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Physicians. While many of the rural physicians interviewed in North Carolina would prefer not to deal with HMOs at all, they are generally positive about their relationships with United Healthcare of North Carolina. These physicians chose to contract with the HMO to obtain new patients and to retain existing patients. They are satisfied that their participation has accomplished these goals. Their reimbursement arrangements are easy to understand, and most view the payment amounts as satisfactory. The physicians regard the size of the HMOs provider network and the open-access structure of the HMO as positive features that allow them to make referrals without the restrictions imposed by some other HMOs.

To date, participation in United Healthcare of North Carolina has imposed few burdens on rural physicians. They are reimbursed on a fee-for-service basis, and their financial risk has been limited. They do not perceive that the HMO has had a significant impact on the way they practice medicine. This situation may change in the future if enrollees from United Healthcare of North Carolina and other HMOs constitute a greater proportion of their practices and if these HMOs move toward capitated reimbursement. The attitudes of rural physicians toward United Healthcare of North Carolina also may change if the HMO attempts to more actively manage the care provided to its enrollees.

United Healthcare of North Carolina plans to eliminate physician risk sharing (in the form of withholds) and replace it with bonus payments. As one HMO executive said, the plan wants to "put incentives where they belong." If rewarding good performance instead of punishing poor performance yields intended consequences, it may provide United Healthcare of North Carolina with a competitive advantage in rural areas. First, because such a change offers an opportunity to augment a physician's income instead of diminishing it, physicians might prefer to contract with the HMO rather than with other HMOs. Second, because bonus payments depend on performance, United Healthcare of North Carolina providers may produce outcomes that allow reductions in premium prices or expansions of benefits compared with the HMOs competitors.

Hospitals. Rural hospitals cited similar motivations (attracting and retaining business) for participating in United Healthcare of North Carolina and similar levels of satisfaction with their relationships. In their experiences, the HMO has been fair in its negotiations and reimbursement. Although they contract with multiple HMOs, these rural hospitals do not perceive that HMO participation has had a significant impact on hospital operations. Because these hospitals, like many rural hospitals, rely heavily on Medicare (and, to a lesser degree, on Medicaid) as revenue sources, the future impact of managed care on their operations will depend in large part on the extent to which significant proportions of their Medicare and Medicaid patients enroll in HMOs.


The article investigates the representations of diplomatic activity and diplomatic status of Ragusa in its epic literature and poetry from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.


Kate Gleason College of Engineering Rochester Institute of Technology Degree Doctor of Philosophy Program Microsystems Engineering Author's Name Cory E. Merkel Advisor's Name Dhireesha Kudithipudi, Ph.D. Dissertation Title Design of Neuromemristive Systems for Visual Information Processing Neuromemristive systems (NMSs) are brain-inspired, adaptive computer architectures based on emerging resistive memory technology (memristors). NMSs adopt a mixed-signal design approach with closely-coupled memory and processing, resulting in high area and energy efficiencies. Previous work suggests that NMSs could even supplant conventional architectures in niche application domains such as visual information processing. However, given the infancy of the field, there are still several obstacles impeding the transition of these systems from theory to practice. This dissertation advances the state of NMS research by addressing open design problems spanning circuit, architecture, and system levels. Novel synapse, neuron, and plasticity circuits are designed to reduce NMSs' area and power consumption by using currentmode design techniques and exploiting device variability. Circuits are designed in a 45 nm CMOS process with memristor models based on multilevel (W/Ag-chalcogenide/W) and bistable (Ag/GeS2/W) device data. Higher-level behavioral, power, area, and variability models are ported into MATLAB to accelerate the overall simulation time. The circuits designed in this work are integrated into neural network architectures for visual information processing tasks, including feature detection, clustering, and classification. Networks in the NMSs are trained with novel stochastic learning algorithms that achieve ≈3.5× reduction in circuit area, reduced design complexity, and exhibit similar convergence properties compared to the least-mean-squares algorithm. This work also examines the effects of device-level variations on NMS performance, which has received limited attention in previous work. The impact of device variations is reduced with a partial on-chip training methodology that enables NMSs to be configured with relatively sophisticated algorithms (e.g. resilient backpropagation), while maximizing their area-accuracy tradeoff.


Taking Castanopsis fargesii forest as reference,different land use types including Schima superba forest,shrubs,Pinus massoniana forest,plantations of Cunninghamia lanceolat,Pseudolarix kaempferi and Phyllostachys pubescen,Phyllostachys pubescens forest,tea garden,and bare land in Tiantong,Zhejiang Province were selected to investigate their soil organic carbon(SOC) contents,and the SOC mineralization rate after incubated at 25 ℃ and 60% field water capacity over 33 days.The results showed that evergreen broad-leaved forest(Castanopsis fargesii) had the highest SOC content and mineralization rate,followed by coniferous forest,tea garden and bamboo forest,and bare land,while the CO2-C released from the mineralization of SOC was the lowest in C.fargesii forest,suggesting that evergreen broad-leaved forest had the highest carbon-fixing ability,and the SOC content and mineralization rate would have a significant decrease when the land use type shifted from evergreen broad-leaved forest to others.


Table S1. Components used to prepare Solution 2 in the contrast experiments. Figure S1. XRD patterns of the contrast experiments. Figure S2. SEM images of the contrast experiments. Figure S3. Specific charge/discharge capacity versus cycle number of the contrast samples in the voltage range 0.01-3.0 V at current rate of 100 mA·g−1. a. Sample 1. b. Sample 2. Figure S4. a. TEM image of the Co2+xTi1-xO4 nano-octahedrons, b. dark field image of corresponding area. Table S2.The atomic proportion calculated by EDX by STEM mode. Figure S5. Specific charge/discharge capacity versus cycle number of the acetylene black in the voltage range 0.01-3.0 V at current rate of 100 mA·g−1. Figure S6. a. SEM image of the raw TiO2 powder, b. XRD image of the raw TiO2 powder.


The Vita Brigitae is examined for biblical allusions and chiastic structural patterning. Biblical references occur in clusters centred on geographical and spiritual locations: the Garden of Eden, Cities of Refuge, and the Peaceable Kingdom. Strong thematic and structural patterning indicates a correlation between Kildare and the New Jerusalem of Revelation.


This study aims at identifying the impact of the Managerial Empowerment on employees Innovation, and testing the differences among those directions according to the diverse demographic characteristics. The study was conducted on a random sample of 295 employees from The University Jordan; its data analysis was based on: descriptive methods, regression, T- test and one way (ANOVA) analysis.
The study's primary findings show that the perceptions of the respondent toward the Empowerment concept was moderate. Statistically proven impacts of the Empowerment on the level of employees Innovation were identified; on the other hand, the fact that there were no significant differences in the employee's perceptions of Empowerment concept is interpreted to be due to their demographic characteristics with the exception of age and gender variables. The study concluded the following recommendations:
Encouragement of employee to accept the Managerial Empowerment culture should be enhanced.
It is important to start reconsidering of employee's salaries and incentive system.
Application of impartial and clear promotional programs.


In the single-phase switched reluctance motor (SRM) drive, the required DC source is generally supplied by the circuit consisting of bridge rectifier with diodes and many filter capacitances connected with AC source. Although the peak torque ripple of SRM is small because of large capacity of the capacitance, the charge and discharge time swhich the AC source acts on the capacitance are small and the peak current will pass on the side of source, so power factor and system efficiency decrease. Therefore a novel SRM drive system is presented in this paper, which includes drive circuit realizing reduction of torque ripple and improvement of power factor and switching topology. The proposed drive circuit consists of one switching part and diodes which can separate the output of AC/DC rectifier from the large capacitance and supply power to SRM alternately in order to realize reduction of torque ripple and improvement of power factor through the tum on and tum off of switching part. In addition, the validity of method is tested by simulation and experiment.


Sadovsky, R., Brock, G. B., Gutkin, S. W., & Sorsaburu, S. (2009). Toward a new 'EPOCH': Optimising treatment outcomes with phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors for erectile dysfunction. International Journal of Clinical Practice, 63, 1214–1230. Sadovsky, R., Dunn, M., & Grobe, B. M. (1999). Erectile dysfunction: The primary care practitioner's view. American Journal of Managed Care, 5, 333–341. Sadovsky, R. & Mulhall, J. P. (2003). The potential value of erectile dysfunction inquiry and management. International Journal of Clinical Practice, 57, 601–608. Sato, Y., Tanda, H., Kato, S., Onishi, S., Nitta, T., & Koroku, M. (2007). How long do patients with erectile dysfunction continue to use sildenafil citrate? Dropout rate from treatment course as outcome in real life. International Journal of Urology, 14, 339–342. Seftel, A. D., Buvat, J., Althof, S. E. McMurray, J. G., Zeigler, H. L., Burns, P. R., et al. (2009). Improvements in confidence, sexual relationship and satisfaction measures: Results of a randomized trial of tadalafil 5 mg taken once daily. International Journal of Impotence Research, 21, 240–248. Shabsigh, R., Anastasiades, A., Cooper, K. L., & Rutman, M. P. (2006). Female sexual dysfunction, voiding symptoms and depression: Common findings in partners of men with erectile dysfunction. World Journal of Urology, 24, 653–656. Shabsigh, R., Arver, S., Channer, K. S., Eardley, I., Fabbri, A., Gooren, L., et al. (2008). Sexual health as a portal to men's health: A problem turned around into an opportunity. International Journal of Clinical Practice, 62, 179–181. Solomon, H., Wierzbicki, A. S., Lumb, P. J., Lambert-Hammill, M., & Jackson, G. (2006). Cardiovascular risk factors determine erectile and arterial function response to sildenafil. American Journal of Hypertension, 19, 915–919. Sutton, K. S., Pukall, C. F., & Chamberlain, S. (2009). Pain, psychosocial, sexual, and psychophysical characteristics of women with primary vs. secondary provoked vestibulodynia. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 6, 205–214. Vardi, M., & Nini, A. (2007). Phosphodiesterase inhibitors for erectile dysfunction in patients with diabetes mellitus. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 1, CD002187. Weiss, P., & Brody, S. (2009). Female sexual arousal disorder with and without a distress criterion: Prevalence and correlates in a representative Czech sample. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 6, 3385–3394. Wespes, E., Amar, E., Hatzichristou, D., Hatzimouratidis, K., Montorsi, F., Pryor, J., et al. (2006). EAU Guidelines on erectile dysfunction: An update. European Urology, 49, 806–815. Wrishko, R., Sorsaburu, S., Wong, D., Strawbridge, A., & McGill, J. (2009). Safety, efficacy, and pharmacokinetic overview of low-dose daily administration of tadalafil. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 6, 2039–2048. Zarbock, S. (2009). Sex in the golden years: If you don't ask, they won't tell. Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, 22, 13.


