Objective To prepare the monoclonal antibodies(MAbs)against nucleocapsid protein(NP)of human parainfluenza virus type 3(HPIV-3)and evaluate the possible use in the development of early diagnosis reagent for HPIV-3 infection.Methods Recombinant nucleocapsid protein from HPIV-3 were induced for expression in BL21 cells and purified with GST affinity agarose column.BALB/C mice were immunized with purified recombinant NP and the antisera were preliminarily tested for sifting the mice with high immune response.The hybridoma cells were constructed from immunized mice spleen cells and SP2/0 cells with PEG1500.The supernatant fluid of hybridoma cells was tested for specific monoclonal antibodies by Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay(ELISA)and indirect immunofluorescence assay(IFA).Then large yields of the MAbs were induced via cell culture or peritoneal inoculation with hybridoma.The MAbs were evaluated for specific and cross reaction with HPIV-3 and other common respiratory virus in pediatrics,respectively.Results Nine hybridoma cell lines were constructed for excreting specific monoclonal antibodies against recombinant NP.Two of them could recognize natural HPIV-3 at titrations of 1∶1600 and 1∶6400 respectively by IFA.Conclusions The recombinant NP can elicit monoclonal antibodies against natural human parainfluenza virus type 3,and it has the potential to be used in the diagnosis of HPIV-3 infection.


A Circuit: structure readily adapted to combine power of several pulsed diode is prsented. Herein the diodes have been mounted to stack up a "Diodes Chain" in full high WG. This approach do not suffer from the multiple-mode in order the diodes being in series along a same axis with electric field. This method make a feature of high active impendance, minor RF current, low loss and high Qex as a result, High peak power and excellent frequency stability have been achieved.


Codon usage preference and the highly expressed genes have strong correlations occur in many organisms. Codon usage preference of viruses may evolve much similar with its infected host to increase the fitness. In this study we investigated differences in codon usage preferences among influenza A H1N1 viruses which infected avian, swine and human, and may cause major pandemic around world. The relative synonymous codon usage (RSCU) indices of HA gene in H1N1 viruses were calculated and we further incorporate the principal component analysis (PCA) to characterizing different host infected viruses. Host-specific codon usage pattern of H1N1 viruses were reported in this study. In 2009 influenza A H1N1 virus was a major epidemic challenge of disease control department. We propose to use the codon based method to gain a better understanding of the features of virus genome and evolutionary processes.


Despite the important role played by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in poverty reduction, economic development, job creation and innovation for both developing and developed countries, still there are serious impediments limiting the availability of affordable and timely finances to support the startup SMEs. There has been very little research exploring the impediments particularly related to external financing of the SMEs. . This study conducted in Tanzania in 2014 explores the barriers encountering startup SMEs in Morogoro Municipality to use external source of capital as their main source of capital at the initial stage of their businesses. The findings indicate that the requirements imposed by financiers such as banks and SACCOS to starting business are the main barriers to startup business to use external capital. In addition other factors include the lack of Collateral, information asymmetry, business plan and business registration were rated to be main barriers to startup businesses to use external sources of capital. It is suggested that , the government and other stakeholders including lenders need to make some innervations so as to mitigate the problem of failing to utilize external sources of capital.


full view, clockwise from left: Reconstruction of the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina; coin showing the temple of Antoninus and Faustina; sketch of coin showing the temple of Antoninus and Faustina


3,692,649 9/1972 Prigent et al. ...................... 204/130 4,246,081 1/1981 Winnich .............................. 204/130 Primary Examiner-R. L. Andrews Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Christie, Parker & Hale 57 ABSTRACT A process and apparatus is provided for separating oxygen from a mixture of gases such as air. The appara tus includes an electrochemical cell that includes a cath ode, an anode and an electrolyte. Oxygen in the air is reduced to the superoxide ion (O2) at the cathode; the superoxide ion is transported across the cell through the electrolyte; and the superoxide ion is then reoxidized to oxygen at the anode and collected.


The effects of cooking method (grilling, frying, steaming, and microwaving) on the proximate composition and protein quality of chub mackerel Scomber japonicus treated with 2, 6, and 10% sodium chloride (NaCl) brine were investigated. Moisture content decreased in all cooked samples from 60.22% in the raw sample to 48.7% in the fried samples. Brine (10% NaCl) treatment recorded the highest moisture loss. All cooked samples showed a decrease in fat content, except fried samples. Protein content increased in all cooked samples, from 47.21% in the raw sample to 63.87% in the grilled sample. Brine treatment resulted in the highest degree of fat oxidation (thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances), which was highest in the fried samples and lowest in the microwaved samples. The trypsin inhibitor (TI) concentration was highest in the microwaved samples and lowest in the fried samples. In all samples, 6% salt treatment caused the lowest TI level and the highest in vitro protein digestibility. In vitro digestibility increased from 79.4% in the raw sample to 86.43% in the fried samples. The total essential amino acids of all cooked samples increased. Results suggested that grilling and steaming had beneficial effects on the protein quality of chub mackerel.


Abstract The accelerations of tracer and light particles (bubbles) in compressible homogeneous isotropic turbulence are investigated by using data from direct numerical simulations up to turbulent Mach number $M_t =1$. For tracer particles, the flatness factor of acceleration components, $F_a$, increases gradually for $M_t \in [0.3, 1]$. On the contrary, $F_a$ for bubbles develops a maximum around $M_t \sim 0.6$. The probability density function of longitudinal acceleration of tracers is increasingly skewed towards the negative value as $M_t$ increases. By contrast, for light particles, the skewness factor of longitudinal acceleration, $S_a$, first becomes more negative with the increase of $M_t$, and then goes back to $0$ when $M_t$ is larger than $0.6$. Similarly, differences among tracers and bubbles appear also in the zero-crossing time of acceleration correlation. It is argued that all these phenomena are intimately linked to the flow structures in the compression regions close to shocklets.


Office of Information Technology and other campus partners to replace our aging iMacs with new systems that provide a user experience that is more consistent with other computing facilities on campus. • To break down conceptual barriers between Waldo Library and the University Computing Center by building a learning commons between the two . halves . of our building complex. Students and staff will work together to assist users create documents, posters, and presentations (paying careful attention to copyright, of course!) As is already obvious, so much of this list of new and/ or improved services has to do with the power of the Web. Indeed, most of enhancements will help us, the managers of the Libraries' resources, to do a better job of serving every user. In short we plan to determine the what of our site so we can figure out how to run and maintain it better than we are today. We'll locate and evaluate tools such as content management systems to help us maintain our site, as well as develop our site to communicate better and realize our vision, mission, and program effectiveness.


The random nature of wireless channel can be utilized to achieve secure communications. Recently, there have been some contributions towards finding practical approaches to provide physical layer security, but robust and secure channel estimates are critical in achieving secrecy. In this paper, we propose that in-band full-duplex communication can be utilized by the legitimate transceiver pair to mask the channel estimates from the eavesdropper. The proposed secure channel estimation technique comprises of two stages. In the first stage, the self- interference channel is estimated by respective nodes. In the second stage, in-band full-duplex transmission from both legitimate nodes is utilized to achieve channel estimates at legitimate nodes while providing equivocation at the eavesdropper. The performance analysis shows that the proposed scheme provides robust channel estimation at the legitimate nodes while maintaining equivocation at the eavesdropper.


Foreign bodies may present in the paranasal sinuses through a variety of traumatic and iatrogenic events. Endoscopic and open approaches have been described in literature for retrieval of the foreign bodies. We describe a case where a high velocity blunt foreign body penetrated anterior and posterior wall of maxillary sinus lying close to the internal maxillary artery. We also reviewed the two surgical approaches, endoscopic and open, for the removal of sinus foreign bodies. INTRODUCTION Foreign bodies in the para nasal sinuses are not common. Maxillary sinus foreign bodies account for about 50% of the foreign bodies in the paranasal sinuses. They can be classified as either traumatic or iatrogenic. Traumatic foreign bodies include air gun pellets, pieces of glass, stones, wood, while iatrogenic foreign bodies include whole teeth, roots of teeth, dental cement, pieces of broken forceps, impression paste, gutta percha, etc. The routes of entry are usually a) the lower eyelid, b) the lateral wall of the nose, c) the cheek, and d) the mouth. Occasionally the site of entry may be quite inconspicuous.. We present a case of penetrating foreign body in the maxillary sinus and pterygopalatine fossa.


In the movie version of the Cold War thriller Ice Station Zebra, a British intelligence officer explains to a skeptical American naval officer how a Soviet spy satellite was able to photograph every missile base in the United States: ''The Russians put our cameras made by our German scientists and your film made by your German scientists onto their satellite made by their German scientists.'' The dialogue is apocryphal; the Soviets had no reconnaissance satellites in the early 1960s, the movie's timeframe. But the movie scene also captures the reality of Soviet and Western dependence on German science and t e c h n o l o g y . T o c i t e j u s t o n e e x a m p l e o n t h e l o w s i d e o f technology: for years the camera preferred by the Soviet KGB as well as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for clandestine photography was a self-winding Leica developed f o r t h e G e r m a n A i r F o r c e (Luftwaffe). At the other end of the scale was the Soviet–American race to space in its civilian, military, and intelligence guises. An anecdote from the late 1950s made this serious historical point with humor. As the first Soviet and American earth-orbiting satellites, Sputnik and Explorer 1, meet in outer space for the first time, Sputnik beams out the word (How are you?). Explorer replies: ''Fine, thank you. ' ' As they pass each other and head off in opposite directions, both call out: ''Auf Wiedersehen!'' Employing German scientists, engineers, and technical experts left behind in the ruins of Adolf Hitler's Reich allowed the Soviet Union and the Western allies to harness new weapons and emerging military technologies to their postwar arms


The prognostic assessment of breast cancer patients following surgery to excise the tumour and other pathological tissue, is an important consideration in determining the most appropriate course of adjuvant therapy for the patient. The paper compares the relative predictive performance of a neural network and an established statistical method, on the basis of their ROC and Kaplan-Meier curves, using information available at the time of surgery.


