INTRODUCTION Iron deficiency does not necessarily manifest itself as anaemia (Beutler et 01., 1960; Verloop, 1970). In one study, Callender (1974) observed an 11070 incidence of anaemia whereas others have estimated that iron deficiency, without anaemia, can occur at much higher frequencies (McFarlane et 01., 1967). There is good evidence that low iron status can pre-dispose to infection (Mackay, 1968; Andelman and Sered, 1966). Resistance to Candida infection appears to be reduced by iron deficiency (Joynson et 01., 1972; Higgs and Wells, 1972). Given this potential importance of iron status to health, we have attempted to determine accurately the incidence of iron deficiency in a group of 126 working women and to assess the extent to which it manifests as anaemia, (in 125 subjects). Although a transferrin saturation value below 15% is a strong indicator of iron deficiency (Giorgio, 1970), it can be deceptive, falling sharply during infection. We have taken advantage of a recently developed technique for the accurate determination of storage iron, the radioimmunoassay of plasma ferritin, while retaining the measure of transferrin saturation on the same blood samples as a secondary determination of stores. Haemoglobin concentration was also determined in the same blood samples.


Changes in learning patterns from face-to-face to technology-based (online) cause problems, one of which is felt by parents. During the Covid-19 pandemic, parents are required to continue to carry out student character building during online learning and complete the family economy. the purpose of this study is to provide strategies in solving problems related to the formation of student character during online learning. This research design uses a qualitative approach with a case study method. The research was conducted on parents of UPT SMPN 6 Gresik students. The data were collected through observation and in-depth interviews and the data were analyzed using the Socialization theory of Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckman. The results of the study indicate that the strategy referred to in this study is a series of efforts made by parents to solve problems that occur in the formation of students' character during online learning. The strategy in question includes two ways, namely external and internal. Externally, parents are expected to optimize social capital in the school environment such as teachers, principals, school residents, and the community in solving any problems including the formation of student character during online learning.


Abstract NIRS0S (Near-IR S0 galaxy Survey), is a K-band survey of ~ 200 early-type disk galaxies, mainly S0s, 2-3 mag deeper than the 2Micron All Sky Survey. In depth morphological analysis was done, in which multi-component structural decompositions played an important role. Possible implications to internal dynamical galaxy evolution were discussed. S0s were suggested to be former spirals in which star formation has ceased, forming a parallel sequence with spirals (see Fig. 1). If that evolution is faster among the brighter galaxies, the observed magnitude difference between the barred and non-barred S0s could be understood. Bars are suggested to play a critical role in such evolution. For example, the inner lenses in the bright non-barred S0s can be explained as former barlenses (inner parts of bars), in which the elongated bar component has dissolved. We suggest that the last destructive merger event happened at a fairly large redshift.


According to the different geology,it summarizes the layout categories of the villages of Tong nationality of Zhaoxing,discusses the natural village landscape categories from stream and greening,analyses the constitution categories of artificial village landscape from public facilities,living facilities and construct facilities,and points out that this kind of village landscape can offer experience for modern park design.


The working environment is deteriorated due to a rise in temperature of a coal mine caused by increase of its depth and carriage tunnels. To improve the environment, the temperature distribution resulted by using the fan type ventilation system aiming for the temperature drop is calculated by using a fluid dynamic analysis program. The analysis shows that A coal mine needs 6,152 m 3 min -1 for in-flow ventilation rate but the total input air flowrate is 4,710 m


of the Dissertation Measurement of the azimuthal anisotropy for charged particle production in Pb+Pb collisions at √ sNN=2.76 TeV and in p+Pb collisions at √ sNN=5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC by Soumya Mohapatra Doctor of Philosophy in Physics Stony Brook University 2013 In this work, detailed measurements of the pT, η and centrality dependence of the flow harmonics vn in Pb+Pb collisions at √ sNN = 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC are presented. Consistent values of harmonics v2-v6 are measured the via event-plane and two-particle correlation methods. Dipolar flow v1 associated with initial dipole asymmetry is measured via two-particle correlations. The long-range correlations in the two-particle correlations such as ridge and the cone are shown to be accounted for by collective flow. Sizable values of the odd harmonics especially v3 are measured that indicate significant event-by-event (EbyE) fluctuations in the initial geometry. The nature of the initial collision geometry and the hydrodynamic response to it are investigated by measuring the EbyE distributions


A promising new microcomputer system, developed by researchers at Texas A&M University, College Station, can automatically detect and de-energize downed nigh-power cables that might otherwise thrash about for hours on the ground, creating severe safety hazards. The system is proposed for installation in utility substations, where high-voltage ¿mains¿ branch out into low-voltage ¿feeders.¿


This is a study of demographic trends in two regions of Bihar state India over the period 1811-1921 based on data from official sources such as the census. The author notes that the region can be divided into two zones. In the more developed north development led to improved communications and better supplies but facilitated the spread of highly contagious diseases. In the undeveloped south repeated subsistence crises resulted in periodic increases in mortality which kept population growth in check. This balance changed after 1919 and was followed by a period of population growth.


AbstractIn this study, an iron based metal organic framework (MIL-100(Fe)) with high surface area and large pore volume has been synthesized by the hydrothermal method and its capability as an efficient sorbent for congo red (CR) removal from aqueous samples has been evaluated. The metal organic framework sorbent was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, scanning tunneling microscopy, thermogravimetric analysis/differential thermal analysis, and X-ray diffraction methods. The sorption capacity of the sorbent for CR was maximized through systematic studies of different factors which affect its sorption, such as contact time, initial concentration, sorbent dosage, pH and temperature. Sorption kinetic was studied in detail by four kinetic models, the pseudo-first-order and second-order equations, the Elovich equation and the intraparticle diffusion equation. The results indicate that the mechanism of the sorption process followed Elovich and pseudo-second-order kinetic. Sorption equilibri...


Abstract At the beginning of a new century, reviews of the previous 100 years are timely. The newspapers are full of woeful tales of wars and turmoil, but also of social and economic progress. What is not fully addressed is the enormous improvement in the nature of our building stock. Our ability to build in the twentieth century deserves to be applauded.


R EACH for earlier Greek literature chronologically, starting where it starts. Homer's two epics first, then fragments of the epic cycle, then Hesiod, then-always startling-early sixthcentury lyric poetry, Archilochos, Sappho, and Solon. The old carpet unrolling. Archilochos appears as a person in his poems, refers directly to himself both as a grammatical I, and more fully as a center of perceptions and attitudes. Come on this poet suddenly, in your passage back toward the present, and you are likely to be overwhelmed by the new verbal stance. But how do you know that stance is new? You see how hard it pushes back against what has preceded it, establishes what precedes it, as a precedent. The later text finds its presence in its act of resisting, or working against, and in combat "bringing out" the past. Or would we rather accept a compromise metaphor, to think of the present as illuminating the past? In either case the novelty of a particular instance-say Archilochos's poetry-is achieved by that poetry's working against its own immediate past. Any present's force has much to do with combat, with forcing the past to declare what it is. This combat operates clearly in a work of literature, as we can see in following the transition from the epic to the lyric achievement in early Greek culture. As we read him now, Homer is to us both what he is and what he is not. What he is not is the silent


Spin-orbit and electron exchange effects may be identified separately through the observation of "integrated" Stokes parameters of the radiation from excited states after impact by spin-polarized electrons. The principles underpinning the measurements and the techniques are described. Stokes parameters within 2.5 eV of thresh old are discussed for selected excited states of inert gas atoms. The combined effects of electron exchange and the internal spin-orbit inter action play a significant role in the excitations of the J = 1 and 2 intermediately-coupled states while electron exchange is the mechanism for the excitation of the J = 3 well LS-coupled states.


The alpine grassland in northwest of Sichuan is an important ecological barrier to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River and plays an irreplaceable role in conserving water and soil,nursing biodiversity,and regulating regional climate. The serious degradation of the alpine grassland in this region is now endangering the sustainable utilization of grassland resources and the plateau ecological environment security. This paper deals with the formation reason of the alpine degraded grassland by use of the research achievements both at home and abroad. It is found that the fragile ecological environment is the intrinsic factor,which has caused the alpine grassland to degrade in northwest of Sichuan. Moreover,the unreasonable utilization and disturbance( e. g.,reclamation of grassland,tourism development,and overgrazing) are the major driving force for the grassland degradation. Additionally,the global warming,grassland rodents and insects and grassland mismanagement accelerate the degradation of the alpine grassland. Therefore,it is very important to restore the alpine degraded grassland on the basis of these formation reasons. Moreover,using scientific methods( e. g.,the development of livestock production according to carrying capacity,increase of marketing rate of livestock,and establishment of artificial fence)will benefit the restoration of alpine grassland.


RESUME We demonstrate benefits, drawbacks and potential for application of use of the TOPEX/Poseidon simultaneous active (backscatter coefficient at 13 GHz) and passive (brightness temperature at 18 and 37 GHz) microwave measurements together with SMMR and SSM/I passive microwave data to estimate sea, lake and river ice extent and timing. We present results of studies for the Caspian and Aral seas, Baikal lake and Ob' river watershed. This synergetic approach for combination of active (radar altimeter) and passive (radiometers) microwave data may be successfully used for new satellite missions, such as Jason-1 and ENVISAT. 1. INTODUCTION Studies of continental sea, lake and river ice require continuous weather-independent observations, covering large and often remote areas. In situ observations are rather sparse in these environments. In many instances, existing monitoring networks suffer from problems that prevent to routinely monitor natural parameters. Often data exist, but are not accessible to the public - for many arctic regions time series of observations on ice cover are available only up to early 1990s. Even when data are available, there are often issues of time resolution (which is often insufficient) and delivery time (for the cases of near real-time studies). Satellite observations could be a valuable support for ice monitoring and studies. However, for many natural objects application of satellite data has been mostly limited to imagery in the visible and infra-red range, sensitive to presence of cloud. Satellite microwave measurements for ice studies have advantage because they are not influenced by cloud cover, and do not depend on daylight availability, providing weather- independent, continuous and reliable data on various environmental parameters. We show that additional improvement lies in complementing passive microwave observations by active ones, thus enhancing the radiometric resolution of studies and providing new insights for cryospheric studies.


