Abstract   After the first SARS-CoV-2 infections surge in late 2019, and its spreading worldwide, COVID-19 rapidly became a pandemic by March 2020. Facing a new public health crisis, the scientific community deployed research efforts to study this new disease, generating a large amount of scientific evidence in a very fast way. This research was developed in several directions, for instance, describing how COVID-19 impacts the population's health and well-being. Specifically, the research aimed at describing and evaluating the risk factors either for being infected or evolving toward adverse outcomes, such as hospitalisation or death. Moreover, the effectiveness of implemented public health measures was assessed since countries' governments rapidly implemented them to mitigate the pandemic.Therefore, several literature reviews have been performed within the European Project 'Population Health Information Research Infrastructure (PHIRI)' to summarise and share the published COVID-19 evidence through a health information portal, where researchers and other stakeholders can exchange best practices and expertise. This workshop aims at sharing the collaborative work and experience of a large group of European researchers within the PHIRI consortium, consisting in preliminary results and lessons learnt with the scientific community. The workshop format consists of five presentations by PHIRI members, each one presenting their literature review work, followed by a discussion among the presenters and with the audience. The first workshop presentation will describe the methodological aspects of research conducted to assess the COVID-19 impact on the population's health and well-being, including research methods and statistical methods. The subject for the second talk will show a representative sample of health indicators used to evaluate the direct impact of COVID-19 in the scientific literature. The third presentation will elaborate on a short and long-term impact of COVID-19 crisis on population with frailty, multimorbidity or with different socioeconomic status; evidence derived from systematic literature reviews of population-based studies. The fourth presentation will describe the effectiveness and impact of tracking COVID-19 patients using digital contact tracing tools. The last presentation describes the methodological aspects of a systematic literature review conducted to gain an overview of the foresight studies that have been done throughout the World about COVID-19. Key messages • During the pandemic, a literature reviews provide an important tool to summarise the large amount of scientific evidence that was generated. • This workshop aims at sharing the collaborative work and experience of a large group of European researchers participating at PHIRI, the results and lessons learned with the scientific community.


In a town in Upper Egypt, a local committee established by the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services (CEOSS) conducted a door-to-door canvass and discovered about 21 school-age girls who had never been enrolled. The committee persuaded the school district to admit the girls despite the fact that the school year had started. In 10 towns, committees such as these plan, implement, and monitor projects to increase girls' education. Other projects include encouraging adolescent girls to attend family life education classes and discouraging such harmful traditional practices as female genital mutilation and early marriage. Efforts to prevent female genital mutilation are directed to mothers of girls aged 7-10 and to unmarried young men. In five communities, these efforts have led to the voluntary cessation of female genital mutilation within the past 10 years.


In order to resolve replanted Atractylodes macrocephala difficulties and improve its yield,the effect of continuous cropping bio-organic manure on the diseases,plant height and yield of replanted A.macrocephala was studied.Results showed that continuous cropping bio-organic manure could improve the anti-adversity and disease resistant,prompt growth,and increase yield.


Local freight forwarder`s circle is suffering worsening profitability and insecure employment from over-competition which caused by a saturated local logistics market. It is emerging UN procurement market for local freight forwarders. However it is needed to study on successful entry, market status and supporting measures from government and research institute. Currently there are no national research data of UN procurement market in logistics sectors but as per the writer`s experience and viewpoint to UN bidding, it would seem that appropriate measures should be made such as government`s enhanced support for overseas advancement, price competitiveness, building global network and development of education program for trainees associated with current overseas internship program by government.


In one implementation, a method for charging a battery system is provided. The method includes enabling determining whether the charger is coupled to the battery system, wherein the battery system includes one or more cells and a charge enable transistor. The method also includes enabling to determine if the voltage level of the cell is lower than a first predetermined low voltage level. Adjusting the voltage applied to the charging transistor gate terminal to adjust the voltage represented by the charger to a level lower than a second predetermined voltage level when the voltage level of the cell is lower than the first predetermined low voltage level. Enable charging of the cell at a reduced rate. The method also includes substantially completely enabling the charging transistor to be fully charged by the charger when the voltage of the cell reaches the predetermined first low voltage level. Charge transistor, charge rate of the cell, voltage level of the cell, battery pack, battery system monitor circuit


There is a curious discrepancy in the appearances which medieval South India makes in the history books. On the one hand, there is the South India of epigraphy: a succession of peasant states and a multitude of temple centres. On the other hand, there is the South India of Sinbad the Sailor and Marco Polo: a great emporium and entrep8t in the trade between the Mediterranean and China. The one is agrarian and locality-oriented, the other commercial and cosmopolitan. There is a similar discrepancy between anthropological accounts of modern South Indian society, which by their very nature operate with a local frame of reference, and historical and geographical accounts, which deal in larger denominations. Inspired by the work of William Skinner on China and Carol Smith on Central America, there has in recent years been a growing number of attempts to overcome such discrepancies by developing a regional perspective through the combination of anthropology, economic geography and history. For Tamil Nadu this is found, for example, in the work of Brenda


The lifetime of the 12.195 MeV level of /sup 28/Si was measured by the axial blocking of ..cap alpha.. particles from the /sup 27/Al(p,..cap alpha../sub 0/) resonance at E/sub p/ = 632.2 keV. The result is tau = 120 +- 20 as. The corresponding level width GAMMA = 5.3/sup +0.9//sub -0.8/ eV is in agreement with other blocking measurements but lower than that deduced from resonance reaction yields.


A philosophical and aesthetic view to the relationship between art and the economical options or the blending of reason and imagination in the field of relationship between ideas of art and the evolution of economics hasn't been under survey so far; while this kind of attitude to "art economics" has concerned lots of importance. Usually, in surveying of subjects related to "art economy", valuating of artworks and the subjects related to the artistic – cultural products representation has been picked a lot of attention. In addition, in subjects related to art economy, paying attention to the works of economic of every artworks art is been concerned in an artistic field which created by such a complicated organization of artistic – cultural – economic and social actors and the media, interpreters, expositive distributers, users, government and private organizations and so on has a specific function in it. But the artist's aesthetic perspective to the audience in creating different genres and styles by paying attention to his/her own taste in creating an artistic style which end to look deeply in "culture" and intensifies "the economical – social development" and finally, creates "relationship between art and economics ideology and their mutual effects on each other on the aesthetic perspective", hasn't been under survey.[1] In this article I have been tried by involving imagination and mind around the relationship between "impressionism" and "economics", clarify its blind corners on the aspect of "aesthetic". In addition, the focus was on this which to determine the relationship between mind and economical options on the impressionism ideology and to reveal its relationship with economics evolution. The goal of this study is that so I could eventually and step by step, manifest the unclear layers of mind or paradigms dominated on economics theories and its intellectual and cultural frames on the ideology of artistic impressionism with such an aesthetic vision.

[1]- Rahimi Boroujerdi, Alireza, "Aesthetics of Economics Or An Aesthetics View to the Revolution of Economic Man's Thoughts & Conducts From Ancient Greece To New Era", Donyaye Eghtesad Pub., 2016


Human resources with a high level of thinking abilities, such as critical thinking, creativity, communication, teamwork, independence, cross-cultural understanding, and ICT literacy, are needed for the growth of the 21st century. However, cultivating a high level of thinking abilities is still insufficient and does not fulfill the necessities of the 21st century. An e-book based on problem-based learning and oriented toward higher-order thinking skills is developed as a result of this research. Measurement of the e-book's validity is the aim of this study. This research used a descriptive methodology and a questionnaire for collecting data. The questionnaire instrument is a validation sheet with four e-book validation criteria consisting of several indicators. E-book validation has shown valid findings with an average of 0.87 valid categories. The results of the research show that the product can be used as a learning resource for students and teachers to achieve learning goals and meet the demands of the 21st century.


The delta driven GMSK is a modulation scheme to generate the gaussian pulse by the bipolar delta signal and to modulate the phase function with the differential gaussian pulse between +Tb/2 and -Tb/2. The demodulation of delta driven GMSK differs from conventional GMSK schemes. This paper proposed a demodulation with the differential phase detector at the end of each bit interval. A designed detector then finds the one of the possible region by hard decision, in which the phase difference lies. Finally the binary data can be recovered by state transition process. Through the BER simulation for AWGN channel, it was found that the proposed demodulation effected by the run length of binary data. The simulated BER degradation of about 2[dB] was analyzed, as compared to the theoretical coherent demodulation with BTb=0.3.


The study of DVCS and DVMP processes over a wide range in xB is an outstanding part of the scientific proposal for the COMPASS program after 2011. The measurement of the double-differential DVCS cross-section will provide information on the transverse size of the nucleon as function of xB, often referred to as "nucleon tomography". Also, the combination of data samples collected with opposite beam charge and polarization will allow to single out terms related to the GPD H. The physics goals of the COMPASS GPD program will be discussed in detail, and projections on the achievable statistical and systematic accuracies will be given. The sensitivity of the COMPASS experimental apparatus to the DVCS signal has been investigated during dedicated pilot measurements in the years 2008 and 2009. Preliminary results on the observed DVCS and Bethe-Heitler signals are presented, and the comparison with Monte-Carlo simulations is discussed.


