Objectives: Average human life expectancy is 82.6 years old in Japan. We report surgical treatment for extremely aged patients with gastric cancer.
Methods: Between 1991 and 2011, 5330 gastric cancer patients were underwent gastrectomy in our hospital, and 78 patients (1.5%) were over 85 years old. The clinic-pathological findings in these patients were investigated retrospectively and compared with those in 4494 patients under 75 years old.
Results: Median age was 86 (85-95) vs. 63 (19-75). The types of gastrectomy such as local/proximal/distal/total were 9/0/49/20 vs. 216/172/2983/1123. Preoperative morbidity rate was 73.1% vs. 23.2%. The ratio of extent nodal dissection was 30.8% vs. 53.5%. Postoperative morbidity/30-day mortality rate was 24.4%/1.3% vs. 15.3%/0.2%, especially pneumonia; brain infarction and urinary tract infection were more common in elderly group. Best supportive care is highly selected in case of recurrence in elderly group (66.7% vs. 11.9%). The overall 5-year survival rate of StageI/II/III/IV was 70.6/70.0/30.3/0% vs. 92.0/80.0/60.5/13.3%. The ratio of non-cancer death within 5 years after operation was 19.2% vs. 5.8%.
Conclusion: Although the postoperative complications and non-gastric cancer death are high ratio, cautious operative procedure contributes to a good results and prognosis even in the extremely aged patients.


Abstract : Perhaps the most visible uses of American military forces in recent years have been in deploying US Army forces as part of the Sinai Constabulary Mission and sending US Marines to Lebanon. In both instances, the mission of these forces is not victory in a war-fighting situation but peacekeeping through constabulary or police activity. The essential difference between war-fighting and peacekeeping missions is that the former makes the maximum use of force while the latter is committed to the minimum use of force. The growing importance of a peacekeeping role for armed forces was predicted by Morris Janowitz more than 20 years ago; the decade of the eighties is showing the prescience of that prediction. As it has increasingly concentrated on its strategic nuclear mission and its role in the high-tech, high-intensity Central Front NATO-Warsaw Pact conflict scenario, the capability of the Air Force to participate in small wars has correspondingly declined. The British experience with air control between World Wars I and II demonstrates that air power was once effective in a constabulary and small-war situation. That experience points out how air power, in the hands of creative strategists, can be shaped and applied to support a government's most trying political responsibilities.


This article introduces an intelligent assistant architecture that allows replacing existing modules and plugging new modules without requiring any code changes thanks to its modular and extensible structure. Our proposal supports multiple natural languages and at the same time allows the integration of any external artificial intelligence or IoT component easily. The software that we developed understands the commands in English and Turkish languages and transmits the answers to the user in these languages. Through our domain-specific language, different artificial intelligence components can be integrated into the system. Thanks to this domain specific language, only specific conversations are detected and the artificial intelligence module can be called. However, human speech contains many synonyms and we cannot always achieve the exact word by word. For this reason, we offer a system that understands the meanings of sentences and learns what the user wants to do when necessary.


Translation equivalence is a key issue for all who apply multilingual skills in a professional environment. This includes language teachers, translators, lexicographers and terminologists, as well as experts in computational linguistics. Translation equivalence has therefore to be dealt with by academic foreign language teaching. There are two reasons. The units of meaning are only rarely the traditional single words; much more common are larger chunks, compounds, multi-word units, set phrases and even full sentences. In corpus linguistics, these are called collocations. They are the true vocabulary of a language. Collocations are statistically significant co-occurrences of words in a corpus. But they also have to be semantically relevant. They have to have a meaning of their own, a meaning that is not obvious from the meaning of the parts they are composed of. Whether an English text chunk is a true collocation or just a chain of words can only be decided from the perspective of a source language. This is why a list of English collocations for students with other native languages would have to be compiled from a parallel corpus. I will show how an approach to translation equivalence based on collocations yields results that can be applied in language teaching.


We have studied prevalence of arterial hypertension and major factors of risk (overweight, obesity, smoking and hypercholesterolemia) in young and middle age men, officers of the far east military district. in total 1100 person were chosen for examination. the response comprised 92,2 % or 1014 persons, only men in the age group from 25 till 50 years. it has been founf out, that among men of young middle age, up to 50 years, military men under contract, prevalence of hypertension is 34,4 %, that is higher, than in a similar population of civilians. the most common risk factors in the given category of patients with hypertension are overweight and obesity, as well as hypercholesterolemia.


In this paper, the room-temperature magnet Gd6FeBi2 was comprehensively characterized by means of temperature-dependent single-crystal X-ray diffraction, magnetization measurements, and experimenta...


Semantic segmentation plays a vital role in image understanding. Recent studies have attempted to achieve precise pixel-level classification by using deep networks that provide hierarchical features. These methods are trying to effectively utilise multi-level features that are extracted from the data and precisely reconstruct some characteristics of objects that are lost in producing high-level features. In this paper, we propose a multi-scale context U-net (MSCU-net) for semantic image segmentation. This network uses a multi-scale context block (MSCB) to aggregate multi-level features and employs the CRF layer to explicitly model the dependencies among pixels. This network significantly outperforms other state-of-the-art methods on both the PASCAL VOC 2012 and Cityscapes datasets.


With the rapid development of the economy, the situation of the world securities is also in constant development and change. At present, the development of the securities industry is affected by many different factors. According to the current market situation, investment banks occupy a very high position in the securities industry and play a great role in regulating the development of the securities industry. This kind of role is mainly reflected in the foreign investment banking industry. As for the domestic investment banking industry, this kind of bank investment method didn't play a good market adjustment role. This article starts from the development pattern of investment banks, and comparing the current market development status with foreign investment banking industry, it illustrates the development trend of China's future investment banks.


This work presents a pedagogical exploration of Junior high school teachers in drawing an integration between creative writing and chemistry concepts in understanding the behavior of chemical elements as means of addressing the competencies of the Science and English learning areas in an online instructional delivery. Titled A SHORT CHEMISTORY, this paper explores the expected skills, challenges, and opportunities in the possibility of integrating the two disciplines as an innovative way of developing engagement and comprehension among learners in a remote platform. Results uncovered that the said interdisciplinary performance task was pedagogically possible despite the challenges encountered by the facilitators and the learners. Adequate foundational knowledge of the lesson and skills associated with the expected output for both teachers and students, and the need for purposeful interaction and collaboration, are identified as the essential skills expected to attain the objectives of the integration. Teachers found it challenging to see the seamless integration of the chemical element's characteristics in the characters of the story through lack of depth of personification and time constraint. The integrated task paved the way for several opportunities for both teachers and students in terms of creativity, collaboration, and sense of fulfillment.


This paper explores the semantic properties and extension paths of modern Mandarin Chinese spatial terms nei4內'in, inside' and wai4外'out, outside'. Their symmetric and asymmetric contrasts are accounted for with idealized cognitive models (ICMs) and metonymic models. These models are used to delineate the core meaning and main meaning extension routes of nei4 and wai4: from the area of a region to the length of the radius or side, and then to distance. Locations of the observer, marked foci, container metaphors and social backgrounds also contribute to the asymmetry of the two terms. The synchronic difference between nei4 and wai4 can also be attributed to diachronic changes.


Electroencephalography (EEG) provides diagnostic information related to various brain disorders. Various types of interferences, like line interference, EOG, and ECG, muscle movement, cause artifacts in EEG data. Therefore, denoising EEG data plays a vital role in preserving the specific frequency content of the signal. Several filtering techniques are available to detach the noise to preserve the integrity of EEG signals. In this paper, we have compared different filtering techniques i.e., Adaptive filters, LPF Butterworth filter, Notch filter, wavelets on epileptic EEG signals, and sleep EEG signal. Our result suggests that the wavelet transform is the best option for denoising the EEG signal as it is more efficient in denoising the EEG signal without losing the original information. To select the best suitable wavelet function for denoising, Symlet4, Haar, Daubechies4, Biorthogonal2.6, Coiflets3, Discrete Meyer, Reverse Biorthogonal 6.8, Reverse Biorthogonal 2.8 has been used, and it is observed that wavelet function Bio-orthogonal 2.6 is the best suitable for denoising of EEG signal. Finally, a comparison between different filters has been done by two parameters MSE, PSNR. After a comparative analysis, we conclude that a wavelet transform is a useful tool than other filtering techniques in noise removal while sustaining diagnostic information in both the signal.


In India train is the preferred mode of transport most widely used by all class of people. The present system needs much advancement in railway communication system in the area of journey reservation, catering, safety and rescue operations. It is pertinent to bring out here the present expectation of passenger should be of interactive mode and user friendly. This paper technically brings out a visible solution for modernising the railway system. By listing the priorities it is seen that there is a need for display of seat layout for passenger selection during reservation. The present static reservation chart displayed on the train lacks updated information for the usage of enroute passengers. Also there is no facility for finding out details such as actual arrival and departure timing for onboard passengers, catering arrangements and rescue operations for intimation and immediate action. For obtaining technical solution this paper proposes to take the help of modern technologies such as GPS, touch screens, GSM and other advanced communication system. Alarm, trip system and interlock can be provided in the hardware for meeting exigency.


