In the present study, a new antibacterial bone graft substitute has been developed for repairing bone defects and inhibiting related infections at the same time. Calcium sulphate hemihydrate (CSH) was introduced into nanohydroxyapatite/collagen (nHAC) to prepare a self-setting in situ bone repair materials. The nHAC/CSH was used as a carrier of vancomycin (VCM) for anti-infection and the treatment of osteomyelitis. The VCM/nHAC/CSH composite was a porous scaffold with porosity of 38.8% and the compressive mechanical strength was about 4.8 MPa. The final setting time was about 15~20 min. The inhibition ratio of VCM/nHAC/CSH was more than 99.8% and the distinct inhibition zone of 18 mm was formed in Staphylococcus aureus bacterium incubation dish with VCM/nHAC/CSH disc in the center of agar matrix for 16 hours of incubation. After incubating 17 days at 37 in vitro, the concentration of vancomycin in elution fluild was around 12 μg/mL. Therefore, the VCM/nHAC/CSH bone substitute presents ideal self-setting antibacterial, cytocompatibility, sustained release properties and has great potential applications for the treatment of bone defect-related infection in orthopedic surgeries.


Abstract Signed languages have been classified typologically as being manual dominant or non-manual dominant for negation. In the former negation is conveyed primarily by manual lexical signs whereas in the latter negation is primarily conveyed by nonmanual signs. In support of this typology, the site and spread of headshaking in negated clauses was also described as linguistically constrained. Headshaking was thus said to be a formal part of negation in signed languages so it was linguistic, not gestural. This paper aims to establish the role of headshaking in negation in Auslan with reference to this typology. In this corpus-based study, I show that Auslan users almost always negate clauses using a manual negative sign. Although headshakes are found in just over half of these manually negated clauses, the position and spreading behaviour of headshakes do not appear to be linguistically constrained. I also show that signers use headshakes as the sole negating element in a clause extremely rarely. I conclude that headshaking in Auslan appears similar to headshaking in the ambient face-to-face spoken language, English. I explore the implications of these findings for the proposed typology of negation in signed languages in terms of the type of data that were used to support it, and assumptions about the relationship between gesture and signed languages that underlie it.


3 4 5 Impact Sourcing (IS) is a business process service delivery model that provides quality and cost at parity with traditional BPO services, but with optimized enhancements such as:  A qualified, trained, untapped talent pool with skillsets aligned to match client needs,  Lower attrition rates and higher corresponding levels of employee engagement, and  Opportunities to fulfil corporate social responsibility and diversity objectives while operating within a traditional BPO framework Case Study at a Glance


A versatile interconnection and receiver concept for back contact low concentrating crystalline solar cells is presented. The key feature is the AP-C-MWT cell which allows for any cell formats as a multiple of 22.5 × 10 mm2. We demon-strate the feasibility of an adequate receiver concept and show the electrical optimization steps for a given concentration. The steps include the electrical finite-element-method (FEM) simula-tion of the interconnector conductivity and an analytical model to derive the optimal geometric design. Finally measured efficiency data for a built prototype are reported, showing a receiver effi-ciency based on string area of 19.2% (C=9.9) and a cell to receiv-er efficiency of 99.3%.


Twenty kinds of amino acids are simplified into 3 types: hydrophobic amino acids (H), hydrophilic amino acids (P) and neutral amino acids (N). Each residue is reduced to a bead which locates in the position of the C?琢 atom. The off-lattice model is adopted and the relative entropy is used as a minimization function to predict the tertiary structure of a protein. A new contact intensity function is given to consist with protein design research based on the relative entropy. Testing on several real proteins from Protein Data Bank (PDB) shows the good results obtained with the model and method. The root mean square deviations (RMSD) of the predicted structures relative to the native structures range from 0.30 to 0.70 nm. A foundation for studying protein design using the HNP model and the relative entropy was made.


T he present investigation concerns the development and evaluation of floating tablets of Rosiglitazone Maleate which, after oral administration, are designed to prolong the gastric residence time and sustain the drug release. A 3 2 full factorial design was employed to evaluate contribution of HPMC K15M and Xanthan gum ratio (polymer blend) and sodium bicarbonate as two independent variables and floating lag time and drug release at 12 hrs as dependent variables. The tablets were prepared by direct compression method and further evaluated for pre compression parameters, physical characteristics, in-vitro release study, Formulations were evaluated for in-vitro buoyancy and drug release study using USP dissolution testing apparatus II using pH 1.2 as a dissolution medium. The increase in drug release is observed with increase in sodium bicarbonate. Multiple regression analysis was performed for factorial design batches to evaluate the response. The release data were subjected to different models in order to evaluate their   release kinetics and mechanisms.The drug release kinetics was observed by Non- fickian diffusion mechanism. The developed floating tablets of RZM isused to prolong drug release for at least 12h.


The increase in the population of the planet and the rapid economic growth and, consequently, the high consumption of energy has created many environmental problems in the globe. Due to these reasons and the lack of renewability of these fossil fuels, there has been a steep trend towards the production of renewable fuels from natural sources, one of which is the production of energy from biomass. In this study, biofuel production from biomass has been investigated using thermochemical methods and precisely "pyrolysis method", a method that reduces the production of oil from millions of years to a few seconds, and is the most industrialized thermochemical method for producing fuel from biomass. This research focuses on thermochemical processes, pyrolysis principles, hydrothermal methods and specifications, chemical composition and applications of biofuels, and the devices and equipment needed for it. This research is the start of research and study on bio-refineries in the future.


It has been suggested that the act of taking a stride produces substantial respiratory volume displacement and that this assists the respiratory muscles during locomotion. We measured the flow at the mouth associated with stride in walking and running humans and found it to be 1-2% of respiratory tidal volume, which is too small to make an appreciable contribution to pulmonary ventilation.


Accurately assuming and credibly fixing the cutters on the cutter head can ensure the essential work of the cutters. During the drilling at Qingling South Tunnel,the cutters often loosen and then stop working. This article presents some efficient measures to avoid the cutters' loosening.


The usage of Integral abutment bridges has been increased worldwide because of reducing bridge maintenance costs and resisting seismic loads. Although these attributes make the integral abutment bridge an increasingly popular choice, back-abutment interaction issues remain unresolved. Hence, the earth pressure behavior of an integral abutment bridge having 90 m long PSC beam bridge for the first time in Korea was analyzed by conducting long term monitoring in this study. Based on this study, the results were as follows; the ratio of maximum passive movement to the abutment height (H) of 0.0027 and the maximum passive earth pressure coefficient of 4.8 were developed at 0.82H from the bottom of the abutment during summer season. During winter season, the ratio of maximum active movement to H of 0.0011 and the maximum active earth pressure coefficient of 0.7 were developed at the same location as in summer season. The new earth pressure distributions having a trapezoid type were proposed based on this study.


'Griffith review' is not, according to its 'Writers' Guidelines', an 'academic journal'. This leads me to pause and consider how I can establish what I want to be the starting point for this essay, which is that Australia cannot 'make peace and firmer ground for laws, policies and outcomes that improve Indigenous and non-Indigenous life' unless it accepts the need for Indigenous peoples to exercise a high degree of autonomy and govern their own affairs.


An accurate short-term solar forecasting system is crucial for a stable, efficient, and reliable energy system. Although deep learning-based models have shown excellent performance in time series forecasting challenges, their sequential nature, each state is dependent on the preceding state, leads to the loss of previous knowledge over very long input sequences. This paper proposes a novel architecture based on the self-attentive transformer with no risk of forgetting previous information, faster training time, and lower computing complexity. First, a self-attentive transformer architecture is designed and developed. Then, the performance of the proposed structure is compared to the state-of-the-art methods such as convolutional neural network (CNN), long short-term memory networks (LSTM), a combination of LSTM and attention mechanism (AttLSTM), and residual Network (ResNet) using seventeen years of data from twelve different solar sites in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The numerical result illustrates that the proposed method outperforms baseline models for a half-day forecasting horizon.


: Today there are a large number of theories, strategies, tactics and concepts concerning the promotion of goods and services in a marketplace. Gaining a consumers' attention is a difficult task especially when the companies are busy trying to ward off the competition from their rivals. Out of all the tactics that have come up, one such tactic that is taking prominence in the world of marketing is the concept of guerrilla marketing. Guerrilla marketing uses unique, novel, non-traditional ways of grabbing a consumers' attention, making it memorable and spreading the word about the product. Although, this tactic is widely adopted in European countries and America, this is a relatively new concept with respect to the Indian market. The study attempts to find the effectiveness of guerrilla marketing and suggests ways to improve it and also discusses the various subsets of guerrilla marketing which are undertaken by organizations throughout the world and how it differs from traditional marketing.


The immune system is one of the most complex biological systems in the body. During infection, the immune system is under attack by a large number of viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites. Immune response firstly involves, recognition of the pathogen or foreign object and secondly, a reaction to eliminate it. Aqueous extract of Antiaris africana is used to study their immune modulator activity. This plant has its various parts used in folk medicines. The mechanism of action has not been fully elucidated. Therefore, this research work studies the effect of aqueous extract of Antiaris Africana stem bark on phagocytic activities of neutrophil isolated from apparently healthy individual using a non-subjective commercial colourimetric assay kit obtained from Cell-Biolab Inc., USA. The purity and viability of isolated neutrophils were >90% and >95% respectively. The extract enhances neutrophil phagocytosis at 1.0, 5.0, 10.0, 15.0, 20.0 and 25 μg/ml by 2.5%, 11.6%, 18.4%, 24.4%, 31.2% and 38.2% respectively, compared to the control (100%). Hence, it was observed that neutrophil phagocytosis increases with increased extract concentrations. It can be concluded from the study that enhancement of phagocytosis may be the possible mechanism of action of the plant as an immune modulator.