Introduction: Low birth weight (LBW) is the third leading cause of neonatal death after neonatal infections and asphyxia.
Objective: Describe the epidemiological, therapeutic and evolutionary effects of LBW neonates.
Methods: This was an analytical retrospective study from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2015, in three neonatal units in Kara commune concerning the LBW newborn. The main parameters studied were clinical, therapeutic and evolutionary.
Results: Of 1712 newborns hospitalized, 527 were LBW (30.8%) of which 451 were included with 222 males (sex ratio 0.97). The average birth weight was 1775.72 g. Delivery was carried out through caesarean section in 16.9% mainly did about eclampsia (29.5%) and praevia hemorrhagic placenta (12.6%). The main co-morbidities were neonatal infections (55.4%) and perinatal asphyxia (12.9%). The treatment consisted of an antibiotic therapy (73.8%), an exclusive breastfeeding (43.7%) and Kangaroo Maternal Care (30.2%). Immediate results were marked by deaths in 18.8% after an average of 6 days hospital admission. The main factors significantly related to neonatal mortality were the early neonatal period, low sucking, hypotonia, high preterm birth, very LBW, inadequate pregnancy monitoring, referrals, perinatal asphyxia, artificial breastfeeding.
Conclusion: The incidence of LBW remains high with significant mortality due to preventable factors, requiring actions to be coordinated from conception through the end of the period to improve the survival of these newborns.


In the late 1980s multiculturalism arose as a slogan in the culture wars. Soon the antagonism over national identity and culture spread across the United States. Conservative intellectuals began to complain about "political correctness" threats to their already marginal standing on campuses. They charged that multiculturalism was an attack on dead white European male and western civilization in general, and that critics of multiculturalism were automatically labeled and attacked as politically incorrect. A bitter national dispute over what the next generation of Americans should learn about their intellectual heritage ensued. Conservatives worried that multiculturalists were fragmenting America by focusing only on particular ethnic groups and distinct communities. In the mean time, academic leftists presumably supported multiculturalism. As the result, the whole country became a field of "identity politics." Many historians and educators led the controversy to continue well into the nineties. Even though their discourse cover the wide spectrum of political beliefs, they can be roughly divided into two groups. The revisionists try to reinterpret American history and culture from the viewpoint of ethnic and racial minorities and women, and to apply their new interpretations and findings in education. On the other hand, the traditionalists strongly disagree with the textbooks and the curricula revised and inculcated by the revisionists. This intense tight over multiculturalism and multicultural curricula would go on in the twenty-first century as long as the two sides sharply diverge on answering the question: which should be the main thought of America, republicanism of the early republic or the idea emerged from the counterculture of the 1960s?


Identification of bovine mastitis pathogens is necessary to control the disease, reduce the risk of chronic infections, and target the antimicrobial therapy to be prescribed. Development prospects for new bovine mastitis diagnosis methodologies go also through rapid and efficient devices that can offer a "cow-side" use, meaning that raw milk collected for analysis should have limited pretreatment. This paper aims at developing a magnetic counter that identifies the presence of Streptococcus agalactiae (a Group B Streptococci) in raw milk. The detection is done with an integrated microfluidic platform, where 50 nm magnetic beads attached to Streptococcus agalactiae are dynamically detected by magnetoresistive sensors. This device allows the analysis of raw milk without bridging the microfluidic channels, making this integrated platform very attractive for fast bacteriological contamination screening.


OBJECTIVE: To study the preliminary results of 20 patients who underwent Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (ALIF) and were followed up for more than 6 months at the Bangkok Spine Academy.

MATERIAL AND METHODS: Study of the preliminary results and retrospective chart review of collected clinical and radiographic outcomes in 20 patients who underwent ALIF L1-L5 at Bangkok Hospital from April 2011 to April 2013 as a treatment for degenerative disc disease, spondylolisthesis, recurrent disc herniation and failed back surgery syndrome. Treatment involved using a stand-alone polyetheretherketone (PEEK) cage and an anterior plate construct (Synfi x®, Synthes spine, PA, USA).

RESULTS: Of 22 patients who underwent ALIF surgery between April 2011 and April 2013 two were excluded from this series. The remaining 20 cases were followed up regularly until the fusion was complete.


This article describes several recently completed or ongoing research projects pertaining to recycling in highway construction. The projects, which are national in scope, were sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) or the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP). The development of the "User Guidelines for Waste and Byproduct Materials in Pavement Construction" began in 1996. The primary objective of the project was to assess the state of the practice of using waste or byproduct materials in pavement construction and to produce a guidance manual for a variety of interested parties, including state and local transportation agencies, environmental agencies, waste generators and recyclers, design engineers, and contractors. In 1997, four FHWA recycling research projects were initiated through cooperative agreements with a consortium headed by the University of New Hampshire. They examined the following topics: residual alkali-silica reaction potential in existing portland cement concrete, mix design for cold in-place recycling, evaluation of the use of recycled materials, and predicting long-term environmental performance. The development of the Recycled Materials Information Database (NCHRP 4-21) began in 1998. The primary objective of the project was to provide a tool that could be used to store data about recycled material properties, applications, testing procedures, and reference information. The recently completed NCHRP study (NCHRP 25-9), Environmental Impact of (Highway) Construction and Repair Materials on Surface and Ground Waters, was directed to determine whether commonly used construction and repair materials might affect the quality of surface and ground waters. The objective of the study was to evaluate the persistence of any toxic leachates of the selected materials and to estimate the possible impacts of these materials on surface and ground waters.


The content of glycoalkaloids was determined during vegetation of potato tubers of very early varieties (Aster, Drop, Malwa, Orlik) cultivated in 1993 on the fields of the Experimental Station for Variety Evaluation at Wegrzce near Cracow. The content of glycoalkaloids ranged from 0.7 to 17.8 mg/100 g, wet basis, at the average content of 5.6 mg/100 g and the smallest content of 1.3 mg/100 g in potato tubers harvested in the latter part of August. In potatoes stored at different conditions, the content of glycoalkaloids statistically increased. After 6 months, tubers stored at 10°C contained less glycoalkaloids than those stored at 4°C.


Lattice instability of 2 H -TaSe 2 and 2 H -NbSe 2 is studied on the basis of the electronic band structure of these compounds obtained by a tight-binding fit to Mattheiss' band calculation. The wave number and mode dependences of the electron-lattice coupling matrix and the generalized electronic susceptibility are calculated. The results are discussed in connection with the lattice instability.


The reheating process in inflationary universe models is considered as an out-of-equilibrium mixture of two interacting and reacting fluids, and studied within the framework of causal, irreversible thermodynamics. The evolution of the temperature and the decay rate as determined by causal thermodynamics are estimated at different stages of the process. A simple model is also used to find the perturbations of the expansion rate, including the possibility of damped oscillations.


OBJECTIVE
To compare Resident Assessment Instrument-Minimum Data Set 2.0 (RAI) oral/dental items collected by nursing home (NH) care staff to (a) assessments collected by trained research assistants (RAs) and (b) "gold standard" clinical assessments by dental hygienists (DHs).

BACKGROUND
Routine collection of RAI oral/dental items is mandatory in most Canadian NHs. However, the performance of these items is less than optimal and oral/dental problems are severely under-reported. Accurate assessment is a prerequisite for preventing, detecting and treating oral health problems. Not knowing the reasons for performance problems is a barrier to improving performance of the RAI oral/dental items.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
We included 103 NH residents from 4 NHs in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Using Kappa statistics, we compared the agreement of residents' last (no older than 90 days) RAI assessment with RAI assessments completed by trained RAs and "gold standard" clinical assessments by DHs. We also assessed the inter-rater reliability (IRR) of RA and DH assessments.

RESULTS
Care staff assessments had poor agreement with RA and DH assessments (Kappa < 0.2 for most items). RAs and DHs identified more oral/dental problems than care staff. However, IRR of RA assessments was low (Kappa < 0.7 for 7/9 items). IRR of DH assessments was acceptable (Kappa > 0.7) for most items.

CONCLUSIONS
The quality of RAI oral/dental assessments can be improved by better training care staff and ensuring appropriate time to do the assessments. However, remaining problems-even with trained RAs-suggest that rewording some of the items or supplementing them by more robust tools may be required.


The electroless nickel plating technology for brass tubes in condenser was experimentally researched and successfully applied in the No. 3 Unit of Datang International Xiahuayuan Power Plant. The plating performance of electroless nickel-plated condenser brass tubes was tested and all the performance indicators were in accordance with the related technology standards. SEM was used to observe the micrography of inner surface and cross section before and after the application of above-mentioned brass tubes; in addition, the polarization resistances in circulating cooling water were measured. The experiment results indicate that the application of electroless nickel plating technology on brass tubes results in the uniform anodic plating with excellent corrosion resistance, strong adhesion, stable performance and reliable quality, showing great value for extended application.


Little is known about the environmental preferences of children. While planners have taught children about planning, relatively little academic research has been conducted on what children can teach the discipline about planning. This paper summarizes the results of a survey of the planning preferences of 248 children in kindergarten through second grade. The content analysis revealed a preference for land use variety and for places associated with activity and social interaction. Children tended to favor diversity and accessibility, as opposed to homogeneity and privacy. Further, the children's plans were different in terms of age and particularly in terms of gender. Children were able to conceptualize neighborhood even at the kindergarten level, and many of their conceptualizations were not dissimilar from the traditional view of neighborhood espoused by planners.