Summary The effect of α-isosaccharinic acid (ISA) on Th(IV) uptake by hardened cement paste (HCP) has been investigated under alkaline conditions (pH 13.3). Prior to performing the uptake studies the stability of HCP was determined in the presence of ISA. It was observed that the formation of Ca-ISA complexes in solution enhances portlandite solubility. The fraction of portlandite dissolved from the HCP matrix depends on the solid to liquid (S/L) ratio of the system and the ISA concentration in solution. Th(IV) uptake by HCP was found to be reduced above an aqueous ISA concentration of about 0−4 M. Reduction of Th(IV) uptake can be modelled taking into account the formation of a Th:ISA:Ca=1:2:1 complex in solution. It is indicated that the formation of ternary Th(IV)-ISA complexes may be important in cement systems. The final interpretation of the data however fails due to the large uncertainties in the distribution ratios measured in the absence of ISA.


A model for evaluating the steady-state heat transfer through Multi Foil Insulation$ (MFI) has been developed. The model enables the calculation of an effective thermal conductivity as a function of temperature and pressure. The heat transfer through MFI, a composite insulation system consisting of thin metallic foils held apart by tiny ceramic particles, consists of three components; foil-@foil radiation heat transfer, gaseous conduction via interstitial gas molecules, and solid conduction through the ceramic spacer particles. The radiation heat transfer and gaseous conduction models are validated by comparison to test data reported in the literature. Empirical correlations are developed to describe the solid conduction model. Important trends are identified; for example, solid conduction through the spacer particles is negligible unless a compressive load is applied to the MFl. It is also found that near-vacuum thermal performance (radiation) can be achieved at pressures greater than vacuum (radiation plus some conduction).


9536 Background: A geriatric assessment (GA) can help identify factors that increase the risk for chemotherapy-related toxicity in older patients with cancer. A GA has been developed which is prima...


Diabetes mellitus (DM) is closely associated with the development of oxidative stress (OS), which is an important pathogenetic factor of negative effects of the disease, the impact of physical activity on the formation of OS in children remains uncertain. The objective of the work was to study lipid parameters and antioxidant defense in type 1 DM in children with different levels of physical activity. Materials and methods. A group of 98 children, between the ages of 7 and 18, diagnosed with diabetes type 1 was examined to study the status of compensation of carbohydrate metabolism, indices of protein oxidation, (proteins carbonyls - CP) and lipid peroxidation (diene conjugates - DC), antioxidant defense (glutathione peroxidase - GPO, superoxide dismutase - SOD, total antioxidant activity - TAA). The level of physical activity (PA) was investigated using an adapted, modified questionnaire. Results and discussion. Children with type 1 DM showed signs of improving CP ((0.98±0.04) U/ml vs. (0.87±0.05) U/ml in control group, p<0.05) and reduction of DC level ((5.89±0.44) mmol/l vs of (11.3±3.6) mmol/l in control group, p<0.05). Condition AOP (antioxidant protection) was characterized by a moderate increase in GPO rate ((10.95±0.35) mkmol/min/ml compared to control group (10.18±0.31) mkmol/min/ml, p <0.05), along with a decrease in SOD ((1.25±0.03 U/min/ml) versus (1.48±0.02 U/min/ml in control group, p<0.05) on the background of preservation TAA ((0.11±0.10) mmol/L). An increase in HbA1c was accompanied by intensification of lipid oxidation activation processes AOP. With the growth PA level, the multidirectional changes of peroxidation processes were observed, which were largely dependent on the state of metabolic disease compensation. Conclusions. Children with type 1 DM had oxidative imbalance in the form of reduced lipid peroxidation and increased protein oxidation and also discoordination of AOP with multidirectional changes of its individual parts - reduction of SOD level and increased GPO level. Effect of PA growth in children with type 1 DM depended on the metabolic compensation: at its optimal level inhibition of processes of peroxidation took place with improvement of AOP, on the contrary, with deterioration of level of glycemic control activation of lipid peroxidation and discoordination of individual units AOP were observed. Recommendations for increasing PA in children with type 1 DM in a state of metabolic decompensation should be limited in view of possible adverse effects, enhance of oxidative stress and increased risk of developing diabetic complications.


The current study was conducted in special poultry farm, Shibin El-Kom, Menoufia Governorate. The experiment was extended from Aril 2014 to May. 2015. The great object of this study was to determine the effect genotype (strains) and some environmental factors (such litters, feed forms and in additions ages effects) on production and economical efficiency of broiler production in Menoufia Government. One density was applied in open system, 10 birds/m2. All birds were reared on land with two litter types (sawdust and straw) with thickness 10 cm. The dormitories were 120m2. The total No. of birds were 1200 which were presented in farm, two strains, Cobb 500 (600 birds) and Ross 308 (600 birds) at two reared seasons.

- The studied traits were as follow:
Body weights at different ages, growth rates, feed consumption (FC) (kg per bird/cycle), feed conversion ratio FCR, mortality and uniformity.
The results indicated that all traits were significantly affected by strains, Litters and feed forms and ages.


As a visual simulation platform,the ExtendSim was built to provide a model of combat process of rapid-fire antiaircraft guns defending against supersonic missiles. And the simulation of model was analyzed. The simulation results provide a basic reference for the development and combat application of the rapid-fire antiaircraft weaponry.


Progress of rice plant type on halm and tiller emergence,leaf,root was studied.Four reseach aspects on rice plant type had been proposed for future.


Data mining on social media platforms (Instagram™, Flickr™, and Twitter™) is rapidly increasing and application of data mining techniques has contributed to significant findings in various fields such as tourism, ecology, and politics etc. In the face of globalization and nature-based tourism is thriving in many countries, social media activity on tourism is increasing despite the socio-economical barriers. In this context, this paper attempts to understand the metadata of photographs related to whale watching in Sri Lanka in Flickr social media platform. Photographs related to whale watching was extracted and analyzed for i) photographic content ii) Geo-tags iii) Social-tags and iv) Photographers' nationalities by using Flickr API (Application Programming Interface) and self-written python program script. Content analysis of the photographs has identified five major categories (human activity, accommodation, natural phenomena, animals and other) of photographs based on the major element present in each photograph. Mapping of geo-tagged photographs indicated that Mirissa was the hotspot for whale watching in Sri Lanka. Moreover, the present study suggests that mapping of geo-tagged photographs can be used as proxy data for whale distribution in Sri Lanka.  Analysis of social tags indicated that tags indicating whale (156), Sri Lanka (144) and Mirissa (133) were popular among the photographers. The demographic profile of the photographers indicated that the highest number of photographers (25%) from the United Kingdom followed by Sri Lanka (18.69%) and China (12.94%) interested in whale watching. Despite some of the weaknesses, this study has demonstrated that metadata of Flickr photographs can effectively be used for understanding the basic information related to whale-watching tourism in Sri Lanka.


VOD system which is the direction of the development about television is a popular topic in the domain of multimedia network application at present. The technique of network management keeping all parts of VOD system work accurately is a key factor, which undertake the QOS of this system. This article designs a project of network management about VOD system in order to be discussed for reader.


Developmental trends in rational thinking, as defined by rational-emotive theory and measured by the degree of endorsement of Ellis' 11 irrational ideas, were investigated. Part 1 describes the development of the Idea Inventory, a 33-item Likert scale which yields a total irrationality score as well as scores for each of the 11 irrational ideas. High reliability and moderate validity co-efficients were obtained with a college sample. In Part 2 the Idea Inventory was used to assess irrational thinking in 435 students in grades four through twelve. Results indicated that while irrationality decreased with grade, the relation between each individual irrational idea and grade was variable. Across grade, irrational Idea 6 showed the greatest decrement in endorsement while the level of endorsement for Idea 5 was as great for high school seniors as it was for the fourth graders. Implications for the development of future rational-emotive, school mental health programs were discussed.


High dynamic range (HDR) imaging is a techniques used in imaging to reproduce a greater dynamic range of luminosity than is possible with standard digital imaging. Tone mapping of HDR images for realistic display is commonly studied. However, scientific visualization of HDR image for analysis of scene luminance has much less attention. In this paper, we present and implement a simple approach for the reproduction and visualization of color information in HDR images. We attempt several simple color visualizing functions, and estimate their effectiveness through the evaluation factors with common HDR images.


INTRODUTION The population of Curitiba, like any other great urban center, has been getting old vertiginously, being in the need of programs and actions that give attention to that demand. According Matsudo & Matsudo & Barros Neto (2001) is practically an agreement between health professionals that physical activity is a determining factor in the progression of the ageing process. The World Health Organization (1996), the American College of Sports Medicine (1999), on their official documents, justify the importance of physical activity for the elderly. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, an estimated 84% of people over 65 years old are dependent to realize their own daily activities (SBME, 1999). This dependency makes the elderly more susceptible to diseases related to the aging process (SVS, 2007), raising the health costs that, beyond the economic impact, produce social repercussion. To Mazo et al (2001) the specialized literature has been indicating the de practice of a physical activity during all ages is associated to better indicators of health and life quality. Considering the level of physical activity as a preponderant factor to a healthy ageing, the evaluation of this factor is necessary for different interactions created to elderly people. Although researches of this issue are pointing that the instruments used to obtain the level of physical activity in old people, especially in studies involving a large number of individuals, are not adequate as they refer to questionnaires. In other words, even in a self administrated form or as an interview, the veracity of the obtained results depends on the precision of the given information and on the influence of memory, despite the actuation of trained interviewers (Benedetti et al., 2004). According Mota (2002), another form of evaluation is the direct observation through movement sensors, which has the capacity of retain data for a long period, giving reliable results about de activity pattern of the elderly, but also not useful to large populations. Analyzing various physical activity level questionnaires designed for old people in literature, it has been observed that their use in social and/or cultural different contexts demands studies to determine the validity and fidedignity of these instruments (Mazo et al., 2001). The results of two concurrent validity and reprodutivity studies, the 'Modified Baecke Questionnaire to old people' (Mazo et al., 2001) and the 'International Physical Activity Questionnaire' (IPAQ) to determine the physical activity level of old women (Benedetti & Mazo & Barros, 2004), both suggest that their use is only indicated when the discrimination of the general level of physical activity (less active / more active) is enough. This aspect must be considered, because this indicator will quantify and determine the orientation to exercise practice as program actions to this population.


