The goal of the optimal technology of steelmaking and continuous casting production planning is how to efficiently utilize the power of the continuous casting production equipment.The problem of continuous casting production planning was emphatically analyzed.Because Virtual slab had two important properties casting width which was an interval value and steel grade.Interaction between casting width and steel grade reacted on steelmaking and continuous-casting production planning,besides restriction of continuous code and life of tundish.Aiming at this problem,an optimal model was established.According to characteristic of the model,a two-layer algorithm based-on ant colony optimize algorithm was proposed.A group of really numeral computational results show that the model and algorithm is effective.


Contemporary museum paradigms that address social responsibility, value diverse interpretations and promote communication create novel possibilities for cultural connections and exchanges. Evidencing these new roles, the Museo del Oro (Gold Museum) in Bogotá, Colombia, offered an art therapy programme to serve internally displaced indigenous women (IDIW) of Wounaan and Guambiano ethnicities. The qualities of museums as safe holding environments able to serve in processes of acculturation, surfaced in the course of the art therapy programme. This article bridges discourses related to museums, immigrant populations and the object relations construct of potential space through the common denominator of the interplay between internal and external realities.


Objective To investigate the effects of fluvastatin on tissue factor (TF) expression induced by serum of patients with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) in human vascular endothelial cells (HUVEC). Methods HUVEC were treated with serum (50%) from APS patients, serum (50%) from normal persons, or culture medium ( blank control group), and interfered with different concentrations of fluvastatin (2. 5, 5.0 and 10. 0 μmol/L). Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to examine the concentration of TF. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) was used to detect TF mRNA. Western blotting was used to measure the content of nuclear factor-KB (NF-κB) p65. Results The concentration of TF and the relative expression of TF mRNA and NF-κB p65 in blank control group, normal serum group and APS serum group were (124. 18 ± 14. 33 ) , (134. 12± 10. 94), (503.76 _+22. 86) ng/L; (0. 246 ±0. 024), (0. 228±0. 015), (0. 629 ±0. 028) ; (0. 850 ±0. 013), (0. 851± 0. 008) , ( 1. 034 ± 0. 009) , respectively. There was no significant difference between blank control group and normal serum group ( P 〉 0.05 ) , but there was significant difference between APS serum group and other two groups (P 〈 0. 05 ). After treatment with different concentrations of fluvastatin (2. 5, 5.0 and 10. 0 μmol/L), the concentration of TF and the relative expression of TF mRNA and NF-KB p65 in blank control group, normal serum group and APS serum group were ( 455.23 ± 10. 97 ), ( 380. 34 ± 11.20 ), (273.01 ±12.03) ng/L; (0.568 ±0.026), (0.496 ±0.029), (0.392 ±0.024) ; (0.974±0.006), (0. 936 ± 0. 011 ) , (0. 874± 0. 006) , respectively, which were concentration-dependently reduced. Conclusion Fluvastatin displays a protective effect towards APS serum at the cellular level by decreasing TF expression in endothelial cells probably through the NF-κB pathway

Key words:
Antiphospholipid syndrome;  Vasctdar endothelial cells;  Fluvastatin;  Tissue factor


With a view to determining the effectiveness of organic insecticides upon the injurious insects of various fruit trees, a series of experiments has been carried out with results as given in the summary that follows: 1. DDT dust is effective for the persimmon fruit moth (Kakivoria flavofasciata NAGANO) as well as lead arsenate, without causing any trace of damage to the tree. DDT with bentonite or kaolin as the carrier is more effective than with other carriers.2. DDT wettable spraying is able to control the infestation of growing peach shoots by the oriental peach moth (Grafolitha molesta BUSCK.) and of leavs by the leaf hopper (Erythria zonata MATSU.) while their population densities are small, resulting in increase of red spider mite.3. The damage to pear by the oriental peach moth and to peach by the fruit moth (Dichocrocis punctiferalis GUEN.) are not well controlled by the sprayings of the various organic insecticides. such as DDT, BHC and Clordane though capable of being controlled by the paper bag painted with DDT emulsion.4. DDT emulsion spraying indicates no toxicity to the larva of Ceroplastes rubens MASKELL, though capable of better controlling the overwintering adult by spraying with a mixture of machine oil and DDT emulsion than with the former only.5. The mixture of BHC and pyrethrum emulsion acts as an evasive factor for the attachment of citrus leaf miner (Phyllocnistis citrella STAINTON) and it is used as a substitute for nicotine sulphate.


From the perspective of contrastive linguistics, this article analyses the frequency and nature of the SVO sentence structure in English and Portuguese, particularly in those cases where the subject is realised by the first person pronoun I and eu respectively or by a name.


The thesis is focused on creating marketing strategy for the RG KOVO, s.r.o. company. The strategy itself is based on analysis of the internal and external environment, SWOT analysis which identify the problematic areas in the company. The new proposals aim to improve the overall quality of operations in the company and extend the offer of its services.


For many years, the Latin American university model was aimed at training technicians and professionals. These universities are now trying to develop a pertinent environment for scientific innovation that could contribute to the development of the region. Maybe, interdisciplinary projects are a key part of this environment, if we can agree on the meaning of interdisciplinarity and how to achieve it. This paper proposes a model to monitor interdisciplinarity.


The invention relates to a real-time fault detection in an instrument landing system. An electronic system with real-time fault detection is provided. In one embodiment, the system includes analog circuitry, having a first input coupled to receive an input signal and a second input coupled to receive a test signal. The test signal is at an edge of a selected band that contains the input signal. The test signal is used to identify faults in the electronic system during operation of the electronic system. The electronic system further includes an analog to digital (A/D) converter coupled to an output of the analog circuitry. The A/D converter generates digitized spectrum. Digital circuitry is coupled to the output of the A/D converter. The digital circuitry processes the input signal from the band to provide an output for the system and processes the test signal to detect faults in the analog circuitry, the digital circuitry and the A/D converter.


Brucine is one of the main active ingredients in a Chinese medicine,Semen Strychni,which was found nearly two hundred years ago.In this article,we summarized the general situation of brucine's pharmacological,toxicological and pharmacokinetic studies,and new forms of medication.Brucine exerts a good analgesic effect by acting both centrally and peripherally,and it also exerts immune regulation,anti-tumor and anti-arrhythmic activities.The brucine poisoning is mainly due to paralysis because of spinal cord over-excitation and hypoxia.Pharmacokinetic studies reveal its metabolism model and tissue distribution.The new forms of brucine medication is mainly focused on the transdermal delivery and liposome.


Based on the experiment of measuring temperature using temperature date recorder,a finite element model for describing the temperature field of heat treatment furnaces was set up.Based on the model,the analysis system ANSYS was used to simulate the temperature field of 45 steel billet in the brazing furnace,and an incremental iteration method was also used.The computer simulation results are well consistent with those of measurements from thermocouple,which varies 9 ℃.It testifies the correctness of the temperature transferring model.


The exported cases of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection who were confirmed in other countries provide a chance to estimate the cumulative incidence and confirmed case fatality risk (cCFR) in China. Knowledge of the cCFR is critical to characterize the severity and understand pandemic potential of 2019-nCoV in the early stage of epidemic. Using the exponential growth rate of the incidence, the present study statistically estimated the cCFR and the basic reproduction number, i.e., the average number of secondary cases generated by a single primary case in a naive population. As of 24 January 2020, with 23 exported cases, and estimating the growth rate from 8 December 2019 (scenario 1) and using the data since growth of exported cases (scenario 2), the cumulative incidence in China was estimated at 5433 cases (95% confidence interval (CI): 3883, 7160) and 17780 cases (95% CI: 9646, 28724), respectively. The latest estimates of the cCFR were 4.6% (95% CI: 3.1-6.6) for scenario 1 and 7.7% (95% CI: 4.9-11.3%) for scenario 2, respectively. The basic reproduction number was estimated to be 2.2 (95% CI: 2.1, 2.3) and 3.7 (95% CI: 3.1, 4.3) for scenarios 1 and 2, respectively. Based on the results, we note that current 2019-nCoV epidemic has a substation potential to cause a pandemic. The proposed approach can provide insights into early risk assessment using only publicly available data.


A planar benzodithiophene with lower HOMO was copolymerized with the thieno[3,4-b]thiophene unit to obtain a new low band gap polymer of PBDPTT-C, which exhibited a higher open-circuit voltage (V(oc)) of 0.8 V and a promising efficiency of 5.2%.


Stainless-steel slag is considered a hazardous waste because it contains significant levels of hexavalent chromium. In the present study, the effect of boron oxide addition on the chromium distribution in Cr-bearing phase and emission of hexavalent chromium has been investigated using 2, 4, and 8 wt % addition at three different temperatures. Thermogravimetric differential scanning calorimetry (TG-DSC) and the binary phase diagram of CaO-Cr2O3 were used to find out the temperature range for the formation of hexavalent chromium. Besides, the treated samples were characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope-energy dispersive spectrometer (SEM-EDS), NIH ImageJ software and thermodynamic package FactSage 6.4, respectively. Additionally, emission of hexavalent chromium in the treated samples was detected used modified HJ 687–2014 and GB/T 15555.4–1995 after three high-temperature treatments. Finally, the research showed that chromium was enriched in the stable spinel phase and a lo...


William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom; Sanquin Research and Landsteiner Laboratory, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and Leukocyte Adhesion Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, London, United Kingdom


This study was conducted at the Poultry Research Station of the Livestock Research Department in the Agricultural Research Department. (126) One-day-old chicks were used in the study, with an average starting weight of 38 g from Ross 308 strain. The chicks were distributed randomly into 3 treatments, and each treatment contained three replicates. 14 chicks for each replicate, where the first treatment was control, and the chickens in the second and third treatments were given vitamin E at a level of 350 and 600 mg / kg feed, respectively, as the continuous lighting system was followed (24 hours / day) in the hall until the end of the experiment, which reached 42 days and the temperature was 35 m throughout the study. The results of the study showed a significant (P<0.01) in fat oxidation in liver tissue in vitamin E treatments (350 and 600 mg/kg feed) decreased significantly (P<0.05) in the level of malondialdehyde, the level of free fatty acids and the peroxide value compared with the control treatment, which indicates the role of the additives used in protecting against infection. The effect of exposure to high temperature and its ability to improve the studied traits.