Studies showed that exclusive breast feeding reduced infant morbidity and mortality. In low income countries such as Ethiopia where under-five mortality is very high, the role of exclusively breastfeeding could be even more critical. However, studies assessing the place of exclusive breast freeing in the prevention of childhood illnesses in our area are scarce. The aim of the study was to identify determinant factors of childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea. An institution based case control study was conducted in Achefer District in July, 2012. The cases were 122 children of 7 - 24 months old who had repeated attack of diarrhoea or pneumonia over three months prior to the survey while controls were 122 children who visited well baby clinic for vaccination. Data were collected by using pre-tested and structured questionnaire, and analysed using SPSS version 16 for windows. Logistic regression was performed, and strength of associations was estimated using odds ratio and 95% confidence interval. About 83% of the controls and only 12.3% of the cases were exclusively breast fed. Children who were exclusively breast fed were 83 times less likely to develop pneumonia or diarrhea than those who were not exclusively fed. Marital status, monthly income, prelacteal feeding, and late initiation of breast feeding were found to have statistically significant association with childhood diarrhea and pneumonia. This study brought local evidence that exclusive breast feeding had a protective effect against common childhood infectious diseases—pneumonia and diarrhoea—in the study area. Therefore, culture sensitive and plausible health education is recommended to strengthen exclusive breast feeding practices in order to decrease mortality and morbidity of infants and children from pneumonia and diarrhoea.


Ti(dbm)2(O-i-Pr)2 catalyst was synthesized using Ti(O-i-Pr)4 and dibenzoylmethane(dbm) to develop a catalyst for the polymerization of L-lactide. The L-lactide polymerization behaviors of Ti(dbm)2(O-i-Pr)2 catalyst was observed with varying molar ratio of L-lactide/catalyst and polymerization time. The conversion and molecular weight increased with increasing L-lactide/catalyst molar ratio. Ti(dbm)2(O-i-Pr)2 catalyst was found to have a low catalytic activity because of the presence of a phenyl group in the catalyst and interfering with the lactide insertion during the polymerization reaction. Benzyl alcohol as an initiator resulted in a significant reduction in conversion of Ti(dbm)2(O-i-Pr)2 catalyst. The molecular weight of the obtained polymer was measured by DSC and GPC, and the molecular structure of PLA was confirmed by H NMR.


Strategies that include communication systems for rural development as a significant aspect of rural development are utterly needed. The article proposes a strategy of a long-term development of communication system for rural areas, used to solve a number of actual problems including improving economy and social aspect of people's life. Depending on specific scenario different methods of organization of access are proposed for rural areas. A model of multiservice network is described in the form of a random graph and a multiphase teletraffic system, including crucial aspects of modernization of infrastructure in country area.


A new biotechnology has been developed which enables the incorporation of individual cells into intact tissue. In vivo experimentation has resulted in histologically modified animals (rabbits) which have received human cells into recipient corneal tissue. Quantitative methodology were developed to aid in control measures and to support analysis of experimental results. Investigation of various fusion parameters has guaranteed reproducibility but optimization of the fusion process remains to be completed. To expand the work into human oriented applications, full characterization of the electromagnetic field distribution inherent to the process is required as well as electrical characterization of human tissue.


A fundamental part of many authentication protocols which authenticate a party to a human involves the human recognizing or otherwise processing a message received from the party. Examples include typical implementations of Verified by Visa in which a message, previously stored by the human at a bank, is sent by the bank to the human to authenticate the bank to the human; or the expectation that humans will recognize or verify an extended validation certificate in a HTTPS context. This paper presents general definitions and building blocks for the modelling and analysis of human recognition in authentication protocols, allowing the creation of proofs for protocols which include humans. We cover both generalized trawling and human-specific targeted attacks. As examples of the range of uses of our construction, we use the model presented in this paper to prove the security of a mutual authentication login protocol and a human-assisted device pairing protocol.


In this study, a post optimization technique for a correction of inaccurate optimum obtained using first‐order reliability method (FORM) is proposed for accurate reliability‐based design optimization (RBDO). In the proposed method, RBDO using FORM is first performed, and then the proposed second‐order reliability method (SORM) is performed at the optimum obtained using FORM for more accurate reliability assessment and its sensitivity analysis. In the proposed SORM, the Hessian of a performance function is approximated by reusing derivatives information accumulated during previous RBDO iterations using FORM, indicating that additional functional evaluations are not required in the proposed SORM. The proposed SORM calculates a probability of failure and its first‐order and second‐order stochastic sensitivity by applying the importance sampling to a complete second‐order Taylor series of the performance function. The proposed post optimization constructs a second‐order Taylor expansion of the probability of failure using results of the proposed SORM. Because the constructed Taylor expansion is based on the reliability method more accurate than FORM, the corrected optimum using this Taylor expansion can satisfy the target reliability more accurately. In this way, the proposed method simultaneously achieves both efficiency of FORM and accuracy of SORM. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Metamaterial research is an extremely important global activity that promises to change our lives in many different ways. These include making objects invisible and the dramatic impact of metamaterials upon the energy and medical sectors of society. Behind all of the applications, however, lies the business of creating metamaterials that are not going to be crippled by the kind of loss that is naturally heralded by use of resonant responses in their construction. Under the general heading of active and tunable metamaterials, an elegant route to the inclusion of nonlinearity and waveguide complexity coupled to soliton behavior suggested by forms of transformation dynamics is presented. In addition, various discussions will be framed within a magnetooptical environment that deploys externally applied magnetic field orientations. Light can then be directed to achieve energy control and be deployed for a variety of outcomes. Quite apart from the fact that the manufacture of metamaterials is attracting such a lot of global attention, the ability to control light, for example, in these materials is also immensely interesting and will lead to a new dawn of integrated circuits and computers. Recognizing the role of nonlinearity raises the possibility that dramatic manufacturing and applications are on the horizon.


Abstract In the wake of the Teheran Conference of 1943, the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) adopted the political line that later became known as "Browderism." The Party dissolved itself in favor of a loose Communist Political Association, declared an effective end to the class struggle and argued that the war-time alliance of Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States could continue into the postwar era. The political content of "Browderism" scarcely changed until the eruption of the Cold War later in the 1940s. The British Communist Party, no less than that of the USA, had seen Teheran as an indication that in the postwar world there need be no return to the fierce class struggle characteristic of the prewar decades. It abandoned the insurrectionary model provided by the Bolsheviks, and set out to provide mettle for the wider labor movement rather than act as a vanguard party. Though some elements on the Party's left sternly criticized the leadership's post-Teheran policies, their comprehensive defeat ...


Objective: To ascertain the toxicity of current UK household products. Methods: Between 1 March 2008 and 30 April 2009 the UK National Poisons Information Service collected prospectively 5939 telephone enquiries relating to household products, approximately 12% of all telephone enquiries.

Results: The majority of enquiries (65.5%) concerned children five years of age or less and were received predominantly from hospitals (32.1%), general practitioners (29.8%) and NHS Direct/NHS 24 (28.5%). The majority of exposures occurred at home (97.6%); most exposures were accidental (93.6%). Liquid detergent capsules were most commonly involved (n = 647) followed by bleach (n = 473), multipurpose cleaners (n = 408), descalers (n = 397) and disinfectant/antiseptic/sanitiser liquids (n = 270). Intentional exposures were more likely to involve bleaches, multipurpose cleaners and disinfectant/antiseptic/sanitiser liquids. Exposure to household products occurred mainly as a result of ingestion (75.8%), with eye contact (8.4%), inhalation (6.9%) and skin contact (3.1%) being less common; 5.1% of enquiries involved multiple routes of exposure. The most commonly reported features were vomiting (ingestion), pain (eye contact), dyspnoea (inhalation) and burn (skin contact). In 5840 of 5939 enquiries the Poisoning Severity Score was known at the time of the enquiry. The majority of patients (70.5%) were asymptomatic, 28.0% had developed minor features, 75 patients had developed moderate features and nine patients had developed serious features (PSS 3). Five of these nine patients made a complete recovery, though two developed severe complications and two others died from poisoning with drain cleaner and PVC solvent cleaner; the outcome in two is unknown.

Conclusions: Household product exposures are common in the UK, in other parts of Europe1 and in the US2, though they rarely result in severe sequelae.


The utility model relates to an automatic clamping fixing type switch box, which is suitable for being used as the switch box of the switch and the plug of an electric appliance and other similar places. A round head positioning pin which can slide is arranged at the inner side face of a face plate along each of the both ends of a central line, the round head positioning pin points the porch of the face plate under the action of spring force, a positioning hole is arranged at the inner wall of a hidden box along each of the both ends of the central line, the face plate is buckled and rotated staggering definite angle corresponding to the hidden box in use, the positioning pin of the face plate is caused to enter the positioning hole of the hidden box, and accurate, reliable, and firm positioning connection can be obtained. Compared with the traditional switch boxes connected through screws, the utility model has the advantages of rapid assembly and disassembly, little possibility of damage, high safety, little possibility of danger of electric shock, electrical leakage, short circuit, etc., providing conditions for the decorative beautiful appearance of the face plate.