Protection of Distributed Generation (DG) injected Distribution network (DN) is a challenging task in entire electrical ancestors. The connection of DG to the distribution network alters the nature of the network. Expose of DG can alter the fault current during the grid disturbance or external fault and perturb the existing distribution protection system, one of them in the event of a fault where DG could contribute to the fault current in addition to the contribution from the existing power grid. It leads voltage fluctuations and bidirectional power flow which intern's results miss-coordination of protective devices this paper will give an overview of the distributed generators behavior and their contemporary contribution during the fault. This paper proposes a Unified Power Quality Conditioner (UPQC) for protecting the Distribution network (DN) during the fault. It has a DC/DC converter with super-capacitors for energy storage. The proposed UPQC can recompense the reactive power, fault current, and deviated voltage profile under faulted condition. Simulation is accomplished in MATLAB/Simulink.


For any city,it is an important factor that guarantees the health and safty of the residential environment, to maintain the continuity of positive development process of ecological landscape and building structure and formation.This article,to take Hefei as an example,analyzes and elucidates viewpoints and ways to bring about reasonable transition from "park city" to "ecological, landscape city".


In two experiments, audio re-recordings of texts transcribed from television newscasts were presented to independent groups, one group in each case hearing a 'bulletin' with original text structures (as broadcast), the other with key stories revised in accord with story-grammar notions and restoring chronological sequence in the narrative. In Experiment 1 the middle item in a three-story bulletin was subjected to text structure manipulation. After hearing the bulletin, subjects were questioned on information in the texts. In Experiment 2, subjects heard two stories with original or restructured text. In addition to being tested for retention they also rated for bias and quality of writing. Text restructuring improved learning in both studies, especially of information central to the main points of stories. In Experiment 2, such text revision also affected judgements of bias without altering assessment of writing quality. It is suggested that attention to assuring more coherent story structures in newscast texts could counter the problems of poor comprehension and perceived bias on the part of audiences which result from current production priorities and practices. Language: en


The bisector effect in a twisted-nematic Fabry-P{\'{e}}rot cavity is experimentally confirmed in the regimes of both uniform and electric-field-deformed twisted structures. The polarization of output light in the transmission peaks is shown to be linear rather than elliptical. The polarization deflection from the nematic director achieves the bisector of longitudinal and transverse directions at 45 degrees. Untwisting of a nematic by a voltage leads to the rotation of the polarization plane of light passing through the cavity. The bisector effect allows using the investigated cavity as a spectral-selective linear polarizer with the voltage-controlled rotation of the polarization plane.


To better understand the long‐term pathophysiologic mechanisms of alcoholism‐related organic brain damage by serially assessing brain metabolites in chronically exposed rats using both in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and high‐resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) from brain extracts.


The invention relates to a preparation method of a lithium vanadium phosphate (Li3V2(PO4)3)/graphene composite material for a positive electrode of a lithium ion battery. The method comprises the steps that firstly, a mixed precursor solution is prepared; pretreatment of spray drying is conducted and a precursor is obtained; and then the lithium vanadium phosphate positive electrode material of the lithium ion battery is prepared through a calcination reaction under an inert atmosphere condition. Compared with the prior art, the preparation method has the advantages that the combination mode of the Li3V2(PO4)3 and the graphene, the contents of carbon and the graphene, and the particle size of the material are effectively controlled, thereby improving the stability and the electrical conductive performance of the material.


The problem of finding in the thermistor problem the optimal difference of applied potential in order to minimize a suitable cost functional involving the temperature is studied. We find the optimal system in the elementary case of constant electric conductivity. In addition, a theorem of existence of the optimal solution is given in the general case of conductivities depending on the temperature.


A simple method for the simultaneous determination of a cationic surfactant (cetrimonium chloride) and four non‐ionic surfactants (1‐tetradecanol, 1‐hexadecanol, 1‐octadecanol and 1‐eicosanol) has been developed. Direct extraction of the analytes from the sample with methanol and a subsequent separation using reversed‐phase high‐performance liquid chromatography with refractive index detection are the steps followed in the procedure. The column used was a Luna C18 and the mobile phase consisted of a 0.1 M KClO4 solution prepared on a 95:5 mixture of methanol and water. This solution was adjusted to pH 2.8 with phosphoric acid. Recoveries close to 100% were obtained in spiked commercial hair conditioner samples for the surfactants assayed using this method. Limits of detection were 10.4, 16.7 and 22.9 mg kg−1 of cetrimonium chloride, 1‐hexadecanol, 1‐hexadecanol and 1‐1‐octadecanol respectively. The methodology was successfully applied to nine commercial hair conditioners of several types and different brands. All hair conditioners but one contained at least two of the surfactants included in this study.


There were held studies on possibility of bacteriophage's usage for prevention of salmonella contamination of farce and fabricated sausage goods. Bacteriophage Salmonella typhimurium and S. enteritidis with 1 × 10-7-1 × 0-8 activity were used. They were added in farce through water.


With more and more applications of the service-oriented methods in the business area, an overwhelming number of business services have arisen. These business services collaborate with each other and form a business network or a services-oriented business ecosystem (SOBE). The business services selection is a key issue for sharing and integrating of business services in the SOBE. There is a general assumption that only one specific business service will be selected for every business node in a business process in the related researches of services selection. However, in actual business collaboration, it is needed to choose two or more business services for one business node to complete the business requirements including functional and non-functional needs. So the multi-services selection method for one business node based on QoS attributes was put forward in this paper. First, notations used in this paper were defined. Second, a multi-services selection method is proposed by assuming the parallel mode of these services. And the total QoS attributes calculation method of services selected for one business node is given. Third, with the multi-services selection method, a goal programming model is established for the business services selection with QoS attributes by considering that multi-services worked for one business node in the parallel mode. The object of this model is to minimize the total execution time difference and the total execution cost difference in lexicographic order. The constraints are functions of QoS attributes including services' execution time, execution cost, availability, and reliability. Then, the goal programming model is solved using the GA-based algorithm. Finally, an instance based on the Zhejiang business model is set up, and numerical calculation results are used to demonstrate feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method.


OBJECTIVE:To observe the effect of Tangmaikang granules combined with captopril on microalbuminuria in patients with diabetic nephropathy.METHODS:100 patients were randomly divided into observation group and control group.Control group received captopril(25 mg,tid) and observation group received Tangmaikang granules(5 g,tid) combined with captopril(25 mg,tid).The microalbuminuria(mAlb),fasting blood glucose(FBG) and postprandial blood glucose(PBG) were observed after 4 weeks of treatment.RESULTS:After treatment,laboratory index of observation group were improved significantly,there was significant difference(P0.05).mAlb and PBG of control group was improved significantly after treatment(P0.05).But there was no significant difference in FBG(P0.05).After treatment,clinical efficacy of observation group was better than that of control group(P0.05).CONCLUSION:Tangmaikang granules combined with captopril is better than captopril alone in the treatment of diabetic nephropathy.


The phenomena of the upturned bottom sealing plate were found from several blast furnaces(BFs) field surveys.The bottom sealing plates of some Blast Furnaces were even upturned 100-140 mm height,which led to bottom transformed into pot shape,the gas leaked from bottom and the bottom cooling effects weakened.It's harmful for the longevity and efficient productivity of BF.The temperature field and thermal stress field mathematical model of hearth bottom was established and the effects of abnormal expansion,normal thermal expansion of lining bricks,thickness of bottom sealing plate,expansion joint and refractory cushion mortar on upturned height of bottom sealing plate were analyzed.Because of the abnormal expansion of lining bricks,big upward pressure at the tuyere combined bricks can be generated and the bottom sealing plate would be upturned finally.However,the normal thermal expansion of lining bricks could not result in the large upturned height of bottom sealing plate.The accumulation and enrichment of harmful elements such as alkalis,zinc and plumbum might lead to abnormal expansion of bricks and the upturning of bottom sealing plate.It can mitigate the transformation of bottom sealing plate with increasing thickness of bottom sealing plate.The appropriate expansion joint and good refractory cushion mortar can absorb the thermal expansion,but it can't solve the large abnormal expansion.In order to restrain and reduce the phenomena of upturned bottom sealing plate,the enough expansion gap should be needed at the tuyere combined bricks and the front of tuyere-cooler casing should not be deep into the lining bricks.And also the charging amount of harmful elements should be controlled strictly and the discharging ability of harmful elements needs to be improved.


An experiment was performed to determine if the geometrical arrangement of sensors delivering images from the environment, could influence distance perception is a binocular helmet-mounted display (HMD). A pair of cameras were settled in the front part of a PUMA helicopter. Video tapes were recorded during low altitude flights. Six camera settings were tested resulting from 3 magnitudes of the separation between the sensors, and 2 arrangements of the optical axes of the cameras: parallel or convergent. Displaying the image of a single camera on both optics of the HMD provided an additional condition which served as a reference free of binocular depth cue. The video tapes were displayed on a 40 degree full overlap HMD. Eleven helicopter pilots ran the experiment. Objective comparison of the sensor configurations was based on distance or height estimation following a bi-section paradigm. As a subjective comparison, the pilots classified the sensor configurations according to the quality of 3D perception of the environment. Objective data show that flight safety is increased when the separation between the senor is larger in both convergent and parallel settings. Subjectively, the pilots preferred the wide separation and convergent setting of the cameras.


