The surface appearance and element distribution of monocrystalline silicon furnace carbon materials after silicification corrosion were tested in this paper,and the silicification corrosion property of different carbon thermal field materials was studied.The results showed that open pores which extend from interior structure to surface provided roads for corrosion and diffusion of silicon melt,so silicification destruction was accelerated.Silicification level was effected by fiber distribution direction in C/C composite,diffusion rate of silicon melt was fast in the direction of fiber axis,and the rate was lower perpendicular to fiber axis.The mechanical strength of C/C composite decreased with silicification time in creasing,and the strength of graphite material first increased and then decreased as time progressed.


Lung cancer represents the most common cause of cancer death in the world. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) represents almost 85% of lung cancer cases. Unfortunately, diagnosis is often made at advanced or metastatic stage, with a 5-year survival rate between 0 and 5% with chemotherapy, that until a few years ago represented the only systemic treatment available (1,2). In this context, the primary goal of systemic therapy is to increase patients' survival, to reduce cancer symptom burden and to improve quality of life. Over the past decade, together with the availability of targeted agents in oncogene-addicted cases, the development of immune checkpoint inhibitors, namely monoclonal antibodies anti-programmed death-1 (PD-1) and its ligand (PD-L1), has revolutionized the treatment of advanced NSCLC, establishing a new era in the treatment of lung cancer patients. Their efficacy has been demonstrated, initially, as second line therapy in patients affected by advanced, EGFR wild type and ALK not rearranged NSCLC, after a previous platinum-based chemotherapy. Afterwards, the efficacy of these drugs in the first-line setting has been explored: the randomized phase III study KEYNOTE-024, conducted in NSCLC patients with tumors characterized by PD-L1 expression equal to or higher than 50%, demonstrated that pembrolizumab is associated with a better outcome compared to standard platinum-based chemotherapy, in terms of both progressionfree survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS), getting the approval in this setting by regulatory agencies (3). Consequently, the determination of PD-L1 has become part of the baseline diagnostic evaluation, representing an important biomarker for the first-line patients' selection, although with the well-known limitations in both positive and negative predictive value. Nevertheless, cases characterized by a PD-L1 expression equal to or higher than 50% represent just a minority (20– 30%) of the entire population (4). In order to expand the potentia l benef i t from immunotherapy to a larger number of patients, several phase 3 studies combining the potential immunogenic effect of chemotherapy with PD-(L)1 blockade have emerged in rapid succession with positive results. For instance, the KEYNOTE-189 trial showed a significantly longer OS and PFS compared with chemotherapy alone in untreated advanced nonsquamous NSCLC patients (5).


ABSTRACT Although a high dose thoracic radiotherapy is an effective strategy for some malignancies including lung cancers and malignant lymphomas, it often causes complications of radiation fibrosis. To study the mechanism initiating tissue fibrosis, we investigated irradiation-induced cytokine production from human lung fibroblastic cells and found that IL-6 production was stimulated by irradiation. IL-6 is an autocrine growth factor for human myeloma cells, and retinoic acid is reported to inhibit their growth. Thus, we evaluated the effect of all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) on cell proliferation of lung fibroblasts along with the cytokine/receptor system. Irradiation-dependent stimulation of IL-6 production was correlated with increased NF B activity, and ATRA reduced this effect. Irradiation also increased the levels of mRNA for IL-6R and gp130, which were blocked by co-existing ATRA. Further, IL-6 stimulated cell proliferation in dose dependent manner, but was overcome by pharmacological concentration of ATRA. These effects of ATRA were inhibited by rottlerin, which suggests ATRA abolished irradiation-induced stimulation through PKCdependent pathway. Finally, we demonstrated that IL-6 transcripts in the lung were upregulated at two months after irradiation and the effect was inhibited by the intraperitoneal administration of ATRA. ATRA is expected to have an advantage for radiotherapy concerning its anti-tumor effects as reported previously, and prevention for radiotherapy-induced pulmonary injury. Abstract Word Count: 182 Key words: lung fibrosis, radiation pneumonitis, cytokines, cytokine receptors


Alternative forms of disease control in fruits have been researched in an attempt to minimize the negative effects of chemical control on men and environment. The aim of this study was to determine the best concentration of essential oils to control the development of Colletotrichum musae and anthracnose intensity in 'Prata Anã' banana. In order to inhibit germination, mycelial growth and sporulation, four essential oils of clove (Eugenia caryophyllus), tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia), thyme (Thymus vulgaris) and ginger (Zingiber officinale) species were used at concentrations of 2, 4, 6 and 8 μL. In fruits, the same essential oils were applied at concentrations of 80, 160, 240 and 320 μL to evaluate the incidence and severity of anthracnose. Clove and thyme oils were the most efficient in inhibiting mycelial growth, germination and sporulation at all concentrations tested. The volatile compounds present in clove and thyme oils provide complete inhibition of fungal growth. Tea tree and ginger oils have the ability to suppress anthracnose in 'Prata Anã' banana. Concentrations of 160 μL of ginger oil, 160 and 240 μL of tea tree oil reduced the anthracnose severity in fruits. Ginger and tea tree essential oils have the potential to control banana anthracnose, reducing the anthracnose incidence in fruits by 48% and 24%, respectively.


Legislatures and governors recently have given increased attention to school district consolidation. Facing mounting budget shortfalls and searching desperately for avenues to cut spending, some state leaders have examined possible savings by forcing smaller districts to close. The number of school districts varies widely from state to state. Hawaii, for instance, has a single statewide school system. At the opposite extreme, 14 states have more than 300 public school districts. Legislatures in many states are considering whether merging smaller school districts would be a cost-effective way to cut costly overhead expenses and improve academic services. In many areas, however, there is fierce resistance to consolidation from parents who prefer small, community-based school systems.


This article deals with the identification of sound powers and absorption surface coefficients in multisource industrial buildings from the knowledge of the sound pressure levels (SPLs) at several monitoring points. This inverse problem is formulated as one of optimisation in which the objective function is the difference between the measured and predicted SPLs. The methodology combines the use of a simplified acoustic diffusion model with the simulated annealing optimisation technique. The former is a recently developed model for estimating the SPLs in a fast and sufficiently accurate form. The low computational cost of the model constitutes the major advantage for the optimisation procedure due to the great number of simulations required. Numerical examples are given to show the efficiency of the proposed approach.


High-speed centrifugal pellets were prepared from defatted and decaseinated milk obtained from mice of 33 substrains of 15 different strains 3 stocks 2 germfree strains and 2 hybrid lines with high or low incidence of mammary cancer and high or low incidence of leukemia. Electron microscopic studies were carried out on sections of these pellets some of which were tested for tumor-inducing and hyperplastic nodule-inducing activity. Type-B virus particles were found in the milk of mice of high and low cancer strains. In addition type-C virus particles and "signet-ring" particles were observed in some strains. A high degree of correlation was noted between the presence of type-B particles and tumor-inducing as well as nodule-inducing activity in RIII and A high mammary-cancer strains and to a lesser extent in Af and C3Hf low cancer strains and (C57xAf)F1 mice. A high degree of correlation was found in the milk of BALB/c and CBA mice low mammary-cancer strains between the absence of type-B particles and lack of tumor-inducing and nodule-inducing activity. Although no type-B particles could be found in C57BL milk it showed high nodule-inducing activity. Milk from a substrain of AKR mice with medium leukemia incidence showed presence of type-B particles and tumor-inducing activity. Structures resembling lactic dehydrogenase virus (LDH) were found in several low cancer strains. Bioassays of milk samples from 2 of these strains failed however to reveal LDH virus activity. (authors)


1 0-7803-5846-5/00/$10.00 © 2000 IEEE 2 Updated August 31, 1999 Abstract—The Beowulf parallel-processing architecture is a public-domain software technology developed by NASA to link commercial off the shelf (COTS) processors yielding super-computer performance (10 Gflops) very economically (under $150K). It has been used for applications as diverse as scalable hierarchical particle algorithms for galaxy formation and accretion astrophysics, phase transitions in the early universe and their analogues in the laboratory, and data analysis from the spacecraft in the Solar-Terrestrial Probe Line. Beowulf clusters have been ranked among the top 125 world-class supercomputers. Beowulf runs on a variety of platforms (workstations, Win-tel PCs, Macintosh) and a variety of generations of hardware. It has been successfully demonstrated for heterogeneous parallel processing with hundreds of diverse platforms.


The present invention particularly relates to a door operating mechanism that is designed to be a bar and a union to avoid emergency. Door operating mechanism of the present invention includes a lock bolt keeper cooperate with pivotable bolts slotted (26), and pivoting cam prevents the bolt is rotated to the so-called relief position (35), and an actuator member (45) to release the pivoting bolt to urge the cam.


Analysis of the nd → p(nn) reaction in a Gev-energy region is performed in the framework based on the multiple-scattering theory for the few nucleon system. The special kinematic condition, when momentum transfer from neutron beam to final proton closes to zero, is considered. The possibility to extract the spin-flip term of the elementary np → pn amplitude from nd-breakup process is investigated. The √


In order to explore the relation between tree crown shape and growth development and age of tree, flowering plants, fruiting plants, bearing plants, bearing branch and floweret, length of bearing branch were studied in greenhouse environments after tree corm shape were divided into three groups by live crown ratio of crown width to height and angle from the central leader to first scaffold branch. The result showed that the plants of upright crown shape were 83% at age one year among all plants, 45% at age two years and tree crown shapes, open tree increased to 25% at age of three years. The flowering trees increased from 5% at age of one year to 55% in age of three years and fruit set increased from 0 to 44% following increase of age tree. Open trees had more flowers with 10.6 in 2-year-old tree, 38.6 in 3-year-old tree. Open trees had more percentage of bearing plants with around 47%. The average length of bearing branches was 11.5 cm at open trees, which was more than other crown shapes at age of three years. Open trees had most fruit number per bearing tree (6.5, 8.5 apart). Therefore, creating open tree crown shape may increase flowering, fruiting and yield in greenhouse production of feijoa.


