: This work is an attempt to provide a product similar to rice in shape and eating characteristics to reduce the rise in prices. As a result of reducing the cultivated area of rice due to the high water needs and the conditions of water poverty that many countries of the world suffer from in the presence of new climate changes. By using different cheap carbohydrate sources (broken rice fraction powder BRFP, broken pasta fraction powder BPFP, maize flour MF, white sweet potato puree WSPP and defatted soybeans flour DSF ) in different 6 blends . using the thermal extrusion technology. The fortification was made with defatted soy flour in the alternative rice mixtures in relative to the control sample (white rice).The chemical composition of the alternative rice mixtures were studied and it was noted that protein, fat, fiber and ash were higher in the alternative rice mixtures compared to control, where it were (7.3%, 0.8%, 0.6% and 1%) respectively in control, while, it reached in(B1-B6) values were (13.3%, 1.3%, 2% and 1.9%) respectively in B3. Physical properties of each tested samples were studied, the thousand-grain weights increased from 16.4 g in the control to 18g identified in sample B3, and the percentage of amylose increased from 19% in the control to 23.3% identified in sample B3 while other samples were same trend. Cooking properties, increase weight%, water absorption%, volume increase% and cooking loss% were also studied, B1 and B2 were similar to the control in all cooking properties but rest of the samples decreases in cooking properties with increasing in cooking loss (TSS).


Objective:To explore the characteristics of urinary ability injury in patients with stress urinary incontinence after hysterectomy from the point of urodynamics.Methods:84 cases diagnosed as stress urinary incontinence clinically received urodynamic examination,including 15 cases of stress urinary incontinence after hysterectomy (surgery group) and 69 cases without history of pelvic operation (non-surgery group),the urodynamic parameters of the two groups were compared.Results:The abdominal leak point pressure (ALPP) in surgery group was significantly lower than that in non-surgery group (P0.01); but there was no significant difference in rate of abnormal bladder function,maximum urethral closure pressure (MUCP) and functional urethral length (FUL) between the two groups.Conclusion:The changes of urinary ability in patients with stress urinary incontinence after hysterectomy under quiescent condition are not obvious,while the stress urinary ability decreases.


The field galaxy contamination of galaxy quintets in Hickson's catalog of compact groups is estimated by computing the probability of the random projection of field galaxies on or near quartets in the catalog. This is done by Monte Carlo simulations based on galaxy counts in fields surrounding the quartets. Thirty-five percent of all quintets are predicted to contain a single discordant redshift due to a projected field galaxy. This agrees with the observed number of four discordant quintets in 10. These results are consistent with the cosmological interpretation of galaxy redshifts. 18 references.


We describe a simple AC susceptometer built in-house that can be used to make high-resolution measurements of the magnetic susceptibility of high-temperature superconductors in an undergraduate physics lab. Our system, cooled using liquid nitrogen, can reach a base temperature of 77 K. Our apparatus does not require gas handling systems or PID temperature controllers. Instead, it makes use of a thermal circuit that is designed to allow the sample to cool on a time scale that is suitable for an undergraduate lab. Furthermore, the temperature drift rate at the superconducting transition temperature T c is low enough to allow for precise measurements of the complex magnetic susceptibility through T c, even for single-crystal samples with exceedingly sharp superconducting transitions. Using an electromagnet, we were able to apply static magnetic fields up to 63 mT at the sample site. By measuring the change in susceptibility as a function of the strength of an applied of static magnetic field, we were able to estimate the lower critical field H c1 of a single-crystal sample of optimally-doped YBa2Cu3O6.95 at 77 K. We also investigated the mixed state of a sintered polycrystalline sample of YBa2Cu3O6+y .


1. A. Milas: Characters of Modules of Irrational Vertex Algebras.- 2. G. Mason: Lattice subalgebras of strongly regular vertex operator algebras.- 3. C. Dong and C. Jiang: A Characterization of the vertex operator algebra V.- 4. H. Yamauchi: Extended Griess algebras and Matsuo-Norton trace formulae.- 5. M.R. Gaberdiel and R. Volpato: Mathieu Moonshine and Orbifold K3s.- 6. M.C.N. Cheng and J.F.R. Duncan: Rademacher Sums and Rademacher Series.- 7. G. Mason and M.P. Tuite: Free Bosonic Vertex Operator Algebras on Genus Two Riemann Surfaces II.- 8. A. Zuevsky: Twisted correlation functions on self-sewn Riemann surfaces via generalized vertex algebra of intertwiners.- 9. T. Gannon: The theory of vector-valued modular forms for the modular group.- 10. A.I. Molev and E.E. Mukhin: Yangian characters and classical W-algebras.- 11. Appendix: G. Mason: Vertex Operator Algebras, Modular Forms and Moonshine.


The aim of this study was to design a targeted drug delivery system carrying a natural anticancer drug Quercetin (Qu), specifically for skin cancer. A central composite design was applied separately for each ligand, and the quadratic model was used for the process. The surface morphology was confirmed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and in vitro release studies were also performed. The MTT assay was performed against two different cell lines, to measure their anticancer potentials and their targeting ability. The study thus reveals that MA-Qu-PLGA and FA-Qu-PLGA nanoparticles (NPs) can be used as effective drug delivery systems for skin cancer treatment encompassing natural drugs.


As shown in 56 human embryos and fetuses between 15 and 104 mm in crown-rump length, "adult" metacarpal-phalangeal length rankings are attained by the seventh intrauterine week and near-adult bone-to-bone ratios or proportions by the theirteenth week. Micrometric measurements of optically-projected histological hand sections show relative elongation of the distals between the 15-29 mm and 30-44 mm crown-rump range, and relative reduction to radiogrammetrically-determined adult proportions by the 90-104 mm CRL.


There are currently 28 known, distinct samples of Mars that have been liberated from that planet by impacts and subsequently delivered to the Earth. The formation ages of these samples range from 4.5 b.y. to 180 m.y. Collectively, these samples are called SNC meteorites after the major petrologic subdivisions: Shergottite, Nakhlite, Chassigny. Texturally, most of these meteorites are cumulates or partial cumulates. However, a few may represent real melt compositions: EET79001B, Y9800459, QUE94201, and the groundmass of EET79001A.


This study aims to identify and analyze the impact of the performance of lecturers and administration system to the satisfaction of students simultaneously. The analytical method used in this research is the Quantitative Analysis. The population in this study is a student at the Faculty of Medical Andalas Padang.
 The sampling technique used random sampling by using the formula Slovin. The data collection is done by using the tools in the form of a questionnaire distributed to respondents. Data collection techniques using library research and field research. Data analysis technique used validity, reliability test, Deskriptif test, Classic Asumsi Test. Based on the analysis of the performance of faculty and administration system was known that the performance of lecturers positive significant effect on student satisfaction, and system administration does not significantly influence student satisfaction. Thus the hypothesis is proven true. Based on the calculation of determination, coefficient of determination (adjusted R Square) of 0.642, or 64.2%, of faculty performance, and administrative systems not positively and signification to student satisfaction.

Keywords: Lecturer Performance, System Administration, Student Satisfaction


The present work aims to talk about the importance of swimming for child development and prevention of child drowning. The aim is to identify the stages of child development, to relate the benefits of child swimming and to know the swimming rates in the swimming pool historically. The research was carried out at the Acqua e Cia swimming school in the city of Sinop-MT, with 6 students already attending classes. For data analysis a qualitative approach was used and the type of research was chosen by the field study. To collect the data, students were filmed during several classes, a questionnaire for the parents was applied, as well as the personal view, as a teacher of these students, to verify the data collected and analyzed. For literature review were read and used several authors such as: Velasco, Correa and Para Gallahue and Ozmun. For the methodological data of the research were analyzed: Lakatos and Marconi, Gil and Minayo. The importance of swimming lessons in early childhood is of utmost importance for the development of children and to ensure a better and safer quality of life. Classes play an important role in developing, socializing and encouraging practitioners to self-rescue. In order for this to happen, it is necessary for parents to enter their children as early as possible in class, to be encouraged and to reduce the number of drownings, where children are the greatest victims.


Part I: Background Conflict and Agropastoral Development in the Sahel, K M Moore and M Bertelsen, Virginia Tech, USA, S Cisse and A Kodio, Institut d'Economie Rurale, Mali The Lifescape - Production Systems and Social Institutions, S Cisse, K M Moore, and C Brewster, Virginia Tech, USA Landscape and Soil Characteristics of Madiama Commune, O Badini, Washington State University, USA, and L Dioni, Institut d'Economie Rurale, Mali Investigation into the Movements of Cattle, Sheep and Goat Herds Through the Commune of Madiama, A Bailo and A Karim Ouattara, Institut d'Economie Rurale, Mali Land Use Changes in Madiama Commune, R H Wynne, Virginia Tech. USA, M S M Toure, Institut d'Economie Rurale, Mali, N Sengupta, Virginia Tech. USA, and A Bailo Part II: Interventions Participatory Landscape Lifescape Appraisal, J Earl, Preventing Harm Minnesota, USA, and A Kodio Building Social Infrastructure for Sustainable Development, K M Moore, S Cisse, and A Toure, Local Governance Advisor, CARE/Tombouctou, Mali Conflict Management Training, J Goebel, Goebel & Associates, USA, C Ampagoomian, Tulane University, USA, and A Toure Holistic Management Applied to Sanrem Research and Development in Madiama, S Bingham, Allan Savory Center for Holistic Management, USA Part III: Findings Farmers' Knowledge and Perceptions of Soil Fertility, T A Crane, University of Georgia, USA, and B Traore, Institut d'Economie Rurale, Mali Biophysical Assessment of Alternative Soil Fertility Technologies Through Modeling, O Badini, B Traore, and M S M Toure An Economic Evaluation of Alternative Soil Management Technologies, P Wyeth, Washington State University, USA, B Traore, O Badini, M S M Toure, and C Brewster Economic Linkages Among Occupational Groups in the Commune of Madiama, C Brewster, D Kabore, Institut de l'environnement et des recherches agricoles, Burkino Faso, M Berteisen, and P Wyeth Dry Season Feed Supplements: The Potential Role of Cassia tora, M El Hadj and O Abaye, Virginia Tech. USA, A Kodio, and M Keita, Institut d'Economie Rurale, Mali Controlled Grazing: Botanical Response and Animal Performance, O Abaye, M El Hadj, A Kodio, and M Keita Social Capital and Improved NRM, K M Moore and S Cisse What We Have Learned, K M Moore, C Brewster, and M Berteisen


