between the experimental and control groups, in favor of the experimental group. This indicates the effect of the experimental program in the development of wisdom skills on gifted students.
Keywords: Giftedness, Wisdom, Secondary level.


Tractor trailer is a useful equipment used in agriculture field for carrying heavy goods. To connect trailer to the tractor flexibly, a knuckle joint is used which consist of forks and a pin, a fork is attached to tractor rigidly and another fork is attached to the trailer by a pin. During acceleration of tractor, force acting on the joint is tensile and during deceleration it is compressive. Force acting over the joint is calculated by considering Newton's Second Law of motion. At the time of carrying heavy weights, due to its fluctuation a pin is subjected to high stresses. As the pin is a flexible element which can easily be replaced, it is considered separately for the analysis and finite element analysis is done on it.


Tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) prevented an increase in the formation of 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) in calf thymus DNA by the peroxynitrite (ONOO-) or Fe2+ + hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) system. But, the addition of BH4 to the Cu2+ + ascorbic acid (AsA) system caused a very large increase in base damage. Without the addition of AsA (in the presence of Cu2+ alone), BH4 could also induce 8-OHdG formation. Experiments utilizing the Cu+ chelator bathocuproine, catalase and superoxide dismutase revealed that Cu+ and H2O2 intermediates relate to Cu2+ + BH4-induced 8-OHdG formation. Electron spin resonance experiments also showed that the hydroxyl radical is not a major intermediate. These results suggest that although BH4 is known to prevent oxidative damage in proteins and lipids, it has the potential to cause oxidative DNA damage depending on the existence of copper ions.


Rapid quenched (RQ) palladium‐based borocarbides with large fractions of the superconducting phase (Tc≳20 K) have been obtained. Superconductivity is found to exist only in the RQ state. Thus, while the as cast YPd2B2C is nonsuperconducting, the RQ material superconducts and has an x‐ray diffraction (XRD)‐pattern characteristic of a face‐centered cubic fcc lattice with a lattice parameter of 4.15 A. A sequential annealing study shows decay of the superconducting phase above 750 °C which correlates well with the reduction in the integral intensities of the XRD fcc peaks. A tentative phase diagram for superconductivity in the Y–Pd–B–C systems is presented.


This paper deals with the characteristics of Pecorino Carmasciano cheese, a traditional product of specific areas in the province of Avellino (Italy). Particular attention was paid to production technologies and microbiological quality of the raw milk and of the cheese during ripening. Cheesemaking occurs in small rooms, which are normally used for different purposes. In spite of the absence of modern technologies, the microbiological quality of the product resulted very good. Undesired microflora resulted absent since the first phases of the cheesemaking. Lactic acid bacteria were present with high counts during the whole process and were represented essentially by mesophilic species. The microbial groups of hygienic interest showed values which constantly decreased during the ripening and were no more detectable after 90 days.


The paper presents a multi-sensor wireless intelligent transportation system in reduced scale as a platform for advanced technology integration, dependability and reliability analysis, real time monitoring... Following the design and specification stages, based on functional analysis, a multi-sensor system is proposed and a redundancy introduced on purpose for safety reasons. Besides, a central control system is developed and a supervisor introduced as a friendly tool for wireless monitoring via a Bluetooth communication network. Finally, different routing scenarios are proposed and managed via a smart HMI and control strategies tested thanks to fuzzy controllers.


A constant gastric pH-value greater than 5 is decisive in drug therapy and prophylaxis of relapse after gastroduodenal ulcer bleeding. The optimal adjustment of therapy can be controlled by gastric long-time pH-metry. The method is demonstrated by representative case histories of children.


DNA mismatch repair detects and removes mismatches from DNA reducing the error rate of DNA replication a 100-1000 fold. The MutS protein is one of the key players that scans for mismatches and coordinates the repair cascade. During this, MutS undergoes multiple conformational changes that initiate the subsequent steps, in response to ATP binding, hydrolysis, and release. How ATP induces the different conformations in MutS is not well understood. Here we present four cryo-EM structures of Escherichia coli MutS at sequential stages of the ATP hydrolysis cycle. These structures reveal how ATP binding and hydrolysis induces a closing and opening of the MutS dimer, respectively. Additional biophysical analysis furthermore explains how DNA binding modulates the ATPase cycle by preventing hydrolysis during scanning and mismatch binding, while preventing ADP release in the sliding clamp state. Nucleotide release is achieved when MutS encounters single stranded DNA that is produced during the removal of the daughter strand. This way, the combination of the ATP binding and hydrolysis and its modulation by DNA enable MutS to adopt different conformations needed to coordinate the sequential steps of the mismatch repair cascade.


Hypoxic cell sensitizers, particle therapy, hyperthermia, and combinations of chemotherapy and radiotherapy have potential to increase the therapeutic ratio in future clinical radiotherapy treatment regimens. The biologic bases of these investigations are beginning to appear as avenues of clinical investigation.


To the centenary of Mikhail Vladimirovich Kozlyaninov – Russian scientist, initiator and head of hydro-optical research at the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.


We call a photonic crystal tunable if its spectrum can be altered by an external electric or magnetic field. One of the two constitutive components of the proposed periodic composite structure has either electric permittivity or magnetic permeability dependent on the external electric or magnetic field. Consequently, the electromagnetic spectrum of the photonic crystal can be altered over a wide range by the external quasistationary uniform field. The tunable photonic crystal exhibits some useful features reminiscent of those accompanying the well-known electronic topological phase transitions in metals. Thorough theoretical analysis of a two-dimensional tetragonal periodical structure is undertaken. This specific periodic structure exhibits the most important features of a tunable photonic crystal.


The function of data structures in a variety of computing contexts, such as web development, video games, computer graphics, artificial intelligence, and operating systems, is examined in this study. For the functionality and usability of software programmes, data structures are necessary for effectively organising and manipulating data. The study examines the various data structures employed in each industry and how they support effective algorithms for certain tasks. For instance, web browsers store and manage web page data using linked lists, hash tables, and trees, whereas video games handle game characters and objects using arrays, linked lists, and graphs. The significance of knowing the proper data structures for certain applications is also covered in this paper as a way to streamline software development. This study seeks to offer insightful understandings into the relevance of data structures and their applications in software development by examining the use of data structures in various computing domains.


