Mission Kakatiya is one of prestigious programs of Telangana state government under which restoration of tank across ten districts is being implemented. As part of the program, government plans to restore about 9,000 lakes. Therefore, to have a comprehensive list of lakes existing in Telangana state, Samagra Tank Survey was carried out. Data collected in this survey contained about 45,000 tanks. Since the mode of collection of data was not in a standard format and was made using excel, a web interface was created to fill the gaps and to standardise the data. A new approach for spatially identifying the lakes through Google maps was successfully implemented by developing a web interface. This approach is less common since it implements the nature of asset mapping for the lakes of Telangana state and shows the advantages of using online mapping applications such as Google maps in identifying and cross checking already existing lakes on it.


The goal of this research is investigation of relationship between school-based management and creativity of principals and teachers in public secondary school for boys at Khoy city, the current research method is descriptive and its type is correlation. And statistical community or group of this research its number is 270 person and 140 person is selected among them, such that 40 principals is selected in the way of census and 100 teachers is selected as simple accidental way. Information gathering tool , is questionnaire that questionnaire of SBM (0.925) and creativity questionnaire (0.87) are performed after determination and affirmation and evaluating of reliability of questionnaires and it used from parametric simple regression and Pierson correlation coefficient test and ANOVA test obtained results from hypothesis tests show that all of the creativity components (fluidity flexibility, extension and innovation) have meaningful relation whit SBM , and regression results show that SBM with expression factor 0.591 and Beta factor .0.555 have positive effect on creativity of principals and teachers, and are from prediction components of creativity. The researcher has suggested necessity and importance of attention to establishment of SBM for training creativity and flexibility in schools due to obtained results from research that is indication of existing strong relationship between SBM and creativity.


ABSTRACT Organizational change research has largely concluded that employees appraise changes in their workplace negatively and thus respond negatively to greater amounts of change. However, whether this conclusion is warranted remains unclear because previous research has examined single workplace changes in isolation or asked employees to make a global assessment of the changing nature of their workplace. Researchers have not had the means to capture the number of changes employees experience or their appraisals of the many different changes occurring in their workplace. In this study, we developed and validated the Quantity of Change Scale (QCS) to provide a more nuanced understanding of employees' appraisals of their changing workplace. We found that the negative changes employees experience disproportionately influenced their reactions to the changing work environment. However, we also demonstrated that contrary to popular belief, employees appraised fewer changes as negative than as positive or neutral. Together these findings provide new insight into why assessments of employees' general reactions to workplace change tend to be negative. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of our empirical examination of employees' appraisals of the many changes in their workplace.


[Objective] To explore the application of repairing the extensive oropharyngeal defects produced during the ablation of advanced oropharyngeal cancer. [Methods] Eleven patients (8 males and 3 females ranging in age from 26 to 76 years old, with a mean age of 52.5 years old) with advanced oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas were treated at our institution. Extended vertical lower trapezius island myocutaneous flaps based on the transverse cervical artery were used to repair the extensive oropharyngeal defects. Seven patients continued to perform radiotherapy. [Results] No major flap failure and no shoulder dysfunction occurred. The donor sites were closed directly. The functional results in terms of speech and swallowing were satisfactory. The patients were followed for 4 to 15 months (average 7.2 months). One of them was alive with disease and three died. [Conclusion] the extended vertical lower trapezius island myocutaneous flap is a large, simple, and reliable flap, which is preferred for reconstructing extensive oropharyngeal defects following radical surgery for advanced oropharyngeal cancer.


ABSTRACT Objective This research quantified the effect of woody breast disease (WBD) presence and severity on activity in broilers. Materials and Methods Broiler cockerel chicks (n = 27) were enrolled over 2 periods and individually housed. Video data were collected continuously from 21 to 55 d of age. Behavior was analyzed over a 4-h interval using EthoVision XT automated tracking software to quantify total activity. Birds were slaughtered at 55 d of age and assigned a woody breast severity score (0–2) based on manual palpation and visual observation. Results and Discussion Of the 25 birds that survived for the duration of the study, 6 birds were assigned a severity score of 0 (no evidence of WBD), 14 a severity score of 1 (firm focal lesions), and 5 a severity score of 2 (diffuse firmness of the entire pectoralis major muscle). Neither WBD presence nor severity had an effect on total activity (P > 0.05). In the present study, no effect of WBD on activity was detected using an automated tracking software program for behavior quantification. However, limitations of the software and the potential presence of microscopic lesions in birds with a severity score of 0 may be contributing to this outcome. Implications and Applications Although WBD has significant financial implications for the poultry industry, limited research has evaluated the effect of WBD on bird welfare and behavior. Future studies should measure a more diverse set of behaviors while also analyzing muscle histology to better elucidate any associations between WBD and behavior.


The Al-coated-oxide pyramids have been fabricated with and without Ti wetting layer. The nano-size aperture surrounded by the periodic structure on the fabricated oxide pyramid has been fabricated using focused ion beam milling system. The significantly reduced light transmittance from the Al metal aperture with Ti wetting layer have been measured, and compared it with the sample without Ti layer. This can be the evidence for surface plasmon polariton contribution to the enhancement of light transmittance through the metallic subwavelength size aperture in the visible range.


A 66‐year‐old Japanese woman presented with upper abdominal pain and nausea after having eaten several rice cakes. An abdominal CT scan showed retained rice cakes in the stomach, which led to intestinal obstruction three days later.


At the Barnes Site (40DV307) along the Cumberland River, two discrete shell-bearing deposits dating to the Late Archaic and Middle Woodland periods (approximately 3500 and 1800 cal BP respectively) are separated by a thick Early Woodland–period shell-free stratum dated between 2900 and 2000 cal BP. Alternating shell-bearing and shell-free deposits at sites elsewhere in the southern Ohio Valley have often been viewed as indicative of long-term changes in subsistence practices and traditions or large-scale environmental fluctuations affecting resource abundance. At Barnes, however, chronological, geoarchaeology, and paleoethnobotany data from shell-bearing strata recovered in 2010 and 2012 suggest that the two shell-bearing deposits mark the locations of shellfish processing at or near the river's edge when the river channel was physically closer to the current site location. Particle-size data indicate that when the shell-free deposit accumulated, the site was situated in a low-energy depositional zone, suggesting that the river channel had shifted further to the west during that period of time.


Papers Published in 2012−2013 E Fall, the chemical community informally discusses the state of their field around the time that Nobel Prizes are announced. It is a natural time to reflect and consider the major discoveries that led to evolving trends in the discipline, and to hypothesize about what the future will hold for each subdiscipline in catalysis. Recently, I attended the 24th Solvay Conference on Chemistry: Catalysis in Chemistry and Biology, in Brussels. The presentations and discussions spanned the full breadth of catalysis, including discussions on molecular catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, and biocatalysis/enzymology. Seasoned Nobel Laureates (Marcus, Wüthricht, Grubbs, Ertl), U.S. National Medal of Science winners (Stubbe, Klinman), as well as new Nobel winners (Feringa) with expertise in catalysis all contributed their thoughts on the future of the field. The assembled researchers sought to find commonalities between the various subdisciplines of catalysis, discussing unifying themes. It is refreshing to see the fields moving closer together, a trend represented by the launch of ACS Catalysis in 2010. In this year's June issue of ACS Catalysis, I asked the community to consider a few questions about papers that appeared in the journal. Specifically, I asked: • Which original research papers published in ACS Catalysis in 2012 or 2013 have affected your thinking about catalysis in a significant way? • What papers from this period in the journal will authors still be reading and citing in 2022, that is, 10 years later?


Submitted article focuses on the analysis of preserved documents and correspondence of the Duchess of Burgundy Alix of Vergy. The article surveys especially on the political pursuit of the duchess during her regency just on the basis of this kind of sources. The article analyzes individual documents and letters and subsequently reflects in them the events of the time period and the personality of the Duchess of Burgundy. In the first part are briefly outlined comprehensive historiography about history of Burgundy and current state of research in this topic. Also are outlined the life events of Alix of Vergy from being the wife of Odo III., through being the regent up to the position of mother of the ruling Duke of Burgundy. In the second and the main part the article deals with the analysis of documents and correspondence of Alix of Vergy during her regnancy. The article on the basis of the source reconstructs the extent of her political power, independence and free decision-making throughout her reign.