Greenhouse and laboratory studies were conducted to determine the physiological basis for selectivity of nicosulfuron and primisulfuron in 5 plant species. Differential sensitivity of the species was quantified by determining GR50 values (herbicide rate required to reduce plant growth 50%) for each species/herbicide combination. GR50 data indicated the following levels of sensitivity: corn—tolerant to both herbicides; seedling johnsongrass—sensitive to both herbicides; barnyardgrass—sensitive to nicosulfuron and tolerant to primisulfuron; giant foxtail—sensitive to nicosulfuron and tolerant to primisulfuron; and eastern black nightshade—tolerant to nicosulfuron and sensitive to primisulfuron. Studies using 14C-radiolabeled herbicides were conducted to determine whether differential herbicide absorption, translocation, or metabolism contributed to whole plant responses. Nicosulfuron and primisulfuron selectivity in corn, johnsongrass, barnyardgrass, and giant foxtail was primarily due to differential herbicide metabolism rate. Tolerant species metabolized the herbicide more rapidly and extensively than sensitive species. Differential herbicide absorption, translocation, or metabolism did not explain differential sensitivity of eastern black nightshade to the herbicides. Further studies indicated that the tolerance of eastern black nightshade to nicosulfuron and its sensitivity to primisulfuron was directly related to lower sensitivity of the acetolactate synthase (ALS) to nicosulfuron than to primisulfuron. Eastern black nightshade translocated very little (3%) of the nicosulfuron applied. The ALS sensitivity of johnsongrass and eastern black nightshade was similar in the presence of nicosulfuron. A combination of a higher ALS level and less herbicide translocation contributes to tolerance of eastern black nightshade and to sensitivity of johnsongrass to nicosulfuron.


Taking the point of departure from Walter Bauer's thesis that the early Christian movement in Western Minor Asia was dominated by "heresies", this article confirms the diversity of this movement and the rivalry and competitionbetween different Christ-believing groups in the geographical area of Ephesus. Rather than reconstructing the socio-historical world behind the texts, it is argued that the texts themselves create social identities, in particular as they shape the idea of the prototypical believer. Furthermore, in the struggle for authority and legitimacy, we could find different ways of protecting and defending the Jesus-tradition in the texts that belong to this geographical area: a) the apostolic and hierarchical structure of 1-2 Timothy; b) the charismatic and prophetical structure of the Book of Revelation, and c) the relational and egalitarian structure of 1-3 John. Although these texts express clear differences in theology, they also demonstrate a notable commonality in the way the story of Jesus Christ and what it means to follow him is told. As time went by, this story with its ethical implications came to keep certain groups of Christ-believers together, while others were cut off and excluded. Thus, it is concluded that Ephesus was more of "a center of orthodoxy" than Walter Bauer's thesis permits.


The article first points out that in order to be adapted to the socialist market economy and the requirements of community construction, cities' FP work in the early years of the new century has to establish a new community based managing system. And then, by clarifying the definition of the system, it divides the present city population and FP work into three kinds of modes: the administrative one with "block as essential", the mixed one with "similar in shape but different in internality", and the integrated one, being considered here as the most ideal one, with "citizen autonomy" combined with administrative management. Meanwhile, it discusses the basic principles concerning the innovation and the basic connotation for making up the management system.


Introduction: Improving patient safety culture in healthcare organization is the first step in reducing medical errors and improving patient safety. The aim of this study was to assess the patient safety culture from the nurses viewpoint of teaching hospitals affiliated with Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. Methods: In this Descriptive-analytical study, 310 nurses of four teaching hospitals affiliated with Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, were randomly selected. Data were collected by the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC) questionnaire. The first part of the questionnaire included nurses' demographic information, and the second part consisted of 42 questions to evaluate 12 dimensions of patient safety culture. The questionnaires were distributed among nurses and completed by them. The data were analyzed using independent t-test and Oneway ANOVA tests by SPSS 22. Results: Among dimensions, two dimensions of organizational learning (81%) and teamwork in hospital units (76.1%) showed the highest rating, respectively. However, giving feedback in response to errors showed the least rating (32.75%). There was a significant relationship between safety culture of nurses, and gender and type of employment (P<0/05). Conclusion: Considering the results, manager's actions for improving patient safety including giving feedback in response to the errors, providing the opportunity for the periodic report of events, and exchanging patients' information in the studied hospitals seem to be crucial.


We show that the systematic inconsistence found in the simultaneous fit of the neutron and proton magnetics moments in light-front models, disappears when one allows an asymmetry in the constituent quark masses. The difference between the constituent quarks masses is an effective way to include in the nucleon model the effect of the attractive short ranged interaction in the singlet spin channel.


The accurate investigation on the coseismic displacement attenuation pattern plays an important role in seismic intensity zoning. A new model combining the Logistic Power and Cosine model is proposed in this paper to evaluate the correlation between coseismic displacement and epicentral distance and rupture angle. The presented model is tested and validated using the high-rate GPS array displacement observables associated with Japan Mw 9.0 earthquake. The computation results show that the Logistic Power model is feasible to characterize the pattern between the coseismic displacement and epicentral distance, and the Cosine model between the coseismic displacement and rupture angle. Key Words—coseismic displacement, attenuation pattern, Logistic Power model, Cosine model, high-rate GPS array


Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), one of the most important nonlinear processes, is of paramount interest especially in the field of quantum optics due to its intrinsic capability in generating entangled photon pairs in different degree of freedoms (DoFs). The spatial distribution of the paired photons generated through SPDC process are highly influenced by different crystal parameters including birefringence and length, and the spatial structure of the pump beam [1]. Recent studies have shown the transfer of pump properties such as phase profile and doughnut intensity distribution [2] into the transverse amplitude of heralded single photon. Here we report, first time to best of our knowledge, the direct transfer of the non-separable state in OAM and polarization DoFs of classical pump beam to generate two photons state with hybrid entanglement in both OAM and polarization. Using same scheme one can produce macroscopic entanglement with very high quanta of OAM.


INTRODUCTION
Endovenous Laser Ablation (EVLA) is a common alternative to surgical treatment of varicose veins. The aim of our study was to demonstrate that laser occlusion is durable, that we can treat all patients in a one day setting, even with veins >10mm in diameter, and that multiple EVLAs can be done at the same time.

METHODS
In the period from 1/2017 to 12/2019 EVLA was performed in a total of 1551 consecutive patients with varicose veins and ultrasonographically documented venous reflux. The mid-term results were evaluated in a group of patients operated from 1/2017 to 6/2017 (316 pts.). We compared a risk group that consisted of patients with veins >10mm in diameter (40 pts.) with a control group (the remaining 276 pts.). Patients with veins >10mm are traditionally considered as candidates for conventional surgery.

RESULTS
The catheter-based method enabled us to perform more ablations in one procedure. In 2019 we performed 1.44 EVLA procedures per patient. There was only one postoperative follow-up visit, indicating an uncomplicated postoperative course, in 87.5% of patients of the risk group. In the control group 100% of patients had only one follow-up visit including ultrasound examination, showing an uncomplicated postoperative course (p.


This research is motivated by the case of user privacy data leaks experienced by Tokopedia in 2020. This study aims to see the effect of information about the leakage of user data experienced by Tokopedia on the behavior of the audience studied using attribution theory. The method used in this research is quantitative explanatory to explain the causal relationship between variables. Information data leakage is measured by its quality value and consists of four characteristics, namely accurate, timeless, relevant, and complete, while audience behavior is measured by attribution theory based on internal factors and external factors, namely paying attention to the principle of consensus, the principle of consistency and the principle of distinctiveness. The results of this study explain that Ha is accepted and H0 is rejected so that the quality of information about Tokopedia user data leakage affects people's behavior. Information about the leakage of Tokopedia user data received by the public is of good quality, and internal factors influence the audience's behavior. The conclusion of this study explains that there is an influence between the leakage of Tokopedia user data and the behavior of the audience with a value of 0.341 at a low level of relationship.


The Topsis algorithm was applied to evaluate the post ability of maintenance personnel, and an index system for the evaluation was established. In order to avoid the inconvenience of AHP method in actual operation, a G1-Topsis combination algorithm with the weight of each index calculated by G1 method was proposed. It can be seen from the analysis of examples that the post ability evaluation of maintenance personnel was treated effectively. The results were consistent with the actual situation, which provided important basis for the evaluation and promotion of maintenance personnel.


The River Scheldt has a macrotidal estuary with a tidal reach up to 160 km upstream. During the last century the estuary is heavily modified by anthropogenic measures such as land reclamation, widening of the navigation channel, sand extraction, channel straightening and reduction of river discharge. Tidal marshes, intertidal and sub-tidal mudflats have reduced with more than fifty percent. Therefore, a better understanding of cause-effect relation of human interventions and sea level rise on ecological important habitats is required to give guidance to managers reducing possible negative effects of future actions.


Abstract This article argues that Critical Security Studies (CSS), exemplified by Ken Booth's Theory of World Security, has outlined an ethics of security as emancipation of the 'human', but also a highly problematic security of ethics. After drawing out how the ethics of CSS operates, we examine the security of this ethics by examining it against a hard case, that of the 1998–99 Kosovo crisis. Confronting this concrete situation, we draw out three possibilities for action used at the time to secure the human: 'humanitarian containment', military intervention and hospitality. Assessing each against Booth's requirements for ethical security action, we counter that, in fact, no option was without risks, pitfalls and ambiguities. Ultimately, if any action to promote the security and the emancipation of the human is possible, it must embrace and prioritise the fundamental insecurity of ethics, or else find itself paralysed through a fear of making situations worse.