Performance of ultrasonic pulse velocity (UPV) in hydraulically bound mixtures is examined as a non-destructive testing, in order to estimate its pote


Along with the swift development of the urban development in Nanchang, urban development must engender important and far-reaching influence. Analyzing mutative characteristics of temperature, wind, precipitation, humidity and solar radiation in Nanchang, the paper elicits results of influencing pitch and evolution regularity of the urban development on the local climate in Nanchang.


Background: Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) comprises a unique theoretical system developed over thousands of years. The previous study reported that Ruanjian Sanjie (RJSJ) exerts anti-tumor effects by inducing cell apoptosis. However, the mechanism is not clear. Methods: In this study, we investigated the possible mechanism by the strategy of combining network pharmacology analysis with experiment (in vitro and in vivo). First, four kinds of breast cancer cell lines were used to conduct proliferation, apoptosis and cell cycle analysis. Secondly, to study pathophysiological processes of breast cancer at the molecular network level, we for the first time constructed an "integrated apoptosis module network of breast cancer" by assembling the regulatory relationships of canonical apoptosis signaling pathways. Through the strategy of combining network analysis and experiments, we analyzed the main mechanism of RJSJ in breast cancer and screened out the core genes. We further studied the inhibitory effect of RJSJ combined with carboplatin (CBP) in vivo. Finally, the synergistic effect of RJSJ and CBP were analyzed and the potential active components in RJSJ were predicted.Results: This study demonstrated that RJSJ could significantly inhibit breast cancer cell proliferation and induce apoptosis in a concentration-dependent manner. The primary mechanism of RJSJ in the treatment of breast cancer was pro-apoptotic. The core apoptosis genes regulated by RJSJ were cIAP1/2 and XIAP. We also found that RJSJ in combination with CBP tended to synergistically induce apoptosis, which might mainly be achieved through the regulation of multiple targets and pathways. Alexandrin (BX05, XKC02, SCG01), baicalin (BX22), guanosine (BX32), arjunglucoside I (XKC10) etc. were predicted as potential active components.Conclusions: These findings provide the rationale for exploring the therapeutic effects of RJSJ against breast cancer and providing a bridge for the combined use of Chinese and Western medicine.


Clearing away the kids' educational CDs from my desktop, I settled down in front of the computer. Well into my second year of residency in internal medicine, I figured it was time to update my rsum. Just a month before, my wife and I had struggled with the question of whether I should pursue a fellowship in critical care. I had obtained an application and even filled it out, but family considerations supervened. We both agreed that it would be better to leave training behind and begin my career rather than to prolong our current lifestyle with yet another educational segue. Outside my window, newly fallen snow sparkled in the sunshine of a crisp winter day. Opening my word processing file, I started the laborious task. First section: education. I had done well in medical school, generally excelling and receiving several honors along the way. Residency, however, had been different. The kids were continuing to grow older and their demands of me were greater. When I wasn't sleeping, my time was theirs, not mine. The extra polish that I had been able to produce in medical school was no longer there. Would more reading at night or on the weekends have made a difference on rounds or in morning report? Maybe I would have been more confident, more insightful, more impressive. Maybe I could have been a chief resident Next came the topic of licensure. I had passed Step III during internship, thus earning the right to a state medical license. In another 18 months, I would be eligible to take the internal medicine boards. Each step in the testing process had witnessed a decrease in my performance compared to that of my peers, with a recent in-training exam seeming to confirm that even more of my fellow residents were better prepared for the practice of medicine than I. Once again, the unwelcome questions intruded: Not enough time studying? Not enough dedication? Not enough knowledge to give the best care to my patients? I skipped the next logical section, publications, because it was empty. No, it was hollow. I like to teach and at times had wondered about academics; now, that thought seemed like a foolish fancy. Without papers or posters, could I seriously pursue a faculty position? Medical students with whom I worked had frequently expressed appreciation for my teaching, but I had never been published. Besides, did I know enough to be a good teacher? Finally: employment. Here I had a little meat. After graduating from college and marrying, I worked for 4 years while my wife finished her elementary education degree. The job wasn't always exciting, but I learned from the work world an endurance that I hadn't learned as a student. For the next 3 years, I did various things, intermingling international travel with seminary coursework before returning to work and applying to medical school. Surely, that time counted for something, even if only to me and my wife. During those 7 years, before the challenges and strains of medical school and residency, we solidified our marriage and created a strong home for the children God would give us. My reverie was interrupted as my 3-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son burst into the office, pleading me to join them in the snow. Acquiescing, I put on my boots and coat and trudged outside. Surely, I thought, these are the things that have altered the balance, making my rsum less than I had hoped it would be. Braced by the chill, dazed by the sunlight, I crunched through the snow, playing chase and preparing snowballs for a real cold war. Soon I was infected with my kids' boundless excitement. My wife, pregnant with our third, joined us, and we all had the time of our lives. The computer seemed far away. Yes, I was a doctor, but I was a husband and a father. Maybe my professional record was not all that I might have wished, but, thank God, I had another rsum.


In this paper we study the noncommutativity of a moving membrane with background fields. The open string variables are analyzed. The unitarity of the corresponding field theory is discussed. The noncommutativity of the T-dual theory and its relation to the noncommutativity of the original theory in the moving frame are studied.


The forming of the virescence sight in campus should harmonize with the characteristic and the condition of the college.It means that the virescence and the whole environment should incarnate the character of region,the character of zoology,the character of the collegy.It should tally with main functions in the campus.It also points out that in the constructing of the virescence sight,the inheiriting and developing of history and culture should be paid attention on.This paper is according to the case in the altering and enlarging project in Lishui Vocational and Technical College,discussing on the figuring,passing and devoloping of the characteristic of virescence sight in college campus.


This report is based on a survey of 150 higher education (HE) advisors in schools, 6th form colleges and general Further Education Colleges in England. The survey was commissioned by the Office for Fair Access (OFFA) and undertaken by Professor Claire Callender of Birkbeck University of London, and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. The survey forms part of a larger programme of research conducted for OFFA, which aimed to explore Higher Education Institutions" (HEI) strategies for improving the awareness and take-up of institutional bursaries and scholarships in England, and to examine students", their parents", and HE advisors" awareness of bursaries.


Objective To establish a newly developed occipito-atlantoaxial finite element model(FEM) and perform a biomechanical analysis of the occipital-vertebral junction.Methods CT data of occipito-atlantoaxial complex were obtained.Mimics software was used to establish the three-dimensional reconstruction of occipito-atlantoaxial complex and obtain the cloudy point data.Then reverse engineering approach was used to establish the surface reconstruction of bone structure and the geometric model.The whole-hexahedral mesh FEM including articular cartilages was established using the True Grid software.The ligaments were modeled with nonlinear spring elements.The biomechanical analysis and validation was performed under physiologic loadings of 0.3 Nm and 1.5 Nm to simulate four motions of axial rotation,flexion,extension,and lateral bending,respectively.Results The occipito-atlantoaxial FEM could be an effective method in predicting the kinematics,ligament strain and stress force of the joints in the occipito-vertebral junction.Conclusion The occipito-atlantoaxial FEM is an effective and repeatable method to study the changes of biomechanics and the influence of the stability of the occipital-vertebral junction and is of higher practicability and clinical reference value.


This study discusses upper secondary school student's participation in educational management by presenting the results of a research conducted at a public school in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Its purpose was to identify institutional actions that enable upper secondary school students' participation in educational management processes, assessing to what extent the principle of democratic management in public education has been made possible in these institutions. In this qualitative research the document analysis of school documents such as: Minutes, Pedagogic Political Project, Internal Regulations, Reports, and Manuals was performed. The findings indicate few and frail forms of student participation in secondary school management. An effort to mark democratic management as a principle in school documents exists, however there is a lack of propositions that enables student participation in secondary school management.


Objective To evaluate the application of dual-source CT in the diagnosis of lung disease isolation. Methods Collecting application value 12 patients with pulmonary isolation disease patients confirmed by surgery and pathology,and the data were retrospectively analyzed.All inspections using siemens dual-source CT scanner,lined CT plain sweep and double stage enhancement scan,lined MPR,MIP and VRT reconstruction.Results One case had extralobar.Eleven cases of inlobar type,which was located in the right lower lung of 5 cases,6 cases located in the left lower lung.Abnormal blood supply arteries of 8 cases from thoracic aorta,4 patients from abdominal aorta.The main performance of CT plain were the lungs cyst capsule solid mass and solid mass,enhancing the scanning lesion area,the increased vascular shadow could be displayed,the vascular shadow showed strip or nodular vascular strengthen shadow and connected with systemic circulation.Conclusion Dual-source CT enhancement and reconstruction technology has a high application value about diagnosis of lung isolation disease.


The article deals with case study as an interactive form when teaching students business discourse to form a set of rhetorical tools and professional communicative competence of students. The article reveals the possibilities of this educational interactive technology, the purpose of cases, stages of work and practical recommendations of their application in an elective course when teaching the culture of business communication.


Medical survival censored data of 524 patients were evaluated in order to: (1) compare two types of surgical techniques and (2) develop the integrated survival model, who can adjust for other patients characteristics. Evaluated data come from patients who underwent colectomy in the University Hospital in Ostrava. There are used two basic surgical techniques for the colectomy: either classical (open) or laparoscopic operation. Basic questions which arise at the colectomy operation are which type of operation to choose to guarantee longer overall survival time and what are the other parameters, which can influence the survival time of the patient. The semiparametric Cox proportional hazards model was used to answer these questions.


