The cable assembly (50) comprising: - a shielded cable (52) having at least one internal electrical line (54) with at least one inner conductor (58) and a shield enclosing the inner pipe (56); and - at least one additional ground terminal (10) having an opening formed for at least partially engaging around a cable support structure (12) is formed with a wide-area and low-low-impedance ground connection portion (14); at least one abutment surface (16); formed and in a shielding region (20) of the mounting structure receiving opening (18) for receiving a continuously formed inner lead of the cable and in the circumferential direction at least partially circumferential shielding of the cable; wherein the shielding comprises at least one socket (22, 34) with a contact surface (24) for connection to the shield of the cable; wherein the cable is a power supply and / or data transmission cable in the low voltage range for a system; wherein the shield and the inner lead in each case between a first connection point (60) at one end (62) of the cable and a second connection point (64) at the other end run (66) of the cable through; and wherein the shield is formed with an envelope (68) with which the cable is sealed against the environment; wherein the additional ground terminal is disposed between the first terminal and the second terminal point; wherein said ground terminal portion (14) is electrically connected to the shield for connecting the shield to a ground pad; and wherein the casing connects to the at least one contact surface in such a way that the cable is sealed in the area of additional ground connection from the environment; and ...


As an emerging female painter very popular nowadays, Huang Dan has created many ink and wash paintings that can definitely stand up to close examination and evaluation, which, to some extent, is because the figures in her painting are all gentle and elegant women. Besides, ink and wash represents the essence of traditional Chinese culture. And it's fairly uneasy for one living in such an impetuous world full of vanity to express her pure and gentle feelings and thoughts with such form of art. Her paintings also embody the traditional Chinese culture of "fancy quietness". In the painter's words, she simply wants to make contribution to the development of ink and wash. Such kind of persistence and efforts are respectable and we should draw on the successful


Geopolymer concrete, also known as an earth-friendly concrete, has been under continuous study due to its environmental benefits and a sustainable alternative to conventional concrete construction. The supplies of many source materials, such as fly ash (FA) or slag (SG), to produce geopolymer concrete (GPC) may be limited; however, quarry rock dust (QRD) wastes (limestone, dolomite, or silica powders) formed by crushing rocks appear virtually endless. Although significant experimental research has been carried out on GPC, with a major focus on the mix design development, rheological, durability, and mechanical properties of the GPC mixes; still the information available on the structural behavior of GPC is rather limited. This has implications in extending GPC application from a laboratory-based technology to an at-site product. This study investigates the structural behavior of quarry-rock-dust-incorporated fiber-reinforced GPC columns under concentric and eccentric loading. In this study, a total of 20 columns with 200 mm square cross-section and 1000 mm height were tested. The FA and SG were used as source materials to produce GPC mixtures. The QRD was incorporated as a partial replacement (20%) of SG. The conventional concrete (CC) columns were prepared as the reference specimens. The effect of incorporating quarry rock dust as a replacement of SG, steel fibers, and loading conditions (concentric and eccentric loading) on the structural behavior of GPC columns were studied. The test results revealed that quarry rock dust is an adequate material that can be used as a source material in GPC to manufacture structural concrete members with satisfactory performance. The general performance of the GPC columns incorporating QRD (20%) is observed to be similar to that of GPC columns (without QRD) and CC columns. The addition of steel fibers considerably improves the loading capacity, ductility, and axial load–displacement behavior of the tested columns. The load capacities of fiber-reinforced GPC columns were about 5–7% greater in comparison to the CC columns. The spalling of concrete cover at failure was detected in all plain GPC columns, whereas the failure mode of all fiber-reinforced GPC columns is characterized with surface cracking leading to disintegration of concrete cover.


Women and Work: An Annual Review edited by Barbara A Gutck, Ann H Stromberg and Lausie Larwood; Volume 3, Sage Publications, New York, RECENTLY, there has been a great deal of research and debate on the issues relating to women's work, nationally and internationally. These have encompassed a very wide range of topics


Modern wireless communication systems require an efficient use of the spectrum. Here we introduce the use of permutation codes (PC) as a combined source coding and channel modulation system using M-ary phase shift keying as the modulation formats. We combine the features of a permutation code vector quantizer and a permutation code as channel modulator. For source coding the permutation code is a class of constant weight vector quantizer, and its rate-distortion performance is near optimal considering practical vector lengths. We obtained the rate-total distortion performance for the combined system when an M-ary PSK modulation formats is used as channel symbols. The performance is obtained using numerical methods for AWGN channel and for frequency nonselective slowly fading channel. We found that the combined system has the advantage over non combined systems of lower encoding delay, and hence simpler transmitter and receiver. Also, we would be able to optimize the overall distortion as a function of the design parameters.


This article demonstrates the basic principle and the recent progress of gravitational wave detection based on information retrieval and literature review. The article describes and illustrates the gravitational wave, including the description of the adopted field equation and its properties. There is also a demonstration of the principle behind the first direct gravitational wave detection. Some other potential ground-based detectors, e.g., KAGRA and space-borne detectors, are also listed and contrasted. Since gravitational waves tend to retain themselves from interacting with matter, which travels from a much earlier time than Electromagnetic waves and should be a vital component to Cosmology studies, the space-borne detectors Taiji and LISA will also interlace with each other to explore deeper space in the 2030s, which would be significant progress in gravitational wave Astronomy. This article employs literature analysis that examines papers that discuss the nature of gravitational waves and their detection. These analyses will shed light on gravitational wave detection development.


An experiment was conducted to screen 20 groundnut genotypes for tolerance to phosphorus (P) insufficiency. Significant genotypic variation among genotypes were observed under both P sufficient and deficient treatments. The study revealed that the mean root length and shoot length recorded high in P sufficient soils compared to P deficient soils. The genotypes TCGS 1624, 1616, Greeshma and TCGS 1517 recorded high root length whereas TCGS 1622 recorded lowest root length. The mean root biomass showed no significant differences among P treatments whereas, shoot biomass recorded high in P sufficient soils compared to P deficient soils. Among the genotypes, TCGS 1624, Greeshma, TCGS 1616 and 1621 and 1622 recorded high root biomass in P deficient soils whereas, shoot biomass was found maximum in TCGS 1624, 1616, Greeshma and TCGS 1517. The mean root shoot ratio recorded high in P deficient soils compared to P sufficient soils and among the genotypes, root shoot ratio recorded highest in TCGS 1622, 1624, 1616 and Greeshma whereas shoot P % recorded highest in TCGS 1622, Greeshma, TCGS 1616 and 1624. Pod yields recorded high in TCGS 1624, 1616 and Greeshma in P deficient soils. Hence it can be concluded that, TCGS 1624, Greeshma, 1616 can be identified as P efficient groundnut lines based on their high root mining traits, shoot P % and pod yield.


This paper investigates the integration of Concentrating Solar Power technology in air-steam Mixed Cycles for power production. Starting from a state of the art of CSP plants and the undergoing research in hybridization of Gas Turbine plants, the paper investigates alternative plant configurations particularly regarding the integration of CSP technology with mixed cycles, assessed and compared with a through-life thermo-economic analysis.Solar heat collected by on the market CSP mirrors at moderate temperatures (300°C–500°C) can be employed to increase conventional steam-injection gas turbine power plants performances. Solar concentrating collectors for current steam solar power plants can be used for such an application can be simpler and less expensive than collectors supposed to be used for hybrid GT CSP Plants which need high temperature systems (collectors and receivers).The solar hybridization of mixed cycles could be a good opportunity to combine gas turbine technology and CSP systems thus augmenting efficiency and achieving power dispatchability, but avoiding dedicated combustion chambers for hybrid CSP purposes (one of the big technologic problems to combine CSP and Gas Turbine technology). Moreover, the availability of commercial steam injected gas turbines at intermediate power range (10–100MW) allows the realization of such hybrid mixed CSP power plants in their typical size, avoiding the need for very large solar fields and reducing the technological risk as well as the time to market.Focus is on the design of the plant that was made analyzing different factor like solar share factor, water consumption and reintegration and LCOE. A comparison of this innovative hybrid CSP-STIG plant with traditional STIG, Integrated Solar Combined Cycles (ISCC) and a traditional Combined Cycle was made. The mixed cycles CSP plants are analyzed using the original software WTEMP for the design point analysis, whose library was updated with dedicated modules.The analysis shows that combining CSP technology with existing mixed cycles lets cost-competitive plant configurations with a relatively short time to market.Copyright © 2015 by ASME


Bioactive phytoprostanes and phytofurans are synthesized in higher plants by non‐enzymatic oxidation of α‐linolenic acid (C18:3 n‐3), triggered by high concentrations of reactive oxygen species. In the current scenario of changing dietary patterns, additional information is needed on the concentrations of oxylipins in legumes and on the effect of sustained deficit irrigation on their concentration. The main objective of the work is to elucidate the phytoprostane and phytofuran profile (including eight and three compounds, respectively) of three Pisum sativum cultivars ("mangetout" (ssp. arvense), "BGE‐033620," and "Lincoln") and Phaseolus vulgaris (French bean cv. "Helda"), to unravel the oxidative response of these crops to sustained irrigation deficit in terms of oxidative stress, as well as in their importance as healthy dietary sources of new bioactive compounds. Phytoprostanes and phytofurans vary between varieties and species, with 9‐F₁ₜ‐PhytoP and ent‐16‐(RS)‐13‐epi‐ST‐Δ¹⁴‐9‐PhytoF being the most abundant. The level of phytoprostanes and phytofurans is also determined in sustained deficit irrigation (50% water needed), revealing modifications of their profile and concentration. In conclusion, bioactive phytoprostanes and phytofurans are present in legumes in high concentrations, being further modified by abiotic stress growing conditions, highlighting the importance of this plant food as a dietary source of these bioactive molecules. Practical Applications: This work is of high relevance from the lipidomic point of view, given that phytoprostanes and phytofurans have been promoted as new bioactive secondary metabolites due to their structural analogy with mammal oxylipins. These compounds can be further postulated as possible markers for the monitoring of the physiological status of legume plants under different agronomical conditions. The results obtained can contribute to the successful development of future research in the field of plant physiology and nutrition, significantly contributing to the advance of the current knowledge on the biological role of phytoprostanes and phytofurans in plants and complex biological systems. Species‐dependent modification of phytoprostanes and phytofurans by deficit irrigation in French‐bean, pea, and mangetout.