Trends in Nitrogen and Sulphur deposition were modelled over the South African Highveld using the integrated Gaussian puff modeling system CALPUFF. Modelled S deposition correlated with previous measurements for the central Highveld. Annual total S deposition rates were predicted to exceed 3 kg/hayear over much of the Highveld, with a peak of over 35 kg/ha-year over the central Highveld and a lower peak (20 kg/ha-year) over the southern Vaal Triangle. Dry and wet deposition rates were found to vary independently resulting in significant spatial and temporal variations in ratios of dry to wet deposition. The contribution of dry S deposition was predicted to decrease from over 40% in the northwest parts of the Highveld to less than 10% in south eastern parts. Peak dry deposition contributions were simulated to occur near low level SOx sources (>60%). Wet S deposition was projected to dominate in the vicinity of high stacks. Predicted N deposition rates were lower than measured rates due in part to gaseous ammonia deposition not having been accounted for in the modelling. Improved N deposition estimates could be achieved through the inventory and modelling of ammonia releases.


Background: Myocardial ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury is one of the pre-eminent causes of death. Prevention of I/R injury in diabetic patients is full of ups and downs. This study has investigated the effect of co-administration of alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) preconditioning and ischemic-postconditioning (Post) on myocardial injury and fibrosis in type-II diabetic rats suffering from I/R injury. Methods: Chronic diabetes was induced by a high-fat supplemented diet and low-dose streptozotocin within 3 months. Diabetic rats received ALA (100 mg/kg/d, orally) for 5 weeks before I/R induction. The myocardium underwent 35 minutes of ischemia through left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery ligation and 60 minutes of reperfusion. Post was consisted of six cycles of 10/10 seconds algorithm and applied in the early stage of reperfusion. The release of creatine kinase (CK) as the injury enzyme was measured with ELISA. The protein expression of fibrosis markers was evaluated with western blotting and tissue fibrosis was scored through Masson's trichrome staining. Results: Post alone had no considerable effect on cardiac injury marker CK, while ALA had somehow a positive impact. However, the application of Post in ALA-pretreated rats significantly reduced the injury marker in comparison with the untreated I/R group. In addition, this combination therapy decreased Smad3 and transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) expression and improved tissue fibrosis as compared with the untreated group. Conclusion: Combination of ALA pretreatment and Post evoked a cardio-protective effect by improving myocardial injury and attenuating fibrosis induced by diabetes. This combined treatment can be recommended as a useful strategy to restore cardio-protection in hearts with diabetic comorbidity.


The upgrade of the ESRF storage ring and the advent of the Extremely Brilliant Source has paved the way to fourth generation storage rings for hard X-ray experiments. As part of the upgrade the ESRF has initiated the design and the construction of four new flagship beamlines that are designed to fully exploit the characteristics of the new source. The project EBSL8 aims to the construction of a new beamline entirely dedicated to room temperature serial crystallography. The new beamline is built on the ID29 straight session, and replaces the previous MAD beamlines that has served the macromolecular crystallography user community for almost twenty years.


Surgery remains the first choice in patients with progressive urinary symptoms. Medical therapy--with antiandrogens, 5 alpha-reductase inhibitors, or alpha-adrenergic antagonists--may be useful in selected cases.


is the linear operator, e is a small parameter, and a(x) = (ai j(x)) is symmetric and satisfies α|ξ|2 ≤ ξiai jξ j ≤ β|ξ|2, for all ξ ∈ R2 and with 0 2). We assume that Ω = (0,1)× (0,1) ∈ R2. Corollary 2. The variational problem of (1) is to seek ue ∈ H1 0 (Ω) such that a(ue,v) = f (v), ∀v ∈ H1 0 (Ω), (2)


Nonlinear interactions of dipolar and dipole-exchange spin waves with microwave magnetic field of parametric electromagnetic pumping were studied experimentally in thin permalloy (Py) films. It was demonstrated that parametric pumping in Py films leads to efficient amplification of the ``trace'' of quasistanding spin waves created due to the two-magnon scattering by the input signal pulse of long-wavelength dipolar spin waves and, then, to suppression of the amplified signal due to the parametric excitation of short-wavelength exchange-dominated spin waves. It was, also, shown that nonlinear interactions of spin waves in Py films can be used for the development of microwave signal processing devices and for the measurement of relaxation characteristics of different spin-wave groups.


We present three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of buoyant gas in a typical cluster environment. The hot matter was injected continuously into a small region off-set from the cluster centre. In agreement with previous analytic estimates we found that the bubbles evolve very differently depending on their luminosity. Using tracer particles we computed radio maps of the bubbles based on different assumptions about the magnetic field. In the radio band the bubbles closely resemble FRI sources. For the bubbles to be detectable for long enough to account for FRI sources, we found that reacceleration has to take place. The bubbles are generally difficult to detect, both, in the radio and in the X-ray band. Thus it is possible to hide a significant amount of energy in the form of bubbles in clusters. Finally, we compute the efficiency of the bubbles to stir the ICM and find that recurrent low-power sources may be fairly effective in mixing the inner cluster region.


Cryptogenic epilepsy is a group of epilepsy syndromes where aetiology is unknown but an underlying brain disease is suspected. Increased seropositivity for Toxocara and Toxoplasma gondii have been observed in epileptic patients with sparse data about their seropositivity in cryptogenic epileptic patients. Therefore, we investigated the probable relationship between seropositivity against T. gondii and Toxocara with cryptogenic epilepsy. We examined patients who had cryptogenic epilepsy and healthy non epileptic controls for seropositivity for Toxocara and T. gondii antibodies by ELISA. Out of 132 cryptogenic epileptic patients, 80 (60.6 %) and 64 (48.5%) were seropositive for T. gondii and Toxocara immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies respectively. The seropositivity in the control group was 26 (43.3%) and 28 (46.7%) for T. gondii and Toxocara IgG respectively. We found a significant association between chronic T. gondii infection and cryptogenic epilepsy while the association between Toxocara infection and cryptogenic epilepsy was insignificant. Our findings indicate that toxoplasmosis may be a cause of cryptogenic epilepsy. We recommended both promoting health education to prevent such infection and screening children for toxoplasmosis which would help early treatment and so decreasing the incidence of epilepsy.


high rate packet data standard, also known as IS-856, is a next generation solution to high-speed wireless internet access. The IS-856 air interface incorporates several advanced techniques such as adaptive modulation and coding, turbo codes and incremental redundancy, Hybrid-ARQ, fast channel feedback information and multiuser diversity just to name a few. In this paper, we present an overview of the reverse link characteristics and its performance. In particular, we evaluate the capacity of the reverse link in both a single cell and multi-cell, 3-sectored networks. Analytical expressions are derived to include the effect of practical antenna patterns on the reuse factor, f. Also, a novel approach to model sector load is considered in order to account for the effects of high data rate transmissions.