A plurality of metal plates (26), to provide a transparent skin panel used in a mobile platform. Fiber-reinforced resin (36) surrounds a plurality of metal plates (26) at least partially. Fiber-reinforced resin (36) is transparent. Notches within each of the plurality of metal plates (26) (32) is formed, a transparent resin (36) is filled during the manufacturing process. This notch (32) corresponds to the window (16) in a transparent outer skin panel (10). Thus, a transparent outer skin panels, employed conventionally in the aircraft, the need for bulky and heavy frame structure has limited the size of the window used on aircraft for this purpose is eliminated. Accordingly, the invention is not to cause an increase in weight or costs associated with such a window, a larger window allows the incorporation in aircraft.


IQBAR MAHENDRA SAPUTRA. The Analysis of Rice Self-Sufficiency in 26 Regions / Cities of West Java Province from 2011 to 2012. Supervised by YAYUK FARIDA BALIWATI. Food self-sufficiency was the right solution to prevent food insecurity. The goals of this study were to analyze production, actual consumption and selfsufficiency situation of rice 26 regions/cities in West Java province 2011-2012. The design of this study was a cross sectional study. Self-sufficient of rice was viewed by the ratio of net production to actual consumption (≥90). The results of this study indicated that the rice consumption population of West Java in 2011 were in ranges 216.2—317.9 gram/cap/day and 215.4—301.4 gram/cap/day in 2012. The rate decline of rice consumption in West Java were ranges 0.4—2.4%. Rice production of West Java in 2011 were in ranges 3.0—1 316.2 gram/cap/day and 2.4—1 278.2 gram/cap/day in 2012. The rate decline of rice production in West Java were ranges 2.9—20.0%. Based on rice self-sufficiency level, there were eleven regions (42.3%) dependent on rice in 2011 and ten regions (38.5%) in 2012.


This article presents an analysis of the characteristics that are associated with union membership duration using data from the membership registers of the largest Spanish trade union: Comisiones Obreras (CCOO, Workers' Commissions). Making use of survival analysis techniques, the results indicate that the shortest membership durations and the highest risks of leaving are associated with workers with poor employment conditions, mainly youth and foreigners, as well as those in firms, economic sectors, and territories where the union has a rather weak presence. As workers in these situations represent the majority of both current joining and leaving rates, the article concludes that retention policies should focus on the early stages of union membership.


Simple Summary Ophraella communa Lesage is a specific biological control agent of the invasive weed Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. Understanding the molecular mechanism by which O. communa recognizes A. artemisiifolia will help improve its bio-control effect. Odorant-binding proteins (OBPs) play a vital role in insect olfactory perception. In this study, the sequence and expression characteristics of OcomOBP7 were analyzed. We obtained the pure protein of OcomOBP7 by prokaryotic expression and purification, and its binding characteristics were analyzed using a fluorescence competitive binding assay. Finally, we verified the function of OcomOBP7 in vivo using RNAi combined with an electroantennography (EAG) assay. The results showed that the binding ability of OcomOBP7 was broad-spectrum and was involved in the host plant localization of O. communa. Abstract The olfactory system plays a key role in various insect behaviors, and odorant-binding proteins participate in the first step of the olfactory process. Ophraella communa Lesage is an oligophagous phytophagous insect that is a specific biological control agent for Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. The leaf beetle must identify and locate A. artemisiifolia through olfaction; however, its odorant-binding protein (OBP) function has not yet been reported. In this study, OcomOBP7 was cloned, and its tissue expression profile and binding ability were analyzed using RT-qPCR and fluorescence binding assays, respectively. Sequence analysis demonstrated that OcomOBP7 belongs to the classical OBP family. The RT-qPCR results showed that OcomOBP7 was specifically expressed in the antennae, indicating that OcomOBP7 may be involved in chemical communication. The fluorescence binding assay showed that OcomOBP7 has an extensive binding ability to alkenes. The electroantennography experiments showed that O. communa antennal response to α-pinene and ocimene decreased significantly after interference because the two odors specifically bound to OcomOBP7. In summary, α-pinene and ocimene are odorant ligands corresponding to OcomOBP7, indicating that OcomOBP7 is involved in the chemical recognition of A. artemisiifolia. Our study lays a theoretical foundation for research into O. communa attractants, which is helpful for the better biological control of A. artemisiifolia by O. communa.


The family Haplotaxidae is re-defined and the genera Pelodrilus, Heterochaetella and Adenodrilus are merged in the single genus Haplotaxis. Haplotaxis dubius and Haplotaxis ascaridoides are recognized as subspecies of Haplotaxis gordioides, and H. forbesi is regarded as synonymous with H. gordioides following a re-examination of the type material. The absence of the gizzard in H. smithii is reported for the first time, and the presence of both pairs of male pores in the same segment in H. violaceus is confirmed, the type material of both species having been examined. Pelodrilus monticola, P. tuberculatus and P. darlingensis are merged in Haplotaxis africanus (n. comb.), Pelodrilus aucklandicus is recognized as a synonym of H. hologynus hologynus (n. comb.), but P. bipapillatus is recognized as a subspecies of hologynus.


The Wnt/β‐catenin transcriptional activation complex requires the adapter protein Pygopus (Pygo), which links the basal transcription machinery to β‐catenin, by its association with legless (Lgs)/ B‐cell lymphoma‐9 (Bcl9). Pygo was shown to be required for development in vertebrates, but the role of Lgs/Bcl9 is unknown. We identified an amphibian orthologue of Lgs/Bcl9, XBcl9, which interacted biochemically with Xβ‐catenin and XPygo2. The body axis promoting ability of Xβ‐catenin was diminished when residues required for its interaction with XBcl9 were mutated. In blastula embryos, XBcl9 was transiently preferentially expressed in nuclei of dorsoanterior cells and ectopically expressed XBcl9 required XPygo2 to localize to nuclei. Furthermore, while neither XBcl9 nor XPygo2 alone affected development when ectopically expressed, both were required to induce supernumerary axis and dorsal gene activation. Like XPygo2, depletion of maternal XBcl9 alone caused dorsal defects. These results indicated an essential role of the Pygo‐Bcl9 duet in vertebrate body axis formation. Developmental Dynamics 239:271–283, 2010. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


COUF-C40 9 36—1 DE84 006 595 The expansion of the tandem-linac booster into the Argonne Tandem-Linac Accelerator System, ATLAS, is approximately 40% complete. When completed, the faci l i ty will provide beams of heavy ions from lithium to tin with energies eventually, to 25 MeV/amu. The existing faci l i ty continues to provide beams for the experimental program in nuclear and atomic physics during the construction phase. The booster sytem is capable of accelerating ions as heavy as selenium to energies of 10 MeV/amu for the lighter ions. The good beam quality provided by the linac means that multiple scattering, energy straggling, and target inhomogenieties are major factors in the resolution attainable in experiments. The beam properties that can be expected from ATLAS will be discussed and the present state of high resolution experiments will be reported.


[-] there is no qualitative diffbrence between the most elcmentary consumablc object, tilod, and the rnost technically sophisticated prosthetics. for they all rclate to the body as a pemeable, manipulable surf'ace, ingesting. incorporating and cxpelling an expanding range of objects. Yet this open-ended circulation does not occur in some pure or open space; rather, as various bodily lirnctions arc extendcd "outside" the body, so the spaces of these extensions are embodied. in every sense of the word (Lupkrn & Miller 1992.507).


Seaweed industry,one of the important seafood industries in Lian-yun-gang,plays an effective role in economic and social development of Lian-yun-gang City. The author makes a comprehensive analysis from the following aspects:promoting peoples' enthusiasm,expanding market, increasing development advantages,scientific aquaculture,ecological environment,harmonious development,etc. And the author stresses the viewpoint that the growth of the seaweed industry will boost the implementation of the scientific policy on development. Thus the seaweed industry will radically develop into one of the new industries,which is people-oriented,sustainable development.


All kinds of unofficial organizations are formed by students' interaction and influence.To staff of college students' affairs,the unofficial organizations have both positive and negative sides.Only by mastering the unofficial organizations,can the staff of students' affairs take full advantage of its positive sides and restrict its negative and make the work of educating and training students more effectively and timely.


Outsourcing the management of 19 randomly-selected government primary schools in Liberia to Omega Schools led to learning losses of -0.08 σ after three years, equivalent to reading roughly -1.4 fewer words per minute. Beyond learning effects, Omega had no impact on access (dropout and enrollment), corporal punishment, or sexual abuse. Overall, Omega Schools were unable to improve test scores, access, or child safety.


The carbon and oxygen isotopic abundances were determined for calcites and dolomites filling gaps in the Ogi basalt. The isotopic ratios of the carbonates are in the range from -24 to -32 %o in 513CPDB and from 31 to 36 %o in S18OSMOW. They were too low in VC and too high in 5180 to understand that they were derived from carbonatite. The 5180 values are also too high to interpret that they were derived from basaltic magma. The isotopic data suggest that they were precipitated probably from lagoonal sea water under anaerobic conditions.