This A Look behind the Numbers takes a deep dive into the registered nurse (RN) labor market, using online job posting data to gain a better understanding of how much education employers prefer when hiring.


This study deals with the reverse bending method as a residual stress modification technique for CTOD test of the thick weld. In the reverse bending method, the residual stress around the notch tip of the specimen is redistributed by compressive plastic deformation by reverse bending load. The reverse bending method requires a smaller level of applying load comparing to the local compression method. However, the excessive reverse load may introduce the excessive plastic deformation in way of notch tip which can affect the CTOD value of the weld. So, this study investigates how to establish the proper bending load for ultra-thick weld. In order to do it, stress intensity factor was determined by the plastic zone size around the notch tip by 3-dimensional finite element analysis. The validation of the reverse bending method was verified by examining the configuration of pre-crack at CTOD weld test specimen with various thickness and strength.Copyright © 2014 by ASME


In this paper, we examine China's policy environment from the perspective of policy sustainability. Through our use of the CiteSpace and NVivo software, the literature on the policy environment is visualized using a knowledge graph analysis and a content analysis of highly cited papers. The analysis shows that: the number of published papers on "policy environment" is on the rise, and the research prospect is broad. There is a lack of communication and cooperation between domestic authors and a close relationship between international authors. The main research countries included the USA, Switzerland, Finland, Ireland, and Austria, etc. Domestic research focuses on vehicles for high-quality economic and social development, while international research focuses on theoretical model discussion. The domestic optimization path focuses on the transformation from "Sending blood" ("ShuXieShi") to "Making blood" ("ZaoXieShi"), while the international research focuses on the main line of "public health and environmental protection". Domestic research focuses on fostering a sound business environment, while international research focuses on the public, political and professional aspects of health and medical policy environment. On the whole, in the future, we should improve the adaptability of the policy environment, optimize the policy implementation environment, and establish the interaction mechanism of policy environment optimization to achieve policy optimization.


Onychodictyon ferox, from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte, is a worm-like armored lobopod with 10 pairs of dorsal plates and a pair of probable sensory appendages ("antennae"). Newly discovered complete specimens show that Onychodictyon is represented by two species: O. ferox with a "head" bearing a pair of dorsal "antennae" and a trunk with 11 pairs of limbs, whereas O. gracilis has a blunt anterior end without any appendages and a trunk with 12 pairs of limbs. Because of the close resemblance of the "antennae" of O. ferox and those of the lobopod Miraluolishania, they are considered to be homologous structures. The "antennae" of Cambrian lobopodians are proposed to be homologous with the arthropod antennulae.


The mathematical model of two-species oscillator is discussed. A simple approximate analytical expression of concentration profiles is derived in terms of all dimensionless parameters. Furthermore, in this work we employ the Homotopy perturbation method to solve the non-linear reaction equations. Moreover, the analytical results have been compared to the numerical simulation using Matlab program. The simulated results are agreed with the appropriate theories.


Nowadays, there is tough competition in global markets so that companies must be able to meet their customers' expectations and needs satisfactorily. This is possible through technological development. This study's purpose is to determine whether technology transfer affects on the quality performance. If technology transfer affects on the quality performance, the way of effects is searched, is it affected by positively or negatively. Structural equation modeling was used for research model analysis. The results of research show that technology transfer affects quality performance positively and technology transfer performance does not have difference effects on the different quality performance criteria.


firstname.lastname@example.com Ø The power spectral density of the spontaneous BOLD signal in anesthesia allowed to classify individual patients with MCS and UWS with 79% accuracy. Ø The most frequent selected features included association areas in the parietal and occipital lobes and the putamen. Further validation with independent cohorts is needed to generalize the current findings. Ø Taken together, the use of power spectral density may represent an alternative to functional connectivity to classify patients with consciousness disorders under anesthesia, therefore capturing properties of conscious function beyond reportability. Methods


The Traffic Lights Toolkit is a set of three innovative teaching support tools that can be used individually or together to encourage students to take increasing responsibility for their learning and support their academic and personal development. The tools encourage reflection,  self-regulation and autonomous learning. Students self-assess against identified skill development needs (academic, professional, technical, clinical). The tutor uses the TLT tools to encourage students to adopt an incremental view of learning which facilitates engagement and perseverance in meeting perceived challenge and risks within their learning environment.


But it's not and I'll tell you why. The thing is I'm really good at distracting myself by making some type of resource, like a graphic


Door-to-door: A policeman takes away a bundle of sticks from a shack in Old Crossroads. Bulldozers levelled part of Section One in the camp and security forces fenced it off with razor wire.


The 'desk' is an assemblage intimately related to organization and organizing. It is a 'comprehensive architectonic of social order', both in its material forms and in its mediation of social relations in which particular forms of knowledge and power have become deeply embedded within the modern world. However, the desk reveals not a fixed contribution to modernity but an ever-changing reflection of multiple significances in different times and at different places. So it would be foolish to fully accept the contemporary rhetoric of the death of the desk, an object placed at the very centre of material and epistemological concerns for centuries and still playing its part.


Low-cost high-solution multispectral imagery is attractive to various users. This paper presents our ongoing research on developing Unmanned Airship on Board High-resolution multispectral Imaging System for quick-response to time-critical applications. First, the core component of Multispectral Imaging system is described. After that, automatic registration of collected multispectral imageries is discussed. Based on Least Square technique and classic homography principle, multi-homography model is developed to undo the motions deduced in multispectral imageries. To obtain reliable control points for the estimation of motion parameters, one FFT-induced Multispectral Imagery Matching approach is proposed as well. Next, flight experiments are implemented to collect multispectral imageries with different spatial resolution as well as imageries are registered with developed technique. Finally, conclusions and future work are conducted. Imagery usage in investigating, estimating and monitoring Miyun reservoir environment is also mentioned.


This is not a popular view among the many vendors striving to demonstrate how their latest technology will lead the way for these networks. But it is clear that 10G PON equipment right now is based on expensive technology and faces some major challenges if it is to ensure viable mass deployment. This article will show that recent developments in 10-Gbps technology can help address these challenges.


Protonation of the carbonyl-bridged dimer [Cp*Ir(μ-CO)]2 (Cp* = η5-C5Me5) (1) with 1 equiv of the strong acid HBAr'4·2Et2O (Ar'= 3,5-(CF3)2C6H3) generates the hydride- bridged species {[Cp*Ir(CO)]2(μ-H)}BAr'4 (2). Addition of excess acid to 1 results in the formation of the dihydride dication [Cp*Ir(CO)]2(μ-H)22+ (3). The monoprotonated cation, 2, reacts rapidly with CO or H2 to afford [Cp*Ir(CO)]2(μ-CO)(μ-H)+ (4) and [Cp*Ir(CO)H]2(μ-H)+ (5), respectively. The structures of the cationic dimers 4 and 5 have been confirmed by X-ray diffraction studies. Deprotonation of complex 5 generates the neutral dihydride dimer [Cp*Ir(CO)H]2 (6), a compound with an unsupported Ir−Ir bond. An X-ray diffraction analysis of 6 reveals an Ir−Ir bond length of 2.730(1) A. Formal protonation of the Ir−Ir bond of 6 to give 5 results in an increase of approximately 0.198 A in the length of that bond.


The ore is a kind of mixed ore mainly with fluorite, which contains quartz, calcite, feldspar and sericite, belong to silicate-fluorite-calcite type ore. The content of calcite in the fluorite ore of Suichang is 5.4%. According to the characteristic of mineral, flotation tests have been done to separate fluorite. The test results show that it is difficult to separate fluorite from suichang's ore because of similar floatability of fluorite and calcite. This experiment mainly studied the joint technics on floatation and leaching. The results indicate that fluorite grade of 90.93% and recyle rate of 85.26% could be gained by KY-108 as a collector, sodium silicate and sodium humate as depressant. High grade fluorite concentrate which contains CaF2 over 97.81 %,SiO2 and CaCO3 less than 1.5% can be acquired by using leaching process, and the overall recovery of CaF2 in floatation and leaching is over 85.20%.


The specific heat of a small single crystal of ferrimagnetic RbNiF3 has been measured at temperatures between 1.5 and 4 K in magnetic fields up to 32 kOe with the c‐axis of the crystal both parallel and perpendicular to H by steady‐state, ac‐temperature calorimetry. We also present calculations of the frequency of the acoustic spin‐wave modes as a function of magnitude and direction of the external magnetic field with respect to the crystal axes. The experimental results are compared with theoretical predictions based on recent measurements of the anisotropy field HA and the exchange constants JAA and JAB.


This report contains a brief review of recent results from the ARGUS and Crystal Ball experiments at DORIS II, concentrating on UPSILON(1S) and UPSILON(2S) spectroscopy with a short foray into ..gamma gamma.. physics. 18 refs., 10 figs.


Quasi-yarn is formed by twisting of fibre ends, which are protruding from the surface of textile material; mainly it can be used on fleece surfaces. Attempts were made to use quasi-yarn in nonwovens production and they show to be useful not only for fleeces fixation, but for lamination of textile products also. Application of quasi-yarns on vertically lapped fleeces makes us possible to develop new types of nonwovens, like corrugated, hollow and special mattresses. This paper elucidates about the parameters for quasi-yarn manufacturing, technological problems and characters of quasi-yarns. Differences among fibre structures of products made by the quasi-yarns application on the fleeces and products made by classical methods are also mentioned. Machine used for making samples is explained in detail and basic relations among technological parameters and geometrical parameters of products are shown. Selected models of products are presented and further development is mentioned.