Scientific and technological progress might change people's capabilities or incentives in ways that would destabilize civilization. For example, advances in DIY biohacking tools might make it easy for anybody with basic training in biology to kill millions; novel military technologies could trigger arms races in which whoever strikes first has a decisive advantage; or some economically advantageous process may be invented that produces disastrous negative global externalities that are hard to regulate. This paper introduces the concept of a vulnerable world: roughly, one in which there is some level of technological development at which civilization almost certainly gets devastated by default, i.e. unless it has exited the 'semi-anarchic default condition'. Several counterfactual historical and speculative future vulnerabilities are analyzed and arranged into a typology. A general ability to stabilize a vulnerable world would require greatly amplified capacities for preventive policing and global governance. The vulnerable world hypothesis thus offers a new perspective from which to evaluate the risk-benefit balance of developments towards ubiquitous surveillance or a unipolar world order. Policy Implications • Technology policy should not unquestioningly assume that all technological progress is beneficial, or that complete scientific openness is always best, or that the world has the capacity to manage any potential downside of a technology after it is invented. • Some areas, such as synthetic biology, could produce a discovery that suddenly democratizes mass destruction, e.g. by empowering individuals to kill hundreds of millions of people using readily available materials. In order for civilization to have a general capacity to deal with "black ball" inventions of this type, it would need a system of ubiquitous real-time worldwide surveillance. In some scenarios, such a system would need to be in place before the technology is invented. • Partial protection against a limited set of possible black balls is obtainable through more targeted interventions. For example, biorisk might be mitigated by means of background checks and monitoring of personnel in some types of biolab, by discouraging DIY biohacking (e.g. through licencing requirements), and by restructuring the biotech sector to limit access to some cutting-edge instrumentation and information. Rather than allow anybody to buy their own DNA synthesis machine, DNA synthesis could be provided as a service by a small number of closely monitored providers. • Another, subtler, type of black ball would be one that strengthens incentives for harmful use—e.g. a military technology that makes wars more destructive while giving a greater advantage to the side that strikes first. Like a squirrel who uses the times of plenty to store up nuts for the winter, we should use times of relative peace to build stronger mechanisms for resolving international disputes. Is there a black ball in the urn of possible inventions? One way of looking at human creativity is as a process of pulling balls out of a giant urn. The balls represent possible ideas, discoveries, technological inventions. Over the course of history, we have extracted a great many balls – mostly white (beneficial) but also various shades of gray (moderately harmful ones and mixed blessings). The cumulative effect on the human condition has so far been overwhelmingly positive, and may be much better still in the future (Bostrom, 2008). The global population has grown about three orders of magnitude over the last ten thousand years, and in the last two centuries per capita income, standards of living, and life expectancy have also risen. What we haven't extracted, so far, is a black ball: a technology that invariably or by default destroys the civilization that invents it. The reason is not that we have been particularly careful or wise in our technology policy. We have just been lucky. It does not appear that any human civilization has been destroyed – as opposed to transformed – by its own inventions. We do have examples of civilizations being destroyed by inventions made elsewhere. For example, the European inventions that enabled transoceanic travel and force projection could be regarded as a black-ball event for the indigenous populations of the Americas, Australia, Tasmania, and some other places. The extinction of archaic hominid populations, such as the Neanderthals and the Denisovans, was probably facilitated by the technological superiority of Homo sapiens. But thus far, it seems, we have seen no sufficiently auto-destructive invention to count as a black ball for humanity. What if there is a black ball in the urn? If scientific and technological research continues, we will eventually reach it and pull it out. Our civilization has a considerable ability to Global Policy (2019) 10:4 doi: 10.1111/1758-5899.12718 © 2019 The Authors. Global Policy published by Durham University and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. Global Policy Volume 10 . Issue 4 . November 2019 455


This is not only a book written by specialists for specialists, but also for everyone who wants to brush up on their knowledge on the rapidly and ever-growing field of combinatorial chemistry.[...]


The female of Euparatettix nigritibis Zheng et Jiang is described.The female of Euparatettix nigritibis is the same as the male.But the size is bigger than the male.Length of body:♀7.5~8.0 mm;Length of pronotum:♀10.5~11.0 mm;Length of hind femur:♀5.5~6.0 mm.Specimens examined:13♂♂10♀♀,Beihai Guangxi,China,109.5° E,21.5° N,2005-02-10,80 mm;2♀♀,Qinzhou Guangxi,China,108.8° E,21.8° N,2005-02-10,100 mm.Type specimens are kept in the Department of Chemistry and Biology,Hechi University and the Institute of Zoology,Shaanxi Normal University.


Background

Conifers and angiosperms have difference in reproductive development, especially for flowering. It is known that NUCLEAR FACTOR Y (NF-Y) transcription factor play an important role in flowering, drought stress and GA, ABA signaling, but, little known in auxin, salicylic acid, jasmonic acid, etc. Moreover, the NF-Y genes family has been mainly analyzed in angiosperms, but it has not been comprehensively reported in conifers.
Results

In this study, we identified 9 NF-YA, 9 NF-YB, and 10 NF-YC genes in Pinus tabuliformis using Arabidopsis NF-Y protein sequences as queries. Besides, by comparing conserved regions and phylogenetic relationships of the PtNF-Ys, we found that the NF-Ys were both conserved and altered during evolution. PtTFL2, PtCO, PtNF-YC1 and PtNF-YC4 were exploited by expression profile in male cone development and the correlation analysis. In addition, NF-YC1/4 can interact with DPL by yeast two-hybrid assays and BiFC. The multiple types of phytohormones-responsive cis-elements (ABA, JA, IAA, SA) were present and many NF-Y genes responded positively to SA and as opposed to IAA and JA.
Conclusions

Twenty-eight PtNF-Ys were identified and bioinformatic characterization of NF-Y genes including conserved regions, phylogenetic relationships, gene-motifs, was carried out. Two candidate genes (NF-YC1 and NF-YC4) were found to be involved in the regulation of conifer flowering and gibberellin signalling. The cis-elements and hormone transcriptome analysis revealed that the potential role of NF-Ys in conifers resistance. This study provides the basis for improved understanding of NF-Y genes function in conifers.


Incomplete multi-view clustering (IMC) is a long-standing and challenging problem due to the fact that multi-view dataset are often incomplete in practical applications. In this paper, we propose a new IMC method by learning the consensus representation of incomplete multi-view with embedding a complete graph regularization. Specifically, we first exploit the common representation of multiple views by embedding missing-view indicator matrix into the matrix factorization operation, such that the learned new representation is well shared among all views. Then, we learn the combination relationship between similarity matrices of each view to obtain the complete similarity graph. By combining the consensus representation with the complete graph regularization, our proposed method can simultaneously learn the consensus representation and preserve the local geometric information of both the available and missing instances of multiple views. Experimental results on several widely used missing-view datasets clearly demonstrate the promising clustering performance of the proposed method in comparison with most state-of-the-art IMC methods.


In this paper, we presented a numerical method for solving linear Volterra integral equations (LVIE) which is based on the non-uniform Haar wavelets. By applying this method, the LVIE is reduced to a linear system of algebraic equations which can be solved by direct method. The min advantage of using non-uniform Haar wavelets is that the time of calculation can be adjusted arbitrarily. Also, we presented the error analysis of the proposed method. Furthermore, two examples are included for the demonstrating the convenient capabilities of the new method.


The monitoring system for the monitoring center of the substation needs to collect various signals of multiple substations and whether it has the intelligent functions and human-oriented design plays an important role in the operation of the integrated automation system of the substation and even the entire power gird.Through the analysis on the functions of the monitoring system,this paper focuses on the discussion about the functions and human-oriented design that the monitoring system for the monitoring center requires in order to provide better service for monitoring operators on the basis of the original design.


One of the possible roles of Termitomyces sp. present as white spheres in the live termitarium of mound building termites is to maintain suitable humidity in the termitarium.


Objective To obtain and characterize a novel gene of Schistosoma japonicum. Methods Looking for a novel gene through expressed sequence tags(EST),then predicting its function with the help of software on line. Finally the novel gene was cloned into an eukaryotic plasmid pEGFP N3. Results A novel gene with complete ORF was obtained. It has homogeneity with Defender Against Apoptotic Death 1 of human and pig. Conclusions EST is a good method to find new genes and analyse them with the help of software on line and characterize their function.


Real‐world evidence has become increasingly relevant in regulatory decision making. Compared to large regulatory bodies, the national pharmacovigilance system in Taiwan is still under development, and the aim of this study is to demonstrate how a resource‐limited health authority utilizes real‐world evidence in decision making.


The present invention relates to a lenticular sheet configuration with a transparent pattern beneath a lenticular lens, and more particularly, to a lenticular sheet on which a layer having a certain refractive index is disposed, said layer enabling the printing and bonding of a transparent pattern on the reverse surface of the sheet. The lenticular sheet of the present invention comprises: a lens layer with a plurality of lenses formed thereon; a plurality of transparent patterns formed on the undersurface of the lens layer; and a reflective guide layer formed on the side surfaces of the plurality of transparent patterns and on the undersurface of the lens layer, the reflective guide layer being transparent and having a refractive index different from the plurality of transparent patterns.


As a major commercial town during the period of Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty before 1840,after the opening of market,Hankou's position and role in trade changed from a traditional inland delivery center to an international large market.During the course of transition,Wuhan began its modernization,but from 1861 to 1889,before Zhang Zhi-dong's governing,the modernization was exogenous and passive;from Zhang Zhi-dong's governing to the end of Qing Dynasty,the modernization of Wuhan was accelerated,in which foreign trade played an important role.


A method of concentrating the fibrils of cellulose, the aqueous fibril cellulose 5% or less concentration, the method comprising pressure filtration of water by applying pressure to the aqueous fibril cellulose is removed from the fibril cellulose, pressure filtration, method comprising the be continued until the endpoint 50% or more of the initially present water is removed from the fibril cellulose. Pressure filtration is carried out at 30 ° C. or higher. .Field


Taking Yan 9 reservoir as the study object,according to oil reservoir geology materials,all kinds of well drilling data and production dynamic data,based on stochastic simulation theory,RMS software was used to establish three-dimensional visualization fine reservoir geological model to randomly produce many implementations of the probability.On this basis,the best implementation was selected by static and dynamic method.


faith of their childhood has gone, like belief in Father Christmas, and they have, for the moment, nothing to put in its place, except perhaps some barbarous political ideology, unintellectual do-goodery, or arid atheism. Even where they avoid these pitfalls, too often they feel they have committed some great sin by being forced to rebel against traditional formulae, when all that they are really suffering from is the growing pains of approaching adult life. These reflexions are therefore valuable as a medicine equally potent against complacency or self-denunciation. But there is a manifest weakness which is not altogether removed by the joyous peals of laughter emanating from the Delectable Mountains. The search for truth is only significant and purposive if there be somewhere something to be found, and this involves, if not certainty itself, at least the logical possibility of arriving at certainty, and, if not cut and dried beliefs about things which in any event cannot be expressed except in highly poetical or analogical language, at least some sort of objective judgements about moral and spiritual values, which have significance to more than one individual's emotional state. Without these certainties, the way of conflict becomes a meaningless journey into a logical wilderness unaccompanied by a pillar of fire by night and unguided by any pillar of cloud by day. Harry Williams is not afraid of the paradoxes of felix culpa, or even of pecca fortiter. To him, the Way of the Cross involves the assertion of our own spiritual independence, and even, in the knowledge of our own mixed motives, an uninhibited pursuit of our temporal objectives. Well and good. We were not designed as straw dummies. But at the end of the day there is light and darkness, truth and falsehood, good and bad, right and wrong. In the recognition of the conditional which is all that we can see of the truth and the good as through a glass, darkly, there is always the knowledge that somewhere, at some time, we shall meet the Absolute face to face, to know even as we are known. At this moment of time, though, no doubt, there will be joy, there will also be knowledge and certainty. LORD HAILSHAM House of Lords.