Background As one of the most widely used methods to treat microtia, the auricular reconstruction proposed by Zhuang may have several drawbacks. This study aimed to introduce a modified Zhuang's ear reconstruction technique by using a reformative inflation method and remnant ear to shorten therapy time and avoid skin grafting in a two-stage operation for patients with microtia. Methods A total of 124 patients with microtia were enrolled consecutively from 2014 to 2018. Among them, 66 patients underwent a modified Zhuang's method, and the remaining patients underwent Zhuang's method. The clinical and perioperative characteristics of patients, as well as complications and esthetic outcomes were analyzed. Results Compared with Zhuang's group, our modified Zhuang's group had better average esthetic scores according to two plastic surgeons [11.5 (IQR, 10.5–12.5) vs. 9.5 (IQR, 7.5–11.0), P<0.001], fewer hypertrophic scar cases [0% (n=0/66) vs. 10% (n=6/58), P = 0.024], shorter whole therapy duration [2.5 (IQR, 2.4–2.6) vs. 5.0 (IQR, 5.0–5.1) days, P<0.001] and shorter hospital duration after operation [5 (IQR, 5–6) vs. 6 (IQR, 5–6) days, P=0.013]. Conclusions Our modified Zhuang's technique is a new method to treat microtia which results in a clear contour of the reconstructed ear and matching skin color, minimal scarring, and a short treatment time.


Abstract The channeling of B ions in (001) Si in the energy range of 0.2 keV to 5 keV is investigated by computer simulation using binary collision and molecular dynamics computer codes and different interatomic interaction potentials. The B channeling for energies below 1 keV is proved to be quite different from channeling at higher energies. In contrast to the situation at higher energies, the B profiles hardly depend on the angle of incidence. The reason for this behaviour is discussed by studying typical iron trajectories for different energies.


In this paper, we show results of further brightness improvement and power-scaling enabled by both the rise in chip brightness/power and the increase in number of chips coupled into a given numerical aperture. We report a new chip technology using new extra Reduced-mode (x-REM) diode design providing a record ~363 W output from a 2×12 nLIGHT element® in 105 μm diameter fiber. There is also an increasing demand for low size, weight and power-consumption (SWaP) fiber-coupled diodes for compact High Energy Laser (HEL) systems for defense and industrial applications. Using thirty single emitters that were geometricallyand polarization-combined, we have demonstrated 600 watts and 62% efficiency at in 225 μm/0.22 NA fiber resulting in specific mass and volume of 0.44 kg/kW and of 0.5 cm3/W respectively. Furthermore, we have increased the number of chips to forty and increased the output power to 1kW and 52% in the same fiber diameter and numerical aperture. This results in a fiber-coupled package with specific mass and volume of <0.18 kg/kW and <0.27 cm3/W, respectively.


Abstract : The Conference on Applications of Advances in Toxicology to Risk Assessment covered a multitude of topics with a wide range of interest. Topics presented by noted scientists in their fields of expertise included the role of the military in accelerating the phaseout of substances that deplete the ozone layer, policy considerations in alternative methods and approaches to the use of animals in toxicology research, the application of pharmacokinetics and physiologically based pharmacokinetic models in chemical risk assessment, selected mechanisms in carcinogenicity, and advances in the assessment of toxicological end points. A poster session presenting research in risk assessment/toxicology complemented the platform presentations. The Air Force, Army, and Navy supported the Conference that was attended by representatives from the government, industry, and academia.


Weber's judgement on the types of immediate democracy is ambivalent; he recognizes the reduction of institutional mediation and power as well as the possibility of a more direct intervention by the people on the one hand, but he also underlines the major difficulties to find a balance between political decision making and administration, or between the exercise of power and its control. The analysis focuses on the most relevant types of immediate democracy: direct democracy, the democracy of the street, and plebiscitary democracy, and dedicates a particular attention to the referendum as the most significant instrument of immediate democracy in Weber's view. The aim is to ascertain which aspects do not find a satisfying solution in the immediate forms of democracy, and therefore require and legitimise at the same time an institutional mediation which is fully accomplished only by a strong and effective parliament.


The text describes the computation of all the components of (A1) for the US commercial banking industry, except for the noninterest expense associated with deposit-taking NONINTEXP/DEP. This term is not directly available from Call Reports: banks report their total noninterest expense, but we are only interested in those expenses attributable to deposit-taking. To get an estimate of the expenses associated with deposit-taking, we adopt a simple hedonic approach. Specifically, each year we run a cross-sectional regression of NONINTEXPit/ASSETit on asset shares, liability shares, and other controls:


Based on PTMEG and TDI as raw materials,a polyurethane prepolymer with low free TDI monomer was synthesized by molecular distillation method,then a castable polyurethane solid tire was preparaed with MOCA as chain extender,and the dynamic performance of this elastomer and the durable properties of this solid tire was investigated.The results showed that the polyurethane elastomer based on the low free prepolymer has excellent dynamic performance, a low heat build-up and the solid tire has excellent endurance quality.


Big Data technology is gradually becoming a dire need of large enterprises. These enterprises are producing large amount of offline and streaming data in both structured and unstructured forms on daily basis. Moreover, it is a challenging task to effectively extract useful insights from this type of complex data. On the other hand, the traditional systems are unable to efficiently manage transactional data history of more than a few months. This paper presents a framework to efficiently manage and effectively analyze massively large and complex datasets. The framework can be very effective for the communication industry which is bound by the regulators to manage significant history of their subscribers' call records, where every single action of a subscriber generates a packet containing more than 500 attributes. The analyses of transactional data allows the service providers to better understand their customers' behavior, for example, deep packet inspection requires transactional internet usage data to explain the data usage behaviour of the subscribers. On the contrary, relational database systems limit the service providers to only maintain semantic level call history which is aggregated at subscriber-level. The framework addresses the mentioned challenges by leveraging Big Data technology which optimally manages and allows deep analysis of large and complex datasets. The framework has been applied on a communication service provider producing massive amount of streaming data in binary format. It has been used to offload the existing Intelligent Network Mediation and Relational DataWarehouse of the service provider on Big Data technology. The service provider has 50+ million subscriber-base with yearly growth of 7–10%. The end-to-end CDR processing takes not more than 10 minutes which involves binary to ASCII decoding of call detail records, stitching of various interrogations against a call (transformations) and aggregations of transformed call records of a subscriber.


Facilitate the formation of the solar cell module, and the flexibility, heat resistance, transparency, etc. This is obtained superior solar cell encapsulant and the solar cell modules produced using it. To in (a) the resin composition (C) containing a copolymer (B) -α- ethylene olefin block satisfying the condition of ethylene -α- to the olefin random copolymer (A) (b) satisfying the condition of a solar cell sealing material which comprises: (A) heat of fusion as measured by a heating rate 10 ℃ / min in differential scanning calorimetry a 0~70J / g, (B) heating rate 10 ℃ / minute crystal melting peak temperature as measured by differential scanning calorimetry at not less than 100 ℃, also the crystal melting heat quantity 5~70J / g.


Dye intermediate 4-hydroxy-6-amino-N-methyl-2-naphthlenesulfonamide was synthesized from 4-hydroxy-6-amino-2-naphthlenesulfonic acid through four steps including acetylation of amido group and hydroxyl group, chloridation of the sulfonic group, amidation and hydrolysis.SOCl2 / ClSO3H was used as the reagent of chloridation at 40-45℃ with the molar ratio of 4-acetyloxy-6-acetylamino-2-naphthlenesulfonic acid Na salt:ClSO3H:SOCl2 = 1:7:3.The amidation reaction was carried out at 0-2℃ for 1 h and then at 40-45℃ for another one hour.The pH value was controlled at 10-11.The product was characterized by IR, EA and MS.


The purpose of the study; (1) to determine whether there is a positive relationship between socio economic standing of parents with interest to go to college; (2) to determine whether there is a positive relationship between learning achievement vocational subjects with with interest to go to college; (3) to determine whether there is a positive relationship between socio economic standing and learning achievement vocational subjects with interest to go to college. This research was conducted at Muhammadiyah 1 Vocational school of Bambanglipuro, Bantul academic year 2013/2014. The population in this study were all students of class XII Light Vehicle Enginering totaling 91 students and this study used a sampling saturated or study populations so that the entire population were sampled. This research is correlational and ex post facto categorized. Questionnaire data collection techniques and documentation of learning achivement vocational subject. The validity of the items were obtained from the product moment correlation.  About the reliability of the formula obtained by alpha and declared reliable. Before the data were analyzed first tested the prerequisite analysis is normality test, multicollinearity, and linearity test. Analysis using simple regression analysis and multiple regression analysis. From the analysis of the results obtained the following results: (1) There is a positive and significant relationship between socio economic standing of parents (X 1 ) with interest to go to college (Y); (2) There is a positive and significant relationship between learning achievement vocational subjects (X 2 ) with interest to go to college (Y); (3) There is a positive and significant relationship between socio economic standing of parents (X 1 ) and learning achivement vocational subjects (X 2 ) together with interest to go to college (Y).


