Groundwater balance occurs in the presence of recharge and discharge. The process of entering the water in soil takes place with an infiltration-percolation to aquifers. The groundwater recharge area is identified by lithology, land use, slope, rainfall, land, and landform. Kajor Kulon Hamlet, Selopamioro Village, Imogiri Sub-district, Bantul Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta becomes an area with hilly morphology, active fault areas, and including drought-prone regions. Change of the land function in hilly areas by making settlements and un-irrigation field for farming may cause decreased ability as a recharge area. Research aim sare to assessing, determining, and analyzing the conditions of the establishment in the research area. The variables used include land use, the slope of the land, rainfall, and soil texture as thematic maps to analysis its land ability. Data collection methods are measurement, inquiry, and mapping. Furthermore, the method of analysis is based on the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with scoring-weighted overlay method. The results showed the classification of the between low, medium, and high. The medium class is currently occupying 67% of the area in the research area with an area of 719,916.03 m 2 . The distribution of each class is expressed through the groundwater recharge area map. The GIS is very efficient and effective in facilitating groundwater recharge area analysis. Keywords : GIS, Groundwater, Overlay, Potential, Recharge Area, Selopamioro DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.7454/jglitrop.v4i2.89


Rotational symmetry has often been observed in the design of ultra-wideband planar array layouts which use certain aperiodic tiling techniques and their variants. The use of rotational symmetry in these designs, however, has mainly been considered incidental and not of primary concern. Here, rotational symmetry is specifically exploited for not only placement of the array elements, but for fast calculation of their associated array factors. Two design techniques are presented that employ rotational symmetry in this fashion. One technique uses an advanced optimization strategy for element arrangement, while the other uses densely-packed semi-periodic sections to enable high-directivity and easy manufacturing.


The ecologic residential quarter is a kind of environmental friendly dwelling district. It is about to become main trend of residence zones. Water environment is an essential part of the ecologic residential quarter. The common practices of it are several ways. There are also means of getting ultimate purpose of it in Harbin especially considering of Harbins local characteristics. Modified green roof system, water conveyance system and Sewage purification system are viable ways for Harbin.


A germanium and fluorine co-doped single mode optical fiber with high transmission capacity and an improved radiation-resistant characteristic is reported. The radiation-induced loss during irradiation is lower than 3dB/km at 1.31μm wavelength.


This paper proposes a method for analyzing user behavior based on OPAC log, and introduces some effective applications of this method in"finding the shortage of bibliography"and"determining the number of copies", and based on this, points out that the user behavior analysis is an important way to deeply understand readers' needs and so as to improve the readers' information need satisfaction rate.


These are notes on a well-known concentration of measure inequality of Talagrand, prepared for the participating analysis seminar at UCLA in the Fall quarter of 2011, and slightly revised for the concentration of measure reading group (organized by Marek Biskup and Oren Louidor) in Spring 2012. The material here is based largely on the excellent treatments in the books [Led01], [AS08], [Ste97] and [Tao12], as well as the papers [Tal96], [KV02].


Low-voltage motors reactive compensation in situ can limit reactive current,and reduce the flow between high-low-voltage distribution networks,so it's helpful for reducing line losses and improve the utilization of power equipment.It's also an efficient measure which can save electricity and ease the contradiction between power supply and demand tensions.


In this paper, a new approach to discrete approximation of continuous-time system models based on fluency signal function which includes and generalizes the staircase and spline signal function is proposed. Since a continuous-time signal in the real world must be approximated within a discrete-time signal space to implement the digital devices for many applications in signal processing area, it is important to use more exact approximation method in the discretization process. The proposed method is expected to derive more accurate discrete approximated model of continuous-time systems than the preexisting methods, because it does not use the conventional numerical approximate computation, but is based on the primitive function for the integration of coefficients of the spline function.


We present the first demonstration of an electrochemically-active biomaterial probe for schizophrenia treatment monitoring, and its integration in lab-on-a-chip devices. The probe consists of the naturally derived polymer, chitosan, grafted with catechol to provide a redox cycling system. These modifications to the probe significantly amplify the electrochemical signal generated by the antipsychotic drug clozapine, improving the signal-to-noise ratio and overall biosensing performance. The amplified signal generated by clozapine using the lab-on-a-chip with catechol-modified chitosan microelectrodes was 2.46-fold higher compared to unmodified microelectrodes. Additionally, human serum was tested to resemble future utilization in point-of-care analysis of schizophrenia patients.


The psychological factors of the subjects have great influence on calligraphic creation.Based on the depth,width and efficiency of the influence,the regular pattern of psychological factors in calligraphic creation can be summed up into five types:intention coincides with creation,character of creation is deter- mined by spirits,creative efficiency is promoted by thinking,creative style is influenced by temperament, and quality of creation is decided by values.Attention should be paid to the psychology of calligraphic cre- ation so that excellent calligraphic works can be created in accordance with scientific law and historical testing.


This work seeks to raise awareness of the repositioning of the function of information systems in a broader spectrum, evolving from the management of information systems to its governance in conjunction with the governance of the organization.The articulation at the level of governance should contribute to the longed-for alignment between business and information technologies, which insists on persisting as one of the major problems for the function of information systems. By studying the form that information systems governance takes in leading companies in Portugal, the challenge that companies face for their digital transformation is highlighted, namely small and medium-sized companies, the overwhelming majority of which do not even have one qualified professional in Information Systems and Technologies. However, there is a clear need for information systems governance, concluding with research challenges and opportunities.


An improved biodiesel plant consisting of an oil tank, reaction chamber, centrifuge, evaporation tank and reservoir tank was designed, fabricated and evaluated. The developed plant produces biodiesel from used cooking oil obtained from restaurants, fast foods and hotels. The results of its performance test indicated 13.93kg/hr and 82.68%as the throughput and efficiency respectively. All materials used for the fabrication were sourced locally. The adoption and commercialization of the plant will help preserve Nigeria's ever depleting petroleum reserve as well as reduce environmental pollution caused by inappropriate disposal of used cooking oil.


A precise simulation and detailed design of ACCTD of white LEDs from 2800K to 6500K are presented. The best results of ACCTD in the simulation and experiment are 105K and 182K near 6500K, respectively.


The old Christian proverb that we use in our title recognizes the constraints related to serving two masters. Because of its universality, it is possible to find versions of these wise words in many cultures. The letter submitted to Addiction by Andrade [1] is an example of the impossibility of receiving funding from the alcohol industry and at the same time attempting to do effective public health work (particularly in an unregulated market such as Brazil). The request by several health science journals in recent years to acknowledge conflict of interest is a practical illustration of this issue. When researchers receive funds from interest groups (alcohol, tobacco or pharmaceutical companies), the results produced by their investigations will be evaluated in this light. And, of course, there are important reasons for doing things this way. Let us quickly examine the instance brought up by Andrade [1] about CISA, a Brazilian NGO 90% financed by Ambev. Since the NGO was formed, it has participated in outside activities and on a number of occasions its members have been sources of information about alcohol in newspapers. CISA's scientific committee is formed mainly by medical doctors and psychologists associated with known Brazilian Universities. One of the newspaper articles written by a CISA affiliate was published a few months ago on the same page as an interview with the new Brazilian health minister where he articulated his intention to restrict alcohol advertising in the country [2]. While the minister defended restrictions on advertising, something completely new in Brazil, the CISA piece undermined the importance of regulating alcohol advertising: ". . . To the power that advertising allegedly exerts ( . . . ), there is no scientific evidence that its restriction would reduce the harms associated with alcohol abuse". The article went on to suggest that the government's proposal was a marketing stunt, proposing vague long term measures to contain alcohol problems in the country. At the end of the article is the real catch: if the piece had been signed by an alcohol industry official, the readers would be able to interpret the affirmations taking this information in account. Instead, the CISA's name (without mentioning Ambev's support) and two medical universities names appear side by side. The fact that CISA's executive president chooses the scientific team and the organizations' activities does not guarantee CISA's independence. In effect, the sole existence of such an organization (or others sponsored by the alcohol industry) suggests a community of interest between health professionals and interest groups that does not exist. In the particular case of CISA, its connections with WHO through its World Mental Health Survey Initiative should be cause for concern and definitely sends the wrong message to the public at large. At this point in time it is a known fact that the alcohol industry uses both subtle and direct ways to influence public health (for instance, in Brazil, supporting the political campaigns of a significant number of congressmen). The congressmen also argue that the money they receive from interest groups is not going to influence their work in favour of the country.


omentum. Presentation and symptoms depend on the organ involvement and surgical intervention is often imperative. Mortality can be as high as 80% when gastrointestinal ischaemia occurs, and prompt surgery is therefore required. Abnormality of the diaphragmatic contour on chest radiographs may be present, but early diagnosis with appropriate management can be difficult when the original injury is remote and clinicians do not consider the possibility of this diagnosis. Detailed history combined with careful review of the radiological imaging is required to prevent a delayed diagnosis with resultant mortality and morbidity.


Two wind tunnel techniques for determining part of the aerodynamic information required to describe the dynamic bahavior of various types of vehicles in flight are described. Force and moment measurements are determined with a rotary-balance apparatus in a coning motion and with a Magnus balance in a high-speed spinning motion. Coning motion is pertinent to both aircraft and missiles, and spinning is important for spin stabilized missiles. Basic principles of both techniques are described, and specific examples of each type of apparatus are presented. Typical experimental results are also discussed.


Since joining WTO,China keeps merging into the economic circle of the world,exhibiting its apparent comparative superiority in manufacturing industry.It is stated that the key to establishing core competitiveness is to capture the opportunity,attain industry integration and experience group management.Problems concerning the cost management of enterprise groups are probed into and proposals for the organization and coordination of enterprise production are provided.