SUMMARYKaryological investigations were made on two taxa of Sirogonium Kutzing. The chromosome numbers reported in the present study are found to be n = 8 for S. inflatum and n = 50 ± 2 for S. reticulatum. These two chromosome numbers obtained for S. inflatum and S. reticulatum are first reports.


Ranking several countries on a specific area may require the consideration of various factors simultaneously. To obtain a ranking of countries, the development of analytical approaches, which can aggregate opinions of a group of people on various criteria, is essential. The main aim of this study was to propose such a ranking approach for European countries in terms of healthcare services. To this end, a hybrid group decision-making model based on Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Terms Set (HFLTS) and Hesitant Fuzzy Technique of Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (HF-TOPSIS) is presented in this study. Importance degree of indicators were determined by the HFLTS-based group decision-making approach, and then HF-TOPSIS was used to obtain the rank of countries. According to the results obtained by the proposed model, Austria, Sweden and Finland are the best European countries in terms of healthcare services. Moreover, two comparative analyses, one for the utilization of different hesitant fuzzy distance measures in HF-TOPSIS and one for the ranking of countries obtained by utilizing TOPSIS, return some variations in country rankings. While Austria remained the best country for all distance measures in the hesitant fuzzy environment, Luxemburg was found to be the best for the deterministic case of TOPSIS.


Porous Ni1-xZnxFe2O4(x=0-0.8) ultrafine fibers were prepared by electrospinning technique and subsequent calcination process.The crystal structure,micromorphology,pore character and room-temperature magnetic properties of the samples were investigated by means of XRD,FTIR,FESEM,low-temperature N2 adsorption-desorption and VSM techniques,respectively.The results show that the obtained porous Ni1-xZnxFe2O4 ultrafine fibers calcined at 550℃ for 2 h are single-phase spinel structure with an average grain size of 25-30 nm.These ultrafibers have diameters in the range of 200–500 nm and a large aspect ratio.N2 adsorption-desorption analysis indicate that the pore structure of as-prepared Ni0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4 porous fibers mainly consists of slit-like mesopores with a mean pore diameter of about 11 nm.With the increase of Zn content(x=0 to x=0.8),the lattice constant of Ni1-xZnxFe2O4 ultrafine fibers increases linearly and complies well with Vegard's law,and the infrared vibrational frequencies corresponding to tetrahedral sites shift toward lower wavenumber.The coercivity of the samples gradually decreases from 13.8 kA/m(x=0) to 2.3 kA/m(x=0.8),whereas the specific saturation magnetization increases initially,reaches a maximun value of 66.8 A.m2/kg at x=0.4 and then decreases with further increase of Zn content.It is found that the synthesized Ni-Zn ferrite untrafine fibers exhibit relatively high coercivity due to their high shape anisotropy compared with the nanoparticle counterparts with similar size.These porous Ni-Zn ferrite untrafine fibers have potential application in many fields such as sensitive devices,microwave absorbers,and catalysts.


The results are presented of a study to collect and evaluate freight transportation data on motor carrier, railroad, airline, water, pipeline and other goods movement modes. Problems encountered in acquiring this data are, noted, and sources of the existing data are listed. It is noted that on a tonnage basis, by all major modes except trucking, Maryland is a net importer of goods. Tonnages moved both into and out of the state by the five major modes. About 158 million tons of freight were transported to or from Maryland in 1973. The goods had an estimated value of more than $21 billion. It is suggested that an approach to augmenting and improving upon the existing commodity flow data base of Maryland Might be to concentrate on the modal funcition points and major population centers, and perform analyses of vehicle trips and tonnage flows from a terminal. The anlayses should consider destination by region outside the state and within the state; regional rankings could be calculated by tonnage and vehicle movements; and statistics could be created by commodites carried and vehicle loadings.


The invention discloses a drug for treating viral hepatitis type C and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the field of traditional Chinese medicines. The active ingredients of the drug are obtained from mangnolia officinalis, chrysanthemum leaf, semen coicis, radix curcumae, adenophora stricta, herba violae, polygonum cuspidatum, fingered citron, schisandra chinensis, glossy privet fruit, agastache rugosus, sambucus chinensis, chickweed, dandelion, senecio and amomum cardamomum. The drug is prepared from the good-quality Chinese herbs which are combined through modern scientific validation, and thus has the effects of nourishing blood and liver, clearing heat and detoxifying, promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis, and enriching yin and nourishing kidney; the drug is capable of enhancing the immunity of the organism, accurate in curative effect on the viral hepatitis type C caused by hepatitis c virus, quick in curing, and safe and free of side effect; in addition, the drug also can be applied to preventing the hepatitis C, and is remarkable in prevention effect.


In this paper, we consider a three-user cognitive radio network with two primary users and one cognitive radio. We concentrate on a three-user Interference Channel (IFC) where one of the transmitters has cognitive capabilities and non-causally knows the messages of the other two transmitters. Moreover, we assume that the cognitive transmitter does not cause any interference at the receivers of the primary users and we introduce three-user Cognitive Z-Interference Channel (C-ZIFC). We first obtain an inner bound on the capacity region of three-user C-ZIFC, where our coding scheme makes use of collaborative strategy by rate splitting and cooperative strategy by superposition coding. Moreover, the cognitive user uses Gel'fand-Pinsker binning in order to reduce the interference at its own receiver. We also provide an outer bound on the capacity region of this channel and show that characterizing the capacity region of a three-user C-ZIFC is non-trivial based on the two-user case; the reason lies in the fact that the three-user setup captures the specifications of the IFC like independent channel inputs. We also consider the Gaussian case and find an achievable rate region for the Gaussian C-ZIFC.


Rabbit is widely used as an experimental animal model in infectious and non-infectious diseases. The haematologic data can be helpful in evaluating the health status of animals over time. The aim of this study was to determine the levels of red blood cells (RBC), white blood cells (WBC) and differential leukocyte counts in 5 nulliparous and 5 multiparous females, i.e. in young and older animals, at mating and at delivery. The values of RBC did not change with age, but WBC and lymphocytes decreased with age, a -33% and a -60% less in multiparous females than nulliparous ones. Monocytes count was double at delivery than at mating. In conclusion, aging on the immune system is manifested as reduction in production of mature lymphocytes and as a result, older females would not respond to immune challenge as robustly as the young ones. Physiological status is only related to production of monocytes.


In 1980, calcium magnesium acetate (CMA) was identified in the U.S. as a promising alternative to salt. The most positive effect of CMA as compared to salt is perhaps reduced corrosion whereas the melting effect is slightly poorer. Studies of CMA have been carried out in Sweden since the beginning of the 1980s. Due to the high price of CMA, at least 20 times that of salt, laboratory and field tests have recently been done with mixtures of CMA and salt. The expected reduction of corrosion was however not as large as earlier results from laboratory studies, found in the literature, had suggested.


We analyze the determinants of corruption in Russia using law enforcement data on corruption incidents for a panel of 79 Russian regions for the period 2004–13. We find that the relative salaries of bureaucrats determine corruption levels: corruption declines as relative salaries rise, yet at strongly diminishing rates. Furthermore, we show that even very limited media freedom helps to curtail corruption. Other important determinants are the strength of law enforcement, education levels, and unemployment rates.