We note that f (x)(< 1) is an increasing function, in particular, f (x) ≈ 4x/3, for x 1 and f (x) → 1, when x 1. f (μnB/kT ) increases with decreasing temperature. And eq.(3) is the mathematical formula for the B-phase of the P2 superfluid. Due to the energy gap the combination of neutrons into the P2 Cooper pairs occurs only in a thin layer at the Fermi surface with thickness of kΔ, and kΔ = √ 2mnΔn(P2). Δ is the binding energy of the Cooper pair. The fraction of the neutrons that combined into the P2 Cooper pairs, q, is ae-mail: email@example.com DOI: 10.1051/


Interfacial tensions (IFT) of five alkylbenzene sulfonate Gemini surfactants Ia, Ib, Ic, Id, and Ie at different oils/water systems were measured by a spinning drop interfacial tensiometer. And critical micelle concentration (CMC), the interfacial tension at CMC (γCMC), maximum interfacial excess concentration (Γ max) and the surface area per molecule (Amin) were calculated. The results indicated that the CMC values determined with interfacial tension method were lower than those determined with surface tension method. And γCMC for Ie is larger than that for Ia, Ib, Ic, and Id. In addition, the effects of temperature and hydrophobic chains on dynamic IFT were also studied. With the increment of temperature, dynamic IFT is easier to reach a stable value. However, with the increment of hydrophobic chains, dynamic IFT is more difficult to reach a stable value. Each Gemini surfactant produces a minimum IFT when measured against a different n-alkane.


The research on proximate determinants of fertility was carried out based on the condition of fertility in Papua which is still high compared to national figures and the use of modern contraception tends to decrease according to several periods of Indonesian Demographic and Health Surveys (IDHS). The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between social, economic, demographic factors and the proximate determinant of fertility in Papua. This study is a secondary data the 2017 IDHS, analysis using descriptive and multivariate with multiple logistic regression test. The results show that Papuan women's education has a dominant effect on the duration of marriage and the use of contraception. The higher education level will likely increase the use of contraception and the length of marriage. This can be used as a foothold in the planning and implementation of population control programs, in this case, is the regulation and restrictions on future births. Birth control programs through the Population, Family Planning, and Family Development Program need to synergize with other government programs, especially with the Education Program for Papuan women in planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating programs of course. An approach to traditional leaders is needed since customs and traditions greatly affect all aspects of Papuan people's lives. The traditional leader's advice and suggestions are very well heard by people. The traditional leader's communication, information dissemination, and education to program targets really need to be strengthened. This method is certainly implemented by all levels of the program area, but especially in the field lines that are very close to the target.


Many MMH tasks are composites of multiple sub-tasks: lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling. Many current methodologies of evaluating risk in MMH tasks provide an estimate of the percent of workers capable of each sub-task independently, but do not directly evaluate synergistic effects of all sub-tasks on risk of injury. Additionally, no risk evaluation methodologies evaluate risk from braking. These limitations may lead to underestimates of the risk of injury in composite MMH tasks.


Automation and protection systems that go beyond the most basic operations require some form of communication between relays and a central processor and between relays themselves. Typical practices in evaluating or specifying the communications capabilities of relays or networks measure the time for a signal to transport from the internal processes of one device, through the network, to the output of another device. While this may be an important measure, it may not reflect operating conditions in the power system. This paper describes research to measure the complete system time to transmit, communicate, receive, and process digital messages in a system used for any automated control or protection purpose. In addition to measuring single bits of data, tests were performed using multiple bits and "data storms" that could be seen during significant system events or disruptions. Complete tests included measurement of processing times within relays, as well as network times to distribute data to multiple devices through point networks. As Ethernet communications increase the ability to exchange information between numerous devices in a station, care needs to be taken to evaluate the system as a whole and not just as a group of points. This paper provides methods to evaluate overall system performance during realistic conditions that could be encountered within installations during test and once in service. Understanding the impact of message size, transmission rate, and multiple device transmissions on system performance are all crucial to optimize system design and set realistic performance expectations.


Hunter River lucerne (Medicago sativa) was sown at 6.7, 9, 13.4, 17.9, 22.4 or 26.9 kg ha -1, broadcast or in 15, 30 or 45 cm rows under irrigation. Seeding rate did not affect dry matter production. There were no significant differences in dry matter production between sowing broadcast or in 15 cm rows, but 30 cm and 45 cm rows produced less dry matter than 15 cm rows (P < 0.01 ). Seeding rates and sowing methods affected the plant population, which affected the morphology of the roots and the aerial growth.


The sports art class curriculum teaching has fashionable,the entertainment and the artistic characteristic,the student is following the dynamic demand to this kind of curriculum study interest,in highlighted nurtures the person function in the modern sports teaching process to innovate the personality to the sports art class teacher to propose requested high,the sports art class teacher must strengthen the study and the training,consummated the innovation personality unceasingly.


Quantitative modeling of galvannealing kinetics of hot-dip galvanized interstitial free (IF) steels has recently been carried out.1 ~6) Those papers modeled both isothermal and nonisothermal galvannealing kinetics.1~4) In addition, a modification of the original formulation wasproposed to include the effect of the coating weight5) and also the effect of the interfacial layer growth.6) The modelbasic assumption is that the rate of increase in the coating iron content, dW/dt, is proportional to the difference between a certain saturation coatlng iron content (in masso/o), Ws, and the coating iron content, W, (also in masso/o). The integrated equation is:


Sustainable stingray stock catches and increasing the potential that these fish populations may become overfished this may have a negative impact on the size of fish stocks. In order to estimate stock models and prospective resources of stingrays in the seas of the Malacca Strait, the descriptive technique was utilized to collect secondary data. The necessary to conduct stock dynamics research that examines the exploitation rate of stingrays. Based on the Schaefer model, obtained the value of sustainable potential (MSY) for Stingray resources (Dasyatis sp.) at Tanjung Beringin fishing port of 37,24625 tons/year and the optimum effort value of 148,6119 trips/ years. The percentage of stingray resource utilization rate which landed in Tanjung Beringin TPI during the last 5 years has an average value of 0,925% and an effort level of 1,234%. TAC is 29,797 tons/year, shows that fishing can still be increased to get more optimal results. The value of the allowable catch must be below the MSY value which is 80%. The average allowable catch of stingray (Dasyatis sp.) is 80% of the MSY. This means that fishermen's catches can still be optimized, but must not exceed MSY limit.


A method for synthesis of model melanoidins at high yields from furfural and glycine is proposed. It was found that for themelanoidinthe elemental composition, and the IR, UV and mass spectra did not change considerably during the course of the reaction. An empirical formula for the constitutional repeating unit—C21H17NO6–is proposed on the basis of elemental analysis. The evolution of carbon dioxide during the reaction is proved.


This paper examines the collective actions and organization of shop workers on the East Rand (South Africa) to engage with debates on the "revitalization" of labour globally. It contrasts writers who engage with 'social movement unionism' as a form of political unionism aimed at strengthening workers' bargaining position at the workplace from those who find spaces outside of production relations as the most relevant to collective classbased mobilization. Based on fieldwork with workers in three branches of a major chain supermarket in South Africa between 1998 and 2002, the article argues that while the growth of contingent labour has re-segmented the labour market between three categories of employment, collective worker identification and labour activism have abided. Across categories, workers' actions focused on justice issues of dignity, respect and recognition. However, workers' collective mobilization also reproduced divisions of labour emerging out of restructuring of the labour market. Further, workers' actions were localized to the individual branch. Finally, common concerns around declining capacity for social reproduction of all workers did not become an issue around which workers' organized. The paper argues that the workplace remains an emotive site of collective worker identity for these service workers. However, it also finds that fighting exclusively for "industrial justice" may serve to deepen shop floor divisions of labour in these workplaces. It suggests instead the importance of combining the insights of the two approaches to labour revitalization by recognizing, in this instance, the strength of worker identity in the workplace, but also locating social reproduction in households and communities as integral to workers' experiences of exploitation. University of the Witwatersrand; Email: email@example.com LABOUR, Capital and Society 38:1&2 (2005)


ATTENDANCE 1. The student must attend school throughout the school year. In term-time, attendance is required from Monday to Friday inclusive, during the hours prescribed in Student Handbook/Diary. 2. The College must be notified of a short term absence in advance by a parent/guardian; such leave will be granted only for medical or special reasons. In the case of absence due to infectious illness, accident, etc., the parent/guardian must notify the College as soon as possible. For an overseas trip, a "Student Long Term Absence Request Form" must be filled in and approved by the school administration before travel arrangements are made. Students who missed the exam period due to illness/overseas trip will be given semester/end of year reports after they sit their missed exams upon their return. 3. If a student has been absent without permission (e.g., minor illness), on return to the College, s/he must bring an explanatory letter from his/her parent/guardian or a medical certificate. A medical certificate is required in case of prolonged sickness. 4. In case of any unexplained absence, parent/guardian will be contacted by the College and asked for an explanation for such absence. Unexplained prolonged absences will be reported to the relevant government agencies under mandatory reporting regulations. 5. Student's enrolment will be reviewed by the school administration in case of more than 40 days of explained/unexplained absence in a school year.