The response of Superoxide Dismutase(SOD), Acid Phosphatase(ACP), and Phenoloxidase(PO) in Penaeus monodon families to normal growth, low temperature stress and high ammonia stress was studied under laboratory condition.Growth in terms of specific growth rate(SGR) was significant difference among the selected families(p0.05). The activities of ACP were significant difference among family 077, 017 and 661. The activities of SOD were significant difference between family 4612 and family 017. When the rearing temperature decreased from 27 ℃ to 20℃, the activities of ACP and SOD first increased and then decreased, the activities of PO reduced prolonged according to the low temperature stress, and the minor changes of control trial were not regular. Under the high ammonia stress, the activities of ACP increased prolonged, the activities of SOD increased in 0 8 h, then rapidly decreased in 8 48 h, the activities of PO reduced in 0 48 h, and the minor changes of control trial were not regular. The activities of immune enzymes of some families were significant differences, and three immune enzymes activities of family 4612 higher than that of other families under the high ammonia stress. A negative correlation was found between the specific growth rate and the activities of ACP, SOD and PO of ten families in three trials.


A functional dressing (film) comprises an edge remaining film 1 and a fixed pasting film 2 which are convenient to separate from each other, wherein a functional pad 3 is arranged between the edge remaining film 1 and the fixed pasting film 2, a protective film 4 is arranged on the face, with the back towards the functional pad, of the fixed pasting film, and a plurality of layers of annular adhesive tape or adhesive tape shaped like a Chinese character 'hui' is arranged on the fixed pasting film. Thus, on the one hand, the binding area of the fixed pasting film and the skin is reduced, and on the other hand, sweat can volatilize through reserved gap; due to the fact that a functional layer and a moisture-preserving layer are arranged in the functional pad, medicine ingredients in the functional layer and the moisture-preserving layer act on wounds and peripheral tissue, and the functional dressing (film) has the functions of stopping bleeding, resisting and preventing bacteria, diminishing inflammation, easing pain, promoting healing, reducing scar formation and accelerating local blood circulation.


Energy distributions of electrons ejected in collisions of light ions with Ar atoms were measured as a function of projectile scattering angle. For this purpose the ion-electron coincidence technique was combined with the time-of-flight method for electron momentum analysis. Thus, the simultaneous detection of electrons with energies from a few hundred meV up to some keV and ions at different projectile scattering angles could be performed. The electron analyzer could observe electrons at ejection angles of 40/sup 0/--140/sup 0/ with respect to the beam axis. A time resolution of less than 400 ps was achieved with a recently developed position-sensitive ion detector. For the first time, absolute double differential yields for electron emission were measured as a function of impact parameter and electron energy for the system H/sup +/+Ar at collision energies of 30, 100, and 350 keV. Also L-shell ionization yields were determined for 30-, 100-, and 350-keV H/sup +/ and 100-keV He/sup 2+/ impact on Ar. The results are compared with predictions of the plane-wave Born approximation, an atomic orbital expansion, and the semiclassical approximation. Total L-shell ionization cross sections were deduced and compared to other measurements.


ESMs robustly predict that 21st century greenhouse warming will slowly increase global mean precipitation, rapidly increase extreme precipitation, and increase subtropical drought. ESMs agree less about precipitation trends and extremes over particular land regions critical to human societies, e. g. in semi-arid regions such as California or the Sahel, or in wetter climates prone to monsoonal rainfall (e. g. southeast Asia) or to tropical cyclones and flooding from mesoscale convective systems (e. g. the southeastern U.S.) Deep convective parameterizations and poor representation of orography and complex vegetated land surfaces contribute to this inter-model spread; clouds, aerosols and sea-surface temperature biases are also key. Reducing regional precipitation projection uncertainty has enormous planning value for water supplies, land use, wildfire, hydropower, flood control, etc. IPCC-class ESMs are making painfully slow progress on this.


Abstract Ribozymes that distinguish a single base change in RNA were synthesized and used to specifically cleave c-Ha-ras messenger RNA. Using phosphorothioate containing oligonucleotide substrates, we have shown that Mg2+ binds to the pro-R oxygen of the phosphate and that the RNA cleavage reaction occurs via an in-line mechanism. Oligoribonucleotides containing a modified nucleoside are described.


Wireless sensor networks are often deployed in hostile environments and operated on an unattended mode require secure communication among the sensor nodes within the networks. In this paper, we present an energy efficient dynamic mixed key management based on virtual grid for wireless sensor networks.First,we divide the whole area into many clusters and a cluster is composed of many virtual grid,and there is only a active node in a grid to reduce energy consumption;Second,we introduce the typical energy model to compute energy consume and a long sleeping state to reduce energy consumption. In addition, we adopt mixed strategy to achieve dynamic key management,namely,we use two key to achieve active node communicate with cluster head,which the random key is generates by active nodes and head,then generate public key;while we use pairwise key to communicate with neighbor cluster heads which has the different pairwise key for different heads.Compared with the random key based predistribution schemesin, q-composite scheme,our scheme has better performance on security and storage overhead.


In this case series, 5 cases are presented of fungal infection according to the site, in which the homoeopathic treatment is given and improvement is shown. The last few years have seen a significant rise in the incidence of chronic dermatophyte infections of skin which have proven difficult to treat. Homeopathy has always been a safe, affordable and cost effective treatment in cases of dermatophyte infections. In the present case studies homeopathic medicines prescribed were Sanicula aqua(30C,200C), Sepia succus (30C,200C), Mercurius solubilise (30C,200C), Sulphur (30C,200C) were given with proper hygiene management and had shown the antifungal activity against the dermatophytes infection.


Objective
To explore the impact and prediction of social support, life stress, coping style on learning burnout in middle school students.

Methods
A total of 306 middle school students were investigated with adolescent student burnout inventory, middle shool psychological stressors questionnaires, social support rating scale for juveniles and simplified coping style questionnaire.

Results
The scores of learning burnout were 44.30±8.45. The moderate learning burnout accounted for 31.9%. There were no differences between social support, life stress, coping style(P>0.05). There were significant differences in social support ((46.57±12.50) vs (50.03±10.63)) between male and female(t=-2.536, P<0.05). There was positive correlation between learning burnout and life stress and negative coping style(r=0.146-0.301, P<0.05), and negative correlation between learning burnout and social support and positive coping style(r=-0.301--0.231, P<0.01). The learning stress(β=0.435), teacher stress(β=0.157), support availability(β=-0.204), negative coping style(β=2.668)were the mainly influencing factors of learning burnout in middle school students, which can predict 26.4% variation of learning burnout in middle school students.

Conclusion
Learning stress, teacher stress, support availability, negative coping style are the mainly influencing factors of learning burnout in middle school students.

Key words:
Learning burnout; Social support; Life stress; Coping style


Through an input-output model under a neo-classical productive structure frame, this paper inspected the influence of Zhejiang economy development created by energy crisis and conduction mechanism of this kind of influence. Through the natural flows of the economical relation, the energy price's rising conducts facing below. It affects not only several industries but also entire Zhejiang economy production, the resource distribution, industrial competition and resident's welfare and so on. The policy implication of this paper is to positively promote the technical innovation and researching substitution energy.


course, the line of orthocentres of the four triangles formed by BC, CA, A B and LM. 2. If we take P a t T or T' then X, Y, Z lie on the Simson line of the point, and thus the proof shows that these Simson lines meet in S. Recall the construction for S. We draw AP' perpendicular to TT' and through the foot P' a perpendicular to BC. Then S is on that perpendicular. Thus, by symmetry, if we draw perpendiculars from A, B, C to T T ' and from their feet draw perpendiculars respectively to BC, CA, AB, these meet in S ; that is, S is the orthopole of T T ' for ABC. 3. If T T ' goes through 0, then B'C' bisects XX' . Hence P', S are images in B'C', and S coincides with PI'. Hence all the pedal circles go through S. In particular S is on the pedal circle of 0, the nine-points circle of ABC. Note. From the point of view of the axiomatic treatment of crosses, Lemoyne's theorem is " deeper " than most of those in Note 2126. We used the rectangle property of the circle, which is on the same level as Desargues' theorem on perspective triangles with parallel sides. This comes from Pappus' theorem in the case when the opposite sides of the hexagon are parallel. The proof given of this in my recent note, October 1947, involves the drawing of an auxiliary line, while the proof, not given there, of Desargues' theorem involves several auxiliary lines. I believe that that is why the facts lie deeper. H. G. FORDER.


This work concerned the scalability of heterosexual behavior developing Bentler's scale (1967) for a Catalan sample of 263 subjects of both sexes and from three different educational levels. Analysis of responses to a questionnaire of 34 items showed that heterosexual experiences could be scaled according to a fairly fixed cumulative ordinal pattern. No differences were found between the patterns by sex or educational level. Some applications of the scale are suggested.