Stages in the civil rights careers of a sample of women active in northern communities were studieC. Committed to racial 'ustice, mnost intensified their participation in the early 1960's. In the second half cf the decade, the "Black Power" phase, roles for whites became fewer. Orcanizations exnerience,& chnges in membership and direction; factionalism ensued. Yan, women welcomec black leaders'l ' _ _ , and olaved roles i'U new black-lea com runitv agencies. Arrests of blacks allegedly involved in riots elicited support in -he fcr.ati on of defense committees and orison refo r organizations. Later, many women entered uman service professions; they chose jobs wi . poor, minority or clsadvantagec lientel s. Half are still volunteers. Continuity is sought between paid or volunteer worc ana soczal concerns. In its ansence, a sense cr loss or cuilt I-s experienced. Movement commitment tends to be translated into institutional roles, most especiaz ly paid careers in the human services. Although research -s accumulating, many cuestions of theoretical as well as social policy interest remain about the nature of white participation in the civil riahts movement of the 1980's. Some suggest that whites, as outsiders, became a hindrance in the later stages of this minority movement (Marx and Useen 1971). Another ateroach stresses the generally declining function of the Membership base in civil rights durinq the latter half of the 1960's, the "'lack Power" phase. It was during this period that Q0vernment, business, and foundations helped to create paid social careers (-cCarthy and Zald 1973). Financial resources Provided by mainstream white institutions would appear to have This is a revised version of a paper presented at the Annual -eetings of the Easze-rn SociioLoical Society, March 16, 1977, flew York City. Thanks are due to Cheryl Townsend Gilkes for her tbofstructi.:e re--arks as discussant, to Richard M. Stephenson for COmments on an earlier draft, and to the Rutgers University ersearch Council for grants which supported the research. -"blications of the author prior to 1979 appeared under the name a Lois Goldstein.


To assess the species distribution and epidemiologic trends of nontuberculous mycobacteria, we examined iso-lates from patients in Taiwan. During 2000–2008, the pro-portion increased signifi cantly from 32.3% to 49.8%. Asso-ciated disease incidence increased from 2.7 to 10.2 cases per 100,000 patients.


Abstract : This research effort defines bomber force requirements with one eye on national security and military strategy and the other on the future. It attempts to bridge our leadership's void in defining future roles and requirements for the nation's bomber force. Targeted for developers of requirements at Headquarters Air Force and Air Combat Command, this paper distills the lessons of historical bomber operations as well as guidance contained in documents ranging from the National Security Strategy through Air Force Basic Doctrine to define the current roles and capabilities demanded of bombers. The paper then tackles the nature of future conflict and the unique missions and capabilities required by that operating environment. As a capstone, the paper then delineates specific requirements in terms of avionics, weaponry, logistics, and training. This synthesis of requirements forms a modernization roadmap ensuring the responsiveness and viability of the US bomber force in supporting military strategy across the spectrum of future conflict.


In view of five kinds of catastrophes in the Three Gorges reservoir area, this thesis takes natural catastrophe as the example, and uses the Bayesian networks model to carry on the analysis of the catastrophe formation mechanism, and uses the quantitative method to solve the key question which the catastrophe mechanism studied in the Three Gorges reservoir area, provides the feasible scientific basis in order to reduce the occurrence of catastrophe and reduce the loss which the catastrophe lead to in the Three Gorges reservoir area.


The purpose of this work was the conceptual elaboration of a proposed zoning based on the concepts of recovery, rehabilitation, and restoration, for the Ipojuca watershed, located in the state of Pernambuco, in the north-eastern region of Brazil. It also sought to bring together a set of technical and normative instruments capable of being articulated in environmental policies that have river restoration as the main exponent of ecological and sustainability criteria. Data from the MapBiomas project, which aims to map the annual land cover and use in Brazil, and rainfall data from the stations located in the study area, were used as a basis for the zoning. From the combination of these databases, three sectors with similar characteristics were established, which served as the basis for the zoning. The overlap shown in these data confirmed the influence of the rainfall pattern on the characteristics of the land cover and pattern of use in each sector, where agricultural activities and urbanisation have played a decisive role in the degradation of water bodies and their bordering environments along the watershed.


The purpose of this article is to make a legal and economic balance of the corporate types provided for in the Civil Code after twenty years of its approval by law 10.406/2002. In order to reach the objective, the research started with an economic explanation revealing the process by which agents choose a certain form of structure admitted by the legal system to maximize their own interests. Next, the types of society were dealt with, having as an epistemological cut the personified corporate types and the residual liability of the partners. Finally, there was the issue of the revocation of the Limited Liability Individual Company and the problem of its revocation in law 14.195/2021 and by law 14.382/2022. To reach the scope, the research sought to carry out a bibliographic review on the subject, as well as using a quantitative methodology, through the analysis of statistical data extracted from official sources. The research converges to demonstrate that societies are instruments that stimulate entrepreneurial initiative and actively contribute to the country's economic development. In a predictive character, through an economic rationality, there is a need to discontinue types that do not ensure the protection of private investment, as is the case of simple partnerships, in collective name, limited partnership and limited partnership by shares, as well as the creation of a general part of corporate law applicable to business companies.


The present invention relates to medical laser treatment module. The medical laser treatment module, the fundamental wavelength λ It has a laser beam source for generating, optionally used. Medical laser treatment module according to the present invention, the medical laser treatment module, other wavelengths lambda , Λ At least one means for generating a laser beam (2, 3), and the fundamental wavelength lambda Wavelength λ , Λ It characterized that it has at least one means for selectively entering the means for generating. Laser module configured in this way is usable particularly in dentistry, and it can also be used as a built-in module that can be can be also used as a component of a stationary treatment equipment.


Parts and Wholes, the Gift is a thesis project consisting of written scholarship and a series of interventionist, performative projects that investigate how the gift manifests in art practices and our everyday experiences. In Parts and Wholes, the Gift the work of art, as if a gift, is discussed through a variety of lenses. These include its
paradoxical nature as labour and its challenge as an autonomous act, to the sociopolitical culture of capitalized economy, by living in the economy of the useful as a superflous act, surpassing it and making it work. In Parts and Wholes, the Gift I focus on potential frameworks and methodologies to understand ways of being together. It is an inquiry into the recognition that the work of art belongs to no one and that the artist is the channel
through whom a work of art is given back to all.


Some patients are quite prepared to change doctors if they are not satisfied with the quality of services they have received.


My focus in this essay revolves around a corpus of literature written by Cypriots in English that has yet to define itself either as a hyphened branch of a national literature or as a minor independent category. So from the outset, my paper has a twofold task: firstly, to draw attention to the paradoxical position of Cypriot English writers who remain outside the literary feast both at home and abroad; and secondly, to explore the literary vicissitudes of some works of this corpus, and to examine how their minor position locally in relation to the dominant literatures in Greek and Turkish, and internationally in relation to global English — a position that Deleuze and Guattari (1986) describe as 'minor literature'— has engendered syncretic aesthetics. This journal article is available in Kunapipi: http://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol33/iss1/9


Commentary on: Mitchell-Jones N, Gallos I, Farren J, et al. Psychological morbidity associated with hyperemesis gravidarum: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BJOG . 2017;124:20-30.

Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy (NVP) is common, occurring in up to 91% of pregnant women. The most severe form, hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), occurs in as many as 2% of pregnant women. HG has been associated with significant psychological morbidity, and Mitchell-Jones et al provide the first systematic review and meta-analysis of the published data on depression and anxiety in pregnancies …


The Rehnquist Court's "federalism revolution" has provoked an increase in research regarding an apparent change in the pattern of Court decisions. While previous literature has discussed the ideological motivations of these decisions, this article conceptualizes attitudes toward federalism cases as having two dimensions: preferences regarding the structural division of government authority and preferences for different policy outcomes. This article provides a comprehensive analysis of individual justice votes in federalism cases from 1953 through 2007. While controlling for other institutional and legal factors that may influence decision making, the results show that individual ideology influences federalism voting in two ways: 1) conservative justices are generally more likely to vote in favor of states' rights, and 2) the size of this difference varies greatly depending on whether a states' right vote leads to a more or less liberal policy outcome.