A method for determining an optimized sampling phase for sampling data which intersymbol interference comprising, wherein the scanned data is formed by an equalization function of receiving data (x (t)) or the scanned data are equalized after the sampling, to compensate for the intersymbol interference partly, said equalization parameters of equalization in dependence on the received data (x (t)) are adapted wherein a vertical eye opening of the data to be sampled more characteristic parameters opening (m) of different sampling phases (τ) is determined to sample the data, and wherein the optimized sampling phase (τ) in dependence on the opening parameter (m) is determined temporally parallel to the adaptation of the equalization parameters than that sampling phase at which the vertical eye opening is maximal.


Kajmak is autochthonous product, traditionally made as farmhouse milk product
 by farmers. In such manufacturing conditions, the quality of kajmak is
 usually very variable, nonstandard and out of the limits described by
 official regulations. In this paper the chemical composition, fatty acid
 profile, textural and sensory quality of the most used autochthonous kajmak
 samples (unripened kajmak and mature kajmak from mjesina) were analysed.
 Although all samples had satisfied quality according to the Serbian
 regulations, chemical composition and sensory quality revealed some
 variability between tested kajmak samples. Fat content was higher in mature
 kajmak than in unripened kajmak. The dominant fatty acid in all samples was
 palmitic acid (C16:0) and its higher content was observed in unripened
 kajmak sample, 33.20 %, compared with 29.45% in sample of kajmak from
 mjesina. In both samples, long-chain acids are the dominant ones. The
 saturated fatty acids (SFAs) in the tested samples were dominantly present
 with the share of 64-66%. The content of monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs)
 were in the range of 30.2-31.52 % and most abundant in both samples were
 oleic acid (18:1c). Unripened kajmak had higher score of sensory
 characteristics compared to kajmak from mjesine. According to the textural
 analysis the mature kajmak from mjesina had overall better textural
 characteristics.


This contribution analyses the nexus between contemporary US populist nationalism and the post-global media ecology through the case of US radio show host and 'most paranoid man in America' Alex Jones and his Infowars. It evaluates the role of Alt Right alternative/activist media and global digital platforms in the success of Jones as ideological entrepreneur. To this end, it looks at Jones' and Infowars' message (mostly Falls Flag conspiracy theories and pseudo-science-meets-popular-culture fantasy), persona as celebrity populist spectacle, business model, political alliances with Alt Right and Trump, audience as diverse mix of believers and ironic spectators and, most of all, media. In particular, we analyse the mix of legacy and social media and their respective role in his rise and alleged downfall. We evaluate Jones' efforts as effective ideological entrepreneur, pushing his counter-hegemonic ideology from the fringes to the mainstream.


ABSTRACT Tire performances such as wear, traction, and rolling resistance have been explained by the hysteretic energy loss of tread compounds under cyclic deformations. Loss factor, tan δ, is often used as the property responsible for energy loss. However, dynamic modulus is also reported to affect energy loss and tire performance. In this review, the modulus effect on energy loss is related to the deformation type through the deformation index. The index can be determined experimentally based on tire performance data or analytically through finite element analysis (FEA). Deformation indices of passenger tire rolling resistance, wet traction, and dry traction were determined experimentally based on tire tests. Using FEA, the energy losses and deformation indices were calculated for all elements of a rolling truck tire. The indices vary widely depending on where the element is located. Deformation indices are summarized on a tire component basis and converted into an Excel spreadsheet. The spreadsheet can...


1 Kvale R , Auvinen A , Adami HO et al . Interpreting trends in prostate cancer incidence and mortality in the fi ve Nordic countries . J Natl Cancer Inst 2007 ; 99 : 1881 – 7 2 Sirovich BE , Schwartz LM , Woloshin S . Screening men for prostate and colorectal cancer in the United States: does practice refl ect the evidence? JAMA 2003 ; 289 : 1414 – 20 3 Chan EC , Barry MJ , Vernon SW , Ahn C . Brief report: physicians and their personal prostate cancer-screening practices with prostate-specifi c antigen. A national survey . J Gen Intern Med 2006 ; 21 : 257 – 9 4 Ross LE , Berkowitz Z , Ekwueme DU . Use of the prostate-specifi c antigen test among U.S. men: fi ndings from the 2005 National Health Interview Survey . Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2008 ; 17 : 636 – 44 5 Andriole GL , Crawford ED , Grubb RL III et al . Prostate Cancer Screening in the Randomized Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial: Mortality Results after 13 years of follow-up . 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;_ . ! ' ' ' '' • -_ BY STEVEN LASHLEY' -. rently de:velopins new guidelines -quirements are already ~nroμte to ~ourses above and inci~ding pass the r~ommendations-before the. ·state -comrri~nity _ colleges. Community News Editor -to stiffen requirements for the . the Office of Admltiistrative Law elementary algebra. the spring semester .deadline, the Since they are only a· regulation . -· Associa~e Arts degree, _said (OAL) t_o be fin.allied, accord.Ing .· . These new.' guidelines, which . guideiines will not go inio effect' change, they will not :need to be In what ts termed as "the mo·st Delena Bratton, communications · • to. _ BC Dean of Instructions _ .were _ approved -in_· June-. by.the · --until at least July, 1987; _ __ · pass.ed through t~ e state significant· movement within the. ·• and press relations, assistant. to -Charles Carlson. Those included Board ofGovernors. (B.G.O.) _ ' However, . Carlson _stated that legislature. . _ California community colleges in --. Chancellor Smith. are courses in English that are not •• must pass through the OAL -_ colle'ge -administrators __ may ~o --•• "Chan¢ellor Smith'wiU be con· th'e past decade,"· ,state Some of these new guidelines more than 'one level ,beto.w beforetheycaribeadoptedbythe ahead and adopt.the guidelines suiting witl) trustees, students,. '_ i· \ J, ChanceUor Joshua Smith ls.curconcerning .the AA degree re· · Engli'sh IA, and 'all mathematic -Board. Since the office did not without the, office's authoriiateachers_a_rid other offidals . . tion, should they choose todo so; bef()re any type of j,rocess "Jike The decision ~ould 'ultimately be. ,ihis actually tak~:pl~~Jhough, ti


General anesthesia in patients who have previously undergone supracricoid partial laryngectomy (SCPL) and radiation therapy for laryngeal cancer is not common but a challenging task for anesthesiologists because of the distortion of the airway anatomy with stiff neck. A 42-year-old (171 cm, 73 kg) man was scheduled for inser tion of a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) feeding tube under general anesthesia. One month before the referral, the patient had undergone SCPL and a bilateral neck dissection with tracheostomy and then adjuvant radiation therapy for laryngeal cancer. There was no problem with facial mask ventilation and intubation at that time. He was fed through a nasogastric tube. PEG insertion is generally performed under local anesthesia with sedative agents such as midazolam. However, he had a history of airway obstruction after intravenous administration of midazolam. Therefore, the gastroenterologists consulted us because his preoperative airway evaluation was expected to indicate difficult intubation (Fig. 1). We discussed a "can't intubate, can't ventilate (CICV)" state including mortality risks, and an awake intubation with the patient in details. However, as for a fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB), the patient refused. In case of critical situation, various kinds of laryngeal mask airway (LMA) and Glidescope Ⓡ (Verathon Inc., Bothell, WA, USA) were prepared, and there was no choice to leave an awake procedure as our last option. Sufficient preoxygenation (100% oxygen at 6 L/min over 5 minutes) was applied through a facial mask. Thiopental sodium 350 mg and succinylcholine 80 mg were administered for anesthetic induction. After the drugs, mask ventilation could not be effective. At that moment, immediate endotracheal intubation by direct laryngoscope was attempted with an armored tube (ID: 8.0 mm), and then a smaller tube (ID: 7.0 mm), however, these actions failed. The vocal cords could not be viewed because of swollen arytenoids with his stiff neck. We soon determined that he was in a CICV state. So we used supraglottic airway (LMA Igel Ⓡ , No 4) temporarily with little success. The patient regained consciousness and started breathing fortunately. His oxygen saturation (SpO2) by pulse oximetry remained above 97%. After


The EU enlargement is scheduled to take place in 2004. After this date, it should be a priority for the EU to develop a coherent and comprehensive policy towards its nearest neighbours, i.e. countries bordering the Member States, which cannot join the EU in the nearest future due to their location or weaknesses of their political and economic systems. There are at least three reasons for this. Firstly, good relations with neighbours will underlie the broadly understood security of the Community. Relations with the nearest neighbours will determine both military security of the EU (including the combating of terrorism) and its ability to prevent other threats such as illegal migration, smuggling, etc. Secondly, good economic relations with neighbours may contribute to the Member States' economic growth in the longer term. And finally, the EU's ability to develop an effective and adequate policy towards its nearest neighbours will demonstrate its competence as a subject of international politics. In other words, the EU will not be recognised as a reliable political player in the global scene until it develops an effective strategy for its neighbourhood.