--The increasing volume of generated crime information readily available on the web makes the process of retrieving and analyzing and use of the valuable information in such texts manually a very difficult task. This work is focus on designing models for extracting specific information from the Web. Thus, this paper proposes an ensemble framework for named entity recognition task. The main aim is to efficiently integrating feature sets and classification algorithms to synthesize a more accurate classification procedure. First, three well-known text classification algorithms, namely K-Means and K-Nearest Neighbor classifiers, are employed as base-classifiers for each of the feature sets. Second, weighted voting ensemble method is used to combine theses three classifiers. Experimental results demonstrate that using ensemble model is an effective way to combine different feature sets and classification algorithms for better classification performance. KEYWORDS--NER domain, Classifiers, Combination method, Machine Learning


Recent advances in pattern analysis techniques together with the advent of miniature vibration sensors and high speed data acquisition technologies provide a unique opportunity to develop and implement in-situ, beneficent, and non-intrusive condition monitoring and quality assessment methods for a broad range of rotating machineries. This invited paper provides an overview of such a framework. It provides a review of classical methods used in vibration signal processing in both time and frequency domain. Subsequently, a collection of recent computational intelligence based methods in this problem domain with case studies using both single and multi-dimensional signals is presented. The datasets used in these case studies have been acquired from a variety of real-life problems 1 Vibration and Condition Monitoring Vibration signals provide useful information that leads to insights on the operating condition of the equipment under test [1, 2]. By inspecting the physical characteristics of the vibration signals, one is able to detect the presence of a fault in an operating machine, to localise the position of a crack in gear, to diagnose the health state of a ball bearing, etc. For decades, researchers are looking at means to diagnose automatically the health state of rotating machines, from the smaller bearings and gears to the larger combustion engines and turbines. With the advent of wireless technologies and miniature transducers, we are now able to monitor machine operating condition in real time and, with the aid of computational intelligence and pattern recognition technique, in an automated fashion. This paper draws from a collection of past and recent works in the area of automatic machine condition monitoring using vibration signals. Typically, vibration signals are acquired through vibration sensors. The three main classes of vibration sensors are displacement sensors, velocity sensors, and accelerometers. Displacement sensors can be non-contact sensors as in the case of optical sensors and they are more sensitive in the lower frequency range, typically less than 1 kHz. Velocity sensors, on the other hand, operate more effectively with flat amplitude response in the 10 Hz to 2 kHz range. Among these sensors, accelerometers have the best amplitude response in the high frequency range up to tens of kHz. Usually, accelerometers are built using capacitive sensing, or more commonly, a piezoelectric mechanism. Accelerometers are usually light weight ranging from 0.4 gram to 50 gram. 1.1 Advantages of vibration signal monitoring Vibration signal processing has some obvious advantages. First, vibration sensors are non-intrusive, and at times non-contact. As such, we can perform diagnostic in a non-destructive manner. Second, vibration signals can be obtained online and in-situ. This is a desired feature for production lines. The trending capability also provides means to predictive maintenance of the machineries. As such, unnecessary downtime for preventive maintenance can be minimized. Third, the vibration sensors are inexpensive and widely available. Modern mobile smart devices are equipped with one tri-axial accelerometer typically. Moreover, the technologies to acquire and convert the analogue outputs from the sensors are affordable nowadays. Last but not least, techniques for diagnosing a wide range


The effect of hydraulic fracturing on the permeability and fluid flow of various Iraqi oil storage cores has been studied. Rumaila, Majnoon, and Zubair fields with different permeability were included in this study. Experiments were performed to determine the breaking pressure of the permeable core. Therefore, numerical and experimental results were compared to test the constant pressure on the impermeable core. Finite Volume Method (EbFVM) corresponding to the Dual Porosity Dual Permeability Model (DPDP) was used. A fractured reservoir in the Iraqi fields was studied for its single-phase fluid flow behavior. To represent the pressure distributions, ANSYS-CFX program was used. The comparisons between the fractured and non-fractured cores has been presented. In this paper, the pressure for permeable cores of Rumaila field has been determined and verified during the experimental and numerical simulation due to its lower fracture pressure. Hence, the required pressure has been determined for impermeable cores of Majnoon and Zubair fields due to the difficulties to measure such high pressure. The results show that the expected pressure to make a flow for the core belongs to the Majnoon field reaches to 1.724×107 Pa (2500 psi), while the expected pressure for the fluid to flow into the core belongs to the Zubair field reaches 1.379×108 Pa (20000 psi).


I write to draw your attention to the disparity between information published by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) for 2012-131 and the Australian governments' budget allocations for that year tabulated in the article 'Investing in acute health services: is it time to change the paradigm?'.2 Indeed, the AIHW presents data on capital expenditure in a manner that obscures significant investment trends in 21st century hospitals and is misleading and unhelpful for healthcare resourcing.1It is of concern that AIHW has reduced the information on our nation's investment in health to one new line of information per year as virtually all public sector investments on hospitals, community health buildings, medical equipment, IT and communications and other capital are reduced to one number. This number does not illuminate the important questions of healthcare investment: are we investing appropriately to support Australian clinical services and is the investment sufficient for the number of patients requiring clinical care?Because there is only one line of new information published by AIHW on capital invested in healthcare it is important that it is meaningful. Table 3.4 ofHealth expenditure Australia 2012-13,1 (Capital Expenditure, by source of funds...) shows three sources of funds: those from the Australian Government, those from State, Territory and local Governments and those from the nongovernment sector. The confusion arises where all but 1.3% of funds sourced from the Australian government are included in the State, Territory and local Government figure because that is where expenditure happened. There are two consequences of this data presentation that are of concern.1First, reading the information on health expenditure in 2012-13, one would not know that, since 2009, the Commonwealth Government has made an unprecedented A$2.54 billion investment in health capital, particularly for hospitals, through the Health and Hospitals Fund (HHF). This represents a significant change in public policy on capital funding for hospitals and is worthy of note. If the AIHW decision had been to show the capital amounts by their funding source, the 2012-13 statement would have reflected the A$721.75 million allocated through the HHF as capital for healthcare projects rather than the A$72 million.Similarly, if theactual 2011-12 capital funding sourced from the Commonwealth was recorded, it would have shown an investment of A$1.218 billion by the Commonwealth for health and hospital infrastructure, rather than the A$217 milllion shown.1,3,4The second concern is that capital does not receive the detailed, careful reporting and analysis that is AIHW's usual standard. For example, confusion arises when AIHW (in Health Expenditure 2012-13) states that Commonwealth funding of health capital has had an average growth rate of -1% per annum over the decade to 2012-13.1 Yet, in Health Expenditure 2011-12,4 Commonwealth funding of health capital had an average annual growth in health capital of 14.9% over most of the same years in the decade to 2011-12. Similarly, adjustments made to annual health capital expenditure between these two health expenditure publications result in significant changes in some figures, including total capital expenditure, which varied between publications by A$767 million and A$959 million for the 4 years to 2011-12. …


In this biographical approach to Baillou's work, the individual, the clinician and the epidemiologist are successively considered. Lastly, the coherence of Baillou's persona and the rationality of his life choices are discussed as potential keys to understanding the innovative and transgressive character of his work.


This article reveals the critical content of the idea of scientific revolution in Wolff's philosophy and shows Leibniz's contribution to its formation. Although Wolff's goal was to reform the method of philosophizing on the model of Euclid's geometry, which was based on the Cartesian idea of achieving certainty by clarifying concepts, this clarification Wolff in the sense of Leibniz sees in such an analysis of concepts that would accurately establish a connection between them and show the possibility of the object that expresses this concept. Wolff sees the critical meaning of his method in the fact that by analyzing the concepts to link all concepts and statements into a single system, which was based on consistent grounds and would not contain unproven propositions. This would, according to Wolf, remove from philosophy all the concepts, the objects of which were not possible, and statements that could not be proved. Leibniz's idea of concept analysis also formed the basis of his notion of philosophy as the science of the possible. The critical meaning of this concept of philosophy in Wolff, as in Leibniz, was to limit the subject of philosophy only to the realm of the possible. Although the main critical ideas underlying Wolff's philosophical system were formulated by Leibniz, Wolf's system was still the fruit of his genius. Many of his critical ideas were groundbreaking and had a marked influence on the further development of philosophy. These include, first of all, the requirement to preface the construction of a system of philosophy with research the cognitive abilities of the human mind. However, his attempts to build a universal system of knowledge led to the leveling of the critical content of some of Leibniz's demands, which led to the accusation of him and Leibniz of atheism and fatalism.


It provides a method and system for performing color correction of display with a different color gamut. The method includes at least one using the reference type display having a display and a standard color gamut of the non-reference type having a non-reference color gamut, comprising the step of performing color correction on source picture content. The execution step is to mastering the source picture content, comprising the step (530) for providing mastered color corrected picture content to be displayed on the non-reference type displays having a non-reference color gamut. Step above execution step further, generating metadata for gamut mapping color conversion so as to display the mastered color corrected picture content to the reference type displays having a reference color gamut (586) including. Source picture content is mastered only for the non-reference type displays having a non-reference color gamut.


Multiple scale models are investigated in order to improve modelling of turbulent nonequilibrium boundary layers. A new energy/frequency model is obtained from the reference energy/ux MKFLCm model. It is rst calibrated on the standard equilibrium boundary layer and then applied to several non-equilibrium o ws, including the transonic bump o w and the o w around an airfoil in static and dynamic stall conguration.The multiple scale predictions are compared with experimental results and with standard single scale models.


Background: The current recommended dosage of insulin in the management of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), which is 0.1 U/kg per hour, lacks robust clinical evidence to support its efficacy. Physiological dose-response investigations have determined that even lower doses can effectively restore ketonemia and acidosis to normal levels. Reducing the dosage of insulin may offer benefits during the early stages of treatment, particularly when there is a need for a gradual decline in glucose levels, electrolyte levels. Low-dose vs standard-dose insulin in the management of pediatric diabetic ketoacidosis. Materials and Methods: Participants included consecutive children aged 13 years or younger who exhibited diabetic ketoacidosis. The monitoring of blood glucose levels, specifically capillary or venous blood glucose, was conducted at regular intervals of every half hour. Serum electrolytes, blood glucose, urea, calcium, magnesium, phosphate, hematocrit, and venous blood gases, along with corresponding anion gap, were monitored at two-hour intervals during the first five hours and then at four-hour intervals until resolution of ketoacidosis. This study comprised a total of 50 participants diagnosed with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). Result: This study included a total of 50 children diagnosed with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), with 25 children assigned to the low-dose group (Group A) and another 25 children assigned to the standard dose group (Group B). A prevalence rate of 48% was observed in children who presented with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) as the initial manifestation of newly developed diabetes. A prevalence rate of 36% was observed in children with severe diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). The duration required for the resolution of ketoacidosis was 23.11±2.58 hours in the low-dose group and 24.11±2.98 hours in the standard-dose group, with no statistically significant difference observed between the two groups (P=0.44). The duration required for a specific parameter of ketoacidosis to reach the desired endpoints (pH ≥7.30, HCO3 ≥15 mEq/L, BOBH <1 mmol/L, and normal sensorium) was comparable between the two groups. The rate of decline in blood glucose levels per hour and the duration required to reach a level of 250 mg/dL were comparable between the two groups. Conclusion: It is determined that the duration of ketoacidosis resolution was comparable between the low-dose and standard-dose insulin infusion methods, while the low-dose insulin approach exhibited a reduced incidence of complications associated with therapy.


