Progress in the field of Bioinformatics has been facilitated to understand the global network of genes and their protein products. In present study, comparative analysis of Cellular tumor antigen p53 proteins of nine fishes were carried out using Bioinformatics tools. Cellular tumor antigen p53 acts as a tumor-suppressor and having role in apoptosis, genomic stability. The results of this study indicate that, most of physico-chemical properties were almost same in Q92143 ( Xiphophorus maculates ) and O57538 ( Xiphophorus helleri ). In order to understand global network of Cellular tumor antigen p53, we have used STRING 9.1 tool and speculated that this protein interacting with several other protein but functional node -CHEK1, BCL2, MDM4 were common in Danio rerio , Oryzias latipes, Tetraodon miurus with high confidence score. The strong association interaction has seen between mdm2 and p53 with a good high score in Danio rerio. We also studied the molecular docking between Cellular tumor antigen p53 and Mdm2 of Zebrafish. Also, we have investigated conserved region present in all nine different protein sequences which specifies, that region maintained by evolution despite speciation. The present study will further support to understand the roles and associated proteins in various cellular pathways in fish . This work is also useful for the study of structural and functional analysis of p53 protein.


Large disruptions of chronobiological rhythms are documented as destabilizing individuals with bipolar disorder; however, the impact of small phase altering events is unclear. Australian suicide data from 1971 to 2001 were assessed to determine the impact on the number of suicides of a 1-h time shift due to daylight saving. The results confirm that male suicide rates rise in the weeks following the commencement of daylight saving, compared to the weeks following the return to eastern standard time and for the rest of the year. After adjusting for the season, prior to 1986 suicide rates in the weeks following the end of daylight saving remained significantly increased compared to the rest of autumn. This study suggests that small changes in chronobiological rhythms are potentially destabilizing in vulnerable individuals.


The invention discloses a music-data display method and device. The method and device are applied to a media output device which includes a first data transmission link used for receiving image-text data and a second data transmission link used for receiving audio data. The method includes: receiving the image-text data sent by a mobile terminal through the first data transmission link; receiving the audio data sent by the mobile terminal through the second data transmission link; using a preset image-text protocol to perform capsulation processing on the image-text data so as to acquire parsed image-text data; using a preset audio protocol to perform data decapsulation processing on the audio data so as to acquire parsed audio data; and outputting the parsed image-text data and outputting the parsed audio data. Therefore, the music-data display method and device parses and outputs the image-text data and the audio data respectively and realizes receiving processing on the image-text data and further realizes outputting of the image-text data while the audio data is output.


The use of the Internet around the world has skyrocketed in recent years, and online forums have developed to accommodate interests, both broad and specialized, as people have begun to seek advice and knowledge from the vast resource of Internet users rather than counting on the relatively small number of people they personally know. Question-and-answer (Q&A) platforms such as Yahoo! Answers and Quora allow users to ask questions regarding any topic, while Stack Overflow is dedicated to the specific field of computer science.


Gait and face are two important biometrics for human identification. Complementary properties of these two biometrics suggest fusion of them. The relationship between gait and face in the fusion is affected by the subject-to-camera distance. On the one hand, gait is a suitable biometric trait for human recognition at a distance. On the other hand, face recognition is more reliable when the subject is close to the camera. This paper proposes an adaptive fusion method called distance-driven fusion to combine gait and face for human identification in video. Rather than predefined fixed fusion rules, distance-driven fusion dynamically adjusts its rule according to the subject-to-camera distance in real time. Experimental results show that distance-driven fusion performs better than not only single biometric, but also the conventional static fusion rules including MEAN, PRODUCT, MIN, and MAX.


One of the central problems in migration measurement arises as a consequence of the different sources of migration data. Most information regarding migration is obtained from population censuses or population registers that report migration data for a given time interval. Another source of migration data is the sample survey which may be designed to provide information about both migrants and moves. Migration data produced by censuses are usually in the form of transitions. Population registers treat migration as an event and generate data on moves. A fundamental aspect of migration is its change over time. This paper aims at demonstrating how the regularities that appear in migration age compositions can be summarized in a useful manner and to suggest what such regularities may be telling us about patterns of natural increase, family relationships, and mobility levels among migrants. By disaggregating migrants into dependent and independent catagories, the paper illuminates the ways in which the age profile of migrating populations is sensitive to relative changes in dependency levels and in rates of natural increase and mobility. Just as population age compositions reflect particular characteristics of fertility and mortality regimes, so do observed migration age compositions reflect key aspects of family structure and migration patterns. Drawing on techniques used in the analysis of influence on fertility and mortality, Rogers and Castro propose procedures for adopting model migration schedules to infer migration patterns in the absence of accurate migration data. Such model migration schedules may be used to graduate inadequate data, thereby smoothing out irregularities and ascribing to the data summary measures that can be used for comparative analysis. They also may be used to interpolate to single years of age. Observed reliability of empirical migration data and indications of appropriate strategies for their correction are aided by the availability of standard families of migration schedules. Finally, such schedules may also be used to help resolve problems caused by missing data. Examples of the age-sex distribution and interstate migration are given for Mexico and Sweden; model migration proportion schedules are given for selected cities including Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, Lagos, Greater Khartoum, Stockholm, and Kuwait.


Objective
To investigate the effect of visual management on the prevention of nosocomial infection for the patients in hospital in the department of gynecology and obstetrics.

Methods
Three hundred and sixteen in-patients who were treated in the department of obstetrics and gynecology in our hospital from July 2013 to June 2014 were included in the control group. The routine prevention infection management was used in the control group. Three hundred and twenty-five in-patients who were treated in the department of obstetrics and gynecology in our hospital from October 2014 to September 2015 were included in the observation group. The visual management was used to prevent infection in the observation group. Hospital infection, infection site, length of hospital stay and patients' satisfaction were compared between the two groups.

Results
There were 22 cases of hospital infection in the two groups, including 5 cases in the observation group and 17 cases in the control group. The difference between the two groups was statistically significant (χ2=8.532, P<0.01) .In the observation group, the infection rate of infection sites of the patients was significantly lower compared with the patients in the control group (P<0.05) . In the observation group, the average hospitalization time was (6.2±1.6) d, which was significantly shorter compared with the patients in the control group (8.6±2.1) d (t=3.26, P=0.001) . The total satisfaction in the observation group was 100.0%, which was significantly different from that in the control group (89.6%) (χ2=7.814, P<0.05) .

Conclusions
The implementation of visual management to prevent infection in the patients of the department of gynecology and obstetrics can reduce the infection rate of patients, shorten their hospitalization time and improve patients' satisfaction of the intervention.

Key words:
Department of gynecology and obstetrics, hospital; Cross infection; Visual management


Chinese literature and the medicine are tangled together deeply in 20th century.The study experience on the western natural and medical science has a restriction in-depth and development mechanism to those humanity writers,who abandon medicine to pursue literature,or pursue both medicine and literature.This arouses the narrative literature to present calmness,rationality and the tragedy character,which exactly agrees with the modern quality of the Chinese literature.


The concept of institutional ethnography was developed by Dorothy E. Smith, a well-known feminist sociologist, who established that institutional ethnographic inquiry begins from a personal everyday experience and attempts to analyze, understand, and explain social phenomena in the everyday world. As an important research method, institutional ethnography has become widely applied and recognized in different spheres of social science. The goals of this paper are threefold. The first is to discuss the meanings and contributions of feminist sociological perspectives introduced by Smith. Second, we specifically aim to illustrate the meanings, concepts, and methods of institutional ethnography. Finally, searching for instances of institutional ethnography, we examine Griffith and Smith's study Mothering Jar schooling.


We evaluated if R. dalmatina females laid their eggs randomly within a pond or if they prefer some microhabitats. We observed preferences for the areas with more submerged deadwoods and vegetation, presence of emergent ground and low water depth. Tadpoles growing in these areas could have increased growth rate and survival, thus these preferences could enhance the fitness of offspring.


This work presents in a simple and practical way how read from a computer the energy values recorded by standard energy meters installed in PV grid connected systems in order to be monitored local or remotely. This communication can be easily implemented as a software program itself or integrated as a part in any other monitoring software. Remote energy metering for PV grid connected installations is used, exclusively in most of the installations, by the electrical company for remote energy metering and automatic billing. Energy meters communications from any manufacturer must fulfill the IEC 870-5-102 standard, mandatory in Spain, and complemented by the Electrical Grid Company, REE, regulation. For remote energy metering the user must install a GSM modem and supply to the electrical companies the phone number and counters addresses and passwords in order to perform automatic energy telereadings using software programs. Local energy metering is easily implementable trough energy meters RS485 network and the communication protocol explained in this work.


Retrosynthetic analysis is a topic that presents significant conceptual challenges to students. To enable a more active learning of introductory retrosynthesis, we implemented a flipped approach, delivered over a 4 year period, to a class size of between 18 and 29 biochemistry students per year. This provided more time for in-class peer group learning and discussion, encouraging student-centered learning; the stepwise delivery of material was designed to reduce cognitive load. We monitored course grades and assessed students' attitudes toward this course, finding a consistent motivation and enthusiasm for the flipped format, which appears well-suited to the problem-solving aspects of retrosynthetic analysis. By sharing our motivations, strategies, course materials, and outcomes, we hope that this will inspire others to develop their own courses.