Objective\ To investigate the migrating characteristic of culturing Schwann cell (SC S)on the plane or the fibre frame of polyglycolic acid(PGA). Methods\ The morphology of SC S on the plane or on the stereoframe was observed under inverted phase contract microscope and scan electric microscope of regular intervals. Results\ On the plane SCs showed spindle shape,which were connected with the extensions of cells.The cells,in the same population,were unanimous on the migrating direction and speed.There were two kinds of the shape of SCs on the stereoframe,spherical cells or long olivary cells;Cells contacted each other too.The migrating speed of cells on the stereoframe was faster than that on the plane;and the long olivary cells being faster than the spherical cells.There was a angle between two axes of the long olivary cell and fibre.The long olivary SCs were trending to wrapping fibre up. Conclusions\ Experimental study of co\|culture showed that there was a good biological compatibility between fibreframe of PGA and SC S.Compared with SCs on the plane,SCs migrated easily on the stereoframe.The long olivary cell of SC was still trending to wrapping fibre up without neurons.


Neurocognitive dysfunction occurs frequently after open‐heart surgery. It has been suggested that cognitive decline after cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) could be a functional consequence of Alzheimer's disease (AD)‐like neuropathological changes. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of amyloid β peptide (Aβ1–42) and soluble fragments of amyloid precursor protein (sAPP) as well as the cerebral inflammatory response to open‐heart surgery.


Hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) can potentially improve the fuel quality of low-value biomass resources that are otherwise unsuitable for use in industrial heat and power applications. The effect of HTC pretreatment on the combustion and gasification behavior of two agricultural residues (grape marc and sugar cane bagasse) and a freshwater species of macroalgae was investigated, with an emphasis on devolatilization behavior and char reactivity. HTC was carried out in a custom-built, laboratory-scale, batch reactor at three temperatures, 180, 220, and 260 °C, with a slurry density of 15% w/w dry biomass in water. The volatile release behavior of the collected products (hydrochars) and untreated biomass feedstocks were characterized by dynamic thermogravimetric analysis. Char reactivity was characterized by isothermal gasification of samples of the hydrochars and untreated biomass in a thermobalance in carbon dioxide, following fast pyrolysis of the samples in a separate fixed-bed batch reactor. Hydrochars...


Cleft lip or the palate is the congenital birth defect with which is characterised by complete or partial cleft lip or palate. The congenital cleft involving the facial structures may vary from trace of notching of the lip to a complete non fusion of lip and the palate. This study was done to determine the incidence of cleft lip and palate. It is a single centered retrospective study. Data was collected from the patient record system used in a private dental institution and following parameters such as gender, type of cleft lip and palate, unilateral or bilateral was recorded. 86000 patient details were analysed between June 2019 to March 2020 out of which 74 patients who fulfilled the inclusion and exclusion criteria were included in the study. The data was statistically analysed using SPSS software. In this study, it was observed that cleft lip was most commonly seen in males and cleft palate in females. Unilateral cleft lip is common in both males and females. Incomplete cleft palate is more common followed by complete cleft palate. Orofacial defects are most commonly seen at the time of birth.


Inhibitory Effects of Ssangbohwan on Osteoclast Differentiation and Bone Resorption※ Seong Joung Kim, Jeong Ju Lee, June Hyun Kim, So Hyun Jo, Min Cheol Park and Eun Heui Jo* Department of Acupuncture & Moxibustion Medicine, College of Oriental Medicine, Wonkwang University Department of Oriental Medical Ophthalmology & Otolaryngology & Dermatology, College of Oriental Medicine, Wonkwang University Research Center of Traditional Korean Medicine, Wonkwang University


In the past few years, great progress has been made in organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells for an alternate of silicon semiconductorbased solar cells. OPV has the advantages of clean, low-cost, flexibility, and the possibility of roll-to-roll production.[1–4] Currently, most of the works have been focused on polymer donor molecules using bulk heterojunction (BHJ) architecture and [6,6]-phenyl-C61–butyric acid methyl ester (PC61BM) as the acceptor.[5,6] Indeed, in addition to the currently better OPV performance than small molecules, polymers have the advantages for such as better film forming quality and so on.[7] However, it cannot be denied that there are disadvantages for polymer-based OPV, such as batch to batch reproducibility, difficulty of purification, and so on. In contrast, small molecules intrinsically do not have such flaws;[8] additionally, their band structures could be tuned easily with much more choices of chemical modification. Furthermore, small molecules generally have higher charge mobility and open voltages.[9,10] However, even with these advantages, small-molecule-based OPV cells have not been investigated as intensively as that of their polymer counterparts because one of the major problems for small molecules is their generally poor film quality when using the simple solution spinning process.[11] This has been hampering their performance, and indeed their power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) (4%–5%)[12–18] are still significantly lower compared with that (>7%)[19–25] from polymers. It is thus expected that better PCE could be achieved when their intrinsic bad film quality and morphology in BHJ architecture could be improved combining with their other advantages. But to achieve this, careful molecule design has to be carried out to address many factors collectively, including their molar absorption, morphology compatibility with the acceptors for a better film quality, and so on.


A submersible pump 1 is installed at the bottom of a well 10 for discharging to the surface through a pipe 1A, water from a geothermal source. The pump lubrication system is supplied, continuously or intermittently with fresh oil from a reservoir 5 and passing through a pump 4 and a supply line 2. An extraction system oil comprising a pipe 3 and a pump 6 removes the corresponding amounts of oil from the pump lubrication system. The oil thus extracted is examined in an analyzer 7 and the renewal of the oil in the pump is adjusted, by means of a control unit 8, depending on the degree of alteration found. The invention is particularly applicable to the use of geothermal energy. (CF DRAWING IN BOPI)


Hairy root is a specialized, fast-growing tissue that is induced by the infection of Agrobacterium rhizogenes. Root locus genes (rol genes) which encoded in root-inducing plasmid (Ri plasmid) of A. rhizogenes play key roles in hairy root formation. Among the rol genes, researches showed that fast and branched root growth required the presence of rolC gene. Our previous data showed that the viability of rolC-deficient hairy roots decreased significantly compared to wild-type hairy roots, hairy root formation and its fast growth were regulated by rolC with unknown mechanism. Previous researches also indicated that many transcription factors were thought to have large impacts on tissue characteristics in Arabidopsis. Took the things together, we focused on revealing the transcription factors which under the regulation of rolC, attempting to elucidate the mechanism of hairy root formation. Based on the previous microarray results, a putative transcription factor, NAC13, was identified according to its capacity for regulating the main root length in Arabidopsis mutants. The activation ability of NAC13 was demonstrated by using transactivation assay in yeast. By confocal microscopy observation, fusion proteins of NAC13 and yellow fluorescence protein (NAC13-YFP) were visualized in and around the nucleus. Moreover, comparing the morphology, induction efficiency and the mitochondria of nac13-deficient hairy roots and wild-type hairy roots showed that rolC might involve in the mitochondria stress signaling pathway through nac13 gene and its downstream genes, aox1a and hre2, to eliminate the excess reactive oxygen species for maintaining fast growth and preventing mitochondrial apoptosis in hairy roots.


Rupke, we now know that this was a complete distortion of the truth. Owen was a brilliant anatomist and no one benefited from his knowledge in the early years more than his then-chum, Charles Darwin. Later, it was Owen who spearheaded the building of the natural history wing of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum in South Kensington. He fought long and hard for his vision and no one benefited more from it than the evolutionists. He was also a rather tragic figure who always had to bend or temper his views so as not to upset his patrons. He was probably an evolutionist well before the Origin was published, but had to conceal the fact. Later, he came out in public, although he was probably more in the German transcendental tradition than Darwin—paradoxically, one doubts that he was all that far from Huxley who was likewise deeply influenced by German thought. Rupke has now brought out a revised, somewhat shorter, but tightened version of his book. In some respects, I prefer this new edition and recommend it strongly to all who want the full story of the coming of evolution in the middle of the 19th century. Michael Ruse, Philosophy, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida


For a long time, operating systems have been designed to hide very slow data access time of Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) due to their mechanical moving parts. As Solid-State Drives (SSDs) started to replace the HDDs from some computing environments such as high-end laptop, operating systems have been confronted with this change. In this paper, we revisit some existing I/O subsystems designed for HDDs, namely, I/O scheduling and read-ahead. Through the comprehensive experiments, we analyze the effect of the I/O sub- systems on SSDs, and then present some research directions for I/O subsystems design in SSD based storage systems.


This paper aims to give an analytical view on what kind of inter-robot communication to use for cooperation in distributed mobile robotic systems. The efficiency of local and global communication is compared based on the analysis of information transmission time to multiple robots. Using local communication, the information about a specific task is diffused between robots gradually. We analyze this diffusion and derive the transmission time required for necessary robots to obtain the information. Global communication by time-division access is also analyzed to compare the transmission time. The analysis concludes that local communication is more effective than global one in environments where cooperative tasks are executed by multiple mobile robots in a distributed manner.


In view of the problems in the experiment teaching of Electronic Circuit,the PSpice simulation software was introduced into experiments,which was illustrated by an example of the application of PSpice simulation in experimental teaching in this paper. The simulation experiment can make students further understand and master what they learned from class. It is proven through practice that this method can improve the students' ability in analyzing and solving problems.