Up to 50% of lymphocytes in the murine liver express invariant T cell receptors that recognise lipid antigens presented by the MHC class I-like molecule CD1d. Such invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells display rapid and potent cytolytic function and cytokine secretion and play essential roles in immunity against pathogens and tumours and the prevention of autoimmune disease in mouse models. NKT cells are therefore under scrutiny as potential targets for immunotherapy in humans. Human liver differs from murine liver in that it contains very small numbers of iNKT cells and these display functional differences from murine iNKT cells. However, CD1d, as well as another isoform, CD1c, are expressed intracellularly by human hepatocytes, cholangiocytes and hepatic mononuclear cells and may be translocated to the cell surface under inflammatory conditions. CD1d and CD1c are recognised by liver-resident autoreactive T cells with diverse T cell receptors, which are prompt producers of gamma-interferon. These cells appear to play roles in hepatic immunity against viruses and tumours. Thus, the liver is a site of accumulation of CD1-restricted T cells in both humans and mice, but these cells are more diverse in humans than in mice.


It is way too soon to teach our computers how to become fulledged humans. It is even premature to teach them how to become mathematicians, it is even unwise, at present, to teach them how to become combinatorialists. But the time is ripe to teach them how to become experts in a suitably de ned and narrowly focused subarea of combinatorics. In this article, I will describe my e orts to teach my beloved computer, Shalosh B. Ekhad, how to be an enumerator of Wilf classes.


This letter presents a lower power and wide locking range divide-by-2 with capacitive cross-coupled injection-locked frequency divider (ILFD) implemented in the TSMC standard 0.18 μm CMOS process. The ILFD is based on a capacitive cross-coupled VCO with one injection MOSFET for coupling the external signal to the resonator. The ILFD uses one 3-dimensional inductors to reduce the die area. At the supply voltage of 1V, the divider's free-running frequency is 2.27 GHz, and at the incident power of 0 dBm the locking range is about 5.9GHz (132.58%) from 1.5GHz to 7.4 GHz. The core power consumption is 10.22mW. At low power mode, the ILFD has higher figure of merit. The die area is 0.719×0.637 mm2.


With the objetive of determining the comunication properties, an evaluation was carried out taking as sample representative number of works presented at the VI Science and Technique Forum, which are stored at the Institute of Scientific and Technology Documentation and Information division in Holguin province. We covered the analysis of ten items in each work selected and defined according to the objectives of research, such as: a clear title, definition of the problem, comprehensibility, scientific aspects, socio-economic aspects, and others. The information coefficient of the samples studied was established. Conclussions and recomendations are offered related to the fulfillment and content of the research, as main element in the divulgation and generalization of works presented the Forum of Science and Technique.


This study presents the 2009 Romanian presidential elections and the way in which the candidates interacted with the new communication technologies. After the first research conducted on the 2004 online electoral campaigns, we noticed that, in Romania, the degree of alphabetization and political participation (the number of people knowing how to read and write, or the number of those effectively participating at the poll) is just as small as it was after the mass internet was introduced and after the number of internet subscribers increased. We observed that the websites and blogs with the highest traffic are the entertainment dedicated ones, the tabloids, and not the cultural ones, not the quality online press. This research intends to clear up whether in Romania social media are rather helping the moderate candidates or the extremist candidates – from an electoral point of view. This article will be incorporated in the research called Electoral Communication in Romania after 1989. Old and New Technologies in Presidential Campaigns which is part of the post-doctoral program POSDRU/89/1.5/S/62259, Sociohuman and political applied sciences. Post-doctoral training program and post-doctoral research scholarships in the field of the socio-human and political sciences.


PurposeThe study aims to examine whether there is a difference in entrepreneurial intentions (EI) and intrapreneurial intentions (II) between current labor force (CLF) and future labor force (FLF). Moreover, the role of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) as a common determinant has been presented.Design/methodology/approachA cross-sectional survey was used to collect the data from 472 members of the CLF and 310 members of the FLF in Bosnia and Herzegovina. To test the hypotheses, Welch's t-test and multiple regression were used.FindingsThe findings show that there is a difference in both EI and II between CLF and FLF and that individual EO, to a certain degree, is a determinant of them.Originality/valueThe study extends the literature by offering a comparative approach to two populations within the same country. Furthermore, the study deviates from a more traditional approach that EI and II are divergent constructs with different determinants.


Biometric systems have been used extensively in the identification and verification of persons. Fingerprint biometrics stands out as the most effective due to their characteristics of Permanence, uniqueness, ergonomics, throughput, low cost, and lifelong usability. By reducing the number of comparisons, biometric recognition systems can effectively deal with large‐scale databases. Fingerprint classification is an important task used to reduce the number of comparisons by dividing fingerprints into classes. Deep learning models have demonstrated impressive classification performance in fingerprint classification tasks. The high‐level features of deep learning models can affect the transfer learning in deep learning models. Furthermore, the high‐level features involve high computational costs that can render difficulty in the deployment of the applications. This work proposes an improved system for fingerprint classification through the truncation of layers and transfer learning. Our approach modifies the ResNet50 model to improve its network inference speed and performance in fingerprint classification by removing some deep convolutional layers. We then finetune the modified model and train it using a fingerprint dataset. The results show that the finetuned modified model improves classification accuracy at a reduced computational cost. At only 5.1M parameters, our model obtained a classification accuracy of 93.3% and precision of 93.4% performing better than previous studies based on its size‐performance ratio.


The ideology of a wife in finding a new wife for her husband is considered to be another behavior of most wives in general. Every wife will not want to be polygamy by her husband, but in contrast to the behavior of the wives in the polygamy community is destiny, the majority of wives in the community are competing in achieving God's blessing by finding a new wife for her husband. The wife's behavior is not in the context of pressure from anywhere, which means finding a new wife for the husband purely from his own initiative. With the afterlife orientation, the wives seek, choose and also prepare the husband's marriage with a new wife. There are several motives that influence the idiosyncracy of these wives, including economic, religious, traditional and political motives. In the gender context of a marriage must meet four indicators namely access must be owned by each husband and wife in the family, get a fair role for what the husband and wife do, exercise the same rights and obligations especially in decision making in the family, and benefit from each other in domestic life. In practice polygamy families will have difficulty meeting the four indicators above. Because initially in the condition of the household not always together so that it will affect access, the division of family roles and responsibilities, especially in making all household decisions. Even though there are several motives in polygamy initiated by the wife, it will still have an impact that is vulnerable to family conflicts.


The aim of the present study was to enhance thermal stability and functionality of high linoleic corn oil by blending with healthy oils. Oil blends (10% and 20%, w/w) of black cumin oil and coriander oil with corn oil were formulated. Thermal oxidative stability and radical scavenging activity of corn oil and blends stored under oxidative conditions (60°C) for 15 days were studied. By increasing the proportion of black cumin oil and coriander oil in corn oil, levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids decreased, while monounsaturated fatty acids content increased. Progression of oxidation was followed by measuring peroxide value, conjugated dienes, and conjugated trienes. Inverse relationships were noted between peroxide value and oxidative stability at termination of storage. Levels of conjugated dienes and conjugated trienes in corn oil and blends increased with an increase in time. Corn oil:black cumin oil and corn oil:coriander oil blends gave 12–22% and 26–36% inhibition of 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl radicals, respectively. Oxidative stability of oil blends were better than corn oil, most likely as a consequence of changes in fatty acids and tocopherols' profile, and minor bioactive lipids found in coriander and black cumin oils.


Over the last few years, WSNs has attracted tangible involvement in many real time applications. They are composed of small, low cost sensor nodes and these nodes having limited power. After consumption of power, sensor nodes become dead and the life period of WSNs depends on life of sensor nodes present in the network. Sensor nodes are generally deployed in remote area where recharging or replacement of battery is not possible. Hence, it is compulsory to develop some the techniques to improve the life of the nodes and life-time of the network. Clustering protocol is used to increase the lifetime of the wireless sensor networks and for long distance data transmission; Multi hop roughing protocol are preferred. MH technique reduced the energy cost of every node which lies in path. This paper describes various inter cluster multi hop routing protocols in WSNs.


This paper describes the application of linear‐parameter‐varying (LPV) control design techniques to the problem of slip control for two‐wheeled vehicles. A nonlinear multi‐body motorcycle simulator is employed to derive a control‐oriented dynamic model. It is shown that, in order to devise a robust controller with good performance, it is necessary to take into account the dependence of the model on the velocity and on the wheel slip. This dependence is modeled via an LPV system constructed from Jacobian linearizations at different velocities and slip values. The control problem is formulated as a model‐matching control problem within the LPV framework; a specific modification of the LPV control synthesis algorithm is proposed to alleviate controller interpolation problems. Linear and nonlinear simulations indicate that the synthesized controller achieves the required robustness and performance. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


That syphilis plays an important role in the causation of aortic aneurysm and aortitis had been long suspected. Weil thought that every case of fibrous aortitis was due to syphilis. Groen studied 306 cases of visceral syphilis and found vascular changes in 76 per cent. of the men and 49 per cent. of the women. Schultze holds syphilis to be the cause of aortitis in practically all cases. Hampeln says, "A definitely diagnosed, circumscribed aneurysm permits the assumption of luetic infection, eight to twenty years previously." Etienne believed 70 per cent. of all aneurysms to be syphilitic in origin; Gerhardt put the percentage at 53, and A. Frankel at 55. The pathologic work of Doehle, Heller and his pupils, Stadler, Chiari, Benda, Marchand and Eich in Germany; of Mitchell Bruce in England, and the clinical studies of Huchard and Dieulafoy in France, have emphasized the syphilitic origin of aortitis and


Aim: The aim of this paper is an attempt to analyse the determinants of effective cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) performed by medical personnel over a five-year span.
Material and methods: An original research questionnaire was used to collect and process data for the purposes of this retrospective observational study. The research sample consisted of 167 patients aged between 16 and 102 who had in-hospital sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) and underwent cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
Results: The most common causes of SCA in the study group of patients were cardiovascular diseases, and the mechanism of asystole was responsible for half of the recorded sudden cardiac arrests. While performing CPR, chest compressions were the most frequently applied procedure, whereas defibrillation or the Esmarch (jaw-thrust) maneuver were used less often. The effectiveness of resuscitation in almost a half of the cases was unsatisfactory, whereas the average time of performing resuscitation was 27,83 minutes. Pronouncement of death was made with regard to patients on whom resuscitation was performed for the longest time. On the other hand, among patients who were resuscitated for less than 20 minutes, breathing, blood circulation and con¬sciousness were restored, or only breathing and circulation were restored.
Conclusions: The main cause of sudden cardiac arrest in the study period were non-shockable heart rhythms, whereas the restoration of spontaneous cir¬culation and breathing was achieved in the cases when resuscitation was performed for less than 20 minutes. The survival rate after successful resuscitation is comparable to the results obtained in other hospitals in Poland and Europe, as well as statistical data from scientific publications.