34 Much of the research aimed at improving photosynthesis and crop productivity attempts to overcome 35 shortcomings of the primary CO2 fixing enzyme Rubisco. Cyanobacteria utilize a CO2 concentrating 36 mechanism (CCM), which encapsulates Rubisco with poor specificity but relatively fast catalytic rate 37 within a carboxysome micro-compartment. Alongside active transport of bicarbonate into the cell, and 38 localization of carbonic anhydrase within the carboxysome shell with Rubisco, cyanobacteria are able to 39 overcome the limitations of Rubisco via localization within a high CO2 environment. As part of ongoing 40 efforts to engineer a β-cyanobacterial CCM into land plants, we investigated the potential for Rubisco 41 large subunits (LSU) from the β-cyanobacteria Synechococcus elongatus (Se) to form aggregated Rubisco 42 complexes with the carboxysome linker protein CcmM35 within tobacco chloroplasts. Transplastomic 43 plants were produced that lacked cognate SeRubisco small subunits (SSU) and expressed SeLSU in place 44 of tobacco LSU, with and without CcmM35. Plants were able to form a hybrid enzyme utilizing tobacco 45 SSU and the SeLSU, allowing slow autotrophic growth in high CO2. CcmM35 was able to form large 46 Rubisco aggregates with the SeLSU, and these incorporated small amounts of native tobacco SSU. Plants 47 lacking the SeSSU showed delayed growth, poor photosynthetic capacity and significantly reduced 48 Rubisco activity compared to both wild-type tobacco and lines expressing the SeSSU. These results 49 demonstrate the ability of the SeLSU and CcmM35 to form large aggregates without the cognate SeSSU 50 in planta, harboring active Rubisco that enables plant growth, albeit at much slower pace than plants 51 expressing the cognate SeSSU. 52 53 54


A study was conducted to assess the Red Light Running (RLR) cameras in Fairfax County, Virginia. The RLR camera enforcement program involved 10 cameras that were installed around the county. Intersections were chosen based on police and community recommendations in high commuter traffic areas. Warning signs were also erected upstream from the monitored intersections. All 10 cameras utilized the same basic setup. The typical setup included a dual loop system for detecting the vehicles entering the intersection and calculating their speed. Once the camera system detected a violator, it recorded two pictures from the rear of the vehicle, showing it enter and proceed through the intersection. These pictures were used to identify the registered owner by the license plate and give evidence for a citation. The automated detection system is designed for the through movements of traffic. Violation data, accident data, and traffic data were collected from the Virginia Department of Transportation, the Fairfax County Department of Transportation, and the Fairfax County Police Department. The data analysis has identified improvements in violation rates on the order of 36% over the first three months of automated enforcement and 69% reductions after six months of camera operation. The accident rates data also showed a reduction of 40% in accidents. This reduction in accidents, accounting for expenses of implementation and operation of the system, could lead to a benefit to the community of approximately $8.7S million over the next eight years. Public opinion in the Fairfax County jurisdiction was found to be strongly supportive of the automated enforcement. The results found in this study show that the implementation of red light running cameras in Fairfax County, Virginia, have been successful in providing benefits with respect to traffic, economy, and safety.


The AirBand (Langdon C. Crawford, Laura Sinnott & William David Fastenow) has used a variety of homegrown and home-modified electronics for controlling computers. For this performance we have hijacked the wii remote for musical applications. We would like to thank Masayuki Akamatsu for making the aka.wiiremote external available for Max/MSP.


Lead halide perovskite nanocrystals are recently emerged as an efficient optical material for light harvesting. While these were extensively studied for obtaining bright emissions; but little had been explored as catalysts for enhancing the rate of chemical reactions. Considering their importance in catalysis, herein, Fe(II) doped CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals were explored for photocatalytic reduction of CO2. In comparison to undoped CsPbBr3, doped nanocrystals showed enhanced catalytic activity and also predominantly led to evolution of CH4 than CO. The observation of reverse trend of predominated CH4 evolution in doped nanocrystals rather than CO observed for undoped nanocrystals was correlated to the adsorption/desorption energy of respective products established theoretically earlier. This selective evolution of major products on doping remained unique and also a step forward for understanding more regarding light to chemical energy conversions using perovskite nanocrystals.


Superionic crystals reach an ionic conductivity comparable to liquid electrolytes following a superionic transition at high temperature. The physical mechanisms that lead to this behaviour remain poorly understood. It has...


MHD turbulence has long been proposed as a mechanism for the heating of coronal loops in the framework of the Parker scenario for coronal heating. So far most of the studies have focused on its dynamical properties without considering its thermodynamical and radiative features, because of the very demanding computational requirements. In this paper we extend this previous research to the compressible regime, including an energy equation, by using HYPERION, a new parallelized, viscoresistive, three‐dimensional compressible MHD code. HYPERION employs a Fourier collocation—finite difference spatial discretization, and uses a third‐order Runge‐Kutta temporal discretization. We show that the implementation of a thermal conduction parallel to the DC magnetic field induces a radiative emission concentrated at the boundaries, with properties similar to the chromosphere—transition region—corona system.


OBJECTIVES
To determine the joint association of junk food consumption (JFC) and screen time (ST) with adiposity in children.

METHODS
Two hundred fourteen (121 girls, 93 boys) third-to-fifth-grade students (54% Hispanic, 35% African American, 8% white) completed a lifestyle behavior survey, which included self-reported JFC and ST, as part of a school-based lifestyle intervention program.

RESULTS
Neither JFC nor ST, independently or jointly, was associated with adiposity measures. JFC and ST were significantly correlated (r = .375).

CONCLUSIONS
The low achievement of physical activity and screen time recommendations and high prevalence of overweight/obesity in this mostly minority, low socioeconomic status population indicates a potential focus for intervention.


New Zealand is currently undergoing an important stage in its evolution as a nation. The dominant cultural influences on New Zealand's population have shifted during the past 200 years from the indigenous Maori culture, to the English colonial empire, to the present modern state. Our contemporary cultural identity is difficult to define; a statement that could easily be applied to New Zealand gardens [1]. Rod Barnett, in A History of the Garden in New Zealand, goes as far as to say that "the New Zealand garden does not exist" as a distinct style. Despite the aforementioned author's assertion that this is "not a conclusion to be disturbed by", I must admit to being disturbed by this. New Zealand's distinctive culture and landscape should be strongly reflected in our gardens as an assertion of our national and regional identities. This article sets out to discuss the manner in which we may explore New Zealand identity in our treatment of gardens and the landscape.


The present paper introduces the main electric applications of superconducting materials, focusing on Superconducting Fault Current Limiters (SFCL). In recent years, short-circuit current values have increased, mainly due to a higher penetration of distributed generation. Fault Current Limiters (FCL) based on superconductor materials can provide one of the most promising solutions for limiting those fault currents. Nowadays, research focuses mainly on resistive SFCLs, because of size, cost and product maturity. Several modelling approaches for resistive type current limiters, as proposed in the literature, are reviewed hereby.


The transition from the weakly interacting BCS regime to the strongly interacting unitary regime is explored for ultracold trapped Fermi gases assuming a normal mode description of the gas instead of the conventional Cooper pairing. The Pauli principle is applied ``on paper'' by using specific normal mode assignments. Energies, entropies, critical temperatures, and an excitation frequency are studied and compared to existing results in the literature. These normal modes have been derived analytically for N identical, confined particles from a first-order L=0 group theoretic solution of a three-dimensional Hamiltonian with a general two-body interaction. In previous studies, normal modes were able to describe the unitary regime obtaining ground state energies comparable to benchmark results and thermodynamics quantities in excellent agreement with experiment. In a recent study, the behavior of the normal mode frequencies was investigated for Hamiltonians with a range of interparticle interaction strengths from BCS to unitarity in the first test of this approach beyond the unitary regime, and a microscopic basis of the large excitation gaps and universal behavior at unitarity was proposed. Based on the success of these earlier studies, the current paper continues to explore the ability of normal modes to describe superfluidity along the BCS to unitarity transition. The results confirm earlier conclusions that the physics of superfluidity can be described using normal modes across a wide range of interparticle interaction strengths and offer an alternative to the two-body pairing models commonly used to describe superfluidity along this transition.


Abstract Steinmetzite, ideally Zn2Fe3+(PO4)2(OH)·3H2O, is a new mineral from the Hagendorf-Süd pegmatite, Hagendorf, Oberpfalz, Bavaria, Germany. Steinmetzite was found in a highly oxidized zone of the Cornelia mine at Hagendorf-Süd. It has formed by alteration of phosphophyllite, involving oxidation of the iron and some replacement of Zn by Fe. Steinmetzite lamellae co-exist with an amorphous Fe-rich phosphate in pseudomorphed phosphophyllite crystals. The lamellae are only a few μm thick and with maximum dimension ~50 μm. The phosphophyllite pseudomorphs have a milky opaque appearance, often with a glazed yellow to orange weathering rind and with lengths ranging from sub-mm to 1 cm. Associated minerals are albite, apatite, chalcophanite, jahnsite, mitridatite, muscovite, quartz and wilhelmgümbelite. Goethite and cryptomelane are also abundant in the oxidized zone. The calculated density is 2.96 g cm-3. Steinmetzite is biaxial (-) with measured refractive indices α = 1.642(2), β = 1.659 (calc.), γ = 1.660(2) (white light). 2V(meas) = 27(1)°; orientation is Y ≈ b, X ^c ≈ 27°, with crystals flattened on {010} and elongated on [001]. Pleochroism shows shades of pale brown; Y > X ≈ Z. Electron microprobe analyses (average of seven crystals) with Fe reported as Fe2O3 and with H2O calculated from the structure gave ZnO 31.1, MnO 1.7, CaO 0.5, Fe2O3 21.9, Al2O3 0.3, P2O5 32.9, H2O 14.1 wt.%, total 102.5%. The empirical formula based on 2 P and 12 O, with all iron as ferric and OH- adjusted for charge balance is Zn1.65Fe3+1.19 Mn2+0.11 Ca0.03Al3+0.02(PO4)2(OH)1.21·2.79H2O. The simplified formula is Zn2Fe3+(PO4)2(OH)·3H2O. Steinmetzite is triclinic, P1̄, with unit-cell parameters: a = 10.438(2), b = 5.102(1), c = 10.546(2) Å, α = 91.37(2), β = 115.93(2) and γ = 94.20(2)°. V = 502.7(3) Å3, Z = 2. The strongest lines in the powder X-ray diffraction pattern are [dobs in Å (I) (hkl)] 9.313(65) (100), 5.077(38) (010), 4.726(47) (002), 4.657(100) (200), 3.365 (55) (3̅02), 3.071(54) (11̄2) and 2.735(48) (3̅1̄2). The structure is related to that of phosphophyllite.