The genus Dolichomitus Smith, 1877 is recorded from Vietnam for the first time with description of a new species, D. lami sp. nov., from Hoang Lien National Park, Lao Cai Province. Besides, D. melanomerus (Vollenhoven) is recorded as new for the country from specimens collected in Tam Dao National Park, Vinh Phuc Province and Hang Kia-Pa Co Nature Reserve, Hoa Binh Province.


ABSTRACT The present work reports on electropolymerisation of aniline onto AISI 4140 steel substrate at room temperature in oxalic acid media by the potentiodynamic electrodeposition method. The effect of coating current density on the morphology of conductive polymer films and their corrosion behaviour has been investigated. The electrolyte solution comprised 0.1 M aniline + 0.3 M oxalic acid. The effects of deposition current density changes (0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4 and 0.5 mA cm−2) on the films were investigated. The PANI film was characterised using cyclic voltammetry and optical microscopy; it was covered with a dark green-yellow homopolymer film of strongly adherent homogeneous characteristic. The corrosion behaviour of steel electrodes with and without polyaniline (PANI) film in 3.5 wt-% NaCl solution was investigated through anodic polarisation curves. The results indicated that the PANI coating obtained under 0.2 mA cm−2 was the most corrosion protective.


Carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenoma (Ca‐ex‐PA) is an epithelial malignancy developing within a benign salivary gland pleomorphic adenoma (PA). Here we have used genome‐wide, high‐resolution array‐CGH, and fluorescence in situ hybridization to identify genes amplified in double min chromosomes and homogeneously staining regions in PA and Ca‐ex‐PA and to identify additional genomic imbalances characteristic of these tumor types. Ten of the 16 tumors analyzed showed amplification/gain of a 30‐kb minimal common region, consisting of the 5′‐part of HMGA2 (encoding the three DNA‐binding domains). Coamplification of MDM2 was found in nine tumors. Five tumors had cryptic HMGA2‐WIF1 gene fusions with amplification of the fusion oncogene in four tumors. Expression analysis of eight amplified candidate genes in 12q revealed that tumors with amplification/rearrangement of HMGA2 and MDM2 had significantly higher expression levels when compared with tumors without amplification. Analysis of individual HMGA2 exons showed that the expression of exons 3–5 were substantially reduced when compared with exons 1–2 in 9 of 10 tumors with HMGA2 activation, indicating that gene fusions and rearrangements of HMGA2 are common in tumors with amplification. In addition, recurrent amplifications/gains of 1q11‐q32.1, 2p16.1‐p12, 8q12.1, 8q22‐24.1, and 20, and losses of 1p21.3‐p21.1, 5q23.2‐q31.2, 8p, 10q21.3, and 15q11.2 were identified. Collectively, our results identify HMGA2 and MDM2 as amplification targets in PA and Ca‐ex‐PA and suggest that amplification of 12q genes (in particular MDM2), deletions of 5q23.2‐q31.2, gains of 8q12.1 (PLAG1) and 8q22.1‐q24.1 (MYC), and amplification of ERBB2 may be of importance for malignant transformation of benign PA. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


The invention provides an information pushing method which comprises the steps of acquiring a photo of an environment where a user is located, identifying a target in the photo and counting the frequency number or frequency at which the target appears, and pushing relevant information of the target to the user according to the frequency number or frequency. In addition, the invention provides an information pushing system and a digital television receiving terminal. According to the information pushing method, the information pushing system and the digital television receiving terminal, statistical analysis is made by the use of a scientific and objective technical means on quantitative data about the frequency at which a target appears in an environment where a user is located, and the statistical data is used as a pushing reference, thus achieving higher precision.


Abstract Compressed air energy storage in aquifers (CAESA) can be considered a novel and potential large-scale energy storage technology in the future. However, currently, the research on CAESA is relatively scarce and no actual engineering practices have yet been performed due to a lack of detailed theoretical and technical support. This article provides a summary and analysis of the current research about the key problems in CAESA. The theoretical foundation and evaluation methods are first addressed, and then the aquifer selection criteria are proposed by analyzing the impact of the main geological factors on the performance. Subsequently, the optimal design of wellbore and the operation parameters are discussed, and different possible enhanced methods are proposed for extending the application of CAESA. Finally, conclusions are made and application outlook is addressed.


In superconductor/ferromagnet layered structures, a Fulde–Ferrell–Larkin–Ovchinnikov-like inhomogeneous superconducting pairing give rise. The singlet and zero-projection triplet components of the pairing oscillate in space, and the presence of interfaces causes interference phenomena. As the result of the interference, the super-conducting critical temperature Tc oscillates as a function of the ferromagnetic layer thicknesses or, even more spectacular, reentrant superconductivity appears. Two ferromagnetic layers can be combined with a superconducting layer into a superconducting spin valve. Proper design and choice of the material parameters give possibility to control superconducting Tc manipulating with magnetic configurations in the system. The conditions to get large spin-valve effect, i.e., a large shift in the critical temperature, are reviewed in the article.


This paper is concerned with a non-zero sum differential game problem of an anticipated forward-backward stochastic differential delayed equation under partial information. We establish a necessary maximum principle and sufficient verification theorem of the game system by virtue of the duality and convex variational method. We apply the theoretical results and stochastic filtering theory to study a linear-quadratic game system and derive the explicit form of the Nash equilibrium point and discuss the existence and uniqueness in particular cases. As an application, we consider a time-delayed pension fund manage problem with nonlinear expectation and obtain the Nash equilibrium point.


We experiment with the the use of diffusion maps to parameterize a low‐dimensional attracting manifold of a high‐dimensional ODE system in order to be able to repeatedly compute trajectories on that manifold. By integrating directly on that manifold we can avoid the stiffness of the original system.


Abstract : The United Nations Conference on Disarmament ad hoc Group of Scientific Experts (GSE) is conducting the third large-scale technical test, termed GSETT-3, which started on January 1st of this year. The purpose is the continuation of an on-going effort to develop a global system for international monitoring of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) which will provide member states with data for their own national monitoring assessment. Accomplishment of this objective requires testing of a system composed of four major components: an International Data Center (IDC), National Data Centers (NDCs) in each member state, a network of seismic stations in each member state, and high speed communications to share the data in near-real time. This paper will discuss the progress of the US efforts to prototype and operate its NDC for GSETT-3. With eight months having elapsed since GSETT-3 began, we are now in a position to attempt a more consistent statistical assessment of the reliability and capability of the US NDC.


The present paper discusses how a mechanistic design process evolved for airfields in Sweden and how it is being used. Also, a sensitivity study is presented showing parameter influence on the bearing capacity expressed in Pavement Classification Number (PCN). For example, how do revised asphalt strain criteria affect the resulting PCN-value? Other parameters included the stiffness of the asphalt layer, the base layer, and subgrade during the spring thaw period. An equivalent number of standard wheel load (ESWL) was calculated for some commonly used aircrafts on selected Swedish airfield pavements. These calculations were based on the tensile strain at bottom of the asphalt layer. Thus, the Aircraft Classification Number (ACN) derived in this manner could be compared to the existing status. The paper also discusses some future applications using high-speed rolling deflectometers. For the covering abstract see ITRD E118503.


The current paper aims to disseminate the application of the PBL (Project Based Learning) methodology to the design of the laboratory of "Business Networks", which is an elective subject in the studies of Computer Engineering at the EUI of Vitoria-Gasteiz (UPV/EHU). The laboratory has tried to reproduce, as far as possible, the future professional conditions in which the students will work. Typically, they will have to collaborate in working teams to design and develop computer applications of certain size and complexity. So, a relatively complex application, involving distribution and database access, has been proposed to be developed for the whole duration of the course (15 weeks). The students will have to address the different phases of the creation of computer applications. The Moodle platform was used to support the development of the laboratory in a bidirectional way: By the teachers to give support to the students and by students to deliver the documentation required in every phase.


ABSTRACT Modern society is prominently dependent on information and communication technology over the last few decades has carried it with more vulnerability to an enormous variety of cyber-attacks. One of the attacks is a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) that exploits the power of thousands and sometimes hundreds of thousands of compromised computers to attack information-providing services and online commercial sites, often resulting in significant downtime and financial losses and thereby denying services of legitimate clients. The study of DDoS attacks is a significant area of research; there are a number of techniques that have been proposed such as evolutionary algorithm and artificial intelligence in the literature for detecting DDoS attacks. Unfortunately, the modern well-known DDoS detection schemes are deteriorating to validate the objective and prior recognition of DDoS attacks. In order to mitigate denial of service attacks, in this paper, we use grasshopper optimization algorithm (GOA) with machine learning algorithm called GOIDS. This approach is based on creating an intrusion detection system (IDS) to fulfill the requirements of the monitored environment and able to distinguish between normal and attack traffics. Furthermore, GOIDS selects the most relevant features from the original IDS dataset that can help to distinguish typical low-speed DDoS attacks and then, selected features are passed to the classifiers, i.e. support vector machine, decision tree, naïve Bayes, and multilayer perceptron to identify type of attack. The publicly available dataset as KDD Cup 99 and CIC-IDS 2017 are used for our experimental study. From the results of the simulation, it is clear that GOIDS with decision tree acquires high detection and accuracy with a low false–positive rate.


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As the qualitative analysis software of laser induced breakdown spectra (LIBS) mainly relies on the principle of proximity and artificial identification, we developed a spectral data processing software, which manages background subtracting, filtering, peak searching and elements identifying, etc. The spectra database contains LIBS emission lines from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The user can edit the database such as addition, correction or deletion of data. Using Cosine Similarity algorithm and combining of the database, the system is capable of being straight and fast in the determination the composition of the material by calculating the potential elemental composition of the sample, and will be a useful tool for LIBS.