Active antennas are of high interest for the emerging radar and telecommunication applications, including 5G and satellite megaconstellations. On the one hand, the non-linear analysis and measurement of active transmitting antennas are crucial, mainly due to the non-linear operation of the power amplifiers. Numerous papers addressing this topic can be found in the literature. On the other hand, to the authors' best knowledge, the non-linear analysis and measurement of active receiving antennas are scarcely reported in the literature. Likewise, they are of interest, specifically, to characterize such antennas under high-power unintentional or intentional spurious signals or to validate limiting circuit operations. Therefore, this paper is providing a theoretical analysis and measurement methodology to characterize the compression of active receiving antennas. For validation purpose, a demonstrator, operating at 2.45 GHz, was fabricated and measured using the proposed approach.


Abstract Vocational guidance services have been developing in Northern Ireland for about thirty years. Recently the careers service has been transferred from an education to a manpower services base, while the schools have been given greater opportunity, and responsibility, for the provision of careers education. The changes have given considerable impetus to careers teacher training, and to the appointment of schools' careers staffs. The possibility of further development of the partnership between careers officers and careers teachers is examined.


Does the compulsory schooling law, which places a great financial burden on individual families and distorts parental gender-specific optimal investments, lead to a more skewed sex ratio and a greater gender gap? Using the difference-in-differences method, this paper shows that although the 1986 compulsory schooling law in China decreases the gender gap in schooling achievement, it significantly increases the fraction of males by 8.6% in counties where the law is more binding. In total, the law skews the sex ratio by 7%. The event study also shows that the increase in the sex ratio is due primarily to prenatal sex selection. However, the gender gap in malnutrition increases dramatically within cohorts for which prenatal sex selection is impossible. This paper also finds that the overall fertility rate decreases by 56.5%, as the law makes it more expensive, in general, to have a child. Lastly, this paper provides a simple model that can consistently explain the rise and decline in the sex ratio in China over the past several decades. (JEL Codes: J13, J16, I21, I28.)


Abstract : Combined Computational Fluid Dynamics Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes and LES model calculations were completed for comparisons with wind tunnel measurements of flow along the afterbody and in the base region of a circular cylinder aligned to a Mach 2.5 freestream. This cylinder is representative of a missile at zero degrees angle-of-attack. Comparison data includes afterbody and base pressure, high quality non-intrusive Laser Doppler Velocimetry and Pressure Sensitive Paint measurements, and turbulent kinetic energy. The flow in the base/separated region of a tactical missile is very complex even though the geometry is quite simple. There are several reasons this is the case. First, the external flow over the missile body is supersonic while the flow in the base region is mixed supersonic/subsonic flow. Second, this flow is characterized by shock wave/boundary layer interactions at the lip of the base region. Third, the flow is turbulent in the base/separated region and highly transient in nature. There has been a long history of attempts to accurately describe this flow going back to the 1950s where integral models were used and continuing to the 2000s where sophisticated computation fluid dynamic models were used. However, none of these models have produced results that provide accurate descriptions of the flowfield.


Objective
To analyze the problems and mechanism obstacles existing in the allocation of health human resources in medical institutions in poverty-stricken counties of Hubei province, and propose targeted policy recommendations.

Methods
The stratified random sampling method was used in an on-site investigation conducted at 5 county-level hospitals and 9 township hospitals in 3 poverty-stricken counties of Hubei province.

Results
The allocation of human resources in such counties showed an overall trend of improvement year by year. However, some of the counties still faced such problems as inadequate health workforce, unreasonable structure of health manpower, and great gaps of health manpower structure within the county. In most of the hospitals, the proportion of health technicians with bachelor′s degree or above fell below 50%. In county hospitals, the proportion of personnel expenditure was generally less than 15% from 2013 to 2016.

Conclusions
The allocation of health human resources in poverty-stricken areas is facing such mechanism obstacles as limited financial input, restrictions of staffing quota, and lack of cooperative motivation by medical institutions. It is necessary to clarify the responsibility of the government and guarantee the fiscal support of personnel expenditure. It is also imperative to promote the reform of the personnel practice in the health system, strengthen the construction of the health talents guarantee mechanism at the primary level, optimize the vertical cooperation mechanism of medical institutions and promote the integrated health management of counties-township-villages.

Key words:
Health manpower; Resource allocation; Hubei province; Poverty-stricken counties; Medical institutions


Objective To assess the feasibility and clinical value of real-time three-dimensional echocardiography(RT-3DE)in evaluating regional left ventricular systolic function in patients with old myocardial infarction(OMI).Methods Twenty-eight healthy volunteers and 20 patients with OMI were investigated,and the 17-segment myocardial model was adopted.The regional end diastolic volume(rEDV),regional end systolic volume(rESV),regional stroke volume(rSV)and regional ejection fraction(rEF)were assessed by RT-3DE.Results The 17-segment volume-time line was regular in healthy volunteers,but was irregular in OMI group.Compared with controls,rEDV and rESV of OMI group in anterior and inferior wall increased significantly,but rEF decreased significantly(P0.05).Compensated segments were observed in patients with OMI.In the OMI group,rEF' was correlated with EF(r=0.758,P0.001).Conclusion RT-3DE can reflect the number and scope of compensated segments.RT-3DE provides a new method in assessing the regional left ventricular systolic function.


Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (ALCL) comprises 0.5% of adult lymphomas. In many prior retrospective adult series, despite clear differences in outcome, ALK-positive ALCL has been pooled with ALK-negative ALCL, impairing the exploration of prognostic factors and impact of different treatments for ALK-positive ALCL. Cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone (CHOP)/CHOP-like regimen remains the standard treatment of ALK-positive ALCL, with a 5-year overall survival (OS) rate of 70-90%.Most patients are young (median age 35 years) with some studies suggesting this is the predominant reason outcomes are generally more favorable than in ALK-negative ALCL. A retrospective study from the German High-Grade Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Study Group (DSHNHL) and a population-based study from the Danish and Swedish lymphoma registries suggested a possible benefit from the integration of etoposide in the front-line therapy, but definitive conclusions are lacking, and the role of etoposide is still a matter of debate. Herein, we conducted a pooled analysis of individual patient data (IPD) from six studies of first-line therapy in adult ALK-positive ALCL to identify the key prognostic factors and treatment impact. IPD were collected and pooled from six previously published studies: two from the Lymphoma Study Association (LYSA), one from the DSHNHL, one from Japan, one from the International Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma Project (IPTCLP), and one from the Mayo Clinic. Patients recruited to the six studies met criteria for diagnosis of ALK-positive ALCL by the REAL (The Revised European American Lymphoma Classification)/World Health Organization classification with a centralized pathologic review. Eligibility criteria and statistical analyses are available in the Online Supplementary Methods. In total, there were 263 patients diagnosed between 1985 and 2008, 136 (52%) of which had been enrolled in clinical trials (Online Supplementary Table S1). Given the small number of patients included from one of the LYSA studies (n=10) and from the Mayo Clinic (n=9), the six studies were subsequently grouped in four cohorts (LYSA [two studies]), DSHNHL, Japan and [IPTCLP+Mayo Clinic]). Table 1 lists the main clinical, biologic and immunohistochemical characteristics. The median followup was 4.9 years (range, 0.1 to 20.4 years). The treatment details are available in the Online Supplementary Table S2. For the 255 patients evaluable for a response at the end of treatment, the reported CR/CRu, PR and SD/PD (complete response (CR), unconfirmed CR (CRu), partial response (PR), stable disease (SD), or progressive disease (PD)) rates to the first-line therapy were 85%, 5% and 10%, respectively. For all 263 patients, the 5-year progression-free survival (PFS) and OS rates were 69% (95% CI, 64% to 75%) and 81% (95% CI, 76% to 86%), respectively (Online Supplementary Figure S1). Importantly, the PFS was not significantly different between cohorts (5-year PFS from 60% to 76%, P=0.110). For patients >60 years (n=31, 11.8%), compared to those ≤60 years (n=232, 88.2%), 5-year PFS (55% vs. 71%, P<0.01, hazard ratio (HR) 2.077) and OS (64% vs. 83%, P<0.001, HR 3.041) rates were inferior (Figure 1 A-B) (Online Supplementary Table S3). All individual international prognostic index (IPI) factors significantly affected the PFS and OS rates, with the number of extranodal sites >1 conferring the highest risk and with no significant heterogeneity between cohorts (Online Supplementary Figure S2). In a multivariate analysis, only the number of extranodal sites >1 and age >60 years impacted the PFS and OS rates (Online Supplementary Table S4), and finally, the IPI score had a better predictive value for the OS than the prognostic index for peripheral T-cell lymphoma, not oth-


The Schools Infrastructure Demand Maps (and tables) provide the average annual growth of projected primary and secondary school age persons, by Statistical Areas Level 2 (SA2) for each individual Statistical Areas Level 3 (SA3) in Queensland, for the time periods 2011-21 and 2021-31.


and secondly to show that in these situations it is possible to estimate the parameters using a general computer program in which the derivatives of the residuals with respect to the independent variables, which are needed to compute the effective variance-covariance matrices, are estimated numerically. This eliminates much tedious algebraic manipulation, and provides the user with a statistically advanced technique which is no more difficult to use than "least squares" estimation.