This study aims to find out and prove the Effect of Current Assets, Long-Term Debt, Equity, Net Profit and Profit Hold Against the Financial Performance of Manufacturing Companies in the Industrial Sector Food and Beverage Consumables Listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange either Simultaneously or Partially. The results of this study indicate that, There is the Effect of Current Assets, Long-Term Debt, Equity, Net Profit and Retained Earnings Together - on Financial Performance of Manufacturing Companies in the Industrial Sector of Food and Beverage Consumables Listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange, There Are Effects of Current Assets Against Financial Performance of Manufacturing Companies in the Industrial Sector of Food and Beverage Consumables Listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. There are Effects of Long-Term Debt on Financial Performance of Manufacturing Companies in the Industrial Sector of Food and Beverage Consumables Listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. There Is No Effect of Equity on the Financial Performance of Manufacturing Companies in the Industrial Sector of Food and Beverage Consumables Listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. There Is No Effect of Net Profit on the Financial Performance of Manufacturing Companies in the Industrial Sector of Food and Beverage Consumables Listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the Industrial Sector of Food and Beverage Consumables Listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the Year.Efforts to improve management of asset assets, long-term debt, equity, net income and retained earnings to improve financial performance by using more efficient and optimal current assets, minimizing the use of long-term debt, using optimal equity, increasing related net income sector with an increase in the sales sector and attention to the amount of dividend distribution to shareholders for the company's retained earnings.


[1] Bubbles in sediments, imaged via Computed Tomography (CT) scanning, and in surrogate transparent material (gelatin), are well-described geometrically as eccentric oblate spheroids. While sediments are undoubtedly visco-elasto-plastic solids, only part of that complex behavior appears to influence significantly the formation and shape of gas bubbles. Specifically, the shape of these bubbles can be explained if the mechanical response of fine-grained sediment is approximated by Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics (LEFM). To determine the adequacy of the LEFM approximation for gas bubble growth in fine-grained sediments, a number of gas bubbles were injected and grown in natural sediments, while monitoring the size and shape using an industrial CT scanner. A comparison of measured inverse aspect ratios (IARs) of the injected bubbles with calculated IARs from pressure records provides support for the LEFM theory. Deviations from LEFM are observable in the data, but as bubbles grow larger they trend more closely toward the theory. The use of LEFM has been shown to describe gas bubble growth in shallow coastal sediments to first order.


Post-Colonialism is an academic discipline that analyzes, explains and responds to the cultural legency of colonialism and imperialism. It speaks the human conseqences of external control and economic exploitation of native people and their lands. This paper focus on the vibrant portrait of contemporary multicultural London, told through the story of three ethnical diverse families. It offers a very tragic outlook on the struggles that people from different background face in Britain in their everyday life. The novel White Teeth by Zadie Smih portrays London as a mixture of different cultures, ethnic group, and religious beliefs. In thisnovel London described asamulticutural city in the twenteenth century which isthe outcome of British colonialism.To an extend any societycan be defined as a muticultural place as long as it is constructed by two or more different cuturals, religions or languages. Smih combines two families-the Iqbals and the Joneses who have different national identities and also different cultural and religious values. Though the characters live ib London and have been assimilated still some of them try to hold themselves to theirrituals religious beliefs and cultural values in order to protect their roots and identity from external influences. PostColonialism is an academic discipline that analyzes, explains, and respondsto the cultural legacy of colonialism and imperialism. Postcolonialism speaks about the human conseqences of external control and economic exploitation of native people and their lands. Drawing from postmodern schools of thought, postcolonial studies analyze the political power the sustain colonism and neocolonialism the imperial regime's depitions of the colonizer and of the colonized. As a gener of contemporary history, postcolonialism quwstions and reinvents the manner in which a cultural is being viewed, challenging the narratives expounded during during the colonial era. Anthropologically, its records human nations between the colonist and the people under colonial rule, seeking to build an understanding of the nture and practice of colonial rule Pstcolonial Literature is the literature of countries tha were colonized by European countries and which exists on all continents, but Antarctica. Postcolonial literature often addresses the problems and consequences of the ecolonization of a country, especially questions relatings relating to the political and cututral independence of formerly subjugated people, and themes suh as racialism and Vol. 6 No. 2 March 2018 ISSN: 2320-2645 164 colonialism. Migrants' literature and postclonial literature show some considerable overlap. However,not all migration takes place ib a colonial setting, and not all postcolonial literture deals with migration. A question of current debate is the extend to which postcolonial theory also speaks to migration literature in non-colonial settings. Zadie Smith is a young British writer who has won many British awards for literature in years.She ispopular not only with critics but her readers appreciates here excellent writing, too. She is a great story teller asa well as observer. She depicts all sonds and smells of the world which surronds her, she perceives hmandefeats and victories from a detached point of view, althoughwith great understanding and sympathy. She can record it in a way rich in extraordinary expressions and beautiful poetics languages, which makes one laugh, dream, think and envy. She is able to empoly all human sences by her writing. She is a master in making her characters sound very authentic by exploiting all possible kinds of dialects and accents so that her readers must feel involved in the story, eaves dropping on what is being discussed. The range of accents Smith uses in her books varies from different ethnic minorities to varios social classes and proves her mastery in monitoring specific features and aspects of English spoken by particular groups of people. In addition to her stylistic ability, she shows deep knowledge of human psyche and the way it makes ground for peopole's deeds.In White Teeth,The Autograp Man and in On Beautyshe explores different areas of inspiration and her books accordingly deal with different backgrounds and different topics.All of them, show, Smith's enthusiasm to write about matters she loves and her knowledge interfers in, seemingly, all fields of human life from philosophy, history and art to science and politics. Multicuturalism is the existences of multiple, cultural tradionss with a single country considered in terms of the country, and culture associated with an aboriginal and foreigner ethnic groups. When a jurisdiction is expanded by amalgamating areas with two or more diferent cultures or through immigration froms different jurisdictions around the world Multicultural ideologies and politics, ranging from the advocacy of equal respect to the various cultures in society, to policies of promoting the maintenance of culture diversity to policies in which people of various ethnic and regious groups are addressed by the authorities as defined by the group to which they belong. Multicutualism promotes mainataing the distinctivesness of multiple cultures to other settlement policies such as social integration, cutural assimilation and racial segregation. Multiculturalism dscribed as a "salad Bowl" and" cultural mosaic" The novel White Teeth speaks of race and multiculturalism. White Teeth as "an uncritical celebration of the bright multicultural color of the Wilesden Street". Londonis the setting for the whole story with occasional ventures to Jamaica, India and Eastern Europe The three families: the Joneses, the Iqbalsand the Chalfens, evolveand get entangled with one another here. Accarding to Jhon Clement Ball, White Teeth is one of the few recent black British novels that attempt to represent the experience of more Shanlax International Journal of English 165 than generation and place of origin. The novel describes the relations of white, brown and black londoners. White Teeth is the story of three familes from three different cultural backgrounds, the English Jamaican jones, theBangladeshi Iqbal and the Jewish Chalfens told mainly between 1974 and 1992 set in Willesden a multicutural suburb in North London where Zadie Smith herself lives for smith muticulturalism in London is nothing new. She explains herself "I wasn't trying to write about race. i was trying to about the country I was to trying towrite about the country where I live." This novel prtory multicuturals asa concept developing in time ,felt and experienced by the charaters.although the main story is set between the years 1974 and 1992,its also covers trips further back in history. Smith prequels the novel with a quote from shakespear's Tempest, "What's past is prologue". History, therefore, is twofold.It is on the one hand, an account of historical events that occurred during the existence of British Empire Untill the end of the second millennium.On the other hand, it is the actions and events that influence the charaters and that are crucial in informing their present in future. In other words, history provides the character complemented with roots and the past is always reflected in the present. Both concepts canbe traced in the novel. The story is divided into four major sections named after one character complemented with two dates. The first date singles the actual year in which the character is located at the particular moment, whereas the second denotes the year that inflenced the charater the ost. Since the development in the society will inevitably influence it members, the the historical development isintewined with the formaton of the character's idendity. The story of White Teeth takes place in London,a city which lives in both its past and present. London provides a meeting place of cultures,religions, and political viewpoint, and thusextends the opportunity of greater humanitarian understanding toward the characters.Simply due to the city's complexity the city may be consdered as a catalyst for hybridity, which inturn enables the second generation of immigrant families to change to so radically from their parents. White Teeth's second generation, including Irie, Millat,Magid, Joshua Chalfen,the tension between past and present home is less intense compared to their parents. Irie Jones, the Jamaican-British protogonist of the novel, successfully negotiates her unique identity in the ambivalent cultural space created by the often conflicting values of mionrity ethnic culture and the dominant white British culture.Irie's ability to maintain, transgress and create new cultural boundaries in the cultural space.Irie the daughter of a white Englishman and a black Jamaican women, is exposed to two different cultural norms that include attitueds towards marriage andsexuality, regious beliefs,norms of beauty, educational,expections,anda plethora of other ideologies. Samad Iqbal, a Bengali mulism from Bangladesh is obessed by the history of his great grandfather, Mangalpandey, who allegedly fired the first shot of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Samad, to become more like the English he leaves the immigarntVol. 6 No. 2 March 2018 ISSN: 2320-2645 166 dense neighbourhood, East End and moves to the more liberal Willesden Green. Samad voluntarily took part in the Second World War. When he, in the war, became positioned in a tank with Englishman he was not aware of the imapact these men were going to have on him. To Samad's disappointment, the Englishman in his tank did not correspond with his expectations of the English; the colonizer, also affected y hybirdly, had not respresented the typical English, It was not only a disappointment that hit him. it was also the fact that he realized that he had been living in the world of unreality. Before the war, Samad's only encounter with the English was in what was in then colonized India, where he was the colonized. In his life he had a


This letter investigates the problem of 3-D target localization in multiple-input multiple-output radars with distributed antennas, using hybrid time-delay and angle of arrival measurements. We propose a closed-form positioning method based on weighted least squares estimation. The proposed estimator is shown theoretically to achieve the Cramer-Rao lower bound under mild noise conditions. Numerical simulations also verify the theoretical developments.