To determine the effect of high school athletics on cardiac structure and function, we performed 2-D directed M-Mode echos on students involved in isometric (IM) and isotonic (IT) sports and compared them to non-athletic controls (C). Measurements were made at rest and immediately after stage 4 treadmill exercise. Twenty students were included in each group. LV mass was greater in both in and IT compared to C (C 111±4, IM 132±3, IT 130±4 g/M2, p<0.05>. In IT LV diastole volume (LVDV) was increased with normal wall thickness/radius ration (t/r), whereas, in IM, LVDV was normal but, t/r was increased. Stroke index (SI) was increased in IT (C 44±1.7, IM 46±1.6, IT 52.3±2.0 ml/M2, p<0.02). Cardiac index (CI) and shortening fractions were similar among the three groups. After exercise LVDV and systolic volume decreased in both C and IT but, remained unchanged in IM. CI increased with exercise in all groups. Although resting systolic (S), diastolic (D), and mean (M), blood pressures (BP) were similar in all groups, after exercise both C and IT had an increase in SBP, (C 39%, IT 32%) and a fall in DBP, (C-26%), IT-27%) HBP remained unchanged. In IM, SBP rose less, 22%, and DBP fell less, −18%. These data suggest that students engaged in ordinary school sports can develop either eccentric or concentric LVH depending upon the type of sport. The IM athlete appears to have a thicker, less compliant LV and demonstrates less change in blood pressure with exercise.


We analyze an X-ray flux-limited, complete sample of 93 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at z < 0.1, selected from the ROSAT Bright Survey. Two-thirds of the sample are Seyfert 1 galaxies, and one-third are narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies. We have obtained optical images of all objects. By modeling the host galaxy and the AGN central component, we decompose the optical emission into nuclear bulge and disk components, respectively. We find that the nuclear optical luminosity, thought to be associated with the accretion disk surrounding the active black hole, correlates with the X-ray luminosity, the radio luminosity, and the black hole mass.


Few genetic risk factors have been demonstrated to be specifically associated with aggressive prostate cancer (PrCa). Here, we report a case‐case study of PrCa comparing the prevalence of germline pathogenic/likely pathogenic (P/LP) genetic variants in 787 men with aggressive disease and 769 with nonaggressive disease. Overall, we observed P/LP variants in 11.4% of men with aggressive PrCa and 9.8% of men with nonaggressive PrCa (two‐tailed Fisher's exact tests, P = .28). The proportion of BRCA2 and ATM P/LP variant carriers in men with aggressive PrCa exceeded that observed in men with nonaggressive PrCa; 18/787 carriers (2.3%) and 4/769 carriers (0.5%), P = .004, and 14/787 carriers (0.02%) and 5/769 carriers (0.01%), P = .06, respectively. Our findings contribute to the extensive international effort to interpret the genetic variation identified in genes included on gene‐panel tests, for which there is currently an insufficient evidence‐base for clinical translation in the context of PrCa risk.


This article addresses the Chinese debates on utopian and dystopian modes of democracy. It opens the black box of the one-party state and delves below the surface of the People's Republic of China's official statements on "democracy" (e.g., "people's democracy," "democratic centralism") by focusing on the often-overlooked "democracy" contemplations within the highly fragmented Chinese academic communities. These reflections indirectly respond to the debates and governance practices in other world regions—with the US being referred to as the main "mirror" image. The article mainly focuses on the first two office terms of Xi Jinping. Developments since this re-appointment as head of the Chinese party-state in 2022 (and 2023), however, indicate that the "democracy" frame continues to serve as core element of the Chinese role-identity narratives.


For large-scale image retrieval, high dimensional features make the retrieval system inefficiency. In this paper, we propose a framework of deep feature hash codes for content-based image retrieval system. In this framework, we firstly extract image features by a pre-trained convolutional neural networks model. Secondly, we use different hashing methods for binary feature extraction. Finally, we use the best binary encoding features to build a content-based image retrieval system. The experimental results demonstrate that with the decrease of feature dimension, our method not only does not reduce the retrieval precision, but also can improve the retrieval accuracy in some cases. The retrieval accuracy of 256 bits binary features can surpass the traditional method of 256 dimensional (4096 bits) features. Once the feature bits are 16 times lower, the storage space will decrease 16 times and the retrieval efficiency will be greatly increased. Therefore, our method can effectively improve the speed and precision of content-based image retrieval system.


In the age of Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT), human pose tracking has attracted increasing interest in many fields. To address the limitations of conventional vision based pose tracking techniques, Radio Frequency (RF) based pose monitoring has been proposed in recent years. However, most of the existing RF-based approaches depend on a vision-aided multi-model learning model, which requires extensive labeled data for supervised training. Collecting such large amounts of training data is time-consuming and costly. In this paper, we address this issue by proposing a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) based data augmentation method, termed RFPose-GAN, to generate synthesized datasets to assist the training of multi-model neural networks. Our experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed data augmentation approach on improving the performance of 3D human pose tracking when there is only a limited amount of training data.


Noor Aini Khalifah, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia: With the backdrop of the decreasing hegemony of the United States and the emerging of two Asian giants, China and India, the article "Trump's Trade War: An Indian Perspective" succinctly captures the current scenario with references to history and the possibilities that the future may hold. From the perspective of leaders and domestic politics, it is always "better" to blame foreigners ("others") for one's lack of competitiveness.


This paper recounts an examination of longitudinal stress-laminated timber deck bridges as a solution to the tremendous need for replacement bridges, particularly on rural roads. A long-span full-scale deck was built in the laboratory and subjected to a series of tests and theoretical analyses to obtain behavioral information. The stress-laminating procedure was found to be an effective means of developing a wide "distribution width" for resisting loads on a longitudinal deck bridge. The laboratory study was followed by construction of a prototype bridge in the United States and development of a method for assembling a bridge deck from prefabricated stressed panels. In addition to having a wide distribution width, the stress-laminated deck was found to provide a medium range bridge span with a thin section allowing sufficient hydraulic clearance, to be able to build with simple anchorage system for prestressing rods, to provide an economic bridge system compared with steel and concrete, and to be quickly and easily erected. The primary limitation in use of the system is in the span range which can be attempted without exceeding deflection limits.


Among all types of mechanical influences, vibration is the most dangerous for technical objects. Alternating stresses caused by vibration contribute to the accumulation of damage in materials, system design, and failure. The destruction of the object occurs quite quickly under vibrational influences under the conditions of resonance, at the same time, vibration causes a violation of the physiological and functional states of a person. The impact of vibration on a person depends on its spectral composition, direction of action, duration of exposure, as well as on the individual characteristics of the person. The structure of the vibration acceleration spectrum monitoring system was developed, which is based on the modular principle and includes a microcontroller, an accelerometer, a liquid crystal graphic color display, flash memory, and a microcomputer monitor. Algorithms of the vibration acceleration spectrum monitoring system were developed, including the accelerometer calibration algorithm, the dynamic acceleration measurement algorithm, and the fast Fourier transformation algorithm. The I2C interface for data exchange between the ADXL345 accelerometer and the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B microcomputer is defined. The software that processes the input information from several accelerometers connected to the Raspberry Pi, which enables multi-channel measurements and their analysis, is developed. The results of testing the built system are given which make it possible to assert the correctness and correctness of the functioning of the developed system. The article includes an introduction, an analysis of literary sources with a statement of the researched problem, in the section "Development of the structure and information support of the system for monitoring the spectrum of vibration accelerations" the developed structure of the system and the features of its hardware implementation are given. The hardware implementation was based on the use of inexpensive components to ensure a low price of the technological solution. In addition, in this section, I2C is selected for the implementation of data exchange between the components of the vibration spectrum monitoring system. The section "Algorithmic support of the designed system" describes the main steps of the algorithm. The section "Development of the vibration acceleration monitoring system software" includes information about the developed structure of the software and a brief description of a specific component. The results of testing the developed system are given in the section "Obtained results and their analysis". The main results of the conducted research are formulated in the conclusions.


This paper is based on the premise that the "killer application" for on-line education should be searched for in the realm of psychology not technology. To support this argument, the Radical Model, an approach to online teaching that is "technology lean" but "psychology rich" is described in detail with examples from the authors' teaching experiences. The paper is concluded with an outline of a research agenda emanating from its major premise.


One: Field Theory and Quantization.- Renormalizable Theories with Symmetry Breaking.- Computing Methods in Quantum Electrodynamics.- Classical Mechanics of Autocomposite Particles.- Exclusion of Static Solutions in Gravity-Matter Coupling.- Star-Products: Quantization and Representations without Operators.- High Energy Tests of Quantum Electrodynamics.- Non-Ideal Effects on the Stability of a Cylindrical Current-Carrying Plasma.- Broken Symmetry of Lie Groups of Transformation Generating General Relativistic Theories of Gravitation.- Ward-Takahashi Identities and Gauge Invariance.- Towards the Early Stages of the Universe.- Covariant Quantizations of the Maxwell Field.- Gauss' Law in Local Quantum Field Theory.- Discrete States Buried in the Continuum.- Two: Statistical Physics.- Some Universal Aspects of the Transition to Stochasticity for Non-Conservative Dynamical Systems.- Hydrodynamic Models with Random Forces.- High-Temperature Study of Planar Rotator- and XY-Models for Dimensions D ? 2.- General Langevin Equations and Functional Integration.


The dependence of optical gain and intervalence band absorption (IVBA) on strain is analyzed for 1.5-pm In1-1Ga1As[nP strained quantum well lasers, by using a model including the band mixing effect. We theoretically show that -LVo compressive strain is the optimum strain which provides maximum gain. It is also revealed that IVBA, which decreases the quantum efficiency, is reduced to one-tenth of the unstrained value at around +Lvo compressive strain.