Gas hydrates are acquainted as a significant topic to the oil and gas flow assurance, as it creates pipelines occlusions. The formation of gas hydrates can create many functional issues such as: stop of production, high preservation expenditures, environmental dangers and even loss of human beings. In this work five different amino acids such as: leucine, methionine, phenylalanine, glycine and asparagine examined if they work as kinetic inhibitors on mixture gas hydrate formation. The outcomes indicated that phenylalanine, asparagine and glycine (phenylalanine>asparagine>glycine) behaved as inhibitors following the rank from most powerful to less one while leucine and methionine behaved as promoters (leucine>methionine) for both hydrate formation and induction time.


Diabetes is one of the most devastating diseases and affects many people. Diabetes can be caused by a variety of causes, including ageing, obesity, inactivity, genetics, a poor diet, high blood pressure, and others. Diabetes increases the likelihood of developing several illnesses, including heart disease, renal disease, stroke, eye problems, nerve damage, etc. The information needed to diagnose diabetes is currently gathered through a variety of tests used in hospitals, and the diagnosis is then used to determine the best course of treatment. The healthcare sector has a considerable application for machine learning (ML). Databases in the healthcare sector are very vast. Big datasets can be examined using ML techniques to find hidden information and patterns, allowing one to learn from the data and predict outcomes properly. Using the existing methods, the forecast's accuracy is not very good. In this study, we proposed an early diabetes prediction model that incorporates several extrinsic characteristics that contribute to the development of diabetes together with more widely used measures like polyuria, weight loss, polyphagia, visual blurring, alopecia, obesity, etc. The Support Vector Machine (SVM), the Logistic Regression (LOR), the Boosted Tree (BOT), and the Bagged Tree (BAT) are four different classifiers that are utilized in this paper to predict diabetes early on. The device's performance is assessed in terms of accuracy, recall, specificity, precision, and f-measure. Results show that among the classifiers, BAT has the highest accuracy, at 98%.


Abstract The present paper is concerned with the influence of TETD concentration and of zinc oxide content upon the kinetics of the vulcanization of natural rubber and Perbunan 2818 with TETD. The following results were obtained for vulcanization at 120° C. 1. The velocity constants of TETD decrease and ZnDEDC formation are linear functions of the zinc oxide content at constant TETD concentrations. 2. If TETD and zinc oxide are present in constant molar mixing ratios, then the velocity constant of TETD decrease is independent of the amount of the mixture while that of ZnDEDC formation rises linearly with zinc oxide addition. 3. The velocity constant of TETD decrease diminishes with increasing TETD concentration when the zinc oxide content of the mixture is held constant. Under these conditions the velocity constant of ZnDEDC formation remains unchanged. 4. Everything shows that the velocity constant of ZnDEDC formation depends only on the zinc oxide content of the mixture while that of TETD decrease is de...


We present a study of triple-cavity 1-dimensional (1D) photonic crystal structures embedded in silicon photonic wire (PhC/PhW). Three cavity resonance wavelengths were observed. Structures with a greater number of resonance wavelengths would result from increasing the number of coupled cavities. The structure was designed to operate at fibre telecommunication wavelengths where all the resonance wavelengths fall in the C and L band regions. Factors that define the performance of the device such as wavelength selectivity, resonance quality factor and transmission magnitude can be controlled by precise definition and simulation of the photonic crystal micro-cavity. The accuracy of the prediction of the resonance wavelengths was evaluated in both simulation and experiment, with good agreement between them. This approach is promising for exploitation in photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) applications, providing a possible solution for smaller footprint devices.


D iscovery services are changing the way library users find and access library materials, especially electronic resources. These search tools are also impacting information literacy instruction for users at all skill levels. The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries in Hattiesburg adopted Ex Libris's Primo discovery service during the summer of 2014. Primo has now been a prominent feature on our website's homepage for almost a full semester and has impacted the way we teach information literacy to our students. As the reference librarian for Health Sciences, I will describe my experience incorporating Primo into our library instruction for both first-year experience and lowerclassmen as well as higher-level courses and how the two approaches differ. I will also describe the biggest challenges our reference services department has encountered when showing our students how to use Primo and how these issues have impacted instruction and our promotion of interlibrary loan. Finally, whenever possible, I will tie in our experiences to the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education in an effort to demonstrate how learning and literacy standards can be helpful scaffolds during technological transitions.


A newly designed low power spacecraft multichannel analyzer (16 to 256 energy channels) has been developed with the capability of servicing a multidetector array of solid state particle detectors. Various system configurations are presented based on the requirements of a specific detector array concept. The multidetector-multichannel analyzer features controllable energy and time resolution, eleven bit data compression, compactness (13 × 20 cm PC card), and analog display outputs of formatted and accumulated data for CRT display and microprocessor interface. Also featured is the ability of the system to automatically accommodate detector noise level fluctuations (e. g. light, temperature, leakage, amplifier gain, etc.) among individual sensors. Additional parallel processing concepts permit accurate energy coincident logic, fault tolerant redundancy and multiple energetic particle mass analysis.


Abstract This article explores recent, radical developments in the ways in which new music is programmed and presented. It is contextualised by a brief survey of new music programming across the history of public concert-giving, and by several new interviews with industry professionals in the UK. These illustrate various rationales behind current practice including the dissatisfaction with traditional modes of concert-giving where appropriate. They also inform the author's conviction that different branches of new music benefit from different forms of presentation, acknowledging the importance of innovative forms to certain new styles.


Surface-morphological information obtainable from RHEED intensity and its oscillation is studied based on multiple scattering calculations. The surface atomic density and the surface step density are used as the measure of surface morphology. RHEED intensity variations from growing surfaces produced by a Monte Carlo simulation are calculated by using large unit mesh surfaces. The homoepitaxial growth on Si(100) is taken as an example. The results show that RHEED intensity varies primarily as a function of surface atomic density at a low glancing angle as long as the surface island is not so large (less than 20 atomic units). RHEED intensity variations as a function of the surface step density are calculated from surfaces with different surface step density but the same atomic density. It turns out that the dominance of the information between the surface atomic density and the surface step density can be changed by choosing the diffraction condition of the incident beam.