Oxidative addition between
(biphenyl-2,2′-diyl)phenylantimony(III),
Sb(2,2′-C
 12
H
 8
)Ph 1 and Br
 2
 or
SO
 2
Cl
 2
 gave
Sb(2,2′-C
 12
H
 8
)PhBr
 2
 2 and
Sb(2,2′-C
 12
H
 8
)PhCl
 2
 3,
respectively, while the corresponding fluoride
Sb(2,2′-C
 12
H
 8
)PhF
 2
 4 and the
thiocyanate
Sb(2,2′-C
 12
H
 8
)Ph(NCS)
 2
 5 were
obtained by metathesis reactions between 3 and KF and KSCN,
respectively. Compounds 2 and 3 are isostructural but, in contrast to
the closely related SbPh
 3
X
 2
 species, individual
molecules have square-pyramidal geometry. Again in contrast to
SbPh
 3
X
 2
 compounds, secondary
antimony–halogen interactions trans to the apical carbon
atom lead to solid-state dimers, implying Lewis acidity at antimony.
Antimony in the thiocyanate 5 showed similar square-pyramidal geometry
with N-bonded thiocyanate groups but bridging by one thiocyanate again
gives dimers in the solid. Oxidative addition between SbPhCl
 2

and tetrachloro-ortho-benzoquinone in ether solution gave the
tetrachlorocatechol analogue of 3 as a six-co-ordinate ether solvate,
SbPh(o-O
 2
C
 6
Cl
 4
)·OEt

 2
 6. If the weak bond to ether is ignored, antimony again has
square-pyramidal geometry but formation of the adduct again points to
antimony Lewis acidity. A non-solvated substituted catecholate,
SbPh(o-O
 2
C
 6
H
 2
Bu
 t

 2
-3,5)Cl
 2
 8, was also synthesized but crystals
suitable for X-ray diffraction could not be obtained.


Research on the place of digital collaborative learning in schools has established its extensive use for the provision of online courses (Stevens, 2007), for learning within schools (Orech, 2009) and as a means of promoting inter‐cultural education (Austin, 2006). Given that teachers' understanding and practice in collaborative learning is critical, the authors examine in this article teachers' perception of collaboration and collaborative learning in terms of a model for understanding different levels of engagement with digital collaboration. They also seek to explore the reasons for teachers' perceptions and how this may impact on their participation in online collaborative learning projects.


Most molecular biological experiments represent measurements of ensemble average by which a vast multitude of duplicate systems are probed and average responses are recorded. With advances in techniques we are able to observe, detect,manipulate individual molecules and study their conformational change and dynamic behaviors. New information could be seen from these single molecules research which were otherwise be hidden or averaged out. Advances in this field is a new direction of structural biology for this century.


Cross-coupling reactions have become an indispensable tool for creating new carbon-carbon and, more recently, also carbon-heteroatom bonds. After a brief survey of the most frequently encountered reaction types, the present review gives examples of the reactions performed in the presence of Pd nanoparticles or supported heterogeneous Pd catalysts. The new catalytic systems are effective mediators of cross-coupling reactions with a great practical potential.


Childhood and adolescence are time periods characterised by the rapid growth and development of the skeletal system. The timing and magnitude of skeletal development varies considerably between individuals however, environmental factors may make significant contributions to the variance in bone mass. To optimise the development of bone it is important to identify and promote factors that may have a positive effect on bone mass accrual. Two lifestyle factors that may enhance bone mass accural are calcium and exercise. The focus of this thesis was to investigate bone mass accural in children and adolescents and to determine the effect calcium and exercise have on bone mass accural.


After presenting the situation of forest decline in Italy and analyzing the factors that play a contributing role, tbis paper studies the response of the epicuticular wax structures and the stomata in ten broadleaf species and one conifer to fog-like treatments with acids andlor surfactants and to severe water stress. The main results are that wax structure alterations vary in intensity in the different species studied and that the microstructural alterations observed in field conditions cannot be attributed only to severe drought. since sample trccs put through water stress simulations do nol differ significantly from controls. In the artificial surfactant treatment, a positive relationship between structural damage to tbe stomata and transpiration suggests possible synergies between the effects of drought and those of pollutants in inducing stress conditions in Mediterranean vegetation.


The influence of organic contamination on dielectric breakdown of a gate oxide was evaluated. Preventing air exposure during wafer processing from gate oxidation through poly Si CVD was shown to result in lower defect densities, and results obtained with a thermal desorption spectrum-atmospheric pressure ionization mass spectrometer showed that were the source of organic contamination gases released from plastic storage cases and that organic contaminants were not removed from the wafer surface at the processing temperature of poly Si CVD. We think the degradation of the gate oxide integrity has been interpreted in terms of local reduction of the gale oxide by the organic contamination at the interface between the gate oxide and the poly Si electrode.


Unstart prevention is a critical part of maintaining stable scramjet operation. An isolator is typically used to perform this function. A resonating cavity could potentially augment the back-pressure margin of an isolator; however, there is an associated drag penalty. Localized Arc Filament Plasma Actuators (LAFPAs) have demonstrated the ability to suppress supersonic cavity resonance. Isolator augmentation also requires flow control to enhance resonance in weakly resonating cavities. This work has investigated the LAFPAs' ability to enhance resonance in a supersonic, weakly resonating cavity, and found them capable, though the amplitude of the enhancement is obscured by electro-magnetic interference.


An overview is given of physics differences between stellarators and tokamaks, including magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium, stability, fast-ion physics, plasma rotation, neoclassical and turbulent transport and edge physics. Regarding microinstabilities, it is shown that the ordinary, collisionless trapped-electron mode is stable in large parts of parameter space in stellarators that have been designed so that the parallel adiabatic invariant decreases with radius. Also, the first global, electromagnetic, gyrokinetic stability calculations performed for Wendelstein 7-X suggest that kinetic ballooning modes are more stable than in a typical tokamak.


Deliverable Details Due date: 31.12.2014 Submission date: 19.02.2015 Authors: David Ziegler Involved participants: DBFZ Martin Hoeft DBFZ Janet Witt UMU Linda Pommer CENER Javier Lemus ECN Arno Janssen ECN Michiel Carbo WP no. and title: WP 8 Fuel specification, lab analysis and quality assurance WP leader: OFI Task no. and title: Task 8.2 Development of a material safety data sheet Task leader: DBFZ Draft/Final: Final


In 1706 the French refugee scholar (and Huguenot-Catholic triple agent) Jean Aymon inveigled his way from The Hague into the Bibliotheque du Roi in Paris, having promised the Librarian that he would deliver to the French Crown politically useful information about the moral dissolution and doctrinal inconsistencies of his Dutch-Huguenot associates. Instead, Aymon used his entree to steal a manuscript valuable to the Huguenot cause purporting to establish that the ancient Christian Church did not believe in transubstantiation. The reaction of Huguenot scholars to Aymon's escapade was mixed. As Protestants, they could not but applaud the results of his conduct, but, as citizens of the scholarly community, many of them were impelled to condemn it. For what Aymon had done was malhonnete, a gross violation of scholarly politesse. It appears that early eighteenth-century European scholars manipulated at least two distinct moral codes, one of which was understood to bear upon the real-world behaviour of politically, religiously and economically interested actors, and another which prescribed proper behaviour in the international community of scholars.


Regional electric power generation systems (REPGS) planning involves multiple sectors, multiple facilities, and multiple uncertainties, leading a variety of complexities. In this study, lower-side attainment degrees based inexact fuzzy chance-constraint programming (LA-IFCCP) was proposed to support the planning of REPGS under such a complex situation. LA-IFCCP was developed by integrating lower-side attainment degrees based fuzzy programming (LA-FLP) into an interval chance-constraint programming (ICCP) framework. It was able to tackle uncertainties expressed as intervals, fuzzy sets, probabilistic distributions as well as their combinations. At the same time, fuzzy relationships between conversion efficiencies of technologies and availabilities of energy resources could be transformed into corresponding deterministic ones via the lower-side attainment degree index without introducing any additional constraints, and thus guaranteed enhanced computation efficiency. Moreover, constraint-violation levels about renewable energy resource availabilities could be quantified through the adoption of various pi levels, which could represent the reliability of the system. The relationships between systems costs and reliability could be reflected via analyzing the solutions under different pi levels, which was very important for the management of power generation. A hypothetical but representative regional electric power generation system was adopted for demonstrating its applicability. Reasonable solutions were generated. They provided desired plans regarding energy supply, electricity generation, capacity expansion and emission mitigation to achieve a minimized system cost.


This study aims to quantify the phenomenon of the double epidemiological burden in Burkin-Faso. Data from Nouna Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) were used with a total of 4427 deaths among those aged 50 and over between 1993 and 2012 (including 2323 for which a cause is clearly diagnosed). The share of deaths due to communicable diseases did not significantly decline over time (-13%; p-value=0.158) while the proportion of deaths from non-communicable causes increased significantly (+178%; p-value<0.001). This resulted primarily from a rise in mortality rates from cardiovascular disease especially among men. The rise of cardiovascular diseases led to a reduction in the life expectancy at age 50 (-2.65 years) between 1997-2004 and 2005-2012. Mortality from cardiovascular diseases contributes to the double epidemiological burden among the elderly in Burkina Faso.


It was claimed that the construction and enumeration of symmetric correlation immune functions with order one was equivalent to the solutions in the binary field and their enumeration for a certain equation.It was also shown that the construction of symmetric correlation immune functions with order m was also related to the solutions in the binary field of the above equation.The equivalent equation was obtained.By solving the equivalent equation,the methods to construct symmetric correlation immune functions with higher order and to enumerate symmetric correlation immune functions with order one were presented.The lower bound of enumeration of symmetric correlation immune functions with order one was also given in two cases.