There must be hundreds of university teachers of international law around the world, and I am one of them. I am teaching students at the University of Economics in Prague. Some of them head into national or international business or media, some become diplomats, others start their career at a ministry of foreign affairs or in international institutions. My aim is to introduce them to international law, visualize and explain the mechanisms of creation and application of international rules and principles, as well as of peaceful settlement of disputes, and also to provide them with some orientation among the many institutions in the "international law universe". My students, on the other hand, bring into our discussions in lectures and seminars their fresh, young look at different international legal topics and confront me with their knowledge from other courses. Compared to students pursuing a law degree, our students have a blurrier awareness of how legislation and the law work. In their deliberations about current international events, they are not restricted by such knowledge and that is why their arguments and views may be sometimes naïve and sometimes inspiring. I was thinking about my students often when I was preparing this presentation and I am very grateful for all the opinions and ideas about international law that they were willing to "trade" with me and that ultimately led me to the idea of the international law codification market. Let me introduce this market, identify trends concerning it and formulate a few predictions. Further, this contribution will touch on other questions (e.g. the composition of the International Law Commission) discussed during the celebration of the Commission's seventieth anniversary event in Geneva in July 2018.


One of the basic skills in design work is the composition ability that controls the attributes of objects in constructing wholly consistent figures. One way to acquire this skill is through learning by examples, which is widely adopted in design or art classrooms. However, it is necessary for an effective learning to help a learner gain an adequate perspective of an example. In this paper, we describe a method of extracting lerners' perspectives from their works. Our method is used in the task where leaners are presented with an example and compose a novel visual space. Once the learner completes the task, the system automatically calculates the scores of similarity between the space composed by the learner and the example presented by the system. Then, it gives the scores to the learner as part of the learning feedback. This feedback helps the learner extract abstract principles from the presented example.


EXPERT INTERVIEWS IN OSTERGOTLAND, SWEDEN - Results and analysis of the intersectoral expert interviews in the field of logistics and ICT


When existing cultural boundaries seem to blur, people will look for alternative ways to express their identities. Recent research has shown that aesthetic dispositions (how one consumes culture) may be more significant than taste preferences (what is consumed). Sociologists therefore wonder whether distinction might be going underground. Elaborating on this issue, we examine the role of irony in cultural consumption through nine in-depth interviews with karaoke participants contacted in two bars in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, as we suspect that the ironic attitude is ideally suited to crossing cultural boundaries and, at the same time, to upholding class boundaries by distancing oneself from cultural activities that are considered enjoyable yet incongruent with one's identity. We indeed found large differences in how people performed and appreciated karaoke, which aligned with their levels of cultural capital.


Abstract The original Picea rubens (Red Spruce) forest in West Virginia covered approximately 1.5 million acres, most of which was eliminated between 1870 and 1920 by clear-cutting and conflagrations. The total range of Plethodon nettingi (Cheat Mountain Salamander) was confined within this Red Spruce forest. Fires burned the duff and soil to the bedrock in many places, thus eliminating salamander habitats. It is hypothesized that Cheat Mountain Salamanders were eradicated throughout much of their range, and only areas with large emergent rocks or boulder fields provided refugia where they survived.


Objective Comparative analysis of single tube and a plurality of pipe casting post and core used in the clinical treatment effect of molar residual crown repair. Methods From 2011 March to 2012 March in 50 patients with residual crown molar in this hospital, were randomly divided into two groups, the observation group and the control group. The observation group of 23 patients, using a single tube casting in treatment of pile nuclear crown; the control group of 27 patients, using a plurality of pipe casting treatment of pile nuclear crown repair, one year after the patients were followed-up, compared two groups of patients with clinical curative effect. Results The group of single pipe casting post and core 3 loose, accounted for 10%; the control group of a plurality of pipe casting post and core 2 loose, accounting for about 6.7% of patients in the two groups were compared, loose no significant statistical difference(P0.05), two groups of patients in addition to pile nuclear loose, the other in the X-ray inspection of nuclear and root pile pipe are combined tightly, repair the use of good, does not affect the swallowing and chewing. Conclusion A single dowel-core repair of molar residual crown and root canal therapy effect is good, difference is not obvious, but the single tube Biduogen tube operation procedure is simple and convenient, worthy of clinical application.


With the large Database ORACLE 7 as the background management system and DEVELOP 2000 supported by Windows 95 as a tool dynamic SQL sentences are constructed by combining VISUAL C++ and Pro *C for soft w are generalization. The system imports the Syntax Chart in the interface defined by the user and generates general data sheets by using data source table and the data relation table after a data dictionary is defined and then outputs general data sheets by using the report format and report parameters.


To evaluate the construction quality accurately is the important measure to assure that the highway structure strength can reach the design requirement.The building subgrade of Tai-ao highway was taken as the engineering example,some representative segments were selected,the point to point mode was adopted,and then the flexures,dielectric constants and degrees of compaction of the points were tested by the FWD(dynamic falling weight deflectometer) with different tons of 1 ton,3 tons and 5 tons,BB(static Benkenlman beam),PFWD(portable falling weight deflectometer),GPR(ground penetrating radar),dielectric constant device,and sand cone method.In the end,the applications of FWD,PFWD and GPR to control the construction quality of highway subgrade have been proved in this paper.


Researchers have investigated the dark web for various purposes and with various approaches. Most of the dark web data investigation focused on analysing text collected from HTML pages of websites hosted on the dark web. In addition, researchers have documented work on dark web image data analysis for a specific domain, such as identifying and analyzing Child Sexual Abusive Material (CSAM) on the dark web. However, image data from dark web marketplace postings and forums could also be helpful in forensic analysis of the dark web investigation.The presented work attempts to conduct image classification on classes other than CSAM. Nevertheless, manually scanning thousands of websites from the dark web for visual evidence of criminal activity is time and resource intensive. Therefore, the proposed work presented the use of quantum computing to classify the images using a Quantum Convolutional Neural Network (QCNN). Authors classified dark web images into four categories alcohol, drugs, devices, and cards. The provided dataset used for work discussed in the paper consists of around 1242 images. The image dataset combines an open source dataset and data collected by authors. The paper discussed the implementation of QCNN and offered related performance measures.


In this paper, the natural zeolite as raw material, zeolites was prepared by organic amines hydrothermal synthesis. The results are characterized by SEM and nitrogen adsorption / de-commanded test,and study the influence of the aging time, crystallization temperature and crystallization time on zeolite crystallization. The results showed that using natural zeolite as raw material and butylamine as templating agent, average pore size of 0.77nm, the relative crystallinity of 96.34% of the zeolite was prepared in the hydrothermal system. Optimal aging time is 12h, crystallization time is 48h, crystallization temperature is 170 °C.


The Electric Bicycle System incorporates three different ways of charging a lithium-ion battery: using dynamo, regenerative braking, and solar power; which is used to power an electric hub motor running a bicycle. The purpose of the project is to show that it is possible and relatively simple, to build an electric bicycle by oneself. This project can be broken down into five separate categories: the lithium-ion battery, the DC-DC boost converter, the solar panel, the motor, and the motor controller. Each of these will be built upon and improved further in future. The hope is that this design can become very efficient, cost-effective, and one day mass-produced, especially in developing countries where automotive transportation is an


Online controlled experiments are the gold standard for evaluating improvements and accelerating innovations in online and app worlds. However, little is known about applicability, implementation, and efficacy of experimentation for operating systems (OS), where many features are non-user-facing. In this paper, we present the Windows Experimentation platform (WExp), and insights from implementation and execution of real-world experiments in the OS. We start by discussing the need for experimentation in OS, using real experiments to illustrate the benefits. We then describe the architecture of WExp, focusing on unique considerations in its engineering. Finally, we discuss learnings and challenges from conducting real-world experiments. Our experiences and insights can motivate practitioners to start experimenting as well as to help them to successfully build their experimentation platforms. The learnings can also guide experimenters with best-practices and highlight promising avenues for future research.


Objective
To explore the effects of stage-based nursing on preventing prosthesis dislocation after artificial hip replacement.

Methods
By sampling, we selected 56 patients with artificial hip replacement of Shandong Provincial Hospital, the Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University, from July 2014 to July 2015 in control group with routine nursing; and we selected 56 patients with artificial hip replacement from August 2015 to August 2016 in observation group with comprehensive and targeted holistic nursing by postoperative stage-based nursing based on routine nursing. The activities of living, extremity motor function, incidence of prosthesis dislocation and recovery of hip joint of patients between two groups before and six months after surgery.

Results
Before surgery, there was no statistical difference in the scores of activities of living and extremity motor function of patients between two groups (t=0.233, -0.791; P>0.05) . Six months after surgery, the scores of activities of living and extremity motor function all increased in observation group with statistical differences compared with those in control group (t=2.388, 2.142; P<0.05) . The rate of prosthesis dislocation and the score of Harris hip score was 1.79% and (76.89±12.30) in observation group with statistical differences compared with those in control group (P<0.05) .

Conclusions
Postoperative stage-based nursing can improve patients' activities of living and extremity motor function, and reduce the rate of prosthesis dislocation and effective improve hip joint after artificial hip replacement.

Key words:
Arthroplasty, replacement, hip; Hip prosthesis; Dislocation; Recovery; Stage-based nursing; Artificial hip replacement; Activities of living; Extremity motor function


Therapeutic drug monitoring is a cornerstone of antibacterial therapy, especially in an era of increasing antibacterial resistance in individualizing antimicrobial therapy. Liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS) assay was used for the simultaneous measurement of piperacillin, tazobactam, meropenem, ceftazidime, and linezolid in 50 μl plasma samples over a wide range. The overall turnaround time for the assay was 20 minutes. Intra-assay precision and accuracy for quality control samples ranged within 1·8–8·5 and 91·4–106·7%, respectively. Inter-assay precision and accuracy ranged within 1·3–14·4 and 95·8–104·6%, respectively. The lower limit of quantification was below 1·5 μg/ml for all the five antibiotics. No ion suppression due to matrix effects was found. A simple and rapid LC–MS/MS method which provides high specificity, precision and accuracy for the simultaneous quantification of piperacillin, tazobactam, meropenem, ceftazidime, and linezolid in human plasma has been developed and validated. The present method is suitable for therapeutic drug monitoring in paediatrics.