Hicock proposed an origin for the carbonate till in the Hemlo area of Ontario that is incompatible with the statistical study of attrition of Paleozoic clasts in a carbonate till between Hamilton and London, Ontario; with the occurrences of limestone mapped along Highway 17 north of Lake Superior by M. Tremblay (consulting geologist, personal communication, 1987); and with the occurrence of Paleozoic limestone at the foot of Boot Bay, Kabinakagami Lake, Lizar Township, mapped by Wahl (1954). Vagners (1969) described the attrition in size and shape of Paleozoic carbonate clasts in the till between Hamilton and London. The clasts in this till are composed predominantly of Paleozoic sediments, and the clasts achieve a roundness and become part of the matrix in the matter of a few kilometres. Hicock describes his calcareous till as a dark grey, compact, fissile, stoney, calcareous diamicton with a matrix of up to 35-40% carbonate. The clasts are described as being subrounded to subangular and to consist of Paleozoic and Proterozoic lithologies in equal amounts. It is difficult to understand how Paleozoic and "Proterozoic" debris could have been encapsulated as a large blob of debris within the ice north of Hearst and transported as a unit more than 150 km without some attrition in size or a change in form. It is especially difficult to understand when one considers the differences in hardness of the two lithologies. Further, it is difficult to understand the origin of the Proterozoic clasts in the till, as the Ontario Geological Survey has mapped only Archean rocks up glacier from Hernlo. However, Proterozoic rocks do occur southeast of Winisk. Surely these rocks are not the source of the Proterozoic clasts. While mapping the magnetite deposit east of Boot Bay in Lizar Township for Neoscope Exploration in 1954, I found Paleozoic limestone underlying the southwest portion of the bay. This bay is approximately 140 km down glacier from the exposed Paleozoic rocks on the edge of the James Bay basin (Wahl 1954). About 1965, M. Tremblay (personal communication, 1987) mapped the heavy minerals in the till between Hearst and Long Lac north of Lake Superior. He reports mapping Paleozoic limestone along Highway 17 north of Lake Superior. On a practical note, drift prospecting is hindered not only by the presence of carbonate till in the Hernlo area, but also by the Paleozoic limestone from which it was derived.


The progress of the developed countries contributed to the formation of the new economy the economy of knowledge, innovation, new technologies and business ventures. Human capital represents the foundation of this new economy. Changing role of human capital, transforming it from the element of the cost into the main productive and social element of the development has led to the necessity of forming a new paradigm of economic growth. In the proces of the transition from the industrial to the informational paradigm occurs the socio-economic relationships change, covering all spheres of human activity. Thus through the human capital is determined the efficiency and competitiveness of subjects at different levels. In the new paradigm of the global community development, human capital has a crucial place in national wealth (about 80% in developed countries). Research on human capital aimed both the concept itself and measureing the level of investment in human capital and the link between the latter and economic growth. Summarizing the basic approaches of the theory of human capital we can say: human capital represents a measure of individual skills and qualities made from investments which, used effectively, leads to increasing the productivity and the income. These capacities and qualities of individuals have contributed to the occurence and development of the new economy, have opened new horizons in the perception of economic phenomenon, based on innovative ideas that give rise to innovational economy. The particularities of the human capital in innovational economy have multiplicative value which consists of the fact that after the production process, the newly created value from the output exceeds its input. As a result, the author defines human capital as all social-economic relations regarding the formation and accumulation of knowledge with an multiplicative innovational effect.


One of the main issues of composite materials is related to the difficulty of characterising the full set of material properties at both mesoscopic and microscopic scales. Usually, classical mechanical tests (traction/compression, 3 and 4 points bending tests, etc.) are used to obtain material properties: it is well known that these tests are not able to provide the full set of 3D material properties of composites. Furthermore, these tests can provide only the in-plane elastic properties of the constitutive ply. Micro-scale experimental tests are not trivial to be realised, due to the presence of a large dispersion of obtained experimental data (serious difficulties to manage the constituent phases of composite materials). Therefore, to go beyond the main restrictions imposed by standard destructive tests, this work at proposing a general methodology to characterise the material properties of a composite plate, at each relevant scale, by means of a single non-destructive dynamic test performed at the macroscopic scale, i.e. that of the specimen. To face such a problem a general multi-scale identification strategy (MSIS) is proposed. This procedure has already successfully utilised, e.g. to find meso-scale electromechanical properties of piezoelectric structures [1]. This strategy aims at identifying the constitutive properties at both micro and meso-scales by exploiting the information restrained in the macroscopic dynamical response. In this context it is possible to characterise both elastic and viscoelastic micro-scale properties. The MSIS is organised in two steps and it relies firstly on the strain energy homogenisation technique of periodic media (to get the effective material properties of the ply) and, secondly, on a specific hybrid algorithm (genetic + gradient-based algorithm [2]) to perform the solution search for the problem. The identification problem is stated as a constrained inverse problem (a least-square constrained problem), where the objective function depends upon both the measured (from experiments) and numerical dynamic response of the plate. The effectiveness of the MSIS is then validated through a campaign of experimental/numerical tests conducted on composite plates.


A framework underlying various models that measure the credit risk of a portfolio is extended in this paper to allow the integration of credit risk with a range of market risks using Monte Carlo simulation. A structural model is proposed that allows interest rates to be stochastic and provides closed-form expressions for the market value of a firm's equity and its probability of default. This model is embedded within the integrated framework and the general approach illustrated by measuring the risk of a foreign exchange forward when there is a significant probability of default by the counterparty. For this example moving from a market risk calculation to an integrated risk calculation reduces the expected future value of the instrument by an amount that could not be calculated using the common pre-settlement exposure technique for estimating the credit risk of a derivative.


This article looks at how shuttle buses can serve as an effective means of minimizing the need for cars in highly-trafficked areas. Using applications at universities and airports, the article describes how shuttle services have been successful in reduce parking problems, offering increased security, and addressing the needs of passengers with disabilities.


Abtract This paper summarises the past, present andfuture prospects a/Special Education in Turkey with reference to the legislation and attitudes in society. The aim of this paper is twofold: initially, to provide a historical overview of the governmental and official provisions initiated and developed in relation to the needs and demands of the individuals with special needs in Turkey. F allowing this, societal perspectives and the attitudes aflhe Turkish society a/the individuals with special needs and 'Education/or All' is discussed and future prospects are proposed


The bias of MEMS gyroscope showing non-linear changes with temperature depends on gyroscope process characteristics.For enormous variation range of actual application ambient temperature in the industrial scene,segmented compensation model breakpoint is not coherent and the range temperature compensation is small,proposed a new kind of linear regression compensation model,which do not need to segmenting and for the full temperature range.Aiming at the impact to bias from the MEMS gyroscope instability factors at the start time,the gyroscope bias can be effectively inhibited by the improved compensation model when power up.After experimental validation,compared the compensation data of the model with the gyro raw data,nearly three orders of magnitude bias is improved,from 2.902 7°/s to 0.009 1°/s.The algorithm is relatively simple and easy to program,and has good practical value.


Abstract 907 Introduction: MLL translocations are the most pervasive molecular abnormalities in infant ALL and are poor prognostic factors; however, interrelationships between specific MLL partner genes, event-free survival (EFS) and clinical covariates have been elusive due to several factors. Infant ALL is a rare disease with limited cases within MLL translocation subsets, specialized methods are needed to identify the spectrum of MLL partner genes, and most prior clinical trials defined MLL status by karyotype and analyses of only common MLL partner genes. P9407, a COG pilot study testing the utility of intensified induction therapy, developed a detailed molecular cytogenetic classifier of MLL status and partner genes to investigate relationships with EFS and correlations with clinical covariates. Methods: MLL status was defined by karyotype, FISH, Southern blot analysis, RT-PCR analysis of MLL translocations with AF4, ENL or AF9 , and cDNA or genomic panhandle PCR. Kaplan-Meier plots were used to estimate EFS as a function of MLL status (rearranged, R; germline, G), MLL partner gene and, within MLL status and partner gene subsets, as a function of age at diagnosis. Fisher9s exact test was used to assess correlations between MLL partner genes and age, WBC (K/ml 3 ) or CNS status at diagnosis. Results: MLL status was determined in 210 of 221 total cases [95%; 158 R, 75%; 52 G, 25%]. Partner genes were definitively determined in 133 of the 158 MLL -R cases: AF4 /78/49.4%; ENL /33/20.1%; AF9 /15/9.5%; EPS15 /4/2.5%; AF10 /1/0.6%; ASAH3 /1/0.6%; ACTN4 /1/0.6%. The ACTN4 partner gene was identified in a new complex 3-way MLL/ACTN4/RYR1 rearrangement. In the other 25 MLL -R cases, RT-PCR with gene specific primers excluded AF4 (n=5) or AF4 , AF9 and ENL (n=13) or MLL status was not defined beyond MLL -R or MLL -G (n=7). Analyses of 202 eligible subjects within the cohort of 210 in whom MLL status was assigned, indicated a 5-year EFS rate of 45.9±4.6%, which was worse in MLL -R than MLL- G cases (38.8±5.1% v. 66.2±9.3%, P =0.0003). By category, 5-year EFS rates were: ENL (29.0±10.0%), AF4 (34.2±7.4%), other partner genes (45.0±14.9%), AF9 (67.7±17.2%), MLL- G ( 66.2±9.3%) ( P =0.0003). Within MLL -R, AF4 was associated with worse EFS than other partner genes including AF9 but excluding ENL ( P =0.043), and ENL with worse EFS than other partner genes including AF9 but excluding AF4 ( P= 0.024). Also, EFS was worse when AF4 and ENL subsets were combined, compared to any other partner gene ( P =0.025). Conversely, the higher EFS with AF9 than with any other partner gene became less significant when AF4 and/or ENL were excluded from the other MLL- R category. EFS in the AF9 subset was not different from that for MLL -G cases. Five-year EFS was worse in patients aged MLL -R cases overall (6.2±4.2% v. 47.4±6.5%, P AF4 (4.6%±4.4% v. 46.6±9.5%, P ENL subsets (0.0% v. 40.9±12.8%, P =0.0011), whereas age MLL -G cases or those with AF9 as partner gene. Compared to cases with different partner genes, cases with AF4 , ENL or AF9 were not differently distributed in the v. ≥90d age categories, but there were more other MLL- R cases in patients aged ≥90d at diagnosis (18% v. 3%, P =0.027). WBC was higher (≥50K) in cases with AF4 ( P =0.0006) and lower ( AF9 ( P =0.0007). CNS status was not differently distributed by partner gene. In similar analyses of cohort 3 alone (n=136) in which treatment modifications were made for earlier toxicities, the same relationships were upheld. Conclusions: MLL translocations, young age and high WBC have correlated with poor outcome in infant ALL before, but this MLL classifier in the largest cohort of infant ALL with detailed molecular characterization reported to date, adds new elements to the impact of MLL partner genes on outcome and their connection to prognostic factors. AF4 and ENL not only negatively impact EFS, but this effect is larger in the younger infants. Regardless of age, AF9 is a favorable prognostic factor, but the other partner genes associated with better outcome occur more often in older infants. Relationships between high WBC and AF4 , and low WBC and AF9 were also discovered. The newfound associations of specific MLL partner genes with age and WBC indicate how disease biology and the classical prognostic factors in this disease are integrally connected. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