This article reviews the construction of subsea tunnels in Norway, of which over 100km have been constructed. During the last ten years, most of these tunnels have been for transport processes. Subsea road tunnels constructed during Summer 1995 included: (1) Sloverfjorden, a 3.3km long 50sqm cross section two-lane tunnel in gneiss and gabbro, with deepest point 110m below sea level and maximum gradient 1:12; (2) Mageroy, a 6.8km long 53sqm cross section two-lane tunnel in sedimentary rocks (including clay schist and sandstone), with deepest point 220m below sea level and maximum gradient 1:12; and (3) the 2km long Bjoroy tunnel, with its lowest point 82m below sea level, which had very difficult ground conditions for most of its length. All Norwegian subsea tunnels have been excavated by drill-and-blast, with an average advance rate of 40-80m per week. The total cost of such a tunnel is $4500-$10,000/m, including about $1500/m for excavation. The rock supporting works consist mainly of fibre-reinforced shotcrete and rock bolts. The permanent water leakage is about 0.1-0.45cum/min/km of tunnel. The article reviews the following aspects of subsea tunnelling: (1) design; (2) geology; (3) construction; (4) excavation; (5) grouting; and (6) rock support.


Mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) have the properties of open medium and decentralized structure, so malicious nodes can easily attack MANET nodes. Furthermore, it is more difficult to establish a protection mechanism on a dynamic topology than a fixed one. In this paper, we propose a specification-based intrusion detection model (SIDM) with the concept of previous two forwarders (PTF) which utilizes the previous hop routing messages to assure the integrity of the routing message. As a result, all vulnerable message fields that could be tampered with during transmission are protected by our method. The proposed SIDM is lightweight and deployable in a distributed environment. By employing the designed idea into the AODV routing protocol, the experimental results demonstrate suitable performance in MANET.


Thinking through Joe Sacco's The Great War (2013) and adopting a materialist approach to the international legal order and its history, this article re-maps both the temporal scope and the actual location of the violence endured in the First World War and calls attention to its ongoing everyday material manifestations.


118. Transcriptional Profiling Discriminates Complete and Incomplete Kawasaki Disease (KD) from Adenovirus infection (HAdV) Preeti Jaggi, MD; Asuncion Mejias, MD, PhD; Adriana H. Tremoulet, MD, MAS; Virginia Pascual, MD; Jane C. Burns, MD, FIDSA; Damien Chaussabel, PhD; Octavio Ramilo, MD; Pediatrics, Section of Infectious Diseases, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH; Center for Vaccines and Immunity, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH; Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA; Baylor Institute for Immunology Research, Dallas, TX; Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, WA; Pediatrics, Nationwide, Columbus, OH


The fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium ME446 was entrapped on polyurethane foam to synthesize gibberellic acid (GA 3 equivalent) and Cytokinin (zeatin equivalent). Maximum gibberellic acid was defined on the 6 th day (44.43 µg/mL and 61.22 µg/mL, respectively) in both free and immobilized cells. Maximum cytokinin was defined on the 12 th day (9.61µg/mL and 16.33 µg/mL, respectively) in both free


Matrix factorization (MF) is one of the most-used techniques to build recommender systems. However, in practical use, the existence of noise in the training set brings some uncertainty, degrading the performance of MF approaches. In this paper, we propose a Bagging-based MF framework, an ensemble method of using multiple MF-based models to improve the stability and accuracy. Specifically, our framework first rebuilds new training sets by resampling on the original ratings, then takes advantage of the sets to train MF models and finally combines the predictions from the models in a ensemble way. The experiment results on real data show that our framework can achieve some performance improvement when having noise samples.


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Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the commonest cardiac arrhythmia, with an increasing prevalence with age. However, AF is often asymptomatic and/or intermittent, and very often, its 'how hard one looks' to find AF particularly amongst high-risk groups. Indeed, newly developed AF may be present in 30% of patients with cardiovascular risk factors at 1 year, and if undiagnosed, this may sadly result in the first presentation (or confirmed diagnosis) of AF in the context of a devastating stroke.1

In this issue of QJM , Frewen et al. describe the demographics of the Irish population with AF in a nationally representative sample aged >50, from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) cohort. Consistent with other studies, they found that the overall prevalence of AF was 3%, being higher in men overall and with advancing age. Although, 68% had a high risk of …


We provide a fairly self-contained account of the localisation and cofinality theorems for the algebraic

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Educating the students shall not only be a process of learning knowledge,but also be a process of successfully socializing them at the same time.The higher poly-technical colleges and universities must,with the employment as the guidance,reading widely and variously as the premise,training the expressing ability as a foundation,cultivating the ability of organizing and planning as the goal,take three steps in the long-term process of perfecting the morality and culture,to practically strengthen the tempering and cultivation of the university students' comprehensive abilities and successfully promote socialization.


Righteous profit thought continued for a long time in the history of China, which had a very profound and important influence on the culture and literature of Chinese society. As a sprout of Chinese merchant novels, the merchant novels in the Tang Dynasty started showing righteous profit thinking consciously in the works. Many works expanded the narrative by the mode of retribution, performed the business idea of" righteousness leading to profit", and" profits deriving from righteousness", which reflected the concept of" Valuing Loyalty" and the ethical exhortation of" promoting righteousness and abstaining from greed". From which we can get a glimpse of the loosening concept of" profit" and righteousness infiltration.


This study aimed to determine the correlation between boarding schools and spiritual quotient (SQ) on learning outcomes. The method used was a survey with quantitative approach, because there are two independent variables, then use path design analysis. The results obtained, the first, there was a significant relationship between the pesantren with the student learning outcomes, t count = 2,22 > t table(0,05) =1,69, a contribution of the boarding school environment to learning outcomes was 36.1% with the category enough. The second, there was a significant relationship between spiritual quotient with a physics student learning outcomes, t count = 4,3 > t table(0,05) = 1,69, a contribution spiritual abilities physics quotient on learning outcomes by 36% with the category enough. The third, there was a significant relationship between the pesantren and spiritual quotient on learning outcomes t count ≥ t table(0,05) =1,69.


Gerundive clause is a non-finite clause in Oriya. It occurs in the argument position of matrix verb. In its subject position an overt or a null subject DP can occur with accusative or nominative case. This paper addresses the syntax of gerundive clause and accounts the basic similarity and dissimilarity between gerundive clauses with overt subject and null subject. This paper proposes that in Oriya gerundive clauses with different subjects are not different in their syntactic features but they are different in their derivation in which that features are checked.


An investigation was made of the excitation of 14NH3 molecules at pressures of 10−2–1 Torr by CO2 laser pulses in a wide range of laser radiation energy densities (Φ=10−3–10 J/cm2) and of offsets of the laser frequency from the absorption lines of the vibrational–rotational transition in the ν2 band of ammonia. Effective excitation of ammonia as a result of nonresonant interaction with infrared radiation was due to field broadening. Calculations dispensing with fitting parameters accounted for the experimental results (within the limits of the measurement error). The anomalously strong absorption of ammonia due to resonant pumping was attributed to generation of high-intensity microwave radiation which suppressed the rotational bottleneck in the excitation of molecules.


This paper presents measurements of several properties of Nd:YAlO 3 useful in the design of laser devices. Values for the gains, cross sections, and saturation parameter of the 4F_{3/2} \rightarrow 4I_{11/2} transitions are presented for principal axis polarizations. Thermal focal lengths, spherical aberration, and astigmatism for A-, B- , and C -axis rods \frac{1}{4} in in diameter and 3 in long are shown as a function of input power. Pumping efficiencies with krypton and xenon lamps are compared for Nd:YAG, Nd:Cr:YAlO 3 , and Nd: YAlO 3 both in the CW and flash-pumped modes. Finally, the effects of varying the Nd concentration in YAlO 3 from 0.4 to 1.15 percent are discussed.


Testicular tumours with locai regression and progressive retroperitoneal progressive metastases are rarely described in medicai literature with the term of "burned out" tumours. We present two cases of retroperitoneal metastases causing a symptomatology of retroperitoneal compression. Examination of the testis revealed no palpable abnormaiity. In both cases a fine needle biopsy of a retroperitoneal nodal mass was done. Microscopic examination revealed a typical seminoma. Scrotal sónography revealed the presence of a small asymptomatic testicular lesion on the same side as the retroperitoneal mass. In both cases a homolateral orchiectomy was done. At the histological study a fibrous scar was found without malignant neoplastic cells, so it was diagnosed a "burned out' testicular tumour. The possibility of testicular origin must be considered in the presence of extragonadal germ cell tumours, even if the testes are without palpable abnormaiity.


Design considerations are considered for optical time-division multiplexing in terms of bandwidth requirements for the modulators and switches for a particular multiplexing scheme and the corresponding drive signals are derived using a time-domain approach. It is shown that these requirements are stricter than expected from simple considerations. Different types of multiplexing schemes are analyzed and are shown to behave differently due to varying chirping properties; this chirping is also calculated. A comparison to nonmultiplexed systems is made. >


A simple high-performance liquid homographic(HPLC) method was presented for the determination of 17α-methyltestosterone(17α-MeT) residue in aquatic products.Samples were extracted using ether with the assistance of ultrasounic and cleaned up using petroleum ether.The chromatographic separation was achieved on ODS-C18 column using 77% aqueous methanol solution as an eluant.17α-MeT was detected using a UV detector and quantified by external standard method.The method revealed spike recoveries for 17α-methyltestosterone in the muscles of T.niloticus,L.vannamei and A.anguilla of not less than 83%,with relative standard deviations of not more than 6.48% and a limit of quantification of 8 μg/kg.The method,thanks to its simplicity and accuracy,is most suitable for the determination of 17α-MeT residue in large quantities of samples.