Microcystins LR and RR in two lakes were identified and their concentrations were determined. Water blooms containing Microcystis aeruginosa, M. viridis and M. weisenvergii covered the surface of both lakes. M. aeruginosa was the most prevalent toxic cyanobacterium detected. Microcystin was identified by the mass spectra of the oxidation product, 2‐methyl‐3‐methoxy‐4 phenyl butyric acid. Microcystin RR was detected at a concentration of 8.8 μg/1 of lake A water collected in June, 1992, whereas that of microcystin LR was 1.5 μg/1. Microcystin RR in lake A water was detected during the October (the warm season) but microcystin LR was not detected in the period from July to October. The concentration of microcystin RR is associated with that of chlorophyll‐a in water blooms.


The effect of clouds on the shortwave (SW) irradiance near the surface is of interest for surface radiative energy budget studies (Long et al. 1994) and investigation of the recently suggested excess SW cloud absorption (Cess et al. 1995; Ramanathan et al. 1995; Pilewski and Valero 1995). One measure of the effect of clouds is cloud forcing: the difference between clear (i.e., cloudless) sky irradiance and measured irradiance. One way of estimating the surface clear sky irradiance is to calculate it using radiative transfer models, which require aerosol, temperature, pressure, and humidity profiles as input, as well as surface albedo. This information is not readily available in many locations where cloud forcing estimates are desirable.


LONDON, April 26 (AP) Greal Britain hiked her income tax to a staggering 27 1-2 per cent today 'to help balance a gun-swollen budget that is the biggcst in peaL'etime history. Vast, secret food pUl'chases to reed Britain 's people for the "early months" 01 a war were disclosed by Sir John Simon, chancellor of the exchequer, who announced to the house of commons Ihal the government needs 944,389,000 pounds ($4,721,990,000) for the year ending March 31, 1939. The gap betwcen arms cxpenses 8nd expected income is to be filled by the 2 1-2 per cent income lax increase, which won't hi t the little fellow, and by tea and oil duty boosts which will. Dogged Determination Sir John, who declared "Ihe load we have to bear" wiU be carried with the "dogged determination and dauntless COl,u'age of the British race," warned that the peak year of defense cxpenditure would not be reached until ne)(t year, possibly the year after. Albanian King, Hungarian Bride


Watershed management in different countries is compared with that in China from the aspects of legislation,system,and organization,programming and public participation.It is expected that helpful experiences can be inferred from the analysis,and contribute to the mend and improvement of China's watershed management and environmental protection.


Objective To explore the application of clinical pathway in medical care for varicella patients,build perfect and effective clinical pathway of nursing for varicella patients,and provide the basis for the implementation of infectious diseases single disease management and clinical practice.Methods Totaled of 126 cases of varicella patients were randomly divided into two groups:control group (66 cases),experimental group (60 cases).Control group adopted traditional nursing,experimental group was treated with medical care by the clinical pathway.The two groups were compared with average days in hospital,average hospitalization expenses,complications,awareness of health education and patients'satisfaction.Results The average days in hospital and complication rate were decline,but there was no significant difference (P > 0.05).Average hospitalization expenses dropped significantly than that of control group (P < 0.05).The awareness of health education was significantly increased (P < 0.05).Patient satisfaction rate was increased to 98.7% by 91.5%,but there was no significant difference (P > 0.05).Conclusions Using clinical pathway diagnosis can reduce the nursing hospitalized cost,improve patients' satisfaction and the quality of nursing.It is feasible for clinical pathway to use in infectious diseases.

Key words:
Clinical pathway;  Varicella;  Medical nursing


This article deals with Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for an indoor robot equipped with a camera and RFID antennas. RFID tags are sparsely disseminated in the environment. First RFID-based self-localization is considered; the robot position is predicted from odometry; it is corrected first by a sequential Monte-Carlo localization based on a particle filter. An active strategy built on the theoretical basis of information entropy is applied in order to improve the position accuracy. Then two methods for RFID-based mapping are described, considering the robot pose is given from natural visual landmarks learnt by a classical visual SLAM function.


Microstructure defects control the TRIP effect and/or the TWIP effect and contribute significantly to the absorption of deformation energy in plastically deformed austenitic CrMnNi steels. In this study, the propagation and interaction of dislocations, stacking faults and twins connected with the formation of Lomer‐Cottrell locks, stacking fault tetrahedra, dislocation clusters, deformation bands, microtwins with high‐energy incoherent twin boundaries and the nucleation of α′‐ martensite in the areas of the high local lattice strain due to the fluctuation of the stacking fault density and the lattice shearing, were analysed in the CrMnNi TRIP steel after different deformation extents via transmission electron microscope with high resolution and via scanning electron microscope.


The relation between vorticity and ionospheric flow patterns is investigated by using a fluid mechanics approach in place of the more customary electromagnetic approach. The focus on the fluid features is justified by the observation that in the incompressible limit appropriate to the ionosphere, vorticity can be regarded as the source of the flow field. We show how vorticity can be introduced into the flow by local ionospheric conditions. However, in the cases of greatest interest, the vorticity is imposed by external sources, which can be in the magnetosphere or in the solar wind. As an important application, we consider traveling ionospheric vortices propagating around the polar cap boundary. We show that such traveling disturbances transport both momentum and magnetic flux in the direction of their phase velocity, typically antisunward. Like other intermittent disturbances of small scale, such as flux transfer events, individual traveling ionospheric vortices transport relatively little flux, but multiple disturbances could conceivably transport an important fraction of the polar cap magnetic flux from the dayside to the tail.


The heat transfer coefficients α of some cutting fluids spreading radially over a flat plate through a nozzle are measured by the local heat transfer method. Tested fluids are three straight mineral oils, rape oil, petroleum, water and three sulphurized-chrorinated mineral oils. These data are expressed approximately by equations contained the Nusselt number, the Reynolds number and the Prandtle number, or non-dimension number involving the surface tension. The cooling properties of the fluids are discussed on α at the collided point through a nozzle and its average along the flow.


Fruits contain abundant of vitamins and nutrients. They are also rich in antioxidants that help in lowering incidence of degenerative diseases such as cancer, arthritis, arteriosclerosis, heart disease, inflammation, brain dysfunction and acceleration of the ageing process. The objective of the present study was to analyze the physicochemical parameters, antioxidant capacity of selected tropical fruits (i.e. papaya, pomegranate, pineapple, mango and orange) on the basis of total ascorbic acid content, DPPH radical scavenging activity, Ferric reducing power, FRAP assay, beta carotene content, total phenolic content and total tannin content. The physicochemical parameters analyzed were moisture, Acidity, Pectin content, pH, Reducing sugar, Total sugar, and crude fiber. Results show that DPPH radical scavenging activity was found to be highest in pineapple i.e. 294.78±0.86. Though the FRAP method showed pomegranate with highest ferric reducing power i.e. 42.20±2.87 which was significantly different with others. â carotene content was estimated higher in papaya fruits 7.42±1.33 and there is no significant difference in the values of orange, pineapple, pomegranate and mango. Total polyphenolic content was estimated highest in pomegranate 13.58±0.66. Thus, it was concluded that the selected tropical fruits have high antioxidant properties which are beneficial for human health.


The sports study lies in study and practice behavior.Based on this educational attribute,the paper reviews the concepts of study and sports study,and studies the function of sports study from the fields of cognition,mood and movement skill.Function of school and practice on students' sports study is also discussed from the perspective of study theory.Finally it discusses the relationship between study and practice and problems in its deepening process.


Oil Pump rotor is essential parts for automobile and, it is consisted of drive rotor and driven rotor in general. These parts are requested different properties according to environment. There are 2 types of Oil Pump rotor according to its usage. One is used for electric system, and the other is used for shaft-driven system. Especially, high precision and functionality is required in electric pump, and cost reduction is required in shaft-drive pump without slowing down its performance. This paper is mainly describing about the non-machine treated shaft-drive pump, based on the trial sample producing process.


In the development of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) cultivars for malting purposes, it is usually not possible to select for malt quality characteristics in early generations because of the high cost associated with micromalting large numbers of grain samples and assessing quality traits on the resulting malt samples and because of the sensitivity of quantitative malt quality traits to environmental variation. Thus, barley malting quality may be a good candidate for marker-assisted selection. Here, the objective was to use marker-based selection to manipulate a malt quality characteristic, α-amylase activity, in a barley breeding population. Marker-based selection was applied among F 2:3 lines from the cross 'Morex'/'Labelle', targeting Morex alleles in a region of chromosome 7(5H) that had previously been found to affect α-amylase activity in the cross 'Steptoe'/Morex. The target region was represented by two polymerase chain reaction (PCR) markers. Selected lines were grown in field plots in two years. Agronomic and grain quality data were measured. Grain samples were micromalted and assessed for malt quality traits. Selection for the Morex allele at two PCR markers on chromosome 7(5H) was effective in increasing α-amylase activity. It was concluded that marker-based selection for a quantitative trait locus could be effective even when applied in a population other than the mapping population.


Objective To investigate the quality of life and analye the correlation between social support and the quality of life among community patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD).Methods A total of 61 cases of community patients with COPD were investigated with questionnaires about quality of life and social support.Results The scores of activities of daily living and social activities status were relatively higher,indicating the status of the two dimensions were poor.The total score of social support and factor score of subjective support were negatively correlated with the total scores of the quality of life and the scores of the activities of daily living and social activities status(P0.01 or P0.05).Conclusion Community nurses should strengthen the management of community patients with COPD and pay attention to the social support of patients to improve their quality of life.


