Abstract The steady-state flow method has been widely used in the kinetic study of heterogeneous catalysis. Under the conditions of steady state, all elementary steps in series are progressing at the same rate and hence the measured rates hardly tell the precise kinetic structure, or mechanism, of catalytic reactions which usually consist of several elementary steps including adsorption of reactants, surface reaction, and desorption of products. In the kinetic analyses of any given reactions, it is a common practice for the investigator to postulate a number of suspected rate models and then to assess these models to verify a optimal one which best fits observed rate data. Usually, however, there are quite a large number of plausible rate models even for a rather simple reaction, and it is not easy to determine the most adequate model among others even with the help of mathematical model indentification techniques with a electronic computer. This method is based on the assumption that there is a best mode...


Communication among stakeholders is commonly held to improve agreement on facts and management goals. Results from statistical network analyses of six natural resource management systems indicate that the effects of communication depend on context. If communication affects stakeholder knowledge and values, it fosters agreement between stakeholder groups but it results in more disagreement within stakeholder groups. In addition, more centralized communication networks have more disagreement, especially within stakeholder groups, while co-management systems have more disagreement between stakeholder groups. The results may reflect communication effects but also selection effects: the propensity of stakeholders or management systems to establish communication ties between participants with dissimilar knowledge and values. In addition, the results may be linked to different phases in the management process. The conclusion includes a reflection on the need for further research to address these possibilities.


There is not only a clear hierarchy relationship between digital city and digital province, but also similarity and difference. This paper introduced the overall architecture of Hainan international tourist island geospatial framework briefly, and elaborated the conslruclion and application contents of the framework.


8560 Background: Angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (AITL) is a rare aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma with a poor outcome. The role of high-dose therapy followed by autologous stem-cell transplantation as a consolidation strategy (early SCT) remains undefined. We studied the outcome of AITL patients who received early SCT using the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB). Methods: Patient level data were obtained from the NCDB Participant User File. The NCDB collects hospital cancer registry data representing 70% of newly diagnosed cancer cases in the US population. We identified AITL patients (ICD-O: 9705) diagnosed in 1998-2011 for demographics, disease and treatment characteristics. We included patients diagnosed from 1998-2006 in the overall survival (OS) analyses. Patients who received SCT as part of their first course of treatment were considered to have early SCT. Results: From 1998-2011, 515,026 patients were diagnosed with NHL and 3,160 (0.6%) had AITL. The median age at diagnosis was 69 years (range, 18...


THIS STUDY RELATED LAND VALUE CHANGES TO FOUR CHOSEN INDEPENDENT VARIABLES' SIGN DENSITY, ZONING REGULATION, LAND USE INTENSITY, AND AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFIC. THE MAJOR FINDING WAS THAT THE PRESENCE OF SIGNS DID NOT CONTRIBUTE MEASURABLY TO LAND VALUE CHANGES. HOWEVER, LAND VALUES ANALYZED IN THE STUDY DID APPARENTLY RISE SLIGHTLY FASTER OR DECREASE A BIT SLOWER WHERE THERE IS AN ABSENCE OF SIGNS. THE AUTHORS BE- LIEVE THIS CHANGE MAY BE EXPLAINED BY MARKET IMPERFECTIONS ASSESSMENT PRACTICES, AND BY FACTORS UNIQUE TO EACH PROPERTY. THE AUTHORS CONCLUDE THAT AMENITY AND AESTHETICS DO MAKE A CONTRIBUTION TO LAND VALUES, ALONG WITH ACCESSIBILITY AND LAND USE AND A MYRIAD OF OTHER FACTORS. /BPR/


This study examines the current status and problems of apartment house which has been large-scaled and clustered on urban space structure for the purpose of improving urban image and achieving qualitative enhancement of view, compares and analyzes the current status of external color of apartment houses located at the roadside and color features by their properties and further suggests basic materials for planning external colors of apartment house according to characteristics of waterside space. It surveys external colors of apartment houses within the seaside space in Mokpo city and obtains the following results of analyzing characteristics and problems by regions First, external colors of apartment houses within the waterside space of Hadang region were mainly Y, YR series and showed bright atmosphere, but they had lower association with its surrounding sea (BG series) and natural colors. External colors of apartment houses within the seaside space of Bukhang (North Port) region showed a variety of Y, YR and GY color series and these produced disharmony with surrounding view. Second, in the harmony of coloring at Hadang region, main and secondary colors showed harmony by same coloring at most apartment houses and those of Bukhang region showed harmony by color contrast. Third, Third, through investigation of singularity and result of analysis, presented color design guideline of seaside apartment.