A preplant acetone permeation of 'Grand Rapids' and 'Mesa 659' lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) seeds with either cyclohexanecarboxamide 1-(3-chlorophthalimide) (phthalimide) or gibberellin A 4+7 (GA) in combination with kinetin (KIN) and/or (2-chloroethyl) phosphonic acid (ethephon) markedly relieved the adverse effect of high temperature (20°, 12 hr night/30°C day regime) on seedling emergence from soil. Permeation of GA in 'Grand Rapids' seeds increased seedling hypocotyl length by 121% compared to only 25% for phthalimide permeated seeds. In 'Mesa 659' seeds, the corresponding increases with GA and phthalimide permeation were 52% and 26%, respectively. Permeation of GA + ethephon + KIN and phthalimide + ethephon + KIN increased seedling hypocotyl elongation over the control by 126% and 60% in 'Grand Rapids' and 91% and 21% in 'Mesa 659', respectively. Seed permeation with phthalimide tended to increase the leaf chlorophyll content of emerging seedlings. Permeation of GA decreased leaf chlorophyll up to 28% in 'Mesa 659' and up to 13% in 'Grand Rapids'. These findings indicate that phthalimide could be substituted for GA in seed treatments needed to alleviate the adverse effects of high temperatures on germination and seedling establishment and to improve growth characteristics of emerged seedlings.


This paper discusses two models of social change and several historical conditions and social structural variables in an effort to isolate common factors that underly both the rise of revitalization movements and state building. Data were gatheredfrom state building and revitalization movements in four Native American societies during the 1795-1860 period. The findings indicate that given the conditions of economic andlor political deprivation that led to widespread perceptions of social deprivation, less structurally differentiated societies responded with revitalization movements, while more structurally differentiated societies responded with increased differentiation in sub-macro political and economic institutions. This finding suggests that the Wallace and Parsons-Smelser deprivation models of social change can be synthesized by specification of level of macrostructural differentiation as a precondition that influences type of societal change. State building could not be explained by deprivation and social structural arguments alone; markets that encourage economic class formation were critical to the state-building argument.


Digital human modelling is becoming increasingly important in the early stages of the design process for several reasons including the need to investigate human-product interactions. This paper presents an original approach to predicting human movement, and in particular, the key postures, required to perform a particular task. The approach is based on the use of a constraint-based model of a human manikin, and, as such, it can be used even when the designs of the environment and the task itself have not been fully defined. Constraints are applied to specify the task requirements and also the limits of potential joint movement. This enables the model to be used as a means for understanding what postures and movements are required (in the evolving digital environment) rather than requiring them to be specifically given. The approach is demonstrated with a case study based on the domestic task of ironing clothes.


Abstract : Measurements were made of the pressure recovery of straight-channel, symmetric, single-plane divergence diffusers with inlet Mach numbers between 0.2 and 1.0. Three aspect ratios, 0.25. 1.0, and 5.0, were studied for a range of length-to-throat width ratios and divergence angles of diffuser geometries near peak recovery. Diffuser performance maps are given that show pressure recovery as a function of diffuser geometry for fixed values of throat Mach number, throat blockage, and aspect ratio for the range of variables tested. Of significant importance to the designer is the alteration in the shape of the pressure recovery contours on the performance maps with variations in Mach number, blockage, and aspect ratio. Four subprograms have measured the effect of changes in diffuser inlet Reynolds number, boundary layer shape factor, asymmetric distribution of inlet blockage around the throat periphery, and the influence of rounded throat corners on the pressure recovery behavior of the straight-channel diffuser. The importance to the designer of a knowledge of how diffuser performance depends upon the diffuser geometric and inlet parameters is discussed. The application of channel diffuser performance data to the design of centrifugal compressor diffusers is described. The channel diffuser performance measured is compared with recovery performance of the channel diffusers in centrifugal compressors.


We approached internal matrix reinforcement using Cu-Sn-Zn and Cu-Sn-In ternary bronze alloy matrices for enhancing the effective mechanical strength of Nb3Sn wire. In this study, we evaluated the critical current density (<italic>Jc</italic>) degradation due to transverse compressive stress on internal matrix reinforced Nb3Sn multifilamentary wires using these ternary bronze alloy matrices, and the effects of both Zn and In solute element on the changes of <italic>Jc</italic> property under compressive stress was investigated. In the cases of internal matrix reinforced Nb3Sn wires using the Cu-Sn-Zn and Cu-Sn-In ternary alloy matrices, no <italic>Jc</italic> degradation was observed within 100 MPa of the transverse compressive stress. The (Cu, Zn) and (Cu, In) solid solution matrices contributed to suppressing <italic>Jc</italic> degradation by the compressive stress. In addition, the In element was the more effective solute element in the ternary alloy matrix on the internal matrix reinforcement based on the irreversible compressive stress estimated by the loading-unloading test.


SUMMARY In accordance with the changes in Hungarian Governmental Structure Land Administration has new challenges and must solve the preceding problems both on institutional and technical level. New developments, mainly TAKARNET24 project, have changed the IT environment, business procedures, service structure in the whole Land Administration in Hungary. Requisites to services to other sectors of Hungarian economy require to change not only technical, but legal environment in Land Administration. These changes cover the unification of services and increasing the quality of them, new solutions for implementation of 3D cadastre and other important technical and legal changes. The paper deals with the implemented and planned solutions of the above mentioned issues.


Rings and shells observed around some Planetary Nebulae and post‐AGB stars reflect a mass loss activity. A mass loss fluctuation can be related in part to the pulsational behaviour of AGB stars: Miras and Semiregulars. The observation of pulsational instabilities or oscillating periods could help us to better understand the causes and the evolution of these rings.


Background: Helicobacter pylori is responsible for chronic gastritis and peptic ulcer disease and is associated with an increased risk of developing stomach cancer. The seroprevalence of Helicobacter pylori in the Australian-born adult population is about 20% and increases with age. The exact mode of transmission of Helicobacter pylori infection remains unknown and it has been suggested that sexual transmission may be important. This study is a preliminary investigation into a possible association between sexual risk factors and Helicobacter pylori infection. Subjects and methods: All patients aged 18 and above, presenting to the Parramatta Sexual Health Clinic and were having blood taken for any other purpose, were eligible for the study. Blood samples were collected for Helicobacter pylori serology using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to detect Helicobacter pylori IgG. Demographic information and data regarding sexual behaviour and risk factors for sexually transmitted infections was obtained. The sample size to detect a 15% difference between the study population and the general Australian population with 90% power was 105. To allow for minor variations we plan to recruit 125 participants. Results: To date, 65 patients (75.4% males) have been enrolled in the study and 10 (7 males and 3 females) (15.4%) were positive for Helicobacter pylori. One additional result was equivocal. 24.6% of the participants were born outside Australia and out of 8 who belonged to middle and low-income countries, three had positive serology. The full results of the study, including seroprevalence and the demographic and sexual risk factors, will be presented.


Elevated stress has been widely associated with physical and physiological threats as well as reduced work performance. However, there is still a lack of studies that investigate whether stress influences concurrently physiological and objective work performance. The purpose of this study is to examine whether workers' level of stress or negative emotional symptoms correlates with their physiological coherence and work performance. Eighteen female operators who reported high severity levels of stress, assessed using the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-42) were categorized as the risk group. The comparison group was formed by randomly selecting 18 of 99 female workers who had significantly lower DASS scores. Both participants attended one session of physiological measurement. Their work performance was observed by calculating their cycle time completing a product during five workdays. A significant difference in HRV between the two groups was also found in physiological and work performance measures. The results showed that workers in the risk group obtained significantly lower coherence levels and longer work cycle time than the control participants, indicating that negative emotional symptoms were parallel with physiological coherence and work performance. However, a weak correlation was found between work performance and negative emotional symptoms as well as physiological coherence. Despite the study limitations, our findings support to evidence the more complete picture of how stress affects female worker's physiology and work performance, suggesting a need to implement effective workplace stress intervention. Further study is needed to be conducted among different group characteristics such as male and occupational settings.


SYNOPTIC ABSTRACTInformation integration activities typically occur in the early stages of decision making. The intent of these activities is to produce a clear picture of an uncertain situation by combining information from multiple sources. Bayesian inference may not be directly applicable at this stage of the decision process. This paper justifies the use of the principle of minimum relative entropy as an inference procedure for information integration. The justification provided establishes asymptotic equivalence between the minimum relative entropy result and the Bayes estimate with consistent information.


The research is intended to examine how child marriage happened and the implementation of policy to prevent the child marriage. The research also examine some cases concerning to child marriage and its complex condition, especially in some area of Central Java, Indonesia. The method used to obtain the main data for the research is by interviewing and observing the main site location, at Munding Vilage Semarang Regency. Some related government offices also become one of the sources of data. The research emphasized that child marriage occurs because of the education of the bridegroom's children, the local culture of marriage at the age of the child is better than marriage in high school, economic factors of the child's family and social or environmental factors of the child. Impact of child marriages (women): vulnerable to divorce, psychological problems that are not yet stable in the management of the household, the breakup of formal education, reproductive health is not ready. The research highlighted that local culture is a challenge in opposing marriage at the age of the child. The research concluded that preventive efforts carried out by related institutions through education complaints in accordance with the main tasks of each related institution.


How does the analyst account for the disparity between the poor fit of the reactive linkage model in substantive terms and the "sharp and plausible" estimates of the parameters in the regression equations? Even if the coefficients in the regression equations are sharp by commonly accepted statistical standards, what do they mean if the model fits the data so poorly? Ostrom should be complimented for his efforts to integrate competing models, but his model is not superior to a very naive and unacceptable model. It is not enough for scholars to evaluate their research solely according to "academic" standards. The interpretability of their findings in real-world terms must also be considered.