We have recently introduced a high-level extension for stochastic activity networks (SANs) called coloured stochastic activity networks (CSANs). CSANs have several distinguishing properties, which make them quite appropriate for modeling and evaluation of software performance and dependability. CSANs have introduced a construct called coloured place for data manipulation. A coloured place holds a list of tokens of a userdefined token type. CSAN models can be evaluated by state space analysis techniques or discrete-event simulation. However, their state spaces will become very large, even for a small CSAN model. For efficient evaluation of these models by state space analysis methods, we will introduce measure-adaptive state space analysis process in this paper. Based on this method, it is possible to construct high-level CSAN models. However, for efficient evaluation, it is possible to generate and analyze a reduced state space based on user-specified performance or dependability measures.


Polk County Juvenile Drug Court ("PCJDC") has been operating since 2001, and has built a solid reputation within the state by addressing juvenile offenders with accompanying substance abuse problems. This paper examines the PCJDC with the hopes of identifying both what has made it successful and where improvements can be made to the program. Through interviews and surveys with current and former PCJDC staff and a review of current academic research, we offer some insight to best practices of similar programs and how they could be applied within the PCJDC program. Polk County Juvenile Drug Court 4


The article examines the growing risks and security threats faced by the financial sector. This problem is currently most relevant, as the increased demand for security in the banking sector encourages the development and introduction of new technologies (including machine learning and artificial intelligence), while at the same time creating new vulnerable areas and related problems.


This paper presents a seismic performance evaluation framework using two engineering demand parameters, i.e., maximum and residual inter-story drift ratios, and with consideration of mainshock–aftershock (MSAS) earthquake sequences. The evaluation is undertaken within a performance-based earthquake engineering framework in which seismic demand limits are defined with respect to the earthquake return period. A set of 2-, 4-, 8-, and 12-story non-ductile reinforced concrete (RC) buildings, located in Victoria, BC, Canada, is considered as a case study. Using 50 mainshock and MSAS earthquake records (2 horizontal components per record), incremental dynamic analysis is performed, and the joint probability distribution of maximum and residual inter-story drift ratios is modeled using a novel copula technique. The results are assessed both for collapse and non-collapse limit states. From the results, it can be shown that the collapse assessment of 4- to 12-story buildings is not sensitive to the consideration of MSAS seismic input, whereas for the 2-story building, a 13% difference in the median collapse capacity is caused by the MSAS. For unconditional probability of unsatisfactory seismic performance, which accounts for both collapse and non-collapse limit states, the life safety performance objective is achieved, but it fails to satisfy the collapse prevention performance objective. The results highlight the need for the consideration of seismic retrofitting for the non-ductile RC structures. non-code conforming RC building. Their results showed that the MSAS earthquake had no marked effect on collapse and loss assessment of the RC building. This study, with the consideration of seismicity in Victoria, BC, extends the 4-story RC building investigated in Tesfamariam and Goda (2015) to 2-, 8-, and 12-story RC buildings. The building vulnerability assessment is further undertaken for collapse and non-collapse damage limit states.


We consider the capture dynamics of a particle undergoing a random walk in a half-space bounded by a plane with a periodic pattern of absorbing pores. In particular, we numerically measure and asym...


Objective To explore the expression of aquaporin-1(AQP1) in rat alveolar type Ⅱ cells. Methods Rat alveolar type Ⅱ cells were isolated and purified, and the distribution of AQP1 in alveolar type Ⅱ cells were observed by immunocytochemistry and immunoelectron microscope with affinity-purified antibodies to human AQP1. Results Immunocytochemistry showed that AQP1 was stained in alveolar type Ⅱ cells, and immunoelectron microscope demonstrated that AQP1 was present at the microvilli and apical membrane of type Ⅱ cells. Conclusion AQP1 existed in the alveolar type Ⅱ cells of the rats, it might play a role in pneuma fluid transportation.


This lecture deals with the origin and growth of illuminating engineering in this country from the publication of Trotter's paper in 1892 to the years immediately following the First World War. It describes the work of the pioneers in this field, especially Trotter, Paterson, Gaster and Dow, and traces the influence of the Illuminating Engineering Society in bringing about a better appreciation of the importance of a specialised study of lighting problems.


Issues in the management of the occipito posterior (OP) position have been the subject of clinical controversy over decades. Manual rotation has the potential to reduce operative delivery for fetal malposition.


The innovation in visual imagery has led to massive growth in technologies, wherein digital cameras are obtainable at affordable prices. Thus, the digital images are easily captured and processed due to the internet connectivity. On the other hand, the development of strong image editing software facilitated the forgers to manipulate the accessible images with different tampering operations. Several techniques are devised for detecting the forgeries. Accordingly, this paper devises an anti-forensic model, namely Exponentially Weighted Moving Average-Chaotic Biography Based Optimization (E-CBBO) for joint photographic experts group (JPEG) compression to mitigate the forgeries occurred on the internet while transmitting data. The proposed E-CBBO is designed by integrating the properties of the exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) with the chaotic biography-based optimization (CBBO). The suggested JPEG anti-forensic model is used to eliminate JPEG compression artifacts through the use of unique deblocking, smoothing with dither and decalibration operations. In addition, the goal is to balance visual quality and forensic undetectability when compressing the JPEG image. The fitness function is developed using the structural similarity index (SSIM), universal image quality index (UIQI) and histogram deviation parameters. With a maximum accuracy of 93.2%, a minimal MSE of 0.110, a maximum SSIM of 0.932 and a maximum UIQI of 0.890, the suggested E-CBBO beat existing approaches.


The purpose was to develop a method for projecting the need for adapted physical education (APE) teachers in the public schools in the United States. This method was derived from a prevalence-based model—dividing the number of APE students enrolled by the APE student-teacher ratio and then subtracting the number of APE teachers hired. This model used the findings of Kelly and Gansneder (1998) that (a) 4% of the school population required APE services and (b) the overall national APE student-teacher ratio was 104:1. The results revealed a need for 22, 116 additional APE teachers nationwide as well as specific projections for each state. The prevalence-based projection method is recommended for policy makers at local, state, and national levels; for APE advocates; and for all concerned with APE personnel preparation and employment.


In Greek Archaic poetry song, dance, music and text interact through multisensorial emotions (empathy, pleasure) and synaesthesias (sound/sight/movement), represented and perceived in textual devices and real or imaginary performances. In a group of poems in the Newest Sappho (frs 15, 16, 16a, Kypris Song) eros prevails, connecting the audience/readers and ego, as feeling, thinking, and acting subjects. Frs 9, 17, 18, and the Brothers Song are more about public rituals, journeys, and family relations. Fr. 5 is composite: impulses of love share characteristics with addresses to deities or parents. These texts all have a unique sound-and-dance style, as confirmed by Sappho's frs 1, 31, 44-44a, 58-59, 94, and this sensorial approach may support a transdisciplinary and sensitive conception of philology, by enhancing our appreciation of poetry as embodied experience: simultaneously emotional, aesthetic, cognitive, and intersubjective.


Sulphur prevulcanized natural rubber latex (PVNRL) nanocomposite was produced by mixing dispersions of layered silicates with prevulcanized latex. In this chapter layered silicates such as bentonite (natural) and flurohectorite (synthetic) were used in addition to a nonlayered amorphous filler (English Indian clay) as reference material. After compounding the layered silicate dispersions with PVNRL, films were prepared by casting. The postvulcanized films of PVNRL nanocomposites were subjected to mechanical, swelling, XRD and TEM studies. In all respects layered silicate nanocomposites registered maximum properties compared to the reference material. This was explained to be due to the intercalation/exfoliation of the silicate layers by the natural rubber. It was found that the fine silicate layers form a skeleton network structure (house of cards) in the vulcanizate.


In this scientific article the author considers some aspects of a preliminary check of messages about non-legal traffic of weapons, ammunition. The author identifies the key circumstances establishment, the procedure for their identification in order to obtain basis for criminal proceedings


Demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) has increased largely recently in China. As the rapid development of LNG industry, safety consideration is among the first on the main concern. This paper deals with accidents from LNG spill and mitigation methods. LNG vapour dense gas dispersion and LNG fire radiation are the main concern accidents in this study. Some mitigation methods, like impoundment and spray water curtain, are analysed and discussed in this paper. Boiling point for LNG is -161.5°C under atmospheric conditions. LNG vapor is 1.5 times heavier than ambient air, and therefore is called dense or heavy gas. This manifests special behavior that affects its dispersion. LNG vapor dispersion experiences three distinct stages, namely negative-buoyancy dominated, stably-stratified and passive dispersion. Experimental data from the Burro series field tests have been used to check the validity of simulation results of integral model. The average relative error in maximum downwind gas concentration between simulation results and experimental data is 24.28%. Because integral model is easy to use and the accuracy is satisfied, it can be applied for calculating exclusive distance and risk assessment for LNG station. Also showed by integral model, under conditions of lower wind velocity, more stable atmospheric conditions, higher LNG spill rate, or larger liquid pool, exclusive distance for LNG vapor is farther in the downwind. However, integral model can only deal with the dispersion scenario in flat terrain, without barrier. Another study work in this paper is to simulate LNG pool fire radiation. LNGFire 3 and PoFMISE are two types of solid flame model. When wind velocity is greater than 1.5m/s and pool fire diameter is greater than 20m, PoFMISE model is recommended to use rather than LNGFire 3. Compared with Montoir series LNG pool fire, the average relative error is less than 20%. However, the drawbacks for solid flame model are the assumptions for hemisphere iso-thermo radiation power and a constant value of the emissive power for fire surface. CFD model, which could take into account the non-flat nature of the terrain, such as impoundment or dike, and water curtain, is found to compare better with Burro series experimental data than integral model. The average relative error is 19.62%. Compared with Falcon series experiments, which is characterized by barrier and fence in the source area, CFD model shows a very good consistence with spatial and temporal distribution for temperature and concentration. The model is based on spatial discretization, which can fully consider the contribution of flamelet to the different spatial area, and manifest the characteristics of incomplete combustion. Compared with Montoir tests, the average relative error is less than 10%, which is better than solid flame model. The iso-temperature surface for 1100K is determined as the fire surface. Impoundment or dike works as mitigation method to minimum the risk for LNG vapor dispersion. On one aspect, the impoundment area affects the wind velocity field and generates a swirl inside it. The dispersed vapor is retained inside impoundment area. On another aspect, LNG evaporation rate would decrease to a very low value. For an impoundment, with a dimension 1m×1m, LNG spill rate 0.19m/min, it can help to reduce the exclusive distance to 1/5 and minimize the iso-concentration surface (volume fraction 2.5%) to 1/20 of the case without impoundment. Spray water curtain can also help to mitigate LNG vapor dispersion hazard. Under the conditions of lower LNG evaporation rate, water curtain with larger radius, increasing the distance between dispersion source and curtain, the affected area of LNG vapor dispersion would decrease. The programme for LNG vapor dense gas dispersion and LNG pool fire radiation is recommended to use in LNG industry for calculating exclusive distance and risk assessment for LNG station, because of its reliable model principle, low CPU source consumption, and convenient to use. However, when dealing with complicated accident scenario, with the existence of barriers, like impoundment or water curtain, CFD model is recommended to use.


Share of new renewable energy resources technologies in many countries can reach 20 % of the whole energy production and later to be even more. At that rate renewable energy resources will essentially affect on status, level and data of energy production and consumption. In Russia the discrete role plays the centralized energy supply. Decentralized and renewable energy supplies develop very slowly.


This article introduces a GIS-based campus management system's complete truss, the construct of its database and its function and so on. GIS,once adopted for the campus management, will help to improve campus management level obviously.And it can provide a favorable sample for GIS course teaching and scientific researching.


In nonimmune with the grids containing ferritin. the dis-tilled Prior to on grids, the antiserums globulins ferritin ring tests test nonimmune ring of precipitate the between the two solutions if specific were present.


The present study aims to provide empirical support for the factorial division Questionnaire adapted by Schutte et al. (2013) in a sample of women and men Mexicans adults. The total sample was of 1477 Mexican university students; 774 women and 703 men. The age ranged between 18 and 28 years (mean = 20.67 ± 1.90 years). The factorial structure of the questionnaire was analyzed by 1) Exploratory factor analysis and 2) confirmatory factor analysis and factorial invariance. The factors of both subsamples showed adequate reliability and high congruence between pairs of factors, particularly considering the small number of items in each, resulting in a fully confirmatory model. However, the model obtained does not match fully with that proposed by Schutte et al. (2013).


In our previous paper," we reported the preparation of [modified 8-ureidodehydroalanine]tuberactinomycin N from the natural antibiotic, tuberactinomycin N (Fig. 1) in practical use as an antituberculous agent, utilizing the ureidoexchange reaction through an equilibrium under acidic condition as shown in Fig. 2. In view of simplicity of the modified procedure, its applicability to small-scale experiments and the stability of the product, this method seemed to be appropriate for the preparation of labeled tuberactinomycin, which would be a useful tool for biochemical investigations, particularly on mechanism of action of this antibiotic. This paper presents a preparation of [/ 3-['"C]ureido-dehydroalanine5]-tuberactinomycin 0 (Fig. 1). This congener contains /3-lysine at the branched part in the place of the y-hydroxy-/3-lysine residue in tuberactinomycin N, which readily liberates y-hydroxy-/3-lysine lactone on strong acid-treatment. '"2 A preliminary experiment was carried out with urea of low radioactivity in a similar manner to that described for cold compound." Thus, tuberactinomycin 0 (15.0 mg, 19.3 ftanol) was treated with a mixture of cold urea (15.0 mg, 250 /'mol) and ["C]urea* (0.10 mCi, ca 2 pmol) in 3 N HC1 (0.3 ml) at room temperature (5 15°C) for 30 days. Isolation of the product in this experiment by ion-exchange column chromatography employed in the previous study" was unfavorable due to loss of some material. Therefore, the reaction mixture was passed through a column (1.2 x 80 cm) of Sephadex G 10 and eluted with water. The desired labeled product was successfully separated from excess urea as well as HCl as demonstrated in Fig. 3. The synthesis of highly radioactive compound was performed in the same way as described above except changing the ratio of radioactive urea (3.9 mCi, ca 78 ,umol) and cold urea (11.0 mg, 183 pmol). A small amount of dark precipitate was formed during the course of reaction in this case, probably due to either an impurity in the hot urea or decomposition of a very reactive species by radiation. This, however, could be completely removed by chromatography on Sephadex. The fractions containing labeled tuberactinomycin 0 were collected and lyophiliz-


The study's aim is to analyse how audiences perceive tamil films that potray women centered characters. A quantitative research study would be undertaken, where a questionnaire would be used to conduct the survey. Method of random sampling would be used for conducting the survey. This survey would be conducted on 70 men between the age group of 18 to 35. The objective of the study through questionnaire is to find out men's perception on women centered films in tamil. The research studies how tamil movies create an image on the peoples mind.


The analysis of licensing contracts provides strategic information about technologies that have been actually commercialized. This paper presents aspects of technology transfer in Brazil based on data from contracts for the exploitation of patents (EP) registered by the Brazilian Patent Office (INPI) in the period 2000—2006. A total of 283 contracts were analyzed, covering 623 documents of industrial property (patents for invention, utility model and industrial design). Some findings of the study show that the contracts for EP correspond to 2.47 percent of all contracts of technology transfer registered; there is a significant number of contracts firmed between trans-national corporations and their subsidiaries; and there is strong regional inequality in this process of technology transfer that corresponds to the gap in technological development between different regions of Brazil. This work illustrates information that can be used by policy-makers, managers and developers of technology to identify strategies of companies and to subsidize national policies for technological development.


We synthesize profiles of the infrared line Fe I 15648.5 A (g = 3) for a recently developed theoretical model of siphon flows along photospheric magnetic loops. The synthesized line profiles are compared with the observations from which Rueedi et al. (1992) deduced the presence of such flows across the neutral line of an active region plage. This comparison supports the interpretation of Rueedi et al. (1992). It also suggests that the average footpoint separation of the observed loops carrying the siphon flow is 8-15 sec and that the siphon flow experiences a standing tube shock in the downstream leg near the top of the arch.


Research Problem: A pre-experimental study on the effect of Drain Friendly Jackets on Comfort in post mastectomy
subjects in wards of a selected hospitals in a metropolitan city.
Primary Objective: To compare the level of comfort in post mastectomy subjects with and without use of Drain Friendly
Jackets.
Research Methodology:Population of the study was subjects underwent mastectomy post operatively with drains day 1
in a hospital. The investigator used comfort assessment tool to assess the comfort levels in the patient pre & postintervention. Opinionnaire taken for the intervention given. Study was conducted with 45 subjects.
Results: The comfort score was assessed Drain Friendly Jacket was given to the subjects, there was a significant
difference between comfort level achieved while using the jacket compared to the without use of jacket with an average
comfort score for with jacket and without jacket and with it is statistically significant.
Conclusion: Findings of the study indicated that Drain Friendly Jacket has helped to improve subjects comfort during
post mastectomy period. Patient were able comfortably perform their routine tasks.


The transportation characteristics of aerosol particles in capillaries were studied with Monte Carlo simulation based on the diffusion model of aerosol particles,and the relationship between penetration and flow velocity was also investigated.It was shown that the penetration of aerosol particles significantly depended on the mean flow velocity.The penetration of aerosol particles remarkably increased with increasing mean flow velocity.It was also found that the mean retention time,half-peak width and penetration derived from the simulation were virtually consistent with experimental results.


The COVID pandemic has throttled the world by forcing mankind to accept the new abnormal and operate concomitantly with the realities of VUCA ecosystem. The Health Care Supply Chain Management System is enormously impacted. This paper addresses the issues and challenges in determining the emphaticalness of Lean Six Sigma in the health care supply chain domain. An extant review of literature has resulted in the formulation of the following research questions (a) what constitutes health care management system? (b) What components of Health Care supply chain management system are impacted by COVID and (c) How has the emphaticalness of Lean Six Sigma affected? In order to seek answers to these research questions, a structured approach was adopted. It commenced with the finalization of the topic followed by an extant review of literature. The literature review resulted in the formulation of research questions. The data was collected by means of Google forms and face to face interactions. The sampling technique deployed was purposive and the number of respondents targeted initially was 100 though after verification and validation they were reduced to 40. The domain of the respondents included various hospitals, nursing homes from different job profiles. Grounded Theory was applied in the study. Descriptive and exploratory data analysis technique was applied. The study contributes to the existing literature in terms of new research of taking into account new domain of study. The managerial implications of the study that concerted approach is needed to make lean six sigma more profound. The research implication is the new domain and application of lean six sigma. A large sample size would have provided greater degree and depth of new findings. Future recommendation includes the customization of the findings to suit the work environment. The conclusion of the study results that health care management system is generics and it needs to be brought down to specifics to ensure that the reach of lean six sigma generates more emphaticalness. Keywords— COVID, Emphatic, Health Care Management System, Lean Six sigma


Objective To explore perceived health status and their effect factors of middle aged intellectual. Methods Case control study were used on compare perceived health status and their influence factors of middle aged intellectual with general citizen , and Logistic regress analysis were used to explore effect factors for perceived health status. Results The results show that middle aged intellectual perceived health status are true of their body condition and positive correlation with satisfactory with colleague relation and economic condition. but negative correlation with the smoking, super drinking alcohol, lack of sleep, divorcement or lose of spouse and having chronic disease. Conclusion The results suggested that we should paid attention to physiological status and corrected bad life habits and also paid attention psychological health care and enhance economic condition. of middle aged intellectual.