Abstract The debate over the relation between grammatically relevant (specifically, what we term event referential) and idiosyncratic aspects of verb meaning has produced a considerable literature. Some authors, such as Levin and Rappaport Hovav, have appealed to figurative uses of verbs as a source of data when the analysis of their literal uses has been controversial, a move that has sometimes been criticized. However, the question of whether figurative uses of verbs preserve the event referential properties of their literal counterparts and are therefore a valid source of data has not, to our knowledge, been systematically explored. We offer two detailed cross-linguistic case studies of Spanish and English verbs to provide an argument that figurative verb uses indeed are a reliable source of evidence for identifying event referential components of meaning: In each case study we find clear evidence for the preservation of these components across uses, indicating that these aspects of meaning both constrain and facilitate figurative uses of verbs.


Corrugated metal surface with underlayer metal as ground is designed as spoof surface plasmons polaritons (SSPPs) structure in microwave frequencies. Efficient conversion from guided wave to SSPP is required for energy feeding into and signal extracting from such plasmonic structure. In this paper, first a high efficient transition design is presented by using gradient corrugated strip with underlayer metal as ground and by using the impedance matching theory. The SSPP wave is highly confined within the teeth part of the corrugated surface. By using this characteristic, then the simple wire-based metamaterial is added below the strip to manipulate the SSPP wave within the propagating band. Two aforementioned devices are designed and fabricated. The simulated and measured results on the scattering coefficients demonstrate the excellent conversion and excellent manipulating of SSPP transmitting. Such results have very important value to develop advanced plasmonic integrated circuits in the microwave frequencies.


To monitor methane effectively and timely,coverage of node flowrate method was put forward as theory base.Methane proportion matrix and airflow matrix of all nodes in ventilation network were solved at first,objective function and constraint were defined,then the problem of placement was transferred to 0-1 programming.After giving value of coverage,the best placement of methane sensors was got using hide list method.Using ventilation network of a small mine as the research object,the result shows that placement of methane sensors can be figured by proper methane sensor number,coverage value and 0-1 programming method chosen according to different ventilation networks.


The posterior part of the superior temporal gyrus (STG) has long been known to be a crucial hub for auditory and language processing, at the crossroad of the functionally defined ventral and dorsal pathways. Anatomical studies have shown that this "auditory cortex" is composed of several cytoarchitectonic areas whose limits do not consistently match macro-anatomic landmarks like gyral and sulcal borders. The functional characterization of these areas derived from brain imaging studies has some limitations, even when high field functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is used, because of the variability observed in the extension of these areas between hemispheres and individuals. In patients implanted with depth electrodes, in vivo recordings and direct electrical stimulations of the different sub-parts of the posterior STG allow to delineate different auditory sub-fields in Heschl's gyrus (HG), Planum Temporale (PT), the posterior part of the superior temporal gyrus anterior to HG, the posterior superior temporal sulcus (STS), and the region at the parietal-temporal boundary commonly labelled "Spt". We describe how this delineation can be achieved using data from electrical cortical stimulation combined with local field potentials and time frequency analysis recorded as responses to pure tones and syllables. We show the differences in functional roles between the primary and non-primary auditory areas, in the left and the right hemispheres. We discuss how these findings help understanding the auditory semiology of certain epileptic seizures and, more generally, the neural substrate of hemispheric specialization for language.


This paper investigates the radiation properties of two coupled split-ring resonators (SRRs). Due to electromagnetic coupling, two hybrid magnetic plasmon modes were induced in the structure. Our calculations show that the radiation loss of the structure was greatly suppressed by the hybridization effect. This led to a remarkable increase in the Q-factor of the coupled system compared to the single SRR. By adjusting the distance between the two SRRs, the Q-factor changed correspondingly due to different electromagnetic coupling strengths. This resulted in a coupled structure that functioned as a new type of nanocavity with an adjustable Q-factor.


An efficient one-pot method for the synthesis of potentially biologically active 4-tosyloxazole derivatives is described via reaction of imidoyl chloride adducts generated in situ from the reaction of isocyanide and acyl chlorides with p-toluenesulfonylmethyl isocyanide (TosMIC). This reaction was carried out in the presence of sodium hydride as a base and in THF to produce 4-tosyloxazoles in excellent yield.


In this paper, the Takagi-Sugeno(T-S) fuzzy impulsive control model for PMSMs with parameter uncertainties is established via the T-S modeling technique and impulsive technique. Based on the new model, the control conditions of asymptotical and exponential stability for PMSMs with parameter uncertainties have been derived by Lyapunov method and matrix analysis. An illustrative example is also given to show the effectiveness of our results. Compared with the existing results, the obtained results exhibit certain advantage.