The programming contacts of a programmable hearing aid are selectively used as audio input. To this end an electronic switch is provided which is controlled by the memory block. By transmitting special data signals to the memory block the switch is switched on or off, respectively.


Several selectable genes have been reported for construction of filamentous fungal transformation vectors. Among the most widely used is the hygB (also known as hph) gene of E. coli, which is generally useful because the corresponding selective agent (hygromycin B) is toxic to wild type strains of many fungi and because scoring of transformants is usually unambiguous. We, and others (Avalos et al. 1989 Curr. Genet. 16:369-372), have found that the same merits are evident using bialaphos (or phosphinothricin) as a selective agent and the bar gene (DeBlock et al. 1987 EMBO J. 6:2513-2518), which encodes phosphinothricin acetyltransferase, as a selectable marker. We report here the construction of three vectors which carry bar as the selectable gene and have easily exchangeable parts as well as convenient cloning sites. Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 License. This regular paper is available in Fungal Genetics Reports: http://newprairiepress.org/fgr/vol39/iss1/15 Versatile fungal transformation vectors carrying the selectable bar gene of Streptomyces hygroscopicus B. Straubinger(1), E. Straubinger(1), S. Wirsel, G. Turgeon and O. Yoder Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853. (1)Current address: Consortium f. Elektrochem. Industrie GmbH, Zielstattstr. 20, D-8000 München 70, Germany Several selectable genes have been reported for construction of filamentous fungal transformation vectors. Among the most widely used is the hygB (also known as hph) gene of E. coli, which is generally useful because the corresponding selective agent (hygromycin B) is toxic to wild type strains of many fungi and because scoring of transformants is usually unambiguous. We, and others (Avalos et al. 1989 Curr. Genet. 16:369-372), have found that the same merits are evident using bialaphos (or phosphinothricin) as a selective agent and the bar gene (DeBlock et al. 1987 EMBO J. 6:2513-2518), which encodes phosphinothricin acetyltransferase, as a selectable marker. We report here the construction of three vectors which carry bar as the selectable gene and have easily exchangeable parts as well as convenient cloning sites. The first plasmid (pBP1) was constructed as follows. A 575 bp BamHI fragment carrying the bar coding region was inserted into the BamHI site of pUC18 (Yanish-Perron et al. 1985 Gene 33:103). A 631 bp SalI-DdeI fragment carrying the Cochliobolus heterostrophus Promoter 1 element (Turgeon et al. 1987 Mol. Cell. Biol. 7:3297-3305) was end-filled, attached to XbaI linkers, and inserted into the pUC18 XbaI site immediately 5' of the BamHI site, thus creating a Promoter 1::bar transcriptional fusion (Fig. 1). The second plasmid (pBP1T) was made by inserting a 470 bp AccI fragment (blunt-ended and attached to EcoRI linkers) from the 3' untranslated region of the C. heterostrophus TRP1 gene (Turgeon et al. 1986 Gene 42:79-88) into the EcoRI site of pBP1, thus providing a fungal terminator (Fig. 1). The junction regions were sequenced as shown below: Restriction enzyme sites are underlined or overlined. Linker and vector sequences are in lower case letters. The 3' end of the Promoter 1 (P1) fragment is shown fused to the XbaI linker. Both ends of the BamHI fragment carrying the bar gene are shown (internal sequences are omitted); the start codon is in bold type. The 5' end of the TRP1 terminator fragment is shown fused to the EcoRI linker. Published by New Prairie Press, 2017 Figure 1. Construction of plasmids pBP1, pBP1T and pBG. Steps in construction are described in the text. Restriction enzyme sites shown are either unique (for cloning) or points at which the sequences indicated in the text were inserted. amp = E. coli ampicillin resistance gene; ori = E. coli origin of replication; P1 = C. heterostrophus Promoter 1; bar = E. coli bialaphos resistance gene coding region; TRP1 = C. heterostrophus tryptophan biosynthetic gene terminator; GPD1 = C. heterostrophus glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene promoter. An important feature of these plasmids is that their relevant parts (promoter, coding region, terminator) can be readily removed or exchanged with other sequences, simply by digestion with the appropriate enzyme (XbaI, BamHI or EcoRI) and religation with or without a substitute fragment attached to the proper linkers. Note that some of the unused polylinker sites of pUC18 are no longer unique because they are also found in one or more of the inserts. Remaining cloning sites are EcoRI, SmaI, SacI and HindIII for pBP1 and HindIII only for pBP1T. The third plasmid (pBG) was made by inserting the 575 bp BamHI bar fragment into the BamHI site in the polylinker of the Bluescript vector pIIKS+. A 675 bp HindIII-MseI fragment bearing the promoter of the C. heterostrophus GPD1 gene (VanWert and Yoder 1992 Curr. Genet. in press), was end-filled and inserted into the SmaI site of pIIKS+, just 5' of the bar gene, thus creating a GPD1 promoter::bar transcriptional fusion (Fig. 1). A combination of sequencing and restriction enzyme analysis confirmed the junction regions as shown below. Conventions are as described above for pBP1T. Restriction enzyme sites in parentheses are nonfunctional. All three plasmids were used to transform C. heterostrophus, using standard procedures (Turgeon et al. 1987 Mol. Cell. Biol. 7:3297-3305). The protoplast regeneration medium for http://newprairiepress.org/fgr/vol39/iss1/15 DOI: 10.4148/1941-4765.1441 selection of transformants was modified to contain only osmoticum and Cochliobolus minimal salts (Leach et al. 1982 J. Gen. Microbiol. 128:1719-1729), solidified with 1% agarose and containing either bialaphos or phosphinothricin at a final concentration of 50-100 ug/ml. Complex media were avoided since phosphinothricin (a synthetic compound also known as glufosinate-ammonium, an analog of L-glutamic acid) specifically inhibits glutamine synthetase. Bialaphos, a naturally-occurring tripeptide consisting of phosphinothricin and two residues of Lalanine, is toxic to cells after it is converted to phosphinothricin by endogenous cellular peptidases which remove its L-alanine residues. The transformation frequency with each of the plasmids was 1-10 fast-growing and 50-500 slowgrowing colonies/ug plasmid DNA, comparable to the frequencies obtained using similar plasmids but with the hygB gene substituted for bar. Integration of either pBP1 or pBP1T into chromosomal DNA occurred at both Promoter 1 and at ectopic sites. Single and multiple plasmid copies were observed at either type of site. When transformants were crossed to wild type, the bar gene segregated as a single mendelian element, indicating that integration occurred at a single site in each case. pBP1 and pBP1T were also used to transform Colletotrichum graminicola, using procedures similar to those described for C. heterostrophus. Acknowledgements: The bar gene, in plasmid pGSFR1, was obtained from Plant Genetic Systems N.V., Laboratories Gent, Jozef Plateaustraat 22, B-9000 Gent, Belgium. Phosphinothricin was from Riedel de Haen AG, Wunstorferstrasse 40, D-3016 Seelze 1, Germany and bialaphos was from Meiji Seika Kaisha, Ltd., Research Laboratories, MorookaCho, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama 222, Japan. The work was funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Cornell Biotechnology Program; B.S. and S.W. were supported by fellowships from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Published by New Prairie Press, 2017


AIM:To make the fabrication of the molar resin crown with rapid prototyping (RP) technology. METHODS: By the CNC laser scan system, the wax pattern of full crown was scanned and the 3D shape was retrieved in the computer. Using the digital model, the crown was fabricated by RP system. RESULTS: The digital model was established and the resin crown was successfully made. CONCLUSION: The RP system can be applied in the fabrication of the molar resin crown.


It discloses a substrate cleaning apparatus which is capable of promoting easy cleaning operation and carry in / out the substrate for a flat panel display element in series. Such a substrate cleaning apparatus, and comprising a loading unit for loading the frame with the substrate and the first horizontal transfer part and the first loading / unloading the substrate from / to the horizontal transfer part side for transporting the substrate side to the other at one side of the frame a first transfer means for banchulip the second banchulip conveying means for being installed on the frame to lift the substrate from the loading unit of the first horizontal transfer unit mounted in the unloading state in which the carry in / out. Cleaning operations, carry in / out of the substrate, the first and second transfer means for banchulip, tack time improved.


This paper analyses the conditions of the importation and fabrication of the work of Max Weber in French sociology after the Second World War. Given the central place of "Weber" in US sociology and the force of attraction exercised by US sociology upon French sociologists in the 1950s, one could expect that the German author would almost naturally have become the most legitimate reference in French sociology. However, the actual reasons why Weber quickly achieved the status of sociologist par excellence are to be found rather in the specific social, political and intellectual conditions in the context of the institutionalization of French sociology around 1960. The sociological sanctification of "Weber" became possible especially due to the positions, dispositions and the specific history of Raymond Aron, the agent of the importation of Weber's work, and to Eric de Dampierre; since 1952 they strove to introduce "anticommunist" references into the French social sciences. Moreover, a closer look at the different uses of "Weber" in the Revue francaise de sociologie in the 1960s seems to show that the attraction for referring to the German author diminished progressively with the growing prevalence of quantifying empiricism in sociology. Hence, the case of "Weber" in France demonstrates that the "theoretical use" of an author might be a symbolically efficient instrument, but it is only through an "empirical use" of the work, a use that aims to mobilize it for a more complete explanation of social phenomenon, that the relevance of sociological production vis-A -vis other forms of cultural production can be proved and its autonomy effectively claimed.