Objective  To investigate the practice, experiences and views of motivated and trained family physicians as they attempt to implement informed and shared decision making (ISDM) in routine practice and to identify and understand the barriers they encounter.


Rapid large-area tissue imaging at the cellular resolution is important for clinical diagnosis. We present a probe-based confocal microendoscope (pCM) with a field-of-view (FOV) diameter over 500 μm, lateral resolution of 1.95 μm, and outer diameter of 2.6 mm, compatible with the biopsy channel of conventional gastroscopes. Compared to a conventional pCM, our system's FOV increased by a factor of 4 while maintaining the probe size and cellular resolution—comparable to the FOV of Zeiss Axio Observer's 20×/0.8 numerical aperture objective lens. Ex vivo imaging of wide areas in healthy and diseased rat gastrointestinal tract tissues demonstrates the system's practicality.


Again, as to treatment: I'"Never employ powerful medicines when those of a milder kind will answer the purpose. The more of a man's estate that remains after a lawsuit, the greater is the credit due to his legal adviser, and the more constitutional strength the patient has, at the close of his illness, the more grateful will he be to his physician. Never select a medicinie or aclminister one in such a manner that although the disease may disappear during its exhibition, it may be said of its ultimate effects that they are as bad as, or worse than, the disease itself. When a plan of treatment has been resolved upon, do not impatiently break through it by frequently cbanging the medicine, in a vain attempt to combat every symptom; and do not cherish the idea that every improvement in the patient's condition is necessarily due to the medicine, and that every change for tlhe worse is attributable to the disease. . . . Always divide the responsibility, by consultation, before pursuing treatment by which life may be placed in jeopardy. Next to hiis health, be careful of the patient's pocket. " Golden rules these. Turning to the main body of the work, we find it, as already said, 'very clearly arranged. In the account of the physiological action, there seems too much tendency to rely upon one or more special vriters, rather than to place a brief well-digested view before the student. For instance, under Belladonna, Dr. John Harley's views only are quoted, whilst by the profession at large they are bv no means endorsed. For the rest, most of the therapeutic work cannot be more than notes; and these require interpretation by a lecturer to be really useful. So large a mass of material requires some guide as to relative importance, and Dr. Harvey's little Syllabts might be usefully conjoined. There is room for some press-correction. Some zinc salts are " nemitonics", and senna has a " glycoside"; and some sentences will bear recolnstruction, e.g., " The capability of sulphurous acid (etc.), in the preservation of prepared meat, and of vegetable juices from fermentative and putrefactive changes, is truly marvellous," etc. This vord " marvellous" should be used sparingly. We have it again under Aconite,which sometimes gives "marvellouslygoodresults in neuralgia"; and again, " Carbolic acid has been administered internally for psoriasis, and this practice so far, seems to have been followed with marvellous success"; a statement, by the way, to which even in this qualified form, we must demur. However, the general tone of the book is superior to this ; and we will conclude with a notice of what we think is really one thing wanting-we mean some general statements as to the great practical classes of medicines. 'We look in vain for a general explanation of the action, e.g., of diuretics or purgatives, or of the different va¶ieties of these. We notice this want the more, because we felt it muclh in our own student days ; since then, Dr. Garrod has added some very useful classes and commentaries. Neligan, again, has good headings ; and similar observations form one of the (few) good points in the abridged Pereira. In the interests of wlhat is really a good work, we venture to suggest some such addition to the accomplished editor, in his next edition of Scoresby-Jackson's Note-Book.


The diagnosis and treatment of recurrent or persistent papillary carcinoma of the thyroid can pose significant clinical dilemmas. The tumor generally has a relatively indolent biology; however, recurrent or persistent disease is not uncommon, although tumor-specific mortality is infrequent (1). The exquisite detection sensitivity of the combination of TSH-stimulated serum thyroglobulin (Tg) in conjunction with the ease, sensitivity, and availability of ultrasonography [including ultrasoundguided fine-needle aspiration (FNA)] yields a patient cohort with persistent or recurrent disease. The compulsive physicianemploysthesetechniquesandfrequentlydetects small-volumecervicaldisease,andthephysicianinconcert with the patient reacts by employing ablative or resectional therapy. Treatment options include 131 I, surgical resection, and ethanol or radiofrequency ablation (2–5). Allarecapableofdestroyingtargetlesions,and 131 Ihasthe advantage of ablating extracervical disease. Each technique has unique, but acceptable, morbidities. Surgery is generally the preferred technique for resectable loco-regional cervical disease (6). Careful observation alone may also be an option in select patients. In this edition of the Journal, Al-Saif et al. (7) report a cohortof70patientswithrecurrentorpersistentpapillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) of the thyroid who had undergone a previous thyroidectomy (with or without nodal dissection) and 131 I therapy. Recurrent or persistent disease was detected by imaging studies or the presence of detectable TSH-stimulated serum Tg in patients who did not have anti-Tg antibodies. Each patient underwent one, two, or three remedial cervical reexplorations, and 19 (27%) achieved a biochemical complete remission as defined by an undetectable TSH-stimulated serum Tg level. Thefirstre-resectionachievedaremissionrateof17%(12 of 70), and the second re-resection achieved a remission rate of 18% (five of 28). No patient achieved remission (zero of seven) with a third re-resection. Two additional patients achieved complete biochemical remission during long-term follow-up without further intervention, presumably due to the latent effects of previous 131 I treatment. The duration of complete biological responses ranged from 4–116 months. It is noteworthy that in 10 (9%) of the lymphadenectomies, the intervention was nontherapeutic because the surgeonwasunabletoidentifyorresectresidualPTC.This emphasizes the difficulty of locating small-volume disease in the remedial neck even in the setting of a positive preoperative ultrasound-guided FNA. It is also worth noting that there were no cases of new long-term hypoparathyroidismorrecurrentnerveinjury.Athoracicductinjuryin one patient required reoperative intervention.


Moko disease of banana caused by Ralstonia solanacearum is one of the most limiting factors in the production of this crop in the world. An alternative to reduce the incidence of this disease consists in the early detection of affected plants and soils with high levels of bacterial inoculum. This research evaluated different methods of nucleic acids extraction from plant material and soils, to be used in molecular diagnosis of R. solanacearum in the banana-growing region of Uraba, Colombia. Results showed that for diagnosis of plant material, DNA extraction should be done with commercial kits including silica gel columns or alternatively conventional methods using buffers containing PVPP. For bacterial detection from soil samples the most appropriated method was the microbial enrichment in SMSA broth medium before DNA extraction. Multiplex PCR analysis indicated that phylotype II, sequevar 4 was the causal agent of Moko disease of banana in the region of Uraba. Techniques applied in this research could be used in epidemiological studies as well as to support management strategies of this disease in banana plantations.


During the trans culture communication, body language, which has the same function with the language itself, can also deliver information, express the emotion. Based on the forming background and the fundamental types , this paper analysises and draws the conclusion that body language is affected by this different language conditions and cultural distinguishes etc.


Semiconductor nanocrystals prepared by methods of wet chemistry are similar to MBE grown quantum dots where the mobility of the charge carriers is reduced to zero dimensionality. In this paper we summarize the physics of a unique system in which the charge carriers are locally confined within a heterogeneous quantum dot. With high resolution electron microscopy we will show that epitaxial growth ot atomic layer precision is possible by methods of solution chemistry leading to CdS quantum dots with embedded HgS quantum wells (QDQWs). The photophysics of this system is investigated by time-correlated single photon counting, transient differential absorption and fluorescence line narrowing spectroscopies. The results reflect the very complex electronic structure of this new kind of matter which can be explained by an extended effective mass approach.


The invention relates to an adjustable buffer device for a treadmill, which comprises two adjustable buffers which are arranged on both sides of the treadmill respectively, two connecting mechanisms which can drag limited frames and elastic devices of the adjustable buffers, and a driving mechanism which drives the connecting mechanisms to move, wherein each adjustable buffer comprises a chute which is fixed inside a pedestal of the treadmill and at least comprises an elastic device; the elastic devices are connected with pedals of the treadmill and chutes of the adjustable buffers; steps which have different heights relative to the horizontal planes of the chutes are arranged on one sides of the chutes, which are connected with the elastic devices, of the adjustable buffers; and the elastic devices can be dragged by the driving mechanism to move to different steps of the chutes of the adjustable buffers along the length direction of the pedals. The adjustable buffer device for the treadmill has the advantages of concise structure, low manufacturing cost, and convenient adjustment.


The U.S. electricity industry - once the most stoic of industries - is currently is a state of great turmoil and flux. The root of this turmoil stems directly from Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's ("FERC") ostensible efforts to bring "competition" and "de-regulation" to the electric utility industry through Order No. 888 and its progeny. In response to this recent onslaught of Section 203 merger applications, FERC's has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) to codify its ad hoc merger analysis. As explained herein, because FERC's proposed codification of its various ad hoc merger analyses into a single "cohesive" paradigm unfortunately perpetuates the same flawed analytical assumptions underlying FERC's overall restructuring efforts, FERC's NOPR simply exacerbates the reality that FERC's restructuring policies tragically will harm - rather than appropriately benefit - overall consumer welfare.


The melting behavior of partial and complete ${\mathrm{N}}_{2}$ monolayers on graphite is examined using a Monte Carlo procedure in conjunction with the multiple histogram method. It is found that vacancies inherent in partial monolayers, and those thermally induced by out-of-plane motion at or near monolayer completion, are important factors in predicting the density dependence of the melting temperature. Calculated at various surface densities are the melting temperatures, specific heats, order parameters, probability distributions for molecular positions and orientations, and fluctuations in these quantities. With this information the mechanism of the melting transition is elucidated, and the temperature and density dependence of the specific heats and order parameters is explained. \textcopyright{} 1996 The American Physical Society.