The purpose of this study was to develop a culture-based mathematics learning model through traditional Javanese games and find out the feasibility so that it could be used for elementary school students. This development research uses the ADDIE model (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation). Through these stages of development, it  produce culture-based mathematics learning model through traditional Javanese games products with the main products in the form of model books, student books, teacher books, syllabus, lesson plans, and student worksheets. The research subjects were 19 fourth grade students at Klegenwonosari Elementary School. The data collection techniques in this study were carried out test and non-test. The data analysis technique in this study was in scores and percentages. Starting from the needs analysis of learning models, culture-based needs analysis, and curriculum analysis it is known that the use of mathematical learning models through traditional games has been done but outside learning, students were lack of knowledge about the traditional Javanese culture games that were Gobag Sodor and Engklek. Based on the results of the study, the mathematical learning model through traditional Javanese games fulfills the valid criteria with an average score of 3.79 from the model expert's assessment. Fulfill the effective criteria by obtaining the results of completeness of students 84.21% and get very positive students responses with a percentage of 90.90%. Therefore, Culture-based Mathmatics learning model through traditional Javanese games is suitable for elementary students. Keywords: traditional Javanes games, mathematics models, ethnomatematics


This article studies covers in $\PG(3,q)$ and in generalized quadrangles. The excess of a cover is defined to be the difference between the number of lines in the cover and the number of lines in a spread. In contrast with the theory of partial spreads which tells us that large partial spreads can be extended to spreads, in $\PG(3,q)$ and in some generalized quadrangles, there exist minimal covers with small excess. For such minimal covers with small excess, we describe the structure of the set of points lying on at least two lines of the cover.


The film-electrode method for the determination of BOD_5 was compared with the iodometric method through the precision experiment.The results showed that there were not obvious difference between the two methods,and the film-electrode method could be used for the determination of surface water with satisfactory precision and accuracy.


Compared with other innovations in financial fields, Chinese state-owned commercial banks'innovation appears somewhat slow moving. Severe situation of bad loan becomes the enormous obstruction in the process of innovation. During recent years, we have taken a good many measures to overcome it. But the effects are not satisfactory. The author reckons it is obligatory to survey the whole situation, that is, we must combine the omni-directional macro visual angle and effective micro consideration.Only after analysing inside and outside factors of resolving the issue, could we conquer the hindrance.


Submitted for the MAR15 Meeting of The American Physical Society Current phase relation in nanowire based Josephson junctions DANIEL SZOMBATI, STEVAN NADJ-PERGE, ATTILA GERESDI, VINCENT MOURIK, KUN ZUO, DAVID WOERKOM, Delft University of Technology, DIANA CAR, ERIK BAKKERS, Eindhoven University of Technology, LEO KOUWENHOVEN, Delft University of Technology — Junctions based on small band-gap nanowires are convenient platform for studying Josephson effect in the presence of strong spin-orbit coupling. As predicted by theory, due to the interplay between strong Zeeman interaction and large spin orbing coupling in these nanowires, the critical current and in particular current phase relation exhibits rich set of features in the presence of external magnetic field and electrostatic gating. We study supercurrent transport through Indium Antimonide nanowires contacted using Niobium-Titanium-Nitride leads using both current and phase bias measurements. Our results provide useful insights into superconductor/semiconductor hybrid systems capable of hosting Majorana fermions, potential building blocks for topological quantum computing. Daniel Szombati Delft University of Technology Date submitted: 14 Nov 2014 Electronic form version 1.4


Gel permeation chromatography has been applied to iodine scavenging studies of the distribution of radicals produced in the radiolysis of symmetrically branched hydrocarbons 2,3-dimethylbutane, 2,4-dimethylpentane, and 3-ethylpentane. The principal iodides observed are those expected as a result of simple bond rupture. In the case of 2,3-dimethylbutane all five expected iodides are readily resolvable and it is shown that the loss of H from a tertiary position is favored over loss from a primary position by a factor of ∼10. A similar ratio is also observed for 2,4-dimethylpentane. The higher ratio of 15 observed for 3-ethylpentane indicates a dependence on the number of tertiary sites on the alkane. The relative yield of ∼3.3 for the loss of secondary and primary H atoms from 2,4-dimethylpentane and 3-ethylpentane is similar to that for normal alkanes, indicating a negligible effect of the adjacent tertiary carbon. In all three cases the rupture of terminal C−C bonds is relatively infrequent with C−C ruptu...