A design of material transportation used in automatic production line system was presented in this paper,which based on S7-200 PLC.The design idea and realization method were introduced respectively from several aspects,design strategy of the PLC control system,design of pneumatic control circuit,working process,ladder diagram design and overall program debugging.The laboratory test indicate that this material transportation can carry the work-piece from a workstation to the next station and it is stable,reliable and has good practicability.


Wu, H.T., He, W.H., Shi, G.R., Zhang, K.X., Yang, T.L., Zhang, Y., Xiao, Y.F., Chen, B. & Wu, S.B., XX.XXXX.2018. A new Permian–Triassic boundary brachiopod fauna from the Xinmin section, southwestern Guizhou, south China and its extinction patterns. Alcheringa 00, 000–000. ISSN 0311-5518. A new brachiopod fauna comprising 31 species in 19 genera is described from a Permian–Triassic boundary section in Xinmin, Guizhou Province, Southwestern China. The brachiopods were collected from the Changhsingian (latest Permian) Changxing (=Changhsing) and Dalong (=Talung) formations and the lower Griesbachian (earliest Triassic) Daye Formation, which were deposited, respectively, in a shallow-water carbonate platform, upper offshore and carbonate platform settings. Among the brachiopods described and illustrated, a new species Juxathyris subcircularis is proposed. In addition, some species Araxathyris previously reported in south China have been discussed in detail and revised, with new morphological information. In particular, internal structures are provided for the first time for Orthothetina and Araxathyris species reported from south China. In addition, important clarifications are also provided on the morphology and diagnoses for Haydenoides, Martinia, Crurithyris and Transcaucasathyris, as well as for Paryphella transversa. Huiting Wu School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, PR China and School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia; Weihong He [firstname.lastname@example.com] State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, PR China; G. R. Shi [firstname.lastname@example.com] School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia; Kexin Zhang State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, PR China; Tinglu Yang Faculty of Geosciences, East China University of Technology, Nanchang 330013, PR China; Yang Zhang School of Earth Sciences and Resource, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, PR China; Yifan Xiao and Bing Chen School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, PR China; Shunbao Wu, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, PR China.


The channel capacities of simplex and duplex VHF air/ground (A/G) mobile radio communication systems employing cylindrical cells are compared considering co-channel and adjacent channel interferences criteria currently adopted by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). According to ICAO recommendations, the co-channel interference source must be beyond the radio line-of-sight (RLOS) of the receiver. The FAA co-channel interference criterion requires a signal-to-interference ratio of at least 14 dB or beyond RLOS protection. Capacity depends mainly on the frequency reuse distance. In order to prevent air-to-air interference, simplex systems using the same frequency for air-to-ground and ground-to-air require a larger frequency reuse distance than duplex systems which do not require air-air interference since different frequency bands are used for uplink and downlink communications. A comparison is presented between the capacities of the two systems. It is shown that the capacity ratio of the two systems depends on the cell dimensions. It is concluded that the duplex system has more capacity than the simplex system for cells of large radii and small heights.


Generally,a number of IGRF points are uniformly added outside the boundary for improve the boundary effects.So far to now, the newest updated version of comprehensive model-CM4, which could sophisticatedly divide the earth s magnetic field into main field,crustal field,ionospheric field and its induced field,magnetospheric field and its induced field,during 1960-2002 globally,was adopted in this study.Comparing to IGRF10,the internal field of CM4 could better be as supplementary points to enhance the model s precision.This paper compared the CM4 s core field grids charts to that of IGRF10,and the Taylor polynomial method was taken as a example,moreover,34 points values outside the boundary were taken of this two model,respectively,to figure out the grids values correspondingly.Finally,the anomaly values between two kinds of grids were analyzed.Results showed that anomaly values in most region of China were relatively small,the values basically equal to 0,outside the boundary,expect for component X and H,the other components were positive values,with which implicitly indicated the values calculated by IGRF smaller than CM4 in regions outside China.


I have never heard That a whole abdomen had to be opened up Just to cure a mild case of diarrhoea. I have never heard That an entire pile of books was burnt Just because a single termite blighted one. I have never heard That a spoilt child was stabbed Just to scold him for crying for sweets. I have never heard That death sentences have been handed down To minor violators of the Highway Code. But I have heard that The odious sentence of a lifetime's transportation Has been given For one small offence of rightly being angry For just one day.


With the advent of the new media era, China's vocational education has entered a stage of rapid development, and due to the continuous deepening of the task of teaching reform, it has created favorable conditions for the transformation and upgrading of traditional vocational education teaching models. Among them, computer vocational education is the most affected. The gradual penetration of new media technologies in the modern teaching field has caused major educational units to change their teaching goals. The teaching activities have been comprehensively expanded in space and time. Various novel teaching resources have been continuously tapped and developed to achieve Active cultivation of students' interest in learning. However, from a practical point of view, computer vocational education still has many shortcomings and deficiencies. It is necessary to implement various educational reform methods to promote the implementation of the education concept of "oriented by employment and based on comprehensive quality." This article takes the advantages of the integration of computer vocational education and new media as the starting point, and through the in-depth excavation of the current problems and contradictions in computer teaching, from the perspective of new media, it proposes several items that are conducive to the realization of computer vocational education innovation and Reform strategies to improve the quality of overall vocational education have promoted the further development of teaching and research in our school.


Abstract Nickel-Iron based superalloy (43Ni-14Cr, wt%) is used as high temperature material in space based transportation systems. It retains its high strength (>100 MPa) upto 800°C alongwith good cryogenic properties, hot corrosion resistance and phase stability at elevated temperatures. The alloy was melted in vacuum induction melting furnace and was refined through vacuum arc refining process. Hot working and heat treatment of the alloy was carried out and the material was characterized for its mechanical properties at different temperatures. Microstructural analysis was conducted at different stages of processing in order to optimize the processing parameters. This paper brings out the work carried out on the process development for this alloy.


The authors' opening salvo seems to say it all (again). . . "A patient's nocturnal BP profile, without the pressor effect of physical activity, emotional stress, and environmental factors that are usually present during the day, is more representative of the true BP status and a stronger predictor of cardiovascular outcomes."


Based on the purpose of solving practical problems, this paper designs and explores a new type of multimedia digital platform. This kind of multimedia digital platform based on ergonomic research, composed of electronic products and the desk frame itself. And combined with the concept of humanized design and expression, so its can improve the user experience, effectively carry out multimedia teaching.


The border areas are influenced by the cross-border visitation of tourists, which is usually of a short-term character. These are shopping, exploring natural attractions, commuting to work, visiting friends and relatives, attending cultural and social events, and transit transport. In the course of 2018-2019 a joint research of EF TUL and UE Wroclaw was carried out to determine the quality of tourism services in the Czech - Polish border area. The aim of the research was to find out how respondents perceive and evaluate the quality of services. Almost 1000 respondents on the Czech and Polish side evaluated transport services, accommodation services, sports and recreational services, catering services and the position of information centers. The paper presents the results of this research.


AIM To investigate the perioperative serum levels of IL-8 in the first case of living-related small bowel transplantation in China and to study the interrelationship of the changes in serum IL-8 level with ischemic and reperfusive injury and with the acute small bowel allograft rejection. METHODS Dynamic serum levels of IL-8 of recipient were analyzed by a solid-phase double ligand ELISA method once preoperation and several times during 1~140 d postoperation. RESULTS Recipient's IL-8 serum level increased on 1 postoperatior day (POD) (2.44 μg·L -1 vs 0.26 μg·L -1), decreased rapidly the next day (1.70 μg·L -1), and returned to the level of preoperation at 4 POD. Its second peak level occurred on 67 POD with acute small bowel allograft rejection (1.47 μg·L -1). Then it decreased slowly and returned to the level of preoperation on 96 POD. CONCLUSION In the human living-related small bowel transplantation, there is a close correlation of serum IL-8 levels with ischemic and reperfusive injury and with the acute small bowel allograft rejection. It could be regarded as one of the most important signs of acute small bowel allograft rejection.


It is well known that clustered micro-calcifications (MCC) on mammograms are important hints of breast cancer. Nevertheless, it is a complex and difficult task for radiologists to detect the clustered MCC from the tissue background of mammograms only by the naked eye. This paper describes a method for computer-aided detection of MCC in digital mammograms. The detection algorithm mainly consists of two different methods. The first one, based on the difference-image technique, recognizes high-frequency signals and very high-frequency noise. The second one is able to extract high-frequency signals by exploiting a wavelet based noise suppression and artificial neural network (ANN) classification. In the false-positive reduction step, false signals are separated from MCC by means of an AND operation on signals from the two methods. The algorithm was tested with a series of clinical mammograms. The results were compared with the judgment of radiological experts, and a sensitivity of 78% was obtained at a relatively low false-positive (FP) detection per image.


out the nation have programs supported by the U.S. Office of Education which prepare administrators in special education. These programs train individuals at the post-master's level to be administrators in various local, state, and federal agencies in both public and private sectors. One of the largest users of such trained personnel are local school districts, which hire directors or coordinators of special education programs as well as special supervisory personnel. State Certification-Endorsement The training programs combine courses and other training experiences from, and in collaboration with, the staff of the departments of special education CHARLES FORGNONE, Ed.D. and educational administration; the training is offered at the university level GARY D. COLLINGS, Ed.D. to prepare individuals to become administrators and supervisors of programs for exceptional children. The curriculum of these programs generally includes training in (a) various educational and supportive programs and administrative organizations needed to provide quality education to exceptional children; (b) the total educational process and school system organization; (c) curriculum development and methodology; (d) fiscal procedures: (e) psychoeducational diagnostic procedures: ( f ) personnel practices and techniques of staff development; and (9) school law as it relates to exceptional children. Although other competencies are trained in these programs, it is sufficient to say that the graduates of special education administration programs have received diverse, and yet in-depth, training and experiences. There is a demand for such specially trained individuals by local school districts. One of the variables which affects the demand is state certification and/or endorsement of specialized personnel. in Special Education Administration