Low molecular weight nitrogenous compounds (Mw < 3000 Da) were measured from 29 Parma hams at different production stages (i.e., 3, 25, 125, 211, 365, and 485 days after slaughter). Precolumn derivatization with AQC and reversed phase HPLC of the samples revealed that the content of low molecular weight nitrogenous compounds increased during processing of the hams. Principal component analysis of the non-amino acid peaks showed five groupings of the samples corresponding to the different production stages. In the first 365 days of processing five different peptide peaks are formed. Post ripening lead to the formation of six additional peptide peaks. Partial least squares modeling of the major peptide peaks and sensory data show that the formation of peptides is highly correlated to the flavor formation of Parma ham. Keywords: HPLC; peptides; multivariate statistics; cured ham


Within the framework of the effective-field theory with a probability distribution technique, which accounts for the self-spin correlation functions, the ferromagnetic spin-1 Ising model with a transverse crystal field on honeycomb, square and simple cubic lattices is studied. We have investigated the effect of the transverse crystal field on the phase diagrams, magnetization, hysteresis loops and χz,h of the system. A number of interesting phenomena of the system are discussed.


Objective To understand the detection status of three main birth defects,neural tube malformation,trisomy 21 and trisomy 18,in 486 mid-pregnancy parturients.Methods The Roche fully automatic immunofluorescent analyzer was adopted to detect AFP,HCG and uE3 in 486 mid-pregnancy parturients.Results Among detected mid-pregnancy parturients,trisomy 21 was in 6 cases,neural tube malformation was in 3 cases and trisomy 18 was zero.The positive rate of birth defects accounted for 1.85% of total screening parturients number.Among mid-pregnancy parturients aged ≥35 years old,high risk trisomy 21 was in 4 cases and neural tube malformation was in 2 cases,which accounted for 1.23% of total screening mid-pregnancy period and 66.7% of total positive rate.Conclusion Mid-pregnancy parturients have the high risk of birth defects.Conducting the birth defects index screening on them has the larger clinical value.


Wavelet energy spectrum,combining wavelet transform and Fourier transform can be used to record both the abrupt changing time quantum in time and its frequency band in frequency.So it can be used to determine the relevant scales of the main complex processes which offered the basis for analyzing and identifying the feature information.Simulating results showed that the quality of the extracted information was guaranteed and the time and space complexity was reduced by the mentioned method.this method was also successfully applied to identify and extract feature information from annual period item,semi-annual period item and seasonal period item of YATI and WUDI station in Shandong.


In murine studies, GL is shown to be inhibitory on P. aeruginosa burn wound infection. Impaired β-defensin production in tissues surrounding the burn area is restored in mice treated with GL. As a translational study, the effect of GL on HBD-1 production in humanized chimeras was examined. The chimeras were X-irradiated NSG mice grafted with the unburned patient skin (10 x 10 mm: skin-chimeras) and inoculated i.d. with 1~10 x 105 cells/mouse of IMC isolated from patients syngeneic or allogeneic to skin donors (skin/IMC-chimeras). These chimeras were treated i.p. with GL (Minophagen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) and anti-mouse skin-AMP rabbit IgG. Two days after grafting, tissues excised from grafted sites were homogenized and the amounts of HBD-1 in the homogenates were measured. In the results, 19 to 86 ng/ml of HBD-1 were detected in the grafted site tissues of skin-chimeras. The peptide production was inhibited by 77~84% in skin/IMC-chimeras. However, HBD-1 (17~90 ng/ml) was detected in the grafted site skin homogenates of skin/IMC-chimeras treated with 10 mg/kg of GL. P. aeruginosa grew in kidneys of skin/IMC-chimeras infected with 100 CFU/mouse of P. aeruginosa, but the pathogen was not detected in kidneys of the same chimeras treated with GL. These results indicate that HBD-1 is produced at grafted site tissues of skin/IMC-chimeras treated with GL, and sepsis stemming from P. aeruginosa grafted site-infection does not develop in these chimeras.


Digital transformation of legal profession and advocacy involves finding, selecting, and developing approaches that ensure the translation of data about objects, connections, and processes of the real (analog) world related to the relevant subject area into a virtual (digital) format. Therefore, it is very important that the description of the properties of objects, connections and processes subject to digitalization should be machine-readable, and the «pre-digital» (analog) image of such should fit into the paradigm of information technology (Information Technology, IT) for the subsequent transformation of this image into digital form.The digital transformation of legal profession and advocacy is not an end in itself. The key issue is the quality of expert legal assistance. The issue of the quality of expert legal assistance must be addressed on a systematic basis, taking into account such quality management functions as quality planning, quality assurance, quality control, and quality improvement. The development of the topic of quality (proper quality) of expert legal assistance involves the formation of a certain theoretical model on an appropriate methodological basis, followed by its implementation in the regulatory (regulatory) framework of the ecosystem of advocacy and implementation in corporate practice. The author offers one of these models. The model is based on the so-called process approach. The paper describes the essence of the process approach, the process model of the quality of the expert legal assistance itself and gives a general description of its elements. The process model allows you to look at the provision of expert legal assistance through the prism of the process approach used in IT: it makes it possible to plan the provision, provide and analyze the results of the rendered expert legal assistance in the paradigm of this approach. The author notes the high analytical potential of the process model of the quality of qualified legal aid and its practical usefulness.


We report an Austrian family with proximal muscle weakness and wasting predominantly of the shoulder girdle musculature, normal or slightly reduced distal muscle power, mild foot deformity, absent or reduced tendon reflexes in the lower limbs, and normal or slightly diminished sensation. Electrophysiologically, motor nerve conduction velocities were slowed to less than 33 m/s, distal latencies were prolonged, and compound motor action potentials were low. Sensory nerve conduction velocities were extremely reduced or no sensory potentials were recordable. Genetic testing in three affected individuals revealed a duplication of the chromosomal region 17p11.2. In addition, genetic testing for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) revealed a 33 kb EcoRI fragment on chromosome 4q35 in one affected individual and in the clinically normal parent, whereas in a second affected person normal DNA‐sizes were observed. These clinical findings define a new phenotypic variant associated with the Charcot‐Marie‐Tooth 1A duplication. This may be due to a mutation in another gene contained in the 1.5 Mb duplication although mutations in the peripheral myelin protein 22 gene have been excluded. Alternatively, the genetic background of other genes in the family may modify the phenotypic expression, as found in other inherited diseases.The unusual phenotype cannot be explained by the concomitant presence of FSHD despite some evidence for coexistance in one individual. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Muscle Nerve 23: 1243–1249, 2000.


Neurological examination of the patients with acute stroke is necessary to diagnose stroke. The investigation of the effect of course therapy with isoosmolar 0.9% NaCl solution and hyperosmolar mannitol solution on neurology deficit dynamics by various neurologic scales was of great interest for substantial clarification of the impact of these solutions on the course of acute stroke. The studied solutions were administered in the potential effective doses (experimentally determined) immediately after diagnosed stroke and then every 12 hours daily within 7 days. The results of the treatment were controlled daily using GCS, FOUR and NIHSS. 0.9% NaCl did not have significant effect on neurologic deficit dynamics by GCS, FOUR and NIHSS parameters within 7 days of following up period (р > 0.05). Intergroup analysis of neurologic deficit demonstrated significantly worse results in mannitol group compared with the group of 0.9% NaCl solution by FOUR scale (р = 0.02).


We designed and built an experimental setup for subjective (manually controlled) correction of up to 12 orthogonal terms (excluding tilts and defocus) of the aberration of the human eye. In our experiments, the subject was looking through an adaptive optical system at the USAF resolution chart. By using the arrow keys of the computer keyboard, the subject was able to control the amplitudes of up to 12 orthogonal aberration terms, introduced by a deformable mirror, optically conjugated to the pupil of the eye. Preliminary statistical analysis on a group of 12 participants with 6 correction attempts per participant, demonstrated satisfactory correlation of aberration coefficients obtained by the same person in different correction attempts. The majority of the participants were able to improve the visual acuity by subjective optimization of the figure of the deformable mirror.


The aim of this study was to obtain a profile of occupational therapists' work activities in contemporary Australian mental health services so as to better understand the specific contribution of this profession. The study also aimed to determine whether or not actual work activity was congruent with the preferred roles of occupational therapists. A cross-sectional survey of 196 occupational therapists working in mental health was conducted. For the purposes of the study, a new instrument was developed that evaluated both actual and preferred work roles in four broad categories: administrative, general clinical skills, specialist clinical skills and community development. Respondents were engaged in a greater proportion of generic than discipline-specific work activities. They reported a preference for higher levels of activity in each of the work categories. These findings suggest that, contrary to some previous reports, not only are occupational therapists in Australia engaged in a broad spectrum of non-specialist mental health work activities, but these activities are mostly congruent with their expectations and wishes.


Abstract Autonomous ships are expected to change water-based transport of both cargo and people, and large investments are being made internationally. There are many reasons for such transformation and interest, including shifting transport of goods from road to sea, reducing ship manning costs, reduced dangerous exposure for crew, and reduced environmental impact. Situational awareness (SA) systems and Autonomous navigation systems (ANS) are key elements of autonomous ships. Safe deployment of ANS will not be feasible based on real-life testing only, but will require large-scale, systematic simulation-based testing in addition to assurance of the development process. DNV GL proposes to use a digital twin, meaning a digital representation of key elements of the autonomous ship as a key tool for simulation-based testing. The digital twin contains comprehensive mathematical models of the ship and its equipment, including all sensors and actuators. The complete simulation-based test system complementing the digital twin should consist of a virtual world to simulate environmental conditions, geographical information and interaction with other maritime traffic. Finally, the test system must include a test management system that controls simulation of the digital twin and the virtual world, generates test scenarios as well as evaluates the test scenario results. An automatic scenario generation tool should search for low ANS performance, and ultimately establish sufficient coverage of the possible scenario space. The test scenario evaluation should automatically consider safety, conformance to collision regulations at sea (COLREG), and possibly also the efficiency of the ship navigation. This paper presents a comprehensive prototype of a test system for ANS. Key topics are simulation-based testing, interfacing the simulator and ANS, cooperation with ANS manufacturers, dynamic test scenario generation, automatic assessment towards COLREG and experiences from the cooperation with The Norwegian Defense Establishment (FFI).