Westinghouse has recently proposed a new methodology to estimate the risk of PCI failure in a reactor, linking the probability for PCI failures to the cladding hoop stress. However, the current thermo-mechanical performance tool, STAV7, is not intended for on-line surveillance, making it too time-consuming to be used for this application. Instead a new approach is attempted, by using a machine learning technique called Artificial Neural Networks. Here, models for clad stress calculations are trained in order to reproduce as close as possible the results from a large number of STAV7 simulations.
In order to create a functioning model, five different phases during the clad stress evolution have been identified. There are three phases during which the power remains constant and the stress evolves over time: Initial reactor power (prior to any power variations), Relaxation (following power increments) and deconditioning (following power reductions). In addition to these, there are two phases during which the power level changes instantaneously: Power increases and power decreases.
It has been demonstrated that it is possible to use neural networks to reproduce the STAV7 clad stress results with high accuracy for the different phases. The calculations are fast enough to be used in a core monitoring system, although more validation, and potentially training, is needed before the networks can be used for reliable application to real operation cases.
Please note that this is the public version of the master thesis report and that certain information has been omitted. For access to the full version contact Westinghouse Electric Sweden AB.


The utility model discloses a structure for supporting a construction elevator foundation on a basement top plate. The construction elevator foundation is positioned on the basement top plate; a supporting structure is arranged between a basement bottom plate and the basement top plate and used for reinforcing the basement top plate; and a brick column is used as the supporting structure, the bottom of the brick column is supported on the basement bottom plate, and the top of the brick column is supported at the center under the basement top plate. In the utility model, the brick column is arranged before the construction of the basement top plate so as to bear the vertical load of a constructed elevator, thus saving cost; and the structure is safe, simple, convenient and feasible to construct and operate.


Prehypertension is defined as systolic blood pressure of 120 to 139 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure of 80 to 89 mmHg.The incidence rate of prehypertension in adults is higher than that of individuals with normal blood pressure.Individuals with prehypertension usually have many risk factors for cerebrovascular and cardiovascular events,target organ damages of blood vessels,kidney and heart,and have higher cerebrovascular and cardiovascular risks compared with subjects with normal blood pressure(systolic 120~129mmHg or diastolic 80~84mmHg).The concept of prehypertension emphasizes the prevention of risk factors for cerebrovascular and cardiovascular events,and it is suggested health-promoting lifestyle modifications and drug interventions be given to these individuals.


A kind of complex Eu3+1,10phenanthroline(phen)benzene carboxylic acid(BA)acrylic acid(AA) was synthesized. Its structure was determined as Eu(phen)(BA)2(AA). Copolymers containing rare earth complex were prepared by copolymerizing the rare earth complex with methyl methacrylate. A sort of transparent luminescent polymer material with high fluorescence intensity was obtained. They were characterized by means of IR and UV spectra, which show that it is a copolymer, not blending. The fluorescent intensity was improved greatly because of the introducing of 1,10phenanthroline.


Received : 14 – Agustus – 2021 Revised : 6 – September – 2021 Accepted : 8 – September – 2021 Inventory management makes the company's benchmark in achieving the effectiveness of raw material inventory activities. Thus, inventory control plays an important role. One company needs to achieve effectiveness in supplying laptops for sales needs. The company is PT. Gading Murni, which provides laptops for resale obtained from suppliers. The purpose of this research is to determine the capacity of PT warehouses. Pure Ivory in storing laptop supplies can use the Economic Order Quantity method. This study uses observation stage to retrieve laptop purchase data from suppliers in 2020. The stage is to forecast the demand for the period January 2021 – December 2021, calculate the unit purchase from the supplier economically, the frequency of orders, reorder when the unit reaches the sales target, plan the capacity of the unit in the warehouse. The results of this study with the value of the capacity of units accommodated warehouses a total of 29,707 units of laptops. The unit is obtained from the calculation of Economic Order Quantity value of 29,593 units then added with a safety supply of 114 units. The results will be effective, if the company can evaluate in order to increase sales and expand warehouse space to increase the capacity of units in the future. Kata kunci : Economic Order Quantity Effectiveness Warehouse Capacity


Women's security has always been a major concern, and numerous potential solutions have been discussed regarding how technology can be used to address the issue. Currently, the rapid rise in smartphone usage has made it possible to integrate personal security efficiently and effectively with the help of hardware and software. Existing security methods necessitate some form of human input and the use of only pre-selected contacts. When it comes to tragic occurrences involving women, the number is frighteningly high. Problems can arise from a variety of situations, including women walking on the street after work, going to the supermarket, or a variety of other reasons when they are alone. There has been a spike in women-related crimes in Malaysia as well. Therefore, to enhance women's safety in Malaysia this project suggests a mobile application that can come in handy for women who find themselves in dangerous situations. When the need arises, a single click on this application will recognize the location using GPS and will send a message to the registered contacts containing the location URL, as well as call the first registered contact to assist the user in a difficult situation. Authentication of their identity is also mandatory for this application. The primary goal of this study is to ensure and enhance personal safety. As a result, the primary goal of this project is to make it easier for users to get assistance promptly. In addition, a security pin is used as the login password to verify the user's identity and prevent an anonymous or malicious attack. This project makes use of the agile methodology to make certain that testing is carried out in each module. It creates opportunities to reevaluate the development lifecycle to make sure the entire project fulfills the outcome and operates well. After several iterations of refinement and debugging, the final system is deemed bug-free.