Kidney stone is similar to a small rock that forms in the kidney. Stones are formed when certain chemicals in the body clump together. A stone may stay in the kidney or travel through the urinary system. Small stones may pass through the urinary system without causing greatly pain. Bigger stones can block the flow of urine if they get trapped in the ureters or urethra. Kidney stones usually didn't cause any symptoms until they start to pass. The present study was undertaken to investigate the anti nephrolithiasis activity of aqueous extract of Capparis decidua . Aqueous extract of Solanum xanthocarpum was administered via intraperitoneal route to albino wistar rat in two test doses 400mg/kg and 800 mg/kg. Experiment was performed for preventive and curative regimen. In preventive regimen aqueous extract of Capparis decidua (AECD) 800 mg/kg (57.35% relief) show greater creatinine clearance then standard drug cystone (34.54% relief) and in curative regimen cystone (125.33% relief) has greater effect then aqueous extract of Capparis decidua (AECD) 800 mg/kg (42.48% relief). Test drug show dose dependent therapeutic efficacy. Therapeutic effect of test drug increase with increasing dose.


A method for processing a video editing user interface executed in a mobile device with a touchscreen is disclosed. According to the present invention, a frame is acquired from a partial section of a video selected by a user at each predetermined frame acquisition interval, and is displayed in a first user interface area. After that, when the user drags any two frames among the displayed frames to a second user interface area on the other side of a screen, a video clip corresponding to a section between the selected two frames is created and inserted in a position on the timeline which corresponds to a point where the dragging is ended. Additionally, as the user touches two points on a first user interface at the same time and drags the two touched points such that the distance between the two touched points is away from or close to each other, a frame acquisition interval is dynamically reset, frames are acquired from the video, and the above processes are repeated.


The amount of erosion from raindrops has been linked to the rainfall characteristics such as rainfall intensity, drop diameter, rainfall kinetic energy and to the soil surface conditions (e.g. slope, soil moisture and bulk density). The aim of this study was to relate rain power (R, W m−2) to the rate of detachment of soil particles by raindrops and to evaluate effect of soil surface slope and rainfall intensity on erosion process.


After Laura believed in her students' goodwill, even that of her frequently misbehaving students, she was able to view student misbehavior in the same light that she viewed mistakes in academic learning. Mistakes call for teaching, not punishment. Thus, Laura applied the principles of good teaching to develop her approach to classroom discipline or to respond to misbehavior. She structured the environment to make it manageable, and she tried to provide each student with the scaffolding needed for success. If the student failed, she made adjustments and tried again. She exercised clear authority, but she also worked to respect her students' need for autonomy. She explicitly taught her students important social and emotional skills, such as how to regulate their emotions and how to guide their own behavior through self-talk.


Water and a certain amount of the beverage maker to brew the beverage from particulate material, downstream of the brew chamber of the water supply structure (7,9,11,45), the water supply structure (7,9,11,45) ( 13), and, downstream of the distribution channels of said brew chamber (13) (19; including 37). Boundary member (14) is adjustable so as to adjust the operation size of brew chamber (13), adjusting structure (23,24,25,26,27,28,29,32) is, the boundary member ( It is provided to adjust the 14). Adjusting structure (23,24,25,26,27,28,29,32) can be adjusted depending on the amount of particles present in the brew chamber (13).


In late 1984 the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California changed its primary disinfectant to chloramines to ensure that its member water agencies could comply with the 0.10-mg/L trihalomethane (THM) regulation. Subsequent taste and odor problems were determined to be an indirect consequence of chloramination, resulting from chloramines' lesser ability to oxidize odorous compounds released by certain microorganisms. The presence and possible sources of several off-odorants as well as various treatment schemes to remove them from drinking water are discussed. The effects of these treatment techniques on THM levels in the distribution system are also examined.


This paper proposes a hybrid PSOS-CGSA metaheuristics to solve the dynamic economic dispatch (DED) problem in power systems incorporating wind (WT) and photovoltaic (PV) generators. The DED model encompasses the valve-point effect and the ramp rate constraints of thermal generators and forecasting of WT and PV generation. The proposed approach minimizes the total operating cost over the day by optimizing the output powers of thermal generators according to the forecasted daily load profile and generation profile of WT and PV. In addition, the effect of WT and PV generation on total operating cost, total energy loss and toxic gasses emission is analyzed. The proposed approach is tested on a modified IEEE 30 bus system with 6-thermal generators, one WT and one PV generator. Simulation results shows that proposed PSOS-CGSA approach provides high-quality solutions of the DED problem.


We report results on the analysis of eleven new Milky Way open cluster candidates, recently discovered from the detection of stellar overdensities in the Vector Point diagram, by employing extreme deconvolution Gaussian mixture models. We treated these objects as real open clusters and derived their fundamental properties with their associated intrinsic dispersions by exploring the parameter space through the minimization of likelihood functions on generated synthetic colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs). The intrinsic dispersions of the resulting ages turned out to be much larger than those usually obtained for open clusters. Indeed, they resemble those of ages and metallicities of composite star field populations. We also traced their stellar number density profiles and mass functions, derived their total masses, Jacobi and tidal radii, which helped us as criteria while assessing their physical nature as real open clusters. Because the eleven candidates show a clear gathering of stars in the proper motion plane and some hint for similar distances, we concluded that they are possibly sparse groups of stars.


The accelerating deregulation of natural gas and electricity distribution is the third and most powerful wave of energy deregulation coursing through North America. The first wave (1978--92) provided the impetus for sculpting competitive markets in energy production. The second (1986--95) is now breaking to fashion competitive bulk logistical and wholesale consumption markets through open access on and unbundling of gas pipeline and storage capacity and high voltage transmission capacity. The third wave, the deregulation of gas and electric retail markets through open access and nondiscriminatory, unbundled local gas and electric distribution tariffs, began in the early 1990s. It will gather momentum for the next 5 years and crest at the turn of the century, affecting and molding almost $300 billion/year in retail energy sales. The transformation will have these strategic implications: (1) the convergent evolution of the gas and electric industries; (2) severe margin compression along the energy value chain from wellhead to busbar to the distribution pipes and wires; and (3) the rapid emergency of cyberspace retailing of energy products and services. The paper discusses merchant plants, convergence and producers, capital flows, producer federations, issues of scale, and demand, margins, and value.


Modern search engines have made dramatic progress in the answering of many user's questions about facts, such as those that might be retrieved or directly inferred from a knowledge base. However, many other questions that real users ask are more complex, such as asking for opinions or advice for a particular situation, and are still largely beyond the competence of the computer systems. As conversational agents become more popular, QA systems are increasingly expected to handle such complex questions, and to do so in (nearly) real-time, as the searcher is unlikely to wait longer than a minute or two for an answer. One way to overcome some of the challenges in complex question answering is crowdsourcing. We explore two ways crowdsourcing can assist a question answering system that operates in (near) real time: by providing answer validation, which could be used to filter or re-rank the candidate answers, and by creating the answer candidates directly. Specifically, we focus on understanding the effects of time restrictions in the near real-time QA setting. Our experiments show that even within a one minute time limit, crowd workers can produce reliable ratings for up to three answer candidates, and generate answers that are better than an average automated system from the LiveQA 2015 shared task. Our findings can be useful for developing hybrid human-computer systems for automatic question answering and conversational agents.


The objective of this research was to analyze the efficacy of the attack sequences performance using the goalkeeperfield player change and its consequences in the following defensive phase in the women ́s handball elite. The observational methodology was used. The observational design was punctual, nomothetic and multidimensional. The sample was 571 attack sequences from 50 matches from EHF Women ́s Handball Champion League 2018-2019. An ad hoc observational instrument was developed that presents the combination of field format and category systems. The quality of data was tested by inter and intra observer agreement. The results highlight that the main reason why the rule that makes the goalkeeper-field player change possible was used was to maintain numerical equality after having suffered a disciplinary sanction, and to a less extent to generate 7x6 numerical superiority. The effectiveness presented the highest values when used to generate numerical superiority. The 6x6 numerical equality situations throw worse values in both shooting efficacy and lost balls. It is concluded that the teams assume a significant risk of receiving a goal quickly if the attack does not end in goal, since the immediate defensive consequences are directly related to the effectiveness in the attack phase.


A series of novel indolocarbazole derivatives was designed and synthesized.The solvent was stu-died and the reaction conditions including solvent choice were optimized via easier operations.The cytotoxicities of the 9 target compounds were tested using MTT methods.The results indicate that compounds 4a,4b,4d,4f and 4i show better in vitro activities against HCT116 and P388 than positive control ED-571 did.Particularly,compound 4f is 10 times more potential against P388 than ED-571.


The present invention is a micro channel reactor for producing synthesis gas containing methane gas from that, it synthesis gas and more particularly comprising a catalyst composed of a porous nickel plate on the micro channel reactor for methane synthesis. In another aspect, the present invention is comprises a reaction product inlet pipe which synthesis gas is introduced consisting of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, and again to the upper plate, the plate bottom including a cooling fluid outlet pipe on the other upper side cooling fluid inlet pipe provided on the top plate further after the reaction at the lower side the lower plate including a product outlet pipe to be a product outflow containing the produced methane gas; The upper plate and are respectively provided between the lower plate, through the reactant inlet hole on each plate, a cooling fluid outlet through-hole, and the product outlet through-hole and the cooling fluid inlet port through-hole and having a micro channel, the lower heat exchanger; And the upper and lower heat exchanger is provided between the cooling fluid outlet through-hole and a cooling fluid inlet has a through-hole porosity nickel containing film, a porous nickel plate catalyst unit; synthetic natural containing methane from synthesis gas consisting of gas-producing relates to a microfluidic reactor. The microfluidic reactor provided by the present invention can easily control the heating involved in the methanation reaction of the synthesis gas.