For the measurement of effective intensity of flashing lights, the Blondel-Rey, Blondel-Rey-Douglas, Form Factor, and Allard methods are adopted in various applications. These methods can produce significantly different results depending on the pulse waveforms. These methods have been studied and compared by computation using ten different pulse waveforms including a train of pulses and a modulated pulse at varied duration from 0.001 s to 10 s. The results indicate failures of the Blondel-Rey-Douglas and Form Factor methods for a train of pulses and some problems with other forms of pulses. The Allard method shows reasonable results for all forms of pulses except that it shows results considerably higher than the Blondel-Rey results for rectangular pulses at 0.1 s to 1 s duration. To solve this problem of the Allard Method, its visual impulse response function is modified so that the results for rectangular pulses match the results by the BlondelRey equation. This modified method produces results equivalent to the BlondelRey equation for rectangular pulses, yet, solving all the problems identified with the other methods for non-rectangular pulses.


The fringe electric field-driven transflective nematic liquid crystal display with dual orientation has a problem that the voltage-dependent transmittance and reflectance curves do not match each other, requiring a dual driving circuit to achieve a high electro-optic performance. Optimizations of the electrode structure in the array substrate and configuration of each optical layer solve this problem so that the transflective display with a single-gap and a single-gamma curve is possible.


By making use of conformal mapping, we construct various time-evolution operators in (1+1) dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs), which take the form $\int dx\, f(x) \mathcal{H}(x)$, where $\mathcal{H}(x)$ is the Hamiltonian density of the CFT, and $f(x)$ is an envelope function. Examples of such deformed evolution operators include the entanglement Hamiltonian, and the so-called sine-square deformation of the CFT. Within our construction, the spectrum and the (finite-size) scaling of the level spacing of the deformed evolution operator are known exactly. Based on our construction, we also propose a regularized version of the sine-square deformation, which, in contrast to the original sine-square deformation, has the spectrum of the CFT defined on a spatial circle of finite circumference $L$, and for which the level spacing scales as $1/L^2$, once the circumference of the circle and the regularization parameter are suitably adjusted.


By a classical result of Roitman, a complete intersection $X$ of sufficiently small degree admits a rational decomposition of the diagonal. This means that some multiple of the diagonal by a positive integer $N$, when viewed as a cycle in the Chow group, has support in $X\times D\cup F\times X$, for some divisor $D$ and a finite set of closed points $F$. The minimal such $N$ is called the torsion order. We study lower bounds for the torsion order following the specialization method of Voisin, Colliot-Th\'el\`ene and Pirutka. We give a lower bound for the generic complete intersection with and without point. Moreover, we use methods of Koll\'ar and Totaro to show lower bounds for the very general complete intersection.


Semantics has been a major challenge when applying the process mining (PM) technique to real-time business processes. The several theoretical and practical efforts to bridge the semantic gap has spanned the advanced notion of the semantic-based process mining (SPM). Fundamentally, the SPM devotes its methods to the idea of making use of existing (semantic) technologies to support the analysis of PM techniques. In principle, the semantic-based process mining method is applied through the acquisition and representation of abstract knowledge about the domain processes in question. To this effect, this paper demonstrates how the semantic concepts and process modelling (reasoning) methods are used to improve the outcomes of PM techniques from the syntactic to a more conceptual level. To do this, the study proposes an SPM-based framework that shows to be intelligent with a high level of semantic reasoning aptitudes. Technically, this paper introduces a process mining approach that uses information (semantics) about different activities that can be found in any given process to make inferences and generate rules or patterns through the method for annotation, semantic reasoning, and conceptual assertions. In turn, the method is theoretically applied to enrich the informative values of the resultant models. Also, the study conducts and systematically reviews the current tools and methods that are used to support the outcomes of the process mining as well as evaluates the results of the different methods to determine the levels of impact and its implications for process mining.


An investigation was carried out to study the effects of parity order, lactation stage and milking time on dairy cows' udder dimensions (circumference, length, fore and hind depths, fore and hind teats lengths and udder capacity). The relationship of milk yield with these measurements was also aimed. 118 Kenana × Friesian crossbred cows of the farm of the Armed Forces Cooperative Corporation, were grouped according to parity order (1-8 parities) and lactations stage (early, mid and late). The udder measurements were taken before and after morning and noon milking for consecutive 15 days. Three-way analysis of variance was used for the statistical analysis. Correlations and linear regressions of milk yield on the different udder measurements were also examined. The average milk yield was 6.03±2.71 kg/milking, whereas udder measurements before milking averaged 105±15.0 cm, 44.8±7.43 cm, 23.7±3.11 cm, 23.6±3.71 cm, 6.78±1.81 cm and 5.99±1.66 cm, for udder circumference, length, fore depth, hind depth, fore teat length and hind teat length, respectively. The average calculated udder capacity before milking was 1067±265 cm. The results revealed that all the studied udder measurements increased with parity order. The udder measurements were higher before the morning milking than before the noon milking. Stage of lactation did not affect the udder measurements. The study concluded that these Kenana × Friesian crossbred cows had good shaped udder but relatively long teats. It also concluded that when evaluating the udder measurement factors such as period between milking and cows' age should be put into consideration. It is worth mentioning that the length of the udder before milking is the most udder measurement variable with milk yield (correlation coefficient = 0.64) and each cm change in udder length represent 0.22 kg milk yield change.


Purpose: To evaluate and compare the in vitro susceptibility of human conjunctival bacterial isolates to various antimicrobial agents, including lomefloxacin, other fluoroquinolones (ciprofloxacin, norfloxacin, and ofloxacin), aminoglycosides (gentamicin, tobramycin, and amicacin), and cephalosporin (cephalothin). Methods: Antibiotic susceptibility tests conducted over a period of 27 months with 613 bacterial isolates from the conjunctiva were retrospectively analyzed. Results: In relation to the total number of positive isolates, the fluoroquinolones showed greater in vitro effectiveness than the other analyzed antibiotics. All bacterial isolates showed significantly higher susceptibility to ciprofloxacin than to lomefloxacin. Conclusion: The fluoroquinolones are not only equally effective against all conjunctival bacterial isolates, but they also show superior antimicrobial activity in comparison to aminoglycosides and cephalothin. These results suggest that fluoroquinolones, such as lomefloxacin, can be beneficially prescribed for conjunctival infections and also as prophylaxis in ocular surgery.


N and Co co-doped TiO2 nanoparticles grown on carbon fibers are employed to facilitate the formation and stabilization of LiO2.


The significant growth of CD-ROM products has been one of the most notable developments in business information during the latter years of the last decade. Optical technology has enabled the storage of vast amounts of data on a single compact disc and, with the user base growing, at an economic price. But for CD-ROM technology to be worthwhile, it is not enough merely to replicate databases that can be accessed via other electronic means. In order to establish CD-ROM publishing as an original, rather than


As a novel process intensification technology,continuous microreaction technology(MRT) has shown more and more applications in the field of flavour,fragrance and cosmetics.The recent progress of MRT and its application in perfume synthesis is overviewed.In contrast to a conventional batch reactor,continous microchannel reactor is recognized by its merits of contiuous operation,intensified capability of mass/heat transfer and precise control of reaction parameters etc.The advantages of MRT was demonstrated in many reaction types mostly utilized for perfume synthesis,and successful examples of MRT in flavour fragrance industry forecast its promising and broad outlook.


In the theatre of information everything counts. Long before the actors take the stage, the theatre is gathering information for the coming performance. As the audience mills about the lobby, video cameras are silently rolling – a man in a green jacket checks his coat – and a series of discreetly placed microphones tape the conversations of unsuspecting theatregoers – a woman is overheard to say, "I hate all this technology." Even credit card purchases at the bar are recorded. In a darkened control centre deep within the building, a team of directors monitors all these activities. They collect scraps of conversations and capture gestures, adding them to a database of other performance information gathered from the previous presentations of the work.


This paper presents a kind of analog circuit based temperature control system, which is mainly composed by threshold control signal circuit, synchronization signal circuit and trigger pulse circuit. Firstly, the temperature feedback signal function is realized by temperature sensor TS503F3950E. Secondly, the main control circuit forms the cycle controlled pulse signal to control the thyristor switching model. Finally two reverse paralleled thyristors regulate the output power by their switching state. In the consequence, this is a modernized and energy-saving domestic electric heating system. Keywords—Time base circuit, automatic control, zero-crossing trigger, temperature control.