The utility model provides a refuse pyrolysis produced gas treatment device, which is formed by sequentially connecting a refuse treatment device, a refuse drying device, a refuse pyrolysis device, an afterheat recovery and utilization device and a smoke gas purifier. The utility model is characterized in that the refuse treatment device comprises a refuse material bin (1), a material feeding machine (2), a refuse conveyer (3), refuse sieving equipment (4) and a refuse crushing machine (5), wherein the refuse drying device comprises a refuse drying machine (6), the refuse pyrolysis device comprises a pyrolysis drum (7), a cyclone dust collector (8), a pyrolysis gas burner (9) and an indirect cooler (10), the afterheat recovery and utilization device comprises a afterheat boiler (11) and a steam power generator set (12), and the smoke gas purifier comprises a cloth bag dust remover (13). The refuse enters the pyrolysis drum after being treated, organic matters in the refuse are converted into energy sources after the pyrolysis under the air isolation condition, and inorganic matters are completed mineralized to become refuse carbon. The utility model solves the refuse treatment problem, realizes the stable production, and avoids the secondary pollution such as dioxin and the like, in addition, both the produced fuel gas and the refuse carbon are valuable substances, the effect of no waste generation in the whole process can be realized, and the clean production can be completely realized.


Colocating multiple throughput-oriented jobs on the same server is a commonly used approach for improving system throughput in modern datacenters. The shared resources of the server are usually partitioned among the colocated jobs in order to prevent performance interference caused by resource contention. However, how to properly partition the shared resources among the colocated jobs is nontrival, because it usually has to trade off between two conflict objectives, as datacenter manager wants to maximize server throughput while job owners hope to experience a fair slowdown. Moreover, a desirable resource partitioning strategy should also be efficient, autonomous and adaptive. So far, this problem is not well-addressed in the literature due to several critical challenges. In this paper, we propose an online learning based framework, named Orchid, to address the multi-objective resource partitioning problem. Orchid leverages contextual multi-armed bandit (CMAB) to model the resource partitioning problem and uses a light-weight online learning algorithm to learn the optimal partitioning configuration according to some easy-to-collect runtime system status. Orchid has two distinguished properties compared to the existing solutions: first, it has the ability to trade off between the two objectives flexibly according to the aspiration of decision maker; second, it has the awareness about runtime system status, which can help to improve the efficiency of finding the optimal partitioning configuration and the adaptivity to dynamic environment changes. Moreover, Orchid does not require any prior knowledge of jobs, and incurs a very small computational overhead. Our evaluations show that Orchid achieves all the desired properties of a good resource partitioning strategy, which outperforms the state-of-the-art baselines with significant margins. Orchid is publicly available at https://github.com/OpenSourceOrchid/Orchid.


Mass entrepreneurship and innovation education in colleges and universities is a systematic project promoted as a whole, which pays attention to the cooperation between different participants and the coupling between top-level design and landing implementation, showing a horizontal and vertical intertwined ecological relationship. Constructing the collaborative ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities is an important topic to promote the comprehensive reform of colleges and universities, a key way to stimulate the innovation and entrepreneurship vitality of the whole society, and the only way to implement the strategy of "strengthening the country through innovation". The research shows that the collaborative ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities has the characteristics of the openness of the system boundary, the non-equilibrium of the system state, the nonlinearity of the system dynamics and the fluctuation of the system movement, and includes subject collaboration level, system collaboration level and environmental collaboration level. In terms of the construction path, the research further believes that the construction path of the collaborative ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities includes three aspects: establishing the system structure, releasing the system power and ensuring the development of the system. Among them, the establishment of the system structure is the premise and the release of the system power is fundamental.


As a special academic fund organization cooperated by Chinese and foreign universities, Harvard Yenching Institution has been working normally with its neat system, and successful cooperatin and inter-complement among its internal organizations. All these ensured its high efficiency and great vitality.


This study evaluated the effect of the music type (analog and digital) on the grip strength. Five male and five female healthy college students participated in the experiment. The independent variables were music type (analog, digital, no music) and listening time (5 min., 10 min., and 15 min.). The classic LP disc was used as the analog music and the LP was converted to mp3 to make the digital music source. Grip forces were measured every 5 minutes until 15 minutes using Jamar strain guqge. Mean forces and peak forces were used as dependent variables. The analysis of variance showed that there was no difference between analog and digital music (p>0.05). Only, the gender effect was statistically significant (p 15 minutes).


Several species of freshwater mollusc, with radiocarbon dates of 10 900 – 9050 years BP, have been recovered from supraglacial and intraglacial lacustrine sediments in the Cooking Lake moraine region of south-central Alberta, Canada. The organisms indicate the onset of a warming trend in the region that lasted at least 2000 years, marking the final stages of melting in the continental Wisconsin ice sheet.This period of climatic amelioration correlates with a similar trend in southwestern Alberta during the time interval 13 000 – 9000 years BP based also on the evidence of late and early postglacial molluscan communities.


Many stratigraphic reservoirs with unconformity have been found in Wuxia area of the northwestern edge of Junggar Basin. It is important to study the role of the unconformity in the process of hydrocarbon accumulation. On the basis of 3D geological model and analysis of Erosion Thickness,the formation of unconformity and burial history of this area were studied,and the 3D dynamic system was simulated. Simulations show that the three sets of source rock reach maturity and expulse hydrocarbon at different ages in Wuxia area. The source rocks in Jiamuhe formation reach maturity at middle Permian and Late Permian Epoch. The source rocks in Fengcheng formation reach maturity at Late Traissic Epoch. The source rocks in Lower Wu'erhe Formation begin to generate hydrocarbon at Jurassic Period. The unconformity conduit simulation shows that the role of unconformity near the source rock is more important than that far from the source rock in the process of hydrocarbon accumulation,and that oil and gas migrate along the ridge in the weathering-cracked loess horizon and basal conglomerate. It is the predominant pathways for oil and gas migration. The lateral migration distance in along the ridge in the weathering-cracked loess horizon is shorter than that in basal conglomerate. Oil and gas mostly break through thin clay area and migrate to near horizon in the same unconformity. Unconformity is not only the hydrocarbon passage systems but also the oil and gas accumulation place. The distribution of Oil and gas pool is relevant to the block of the unconformity. The Oil and gas pool distribute at the block of unconformity.


Abstract Relationships between polymorphism type at nine genetic loci and first lactation production of Holstein cows were investigated. The total data included 3,107 lactations, which represented 18 years, 126 sires, and 8 herds. The analyses included adjustments for herd, sire, year, and season effects. Significant milk and fat yield differences were indicated for the F blood group system. Constant estimates for the F F /F F , F F /F V , and F V /F V genotypic classes were —80, —191, and 271kg milk, and —4.3, —9.0, and 13.3kg fat, respectively. Also, milk and fat yield differences were significantly associated with the five genotypic classes involved at the transferrin locus. Constant estimates for the Tf A /Tf A , Tf A /Tf D , Tf A /Tf E , Tf D /Tf D , and Tf D /Tf E cows were 348, 158, —56, —42, and —409kg milk, and 13.8, 5.5, -5.1, 1.7, and -16.0kg fat, respectively. Alleles at the B blood group locus were significantly associated with fat percentage differences. There was some evidence of association between S locus alleles and fat yield differences. In general, the A, J, L, and Z loci appeared to have no noticeable effects on the three production traits. Also, analysis of a smaller number of animals (669) failed to indicate any relationship between β -lactoglobulin type and the production traits.


Correspondence: Kyoungwon Lee, PhD Department of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, Hallym University of Graduate Studies, 427 Yeoksam-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 06197, Korea Tel: +82-2-2051-4951 Fax: +82-2-3453-6618 E-mail: email@example.com Purpose: Several studies have reported the differences between Korean and other countries' speech in long-term average speech spectrum (LTASS) and band importance function. Authors tried to identify the conversational speech level, the resulting spectrum, and the LTASS for Korean. The purpose of this study was to support the production of a Korean-type hearing aid fitting formula to effectively improve the sound quality of hearing aids and the communication abilities with hearing aids, and to standardize the sound stimuli required to measure the performance of hearing aids. Methods: A total of 73 participants with normal hearing and with no specific voice and language deficits was voluntarily recruited from capital, Gyeongsang and Jeolla areas. The conversational speech level was measured by vocalizing 'soft,' 'moderate,' 'raised,' and 'loud' at a distance of 1.0 m from the speaker. And LTASS was measured by vocalizing it at a distance of 0.2 m from the speaker. Results: There was a difference in the mean of males and females in the conversation level, but no significant regional differences were shown. The conversational speech level corresponding to 30th, 65th, and 99th percentiles was 59.67, 64.74, and 79.07 dB sound pressure level, respectively. And the speech spectrum of 30th, 65th, and 99th percentile and LTASS showed in different forms from the international speech test signal. Conclusion: The results of this study should help to calculate the Korean type hearing aid fitting formula and should be used as the basic data to determine the characteristics of the sound stimuli when measuring the performance of the hearing aid.