'Mass dictatorship' as a working hypothesis starts from a simple question: what is the difference between pre-modern despotism and modern dictatorship? My tentative answer is that despotism does not need massive backing from below, but modern dictatorship presupposes the support of the masses. Even in so condensed a form, the question and answer already suffice to free us from demonological discourses, be they rightor left-wing. They put a question mark behind the usefulness of both the totalitarian and Marxist paradigms, obsessed as they are with a dualist approach which asserts that there were few perpetrators (the dictator and his cronies) and many victims (the people). Originating in the political rectitude each of its 'own camp', both dualist paradigms suffered from the same inability to capture the key dynamics of modern dictatorships with their rootedness in diverse forms of popular support. The diabolic presentism of the Cold War made them blind to the broad popular support for the dictatorships to which they were politically opposed. It set 'us', the innocent victims, against 'them', the vicious perpetrators, and so produced nothing but ideological clichés. A historicisation suspended temporarily from political commitment casts serious doubt on that moralist, ideologically cliché-ridden saga common to totalitarian and Marxist paradigms.1 I will return to the post-totalitarian presentism of mass dictatorship below. The term 'mass dictatorship' implies the mobilisation of the masses by dictatorships and frequently voluntary mass participation in and support for dictatorial regimes. Its historical appearance coincided with the replacement of the dominance of a liberal 'Bürgertum' of property and cultivation by mass participatory politics and societies in the early twentieth century. Increasing urbanisation and labour organisation opened the door to mass society. Once mass movements had appeared on the scene, voices of ordinary people could no longer be silenced or disregarded by any regime, whether democratic or dictatorial. Rather, the socio-political engineers of the modern state system were desperate to recruit and mobilise the masses for the nation-state project, and thus demanded their enthusiasm and voluntary participation. The historical experience of total war systematically demonstrated the vital importance to the modern state project of the voluntary mobilisation and participation of the masses. The liberal-constitutional state was to be replaced by an emergent interventionist state, whether parliamentary-democratic or dictatorial


ABSTRACT Min-Zhe bridge in Fu-Jian and Zhe-Jiang Provinces of China is a unique type of woven wooden arch bridge with important cultural heritage values in both tangible and intangible fields. Reconstruction (including in-situ rebuilding and relocation) is a traditional approach to extend the bridge's lifespan, which has been passed on and lasts till now. Today's reconstruction practice and its legitimation on intervening in the Min-Zhe bridge as both tangible and intangible heritage is discussed in this paper under the modern conservation context. Firstly, the reconstruction activities since its 'discovery' in 1980 are investigated through general information and case study. Then, the legitimation issues are discussed according to the criteria of the authenticity text for World Heritage bridges and the criteria of continuity for living heritage. Finally, suggestions on protecting the continuity of the building tradition and ensuring the reliability of the continuous production in the future are proposed.


Abstract Cyclodextrins as well as their derivatives have the ability of encapsulating in their cavity a wide variety of molecules, conferring on them new physicochemical characteristics. For this reason, they are proposed for many uses in various industries. When they are empty, they can be used for their ability to trap certain molecules, or because they can transform gases or liquids into solids, improve stability, decrease undesirable side effects, enhance solubility, increase absorption through biological membranes, and prolong the release of the encapsulated molecule.


Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) was recently demonstrated by our group and others as a valuable label-free approach for real-time monitoring of changes in cell activity induced by hormones, pharmacological agents, and toxins. For a cell-based biosensing application, cells are cultured on a substrate acting as the sensing layer. Receptors present at the cell's surface recognize biomolecules in the media surrounding the cell, triggering distinct intracellular events such as cell contraction and detachment. Such changes results in refractive index changes on the surface, detectable by SPR. Like most label-free cell-based biosensing approaches, the SPR signal arises from a complex cascade of molecular events within the cell. Additional complexity originates from a heterogeneous cell response within the population. In this context, delineating the cellular events contributing to the measured SPR signal can be challenging. To address this problem, we used metal clad waveguide (MCWG) imaging as an alternative to SPR. MCWGs allow for a higher sensitivity and deeper evanescent field penetration depth compared to conventional SPR. Furthermore, our setup is based on a high numerical aperture microscope objective allowing us to discriminate individual cell activity within the evanescent field at a high spatial resolution. We evaluated the performance of our imaging system by detecting individual cell-cell responses within a cell monolayer exposed to endotoxins. Our findings indicate that the sensor signal during toxin exposure originates from the appearance of intracellular gaps. Further, we followed the activation of a G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) and show that during a GPCR mediated contraction, the sensor signal represents a cell mass redistribution towards the cell center.


The availability of accurate and cost-effective solutions for the real-time monitoring of overhead covered conductors (CC) is now becoming an important tool for the reliability and condition assessments of this class of electrical lines. This is even more crucial due to the possibly large number of conductors and the wide geographical spread of the electrical network. This letter proposes a smart and compact detector for partial discharge (PD) based monitoring, matching the above needs and offering a flexible and cost-effective solution with some important features, including a non-invasive sensing, a field energy harvesting function, and a low-power working operation. The detector has been designed and implemented, proving its effectiveness on real cases involving PD-affected 10 kV CC lines.


The establishments of intelligence substations are smart power grid development trend. So how to share the models and graphics in intelligent substations with master station to reduce power operators' duplicate work is a problem worth studying. After the analysis of the IEC61850 and IEC61970, a method is presented in this paper to solve that problem. Based on substation modeling following IEC61850 and master substation modeling following IEC61970, substation model can be transferred to master station by files and converted into relative format for master station to use. On the other hand, substation relative graphics with model information can also be transferred and reused in master station. By using this common model transformation method, the data and graphics are interoperable in kinds of power automation systems. It is helpful to lay the foundation of a unified platform.


sulfoxide (2 X M) under argon, and a two-fold excess of a KtCH#OCH3 standard solution was added to generate the highly colored cabanion? The solution was quenched by being poured into a separatory funnel containing 1 mL each of saturated aqueous NH4Cl and ether. The ether layer was separated immediately and analyzed by GC using a 6 ft X in. GC column of 3% OV-101 on Supelcoport. The product ratios are reported in Table 11. Methyl cis -9,lO-Dihydro-9,1O-dimethyl-9-phenanthrenecarboxylate (8t) and Methyl trans -9,10-Dihydro-9,10-dimethyl-9-phenanthrenecarboxylate (812). A 29-mg sample of 2c,t was dissolved in 4 mL of dimethyl sulfoxide (2 X lo-' M) under argon, and a twofold excess of a standard solution of KCCH2SOCH3 was added.e The reaction was quenched by addition of 0.3 mL of CHJ. After 15 min, 10 mL of saturated aqueous NH4C1 was added and the mixture extracted with ether. The ether layer was washed with saturated NaCl solution, dried (MgS04), and evaporated to yield 17 mg (56%) of a colorless oil, which contained 74% 8t and 26% 8c by N M R NMR (CDC13, mixture of isomers) for 8c 6 1.10 (d, J = 7.0 Hz, CHJ, 1.23 (s, CH3), 3.40 (4, J = 7.0 Hz), 3.67 (8 , OCHJ, 7.1-7.9 (m); for 8t 6


Objective To analyze the relationship between injury and social economic status among primary and middle school students. Methods Uniform questionnaire was used to survey all students selected by four-stages randomized sampling. Students in glade1 and 2 in primary school were interviewed face-to-face, while the others completed by themselves. Results The number of students investigated was 6 352 (male 3 295, female 3 051; urban 3 243, rural 3 109). The injury incidence was 30.4%, male(35.2%) higher than female(25.3%) and rural(33.8%) higher than urban (27.2%)(P0.01). The incidence was higher in students with bad health condition, inharmonious family, low income family, low educated father or poor relation with classmates. Conclusion The injury incidence among primary and middle school students in Guangdong was high. Students lived in family with better condition had lower injury incidence.


Objective To observe the effect of tetrandrine on the levels of IL-1β,IL-6 and TNF-α in serum and articular cavity fluid in collagen induced arthritis(CIA) rats,in order to investigate the possible therapeutic effects of tetrandrine on CIA.Methods Male Wistar rats were used to make CIA model.The CIA rats were randomly divided into normal groups(10 rats),tetrandrine group(10 rats) and CIA control group(10 rats).The rats in tetrandrine group were administered with tetrandrine at 80mg/kg/day intramuscularly.CIA control group and normal rats were given normal saline instead.The rats were sacrificed on day 30 after tetrandrine administration.IL-1β,IL-6 and TNF-α in serum and articular cavity fluid were detected by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay(ELISA).Results Compared with normal group,the levels of IL-1β,IL-6 and TNF-α in serum and articular cavity fluid in CIA control group were increased(P0.01).The levels of IL-1β,IL-6 and TNF-α decreased significantly in tetrandrine group(Tetrandrine v.s.CIA control group P0.01).Conclusion This study demonstrates that tetrandrine can modulate the production of IL-1β,IL-6 and TNF-α,which maybe one of the mechanisms that tetrandrine treats CIA and rheumatoid arthritis.