One of the most important properties of semi-trailer trucks are stability and steerability. This is because with an increase in driving speeds, these properties largely determine the safety of vehicle operation. Improving the semi-trailer trucks safety is all the more relevant because the consequences of road accidents involving semi-trailer trucks are the most severe and cause enormous damage. One of the most common causes of accidents is the loss of stability during emergency braking in a turn, especially in the event of a failure of trailer braking system. The goal of this research is to develop principles for improving the stability of semi-trailer trucks movement during emergency braking in a turn and failure of trailer braking system. A method has been developed to increase semi-trailer trucks stability during emergency braking in a turn and the failure of trailer braking system, which allows to maintain the trajectory stability of the semi-trailer truck and to avoid accidents with severe consequences. Using simulation methods, the effectiveness of the proposed method is proved.


Increasing operational speed of machines with roto rs supported in fluid film bearings imposes higher demands on rotor dynamics solution. Calculation of critical speeds is important design tool, but metho ds f ensuring rotor stability attract increasing signifi cance. Despite the standard design procedures of re n wned producers of rotating machines, cases of rotor inst abilities are still encountered in practice. Types a nd sources of instability are defined, some cases of rotor instab ili y are documented and methods of their suppressi on are shown in the paper.


A large variety of processes may lead to lesions in the endocardium and in the subendocardial myocardium. Irrespective of the initiating factors fibrin deposition and thrombus formation take place on the damaged endocardium. The healing process is associated with the incorporation of the thrombus into the endocardium, producing an area of scarring which sometimes calcifies. The heart has a limited range of response to injury, and this is a non-specific lesion. Nevertheless, there are situations in which a particular group of cases with endomyocardial fibrosis share common characteristics and may have the same aetiology and pathogenesis. My presentation predominantly concerns the tropical endemic form of endomyocardial fibrosis. It will be necessary to discuss endomyocardial lesions in conditions which are neither tropical nor endemic, and these will be referred to by the general term endomyocardial fibrosis. Endomyocardial fibrosis is a form of heart disease endemic in several tropical countries and characterized in the established condition by fibrosis in the ventricular cavities. In all the endemic areas it is as common a disorder clinically and at


Objectives:  TrialNet's goal to test preventions for type 1 diabetes has created an opportunity to gain new insights into the natural history of pre‐type 1 diabetes. The TrialNet Natural History Study (NHS) will assess the predictive value of existing and novel risk markers for type 1 diabetes and will find subjects for prevention trials.


Sensitivity has been examined for an optimal course control algorithm for a two-position command radio control system CRCS as regards the accuracy of the sensors; recommendations are made on improving the measurement accuracy.


Missing values are a common problem in many real world databases. A common way to cope with this problem is to use imputation methods to fill missing values with plausible values. Genetic programming-based multiple feature construction (GPMFC) is a filter approach to multiple feature construction for classifiers using Genetic programming. The GPMFC algorithm has been demonstrated to improve classification performance in decision tree and rule-based classifiers for complete data, but it has not been tested on imputed data. This paper studies the effect of GPMFC on classification accuracy with imputed data and how the choice of different imputation methods (mean imputation, hot deck imputation, Knn imputation, EM imputation and MICE imputation) affects classifiers using constructed features. Results show that GPMFC improves classification performance for datasets with a small amount of missing values. The combination of GPMFC and MICE imputation, in most cases, enhances classification performance for datasets with varying amounts of missing values and obtains the best classification accuracy.


I provide a solution for evaluating non-conventional projects, firstly showing that the well-known modified internal rate of return does not answer correctly what investors want to measure. Even if one correctly uses the net present value criterion for capital budgeting, I show that it fails for non-conventional projects. My contribution is thus twofold: To yield the correct rate of return for non-conventional projects and to allow practitioners to correctly calculate comparable net present values to take correct investment decisions.


________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Acoustic characterization of phonologically voiced obstruents in Shanghai dialect In Shanghainese, phonologically voiced obstruents in word-initial, accented position are phonetically voiceless and are distinguished from the others (i.e., voiceless and/or aspirated) mainly by a low tone register. Slightly breathy voice is also reported in the relevant literature as an additional characteristic of these obstruents in accented position. In this study, we used both monosyllabic and disyllabic words to revisit the issue of breathy phonation as characterizing phonologically voiced Shanghainese obstruents not only in accented position but also in non-accented position, where sandhi may affect tone register. We found breathy phonation most clearly when tone register is not affected. We also found that systematic duration patterns robustly characterize phonologically voiced obstruents, whether or not in accented position. MOTS-CLES : dialectes Wu, shanghaïen, voix soufflée, voix slack, durée consonantique


A COMPARISON IS MADE BETWEEN THE RESULTS OBTAINED ON MATERIAL COMPACTED IN THE LABORATORY AND IN SITU MEASUREMENTS UNDER THE TRACKS FORMED BY VEHICLES MOVING ON OPEN GROUND. THE VISUAL ASPECT OF THE RUT IS THUS EXPLAINED SHOWING THAT THE LARGEST "HOLLOW" DOES NOT NECESSARILY CORRESPOND TO THE LARGEST SETTLEMENT. THE LABORATORY STUDY HAS ALSO SHOWN THE PRIMORDIAL ROLE OF THE CLAY IN THE COMPACTION BEHAVIOUR; A THRESHOLD VALUE OF HYDRATION OF THE CLAY EXISTS (FUNCTION OF THE NATURE OF THE CLAY, ITS CATIONIC CHARGE AND THE ENERGY DEVELOPED DURING COMPACTION) WHICH CONTROLS SUSCEPTIBILITY OF THE MATERIAL TO SETTLEMENT.


The tr ansition from school to the workplace has been identifie d as challenging for at-risk youth who have already disengaged from learning and feel disenfranchised in the context of school. Work-based education (WBE), including co-operative education, has been recognized in recent years as an effe ctive strategy for enabling at-risk youth to re-engage with learning and to make more successful transitions to the workplace


Since the doubly-fed induction generator(DFIG) adopts the stator flux oriented control method to realize decoupling control of active and reactive power,it is widely used in variable speed constant frequency wind turbine systems.The active power is usually controlled by PI controller,however,there exists conflict between the overshoot and rapidity due to the linear combination of basic signals for PI controller′s control variables.To solve the problem,the tracking-differentiator(TD) was adopted to filter signals and get approximate differential signals so as to produce the basic elements for the controller.Meanwhile,the nonlinear PID controller(NLPID) was constructed through nonlinear combination of these basic signals.PI and NLPID-TD controllers were compared by simulation and the results showed that NLPID-TD can solve the conflict between overshoot and rapidity preferably and the control effect of NLPID-TD controller is better than that of PI controller in the aspects of dynamic response characteristics,tracking effect,and noise restraining.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to extend the h-index framework to the case that articles are counted fractionally. Design/methodology/approach – Three restrictions related to the standard h-index are explained: as the standard h-index is a natural number it is a rather coarse indicator; if a scientist has published a relatively small number of publications then the h-index is completely determined by the number of publications; the standard h-index cannot be applied if publications are counted fractionally, or when magnitude values smaller than one occur. Findings – We recall solutions we proposed in earlier publications regarding the first two problems (the use of the interpolated h-index and of the pseudo h-index) and add a new proposal to solve the third problem. The relation between the recently introduced window/field-normalized h-type index (hwf-index) and the interpolated h-index is described. A real-world example proves the feasibility of this proposal. Research limitations/implications – ...


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Service-oriented computing is gaining wider acceptance. We need an infrastructure that allows users and applications to discover, deploy, compose and synthesize services automatically. In this paper we present an approach for automatic service discovery and composition based on semantic description of Web services. The implementation will be used for the WS-Challenge 2007.


Cu2GeSe3 (CGSe) was synthesized by mixing elemental powders and post-heating at 600 °C in N2 gas. The X-ray diffraction pattern of the synthesized CGSe agreed with that of the simulated monoclinic structure. Characteristic diffraction peaks of 110 and 021 for the monoclinic structure were clearly observed. CGSe's crystal structure was characterized by Rietveld refinement of the powder X-ray diffraction data. CGSe has a monoclinic crystal structure with the space group of Cc (No. 9), and the refined lattice parameters were a = 6.7378 Å, b = 11.820 Å, c = 6.7505 Å, and β = 108.42°. The band gap of Cu2GeSe3 was determined to be 0.78 eV by the diffuse reflectance spectra of the powder. The Cu2(Sn1−xGex)Se3 (CTGSe) solid solution with 0 ≤ x ≤ 1.0 powders were also synthesized, and their crystal structures were characterized by Rietveld refinement of the powder X-ray diffraction data. Lattice constants a, b, and c were linearly decreased from Cu2SnSe3 (a = 6.873 Å, b = 12.008 Å, c = 6.921 Å, and β = 109.19°) to CGSe with increasing Ge content. The preliminary fabricated Cu2(Sn0.6Ge0.4)Se3 solar cell showed an efficiency of 2.43%, with a Voc of 334 mV, a Jsc of 20.4 mA/cm2, and an FF of 35.5%.