Convolvulus crenatifolius Ruiz & Pavon is reported from Mexico for the first time. This species is native to South America. However, since as early as the end of the 19th century, it has been collected various times in central Mexico where it occurs in disturbed areas and is presumably adventitious. A morphological description is provided, as well as a key to separate this species from C. bonariensis Cav. and C. equitans Benth., two similar taxa with which C. crenatifolius is related.


Ag nanoparticles supported on well-defined perovskite orthorhombic KNbO3 nanowires are synthesized via facile photoreduction and systematically characterized by XRD, Raman, DRUV–vis, XPS, PL, TEM, HRTEM, and HAADF-STEM. The photoreactivity of Ag/KNbO3 nanocomposites as a function of Ag contents (0.4–2.8 wt %) is assessed toward aqueous rhodamine B degradation under UV- and visible-light, respectively. It is found that the UV-induced photoreactivity initially increases and then decreases with increasing Ag contents. At an optimal Ag content (ca. 1.7 wt %), the greatest photoreactivity is achieved under UV light, with the photocatalytic reaction rate of 1.7 wt % Ag/KNbO3 exceeding that of pristine KNbO3 by a factor of ca. 13. In contrast, visible light-induced photoreactivity monotonically increases with increasing Ag contents in the range of 0.4–2.8 wt %. On the basis of the detected active species and intermediate products in the photocatalytic processes, conjugated structure cleavage and N-deethylation a...


Motivated by recent burst of applications of ferromagnetic layers in superconducting digital and quantum elements, we study the magnetism of thin films and patterned microstructures of Pd0.99Fe0.01. In this diluted ferromagnetic system, a high-sensitivity ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) experiment reveals spectroscopic signatures of re-magnetization and enables the estimation of the saturation magnetization, the anisotropy field, and the Gilbert damping constant. The detailed analysis of FMR spectra links the observed unexpectedly high reduced anisotropy field (0.06–0.14) with the internal anisotropy, points towards a cluster nature of the ferromagnetism, and allows estimating characteristic time scale for magnetization dynamics in Pd-Fe based cryogenic memory elements to (3−5)×10−9 s.


Descriptive statistics are used to summarize data in an organized manner by describing the relationship between variables in a sample or population. Calculating descriptive statistics represents a vital first step when conducting research and should always occur before making inferential statistical comparisons. Descriptive statistics include types of variables (nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio) as well as measures of frequency, central tendency, dispersion/variation, and position. Since descriptive statistics condense data into a simpler summary, they enable health-care decision-makers to assess specific populations in a more manageable form. The following core competencies are addressed in this article: Practice-based learning and improvement, Medical knowledge.


Two key technological developments in petroleum exploration - three dimensional seismic survey (3-D Seismic) and integrated seismic interpretation workstations - have led to significant discoveries of oil and gas in the various Nigerian oil provinces where they have been introduced. These new technologies were introduced in Nigeria in the mid-1980s and have since resulted in significant additions to the country's proven crude oil and natural gas reserves.


Anatomical characters can be used as instructions to the structural resistance of plants to pathogen attack. Various pathogens attack sweet potato plants, such as the Sphaceloma batatas fungus that causes scurvy disease (scab). The aims of this research t test the structural resistance of sweet potato plants based on leaf anatomical character and intensity of disease attack due to the inoculated of S. batatas. The research was conducted from June to November 2016, using the Completely Randomized Design Experimental (RAL) method with a factorial pattern. The first factor was ten sweet potato cultivars and the second factor was the inoculum of S. batatas fungus each treatment with five replications. The character of leaf anatomy observed was thick of cuticle, thick of mesophyll, size and number of stomata and number of trichomes per 1 mm2 leaf area. Based on the research result, it was concluded that the inoculation of the fungus of S. batatas caused the decrease of stomata length and width on ten sweet potato cultivars. The highest intensity of disease attack was 14.33% and correlated with stomata length (r = 0.49). The anatomical structural resistance to scurvy can be used as a basis for determining crosses for obtaining superior sweet potato cultivars. The benefit of the research is to advise the community to cultivate sweet potatoes that have structural resistance to scurvy, such as cuticle and thick mesophyll, high trichomata density.


Researches are carried out in Baikal reserve in 1981-2011. Studying of butterflies Heterocera, Macrolepidoptera is a constituent of the Nature chronicle. The list of butterflies of scoop family makes 214 types. In 2011year 95 types of scoop (44% from total) are revealed.


Forecasting of oil prices has always been a matter of great importance due to its influence in driving a country's economy. As a matter of fact, the petroleum industry is considered to be the biggest contributor in the industrial sector in terms of providing raw materials to the other industries and generating revenues. Due to the non-linear and unpredictable nature of the oil prices, a lot of forecasting techniques have been developed and used to check whether they are capable of forecasting the oil prices satisfactorily. In this paper, two widely used techniques, ARIMA analysis and GMDH Neural network has been used to forecast the prices of four petroleum products such as Petrol, Diesel, LPG & Kerosene in India for a three month period (February 2015 to April 2015). The results obtained are compared with the actual prices for the above time period. It is observed that the overall accuracy considering all the four petroleum products shows promising results thus justifying them capable of forecasting the prices of the different petroleum products in India. When both the techniques are compared, ARIMA modelling shows better results (97.99% accuracy) as compared to that of the GMDH neural network method which is 96.97%.


The growing demand for wood is being supplied through homogeneous forest plantations. However, large tracts of land cultivated with a single species are susceptible to insect pest attacks. Termites are one such insect pest, capable of destroying the root system of plants and harming their developments. The objective of the present study was to know the diversity of subterranean termites present in Eucalyptus urograndis ( Eucalyptus urophylla S.T. Blake x Eucalyptus grandis Hill ex Maiden: Myrtaceae), Tectona grandis L.f.: (Lamiaceae) and Bertholletia excelsa Humb. & Bonpl. (Lecythidaceae) and Hevea brasiliensis (Willd. ex A. Juss.) Mull.Arg. (Euphorbiaceae) consortium, in Alta Floresta – MT state, and to verify the spatial distribution of termites in these locations and the influence of edaphic conditions on the diversity of termites in these areas. The survey used traps of corrugated cardboard, which were removed after 30 days and their individuals counted and identified. The soil was collected from the sampled plantations to test for any correlation that may exist between the edaphic variables and the species found. A total of 14,61 individual termites were collected, representing five termite species, the most commonly occurring species was Heterotermes tenuis (Hagen) (12,802 specimens). The spatial distribution of all species was aggregated. Most of the attacked traps were class 2 (between 101 and 500 termites collected), and correlation showed significance only between the factor clay x H. tenuis . The diversity of termites in the plantations is composed of five species, the aggregate distribution indicates preference for the most favorable areas of the environment and higher occurrence of H. tenuis in clay soils.


A misprint was found in the last digit of the parameter C0 of Table II. The correct value is C0 0:057 238 4. Moreover, to reobtain exactly Fig. 3, one has to use G0 0:339 97 (not G0 0:34 as originally printed). The use of the misprinted values of C0 and G0 which appear in the original version of Table II does not affect the results for rs & 30; it does, instead, shift the Wigner crystallization to slightly larger rs. Finally, the text following Eq. (3) has two rather obvious misprints: the factors of 2 and 24 instead of 1=2 and 1=24 in the definitions of 1 and 2. This is completely harmless: all results and equations of the Letter are based on the correct definition, not on the misprinted one. We thank J. Moreno, G. Senatore, and G. Simion for pointing out the misprints.


A torque converter for the drive train of an automobile. The torque converter includes a damper including a first cover plate and the drive flange, and a stator assembly. The first cover plate is sealed relative to the stator assembly in a sealed interface be rotatable, and the first cover plate and the drive flange, to form a fluid flow gap between them . Fluid flow through the fluid flow gap during the operation of the torque converter. Sealed boundary surface, the fluid is prevented from flowing through the boundary surface. A method of forming a torque converter is also provided.