To develop the method to purify HSP70 antigen peptide complex from tissues of layers infected with atypical Newcastle disease.The mixed protein was precipitated by ammonium sulfate,and separated by affinity chromatography on Con A-Sepharose and DEAE-Sephacel exchange chromatography.The molecular weight and identity of the HSP70 glycoprotein was confirmed by SDS-PAGE and Western blotting,the concentration was measured by the means of Bradford.A sharp stained protein band with a molecular weight of about 70 ku was obtained and confirmed to be HSP70 by Western blotting,90 to 110 μg of HSP70 could be obtained from 1 g of chicken tissues.The pure HSP70-peptide complexes could be obtained by this method.


In India, tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health problem despite the continued efforts of the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP). About 3 million people who developed TB in 2012 were missed by national notification systems, of which 31% were in India.1 There is low case detection rate for multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) across the globe, including India.

Private health care providers play a major role in providing curative services; nearly 46% of TB patients are treated in the private sector or outside the RNTCP.2 Evidence suggests that about 50% of retreatment cases registered in the RNTCP were recently treated outside the programme setting.3 The prevalence of drug-resistant TB among retreatment cases is 12–16% in India.4 Although there has been some progress in testing programme-registered patients, no information is available from the private sector, which accounts for nearly half of all TB patients in India; most of these are not managed well and are thus at a higher risk of drug resistance.

While India's National Strategic Plan (2012–2017) for TB control talks about extending RNTCP services to the private sector, the operational guidance is still not clear; one such aspect that needs attention is access to culture and drug susceptibility testing (CDST).5

It is imperative to screen sputum samples of all retreatment TB cases by DST, irrespective of the source of treatment provider. In the programmatic management of drug-resistant TB (PMDT), only those patients registered under the RNTCP, 'programme patients', undergo DST, depending on the criteria implemented for screening patients in the district. The patients' sputum samples are screened at RNTCP-accredited DST laboratories for drug resistance using diagnostic technologies such as line-probe assay, solid culture or GeneXpert.

However, current PMDT guidelines remain inflexible on the subject of examining sputum samples referred directly from private health care providers. These 'private sector patients' are channelled to the RNTCP, and only then are they screened for DST, during which significant time has elapsed, thereby increasing morbidity and mortality among such patients. To strengthen ongoing TB control efforts in the country the RNCTP should be more flexible and include the private health sector in the provision of quality TB diagnostic services. This endeavour will not only benefit TB patients in India, it will also ensure timely notification to the programme. The confidence gained in the private sector will pave the way for smooth implementation of public-private sector strategies currently envisioned.


We develop the general formalism that describes the inelastic scattering of free electrons by out-of-equilibrium materials. Utilizing modulated electrons further reveals previously inaccessible information and enables direct imaging of quantum wavefunctions.


In this paper we present findings from a research effort to apply a hybrid collaborative-context approach for a system focused on Marine Corps civil affairs data collection, aggregation, and analysis called the Marine Civil Information Management System (MARCIMS). The goal of this effort is to provide operators with information to make sense of the interconnectedness of entities and relationships in their area of operation and discover existing data to support civil military operations. Our approach to build a recommendation engine was designed to overcome several technical challenges, including 1) ensuring models were robust to the relatively small amount of data collected by the Marine Corps civil affairs community; 2) finding methods to recommend novel data for which there are no interactions captured; and 3) overcoming confirmation bias by ensuring content was recommended that was relevant for the mission despite being obscure or less well known. We solve this by implementing a combination of collective matrix factorization (CMF) and graph-based random walks to provide recommendations to civil military operations users. We also present a method to resolve the challenge of computation complexity inherent from highly connected nodes through a precomputed process. Keywords—Recommendation engine, collaborative filtering, context based recommendation, graph analysis, coverage, civil affairs operations, Marine Corps.


(1997). Historicizing Lincoln: Garry wills and the canonization of the "Gettysburg address"; Rhetoric Review: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 120-137.


Article Details Article Type: Research Article Received date: 11th May, 2020 Accepted date: 08th June, 2020 Published date: 10th June, 2020 *Corresponding Author: Dr. Jennifer Adame-Walker DPT, OCS, PMA-CPT, Assistant Professor, Director Musculoskeletal Care Clinic, Department of Physical Therapy, California State University Fresno, United States. E-mail: email@example.com Citation: Adame-Walker, J., Zarrinkhameh, L., & Brogan, A. (2020). Connecting the Classroom to the Community: The Effects of Service Learning on Affective Skills in Doctor of Physical Therapy Students. J Rehab Pract Res 1(1):105. https://doi. org/10.33790/jrpr1100105 Copyright: ©2020, This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.


I. INTRODUCTIONOver the past three decades, indigenous peoples have effected a remarkable redefinition of their status and rights under international law, giving rise to a collection of international norms that are highly favorable to their aspirations.1 But as S. James Anaya has powerfully argued, "[i]t is one thing ... for international law to incorporate norms concerning indigenous peoples; it is quite another thing for the norms to take effect in the actual lives of people."2 Indeed, meaningful enforcement of these highly favorable norms at the local level has been elusive.3 International law has proved to be rather Janus-faced for indigenous peoples: on the one hand international law's concern for human rights and the right of all peoples to determine their own political destinies has been the central underpinning to the assertion of indigenous peoples' rights on the international level; on the other hand, international law's traditional structure built upon the twin precepts of state sovereignty and consent-with the resulting corollaries of territorial integrity, exclusive jurisdiction, and non-intervention in domestic affairs-has impeded attempts to translate success at the international level to the domestic and local level.4 As a result, indigenous peoples wishing to secure and advance their rights are faced with an uninviting choice: they can take their claims before often hostile domestic courts that do not recognize favorable existing international law, or they can advance their claims before more sympathetic but largely toothless international bodies without hope for resulting enforcement of whatever decree they might win. Put simply, the important gains achieved at the international level by indigenous peoples and their advocates must find their way to the local level in order "to take effect in the actual lives of people."5 The challenge is to find the most effective means to make this transition.This Comment takes up this challenge in the specific contexts of Australia and the United States, arguing that indigenous peoples in these two countries should employ the emerging international indigenous rights jurisprudence as persuasive authority in asserting their claims in domestic courts. Such "soft" enforcement of international law in the domestic courts of Australia and the United States is the most promising avenue available for securing and advancing indigenous peoples' rights through the international law principles of both countries. Direct enforcement in the U.S. and Australia is generally unavailable in the absence of a fully crystallized customary international law or a binding international treaty schema. However, because U.S. and Australian indigenous rights jurisprudence was itself founded upon principles of international law, this jurisprudence should receive international law as highly persuasive authority.Part II of this Comment examines the emerging customary international law of indigenous peoples' rights, clarifying what has "crystallized" and what is still in the process of formation. In addition, Part II identifies and focuses on the "firmest edge" of this emerging jurisprudence: the right to "cultural sovereignty." Part III explores the best methods for enforcing this generally favorable customary international law for indigenous peoples in the domestic courts of Australia and the United States. Part III argues that direct enforcement is currently largely unavailable but that international law should be used as persuasive authority with interpretive force in domestic courts. In other words, emerging customary law of indigenous rights may not provide a cause of action in Australian or U.S. courts, but it can provide a rule of decision. Part IV then applies these general recommendations to the specific context of cultural sovereignty, revisiting the High Court of Australia's recent Kartinyeri v. The Commonwealth6 decision and the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Ass 'n. …


An adaptive finite-time robust sliding mode controller is presented in this work to regulate the trajectories of an upper limb exoskeleton rehabilitation robot. The goal is to build a controller that can handle constraints that alter the achievement of the rehabilitation process using the robot, such as modeling errors, uncertainties, and external disturbances. The suggested technique maintains the fundamental robustness of sliding mode control while also allowing for global finite-time convergence of the system's states. Furthermore, the presented controller is homogeneous and uses adaptive gains to eliminate requirements of preliminary knowledge on uncertainties and external disturbances bounds. The Lyapunov theory is used to determine stability. Simulations of passive trajectory tracking exercises are illustrated to check the efficacy of the developed control approach.


The Dual Stator Induction Machine (DSIM) meets well with the need for high power applications. In the recent years, it has been increasingly used for variable speed drives. However, its control strategy is still a subject of research due to its complex structure, though it offers more reliable application in use due to the presence of double stators. The fault detection and localization in an inverter are profitable for better diagnosis and the inverter reconfiguration is the most required process to ensure acceptable service continuity. This paper tackles, on the one hand, a control strategy based on the Direct Torque Control combined with the Space Vector PWM of a DSIM (DTC-SVM-DSIM) and on the other hand, a three-level inverter fault detection and localization, reconfiguration of the inverter when operating under open-circuit IGBT switch faults. Several results are presented to illustrate the enhancement of torque and flux quality owed to the proposed control strategy and also to show the improvement of the open-circuit fault detection and localization method for better diagnosis as well as the inverter reconfiguration impact on the drive system service continuity.