GOWARD HILL CAIRN, CO. DOWN The excavation described below is the first of a series to be carried out by the writers in conjunction with the archaeological section of the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society. It was conducted in the summer of 1932, on a horned cairn on Goward Hill, in the townland of Goward, some two miles east of Hilltown, co. Down. The cairn is composed of loose stones and measures about 115 feet by 50 feet by 6 feet high. It contains three open chambers at the east end, extending immediately behind the horns, and very ingeniously constructed. The orthostates rest against pairs of jambs kept apart by sills rising to about half the height of the chambers. The western end is blocked by a large upright slab, while the eastern end is partially closed by two portal stones forming an integral part of the horns, with a two-foot entrance between them. All the chambers were filled with earth and boulders ; the only finds in the western and central chambers being a few sherds lying directly on virgin soil : in the eastern chamber some two dozen small packets of ox bones, clearly intentionally deposited, were found in the stone filling. The side walls, here doubled, had partially collapsed, and had been repaired with rough dry-walling by the depositors of the bones. An unusual feature is the asymmetry of the horns : that to the north has six uprights whereas the south horn has three. The whole forms a nearly true semicircle (diameter 37 feet) and there is every reason to believe that it is complete as it stands. Though certain sherds have neolithic parallels, the group as a whole appears to belong to the Hallstatt-La T h e complex, and the fragments from the chambers are of the same type. A small stone found loose on the cairn has an engraved lozenge ornament of Bronze Age type. To test the problems raised by this excavation it is proposed to examine other horned cairns of the same type in the north of Ireland. OLIVER DAVIES : E. ESTYN EVANS. Most of the pottery found came from the forecourt.


Groins are old and intuitive means of reducing erosion and are found along the coast worldwide, although according to CEM (Coastal Engineering Manual 2003), "they are probably the most misused and improperly designed of all coastal structures". The original purpose of groins was to reduce local erosion, that is, to hold the width of beach in their vicinities. Despite the simplicity of groins, their interaction with the beach is complex, and existing functional design guidance is limited. On the other hand, over the past decade there have been significant advances in understanding of coastal sediment processes, predictive modeling capability, and field measurements. Therefore, with the existing numerical tools the current study will be conducted in order to achieve better insight into this specific topic, to find some design criteria for normal groins and T-shape groins. The first step in this research is to do a wide literature review to find some reliable data regarding wave height and current velocities in a groin field. An irregular wave field must be studied, since regular wave fields concentrate energy around a single frequency, so they produce exaggerated offshore bar and strong rip currents (Hulsbergen et al 1978). On the other hand, the abilities of Delft3D numerical model must be validated for modeling currents and morphological interaction of littoral zone and structures for the case. Once we comprehend the current models are capable of modeling different phenomena, a sensitivity analysis will be carried out to find some design rules for these structures.


Movement and music—both time-based activities—can be difficult to express in static media such as painting, drawing, and photography, yet many visual artists feel called to explore them. Some are driven to devise new techniques or new combinations of media in order to capture or suggest movement. Similarly, some visual artists utilize elements found in music—rhythms, patterns, repetitions, and variations—to endow their compositions with new expressive potency. In few places did movement, music, visual arts, and myriad other disciplines intermingle with such profound effect as they did at Black Mountain College (BMC), an experiment in higher education in the mountains of Western North Carolina that existed from 1933 to 1957. For many artists, their introduction to interdisciplinarity at the college resulted in a continued curiosity around those ideas throughout their careers. The works in the exhibition, selected from the Asheville Art Museum's Black Mountain College Collection, highlight approaches to rendering a lasting imprint of the ephemeral.


Diagnosis of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PjP) is challenging. Therefore highly-sensitive and time-efficient new diagnostic tools are needed for early antibiotic treatment start and optimized patient outcome. We evaluated a prototype of a new molecular diagnostic tool using PCR/microarray hybridization for P. jirovecii detection in respiratory samples of hospitalized patients suffering from pneumonia. Prototype results were first compared to established routine PCR results and were set in the context of patients' immune status and clinical presentation in an overall assessment (true positive, false negative or false positive). In our study population, P. jirovecii was assayed with both detection methods in eleven patients out of 739 evaluable study patients; of these, six cases were detected only with the prototype system, two cases only with site-established PCR and three cases with both methods. From these eleven positive cases, we found that six prototype positive cases were true false positives, three prototype positive cases were confirmed as true positives and two prototype negative cases were true false negatives. Overall prevalence for P. jirovecii was low in this study population. Although more positive cases were found using the prototype system, these cases seemed not to be of any clinical significance which might have led to an antibiotic overtreatment of patients under real conditions. However, the correct detection of three positive cases within a few hours might render the prototype a valuable diagnostic tool in the future.


Objective To establish human prostate carcinoma xenograft model in nude mice with human prostate carcinoma LNCaP cells inoculation and sub-graft through mice.Methods The morphological and histopathological features of transplanted tumor were examined.Immunohistochemical localization of prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) in the tumor tissues was also determined.Radioimmunoimaging studies of the nude mice bearing transplanted tumors with 125 I labeled PSMA McAb were taken.Results It showed that the morphological and functional characteristics of the transplanted tumors were strikingly identical to the original human tumor.The successful transplantation rate was 100%.After injection of 125 I-PSMA McAb through tail vein to nude mice xenografted with human prostate carcinoma,labeled antibody was found to be concentrated preferentially in the tumor.The radioimmunoimaging (RII) showed that the tumor was clearly visualized 96 hours postinjection.The ratio of radioactivity in tumor and non-tumor(T/NT) was higher 2.8 after 96 hours following administration.Conclusion The nude mice model of human prostate carcinoma so established provides an ideal tumor model for in vivo radioimmunotherapy.


This article addresses the problem that the remaining useful life (RUL) prediction accuracy for a high-speed rail catenary is not accurate enough, leading to costly and time-consuming periodic planned and reactive maintenance costs. A new method for predicting the RUL of a catenary is proposed based on the Bayesian optimization stacking ensemble learning method. Taking the uplink and downlink catenary data of a high-speed railway line as an example, the preprocessed historical maintenance and maintenance data are input into the integrated prediction model of Bayesian hyperparameter optimization for training, and the root mean square error (RMSE) of the final optimized RUL prediction result is 0.068, with an R-square (R2) of 0.957, and a mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.053. The calculation example results show that the improved stacking ensemble algorithm improves the RMSE by 28.42%, 30.61% and 32.67% when compared with the extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), support vector machine (SVM) and random forests (RF) algorithms, respectively. The improved accuracy prediction lays the foundation for targeted equipment maintenance and system maintenance performed before the catenary system fails, thus potentially saving both planned and reactive maintenance costs and time.


The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board is a new independent governmental establishment with in the Executive Branch created in December 1987 when Congress enacted the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act. The functions of the Board are to include an evaluation of the technical and scientific validity of the activities undertaken by the Secretary of Energy after the date of enactment, including (1) site characterization, and (2) packaging and transportation of high-level radioactive waste or spent nuclear fuel. The Board has held four meeting since its first meeting in March 1989 and has held seven Panel meetings. Its first report to Congress and to the Secretary of Energy was in January 1990.


The paper systematically studied the biological characteristics of trunk borer on fast growing poplar in Ningxia region.The comprehensive prevention and control technique was put forward based on the biological characteristics of trunk borer,in order to instruct the control of trunk borer in Ningxia region.


This paper deals with a new computational method for transient dynamic analysis which enables one to cover both the low‐ and medium‐frequency ranges. This is a frequency approach in which the low‐frequency part is obtained through a classical technique while the medium‐frequency part is handled through the variational theory of complex rays (VTCR) initially introduced for vibrations. Preliminary examples are shown. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


We experimentally examined the crosstalk of the switching device using BaTiO3 and interconnection mask. BaTiO3 is used to compensate the light loss by two wave mixing.


The goal of this paper is to recommend suitable competence assessment instruments and methods for assessing globalization competence in the Information Systems domain. This is done by matching globalization competences with suitable competence assessment methods. The results of the analysis indicate that the most applicable competence assessment methods for assessing globalization competences in the Information Systems domain are written format assessments especially essays, candidate self-reports, live interactions especially group work, and computer simulations. The validity of the outcome is confirmed through a mixed method of document analysis and expert interviews by analyzing and evaluating the assessment methods of Finnish higher education courses in the Information Systems field. Finally, a preliminary comparison between Finnish and Japanese assessment methods is conducted.


Volume changes of heavy soils when shrinking and swelling are significant processes because they are accompanied with soil surface decreasing and cracks formation. Predominantly, formation and dynamics of cracks have an important impact on transport processes in heavy soils and consequently on their water regime. East Slovakian lowland (ESL) belongs to the most important regions of Slovakia from the point of view of heavy soils occurrence. 45% of entire soil survey of ESL belongs to heavy soils. Relatively small attention has been paid to heavy soils volume changes of the region up to now. Results of heavy soils changes laboratory analysis of six locations of East Slovakian Lowland characterised by different particle size distribution, namely content of I. category particles (from 23% to 89%), are introduced in the presented study.


In the present paper which follows our previous paper ``Mathematical models for passive imaging I: general background'', we discuss the case of surface waves in a medium which is stratified near its boundary at some scale comparable to the wave length. We discuss how the propagation of such waves is governed by effective Hamiltonians on the boundary. The results are certainly not new, but we have been unable to find a precise reference. They are very close to results in adiabatic theory.


With a test method devised by Matumoto et al., which was an application of putting in the golf play, the grade of skill for the action requiring fine control, which an individual subject attained after the training of the primary step, was intended to measure. The training of the secondary step was carried out after 3 months on the subjects (5 females and 5 males) who performed the training of the primary step (one time of training course on every day over 30 days). The results were the following.1. The score at the beginning of the test in the secondary training was higher than that in the beginning of the primary training on all subjects.2. The curve of learning effect for the individual subject ascended more steeply than the one in the primary training on all subjects and soon reached to the maximum level which was attained by the subject in the training of the primary step.3. The curve of learning effect reached to a plateau after the training of 40-50 days and this level was maintained when the training was continued there after.4. The height of the plateau of the curve of learning effect, namely the grade of the skill was different for each subject.5. The grade of the skill had little relation to the curve of learning effect in the training of the primary step.6. At the plateau state of the curve of learning effect, the score shaked daily, the shaking was little on some subject but was large on the other.