Purpose: Bone stress transmission by an implant has been demonstrated to be inversely proportional to its rigidity. Since trabecular metal has a high elasticity modulus, it is hypothesised that it should have a preservative impact on bone mineral density (BMD) loss. No current studies prospectively compare BMD variations using such implants. Method: A randomized study recruiting 65 patients with osteoarthritis of the knee, were assigned to a cemented titanium or a non-cemented trabecular metal tibial base plate. Each patient had a DXA scan of the proximal tibia on the TKA side at two weeks, six months, one and two years follow-up. Analytic methods for DXA scans were standardized (Variation coefficient=0,59–0,84%), and BMD variation compared between groups using the Student t-Test. Results: Versus early post operative evaluation, BMD loss was found in the two groups. Fixed effects on BMD, such as patient's height (p Conclusion: Trabecular metal tibial base plate seems to diminish BMD loss under tibial implant compared to traditional titanium base plate. A long-term study will be necessary to determine the tibial trabecular metal component survival rate.


Excerpt Of the relatively uncommon symptom complexes which comprise the adrenogenital syndrome, female pseudohermaphrodism is the most frequently encountered. An almost uniform abnormality of sex d...


The purpose of this article is to describe how the life history teaching technique can be advantageously employed in the personal selling class. The technique is described and its strengths delineated. A study is outlined which assessed the effectiveness of the technique, relative to other teaching methods in widespread use in personal selling classes. It is suggested that life histories supplement, rather than replace, traditional methods.


The development of Internet demands more and more database information publish. The traditional developing method makes developers do heavy programming and provides no reusability. A universe based database information publish model was proposed in this paper. The data set, data manipulation and publish style universe which were provided by universe constructor using universe describe platform are stored respectively in the data dictionary layer. data manipulation layer and publish style layer. The universe parsing implement parsed the universe and construct a publish web page. This model customizes database information publish conveniently, makes the software reuse and relieves the developers of repeatedly similarly heavy programming.


Property declaration system as an important move against corruption in many countries have already established,is to effectively regulate the civil service acts as a basic system and international practice.At present,China has not established a comprehensive system of civil servants to declare assets,and the the property declaration system and the implementation of the provisions are not fully in place,and this problem needs to further study.


Mercury is usually added to skin lightening products because of its whitening effect. However, many cosmetics contain mercury above 1000 ppm to enhance the whitening effect. This research aimed to determine the effects of mercury use in whitening creams for the general public. This research used descriptive-qualitative approach, the method that used in this research is literature study which implemented by recording the previous findings regarding to the variables of conflict. Skin lightening products that contain mercury are available for sale via the Internet, promoted online on social media sites, and for sale via mobile applications. WHO states that more than 90 creams from 15 countries have detectable mercury concentrations below 1 ppm. Thirty-four creams (10% of the sample) were found to have high mercury levels, that is, above 1 ppm, in four of the 13 samples from Indonesia, overall, mercury concentrations in this particular product ranged from 93 ppm to over 16,000 ppm. Long-term adverse effects of using mercury cream on health include kidney damage, skin rashes, skin discoloration, and scarring, decreased skin resistance to bacterial and fungal infections, anxiety, and depression.


A glass fibre epoxy resin laminate was prepared from a flexible thermosetting resin and a `plain weave' glass cloth. Experiments in simple tensile creep were carried out on strips cut with their long dimensions at various angles to the warp threads in the glass cloth. It was found that each of these strips showed essentially linear creep behaviour over the limited range of loads and times covered. The creep compliance varied systematically with direction, being as much as twenty times smaller in the warp and weft directions as at 45° to these directions. It was found that the shape of the creep compliance-orientation curves was similar for all times, and the behaviour can therefore conveniently be described by two curves, a master curve of reduced creep compliance as a function of direction and a curve of reduction factor against time. The significance of both these curves is discussed in terms of an extension of linear visco-elasticity theory to the case of anisotropic materials. It is shown that the variation of creep compliance with direction is similar in form to the variation of elastic compliance with direction in orthorhombic anisotropic elastic materials.


Respiration is a fundamental phenomenon to sustain life for every living organism. It is a mode of exchanging pure and impure gases to and from the body respectively for providing oxygen to blood for catalyzing in metabolic activity of macromolecules, and removing of carbon dioxide (waste product of metabolism) from the blood. Human respiratory tract plays a transport mode for the gaseous exchange between the environment and alveoli sac. It consists of upper, middle and terminated tract, of which the middle part is of concern for the authors. Airflow in the mid part (tracheal zone) has been studied for turbulent flow domain. Input parameters for the flow have been extracted from the ventilated data of the bronco-pulmonary patients, whereas the tracheal designing has been achieved by extracting the chest CT data obtained from the same subject. Raw CT data is formularized in an image processing domain Mimics to get a 3 dimensions view of the trachea. Invitro simulation is obtained on a CFD platform. Profiles of pressure, velocity, turbulent kinetic energy are obtained for regional domain for 3 cases of turbulent flow. A comparative study within the branches has been done for all the three parameters. All the analysis has been performed in CGS unit. It is found that all the three parameters showed significant variations at different level of bifurcations, at different orientation of flow branching, adding the gravitational effect on the three parameters significantly. The observations from the study are likely to be handy for the application specialist of aerosol injection in the patients of concern.


Device for generating short high current pulses in a coil, the coil generates magnetic field pulses with a duration from 20 to 3000 microseconds in duration and a thickness of 0.1 to 5 Tesla, according to the principle of electromagnetic induction electric in the body tissue stimulation currents for stimulation of nerve and / or cause muscle cells, wherein the device comprises at least one capacitor for storing and dispensing of the required for the field pulses of energy and a suitable charging circuit for charging this capacitor, and that the coil is adapted to and being close enough to lovely body tissue can be positioned so that the magnetic field generated by the coil falls within the intended target area at most a tenth of the thickness at the coil surface, and wherein the induced by the magnetic field of the coil electrical stimulus currents at least one tenth and at most at five times the for irritation of the Z ellen needed stimulation currents are. The device in the coil may generate a current pulse whose timing is such that an electric field induced by the coil, in which the average slope of rising edges descending from the mean edge steepness is different flanks.


There is no doubt among scholars engaged in the field of comparative research that vocational training systems are determined by a specific 'philosophy' or 'intrinsic logic' which gives them the character of 'black boxes' as they have to be understood 'in relation to other societal institutions' including the labour market, the economy, the system of industrial relations and of course the system of government (Raffe, 1998, p391). With this premise in mind, looking at vocational training in a merely institutional manner by using the state function as the crucial tertium comparationis (for example Greinert, 1988) reduces the potential of gaining insight into what may be called the 'training culture' of a given country. The title of this paper refers to 'apprenticeship cultures' and therefore to a specific learning arrangement in the area of vocational training which, despite its medieval origins and 'oldfashioned' terminology, seems to remain a pivotal topic of national and international training policies. This is especially true for Anglophone countries such as the UK or Australia where apprenticeships have been revitalised or reframed in recent years due to dissatisfaction with both school-based skill formation as well as traditional on-the-job training (Ryan, 2001; Canning, 2001; Deissinger, 2003; Harris & Deissinger, 2003; Deissinger, 2004a).


The world is full of sources of sound. As I write this review, I can hear the humming of the word processor, the creaking of a door in the wind, the distant rumble of an aeroplane, the passage of a car close by, a bird twittering, my neighbour talking on his doorstep, music from his son's hi-fi, and someone speaking on the radio in the next room. Although each source generates a particular pattern of changes in air-pressure, the changes have summed together by the time they reach my ears, yet I perceive each source distinctly. What principles of perceptual grouping and segregation do listeners use to partition such mixtures of sound? Which principles are applied automatically to all sounds? Which are specialized for particular classes of sound, such as speech? In what ways have the principles been exploited in musical composition? These are the major concerns of this lengthy, scholarly, but readable book. Bregman's approach is functional not physiological, empirical not computational. He provides a comprehensive review and interpretation of perceptual experiments up to about 1989, so his book pre-dates recent attempts to implement auditory grouping principles in computational models and to find a physiological substrate for them. One important distinction is sustained throughout the book. Bregman argues that there are two kinds of principle for auditory grouping and segregation: "schema-based'' and "primitive". Schema-based principles are specific to particular types of source. They are learnt by listeners, and their application is under attentional control. One example may be the use of the knowledge of the timbre of an instrument to follow its part in an ensemble. Another example may be the use of phonetic knowledge to integrate acoustic cues in speech perception. Primitive grouping principles, in contrast, are innate, learnt through evolution. They automatically exploit fundamental physical properties of sounds and sound sources. For example: the sizes of resonators generally change slowly; they often generate energy simultaneously over a wide frequency range; when they vibrate, they create energy at the discrete


Environmental pollution caused by anthropogenic emissions is a growing concern throughout the world; volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are the main constituents that make up the emissions. In handling VOCs, adsorption is considered the most efficient method to date. Engineers have been intensively studied the synthesis and usage of metal–organic frameworks (MOF) as versatile adsorbents for many types of VOC. Improving adsorption efficiency and performance is a routine agenda in the development of the MOF; prior to achieving an efficient MOFs as VOCs adsorbents, insight to MOF-key features such as structure, pore, and the functional group is very crucial. To this end, several topics related to adsorption of VOCs by MOF is discussed; specifically, the adsorption performance of some MOFs against VOCs, the effect of some key-features of MOF to the adsorption performance, the development of MOF composite for improvement of adsorption performance, analytical method for modeling the adsorption, and factors influencing the adsorption performance.