Chinese lingists have been seeking to be independent of the Indo-European linguistic research paradigm. There have been various discussions on this topic. This paper maintains that the key to the problem is not grammar units but syntactic research perspective. With examples in Mandarin Chinese,this paper introduces a new methodology for syntactic research,the Construction-Chunk Approach. This new approach is a supplement to traditional syntactic analysis.


The transport coefficients of a dilute classical gas in the presence of a nonconservative force proportional to the particle velocity are determined from the Boltzmann equation. First, when this force is the only external action on the state of the system, the Boltzmann equation admits a Maxwellian solution f0(v,t) with a time-dependent temperature. Then, the Boltzmann equation is solved by means of the Chapman-Enskog expansion around the local version of the distribution f0 to obtain the relevant transport coefficients of the system: the shear viscosity η, the thermal conductivity κ, and a new transport coefficientµ (which is also present in granular gases) relating the heat flux with the density gradient. While the three coefficients areexactly determined from the Boltzmann equation for Maxwell molecules, expressions for them are obtained for non-Maxwell molecules by considering the BGK kinetic model of the Boltzmann equation. Finally, a stability analysis of the linear hydrodynamic equations with respect to the time-dependent equilibrium state is performed, showing that the onset of instability is associated with the transversal shear mode that could be unstable for wave numbers smaller than a certain critical wave number.


It is well established that native listeners outperform non-native listeners on word recognition tasks involving both speech-shaped noise (SSN) and competing speech (speech babble). The present study examined whether this non-native disadvantage can be compensated for by speaking style enhancements. We also explored how these acoustic-articulatory modifications interact with energetic and informational masking at different signal-to-noise ratios to determine intelligibility for the two listener groups. Native and non-native participants heard noise-adapted (NAS) and clear speech (CL) sentences mixed with either SSN, two-talker (2T), or six-talker (6T) babble. CL and NAS significantly improved word recognition in noise, but native listeners were better able to use the intelligibility-enhancing modifications. Results revealed an interaction between noise type and SNR such that the intelligibility gain was larger for SSN at an easier SNR, but for 6T babble at a harder SNR. The speaking style modifications en...


Diabetes mellitus (DM) is associated with adverse outcomes after surgical aortic valve replacement. However, there are conflicting data on the impact of DM on outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).


We present near-IR long slit spectroscopic data obtained with ISAAC on VLT/ANTU (ESO/Paranal) to produce Bracket gamma and H2 emission line maps and line profile grids of the central 4"×4" region surrounding the central engine of NGC1068. This paper summarizes the results presented in Galliano & Alloin. The seeing quality together with the use of an 0.3" wide slit and 0.3" slit position offsets allow to perform 2D-spectroscopy at 0.5" spatial resolution. The spectral resolution corresponds to 35km s-1. An asymmetric distribution of H2 emission is observed: no H2 emission is detected at the location of the 2.2 μm continuum core, while two conspicuous H2 knots of are detected at about 1" East and West of the central engine. These knots show a projected velocity difference of 140km s-1 that we interpreted as the signature of a rotating disk of molecular material. The H2 emission line profiles appear highly asymmetric with their low velocity wing being systematically more extended than their high velocity wing. A simple way to account for the changes of the H2 line profiles over the entire 4"×4" region, is to consider that the emission of a radial outflow is superimposed over the emission of the rotating molecular disk. We present a model of such a kinematical configuration and compare our predicted H2 emission line profiles to the observed ones.


Objective To observe the clinical effect of Magnesium sulfate combined with cold dressing in the treatment of dropsy in perineum after postpartum period.Methods 80 cases with perineal edema were observed after postpartum period.They were divided into the experimental group and the control group.The experimental group was treated by cold dressing pad for perineum.The control group was treated by traditional Magnesium sulfate.Results The effective power of experiment group was 92.5%,and the effective power of control group was 74.5%.Conclusion The patients are treated by the cold dressing pad after parturition 2 hours late.It gets a high efficient,and is convenient in operation.


The 13 chapters that make up The tertiary moment all, in one form or another, derive from a NIACE seminar held in November 2004 to explore issues surrounding higher education, lifelong learning and the concept of a single post compulsory sector. Far from being a simple or single moment, the tertiary idea has been around for some time making limited impact on the overall structure, financing, policy and practice of education in the UK. As Sir Howard Newby has noted, where there is diversity British educational policy-makers and practitioners create hierarchy. The vocational/ academic divide is still alive and well and possibly stronger than ever. Universities are presently sorting themselves out according to their research standing, foundation degrees have had a shaky start and New Labour's much publicized Widening Participation Strategy is narrowly focused on the younger full time student with the Government regulator, the Office of Fair Access (OFFA), largely emasculated by intensive and successful lobbying from a number of Vice Chancellors. The contributors, all prominent in lifelong learning, university senior management and educational policy, have a lot to say but practical and implementation aspects seem to be the real problem. A sense of frustration and underlying impotence stemming from the complex configuration of vested interests, habits of minds, class traditions and lack of political will, perhaps pervades the book. Chris Duke's opening chapter is in many ways the best. The Associate Director Higher Education for NIACE summarizes and succinctly comments upon many of the issues addressed later in the book suggesting that English educators are better at mourning what has been lost than visualizing an alternative future. A lot of space is consequently devoted to the lifelong learning networks (LLNs) that were just emerging when these papers were being written with the inevitable a series of bullet points referring to employment, technology, learning rather than teaching and so on that seek to answer one key question. What is the role of LLNs beyond workforce development in a fractured and hierarchal post-compulsory sector? Richard Taylor rehearses the familiar story of the decline of continuing education in the pre-1992 universities highlighting two as yet unresolved issues:


Modern international economy is a global interconnected system, in which countries actively cooperate with each other. In addition, they are co-founders of international companies, members of international organizations and integration associations. Integration organizations significantly correct comparative and competitive advantages of their members by either giving them new growth reserves or increasing the threats they face. The Eurasian Economic Union is not an exception in this case. On the one hand, its members have an opportunity to enhance their strengths through internal cooperation, on the other hand, they cannot do it because the EAEU does not meet the criteria of an integration organization. Therefore, if its members rely on their own potential, they cannot take a prominent place in the structure of the world order. The solution of this problem may lie in deepening partnership with a third-party country. This country could be China due to its interests, development purposes and the level of its foreign trade relations.


We prove the existence of a solution to an 1-D free boundary problem which describes the propagation of disturbances of shock type, modeled by a non standard variational inequality.


Nonlinear contact arithmetic of ANSYS system is employed for simulating hole-edge stress of sheared bolt. The preload of sheared bolt is caused by cool method. In this paper, an evaluation formula of bolt joint stiffness is presented to obtain relative curves between bolt joint stiffness and thickness of lapped plates. Some reliable conclusions are shown for simplifying computation of lapped bolt from complex structure.


Pyrite crystal is used as a potential catalyst for the degradation of pollutants or removing waste gas in environmental engineering. However, the traditional pyrite synthetic process could lead to intermediate phases during formation of pyrite, such as FeS or Fe1−xS, hurting the purity of the products. In this study, pure FeS2 nanotubes with a stoichiometric ratio were fabricated by vulcanizing the precursor nanotubes. The photocatalytic activity of nanotubes was investigated via decomposing methylene blue and phenol. The results indicated that the oxidation of pyrite affected the photocatalytic activity of pyrite nanotubes slightly. Comparing with the pyrite piled microparticle coating and the hematite nanotube coating, the visible light driven catalytic activity of the pyrite nanotube coating was derived from increased production of hydroxyl radicals. The topography of the nanotube array contributed to the generation of the photoinduced hole+ and separation of the e−/hole+ pairs, eventually enhanced photocatalysis performance. In addition, Fe2O3 nanotubes can decompose MB effectively, however, hardly degrade phenol. This work offers insight to develop transition metal based semiconductor photocatalysts for environmental and energy utilization.