An improved ergonomic nipple for a baby is provided, having a unique shape and extension capabilities, which provides multiple features for securing the nipple when inserted into a baby's mouth. The nipple comprises a top part comprising a tip, at least one flange extending from the tip base outwards and upwards, a neck comprising the exterior walls of the flanges, and at least one gum-gap defined by an interior wall of one of the flanges and the tip. The nipple is configured to allow at least one of the baby's gums to be received in the gum-gaps and engage the tip and the flange, and the baby's lips to engage the neck, whereby the baby firmly engages the nipple.


ABSTRACT In this article, we investigate the existence and asymptotic stability in p-th moment of a mild solution to a class of neutral stochastic integro-differential equation of fractional order involving non-instantaneous impulses with infinite delay in a Hilbert space. A new set of sufficient conditions proving existence and asymptotic stability of mild solution is derived by utilizing solution operator, functional analysis, stochastic analysis and fixed point technique. Finally, an example is provided to illustrate the obtained abstract result.


Workers of Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from small colonies collected more syrup in cages and more nectar in the open when a caged queen was present in the hive than when no queen was present. Free-flying colonies containing larvae but no queens collected more nectar than similar colonies provided with an alcoholic extract of larvae and their food. When nectar was available, free-flying colonies with queens had more incoming bees per 4 minutes and more pollen carriers per 4 minutes than colonies without queens but with larvae or brood extracts. When nectar was not available, queenless colonies with larvae had the greatest number and percent of pollen foragers of all treatments.

Extracts of larvae and their food appeared to increase both nectar and pollen foraging in the presence of a queen. However, the response was not always clearly evident, and the pheromone responsible was not identified. When nectar was freely available, foraging bees apparently collected pollen incident to nectar collection, thereby creating the appearance of a direct influence by the queen on pollen collection. However, in the absence of available nectar, when pollen also was less readily available, larvae exerted more influence on pollen collection than did the queen.


The present invention relates to an adjustable leg for furniture, and more particularly, a multi-stage adjustable leg for furniture which optimizes the adjustment and variable range of the height. According to the present invention, the adjustable leg for furniture includes a fixed body fixed to the underside of the furniture and having an accommodation space formed on the underside thereof, a shaft hole formed on the top surface thereof in such a manner as to communicate with the accommodation space, and a plurality of locking protrusions formed around the inner peripheral surface of the shaft hole; a rotary body rotatably mounted in the accommodation space of the fixed body and having a head formed on the upper portion thereof in such a manner as to be inserted into a mounting hole of the furniture through the shaft hole, locking grooves formed on the outer peripheral surface of the lower portion of the head in such a manner as to correspond with the locking protrusions, and a male screw thread formed on the outer peripheral surface of the lower portion thereof; a rotary elevating body rotatably mounted in the accommodation space of the fixed body to be elevated and having a female screw thread formed on the upper peripheral surface of the inner wall thereof in such a manner as to correspond with the male screw thread of the rotary body and a male screw thread formed on the outer peripheral surface thereof in the same direction as the male screw thread of the rotary body; and a support body inserted into and mounted on the accommodation space of the fixed body and having a screw hole formed at the center thereof in such a manner as to correspond with the male screw thread of the rotary elevating body.


Abstract The North Atlantic Tracer Release Experiment (NATRE) was performed in an area moderately favorable to salt fingers. However, the classic finger signature of a distinct thermohaline staircase caused by upgradient density flux was absent. This is likely because mixing by turbulence was sufficiently strong to disrupt the formation of permanent step and layer systems. Despite the lack of a staircase, optical shadowgraph profiles revealed that small-scale tilted laminae, previously observed in a salt-finger staircase, were abundant at the NATRE site. Using microstructure observations, the strength of salt-finger mixing has been diagnosed using a nondimensional parameter related to the ratio of the diffusivities for heat and buoyancy (Γ, "the dissipation ratio"). By examining the dissipation ratio in a parameter space of density ratio (Rρ) and Richardson number (Ri), the signal of salt fingers was discerned even under conditions where turbulent mixing also occurred. While the model for turbulence descr...


This work aims to identify and characterize species of subtribe Laeliinae (Orchidaceae) occurring in the Parque Nacional do Caparao, between Minas Gerais and Espirito Santo States. The vegetation in the area comprises forests and campos de altitude, occurring at around 2,000 m, and the highest peak is the Pico da Bandeira, the highest point in the Southeastern region of Brazil with 2,890 m. Laeliinae is represented in that area by five genera and a total of nineteen species: Cattleya bicolor, C. cinnabarina, C. coccinea (subsp. coccinea and subsp. pygmaea), C. mantiqueirae, Encyclia bragancae, E. patens, Epidendrum armeniacum, E. caparaoense, E. chlorinum, E. densiflorum, E. filicaule, E. mantiqueiranum, E. pseudodifforme, E. saxatile, E. secundum, E. zappi, Loefgrenianthus blancheamesiae, Prosthechea punctifera and P. pygmaea. New combination is provide for Cattleya coccinea subsp. pygmaea.


Bulb rot is a destructive postharvest disease in plantings and transporting of Lilium spp.Three fungi were isolated from the base of the stem showing typical bulb-rot symptoms of Lilium spp.According to the morphology, cultural characteristics and pathogenicity,Penicillium cyclopium and Rhizopus stolonifer were identified as the main pathogens causing bulb-rot in Lilium spp.


The Software Cost and Resources Assessment Tool (SOCRAT) project was initiated by the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in October 1991 to investigate the factors that affect dedicated control system (DCS) costs and to construct a prototype cost estimation tool. Logica were contracted to perform the study and delivered the first SOCRAT in April 1992. The SOCRAT project is important because it shows what organisations can do once they have established a software development process model, and design their systems around reusable software components. Humphreys (1989) characterised the transition from the 'defined process' to the 'managed process' by the attempt to cost the steps in the development process. The paper gives a practical demonstration of how this can be done.<<ETX>>


Physical model tests or numerical simulations are generally used to study the hydraulic characteristics of the set shape of hydraulic structures, and then studies are carried out to adjust the shape according to unfavorable hydraulic indicators until a satisfactory better shape is obtained. This is the traditional practice. Lateral inlet under two-way flow / Optimization of outlet shape can be regarded as a multi-objective optimization problem. In this paper, the weighted head loss coefficient is set as the objective function, and the non-uniform coefficient of flow velocity in the orifice cross-section and the non-uniform coefficient of flow volume between orifices are taken as the constraint conditions. The multi-objective optimization is converted into single-objective optimization, and the multi-island genetic algorithm is used to optimize the outlet shape of / to obtain the optimal shape. In addition, the application of parametric modeling method and response surface model based on CFD accelerates the speed of modeling and numerical simulation and improves the optimization efficiency. Taking the outlet of / of a lower reservoir as an example, compared with the original body, the recommended body type obtained according to the method in this paper has the following characteristics: the total head loss coefficient of / outflow is reduced by 3.35%, the flow velocity nonuniformity coefficient is reduced by 14.50%, and the flow nonuniformity coefficient of / inflow is less than "20% 。 This research method provides a convenient way to optimize the shape of hydraulic structures.


In this paper, we firstly, introduce the present research situations about ecological water deman, develop and analyze theoretically, a new method for calculating the ecological water demand,combining the ecological economy theory based on sustainable development. According to the ecological value theory, the ecological values for different ecological water demand are confirmed. The relationship between ecological value and the economic value of water resources is used to confirm the ecological water demand. A case is used to show the concrete steps of this method. The ecological water demand confirmed by this method fit with actual conditions, and can be used to study the ecological water demand theory during environment construction. In this method, the ecological system and the economy system are combined together by water resources. And this method has significance for studying the water resources utilization in the condition of sustainable development.


The article presents the regional experience of organizing immunoprophylaxis of respiratory
syncytial viral infection in premature infants, including those with bronchopulmonary dysplasia, with palivi zumab is presented on the basis of Regional Children's Clinical Hospital named after. N.N. Silischeva. In the
follow-up of children who received this drug for the observation period from 2019 to 2021, the following were
noted: the absence of side effects and undesirable effects of the drug, high adherence of parents to treatment
with palivizumab, the advantages of a centralized approach to organizing the prevention of RSV infection in
premature infants from the high-risk group in the Astrakhan region.


PURPOSE: To readily obtain the subject cyanoimino-substituted heterocyclic compounds useful as medical drugs, etc., without industrial pollution in a mild condition by reacting an N-cyanoiminodialkyl (or diphenyl) carbonate with an alkylene diamine. CONSTITUTION: A compound of formula I (R is 1-6C lower alkyl or phenyl) is reacted with a compound of formula II (R 1 and R 2 are H, 1-18C alkyl, phenyl, benzyl, etc.; R 3 to R 6 are H or 1-5C alkyl; n 15 0 or 1) to obtain the objective compound of formula III. The above-mentioned reaction is carried out in a condition where the ratio of the compound of formula II to the compound of formula I is specified to (formula II)/(formula I)=0.5-1.5, preferably 0.8-1.2. This production method is free from a malodorous raw material compound, by-production of mercaptan, etc. COPYRIGHT: (C)1992,JPO&Japio


It is true that the individual dimension is definitely a key element in business creation but the territory seems to be at the heart of entrepreneurship through the local availability of production factors (human and material capital), the type of local demand and the institutional regulation. Based on more than a hundred surveys conducted in the HautLanguedoc and Luberon Natural Regional Parks, it appeared that the availability of raw materials at local level still has a significant but declining role. The features of human capital on which the institutional regulation can act is – aside from the closeness of the markets a major factor accounting for the amount of business creation in the studied areas.