Three thrombolytic drugs can now be used to promote the recanalisation of acutely occluded coronary arteries, restoring blood flow to ischaemic areas of myocardium, limiting damage and improving the prognosis:1 streptokinase, alteplase (Actilyse - Boehringer Ingelheim) and anistreplase (Eminase - Beecham). This article compares the last two, following our review of recent trials of streptokinase and alteplase.2


Introduction. A certain level of anxiety is a natural and obligatory feature of an active personality. Each person has their own optimal or desirable level of anxiety - the so-called useful anxiety. Evaluation of a person's condition in this regard is an essential component of self-control and self-education.
Purpose: to study the features of levels and types of anxiety of students of initial courses of medical university West Kazakhstan Medical University named after Marat Ospanov.
Research methods: the questionnaire - is the scale of reactive (situational) and personal anxiety by C.D. Spilberger - Yu. L. Khanina [1], in which testing is carried out using the two forms method: one form for measuring indicators of situational anxiety, and the second to measure the level of personal anxiety.
Results: only 267 students are investigated. The features of the types and levels of anxiety of the initial courses of students of the Faculty of General Medicine are revealed. The levels of anxiety were determined, comparisons were made among Russian and Kazakh groups and between boys and girls.
Сonclusions On average, 42% of 1st and 2nd year students have an average, 19 % - low, 39% - the high level of anxiety. Most 1st and 2nd year students have an average level of anxiety, with the exception of 2nd year students, where there is a high situational anxiety among girls (94%) and boys (60%) of the Russian Department and high personal anxiety in Kazakh (50%) and Russian (64%) Department.


By mid morning the mists to the east had cleared, fully revealing the volcano which loomed darkly over the valley, even though the upper third of the cone was a dazzling white. Matt and Antonio had climbed up to the roof again to get some sun and recuperate from the party the night before. They washed down the remnants of a mango, avocado, and tortilla breakfast with a couple of slow swigs of mezcal. A sharp whistle came up from the street below and they answered it. A moment later Rudy appeared with a grin, climbing from the ladder over the edge of the roof to join them. "Buenos d?as, maestro," they laughed, "We knew you would come to see us off." "I couldn't let you go without getting in a couple of last shots at you two," he answered. "We've got to get to the z?calo by noon so we won't miss the theatre group and the amnesty demonstration." He shook his head in disbelief as Antonio produced a two-inch stub of a mari juana cigarette as thick as a cigar. Instead of paper, it was wrapped in a corn husk. "This is the last of the mota, profe," Antonio said sheepishly, "We thought we should have you help us finish it off . . . ?Salud!" With a resigned shrug, Rudy smiled and repeatedly accepted the huge le?o as it was ceremoniously passed around. "Here we go again," he thought as he felt the smoke swirl into his bones. This time he could relax and enjoy it since he knew it was the last of their stash. He would no longer have to worry about his students getting busted even though the worst had already happened two weeks before. Like fools, Antonio and Matt had gone wth their girl friends to the z?calo at night. As soon as they lit up, four city cops grabbed them triumphantly. Before they even got to the patrol car, they were able to buy themselves off for only about a thousand pesos. "Why is it my best students are so damn crazy?" Rudy laughed, relieved that he had thought of teaching the fine points of "giving the bite" to public officials. It could have cost them a couple thousand dollars each had they gotten as far as the jailhouse. They all three sat entranced by the incredible view and the flocks of swallows diving and screeching between the trees and the buildings. After a while, Antonio began carefully folding his waist-length straight, black hair into a local straw hat with a single tassle dangling from the back rim. Except for his blue jeans he could have passed for any of the Indians on the street. A home boy Chicano from Texas and Oregon, it was his grandfather who had fled his native Guerrero for the U.S. during the revolution. Antonio had never thought much about it until he somehow got into college and saw a poster of Emiliano Zapata in an office. The penetrating black eyes, the defiant mustache, proudly held rifle and laden cartridge belts had* deeply


Objective:To investigate the curative effects and the expression of angiotensin-Ⅱ(AngⅡ) of Zhenju Jiangya Pian on treating Primary hyPertension(PH).Methods:100 PH patients were evenly divided into treatment group and control group randomly,Compound Reserpine Tablet was used in control group,Zhenju Jiangya Pian was used in treatment group,treatment effectiveness,the blood pressure and density changes of AngⅡin blood plasma were observed.Results:Effective Power of treatment group was 94.0%,it was larger than that of control group(82%,P 0.01).There were no changes for density changes of AngⅡin blood plasma in control group anterior and posterior of therapy,while that was descent significantly in treatment group(P 0.01).Conclusion:The blood-pressure-regulating action of Zhenju Jiangya Pian is probably through down adjusting the density changes of AngⅡin blood plasma.


The term functional or nonorganic indicates that the patient's visual acuity, ocular motility, or pupillary impairment has no underlying anatomic or physiologic basis. The diagnosis of a functional syndrome is one of exclusion. This chapter will define the different types of functional visual disorders and characterize the testing used to diagnose them.


Along with computer information system,especially OA system's wide application,it produces plenty of electronic files,how to manage,collect,identify,and hand over the formed electronic files becomes an important subject that the file management department facing.The paper discusses the electronic file's feature and development tendency,and puts forward method of enhancing electronic files and archives management.


The process was optimized by orthogonal experiment.Ternary FeCl3-CoCl2-GICs had been synthesized through molten salts method.The natural graphite powder was used as host material and the mixture of CoCl2 and FeCl3 was used as guest.The influences of the reaction temperature,the mole ratio of C to FeCl3,the mole ratio of FeCl3 to CoCl2 and the prolonged reaction time on the stage structure of the resultant and the amount of the main-stage-structure product were investigated.From the characteristic of synthesis of FeCl3-CoCl2-GICs and the result analysis,it could be concluded as followed:The dynamic by which FeCl3 and CoCl2 intercalate into the graphite were the temperature and the partial pressure of Cl2 in the system;The four conditions showed above,the molar ratio of FeCl3 to CoCl2 was the most important factors.


Validity is the most outstanding feature of the faculty team of higher learning institutions. The faculty's changes of psychology and physiology and knowledge renew are the main reasons for validity. In order to build the faculty team of higher learning institutions, validity must be emphasized in a way to set up "faculty-centered" managerial conception, build a scientific personnel appraisal system and deepen the reform of employment system.


Synopsis The author maintains that a course in the classical theory of the electromagnetic field, with full exploitation of vector calculus methods, should be thought of as being as much of a basic essential in any physics honours course as is a course on classical mechanics. It is suggested that if the mathematical techniques are taught in a way that relates them directly to the central notions of field theory and avoids discussion of special techniques, the mathematical burden is sufficiently light to be borne by all physics students, not only those theoretically inclined. The course need not be of excessive length if it is understood as exclusively an introduction to field concepts and hence not to cover in any detail the electric and magnetic property of materials. A number of particular ideas arising from the author's teaching experience are discussed.


Summary
Herbivore attack induces plants to mobilize chemical defences, including the release of volatiles that attract natural enemies of the herbivore. This commonly involves the jasmonic acid (JA) pathway. However, phloem-feeding whiteflies specifically trigger salicylic acid (SA)-signalling, thereby suppressing JA-based defences and enhancing host plant suitability.
Here, we show with Arabidopsis thaliana plants that the whitefly parasitoid Encarsia formosa outsmarts this apparent host plant manipulation by exploiting the SA-triggered emission of β-myrcene. Assays with various Arabidopsis mutants and phytohormone and gene-expression analyses reveal that the whiteflies induce the accumulation of endogenous SA, thereby enhancing the expression of SA-regulated genes, one of which encodes ocimene/myrcene synthase, which resulted in the recruitment of parasitoids under greenhouse conditions. Performance assays confirmed that whiteflies directly benefit from suppressing JA-based defences.
Taken together, we conclude that by activating SA-signalling whitefly feeding suppresses direct, JA-based defences, but that parasitoids can adapt to this by exploiting specific, SA-induced volatile emissions for host location.
Our work further confirms that herbivory contributes to selective pressure governing the evolution of inducible volatile signals as indirect plant defences.


In this work we use PeneloPET to simulate the Biograph scanners B-TP, B-TPTV and mCT. Simulations were adjusted to reproduce some experimental results from the actual scanners and validated by comparing their predictions to further experimental results. Sensitivity, spatial resolution, NEC rate and scatter fraction (SF) were estimated.