Dysentery can be treated using Pandanus amarylifolius leaves and Psidium guajava leaves. This study aimed to determine the activity of the combination of 96% ethanol extract of P. amarylifolius leaves and P. guajava leaves in inhibiting the growth of Shigella dysenteriae bacteria. Methods. Extraction of P. amarylifolius leaves and P. guajava leaves respectively by using the maceration method with 96% ethanol solvent. For the combination treatment, each of these extracts was combined. Each extract obtained was tested for minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC). The MIC value of P. amarylifolius leaf extract was obtained at a concentration of 30% and P. guajava leaf extract was obtained at a concentration of 40%. Inhibitory width test (IWT) by disc diffusion method was carried out on single extracts and combination extracts, with treatment concentrations of 30% single extract of P. amarylifolius leaf (K1), 40% single extract of P. guajava leaf (K2), combination 1 (P. amarylifolius leaf). 30%+ P. guajava leaf 40%) (K3), combination 2 (35% P. amarylifolius leaf + 40% P. guajava leaf) (K4), combination 3 (40% P. amarylifolius leaf + 40% P. guajava leaf) (K5). The width of the inhibition of the research results of the treatment against S. dysenteriae were analyzed using a completely randomized design and Duncan's test. The results showed that the combination of P. amarylifolius leaf extract and P. guajava leaf was more effective in inhibiting the growth of S. dysenteriae bacteria. The combination of P. amarylifolius leaf extract and P. guajava leaf extract that was most effective in inhibiting the growth of S. dysenteriae bacteria was combination 3 (40% P. amarylifolius leaf extract + 40% P. guajava leaf extract) with an average inhibitory width of 5.625 mm. Keywords: Combination, P. amarylifolius Leaves, P.guajava Leaves, S. dysenteriae


In order to realize the predicting and positioning of short-term load inflection point, this paper made reference to related research in the field of computer image recognition. It got a load sharp degree sequence by the transformation of the original load sequence based on the algorithm of sharp degree. Then this paper designed a forecasting model based on the chaos theory and RBF neural network. It predicted the load sharp degree sequence based on the forecasting model to realize the positioning of short-term load inflection point. Finally, in the empirical example analysis, this paper predicted the daily load point of a region using the actual load data of the certain region to verify the effectiveness and applicability of this method. Prediction results showed that most of the test sample load points could be accurately predicted.


With the rapid spread of the new crown epidemic, prevention of the epidemic has become an important task in daily life. As of now, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the world has exceeded 150 million, and the epidemic prevention situation is very serious. In the face of the spread of the epidemic, effective temperature measurement, mask recognition, and face recognition are necessary for mobile personnel. Traditional methods such as the deployment of Raspberry Pi, windows platform, etc. can better meet the above requirements, but there are disadvantages such as low number of recognition frames, low accuracy, and bulky equipment. Due to the large market demand, the cost of the chip has also risen. If the above-mentioned functions are deployed according to the traditional method, the cost is relatively high, which increases the economic pressure on small and medium-sized enterprises. The main work of this research is to solve related functions through a processor Kendryte K210 based on the open source instruction set RISC-V. So as to realize a portable and low-cost non-contact temperature measuring device. The paper introduces a low-cost solution based on K210 on the basis of comprehensive discussion of multi-party implementation methods. Based on this processor, the face recognition and mask recognition functions based on YOLOv2 training are deployed through its machine vision and machine hearing capabilities. The temperature is measured by an external MLX90614 sensor; the serial port screen and the voice module JQ8400 are used for user interaction, which meets the guidance of users to the greatest extent. In the design of the hardware circuit, a lithium battery charging and boosting mobile power board based on MH-CD42 is designed. The user can supply power through an external lithium battery to realize the portability of the system.


In higher medical education,how to enhance practice teaching to improve medical students' creative mind,creative capability and synthetic diathesis is a stringent topic faced with medical education workers.Starting with strengthening the practice teaching link,a series of measures have been adopted to enhance the synthetic ability of students.


Aanerud's project is to develop an account of white antiracist mothering, using a model of maternal duty to raise antiracist white children. The author sets this project in the context of historic constructions of white mothering in the twentieth century and then contrasts the need for an exploration of white mothers raising white children against the literature of white mothers' raising children of color and mothers of color raising their own children, Once this distinction is made, Aanerud uses Collins's account of racial ethnic mothering as a springboard into her discussion of antiracist white mothering of white children.


In order to study social inequalities, indices can be used to summarize the multiple dimensions of the socioeconomic status. As a part of the Equit'Area Project, a public health program focused on social and environmental health inequalities; a statistical procedure to create (neighborhood) socioeconomic indices was developed. This procedure uses successive principal components analyses to select variables and create the index. In order to simplify the application of the procedure for non-specialists, the R package SesIndexCreatoR was created. It allows the creation of the index with all the possible options of the procedure, the classification of the resulting index in categories using several classical methods, the visualization of the results, and the generation of automatic reports.


A closed-form performance-based safety-checking format known as the Demand and Capacity Factored Design (DCFD) is used in order to compare alternative flood mitigation strategies for non-engineered masonry structures. The structural fragility is evaluated by adopting an efficient and simulation-based method yielding the so-called "robust" fragility curve and an associated plus/minus one-standard deviation interval. The structural performance is measured by the (critical) demand to capacity ratio for the weakest element of the weakest wall within the structure, subjected to a combination of hydro-static, hydro-dynamic and accidental debris impact loads. Analogous to the incremental dynamic analysis method proposed for seismic demand assessment, an incremental hydraulic analysis has been implemented in order to monitor the structural performance as a function of increasing water height. In particular, the incremental hydraulic analysis has been employed in order to calculate the critical water height corresponding to a demand to capacity ratio of unity. This procedure has been illustrated for comparative evaluation of the factored demand and factored capacity for the case-study building hypothetically subjected to various flood mitigation strategies. The case-study application focuses on a one-story cement-brick non-engineered building located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. A large percentage of the residential houses in Africa are classified as informal non-engineered buildings. They are characterized by their generally low quality of construction and are often constructed without formal criteria. Buildings belonging to this category are often constructed with substandard construction practice and their material mechanical properties are not welldocumented. Furthermore, these structures are often located in flood-prone areas and their resistance capacity are inadequate. Various research efforts have been focused on different aspects of flooding risk assessment, such as loss of life (Jonkman et al. 2008; Tapsell et al. 2002), economic losses (Pistrika 2009; Pistrika and Tsakiris 2007), and damage to buildings (Bouchard 2007; Schwarz and Maiwald 2008; Smith 1994). Many studies have been performed in order to assess the vulnerability of a building in terms of damage state probability for the impact of debris flow (Haugen and Kaynia 2008), for riverine and coastal floods (Nadal et al. 2009), and for flood-prone informal settlements (De Risi et al. 2013a).


This chapter provides an overview of the advantages and disadvantages of different pension system designs. The public unfunded pillar and private funded pillar are affected in different directions when some economic shocks occur, even though they do face some of the same risks. They are not equally exposed to demographic change or turmoil in the financial markets. Pensions have a very long time-horizon. This makes it impossible to predict which risks will materialize and which will not. Therefore, this chapter concludes that a multi-pillar system facilitates maximal risk sharing as adverse outcomes in one pillar could be balanced by another pillar.


The urban military operating environment may offer favorable conditions for combat involving asymmetric actions or 4th generation warfare which includes the chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) environment. The CBRN environment is characterized by threats and hazards capable of producing negative impacts to the operations. The detriment may be produced by intentional release of hazardous materials into the operational environment. This study deals with an environment deliberately contaminated by radioactive materials because of the activation of a radiological dispersive device (RDD). A computer simulation of the radioactive scenario was performed in order to produce useful information which in turn can be used to support decision-making. The main goal was to assess the risk of developing radio-induced solid cancer by studying the articulation between local environmental variables and a cognitive bias, the Dunning-Kruger effect. The findings highlight intuitive correlations between local atmospheric stability and cognitive bias affecting the threat level (radiation dose), the responsiveness and the perceived risk. The findings also allow us to infer that, especially in the military-operational context, the methodology proposed for the assessment of environment-human interactions may be decisive for correctly direct available resources, both human and material, reducing operational risk.


-Aging roads and poor road-maintenance systems resulted many potholes, whose numbers increase over time. Potholes jeopardize road safety and transportation efficiency. Moreover, they are often a contributing factor to car accidents. To address the problems associated with potholes, the locations and size of potholes must be determined quickly to find the location a data base as to be developed, which requires a specific pothole-detection system that can collect pothole information at low cost and over a wide area. However, pothole repair has long relied on manual detection efforts causing loss of time and money to government. Thus, in this paper, we introduced a pothole-detection system using a commercial "Road sepoy". The proposed system detects potholes using vision-based tracking system and MATLAB algorithm specifically designed to work with road sepoy camera giving us accurately in real-time environment. Geo-mapping the pothole in google maps helps the exact location.


Ad dress for Cor res pon den ce/Ya z›fl ma Ad re si: Vida Mohammadzadeh MD, Vali-e Asr Hospital School of Medicine, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Department of Neurology, Zanjan,Iran Phone: +982433770801 E-mail: email@example.com ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-4769-6706 Re cei ved/Ge lifl Ta ri hi: 10.08.2018 Ac cep ted/Ka bul Ta ri hi: 23.01.2020 ©Copyright 2020 by Turkish Neurological Society Turkish Journal of Neurology published by Galenos Publishing House. Atypical Parkinsonian syndromes include multiple systems atrophy (MSA), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), corticobasal degeneration (CBD), and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). These conditions show signs of dopamine deficiency, but unlike Parkinson's disease (PD), they do not respond to dopaminergic treatments and usually have a worse outcome compared with idiopathic PD. The Atypical Parkinsonian syndromes have no specific treatment or cure. Up to now, there are just a few therapeutic approaches that place emphasis on symptomatic and supportive therapies. These approaches are based on palliative care, physical or occupational therapy, neuropsychology, speech pathology, psychiatry, and social works. Pharmacotherapy with levodopa, dopamine agonists, amantadine, co-enzyme Q10, botulinum toxin, cholinesterase inhibitors, and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors may improve some symptoms of PSP and CBD. In this review, we categorize some of the recent studies on therapeutic strategies as follows: autologous transplantation of stem cells, deep transcranial magnetic stimulation, intravenous immunoglobulin, intranasal insulin, and pimavanserin. By classifying and comparing the most recent advances in treatment strategies of the atypical parkinsonian syndromes, we provide a benchmark for further studies to introduce new effective therapeutic methods.