Background : Despite an increase in the number of health facilities providing prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) services in Ethiopia, the proportion of HIV-positive pregnant women who receive antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) for PMTCT remains low. This study aims at determining intention to HIV testing among pregnant women, in Southern Ethiopia. Methods : A community based cross-sectional study design was conducted in Areka town in Jan 2013. The study recruits a sample of 380 study pregnant mothers. Theory of planned behavior was used to assess intention , attitude subjective norms and perceived behavioral control towards  HIV testing. The data was entered and analyzed using SPSS version 16.0 statistical package. Bivariate analysis was carried to examine the association between intention and TPB constructs and multiple linear regressions was carried out to identify independent predictors of intention of HIV testing among pregnant women. Result: TPB measures explained 42% of the total variability in the intention to HIV testing among pregnant women. Among the constructs of TPB, perceived behavioral control (β=.51(p<0.01), Attitude (β=.20 (p<0.01) and subjective norm (β=.16(p<0.01) were found as significant predictors with their respective strength of association. Most Socio-demographic variables did not predict the intention to HIV test. However, Perceived susceptibility (β = - 0.12) and age (β = - 0.09) were also found as significant predictors of intention to HIV testing among distal variables.  Conclusion: Perceived behavioral control was found to be best predictor of behavioral intention followed by attitude to HIV test and subjective norm. Control beliefs relatively higher in explaining intention compared to behavioral beliefs and normative beliefs. Based on the findings, due attention should be given for designing persuasive message aimed at increasing power of control that enable women to evaluate their control belief positively and increase positive attitude towards outcome of HIV testing. Keywords: intention, HIV test, pregnancy


Objectives : There has been some controversy about the modulatory effects on brain function during acupuncture on each side of the same acupoint. This study was designed to investigate and compare the blood oxygen level-dependent(BOLD) responses of acupuncture on each side of ST36. Methods : Fourteen healthy subjects were recruited for imaging and received acupuncture or placebo stimulations either on the left or on the right acupoint of ST36 in each scan. For the voxel-wise statistical analysis, one sample T-test and the within-subject analysis of variance(ANOVA) test were performed using SPM8 software. Results : This study showed that acupuncture on each side of ST36 showed different BOLD signal patterns. Higher BOLD responses after acupuncture stimulations at the left ST36 compared to the right were observed mainly in the parahippocampal gyrus(BA 28), dorsolateral prefrontal cortex(DLPFC, BA 44), thalamus, culmen and claustrum. We investigated the different neural responses between rest and activation periods of placebo and acupuncture stimulations on each side of ST36. Acupuncture at the right ST36 elicited activation mainly in the insula, supplementary motor area(SMA) and anterior cingulate cortex(ACC), while acupuncture at the left ST36 elicited activation mainly in the insula, primary somatosensory cortex(SI, BA 2) and DLPFC(BA 44). Conclusions : To our knowledge, this is the first reported functional MRI study directly comparing when needling at the right and at the left side of ST36. This study`s preliminary results proved to be evidence of acupuncture`s different effects when performed on opposite sides of an acupoint.


Photoluminescence images of silicon wafers with non-uniform lifetime distribution are often smeared by lateral carrier diffusion. We propose a simple method to de-smear the photoluminescence images by applying the two-dimensional continuity equation. We demonstrate the method on simulated silicon wafers and measured photoluminescence-based lifetime image of multicrystalline silicon wafer. The de-smearing is very effective in recovering the actual lifetime for wafers with gradual changes in lifetime but is less effective around localised recombination centres with high contrast such as grain boundaries and dislocations. The method is sensitive to measurement noise; therefore, the implementation of suitable noise filtering is often critical.


IMPORTANCE
In conjunction with chemotherapy, immunotherapy with dendritic cells (DCs) may eliminate minimal disease burden by generating cytotoxic T lymphocytes. Enhanced cytosolic bioavailability of tumor-specific antigens improves access to human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I molecules for more efficient cytotoxic T lymphocyte generation. Various cell-penetrating domains (CPDs) are known to ferry covalently linked heterologous antigens to the intracellular compartment by traversing the plasma membrane.

OBJECTIVE
To determine whether generating melanoma antigen family A, 3 (MAGE-A3), a tumor-specific cancer-testis antigen, as a fusion protein with CPD will enhance the cytosolic bioavailability of MAGE-A3.