FIELD: lighting engineering. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to lighting engineering, particularly to drive device (50a-50e) and corresponding driving method for driving load (22), in particular LED unit, comprising power input unit (52) for receiving input voltage (V20) from external power supply and for providing rectified supply voltage (V52), power conversion unit (54) for conversion of said supply voltage (V52) into load current (I54) for powering load (22), charging capacitor (56) for storage of charge and powering load (22), when power is insufficient for powering load (22) and/or power conversion unit (54) extracted from said external power (20) at present moment, and control unit (58) for controlling charging of said charging capacitor (56) with said supply voltage (V52) to capacitor voltage (V56), which can be considerably higher than peak voltage (V52) of said supply voltage, and for powering load (22). EFFECT: higher power factor, efficiency of service life of lighting device. 13 cl, 6 dwg


Following multiphoton ionization (MPI), neutral methanol clusters are found to undergo a well-known ion-molecule reaction which leads to the production of protonated clusters. Evaporative dissociation rates of the cluster ions are measured for sizes ranging from the dimer to the 21-mer following MPI. There is a general trend of the rates decreasing with time after the initial ionization event in accordance with the evaporative ensemble model. Rates measured at long times after ionization display a consistent trend of increasing with cluster size. These findings are shown to be in accord with statistical considerations of evaporative unimolecular dissociation. Collision-induced-dissociation cross sections are found to generally increase with size; the finding of a local minimum in the value for H{sup +}(CH{sub 3}OH){sub 3} is in agreement with predictions of its structure. Finally, through a combination of unimolecular evaporative and collision-induced-dissociation processes, as many as five methanol monomers are found to be lost from a cluster as small as H{sup +} (CH{sub 3}OH){sub 7}.


Roentgen findings in 5 infants with absent pulmonary valve leaflets are discussed. The enormous bulging of the main pulmonary artery demonstrated on chest films, as well as the double murmur heard in the second left intercostal space on physical examination, should strongly suggest pulmonary agenesis. The prognosis is more severe if the condition occurs early in life. Death follows rapidly as a result of congestive heart failure or bronchial compression. Surgery is very difficult and has been performed successfully in only a few cases.


Morphologicd Variation of the Asian Honeybee Apis cerana (F.) (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in West Java l%e d b s i t y of Asian honeybee Apis cerana (E) (Hymenoptera: Apidae) occupying low and high altitude habitats in Wmt J m war studied using morphological analysis, based on the length of proboscis, hindleg, fmnt wing, tergi'tes, and sternites. AN morphological characters measured were signifcantly longer in high altitude bem conrpmed do those of low altitude bees (b < 0.05), except proboscis. Dendogram analysis showed that bees jimn those two altitmb were separated, whereas the result of principal component analysis indicated that both belong to the same group (P < 0.05).


Electrochemical behavior of Reactive Brilliant Red K2G was studied and a polarographic method for the determination of the dye was established.A stable and sensitive linear-sweep voltammetric peak was obtained at-0.78 V(vs.SCE) in NaCl(pH 6.9) buffer solution.The peak current was proportional to the concentration over the range of(7.0×10~(-8) mol/L)~(1.0×10~(-4) mol/L) and the limit of detection is(6.0×10~(-8) mol/L).This method was anticipated to use in Reactive Brilliant Red K-2G of the quantitative analysis.Moreover,the characteristic of the reduction peak current has been studied and the mechanism of electrode reaction was preliminary discussion.


Objective To observe the effect of Sambucus Chinensis Decoctum on the formation of vitro thrombosis in rats to verify the effectiveness of Sambucus Chinensis' promoting blood circulation by removing blood stasis.Methods The rats were divided into 3 groups,the Sambucus Chinensis Decoction Group,the Aspirin Group and the Physiological Saline Group.After one week's drug administration,1 ml blood was drawn from the rats' right common carotid artery with silicide syringe,and the blood samples were injected to the silicone tube,then the thrombosis was weighed after 15 minutes' rotation by 17 r/min.Result The thrombosis of the Sambucus Chinensis Decoction Group weighed(56.98 ± 3.64) mg,and(51.48 ± 3.17) mg for the Aspirin Group and(67.17 ± 5.02) mg for the Physiological Saline Group.The Sambucus Chinensis Decoction can significantly reduce the weight of thrombosis and inhibit the formation of thrombosis.Conclusion The Sambucus Chinensis Decoctum has the function of inhibiting the formation of thrombosis,which accords with its effectiveness of promoting blood circulation by removing blood stasis.


We report on a study of the process e + e − → π ± ( D ¯ D ∗ ) ∓ at √ s = 4 . 26 GeV using a 525 pb − 1 data sample collected with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII storage ring. A distinct charged structure is observed in the ( D ¯ D ∗ ) ∓ invariant mass distribution. When fitted to a mass-dependent-width Breit-Wigner lineshape, the pole mass and width are determined to be M pole = (3883 . 9 ± 1 . 5 ± 4 . 2) MeV/ c 2 and Γ pole = (24 . 8 ± 3 . 3 ± 11 . 0) MeV. The mass and width of the structure, which we refer to as Z c (3885), are 2 σ and 1 σ , respectively, below those of the Z c (3900) → π ± J/ψ peak observed by BESIII and Belle in π + π − J/ψ final states produced at the same center-of-mass energy. The angular distribution of the πZ c (3885) system favors a J P = 1 + quantum number assignment for the structure and disfavors 1 − or 0 − . The Born cross section times the D ¯ D ∗ branching fraction of the Z c (3885) is measured to be σ ( e + e − → π ± Z c (3885) Assuming the Z c (3885) → D ¯ D ∗ signal reported here and the Z c (3900) → πJ/ψ signal are from the same source, the partial width ratio Γ( Z c (3885) → D ¯ D ∗ ) Γ( Z → πJ/ψ ) = . 2 ± 1 . 1 ± 2 . 7 is determined.


In this paper, the power density is increased with a method of inserting core between windings of each phase of slotless PMLSM model. By inserting core, detent force is generated due to dispersion of air gap magnetic reluctance. Thrust ripples are generated due to that detent force. Therefore, we proposed the method of dividing permanent magnet (PM) in order to reduce the higher harmonics of the magnetic flux. Also. to increase the low thrust by dividing PM, the optimum design of stator is progressed. Throguh 2-D finite element analysis (FEA), the characteristic analysis were computed. Also, through the analysis of harmonic component of thrust, the removal of specific harmonic component of thrust and the reduction of detent force were confirmed.


PURPOSE: To perform recording and reproduction while preventing an error of a quadrature by sending the output of a color processing circuit which is combined with the output of a horizontal sweep generating circuit to a quadrature mixer, and controlling this mixer with a color-under cycle signal and adding a luminance signal. CONSTITUTION: Color difference signals (r) and (b) are sent to the quadrature miser q2 and also sent to a CODEC circuit (c), and the amplitude of the output signal which is combined with the output of the horizontal sweep generating circuit h 0 is supplied to a color processing circuit cp. The signal generated by the multiplication (m) of LPFtp3 and a signal fq representing the TV standard dependency rate of a color-under frequency to a line frequency is supplied to an oscillator o2; and the mixer q2 is controlled with the color-under signal, the luminance signal is added a3 to the output obtained by addition 2, and D/A conversion dw and recording by a head (h) are performed. At the reproduction, the output of the head is taken out to an A/D converter aw and a reproduction output Ib' is obtained from a converter dw through as similar process. Here, the LPFtp3 suppress noise of the oscillator ho and the generation of an error of a quadrature can be prevented. COPYRIGHT: (C)1989,JPO


According to Law No 21/ 2008, a Sharia Business Unit (SBU) owned by a Conventional Commercial Bank (CCB) is required to separate from its Parent Bank before 2023. Some Sharia Business Units have initiated a separation step from Conventional Commercial Bank. At the same time, they are required to keep the level of efficiency in running their business operations. This paper is intended to analyze the efficiency level of Sharia Business Units that have separated from its parent bank and compare the efficiency level before and after separation. The method used is Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Paired Sample t-Test. The results show that, based on the total average efficiency of all spin-off sharia banks (in this case four sharia banks namely BNI Sharia, BRI Sharia, BJB Sharia and Bukopin Sharia Bank), there is a decrease in technical efficiency and pure technical efficiency before and after the spin-off. This is a cost adjustment is needed in the early periods of spin-off. Sharia banks require a 'weaning' from their parents. Nevertheless, there is no statistically significant difference in the efficiency levels between before and after the spin-off.


Properties and peculiarities of linear 3D-propagation of electromagnetic internal gravity waves in an ideally conducting incompressible medium embedded in uniform magnetic field are studied. Local and non-local (plane waves) approaches are applied. It is shown that ordinary internal gravity waves couple with Alfven waves. Associated partial differential equations and dispersion relations are obtained. New branches of oscillations are revealed. Obtained results are applicable to the Earth's ionosphere and solar atmosphere.


OBJECTIVE: To verify whether there is a relation between the positivity for Schistosoma mansoni in molluscs Biomphalaria sp. and in human, in the municipality of São Bento, Maranhão State, Brazil, in order to determine if the presence of one host exerts influence over the other. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Molluscs Biomphalaria sp. were collected in 17 districts of São Bento, in their natural breeding sites. Inside laboratory, those molluscs were analyzed regarding cercariae release. Universal collectors were delivered to the inhabitants living within 50 m radius near the natural mollusc breeding sites. The Kato-Katz method was used to analyze the faecal samples. RESULTS: Positive human cases occurred among fishermen from Outra Banda, Porto Grande, and Matriz districts and were not related to those in molluscs. CONCLUSION: A peridomiciliar breeding site can not always be responsible for the maintenance of positive humans cases living nearby, being necessary to take into account the routine of the infected individual.