The article is devoted to the issue of the optimum allocation of material flow in a logistics system, the author's proposition being that the allocation and movement of the material flow in a logistics system can be rationalized, based on the use of special approaches and techniques. There is presented the economic formulation of the problem and is constructed the economic and mathematical model ensuring the movement of the material flow in a logistics system at minimum cost of its transportation and storage in the system. There is put forward a method for finding the optimal solution of the economic and mathematical model designed in this way and is presented its approbation on the basis of sample numerical data, through which there is shown the benefit of its actual application in the practice.


The atmospheric dispersal of iron fragments ejected from detonated ordnance released within the Nam Souy sub-basin during the secret bombing campaign of Laos from 1965 ~ 1973 was simulated through python integration with ArcGIS. The data for the study was obtained from the US National Archives and shows that of a total of 7,667,619 weapons delivered in Laos (4.5 million tons), 19,005 (5,900 tons) were dropped within the study site. The simulation adapted Gaussian isotropic puff modeling for the dust/grain-sized fragments and explosive force radial release modeling for the larger fragments into python script to produce temporal raster output images of the dispersal patterns of the analyte. The use of code language libraries ArcPy, NumPy, and numba and the logic for their application is discussed and reported along with the script developed. The simulation produced 9 m2 resolution raster images displaying iron material loading at ground level. Loading density is reported at a range between 0 ~ 7.5 g/m2 washable iron load, 0 ~ 0.65 kg/m2 of suspended iron load, and 0 ~ 3.5 kg/m2 of bedded load. The results are intended for use in subsequent studies of surface removal over time with a potential application in exposure risk analysis and for the assessment of impact on natural environments.


The ability to predict the rate of reflectivity loss of capped multilayer mirrors (MLMs) under various conditions of ambient vacuum composition, intensity, and previous dose is crucial to solving the mirror lifetime problem in an EUV stepper. Previous measurements at NIST have shown that reflectivity loss of MLMs exposed under accelerated conditions of dose and pressure can be a very complicated function of these variables. The present work continues this effort and demonstrates that reflectivity loss does not scale linearly for accelerated exposure doses over the range of 0-350 J/mm2 either for partial pressures of MMA in the range 10-8-10-7 Torr or acetone in the range 10-7-10-6 Torr. We suggest that this nonlinear scaling may be the result of a varying damage rate as the surface of the growing contamination layer moves through the EUV standing wave created by exposure of any MLM to resonant radiation. To further investigate the potential influence of these resonance effects, we report new measurements showing large variations of the secondary electron yield as a function of thickness of carbon deposited on top of a MLM.


The small string of words 'in place of' is problematic because if it denotes 'instead of' then it is questionable whether conflicts and wars can ever be abrogated so long as there are relations of power. However, but if the string denotes a location, i.e. a war zone, then it is not inconsequential that we justify our eagerness for knowledge on performances of war zones when the war machines of the North are in business in the South in this monopolised–globalised world. This essay negotiates the problematic string by examining the notions of 'theatre in place of war' and 'social drama'. It tests the validity of 'social drama' by examining the rituals of Devol Madua in Sri Lanka and Pangtoed 'Cham in Sikkim and scrutinises the utility of 'theatre in place of war' against the notion of nationalism as a political construct by examining four plays from contemporary Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in 1971. It concludes by arguing that it is necessary for theatre practitioners who devise performances as mechanisms of healing or as a tool for resistance to see that they are not subjects as agents of peace (and its substitutes) but complex and variable functions of numerous discourses, located in specific historical contexts, constituted within relations of power, many tentacles of which are invisible, and that they are engaged in micropolitics.


The eye is continually subjected to ambient radiation. The benign function of this light is to direct vision and circadian rhythm. However, under intense light from artificial sources such as lasers and operating room microscopes the natural protection of eye against light damage may be undermined. The damage can be a result of a photochemical, thermal or mechanical injury which can all disrupt ocular tissues. The mechanism for the above damage involves the production free radical and reactive oxygen intermediates either as a primary effect of the absorbance of the light or as a secondary effect due to an inflammatory response to heat or mechanical injury. This can induce a cytokine cascade as well as induce the increased production of nitric oxide. Glutathione mimics can block light induced free radical and oxygen radical intermediates in the eye. For instance, singlet oxygen is scavenged at a rate of 106 M-1 s-1; hydroxyl radical is scavenged at a rate of 109 M-1 s-1 and superoxide is scavenged at a rate of 103 M-1 s-1. In addition thiols block nitric oxide and other intermediates involved in an inflammatory response. Glutathione mimics which have offered in vivo protection against light damage to the lens and retina, have the potential to protect against laser-induced damage to the human eye.


Bi-directional power converters are utilized for effective management of available electrical energy associated with renewable energy systems with the use of an energy storage system. Improved hybrid three quasi z source converter (IHTQZSC) is proposed in this paper which has been providing a higher voltage gain without any switched capacitor or charge pump cells. IHTQZSC has been intended for bi-directional power transfer and control applications in this paper. The converter ensures a widespread voltage gain in a single stage DC↔AC power conversion system with lesser shoot-through time instants. The competence of the converter is acclaimed with voltage stress, current stress, peak switching device power and power losses compared with the other high voltage gain converters. Impact of voltage gain and power drawn by the converter on the efficiency has been explained. The four-quadrant power control is achieved with the constant switching frequency predictive controller. The DC-link voltage of the converter is controlled with a PI controller, and a predictive controller is used for the grid current tracking. The bi-directional working of the converter is illustrated with MATLAB/Simulink software


The mechanisms that underlie activation of nicotinic receptors are investigated using human recombinant receptors, both wild type and receptors that contain the slow channel myasthenic syndrome mutation, εL221F. The method uses the program HJCFIT, which fits the rate constants in a specified mechanism directly to a sequence of observed open and shut times by maximising the likelihood of the sequence with exact correction for missed events. A mechanism with two different binding sites was used. The rate constants that apply to the diliganded receptor (opening, shutting and total dissociation rates) were estimated robustly, being insensitive to the exact assumptions made during fitting, as expected from simulation studies. They are sufficient to predict the main physiological properties of the receptors. The εL221F mutation causes an approximately 4‐fold reduction in dissociation rate from diliganded receptors, and a smaller increase in opening rate and mean open time. These are sufficient to explain the approximately 6‐fold slowing of decay of miniature synaptic currents seen in patients. The distinction between the two binding sites was less robust, the estimates of rate constants being dependent to some extent on assumptions, e.g. whether an extra short‐lived shut state was included or whether the EC50 was constrained. The results suggest that the two binding sites differ by roughly 10‐fold in the affinity of the shut receptor for ACh in the wild type, and that in the εL221F mutation the lower affinity is increased so the sites become more similar.


Manufacture and investigate about turbine housing of high-Ni austenitic ductile iron were summarized systematically. It include material component and technological design of high-Ni austenitic S.G.I, selection and manufacture of spheroiditic agent and inoculant, elimination of surface porosity and shrinkage defects for turbine housing castings, determination of foundry properties and physiochemical properties for high-Ni austenitic S.G.I.


The invention provides a temperature sensing faucet which comprises a faucet body provided with a solenoid valve. The faucet body comprises a reflux pipeline and a water outlet tap, wherein the reflux pipeline comprises a water inlet and a reflux opening, and the water outlet tap is connected to the middle portion of the reflux pipeline. The water outlet tap is provided with a manual valve and the solenoid valve. An electricity generation impeller is arranged in the reflux pipeline and connected with a rectifying circuit through a thermistor. The solenoid valve is electrically connected with the rectifying circuit. The temperature sensing faucet can be opened automatically after hot water is heated to reach a preset temperature, thereby having the advantages of being safe and environmentally friendly.


Invasive techniques in pain-management are an important addition to conservative treatment. Only if pain is localized, invasive techniques, which are applied to certain parts of the body, can be successful. The success-rate depends on careful selection of patients and the knowledge of possible complications and side-effects. Patients should be thoroughly informed about special complications and limited duration of treatment. For techniques like implantation of pumps or stimulators prognosis and progression of the illness need to be considered, also in view of economic aspects. INVASIVE THERAPIES AND FREQUENT LOCALISATION 1. INFILTRATION OF muscles


The purpose of the study are to find out the readability level of 14 reading texts from Life: Elementary, the readability level of 6 reading texts from Issues for Today and to see whether the readability level of the reading texts in Life: Elementary and the readability level of the reading texts in Issues for Today are graded or not using Fry Readability Graph.
The steps of the research are: (1) the researcher found the average number of syllables per 100-words both from Life: Elementary reading texts and and Issues for Today reading texts which define as "x" on the graph. (2) Then, the researcher found the average number of sentences per 100-word both from Life: Elementary reading texts and and Issues for Today reading texts which define as "y" on the graph. (3) After getting the number of the "x" and the "y", the researcher determined the readability level from each text by marking the dot on the Fry Graph. (4) Then, the researcher put the result on the table of data analysis.
In this study, the researcher uses descriptive quantitative content analysis design. The researcher collects the data based on the percentage and theme. She takes 50% of the total of reading text in Life: Elementary and 50% of the total of reading text in Issues for Today. After that she classifies them into 4 similar themes: Science & Technology, Lifestyle, People, and History.
The readability level result of reading texts in Life: Elementary, from 14 reading texts which were analyzed, there were 10 reading texts' readability level that can be analyzed while there were 4 reading text which the level cannot be identified because the meeting point of the texts' number of sentences and number of syllables fall in shades area. The result from Issues for Today, 6 reading texts which were analyzed, all reading texts' level can be identified. The average readability level of reading passages from Life: Elementary is 7 which is as the same as 1st grade of Junior High School while the average readability level of reading passages from Issues for Today is 11 which is as the same as 2nd grade of Senior High School. As the result, the researcher concluded that it is better to upgrade the level of the textbook for Intensive Course. On the other side, Issues for Today is suitable for 2nd semester students in this English Department.