This paper examines firm relocation in the aftermath of the 2007 global economic crisis. In particular, the paper analyzes the unprecedented recent increase in movement of small and medium enterprises from Greece to Bulgaria using original insights by a survey of 103 Greek companies in Bulgaria. The findings suggest a reconsideration of the existing literature on firm mobility in order to explain the post-crisis movement of Greek SMEs. Entrepreneurs perceived firm relocation as a necessity while, contrary to existing literature, labor cost does not appear to have significantly influenced firm exit from Greece, the level of demand was highlighted more important compared with literature findings and access to external finance emerged as a major factor. Important among elements that attracted businesspeople to Bulgaria were low taxation and geographical proximity to Greece. The present analysis thus challenges the significance of firm relocation determinants in the literature.


U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS (75) Inventor: W. M.J. Tielemans, Maaseik (BE) 3,277,892 A * 10/1966 Tepper ....................... 128/860 (73) Assignee: TNV Research and Development (NL) 4,901,737 A 2/1990 Toone ........................ 128/848 5,915,385 A 6/1999 Hakimi ....................... 128/848 (*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this 5,938.436 A * 8/1999 Shevel ....................... 128/860 patent is extended or adjusted under 35 U.S.C. 154(b) by O dayS. c: cited by examiner


AIM : To investigate the expression of NF-κB and IκB in rats with adriamycin nephropathy and the intervention of Dahuangzhechong Wan. METHODS : The rats were injected with 5 mg/kg adriamycin solution from vena caudalis,then the rats were divided into two groups randomly: Adriamycin nephropathy group(n=30) and Dahuangzhechong Wan(DHZCW) group(n=15),and the other 8 rats were selected as the control group.On the 7th day,the 14th day,4 rats from the model group were sacrificed,the renal tissue was reserved for detection.On the 28th day,the rats were all put to death.The changes of the renal tissue ultrastructure were observed.Immunofluorescence,immunohistochemistry and quantitive analysis were used to detect the expression of NF-κB and IκB-α. RESULTS :Compared with the control rats,the expression of NF-κB in model group increased markedly[(2.491 ± 0.551)×10 6],accompanying with the down-regulation of IκB-α[(0.947 ± 0.631)×10 6],and the podocyte was injuried.DHZCW could suppress the expression of NF-κB[(1.165 ± 0.374)×10 6 ],lessen the podocyte lesion. CONCLUSION : DHZCW has the protection effect on podocyte by influencing the expression of NF-κB and IκB.


Based on the analysis of VHF meteor burst channel specialty in extremely low SNR communication mode and using the principle of iterative signal processing, the iterative carrier synchronization and compensation method is proposed for extremely low data rate communication mode applying M -arry orthogonal spread spectrum code. By compensating the long spread spectrum code with the residual frequency offset, the correlation peak is increased, and the corresponding performance of receiver is improved significantly. Both theory analysis and computer simulations show that the proposed method is effective.


"I dressed his wound, and God healed it!" modestly exclaimed Ambrose Pare, and his trite saying contains a truth too often forgotten in theory, and overlooked in practice. No remedy cures. The utmost we are able to do for any disease is to remove, as far as possible the cause, and allow natural forces to carry on the various processes of repair, and the rational treatment of diphtheria whether situate in the fauces, nose, larynx or trachea should include surgical cleanliness as far as it can be attained. Primarily, we must have correct hygiene; secondarily, nourishment, and lastly, drugs. The selection of a well ventilated room, isolation of the patient, absolute confinement in bed, fresh air and sunshine, the toilet, frequent changes of linen, immediate destruction of soiled cloths, thorough disinfection of the fauces, nose, throat and mouth, should not give place in any stage to internal treatment. Few facts


Parking spots for people with disabilities help to create an environment that is accessible to everyone. Abusing these parking spots by parking when you don't have a disability or when you don't have a valid accessible parking permit prevents persons with disabilities from accessing resources, which is both unlawful and immoral. Through the use of a mobile application, this project allows authorized users to secure a parking place. To determine if the reserved vehicle has parked or not, this system employs RFID readers that can help recognizing the disabled vehicle. Each handicapped parking area has an IR sensor to detect the presence of a car. To warn non-disabled drivers who try to park in places reserved for the disabled, this system also uses an alarm system. The goal of this research is to make clear how various of the smart parking approaches under investigation may be utilized to administer parking for handicapped individuals and improved by validating disability parking authorization.


Background: Pubertyandchangesresultingfromitareoneof themostimportanteventsof everybody'slife. Mothersplayacentral role in raising the level of knowledge, managing family health and improving hygienic behaviors of their daughters. Objectives: The current study aimed to compare the effects of educating mothers and their daughters on the knowledge and practices toward puberty hygiene in adolescent girls in Tabriz, Iran, 2014. Patients and Methods: This randomized controlled trial was conducted on 364 adolescent students of 12 randomly selected high schoolswhohadexperiencedmenstruation. Thestudentswerefirstmatchedbythepracticescorestheyreceivedinthepretestand thendividedrandomlyandequallyintothreegroups: educatingthemothers,educatingthegirls,andthenon-interventiongroup. The questionnaires regarding knowledge and practices in the pre- and post-intervention stages (with an interval of two months betweenthem)werecompleted. Thegenerallinearmodel, inwhichthebaselinevalueswerecontrolled, wasemployedtocompare the scores of the three groups after the intervention. Results: Therewerenosignificantdifferencesbetweenthethreegroupsconcerningthescoresreceivedonknowledgeandpractice prior to the intervention (P > 0.05). After the intervention, by controlling the scores received before the intervention, the mean score on knowledge in the two groupsof educating the mothers (adjusted difference: 0.7; confidence interval(CI) 95%: 0.0 - 1.3) and educatingthegirls(0.8; 0.2-1.5)weresignificantlyhighercomparedtothoseof thecontrolgroup. Withrespecttoimprovementin the scores received on practice, no significant differences were found between the three groups. Conclusions: Results of the current study indicate that it is possible to use the method of educating the mothers and transferring knowledgefromthemtotheirdaughtersasasubstitutefordirecteducationof thegirlsinordertoraisethelevelof theirknowledge on puberty hygiene.