In this paper, we propose a double hierarchical trajectory planning method to solve the multi-UCAV attacking multi targets problem (MUAMT). In the first hierarchy, we model the MUAMT problem as a Dubins group multi-TSP to solve an initial continuous and differential path. Then, we model the trajectory planning problem as an optimal control problem. The GPM and SQP algorithms are used to plan the final trajectory. Simulation experiments have showed that our method is effective to solve the MUAMT problem.


A novel method of direct degradation of cellulose into 5-hydroymethylfurfural (HMF) in hot compressed steam was introduced, with the inorganic acidic salts (NaHSO4, KHSO4, NaH2PO4 and KH2PO4) as catalysts. The water molecules in the steam were absorbed by the catalysts to form an acidic aqueous layer on the surface of the cellulose, where the cellulose was converted into HMF and spread into the gas phase. The relative humidity of steam could influence the reaction route by controlling the acidity of the aqueous layer. Low relative humidity of steam was favoured for the carbonization of cellulose, while high relative humidity was preferred for hydrolysis-dehydration of cellulose to form HMF. A moderate HMF yield of 30.4 mol% was obtained with NaH2PO4 as the catalyst. This novel methodology demonstrated an efficient and green HMF production from cellulose, without organic solvents and toxic transition metal cations.


This research proposes a vibration pattern algorithm to implement the haptic joystick to control a mobile robot at the remote site without watching the navigation environment. When the user cannot watch the navigation environment of the mobile robot, the user may rely on the haptic joystick solely to avoid obstacles and to guide the mobile robot to the target. To generate vibration patterns, there is a vibration motor at the bottom of the joystick which is held by the user to control the motion direction of the mobile robot remotely. When the mobile robot approaches to an obstacle, a pattern of vibration is generated by the motor, and by feeling the vibration pattern which is determined by the relative position of the mobile robot to the obstacle, the user can move the joystick to avoid the collision to the obstacle for the mobile robot. To generate the vibration patterns to convey the relative location of the obstacle near the mobile robot to the user, Fuzzy interferences have been utilized. To measure the distance and location of the obstacle near the mobile robot, ultrasonic sensors with the ring structure have been adopted and they are attached at the front and back sides of the mobile robot. The precise location of the obstacle is obtained by fusing the multiple data from ultrasonic sensors. Effectiveness of the proposed algorithm has been verified through the real experiments and the results are demonstrated.


In linguistics, discourse refers usually to the study of speech patterns and the usage of language etc. To understand the speech patterns one need to be clear about the term 'discourse' and 'text'. Discourse, put simply, is structured collections of meaningful texts (Parker, 1992). A text is a part of the process of discourse. It is the product of any communication by writer/speaker. A text consists of cues for interpretation processes and traces of production processes. As Fairclough (1989) says this process includes in addition to the text the process of production, of which the text is a product, and the process of interpretation, for which the text is a resource. As a resource for the interpreter, the text consists of lexico-grammatical realisations of three kinds of meaning relating to three basic language functions (the ideational, interpersonal and textual functions of systemic linguistics). These lexico-grammatical cues to ideational, interpersonal and textual meanings are interpreted with the help of other resources beyond the text.


Recent guidelines suggest a limited duration of triple antithrombotic therapy (TAT) in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) at elevated bleeding risk. Indeed, in patients who are also at elevated thrombotic risk and with indication to prolonged dual antiplatelet therapy, percutaneous left atrial appendage closure (LAAC) could be a possible safe and effective option to prevent both bleeding and thrombotic events.

 retrospective single–center study enrolling all consecutive patients between September 2012 and February 2020, comparing patients deemed at increased thrombotic and bleeding risk who received LAA percutaneous closure to avoid TAT before or after PCI with patients who received TAT after PCI. The aim of the study was to establish the safety and efficacy of LAAC in comparison to TAT.

 A total of 168 patients were included in the study: 56 underwent percutaneous LAAC while 112 were discharged in TAT. Median age was 75 (69–79). TAT patients had a CHA2DS2–VASc score of 4 (3–5) and a mean HAS–BLED score of 3 (2–3), whereas in LAAC patients the mean CHA2DS2–VASc was 4.9 (±1.5) and the mean HAS–BLED was 3.9 (±0.9); the difference in Score Points was statistically significant (p=0.001). The population who underwent LAAC was characterized by a remarkable procedural PCI complexity with a mean DAPT score of 1.4 (±1.3), with respect to the population discharged in TAT which was 0 (0–2). At follow–up (mean follow–up period in days: 727 [489–1000]), four bleeding episodes were recorded in LAAC population in comparison to 16 bleeding episodes observed in TAT population (12.6% vs. 15.4%; p–value=0.142): two bleeding episodes were major in LAAC group and five in TAT group (3.6% vs. 4.8%; p–value=1). One case of stroke (1.8%) occurred in LAAC population and two cases (1.8%) in TAT population (p=1.000).

 In a single–centre retrospective study no significant difference was observed in terms of bleeding between TAT and LAAC, in patients at high ischemic and thrombotic risk with indication to prolonged dual antiplatelet therapy after PCI and anticoagulation for AF. Nevertheless, the non statistical trend to reduction of bleeding events in LAAC group might be explored in a larger study population.


In this paper, a nonvolatile switch based on n-type floating-gate transistors is described. The switch states are programmed through the memory cell floating-gate voltage, allowing higher levels than the application supply. Furthermore, due to its nonvolatile nature, the power consumption is reduced. The on-state resistance, which does not depend on the supply voltage, is one of the greatest advantages of this type of switch in comparison to conventional switches. This benefit can be successfully exploited in low-voltage applications. The switch on-resistance can be increased without the need for increasing the switch area. The characteristics of the proposed switch were confirmed by the experimental results obtained on a test chip fabricated in a 0.18 µm EEPROM process. Measured on-resistance values between 45 and 70 Ω were obtained for a floating-gate voltage of 6.2 V and input source levels below 2 V. The required programming voltage was 18 V. The maximum off-state leakage current was measured at 5 nA.


Phanaeini are by far the dung beetle tribe with the most understood systematics in the NewWorld. For the past three decades, a series of papers has been published addressing the taxonomy of most of its now recognized 11 genera (see list in Cupello and Vaz-de-Mello 2013), and the last of those was Génier and Arnaud's (2016) revision of the highly enigmatic genus Dendropaemon Perty, 1830. Although rich in species (41 recognized by Génier and Arnaud 2016, 18 of them as new), representatives of the genus are very rare in collections compared to other phanaeine groups. This fact is likely related to the putative unusual biology of at least some Dendropaemon species, which are thought to be ant-nest inquilines (Vaz-de-Mello and Génier 2009; Génier and Arnaud 2016). As a direct consequence of the rarity of the genus in collections,Dendropaemon taxonomy was largely neglected for the most part of the 20 century after Blut's (1939) revision of the genus. One exception was Edmonds' (1972) review of the phanaeine supraspecific classification, where Dendropaemon was divided into three subgenera: Dendropaemon s. str., Paradendropaemon Edmonds, 1972, and Coprophanaeoides Edmonds, 1972, the former including three species-groups. Forty-four years later, that number would quadruple. In addition to those three subgenera, Génier and Arnaud (2016) recognized nine others: their new taxa Glaphyropaemon Génier and Arnaud,NigropaemonGénier and Arnaud, Rutilopaemon Génier and Arnaud, Streblopaemon Génier and Arnaud, Sulcopaemon Génier and Arnaud, and Titthopaemon Génier and Arnaud, as well as Eurypodea Klages, 1906 (until then considered a valid monospecific genus under the name Tetramereia Klages, 1907, which is now considered a junior synonym of Eurypodea), Enicotarsus Laporte, 1831, and Onthoecus Lacordaire, 1856, the latter two names previously regarded as available junior synonyms of Dendropaemon. As reported in their work, Génier and Arnaud (2016) came across a significant number of nomenclatural problems involving those genus-group names and, for most of them, their treatment of those issues has proven adequate. However, while working on a catalogue of the dung beetles of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, the first author (MC) encountered a nomenclatural issue related to the availability of the subgenus name Onthoecus, which is addressed below. The nameOnthoecus first appeared in the second edition of Dejean's catalogue of his beetle collection. On page 140, Dejean (1833) listed "Onthoecus Dejean" to include two unpublished species names, "Amyntas Dej." and "Depressus Dupont," both from unspecified localities in Brazil ("Brasilia"). On page 156 in the catalogue's third edition, Dejean (1836) included a third unpublished species name, "Æneipennis Buquet", from "Brasilia", and listed "Telephus Lacordaire" from Cayenne as a synonym of "Depressus". As previously noted by Bousquet and Bouchard (2013), no available species names


Precision and personalized medicine intrinsically depends reported, but as new technologies and applications on the monitoring of biomarkers, and other physiologically relevant substances, that could shed light into the state of health of an individual. Wearable electronic devices are becomingmore andmore prevalent and a critical tool for realtime, continuous monitoring of body fluids containing biomarkers. For example, a recent study has shown that, specifically, eccrine gland sweat could provide metabolic information not previously thought possible. Therefore, measuring body fluids in real-time is highly valuable to monitor the health of a person. To this end, flexible thin-film electrodes deposited on polyester porous membranes are realized by using conventional photolithography. These flexible, gold electrodes show higher conductivities than their counter part on rigid substrates and demonstrated high conductivities when bent and twisted, demonstrating their potential use in the future as a component in wearable sensors for precision and personalized medicine applications and healthcare in general. Latest advances in microand nanotechnology have made possible the proliferation of flexible electronic materials. Wearable sensors, foldable displays, flexible solar cells, and flexible electronic fibers are some of the major areas where flexible electronic technologies are of great interest. Flexible electronic devices must maintain their electrical andmechanical integritywhen bent, twisted, folded, stretched, compressed, or deformed in any other way in order to demonstrate suitable performance. It is known that electrical properties of thin films are influenced significantly by changes in mechanical loading conditions. Properties of thin films formed on flexible substrates have been


A superhydrophobic aluminum alloy surface was successfully prepared viaa one-step immersion method in stearic acid-alcohol-water solution.The contact angle can reach 156.2°while the sliding angle is less than 5°.The wettability,surface microstructure and chemical structure,anti-icing,and anti-adhesion behavior were investigated by means of contact angle measurement,SEM,FT-IR,freezing and anti-adhesion experiments,respectively.Results indicate that the micro-and nano-scale porous structure together with the grafted hydrophobic alkyl long chains endows the aluminum alloy surface with the superhydrophobic property.Just grounded on the peculiar rough structure and chemical composition,the resulting superhydrophobic aluminum alloy surface possesses excellent anti-icing and anti-adhesion behavior.