Relative rate constants for the reactions of hydroxyl radicals with a series of alkyl substituted olefins were measured by competitive reactions between pairs of olefins at 298 ± 2 K and 1 atmospheric pressure. Hydroxyl radicals were produced by the photolysis of H2O2 with 254-nm irradiation. The obtained rate constants were (× 10−11 cm3 molecule−1 s−1): 2.53 ± 0.06, propylene; 5.49 ± 0.17, cis-2-butene; 5.47 ± 0.1, isobutene; 6.46 ± 0.13, 2-methyl-1-butene; 6.37 ± 0.16, cis-2-pentene; 6.23 ± 0.1, 2-methyl-1-pentene; 8.76 ± 0.14, 2-methyl-2-pentene; 6.24 ± 0.08, trans-4-methyl-2-pentene; 10.3 ± 0.1, 2,3-dimethyl-2-butene; 9.94 ± 0.1, 2,3-dimethyl-2-pentene; 5.59 ± 0.07, trans-4,4-dimethyl-2-pentene. A trend in alkyl substituent effect on the rate constant was found, which is useful to predict kOH on the basis of the number of alkyl substituents on the double bond.


A 78-year-old woman was found to have a 5-mm nodular lung shadow on surveillance CT after gastric resection for gastric cancer. Eighteen months later, the nodule had increased to 8 mm in diameter. Lung carcinoma or pulmonary me-tastasis was suspected, and she underwent thoracoscopic partial lung resection. A diagnosis of ciliated muconodular papillary tumor was made. The tumor was composed of pilus cells and goblet cells that showed papillary proliferation in a lepidic growth pattern. There has been no recurrence in the 2 years since surgery. It has characteristics of both be-nign and malignant tumors but remains poorly characterized. This is rare, being the 38 th reported case in Japan.


In the article the results of factorial analysis of the research in coping behavior of sportsmen-boxers of different nationalities and qualification level are given.


Introduction: Pregnancy with severe preeclampsia characterized by hypertension often experience sleep disturbance and quantity. This pathology is compounded by activation of the sympathetic nervous system and possibly by stress associated with resting patterns. One of the management of severe preeclampsia is conservative treatment. The success of conservative care is influenced by the quantity factor of sleep in hospitalized patients. The inpatient room is one of the most important physical facilities for the patient care and healing. Method : Using a cohort study design, conducted on 30 pregnant women with severe preeclampsia. The sample was divided into two groups: 15 mothers were treated in the VIP wards and 15 mothers in ordinary wards. Instruments for collecting sleep duration was using question sheet, norepinephrine levels in 24-hour urine test that performed on the first-day treatment and before pregnancy termination (post-treatment). Data analysis using independent t-test. Result and analysis : In this research, normality test is done by using Shapiro-Wilk test. The decision criteria, namely when the value of Sig or p-value greater than the level of significance = 0.05. The results showed a significant mean difference (p = 0.005) Discussion : the difference of patient care in VIP wards and ordinary wards can affect the sleep disturbance and quantity. Enough sleep for 7 hours during pregnancy can avoid stressful conditions which can increase the production of adrenal hormones that one of the causes in elevated blood pressure


Abstract Abstract. Some fractures in the crust are expressed at the surface as a field of point-like features that have developed in response to usually fluid processes within those fractures. We describe two complementary quantitative methods for analysing such point-like features from remotely-sensed imagery in terms of structural alignment. The two-point azimuth method is probabilistic and tests for the existence of regional and field-wide structural anisotropies. By contrast, the Hough transform method is deterministic and locates specific alignments. These methods have been applied to a Landsat Multispectral Scanner (MSS) image of the Pinacate Volcanic Field in north-west Mexico. The point-like features of interest are cinder cones and maars. The results reveal a northerly structural anisotropy and specific alignments, trending mainly northerly and north-northwesterly, have been mapped. This application was limited by the relatively coarse spatial resolution of the MSS image used. However, although o...


Distributed storage in the cloud needs to offer both low latency and high bandwidth access to data and efficient use of storage capacity in order to keep up with emerging big data workloads. Deduplication has been successfully used to help with the latter requirement but it is often at odds with low latency data access. Deduplication ratios can be significantly increased if the storage nodes are aware of the file format and the ways clients interact with it – but implementing different file-type specific parsing on FPGAs for multiple tenants can be unfeasible due to area constraints. We show the benefits of making the storage system aware of the application through the example of Parquet files, a columnar format used in machine learning and big data frameworks to store and transfer datasets. We achieve high deduplication ratios by using a companion software library that allows Parquet files to be stored in a "divided" way. This makes deduplication more efficient and enables clients to access individual columns or meta-data fields selectively. At the same time, the storage nodes remain general purpose and can store and deduplicate arbitrary data. This work paves the way for in-storage processing for Parquet files and other columnar formats because the different columns can be accessed in a streaming fashion and their processing requires no specialized logic on the FPGA.


Reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) is a noninvasive technique used to image the skin in vivo. Since the first report by Gonz alez et al., there have been numerous studies confirming that RCM can accurately diagnose basal cell carcinomas (BCCs). In this issue of the BJD, Woliner-van der Weg et al. report the results from a multicentre randomized controlled trial in the Netherlands. This study compares the accuracy of RCM for the diagnosis of primary BCCs and BCC subtypes compared with punch biopsy (PB) in a 'real-world setting'. Patients with clinically suspected primary BCCs were included, where excision was the preferred treatment. The real-world setting was emulated by imaging patients on demand during regular clinical practice. This allowed patients with inconclusive or negative imaging to have an immediate PB, which may reflect real clinical practice and capture falsenegatives. BCC subtype was evaluated in two ways based on clinical relevance for treatment decisions, i.e. (i) aggressive vs. nonaggressive, which affects surgical margins, and (ii) superficial vs. nonsuperficial, which determines whether topical therapy could be used. The study found a similar sensitivity of 99% for both RCM and PB, but the specificity was significantly lower with RCM (59 1% vs. 100 0%, P < 0 001). The authors concluded that their results did not support the routine clinical implementation of RCM as a replacement for PBs. It is interesting that the sensitivity in the study by Woliner-van der Weg et al. was significantly lower than the sensitivity described in previous studies, which reported values between 79% and 93%. Although their subset analyses did not find that the level of experience of the RCM reader or the choice of probe (fixed vs. handheld) affected their primary outcome, perhaps the authors could have explored this disparity further. Could it be possible that real-world recruitment from busy clinics caused selection bias? It is certainly something to be mindful of with future publications. It is notable that this study did not evaluate how RCM could be used for directing nonprimary excision treatment such as Mohs micrographic surgery or radiotherapy. The analysis of BCC subtype found a significantly lower sensitivity for RCM in detecting aggressive subtypes (33 3% vs. 77 3%, P = 0 003). This is in keeping with previous reports and is not too surprising as aggressive subtypes have more diffuse tumour strands histologically and typically extend beyond the imaging depth limit of RCM. The imaging depth restriction for RCM could also explain why the sensitivity for nonsuperficial BCC was found to be similar for both diagnostic methods. What does this study tell us about the role of RCM for BCC diagnosis? It highlights a potential caution that its sensitivity may be lower than previous reports have suggested when introduced into routine clinical practice. This study highlights how critical it is to understand where RCM should sit within the diagnostic pathway. These findings do not support the use of RCM as a replacement for PB, but do support its role as an adjunct to dermoscopy, which could (i) reduce unnecessary biopsies by directing patients towards topical therapy for superficial BCCs and (ii) reassure patients if imaging is negative, owing to its high negative predictive value.


SUMMARY
Some sixty fungicides were tested in the laboratory for ability to (a) depress sporulation of Colletotrichum coffeanum on the maturing bark of coffee shoots and (b) inhibit spore germination. On the basis of these tests over twenty products were selected for testing in the field during 1968-70. Nine of these (50 % copper formulations, Ortho-Difolatan, Daconil, Benlate, Topsin, Top-sin M, Tecto 60, Delan and Du-Ter) could be recommended for control of coffee berry disease (CBD) in Kenya.

Field evaluation of fungicides is complicated by multiple flowering which creates a succession of overlapping crops, and by high variability in cropping potential which is often aggravated by normal pruning practices; in some circumstances other diseases and pests may also be a complicating factor. As a result, yield, which should be the most sensitive measure of CBD control, is at times even less satisfactory than disease estimates based on a small sample of the developing crop. Disease incidence in the ripe crop, which is easy to measure, is unfortunately not always well correlated with disease and crop loss earlier in the season. Consequently, critical assessment of fungicide performance requires estimates of both disease progress and crop loss.

Consideration of fungicide performance indicates that physical characteristics, particularly persistence and capacity for redistribution, are especially important for effective control of CBD.


The interpretation of a condition in genetically unusual circumstances is often handicapped by an atypical presentation, unusual course (variable penetrace?), or incomplete pedigree information, in addition to the constant hazard of unknown illegitimacy. For these reasons, the thorough study of two American Indian families with cystic fibrosis of the pancreas (Harris and Riley, Pediatrics, 41:733, 1968) is particularly valuable. The report prompted us to review the less satisfactorily documented non-caucasian patients with cystic fibrosis autopsied in the Johns Hopkins Hospital.