The study deals with identifying trends in the labor market in Ukraine, which is significantly influenced by threatening external and internal factors. The authors prove in the article that the incentives to reform this market today are significantly weakened by the negative effects of the crisis, which covers all spheres of life — from the economy to health care. It was found that the negative trends of the world and national markets contribute to the decline in the quality of human capital of labor resources, worsen the structure of the national labor market. The multi-vector nature of the crisis leads to the formation of a multiplicative effect — its various aspects increase the influence of each other. As a result, the negative pressure of the crisis factors on the national labor market is increasing with growing pace. The authors prove that the old extensive approach of managers to the use of labor resources of Ukraine has outlived itself. The existing model and approaches to its reform given the current scale of threatening trends do not meet the criteria of effectiveness. Ukraine needs a new labor market model. The efforts of government officials and the influence of the business community should be aimed at forming a model whose goals will be: stabilizing the economic, social and political situation in Ukraine, reducing the risk of uncontrolled growth of social tensions, forming a flexible response to neutralize the effects of the crisis. It is pointed out that the lack or even slowdown of the reaction to the existing negative tendencies inherent in the labor market in Ukraine can cause significant and drastic social and political changes. The originality of the article is stipulated by the need to identify labor market trends under the influence of the crisis and the situation on the world labor market, identify factors that lead to the consolidation of an extensive labor market model in a permanent crisis, identify factors that contribute to this and negative consequences for the economy.


Luminescence Dating of Neolithic Ceramics from Lumea Nouă, Romania Luminescence dating was applied to four Neolithic pottery fragments excavated at Lumea Nouă (Alba Iulia, Romania), with the purpose of improving the chronology for the archaeological finds, and hence, the occupational history of the site. The single-aliquot regenerative-dose (SAR) protocol was applied to both blue and infrared stimulated luminescence signals from coarse quartz and polymineral fine grains, respectively. A more conventional approach which uses a multiple-aliquot additive-dose protocol and thermoluminescence signals from polymineral fine grains was applied as well. The characteristics of the OSL and IRSL signals were investigated in terms of behaviour in the SAR protocol, dose response and dose recovery. Additionally, anomalous fading measurements of the 410 nm IRSL emission and of the blue TL emission from polymineral fine-grains were performed. Both signals were observed to be affected by anomalous fading. OSL dating of quartz using the SAR protocol is considered to be the technique of choice; it yields an average age of 6.0±0.4 ka (n = 4), which is in agreement with archaeological expectations. The dating results allow refining the typological interpretation of the objects and improve the chronological framework for the site.


Based on the features of structure,service-repair of high speed EMU (electric multiple unit) and foreign experience,some essentialities in operation and maintenance of high speed trains are discussed,maintenance system of EMU briefly analyz.With regarded to domestic conditions it is demonstrated that a new maintenance system is necessary.The operating mode,crew rostering system,maintenance regulations and procedures are proposed.


The objective of this study was to present the updated segmentation technique predicting the loin muscle weight of rabbits based on in vivo computed tomography measurements. The segmented muscle volumes are used to estimate the weight of the loin muscle and the predicted weights are compared to the real weights of meat cuts measured after the dissection of the animals. The R2 value of the proposed technique is 0.74 which is significantly better than the determination coefficients than that of the of the previously used method (R2 0.49). The proposed technique is suitable to be involved in the breeding selection program of rabbits (Pannon White) at Kaposvár University, Hungary.


This article attempts to analyze the importance of personality factors in voting decisions. For the analysis there was used the concept of the "big five" – five personality traits: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness. The study indicates that personality similarity between politicians and their constituents may be a  factor in electoral support.


The authors introduce novel digital signal processing algorithms which can be used to measure various power system indicators, which, in turn, may be utilized for power quality assessment. They first discuss the signal analysis problem by providing classification of the assumptions about signal characteristics. Specific characteristics are a consequence of different power system disturbances. Two different classes of digital signal processing algorithms are introduced. These algorithms can be used for measurement of various quantities which may be used to characterize given disturbances. An approach to power quality assessment based on various measurements is illustrated by some examples.<<ETX>>


To the Editor: —I have just finished reading the article in the December, 1954, issue of theArchivesby Drs. Robert W. Hollenhorst, Henrik J. Svien, and Clair F. Benoit, entitled "Unilateral Blindness Occurring During Anesthesia for Neurosurgical Operations," and it recalled to mind an incident which occurred more than 30 years ago, when I was a resident at the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. A lacrimal gland was excised on the service of Dr. Herbert Wootton, and, because of troublesome bleeding, a pressure bandage was applied. When the bandage was removed at the end of 48 hours, the patient remarked that she could not see. Examination of the eyegrounds revealed no apparent abnormality, but as the days went by the patient did not recover her vision, and optic atrophy gradually evolved. In February, 1924, when I was doing some postgraduate work in Vienna, I asked Docent Guist if


This paper aims to show the importance of organizations in evaluating the performance of employees, since it is an essential tool for decision making at the strategic level, as well as the commitment and responsibility of managers in applying this instrument. For this reason, the basic criteria and the importance that this instrument has in organizations and in decision-making at a strategic level will be established, as it is sometimes not a fundamental part when it comes to touching on themes or key points both for The official as for the organization. The results of this research are presented with a broad definition of the concept of evaluation, referencing various authors, with a theoretical and graphic presentation of the evaluation process; The main guidelines that impact on organizational decision-making are shown below.


An automatic measurement system was constructed for measuring HTS miniaturized microstrip antennas, it is shown by the experiment that this measurement satisfies the requirements of HTS antennas very well. A Chinese patent was obtained for HTS antenna cryogenic apparatus.


In an emergency or disaster situation, affected population asks more and more for comunity social services intervention, in the same way that they demand psyco-social support from NGO's. In these cases it's necessary a series of social-educational actions coordinated with other professionals like Psychologists and Social Workers. All this process has been researched from reality of Aragón, about how its comunity social services are structured and its professional profiles. Because emergency support is transfered to Autonomous Governments like one of their competencies (except the most serious emergencies, that there are asummed by National Government). In order to confront a critical situation, a comunity worker has a ethical and professional duty to act in three times: BEFORE, DURING and AFTER emergency. In this exposition is included a brief clarifying explanation with pictures of socialeducational actions, carried out by a social worker in a preventive service (sport event), including roles of person in charge of Civilian Protection Social Action Group, in the frame of Security and Emergency Plan of that sport event.


Background. Internationalization of global healthcare and, in particular, the development of international medical tourism, informs the creation of a strategy for the development of domestic medical tourism programs in regions, states, or provinces using various tools for each stage of market development.
Purpose. This article aims to identify, classify, and analyze the development tools for regional medical tourism programs applied in the countries recognized as international destinations for medical tourism.
Methods and materials. The study data are based on foreign and domestic scientific publications in the field of international medical tourism and the export of medical services. The authors analyzed publications on the development of regional medical tourism programs in the media and performed content analysis of scientific publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Results. The internationalization of global healthcare has a significant influence on cross-border private medical travel (medical tourism), thus encouraging the development of both national and regional healthcare. The existing global practice of 19 countries in regional medical tourism provides an extensive development toolkit that includes more than 70 tools focusing on various aspects of the elaboration and implementation of opportunities for regional medical tourism and the export of medical services. The tools can be implemented in one of the four stages of market development: introduction, growth, maturity, and decline. The first stage is characterized by the prevalence of tools related to analysis and the development of the market base. The growth stage focuses on market expansion. At the third stage, the first tools aimed at offering better price for medical services appear. The stage of market decline is focused on the expansion of the target consumers by increasing the financial accessibility of medical tours. At the same time, the third and fourth stages are characterized by a limited number of support tools, which can be explained by the relative immaturity of the global medical tourism market and the focus on programs designed for the international market rather than on increasing economic efficiency. Therefore, in the following years, the scientific and professional communities will focus on the development and implementation of tools that can increase the reflow of financial resources expended on market development.
The results of this study can be useful to the subjects of the Russian Federation that are interested in the development of regional strategies in terms of the federal project on the development of the export of medical services as part of the "Healthcare" national project.


Fire accidents are disasters that often occur compared to other fire disasters such as floods, landslides, earthquakes or tsunamis. Fires can occur at any time and no one knows for sure when a fire accident will occur. The impact of a fire disaster is not only material that can disappear human lives. The causative factors of fire disasters often occur due to human negligence and fires often occur in houses where the occupants have left them. Labuhanbatu University at night will be left by the owner and all lecturers and educational staff, only guarded by 2 security people with this condition it is very dangerous when a fire occurs in one of the buildings. The purpose of this research is to focus on making a fire detection system at Labuhanbatu University based on the internet of things to provide early warning on safety. The system uses three sensors namely temperature sensor, gas sensor, and fire sensor. This research is an R&D research using the ADDIE model with the following stages Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation. The results of the fire sensor test were 90% successful, the results of the sensor test as soon as possible were 90% successful and the temperature sensor test results were 90% successful. This fire detection system can minimize or minimize the occurrence of fire accidents and losses because it is based on the internet of things providing early information when a fire occurs to education staff and lecturers at Labuhanabtu University. Overall this fire warning system can function properly.


Kučera, A., Rejšek, K., Dundek, P., Marosz, K., Samec, P., Sýkora, J. 2010: Discussion about Fagetum nudum classifi ed as a type of acidophilous beech forests – Beskydy, 3 (2): 159–166 This work is focused on a specifi c type of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) monocultures Fagetum nudum wherein soil physical-chemical properties as pH, exchangeable basis and cation exchange capacity are assessed. The assessment was realized on research plots of West Carpathian sub province. Results are discussed with classifi cation of Fagetum nudum as a type of acidophilus beech forest and we can see a high diff erence of topsoil chemism of Fagetum nudum contrary with a beech wood with an understory cover density higher than 15%. Observed sites of naked beech wood show higher trophic properties and higher values of pH as well as higher available nutrients content. This paper is concluded with an accent on a nature of beech forest and an anthropic infl uence in the past which can cause a similar perception of naked beech monocultures however potentially present phytocoenoses would be diff erent.