Evapotranspiration (ET) is a key parameter in climatological and hydrological models. Moreover, the knowledge of ET at a local scale in agricultural areas may improve the irrigation practices. An operative method using remote sensing techniques would provide spatial and temporal continuous ET data. However, there are limitations in remote sensing data, especially due to the spatial and temporal resolution of the images. For agricultural practices, high spatial and temporal resolution is desired, but nowadays no sensor offers both. The Sentinel-2 sensor has a 5-day revisit cycle and 10-30 m spatial resolution in the visible and near infrared (VNIR) bands. However, no thermal band (TIR) is available, which is the key input in the models for ET estimation based on the surface energy balance. A simple disaggregation procedure is applied in this work to MODIS-Spot images to derive TIR data at 10 m spatial resolution. The disaggregated temperatures are further used as inputs in the STSEB approach (Simplified Two Source Energy Balance) to estimate surface energy fluxes. Ground data in a vineyard and a grass field were used for validation. Average errors of 6%, 21% and 20% were obtained for net radiation, sensible heat flux and evapotranspiration, respectively.


The nonlocal microplane model for concrete is improved to describe unloading, reloading, cyclic loading, and the rate effect. The differences compared to the previous formulation are: (1) Normal strain component on the microplane is not split into its volumetric and deviatoric parts—rather the normal component is made dependent on the lateral normal strains on the microplane; and (2) instead of considering on each microplane only one shear strain vector parallel to the shear stress vector, the shear strain is represented by two independent components on the microplane. To introduce rate effect, the stress-strain law for each microplane component is described by a generalized Maxwell model—a series coupling of a linear viscous element and an elastoplastic-fracturing element. Nonlinear unloading-reloading hysteresis rules with back- and objective-stresses are developed to introduce hysteresis. The model is then combined with nonlocal theory to enable describing localization phenomena and avoid spurious mesh sensitivity due to strain softening. The numerical implementation in finite-element programs is described. The study consists of two parts; part I deals with the general formulation and part II deals with experimental verification.


The temperature and pH dependent solubility of poly(γ-propargyl L-glutamate) (PPLG) functionalized through copper catalyzed 1,3 cycloaddition reaction between an alkyne and azide can be tuned with precision over a broad range of conditions by varying the ratio of substitution of short oligo ethylene glycol and diisopropylamine side groups.


Existing research on diffusion of information technology in firms focuses on the factors that effect the diffusion with little study of diffusion itself. Most of the diffusion research also focuses on hardware diffusion and fails to consider the inter-related area of software diffusion. Consequently, robust measures of the software diffusion construct have not been developed. This paper addresses these omissions by developing a scale for the measurement of software diffusion. Software diffusion is the degree of dispersion of software throughout the firm. The questionnaire used incorporated features designed to increase the validity and reliability of the responses while also maximising the response rate. The resultant 3-item scale satisfies the critical validity and reliability benchmarks normally associated with these types of scales. The scale incorporates both the adoption and implementation aspects of diffusion.


This paper analyses the self-igniting phenomena and poisonous gas leakage in Wajinwan Coal Mine, Datong Coal Group and discusses the necessity of reforming ventilation system.Through reforming ventilation system in fire area, the capacity in disaster prevention of coal mine has improved to ensure the mine excavation disposal is proceeding orderly.


Introduction The core refers to the lumbo-pelvic complex located at the center of gravity of the body.Core stability has a crucial role in sudden balance change and body movements(Zemkova et al. Front. Physiol 2022; 13).The more stabilized core muscles indicate better movements and body balance.Therefore, core stability is related with exercise performance, falling risk and falling fear.However, patients with schizophrenia have lower motivation and capability to exercise compared to normal population that may result decrease in core stability. Objectives The aim of this study is to determine the relation between core stability,functional exercise capacity and negative symptoms including especially anhedonia, motivation, psychosocial functioning in schizophrenia patients.As our knowledge,this is the first study to detect the core stability in schizophrenia. Methods Participants of the study were recruited from the Community Mental Health Service of Çigli Education and Research Hospital. Twenty-six individuals diagnosed as schizophrenia according to DSM-V criteria were included into the study.Symptom severity was evaluated with Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale(PANSS), psychosocial functioning was assessed with Personal and Social Performance Scale(PSP),depression was assessed using Calgary Depression Scale for Schizophrenia(CDSS),avoidance motivation assessed with Behavioral Inhibition System and Behavioral Activation System (BIS/BAS),social and physical pleasure were measured via Revised Social Anhedonia Scale (RSAS) and Revised Physical Anhedonia Scale Functional (RPAS) exercise capacity was assessed by 6-minute walking test(6MWT) and core stability was assessed using Mcgill Core Endurance Tests(MCET).Patients who exercise regularly, having metabolic diseases or comorbid psychiatric disorder were excluded from the study.The data was analyzed by IBM SPSS 24 with Pearson correlation test. Results MCET scores were found to be moderately correlated to PSP scores (r=.45,p=.025) and BIS sensitivity was moderately correlated to psychosocial functioning (r=-.42,p=.035).Six-MWT scores were negatively correlated with BIS (r=-.51, p=.019),CSDC (r=-.47, p=.035) and PANSS negative subscale (r=-.42, p=.042). Conclusions In this study core stability was found to be related to psychosocial functioning.Also,patients having negative symptoms and depression showed lower functional exercise capacity.Lower scores in social functioning and higher behavioral inhibition sensitivity may be related to psychosocial dysfunctioning and negative symptoms of schizophrenia.However, appropriate core stability training and physical exercise may help individuals with schizophrenia to improve these skills.This may lead patients to exercise,have better social performance,self-care and lower avoidance behavior. Disclosure of Interest E. I. Hoşgelen: None Declared, N. Bozbıyık: None Declared, Ö. Akgül: None Declared, F. Şimşek: None Declared, N. Gelecek: None Declared, K. Alptekin Grant / Research support from: TUBITAK, Consultant of: Abdi Ibrahim, Abdi İbrahim Otsuka, Janssen, Ali Raif


TThe purpose of this study is to identify the techniques that lecturers use in assessing a conversation. Then to discover how the English lecturer makes conversation judgments using pragmatic techniques. several video conversations were selected as data in this study. The data obtained from the results observed a video on gossip tv shows and then in transcript and reported descriptive. The results of this study showed in a tv show there are several violations of maxim according to pragmatic techniques. From start violation of maxim quantity, quality, manner and relation. sources taken from a video on a tv show that talks about gossip and internet.Keywords: Floting, Maxim, Video on Gossip TV Show


This paper suggests that firms that successfully integrate an information technology (I/T) strategy with their business strategies do so by focusing on the information itself, rather than on technology, as the real carrier of value and source of competitive advantage. A primary mechanism by which a firm becomes an information-intensive firm is the implementation of a procedure for measuring the value of its information assets V(I). This paper presents a methodology for measuring the value of information in the firm. This paper describes the application of that methodology in an actual case study and discusses some consequences of being able to compare organizations with respect to their relative levels of information intensity.


We propose Spindt-type field emitter array fabrication process using the high power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) deposition. HiPIMS method can get a lot of ionized sputtering particles due to high plasma density. We think that highly collimated film deposition may be realized by combining the potential control of the sputtering target and HiPIMS method. We tried that molybdenum deposition in a gatehole structure using potential-controlled HiPIMS method. And, we demonstrated that the possibility of the FEA fabrication process using this method.


This study used online responses, observation fieldnotes, and interviews to analyze eight student teachers' learning through text-based protocols on news analysis during their practicum, a core component for beginning teachers' competence construction, in a language teacher education program in the northwest of Taiwan. This study revealed that student teachers regarded the text-based protocols as useful pedagogical tools, particularly offering a clear focus on reading and analyzing the news. Through face-to-face and Facebook discussions on 33 news reports, student teachers became familiar with the latest policies and trends on English education, constructed their pedagogical competence in English instructional strategies, and examined the gap between policies and practice on the co-teaching model. Suggestions on effective implementation of the text-based protocols on discussing education news are provided in terms of preparation of a variety of news or issues, selection of the appropriate text-based protocols, and integration of theories on news analysis and discussions.