Data were collected on the postoperative respiratory courses of two groups of patients following cardiac surgery: one group of 31 patients under typical management for 1973, and a second group of 72 patients from 1975–1976 representing our current management regimen. The patients in the 1973 group were allowed to wake up passively before our seeking extubation criteria. Almost half of these were extubated in the period 15 to 20 hours after admission to the ICU, i.e., the morning after surgery, and 29% were discharged from the ICU within 48 hours of admission. The patients in the 1975–1976 series had pharmacological reversal of muscle relaxants and somnolence following admission to the ICU, when their condition was shown to be stable by clinical and laboratory assessment. Criteria for extubation were then sought. Within 5 hours of ICU admission, 62.5% of the patients were extubated and almost 50% of the patients were discharged from the ICU within 24 hours. No patient in either series required reintubation, and there were no complications due to the early extubation and ICU discharge of patients in the 1975–1976 series. We believe that early extubation of patients whose postoperative course is otherwise uncomplicated following cardiac surgery allows rapid mobilization and progress to the intermediate care areas without introducing undesirable sequelae.


We present time series spectroscopy of two short period cataclysmic variables, CC Scl and V2051 Oph, to test the efficiency of Doppler-tomography-based methods in constraining orbital parameters of evolved cataclysmic variables. We find that the Ca II triplet lines offer superior diagnostics, revealing emission components from the mass donors and sharp images of the accretion discs. Furthermore, we use Monte Carlo methods to estimate the uncertainties from ensembles of Doppler maps. We compare our new methods against traditional radial velocity methods and show that they offer a valid route towards system parameter determination. Our analysis of CC Scl suggests a low mass ratio of q = 0.08 ± 0.03 with a primary velocity of K1 = 37 ± 14 km s−1. This mass ratio is in between the pre- and post-period minimum status, however our K1 solution favours a post-period minimum system. Our derived parameters for V2051 Oph (q = 0.18 ± 0.05, K1 = 97 ± 10 km s−1) are in agreement with the eclipse solution (q = 0.19 ± 0.03), offering a direct validation of our methods.


Objectives To quantify the association of cigarette smoking, including cigarettes per day and quitting duration, with the risk of different types of stroke morbidity and mortality in the general population, and to clarify the shape of the dose-response relations. Study Selection Prospective cohort studies and reported on the association between smoking, quitting and the incidence or mortality of stroke were included. Data Extraction and Synthesis All available data were converted uniformly to odds ratios (ORs) and were pooled using random-effects meta-analysis with inverse variance weighting. A dose-response meta-analysis was performed to explore the quantitative relationship between different smoking characteristics and the risk of different pathologic types of stroke incidence. Results Twenty-five studies with 3,734,216 individuals were included. Compared to never smokers, the pooled ORs of stroke morbidity and mortality were 1.45 (1.24–1.70) and 1.44 (1.23–1.67) among ever smokers and 1.90 (1.55–2.34) and 1.70 (1.45–1.98) among current smokers. The risk of different pathologic types of stroke was also increased among ever and current smokers. There was a significant non-linear dose-response association between the number of cigarette smoking and the risk of stroke incidence. Comparing no smoking, the ORs for smoking five and 35 cigarettes per day were 1.44 (1.35–1.53) and 1.86 (1.71–2.02). Other pathologic types of stroke have a similar dose-response relationship. There was also non-linear dose-response association between the length of time since quitting and risk of stroke. The risk of stroke decreased significantly after quitting for 3 years [OR = 0.56 (0.42–0.74)]. Conclusion The risk of different types of stroke among smokers is remarkably high. Our findings revealed a more detailed dose-response relationship and have important implications for developing smoking control strategies for stroke prevention. Systematic Review Registration https://inplasy.com/inplasy-2020-6-0062/, identifier: INPLASY202060062.


The world has been witness to major upheavals during the last two decades. We can look back on the amazing development of information technologies and telecommunications, the new world economic order and the increase of free exchange, the coming of age of new regional powers and the growth in the number of industrialized nations, the end of the Cold War, the increasing democratization of political systems, and many other changes. These developments are causing structural mutations that are continually changing the world we live in at a dizzying speed. The world has already become one "small village" with six billion citizens. It is in the perspective of the global village that the concept of globalization takes on its meaning. Naturally, all of these changes present new challenges and threats as well as new opportunities not only for individuals and organizations, but also for national and multinational entities. Nevertheless, in order to prosper and reach their goals and aspirations, each and everyone in his own way must continually strive to adapt to the new reality, to allocate and reallocate adequately his resources and to survive in the neverending struggle known as competitiveness. Globalization of economies and competitiveness imperatives force enterprises to adopt new business strategies and organizational structures. Today, competition does not only pit one company against another but more often, one network against another. In other


Based on the matrix realignment and partial transpose, we develop an approach to the entangling power and operator entanglement of quantum unitary operators. We demonstrate the approach by studying several unitary operators on qudits, and indicate that these two matrix rearrangements are convenient to use in studying entangling capabilities of quantum operators.


Aims  To determine the effects of pioglitazone (30 mg once daily for 16 weeks) on insulin sensitivity, insulin‐mediated vasodilation, vascular inflammatory markers, fat distribution and lipids in Asian Indians and Caucasians of European ancestry.


Aim: To evaluate in a randomized controlled trial if high-dose phenobarbital (PB) improves outcome after severe asphyxia.Patients: Newborn infants with a 5-min Apgar score 0-3 or need for ventilatory assistance >30 min after birth were allocated to the treatment (PB+, n=21, mean gestational age 38.6; SEM 0.6 wk) or control group (PB+, n=17, 38.7; 0.6 wk).Intervention: PB 30 mg/kg was given iv before the age of 4h, a second dose 15 mg/kg iv 4h later to reach a serum level of 200-300 μmol/l, thereafter 5 mg/kg/d for 5 days.Follow-up results: Of the 21 PB+ infants, there were 4 neonatal deaths, 4 CP (1 late death), and of the 17 PB- infants, 3 deaths, 2 CP (NS). At 6 yrs of age, the mean IQ (WISC-r) was 108 (95%CI: 99-117) in PB+ are 111 (97-125, NS) in PB- testable infants. The groups performed similarly in the neuropsychological tests: copying design (VMI), attention and confrontation naming (NEPSY). Including all outcome criteria on a quality-of-life scale ranging fom 0 (dead) to 1 (perfect health), the mean score in PB+ infants (0.500; 95%CI:0.328-0.672) did not differ from PB- (0.559; 0.368-0.750) infants.Conclusion: PB does not prevent postasphyxial brain damage.


On Comparing Two Social Science Traditions: The Metropolitan Question in France and the US Cynthia Ghorra-Gobin Senior researcher CNRS-CREDA (University Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III) and Visiting Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley (Spring semester 2015). She earned a PhD in urban studies from UCLA and a doctorat d'Etat in geography from the University of Sorbonne-Paris I. She edited the two versions of the Dictionnaire critique de la mondialisation (Paris, Armand Colin) in 2006 and in 2012. This paper is the written version of a presentation made at the Institute of European Studies in Berkeley, on April 13 th 2015 . It borrows its main arguments from the book, La metropolisation en question, published by the PUF (Presses Universitaires de France), in September 2015. Abstract With the globalization of social sciences, comparing national traditions is usually perceived as an epistemological and methodological issue. This challenge has been adopted for the analysis of one element of the French territorial reform, the institutionalization of the "metropole" in January 2015. The analysis is framed around a comparative perspective with the American literature on metropolitan areas (MAs). Three core questions will be addressed: How to explain the choice of such a methodology? What are the similarities and the differences between the two national contexts as expressed by their social science traditions? What can be learned about the governmentality of MAs from each national approach?


We consider the energy losses undergone by an electron reflected inside the extended electron-density distribution at the surface of a metal. The random-phase approximation calculation of the dynamical response with a local-density approximation ground state reveals the dramatic enhancement of the multipole-plasmon intensity compared with the conventionally considered reflection in vacuum above the surface. Our calculations conciliate the theory and the electron-energy-loss spectroscopy experiment with regard to the multipole surface-plasmon intensity, which has been predicted by previous theories to be two orders of magnitude smaller than the experimental one. The influence of the nonzero electron density along the incident electron path on the surface and the bulk-plasmon generation is also discussed. @S0163-1829~99!00115-0#


Abstract Social factors such as social support, integration, and belonging to the community are positive resources against adverse events and living conditions. This study at examining the influence of social support on depression among elderly people in Serbia. The research was done according to the type of cross-sectional study, a mass survey of a random, representative stratified two-stage sample of the population of Serbia in 2013, which was conducted by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia. The target population consisted of 3540 respondents aged 65 and over. The Patient Health Questionnaire-8 (PHQ-8) was used to evaluate the presence of depressive symptoms and the social support score from the questionnaire Oslo-3 scale of social support. The relations between depression symptoms and social support were examined with univariate logistic regression analyses. In the univariate regression model, social support stood out as a strong predictor of depression. People with weak social support are three and a half times more likely (OR = 3.45) to have depression compared to those with strong social support. Men with small social support were more likely to have depression (OR = 5.08) than women (OR = 3.41). These results indicate the urgency of addressing depression as a public health priority to reduce the burden and disability and improve the overall health of the elderly population.