Throughout this work, N, R, w and w denote the sets of positive integers, real numbers, single real sequences and double real sequences, respectively. First of all, let us recall preliminary definitions and notations. A double sequence on a normed linear space X is a function x from N× N into X and briefly denoted by x = (xkl). If for every ε > 0 there exists nε ∈ N such that ‖xkl − a‖X < ε whenever k, l > nε then a double sequence (xkl) is said to be converges (in terms of Pringsheim) to a ∈ X [16]. A double series ∑∞ k,l=1 xkl is convergent if and only if its sequence of partial sums (snm) is convergent (see [2],[3]), where snm = ∑n k=1 ∑m l=1 xkl for all m,n ∈ N. Let X be a linear space. A function p : X → R is called paranorm, if i) p(0) = 0, ii) p(x) ≥ 0 for all x ∈ X, iii) p(−x) = p(x) for all x ∈ X, iv) p(x+ y) ≤ p(x) + p(y) for all x, y ∈ X, v) if (λn) is a sequence of scalars with λn → λ as n → ∞ and (xn) is a sequence of vectors with p (xn − x) → 0 as n → ∞, then p (λnxn − λx) → 0 as n → ∞ (continuity of scalars multiplication). A paranorm p for which p(x) = 0 implies x = 0 is called total [12]. An Orlicz function is a function M : [0,∞) → [0,∞) which is continuous, nondecreasing and convex with M (0) = 0, M (x) > 0 for x > 0 and M (x) → ∞ as x → ∞. An Orlicz function M can always be represented in the following integral form:


This paper addresses the question of the convergence of transitions to adulthood in 20 European countries using data from the third round of the European Social Survey (2006). Pathways are derived from five events – employment, leaving-home, union formation, marriage and childbearing – retrospectively observed for men and women over 35 years old (N = 26,351), over four birth cohorts and described with optimal matching and cluster analyses. Using correspondence analysis, we find a convergence between male and female patterns in the passage to adulthood in Northern and Western Europe. Despite some convergence, the transition to adulthood in European countries remains marked by their historical family systems.


Improved mold manifold and hot runner nozzle using thin film elements include at least one active or passive thin film element disposed along a melt channel between the manifold inlet and the hot runner nozzle. Preferably, the thin film element may comprise a thin film heater in direct contact with the molten resin and position to aid in the heat and flow management of the resin within the melt channel. Thin film temperature sensors, pressure sensors, and leak detectors may also be provided in the vicinity of the melt channel to enhance process control in the injection molding machine.


In 1967, Paris hosted a grand Exposition Universelle. Exhibited in this fanfare were goods from all over the world, technological marvels, and France's best artists. The Exposition was a chance for France to prove its cultural hegemony. For, at that moment, it was struggling to prove its status as a global power. Napoleon III had conquered Mexico in 1864, establishing the Austrian Archduke Maximilian as the country's Emperor. Maximilian was essentially a puppet of the French empire, however, and his disposability quickly became clear as the European occupation weakened at the hands of the Mexican revolutionary Benito Juarez. Napoleon III, realizing the vulnerability of his troops, withdrew and abandoned Maximilian. At the Exposition's prize giving ceremony, Napoleon III received the news of his empire's failure. Juarez had captured Maximilian along with two loyal Mexican military generals, and had publically executed them. As the weeks following the event went by, various accounts and photographs of the execution began to trickle into France's periodicals, feeding the populace's outraged imagination. Manet's Execution of Maximilian attempts to perform many of the same functions as these photographs. The canvas is a curious hybrid of the traditional and the modern. Manet's Execution of Maximilian is essentially a history painting that attempts to carry the journalistic burden of the photograph.


Bernard Herrmann's music for Hitchcock's Psycho plays a crucial role in implementing the relentless move towards mayhem and madness which is characteristic of this film, as well as in creating distorted reflections between sanity and madness. In this article, I claim that the former aspect is expressed by a gradual move from tonal towards "mistuned" and then atonal harmonic objects, while the distorted mirror relationship is suggested by a number of subtle correspondences (both similarities and differences) between cues associated with Marionand cues associated with Norman. My analysis rests on both intratextual and intertextual factors. While I reveal the former through a close analysis of the film score in relation to the narrative, I discuss the latter in terms of Herrmann's general approach to film music, the conventions of horror film scoring, and the special linkage between modernist music and madness in concert music, opera and cinema.


With the help of field-flow fractionation, photon correlation spectroscopy, and electron spin resonance techniques, as well as more conventional labeling approaches, we have accomplished the analytical characterization of the adsorption complexes formed between, on the one hand, a series of selected triblock polymeric surfactants with comparable lengths of their central poly(propylene oxide) (PPO) block but with varying poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) block lengths, and on the other a series of differently sized polystyrene colloids. For a given surfactant, it was found that both surface concentrations and adlayer thicknesses are strongly related to the particle size, such that smaller particles take up fewer polymer molecules per unit area than the larger ones


GaAs 200-gate and 500-gate arrays operating at up to 4 Gb/s have been successfully developed using 0.5- mu m WSi-gate MESFET technology. The arrays had emitter coupled logic (ECL)-compatible interfaces and -2/-3.5-V or -2/-4.5-V power supply voltage and were composed of mask-programmable four-input NOR gates, implemented with a one-diode BFL circuit. The unloaded delay times were 35 ps/gate for the 200-gate arrays and 44 ps/gate for the 500-gate arrays. The maximum operating speeds of the test circuits were 4.6 Gb/s for a 4 bit 2-to-1 multiplexer (MUX), more than 5 Gb/s for a 4-bit 1-to-2 demultiplexer (DEMUX), and 3.6 Gb/s for a 4-to-1 MUX. ECL level compatibilities were successfully obtained at up to 4 Gb/s.<<ETX>>


A brief history of the development and use of shotcrete to the current name as the New Austrian Tunnelling Method is presented along with some advantages of using this method, the need for good ground condition analyses and people willing to accept responsibility.