This section consists of an overview (names, universities, thesis titles and abstracts) of new PhD:s within the field of health economics in the Nordic countries.


Performance tests were conducted with the Carnegie-Mellon University (C-MU) vertical fluted-tube evaporator. Under nominal operating conditions (3200 gpm water flow, 3.2 million Btu/hr heat duty, and 100 gpm ammonia feed rate), the overall heat transfer coefficient (U/sub 0/) was 825 Btu/hr ft/sup 2/ /sup 0/F and the ammonia-side and water-side heat transfer coefficients were 1800 and 2610 Btu/hr ft/sup 2/ /sup 0/F, respectively. The water-side pressure drop was 3.2 psi. Tests were conducted at heat duties ranging from 2.4 million to 4.0 million Btu/hr and ammonia feed rates from 30 to 110 gpm. Over these ranges, U/sub 0/ increased with ammonia feed rate and decreased with heat duty. For all runs the quality of the ammonia vapor leaving the evaporator exceeded 99.9%. The measured U/sub 0/ values were very stable and repeatable for any continuous run at fixed operating conditions; however, they were not always repeatable following operating state changes or shutdown of the ammonia feed. These repeatability problems were attributed to variations in tube wetting and to the poor design of the ammonia applicator. Test results suggested that to ensure sufficient wetting and good thermal performance, the system should be started with a high ammonia feed rate and thenmore » cut back to the desired operating value.« less


The SeaWinds on QuikSCAT scatterometer (QSCAT) was developed by NASA JPL to measure the speed and direction of ocean surface winds. The accuracy of the majority of the swath, and the size of the swath are such that QSCAT meets its science requirements despite shortcomings at certain cross track positions. None the less, it was desirable to modify the baseline processing in order to improve the quality of the less accurate portions of the swath, in particular near the far swath and nadir. Two disparate problems have been identified for far swath and nadir. At far swath, ambiguity removal skill is degraded due to the absence of inner beam measurements, limited azimuth diversity, and boundary effects. Near nadir, due to nonoptimal measurement geometry, (measurement azimuths approximately 180/spl deg/ apart) there is a marked decrease in directional accuracy even when ambiguity removal works correctly. Two algorithms were developed, direction interval retrieval (DIR) to address the nadir performance issue, and thresholded nudging (TN) to improve ambiguity removal at far swath. The authors illustrate the impact of the two techniques by exhibiting post-launch statistical performance metrics with respect to European Center for Medium-range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) wind fields.


In recent years, with the speeding-up of economic globalization and regional integration, countries in East Asia, taking into consideration economic returns and national security, have actively conducted multilateral dialogue and cooperation in such areas as politics, economy and security in a pragmatic manner.


DIY is an unique and beauty province. Unique, because of its loaded cultures which are material culture, nonmaterial culture (such as legend, folktales, traditional song and dance which behaves and effloresces in society). Beautifull, because Yogyakarta have an extraordinary nature enchantment, such as beach, mountain range, cave, river, palace, temples, Selokan Mataram, and other historical sites which spreads in there. Yogyakarta's slogan is "Never Ending Asia" and it's worthy for this province, but in reality it's need a proper manage arrangement for Yogyakarta's cultural world.
 Utilizing one hundred percent of Danais financial estimate should be done if the cultural mapping is proper, that is to say the cultural purpose ought to widespread, cultural potential ought to deep explore, supported by qualified human resources, and information resources in right way.


The invention discloses a premelted refining slag for refining low-oxygen steel by a converter, belonging to the technical field of metallurgy and steelmaking. The invention is characterized in that the premelted refining slag comprises the following chemical compositions in percentage by weight: 53.0-58.0% of CaO, 28.0-32.0% of Al2O3, 3.0-8.0% of MgO, less than or equal to 6.0% of SiO2, less than or equal to 5.0% of CaF2, less than or equal to 0.3% of TiO2, less than or equal to 0.05% of B, less than or equal to 0.03% of P and less than or equal to 0.2% of S. According to the aim and the function of the CaO-Al2O3 slag system, the invention designs premelted refining slag chemical composition proportioning; the premelted refining slag can be used for quickly forming refining slag with favourable mobility and reducibility as well as high alkalinity in the LF refining process so as to cause LF to adapt to the technical characteristics of the converter, thus efficiently finishing desulfuration and deoxidation, removing impurities and refining; the invention satisfies the production requirements of low-oxygen high-quality converter steel and realizes the aim of low-oxygen steel.


Takeover defenses have long been viewed as detrimental to firm performance. They can lead to managerial entrenchment and the associated ills of shirking, empire building and enjoying perks. However, takeover protections can also help managers make long-term oriented choices by reducing their focus on shorter term firm and price performance. In this study we find that firms that use takeover defenses to create long-term value not only perform better than those that misuse takeover protection (to enjoy a quiet life or empire build) but also do better than firms that do not have takeover protection (and face short-term pressures). Further, in examining mechanisms that cause the outperformance, we find that the R&D productivity of R&D intensive firms with high takeover protection is greater than the productivity of R&D intensive firms with low takeover protection, suggesting greater investment efficiency. The views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the Comptroller of the Currency.


During pregnancy, metabolic interactions must be adapted, though neuroendocrine mechanisms for increased food intake are poorly understood. The objective of this study was to characterize differences in insulin, leptin, and agouti‐related protein (AgRP) levels in serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in pregnant women with normal weight (NW) and pregnant women with overweight (OW) or obesity (OB). Placenta as a source for increased peripheral AgRP levels during pregnancy was also investigated.


A 1 GS/s 12-bit pipelined/successive-approximation-register (pipelined/SAR) hybrid analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is presented in this paper, where the five most significant bits are resolved by two cascading 2.5-bit multiplying digital-to-analog converters, and the eight least significant bits are determined by a two-channel time-interleaved successive-approximation-register (TI-SAR) quantizer. An integrated input buffer and an operational amplifier with improved voltage efficiency at 1.8 V are adopted to achieve high-linearity stably in wide band for 1 GS/s. By designing a 500 MS/s 8-bit SAR quantizer at 1 V, the number of required interleaved channels is minimized to simplify the complexity and an adaptive power/ground is used to compensate the common-mode mismatch between the blocks in different power supply voltages. The offset and gain mismatches due to the TI-SAR quantizer are compensated by a calibration scheme based on virtually-interleaved channels. This ADC is fabricated in a 40 nm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology, and it achieves a signal-to-noise-and-distortion ratio (SNDR) of 58.2 dB and a spurious free dynamic range (SFDR) of 72 dB with a 69 MHz input tone. When the input frequency increases to 1814 MHz in the fourth Nyquist zone, it can maintain an SNDR of 55.3 dB and an SFDR of 64 dB. The differential and integral nonlinearities are −0.94/+0.85 least significant bit (LSB) and −3.4/+3.9 LSB, respectively. The core ADC consumes 94 mW, occupies an active area of 0.47 mm × 0.25 mm. The Walden figure of merit reaches 0.14 pJ/step with a Nyquist input.


Parallel intelligent military system centralizes the weaponry power of hitting, protecting, mobility and information, and constructs an intelligent entirety based on intellectual technology, which intelligently extends the actual military organization and system, speeds up fusion application of intelligent system and military practice, and helps promote the development of intelligent military system.


Published in the series Analyses of Hazardous Substances in Biological Materials, Vol. 3 (1991)

The article contains sections titled:

Summary
Enzyme immunoassay
Radio immunoassay (RIA)
β2-Microglobulin
Discussion of the method

Keywords:

determination in urine;
determination in serum;
enzyme immunoassay;
radio immunoassay;
EIA;
RIA;
analysis in biological materials;
occupational monitoring;
analytical method;
biomarker;
metabolites


Charge pumping is a widely used method of evaluating the Si-SiO/sub 2/ interfaces in MOSFETs. The modelling of this technique in a p-MOSFET using two-dimensional device simulator is presented. A two-dimensional transient model which accounts for the interface-state dynamics is employed to simulate the charge pumping in MOSFETs with good accuracy. The simulation results are substantiated by measurement results.


From the middle of the 19th century, the relationships between masonic umbrella organisations in Europe intensified. These gave rise to cross-border networks, which around 1900 started to consolidate into transnational movements and (rudimentary) organisations. This contribution outlines the actors and mediators, the geographical centres of these networks, intellectual motivations, pragmatic driving forces, and conflicts and oppositions. Trans-state networks and transnational movements enabled only limited cases of 'concerted action' by a masonic 'international', which to a large extent remained utopian. It is true that one can detect certain mechanisms of internationalism within European freemasonries. However, freemasons were even less able at the transnational level to put into practice the ideal of a protected space of ritual 'brotherhood' free of temporal ties than they had been at the national or local levels.


Deep drilling in western Sichuan depression drilling cycle long,slowspeed drill,the high cost of drilling.This seriously limits the western Sichuan deep gas reservoirs in the exploration and development.And reasonable and in accordance with the drill bit selection stratigraphic nature of ROP is to raise, lower drilling cost effective way.Against West Sichuan Drilling Technology and research through numerous optimization methods bit,drilling and geological conditions of various advantages and disadvantages of Analysis start bit selection and combination of various bits of information analysis and drilling have statistical analysis for evaluation of the stratigraphy of western Sichuan dense bit selection,That is,in the town of Penglai,Suining group Shaximiao Formation,White 648-652 group,Cliff Formation use of PDC bits,in Xujiahe Formation to the use of roller cone bit,but will continue to try the new PDC bit.The results of the deep gas reservoirs in the rapid and efficient development drilling and provided strong technical support.