Through the analyzing the technical statistical data of men's basketball teams in Shanxi college basketball games,and using the methods of documentary,on-the-spot observation and questionnaire,this article makes an evaluation on defending ability objectively.After considering reasonably,put forwords some relevant training suggestions.


This paper deals with the cluster efficiency evaluation in the shipbuilding industry of the Split-Dalmatia County. The global trend of interconnecting businesses into clusters to enhance productivity and competitiveness results in a shipbuilding cluster including over 50 companies. To evaluate the potential of the cluster we use the hybrid method A' WOT, which is a combination of two decision support tools: the AHP and SWOT analysis. In the first step, the survey conducted among the eminent experts directly involved in the process of cluster formation is the basis for identification of internal strengths and weaknesses of the shipbuilding cluster and external opportunities and threats coming from its environment. In the second step, the AHP method is used to rank the importance of each particular element and to select among the four proposed cluster development strategies the most efficient one.


Headlines are a reflection of society, what people value or find interesting. They indicate sensational events as well as trends that affect important aspects of peoples' lives. While headlines originated in the print mass media, they remain important in our wired and digital world. When headlines are about pharmacy, they provide a mirror to how we are perceived by society. Whether headlines are good or bad, they influence the course of our profession. Recently the negative headlines about pharmacy unfortunately outnumbered the positive, mostly referring to the New England Compounding Center tragedy, and that is something the profession will need to work through to reestablish credibility and trust that was lost. We have seen many positive headlines that reflect how pharmacy is changing and moving to a patient-centered rather than product-centered profession. On August 14, 2010, a headline on the front page of the New York Times (1) read "Pharmacists do more than count pills." The story begins: "Eloise Gelinas depends on a personal health coach. At Barney's Pharmacy, her local drugstore in Augusta, Ga., the pharmacist outlines all her medications, teaching her what times of day to take the drugs that will help control her diabetes." This is a lengthy story about Barney's Pharmacy and the pharmacists who work there. They provide a wide range of wellness and clinical services in addition to traditional prescription services. Such a story in a prominent news source is a significant positive impact. In the December 15, 2012, edition of the New York Times, (3) on the editorial page, the headline read "When the doctor is not needed" and it goes on to describe the potential for pharmacists (and other health professionals) to fill the big gap in primary care. It talks about how pharmacists are underutilized given their education, training, and closeness to the community. Last week, on National Public Radio a nationally broadcast story was headlined "Why The Hospital Wants the Pharmacist to Be Your Coach." It talked about how hospitals are partnering with community pharmacies to help keep patients out of the hospital by managing their medications. What will the headlines be 20 years from now? That will be in an era determined by your generation, not mine. I can imagine the good headlines: "Pharmacists clinical services become a standard in health care" or "Retirees demand medication therapy management by pharmacists" or "Pharmacists play major role in designing drug treatment regimens using genomics." And even the possible negative headlines, such as "Importation and automation lead to demise of the pharmacy profession." I am and remain very optimistic about our future as pharmacists and the roles that we will play in health care. Medications are much more commonly used, particularly for chronic diseases, and make up a greater portion of the national health care expense compared with 10 years ago. Medications are increasing as a portion of the national health care budget, the number of prescriptions will significantly increase, as will expenditures on prescription drugs. When I think about the huge changes that the profession has gone through from the time I graduated in the late 1970s until now, I am confident that we will continue to progress as a profession. There is so much that we know now about our profession that was not evident a decade ago. Years ago we talked about how much we needed the evidence for the effectiveness of pharmacists in health care. The evidence is in and has been published in well-respected journals. Studies by Cab Bond showed that clinical pharmacists working in hospitals are associated with lower mortality rates. (4) Pharmacists effectively manage patients with diabetes, as demonstrated in the Asheville Project, (5) and manage hypertension (6) and many other diseases and conditions. Pharmacists activities result in a significant savings in health care costs (approximately $5 for each dollar spent on clinical pharmacy services). …


We present a novel iterative extraction model, IterX, for extracting complex relations, or templates, i.e., N-tuples representing a mapping from named slots to spans of text within a document. Documents may feature zero or more instances of a template of any given type, and the task of template extraction entails identifying the templates in a document and extracting each template's slot values. Our imitation learning approach casts the problem as a Markov decision process (MDP), and relieves the need to use predefined template orders to train an extractor. It leads to state-of-the-art results on two established benchmarks – 4-ary relation extraction on SciREX and template extraction on MUC-4 – as well as a strong baseline on the new BETTER Granular task.


The present paper investigates the current status of the storage times in self-organized QDs, surveying a variety of heterostructures advantageous for strong electron and/or hole confinement. Experimental data for the electronic properties, such as localization energies and capture cross-sections, are listed. Based on the theory of thermal emission of carriers from QDs, we extrapolate the values for materials that would increase the storage time at room temperature to more than millions of years. For electron storage, GaSb/AlSb, GaN/AlN, and InAs/AlSb are proposed. For hole storage, GaSb/Al0.9Ga0.1As, GaSb/GaP, and GaSb/AlP are promising candidates.


This monograph which arises out of the proceedings of a seminar with delegates from natural family planning (NFP) programs in 35-40 countries focuses on NFP programs their development needs and characteristics. The goal in this monograph is to reflect the reality of developing national NFP programs on a worldwide basis and to analyze the development aspect. Specific characteristics and developmental approaches including various resources and instruments are described as an aid to the establishment of new programs. The monographs 1st section presents some 20 or more developing programs. 9 major programs were selected in the 4 geographical regions or zones of the International Federation for Family Life Promotion (IFFLP) -- Africa the Americas Asia-Oceania and Europe -- for detailed analysis. Another dozen programs are presented in a summary form. The more representative program descriptions were chosen from among 40 IFFLP affiliates. For the most part NFP programs and services have been developed in a private network outside the major public family planning programs and a majority of programs have a religious origin and basis of operation. The 2nd section of the monograph analyzes in greater depth program development training and service development and program evaluation. In addition to the presentations of the major themes comments were invited from additional speakers. The presentation on program development by Marie-Paule Doyle former IFFLP president from Canada introduces a discussion or primary orientations philosophy structure leadership and funding. Dr. Thomasina Borkman a social scientist offers a challenging analysis of the dominant characteristics of existing NFP programs and suggests a mechanism for monitoring the impact of new developments on NFP programs. There are 2 presentations on the quality training of NFP teachers and educational services. Dr. John Laing illustrates several years of research analysis in the Philippines on the demographic impact of rhythm and its potential as an integral part of the national family planning program.


Many universities are moving toward the offering of part-time, online degree programs particularly at the graduate level. Typically the dean or another administrator is responsible for devising a course cycling plan along with adequate supporting faculty resources that enables students to progress and graduate within a reasonable and expected span of time. This problem is difficult to resolve due to uncertainty of demand for specific courses contained in the program. For example: (i) the program may be delivered with flexibility in time-to-completion, meaning that students are not assigned at admission to a specific cohort that proceeds in lockstep fashion toward graduation; (ii) the curriculum may contain elective courses which inject an element of choice; (iii) some courses may require the completion of other courses as prerequisites creating demand dependencies; and (iv) not every matriculated student successfully completes the program, and empirically observed retention rates will need to be factored in. Here we propose an approach for planning faculty requirements and course offerings that meets student flow and other constraints. The methodology combines linear programming with well-known operations management concepts such as material requirements planning and flow analysis.


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ffective postoperative pain control is an essential compo-nent of the care of the surgical patient. Inadequate paincontrol, apart from being inhumane, may result in in-creased morbidity or mortality (1, 2). Evidence suggests that sur-gery suppresses the immune system and that this suppression isproportionate to the invasiveness of the surgery (3, 4). Goodanalgesia can reduce this deleterious effect. Data available indi-cate that afferent neural blockade with local anesthetics is themost effective analgesic technique. Next in order of effectivenessare high-dose opioids, epidural opioids and clonidine, patient-controlled opioid therapy, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatoryagents (5).The advantages of effective postoperative pain managementinclude patient comfort and therefore satisfaction, earlier mo-bilization, fewer pulmonary and cardiac complications, a reducedrisk of deep vein thrombosis, faster recovery with less likelihoodof the development of neuropathic pain, and reduced cost of care.The failure to provide good postoperative analgesia is multi-factorial. Insufficient education, fear of complications associatedwith analgesic drugs, poor pain assessment, and inadequate staff-ing are among its causes.


Through investigation on the ornamental characteristics of landscape plants in Kuitun city of Xinjiang,the author summarizes species of the main landscape plants from the perspectives of color,flowering,fruit color,leaf color and dry skin color,which can provide references for the color match of landscape plants.


Recently, global warming and high oil prices had large consensus on energy saving. For building energy-efficient than ever before interest is growing. The most basic ways to use natural energy is to reduce the energy of the building. Passive solar systems for solar direct or indirect heating load savings indoor shows. In addition, by installing one for a long time to get the required amount of energy and do not create pollution, less natural damage. Currently building a passive solar system in order to effectively apply that research has been actively performed. This study is indirect way from passive solar energy systems to obtain the target was Trombe Wall System. Trombe Wall System in accordance with changes in design factors of the components by comparing the thermal performance based on the type of building design, Trombe Wall System is a component to present standards. Thus producing maximizes the performance of the Trombe Wall System, Passive solar systems in the future through productivity and cost savings are intended to spread.


Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are recognized as hotspots for the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARBs) in the environment. Our study utilized a high-throughput sequencing-based metagenomic analysis approach to compare the ARG abundance profiles of the raw sewage, treated effluent and activated sludge samples from a full-scale WWTP in Egypt. In addition, the difference in microbial community composition due to the treatment process was assessed. As a result, 578 ARG subtypes (resistance genes) belonging to 18 ARG types (antibiotic resistance classes) were identified. ARGs encoding for resistance against multidrug, aminoglycoside, bacitracin, beta-lactam, sulfonamide, and tetracycline antibiotics were the most abundant types. The total removal efficiency percentage of ARGs in the WWTP was found to be 98% however, the ARG persistence results indicated that around 68% of the ARGs in the influent could be found in the treated effluent. This finding suggests that the treated wastewater poses a potential risk for the ARG dissemination in bacterial communities of the receiving water bodies via horizontal gene transfer (HGT). The community composition at phylum level showed that Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, and Actinobacteria were the most abundant phyla in all datasets. Although the relative abundance of several pathogenic bacteria in the influent declined to less than 1% in the effluent, the taxonomic assignments at species level for the effluent and sludge metagenomes demonstrated that clinically important pathogens such as Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumonia, and Aeromonas caviae were present. Overall, the results of this study would hopefully enhance our knowledge about the abundance profiles of ARGs and their fate in different wastewater treatment compartments that have never been examined before.


Introduction. The Amplitude-Versus-Angle (AVA) method exploits the variation in seismic reflection amplitude with increasing incidence angle to infer the contrast in seismic velocities and densities at the reflecting interfaces (Castagna, 1998). For this characteristic the AVA technique has been extensively used worldwide for lithology and fluid prediction in deep hydrocarbon exploration (e.g., Ostrander, 1984; Rutherford and Williams, 1989; Mazzotti, 1990, 1991). The AVA method is based on the Zoeppritz equations (Zoeppritz, 1919) which describe the variation in seismic amplitude with increasing angle of incidence for a plane wave incident on an idealized interface separating two semi-infinite half spaces. The system of equation formulated by Zoeppritz is so algebraically complex that many different approximated formulas have been derived to simplify and linearise the inversion process. These simplified equations, valid under certain assumptions, are those frequently used in AVA inversion and interpretation (Ursenbach and Stewart, 2008; Wang, 1999). Performing linear AVA inversion a Vp/Vs ratio equal to two is usually assumed (Castagna, 1998). This ratio is a good approximation of the true value in case of classical deep sediments exploration (hydrocarbon exploration), but generally it is an underestimation of the true ratio in case of shallow or seabed sediments. This may constitute a problem because, in addition to the classical deep exploration, the AVA inversion can also be useful for characterizing shallow layers (Riedel and Theilen, 2001) and, thus can be of help for shallow hazard assessment and well site analysis. While performing linear AVA inversion the importance of the Vp/Vs ratio is usually underrated and its value is set without worrying too much. Therefore, in this work we want to point out that the assumed Vp/Vs ratio plays a crucial role in determining the expected resolution and the uncertainties associated with each inverted parameter. To this end we have considered the well known three terms Aki and Richards (Aki and Richards, 1980) equation and the two terms Ursenbach and Stewart formula (Ursenbach and Stewart, 2008), which are analyzed making use of the sensitivity analysis tools applied to the inversion kernel. We have first studied how the Vp/Vs value influences the condition number, the amplitude of the eigenvalues (not shown here for the lack of space) and the orientation of associated eigenvectors in model space. Moreover, also applying the classical truncated SVD method and studying the resolution and the covariance matrices, we have analyzed how the Vp/Vs ratio determines both the expected resolution of each inverted parameter and the error propagation from data space to model space. Inverse problems, sensitivity analysis and SVD decomposition. A seismic inverse problem aims to estimate model parameters (m) from collected data (d) minimizing the misfit between predicted and observed data (Tarantola, 2005). If we assume that the fundamental physics are adequately understood, a function, G, may be specified relating m and d: d = G (m) The simplest and best understood inverse problems are those that can be represented by an explicit linear equation d = Gm in which G takes a matrix form. Many important seismic inverse problems are linear, such as the AVA inversion performed by applying approximations of the Zoeppritz equations. One commonly used measure of the misfit in solving an inverse problem is the L2 norm of the residuals. A model that minimizes this L2 norm is called a least-squares solution. The leastsquares solution for linear inverse problems can be derived using the following equation (also called the normal equations solution): mL2= (G T G ) 1 G d


In this paper DC microgrid small signal stability is studied. Droop based decentralized control is assumed for micro grid control. Dynamic model of each component is derived individually and combined to form total state space equations of DC micro grid. Eigen values of system are also extracted. It is shown that under variation of PI controller the location of system poles changes.


This article examines the relationship between knowledge, political counsel, and reason of state in Giovanni Botero (1544–1617). Botero is primarily known as the champion of Catholic reason of state, mainly on account of his treatise Ragion di stato. I argue that Botero marks a watershed in the history of European political thought not because of his response to Machiavelli, but on account of his conscious and innovative integration of different field of knowledge into a new language of the state. He is the first to capture convincingly the reality of the Counter-Reformation state and European global expansion. While Botero writes with a view to serve the universal church and Catholic secular princes, his language transcends confessional boundaries. This argument is made with reference to Delle cause della grandezza delle citta (1588) and Ragion di stato (1589), though it could be extended into his Le relazioni universali (1591–96).


Context. DC voltage converters (DCV) are part of modern power supply systems (PSS) and power supply ensuring the operation of electronic and radio devices, telecommunication systems and communication and to a large extent determine their power consumption, reliability, time of readiness for operation, weight, size and cost indicators. Even though there are a large number of different software packages used in engineering practice for the study and design of radio engineering devices, such computer-aided design (CAD) systems and virtual computer simulation of electronic circuits have some limitations that do not allow to quickly carry out the entire complex of studies of DCV required for the analysis of electrical processes in various operating modes.
Objective. In this section, the goal is to select the most suitable methods and algorithms that allow the development of software necessary for solving the problems of research and analysis of electrical processes for select energy parameters of the DCV of a modular structure in a separate power channel (PWC).
Method. The paper proposes a method that consists in using mathematical models describing electrical processes in DC voltage converters and creating, on the basis of the developed calculation algorithms, specialized software for the automated study of electrical processes in the DCV of a modular structure using a computer.
Results. The paper discusses the main methods of automated research of radio engineering devices, which can be used to analyze the electrical processes of pulsed DC voltage converters of a modular structure. Algorithms of calculation are given and, as an example, some results of automated research obtained using this method.
Conclusions. The analysis of the known methods of automated research of DC voltage converters of modular structure is carried out. Their advantages and disadvantages are given. It is shown that the most suitable method is based on the use of mathematical models describing electrical processes in DC voltage converters of this type. On the basis of the mathematical models presented in the second section of the work, algorithms and specialized software have been developed that allow them to be widely used in the automated research and design of modular-structured DC voltage converters.


In this study, ultrafiltration (UF) membranes were prepared in outside skin tubular configuration using polysulfone and sulfonated polysulfone polymers in order to study the effect of chemical nature of membrane surface on separation performance as well as surface fouling. Separation of polysaccharide and protein with its fouling tendency, removal efficiency of turbidity from seawater with flux recovery after fouling were evaluated. Tubular configuration was chosen, as the membrane surface is most exposed for cleaning after fouling than any other configurations. Bovine serum albumin (BSA) and sodium salt of alginic acid were used as model protein and polysaccharide, respectively, to probe the rejection behavior of these tubular membranes. Sulfonated polymeric membranes were compared with pure polymer membranes for resistance to fouling by the model protein and polysaccharide solutions. Pure water fl ux recovery on water flushing for polysaccharide fouled membrane was comparatively more (6–8%) than protein...


This article examines the Republic of Ghana's experience in attracting FDI. Thus, the main thrust of this article is threefold. First, it evaluates the main economic policy adopted by the government from 1970 to 2008 to reverse the post independence economic decline. Second, it examines how the policies facilitated the attraction of FDI inflows to Ghana. Finally, it reviews some of the problems that impede the attraction of value-added FDI inflows to Ghana. A thorough analysis is done with the use of the Diamond model of competitiveness to check the attractiveness of Ghana relative to the Republic of Korea (Korea) to ascertain how best to address this issues. This article argues that a lot still is to be done to attract more FDI and it will be profitable for Ghana to use Korea as an example of best practices in terms of policies for improving the attractiveness of the country.


According to our hypothesis, cultural physis grows faint and, therefore, it is incapable of generating meaning and intensive force for its unlimited self-growth. From this perspective, we intend to examine the validity of this "agenesis" within the incipient flexible capitalism, in order to elucidate its morbid expressions in light of the blind mechanisms that are currently the backbone of the labor sphere. Insofar as it snatches our creative powers, the social organization of the mass intelligentsia ends up generating, indeed, a kind of deficiency-related madness given to the autophagous aporia of the vacuum organization through which we seek to compulsively pay the infinite debt with culture. Finally, we point to the nonsense concomitant with the loss of self-estrangement as the main driver of the crisis, in a historical world that indifferently accepts the invisible dictatorship of Capital, immersed in an "illusion of autonomy" that identifies freedom and flexibility.


A thesis submitted to Addis Ababa University, college of business and economics, presented for partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of master of business administration in finance.