The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) published its below-regulatory-concern (BRC) policy statement in 1990. The policy provided a framework within which the NRC would promulgate rules or make licensing decisions to exempt from some or all regulatory controls certain practices involving small quantities of radioactive materials. The NRC's adoption of the BRC policy resulted in widespread public concern over the implications of the new policy. In an effort to better understand the nature of those concerns and to ensure that NRC's decisions related to BRC were based on clear and comprehensive information, the commission initiated an evaluation of the potential use of consensus-building techniques to address BRC issues. Based on the recommendations contained in the feasibility evaluation, the NRC, on June 28, 1991, approved the initiation of a phased consensus process to address BRC issues. The purpose of the consensus process was to provide advice to the commission from the full range of affected interests on the broad spectrum of issues related to the subject of BRC.


This paper addresses the link between native attitudes and return migration. We exploit the variation in xenophobia using information on media consumption by migrants in Italy. A widely documented crime provides a quasi-experimental setting to identify the impact of Italian attitudes on migrants' settlement intentions. Our results suggest a significant effect of anti-immigrant attitudes on the intended duration of stay in the host country. The impact is more pronounced for low-skilled migrants, which has consequences for how migration affects the long run convergence between sending and destination countries. NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY In this paper we investigate the impact of native attitudes on return intention of immigrants. We use a situation where immigrants have been exposed to particularly hostile media coverage following a tragic murder in Roma (Italy) at the end of the year 2007. Our main result is that immigrants react fast by curtailing their intentions to stay following hostile media coverage. Our headlines result is a decrease of 10 percentage points in intention to stay following the media coverage of the murder. Immigrants revising downwards their intention to stay are predominantly those not exposed to negative media feedbacks before the event. And we also found that less skilled migrants were revising their intentions to stay much more than more highly skilled migrants.


FIELD: electronics. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to electronic means of displaying information. Electroluminescent video module comprises housing (1), in which are mounted electroluminescent display (2), power supply (4) and controller (5). Electroluminescent display has electroluminescent panel (6) and control board (7), having rectangular shape in plan view and arranged in parallel and at a certain distance from each other. Video module is additionally equipped with two electric heaters, each of which is made in form of glass strip (14, 15), on one side of which is coated with resistive coating (16), on top of which there are contact areas (17), and latter are connected to wire (18) to supply voltage from power supply (4). EFFECT: invention provides reduced time of activating video module into an operating state after its activation at ambient temperature below -50 °C. 1 cl, 5 dwg


Sediment samples associated with a Mesolithic site on the shore of Tatton Mere contain pollen "downwashed" through the deposits since establishment of a soil on an aeolian dune that developed at the locale in Romano-British times. Application of the method suggested in Schoenwetter, 1990, "Method for the Application of Pollen Analysis in Landscape Archaeology," allows interpretation of the pollen sequence in terms of changes in local landuse. The result is wholly consistant with the sequence of landuses recorded for the locale since the 11th century. Rejected for European publication by reviewers.


The contributions in this book were originally presented at the conference 'National courts vis-a-vis EU law' organized under the auspices of the EUDO project and the EUI Centre for Judicial Cooperation. The conferences was convened by the editors of this book and took place on 29 and 30 November 2012 at the European University Institute, Florence.


The present work seeks to make an overview of the poetic techniques used by Shakespeare's predecessors in theater, more specifically in tragedy. We refer to Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe. Kyd changed the structure of the Elizabethan theater. If in Gorboduc we find monologues uttered by almost every character of any importance, Kyd placed almost all monologues in the main character's mouth, creating a backbone in the play and allowing psychological examination. Marlowe, on the other hand, transformed the iambic pentameter into a rich and flexible instrument, creating the medium of expression of theater from then on. Early in his career, Shakespeare relied heavily on these two authors. We will examine excerpts from each of them, pointing to the possibilities of influence.


We report the feasibility of thin-film-edge field emitter devices as electron sources in a high brightness cathodoluminescent lamp to be used as a backlight in AMLCD displays. This lamp promises to be of high brightness, high luminous efficiency, and temperature invariant with uniform diffuse light output. The thin-film-edge field emitter array lamp requires less electronic control circuitry than conventional fluorescent backlights, leading to lower system costs. A thin-film-edge field emitter backlight would consist of a two-dimensional array of thin-film-edge field emitter microstructures and a cathodoluminescent phosphor screen. Thin-film gate electrodes and a thin-film deflector electrode control the emission current from the thin-film emitter edge and deflect the electrons toward the phosphor screen. The configuration of these electrodes is designed to prevent ion sputtering damage to the emitter edge. This allows a high voltage (e.g. 20 kV) to be applied to the phosphor screen, so that an aluminized phosphor with high luminous efficiency and long coulomb lifetime can be used. This paper describes the design and operation of the thin-film-edge field emitters. Field emission measurements from these structures are presented.


This article challenges conventional notions of geography in Vietnamese historiography that overlook the role of the sea as an integrative social space capable of uniting ostensibly segregated regions economically, socially and politically. Viewing history from the seashore instead of the rice field, it highlights the littoral inhabitants who connected interior agricultural and forest foragers to coasting and ocean carrier trade, and underscores the importance of the littoral as the 'great river' that encouraged Vietnamese political expansion and state formation along a southern trajectory.


DURING THE PAST DECADE, blood banking underwent a reorientation from a laboratory discipline to a clinical and patient consultation specialty, transfusion medicine.' In part, this transition occurred because of heightened concerns about transfusion-transmitted diseases and because transfusion services adequately addressed problems such as antibody identification and record keeping. Currently, additional reshaping is upon us. As with other changes, there is an impetus. Blood centers face accusations that they release inappropriately tested blood, that their computerized records are not adequate to interdict unsuitable donors, and that they are unable to control the increased complexity of their operations. In response, audits by United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) field inspectors have intensified. Citations have been issued stating that centers lack adequately trained staff, do not have optimally written standard operation procedures, and do not have adequate programs for assessing staff competency. FDA-reportable and nonreportable incident documentation is not always systematic. In other words, blood center quality assurance systems are not always designed to detect technical, inadvertent, and measurement errors.2 The dominant approach to rectifying these observed and perceived deficiencies is an emphasis on pharmaceutical manufacturing procedures and current good manufacturing practices (GMPs) as defined by the Code of Federal Regulations (21 CFR 210-211). More than simply trivial changes are involved. Previously, accreditation and licensure were under the aegis of the standards' of the American Association of Blood Banks and the 600 series of the CFR. Standard A1.OOO places the blood bank or transfusion service under the direction of a physician whose responsibility and authority include all medical and technical procedures, indud-


Background/Aim: Malignant melanoma is a rare disease in the pediatric population and there are no recommendations regarding its management in children, while the current standard of care in metastatic or unresectable melanoma in adult patients includes immunotherapy (anti-CTLA-4 and anti-PD-1 antibodies). Advances in the management of adults with melanoma offer the prospect of promising therapeutic options for children. Case Report: We describe a case of a 7-year-old patient with recurrent metastatic melanoma, for whom pembrolizumab was used as an adjuvant therapy on compassionate use basis. Conclusion: Due to adverse events, the treatment was discontinued after 5 months of pembrolizumab, but with 12-months of follow-up, patient remains in complete remission.


The purpose of this study is twofold: (1) to describe the quality of end‐of‐life care in US hospitals from the perspective of hospital nurses; and (2) to evaluate the relationship between the nurse practice environment and end‐of‐life care quality.


In this paper we prove a Pohozaev identity for both the problem $(-\Delta+m^2)^su=f(u)$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$ and its harmonic extension to $\mathbb{R}^{N+1}_+$ when $0<s<1$. So, our setting includes the pseudo-relativistic operator $\sqrt{-\Delta+m^2}$. The identity if first obtained in the extension setting and then "translated" into the original problem. In order to do that, we develop a specific Fourier theory for the fractionary operator $(-\Delta+m^2)^s$, which lead us to define a weak solution $u$ of the original problem if the identity $$\int_{\mathbb{R}^N}(-\Delta+m^2)^{s/2}u(-\Delta+m^2)^{s/2}v\, dx=\int_{ \mathbb{R}^N}f(u)v\, dx$$ is satisfied by all $v\in H^{s}(\mathbb{R}^N)$. The Pohozaev identity is then applied to prove both a result of nonexistence solution in the case $f(u)=|u|^{p-2}u$ if $p\geq 2^{*}_s$ and a result of existence of a ground state, if $f$ is modeled by $\kappa u^3/(1+u^2)$, for a constant $\kappa$. In this last case, we apply the Nehari-Pohozaev manifold introduced by D. Ruiz. Finally, we prove that positive solutions of $(-\Delta+m^2)^su=f(u)$ are radially symmetric and decreasing with respect to the origin, if $f$ is modeled by functions like $t^\alpha$, $\alpha\in(1,2^{*}_s-1)$ or $t\ln t$.


The presence of free gas within shallow Quaternary marine sediments has been known for some considerable time. While some geophysicists state that gassy sediments represent a problem for imaging subsurface layers by adversely affecting seismic signal penetration, many researchers of varied backgrounds view them with interest for being an indicator of organic matter accumulation. The project's main objective is to identify gassy sediments and map its spatial distribution in three different coastal environments of the city of Rio de Janeiro (Guanabara and Sepetiba bays and Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon), through the use of high-frequency seismic surveys. The results show that the occurrence of gas is common in the three environments. However, the occurrences are different in form and areal extension. In the Guanabara Bay the occurrences are mainly as acoustic turbidity zones extending for several kilometers. In the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon and Sepetiba Bay, the gas occurrences are more restricted in area usually associated with paleo-topographic depressions (paleo-channels?). In the second turbidity curtains are also visible in some areas. The different gas occurrences are indicative to understand the geological evolution of coastal environments after the last maximum glacial. Moreover, gassy sediments represent a risk for subsea engineering making their precise identification important factor for the project.