Most firms have traditionally offered one level of logistics service to all customers. This often results in some customer groups receiving more service than necessary, while other groups receive less service than necessary. The emerging concept of logistical segmentation suggests that companies can structure their logistical offerings to meet the needs and requirements of different customer groups. Uses the "nested" approach from industrial marketing to illustrate an application of logistical segmentation. More specifically, examines the importance of selection factors in modal choice for international sourcing according to geographic location, primary mode of transport, and job responsibilities. Uses empirical data from a group of regional purchasing managers to facilitate understanding of the nested approach.


Wireless geo location is an increasingly relevant area of research as cellular technology becomes ever more ubiquitous. In this work we consider the timing advance parameter in Long Term Evolution cellular networks to this end. We also evaluate a previously introduced method of position estimation augmentation called Cellular Synchronization Assisted Refinement (CeSAR). We first develop the concept of geometric dilution of precision and the Cramer-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) to motivate an intuition for positioning accuracy. We then derive an exact maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) for TA-specific position estimation. While the exact MLE proves to be computationally difficult, it is shown to be equivalent to the MLE in the general case of Gaussian noise. This equivalency is then used to propose an approximate MLE (AMLE). Through simulation, the AMLE is shown to meet the CRLB. Real-world data that includes urban, suburban, line-of-sight, and non-line-of-sight channels are also presented and used to build a realistic model of the TA-specific channel. This model is then used to evaluate the performance of the AMLE and CeSAR in non-line-of-sight and line-of-sight conditions. Our results suggest that the proposed method may be appropriate for meeting the Federal Communication Commission's E-911 requirements.


Heavy-duty diesel engine should be mounted with a many string of DOC/DPF to reduce SOF and PM emission. And then, in order to minimize the engine power reduction and DPF recycling decline by mounting such devices, a new catalyst layout need to design that considering the back pressure and heat insulation. In this study, internal flow characteristics of the after-treatment devices by various DOC/DPF structures are computed using STAR-CCM+ v9.04 code. Through this, we propose a new catalyst layout that are numerically compared better pressure resistance and temperature loss of emissions. As a results, a new catalyst layout were predicted by calculating the back pressure more than 4.7% and heat insulation more than 2.06%.


A previous study demonstrated the efficacy of the corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) receptor antagonist, α -helical CRH (9—41), in blocking the paradoxical sleep increase induced by stress. In the present study, this peptide was used to evaluate the involvement of the stress component of the sle


Large-scale datasets of human behavior have the potential to fundamentally transform the way we develop cities, fight disease and crime, and respond to natural disasters. However, understanding the privacy of these data sets is key to their broad use and potential impact, for these consist of sensitive information such as citizens' geo-location. Moreover, recent research has shown adversarial methods that successfully associate sensitive information in the datasets to individuals, even under pseudonymization of all personal identifiers. This thesis conceptualizes, relates, and generalizes salient methodologies for disclosure analysis of pseudonymized data that have been developed in the last two decades, such as: k-anonymity, t-closeness, and unicity. Data at the core of the so-called "big data" revolution is fundamentally high-dimensional. We show implications of high-dimensionality as paradigmatic to modern disclosure analysis. Consequently, we propose and analyze a methodological framework that couples information-theoretic concepts from t-closeness and J-disclosure with the partial adversarial knowledge model introduced by unicity [1] [2], as well as its possible extensions. The various methodologies were applied and compared on a large dataset of mobile phone records (CDRs), where results empirically showed ordinal equivalence among unicity measures and information distance measures EM-disclosure and KL-disclosure. Advantages of the proposed framework are highlighted, and future research avenues identified. We also investigate the tradeoff between data privacy and data usefulness related to mobile phone metadata (CDRs) and its real-world applications. On the disclosure side, four spatio-temporal points were enough to identify uniquely +95% of individuals, at a [ZIP code, 1 hour] spatiotemporal granularity consistent with main results in the literature. As the dataset was coarsened in space and time, the ratio (unicity) decreased to values below 0.2% for data specified at [District, 1 week] granularity or lower. We confirmed the existence of a utility-privacy tradeoff for the


Two crustal-scale cross-sections of the Mid-Norwegian Atlantic passive margin are discussed. Large Wand E-dipping normal faults relate to extension of the continental crust following the Caledonian orogeny and the subsequent opening of the Atlantic Ocean. The passive margin extends from the ocean-continent boundary west of the Voring Marginal High to the innermost extensional normal faults 90 km west of the Caledonian thrust front. Based on earthquake data and published results of geophysical modelling and seismic interpretation, the average depth to which the normal faults extend in the offshore domain is estimated to 20±5 km. This depth corresponds to the brittle-ductile transition in the crust of the stretched Mid-Norwegian continental margin. Above this transition the crust extended by brittle faulting (tilted blocks); below this limit the crust extended in a ductile manner.


According to the world health organization, there were 1.25 million road accident deaths globally in 2013. To decrease this count, it has been said that autonomous vehicles can play a major role. The autonomous vehicle uses different sensors such as LIDAR, RADAR, Ultrasonic sensors, and cameras for detection of lane lines, objects, traffic sign, traffic lights, and driving path. There are several successful projects on autonomous vehicles, but the main limitations are high costs and regulations. The camera can be a cost-effective solution as compare to LIDAR in all the basic detection needed for autonomous driving. The proper placement of sensors on the vehicle plays an important role in efficient design, working and reducing the cost of the overall autonomous vehicle system. This paper discusses the parameters considered while deciding the positioning of the camera, and the geometric calculation for the best positioning of a monocular camera on an autonomous vehicle.


Pregnancy at a young age and over the age of 35 is vulnerable to causing pregnant women to experience various risks of pregnancy because pregnant women at a young age do not know much about how to maintain their pregnancy conditions and pregnant women over the age of 35 experience a decrease in nutrient absorption so they are easy to experience various kinds of problems. One of the risks of pregnancy is stunting. Pregnant women usually experience a psychological decline that causes anxiety in themselves. So that it also has an impact on the growth and development of the prospective baby. The type of research used is an analytical approach. The design of this study used a cross-sectional approach. The population in this study were pregnant women in the Sembungharjo village area with a total of 27 pregnant women using a total sampling of data analysis using the chi-square test. The results of the study from 27 respondents were obtained that pregnant women with mild anxiety among as many as 16 respondents (59.3%), moderate anxiety among as many as 5 respondents (18.5%), and no anxiety among as many as 6 respondents (22.2%). Respondents with severe anxiety were 0 (0%). A total of 27 pregnant women respondents found that as many as 5 respondents (18.5%) had low risk while 22 respondents (81.5%) were not at risk, and pregnant women with high risk were 0 (0%). The conclusion is that there is no relationship between the anxiety level of pregnant women and the risk of stunting in Sembung Harjo sub-district, Genuk sub-district with a p-value of 0.366 (a> 0.05).