Objective: The purpose of this report is to describe the epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) in Canada from 2006 to 2011. Methods: Data from the Enhanced Invasive Meningococcal Disease Surveillance System and national population estimates were selected for descriptive and inferential analyses. The geographic, demographic, seasonal and subtype distributions as well as clinical characteristics of the IMD cases were examined. Incidence and mortality rates were calculated per 100,000 population per year; 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated for rate comparison. The direct method was used for age standardization. Proportions were compared using the chisquared test at a p<0.05 significance level. Results: During the study period, the mean incidence rates of IMD were 0.58 (total), 0.33 (serogroup B), 0.07 (serogroup C), 0.03 (serogroup W-135) and 0.10 (serogroup Y). The median age for serogroups B, C, W-135 and Y was 16, 43, 38 and 47 years respectively. The mean age-specific incidence rates among infants under 1 year of age (7.35, CI: 5.38-9.32) and children from 1 to 4 years of age (1.89, CI: 1.54-2.24) were significantly higher than those in any other age group. The mean case fatality ratio was 8.1% (range 4.3%-14.3%). The average number of cases that occurred per month was significantly higher (p<0.0001) in winter (18 cases) than in summer (12 cases). Conclusion: IMD is still endemic in Canada. Although individuals at any age can be affected, infants under 1 year of age are at the greatest risk, followed by children aged 1-4 years and individuals aged 15-19 years. Following the implementation of routine childhood immunization programs with monovalent meningococcal C conjugate vaccines (MenC) in all provinces and territories (beginning in 2007), the incidence of serogroup C has decreased significantly over the study period and is now at an all-time low. Serogroup B is the leading cause of IMD, and diseases of serogroup W-135 and Y have stabilized at relatively lower incidence rates. With the addition of immunization programs using quadrivalent conjugate meningococcal vaccines (MCV4), we would expect further reductions in the incidence of meningococcal infection in Canada. Introduction Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is caused by Neisseria meningitidis, a gram-negative bacterium. Neisseria are classified into subtypes according to the immunological reactivity of their polysaccharide capsule (1). The illness of IMD is often very rapidly progressive and typically presents as sepsis and/or meningitis (2). IMD has been nationally notifiable in Canada since 1924 (3) through the Canadian Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, which provides only basic epidemiological data. In Canada, IMD cases caused by serogroups A and C were most frequently identified in cases before 1975 and serogroup B predominated between 1975 and 1985 (4). Since 1985, both the total number of IMD cases and the number of serogroup C cases increased and peaked in 1992 (5,6). Therefore, the Enhanced Invasive Meningococcal Disease Surveillance System (eIMDSS) was established in 1992 in Canada, capturing epidemiological and laboratory-linked data. Routine immunization programs for meningococcal C conjugate vaccine (MenC) in infants, recommended by the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) (6), have been introduced in Canada since 2002 (7). From 2002 to 2005, when only some Canadian jurisdictions had implemented MenC programs, the incidence of serogroup C disease https://doi.org/10.14745/ccdr.v40i09a01 161 | CCDR – 1 May 2014 • Volume 40-9 decreased by 43% compared with the period of 1995-2001 (8). Information on IMD in Canada has been published by the Public Health Agency of Canada (the Agency) since 1979 (4,8-18). The last surveillance report published by the Agency described IMD in Canada from 2004 to 2005 (8). The following report describes the epidemiology of IMD in Canada from January 1, 2006, to December 31, 2011. Methods Surveillance data This report is based on IMD data extracted from eIMDSS, with disease onset between January 1, 2006, and December 31, 2011. According to the national case definition (3) the surveillance during this period captured both confirmed and probable cases. Provincial and territorial departments of health report non-nominal epidemiological data to the Agency on all cases of IMD meeting the national case definition. Provincial and territorial public health and/or hospital laboratories send N. meningitidis isolates to the National Microbiology Laboratory for confirmation of serogroup and further bacteriologic analyses. These analyses consist of serotyping and subtyping for all isolates, multilocus enzyme electrophoresis or multilocus sequence typing (MLST) for all serogroup C isolates (16) and, more recently, MLST on isolates for outbreak or special analysis. Probabilistic matching was conducted to link epidemiological and laboratory data using the following variables: province/territory, date of birth or age, sex, onset date and serogroup. Population estimates for the provinces and territories were obtained from Statistics Canada and were based on 2006 Census data (19). The 1991 Canadian population was chosen as the standard population for age standardization. The population distribution is based on the final postcensal estimates for July 1, 1991, Canadian population, adjusted for census undercoverage. The age distribution of the population has been weighted and normalized (20). The data used in this study come from public health surveillance, which is exempt from research ethics board approval. Statistical analysis The geographic, demographic, seasonal and subtype distributions as well as clinical characteristics of the IMD cases were examined. Incidence rates were calculated using 2006-2011 data from eIMDSS and population estimates. All incidence rates and mortality rates are per 100,000 population per year. The direct method was used for calculating age-standardized rates. Cases with missing age were excluded from the age standardization and all age-related analyses. Confidence intervals (CIs) for incidence rates were calculated at the 95% confidence level. CIs of age-standardized rates were calculated according to the method based on the gamma distribution (21). CIs of crude and age-specific incidence rates were calculated using methods based on the Poisson distribution for case counts less than 100 and the normal distribution for case counts equal to and greater than100. Proportions were compared using the chi-squared test, and the significance level was selected at p<0.05. For seasonal analysis, winter was defined as November to April and summer as May to October. Descriptive and inferential analyses were conducted using Microsoft Excel 2010 and SAS EG 5.1. Results Overview From 2006 to 2011, a total of 1,174 IMD cases were reported in Canada, ranging from 154 to 229 cases per year (Figure 1). With the exception of 21 cases for which information was missing, 1,121 cases (97%) were laboratory confirmed and 32 (3%) were probable cases. Of laboratory-confirmed cases, 777 (68%) were positive by bacterial culture, 111 (10%) by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and 44 (4%) by both culture and PCR; for the remainder the laboratory method was not specified. 162 | CCDR – 1 May 2014 • Volume 40-9 Figure 1: Number of IMD cases and overall incidence rates (per 100,000 population) in Canada by year, 2006-2011* *Three cases without age information were excluded in the calculation of age-standardized rates. Three cases without age information were excluded for age-standardization and other age-related analyses. Table 1 provides detailed crude and age-standardized incidence rates. The mean crude and age-standardized incidence rates were 0.58 and 0.60 respectively. The age-standardized incidence rate of IMD in 2010 (0.47, CI: 0.39-0.54) was significantly lower than in 2006 (0.70, CI: 0.61-0.80), 2007 (0.73, CI: 0.63-0.82) and 2009 (0.67, CI: 0.58-0.76). There were no significant differences identified in other year comparisons. Because of the small number of IMD cases of serogroup A, X, Z and 29E, they were combined as serogroup "other" for further analyses. Table 1: Crude and age-standardized incidence rates (per 100,000 population) of IMD in Canada by serogroup and year, 2006-2011* Type of rate Serogroup Year Mean (95% CI) 2006 2007 2008 2009 201


The ability to mount effective secondary responses is a cardinal feature of memory CD8+ T cells. An understanding of the factors that regulate the generation and recall capacities of memory T cells remains to be ascertained. Several cues indicate that two highly related cytokines, IL‐2 and IL‐15, share redundant functions in this process. To establish their combined roles in memory CD8+ T‐cell development, maintenance, and secondary responses, we compared the outcome of adoptively transferred IL2Rβ+/− or IL2Rβ−/− CD8+ T cells after an acute viral infection in mice. Our results demonstrate that both IL‐2 and IL‐15 signals condition the differentiation of primary and secondary short‐lived effector cells by altering the transcriptional network governing lineage choices. These two cytokines also regulate the homeostasis of the memory T‐cell pool, with effector memory CD8+ T cells being the most sensitive to these two interleukins. Noticeably, the inability to respond to both cytokines limits the proliferation and survival of primary and secondary effectors cells, whereas it does not preclude potent cytotoxic functions and viral control either initially or upon rechallenge. Globally, these results indicate that lack of IL‐2 and IL‐15 signaling modulates the CD8+ T‐cell differentiation program but does not impede adequate effector functions.


Background and Aim: Tinnitus is one of the most difficult challenges in audiology and otology. Previous studies have been shown that tinnitus may interfere with the function of central auditory system (CAS). Involvement of CAS abilities including speech perception and auditory processing has led to serious problems in people with tinnitus. Due to the lack of enough information about the impact of tinnitus on CAS and its function, and given that there is no standardized protocol for assessment and management of tinnitus, this study aimed to review the studies on the effect of tinnitus on the CAS function.
Recent Findings: Sixteen eligible articles were reviewed. Temporal and spectral resolution, frequency differentiation and speech perception deficits were reported in patients with tinnitus, especially in background noise. This was reported even in tinnitus patients with normal hearing.
Conclusion: Assessment of central auditory processing and speech perception in noise seems to be useful for proper management of tinnitus in clinical practice.
Keywords: Tinnitus; auditory system; central auditory processing; speech in noise performance


This paper presents quantification of multidimensional ankle stability in relation to mechanical environments having different levels of stability. This study, for the first time, explores the range of stiffness-defined haptic environments over which young healthy individuals can maintain stability despite aggressive perturbation. Ankle stability was quantified in 2 degree-of-freedom (DOF) of the ankle, in both the sagittal and frontal planes. Importantly, the magnitude of negative environmental stiffness that the subjects could maintain stability is 4 times as great in the sagittal plane as in the frontal plane. In addition to managing a wider range of unstable environments in the sagittal plane, subjects were also more efficient at regaining stability after perturbation and less sensitive to changes in the environmental stiffness. Outcomes of this study would be beneficial to the design and control of robots physically interacting with human lower extremities, such as lower-limb exoskeletons and powered ankle-foot orthoses.


with particular importance to low cycle fatigue, appear. This study proposes the use of a plasticity model based on the Armstrong & Frederick kinematic hardening rule.


ABSTRACT We propose novel haptic tele-driving control frameworks of a wheeled mobile robot (WMR) over the imperfect Internet communication network with varying delay and packet loss. We consider both the dynamic and kinematic WMRs and their various tele-driving modes. By utilizing passive set-position modulation framework, we can guarantee two-port passivity or passivity/stability combination of the closed-loop tele-driving system with some theoretical performance measures. Experiments are performed to show the efficacy of the proposed frameworks using the Internet-emulated communication and a custom-built dynamic/kinematic WMR.


In countries other than the United States, the study and practice of speech-language pathology is little known or nonexistent. Recognition of professionals in the field is minimal. Speech-language ...


This paper has a double aim. On one hand it weighs up the transformations undergone by Galician agriculture since the European Community integration and, on...


The PEP-II experimental detector includes a strong 1.5 T solenoid field in the interaction region (IR). With the fringe fields, the solenoid extends over a range of 6 m. Additional complications are that (1) it is displaced longitudinally from the interaction point (IP) by about 40 cm, (2) neither beam is parallel to the solenoid axis, and (3) the solenoid overlaps a dipole and a quadrupole on either side of the IP. In each half IR the correction system includes a set of skew quadrupoles, dipole correctors and normal quadrupoles to independently compensate the coupling, orbit perturbation, dispersion and focusing effect produced by the solenoid. The correction schemes for the Low Energy Ring (LER) and for the High Energy Ring (HER) are described, and the impact on the dynamic aperture is evaluated.