Social dimension is an important guideline in language testing. The well-done performance of TOFFL in the application of social dimension produces preferable social effects. Band 4 and Band 6 College English Tests in China greatly improved the quality of college English teaching, but, with its exaggerated social function, they gave rise to a series conflicts between language testing and social justice. That is to say, in the process of its development and reform, the social dimension isn't well grasped. Thus, a comprehensive study of the social dimension applied by TOFFL can give some enlightenment to Chinese English language testing.


Objective To develop a set of equipment to store and transport vaccines,blood products,test reagents and herbs in field conditions.Methods By calculating the HTC of the main thermostatic region and designing the overall structural,the refrigeration efficiency and thermostatic controllability of the refrigerated container were ensured.Results It was indicated by the results of experiments that the design and the calculation matched the requests of the practical performance.Conclusion The insulation box of the field medical refrigerator meets the troop's needs at peacetime and wartime.


River flow models that consider satellite observations of the water surface elevation (WSE) require meaningful segmentation into reaches. Segmentation methods involve a trade‐off between the spatial sampling and error characteristics of satellite observations, both of which impact the flow model realism/accuracy. This paper investigates the spatial properties of WSE profiles (slope and concavity) and their link with hydraulic controls (HCs) and leverages this knowledge to advance river segmentation. Fine‐scale synthetic cases were analyzed to characterize HC effects on the remotely observable WSE properties. Following this, a wavelet‐based segmentation method was developed and subsequently tested on real rivers, including test cases with measurements characteristic of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite mission. The results show that the local extrema of water surface (WS) concavity are good candidates for defining reach bounds while consistently preserving the HC signatures and local flow nonuniformities (deviations from equilibrium) from fine to large spatial scales.


We studied a novel method of increasing the efficiency of solar cells using BaSi2 as a semiconductor. BaSi2 could be deposited by RF magnetron sputtering using a polycrystalline BaSi2 target, followed by annealing at 500 °C for 30 min in N2 ambient. Furthermore, Schottky-type solar cells using BaSi2 were fabricated. The crucial point is that Al–Nd was used to form the Schottky junction between the BaSi2 film and the Al–Nd electrode. Additionally, Si3N4 (3–5 nm) was used as an oxidation prevention layer. Under irradiation at 90 K, resulting in a short-circuit current density (Jsc) of 3.19 mA/cm2, an open-circuit voltage (Voc) of 0.76 V, and a fill factor (FF) of 0.28 were obtained.


The Bioactive composition of blueberries has attracted interest as a potential source of beneficial bioactive compounds, especially polyphenols, because the consumption of plant phenolics and others bioactive compounds has been recognized as lowering the risk of aging-associated diseases. Berries such as the Brazilian blueberry (Vaccinium ashei Reade) are increasingly cultivated throughout the world. In Brazil, its cultivation is rather recent and not well- known. However, Brazil has an ideal climate and has a great potential for increasing production. The study aimed to identify and quantify the major bioactive compounds in the skin, pulp and entire fruit of six Brazilian blueberry cultivars belonging to the group Rabbiteye, and to evaluate its antioxidant activity. Determinations of L-ascorbic acid, tocopherols, phenolics, individual carotenoids and antioxidant activity were done. These determinations were made on Powderblue, Briteblue, Bluebelle, Climax, Delite and Woodard cultivars, provided by Embrapa Clima Temperado, Pelotas-RS. The blueberry fruits are rich sources of phenolic compounds but other bioactive compounds such as tocopherols, carotenoids and vitamin C also were found. All phytochemicals analyzed, with the exception of some phenolic acids, were found at high levels in the peels (or skin) of blueberry cultivars tested, due to its function as plant protector, resulting in a higher antioxidant activity of fruit peel.


Traditional measurements for determination of aboveground biomass (AGB) are widely used in ecological studies. However, they are labor demanding and time consuming, why this study performed on a grassland in Senegal has focused on finding a simplified AGB estimation method that could be applied on larger areas in the Sahel. The brightness values in the visible spectral range of digital camera images (DCIs) have been tested for correlation with traditional AGB using three already established indices leading to r2 values of 0.57, 0.56 and 0.43 (all attained p=<0.0001) when including all four measurement occasions, and r2 values of 0.63, 0.61 and 0.51 (p=<0.0001) when excluding the last occasion, which had a high amount of yellowing grasses. Some of the DCIs were also visually interpreted after performing an unsupervised image classification in two groups. This did not seem to reveal any new insights in the usage of DCIs as estimation of AGB. Grass height, on the other hand, showed a higher correspondence with AGB (r2=0.79 and p<=0.0001 for all occasions and r2=0.70 and p<=0.0001 when excluding the last occasion). In addition to the higher correlation, measuring grass height is also the least expensive and the quickest of the methods investigated in this study and can hopefully be applied on larger areas by local farmers.


This paper is to find out transition probabilities out of lot spell and rental spells (long term spell and short term spell) of rental cars from a rent-a-car company. We develop transition probabilities using three set-ups, two binomial logit models and one trinomial logit model. According to two binomial logit models, we find out the following information. As kilometer increases, the transition probability from lot spell to long term rental increases. Also, you can notice that as duration of lot spell increases, the transition probability to long term rental increases. According to trinomial logit model, if a car comes out of a previous short term rental, then again, the transition probabilities to short term spell or lot spell are higher than that of long term spell. This is because once a car starts as short term rental, then the car tends to be rented with short term rentals continuously. In this situation, we also can notice that the transition probabilities to lot spell increases as odometer readings increases.


In this paper, we introduced a new class of homeomo rphism called gs homeomorphism and g*s homeomorphism. Also we invest igate a new generalization of contra continuity called contra-g*s-continuous func tions


The invention discloses an anti-electrostatic, reinforced and toughened nylon 612 composite material and a preparation method and application thereof. According to the method, an alkali-free glass fiber is adopted as a reinforcing agent, polyolefine grafted maleic anhydride or ethylene-acrylate or an ethylene-acrylate-maleic anhydride terpolymer or a complex of polyolefine grafted maleic anhydride, ethylene-acrylate and the ethylene-acrylate-maleic anhydride terpolymer is adopted as a toughening agent, conductive carbon black or carbon nanotubes or carbon fibers or a complex of conductive carbon black, the carbon nanotubes and the carbon fibers is adopted as an antistatic agent, a dispersing agent, a coupling agent and an antioxidant are added, and melt extrusion is carried out in a twin-screw extruder, so that the reinforced and toughened nylon 612 composite material with a permanent anti-electrostatic property is obtained. The comprehensive performance of the composite material can fully meet the application requirements of automotive quick connector materials.


Objective: Numerous studies have indicated that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are involved in the cardiovascular development, as well as pathology, such as heart failure and coronary arterial disease. However, the roles of lncRNAs in essential hypertension remain unclear. Here we investigated the genome-wide lncRNA expression profiles in the aorta of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), a rodent model of essential hypertension. Design and method: LncRNA and mRNA expression profile were analyzed with GeneChip® Rat Gene 2.0 ST Array. Quantitative real-time PCR was used to validate 9 candidate lncRNAs. Bioinformatics analysis including Gene Ontology (GO) analysis, pathway analysis, and lncRNA-mRNA co-expression network analysis were carried out for further investigation. Results: Microarray data showed that 29 lncRNAs as well as 1159 mRNAs, were differentially expressed. GO analysis showed that "ion transport" were most significant in both up- and down-regulated genes. Pathway analysis indicated that "metabolic pathway" may be especially important in the pathogenesis of hypertension. Conclusions: These findings revealed differentially expressed lncRNAs in the artery of SHR, which may provide novel insight into the roles of lncRNAs in the pathogenesis of essential hypertension.


Electrodeposited copper serves as a preplate before deposition of nickel, silver or gold. It is also used to prevent case hardening on selected areas of ferrous metal surface. Because of its enhanced electrical conductivity, it is used in electronics and in printed circuit board production. The grain structure of copper deposits from acid sulphate bath is less fine compared to the structure from cyanide baths. To copre up with the stringent pollution control regulations, there is a need to replace cyanide bath by non-toxic ones. There are a lot of plating compositions for copper deposition, based upon cyanide, sulphate, chloride etc. with proven usefulness in the industries. However, above types of bath are either toxic or highly acidic requiring pollution control treatments. Hence it was decided to investigate a bath which will be nontoxic. From view point, sulphamic acid was considered as one of the best alternatives as it is weakly acidic and nonpoisonous


Considers The Franklin's Tale by Chaucer as a possible source for Shakespeare's play The Tempest, with special attention to the role of the magician in both works.


In this paper we present R-VAE, a system designed for the exploration of latent spaces of musical rhythms. Unlike most previous work in rhythm modeling, R-VAE can be trained with small datasets, enabling rapid customization and exploration by individual users. R-VAE employs a data representation that encodes simple and compound meter rhythms. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that a network architecture has been used to encode rhythms with these characteristics, which are common in some modern popular music genres.


A new item selection strategy of computerized adaptive testing for cognitive diagnosis is proposed.It partitioned an item pool into some sub-pools according to the attribute pattern(briefly,p-STR) in item and combined with Fisher information,exposure-control factor and item priority.Compared with pre-existing methods,the new strategy not only improves the measurement accuracy of item pool but also works well in balance of using items.


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Users of virtual environments currently have few good options for controlling or interacting with their environment from within. Existing VR interaction techniques, including menus, postures, gestures, and wands, all suffer from a variety of problems, not the least of which is the unnatural, almost forced, mapping that exists between the input act and its corresponding function. This paper describes a new technique for controlling and interacting with virtual environments. The techniques superimposes an object in the real world with an augmented representation of that object in the virtual environment. Such blending of a physical object with its augmented virtual representation results in a surprising natural interaction metaphor.