DESIGN
MAGE-A3 was amplified by polymerase chain reaction using complementary DNA from renal tissue and cloned in frame with a CPD (YARKARRQARR) at the amino-terminal end and hexahistidine at the carboxy-terminal end to generate CPD-MAGE-A3 in a pQE-70 expression vector. Cultures were grown in Escherichia coli BL21 Star (DE3-pLysS) cells followed by nickel-nitrilotriacetic acid affinity purification of recombinant proteins.

MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES
Measurement of DC membrane penetration of CPD-MAGE-A3 vs MAGE-A3 and determination of the effect of CPD-MAGE-A3 pulsing on DC phenotypic expression of cell-surface antigens.

RESULTS
Media composition and isopropyl-d-thiogalactosidase induction were optimized to achieve high levels of protein expression followed by purification. Western blot analysis with MAGE-A3 antibodies recognized both MAGE-A3 and CPD-MAGE-A3 proteins, while CPD antibodies recognized only CPD-MAGE-A3. Purified CPD-MAGE-A3 exhibited more efficient DC membrane penetration than did MAGE-A3 alone as confirmed by immunofluorescence analysis. High-level expression of several unique DC markers (CD80, CD83, CD86, and HLA-DR) by flow cytometry was consistent with a mature DC phenotype, indicating that pulsing with CPD-MAGE-A3 did not alter specific cell-surface antigens required for T-cell activation.

CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE
We have demonstrated for the first time, to our knowledge, that cloning and purification of MAGE-A3 with CPD enhances its cytosolic bioavailability in DCs without altering cell-surface antigens, potentially making it a more potent therapeutic cancer vaccine compared with existing MAGE-A3 protein and peptide vaccines.


The invention relates to the field of network data transmission, in particular to a method and a device for picking up logistical parcels via mobile phones. Aiming at solving existing problems in the prior art, the method and the device allowing logistics companies to deliver at any time and receivers to pick up the logistical parcels at any time via the mobile phones are provided. Via the steps of logistical terminal counter registering, courier authorization registering, courier delivering and receiver picking up, problems in the prior art are effectively solved. The method and the device are applied to the field of logistics.


The strength and stiffness of steel degrade at elevated temperatures in fire.And non-uniformly temperature distribution across the member section will cause thermal bowing.The analysis of structural member in fire involves both geometric nonlinearity and material nonlinearity,So it can only be solved numerically.Based on the extensional beam theory,adopting Legendre polynomial as base function to approximate axial and lateral deformation,and determining the coefficients by mininizing the sum of squares of equilibrium equation's residual error,the axial force-temperature relationship of axially restrained steel column with transversely non-uniform temperature distribution was analyzed.Parameters including thermal gradient,axially restrained ratio,load ratio and member length were studied.The outcomes of this method agree well with both the theoretical and finite element analysis results.It indicates that columns with higher load ratio failure at lower temperature.The axially restrained ratio,thermal gradient and column length only affect the column deformation.They have no influence on the column critical temperature.


We used a 300nm polycarbonate (PC) membrane as a supported structure and CsI photocathode was evaporated onto PC surface. The thickness of CsI can be controlled between 100 nm to 1 μm. The effects of deposition speed and deliquescence property on morphology and structure were analyzed. The photoelectric conversion properties of CsI films were analyzed with Manson X-ray source. The energy spectral response peak value of photocathode is above 3000μA/W calibrated at Beijing synchrotron radiation facility. The photocathode was applied to an X-ray streak camera on SG III facility and distinct x-ray images were captured.


The importance of the interrelations between the pituitary and the gonads has become well established since Cushing's (1) demonstration that partial hypophysectomy in female dogs is followed by hypoplasia of the generative organs. Smith (2) and Zondek and Aschheim (3) by replacement studies showed that the anterior pituitary gland in rats secretes a substance essential to the functioning of these glands. In young birds, Mitchell (4) reported delay in sexual maturity following nearly complete ablation of the hypophysis and Domm (5) observed gonadal hypertrophy and marked development of other sexual characters after hypophyseal implants or injections of pituitary hebin in such birds. Marked hypertrophy of the vagina, uterus and ovaries of dogs injected with anterior lobe pituitary extract was found by Putnam (6).


This paper builds "construction stage-construction link" two-dimensional theory framework of evaluation; and then establishes an evaluation indicator system of entire construction process of smart grid which covering seven construction links on this basis; finally, uses the evaluation method of construction maturity of smart grid to make an empirical analysis on the smart grid construction in one region of China, and verifies the validity of this indicator system.