Threat-related information strongly competes for attentional selection, and can subsequently be more strongly represented within visual working memory. This is particularly the case for individuals reporting high trait anxious personality. The present study examined the role of anxiety in both attention and memory-related interactions with threat. We employed a hybrid working memory / visual search task, with participants pre-selected for low and high anxious personality traits. They selected and memorized an emotional face (angry or happy) appearing together with a neutral face in encode displays. Following a delay period, they matched the identity of the memorized face to a probe display item. Event-related markers of attentional selection (N2pc components) and memory maintenance during the delay period (i.e., CDA) were measured. Selection biases towards angry faces were observed within both encode and probe displays, evidenced by earlier and larger N2pcs. A similar threat-related bias was also found during working memory maintenance, with larger CDA components when angry faces were stored. High anxious individuals showed large selection biases for angry faces at encoding. For low anxious individuals, this bias was smaller but still significant. In contrast, only high anxious individuals showed larger CDA components for angry faces. These results suggest that threat biases in attentional selection is modulated by trait anxiety, and that threat biases within working memory may only be present for high anxious individuals. These findings highlight the key role of individual differences in trait anxiety on threat-related biases in visual processing, especially at the level of working memory maintenance. low and high trait individuals show rapid attentional selection biases towards as and larger N2pc to in analogous threat bias also during visual working memory retention, but only for high anxious individuals. results suggest a dissociable role of individual differences in trait anxiety on threat biases in visual attention and visual working memory. They also highlight the importance of systematic investigations into impact of anxiety on working memory processes, which may provide valuable insight into the formation and maintenance of sustained attentional biases to


Background:  The aim of our study was to assess the different mutations involved in clarithromycin‐resistant Helicobacter pylori strains isolated from French children and their temporal trends.


Abstract Dependence measures, from linear correlation coefficients to recent copula-based methods, have been widely used to find out associations between variables. Although the latter type of measure has overcome many drawbacks of traditional measures, copula has intrinsically some undesirable characteristics for particular applications. In this paper, we discuss dependence modeling from a pattern recognition perspective and then introduce a new non-parametric approach based on anomaly detection through cluster analysis. The proposed methodology uses a weighting procedure based on Voronoi cells densities, named Weighted Voronoi Distance (WVD), to identify potentially atypical associations between univariate time series. The advantages are two-fold. First, the time series structure is respected and neither independence nor homoscedasticity is presumed within data. Second, any distribution of the data and any dependence function is allowed. An inference procedure is presented and simulation studies help to visualize the behavior and benefits of the proposed measure. Finally, real financial data is used to analyze the detection capacity of the contagion effect in financial markets during the 2007 sub-prime crisis. Different asset classes were included, and the WVD was able to signalize anomalies more strongly than the Extreme Value Theory and copula approach.


In our study, we have used the Monte Carlo simulation to determine the impact of the change of the axis length where the electric field applied, and the surface set by the other two axes, which are perpendicular on the electric field on the mobility and the diffuse coefficient of C60. In this context, we have found that the mobility reached 1.48 × 10−3 cm2/Vs at 250K, and 2.1 × 10−2 cm2/Vs at 300K, and the diffusion coefficient reached 3.1 × 10−5 cm2/s and 5.4 × 10−4 cm2/s at 260K and 300K, respectively


Rutilus rubilio Bonaparte, 1837 and Scardinius erythrophthalmus Linnaeus, 1758 were introduced to the Tunisian reserve of Sidi-Salem dam (Fig. 1) in the nineties in order to be used as forage fish for other carnivorous species, notably for the pikeperch Stizostedion lucioperca (M'hetli, 2001). The population dynamics of these two species strongly influence the state of the pikeperch stock which is most targeted by the fishermen. Rutilus rubilio and Scardinius erythrophthalmus are therefore equally consumed by the local population in comparison with the population of the big cities. Studies on the reproduction of R. rubilio are rare (Daoulas, 1981; Crivelli, 1996) considering that this is a species of southern Europe found mainly in Italy, Greece and Croatia (GarciaBerthou, 1999). It has no important commercial value. In fact, most studies have been carried out on the roach R. rutilus, because of its importance in the trophic balance of the freshwater reserve, its angling and especially in its large geographic distribution over Europe (Peczalska, 1968; Goldspink, 1979; Easton & Dolben, 1980; Worthington et al., 1982; Vollestad & L'Abée-Lund, 1987). This is equally valid for S. erythrophthalmus. No biological data are available for these two species in Tunisia.


A continuous-time Wiener phase noise channel with an integrate-and-dump multi-sample receiver is studied. A lower bound to the capacity with an average input power constraint is derived, and a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) analysis is performed. The proposed lower bound suggests that the capacity pre-log depends on the oversampling factor, and amplitude and phase modulation do not equally contribute to capacity at high SNR.


Trauma to the cranio-facial and maxillo-facial region is mostly complex and posing a great challenge to manage for treating physicians. The aim of reconstruction of craniofacial regions is to functionally and aesthetically rehabilitate the region. In this manuscript, we employ GC2 rational cubic Ball curve to reconstruct cranio-maxillo-facial region. The main steps are conversion of Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) images to boundary extraction, corner point detection, Ball curve fitting and finally solution conversion to DICOM format. The proposed method does not require a mirror image, reference skull or a technician. Construction is just based on DICOM data. We also use rational Ball curves to reconstruct fractured anatomy part of the cranio-facial region. A Graphical User Interface (GUI) has been developed for practical application.


Discovery of suitable web services is a crucial task in spatial data infrastructures. We present a novel approach to the semantic discovery of Geoprocessing Services (WPS). Requests and WPS are annotated as conjunctive queries in a logic programming (LP) language and the discovery process is based on LP query containment checking between these descriptions. Besides the types of input and output, we explicitely formalise the relation between and hence are able to capture the functionality of WPS more precisely. The use of LP query containment allows for effective and decidable reasoning tasks during service discovery.


Vertical root fractures often result in tooth extraction. There are many factors which contribute for this incidence & root canal preparation is one of the important cause in that. Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the effects of three different instrumentation techniques on vertical root fracture resistance of endodontically treated teeth. Materials and Methods: 45 freshly extracted mandibular premolar teeth of similar dimensions were randomly divided into hand K-file (HF, n = 15), Wave One reciprocating single-file (WO, n =15) & rotary file (RF, n = 15) groups. After cleaning and shaping the root canals, obturation was completed & root canals were embedded in standardized auto polymerizing acrylic resin blocks, subjected to a vertical load to cause vertical root fracture. The forces required to induce fractures were measured using a universal testing machine. ANOVA and Tukey's post-hoc test were used to analyze the data. Results: All experimental groups showed statistically significant reductions in fracture resistance as compared with the Hand files. The fracture resistance was more in HF followed by WO & RF group respectively. Conclusion: Hand files were more resistance to fracture compared to others. But, all three instrumentation techniques caused weakening of the structure of the roots and rendered them susceptible to fracture.


The specific features of the combustion waves propagating through the channels filled with chemically active gaseous mixture and non-uniformly suspended micro particles are studied numerically. It is shown that the heat radiated by the hot products, absorbed by the micro particles and then transferred to the environmental fresh mixture can be the source of new ignition kernels in the regions of particles' clusters. Herewith the spatial distribution of the particles determines the features of combustion regimes arising in these kernels. One can highlight the multi-kernel ignition in the polydisperse mixtures and ignition of the combustion regimes with shocks and detonation formation in the mixtures with pronounced gradients of microparticles concentration.


(57) Abstract: The present invention relates to high peel adhesion removability systems and release agents. The high release adhesive removability system contains a binder comprising a microsphere and at least one acrylamide component. The release agent contains a polymer having at least one vinyl polymer component and at least one siloxane polymer component having a Tg existing between -10 ° C. and 65 ° C..


Computed tomographic scan of the chest from (A) 1991 showing a giant bulla in the right lung with significant shift of the mediastinum to the left and (B) in 1993 showing a dramatic reduction in the size of the bulla. Note that the lung is almost completely re-expanded and the mediastinal shift is resolved. inflammation may further obstruct already compromised bronchial communications with the bullae resulting in a closed space. Eventually fluid and then air resorption leads to regression ofthe bulla. If this mechanism is valid, one might speculate that other known causes of airway obstruction such as tumour, mucous plugging, or blood clot could also lead to shrinkage of the bulla. A retrospective review from Japan reported three cases of lung bulla regression associated with bronchogenic cancer, although no details on individual cases were provided.'0 Our case is of interest not only because of the rarity with which spontaneous regression has been reported in the literature, but also because it was associated with such dramatic improvements in the radiological picture and pulmonary function. Unlike earlier reports, this occurred in the absence of overt infection or tumour. Re-expansion of compressed lung and reversal of mediastinal shift was accompanied by improved pulmonary blood flow. Substantial increases in FEV, as documented in this patient, are sometimes seen following surgical bullectomy in well selected patients. Our patient was not thought to be a good candidate for bullectomy because of diffuse emphysema, which underlines the difficulty in selecting patients for surgery. Abstract Sternocostoclavicular hyperostosis (SCCH) is a condition which is welil described in the Japanese literature but is rare in Western Europe. It is characterised by pain and swelling in the upper anterior part of the chest, which tends to be progressive. A patient is described with bilateral chronic discharging sinuses over the anterior ends of the clavicles in whom the diagnosis appeared to be one of SCCH. A 75 year old woman of Ashkenazi Jewish extraction was referred because of increasing shortness of breath. For five years she had suffered from recurrent clavicular problems. Initially this had been swelling, pain, and stiffness around the medial ends of the clavicles 550


AbstractThis paper argues that development studies could benefit from a closer engagement with the arguments of Karl Polanyi. Firstly, a Polanyian perspective gives greater weight to non-economic and non-material factors in making, maintaining and modifying markets. Secondly, it focuses research on the problematic, state- sponsored and contested process of bringing the market actor into being. Finally, a Polanyian approach might better link a, broadly speaking, leftist analysis to "real world" policy debates about the relative balance between market freedoms and regulation. The conclusion elaborates this final point.