Mobile technology has exploded in healthcare because of its ability to improve the efficiency and accuracy of information exchange. This paper develops an innovative telemedical education system that enables peer learners to share medical multimedia such as DICOM Learning Objects (DLOs). In this system, facilitators and other student peers can publish such DLOs as Sharable Content Object Reference Model podcasts, where other peers can subscribe to it through their feeds. Such DLO podcasts can automatically be downloaded on the interested peer's devices for review and annotation. The new telemedical education system represents a collaborative network of peers linked in a Friend-of-Friend fashion built on the JXME enabling mobile infrastructure.


This paper will discuss the conceptual framework for the collection of data on the supply side of tourism statistics, the need and rationale to gather such statistics in support of the Tourism Act and the compilation of the Tourism Satellite Account. The paper will also present the survey design of the 2009 STEP that will be undertaken by the National Statistics Office (NSO) which shall include the scope and coverage, the questionnaire design, sampling frame and sampling design, method of data collection, milestones of the survey and expected outputs of the survey.


Although underwater vent fields are of great scientific interest, accurate visual mapping is difficult because of the presence of bubble plumes that degrade the accuracy of conventional acoustic positioning systems such as long base line (LBL) and super short base line (SSBL). The authors had proposed a visual mapping method of shallow vent fields with an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) equipped with a profiling sonar, where positioning is based on vertical rod-shaped acoustic reflectors and bubble plumes. Although performance was verified through a series of experiments, there remain two challenges as follows. Firstly, observation is terminated if the vehicle was surrounded by bubble plumes, since the vehicle tries to avoid collision with not only artificial reflectors but also collision-safe bubble plumes. Secondly, the observation area drifts by disturbance since the waypoints are defined relative to the vehicle's position after descending close to seafloor. This paper proposes a real-time path planning method of an AUV as a part of the proposed observation method. The path of the vehicle is defined based on the types of landmarks as well as the geometric relationship between the vehicle and the landmarks. The vehicle can distinguish landmark types using a sheet laser and a camera. The proposed method was implemented on the AUV Tri-Dog 1 and a series of experiments were carried out in order to verify its performance.


We study some amalgamation classes introduced by Cherlin and prove the simplicity of the automorphism groups of the Fra{\"\i}ss{\'e} limits of these classes. We employ the machinery of stationary independence relations used by Tent and Ziegler.


ABSTRACT— Two regimens of lithium prophylaxis with different pharmacokinetic characteristics were compared under double‐blind conditions in 25 bipolar patients in remission already stabilized on lithium, to determine the relative effects of each regimen on renal function. Once‐daily lithium carbonate (Priadal), which gives a peak lithium plasma level 2–3 h post‐administration with a low level 24 h later, was compared with twice‐daily lithium citrate (Litarex), which maintains a steadier 24 h plasma level. Patients were allocated randomly to one of the 2 regimens. They were seen monthly for clinical ratings over the course of 12 months. A comprehensive battery of renal function tests was undertaken at the start of the trial, between 6–9 months after the start and again after 1 year. No significant differences were observed in clinical outcome, side effects or renal function between the 2 regimens.


The stability calculation of breast wall is an important content in the design of slope marine structures. The main damage load of breast wall on rubble-mound breakwater is wave force. In the absence of physical model test data, wave force is often differently calculated according to the methods specified in the different codes and design manuals. In this paper, different calculation methods for wave force based on the codes of China, Japan and Europe are discussed and analyzed. Then, a revetment project in Africa is taken as an example to compare the calculation results. Finally, important conclusions can be obtained that (1) the results calculated by the Chinese code are relatively reasonable; (2) When calculating the wave force imposed on breast wall placed on vertical wall, the Goda's method in the Japanese code is practicable. As for the relevant calculation of the wave force on slope structures, it can only be used for approximate estimation. (3) In the method of BS6349, the range of K value is relatively large, which has great influence on the calculation results. When using this method, more attention should be paid to the selection of K value. The results can provide a reference for structure design of breast wall without physical model test data.


Exposure to elemental Cs generates graphitic domains within nanoporous carbon at only 50 °C, well below the typical graphitization temperatures of 1000 °C. We present a model of nanoporous carbon, the wormhole, which can express the fundamental topological elements of graphitization: a negative-curvature analog to C60 fullerene. The pathway to wormhole annihilation comprises an initial Stone-Wales transformation and a subsequent unzipping of the defect. This complex 100-atom collective defect disintegrates with the formation of only two dangling bonds. Our ab initio calculations show that while the activation barrier against reduction in topological genus is indeed lowered by interaction with alkali, an additional chemical constituent must be involved to account for this remarkable local graphitization of nanoporous carbons at near-room temperature.


In the midst of individualistic nature and materialistic lifestyles that are increasingly thickening, Islamic boarding schools are still consistent by presenting an education system that is able to bridge the physical (physical) needs and mental spiritual (spiritual) needs of humans. The uniqueness of the role of pesantren is certainly inseparable from the professionalism and intelligence of the Kiai in leading the pesantren education community. It is at this point that the main reason for this research is raised. The main focus in the discussion of this research focuses on the Kiai's way of diagnosing the pesantren community. The focus in this research is how the behavior of the kiai in diagnosing the pesantren community. This research was conducted at the Bustanul Falah Islamic boarding school in Banyuwangi using a qualitative approach to describe the leadership behavior of Kiai. The conclusion of the findings based on the results of in-depth interviews, documentation and observations illustrates that the Kiai's dialogue process carried out in the internal and external environment of Islamic boarding schools is about adjusting three important components to the work needs of developing formal education in pesantren. The three are religious compatibility, commitment and competence.


17 T he ESO STC recommended the construction of SINFONI ("Spectrograph for INtegral Field Observation in the Near-Infrared") in October 1997. The instrument was conceived as the combination of an Adaptive Optics facility (the AO-Module), developed by ESO, and SPIFFI (SPectrometer for Infrared Faint Field Imaging), a Near Infrared Integral Field Spectrograph developed by the MPE. It merges in one instrument the experience gained by ESO in Adaptive Optics (AO) with the development of the MACAO product line and the experience of MPE in integral field spectrometry with 3D, the world's first infrared integral field spectrometer. A two year detailed design phase was initiated in 2000. At the final design review (2001), the board recommended the upgrade of the instrument to a higher spectral resolution (nearly 4000) with a 2048 by 2048 pixel infrared detector. NOVA joined the consortium at that time to undertake the development of the so-called '2K Camera' scaling the spectral images to the size of the new detector.


In the method, mailpieces are after the separation from a stack as transmission power in succession according determined in the longitudinal direction of destination addresses via a transport and gate section (2) into allocated sorting (1) passed. The average nominal gap between the mail items which leave the separation device is smaller than the gap between the mail items which are to be sorted in the sorting (1) with the longest transportation routes. Before the transport and gate line (2), the gaps between two respective items by means of a controllable gap changing device (4) depending on the program with the respective shorter transportation length from the associated sorting station (1) individually changed according to the determined beforehand in statistical surveys to minimum gap ,


In this paper, two new species of the genus Neodryinus are described, and euscelids is first recorded as the host of Neodryinus. All the types are deposited in the Department of Plant Protection, Zhejiang Agricultural University.


This study aims to look at the effect of compensation and job involvement on nurses work motivation at Permata Hati Hospital Duri Mandau Bengkalis Region. The population in this study are 88 nurses in at Permata Hati Hospital Duri Mandau hospital. analytical technique is multiple linear regression with the work motivation as well as the dependent variable, compensation and job involvement as independent variables. From the analysis was found that the compensation received by nurses is good and accordance with the principles set out in compensation. Compensation significant effect on the motivation of the nurses working at Permata Hati Hospital Duri Mandau. The work involvement of nurses working at Permata Hati Hospital Duri Mandau is good so that nurses make the job as the center of their lives. Work Involvement significant effect on the motivation of the nurses working at Permata Hati Hospital Duri Mandau. Compensation and job involvement jointly significant effect on work motivation of nurses at Permata Hati Hospital Duri Mandau. Keyword : Work motivation, compensation and work involvement


In this paper, we investigate the effect of token-release time on network performance for a token-based OBS ring network. We propose two schemes that are able to guarantee collision-free access and maintain high channel utilization by considering an optimal token-release time. The first scheme, an optimal token-release time protocol(OTRTP), guarantees a collision-free channel while releasing tokens as early as possible. The second scheme, PTRTP-MT(Proper Token-Release Time with Multiple Transmissions), which allows a node to transmit multiple bursts after capturing a token. This protocol makes network resources more efficiently and the simulation result shows it.


Objective: To compare the differences of effective date and cost between two different packaging material in supply rooms when sterilizing objects. Method: Disposable non-woven and full cotton materials were respectively employed to package sterilized objects deposited in our hospital's supply room after autoclaving,packaging sterilized objects with A,B,C and D four methods,of which A took double-layer cotton,B one layer non-woven plus one double-layer cotton,C two-layer non-woven,and D one layer non-woven package. The packaged sterilized objects were stored in supply room after autoclaving,and then sent to be examined every two weeks,in order to monitor their effective date in a year. Results: Group A's effective date was 8 weeks,B 26weeks,C 52 weeks and D 20 weeks,in a decreasing order of C group B group D group A group; A group's cost was 5. 6 yuan,B group 4. 0 yuan,C group 2. 4 yuan,and D group 1. 2 yuan,in an order of A group B group C group D group,P 0. 05,with statistics' difference. Conclusion: Double disposable non-woven has a longer effective date and lower cost in packaging sterilized objects' in supply room. Not only does it enhance the management of effective time,and save medical cost,but also effectively control the nosocomial infection,which should be widely used.