A high-temperature and high-pressure NMR method to investigate the structure and dynamics of supercritical water is reviewed. In this method, a high-temperature condition is realized by introducing hot air directly into the sample portion of a specially designed probe, and a high pressure is achieved by sealing the material of interest into a quartz capillary. The method allows a high-resolution measurement up to 400°C and 0.6 g/cm3 (corresponding to 55 MPa) of water. It is found from the proton chemical shift measurement that the hydrogen bonding persists at supercritical temperatures and that the average number of hydrogen bonds is at least one in the supercritical densities. The measurement of the spin-lattice relaxation time also shows that while the reorientational relaxation proceeds on the order of picosecond in ambient water, it does on the order of several tens of femtoseconds in supercritical water.


Artificial skin phantoms have been developed as an alternative tissue for human skin experiments due to convenient use and easy storage. However, fabricating both thin (∼100 μm) epidermis and relatively thick dermis is often cumbersome, and most developed phantoms have hardly reflected specific human skin types. The objective of this study was to fabricate skin phantoms with 3D printing technique to emulate various human skin types (I–VI) along with the corresponding optical and mechanical properties for laser tattoo removal.


Studied approaches to the development of performance criteria. It was found that the high importance of the criteria due to the need for objective, complete and comprehensive assessment, as insufficient or congestion evaluation criteria not adequately define the role of a manager in the company. The main criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of management activities. On the example of LLC"SRZ" a statistical analysis of plant personnel. The main tendencies and problems of staff. Based on the data proposed measures aimed at improving the performance of the enterprise; ensuring key positions for highly qualified employees through the introduction of the card competence, staff retraining and the creation of a personnel reserve; reducing staff turnover during implementation of adaptation beginners, mentoring and grading


Despite the significant advances that software and hardware technologies have brought to the emergency management field, some islands remain where innovation has had little impact. Among them, emergency plan management is of particular relevance due to their key role in the direction of teams during responses. Aspects like coordination, collaboration, and others are spread in plain text sentences, impeding automatic tool support to improve team performance. Moreover, administrative management of plans becomes a mere document management activity. In this paper, we present SAGA, an architecture that supports the full lifecycle of advanced emergency plan management. By advanced we mean plans that include new types of interaction such as hypermedia and advanced process definition languages to provide precise specification of response procedures. SAGA provides all the actors involved in plan management a number of tools supporting all the stages of the plan lifecycle, from its creation to its use in training drills or actual responses. It is intended to be instantiated in systems promoted by civil defense agencies, providing administrative support to plan management; additionally, editing tools for plan designers and tools for analysis and improvement of such plans by organizations are provided. Plan enactment facilities in emergency response are also integrated. To our knowledge, it is the very first proposal that covers all the aspects of plan management.


come to have an almost mechanical view of the world based on physics and chemistry, and later on biology. The period 1870-1910 was the Society's hey-day: it embraced these changes wholeheartedly, set up new sections, took on new members, grew to be a national institution, shared in the economic revival of the Netherlands and of Amsterdam in particular, and was a true reflection of science at large in the Netherlands, which produced a good handful of Nobel prizewinners and could hold its head up internationally, even if not at the very top levels. In the twentieth century, however, the expansion and fragmentation of science proceeded too rapidly for the Society to maintain any claims to stewardship. Through a series of reorganizations, by the 1950s the Society had become a merely titular umbrella-organization linking a federalized set of independent disciplines. The unity of science was lost, and the Society reflected that too. All this is accompanied by some incidental illustrations, an index, and full set of references. This attempt to make a straightforward commemorative publication rather more universal in scope is commendable, and generally succeeds in its aims without too much stretching of the material, or of the image of "reflection".


The History of International Law lacks systematic studies on the link between legal scholars and practices of justifying war. This missing analytical link has for a long time given the impression that legal scholars describe 'state practice' in an 'objective', unpolitical way. Contradicting this impression, the article turns to the politics of legal scholars in the genesis of the modern war discourse. It reflects on the fateful entanglement of violence, law and politics, but nevertheless distinguishes between 'objective' and 'political' scholarship on the basis of Hans Kelsen's work. Furthermore, the article illustrates the politicisability of legal scholars in selected historical cases of the 'long 19th century' (1789–1918). In all cases, two hearts pounded in lawyers' chests: one scientific, the other political. As will be shown, the modern war discourse is shaped by a phenomenon that enables scholars to expand the intrinsic limits to the political instrumentalisation of law: 'multi-normativity'.


Objective To analyze the usage of anticancer drugs in Guigang City People's Hospital from 2011 to 2013. Methods The data were drawn from the HIS system in the hospital retrospectively, and the consumption sum, sales volume, and component ratio of anticancer drugs were analyzed. Results Consumption sum of anticancer drugs increased year by year substantially during 2011-2013, especially antimetabolite and anticancer drugs from plants and their derivatives, but alkylating drugs showed a downward trend in demand. Consumption sum of top three drugs in anticancer drugs were gemcitabine, docetaxel, and pemetrexed. The largest sale of the anticancer drugs was fluorouracil, then was gemcitabine. Conclusion The growth rate of sales of anticancer drugs in Guigang City People's Hospital closes to the national level. The antimetabolite and anticancer drugs from plants and their derivatives have a big demand in the market, therefore the varieties of production and optimization should be intensified.


To reduce gate driving losses caused by high switching frequency operation, a new resonant gate driver for driving both top switch and bottom switch is presented in this paper. This new gate drive circuit has a simple two-half-bridge structure. A coupled inductor is used for energy circulation between gates of switches and also works as a voltage-boost transformer. It is more interesting that it also can be extended to drive two MOSFETs with common ground. Theoretical and simulation results prove operation and driving loss saving efficiency of the proposed resonant gate drive circuit.


Objectives:To explore the surgical technique and clinical efficacy of percutaneous kyphoplasty(PKP) by unilateral transverse process-pedicle approach for treatment of thoracolumbar osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture(OVCF).Methods:From January 2009 to March 2011,26 patients with thoracolumbar OVCF were treated with PKP by unilateral transverse process-pedicle approach.There were 9 male patients and 17 female patients,aged 56-78 years(average 66 years) and 35 fractured vertebrae.In preoperation,the visual analogue scale(VAS) score was 7.96±0.95,the Cobb angle was 18.42°±5.98°,the anterior and medium height of fracture vertebra were 19.08±2.28mm and 17.02±1.72mm.At 2 days of postoperation and final follow-up,clinical efficacy was evaluated by VAS,and Cobb angle,anterior/medium height of vertebra were measured in X-ray films.Results:All the PKP operations were successful.The operation time was 15-75min(average 34min).The cement injected into every vertebra was 3-6ml(average 4.8ml).Cement was well-distributed in vertebrae without complications such as nerve injury,cement leakage into spinal canal.23 patients were followed up for 12-36 months(average 29 months).At 2 days of postoperation and final follow-up,the VAS score was 2.42±0.39 and 2.01±0.37 seperately,the Cobb angle was 7.77°±0.77° and 8.71°±0.81°,the anterior height of vertebrae was 22.00±1.73mm and 21.28±1.24mm,the medium height was 20.80±0.75mm and 19.64±1.12mm.Compared with the preoperation,there were significant defferences in all the evaluations(P0.05).Between the 2 days of postoperation and the final follow-up,there was significant defference in the VAS score(P0.05),but no significant defference in the Cobb angle and the anterior/medium height of vertebrae(P0.05).Conclusions:PKP by unilateral transverse process-pedicle approach is an efficient way to the treatment of thoracolumbar OVCF.


Abstract:The article considers a theatrical adaptation of the "Benjy Chapter" from William Faulkner's 1928 novel The Sound and the Fury created by the experimental theatre company Elevator Repair Service (ERS) and presented at the Public Theater in New York in the spring of 2015. Told from the perspective of Benjy Compson, Faulkner's text contains one of the most significant and complex representations of a mentally disabled character in modern American literature. The article examines how ERS attempted to evoke Benjy's consciousness using the specific affordances of theatrical performance. It argues that the ERS production asks questions about theatrical form in ways that echo and yet significantly diverge from the questions that Faulkner's novel asks about literary form. In so doing, it further suggests that the emerging discourses of neurodiversity and neurodivergence offer powerful new methodological possibilities for theatre and performance studies.


An analytical solution for the calculation of the bistatic scattered Doppler spectrum from a vibrating metallic circular cylinder is presented. First the scattering solution of a slightly deformed circular cylinder is obtained using a perturbation method. Then, assuming the vibration frequency is much smaller than the frequency of the incident electromagnetic plane wave, a closed form expression for the time-frequency response of the bistatic scattered field is obtained which can be used directly for estimating the Doppler spectrum. Results indicate that the scattered Doppler frequencies correspond to the mechanical vibration frequencies of the cylinder, and the sidelobe Doppler spectrum level is, to the first order, linearly proportional to the degree of deformation and is a function of bistatic angle. Utilizing the information in the scattered Doppler spectrum could provide an effective means of buried object identification, where acoustic waves are used to vibrate the buried object at resonance.


The invention relates to a device comprising a central element (2) from which the following elements extend: a first cable section (2) which has a means for attaching to an anchoring point on its free end; and a second cable section (6) which has a means for attaching to a tool-holding means (8) on its free end, where at least one of the cable sections (2), (6) is retractable along the length thereof, i.e. it can be extended from the central element (1), increasing the length thereof, and can be returned into the central element. The device allows tools to be held in a continuous manner that does not affect or prevent the normal use of the tools. It also ensures that the distance required between the tool and the anchoring point can be adapted, and even in the event of loss of control of the tool, prevents and breaks the fall, without causing damage or the like, and is easy to recuperate.