Librarians must look to the future information needs of a country expanding in population, technology and educational requirements. The "information explosion" is placing an additional strain on existing methods of providing information rapidly and economically. A library seeking to develop a modern information retrieval program has many existing services from which to choose. The problem is to define the program that will best serve the present library users and leave room for flexible action in the future, and then to pick a combination of services that best match these objectives. was founded in 1952 by the late Dr. Mortimer Taube, and has been engaged in developing modern information retrieval systems for government and industry. A key concept that is now emerging is the development of mechanized or computerized data banks. This data bank concept is a plan for organizing a single set of data for producing many products. The traditional library card catalog or data bank, long the key to finding materials in the nation's libraries, today is getting competition from book catalogs. Using data bank techniques to keep a library catalog updated, Doc Inc computer systems generate printouts of the catalog which are used to produce bound books for distribution to library users. In effect, the book catalogs are carrying the traditional card catalog, literally, into the homes and offices of users instead of requiring them to trek to the library to find out if the information they want is available. The computer is used to produce several indexes (such as subject, author, and title) in various formats from a single file of data and is particularly effective if the catalog data bank is standardized. Despite the wide variety of ways libraries catalog books, most differences are variations of the Library of Congress cataloging system. By using the LC catalog system as a basis or standard for 195 196 building the data bank, most libraries can be provided with just the index information they need by selecting only those items that apply from the LC data bank. An LC data bank system can produce book catalogs for many libraries from the same data, with provisions for handling special information. Having introduced the general concept of Documentation Incorporated , the following questions should be answered: (1) Why book cata-logs? (2) Why use a computer to produce book catalogs? (3) Why develop a catalog data bank? Each of these questions is …


Morris is partly right. We do not have definite direct evidence that our patient's death was caused by the effects of inhaled nitric oxide therapy. 1 Therefore, we wrote: "It is suggested that this [decrease of blood pressure probably due to nitric oxide] provoked an irreversible cardiogenic shock. Thus, inhaled nitric oxide may be dangerous...." The severely disturbed hemodynamics of our patient remained stable before nitric oxide was administered during the first 15 hours after insertion of the pulmonary and radial artery catheters. Then, after institution of the inhaled nitric oxide therapy, her circulation deteriorated progressively with clear peripheral vasodilatation until she died 11 hours later. In the study of Wessel et al 2 cited by Morris and us, inhaled nitric oxide increased the plasma levels of vasodilatatory systemic cyclic guanosine monophosphate. In that investigation, nitric oxide also decreased mean blood pressure significantly by 7% (from 65.8 to 60.9 mm


The fasting‐state serum bile acid profile in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has been reported to differ when nonalcoholic steatohepatitis is compared to nonalcoholic fatty liver. However, there are few data comparing changes in NAFLD vs non‐NAFLD, or whether the bile acid profile differs according to the degree of fibrosis.


The special characteristics of the Mobile and Ad hoc network (MANET) attract the users to access the services provided by the network. But, accessing these services such as high mobility also creates an issue of unstable routing which leads to packet dropping. To address this issue, the packet dump situation is considered in this document under normal and distortion mode. This paper also focused on black hole attack (BHA) and selective packet drop attack (SPDA) and has a threat prevention mechanism has been proposed. The whole paper is divided into three frames namely employing deployment model, the importance of intrusion and its prevention, and registration of new node through interpolation named as Chebyshev method. The prevention structure has been modeled using swarm and machine intelligence. In addition, the affected route has been detected using the Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) inspired Optimal Bee Behaviour (OBB) algorithm. The different parameters, such as, Delay, energy consumption,Throughput and Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR) are computed. The proposed work consumes less energy as the developed architecture compared with sate of art techniques which states that energy consumption revamped by 12%. The delay rate has been ameliorated by 69% and 10% in contrary to past studies. The proposed prevention structure provides 1.8% improvement for throughput in comparison to without prevention architecture. However, proposed model provides 0.94 PDR using the polynomial kernel in comparison to state of art techniques. The comparative analysis has been performed with the existing work and outperformance has been noticed in terms of QoS.


This paper addresses the importance of incorporating various risk measures in portfolio management and proposes a dynamic hybrid portfolio optimization model that combines the spectral risk measure and the Value-at-Risk in the mean-variance formulation. By utilizing the quantile optimization technique and martingale representation, we offer a solution framework for these issues and also develop a closed-form portfolio policy when all market parameters are deterministic. Our hybrid model outperforms the classical continuous-time mean-variance portfolio policy by allocating a higher position of the risky asset in favorable market states and a less risky asset in unfavorable market states. This desirable property leads to promising numerical experiment results, including improved Sortino ratio and reduced downside risk compared to the benchmark models.