The invention discloses a power-driven conversion operation mechanism available for three power supplies. The power-driven conversion operation mechanism comprises a left side plate, a right side plate, three fixed plates, a first working plate, a second working plate and a third working plate, wherein the three fixed plates are arranged between the left side plate and the right side plate and are in parallel to one another, the first working plate, the second working plate and the third working plate are sequentially arranged above each fixed plate from bottom to top and are parallel to the fixed plates, one side of the right side plate is provided with a rotation assembly, a driving assembly is arranged on each of the first working plate, the second working plate and the third working plate, and the driving assemblies on the first working plate, the second working plate and the third working plate are respectively engaged with the rotation assembly and act under the driving of the rotation assembly. The power-driven conversion operation mechanism has the advantages of simple structure and convenience in driving.


This thesis consists of four self-contained chapters. The first chapter, Are Parents Uninformed? – The Impact of School Performance Information on School Choice Behavior and Student Assignment, is ...


The invention discloses a video time-space super-resolution reconstruction method based on a robust optical flow and Zernike invariant moment. The method comprises the following steps: performing motion analysis on a video sequence in a time-space domain, constructing a robust optical flow motion estimation model of the video sequence, and obtaining a motion vector; according to the motion vector, performing bidirectional time-space motion compensation on the video sequence to obtain a compensated video sequence; and by use of a cross-scale fusion strategy of a Zernike invariant moment based rapid non-local fuzzy registering mechanism, performing time-space super-resolution reconstruction on the compensated video sequence to obtain a video sequence with high time-space resolution. According to the invention, the method is not dependent on accurate sub-pixel motion estimation, can be applied to various complex motion modes, such as angle rotation, local motion and the like, can provide clear and smooth video information for accurate identification and tracking of a motion object, and has a quite high actual application value.


Efficient indexing is at the heart of many data mining algorithms. A simple and extremely effective algorithm for indexing under any metric space was introduced in 1991 by Orchard. Orchard's algorithm has not received much attention in the data mining and database community because of a fatal flaw; it requires quadratic space. In this work we show that we can produce a reduced version of Orchard's algorithm that requires much less space, but produces nearly identical speedup. We achieve this by casting the algorithm in an anyspace framework, allowing deployed applications to take as much of an index as their main memory/sensor can afford. As we shall demonstrate, this ability to create an anyspace algorithm also allows us to create auto-cannibalistic algorithms. Auto-cannibalistic algorithms are algorithms which initially require a certain amount of space to index or classify data, but if unexpected circumstances require them to store additional information, they can dynamically delete parts of themselves to make room for the new data. We demonstrate the utility of autocannibalistic algorithms in a fielded project on insect monitoring with low power sensors, and a simple autonomous robot application.


conferred significantly (P3 0·001) more salt protection than SIR—In the paper entitled 'Sensitivity of Escherichia coli to the control (no betaine) and trigonelline, a mildly antibacterial proline analogues during osmotic stress and anaerobiosis' betaine in the presence of urea (×300 mmol l; unpublished Reese et al. (1996) reported that bacterial cultures were much data), conferred significantly (P3 0·01) less salt protection more sensitive to the proline analogues, L-azetidine-2-carthan glycine betaine. boxylate and L-thiazolidine-4-carboxylate during osmotic The paper of Reese et al. (1996) emphasizes the importance stress under aerobic conditions, than during anaerobiosis. of relating experimental models to physiological conditions. They questioned the potential use of toxic analogues of proWe used E. coli as a model system to evaluate a range of line or glycine betaine in treating urinary tract infections betaines for their ability to protect cells against stresses caused since the oxygen concentration in the urinary tract is low by salt and urea, which are common constituents of human and previous work has focused on using aerobically grown urine, and observed that aeration efficiency alters betaine cultures. We agree with Reese et al. (1996) that aeration accumulation (Randall et al. 1995, 1996). Despite this, large efficiency is an important factor, as we noted (Randall et amounts of betaine are accumulated by bacteria under anaeral. 1995). However, they presented no data to support the obic conditions in hypertonic solutions. Therefore the design contention that glycine betaine or betaine analogues are not of antimicrobial betaines is a promising strategy for treatment accumulated or could not be effective under anaerobic conof urinary tract infections. ditions. As Reese et al. (1996) acknowledge, proline analogues


Background Several articles have been published reporting on the clinical performance of a novel pegged, all-polyethylene glenoid component design which features a central peg, circumferentially fluted, interference-fit peg for tissue integration and three small peripheral pegs for cementing. However, no systematic review exists to this date. Methods The US National Library of Medicine (PubMed/MEDLINE), EMBASE, and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews were queried for publications up to May 2020. Results Overall, 13 articles were included for analysis (560 operated shoulders, range of mean follow-up: 2–6 years). The survival rate was 98.2% (550 out of 560 cases), while the rate of aseptic loosening was 0.2% (1 out of 560 cases). There were 139 cases (out of 399 reported; 34.1%) with peri-glenoid radiolucency, and 35 cases (out of 223 reported; 15.7%) of asymptomatic central peg osteolysis, with 1 of them undergoing revision. Conclusions There was fair quality of evidence to show that partially cemented all-polyethylene pegged bone-ingrowth glenoid components produce promising results, with a low revision rate in the short- to medium-term follow-up. Nevertheless, this analysis showed high rates of both radiolucency of the glenoid component and osteolysis around the central peg which raise concern for potential failure of this glenoid component in the long-term follow-up. Level of evidence Systematic review, IV.


PurposeThis study aims to detect the dimensions of the in-store customer shopping experience from the sports retailer perspective and to investigate how the role of sports equipment stores is changing.Design/methodology/approachThis exploratory study performs semi-structured interviews with retail managers of sports equipment stores.FindingsThis research reveals the importance of the dimensions of immersive design, sensorial ambient elements, social relationships, trialability and real experience sharing in designing a memorable in-store shopping experience in sports stores, and it highlights that the store's role in the sports context is transitioning from sales space to an interactive, immersive, engaging and convivial place. It proposes a model to design the in-store customer shopping experience effectively.Practical implicationsSports equipment managers can make their physical stores as experiential as possible by investing in expert, passionate personnel and technology in order to create a real in-store experience of the product and the sports practice.Originality/valueWhile sports equipment retailers acknowledge the importance of providing customers with a memorable shopping experience by creating an evocative environment and placing multiple touchpoints in stores, management scholars have paid limited attention to sports stores. This study explores the ways in which sports retail managers can design their stores effectively in experiential terms.


Ground water is used extensively for agriculture along the South Platte River in the study area, which is about 10 miles east of Greeley and about 50 miles northeast of Denver, Colorado. Significant changes in the reuse of water may result from use and reuse of water from the stream-aquifer system for irrigated crops, extensive use of crops and poultry farms. To help water users and managers better understand the effects of land use on ground-water resources, this report presents data on nitrite plus nitrate, sulfate, chloride, and manganese concentrations, which are good indicators of the water quality, and a brief description of the geology and hydrology of the study area.


Intracrystalline adsorption of ammonia and pyridine in V2O5·1.5 H2O xerogel, takes place spontaneously with protonation of the bases. Although partial Vv→ VIV transformation in the host lattice has been detected by electron spin resonance spectroscopy, infrared studies show that the intercalation process is due mainly to a proton-transfer reaction involving interlayer water molecules, which denotes the Bronsted-acidic character of the xerogel. Considerations of the symmetry and orientation of the interlamellar species are also reported.


Visible light photometric observations of a small sample of sunlike stars with mean chromospheric activity levels similar to or slightly lower than the Sun's suggest that total solar irradiance variations on activity cycle timescales may be comparatively small (Lockwood et al. 1992, Nature 360, 653; Radick et al. 1998, ApJS 118, 239). The Sun's irradiance variation over the past two cycles is 0.04% rms compared with 0.1% rms for the stellar sample measured at Lowell from 1984 to 1995. This assertion can now be tested using new photometric measurements from Fairborn Observatory automated telescopes (1993-2001) that extend the duration of stellar observations to 17 years. Chromospheric activity measurements for these stars come from the Mount Wilson HK program (1966-2001) and the Lowell Observatory Solar Stellar Spectrograph program (1993-2001). In this presentation we will describe efforts to merge the overlapping Lowell and Fairborn photometry and the Mt. Wilson and Lowell HK measurements with the goal of reducing the uncertainties in previous efforts to characterize stellar photometric variations near the limit of detection.


Medium resolution images (WSW, APM and IMM) are analyzed since December 2008, and are prepared using the processing chains from BEST (Basic Envisat SAR Toolbox). The process includes the transformation of DN into power values, geometric and radiometric correction, image filtering and computation of the backscattering coefficient for each pixel. Thereafter, the imagery is analyzed in image analysis software for the classification of backscattering. A multitemporal imagery analysis is conducted in order to set a threshold on the differential backscatter between scenes under wet snow and snow free-conditions. These algorithms allow for the study of snow surface wetness and snow water equivalent.


Sensors attached to an asset acquiring vibration patterns during both operational and failure states have been used to diagnose fault conditions and to predict future failures of the components being monitored. In this research, we investigate Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, a type of Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), for failure diagnosis and remaining useful life (RUL) prognosis of such deteriorating components. LSTM networks' long-term dependency capability, which allows LSTM's to recall information for long term sequence lengths, can also be used to predict the probability of failure within a specified time frame. In this paper, we develop and apply a stylized LSTM model to a motor degradation dataset for the purposes of diagnosing failure and predicting the probability of failure within a specified time frame, as well as predicting RUL. We developed the dataset by acquiring automated sensor measurements from an induction motor attached to a destructive test platform. The performance of the LSTM model on the developed dataset is compared to that of the Random Forest (RF) algorithm as RF is reputably known for classification and regression. The results demonstrate that the LSTM provides quality predictions of motor failure, failure probability and RUL on the developed dataset. When compared to the RF approach, the LSTM performs comparably well in failure classification and outperforms the RF in RUL prediction.