The multi-stage transport problem (TP) is a complicated formulation of a classical TP. The main difference is the presence of transshipment points. The multi-stage TP with direct deliveries also presupposes the choice between direct delivery and delivery through a transfer point. And important point in preparing the initial plan for a multi-stage TP with direct deliveries is to determine the sequence of distribution of cargo flows. The goal of solving this problem is to obtain an optimal plan for the carriage of cargo by the criterion of minimum total transportation costs. The problem is solved by the type of a two-stage transport problem of linear programming in matrix form. The task is distributed using the minimal element method. However, other methods of solution can be used. The article presents a mathematical model of a two-stage TP with direct deliveries and a description of the matrix in which the problem is solved. As in the classical TP, the necessary and sufficient condition for the solvability of the problem is the requirement of a balanced production volume of consumption volumes. To determine the sequence of distribution of cargo flows, it is proposed to compare the total throughput capacity of transshipment points with production volumes and consumption volumes. Given the variation in the ratio of these conditions, a sequence of distribution of cargo flows in a matrix form was developed. The problem is solved using standard algorithms, and the presence of additional conditions only affects the sequence of the solution.


Making use of variable frequency technology,fix displacement pump driven by variable frequency motor was used instead of other kinds of oil supplies for steering gear hydraulic system.Pump runs at very low speed when steering gear is idling,so that energy saving,lower noise and extension equipment's lifetime were achieved.Comparisons of construction cost,power consumption and system efficiency were made for four kinds of steering gear hydraulic systems in the lab.


From 2003, the problem of RMB currency value has aroused the enthusiastic discussion of numerous experts at home and abroad. Those who ask RMB to appreciate mainly base on high foreign exchange recreation, huge favorable balance of trade, as well as the responsibility of China as a large country. Among these supporters, some have the economic and politics intention of their country, some just because of the wrong judgment and hold for Chinese overall economic atmosphere and specific economic phenomenon. Now, the opportunity of RMB appreciation has not ripened, so it has very important strategic meaning to maintain the exchange rate of RMB longer period to stabilize and delay appreciation process.


Raman imaging visualizes without the need for labeling the molecular composition of sub-cellular compartments [1]. Resonance Raman spectroscopy elucidates the structural characteristics of heme domains in hemoproteins [2]. Optical Tweezers (OT) allows a


The benefits and costs of converting a mixed flow arterial lane to dedicated bus rapid transit (BRT) will depend heavily on how such a project affects traffic speed, delay, and vehicle miles traveled, both in the mixed flow lanes and the BRT lane. The benefits will also depend on the extent to which improved transit service results in mode shift to transit. Most existing economic analysis tools do not allow consideration of both transit and auto modes at the same time in a single analysis. Therefore, analysts often need to apply alternative or off-model techniques to evaluate this special case. This paper demonstrates a methodology that captures all the benefits (and disbenefits) across transit riders and auto drivers and can be applied when converting a lane for the use of BRT at a corridor, local, or regional scale. The hypothetical analysis presented in the paper shows that converting an arterial traffic lane for BRT can result in positive net benefits under certain conditions. The benefit-cost ratio and net benefits of this project are also highly sensitive to the input assumptions and are a function of multiple variables, including total corridor person throughput, pre-project mode share, BRT travel time savings, and the assumed discount rate. The trade-offs between these variables affect the estimated net benefits and the final benefit-cost ratio.


Bolivia was one of the early adjusters of the 1980s, and the success of its stabilization program of August 1985 in stopping hyperinflation has received considerable attention. The program went beyond stabilization and included a broad set of economic reforms, encompassing the liberalization of the markets for goods, money and credit, and labor. The stabilization program and these first reforms were packaged in the omnibus Supreme Decree 21060 (S.D. 21060). Later, S.D. 21060 became the symbol of the new development model for Bolivia. Bolivians would refer to the liberal model in force after 1985 as the model of S.D. 21060. In the aftermath of S.D. 21060, the government designed and implemented, in a very orderly way, an economic policy rich in transformations. The purpose of this paper is to show in detail how the dynamics of the first generation of reforms have been very different from those of structural adjustment in the Bolivian experience. It is organized as follows: 1) survey of the conditions preceding S.D. 21060 and contents of the stabilization package of 1985; 2) description of the state of the reforms along with some quantitative results; 3) author's view of the political competence of the reformist governments in dealing with the adjustment measures and coping with the opposition; 4) capacity governance, with an emphasis on the fiscal accounts and the difficulties met in two of the second-generation reforms, privatization and social security reform; and 5) concluding remarks.


Abstract Rugby union, like many sports, is based around sequences of play, yet this sequential nature is often overlooked, for example in analyses that aggregate performance measures over a fixed time interval. We use recent developments in convolutional and recurrent neural networks to predict the outcomes of sequences of play, based on the ordered sequence of actions they contain and where on the field these actions occur. The outcomes considered are gaining territory, retaining possession, scoring a try, and being awarded or conceding a penalty. We consider several artificial neural network architectures and compare their performance against baseline models. Accounting for sequential data and using field location improved classification accuracy over the baseline for some outcomes. We then investigate how these prediction models can provide tactical decision support to coaches. We demonstrate that tactical insight can be gained by conducting scenario analyses with data visualisations to investigate which strategies yield the highest probability of achieving the desired outcome.


This Bachelor thesis clarify application of statistic methods in a process of clusters' identi-fication in regions. In the first part aims and methods of the thesis are defined, as well as the survey of literary sources that concern cluster theory and cluster initiatives area. Ma-thematic-statistic methods of clusters' identification is more detailed expound. The practi-cal part analyze branches of processing industry of Zlin region based on methods explained in the theoretical part aimed at identification of branches advisable to arise the cluster initi-ative. Selected branches of processing industry are to be enlarge specified and will be sug-gested branches appropriate for new cluster initiative foundation.


Review(s) of: Frank Brennan, Acting on Conscience: How can We Responsibly Mix Law, Religion and Politics? (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2007), pp.267, $34.95


Recently, automatic deception detection has gained momentum thanks to advances in computer vision, computational linguistics and machine learning research fields. The majority of the work in this area focused on written deception and analysis of verbal features. However, according to psychology, people display various nonverbal behavioral cues, in addition to verbal ones, while lying. Therefore, it is important to utilize additional modalities such as video and audio to detect deception accurately. When multi-modal data was used for deception detection, previous studies concatenated all verbal and nonverbal features into a single vector. This concatenation might not be meaningful, because different feature groups can have different statistical properties, leading to lower classification accuracy. Following this intuition, we apply, for the first time in deception detection, a multi-view learning (MVL) approach, where each view corresponds to a feature group. This results in improved classification results over the state of the art methods. Additionally, we show that the optimized parameters of the MVL algorithm can give insights into the contribution of each feature group to the final results, thus revealing the importance of each feature and eliminating the need of performing feature selection as well. Finally, we focus on analyzing face-based low level, not hand crafted features, which are extracted using various pre-trained Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), showing that face is the most important nonverbal cue for the detection of deception.


We analyzed the relationships of the guarding, stinging, pursuing and alarm pheromone responses of two types of bees: European (EHB) and Africanized honey bees (AHB). Single type (source colonies) and two-type (EHB and AHB co-fostered) colonies were used. Of co-fostered bees, AHB comprised 81% of those that stung during the first 10 s. But from 10 to 30 s, AHB and EHB were equally likely to sting. However, when tested in their own colonies, two of the three EHB types did not sting and did not pursue in any of the eight trials conducted, whereas all three AHB types did in all trials. Moreover, AHB represented 90% of bees that stung observers during an 18-day observation period (25% of which were recently seen guarding). There was a relationship between pursuing and stinging of the six source colonies and the guarding behavior of co-fostered individuals from those sources. Results suggest that the more defensive bee types guard longer and may affect the thresholds of response of less defensive bees, recruiting them to sting. Results also suggest that the individual performance of different defensive tasks cause interactions that result in increased colony response. Apis mellifera / genotypic effects / guarding behavior / Africanized bees / defensive behavior


The Goemans--Williamson randomized algorithm guarantees a high-quality approximation to the MAX-CUT problem, but the cost associated with such an approximation can be excessively high for large-scale problems due to the need for solving an expensive semidefinite relaxation. In order to achieve better practical performance, we propose an alternative, rank-two relaxation and develop a specialized version of the Goemans--Williamson technique. The proposed approach leads to continuous optimization heuristics applicable to MAX-CUT as well as other binary quadratic programs, for example the MAX-BISECTION problem.
A computer code based on the rank-two relaxation heuristics is compared with two state-of-the-art semidefinite programming codes that implement the Goemans--Williamson randomized algorithm, as well as with a purely heuristic code for effectively solving a particular MAX-CUT problem arising in physics. Computational results show that the proposed approach is fast and scalable and, more importantly, attains a higher approximation quality in practice than that of the Goemans--Williamson randomized algorithm. An extension to MAX-BISECTION is also discussed, as is an important difference between the proposed approach and the Goemans--Williamson algorithm; namely, that the new approach does not guarantee an upper bound on the MAX-CUT optimal value.


The purpose of the presented work is to analyze the artistic evolution in the early stories of V. O. Pelevin on the example of the collection of short stories "Blue Lantern". Research methods: analytical method, review method. The result of the article is to demonstrate the evolutionary periods of V. O. Pelevin's creativity, within the framework of which peculiar artistic features are developed and formed, which are set out in the framework of the presented work. The conclusion of the article is the lack of systematic artistic evolution in the early stories of V. O. Pelevin. The creative path of this author is quite interesting and ambiguous.


We introduce a special class of complex numbers, wherein their absolute values and arguments given in a polar coordinate system are integers and we introduce the corresponding class of the Optimization Problems: "Polar Complex Integer Optimization


Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) modified T cells have shown early promise in hematological malignancies. However, in solid malignancies CAR T cells must overcome a distinct immunosuppressive microenvironment which may compromise their capacity to mediate antitumor activity.