Objectives: To measure blood glucose, lipid profile levels, and blood pressure in diabetic hypertensive patients in order to identify the association between the parameters measured and an increased risk of cardiovascular risk in the Sudanese diabetic hypertensive patients. Material and methods: During the months of April 2012 and March 2013, a case-control study was employed in Gezira State, Sudan. The study enrolled 200 patient who met the participation criteria, with respondents divided into diabetic hypertensive and non-diabetic categories to estimate fasting blood glucose levels (FBG), Glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1C) and lipid profile which include; total cholesterol (TC), high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and triglycerides (TG). The random access auto-analyzer bio system, A15 was used to test samples for various biochemical parameters. Individual information, as well as anthropometric and biochemical measurements were collected on a questionnaire. After each participant gave verbal consent, venous blood samples were drawn after an overnight fast. The statistical evaluation was achieved with the aid of a statistical package for social sciences (SPSS version 16, Chicago, IL, USA). Result: The WC and BMI both increased significantly by (p=<0.0001), according to the analysis of variance (ANOVA). FBG and HbA1C levels were significantly elevated by (p=<0.0001). The increase in systolic blood pressure (SBP) was significant by (p=<0.0001). The mean HDL-C level was at high risk (49.73) with a significant increase by (p=0.009). The mean LDL-C concentration was above the optimum level (109.03) with a non-significant increase (p=0.697). Conclusion: WC, BMI, DBP, FBG, and HDL-C all increased significantly. Diabetic- hypertensive participants were at a high risk of develops dyslipidemia and cardiovascular disease.


According to the characteristics of pathophysiology and clinical features of diabetic non-alcoholic fatty liver disease,combined with traditional Chinese medicine theories of viscera,etiology and pathogenesis theory,it proposed spleen deficiency causing liver stagnation and phlegm-blood stasis hypothesis. It believes that the disease is caused by evils,improper diet,emotion disorder,improper labor or rest,physical weakness and other causes. The pathogenesis is spleen deficiency as the fundamental and liver stagnation,blood stasis and toxin converted into each other is the surface phenomenon. Spleen deficiency is the basis of the pathogenesis and liver stagnation creates conditions for the development of the disease. The blood stasis and toxin are both pathological products and important pathogenic factors. Blood stasis maybe transforms into the toxin and toxin can also produce blood stasis. They influence each other,converting into each other. This is a vicious cycle. They work together to promote the occurrence,development and conversion of the disease. The nature of the disease is weak. All above provides an important theoretical basis of TCM treatment for the disease.


We thank Dr. Arrington for his kind words about our article. In this letter we respond to his two main criticisms: that our use of the term bias in describing the situation facing the Democratic Party in 2006 is misleading and that using total vote to assess the results of the election is preferable to using average district vote, as we did in the article.


In this chapter, we first discuss the effects of exchange rates on the cost of living for both expatriates and ordinary residents. Through a simulation study for Singapore and Hong Kong, we show that exchange rate fluctuations have a great impact on the cost of living rankings for both expatriates and ordinary residents. We next highlight an interesting observation emerging from our study, that cities in the developed Western countries are more expensive for ordinary residents than cities in less developed countries elsewhere, especially in Asia. We attribute this to structural difference in labour cost between these two sets of countries. The chapter also highlights our future research agenda.


The comprehensive reform of university has become a hot spot in current educational field in China, among which the talent cultivation mode reform is the core content, improving the quality of talent cultivation is the starting point and ending point, so as to forestry university. Using the method of transformation bridge, it may convert the contradiction problem of forestry economy and management's professional personnel training mode into the coexistence problem, and make extension change. Thus put forward the traditional talents training mode of forestry economy and management specialties should be shifted to the applied talents training mode, then do systemic change for curriculum to train high-quality workers and skilled talents, the innovative talents training mode of forestry economy and management specialties should be consolidated and improved for curriculum to train top-notch innovative talents.


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"All Software and Quality Managers should be given a week's paid leave and Paul's book to read. "-Jacqueline Holdsworth,Consultant. This book is the most readable and accessible of all the books available on metrics. The reader learns first hand all the ups and downs,ins and outs of implementing a software metrics program in the real world. The author provides essential reading for anyone who wants to know how to quantify the quality of their software and override problems that occur when working in a professional environment.


In order to overcome the shortcoming of original K-means algorithm that randomly selecting clustering center puts much influence on clustering results,prevent the destruction on clustering precision resulted from the existance of isolated points,and reveal the inter relationship between them,this paper adopted DKC value of 2d-distance to pretreat original sample data to distingwish isolated points and determine initial clustering center,so as to eliminater the interrelationship and stablize clustering center.Compared with original algorithm,the improved one is more effective in accuracy.


In the last period use of architectural concrete to execute various types of structures became very popular. Among others numerous publications appearing in Poland in worldwide Krzysztof Kuniczuk mgr inz. Krzysztof Kuniczuk – CEMEX Polska Sp. z o.o. aiming at promotion of concrete as the material shaping architectonic forms prove that. Already constructed facilities or being under construction, in which architectural concrete have been, are not rarity. Share of self-compacting concrete used for execution of facility components that determine visual perception of surrounding and environment is still increasing. But increasing number of architectural concrete applications causes necessity to engage more and more group of designers, engineers and common construction workers in process of its creation. Those persons who had no previous contact with architectural concrete and the more so self-compacting concrete usually do not realize what kind of conditions should be met, what technological regime should be kept or which materials are to be used to make that concrete surface structure achieves intended target, i.e. plain concrete becomes architectonic one. Paper is attempt to present practical remarks related to execution of architectural concrete in SCC technology and to present status of experiences related to concrete examination and executing structures of that materials in the light of currently valid the European and Polish regulations / standards.


We have developed a zonal deformable mirror that controls the wavefront of a high average power visible laser beam used for isotope separation. The mirror corrects greater than five waves of astigmatism, power, or random second order aberrations to 1/20 wave rms. Sufficient resolution is achieved to correct third order aberrations as well. A monolithic glass substrate with dimensions 77 mm X 121 mm X 10 mm is used in this design. Twenty-five actuator attachment members are incorporated into the shape of the back side of the substrate. Piezoelectric translators (PZTs) attached in a rectangular array deform the continuous substrate to the proper conjugate shape. The PZTs are attached through flexures designed to be compressionally stiff and laterally soft. In this way the intended PZT displacement is transmitted efficiently to the substrate while isolating both the mirror and the PZTs from undesirable lateral loads. Mirror parameters were determined from elastic mechanical beam approximations. Finite element analysis was used to verify performance prior to prototyping. A Hartmann sensor controls the mirror in a closed loop adaptive system. The system description is covered in a companion paper. This paper describes the mirror design and presents performance data.


In these days, half our diseases come from the neglect of the body in the overwork of the brain. In this railway age the wear and tear of labor and intellect go on without pause or self-pity. We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles-we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves.-Bulwer. With stupidity and sound digestion men may fret much; but what in these dull unimaginative days are the terrors of conscience to the diseases of the liver.-Carlyle.


Objectives: To develop a multivariate model for risk factors specific to early onset preeclampsia (EOP) and late onset preeclampsia (LOP) in our entire population (singleton and twin pregnancies). Material and methods: 20 year-observational population-based historical cohort study (2001–2020). All consecutive births delivered at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Hospitalier Sud Reunion's maternity ward. A standardized validated epidemiological perinatal database was used. Results: During the 20-year period, there were 81,834 pregnancies and 83,497 infants born, 1232 dichorionic and 350 monochorionic twin pregnancies. There were 2120 cases of preeclampsia, of which 2001 were preeclamptic singleton pregnancies and 119 twin pregnancies (incidence 7.5% in twin pregnancies vs. 2.5% singletons, OR 3.0, p < 0.001). Independent risk factors for EOP and LOP in a multivariate model (controlling for the two major confounders: maternal ages—both risks for EOP and LOP, and maternal pre-pregnancy BMI—specific risk factor for LOP) were: history of preeclampsia (adjusted OR (aOR) 11.7 for EOP, 7.8 for LOP, p < 0.0001), chronic hypertension (aOR 7.3 for EOP, 3.9 for LOP, p < 0.0001), history of perinatal death (aOR 2.2 for EOP, p < 0.0001 and 1.48 for LOP, p = 0.007), primipaternity (aOR 3.0 for EOP and 3.6 for LOP, p = 0.001), dizygotic twin pregnancies (aOR 3.7 for EOP, p < 0.0001 and 2.1 for LOP, p = 0.003), monozygotic twin pregnancies (aOR 3.98 for EOP, p = 0.003 and non-significant (NS) for LOP), ovulation induction (aOR 5.6 for EOP, p = 0.004 and NS for LOP), and in vitro fertilization (aOR 2.8 for EOP, p = 0.05 and NS for LOP). Specific to LOP and NS for EOP: renal diseases (aOR for LOP 2.9, p = 0.007) and gestational diabetes mellitus (aOR 1.2, p = 0.04). Conclusions: Maternal ages over 35 years, chronic hypertension, history of preeclampsia, ovulation induction, in vitro fertilizations, history of perinatal deaths and twin pregnancy (in our experience, especially mono zygotic twin pregnancies) are significant risk factors for EOP. New paternity is an independent factor for both EOP and LOP.


Nowadays, the success of internet technology, made our life very much easy and convenient. But the major problem is to secure the data from duplication and unauthorized use. So the digital watermarking is used. With this technology, we embed the secret information into the actual information for protecting it from unauthorized use. By using this technique only authorized user can access the data. It may be classified into two domains that are spatial domain and frequency domain. In this paper, we have briefly discussed about these technologies and their pros and cons.