The papers in this Special Issue are revised and expanded versions of some of the papers presented at the Fifth Biennial Meeting on Category Theory and Computer Science, which took place at CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 7-10 September 1993. The purpose of the conference series is the advancement of the foundations of computing using the tools of category theory, algebra, geometry and logic. Contributors to the conference were invited to submit full versions of their results for a special issue of this Journal. The papers were submitted to the normal refereeing process and in most cases represent substantially revised and expanded versions of the material presented at the conference. Carboni and Johnstone investigate familially representable functors (examples of which include free monoid and labelled tree functors) and show, amongst other things, that the Artin glueing of presheaf toposes along such a functor is again a presheaf topos. This provides a general explanation for the fact, noted in a number of different contexts, that many categories of datatypes are in fact presheaf toposes. Fiore considers the semantics of approximation between possibly diverging programs, in categories of partial maps. The model allows one to compare (and prove the equivalence of) contextual approximation and specialisation. In some case, which are clearly caracterized, the approximation order between partial maps can be expressed in domain theoretic terms. Hermida and Jacobs extend Lambek's use of categories with indeterminates to the setting of fibred categories, and apply the results to establish contexual and functional completeness results for some polymorphic calculi. Hofmann studies a call-by-value language with Scheme-like control operators. He gives an equational theory for the language, which is shown to be sound and complete for a class of categorical models based upon continuation-passing style semantics. Soloviev describes a procedure that transforms sequents of Girard's Intuitionistic Linear Logic into sequents of Intuitionistic Linear Logic without occurrences of additive disjunction and its unit. This is shown by an original technique, which preserves deducibility, while inducing some growth in the size of the sequent (a growth that is estimated).


ABOUT THE Ms. Eichenberger is occupational AUTHOR: nurse specialist, AT&T Health Affairs Organization, Chicago, IL. SECTION EDITOR: Ms. Amann is Occupational Health Services Manager, AT&T, Chicago, IL. W hen this series of columns began (November 1997), project management was defined as: "getting the job done on time, within budget, and according to specifications." These three elements of project management are so important they are frequently referred to as "the triple constraint" (Frame, 1995). Various tools and techniques address each of these constraints. Deadlines and schedules address time constraints. Methods also exist that help managers establish and achieve specifications. This column describes specific techniques for managing financial resources required for conducting projects: budgets.


The mining activity of post-excavation soil C in Kalumata, Ternate, North Maluku had impact on the environment and the socio-economic of the local community. This study conducted to determine the environmental impact of the post-excavation soil C mining activity in Kalumata, Ternate on the local community. Physical and chemical data were taken at 3 distances, namely 17 meters, 300 meters, and 800 meters. The results showed that the farther the distance, the lower the pH of the soil. The lowest soil pH was detected at a distance of 800 meters. Soil texture in the form of sand composition decreased and the clay content became high. The highest soil moisture was at the distance of 300 and 800 meters (71%). The highest wind speed was at the distance of 300 meters (75.1 km/hour). The result of CO, TVOC and HCHO analysis using CO at a distance of 17 meters, 300 meters and 800 meters were 0.993 ppm, 0.563 ppm, and 0.579 ppm. This values were still in the good category.Keywords: post-excavation soil C, mining line, air quality standards


Locally isotropic turbulence in the stratosphere consists of isolated sporadic patches with random values of temperature structure characteristic CT2. Stellar scintillations measured aboard GOMOS/ENVISAT through the Earth atmosphere provided the first global distribution of the effective characteristic CT,eff2 averaged along sounding ray. For zonal mean, the largest values are achieved in winter polar regions. This observed intense turbulence is probably related to the polar night jet. Relatively weak turbulence is observed at low latitudes. Turbulence intensity map is shown for altitude 42 km in the latitude band ±35°, where the maxima follow the sub‐solar latitude, with enhancements located mainly over continents. Turbulence enhancements are not related with orography. Despite a noticeable correlation with typical regions of deep convection, the overall distribution of CT,eff2 displays a more complicated structure. Analyzed data suggest that the main turbulence sources, at altitudes ∼40 km, are instabilities of stratospheric circulation and gravity wave breaking.


Erythrocytes were incubated in two synthetic incubation media, one of which contained amino acids in addition to the basic constituents of albumin, salt, and glucose. Incubations were performed for up to % hours at 37°C. The heat production (HP) was determined using a flow microcalorimeter. It was found to be higher during the early stages of the incubation. After 12 h a steady state level was attained. The excess HP during the first parts of the incubations correlated closely to the glucose consumption and lactate production, which were determined in parallel. Changes in the concentration of other metabolites of the glycolytic pathway were found to give only minor contributions to the HP. Of the amino acids analyzed only tryptophan was consumed at a significant rate. This might have contributed to the HP during the first hour. Production of alanine was also found. At present the energy source of the steady state HP occurring in the erythrocytes after 12 h, and which persists for up to three days or more,...


In the expansion project of the "Montefiore" shopping center in Cesena {Italy) there is also a new footbridge that connects the entrance of the new building with the current outdoor parking.Both the morphological shape and its particular location within the new shopping center are particularly interesting since this footbridge is functional and efficient in the flow of people who attend this place.The structural system that makes up this connective organism is characterized by a serial aggregation of elements, which in their compositional definition give a strong organicity to the repetitive sequence of forms that the organism is made up, all identical to each other. Organicity that is strongly accentuated by the particular aggregative spatiality of the set of plates and nodes, inclined to each other and in space, compared to an elementary and slavish linear succession of elements perpendicular to each other. A further element of "visual strength" of the construction system consists of bolting, compared to a more anonymous welding; that is for all the elements that contribute to the realization of the structural nodes in correspondence with the interpenetration fittings between the different morphologies of the plates.The main structural system is superimposed by a collaborating floor consisting of a partially permeable-to light grating that, by filtering on the underlying elements, contributes to the perception of the organism in its entire development as composed of a diversified set of "chiaroscuro" that enhances the complexity of the aggregative design of the forms.


The present invention, type of content (i.e., data type and media encoding method) having a data structure defined independently of the and physical media, to provide an optical disk having a generic logical format. According to one embodiment of the present invention, for storing data to be accessed by the data processing system, the data storage medium is provided. Data storage medium includes for describing various kinds of data content stored in the medium, the stored data structure in the medium. The data structure includes at least one content object including data content, associated with an object, and the object definition file for describing the object, and index file including a table of contents with a reference to that object. Generic logical format of the present invention may be without the need to define an entirely new format, be readily adapted to the type of any new content.


This is a revised summary on migration of my former draft treating the distribution, migration and breeding seasons of the Tubinares. I am indebted for valuable comments to Dr. O. L. Austin, Jr., who has read the first draft of this article. I revised it as far as possible referring recent literature and informations including those which were kindly sent me by Dr. D. L. Serventy and Dr. W. R. P. Bourne. I talked on this subject at the meeting of O. S. J., 25 October, 1952.


After the conquest of ancient Mexico, the knowledge and wisdom were destroyed
and the western vision was imposed. Over time, and the introduction of this
and another visions the lack of home grown ideas produced a social rejection by
Mexicans and a natural imbalance appeared.
This article seeks to identify the epistemiological principles of humanization, enshrinement
and unity, that organizes the different doctrines in the ancient Mexico.
Through this, it will explain in part the concepts for the analysis of the distinctive elements
in Mexican Architecture. The main objective is to look from a different point
of view: the proportions and geometry between different elements, the mathematics
in the space and the perception of the time-space-experience, to name a few. As a result
of this new vision, it will reclassify or breakdown some ideas that were imposed
such as duality, cardinal points and the North-South axis as the main values in the
design.
In the phase of reconfiguration and recovery of the cultural identity in the contemporary
Mexico, it is necessary to understand, expose and promote this
knowledge and wisdom. In this way contemporary designs will find a new view with
which to understand and express themselves without being closed to new technology
and globalization, as a whole interaction in the intercultural processes.


The EPA 524.2 method using purge and trap capillary gas chromatography, electron ionization and flame ionization detection was used to determine volatile organic compounds (VOC's) in water samples from wells and springs in Central Mexico. The sampling technique was improved to assess the presence of VOC's in the samples. The preliminary results obtained in 7 sites from


Investigates the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) in the UK, stating it is the section of the NHS charged with ensuring the constant supply of blood to the UK's hospitals – though it does suffer from a range of problems, owing to its dependence on volunteer contributions. Covers research into blood donors and their motivation. Findings from earlier research are integrated into the marketing approach represented here. Uses a questionnaire to discover and discuss comments and issues raised. Summarises that after examining the research findings the focus is on two main questions: the nature of the image people have of the NBTS and the importance of that image.


The cost of construction substances is presently so excessive that most effective governments, company corporations and wealthy individuals can manage to pay for to do meaningful structures. For this purpose there is random demolition of homes round the arena. Due to this 33% of stable waste is being generated that's developing a number of chaos due to land for disposal. Only 3% out of 33% waste is being recycled and utilized in pavement blocks, kerbs, base path materials etc. The barriers in effective usage of recycled concrete are lack of guide strains, specialists great vision, loss of codes for the use of incorporating recycled aggregates and poor photograph concerning the pleasant of recycled substances. From the past studies it can be concluded that there's a reduction in 28days compressive strength by 20%. Hence from past research it is able to be conclude that recycled aggregate concrete may be made use in ordinary production. The difficulty of recycled aggregates in non-structural structures and regular structures dos not remedy the problem of lowering land for its disposal and heavy finances for structures. To use recycled aggregates effectively we have to recognize all its uses and programs increasing the studies to high energy concrete and checking the sturdiness. Thus our motto in the studies is to find the usage of recycled aggregate concrete high excessive strength concrete. The concrete grade considered in this take a look at is M60. The substitute ratios considered are 0%, 10%, 20%, 30% & 40%. Compressive strength, tensile strength & flexural strength are have a look at to recognize the energy for distinct alternative ranges of recycled aggregates. From those research it could be said that the nominal substitute degree is 30% and for this alternative level the study tests acid attack resistance, sulphate & chloride attack resistance and water absorption check is carried out and the compressive energy is checked after the durability take a look at.