Records of traumatic events in the Jewish past provide the historian a rare glimpse at how community leaders interpreted and understood the historical conditions of diasporic Jews as well as their own immediate communities. In 1236 a violent altercation between a Jewish traveler and a local Christian precipitated a mass uprising against the city's Jewish community. Rapid intervention by the local viscount, Don Aymeric, restored peace to the Jewish quarter, averting loss of life or valuable property. Modern interpretations of this text have varied significantly since its discovery in the late nineteenth century. Scholars have struggled to reconcile it with their expectations of the shape and meaning of the Jewish past. Because the thirteenth-century author of this brief narrative suggested a typological link between the events in Narbonne and the story of Purim, the dominant modern interpretation has viewed this account as evidence of a very early Second Purim commemoration. However there is little evidence to support this claim. This article reads the narrative of the "Purim of Narbonne" against other medieval Jewish narratives about the history and legacy of Jewish Narbonne*.


BACKGROUND Cerebral vasospasm (CVS) occurs in 17% to 40% of patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH). Various measures have been implemented to prevent CVS, including fasudil hydrochloride. However, data are lacking on the preventive effect of fasudil hydro‐ chloride on CVS. The present study was performed to examine the association between postprocedural early administration of fasudil hydrochloride and outcomes in patients undergoing treatments for aSAH using a national inpatient database in Japan. METHODS Patients aged ≥18 years who were admitted because of aSAH from July 2010 to March 2014 and underwent clipping surgery or intravascular coil embolization within 72 hours from admission were eligible. We defined preventive fasudil hydrochloride as that administered within 1 day after the intervention. The outcomes were 30-day in-hospital mortality and the modified Rankin scale (mRS) score at discharge. We used instrumental variable methods to analyze the differences in the risk of these outcomes between patients with and without pre‐ ventive fasudil hydrochloride. RESULTS Of 23,843 eligible patients, 77.1% received preventive fasudil hydrochloride. The overall 30day in-hospital mortality rate was 2.2%, and the proportion of a good neurological outcome (mRS score of ≤2) was 65.0%. Instrumental variable analyses showed no significant differ‐ ence in 30-day in-hospital mortality (risk difference, −1.8%; 95% confidence interval, −3.8% to 2.0%), but demonstrated a significant difference in an mRS score of ≤2 at discharge (risk difference, 7.8%; 95% confidence interval, 3.4% to 12.3%). CONCLUSION Early administration of fasudil hydrochloride after treatment for aSAH could be associated with a better neurological outcome at discharge.


We introduce a resource adaptive agent mechanism which supports the user in interactive theorem proving. The mechanism uses a two layered architecture of agent societies to suggest appropriate commands together with possible command argument instantiations. Experiments with this approach show that its effectiveness can be further improved by introducing a resource concept. In this paper we provide an abstract view on the overall mechanism, motivate the necessity of an appropriate resource concept and discuss its realization within the agent architecture.


Temporal Orientalism provides a tool for analyzing the advertising of a genre of mass-marketed paperbacks, which is the literature of a women's religious social movement. Through it, the Goddess movement advertises its message as liberatory feminist revelation, with historical claims proved by archaeology. Cover copy advertises what the author calls the lost Eden scenario, in which an imagined savage male Other despoils an imagined ancient matriarchy. The identity of this villainous male Other is withheld in the advertising, but revealed, "who-dunit" style, in the books: it is a racial identity. Hence, the advertising, like the books, reflects in its monotheism, its reliance on authority, its blame of an Orientalized Other, and so on, a Goddess religion that in many ways mirrors characteristics the authors describe as patriarchal when they criticize other religions.


A number of slag compositions in the Al2O 3-CaO-MgO-SiO2 quaternary system was investigated. The Al2O3, CaO, and SiO2 oxide powders were calcinated at 1073 K for 24 hours before being mixed in an a ...


Dry Season Dragonflies of Indian Lowlands

Only some 60 species, i.e., about 10% of the dragonfly fauna of the Indian subcontinent can be observed during the premonsunal dry season in the plains of India. 42 of them (table 1) were registrated by the author on excursions in New Delhi, Calcutta, Madras, Trivandrum and the surroundings of these large towns in the last decade of April and in May 1979. 260 specimens have been catched for collection, between them two males and one female of a hitherto unknown species (Agriocnemis keralensis), whose description is given in English (fig. 1). Excluding Pantala flavescens in southern India and possibly Brachythemis contaminata throughout the whole country, imaginal specimens of all species were very scarse in numbers and the pupulations were found isolated in restricted favourable localities. The deficiency of oxygen in the upheated water bodies seems to be the main reason for the seasonal scantiness of dragonflies in the Indian lowlands. About 30% of the dry season dragonfly species are distributed well beyond the borders of the Oriental zoogeographic region, whereas only some 3% of the mountain species are not restricted to this region. This comparision shows very clear the high degree of adaptive abilities and vitality of the lowland dragonflies.


Objective:  Community mental health center (CMHC) clients include a variety of people with moderate to severe mental illnesses who also report a number of physical health problems. Physical activity (PA) has been identified as one intervention to improve health among this population; however, little is known about the role of social context in PA. The purpose of this study was to examine the role of social context in everyday PA among CMHC clients.


Speech unlocks the huge potentials in emotion recognition. High accurate and real-time understanding of human emotion via speech assists Human-Computer Interaction. Previous works are often limited in either coarse-grained emotion learning tasks or the low precisions on the emotion recognition. To solve these problems, we construct a real-world large-scale corpus composed of 4 common emotions (i.e., anger, happiness, neutral and sadness). We also propose a multi-task attention-based DNN model (i.e., MT-A-DNN) on the emotion learning. MT-A-DNN efficiently learns the high-order dependency and non-linear correlations underlying in the audio data. Extensive experiments show that MT-A-DNN outperforms conventional methods on the emotion recognition. It could take one step further on the real-time acoustic emotion recognition in many smart audio-devices.


Delayed‐neutron spectra of mass‐separated fission products from the TRISTAN facility at Brookhaven are being investigated to develop systematics of neutron resonances in the 1–100 keV range in neutron‐rich nuclides as a unique experimental basis for testing theoretical extrapolations of level parameters and neutron cross sections from stable to very unstable uclides. Aims, methods, and early results have been described elsewhere. The time‐of‐flight system yields resolved peaks, ≳10 between 3 and 100 keV in Rb‐95 and Rb‐97. Natural line widths have been deduced to date for two Rb‐95 peaks: 414±33 eV for the 14.44±0.09 keV resonance and 670±270 eV for the 26.70±0.13 keV resonance, found by fitting the experimental data to a Lorentzian convoluted with a calculated system response function. Similar analysis of further peaks and deduction of level densities and other parameters await additional data from newly improved apparatus and planned experimental checks of the resolution calculation by measuring the Br‐...


The Smart Ice Cloud Sensing (SMICES) is an active/passive sensor. SMICES is sponsored by NASA Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) under Instrument Incubator Program 19 (IIP-19) awarded to Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC) and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The instrument is designed to measure upper tropospheric and lower stratospheric cloud ice and water vapor. SMICES uses a suite of passive radiometers that are constantly conically scanning to locate ice clouds. The ice clouds are located using an artificial intelligence controller that identifies key labels related to the ice cloud. Once an ice cloud is identified, the artificial intelligence controller activates and targets the on-board radar. While the SMICES instrument is currently being developed for an airborne demonstration, the final goal is to deploy it as a small satellite (SmallSat) instrument in low-Earth orbit (LEO). The onboard AI controller will significantly reduce DC power consumption of the satellite mission. This will enable the SMICES system to be hosted on a smaller platform with fewer solar cells and significantly drive down mission costs while maintaining the quality of scientific data. This work presents the latest development on the SMICES microwave radiometer.


Jonathan Beller's The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle is a dense, sometimes poetic, recapitulation of the ongoing materialist effort to account for symbolic repression in society. "That a critical theory of the mode of exploitation should lag behind the practice of exploitation is no longer tenable, if it ever was," Beller states. "Overcoming this epistemic lag-time is (an) aim here, one bound up in the revolutionary potential contained in understanding how the world goes on as it does, and in whose interests" (p. 7). While Beller's work fundamentally relies on Marx, it also attempts to incorporate Lacanian psychoanalysis and Guy Debord's concern with the spectacle into its teleology. In the spirit of Dallas Smythe (1995), the primary concern of the book is to highlight the contemporary reality expressed in the phrase "to look is to labor." Where Smythe's thesis accounted for the audience as a commodity, what Beller attempts is to account for those occasions when attention is imagined as a product in all cases, even those when—and this is the point at which Smythe's characterization of audience labor breaks down—direct allusion to advertising is absent. "The attention theory of value," Beller writes, "is the riddle of post-global capitalism properly posed" (p. 8). This theory is sculpted by proposing cinema's fundamental status in 20th-century psychosocial life. Cinema, for Beller, is not simply a form but the form of social organization and reproduction in the era of the ascendancy of the sign: It is


This paper presents a scheme for electro-optic frequency shifting. In this scheme linearly polarized light of output from CO 2 laser passes through a electro-optic modula-tor and retroaction-cycle laser amplifer, under the condition of no increased harmonic components exist, the convertion efficiency of the shifting can be raised greatly. This work suggests that electro-optic frequency shifting possesses potentiality of wide appli-cation. In the experiments on checking the effect of the frequency shifting, the experi-mental device is simplifed by auto-collmating round-trip of the light beam and space delaying the modulated signal. The frequency components of the frequency shifted light is analysed by using simple method of frequency beating.