A process for preparing the iron modified montmorillonite used to remove phosphorus and nitrous-state nitrogen from the culturing water includes immersing montmorillonite in distilled water to obtainsuspension, laying aside, depositing, extracting, centrifugal drying to obtain nano montmorillonite, sodium reaction of Ca-base montmorillonite, preparing FeCl3 as modifying liquid, modifying, centrifugal drying to obtain modified montmorillonite F3M1, washing and centrifugal drying to obtain modified montmorillonite FeM2. Its advantages are high adsorption power and capacity.


In 1993, the Department of Health of England and Wales introduced strict guidelines, updated in 1998, in an attempt to prevent health-care worker (HCW)-topatient transmission of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in the UK (Department of Health, 1993, 1998). Thus, hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg)-positive HCW were not allowed to practice exposure-prone procedures (EPP) because of their assumed high virus load and the associated risk of transmission. However, it is now common knowledge that hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)-positive carriers who have antibodies to HBeAg (i.e. anti-HBepositive) may also have high levels of HBV DNA. Their viruses often have variants of the pre-core region of the genome that are believed to prohibit HBeAg production (Carman et al., 1989). The range of HBV DNA levels in anti-HBe-positive carriers is wide and overlaps the generally higher levels associated with HBeAg. HBV DNA levels between 10 and 10 genomes ml 1 can be found in either HBeAgor antiHBe-positive persons (Martinot-Peignoux et al., 2002). Anti-HBe-positive HCW with HBV DNA levels from just below 10 genomes ml 1 upwards have been proven to transmit HBV to patients during a variety of EPP; usually gynaecological, general or cardiothoracic surgery (Heptonstall et al., 1997). Based on the known virus loads of those HCW and the evidence that viraemia levels can fluctuate by a log in either direction over time, the Advisory Group on Hepatitis in the UK, a formally constituted committee of the Departments of Health of England and Wales, recommended that all HCW with a viraemia above 1 3 10 genomes ml 1 should not be allowed to perform EPP (Departments of Health, 2000). It stipulated that all HBsAg-positive, antiHBe-positive HCWs wishing to continue to practice EPPs must send two separate serum samples, taken a week apart (to obviate handling errors and to measure any short-term fluctuation in level), for determination of HBV DNA level in each of two laboratories, Glasgow and Birmingham. We believe that all known HBsAg-positive HCWs performing EPP in the UK at the time of issuance of this guideline have now been tested. Overall, 42% of these HCW were allowed to continue EPP based on their low HBV DNA level. Those HCWs excluded from EPP practice may be allowed back after antiviral therapy, but only if their HBV DNA level remains below 10 genomes ml 1 for at least a year after cessation of treatment. However, even at that stage, readmission is not automatic; the HCW must apply to the Department of Health to be allowed to restart EPP. Here, we review the guidelines and ask if they should be modified.


The establishment of Ex-Gratia is a good effort by the government to look after the welfare of its workers in terms of financial compensation for occupational related injuries and diseases. The scheme should be treated as employer's liability similar to those as SOCSO schemes rather than an incentive to government servant. Ex-Gratia Compensation Scheme existence still not being aware by public majority especially government servant. The factors are the lack of promotion and knowledge to attract people to aware of the services. Therefore, the research is conduct to study the level of awareness towards this scheme among SOCSO employees in Johor.


The goal of the current work is to develop a spatial and temporal forecasting for profiling consumption patterns in water distribution systems. This profiling is based on the socio-demographic, billing and infrastructure analysis of each water sector. Water distribution systems are typically designed based on a set of considerations (e.g. average per capita water consumption, percentage of water losses, peak factors), instead of using information related to the actual characteristics of each water sector. There are few systematic studies that allow the profiling of domestic water consumption in terms of consumption variables (e.g. minimum consumption, instantaneous peaking factor, daily peaking factor) or in terms of the daily average behaviour for a certain weekday or season. This research aims at contributing to filling this gap. A modified methodology based on Loureiro (2010) is proposed using extensive flow measurements provided by water utilities in Portugal. New methods for calculating socio-demographic indexes and for detecting and classifying outlying events are developed. Socio-demographic indexes are calculated using a geoprocessing tool initially developed by Loureiro (2010) in a Geographic Information System (GIS) that has been significantly improved in the present work. Indexes are calculated using recently published census data. Concerning the main outputs of this work, a socio-demographic, billing and infrastructure framework is presented and the profiling of network flows is carried out at the District Metered Area (DMA) level. Consumption profiling provides average demand patterns for different consumer profiles (e.g. young families, elder families), empiric relations for estimating design parameters (e.g. peaking factors, average consumption) and operational parameters (e.g. minimum night flow) for different seasonal scenarios (e.g. Summer, Winter) and daily scenarios (e.g. weekdays, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays). Results are coherent with previous studies. This contribution considerably reduces the uncertainty in planning and operation of water distribution systems, thereby improving the efficiency and sustainability of these systems.


Introduction With nearly 6 years of observations of medium-degree acoustic modes from the GONG network and the MDI instrument aboard SOHO, we are able to use helioseismology to probe the dynamics of the convection zone in unprecedented detail. We have analyzed 52 overlapping 108-day periods of GONG data, starting on dates 36 days apart, and 22 non-overlapping 72-day periods of MDI data. In addition, the MDI data have been reanalyzed in overlapping 108-day periods matching the cadence of the GONG data. Together, these data sets cover the period from May 1995 to December 2000, encompassing the end of the previous solar cycle and most of the rising phase of the current one. Two two-dimensional inversion techniques – Regularized Least Squares (RLS) and Optimally Localized Averages (OLA) were used to infer the rotation profiles as a function of latitude and radius. The radial measurements are expressed as fractions of the solar radius R: 0.01R is equivalent to about 7Mm. These observations reveal the substantial (60 Mm) penetration into the convection zone of the banded zonal flows associated with the torsional oscillation. Furthermore, the data show periodic variations in rotation rate at and below the base of the convection zone with a surprising 1.3 year period. These discoveries further underscore the complexity of the dynamics within the convection zone, and offer new challenges for theoretical models.


Introduction: Environment and perceptions about it play an important role in educational performance and its associated processes. Study of these relationships is valuable in educational process improvement. Therefore, this study investigated the relationship between perceived classroom assessment and achievement objectives with nursing students' academic achievement. Methods: This descriptive correlative study included undergraduate B.A students of nursing and midwifery school in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences who were enrolled within 20112012. A sample (n-220) was selected through stratified random sampling based on gender. Participants completed perceived classroom assessment, and Midgly et al's goal orientation questionnaire. Also, students' grand point averages were used to measure academic achievement. Data was analyzed using LISREL software using appropriate statistical tests according to variable types such as Pearson correlation coefficients and path analysis. Results: There was a significant negative relationship between perceived mastery classroom assessment and academic achievement (r= -0.20, p<0.01). On the other hand, a relationship was observable between approach goals and academic achievement (r= 0.24, p<0.01). Also there was a significant positive relationship between mastery goals and perceived learning-oriented classroom assessment (r= 0.21, p<0.01). The causal model about relationship between mastery based class assessment and academic achievement mediated by achievement goals orientation was confirmed. Conclusion: Structures of classroom assessment can affect objective-based achievement procedures and academic performance. Therefore the type of evaluation and its consequents should be considered in developing educational methods.


Two independent and hypothesis-free genome-wide association studies were carried out to find novel susceptibility genes for Crohn's disease (CD), which is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the bowel. In a first sequence-based and "direct" scan, approximately 20,000 nonsynonymous SNPs, which result in a change in protein sequence, were typed. The second "indirect" map-based scan comprised about 100,000 evenly distributed SNPs.


Analytic results are given for the power spectrum of continuous-phase modulation (CPM) signals employing the correlative coding polynomials 1, (1+D)/2, (1−D m )/2, and (1+xD+D 2 )/(2+x) (for all x≥0) and arbitrary pulse shapes of one symbol period duration. The results are illustrated for rectangular pulses (CPFSK) and modulation indices corresponding to minimum shift keying (MSK) with special emphasis on the fractional power bandwith and selfsynchronizing capabilites of the signals when passed through a square-law nonlinearity


One of the fundamental problems in theoretical electrocardiography can be characterized by an inverse problem. In this paper, we present new methods for achieving better estimates of heart surface potential distributions in terms of torso potentials through an inverse procedure. First, an adaptive meshing algorithm is described which minimizes the error in the forward problem due to spatial discretization. We have found that since the inverse problem relies directly on the accuracy of the forward solution, adaptive meshing produces a more accurate inverse transfer matrix. Secondly, we introduce a new local regularization procedure. This method works by breaking the global transfer matrix into sub-matrices and performing regularization only on those sub-matrices which have large condition numbers. Furthermore, the regularization parameters are specifically 'tuned' for each sub-matrix using an a priori scheme based on the L-curve method. This local regularization method provides substantial increases in accuracy when compared to global regularization schemes. Finally, we present specific examples of the implementation of these schemes using models derived from magnetic resonance imaging data from a human subject.