Some wheat cultivars show a linear relationship between grain protein concentration (GPC) and baking volume, but others display a saturation curve. Such a saturation curve could be general, but in some cultivars it might only appear at GPC > 17%. However, such GPC is mostly not achieved in the field. Pot experiments with high nitrogen application reliably result in GPC > 17%. In a pot experiment with a high (N1) and an excessive N level (N2) and four cultivars (Akteur, Arnold, Discus and Hystar), the change in grain protein composition and the relationship between different protein fractions and baking volume at GPC > 17% was investigated. GPC ranged from 17 to 24% and mean nitrogen content per grain from 1.2 to 1.8 mg. The N2 treatment increased GPC and mean nitrogen content per grain in the Akteur and Discus cultivar, but not in Arnold and Hystar. N2 increased concentration of gliadin by 10 to 34% and glutenin macropolymer (GMP) in all cultivars by 12 to 73%. Glutenin concentration was increased by N2 in Akteur and Discus (19 to 36%), but was decreased by N2 in the Arnold and Hystar cultivar. Baking volume was moderately increased by N2 in all cultivars by 6 to 9% and correlated significantly with most glutenin fractions in the Akteur and Discus cultivar, with GMP in Arnold and with HMW-GS to LMW-GS ratio in Hystar. Thus, specific effects on grain protein by N2 were responsible for the increased baking volume in each cultivar. However, as gliadin and its sub-fractions hardly correlated with baking volume, a positive effect of increasing gliadin proteins on baking quality was not obvious.


Are diasporas created by states or are they states of mind? What roles do contemporary concepts of ethnicity and nation play? What peoples most clearly represent issues raised by the concept of diaspora? Such questions have been posed with increasing urgency throughout the world, including in the states carved out of the former Soviet Union. As postsocialist, transnational, and national processes of group formation coincide and sometimes collide, diaspora identities can form, intensify, or dissipate.1


versus Episodic Representations In accordance with the instance theory of memory (Logan, 1988), the present work assumes that each encounter with a stimulus is encoded and stored as a separate instance. Intention is instrumental in the formation of instances because intention as goal-orientedness requires attention. And attention has been suggested to be a sufficient condition for binding co-occurring elements into instances (Logan & Etherton, 1994). Building on previous studies on repetition priming (Franks et al., 2000; Thompson-Schill & Gabrieli, 1999; Vriezen et al., 1995; Xiong et al., 2003), recognition (Bransford et al., 1979; Morris et al., 1977), and recall (Tulving, 1979; Tulving & Thomson, 1973), the present work inferred that intention is an inherent part of memory instance, and theorized that stimulus representation should include a collection of intention-specific instances.


Van Praagh, B.D., and Hinkley, S.D. 2002. Further studies on the Giant Gippsland Earthworm (Megascolides australis) population at Loch Hill, South Gippsland, Victoria. Museum Victoria Science Reports 5: 1–12. As part of ongoing investigations into the Giant Gippsland Earthworm population at Loch Hill, a site occurring within the vicinity of proposed roadworks for the South Gippsland Highway, further investigations into earthworm density and population structure were conducted over a four month period from February to June 2002. Preliminary investigations into release methods for worms and possible release sites for translocation near Loch Hill were also made.


Quantitative assessment of the hydrological response to urbanization has been a major concern in hydrology and water resources management. In this study, a procedure combining different statistical methods and a hydrological model to quantify annual runoff response to spatial and temporal variations of impervious surface areas was proposed and applied to the Qinhuai River basin, an urbanized basin located in southeastern China, over the period from 1986 to 2013. The landscape indicators, such as impervious area and number of impervious patches were used to measure the spatial configuration of urbanization and quantify the runoff response to urbanization. Impervious area data were derived from the Landsat images using superior ensemble learning method of rotation forest. The Mann–Kendall test, Sen's estimator, Pettitt test and double mass curve method were applied to examine gradual trend and abrupt changes for hydro-meteorological data series. A hydrological model based on stepwise regression analysis was built and used to explore the relation among annual runoff and precipitation, potential evapotranspiration and landscape indicators. The results showed that annual runoff and runoff coefficient had significant increasing trends and an abrupt change after year 2001 when the watershed impervious area reached 8.6%. The average annual runoff increased by 60%, of which, urbanization was responsible for 59% of the increase, while precipitation changes were responsible for the remaining 1% in the study region. The annual runoff response to impervious area showed a nonlinear relationship, and was more sensitive in dry years than wet years. The changes of impervious area were more remarkable in connecting the existed impervious patches than in developing the new ones beginning in the early 2000s, which increased the watershed's drainage capacity and resulted in the abrupt change of runoff response. The study demonstrated that the proposed procedure was efficient to quantify the runoff responses to urbanization using landscape metrics of


SUMMARY The influence of D- and &triiodothyronine (DT, and LT3) and propylthiouracil (PTU) on turnover rate and pool size of bile acids in rats on a normal diet has been investigated. No significant difference was observed between half-lives of bile acids in normal, thyroid hormone-treated, or PTU-treated rats. All thyroid hormone-treated rats, however, had a chenodeoxycholic acid (CDC) pool that was 2-3 times greater (means ranging between 6.9 and 10.2 mg) than that of normal rats (mean 3.2 mg). The mean size of the cholic acid (C) pool in DTS-treated (13.5 mg) and LT1-treated (16.6 and 13.5 mg) rats was similar to that of normal rats (12.5 mg), which means that the total bile acid pool (C + CDC) tended to be increased. The size of the total bile acid pool in the PTU-treated rats (mean 16.3 mg) was very similar to that of untreated rats (mean 15.7 mg). When daily production of bile acids (C + CDC) was calculated from the values of turnover rate and pool size, it was found that normal rats had an average synthesis of 4.9 mg bile acids per day, while the production for the LT3- and DT3-treated rats averaged about 8.0 mg/day. This tendency towards increased total bile acid production in the thyroid hormone-treated rats was mainly due to a 2- to 3-fold increase in the daily synthesis of CDC. The PTU-treated rats, on the other hand, had a mean daily bile acid synthesis of 4.7 mg, which is very similar to that found in normal rats.


Cellular protein synthesis changes rapidly in response to internal and external cues in ways that vary from cell to cell. Global proteomic analyses of microbial communities, tissues, and organisms have provided important insights into the behavior of such systems, but can obscure the diversity of responses characteristic of different cellular subpopulations. Recent advances in cell-specific proteomics—fueled in part by the development of bioorthogonal chemistries, more sensitive mass spectrometers and more advanced mining algorithms—have yielded unprecedented glimpses into how proteins are expressed in space and time. Whereas previous cell-specific proteomic analyses were confined to abundant cells in relatively simple systems, recent advances in chemoproteomics allow researchers to map the protein expression patterns of even rare cells in complex tissues and whole organisms. Chapter 1 highlights recently developed strategies for cell-selective proteomics, including metabolic labeling strategies such as bioorthogonal noncanonical amino acid tagging (BONCAT). Bioorthogonal noncanonical amino acid tagging (BONCAT) is a chemoproteomic technique that enables temporal labeling of proteins. In cell-selective BONCAT, expressing a mutant aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase under the control of cell-specific genetic elements affords cellular resolution; only cells of interest can selectively incorporate a noncanonical amino acid into proteins for subsequent detection and identification. Chapter 2 details protocols to set up a cell-selective BONCAT system. While BONCAT had previously been applied to studies of microbial pathogenesis in tissue culture-based models of infection, we sought to further develop the method to identify the proteome of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) within a mouse model of infection, as detailed in Chapter 3. We used this technique to enrich for staphylococcal proteins made within the host and in addition to finding many factors known to be important for infection, we also found many that had not previously been associated with infection. Screening several of these previously unknown factors in vivo led to the discovery of a novel protein important for MRSA infection. This unbiased approach to cell-selectively label pathogenic proteins during infection could be used as a global discovery tool for novel anti-infective strategies. In Chapter 4, we combine this cell-selective BONCAT strategy with microbial identification after passive clarity technique (MiPACT) to visualize both staphylococcal protein synthesis and ribosomal RNA within whole skin abscesses during infection. In Chapter 5, we continue developing cell-selective BONCAT to study microbial protein synthesis in the context of a living mouse by extending the system to Bacteroides fragilis, a common human gut commensal. Finally, cell-selective BONCAT is wholly dependent on the bioorthogonal nature of the azide and its detection reagents. Fishing out an azide-tagged molecule from the rest of the cellular milieu requires optimization of enrichment-based strategies. In Chapter 6, we describe the development of a peptide to quantitate the gain of our enrichments. While innovations in mass spectrometry and computational algorithms have facilitated the identification and quantification of thousands of proteins simultaneously from complex samples, this abundance of data does not necessarily lead to biological insight. Cell-specific proteomic techniques will play a key role in the identification of the mechanisms that govern cell specialization and that allow organisms to respond to changing environments. Overall, this work demonstrates the power of cell-selective chemoproteomics to ascertain biological insights in complex systems.


【Objective】 To prepare the human thioredoxin (hTrx) gene-modified hepatocytes. 【Methods】 hTrx cDNA was amplified by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR),recombinant retrovirus was applied to primary cultured rat hepatocyte for infection to generate hTrx gene-modified rat hepatocytes,whose viability and antioxidative capacity were examined with albumin-immunohistochemical staining and MTT assay,respectively. 【Results】 The hTrx open reading frames cDNA was cloned and assembled with recombinant retrovirus,then eukaryotic cells infected by this virus were capable of expressing bioactive hTrx in the form of fusion proteins. Immunohistochemistry demonstrated normal function of the hTrx gene-modified hepatocytes,which possessed strong antioxidative capacity as shown by MTT assay and could be proliferated effectively. 【Conclusion】 The hTrx gene-modified hepatocyte with more stronger antioxidative capacity is prepared.