Fractures of distal radius including colles' fracture are common and account for one sixth of all fractures in adult. Achievement of good realignment of the fracture is essential from a functional and cosmetic point of view. The modalities for treatment of this treatment are varied and much confusion is present as regards appropriate treatment of various fracture types. This study aimed to compare functional and radiological outcome of percutaneous pinning procedure with traditional cast immobilization in patient with displaced colles' fracture. This is prospective study was carried out from October 2013 to October 2014. Forty cases of displaced colles' fracture were studied. Their age was 20 to 70 years, they were divided into two groups 20 cases were treated by closed reduction with percutaneous k-wire fixation and other 20 cases were treated by closed reduction with conventional POP casting. The results were evaluated and compared both clinically and radiologically. Patients treated with percutaneous K-wiring had statistically significant improvement both functionally (p value=0.032) and radiologically (p value=0.019) compared with conventional casting group. In group of closed reduction and Kwire fixation, functional evaluation was done according to Gartland and Werley scoring system showed excellent results in 4 patients (20%), good result in 10 (50%), fair results in 5 (25%) patients and poor result only in 1 patient (5%). The anatomical evaluation using Sarmiento's Criteria showed excellent results in 3 patients (15%), good results in 10 (50%), and fair results in 7 (35%) patients and there was no patient with poor result (0%). While in group of closed reduction and casting, functional evaluation showed excellent results in 1 patient (5%), good results in 4 (20%), fair results in 13(65%) patients and poor result in 2 patients (10%) and anatomical evaluation showed excellent results in 1 patient (5%), good results in 3 (15%), and fair results in 14 (70%) patients and poor results in 2 patients (10%). In conclusion, closed reduction with percutaneous k-wire fixation of displaced colles' fracture is a minimally invasive technique which provides extra stability in the treatment of displaced colles' fracture with good clinical and radiological outcome. Conservative treatment is to be considered in elderly patients and where resources of implants and radiological control are limited. Introduction D istal radial fractures account for up to 20% of all fractures treated in emergency department. It is the most common of all fractures in older people. The aim is to obtain anatomical reduction and maintain the reduction with appropriate means of immobilization. Treatment options include closed treatment, stable fractures can be successfully treated with closed reduction and immobilization, initially with a back slab followed by a cast, and weekly radiographic evaluation for 3 weeks. Significant changes in radial length, palmar tilt, or radial inclination should prompt consideration of operative treatment. In infirm and low demand patients, closed treatment often is appropriate even with factors that are indications for operative treatment in more active patients. Percutaneous pinning after closed reduction is useful for distal radial fractures with metaphyseal instability or simpler intra-articular displacement. An anatomical reduction must be obtained first, and then stability is provided by the Kirschner wires. Percutaneous pinning tends to work better when placed in subchondral bone where bone quality and density usually are


After a visit to Beijing last year, Nandan Nilekani, the CEO of Infosys India's flagship information technology company wrote about the awe with which he watched the 3,000-year-old city prepare for the 2008 summer Olympics its "assignment with the future," as he called it. The entire population of 14 million appeared to be at work preparing the city for its "debut on the global stage." Nilekani returned home to Bangalore's "quaint provincial airport with [its] sleepy officials." He drove past the "lonely girders of a half-built flyover overdue by years" that had the quality of an abandoned ghost town. Trying to console himself that India has at least built a functioning democracy, he wondered why building "an eight-lane avenue with bicycle lanes" should be so much more difficult.1 Infrastructure-envy is a recurrent theme in contemporary Indian accounts of China. Anyone would be struck by the speed at which massive new construction is changing the face of China. It is estimated that in the closing years of the 1990s, there were around "23,000 building sites and some 20 per cent of the world's cranes" in Shanghai.2 Construction of highways and expressways had transformed the landscape of Europe, North America, and Japan earlier in the last century. Many in China and India feel it is their turn now. Functional utility alone does not explain this desire. While better infrastructure would certainly make Indian manufacturing more competitive, "glittering skyscrapers and modern highways" did not precede China's extraordinary growth. Economic liberalization and institutional re-


A multimedia composition.
Twenty-nine short preludes for piano, video and soundscape.
'Glimpse' is a new multi-media artwork incorporating live music, projected video, and soundscape created by filmmaker Dan Inglis and composer Dr. Jeremy Mayall. This innovative new piece combining experimental film concepts and contemporary art music blurs the line between conventional cinema and pure concert music.
The work is a suite of 29 individual but intertwined audio-visual vignettes. Film footage appropriated from The British Council (British Council New Zealand) Film Collection of short documentaries is reedited, reimagined, and recontextualised by Inglis and paired with original piano preludes and soundscapes by Mayall creating a wholly new performance work where the music informs the image, and the image informs the music.
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Objective To investigate the therapeutic effect of intracerebral transplantation of mesenchymal stem cells(MSCs) derived from human umbilical cord blood(UCB) on hypoxic-ischemic brain damage(HIBD) in neonatal rat.Methods Twenty samples of human UCB were collected from healthy full-term newborns.MSCs were isolated from human UCB by density gradient centrifugation and purified by adhere cell selection method.For transplantation,P3 human UCB-derived MSCs were labeled by the 5-bromo-2-deoxyuridine (BrdU).Thirty SD rats of 7 d were built for neonatal HIBD model.One rat died and others were divided into transplant group(n=18) and control group(n=11).At the third day after building models,human UCB-derived MSCs were injected into left cortex in transplant group,while PBS of the same volume was injected into the same site in control group at the same time.The seventh day after transplantation,6 rats of transplant group were sacrificed to prepare brain tissue sections.The survival,migration and differentiation of the transplanted cells were investigated by brain tissue immunohistochemical analysis,and nervous function of 2 groups were evaluated by modified neurological severity score(mNSS) on the first,7th,14th,21th and 28th day after transplantation.Results MSCs were isolated from 5 of 20 human UCB samples.Immunocytochemical analysis of brain tissue showed that the transplanted human UCB-derived MSCs could survive and migrate around by the center of transplant site.There were (12.67±2.73)% of MSCs differentiated into astrocyte-like cells.mNSS showed that the score of transplant group was lower than that of control group on the first,7th,14th,21th and 28th day,and the differences of score points between 2 groups on the 14th,21th and 28thday were statistically significant(Pa0.05).Conclusion It is effective for the transplantation of human UCB-derived MSCs to treat neonatal rat HIBD.


This article describes an apparatus (400) and for monitoring the treatment of glaucoma, the apparatus comprises a combination of the intraocular pressure (IOP) sensor and glaucoma drainage device. Device (400) comprises a sensor mounted within the IOP porous biocompatible material (430) is formed a flow path (410) and an inductive antenna (420). IOP sensor (410) is mounted in the tail of the device (400) (450) and can be mounted in the anterior chamber of the eye. Tail portion (450) is positioned at a suitable location into the anterior chamber via the tail portion (450) of the neck (460) connected to the helical antenna receiving (420) a body portion (440) tail. Due to the size of the tail, receiving IOP sensor (410) of the tail portion (450) can be easily inserted into the anterior chamber, wherein the helical antenna receiving (420) a body portion (440) located outside the sclera anterior sub-space to disperse the aqueous humor. By inductive coupling between the link antenna (420) with an external device to obtain readings from the detector device (400).