To study the temperature regime of soils, an autonomous atmospheric-soil temperature complex is used. The complex is installed at three sites with sandy soil and various kinds of vegetation cover: burnt areas, pine forest, and open sand. Observations are made from October 13, 2011 to August 16, 2019 in a soil profile from the surface to the 320 cm depth. An analysis of the temperature regime of sandy soil reveals main similarities and differences between the three sites with different types of vegetation cover. In summer, the sites with pine forest and burnt areas of pine forest warm up less intensively than the site with open sand. Due to the greater openness, this site is the warmest during the warm period. In winter, pine forest, due to its high vegetation, is a barrier to wind, reducing snow blowing, and prevents the radiation cooling of the surface. To a slightly lesser extent, these functions are performed by loose vegetation in the burnt areas. The influence of vegetation under different weather conditions (clear sky/overcast) is considered. Cloud cover, as well as vegetation, helps to reduce the variability of soil temperature. The results of the study show that after forest fire restoration of vegetation cover naturally contributes to the partial restoration of the soil temperature regime.


The Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter (ATIC) was built for series of long-duration balloon flights in Antarctica. Its main goal is to measure energy spectra of cosmic ray nuclei from protons up to iron nuclei in the wide range of their energy from 30 GeV up to 100 TeV. The ATIC balloon experiment had its first, test flight that lasted for 16 days from 28 Dec 2000 to 13 Jan 2001 around the South Pole. The ATIC spectrometer consists of a fully active BGO calorimeter, scintillator hodoscopes and a silicon matrix. The silicon matrix consisted of 4480 pixels was used as a charge detector in the experiment. About 25 million cosmic ray events were detected during the flight. In the paper, the charge spectrum obtained with the silicon matrix is analyzed.


Ventilation flow through a 3-dimensional rectangular-box room is investigated numerically, by using a commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software package. The room has all its window openings located on one wall, and the wind is assumed to blow parallel to this wall. The standard K-epsilon turbulence model is used. Air's flow rate and flow pattern are considered in terms of wind speed and the openings' characteristics, such as their number, location, size and shape. For a constant total area of the openings, it is found that ventilation rate increases with more openings, especially when they are widely separated or positioned at different heights.Copyright © 2012 by ASME


Two kinds of functionalized graphene sheets were prepared via thermal exfoliation of graphite oxide(GO) precursor in two different routes.The first kind of functionalized graphene sheets was obtained by thermal exfoliation of GO at low temperature in air.The second kind was prepared by thermal exfoliation of GO at higher temperature in N2.The specific surface area of the two kinds of products was measured by using N2 adsorption-desorption analysis,while their supercapacitive behavior was evaluated by using electrochemical method.Results indicate that GO can be effectively thermally exfoliated even at relatively low temperature in air,and both kinds of products have high BET surface areas.Besides,the functionalized graphene sheets obtained via low temperature thermal exfoliation of GO have specific capacitance of about 220 F/g in aqueous KOH electrolyte;but those prepared via thermal exfoliation of GO at higher temperature in N2,with similar BET surface area,have lower specific capacitance of only about 150 F/g in the same electrolyte.This indicates that the first kind of functionalized graphene sheets has better supercapacitive behavior.


Lignin is extracted from the broken straw wheat with aqueous solution of 1,4-butanediol as extracting reagent by boiling extraction method.The optimal condition is as follows:the volume ratio of 1,4-butanediol/water is 9∶1,the solid-liquid ratio(g/mL) is 1∶12,the extraction time is 4 hours,and the extraction rate is up to 30.9%.The results obtained show that the lignin extracted by this method keeps original structure and useful value.Raw material is the remainder of crop,which can achieve such effect of changing waste to treasure.The extracting solvent can be reused many times,and there is therefore no pollution in the process.


The paper presents the application of classification rules and action rules to scalar music theory, with intent to: (1) describe certain facts in scalar music theory using classification rules and use them to build a system for automatic indexing of music by scale, region, genre, and emotion, (2) use action rules mining to create solutions (automatically generated hints) that permit developers to manipulate a composition by retaining the music score while simultaneously varying emotions it invokes.


1. The drug for use in the preparation of oral transmucosal metformin composition, comprising: pharmaceutical agent consisting of metformin or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt and! effective amount of at least one absorption enhancer chosen from an alkali metal alkylsulfate, glycerin, a bile acid or bile salt, lecithin, hyaluronic acid, octylphenoxypolyethoxyethanol, glycolic acid, lactic acid, chamomile extract, cucumber extract, oleic acid, linolenic acid oils borage, evening primrose oil, polyglycerin, lysine, polylysine, triolein, monoolein, monooleate, monolaurate, menthol, polidocanol alkyl ethers, chenodeoxycholate, deoxycholate and f armatsevticheski acceptable salts and analogues! wherein the pharmaceutical agent is present in a concentration of from about 5 to 90 wt. / wt.% of the total weight of the preparation. ! 2. The oral transmucosal metformin composition comprising: effective amount of a pharmaceutical agent consisting of metformin or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof! effective amount of at least one absorption enhancer selected from lecithin, hyaluronic acid, octylphenoxypolyethoxyethanol, glycolic acid, lactic acid, chamomile extract, cucumber extract, oleic acid, linolenic acid, borage oil, evening primrose oil, polyglycerin, lysine, polylysine, triolein, monoolein, monooleate, monolaurate, menthol, polidocanol alkyl ethers, chenodeoxycholate, deoxycholate and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and analogues, and! pharmaceutically acceptable


The Faculty of Education, Masaryk University Brno, became the first faculty in the Czech republic which succeeded in gaining accrediation for pregradual study of teachers course called Health Education. The study course has been already taught for five years at the Faculty of Education. The article presents results of a survey that was addressed to students of Faculty of Education (i. e. future teachers), basic school teachers, faculty teachers and grammar school students. The survey determined their opinion on the separate existence of the Health Education course in the Faculty of Education and Health Education subject in basic and secondary schools.


Bursting modes in the frequency range of the toroidicity induced Alfvén eigenmode are observed in the plasma to which the negative-ion-based neutral beam (N-NB) is injected. A bursting mode changes its frequency by 10-20 kHz in 1-5 ms and is called fast frequency sweeping (fast FS) mode. Another bursting mode evolves explosively in ⩽400 µs and is called an abrupt large-amplitude event. The dependence of their saturation level was compared with the experimentally observed growth rate and damping rate. The mode amplitude increases with the observed growth rate for fast FS modes. The modes with large amplitude and a large enhanced transport were observed when a large neutron emission rate was observed. The burst period increases as the drop ratio of the neutron emission increases.


Selenium, which is a good antioxidant, is an essential trace mineral and its organic forms are more available than inorganic forms. Dietary deficiency or excess of this trace mineral causes health problems in poultry, and therefore the amount of selenium in the diet is controversial. The current research was carried out to determine the effect of diets enriched with organic selenium on the performance, egg quality, and stored egg properties in laying quails. In the study, 120 laying quails were allocated to six treatment groups with 20 quails in each, with five subgroups. Quails were fed for 70 days with experimental diet containing 0.12 mg/kg selenium based on corn-soybean meal enriched with the addition of organic selenium (Sel-Plex) at 0.0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, or 1.0 mg/kg. Body weight change decreased linearly with the addition of 0.6 mg/kg and further levels of organic selenium (P<0.05). Feed intake quadratically increased with the supplementation of organic selenium up to 0.8 mg/kg, but it was minimum at 1.0 mg/kg (P<0.05). The eggshell quality parameters were not affected by the administration of organic selenium to the diet (P>0.05). Albumen pH linearly decreased with organic selenium supplementation up to the level of 0.60 mg/kg, but increased with the addition of higher levels of organic selenium (P<0.05). With the addition of organic selenium to the diet, yolk L* and b* values quadratically and linearly decreased respectively, while a* value increased linearly (P<0.01). Albumen pH value of stored eggs was linearly decreased by treatments (P<0.01), but other parameters did not affect (P>0.05). As a result, it was determined that laying quails can be fed with diets enriched with organic selenium up to 0.4 mg/kg and the eggs could maintain the freshness for a longer time in during storage.


(english) We analyze the integration of Brazilian states into domestic and foreign markets from the point of view of their supply conditions. The study period takes in the country's fast liberalization process with its two sub-periods (1991 and 1997-99). We estimate the states' domestic and foreign market export capacities by a gravity model of trade in keeping with the work of Redding and Venables (2004a, 2004b). Results show that the states with better foreign export capacities are not necessarily the same as those that perform better on the domestic market, where domestic market trade is measured in terms of inter-state trade._________________________________ (francais) On analyse l'integration des etats bresiliens au marche domestique et international du point de vue de leurs capacites d'offre dans les annees d'ouverture commerciale. Les donnees disponibles permettent de caracteriser l'evolution entre 1991 (la seule annee disponible pour le debut de periode) et les annees 1997-1998-1999. Notre modele de gravite, inspire de Redding et Venables (2004a, 2004b), estime separement les capacites d'exportation des etats vers le marche domestique et international. Les resultats montrent que les etats les mieux classes en termes de capacites d'exportation vers le marche international ne sont pas les memes que les plus performants sur le marche domestique, c'est-a-dire dans le commerce entre les etats bresiliens. terme d' autre part.


The contemporary Uyghur writers in the world culture and literatural information did not exclude the foreign culture but paid more attention to the Uyghur ethnic literature tradition after 1980s.They adopted all kinds of narrative ways and produced a large number of novels.The magic realistist narration skill is comprehended and exercised well.The magic realistist narration skills in contemporary Uyghur fiction is an inheritance and innovation of its own traditional narrative ways on the basis of referring and absorbing western magic realistic narrative methods.