A new partially destructive test (PDT) method called local compression test method (LCTM) is proposed to estimate the in situ compressive strength of masonry mortar. In this method, the mortar pieces are taken out from horizontal masonry mortar joints and compressed mutually by means of two flat head round bars, the compressive force crushing the mortar piece is measured. The compressive test for the mortar pieces can be interpreted as the compressive strength test for the radially constrained mortar cylinder. The correction coefficient formula is first established through the tests for the local compressive strength of mortar pieces in the standard thickness (10 mm) and other thickness. The empirical correlation relationships between the local compressive strength of mortar pieces and the compressive strength of mortar cubes are presented for the masonry mortar with compressive strength ranging from M2.5 to M15.0. A good correlation between the cube compressive and local compressive strength has been found. The in situ verification tests are undertaken on a number of mortar structures to determine the accuracy of the LCTM. The experimental and analytical results show that this method is accurate and applicable to in situ tests of the masonry mortar compressive strength.


The aim of one day building an operational quantum computer, which follows naturally from the exciting recent theoretical advances in this field, places exceptionally severe demands on device fabrication. Nanotechnology-the exploitation of nanometre-scale structures-may provide a toolbox which allows such a goal to be realised. Nanotechnology also has the potential to contribute to many other technological areas, such as biosensing, catalysis and display technology, where the lead times may be much shorter. Certainly, chip fabrication is expected to enter the world of sub-100nm feature sizes in the very near future. This talk reviews, with the help of several examples, the level of control which we are now able to exercise over nanometre-scale structures. (3 pages)


Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon. By Michael Engelhard. University of Washington Press, 2016. 304 pages, 170 illustrations, 145 in color, 1 map.


A novel controlled-release naphthalene-based superplasticizer with features of lower flowability loss of cement pastes was synthesized by intercalating naphthalene-based superplasticizer molecules into the galleries of layered double hydroxide–like host materials (MgAl–LDHs) by calcine-recovering method, which was prepared by co-precipitation techniques (urea method). The resulting materials were characterized by X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and thermogravimetry–synchronization differential thermal analysis. The effect of calcining temperature on the intercalation efficiency of naphtha-lene-based superplasticizer molecules was investigated, and then the flowability of cement paste blended with superplasticizer varying with time was analyzed. The results indicate that the magnesium aluminum layered double oxide (MgAl–LDO) which was obtained by calcining MgAl–LDHs at 500 ℃ can be recovered. The primary XRD peak of MgAl–LDHs intercalated by naphthalene-based superplasticizer molecule shifts towards a low angle value and the interlayer spaces expand from 0.76 to 1.03 nm, which can be attributed to the insertion of organic naphthalene-based superplasticizer molecules into the interlayer space of the host materials. The FTIR spectroscopy of controlled release naphthalene-based superplasticizer shows the new absorption peaks at 1 035.6 and 1 123.1 cm–1, in which indicates the presence of SO3– within the galleries of the host materials, and the absorption peak of nitrate anions weakened obviously. Compared to the control mix, the controlled release naphthalene-based superplasticizer molecules have a prominent effect on reducing the loss of flowability of cement pastes.


Physicalism entails that a possible world which is a minimal physical duplicate of the actual world be a duplicate simpliciter of the actual world. Because what I really am is not a particular human being, there exists a minimal physical duplicate of the actual world which is not a duplicate simpliciter of the actual world. Therefore, physicalism is false.


Purpose: To determine if there is a biologic rationale for using checkpoint inhibitor drugs targeting programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) and PD-L2 in the treatment of adenoid cystic carcinoma of the orbit. Methods: Twenty-three cases of adenoid cystic carcinoma involving the orbit (13 primary lacrimal gland, 5 secondarily extending into the orbit, and 5 unspecified) were examined histopathologically. Immunohistochemistry for PD-L1, PD-L2, and CD8 was performed. Charts were reviewed for clinical correlations. Results: Expression of PD-L1 and of PD-L2 was overall low in adenoid cystic carcinoma (mean expression 1.4 ± 0.9 of 5 for PD-L1, mean 0.83 ± 1.1 of 5 for PD-L2), and tumor-infiltrating CD8-positive T-lymphocytes were sparse (mean 1.1 ± 0.51 of 3). Only 13 of the 23 (57%) cases expressed PD-L1 as a combined positive score ≥1 of cells. No associations were found between expression levels of these markers and patient sex, tumor site of origin, Tumor, Node, Metastasis stage, or patient outcome. A significant association was observed between stromal PD-L1 expression and tumor histopathologic subtype (p = 0.05), and between tumor PD-L1 expression and prior exposure to radiation (p = 0.03). Conclusions: Checkpoint inhibitor drugs may have limited impact in the treatment and clinical course of orbital adenoid cystic carcinoma based on the low frequency of CD8 infiltrate and low expression of PD-L1 and PD-L2. Pretreatment with radiation, however, may improve tumor response to checkpoint inhibitor drugs. PD-L1 and PD-L2 expression levels are low in adenoid cystic carcinoma of the orbit, suggesting that checkpoint inhibitor drugs may have limited therapeutic promise. Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text.


The present invention relates to a kind of biodegradable Fypros.The method for obtaining such fiber that invention further discloses a kind of and the product being made from it.Biodegradable Fypro of the invention can be obtained by adding biodegradable reagent in the melt-spun extrusion process of specific polyamide as described below.


M. A. Dyussebekova (email@example.com), Satbayev University, Institute of Metallurgy and Ore Beneficiation, Almaty, Kazakhstan, B. K. Kenzhaliyev, S. A. Kvyatkovskiy, E. A.Sit'ko, Institute of Metallurgy and Ore Beneficiation, Almaty, Kazakhstan, Didik Nurkhadianto, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The article examines the factors affecting to the loss of copper with slags during autogenous smelting of copper concentrates at the Balkhash copper smelting plant (BCP). The composition of concentrates processed in the Vanyukov furnace was analyzed. Slag formation during alloying FeO with ores containing approximately the same amount of SiO2 was studied. The fluxing ability of silicate ore used in charge smelting at BCP has been determined. A scanning electron microscope (SEM) was used to study the distribution of elements in the slag and the main reason for the low fluxing ability of the ores used at BCP was revealed.


a) to firmly establish the chronostratigraphy of the Upper Siwalik Subgroup, b) to study the antiquity of Himalayan relief using fission·track m~thods, c) to study Himalayan fluvioglacial and fluvial terraces with special reference to palaeoclimatic changes and neo tectonism and d) to analyse the seismic stratigraphy. sedimentation patterns. and neo tectonics of the Gangetic Basin. Other activity sL1ggested in this programme includes the search for traces of early man in the Markanda, Kangra. Alakhnanda and Kosi valleys.


One often thinks of courts as being concerned with setting precedents to guide future conduct, and of arbitrators as being both less concerned with the content of the law and more willing to fashion compromises to satisfy the parties. In Metalclad, however, those roles were reversed. The arbitral tribunal tried hard to advance international law concerning foreign investment by finding that "fair and equitable treatment" required transparency and by adopting an expansive definition of expropriation. It was Justice Tysoe who gave each party what it wanted most — setting aside for Mexico the transparency aspects of the award, while giving Metalclad most of its money — but at the cost of consistency in the application of British Columbia's ICAA. More broadly, the case may lead one to wonder whether it is appropriate to allow national courts to review Chapter 11 awards.


This artide points out the Shuo Wen Tong Xun Ding Sheng has"the theory of right side"as its starting point, in the light of the phenomenon of semantic plus phonetic characters, and invents the premutation of Chracter roots , so as to explore the etymological relation be- tween the word and the meaning of words


The present invention discloses a method for transmitting information from a client in network video monitoring system to a terminal camera device, wherein the transmitted information is mainly the information for controlling the terminal camera shooting device by the client, such as tilt and zoom lens control information to terminal camera shooting device and control information of image. The adopted mode is transmitting the control information between the client and the terminal camera shooting device with an INFO expansion method of SIP protocol. Therefore, the SIP conversation between the client and the terminal camera shooting device is not affected in the process of control information transmission. Furthermore a signaling channel is adopted for transmitting, and the transmission of medium flow is not affected.


. In this paper, a dual-mode loop resonator based circuit topology is studied for microwave diplexer applications. Several diplexers, with dense and sparse channel separations, are further discussed based on the introduced topology, featuring capable of controlling transmission zeros flexibly. Hence microwave diplexers with high selectivity and good channel isolation can be realized by placing transmission zeros of the channel filters at the desired channels. With the use of the proposed topology, the achieved center frequency ratio between two channels can be from 1.03 to 1.35 with good isolations, high selectivity and compact size. The demonstration diplexers are realized on PCB processes, but can be implemented with other media including MMIC. Experimental validations on the developed demonstrator are presented in the paper, and measured responses match well the full-wave electromagnetic simulated results. The developed UMTS diplexer demonstrator achieves the measured minimum passband insertion losses of 2.55 and 2.7 dB with return losses better than 15 dB and channel isolations over 40 dB at the two channels.


Determining the color of the teeth is a complicated process. Scientific research has shown that 75% of dental medicine doctors are struggling when visually determining the color of the teeth with the help of shade master. Factors like light condition, timeframe, age, sex, clothing, visual perception, redistribution of enamel masses, shine, transparency, opacity, and color of the gingiva make it harder to determine the right color of the teeth. Contemporary dentistry uses different methods and mechanisms, which can ease the work of the dentists. The uses of spectrophotometers, colorimeters, and digital images are useful instruments when analyzing the colors. These instruments are useful methods for analyzing the colors for direct and indirect restorations, procedures before and after teeth whitening, communication with indirect restorations, recreation and shade checking, as well as quality control of color recreation. In articles the authors recommend when available to combine the visual method as well as the instrumental method of color determination, because they complement each other and lead to predictable results.