Purpose: Conceptual & clinical study on Psoriasis according to Ayurveda as well as Modern science on various scientific parameters, Clinical evaluation of efficacy of Vamana, Virechana & Laghumanjisthadi Ghana in Management of Psoriasis, and comparative clinical study of trial drug along with standard allopathic regimen. Method: Selection of patient: The study was conducted on 30 clinically diagnosed & confirmed cases of Psoriasis. Criteria of diagnosis: The main criteria of diagnosis of patients were based on the cardinal and associated signs and symptoms of the disease based on the Ayurvedic and modern texts. These have been depicted in detail in the criteria of inclusion. Criteria of inclusion: 1. Patients who are willing for trial, 2. Patients in the age group of 15 - 60 years, 3. Patients of Mandal Kustha diagnosed by Ayurvedic classics and psoriasis diagnosed by Modern classics. Exclusion criteria: 1. Patients with age below 15 & above 60 yrs, 2. Pregnant women's & lactating mothers, 3. Patients suffering from serious systemic disorders like Diabetes Mellitus, Cardiac & Renal Disorders, Malignant disease, Major liver disorders etc., 4. Patients Contraindicated for Vaman & Virechana as per classical Ayurvedic Texts. Result: Significant results were obtained in PASI Score, Itching & Burning Score. Conclusion: So it is concluded from above study that Vaman, Virechana followed by administration of Laghu Manjisthadi Ghana is effective in management of Psoriasis as it is safe, cost effective & free from any side effects. It also prevents the relapse considerably.


Abstract The rapid development of the nuclear power plant (NPP) in China leads to increasing attention to the minimization of radioactive waste. The primary coolant is one of the sources of low-level radioactive wastewater and must be decontaminated before its discharge to the environment. One of the possibilities is by means of continuous electrodeionization (CEDI) technology. In this paper the lab-scale experiments demonstrate that CEDI can offer favorable decontamination of primary coolant in NPP, with minimized radioactive spent resin production. Displacement of the anion exchanger by weak base anion exchangers in a CEDI module can improve the Co2+ and Sr2+ removal. In the dilute effluent of the modified module, Co2+ and Sr2+ concentrations are below 2 ng·l–1 and 58 to 114 ng·l–1, respectively, which is much lower than the commercial one of 205 to 289 ng·l–1 and 268 to 326 ng·l–1. This displacement has a negligible influence on the electrical resistance of the module.


This paper considers the interaction between the concepts of logos and eidos and the possibility of their use in contemporary philosophy. Logos is a true word or thought exactly corresponding to the truth and identifed with its object. Eidos is the living being of an object, permeated with semantic energies coming from its depth and developing into a complete living picture of the revealed image of the object's essence. Many of the imbalances existing in philosophy are caused by the fact that as early as in Late Antiquity and then in the Middle Ages, there began a process of moving the concept of eidos and other closely related concepts to the background. In this process, many achievements of the ancient Greeks were lost: their understanding of the cosmos as equilibrium and humans as an intrinsic part of nature on an equal level with other natural processes and phenomena. The science of the modern times, including philosophy, shifted resolutely from the study of entities to the study of phenomena, from "what" to "how". In addition, the philosophy and science in the modern era turned their spotlight on personality, consciousness, and the self. Meanwhile, the view in which the eidos is revealed in its entirety (eidetic view) can be formed from the point of view of three interrelated limits of dynamic equilibria: identifcation, communication, and rhythmization. Identifcation of an object under study can be described as a transition from phenomenon to phenomenon; communication as a transition from horizon to horizon; and rhythmization as identifying the fundamental time interval between the transition from one level of the "phenomenon, horizon, rhythm" to another level of similar nature. As a result, a cell is formed consisting of three fundamental limits of dynamic equilibria, which can serve as the basis for the object's development.


3 Background 4 Aims 6 Hypotheses 6 Materials and Method 7 Results 10 Discussion 15 Conclusions and Recommendations 18 Acknowledgements 19 References 20 Appendices 22


The prevalence of cardiovascular disease is lower in premenopausal women compared to age-matched males and postmenopausal females. Differences in risk may be due to sex differences in endothelial function. Therefore, this thesis examined the effects of gender on endothelium-dependent vasorelaxation in porcine isolated coronary arteries (PCAs). Distal PCAs were studied under myographic conditions and pre-contracted with U46619. Concentration-response curves to bradykinin, an endothelium-dependent vasorelaxant, were constructed in the presence of various inhibitors. Inhibition of NO and prostanoid synthesis (EDH-type response) produced greater inhibition in males compared to females. Eliminating H2O2 using PEG-catalase significantly reduced the bradykinin-induced vasorelaxation in the absence, but not in the presence of L-NAME and indomethacin in females, and had no effect in males. Inhibition of gap junctions with carbenoxolone and 18α-GA inhibited the EDH-type response in females but not in males. Inhibition of SKCa channels reduced the EDH-type response in PCAs from both sexes but inhibition of IKCa had an effect only in females but not males. Western blot did not detect any differences in the expression of Cx40, 43 or IKCa between sexes. H2O2 caused concentration-dependent vasorelaxations which were significantly inhibited by PEG-catalase, TEA, 60 mM K+ and 500 nM ouabain. Inhibition of NOS, cyclo-oxygenase, gap junctions, SKCa, IKCa, BKCa, Kir, KV, KATP, cGMP, Na+-Ca2+ exchanger or removal of endothelium had no effect on the H2O2-induced vasorelaxation. 1 mM H2O2 inhibited both KCl-induced vasorelaxation and rubidium-uptake consistent with inhibition of the Na+/K+-pump activity. The effects of the antioxidant Tiron® under different gassing conditions (95% O2/5% CO2 or 95% air/5% CO2) were investigated. The bradykinin-induced vasorelaxations in PCAs were unaffected by different levels of oxygenation. Tiron® increased the potency of bradykinin only when gassed with 95% O2/5% CO2 and the enhancement in vasorelaxation was prevented by catalase. Similarly, Tiron® enhanced the EDH-type response when gassed with 95% O2/5% CO2 in PCAs from both sexes. Biochemical analysis using Amplex Red demonstrated that H2O2 was generated in Krebs'-Henseleit solution when gassed with 95% O2/5% CO2, but not with 95% air/5% CO2.
 Inhibition of Nox had no effect in PCAs from females but DPI, a non-selective Nox inhibitor reduced the potency of the bradykinin-induced vasorelaxation in males. In the EDH-type responses, inhibition of Nox had no effect in females, but in males, ML-171 (a selective Nox inhibitor) and DPI enhances while VAS2870 (a selective Nox inhibitor) reduces the bradykinin-induced vasorelaxation. ML-171 had no effect on the forskolin-induced vasorelaxation but decreased the potency of U46619-induced tone in both sexes in the absence or presence of endothelium. Nox activity was reduced by DPI and ML-171, but not VAS2870 in PCAs from both sexes. Sex differences in the functional study of Nox could be attributed to the differential expression of Nox proteins where expression of Nox1 and Nox2 were greater in males but Nox4 was greater in females. This may underlie the greater oxidative stress observed in males. Bradykinin-induced EDH-type responses in PCAs from both sexes were essentially abolished by 2-APB (TRPC&TRPM antagonist). SKF96365 (TRPC antagonist) inhibited the bradykinin-induced vasorelaxation in males, and EDH-type response in both sexes. Pyr3 (TRPC3 antagonist) inhibited both the NO and EDH components of the bradykinin-induced vasorelaxation in males, but not females. RN1734 (TRPV4 antagonist) reduced the potency of the NO component of the bradykinin-induced vasorelaxation in females only, but inhibited the EDH-type response in both sexes. 2-APB, SKF96365 and RN1734 all reduced the H2O2-induced vasorelaxation, whereas Pyr3 had no effect. No differences in expression level of TRPC3 and TRPV4 between sexes were detected using Western blot. In conclusion, present study demonstrated clear sex differences in endothelial function in PCAs where H2O2, MEGJs, IKCa and TRPV4 channels play a role in the bradykinin-induced vasorelaxation only in female pigs while Nox-generated reactive oxygen species and TRPC3 channels play a role in the bradykinin-induced vasorelaxation only in male pigs. Therefore, gender-specific drug treatment for cardiovascular disease may be a novel therapeutic strategy.


The simulation of the process and the effects of protection projects lays the foundation of its effective control and defence. A mathematical model of the problem and the upwind fractional step finite difference method are presented. Using this method, the numerical simulation of seawater intrusion in Laizhou Bay Area of Shandong Province is given. The numerical results turn out to be identical with the real measurements, so the prediction of the consequences of protection projects is reasonable.


Assateague, a dynamic barrier island extending from just south of Ocean City, Maryland, to the northern portions of Virginia's eastern shore, was added to the National Park Service (NPS) system in 1965 (Mackintosh 1982) and now draws roughly 2 million visitors per year (Bentley 2008). Prior to the Seashore's establishment, however, the island and its environs drew a range of people from fishermen to land developers. While today's Eastern Shore communities continue many of their traditional lifeways related to the island, they now share its resources with tourists from around the world who are drawn to the seeming pristine beaches and famed wild ponies, managed today by two federal agencies (NPS and United States Fish and Wildlife Service [USFWS]).