About 5% of world raw materials are presently obtained in Ukraine. 3,5 thousand industrial enterprises engage in the development of minerals and their processing. The common amount of hard wastes of these enterprises makes 1,3-1,5 bn tons a year, they occupy more than 53 thousand ha of the land under their warehousing. Liquid and hard wastes of industrial enterprises are warehoused in the special stores of industrial waste; there are about two and a half thousands of them in Ukraine. Planning new storage of industrial wastes and during exploitation before the construction, special actuality is acquired by development of measures on environment safety, such as: - object of influence; - environment conditions at the examined period of time; - forecast of geological environment change and environment on the whole during exploitation of industrial wastes storage; - warning methods of negative influence of object on the environment; - will the object affect underwater and methods of its control; - estimation of credible emergency situations and their consequences


Metastatic bone cancer are most frequently seen in vertebrae, pelvis, rib, skull and femur etc, but rarely seen in the peripheral bones below the elbow or the knee joint.381 cases of metastatic bone cancer were diagnosed radiologically from March 23rd. 1962 to January 31th. 1968, at the National Cancer Center Hospital.Among them, 7 cases were diagnosed to have bone metastasis in hand and foot bone.Three cases which were very interesting in diagnosis and clinical course were presented.Case 1. A man, fifty-six years old; bone metastasis of the finger.Case 2. A woman, seventy-three years old; wide-spread bone metastases of the hand.Case 3. A woman, fifty years old; metastases of the metatarsal bones.In case 3, open biopsy was not done, but aspiration needle biopsy was done for the exact diagnosis of the metastatic bone cancer and cancer cells could be seen in the May-Giemsa stained specimen.Moreover, the cancer cells were recognized from the neighbouring bone which showed Sudeck's bone atrophy-like shadow and were very difficult to be diagnosed as bone metastases.Therefore, bone metastases of all metatarsal bone were diagnosed very quickly and easily, and early radiation therapy was successfully performed.


In the parental care of burying beetles of Nicrophorus, the role of males has not been clearly elucidated. To test our hypothesis that the investment in resource manipulation by males influences the feeding of larvae by males, we investigated parental efforts of N. quadripunctatus. On the small carcasses, the time spent on resource manipulation by males was short, and the males left the carcasses without feeding the larvae (maternal feeding). On the large carcasses, the males spent a long time on resource manipulation, and the male participated in the feeding of larvae (biparental feeding). This suggests that one of the reproductive roles of males in the absence of predators and/or competitors is resource manipulation, and the paternal efforts change depending on carcass size. A longer time spent on resource manipulation by males may be a trigger for the males to participate in the feeding of larvae on large carcasses.


acute crisis ended, the relationship with Britain may not have been remembered as all that important. It is also interesting to note that British studies of the Anglo-U.S. relationship are far richer than American studies of the same subject. Britain, a long-term ally of the United States in World War II and the Cold War, is often taken for granted by American historians. More unreliable or more powerful allies than Britain, like France and Germany, usually attract more scholarly attention in the United States. However, a study of Anglo-U.S. relations often reveals something that may not have been intended in the arst place; namely, an accurate account of U.S. reactions to an international crisis. During a crisis, U.S. ofacials usually interacted more closely with British leaders than with any other power, as Ashton's study conarms. Hence, by examining Anglo-U.S. relations, American historians may discover a great deal about their own national leaders. Social scientists often reject what they regard as an excessively realist approach in historical analyses of high politics. In reality, historians give us a multidimensional picture—including bureaucratic politics, public opinion, the domestic situation, and the cultural and ideological issues behind many conoicts of interests. Moreover, international crises, such as those covered in this volume, are the time when decision-making is most heavily centralized at the top. Public opinion, Congress, and the inouence of other domestic, international, economic, and social imperatives are of less importance during such crises. Ashton is therefore to be commended for consciously having taken on board the non-realist aspects of the issues that inouenced decision-makers, although he states that the "concept of the national interest remained the most important of the range of factors that informed the perception of policy makers in London and Washington" (p. 226). Ashton's aim was to produce a perceptive study of the Anglo-U.S. relationship from 1961 to 1963, and he has successfully achieved that goal in this book.


Oh B, Butow P, Mullan B, Clarke S, Beale P, Pavlakis N, Kothe E, Lam L, Rosenthal D.

Impact of medical Qigong on quality of life, fatigue, mood and inflammation in cancer patients: a randomized controlled trial.

Ann Oncol 2010; 21: 608–14.


To obviate the problems associated with conventional dosage forms, Mouth Dissolving Tablets (MDTs) have been developed having good hardness, dose uniformity, easy administration and serves as the first choice of dosage form for pediatrics, geriatrics and travelling patients. Poor water solubility and metallic taste are the major problems associated with Metronidazole. Moreover, it is a better choice for periodontal diseases. In the present work an attempt was made to prepare MDTs of Metronidazole using super disintegrants like Cross- povidone (CPV), Pre gelatinized starch (PGS) and Sodium Starch Glycolate (SSG) in different concentrations. Metronidazole Oro Dispersible Tablets (ODTs) were prepared by Direct Compression technique. The tablets were tested for various parameters like Wetting time and In vitro Dispersion time in addition to physico chemical parameters. The tablets weighed 400 mg with hardness of 3.1 kg/cm 2 . In vitro dispersion time and Wetting time was found to be high for tablets containing Pre gelatinized starch. The effect of the disintegrants on Wetting time and in vitro dispersion time was in the order of CPV SSG > PGS. From over all observations, F2 containing 5% w/w of Cross- povidone was considered to be the best formulation among all the formulations.


Between the 1890s and the Second World War, a multitude of projects for photography museums came to fight in Europe and more particularly in France. The aim of this article is to retrace the history of the families of photography museums and to explore the failure of these projects through the notion of utopia. Attempted typology of the forms of photography museums that sheds fight on the contemporary relation of photography to the museum, this article also wants to seize the major chronological and cultural turning points of this still little known history for the period 1890-1945. From the beginnings of this question set out before the First World War, follows a period of expansion between the two wars. This history comes to life around important figures, such as Leon Vidal (1833-1906), Alfred Liegard (1865-1934), Gabriel Cromer (1873-1934), Louis Cheronnet (1899-1950), as well as Laure Albin-Guillot (1879-1962).


Nedd4l has been proposed to play a critical role in regulating ENaC and thus Na homeostasis and blood pressure. The interaction between Sgk1 and Nedd4l connects the mineralocorticoid aldosterone to Na+ reabsorption and completes this important regulatory circuit. In the present study we generated Nedd4l KO mice and tested the in vivo role of Nedd4l on ENaC regulation. On a normal salt diet Nedd4l −/− mice had significantly reduced urine Na+ excretion and higher BP than Nedd4l +/+mice. High salt diet for two weeks further increased the BP for Nedd4l −/−mice, while Nedd4l +/+mice showed no significant increase. Daily urine Na+ excretion was significantly less for Nedd4l −/− than Nedd4l +/+ mice on high salt diet, indicating Na+ retention. Rectal PD, an indirect assessment of ENaC function in the distal nephron, was not significant different between those two groups of mice on a normal diet. However, from an elevated PD level induced by low salt diet, Nedd4l +/+ mice showed a more than 280‐fold reduction of PD after two weeks high salt diet while Nedd4l −/− mice can only manage a 6‐fold reduction during the same period of time. Our results indicate that Nedd4l −/− mice have an impaired ability to down‐regulate ENaC activity in response to dietary changes and confirm the hypothesis that ENaC function is negatively regulated by Nedd4l.


We consider the parallel complexity of submodular function minimization (SFM). We provide a pair of methods which obtain two new query versus depth trade-offs a submodular function defined on subsets of $n$ elements that has integer values between $-M$ and $M$. The first method has depth $2$ and query complexity $n^{O(M)}$ and the second method has depth $\widetilde{O}(n^{1/3} M^{2/3})$ and query complexity $O(\mathrm{poly}(n, M))$. Despite a line of work on improved parallel lower bounds for SFM, prior to our work the only known algorithms for parallel SFM either followed from more general methods for sequential SFM or highly-parallel minimization of convex $\ell_2$-Lipschitz functions. Interestingly, to obtain our second result we provide the first highly-parallel algorithm for minimizing $\ell_\infty$-Lipschitz function over the hypercube which obtains near-optimal depth for obtaining constant accuracy.


A process for synthesizing nm-class non-solvent hybridized luminous high polymer/rare-earth compound material used as luminous display and filter by sol-gel method includes such steps as adding ethyln-silicate, vinyl monomer and rare-earth compound to sol system, hydrolyzing and condensing under existance of weak acid (acetic acid), stirring, gelatinizing, and hot polymeirizing to trigger monomer polymerization. Its advantages include less shrinkage, simple process and short preparing period.


A power-control theory of the gender-delinquency relationship draws attention to differences in familial control practices. We extend the theory to address how parental agency and support for dominant attitudes or schemas influence male as well as female delinquency. This extension emphasizes that differences in structure, particularly between more and less patriarchal households, result in different family practices, especially for mothers and sons. We find that variation in mothers' agency within the home affects their sons' support of conventional views, in particular, attitudes about the gendered nature of activities, risk preferences, and beliefs about impunity, as well as their involvement in delinquent activities. Thus, the agency of mothers in less patriarchal families is an underappreciated source of reduced delinquency among sons.


The present invention relates to a solar collector device having a solid body made of transparent material (1), solid body This includes the light incident surface (2) and convex light emitting surface (3), also, this solid body is between the light incident surface (2) and the convex light-emitting surface (3), comprising a light guide portion (4), the light guide portion (4) in the direction of the light exit surface (3) headed is tapered. The present invention further relates to a method of manufacturing such a solar collector device (1), the material is accurately formed between the two mold (10, 14). .Field


The research aimed to determine the effect of profitability, tax aggressiveness, and institutional ownership to the firm value. This research was used a casual method by taking secondary data. The selection of sample used purposive sampling method. From the predetermined criteria obtained a sample of 43 companies with study period of 2015-2017, so total of observation is 129. Analyzing of data was used multiple linear regression analyzed. The results shows that the profitability and tax aggressiveness have influence to the firm value. But the institutional ownership does not have influence to the firm value.