Abstract. Padi Lapa temple is located in west Jakarta. It is different with the other temple. The peak time for this temple is Thursday night. Thursday night is considered sacred time for people who often come here. In this temple there is a special offering place for Wali Songo which is only open on Thursday night. There is one statue that is above the altar, the statue is a statue of the grandson of Sunan Gunung Jati, Prabu Siliwangi, who is depicted as a tiger. The offerings is like Kejawen such as lisong, seven forms of flowers and incense. Special rituals were preserved. It can be seen that the tumpengan is seen on Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha and the Prophet's birthday which are usually equated with the night of one sura. In the evening, a heirloom object that is placed or donated to the temple is sanctified by a pilgrim who studies or has sufficient Islamic knowledge.


We show that for a large range of parameters in a SU(2)L × U(1) electroweak theory with two Higgs doublets there may exist classically stable flux tubes of Z boson magnetic field. In a limit of an extra global Ũ(1) symmetry, these flux-tubes become topologically stable. These results are automatically valid even if Ũ(1) is gauged. MIRAMARE–TRIESTE April 1993 e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com 1


International comparative studies of student achievement that have been conducted since 1965 have influenced education policy and research issues in the United States. This article reviews the contribution of recent international studies to an understanding of the role of content in curriculum and thus the way in which schools have an impact on student learning. Studies conducted of U.S. schools during the 1960s by James Coleman and his associates and schools of other countries by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement concluded that student performance was determined more by family background than by school characteristics. However, Coleman himself later recanted that finding in a reanalysis of international studies. Recent international studies of student assessment have demonstrated that between-countries differences in how the science and mathematics curriculum is presented may account for differences in student performance. This finding has had an effect on national policy by supporting efforts to reform the content of subject matter introduced in schools.


Composites consisting of fine Nb filaments in a copper matrix were fabricated, and the following superconducting properties measured: the critical temperature, critical transverse magnetic field as a function of temperature, critical current density at 4.2°K as a function of transverse magnetic field, and magnetization at 4.2°K. The reduction in Nb filament size was checked by optical and electron micrography. Filament diameters ranged down to 100 A. As the diameter decreased, Tc, Hc(T), and Jc all decreased. This behavior was attributed to the proximity effects of the copper matrix on the Nb. The results are closely comparable to those of investigations of superimposed thin films. It is therefore not expected that high critical fields can be attained by composites involving a type II superconductor in a matrix of a nonsuperconductor.


This chapter broadens the perspective on causes of failures, enabling the deeper analyses of subsequent chapters addressing proximate, distal, and ultimate causes. The rich history of multi-level analysis and modeling is briefly reviewed, citing key contributions by a wide range of research disciplines. Numerous applications of the multi-level framework in a variety of domains, including healthcare delivery, academia, traffic congestion, and air transport are discussed, including the insights gained from use of the framework. An overall methodology for applying this framework is presented and elaborated. The application of this methodology to the line of reasoning throughout this book is summarized.


Abstract : The purpose of the study was to recommend a task force concept, based on an analysis of the factors of command and control, fire support, and weapons mix which would perform best for U.S. forces in NATO. The study employs war gaming techniques to evaluate the relative merits of various combined arms force concepts as they might be used to defend against a motorized rifle battalion reinforced by one tank company and an antitank battery. Various battalion size units were created and deployed on the war game site. A platoon plus slice of each of these test battalions was then war gamed against a standard threat. The results were compared against the performance of the present U.S. system of task organization. The study concludes that the war game and the literature supports the requirement for at least three long-range ATGM systems per committed platoon with one backup to replace battle losses. The mix should include at least one Shillelagh system due to the effect of enemy artillery suppressive fires on 'soft' ATGM systems. The best force for U.S. troops in NATO would be a standard mech battalion task force with a 13 tank (M60A2) armored company cross attacked.


To the Editor A 27‐year‐old Japanese obese woman with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) underwent laparoscopy for ovarian cauterization. She was prescribed dydrogesterone for 6 months. Intra‐operatively a spherical, movable lesion was incidentally found on the surface of the sigmoid colon and resected (Fig. 1a). A histologic examination revealed a cystic lesion with tree‐like fibrous tissue surrounded by a hemorrhagic infarct area (Fig.1b). A phosphotungstic acid‐ hematoxylin (PTAH) special stain showed thromboembolism in the vessels near the cystic lesion (Fig. 1c). In another


The spatial inhomogeneity of the electrical characteristics of high-T/sub c/ thin films was studied by optical laser probing. It was shown that the characteristic length L of inhomogeneous current distribution in high-T/sub c/ films may be much larger than the grain size a; for example, in polycrystalline YBa/sub 2/Cu/sub 3/O/sub 7-x/ film with critical current densities j/sub c/(4.2 K) approximately 10/sup 3/-10/sup 4/ A/cm/sup 2/ and grain size a approximately 1 mu m, the characteristic length L was equal to approximately 15 mu m at T>T/sub c/ and approximately 100 mu m at T<or approximately=T/sub c/. The large values of L are related to large-scale percolation in the system of intergrain Josephson junctions with very wide distribution of critical currents I/sub ci/ and normal-state resistances R/sub ni/.


The utility model relates to a convenient toothbrush holder which comprises a plate body, wherein the plate body is horizontally fixed with two soft round sleeves and vertically fixed with a plastic cube with a silvered metal spring sheet; toothpaste and the toothbrush are respectively sleeved in the soft round sleeve; a squeezed end of the toothpaste pops against the silvered metal spring sheet; and a head of the toothbrush faces to the squeezed end of the toothpaste. The convenient toothbrush holder not only can be used for conveniently placing the toothbrush, but also can conveniently squeeze the toothpaste, and can save mouth washing time with convenient use.


This paper introduces the design decisions in building the Koder corpus, a multi-register-corpus of contemporary German. The purpose of this corpus is to serve as a basis for the investigation into the use of German across registers. In order to construct a representative corpus, the essential considerations are: the type and number of registers to include, the number of texts in each register and minimal text length. The paper describes which aspects were central in determining these issues as well the corpus composition and the necessary text processing.


A QED-based bootstrap mechanism, appearing at sufficiently small space-time scales, is suggested as an explanation for the "dark" vacuum energy that may be able to accelerate the universe. Very small-scale vacuum currents are allowed to generate small-scale electromagnetic fields, which become significant near the light cone. The resulting lepton-pair production, some of which may be tachyonic, has ramifications for the convergence of all QED perturbative processes, as well as providing possible mechanisms for "dark" matter, galactic gamma-ray bursts, and ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.


The historical test and measure information(including bounce time,contact voltage and voltage between contact pair) of AC electromagnetic contactor was analyzed through time series and statistics.The nondeterminacy of measured value series was brought out based on weighting statistical analysis,it put forward a fusion model of series weight and probability weight,and the time-varying reliability curve of three parameters.It took adjustment and comprehensive treatment on the measured value series of both disabled contact pair and normal contact pair.Finally,the prediction method of residual life in the light of time-variant contact reliability was obtained.


A modified form of Trombe Wall in which the glazing has been replaced by weather resistance material has been proposed and examined for winter heating and summer cooling in mixed climate conditions characterized by a mild winter and a relatively harsh dry summer. The experimental results indicate the potential applications of such a wall, known as Vary-Therm Wall, in solar passive building architecture for mixed climatic conditions.


This archive contains all the necessary data and R script to reproduce the results of the manuscript entitled "Growth determinants of timber species Triplochiton scleroxylon and implications for forest management in central Africa" published in Forest Ecology and Management. It includes database csv files, script to reproduce the main analyses and figures with R software and documentation. ayous_growth : measures of ayous diameter id : measurement id id_tree : tree id id_plot : plot id date : measurement date diameter : measured diameter (cm) hom : heaight of point of measure (cm) year : census year code_observation : observation codes (see dico_src.xls, multiple codes can be used) code_mortality : mortality codes (see dico_src.xls) comment : additionnal comments recorded in the field valid_hom_obs : TRUE = no change in hom over time / FALSE = hom changed over time not_identified_error : TRUE = no error / FALSE = an erroneous data data was identified for this tree ayous_plot : site and plot description id : plot id site : site name treatment : treatment (control, logged, logged+thinned) last_cutting_dates : last known cutting dates company : if relevant, company name fmu : if relevant, forest management unit number aac : if relevant, annual cutting area number ayous_rings : measure of ring width in tree rings number : ayous number as recorded in the field transect : transect id on which rings were measured year : corresponding ring year ringWidth_mm : ring with (mm) dist2center_mm : distance from ring start to center age : corresponding ring age id : measure id id_plot : plot id id_tree : tree id diameter : corresponding diameter (cm) (first diameter) growth : diameter growth (cm) first_diameter : diameter corresponding to ring start (cm) last_diameter : diameter corresponding to ring end (cm) dominance : dominant position status (see dico_src.xls) treatment : plot treatment (control, logged, logged+thinned) ayous_tree : sampeld tree description id : tree id id_plot : plot id lattitude : lattitude (WGS84) longitude : longitude (WGS84) dawkins : dawkins code (see dico_src.xls) dominance : dominant position status (see dico_src.xls) shared R script.R : R script used to produce the analyses presented in the manuscript shared R script.html : html report produced by the R script dico_src : explanation of all the codes we used (in french)


The purposes of the study are to analyze; 1) the impact of job satisfaction on banking employee's organizational commitment, 2) the impact of employee engagement on organizational commitment, 3) the impact of job satisfaction on employee engagement, and 4) the indirect effect of job satisfaction on organizational commitment of banking employees in Padang with employee engagement as a moderating variable. The type of research is causative research, which aims to see how far the independent variables affect the dependent variable. The research data was collected came from 180 employees who worked in banking, in which they had more than 2 years of experience. Then the data to analyze using the structural equation modeling (SEM) approach with Smart PLS 3.0 software. The results showed that: 1) Job satisfaction has not a direct effect on organizational commitment in banking employees in Padang; 2) Employee engagement has a direct and significant effect on organizational commitment of banking employees in Padang; 3) Job satisfaction has a direct and significant effect on employee engagement banking employees in Padang and 4) Job satisfaction has an indirect and significant influence on employee organizational commitment when mediated by employee engagement. The contribution of this study is expected to provide information for companies in developing and improving employee attitudes to have a high commitment to the company. This is intended so that employees can contribute to providing excellent service to increase organizational competitiveness.