As defined by Fray Angelico Chavez, genizaro was the designation given to North American Indians of mixed tribal derivation living among the Hispanic population in Spanish fashion: that is, having Spanish surnames from their masters, Christian names through baptism, speaking a simple form of Spanish, and living together or sprinkled among the Hispanic towns and ranchos.1 Beginning in the 18th century, genizaro settlements were established by the Spanish to provide defensible communities on the frontier of New Spain. The strategic planning of these new towns was vital to the ability of the Spanish to sustain a presence in New Mexico during the early 1700s due to increased attacks by nomadic tribes such as the Navajo, Ute, Comanche, Apache, and Kiowa. Due to the immense pressure on the colony caused by these attacks, the settlement policy established by Governor Tomas Velez Gachupin, and continued by his successors, was to establish genizaro settlements at the fringe of the frontier to serve as a buffer zone between the nomadic tribes and the villas (principal settlements) of Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque as well as many of the Pueblo communities.2 The permanence of these communities would alter the cultural landscape of New Mexico as well as blur the lines of distinction between European Spanish and Amerindian settlements in New Mexico. From the 1740s to the 1790s, towns such as Abiquiu, Las Trampas, San Miguel del Vado, Belen, Ojo Caliente, and San Miguel de Carnue were established as genizaro buffer settlements.3 During this period,


Aim of the study was to assess the magnitude and reason for encounter (RFE) of the patients with oral health problems (OHPs) among 3 different primary care clinics. Methods: A uniform structured format and open-ended questions were used to collect data from the patients with OHPs who attended at primary care clinic of International, Islamic University, Balok public clinic and private polyclinic Ar Razi in Kuantan, Malaysia between 1st April and 31st July 2012. A cross analysis was done between types of clinic and magnitude of the OHPs.Results: Minimal and maximum number of OHPs per 1000 patients per month in the University clinic, the Balok government clinic and the private poly clinic were 9.36 to 17.9, 10.81 to 25.7 and 4.2 to 14.8 respectively. Night call OHPs cases were only seen at the private poly clinic. The most OHPs were toothache and mouth pain (38%), mouth ulcer (30%), gingivitis (15.6 %), and co-morbidity with medical diseases (4%) respectively. Reasons for consulting OHPs at primary care clinics were non-specific answers same as RFE (56%), easily accessible to services (17%), familiar with general practitioners/family physicians (6.5%), getting emergency treatment for pain release (5%) and co-morbidity with medical diseases (1.3%). Conclusion: This study highlighted that OHPs is one of the RFEs in primary care clinic and need proper training for primary care physicians to provide quality services particularly for common and emergency OHPs in coordinating with oral health practitioners.


In years 1984 to 1989 the geodetic bearing of pipelines was realized by regional geodetic entreprises in coperation with entreprises of CPP (Czech Gas Entreprises) with the aim to create unified map and geodetic documentation (unified evidence) of pipelines. For processing and archiving of acquired data computers have been used. Originally it was computer SM 4-20 with GAPPLY software, after year 1989 also personal computers with software product LINDA, which has been utilized for maintenance unified pipelines evidences.


A short-term test method to measure the effective heat capacitance of a building is presented. The effective heat capacitance is defined in terms of the indoor temperature response to sinusoidal eat input; i.e., in terms of the thermal admittance. This definition is shown to yield a useful and measurable quantity, which can be related to a capacitance in a thermal circuit. A signal enhancement principle is introduced that allows accurate and repeatable measurements. the method is illustrated with data from a single family residence as well as a test cell. When additional mass was introduced into the test cell in the form of water containers, there was a well-determined change in admittance that agreed with expected change. Among the applications of this method are (1) diagnostics (measured versus calculated heat capacitance), and (2) a measurement-based characterization of heat capacitance effects of furnishings, for use in simulations.


Keyphruses: (i) the role of rigorous software specification and design with the Vienna Development Method within the SA / SD traject of software development, (ii) extension of VDM-SL, (the VDM Specification Language) by means of a object otiozted structuring mechanism, together with stream oriented properties, to enable stream and object oriented specification. Relation to Workshop Topics of Interest: the research addresses a specific role for formal methods in large-scale software development and the (mechanized) support for this role for formal methods in particular.


Several works regarding facial recognition have dealt with methods which identify isolated characteristics of the face or with templates which encompass several regions of it. In this paper a new technique which approaches the problem holistically dispensing with the need to identify geometrical characteristics or regions of the face is introduced. The characterization of a face is achieved by randomly sampling selected attributes of the pixels of its image. From this information we construct a set of data, which correspond to the values of low frequencies, gradient, entropy and another several characteristics of pixel of the image. Generating a set of "p" variables. The multivariate data set with different polynomials minimizing the data fitness error in the minimax sense


Global poverty has roots like a tree whereas education is one factor which stands out. Lack of access to education passes poverty from one generation to another while education possesses secret ingredients to achieve economic stability in livelihoods. This paper aims to examine the impact of China Pakistan-economic corridor (CPEC) on education and poverty in Pakistan, it also provides a clearer and more nuanced picture of extreme poverty and highly stratified education system in tandem. The policies in Pakistan have other foci rather than on betterment of education and eradication of poverty matters. The study used the quantitative approach using self-administered questionnaires. Nine demographic questions have also been included in the second section of the study questionnaire. Instruments of the study were validated by factor analysis. The study included the data collected from 800 respondents in Hazara division, KPK, Pakistan. All the relationships were tested using correlation and structure equation modelling (SEM). The SEM indicated multiple confirmations like, CPEC being a new economic model can usher Pakistan's education foothold and poverty alleviation to new paradigm of evolution.


We describe singularities of the convex hull of a generic compact smooth hypersurface in four-dimensional affine space up to diffeomorphism. It turns out that the boundary of the convex hull is the front of a Legendre variety. Its singularities are classified up to contact diffeomorphism.