In today's world, the number of road accidents that occur is increasing very rapidly. Some of these road accidents are minor whereas some of them may seriously injure people or even take their lives. These road accidents may involve collision of vehicles with each other or crashing the vehicles on to the buildings or others. Road accidents may even result in the death of people. It is estimated that the total deaths due to road accidents in India is around 1,50,000 per year which is approximately 400 accidents per day. Almost 3 lives are lost in every 10 minutes due to road accidents. one of the main factors that lead to road accidents are fatigue and drowsiness. Some popular methods that detect drowsiness use ECG and EEG, which are very complex. Even though these approaches are very precise, they require human involvement and have limitations that make them unsuitable for real-time driving. We're working on a technique to detect drowsiness in driver by monitoring the eyes and mouth while they're driving. The proposed method uses python along with two libraries OpenCV and dlib for facial landmark detection. A mathematical values Eye Aspect Ratio (EAR) and Mouth Aspect Ratio (MAR) is then calculated for determining whether the eyes are closed or not and weather the person is Yawning, The proposed systems detects these signs and plays an alarm.


Networks may appear to enhance democracy and abolish hierarchy, yet their many undemocratic implications are rarely examined. To quote Zbigniew Brzezinski, they "obscure asymmetries of power and influence." The people's voice is attenuated by silent partners in organizations and public institutions. The networks examined include public-private partnerships, informal summitry, stakeholder conferences, client-patron relationships and interlocking directorates. Participants in network governance include citizens, non -governmental organizations, political parties, governments, inter-governmental organizations, private profit making corporations and non-profit corporations, especially foundations. We maintain that some participants in network governance are vastly more powerful than others. As for "civil society" organizations, support from corporate or private foundations is essential to almost all civil rights, social justice or environmental organizations that wish to be viable and visible; the funders exert control in many ways. Freedom of speech and association, surely requisites for democracy, are thereby diminished, as the beneficiaries are compelled to self-censorship.


PURPOSE
To evaluate caries among nursery-school children.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
Clinical examination was carried out in 1123 children (568 girls and 555 boys), aged 6-47 months, who attended 33 nursery schools located in a large city (Poznan, Poland). The research was done by experienced dentists in accordance with the criteria set by the World Health Organization for epidemiological studies. The obtained data determined the frequency of caries and the number and surfaces of teeth with carious lesions. In Poznan, drinking water is not artificially fluoridated.

RESULTS
The prevalence of caries in the general population was 7.21%. The mean number of teeth affected by caries in the whole population was 0.26 (0.24 for girls and 0.28 for boys), whereas the mean number of tooth surfaces affected by caries was 0.37 (0.32 and 0.41, respectively). In the maxilla, most of the carious lesions were located in the incisors; in contrast, in the mandible, they were in the molars. Only 3 of the examined children had prior fillings.

CONCLUSIONS
Currently, preventive and curative dental care for nursery-school-age children is unsatisfactory. The results obtained indicate the need for monitoring the oral health of young children.


Bronchus fistulae are rare, but a severe complication after a radical lung cancer surgery. In our opinion, pedicled intercostal muscle flap is simple and effective method for prevention and/or treatment of a bronchus fistulae. During the last 5 years (2012 - 2017) 29 patients underwent VATS with intercostal flap procedure. Indication for flap surgery was postoperative bronchus fistula (6), bronchus sleeve insufficiecy (1) (Pict.1.)
and a prophylactic bronchus (stump/sleeve) cover (22). Patient characteristics, long-term outcome and postoperative complications were evaluated by analysing patient medical entries and surgical reports. The mean age of the patients was 64.4+/-5 years. The mean VATS lobectomy time with bronchus covering for neo-adjuvantly treated patients was 218 minutes; furthermore, routine VATS lobectomy time was 150 minutes. There were no deaths after intercostal muscle flap surgery; postoperative stay was 12 days (9-28 days). All patients were re-evaluated postoperatively and showed no signs of fistula recurrence. Our study showed that plastic-reconstructive flap surgery with intercostal muscle flap is a simple and safe procedure. It could be performed during VATS anatomical resection as prophylactic step; this would increase the operation time by 15 minutes however minimise postoperative fistulae rate in high risk patient group. This method is also effective for the treatment of postoperative bronchial fistulae.


In this essay I consider the challenges of asserting one's subjectivity in a postmodern context. I offer that though to do so is a contested endeavor, writing qualitatively helps render lives coherent and meaningful especially when confronting a world that is often brutal, hostile, and dehumanizing.


In this paper, we consider digital receding horizon control for a continuous-time plant by a sampled-data approach. We first present a piecewise constant robust model predictive control for uncertain linear systems. Then, using an uncertain linear system as a design model, we introduce feedback tuning to robust model predictive control to compensate model mismatch and disturbances. The solution procedures proposed in this paper are formulated as optimization problems subject to linear matrix inequalities. The conditions for closed-loop stability of the sampled-data control system when the proposed receding horizon control procedures are employed are also established. Finally, we present a numerical example to demonstrate the effectiveness of the control procedures.


The formation of single and multiple stacking faults that sometimes give rise to 3C-SiC was observed in a highly doped n-type 4H-SiC epilayer following thermal oxidation. Transmission electron microscopy following oxidation revealed single stacking faults and bands of 3C-SiC within a 4H-SiC matrix in the epilayer. In addition to the 3.22 eV photon energy peak corresponding to 4HSiC, depth-resolved cathodoluminescence spectroscopy at 25 C based on low energy-excited electron nanoscale luminescence revealed a spectral peak at 2.5 eV photon energy that was not present in the sample prior to oxidation. The polytypic transformation is tentatively attributed to the motion of Shockley partial dislocations on parallel (0001) slip planes. The generation and motion of these partials may have been induced by the stresses that were generated during oxidation, and/or the epilayer stresses generated by change in lattice constant due to its heavy doping. Introduction Single crystal 4H-SiC is currently the polytype of choice for the fabrication of silicon carbide high power devices, including prototype power metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors. This is largely due to its high electron mobility and the near isotropy of the mobility in directions parallel and perpendicular to the crystallographic c-axis. Considerable progress has been made toward the improvement of the gate oxide quality [1] in terms of reducing interface traps and improving inversion channel mobility, and also in the reduction of 4H-SiC crystal defect density [2]. However, little investigation has been conducted to understand how thermally induced surface and sub-surface modification impacts device electrical characteristics. The polymorphic nature of SiC raises the possibility that structural relaxation, i.e., polytype phase transitions, can occur under certain conditions. Previously, it has been shown that phase changes may occur in SiC under applied thermomechnanical stress [3]. Pirouz et al. have shown polytypic transformation to occur in single crystal SiC when subjected to external mechanical loading [4] while Vlaskina and Shin [5] induced 6H-SiC to 3C-SiC polytypic transformation under vacuum conditions at temperatures between 1800 C and 2000 C. In this work, we present results for interface states and structural changes due to extended polytype transformations at 4H-SiC surfaces and interfaces. In addition, we show that the energies observed via low energy electron-excited nanoscale luminescence (LEEN) spectroscopy are consistent with the structural features evident in cross sectional transmission electron microscopy (TEM). In studying the effects of oxidation on the surface and sub-surface of 4H-SiC of various doping levels to understand its effect on the electrical characteristics of metal/SiC contacts, we have observed 4H-SiC to 3C-SiC polytypic transformation in heavily doped (1.7x10cm) epilayer samples. Experimental In order to carry out optical studies on metal-SiC contacts, we used representative contact overlayers of Ti/Pt that were thin enough to transmit significantly in the visible wavelength region. Pt/Ti/4H-SiC interfaces were formed by sputter deposition of 1-2 nm Ti followed by 2-3 nm Pt on chemically treated SiC samples all from the same wafer. The 4H-SiC wafers consisted of 2 μm thick, n-type (Nd = 1.7 x 10 19 cm) epilayer grown 8 off the basal (0001) plane on 4 Ω-cm p-type substrates. Our studies followed the same sequence of process steps used conventionally to remove surface contamination and structural damage prior to ohmic contact formation. This sequence of process steps was incorporated into the design of experiment shown in Fig 1. First, the sample was cleaned with acetone and methanol (henceforth termed 'SC'). After this solvent clean, the set was split in two with one sub-set put aside for bare surface Xray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and TEM analyses and the other to be metallized and analyzed by LEEN, XPS, and current-voltage (I-V) measurement (henceforth termed SCM). The remaining samples were dry oxidized at 1150°C for 4 h, after which the oxide was stripped with 49% HF acid and the surface rinsed with deionized (DI) water and then p-cleaned, which consists of 1:1 volume ratio of H2SO4 and H2O2 solution; henceforth these samples are termed OSP. This set was split in two with one sub-set put aside for bare surface analyses and the other half was metallized by the sputter deposition of Ti(1 nm)/Pt(2 nm) (this sub-set is henceforth termed OSPM) for LEEN, XPS, analyses and I-V measurements. Results and discussions We used LEEN spectroscopy, a low energy form of cathodoluminescence spectroscopy (CLS) to characterize the energies of electronic states as a function of distance from the SiC interfaces [6]. CLS and LEEN spectroscopy involve the excitation of electron-hole pairs by an incident electron beam. The electron beam generates a cascade of secondary electrons that lose energy to plasmons and subsequently electron–hole pair creation. The optical signal results from radiative recombination of these free electrons and holes. Energy loss in electron cascade and, therefore excitation depth, U0, varies with incident beam voltage EB . Figure 2a depicts the LEEN spectra of the metallized solvent cleaned sample. A 3.22 eV photon energy peak is observable at EB = 0.8 keV (U0 = 6 nm, including the metal), which peaks more sharply at higher EB with further penetration into the epilayer. This energy corresponds to the near band edge (NBE) emission of 4H-SiC, and it is the only such peak evident in this sample. Emission observed at lower photon energies corresponds to a broad 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 Photon Energy (eV) 2.0 eV 3.2 eV 5 L u m in es ce n ce I n te n si ty ( ar b . u n it s)