This discussion here is about  the different styles of communication in the marriage of the Bataknese and the Javanese. The research is how the Bataknese as the nomads interact in communication in their mix-marriage. To analyze the phenomenon, I will use the theories of communication and acculturation and the method of qualitative. By using the theories and method  I will analyze how the Bataknese and the Javanese overcome their conflicts in their marriage due to the differences  in communication to reach the harmony in their mix-marriage.


A wide gap exists between what scientists and rural farmers know. The rapid advancements in digital technology are likely to widen this gap even further. At the farmers' level, this knowledge gap often translates into poor and inefficient management of resources resulting in reduced profits and environmental pollution. Most modern rice cultivars can easily yield more than 5 tons per hectare when well managed, but millions of farmers often get less than 5 tons using the same production inputs. In pest management, for instance, rice farmers often apply pesticides unnecessarily, as they base their decisions on visual clues and over estimations of potential damages by pests. Frequently, farmers overestimate potential losses due to pests by more than ten-folds. In the Philippines, scientists estimated that about 80% of farmers' insecticide sprays were unnecessary as they were either applied at the wrong time, for the wrong pests or both. Using the wrong chemicals at the wrong dosages is also common. Highly visible symptoms such as leaf damages are often signs that stimulate farmers to spray. In fertilizer management, most farmers believe that more is better, perhaps since the local terms for fertilizer are often translated to mean "fat" in many countries. Similarly in other resource management decisions, farmers rely on their own beliefs and perceptions. While there are strengths in farmers' indigenous knowledge, there are also weaknesses. If some of these weaknesses are modified, farmers' resource management decisions and skills can be improved. Thus discovering the key weaknesses should be the first step and developing a communication strategy for the new information to reach the millions of rice farmers is next. Tons of scientific information are communicated between scientists through publications, electronic media and conferences. But very little will actually reach rural communities because of limited access. Even when access is facilitated, the scientific literature is riddled with jargon which only a few in the discipline would understand. In addition, the information may not have direct use or may not be in the appropriate prospective and need further synthesis. Sometimes rural communities may have the information but are not motivated to act. We suggest that scientific information alone is insufficient to benefit rural farmers unless it is further processed, simplified and effectively communicated to reach a wide audience. As pointed out by Akio Morita, the founder chairman of Sony, to be successful in business, technological creativity is not enough. There is need for creativity in product development and marketing as well. To add value to scientific information and "getting science into practice" so as to benefit rural communities, we suggest that there are various phases involved. In this comment we discuss and share our experiences in implementing the phases. The initial phase is identifying the problem and the associated ecological as well as the sociological issues and conducting research to better understand them. Understanding the root causes besides the direct causes of the problem is important. It is also important at this phase for all stakeholders to gain a common understanding of the various issues. The findings are then used as inputs into the second phase, "technology development" where technical information is "distilled" into an "actionable" entity expressed in the form of a "heuristic". Heuristic is a term introduced by Tversky and Kahneman 1 to refer to informal rules-of-thumb. Heuristics are developed through experience and guesswork about possible outcomes and may thus have inherent faults and biases. Research to understand farmers' current heuristics and reasons for their adoption will help scientists frame new heuristics that are "actionable". For instance, scientists discovered that leaf damages by leaf feeders in the early growth stages of the rice crop have little effect on yields. Farmers, however,


The Territory Government will work with licencees to implement an electronic ID system to buy alcohol in Katherine, the Licensing Minister Chris Burns announced today. "In contrast with the Federal Government's proposal, we want something that is effective and causes minimal inconvenience to the public and licencees," he said. "The electronic ID system is one of a range of initiatives to tackle alcohol, crime and anti-social behaviour in the town. "The plan is part of the Territory Government's strategy to curb excessive drinking on a region-by-region basis. We don't believe a one-size-fits-all approach is right for the Territory. "Public places in Alice Springs have already been made 'dry'. Later this month the Territory Government will introduce amendments to Parliament banning alcohol in Alice Springs town camps. "Police will also be given additional powers to randomly search vehicles to combat grog running on Aboriginal land. "With those efforts in motion, it's now time to turn our focus to Katherine." Dr Burns said the other new measures included: Setting up an Alcohol Court in Katherine with powers to hand down intervention and prohibition orders and/or treatment for alcohol dependency


Adopting Roemer's conception of equal opportunity and using Korea's micro-survey data (the Korea Labor and Income Panel Studies) during the period of 2001-2005, we calculate the extent to which Korea's tax-benefit policies correct unequal opportunities for income acquisition among its citizens. In Roemer's definition, a tax-benefit policy equalizes opportunities if it makes the socio-economic achievement of individuals be a function only of their efforts, not of their circumstances. To partition the samples into types based on circumstances, we use two different typologies of individuals: one (EDU typology) characterizes each individual according to the level of education of the more highly educated parent (usually father in Korea) and the other (OCC typology) characterizes the individual by his father's occupation (OCC_PA1, OCC_PA2, OCC_PA3). Our samples consist of those individuals who are male heads of household 35-55 years old. We use two definitions of income: standard income (ST-income) and equivalence income (EQ-income). Our main findings are the following. First, the EOP tax rates in Korea are quite comparable to those of Spain, Italy, the UK, and the US. Out of the eleven countries studied in Roemer et al. (2003), they are the four countries that have the highest EOP tax rates. Our analysis thus suggests that opportunities in Korea are as unequal as those in the four countries. Second, the observed marginal tax rates in Korea are, however, significantly smaller than those in the four countries. This suggests that Korean tax-benefit policies have played almost no role in correcting unequal opportunities for income acquisition among its citizens.


A coalescence model using the observed properties of pre-stellar condensations (PSCs) shows how an initially steep initial mass function (IMF) that might be characteristic of primordial cloud fragmentation can change into a Salpeter IMF or shallower IMF in a cluster of normal density after one dynamical time, even if the PSCs are collapsing on their own dynamical time. The model suggests that top-heavy IMFs in some starburst clusters originate with PSC coalescence.


Branched chain amino acids are the essential nutrients for humans and many animals. As functional amino acids,they play important roles in physiological functions, including immune functions. Isoleucine, as one of the branched chainamino acids, is also critical in physiological functions of the whole body, such as growth, immunity, protein metabolism, fattyacid metabolism and glucose transportation. Isoleucine can improve the immune system, including immune organs, cells andreactive substances. Recent studies have also shown that isoleucine may induce the expression of host defense peptides (i.e.,β-defensins) that can regulate host innate and adaptive immunity. In addition, isoleucine administration can restore the effectof some pathogens on the health of humans and animals via increasing the expression of β-defensins. Therefore, the present review will emphatically discuss the effect of isoleucine on immunity while summarizing the relationship between branchedchain amino acids and immune functions.


Abstract: A new endoscopic drug delivery system was developed by the authors. This system allows for drugs in the form of solid pills, grains, and powders to be delivered to target sites using an air gun propulsion system. Following initial in vitro trials, in vivo studies were performed on dogs, using steel pills, grains of activated carbon, and of sucralfate, and bovine thrombin powder. The depth of pill penetration increased linearly with increases in air pressure. The extent of grain distribution increased in relation to the distance from the tip of the endoscope to the target. Propulsion pressures over certain thresholds (which varied according to the materials propelled) produced bleeding in the stomach wall, but no clearly observed ulceration was observed at any of the pressures tested. The targets were adequately covered by the grains and powder. This drug delivery system shows promise for the treatment of malignant lesions, ulcers and bleeding, and other applications where localized delivery, of drugs is indicated.


A novel miniature monopole tag antenna for passive Ultra‐High Frequency (UHF) radio frequency identification (RFID) operation is presented.The antenna possesses a two‐sided structure that is printed on an FR4 substrate and fed by a 50‐Ω microstrip line. By properly using helical strips and vias, the antenna size can be reduced to a small volume of 10 (L) × 9.5 (W) × 0.8 (H) mm3 to be easily integrated within various portable devices. A miniaturized quasi‐lumped circuit is also designed to attain a good impedance matching between the antenna and the chip. Experimental results demonstrate that the antenna has a suitable operating band about 914–939 MHz and also quite omnidirectional radiation pattern with appreciable gain. Moreover, the proposed compact tag antenna, capable of achieving a maximum readable range of about 5.6 m with an EIRP equal to 4 W, is well suited for RFID applications. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 52:2770–2772, 2010; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com. DOI 10.1002/mop.25596


In the current conditions of implementation and development of banking, bankers are paying more and more attention to the definition, assessment and measures to reduce the operational risk of the bank. Examples of this type of risk are personnel fraud, information system failures, and specific software failures that can result in significant losses and losses. In order to adequately protect against such risk, the bank must generate capital adequate to cover losses from the bank's operational risk. The lack of systemic among the manifestations of the bank's operational risk complicates the process of its identification, evaluation and management decisions. Therefore, the assessment of financial and economic prerequisites for operational risk management in the banking sector of Ukraine is becoming important in order to form an effective management system. The purpose of the article is to assess the financial and economic prerequisites for operational risk management in the banking system of Ukraine and determine their impact on the effectiveness of operational risk management of banking institutions. The main indicators of banks' financial activity and functioning of payment systems in the banking system of Ukraine are analyzed. It is established that the level of operational risk increases with the increase in the volume of payment system transactions in banking. The assessment of financial preconditions of operational risk management in the banking system of Ukraine is carried out. The influence of financial and economic preconditions on the efficiency of operational risk management of banking institutions is determined and substantiated. Analysis of banks' activity in the payment card market allows to identify negative aspects that necessitate improving the system of operational risk management of banks and finding ways to minimize them for the following reasons: increasing the share of non-cash payments by payment cards in trade and services compared to cash; expansion of the infrastructure for accepting payment cards; increase in revenues to local and state budgets due to fuller taxation of business entities and individuals (non-cash services sharply reduce opportunities for concealment of income.