As the number of financial institutions that are moving operations overseas has grown, so has the attention of regulators. This article looks at some of the regulations that financial institutions need to be aware of when considering moving operations overseas and some guidelines on how contracts should be structured with overseas vendors in order to ensure compliance with these requirements.


The presence of nearby surfaces influences the behavior cavitation bubbles in a complex manner. To understand this influence, nine experiments were performed with spark-generated bubbles in contact with a rotating cylinder in both distilled water and polymer solution. It was shown that the presence of the wall increases the bubble life cycle when compared to the case of a bubble in unbounded fluid. The effect of the polymer as well as the wall–bubble interface disturbance is shown to reduce this life cycle. A correction for the lengthening effect is introduced and shown to give reasonable results for the bubble in distilled water as well as polymer solution. The utility of the characterization scheme used in the present analysis is demonstrated by these results.


By analyzing the construction elements of archival information,the paper put forward the digital management for archival informational resource based on information network,in order to strengthen the construction of archival information and improve service level of archival information.


A small QHA antenna for S-DMB (satellite digital multimedia broadcasting) is presented. The proposed antenna is based on the general QHA and modified the helix structure to improve the performance. According to our simulation results, a prototype antenna is manufactured and measured. The obtained antennas operate in S-DMB band (2.63 - 2.635 GHz) and can be adopted for various potable applications.


Book synopsis: For ten years, the army has been Captain Evan Price's family, reassuring in its order and its certainties. But when a routine surveillance operation goes tragically wrong, he is forced to re-evaluate the life he has accepted unquestioningly for so long, and the masculine values that underpin it. Snatching his five-year-old son Terence from his estranged wife, Evan goes on the run from the Military Police sent to arrest him for desertion, heading out to the Welsh mining community of his childhood. The safe haven Evan had hoped for, however, becomes the battleground for a struggle between the ties of the past and his desire to realise a different future.


In this section, cryopreservation of fish genetic resources, which is one of the important applications to ensure the sustainability of genetic resources of freshwater fish species, is discussed. At the same time, information is provided about the possible sources of contamination that may be encountered during cryopreservation applications. In this context, the results of sperm, egg, and embryo cryopreservation studies of fish and their success and failure in applications were evaluated in addition to the process from past to present. Information is given about the contamination that may develop depending on the applications in the process of cryopreservation and dissolving processes, as well as the studies carried out to eliminate extracellular disease agents. In the section, in addition to the evaluation of the results of scientific studies, commercial companies that commercially carry out gamete cryopreservation applications are also included. The contamination that may develop depending on the applications in the process of cryopreservation and thawing processes, as well as the studies carried out to eliminate extracellular disease agents are mentioned.


Peripheral intravenous cannulation is an essential part of management of patients in hospitals, especially in emergency-department. Steps of intravenous cannulation includes: sanitization of operator's hands, followed by tourniquet placement, identification of vein by placing the extremity in dependent position, and asking the patient to make a tight fist. Skin of the patient is prepped with antiseptic solution. After the vein becomes prominent, needle of cannula is inserted with bevel facing upwards until a flashback of blood is seen in the hub of cannula. Once this is seen, the cannula is progressed, needle is fixed while the rest of the cannula is advanced gently into the vein.


Innovative Leadership in educational settings has become an essential characteristic that goes hand in hand with adequate and effective educational management, the present research aims to design a manual of innovative strategies for educational managers, which contributes positively to the learning environment , since nowadays, leaders are required who through their management, strengthen the communication processes between the educational community, optimizing the relationship between teachers and students, in addition to implementing new educational trends, which allow the obtaining of suitable results in the teaching and learning processes at the "Ileana Espinel Cedeno" Millennium Educational Unit. The intention is to contribute with a reconceptualization of innovative leadership that generates transformation, in private educational institutions and that contributes to the construction of a quality education in the public sector, in order to comply with the 2030 Agenda. The focus of the research is cut Mixed, a literary review has been carried out in indexed scientific journals such as Scielo, Latindex and on websites such as academic Google, based on the logical historical method, which allows documentary analysis of the trajectory of the types of leadership. To obtain the quantitative results, the survey has been applied, based on the Likert scale, in addition to scientific observation, analysis and synthesis, deduction and induction, the sample as a statistical method and the hypothetical-deductive method. In conclusion, the management of educational leaders should focus on generating transcendental changes in the educational context, as they can thus provide students with better opportunities to learn and in the future, in the workplace.


This paper reviews studies on formation of the black bloom in Lake Taihu in recent years,with reference to abroad relevant research results about the phenomenon of black spots and hypoxia. A comprehensive summarization focuses on the sensory characteristics and description of the black bloom,the hypoxia and pollution effect,the material and meteorological factors,the microbial and sediment role,the genetic conditions and formation-disappearing processes and so on. We can conclude that the black bloom and its definition are induced from the basic properties,under appropriate weather and terrain conditions,with large amounts of algae or aquatic macrophyte accumulated in local waters for a long time. With interactions of microorganisms and sediments,the accumulated mass can form border distinguishable,removable black stinky,and can led to phenomena of extreme pollution,which result in water quality deterioration and some biological death. Finally,potential future development is proposed in terms of new technologies and new means,e. g. supplying mechanism of active ingredients from sediment,threshold determination of key parameters,stability mechanism of blackening and odor-causing substances.


The sustainability of a sedation service depends on its ability to generate revenue, both for the providers and for the facility/institution. A complete understanding of the process of coding and billing to achieve maximum reimbursement is necessary for planning a new sedation service, as well as maintaining and expanding an existing one. This section discusses CPT coding and billing for deep sedation, moderate sedation, provider consulting, and facility fees. Coding and billing for deep sedation involves using CPT codes for anesthesia services. Coding and billing for moderate sedation involves the use of the moderate sedation CPT codes that were updated for 2017. Coding and billing for hospital services associated with providing deep sedation involves the use of facility revenue codes.


Dr. Theresa M. Vitolo is an associate professor in the Computer and Information Science Department of Gannon University at Erie, PA. Teaching in systems-related fields since 1986, she joined the Computer and Information Science Department at Gannon University in 1999. In addition to teaching, she has worked as a systems analyst/programmer on a variety of systems development projects. Her academic background includes a B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering and a Ph.D. in Information Science; her industry experience includes systems analysis and cognitive science applications. With a life-long interest in technology and its potential for enhancing human capabilities, her research includes intelligent interface design, motivated system energetics, and other topics relative to knowledge-intensive systems.


Platelets are critical cells for maintaining vascular hemostasis, but their activities in other processes are becoming apparent. Specifically, the ability of platelets to recognize and respond to infectious agents is an important area of investigation. To understand the physiologic roles of platelets in vivo, most researchers have used antibody‐mediated platelet depletion, which has certain limitations.


This paper takes the distribution power grid of Nanjing Rich Science and Technology Park for example and compares economics of 10kV,20kV medium voltage distribution power grid.The result shows that 20kV distribution power grid is more economic than 10kV medium voltage distribution power grid and 10kV electricity price of users is higher than 20kV,so our country urban medium voltage distribution network is recommendated to gradually use the 20kV voltage level,instead of the 10kV voltage level.


Paramagnetic hexacyanoruthenate(III) and hexacyanoosmate(III), which are interesting building blocks for designing anisotropic high-spin cluster in relation with single molecule magnets, are easily prepared in high yields by oxidation of the RuII and OsII precursors.


This cohort study investigates prescription drug fill patterns for cognitive and behavioral symptoms among patients with Alzheimer disease and related dementias.


In the article we give a reason of using the new less traumatic method of surgical management of femoral neck fractures. The technique is based on putting into practice a new elastic-tense pinscrew implant, which consists of standard wires 2 mm in diameter, cortical screws, and the holdfast of the original design. With the help of the holdfast all components are integrated in the united elastic-tense system. It provides the sufficient durability of fixing the fragments. There is no need for immobilisation after the surgery, so it gives the possibility to move hip joint without axial tension. The application of the new fixator provides fixation stability, reduces the contact between the implant and the bone without traumatic detachment of soft tissues. Thus, the method will allow making a patient more active.


ABSTRACT: An automated year-round gauging station was installed at the outlet of a 0.8 km2 (0.31 mi2) watershed located at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Lennoxville Research Station in the heart of the southern Appalachian region of Quebec9s Eastern Townships. Unlike other gauging stations in the province, the gauging station was designed to collect data during the winter-and snow-melt season. It consisted of devices to measure stream-flow, suspended sediment, bed load, and such hydrometeorohgical variables as precipitation and temperatures of the air, stream-water, and soil. Stream-flow rate was determined by measuring the water stage at fixed calibrated points using a custom-made nitrogen bubbler system and calibrated flumes. An automatic water sampler was used to take three composite samples of the stream-flow per day for suspended sediment concentration determinations. Over a duration of eight hours, each sample was composed of 100 samplings of 10 ml (0.03 in3) at 4.8 min intervals. A concrete 3.5 m3 (124 ft3) sediment trap was installed in the stream bed for bed load measurements. The accumulated coarse sediments were measured after each important storm event during summer and on a seasonal basis through the rest of the year. A tipping bucket rain gauge was used for precipitation measurements. Electronic pressure and temperature sensors, and the tipping bucket, were connected to a data acquisition system coupled to a microcomputer that automatically recorded the data at predetermined time intervals.


The purpose of this research is an examination of the possibility of efficient use of parking facilities and road network according to offer of advanced parking information for the area where selection action of a parking is seen. First, parking information was conducted to know influence on a driver's action, and created the action model. Then, information of all time required (the waiting time within queuing is included) to the course guidance from the result of a simulation or a parking has big influence to parking selection of a driver or not to link with efficient use of the whole network directly only by raising the information rate of use.