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The incorporation in vitro of labelled choline into mitochondria isolated from the livers of normal, hypothyroidic and hyperthyroidic rats was studied. Incorporation into the mitochondria from livers of hyperthyroidic rats was stimulated 2- to 3-fold while that into mitochondria isolated from livers of hypothyroidic rats was depressed about 2-fold.

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Stimulation of choline incorporation into isolated rat liver mitochondria by administration in vivo of triiodothyronine was shown to parallel that of amino acid incorporation.

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The direct addition of tri-iodothyronine to the incubation medium did not stimulate but inhibited the incorporation in vitro of choline into mitochondria isolated from the livers of normal rats.

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The data provide further evidence that the measurements of phospholipid precursor incorporation into isolated mitochondria carried out in this and in previous studies, reflect the biosynthetic activity of the organism as a whole.


In this paper,by using theory of dissipation structure,we discuss the background of mathematics education of secondary vocational school,and offer the ways of Construction of dissipative structure of Mathematics classroom teaching system of secondary vocational school.


Diffusion-induced grain boundary motion (DIGM) is the phenomenon of normal grain boundary migration caused by the lateral diffusion of solutes along it. Despite its technological importance and the fact that DIGM has been firstly observed and studied since 1970, the physical origin of DIGM still remains largely hypothetical. In this work, a comprehensive approach by combining two atomistic simulation techniques, i.e., the synthetic driving force method and the interface random walk method is developed to quantify the driving forces that operate during DIGM. It is found that the driving force that initiates DIGM is quantitatively consistent with that arising from coherency strain energy, which proves that a major driving force of DIGM originates from unbalanced coherency strain energy across the boundary due to the non-uniform distribution of solute atoms. The simulation results also show that segregation plays an important role in promoting DIGM once GB is in close contact with the solute atoms. All observations made during the simulations are supported by the atomic configurations and graphical analysis at different stages of the process. It is hoped that this study sheds some light and provides a clearer picture of DIGM after more than a decade's stagnation in this field.


In accordance with the multifunctional farms model, social farming activities are useful instruments to maintain sustainable competitive advantages in certain areas, as these made-to-order services are able to satisfy the needs declared and/or hidden of local communities. The authors claim that social farming activities can be a model of sustainable development for local communities through the construction of an effective relationships network that is able to involve the interested actors within the complex process of social services delivery. The Social Network Analysis has been used to measure the relationships created by the agrisocial farms belonging to a periurban area. The results show effectiveness of relationships network and an good level of cross sector collaboration among local actors. This relationships network is able to contributes also to local development.


Using the excellent global optimization ability of artificial fish schools, the initial weights and thresholds of the BP neural network can be adjusted to be near the global optimal value. This makes the BP neural network no longer randomly set the initial weights and Threshold, so that the network oscillation problem caused by randomly setting the initial weights and thresholds will no longer exist. The test results prove that the neural network optimized can effectively compensate the initial ranging result, improve the ranging accuracy, and achieve the purpose of accurately finding the fault location.


Prostate brachytherapy is an effective treatment for early prostate cancer. The success depends critically on the correct needle implant position. We have devised an automatic shape‐based 3D level set segmentation tool for needle tracking in 3D trans‐rectal ultrasound(TRUS)images, which uses the shape information and 3D level set technique to localize the needle position and estimate the endpoint of needle in real‐time. Automatic initialization of the level set technique for ultrasoundimage is not trivial. We assume that the needle is most likely at the position with the highest intensity of a 3D TRUS difference image with subtraction of the 3D TRUSimage prior to the insertion of the needle. The initial point must meet two criteria: 1. Its intensity must above certain threshold; and 2. The volume around the intitial point extracted by thresholding must above the size of 5×10×3 voxels, (1×1x1 voxels = 0.2 × 0.1 × 5 mm). Otherwise, it is regarded as either noise or needle insertion failure. The 3D TRUSimages used in the evaluation of our tools are obtained using a 2D TRUStransducer from Ultrasonix and a computer controlled stepper motor system from Thorlabs. The accuracy and feedback mechanism have been validated using prostate phantoms and compared with 3D positions of these needles derived from expert segmentations. The ground truth used in this study is the expert segmentation of needle positions from 3D CTimages. The experiments were performed with 19 inserted needles. The mean errors of both automatic and expert segmentations are within 1 voxel for 16 out of 19 needles. Three needles failed to be detected because of poor image quality. Hence our automated method allows real‐time TRUS ‐based needle placement within 20% of the needle diameter compared to manual expert segementation.


Colorectal cancer (CRC) consists of two major pathways resulting in a minority of tumors with deficient DNA mismatch repair (dMMR) and the majority with proficient mismatch repair (pMMR). In CRC, dMMR is most commonly due to sporadic epigenetic silencing of the MLH1 MMR gene, or due to a germline mutation in an MMR gene (MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, PMS2 or EpCAM) conferring Lynch Syndrome with somatic inactivation of the second allele. Tumors with dMMR accumulate insertions and deletion mutations in DNA repeat sequences which manifest as microsatellite instability (MSI). In genes containing coding repeats, frameshift mutations are a source of immunogenic neo-antigens recognized by the immune system which can trigger lymphocytic infiltration within the tumor microenvironment. This pre-existing intratumoral T-cell response in dMMR tumors is believed to underlie their earlier stage at presentation with reduced propensity for metastasis and more favorable outcome compared to pMMR tumors. While it is believed that an abundant lymphocytic infiltrate is almost uniformly present in CRCs with dMMR, we determined the potential for inter-tumoral heterogeneity in lymphocytic infiltration among dMMR colon cancers. Specifically, we quantified the density of CD3+ and CD8+ T cells at the invasive margin (tumor's leading edge) and tumor center in 561 stage III colon cancers. We examined all dMMR tumors and a randomly selected subgroup of pMMR tumors from patients who received adjuvant FOLFOX-based chemotherapy in a phase III clinical trial sponsored by the U.S. National Cancer Institute (N0147) [1]. CD3+ is a pan-T cell marker and CD8+ is a marker of cytotoxic T cells. Consistent with prior data, we found that CD3+ and CD8+ T-cell densities in the tumor microenvironment were higher in dMMR vs pMMR tumors overall. However, we unexpectedly observed that dMMR colon cancers demonstrated significantly greater inter-tumoral heterogeneity in the density of their lymphocytic infiltrate compared to pMMR tumors (Figure 1). Inter-tumoral heterogeneity in densities was significantly increased by 30-88% among dMMR vs pMMR cancers (P < .0001 for all four T-cell subtypes [CD3+ or CD8+ at the invasive margin or tumor center]). Importantly, a substantial proportion of dMMR tumors (26% to 35% depending on T-cell subtype) exhibited T-cell densities as low as those found in the bottom half of densities within pMMR tumors. Stated differently, approximately one-third of dMMR colon cancers do not have a rich lymphocyte infiltrate. A number of factors could underlie the inter-tumoral heterogeneity among dMMR tumors including differences in the overall mutation burden, unstable microsatellites, or variability in neoantigen profiles [2]. In a recent study, dMMR CRCs from patients with Lynch Syndrome had a higher density of intratumoral CD3+ T cells (vs sporadic dMMR) in association with increased somatic mutations and higher neoantigen burden [3]. Inter-tumoral heterogeneity in T-cell densities has implications for prognosis in both pMMR and dMMR Editorial


In this study, we propose a miniaturized Ka-band transceiver module with a microstrip-to-waveguide transition structure that can be applied to high-capacity wireless radio. We apply a probe-shaped transition structure with the vertical structure of a substrate and waveguide that can mount a filter on top of a transceiver module. Measurement results of the fabricated transition structure revealed an insertion loss of 0.67 dB or less and a return loss of −14.1dB or more in the frequency range of 28~30 GHz. Measurement results of the transceiver module when the transition structure was applied revealed a maximum output of 2 W, a transmission gain of 35 dB, a gain of 20 dB, and a return-loss performance of less than −10 dB.


I studied on the annual and monthly variations of fishing condition and distribution of yellowfin tuna in the Arabian Sea. 1) The rate-of-catch (catch number per hundred hooks) of the fish was high in 1955-'56, and low in 1957-'58 and medium in 1959. 2) The rate-of-catch of the fish was high in every spring and late of autumn. Good fishing period was from March to May in 1955-'56 and May in 1957-'58. 3) The rate-of-catch of each sub-area increased and decreased with all sub-areas. Good fishing area was distributed in the eastern part in 1957-'58 and in the middle or in the western part of the Bay in 1955-'56 and 1959. 4) Good fishing area was distributed from March to May in the mouth part and the area in the inner part extended from western part for middle in the same period in 1957-'58. It has changed from the middle part for western one in the above-mentioned period in 1955, 1956 and 1959. 5) Accordingly, fishing condition and distribution in the good fishing year differ from those of the bad fishing year, and those of 1959. However, it seems that 1959 may be good fishing year in my conjecture.


Adopted children's arrival at adolescence is an object of interest and concern among researchers, professionals, and politicians. In this article, I offer an analysis of parental talk among 24 families about their concerns related to their transnationally adopted teens. The majority of the adoptive parents reported having concerns about their children, which they attributed to their children's entry into adolescence and their children's inherent personality traits. In this article, I focus on the first of these attributions, which places the "blame" on adolescence. I do this from a perspective integrating a theoretical view from social anthropology that analyzes social discourses and a more applied view from social work that explores how these discourses influence family practices. The results of this analysis can guide family and professional practices and public policies on adoption.