Vegetation cover and composition are important aspects of the dryland environment because they provide livelihood to humans and also protect soil resources against erosion. Currently, scientists are advancing various techniques for detecting vegetation degradation in the drylands and the possibilities for its control. This study contributed through the testing of time-series mixed-effects modelling of the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and rainfall relationship to trace the footprints of vegetation dynamics in the drylands. The approach aimed at providing guidelines for quick diagnosis of the changes in vegetation cover and composition to trigger necessary action. The mixed-effects technique used in this study is a novel regression approach for simultaneous modelling of the NDVI–rainfall relationship in different dominant vegetation types. Its time-series application with Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) NDVI images between 1982 and 2008 was tested in eastern Kenya. The results show how the original dominant vegetation types had been converted to cereal croplands, open grasslands, or reduced to bare ground in a span of 27 years. In some places, it shows how the changes in vegetation composition resulted in the overall loss of vegetation cover. Field validation positively confirmed these observations; thus, indicating that the method was a promising tool for tracing vegetation dynamics in the drylands. In spite of its success, the method was found to be only useful in detecting changes in large areas with dominant vegetation types. The technique can therefore be recommended for regional analysis, and can be used as a first approximation to guide more detailed subsequent analysis.


Image segmentation is one of the main phases in the image processing which is processed for separation of image pixels in to significant image regions. These regions are matched to objects, individual surfaces, and occlusion boundary estimation within motion or stereo systems, natural parts of objects which are used for object recognition, image compression or image editing. It is very challenging process to segment the deferent objects of the image. For that we have proposed a method for Automatic Multi Stage Image Segmentation Based on Normalized Cut in Gradient Image. There are three main steps in order to segment the image. During the first step, edge-preserving statistical noise reduction approach is used as a pre-processing stage in order to enhance the image. Then an accurate estimate of the image gradient is computed. In second step we separate the image into several regions, and then segments are produced locally from each of the image cells. Finally in the third stage segmentation and possible merging is carried out. As a result we get meaningful segments which are our required output.


and to the flour the moisture distribution the dough structure. Inulin and resistant starch are two types of prebiotics. Inulin is a water-soluble dietary fiber that is not absorbed by the enzymes at the upper section of he the digestive system and is partially fermented and metabolized by the microbial flora of the colon. Digestion-resistant starch is prebiotic that acts as a food fiber and adds to the nutritional value. It can also improve the structure of the final product. the about benefits of prebiotics has in functional foods in bakery products. the effect of the prebiotics ( i.e. inulin and resistant starch) on rheological properties of baguette bread starch starch starch starch intervals. Accordingly, after 45, 90 and 135 min, the control treatment had the highest extensibility whereas the treatment with 5% inulin + 5% resistant starch (based on flour weight) had the lowest level of this parameter within these times. The increases in strength and stability of the doughs were caused by strong links between glutens and these prebiotics, which reduced the dough extensibility. The results showed that the highest dough ratio number after 45, 90 and 135 min belonged to the treatment with 5% inulin + 5% resistant starch (based on flour weight). The lowest ratio number was recorded for the control in these time periods. The gluten was the main factor behind dough stability. The large amount of hydroxyl groups in the structure of inulin and resistant starch led to formation of a better structured three-dimensional gluten lattice. In general, by taking all parameters into account, the treatment with 5% inulin + 5% resistant starch was selected as the best treatment.


Teenagers are a growth period that requires higher nutrients such as iron. Factors that can affect the incidence of anemia are the knowledge and attitudes of teenagers. The result of previous studies showed that the average level of knowledge, attitude, and prevention of nutritional anemia in teenager girls in the working area of the Kedungbanteng health center 1 was still low. Nutrition education that was started often used is peer education. This study purpose to analyze the influence of nutrition education on increasing knowledge and attitude of peer educator in the effort of peer education development about prevention of anemia incidence. The method research is quasi-experimental with pretest and posttest design. The sampling technique using a total sampling of 49 teenagers in the working area of Kedungbanteng health center. The result of the statistical test using a wilcoxon test. The result showed that there is a difference of knowledge and attitude of peer educator after given nutrition education ( p = 0,000 ; p = 0,000). There is a difference of knowledge and attitude of peer educator after given nutrition education.


From the stems of Cynomorium songaricum Rupr. (Cynomoriaceae), ursolic acid and its hydrogen malonate were isolated as inhibitory substances against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV‐1) protease. Their 50% inhibitory concentrations (IC50) were 8 μM and 6 μM, respectively. Of various dicarboxylic acid hemiesters of related triterpenes synthesized, the inhibitory activities tended to increase in the order of oxalic, malonyl, succinyl and glutaryl hemiesters of triterpenes such as ursolic acid, oleanolic acid and betulinic acid. The most potent inhibition was observed for the glutaryl hemiesters with IC50 of 4 μM. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


The response of a 3-span integral abutment bridge to environmental conditions and traffic loads was evaluated through field monitoring and detailed 3-D finite element (FE) modeling. The field-measured data indicates that axial compressive stresses developed in steel girders due to constrained expansion during summer may affect the stability of the steel girders. The FE model was used to investigate the bridge response under the effect of dead load, temperature variations as well as live load. The FE-calculated lateral deformation of the steel girders was used to determine the effective length factor k(sub)b, which was found to be much less than the AASHTO recommended value. Using the 3-D FE-calculated effective length factor, the calculation of the stability ratio under identical loading conditions was found to satisfy the AASHTO criteria, leading to the conclusion that the AASHTO standards are overly conservative. This raises the need for more accurate solutions to predict lateral buckling behavior of composite I girders.


CapX Partners has provided $100 million in financing to Ziosk. Dallas, Texas-based Ziosk is a restaurant tablet maker. PRESS RELEASE (CHICAGO, IL, September 24, 2015) CapX Partners (CapX) announced today the closing of a loan facility that can grow to...


Presents an outline of post‐Soviet Lithuanian attempts to bring national standards of bibliographic practice into line with those of the international community. Perceives international bibliographic standards as the tools of international integration of library and information work. UNIMARC is one of the first to be implemented in Lithuanian libraries and is used as a national and inner format. It is closely linked to the international standard bibliographic description. The Centre of Bibliography and Book research is working on the translation of ISBDs. Together with the Paris principles and UNIMARC/Authoritiesthey will serve as a basis for Lithuanian national cataloguing rules. Universal decimal classification is used in subject cataloguing in Lithuanian libraries. International standard publication numbers (ISSN, ISBN, ISMN) are mandatory elements of the catalogue records in computerized library stystems. The implementation of international bibliographic standards in Lithuania is supported by IFLA and...


The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of social intelligence on workplace spirituality. Data were collected from 71 graduate students in MBA program at a selected public university in Thailand through the Tromso Social Intelligence Scale (TSIS) and the Workplace Spirituality Scale. Multiple regressions analysis was computed to examine the impacts of three social intelligence's components on each dimension of workplace spirituality. Results indicated no statistically significant influence of social intelligence on conditions for community. On the other hand, findings revealed statistically significant effects of social skills (s = .666, p = .001) and social awareness (s = .277, p = .002) on meaning of work. Also, results found that social information process (s = .314, p = .012) and social skills (s = .254, p = .040) had a positive significant influence on inner life. Findings of this present study were new knowledge, which create a body of knowledge in this area


Western history of thought is the history of metaphysics,metaphysics leads to Being's forgotten and thing's vanished.On the basis of criticizing the definition of thing in western metaphysics,Heidegger uncovered western metaphysics' all covers of thing.From Dasein in the early period,the work of art in the middle period to listen to language in the later period,these constitute Heidegger's thought way that is getting to thingness itself,approaching continuously.For Heidegger,get to thing itself,it means: get to Being itself,get to thingness itself.Only listen to language,let thing as thing,can man get to thingness itself,furthermore,can man realize poetic dwelling.


A lack of intelligent automation of control systems in the UK's non-domestic buildings, or the ineffective use of these systems, goes some way to explaining why buildings today produce around 37% of the UK's carbon emissions, split approximately 60/40 between domestic and non-domestic properties, according to figures from the Carbon Trust. That is equivalent to around 200 million tonnes of CO2, roughly the same as the annual emissions of the United Arab Emirates, and leaves the UK with a lot to achieve if it is to meet targets to cut emissions by 80% by 2050.


More than five decades ago Kronig and Brink published a classic analysis of transport from translating droplets. Their analysis assumed that the bulk of the resistance to transfer was in the droplet phase. It considered the limiting solution as the Peclet number became very large. Their work has been cited in many subsequent studies of droplet transfer. The present work revisits their solution using numerical techniques that were not then available. It was found that only the first mode of their solution is mathematically accurate. Hence, their solution is accurate only at large times.


The invention relates to pressurized spray for sterilizing air in an operating room, which comprises the following ingredients and pharmaceutically acceptable carriers: rhizoma atractylodis, radix stemonae, rhizoma coptidis, cortex eucommiae, cassia seeds, eclipta alba, radix stephaniae tetrandrae, root-bark of Chinese wolfberry and thesium chinensis. The pressurized spray for sterilizing the airin the operating room has an obvious effect and is low in cost and suitable for being widely used clinically.