The present invention relates to an interior trim part (1) for a motor vehicle with a carrier layer (2) and a decorative layer. The backing layer (2) consists of a first section (3), which is formed from a fiber composite material, and a second portion (4), which is formed from a plastic, together. The decorative layer is in this case arranged in such a way that both the first and the second section (3, 4) are covered by the decorative layer. The backing layer (2) further has at least in the second section (4) on a side facing the decorative layer a structuring on. Furthermore, the present invention comprises an apparatus for producing a carrier layer described above.


The method for estimating the speed of the user equipment connected to the base station of the wireless network, the following steps, namely, - and performing the user equipment, the signal strength measurement of radio signals transmitted between the base station (S), - a step (11) to perform a spectral analysis of the signal strength measurements, - determining the frequency of the maximum in the power spectrum of the signal strength measurements, - including previously established, the speed of the user equipment given from the reference data associated with certain determined frequency, and a step (12) for estimating the speed of a user equipment corresponding to the determined frequency.


Factors influencing hypersensitive and necrotic reactions to virus Y in potato seedlings, developed from common varieties like Katahdin and Snowflake, have been studied mainly by means of hand inoculation in the greenhouse. This method provides more accurate and etailed information than either graft inoculation or aphid inoculation. The virus dosages applied by aphid inoculation have not been sufficient to assess the hypersensitivity of seedlings accurately.


Field trials were conducted at gated pipe surface and overhead irrigation sites established to cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) to evaluate irrigation and fertigation management using a model-based control system. The control strategies determined the timing and volume of irrigation, and the rate of fertilizer-N to apply through fertigation. For this, nitrogen (N) was applied in-crop season using urea ammonium nitrate (UAN, 30% N solution) at a rate of 40 kg ha-1 N. At the furrows site, the uniformity of distribution of fertilizer-N applied through fertigation was satisfactory, which was achieved both at distance (600 m) and depth (0-600 mm). Applying fertilizer-N through fertigation, at the rate used in this study, showed relatively small (≤8%) improvements in cotton yield, which was explained by relatively high N rates (180 kg ha-1 N) applied before planting. Given current price ratios (fertilizer-to-cotton), application of N through fertigation appears to be economical in both systems, but relative agronomic efficiencies and economic return from the fertilizer applied were lower in furrow compared with overhead (P 0.05). In both systems, fluxes were highest within five days of irrigation or fertigation, but they decreased significantly after that time as soil moisture content (water-filled pore space) and soil nitrate levels decreased due to crop uptake. Nitrous oxide fluxes were similar in furrow and overhead 15 days after the irrigation or fertigation event. Areas that warrant further investigation are presented and discussed, including the need for improved timing of fertilizer delivery during the irrigation cycle to ensure that N losses through leaching or gaseous evolution (e.g., N2O, N2) are not economically or environmentally significant.


Bifunctional initiator 2,5-dimethyl-2,5-bis(hydroxyl-peroxide)hexane(DIOOH) is synthesized with 2,5-dimethyl-2,5-hexanediol(DIOL) as raw material,30% hydrogen peroxide as oxidant and concentrated sulfuric acid as a catalyst for a more moderate conditions. The four factors such as amount of substance ratio of H2O2 and DIOL,amount of substance ratio of H2SO4 and DIOL,reaction time and reaction temperature are investigated via experiments on yield of DIOOH. The product structure is characterized by method of 13C-NMR and MS. The results show that the optimization of synthesis technology processes are that amount of substance ratio of H2O2 and DIOL is 7,amount of substance ratio of H2SO4 and DIOL is 6,reaction time is 90 minutes and reaction temperature is 30 ℃. Under these conditions,yield of DIOOH is 71.6% and intrinsic viscosity of PAM can reach 277.6 dL/g when DIOOH initiates AM polymerization and mass concentration of DIOOH is 9 mg/L in polymerization system.


without further reference. At other times the titles of their works are cited without page references. At still others, proper footnotes are provided. The editors of the series need to settle on a single system. Occasionally there are silly slips. A French institution is referred to as 'the parliament' on page 117, when no such body existed. The 1530s in England are called 'disastrous' on page 120 without further explanation. A graph showing rising expenditure on poor-relief on page 141 needs to be qualified by referring to price inflation. Despite these caveats, Jutte has produced a first-rate and much needed


HBO1 acetylates lysine residues of histones and is involved in DNA replication and gene transcription. Two isoforms of JADE1, JADE1S and JADE1L, bind HBO1 and promote acetylation of chromatinal histones. We characterized the role of JADE1‐HBO1 complexes in vitro and in vivo during epithelial cell replication. Downregulation of JADE1 by siRNA diminished the rate of DNA synthesis in cultured cells, decreased endogenous HBO1 protein expression, and prevented chromatin recruitment of replication factor Mcm7, demonstrating that JADE1 is required for cell proliferation. We used a murine model of acute kidney injury (AKI) to examine expression of HBO1‐JADE1S/L in injured and regenerating epithelial tissue. In control kidneys, JADE1S, JADE1L, and HBO1 were expressed in nuclei of proximal and distal tubular epithelial cells. Ischemia and reperfusion injury resulted in an initial decrease in JADE1S, JADE1L, and HBO1 protein levels which returned to the baseline during renal recovery. HBO1 and JADE1S recovered as cell proliferation reached its maximum while JADE1L recovered after bulk proliferation had ceased. The temporal expression of JADE1S correlated with the acetylation of histone H4 on lysine 5 and 12, but not with acetylation of histone H3 on lysine 14, demonstrating that the JADE1S‐HBO1 complex specifically marks H4 during epithelial cell proliferation. These data implicated JADE1‐HBO1 complex in AKI and suggested distinct roles for JADE1 isoforms during epithelial cells recovery.


In this paper, the experiential formula of fuel density variation with pressure and temperature is put forward and the experiential formulas of fuel compression ratio and sonic velocity are also derived in light of the strict relationships of fuel parameters, and besides, the viscosity experiential formula is recommended. The experiential formulas offered in this paper possess high precision according to the experimental results.


The 1927 flood in the Lower Mississippi River was the most destructive flood in American history, inundating more than 70,000 km2 of land, resulting in approximately 500 fatalities and leaving more than 700,000 people homeless. Despite the prominence of the 1927 flood, details on the flood, and the storms that produced the flood, are sparse. We examine the hydrometeorology and hydroclimatology of the 1927 flood in the Lower Mississippi River through downscaling simulations of the storms that were responsible for catastrophic flooding and through empirical analyses of rainfall and streamflow records. We use Twentieth Century Reanalysis fields as boundary conditions and initial conditions for downscaling simulations using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. We place the hydrometeorological analyses of the 1927 storms in a hydroclimatological context through analyses of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis fields. Analyses are designed to assess the physical processes that control the upper tail of flooding in the Lower Mississippi River. We compare the 1927 flood in the Lower Mississippi River to floods in 1937 and 2011 that represent the most extreme flooding in the Lower Mississippi River.


Objective To observe the effect on sPLA2-V expression of myocardium and aorta stem in coronary heart disease rats treated by Irbesartan combined with Rosuvastatin.Methods 50 Wistar rats were randomly divided into normal group,model group,Irbesartan group,Rosuvastatin group,Irbesartan combined with Rosuvastatin group(combined group).Except normal group,the other groups were given high fat foods and intraperitoneal injection of pituitrin method in preparation for coronary heart disease rat model.The expression of sPLA2-Ⅴ in myocardium and aorta stem was determined by immunohistochemistry and western blot.Results The sPLA2-Ⅴ expression in myocardium and aorta stem of model group was significantly higher than that of the other groups(P 0.05).But in combined group,it was significantly lower than that of Irbesartan group and Rosuvastatin group(P 0.05).Conclusion Irbesartan combined with Rosuvastatin has a anti-atherosclerosis therapy of coronary heart disease by inhibiting the expression of sPLA2-Ⅴ in myocardium and aorta stem.It can be as a primary prevention for cardiovascular disease risk populations.


In societies undergoing rapid industrialization, prostitution serves a double economic function. It helps to maintain the labor force of single young men, which is in the interest of the capitalists who would otherwise have to pay higher wages to laborers with families to support. In addition, prostitution enables entrepreneurs to extract large profits from the work of women under their control and thus accumulate con-


The present work is a study of the distribution of chromosomes in female patients with senile dementia and in two control populations, one the same age group and one below the age of 40.