The ability of the heart to respond to the demands of exercise through an increase in output is a complex physiologic process that involves intrinsic properties of heart muscle as well as the regul...


This study reports on the policy, mechanism, and location of Internet censorship in a small but important country, Afghanistan. Our first contribution is to show that Afghanistan is in fact far more censorious than previously thought. Secondly, we note that most of the censorship is physically located outside the country. We expected that this might be because Afghanistan receives its Internet connectivity from providers in Iran, Pakistan, China, and other highly censorious countries. To our surprise, we find the filters are actually located in upstream nations that are not known to be censorious, notably Germany and the UK.


PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid crystal display device having a narrower frame and preventing leakage of light in a surrounding portion, in which a UV-curing resin can be cured without fail, in a manufacturing step by an ODF (one-drop-fill) method. SOLUTION: A narrower frame is obtained, by forming a metal wiring line 120 at a position, in a frame portion of a display panel of the display device, the position overlapping an area where a sealing material 190 comprising a UV-curing resin is applied. A BM (black matrix) 160 for preventing leakage of light is formed on a CF-side substrate 150, however, the BM is not formed at an end portion. Consequently, in a manufacturing step, the sealing material 190 can be cured through irradiation with a UV light through the CF side substrate 150. After curing the sealing material 190, a transparent plate 200 constituted of, for example, reinforced glass provided with a decorative frame 210 being laminated, to make the strength of the display panel increase, while preventing leakage of light, at an end of the display panel where the BM 160 is not formed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT


Researchers thinking about visual evidence in the legal system address quite a variety of empirical questions but share an absorption in the ways in which the evidentiary problem is rooted in the blurring of genres. The blurring is plural: between illustration and proof, between interpretation and requiring an interpretation, between knowledge and perception, and between argument and evidence. Because genres are an intimate and essential part of the functioning of legal processes, such blurrings in turn problematize long-standing practices and the design of governance processes. Their findings are important theoretically, as well, in three ways. They show that the model of fact production processes must begin a step earlier than does the Lockean model of the fact upon which "western" and "modern" society and "science" have relied. The model must continue on beyond where Locke and those who think about the social construction of reality, such as Berger and Luckmann, stop. And "contextual" matters such as warranting, provenance, and authority must be incorporated into our model of the information production chain itself. In combination, what we are learning from research on visual evidence is thus not only invaluable for addressing the profound real-world problems identified by the authors assembled by Sandra Ristovska in this special issue of First Monday and others, but for our understanding of challenges being presented to the nature of governance itself both within and beyond the formal legal system.


A facile topochemical route has been developed to synthesize porous LiMn2O4 spheres by using molten LiOH and porous Mn2O3 spheres as a precursor. The formation of porous LiMn2O4 spheres was inherited from porous Mn2O3 spheres which were obtained from the thermal decomposition of the MnCO3 precursors and the presence of pores was confirmed by transmission electron microscope (TEM) and field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM). When applied as cathode materials for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, it shows good capacity retention after cycling. Taking the excellent electrochemical performance and facile synthesis into consideration, the presented porous LiMn2O4 spheres could be a competitive candidate cathode material for high-performance lithium-ion batteries.


During the past 20 years, artificial neural networks was successfully applied for solving signal processing problems. Researchers proposed many different models of artificial neural networks. A challenge is to identify the most appropriate neural network model which can work reliably for solving realistic problem. This chapter provides some basic neural network model and efficiently applying these models in facial image processing problem. In detail, three techniques : a hybrid model of combining AdaBoost and Artificial Neural Network (AANN) to detect human faces, a local texture model based on Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP) for face alignment and a model which combines many Neural Networks applied for facial expression classification are present. This case study demonstrates how to solve face recognition in the neural network paradigm. Each of these techniques is introducted as follows: Technique 1 an approach to combine adaBoost and artificial neural network for detecting human faces: The human face image recognition is one of the prominent problems at present. Recognizing human faces correctly will aid some fields such as national defense and person verification. One of the most vital processing of recognizing face images is to detect human faces in the images. Some approaches have been used to detect human faces. However, they still have some limitations. In the research, some popular methods, AdaBoost, Artificial Neural Network (ANN) were considered for detecting human faces. Then, a hybrid model of combining AdaBoost and Artificial Neural Network was applied to solve the process efficiently. The system which was build from the hybrid model has been conducted on database CalTech. The recognition correctness is more than 96%. It shows the feasibility of the proposed model. Technique 2 local texture classifiers based on multi layer perceptron for face alignment: Local texture models for face alignment have been proposed by many different authors. One of popular models is Principle Component Analysis (PCA) local texture model in Active Shape Model (ASM). The method uses local 1-D profile texture model to search for a new position for every label point. However, it is not sufficient to distinguish feature points from their neighbours; i.e., the ASM algorithm often faces local minima problem. In the research, a new local texture model based on Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP) was proposed. The model is trained from large databases. The classifier of the model significantly improves accuracy and robustness of local searching on faces with expression variation and ambiguous contours. Achieved experimental results on CalTech database show its practicality.


Purpose: Telomere shortening is associated with colorectal carcinogenesis and transcription from subtelomeres produces telomeric repeat containing RNA (TERRA), a natural inhibitor of telomerase activity (TA). Previous studies on TERRA expression demonstrated downregulation in advanced stages of human tumors. Materials and Methods: We evaluated the 2p TERRA expression and telomere length using quantitative real-time PCR in 60 patients who underwent surgical resection for colorectal cancer between June 2008 and November 2010. Results: Patients were grouped according to 2p TERRA expression, with 27 (45%) and 33 (55%) in the low and high TERRA expression groups, respectively. The median follow-up period was 80 months (range 2-103). 2p TERRA expression was marginally significantly associated with preoperative CEA (P = 0.082) and significantly associated with telomere length (P Conclusions: 2p TERRA expression was marginally significantly associated with preoperative CEA and significantly associated with telomere length; however, it was not prognostic on long-term oncologic outcomes in colorectal cancer. Citation Format: SungUk Bae, Woon Kyung Jeong, Seong Kyu Bae, Jae-Ho Lee. Prognostic impact of telomeric repeat containing RNA expression on long-term oncologic outcomes in colorectal cancer [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2018; 2018 Apr 14-18; Chicago, IL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2018;78(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 2461.


This paper highlights assessment of creep damage of an 11-year service-exposed reformer tube made up of HP40 grade of steel of a petrochemical industry from replicated creep data. The existence of scatter in the void characterization, creep deformation and rupture data leads to substantial amount of uncertainty in the assessment of creep damage. A discontinuous Markov process, which takes into account the associated scatter observed in damage evolution, has been used for creep damage assessment. The damage parameter A* is compared with the damage prediction by Markov process, where A* is derived as the cumulative contribution from microstructurally determined cavities at grain boundaries (A1) as well as number of creep cavities or voids at the grain boundary triple points (A2). This damage parameter (creep cavitation /voids) is in close agreement with the damage prediction curves at low stress whereas at high stresses it could correlate well till the midregion of the predicted curves, above which cavity measurement was practically not feasible. Also the value of damage tolerance parameter λ (ratio of rupture strain to Monkman–Grant constant) infers that growth of cavities has been attributed to a purely diffusion controlled mechanism, grain boundary sliding mechanism or a combination of two.


Acknowledgements. Preface. Defining Abuse and Battering. Achieving Nonviolence. Exploring and Defeating Intimidation. Creating a Trusting Relationship. Giving and Receiving Respect. Accountability: Taking Responsibility for Yourself. Maintaining Positive Sexual Relationships. Negotiating a Partnership. Cooperating Through Good Communication. Parenting: How to Relate to Your Children. Conclusion. References. Index. About the Authors.


to compare surgical time, complications intra and postoperative, postoperative pain, lost work days and recurrence of endoscopic techniques (TAPP and TEP) with the open technique PHS. Method: 19 fascial (09 TAPP technique, 10 TEP technique), September 2009 - September 2010. Compared the results with the
degree work of Ana Ochoa, evaluated the hernioplasty with PHS system. Results:
surgical time (minutes): TAPP: 99.25, TEP: 85,45, PHS: 80,16. Complications: TAPP
and TEP: Hydrocele (14.3%) and PHS: hematoma (18.1%), abscess (3%), scrotal
edema (9%) and seroma (9%). Postoperative pain a week: TAPP and TEP: 35.7%
pain-free and PHS: 3% pain-free. Postoperative pain a month: TAPP and TEP: 78.5% pain-free and PHS: 96.4% pain-free. Lost work days: TAPP and TEP: 07 days
(85.7%) and PHS: 08 to 17 days (94%). Recurrence: TAPP and TEP: 5.3% and PHS:
0%. Conclusions: hernioplasty for preperitoneal technique might employ it having previous knowledge in surgery laparoscopic and Anatomy of endoscopic inguinal region with a surgeon who has completed your curve of learning in this technique.
Advantages: diagnosis and immediate repair of defects in the miopectineo hole
unnoticed previously, early resumption of daily activities, less immediate
postoperative pain, fewer work days lost, better result cosmetic. Disadvantage:
require surgeon with experience in the technique.