Contemporary models of welfare capitalism have frequently been critiqued about their fit-for-purpose in provisioning for people's basic needs including care, and longer-term ecological sustainability. The Covid-19 pandemic has also exposed the need for better institutions and a new welfare architecture. We argue a post-productivist eco-social state can deliver sustainable well-being and meet basic needs. Arguing Universal Basic Services are an essential building block and prerequisite for a de-commodified welfare state, we focus on examining the form of income support that might best complement UBS. The article develops, from the perspective of feminist arguments and the capabilities approach, a case for Participation Income. This, we argue, can be aligned with targeted policy goals, particularly reward for and redistribution of human and ecological care or reproduction and other forms of socially valued participation. It may also, in the short term, be more administratively practical and politically feasible than universal basic income.


The thermal conducting property and thermal conducting mechanism of insulating thermal conductive polymer composite are introduced, The progress in the study of insulating thermal conductive composite plastics, rubbers and adhesives is reviewed, and the prospect of the applications and development trend of thermal conducting and insulation polymer composites are forecasted.


Safety of construction projects may be affected by various factors such as types and scale of projects, construction methods, safety management procedure, climate, site conditions, etc. Among them is the quality of design in relation to safety. Presently, however, designers typically are not involved in construction safety. They are often uncertain of their responsibilities in relation to construction safety and fail to be responsible for avoiding or reducing safety-related risks. In this study, the concept of safety impact assessment to achieve "design-for-safety" in the design phase is introduced. For this purpose, a safety impact assessment model was devised, and a methodology using the risk-based safety impact assessment approach for open-cut type underground construction projects in Korea is suggested. The suggested methodology includes a safety information survey, classification of safety impact factors caused by design and construction, and quantitative estimation of magnitude and frequency of safe...


Wireless local area networks (WLANS) are becoming very important in our daily communications applications. This has necessitated their study to improve on the quality of service (QoS). This study is aimed at comparing the Wi-Fi signal propagation along a corridor and through walls as obstacles. It was found that the signal was highly attenuated when passing through the walls as opposed to along the corridor. The study was undertaken using Wi-Fi router and a mobile phone as the receiver.


In this paper we present a performance-driven mapping algorithm, PLAmap, for CPLD architectures which consist of a large number of PLA-style logic cells. The primary goal of our mapping algorithm is to minimize the depth of the mapped circuit. Meanwhile, we have successfully reduced the area of the mapped circuits by applying several heuristic techniques, including threshold control of PLA fanouts and product terms, slack-time relaxation, and PLA-packing. We compare our PLAmap with a recently-published algorithm TEMPLA [1] and a commercial tool, Altera's MAX+PLUS II [16]. Experimental results on various MCNC benchmarks show that overall TEMPLA uses 8 to 11% less area at the cost of 96 to 106% more mapping depth, and MAX+PLUS II uses 12% less area but 58% more delay compared with our mapper.


Sera from 82 patients with chronic inflammatory liver diseases and from patients with systemic lupuserythemalosus (SLE). rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and Hashimoto's thyroiditis were studied byimmunoblotting against purified liver plasma membranes (LPM) and soluble liver protein (SLP)fractions from different species after previous separation by SDS‐PAGE. Eighteen of 19 sera withLMA of IgG type in immunofluorescencc assay and six LMA‐negatiuve sera (three sera from patientswith RA) showed antibodies of the IgG or IgM classes against a protein with a molecular weight of 26kD which was present in LPM and SLP fractions from rats, rabbits, pigs and humans. The reactionwith 26‐kD liver protein did not correlate with other known autoantibody‐antigen systems. All serawere negative in the 26‐kD region with liver mitochondria, liver microsomes and soluble proteins ofkidney (with one exception), heart and gut from the rat. The 26‐kD protein was purified by affinitychromatography on immobilized anti‐26‐kD protein antibodies from patients, eluted from the 26‐kDband of immunoblots. Studies with purified 26‐kD liver protein and with SLP as antigens afterseparation in two‐dimensional electrophoresis confirmed that patient serum and experimental rabbitantiserum react with the same protein. Eluted patient antibodies and rabbit antisera showed a linearfluorescence pattern on isolated hepatocytes from rat and rabbit. The data indicate that one of thetarget antigens of LMA is a species‐nonspecific 26‐kD protein located on the hepalocellular surface.


The Bimo picture is one of Yi nationality's tradition drawing.From the drawing tool and the material point of view,this article explores the drawing art linguistic environment condition resulted from Bimo picture transformation form and the different medium constitutes,and explains the characteristic of Bimo drawing art of tool material that often uses local materials which unifies with the modem material.Simultaneously it has proved the close relations between the Bimo drawing art and the material quality"the thing language".


A method was developed for the chemical concertration of rare earths from uranium prior to their spectrographic estimation. The bulk of the uranium is removed by ether extraction of the urandyl nitrate hexahydrate. Concertration of the rare earths from the residue is carried on by a double oxalate precipitation on a calcium carrier followed by removal of the calcium and any other remaining impurities by a double hydroxide precipitation on spectrographically pure iron. (auth)


The conducted research was aimed at designing a model of physical self-development of girls - future officers, which occurs in the process of their physical education during training at the military academy. To achieve this goal, adequate research methods were used, preference was given to general scientific methods, in particular analysis and synthesis, systematization, generalization, and theoretical modeling. Sources of information were selected from scientometric databases Scopus, SPORT Discus, Web of Science, using keywords. The study of information from literary sources proved the formation of readiness of girls - future officers for physical self-development during training at the military academy at a level that differs from the appropriate one. This made it necessary to design an appropriate structural and functional model. Such a model combined methodological, organizational-methodical, functional, diagnostic and evaluation components and adequate pedagogical conditions, criteria, indicators and levels of readiness of girls - future officers for physical self-development during training at the military academy. The projected model is consistent with others available in pedagogical science, but requires experimental verification of its effectiveness in terms of achieving the set goal.


Using XML,and its related standards and technologies,combining XML with electronic commerce security and other technologies,this paper produces an economical,compatible,extensible,and secure data integration solution based on Web services mediated by SOAP for electronic commerce.


Introduction: Observational plans for new complicit clients may limit predispositions related to the patterns of previous case controls. Observational examinations by means of case control plans had shown an enlarged risk of septicemia related to gasped corticoid-covering medicines in cases by ongoing disruptive respirational sickness. Objective: ICS and septicemia in novel ICS clients in link to breathing with longer-term bronchial monotherapy is main objective assess connection among these two. Methods: Our current research was conducted at Services Hospital, Lahore from December 2017 to November 2018. Septicemia cases in COPD victims aged 49 years remained associated to novel ICS clients (n = 13,575; ICS, longer-term CSI/longer-term b2 agonist mixture) also breathed in LABD monotherapies (n = 7,498; LABA, longer-term muscarinic enemies) by means of Cox's relative peril models, by modified propensity scores for mixtures. New clients remained edited at the earliest on the occasion of septicemia, decease, change or suspension of cure and handling, or at the end of development Results: Unrefined charges of occurrence of any septicemia remained 49.6 and 32.7 per 1000 men for very long periods of time among IBS and LABD partners, separately. After modification, novel use of ICS-comprising medications was related by an enlarged risk of hospitalization for septicemia (n = 334 occasions; HR = 2.56, 96% CI: 1.14, 3.12) also any septicemia (n = 708 occasions; HR = 1.54, 96% CI: 1.23, 1.86). There was an obvious impact associated to portion size, through greater risk at higher daily doses of ICS. There remained indication of a direct predisposition, through increasingly serious cases recommending ICS, for which investigation may not have been fully balanced. The risk of abundant septicemia by ICS remained condensed while requiring 1 month or 7 months of reuse. Conclusion: This risk must remain weighed in contradiction of assistances while approving ICSs for COPD victims. The consequences of the current new client-friendly study are dependable with the results distributed; ICS remained related with the 22-52% increased risk of septicemia in COPD, which decreased with time of introduction.


Abstract We consider a Bayesian sequential allocation problem that incorporates a concomitant variable in the model. Although the model is highly simplified, our results do have some mildly surprising aspects: (a) the approximate solution to the allocation problem is simpler in the presence of concomitant information than in its absence, (b) the exact value of the discount factor is less important than in previous work, and (c) the myopic procedure is asymptotically optimal.


ABSTRACT The purpose of this research study was to increase our understanding of how families living in poverty successfully meet life challenges. Family resiliency provided the theoretical framework for examining family coping and adaptation. This study used a purposive sample of women (N = 128) in families with children attending Head Start. All families lived below or at poverty level, most with 11th grade education or high-school/GED diploma. Content analysis methods were used for data analysis. Results of this study identify the characteristics that promote competence, including how individual, family, and environmental factors are potential stressors that also may serve to promote family resilience. The data indicate that family love and mutual support, as well as faith, help stressed families cope and maintain meaning in spite of lack of control over life circumstances resulting from economic poverty.


Although the virtues of HRM are widely espoused by its proponents, evidence of its widespread uptake by UK companies has invariably been disappointing. Why? A survey using questionnaires completed by 98 personnel and HR practitioners in a sample of 350 major UK companies was used to explore perceptions of progress in implementing HRM, and this was followed-up by interviews of 24 survey respondents. While the survey and interview evidence clearly indicate that progress towards HRM is a profoundly contradictory and unfinished process, it also raises serious questions about the ability of the HR function and role to facilitate, oversee or lead processes of implementation.