Objective:To establish a RP-HPLC method for determining the plasma concentration of nonoxynol-9 and to apply the method in studying the pharmacokinetics of nonoxynol-9 in healthy female rabbits.Methods:A single dose of nonoxynol-9(64 mg to each animal) was given to 6 healthy female rabbits(weighing 2.0-2.2 kg) via vagina.The plasma samples were collected and the concentrations of nonoxynol-9 were determined by RP-HPLC method using DiamonsilTM ODS column(200 mm×4.6 mm,5 μm) and mobile phase of methanol-water(955) at a flow rate of 1.0 ml/min.The excitation and emission wavelengths were 226 nm and 300 nm,respectively.The column temperature was 30℃.The pharmacokinetic parameters were calculated.Results:The calibration curve of nonoxynol-9 showed good linearity over the range of 0.05-5.00 μg/ml;both the intra-and inter-day precisions were lower than 10%.The recovery rates at three concentrations(0.10,0.50,and 2.00 μg/ml) were(101.67±8.12)%,(100.84±5.42)%,and(100.29±3.81)%,respectively.The main pharmacokinetic parameters of nonoxynol-9 were as following:t1/2(3.75±0.87) h,tmax(3.2±0.4) h,Cmax(2.75±0.32) μg/ml,AUC0-12(12.72±2.14) μg·h·ml-1,AUC0-∞(15.05±2.84)μg·h·ml-1,and MRT(6.85±1.13) h.Conclusion:The established method is convenient,sensitive and specific,and can be used for determination of plasma nonoxynol-9 concentration and for its pharmacokinetic studies in rabbits.


The present invention relates to a non-blood glucose measurement correction method and apparatus, to a method which corrects the glucose measurement signal from the image image of the white light reflected from the skin. In the present invention, there is provided a method and apparatus for extracting blood to measure blood glucose a fundamentally correct blood glucose signal. This is generated by the white light filtered by irradiating the white light to the skin by using a white light source, the step of filtering by the white light reflected from the skin to a first wavelength filter and a second wavelength filter, the first wavelength filter determining, based on the image of the image capture a first signal comprising a glucose signal and a pulse signal, first on the basis of the image of the image generated by the white light filtered by a second wavelength filter to obtain a second signal including a pulse signal step, may be by subtracting the second signal from the first signal comprise the steps of calculating the blood glucose level in the subcutaneous blood vessels based on the blood glucose signal phase, and the obtained signal to obtain the blood sugar. According to the disclosed non-blood glucose measurement correction method and apparatus, it can be extracted in a way that is fundamentally a blood glucose signal in real time.


Cridetinator" was built with an objective to serve the society by creatingawareness about ongoing crimes through an investigation and visualizations about crime from past records. Accordingly, with the assistance ofprogressive expertise, various devices are being used/installed for thesecurity resolve in public as well as private places to provide surveillance system activities. Out of those commonly used is CCTV camera's,the footage of which is very helpful to recognize suspects on scene.This system can sense and diagnose face inevitably as per the criminalrecord. In such scenario this system is helpful to successfully enforcethe law or aid any organization to perceive or diagnose the suspect.As of accuracy, the results show that about 80% of input photo canbe matched with the template data. This system is executed using theskills available in the Open- Computer-Vision (Open CV) library andmethodology with Python. For face detection, Haar- Cascades and facedetection libraries were used. As per security standards of this system.Only authorized user can retrieve the essential information, because toaccess the information, the administrator ID and password is required


The invention discloses an internal operation image real-time monitoring system for high-voltage electric apparatus, which mainly comprises a high-voltage apparatus, an optical cable hub, an industrial computer, a computer server and a computer terminal, wherein the inner wall of the cavity of the high-voltage apparatus is provided with a monitoring point; the monitoring point mainly comprises a high-resolution optical-fiber lens, an infrared optical-fiber lens, an ultraviolet optical-fiber lens, an optical-fiber lamp and an optical-fiber sensor; the monitoring point is provided with a high-voltage insulating optical cable and an afflux optical cable hub; an optical cable outlet sleeve is arranged behind the optical cable hub; and the high-voltage insulating optical cable is led out of thehigh-voltage apparatus through the optical cable outlet sleeve and connected with the computer server of the main control room of a transforming plant through the industrial computer. The system canmonitor data information in an apparatus in real time, such as electrical quantities and the like, and has the advantages of high precision, strong disturbance resisting capacity and high response speed. When apparatus abnormalities and faults happen, the system can provide detailed information before and after the abnormality or fault, which is helpful to analyze the accident and make the corresponding measures, and enhance the operation level and the power supply reliability of the electric apparatus.


The study of local politics has been relegated to the periphery of political science and many explanations have been offered for the marginalization of the subfield. I offer three related arguments for why scholars should revisit the study of sub-state politics. First, the local level is the source of numerous political outcomes that matter because they represent a large proportion of political events in the United States. Secondly, there are methodological advantages to studying local politics. Finally, analyzing politics at the sub-state level can generate thoroughly different kinds of questions than a purely national-level focus and can offer different answers to questions that apply more generally. Research on local politics can and should contribute to broader debates in political science and ensure that we understand both how and why cities are unique.


Remote healthcare monitoring and Point of Care (PoC) based systems are widely used for managing diagnostic information of patients. These systems introduce many threats such as privacy, security data integrity, reliability, accuracy, etc. issues. In this paper, a new technique is introduced for solving the problem of privacy and security issues. In proposed method, ECG steganography technique using Discrete Wavelet Transforms (DWT) is implemented. This method is based on encryption and decryption techniques. Encryption method is used to hide the patient information inside the ECG signal by using scrambling matrix and shared key and produces the watermarked ECG signal. Decryption method is used to extract the patient secret information from the ECG signal by using same shared key and scrambling matrix. For evaluating the diagnosability, Percentage Residual Difference (PRD) and extracted PRD measurements are analyzed. From the results, table are calculated that there is no difference between PRD of original ECG and extracted ECG so watermarked ECG is also used for diagnosis purpose. In this paper, Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) of normal PRD and extracted PRD are calculated using different wavelets and we have concluded that sym20 wavelet gives better response from the results than any other wavelet.


Applications built in a strongly decoupled, event-based interaction style have many commendable characteristics, including ease of dynamic configuration, accommodation of platform heterogeneity, and ease of distribution over a network. It is not always easy, however, to humanly grasp the dynamic behavior of such applications, since many threads are active and events are asynchronously (and profusely) transmitted. This paper presents a novel, complete approach that aids in the understanding, debugging, and visualization of the behaviors of event-based applications. It applies to real, implemented systems, without requiring the presence of component source code, and supports partial or incomplete, heuristic behavior specifications. A prototype implementation of our approach was applied to two systems, including the prototype itself, indicating that our approach is feasible, scalable, and shows promising results in terms of increasing the understandability of these types of systems.


Summary This paper discusses the finding of a case study concerning the service quality of a Software as a Service (SaaS) application. It was found that while the service level agreement could help guarantee the level of service promised, the service customer would resort to a reactive approach rather than a proactive approach in terms of monitoring the service delivered. In addition, trust and a partnership relationship between the service customer and the service provider are also critical in maintaining the service quality.