In order to identify the risk on drought for crop production in Anuradhapura district. daily rainfall dataover 35 years in seven rain gauge stations were analyzed. The selected stations were Anuradhapura,Mahailluppallama, Nochchiyagarna, Kalawewa, Elayapaththuwa, Padaviya and Vavuniya. Among all the stations, both highest mean annual rainfall of 1488.5 mm and annual dependable rainfallof 1276.6 mrn were recorded in Padaviya. The minimum rainfall values of I 087.6 mm and 903.1 mrnwere noted in Nochchiyagama respectively. 31% and 69% of total annual rainfall was received inyala and maha seasons respectively. Number of dry weeks in the district was assessed by Hargreaves'Moisture Availability Index (MAl) method and 10 mm and 20 mrn weekly rainfall at 75% probabilitylevel for upland and wetland crops respectively. Accord ing to MAl, average number of dry weeks in the district was 25 (out of 26) for yala seasonand 19 (out of26) for maha season. The maximum dry period of I 00% was recorded in Nochchiyagama,Elyapaththuwa and Padaviya in yo/a season. It was 85% for maha season in Nochchiyagama andElayapaththuwa. The highest dry run of 42 weeks was recorded in Nochchiyagama, Elayapaththuwaand Padaviya throughout the year. Based on the monthly dependable rainfall 74.5% of total rainfall isconcentrated into last 3 months in the region. Based on 20 mrn weekly rainfall at 75% probability, the whole district was completely dry during yalaseason. Total 100% dryness was observed in Elayapathtuwa based on 10 mm and 20 mrn weeklyrainfall at 75% probability for maha season. Average 96% of dryness was recorded in the districtunder 10 rnrn weekly rainfall at 75% probability in yala season. The analysis depicts the risk on drought in the area for crop production. It indicates the irrigation needfor the crop production in the district both in yala and maha seasons.


Bistrifluoromethyl-s-tetrazine reacts with styrene to yield 4-phenyl-3,6-bistrifluoromethyl-1,4-dihydropyridazine, with cyclohexene to give 3,8-bistrifluoromethyl-1,3a,4,5,6,7-hexahydrophthalazine, with 2,3-dimethylbut-2-ene to yield 4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-3,6-bistrifluoromethyl-4,5-dihydropyridazine and with norbornadiene to give, it is tentatively proposed, 2,5-bistrifluoromethyl-3,4-diazabicyclo[4.3.0]nona-1,4,8-triene, plus 3,6-bistrifluoromethyl-pyridazine. The last compound is formed by reaction of the tetrazine with acetylene, and 4-methyl- and 4,5-bistrimethylstannyl-3,6-bistrifluoromethyl-pyridazines are formed by reaction with propyne and with bistrimethylstannylacetylene, respectively.Reaction of the tin compound with iodine and with chlorine yields 4,5-di-iodo- and -dichloro-3,6-bistrifluoro-methylpyridazine, respectively, and the latter compound yields perfluoro-3,6-dimethylpyridazine with potassium fluoride.Perfluoro-3,6-dimethylpyridazine rearranges photochemically in the vapour phase into perfluoro-2,5-dimethylpyrazine.


The EI Nino/La Nina and the Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is an interannual phenomenon involved in the tropical Pacific ocean–atmosphere interactions. In this paper, the aim is to create an asymptotic solving method of nonlinear equation for the ENSO models. And based on a class of oscillator of the ENSO models, employing the method of homotopic mapping, the approximation solution of corresponding problem is studied. It is proven from the results that the homotopic method can be used for analysing the sea surface temperature anomaly in the equatorial eastern Pacific and the thermocline depth anomaly of the atmosphere–ocean oscillation for ENSO model.


This, the fourth American anthology about language and sexual minorities, is more consistently professional, more focused on written texts, less focused on explicating rhetorical effects, and considerably more focused on gender than its predecessors (Chesebro 1981, Ringer 1994, and Leap 1995). Why "sexuality" is included in the subtitle at all is a mystery. In contrast to Leap's pioneering collection, sexual practices are almost entirely invisible (inaudible?) herein. The editors claim to have "collected a series of articles that approach the study of language from the twin perspectives of gender and sexuality, conceived as separate but intricately linked categories" (p. 5); but it seems that, in utero, gender throttled sexuality (while sex, either in the sense of biological differences or in the sense of tactile contact, was never conceived).


According to Leontief's "Turnpike" model, the internal structure of the second industry in Jiangsu province is calculated and the economic development speed of Jiangsu province is surveyed and calculated. Based on this, dynamic linear programming model is established and the adjusting plan on the internal structure of the second industry in Jiangsu province in the period of "The Tenth Five" is presented.


As the anthropogenic share of emissions from agricultural (GHG) emissions exceeds those of the transport sector, there is a profound need to start mitigating the climate impact from the agricultural sector. Eighty percent of emissions from Swedish livestock production emanate from beef production. The high emission intensity of beef production indicates that a weighted tax would capture a large share of its GHG emissions. The purpose of this paper is to investigate by how much a GHG emissions differentiated Pigouvian tax of beef placed on the consumer level would reduce the negative environmental impacts through reduced consumption. The method used is a partial equilibrium competitive model where a Pigouvian tax based on the carbon footprint of 1 kg beef is imposed on the consumer level. The carbon footprint of each production system is based on life cycle assessments. Four production methods of beef are investigated: domestic conventional production in Sweden, organic production in Sweden, beef imported from the EU and beef imported from Brazil. A basic sensitivity analysis for sensitivity ratios was performed on the elasticities to capture the uncertainty estimates of the model and their effect on output variables. Results show that the total beef consumption in Sweden was reduced by 7.88% and the total carbon footprint was reduced by 788 467 ton CO2 eq, thus indicating that a differentiated tax on beef placed on consumer level in an attempt to mitigate climate effects can be a cost-effective approach to abate GHG emissions.


Enteric glial cells (EGC) are major regulators of neuronal and intestinal epithelial cell (IEC) functions. Simple isolation methods of EGC, especially human tissues, remain scarce and limit their study. We present herein a method to isolate EGC and we characterize EGC phenotype and their functional impact on IEC.


Adult cyclic hamsters were used to study the effects of interleukin-la (IL-la) on in vitro steroidogenesis in preovulatory follicles. IL-la increased progesterone secretion by preovulatory fofficles during a 24-h incubation in RPMI-l640 medium containing hCG (100 mu/mI) (progesterone levels: 17.5 ± 2.2 vs. 10.6 ± 1.9 ng/fofficle/ml, p < 0.05). IL-lu alone bed no effect on follicular steroidogenesis. The source of increased progesterone secretion was the thecae (9.8 ± 1.0 vs. 5.8 ± 0.4 ng/2 thecae/ml, p <0.01) and not the granulosa cells (6.6 ± 0.2 vs. 6.8 ± 0.5 ng/20 000 viable granulosa cells/mi). IL-la also stimulated production of testosterone in thecae of preovulatory follicles. The follicular progesterone increase was dependent on the time of incubation and dose of IL-la. IL-la at 5-50 U/mi maximally stimulated progesterone production in the preovulatory follicles, and no significant effect of IL-lu was observed until the 12th hour of incubation. The effects of IL-la on in vitro steroidogenesis in preantral follicles, experimentally induced atretic preovulatory follicles, and newly formed corpora lutes were examined. IL-lu in the presence of hCG also significantly increased progesterone secretion by atretic preovulatory follicles. In the incubation of preantral follicles or newly formed corpora lutea, however, IL-la did not alter steroidogenesis. These results indicate that IL-Ia stimulates progesterone secretion by preovulatory follicles and that the target tissue for this effect is the thecal layer. Moreover, the effect of IL-lu apparently depends on the stage of follicular development since preantral fofficles do not respond to IL-Ia.


We consider the problem of finding the minimum number K(n,c) of total switching functions of n variables necessary to cover the set of all switching functions which are specified in at most c positions. We find an exact solution for K(n,2) and an upper bound for K(n,c) which is better than a previously known upper bound by an exponential factor.


In order to reveal the evaporation characteristics and mechanism of water saving of water storage pit irrigation,the daily soil evaporation intensity of the surface in different distances from the tree and the pit wall in different depths of the pit were measured by micro-lysimeters respectively,the meteorological elements of the surface and the pit were also measured by nk3500 handheld weather instrument.The results showed that the surface soil evaporation increased firstly with time and decreased then under surface irrigation while it decreased with time and was obvious lower under water-storage pit irrigation compared to surface irrigation,whose difference was significant(p0.01).The average surface soil evaporation increased firstly with time and then tended to be stable under surface irrigation while the pit wall evaporation increased firstly with time,decreased then,and finally tended to be stable under water-storage pit irrigation,whose difference was not significant.The total evaporation under water-storage pit irrigation was much 33%lower than that under surface irrigation and the biggest difference was 6 432mm3.The top evaporation intensity under surface irrigation was nearby 2.3times of that under water-storage pit irrigation.Water storage pit irrigation is recommended in the orchard.