In the present study, the predatory interactions between two locally abundant large lady beetles, Coccinella septempunctata L. (C7) and Coccinella transversalis F. (Ct) provided with either an extremely scarce, scarce, sub-optimal, optimal or abundant supply of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum (Harris) were investigated. For this, three 2-predator combinations (conspecific C7 + C7 and Ct + Ct, and heterospecific C7 + Ct) of 10-day-old unmated adult females were used. The relationships between the proportion of prey consumed by the predators in the conspecific and heterospecific combinations when provided with five different abundances of prey were similar in consisting of a decelerating (type II) functional response when provided with an extremely scarce to optimal supply of prey, followed by an accelerating (type III) functional response when provided with an optimal to abundant supply of prey. It is likely that the modified type II functional response recorded in the present study was a consequence of using a small experimental arena (Petri dish). The multiplicative risk model analysis revealed that the predators interacted antagonistically except in the C7 + C7 combination provided with an extremely scarce supply of prey where the predators had an additive effect. The predators in the heterospecific C7 + Ct combination consumed fewer aphids when provided with an extremely scarce, scarce, sub-optimal or optimal supply of prey prey than the predators in conspecific C7 + C7 combination but a similarly high number when provided with an abundant supply of prey. In addition, the efficiency of converting prey biomass into their own biomass was higher in the heterospecific C7 + Ct than in the conspecific C7 + C7 or Ct + Ct combinations at all prey densities. Although the conversion efficiency of the predators in the conspecific and heterospecific combinations provided with an extremely scarce supply of prey was the highest recorded, their growth rate was the lowest. In contrast, both the conversion efficiency and growth rate of the predators in the three combinations were highest when provided with an abundant supply of prey. It may, therefore, be concluded that when the predators in the combinations occupy similar ecological niches, they will probably consume less prey than they require when prey is both scarce and abundant because the predators interact antagonistically.


Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack imposes a severe threat to the extensively used Internet based services like e-commerce, e-banking, transportation, medicine, education etc. Hackers compromises the vulnerable systems for launching DDoS attacks in order to degrade or sometimes completely disrupt such services. In recent years, DDoS attacks have been increased in frequency, sophistication and strength. Though a no. of solutions have been proposed in literature to combat against DDoS attacks but still defending from a DDoS attack is a challenging issue. Hackers are also continuously upgrading their skills to launch diversified attacks and are developing new sophisticated attack tools and traffic generators to circumvent these countermeasures. The purpose of this paper is to characterize and compare the popular DDoS attack tools and traffic generators used by the attackers in recent times. The technical details provided would surely help the researchers to handpick the appropriate DDoS attack tool and traffic generator for designing their real experiments so that their proposed DDoS defense methods could be validated in a better way.


Purpose
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many households to experience income shocks because of the unprecedented job loss, resulting in the demand for public and private food assistance programs and a surge in unemployment insurance filing in the USA. This study aims to investigate the association between social safety programs (e.g. supplementary nutritional assistance programs (SNAP), unemployment insurance and charitable food assistance) and household food sufficiency during the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors used the Household Pulse Surveys (HPS) conducted by the US Census Bureau from August 2020 to March 2021. And, the authors used an ordered probit model for the empirical analysis because the indicator of food sufficiency constructed from the HPS is an ordinal variable with four categories. The indicator identifies four groups of households: severe food insufficiency, moderate food insufficiency, mild food sufficiency and food sufficiency.

Findings
The results show that food sufficiency is significantly higher among the SNAP, unemployment insurance and charitable food assistance recipients than non-recipients. Furthermore, the results indicate that food sufficiency is significantly lower among black, Asian, Hispanic and other races than white households. Concerning the intersectional effect of social safety net programs and race/ethnicity on household food sufficiency, the authors find that the household food sufficiency is significantly higher among white, black and Asian households who benefited from SNAP, compared with non-beneficiary households. On the other hand, the authors find no evidence that participation in SNAP increases food sufficiency significantly among Hispanics and other races. In addition, the likelihood of food sufficiency increases significantly among white, black, Asian, Hispanic and other races that received unemployment insurance and charitable food assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with those who did not benefit from the programs.

Practical implications
These results underscore the critical role collective America's social safety net programs played in increasing food sufficiency among Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the results suggest that families' basic needs (food sufficiency) would have been at risk if these safety net programs were not available to households during the pandemic. This, therefore, highlights the important role that government- and non-government-supported food emergency assistance programs can play in preventing people from facing food insufficiency problems in a tough time or during a crisis in the USA.

Originality/value
This study highlights the dynamic relationship between Americans' social safety net programs and household food sufficiency during the COVID-19 pandemic.


Objective To investigate the expression and significance of the interleukin-17(IL-17) in the labial salivary glands of patients with primary Sjgren's syndrome(pSS).Methods The expression of IL-17 of was assessed by using immunohistochemistric SP method and optical density values.Results There was no expression of IL 17 in control group.In pSS group,the optical density of IL-17 positive was 0.210 3 ± 0.077 0,significantly higher than that in control group(0.078 0 ± 0.012 3,P 0.01).There was positive expression of IL-17 in infiltrating lymphocytes,ductus epithelial cells and gland alveolus epithelial cells in pSS patients,which was significantly higher than that in control group(P 0.01).There was no significant difference in IL-17 expression between ANA positive and ANA negative patients(P 0.05).Conclusion IL-17 participates the local inflammatory reaction of labial salivary glands in pSS patients.There is no correlation between the expression of IL-17 on labial salivary glands and ANA,SSA or SSB in pSS patients,suggesting that lymphocyte infiltration plays a critical role in the tissue injury in pSS.


Many crucial applications of wireless sensor networks rely radically on routing protocols for an efficient data delivery. This paper presents a case study of scrutinizing the use-fulness of hybridization of machine learning classifiers in order to develop a Multi-Criteria Topsis based Ensemble (MCTOPE) framework. Technique for Order of preferences by similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), a multi-criteria assessment algorithm is employed to optimize the built ensemble learner for the prediction of an optimal reactive routing protocol for a wireless sensor network (WSN). The performance of the framework is first validated using six different machine learning datasets, and then the proposed method is implemented as a web application using R script and Python Django web framework. After experimenting with more than thousand combinations of training samples and ten base classifiers for the routing protocol prediction problem, MCTOPE framework builds an ensemble of support vector machine and neural network classifiers with an accuracy of 99.6%, which is far better, when it is compared with the performance of state-of-the-art classifiers. With the appearance of tremendous growth of machine learning classifiers in plenty of applications, an automatic ensemble building machine learning technique helps in minimizing the risk of obtaining poor results from a single classifier system, and will play a big part for efficient predictions in the future.


ends), but he does not exploit it. In Acts 1:23 estêsan refers to the apostles or the brethren who proposed Joseph and Matthias as candidates for Judas' post. The Western Text, however, reads the singular estêsen, making Peter the subject, and H. comments: "a glimpse of the monarchic episcopate of later times" (p. 162). Is it really? Is it not just possible that a scribe shifted to the singular because Peter was the subject of the preceding verses? Again, one would wish that H. had paid a little more attention to the interpretation of the Matthias episode proposed by H. Rengstorf (listed in his bibliography, p. 158). Unconvincing is his explanation of the oath sworn by God to David that one of his descendants would sit upon his throne (Acts 2:30), in the sense of "God's" throne (p. 182). See J. Dupont, Etudes sur les Actes des apôtres (Paris, 1967) p. 293, n. 28. One could go on like this indefinitely. I have checked the English translation against the original in many places, and it is well done. Wilson has noted that when foreign books are known to be available in English, the fact has been noted, but no attempt has been made to identify every reference. This is certainly a defect, since many of the essays or articles to which H. refers are now available in English, and it would have been a service to younger students to change the references to them. In any case, we are indebted to Wilson and his collaborators for making this rich commentary available to the English-speaking world.


The cleanliness of the hydraulic oil is very important to the hydraulic system of hydraulic press.There are four common kinds of filter used in hydraulic system of hydraulic press as follows:high pressure filter,low pressure filter,water pressure filter,and air filter.Entry and exit size of filters,nominal pressure,filtering precision,and filter material should have been considered in the selection of the filter.


Based on the analysis of main factors that affect the pattern of rural settlements and characteristics contain rural industry protection, rural culture development and so on, this paper points out that the research of pattern of rural settlements should focus on its evaluation method, guidance to ensure its development following the proper sequence, and the direction of its development.


A B S T RA C T : New two nano- sized Schiff base complexes [M(L)], where L= 2, 2'-((1E, 1E')-(1, 2 phenylen bis (azanylylidene)) bis (methanylylidene)) bis (4-bromo phenolato) and M=Cu or Zn, (a, b complexes) were synthesized by ultrasonic irradiation. These complexes were characterized by elemental analysis, molar conductivity, FT-IR, fluorescence emission, 1 H NMR, field emission scanning electron spectroscopy (FESEM) and UV-Vis spectroscopy. The UV-Vis spectroscopic data and fluorescence emission bands of these nano-sized Schiff base complexes show a shift in comparison with the bulk sample analogue, due to the reduction in particle size to nano scale. In vitro antimicrobial activities of the title compounds against some Gram-positive (Staphylococcus aureus, Micrococcus luteus, Bacillus cereus, Eterococcus faecalis) and Gram-negative bacteria (Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella sp, Pscudomonas sp) and fungus strain (Candida albicans) were investigated and compared with each other. It was found that Cu (II) complex showed higher antibacterial activity than the Zn (II) complex.


Vibrations can be used to convey positional or sensory information to prosthetic users. However, for the feedback to convey information consistently, daily fine-grained adjustments are required. This paper investigates whether vibration dissipation through the muscle can be tracked using EMG with the aim of providing reliable, long-term sensory feedback. The results of this study showed that the magnitude of vibration artifacts can be measured using EMG and used to create a dissipation trend. This trend varies between participants but shows consistency for individuals when measured across multiple days. This novel way of measuring vibration dissipation can potentially be used as a basis for adaptive sensory control in future prosthesis studies.