In this paper, we introduced theory principles of Dimine software, namely, three-dimension modeling theory, and its reserves calculation function, ore quality management and safety management during mining, focusing guidance function of Dimine which are used on the above stated principles.Finally, we showed the practice of his software in a certain mine.


The invention relates to a method for extracting glycoprotein from an oyster water boiled liquid. The method comprises the steps: selecting the oyster water boiled liquid as a raw material, and concentrating under reduced pressure; carrying out alcohol precipitation on the concentrate, centrifuging, and collecting a precipitate; after drying the precipitate, preparing a powder; carrying out degreasing treatment on the powder with petroleum ether, n-hexane or acetone; after drying the degreased powder, re-dissolving in purified water, centrifuging, and collecting a supernatant; and after ultra-filtering the supernatant, drying the trapped fluid, and thus obtaining the oyster glycoprotein. The extracting method has the advantages of low equipment investment, simple operation, and short production cycle, the solubility of the extracted and separated glycoprotein is good, the polysaccharide content is 15-25%, the protein content is 40-60%, and the glycoprotein has extremely high utilization values.


The strategic arrangement for strengthening and improving the Party construction under the new situations was established at the 17th Congress,which contains "one spirit","two main lines" and "five constructions".Important plans were made at the Fourth Plenary Session to further enrich and develop it: building a Marxist learning-oriented political Party to improve the Party's ideological and political level;upholding and amplifying democratic centralism and actively developing inner-party democracy;deepening the reform of the cadre and personnel system to build high-quality cadre ranks;consolidating the Party's organizational base by laying good foundation at the basic level;carrying forward the Party's fine style of work and maintaining the Party's close ties with the masses;launching the anti-corruption struggle by speeding up the construction of a system for punishing and preventing corruption.


probe into previously inaccessible areas, especially the wet tropics. Traditional studies and the evolutionary theories based on them were increasingly challenged as a whole new world opened up—the vespoid version of Pandora's box. This book represents something of a celebration of the author's first decade immersed in social wasp studies at home and abroad. The introductory first chapter is just that, an introduction to the contents of the book, after defining some of the essential vocabulary used by students of social insects. There is also a brief description of the various theories so far developed to help explain the evolution of sociality in wasps. Chapter two continues with further explanations concerning terminology with an introduction to the major groups of wasps, and the hypothetical routes so far proposed to explain the road to eusociality in the Hymenoptera. The theories of social evolution are described in more detail in chapter three, from Darwin's dilemma (in which he considered sterile workers in insect societies as 'fatal to my whole theory'), Hamilton's inclusive fitness and kin selection theory, and Alexander's parental manipulation hypothesis to Lin Michener's mutualistic aggregation theory. There is a critique of Hamilton's \ relatedness hypothesis and a review of dominance hierarchies among wasp societies in chapter four. Chapter five explores the behaviourial interactions among wasps on their nests with a useful summary of dominance relations in species of wasps from both temperate and tropical regions, together with data on survival rates of colonies with one or more founding females. Chapters six through eight describe details of the social biology of wasps from Okinawa, Central America and Australia—much of the data based on Ito's personal observations. These chapters represent excellent summaries of the published record, plus additional unpublished data generated by Ito and his co-workers. The biology of the least known group of wasps, the swarming species, occupies chapter nine. Among the many features in this chapter is a description of one nest which was 2 m long with three to four thousand queens and more than a million workers—a rich resource for study indeed, but not for the faint-hearted! Chapter ten examines the biology of the more familiar temperate zone wasps and hornets of the genera Vespula and Vespa, compared with the remarkable differences in their biology in the tropics. Having succinctly displayed the evidence in the preceding chapters, in the final two chapters, Ito critically examines current theories of social evolution and presents his synthesis which argues that multi-queen societies rather than single-queen colonies were advantageous and would be selected for in the tropics, where high predation pressure or natural calamities such as hurricanes or typhoons favoured the capacity to withstand or rebuild.


A new approach to the theory of finite-amplitude standing waves in proposed, and foumulas of steady wave forms are derived from the fundamental equations of hydrodynamios, as an endeavor to settle the long-time disputable situation.


Background: Concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) for locoregionally advanced esophageal or gastroesophageal junction cancer produces high locoregional control rates but suboptimal distant metastatic control (DMC) and overall survival. This phase II study added gefitinib (G) to our previously tested CCRT regimen in an effort to improve these outcomes. Methods: Eligibility required T3, N1, or M1a esophageal or gastroesophageal junction squamous cell or adenocarcinoma staged by esophageal ultrasound and positron emission tomography/computed tomography. Four-day continuous intravenous infusions of cisplatin (20 mg/m2/d) and fluorouracil (1000 mg/m2/d) began on day 1 of preoperative radiation (30 Gy and 1.5 Gy bid). Surgery followed in 4 to 6 weeks, and an identical course of CCRT 6 to 10 weeks postoperatively. G 250 mg/d was given with preoperative CCRT for 4 weeks and restarted with postoperative therapy for 2 years. Results were retrospectively compared with our historical series of 93 patients given CCRT without G. Results: Between April 2003 and July 2006, 80 patients were enrolled. Patient and tumor characteristics were similar to our historical series. G did not increase toxicity except for development of rash in 42 (53%) and diarrhea in 44 (55%) 3-year Kaplan-Meier estimates (G versus non-G treated patients) included: overall survival (42% versus 28%, p = 0.06), DMC (40% versus 32%, p = 0.33), and locoregional control (76% versus 77%, p = 0.74). Intolerance for G maintenance occurred in 48% of patients. Patients who experienced G related diarrhea appeared to have improved outcomes. Conclusions: Although G did not worsen CCRT toxicity, maintenance therapy proved difficult. This contemporary cohort of patients enjoyed superior survival, which does not solely reflect a decrease in DMC and merits further investigation.


It is clear to everyone that investment in the agricultural sector in developing countries is one of the most effective ways to reduce poverty and hunger in the world. Agricultural investment can generate a wide range of development opportunities. However, these benefi ts cannot be expected to arise automatically. Some forms of large-scale investment pose significant risks to investor states. It should be noted, however, that, despite discussions about the potential benefits and risks of international investment, there is still no evidence of negative actual consequences for the countries receiving investments. This article examines the issues of investment activity in relation to developing countries using the example of US agribusiness entities.


Understanding the response of plant species richness to environmental filters is critical for conservation management as there is an increasing emphasis on plant restoration in urban/rural planning. However, empirical studies on the effects that the regional species pool has on plant species richness often overlook small spatial scales, therefore requiring more comprehensive approaches. As mountains can act as barriers to plant dispersal, the impact on the species pool, particularly, should be a priority. This study aimed to investigate how the regional species pool affects the local plant species richness in a multivariate context. We sampled vascular plant communities along three transects located in three valleys across the Chongli District, China, where four common habitat types were selected for sampling: grassland, shrubbery, pure forest, and mixed forest. We compared the differences in the multi-scale species richness and species composition between habitats and regions and used piecewise structural equation modeling to analyze the relative importance of the regional species pool, habitat species pool, soil resource availability, and exposure for local plant richness. The β-diversity had the highest contribution to the total species richness between valleys and habitats. The species composition between regions and habitats showed a significant difference and the local species richness was most strongly affected by the soil characteristics, but effects from the regional species pool still played an important role. Conservation efforts and urban/rural planning should use a multi-level and multi-scale approach based on a detailed structural investigation.


Concern with the question of an adopted child's origin occupies a central place in the imagination of adoptive parents. A "revelation" therefore becomes a key signifier that generates a state of anxiety, when the more natural situation would be to arrange for an informal family discussion about adoption. The state of the foreigner to consanguinity would seem to eliminate the guarantee of a delegated, granted, conquered place. The Oedipus fantasy is seen in a very particular way because, due to the lack of the barrier of consanguinity, it loses the guarantee with which the interdiction of incest is marked. We discuss here the condition of foreigner in the Oedipal experience mainly because it has often been expressed in parents' discourse as well as in comments and definitions by legislators who study the subject. The uncanny is frightening, stirring up both fear and terror, but it is also related to the known and the very familiar. One aspect of Unheimlich "refers to everything that should have remained private and secret, but came to light." Heimlich refers to "a place free from the influence of fantasies." It can be said, then, that uncanny does not mean something new, but something familiar that has long been present in the imagination. Something that should have stayed in the shadows is brought up to light. In Oedipus Rex, Sophocles shows rare sensibility as he unveils, step by step, the conflict of the revelation, the revelation of Oedipus' double filiation. Adopted children seem to live, both in action and in reality, what the most people live in dreams: the duplicity of the parental couple present in the fantasy of the family romance.


B. B. Lee, MD, PhD, FACS Clinical Professor of Surgery, George Washington University, Washington, DC Adjunct Professor of Surgery, Uniformed Service University of HS, Bethesda, MD, USA VEITH Symposium 2015 SESSIONS 94-96 COMPLEX VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS November 17 21, 2015 New York, New York DISCLOSURE OF CONFLICTS OF INTEREST BYUNG-BOONG LEE,MD, PhD, FACS Surgical Concepts to Treat the (Lateral) Marginal Vein of the Lower Extremity


The CDF collaboration has analyzed ~200/pb of Tevatron Run II data taken between February 2002 and September 2003 to measure the W boson mass. With a sample of 63964 W->e nu decays and 51128 W->mu nu decays, we measure M_W = 80413+-34(stat)+-34(syst) MeV. The total measurement uncertainty of 48 MeV makes this result the most precise single measurement of the W boson mass to date.


Family practitioners across Canada are increasingly being called upon to work interprofessionally, joining forces with myriad other health and social care providers to deliver more holistic care for patients. You might be forgiven if, as a physician, nannies weren't the first group of