As postmodernism's biological clock ticked toward midnight, Richard Powers forged a novelistic synthesis between the centripetal immersive experience offered by the traditional novel, and the illusion-stripping centrifugal energies associated with postmodern metafiction. The postmodern ancestors of this hybrid were named in the author's own essays. He was one of John Barth's "late comer legatees," the offspring of "grand master" "Pop" Pynchon. Working under their shadow, the blueprint he produced looked something like this: dual or triple narratives set out the foundations of a well-behaved realist novel, eliciting and rewarding reader interest with relatively traditional narrative hooks. Essayistic asides raised the intellectual stakes, seeking dazzling parallels between disparate territories— matching the growth of a business with metastatizing cancer, merging Bach with Crick and Watson. After lengthy immersion in the realist dimensions of this world, postmodern trickery produced what Powers called a concluding "jump shift in epistemic levels" that reconfigured the preceding narratives as artificial constructs. Yet aside from reconciling opposing traditions, buried in this model was also a theory of how art might relate to society. First, art must act as a refuge from the world, as "the stream of narrative overflows the banks of the real." But total withdrawal is an irresponsible delusion, and the final jump-shift is designed to return us once more to engagement in the world. As Powers writes in Prisoner's Dilemma (1988), fiction is "a place to hide out in long enough to learn how to come back." In varying ways, this model stands relatively firm through his early fiction, and Powers's eleventh novel, Orfeo (2014), shares many characteristics with this well-established model. The book is built out of three intertwined narrative threads—what the novel calls "splicedtogether monologues"—all devoted to the aging composer, Peter Els. Of the two main threads, the first recounts Els's past—his various compositions and creative collaborations, his broken marriage and estranged daughter—as they lead up to his latecareer shift from music to the "garage genomics" he carries out in a homemade biology lab. The second strand concerns the present, detailing a Kafkaesque chance encounter with the state, in which Els manages to arouse so much suspicion when the police come across his microbiology lab that Homeland Security brands him the "Biohacker Bach" as he flees Urbana, moving through St. Louis and Arizona, to California. In the third narrative, Powers (like Jennifer Egan in "Black Box") turns to Twitter for a soundbyte "confession" that Els begins late in the narrative, but which is projected back through to the earlier parts of the book. Along the way there are plenty of signature Powers moments to enjoy: virtuoso reflections on music (particularly Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time"), sudden parallactic jumps (the eyeblink of human history gives way to a vision of the last 3.5 billion years as "the Age of Bacteria"), and a vertiginous shift in perspective at the novel's end. Yet while the book reprises Powers's signature obsessions, it also seems to represent a threshold for the model that has carried Powers's imaginative project this far. From the basic perspective of chronology, it's notable that Powers's first ten books were produced with remarkable regularity, with no more than a three-year gap between novels. After Generosity (2009), however, readers have faced an uncharacteristic five-year pause. This gap is minor compared to, say, the near-decade that Eugenides took to write the relatively unambitious The Marriage Plot (2011), and it would seem incidental if Orfeo was not so explicitly about the breakdown of the model Powers has established. Dark clouds have been gathering in his recent books, and they make what is probably middle-period Powers looks like the melancholy late fiction of a much older writer. Crowds have become increasingly important in this work—Generosity and Orfeo are full of them—and they render the idea of an aesthetic haven seem quaint. Watching his daughter populate an imaginary world, Els "wanted to tell" her "Yes: make something good. Live there," but Els's own creative life is mostly about failed havens into which the "oblivious crowd" intrudes. The police's entry into Els's home is the most explicit sign that the private retreat is no longer possible, and as Els contemplates using a credit card or a cell phone he


Natural language explanations have the potential to provide rich information that in principle guides model reasoning.Yet, recent work by Lampinen et al. has shown limited utility of natural language explanations in improving classification.To effectively learn from explanations, we present FLamE, a two-stage few-shot learning framework that first generates explanations using GPT-3, and then fine-tunes a smaller model (e.g., RoBERTa) with generated explanations.Our experiments on natural language inference demonstrate effectiveness over strong baselines, increasing accuracy by 17.6% over GPT-3 Babbage and 5.7% over GPT-3 Davinci in e-SNLI.Despite improving classification performance, human evaluation surprisingly reveals that the majority of generated explanations does not adequately justify classification decisions.Additional analyses point to the important role of label-specific cues (e.g., "not know" for the neutral label) in generated explanations.


The effect of a single bout of interval and continous exercise on serum VEGF levels and HUVEC proliferation : A pilot study with moderately trained subjects


In this study, a novel methodology for detecting fuzzy optimal solutions of fuzzy optimal control problems governed by fuzzy differential equations is presented. For this purpose, first the concept of optimal solution is proposed by considering a partial ordering on fuzzy numbers space which is based on a new parametric representation for α-level set of fuzzy numbers. Using this partial ordering and parametric representation, the discussed fuzzy optimal control problems are reduced to general optimal control problems in parametric form. Then by Pontryagin's principle, a candidate for the solution of the original problem is derived. The procedure of extracting candidate solution is illustrated for two experimental problems, which improve the recent results of Refs. 10 and 17.


Contemporary Harput/Mezre, now called Elazığ (a shortened and altered version of the more regal sounding former provincial name of Mamuretülaziz), like many drab provincial Anatolian metropolises, bears few reminders of its imperial past. The ancient Urartu fortress, around which the bustling neighbourhoods of Harput once stood, now stands in splendid isolation perched high above the central city. The buildings that once comprised the campus of Euphrates College have long ago been demolished, along with the churches that were once an architectural mainstay of the hilltop city. The Armenian past of the once dual city has been methodically erased. Few reminders exist of the sojourners that regularly travelled between the villages that still dot the surrounding countryside and the factories of the American northeast. The Elazığ municipality website's page on the region's history ends abruptly in 1880, and makes no mention of its once substantial Armenian population....


The occurrences of food safety incidents like polychlorinated biphenyls in farmed Atlantic salmon in Canada heightened public awareness causing significant reduction in the consumption of the product. This has induced policymakers and stakeholders to implement traceability systems as part of enhancing consumers' trust and safety in the industry. This study provides information on consumers' awareness about traceability systems of farm-raised Atlantic salmon and their willingness to pay for traceable product in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. In this study, we used a logistic regression model to assess consumers' preferences for farm-raised Atlantic salmon. To estimate the parameters of the model, a telephone survey was carried out in fall 2018 over 200 consumers in the province. The results of the study showed that age of the respondents, education level, household size, and household consumptions were significant determinants of the Newfoundlanders and Labradoreans' willingness-to-pay a premium price for the farm-raised traceable salmon. Moreover, a shortage of public knowledge about the traceability systems was also observed in the empirical evidence. To increase the consumers' knowledge about the value of traceability system and its aspects, provincial authorities and private food companies need to take further initiatives. Providing detail labeling could be one of the suitable ways of communicating traceability to consumers. Besides, comprehensive monitoring by the competent authorities is also required to guarantee the truthfulness of traceable information and to reveal the food safety problems for enhancing the degree of consumer confidence in traceability systems. . Keyword: Traceability systems, farm-raised Atlantic salmon, willingness to pay, Newfoundland and Labrador.


Math and Science School is a program designed to enrich and encourage elementary students and teachers of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in the areas of mathematics and science activities. By providing access to special hands-on workshop sessions held in the mobile science laboratory at the school sites during the school year for students and teachers and with a separate summer inservice program for students, elementary children and teachers are encouraged to explore the fascination of science and the utility of mathematics through use of integrated curricula. The Department of Energy grant underwrites the instructional costs of this system while the grantee provides the mobile laboratory and the majority of the materials.


The recent marriage of materials science and artificial intelligence has created the need to extract and collate materials information from the tremendous backlog of academic publications. However, this is notoriously hard to achieve in sophisticated application domains, such as Li‐ion battery (LIB) cathodes, which require multiple variables for materials selection, making it challenging to automatically identify the critical terms in the text. Herein, a semantics representation framework, featuring a dual‐attention module that refines word embeddings through multi‐source information fusion, is proposed for literature mining of LIB cathodes. The word embeddings thus produced are biased toward domain‐specific knowledge and can enable the detection of deep‐seated associations among materials for targeted applications. Based on this framework, we establish a semantic knowledge graph dedicated to LIB cathodes, which allows us to unravel the latent materials relationships from scientific literature and even to discover candidate materials not yet exploited as cathodes before. This work provides a long‐sought path to the realization of text‐mining‐based knowledge management for complicated materials systems with little dependence on domain expertise.


Simulation allows people to experience a variety of realistic
situations and to learn from their mistakes. This article aims
to describe, how usefull the simulation can be.


Residents' walking trips are a kind of natural motion that promotes health and wellbeing by modifying individual behavior. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the major influence of the spatial elements of a health-supportive environment on residents' walking trips. This study analyzes residents' walking trips' elements based on the spatiotemporal characteristics of walking trips, as well as the spatial elements of a health-supportive environment in residential streets based on residential health needs. To obtain the spatial elements that promote residents' walking trips and to build an ordered logistic regression model, two methods—a correlation analysis and a logistic regression analysis—were applied to analyze the elements of residents' walking trips as well as the spatial elements of a health-supportive environment in residential streets by means of SPSS software, using on-site survey results of ten residential streets and 2738 pieces of research data. The research showed that the nine kinds of spatial elements that significantly affect residents' walking trips are density of pedestrian access, density of bus routes, near-line rate of roadside buildings, average pedestrian access distance, square area within a 500 m walking distance, distance to the nearest garden, green shade ratio, density of street intersections, and the mixed proportion of differently aged residential buildings. In order to construct a spatial environment that promotes walking trips, it is necessary to improve the convenience of residents' walking trips, to increase the safety of roadside buildings and pedestrian access, to expand the comfort of "getting out to the nature", and to enrich the diversity of different architectural styles and street density.


The surface electromyogram (sEMG) involves the acquisition of muscle-action potentials transmitted by volume conduction from the skin. Surface electrodes require disposable conductive gel or adhesive tape to be attached to the skin, which is costly, and the tape may damage the skin when it is removed. This paper proposes a method for recognizing the muscle-activity state of the arm and a method for estimating sEMG using pulse-wave data (photoplethysmography). From an evaluation experiment with five participants, three types of muscle activity were recognized with 75+% accuracy and sEMG was estimated with approximately 20% error rate.


The aim of this research is to develop a theoretical basis and practical models of sustainable tourism development, which will ensure the development of competing destinations, cost-effective growth of the tourism product and living standards. The development plan must provide specific answers to all these questions, which means that you should have a clear vision, which supports the principle of sustainable development, a realistic assessment of the assets and their economic effects. The research is based on the hypothesis formulated components that make up the proposed model of sustainable tourism development. The theoretical model of sustainable tourism development in the interconnectedness of the selected tourist destinations, which are a collection of authentic tourism product. The requirement is that a new, scientifically based knowledge and practical design of sustainable tourism development, to ensure that positions itself as a tourist destination recognizable and attractive. This study provides information that the model for planning the sustainable tourism development should be monitored and adjusted to the needs in the light of changed circumstances, and as a priority evaluation in relation to its objectives.


The stability of a nonlinear control system which consists of a sector bounded nonlinear gain in cascade with a fixed linear PID controller is analyzed using Popov stability criterion. The relationship between the parameters and the stability is derived, and the criterion to determine the nonlinear gain is presented, which lays a solid base for the engineering design of this kind of PID controller.