Descartes is said to have invented the dichotomy. Schopenhauer called it 'The World-Knot'. Mario Bunge described it as 'the most perverse of all the problems lying at the intersection of philosophy and science". Yet the relation of brain to mind must of necessity lie at the crux of contemporary endeavours to bring Biology and Psychiatry together in a productive synergy. Else, as Roger Scruton has recently remarked, 'scientists will not know what they are observing when they study human behaviour and its causes". Most neuroscientists are witting or unwitting disciples of a dual-aspect identity interpretation. Mind (it is assumed) is related to brain as, to use a familiar analogy, the convex face of a curved surface is related to the concave face remembering that a mathematical surface has no third dimension. To quote a modern precis, 'the states of direct experience which we "live through" are identical with certain aspects of our neural processes". This seems plausible. The trouble has always been that we know so little about 'our neural processes'. The mind/brain perplexity has thus remained a happy hunting ground for philosophers and neuroscientists. Yet like many other philosophical issues, it may evaporate like the morning mist in the light of patient empirical investigation. Some of the results of this patient empirical investigation were outlined at a conference entitled Biological Sciences and Psychiatry organized by the Section of Psychiatry on 24 April 1987 held at the Royal Society of Medicine. Five papers and a useful discussion gave us an insight into the detailed complexity of neuroscience in the late 1980s. It also gave us hope that this hard-won knowledge could, in time, help cure some of the ills to which the mind/ brain is subject. Indeed it became apparent that these could well be the great days of neuroscience. Days which could well come to be recollected later in a mood of Wordsworthian tranquillity: 'Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive .. .' The neuroscientific revolution comes mainly from the application of new technology and new science to some of the old problems of psychiatry: depression! anxiety and the degenerative neuropathologies of middle and late life. PET-scanning, 2-DG autoradiography, NMR and other neuro-imaging techniques are bringing about a renaissance in the ancient science ofneuroanatomy. No longer need the anatomist rely upon his colleague's electrophysiology to elucidate the functioning of the structures he lays bare. No longer need the physiologist be confined to studying single nerve cells and events lasting only milliseconds. The new techniques allow the integration of neurological changes over several minutes throughout large populations of neurons and multineuron pathways. They at last allow us to see the brain as Sherrmgton famously imagined it: 'an enchanted loom where millions of shuttles weave a dissolving pattern". Equally or even more promising has been the application of recombinant-DNA technology to some of the fundamental issues in neuroscience. Although Watson and Crick published their solution to the structure of DNA as long ago as 1953, it was only in the late 1960s and early 1970s that the isolation of restriction endonucleases allowed the development of a genetic technology. In 1981, the first company to exploit these new techniques (Genentech) was valued on the New York Stock Exchange at over $200 million. The industrial exploitation of recombinant-DNA is still in its (somewhat troubled) infancy: the problems posed by commercial scale-up have proved formidable and, in some cases, so far insoluble. The application of genetic engineering to neuroscience has, however, been spectacular. In essence, the technique applied to neuroscience has centred on the preparation of radiolabelled oligonucleotide probes to locate genes of neurobiological interest in a genomic or cDNA 'library'. These 'libraries' are prepared by endonuclease digestion of genomic DNA or reverse transcriptase copying of neural mRNA5. The oligonucleotide probe is synthesized to correspond to a short stretch of the protein of interest. Watson-Crick base pairing ensures that it 'sticks' and thereby labels the relevant gene in the library. Once the gene has been found, it can be extracted and cloned. The techniques of nucleic acid sequencing (nowadays increasingly automated) can then be applied. The nucleotide sequence of the gene, in turn, provides the full amino acid sequence of the protein. Inspection of this sequence can then indicate (to the trained eye of the protein chemist) lengths which are embedded in the neuronal membrane, sites for glycosylation and, ifit is a receptor protein, binding sites for transmitter and modulator molecules. Allied techniques allow the molecular neurobiologist to express the gene s/he has 'fished' from the gene library in an expression system such as Xenopus oocyte. Thus the mRNA coding for the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) in the electric organ of Torpedo marmorata, the electric Ray, can be injected into Xenopus oocyte where it uses the egg's synthetic machinery to manufacture nAChR and insert it into the oocyte membrane. This is to transplant an operational molecular entity from one organism into another. This technique has been used for numerous other membrane channel and receptor proteins. It enables the molecular biologist and biophysicist to study molecular entities, which may be very rare and/or difficult to get at, in a convenient, easily manipulated system. But of equal importance to the enormous increase in detailed knowledge and manipulability, has been the conceptual clarification. In the early days of molecular genetics, Max Delbruck spoke of 'running the map into the ground'. He meant that the techniques of phage genetics promised to tie the Mendelian gene essentially defined by genetic recombination to a molecular substratum. The outcome of the Watson-Crick breakthrough was that, as Watson remarked, the gene 'quickly became a real molecular object'. Similarly with the channels and receptors of the neurobiologist. The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor, the {j-adrenergic receptor, the Na" pump, the sodium channel, and many others are no longer theoretical constructs needed to account for the biophysicist's and neuropharmacologist's observations, but real molecular objects. Analysis of the nervous system also brings with it other important clarifications. The great conservatism of evolution at the molecular level ensures that many of the molecular entities can be shown to be very Based on paper read to Section of Psychiatry. 24 April 1987


Background: Some countries in sub-Saharan Africa combat the proliferation of substandard medicines using anti-counterfeiting devices. An alternative measure involves advanced pharmaceutical education. The Biotechnology Innovation and Regulatory Science (BIRS) educate students in pharmaceutical Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and quality control (QC).
Objective: This study assessed the African BIRS programme's efforts to initiate and sustain the manufacturing of quality medicines.
Method: Qualitative case studies were used to assess the impact of the BIRS professional training intervention. A convenient purposeful sample of alumni students working in pharmaceutical manufacturing and quality control (QC) participated. Quantitative parametric methods were used to test the hypothesis that participants would significantly increase over the years if the programme met its objectives in the region.
Results: Alumni from ten countries implemented and sustained projects in Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and QC. Participants from 2016 (17 males, 8 females) and 2018 (14 males, 8 females) increased in year 2020 (31 males, 22 females), p-values < 0.05, α = 0.05.
Conclusion: Advanced education has improved efforts in maintaining quality healthcare in the region.


The point of this Article is to show that mediating institutions are better decision makers than individuals. For this reason, individuals often find it in their interest to select a variety of mediating institutions (corporations, investment funds, unions, political parties, religious institutions, etc.) to act as their agents. These mediating institutions will choose packages of preferences on behalf of their principals. Moreover, I will argue that individual preferences evolve over time. As individuals' investments in their mediating institutions grow over time, these individuals come to identify more closely with these institutions. As a consequence of this phenomenon of "escalating commitments," mediating institutions play a transformative role in people's lives, shaping their preferences in important ways. Thus, I will argue that criticisms of mediating institutions as "unrepresentative" of their constituents are misguided. Members want their institutions to take the lead in identifying alternatives. Because individual decision makers often act irrationally, they do not want their representatives to choose as they would have chosen themselves. Rather, individuals trust their mediating institutions to act as professional decision makers to relieve themselves of the responsibility of making certain decisions. The tobacco conglomerate Phillip Morris presents a vivid example of the self-conscious power of the mediating institution to shape the preferences of its membership. In -a recent interview, Craig L. Fuller, Senior Vice President for Corporate Affairs for Phillip Morris Companies, described his job as similar to his previous job as a chief of staff for George Bush, saying that he tells people "[t]his is who you are and this is what you believe."'


Parallel with progress in scientific technology, human capabilities have been expanded in combination with machinery. Concomitant with these marvelous advances, the styles of communications between machine and man are diversifying. The role of any man-machine interface is becoming more and more important with each advance in available technology. Take for example modern airplanes. Their performance and functions now extend far beyond the physical sensory and judgment capabilities of human beings. The man-machine interface in new aircraft must be reviewed and updated to correspond with rapid progress of the technology used in airplanes. In the past, a pilot had to have the capability to understand flying conditions at a glance from the information given by a number of gauges, and to make the correct judgment. Nevertheless, pilots were proud of this capability. The electronic display systems used in recent airplanes, however, permit pilots to selectively obtain the necessary information for each given instance and to make an informed decision. The introduction of electronic instruments has made increased maneuverability and safety for airplanes with a smaller flight crew possible In this paper, I will describe the current status, trends and the future of vehicle-use display systems which are desirable as man- machine interfaces, referring to products Nippondenso has developed and is currently producing.


Abstract As one goes about the process of teaching there is need to sit down after every session and take stock of the proceedings with a view to identifying what went well and what might need further improvement Four lenses that teachers could use to critically reflect on their practice are discussed in this article: eliciting evaluation from students, peer evaluation, research and theory and our own autobiographies as learners and teachers. To some extent academics are all prisoners trapped within the perceptual frameworks that determine how they view their experiences and in order to break away from this prison there is need to engage in critical reflection. In this article, through a qualitative analysis of student evaluation data, peer feedback and relevant literature; The researcher shares his reflection on his practice through experimenting with the four lenses at a historically disadvantaged university.What emerged from the reflective exercise is that looking beyond one's own self to others for their views on one's practice does indeed enrich one's knowledge and helps to improve practice. Colleagues, the literature and students can indeed serve as critical mirrors reflecting back to lecturers' images of their actions that often take them by surprise.


The antisymmetrized geminal power (AGP), a wave function equivalent to number-projected Hartree--Fock--Bogoliubov (HFB), and number-projected Bardeen--Cooper--Schrieffer (BCS) when working in the paired (natural orbitals) basis, has proven to be an excellent reference for strong pairing interactions. Several correlation methods have also been applied on top of AGP. In this work, we show how AGP can also be applied to spin systems by simply basing its formulation on a spin $su(2)$ algebra. We here implement spin AGP and spin AGP-based correlation techniques and benchmark them on the XXZ and $\mathrm{J_1-J_2}$ Heisenberg models, both in 1 and 2 dimensions. Our results indicate that spin AGP is a promising starting point for modeling spin systems.


Two experiments examined the utility of restructured help information as an aid to new users learning the UNIX commands trn and tin. In both experiments, the help infofmrdion was reorganized to reflect the conceptual model or mental organization inferred from users response to questions, rather than the dictionary-like organization favored by programmers. A retention test showed higher scores on questions about the program, and student ratings indicated a higher opinion of the instruction they received, greater self-confidence in their knowledge. This paper concludes that the difficulties new users have with most computer manuals is the lack of correspondence between the user's schemata or mental model of the task and the programmers conceptualization of the task upon which the manurd is usually based. KEY WORD S: mental models, computer manuals, documentation, user training, online help, educational applications. INTRODUCTION Any time spent with new users of any program results in a long list of complahts about the manuals and help available. Despite the wide and growing use of UNIX, probably no system can compete with UNIX in this dimension. Systems that match closely the users conceptual stxncture are described as intuitive and user friendly. It may be possible to do this same sort of thing with the reference materials for a system. Current cognitive theory [7] sees the user as active and inquiring, while constructing meaning of experience. The more ordered--the better the order tnatches one's own--the easier to learn and use, the less frustration. Kieras and Bovair [4] found evidence that encouraging users to create a mentaI model of how a system works is more useful than simply giving listing of the procedmes to be followed. Online help needs to provide examples relevant to the user's questions [2]. The function of the mental model [1] has been found important to understanding the context [3] and in problem solving environments [6]. Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage, the ACM copyright notice and the title of the publication and its date appear, and notice is given that copying is by permission of ACM. To copy otherwise, or to republish, requires a fee and/or specific permission. CHI' Corn anion 95, Denver, Colorado, USA Occ! I @ ~995 CM 0-89791 -755 -3/95/0005 ...$3.50 From the programmer's viewpoint, it makes sense to arrange information in order of command or option name. English Dictionaries are organized orthographically. A thesaurus is organized by relationships among meanings. A textbook is organized by ideas. A Thesaurus wonId be a better guide for organizing a manual. The usual manual is more Ike a dictionary. For example, the UNIX program trn has some 200 commands and 27 pages of manual. It is difficult and confusing for anew user, although informative and helpful to programmers. The help command within tin produces a page full of briefly described commnds in alphabetical (mler. The purpose of the present study is to test the effect a method of restructuring reference materials has on new UNIX users.


CD103, an integrin specifically expressed on the surface of cancer-reactive T cells, shows significantly increased expression during successful immunotherapy across human malignancies. Previously, it has also been linked with better disease-specific survival in patients with ovarian, cervical, and endometrial cancer. Therefore, the CD103 molecule appeared to us as an attractive biomarker for non-invasive immune PET imaging of T cell infiltration. We developed zirconium-89 ( 89 Zr) and gallium-68 ( 68 Ga) radiolabeled Fab fragment (Fab) clone that specifically recognize human CD103 in vitro and in vivo . We tested tracers in nude mice (BALB/cOlaHsd-Foxn1nu) with established CD103 expressing CHO or CHO wild-type xenografts. In vivo, both 89 Zr-and 68 Ga-anti-human CD103 tracers showed high target-to-background ratios, high target site selectivity and a high sensitivity in human CD103 positive xenografts. We developed two novel human CD103 immuno-PET tracers for future non-invasive assessment of cancer reactive T cell infiltration. Consequently, both 89 Zr and 68 Ga-anti-CD103 Fab fragment-based PET tracer could be successfully used in clinical settings for stratification patients who could benefit from immune checkpoint inhibition therapy.


To increase the genetic progress in wheat yield, breeders search for germplasm of high genetic diversity, one of them is the landraces, which are traditional varieties with a good tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses. The objectives of the present investigation were to (i) assess the effects of deficit irrigation and genotype on studied traits of wheat landraces, (ii) identify landrace(s) showing drought tolerance, high yield, and/or carrying one or more desirable trait and (iii) identify the most correlated traits to drought tolerance. Twenty bread wheat landraces and two checks were planted in the field for two seasons under water stress (WS) and non-stress (WW) conditions using a split plot design with four replications and their agronomic, grain yield and quality traits (13) were recorded. Water stress caused a significant reduction of 9.54 % in grain yield, which was associated with a reduction in all studied traits, except grain protein content (GPC), which significantly increased by 13.99%. Our study recommended that landrace G17; the highest in GPC (20.87%) could be crossed to one of the highest yielding genotypes Sakha 64 cultivar, landraces G2 or G3 to select in their segregating generations some transgressive segregates of high grain yield and high GPC. The highest drought tolerant genotypes in this study were Sakha 63 and the landraces G2, G3, G4, G7, G12 and G15. These genotypes were the most drought tolerant, the highest yielders under WS as well as WW and could therefore be recommended to future wheat breeding programs. The results indicated that drought tolerant landraces are characterized by early maturity, short grain filling period, short plant height and high grain yield/plant. These traits could be considered as selection criteria for drought tolerance in wheat if they proved high heritability.


Abstract Worwood M (Department of Haematology. University of Wales College of Medicine, Heath Park. Cardiff CF4 4XN, UK). An overview of iron metabolism at a molecular level.


In this paper we present a view point on "intelligent" application development for pervasive computing environments. We first point out that today's traditional "intelligent" computing is built on strong and hard-coded logical assumptions and computational procedures which are pre-defined by developers, that is, what we call as simulated intelligence within the course of this paper. Such assumptions and procedures are based on enumerations of possible contexts of use which is predefined mappings between situations in contextual space to rational behaviors in behavior space. However pervasive computing applications extend the scope of application's context space and behavior space towards infinity which hardens development of "intelligent" systems having a certain degree of rationality. Therefore, approaches merging human intelligence and computing "intelligence" are required to be employed. We further advocate that pervasive computing era increases the complexity of application development because of the extended context space, hence software development approaches based on higher abstractions need to be employed where Model Driven approaches and Ontology Driven approaches are promising. We propose a basic methodology which merges Model Driven and Ontology Driven Development approaches. Resulting methodology employs use of formalized conceptual models to be employed both at run-time and development time in terms of reasoning and automatic code generation respectively. We finally point out that such application development paradigm based on pervasive computing perspective will enable users to program their own environment (i.e. smart spaces) in the future.


Despite a great number of reports on high-energy density dielectric materials, very little attention is paid to determining realistic energy densities of larger scale devices made of these materials. These materials are typically evaluated with very short duration voltage withstand tests on very small sample areas, typically on the order of a few seconds and a few cm2. Conversely, full-scale devices require very long operational lifetimes on the order of years, and dielectric areas as large as several hundreds of m2. Practical components must also include additional material such as major insulation and packaging, resulting in volumetric efficiencies much less than 100%. Increases in total dielectric area, operating time, and packaging inefficiencies reduce practical energy densities by one to two orders of magnitude. Here we highlight the limitations of scaling up such results to high energy density capacitors as well as demonstrate the effect of self-healing and its necessity in high-energy-density, high-total-energy devices.


We are pleased to present this special supplement of Current Oncology, which is generously financed by a grant from the Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation. Integrative oncology is both a science and a philosophy that focuses on the complexity of the health of cancer patients and proposes a multitude of approaches to accompany the conventional therapies of surgery, chemotherapy, molecular therapeutics, and radiotherapy to facilitate health. As such, integrative oncology involves thinking outside the box, and so we are indeed fortunate to have attracted a plethora of manuscripts from innovative leaders both of Canadian and of international cancer treatment and control services.

In line with the modern approach to media communications, we have "integrated" this issue with manuscripts published on the Current Oncology Web site. Readers will also have the opportunity to view and listen to slide presentations submitted to the Integrating Wellness into Cancer Care Conference held at the University of Toronto, October 4–5, 2007. The conference was organized by Dr. Paul Fortin in memory of his wife Dr. Veronique Benk. Veronique was a radiation oncologist, clinician, and researcher who specialized in breast cancer, and she was devoted to her patients. Her personal experience of breast cancer and myeloid leukemia was transformative, and she embraced a wider approach to cancer treatment. That approach prioritized state-of-the-art medical care with a new emphasis on spirituality, wellness, and quality of life. The conference was sponsored by a non-restricted educational grant from the Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation, CV Technologies, Astra/Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Wellspring, and the University of Toronto Department of Radiation Oncology, with special thanks to Drs. Mary Gospodarowicz and Pamela Catton.


Aims  We examined functional health status prior to the diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes, and measured the effect on functional health status of receiving the diagnosis.


All wearable centric location sensing technologies mustaddress the issue of clock synchronisation between signaltransmitting systems and signal receiving systems. GPS receivers,for example, compensate for synchronisation errorsby incorporating a model of the receiver clock offsetin the navigation solution. Drift between satellite clocks isalso monitored to keep signal data in synch with GPS time.Most ultrasonic positioning systems solve the synchronisationproblem by using a second medium for communicationbetween transmitter and receiver devices. The transmittersin these systems emit RF signals (pings) to indicatethe transmission of subsequent ultrasound signals (chirps).By subtracting the arrival time of the ping from that of thechirps, the receiver is able to compute the distance to eachtransmitter.In this paper, we describe an ultrasonic positioning systemthat does not use RF signals to achieve synchronisation.Instead, it exploits a periodic chirp transmission pattern tomodel the receiver's position using chirp reception timesexclusively. Not only does the system improve on the accuracyof previous technologies but it also eliminates bulky RFcircuitry - a definite advantage for wearable applicationswhere component size and weight are critical for usability.


Objective: To survey clinical effects of Kang Fu Yan capsules in the prevention of pelvic inflammation after artificial abortion. Methods: Six hundred patients were randomized into two group, both group accepted routine treatment after the operation, the observation took Kang Fu Yan capsules at the same time, 2g each time, three times per day, both groups were treated for seven consecutive days. Results: After treating, the observation group was lower than the control group in the incidences of endometritis, salpingitis, pelvic peritonitis and oophoritic cyst notably(P0.05). After treating, the observation group was lower than the control group remarkably in the incidences of leukorrhagia, lumbar and abdominal pain, increased menstrual volume, prolonged menstrual period and abnormal menstruation(P0.05). Conclusion: Kang Fu Yan capsules could reduce the incidences of pelvic inflammation and adverse reaction after artificial abortion.


As judicial activities have been made more open to the public and the media in the process of its reform,there have arisen many new problems.On the one hand,the media have been paying much more attention to judicial events,which shows supervision of the people on the government.This may bring good effect to the judicial reform,to reduce the corruption and realize judicial justice.On the other hand,too much public attention may bring negative effect to the judicial work.Public opinions and the pressure from the society may hinder the judger from their judging according to the facts and the law and affect the independence of jurisdiction.In this article,the author analyzes and discusses the interactive relationship between the media and the judicature.