n This paper provides an update on a multiyear research project that involves the systematic investigation of ship air wakes using an instrumented research vessel. The object is to validate Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools that will be useful in determining ship air wake impact on rotary wing aircraft. Currently, ship launch and recovery wind limits and envelopes are primarily determined through at-sea in situ flight testing that is expensive and frequently difficult to schedule and complete. The 108-foot long research vessel is modified to include a flight deck and hangar-like structure to produce air wake data similar to that from a modern destroyer. The research vessel is equipped with threecomponent ultrasonic anemometers to collect air wake data. Repeated underway testing has been performed to collect in situ data while wind tunnel testing has been also performed on a 4% scale model of the research vessel. Comparison of in situ data from above the flight deck, with similar data from wind tunnel testing and CFD simulations, shows good agreement in velocity direction for a headwind condition and for winds 15° and 30° off the starboard bow. Off-ship air turbulence data collected with an instrumented radio-controlled helicopter shows that an off-ship air wake is present where predicted by CFD simulations. Analysis indicates that CFD simulations likely require modeling of the atmospheric boundary layer to improve simulation accuracy. Introduction Launch and recovery of rotary wing aircraft from naval vessels can be very challenging and potentially hazardous. Ship motion combined with the turbulence that is created as the wind flows over the ship's superstructure can result in rapidly changing flow conditions for rotary wing aircraft. Additionally, dynamic interface effects between the vessel air wake and the rotor wake are also problematic. To ensure aircraft and vessel safety, launch and recovery envelopes are prescribed for specific aircraft types on different ship classes (Figure 1).1 Permissible launch and recovery envelopes are often restrictive because of limited flight envelope expansion. Flight testing required to expand the envelopes is frequently difficult to schedule, as well as expensive and potentially hazardous. Currently, the launch and recovery wind limits and air operation envelopes are primarily determined via the subjective analysis of test pilots (e.g., excessive flight control inputs are required to safely land on the flight deck), using a time consuming and potentially risky iterative flight test build-up approach. The time and risk of flight testing could be reduced through the complementary use of computational tools to predict test conditions and extrapolate test results, thereby reducing the number of actual flight test points required. However, current computational methods are insufficiently validated for ships with a complex superstructure, such as a destroyer or cruiser.2-9 Validated computational air wake predictions can also be used for ship design and operational safety analysis. This paper presents an update of a multiyear project to develop and validate Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools to reduce the amount of at-sea in situ flight testing required, and make rotary wing launch and recovery envelope expansion safer, more efficient, and affordable. The authors do not envision these CFD tools as replacing the need for flight testing and the associated human subjective analysis associated with flight testing. Rather, we hope to develop validated CFD tools that will allow a reduction in the amount of flight testing required, and to focus the flight testing that is performed on the limits of the launch and recovery envelopes where pilot subjective analysis is particularly important. This research project leverages unique resources available at the United States Naval Academy (USNA) that allow for a systematic analysis of ship air wakes.


A new version of the RATEAU (Resistivimetre AutoTracte a Enregistrement AUtomatique) system in the pole–pole configuration was field tested in August 1995 on the site in co-operation with the Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit. The device consists of a small three-wheeled carriage containing a resistivity meter, a PC and batteries. The front wheel measures the position along the profile. The two others, connected to the resistivity meter, are metallic and fitted with spikes ensuring a good electrical contact with the ground (potential, P, and current, C). Two remote electrodes are connected to the resistivity meter through a long electric cable. The carriage is light enough to be pulled by hand.

A large resistivity survey of about 3.5 ha was completed, in average conditions, in a few days. After appropriate data processing, the map shows, with great detail, many interesting features, such as buildings, roads and modern disturbances. A total of 5 h was required to survey an area of 1 ha, consisting of 101 profiles of 100 m. At the time of the survey, this prototype ranged among the lightest and the fastest available for accurate archaeological surveys with small grid spacing. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Case management is increasingly extolled as a mechanism to improve services in both health and mental health settings. However, in mental health service systems, case coordination of services is at the client level, while in health services it is applied mainly as a means to manage care and control costs. This paper discusses the background of case management, the policy and management conflict that is arising between the goals of cost control and continuity of care, and a number of steps to reduce the negative effects of these competing policies and goals.


In this paper, magnetically-coupled impedance source (MCIS) three-phase four-switch inverters are introduced for renewable energy applications. This inverter utilizes two single-phase MCIS inverters to obtain a three-phase output, where less component-count is achieved in order to reduce the inverter volume. On the other hand, as a result of the reduced number of switches, the proposed inverter suffers from higher voltage stresses. The MCIS inverters are first reviewed. Then, the modulation and operation principle of the MCIS three-phase inverter topology are introduced before sizing the passive components. A comparison among the similar candidates is done. Finally, the analysis is verified by simulations.


Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) are universal functions which provide a comprehensive description of hadron properties in terms of quarks and gluons. Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering (DVCS) is the simplest hard exclusive process involving GPDs. In particular, the DVCS on the neutron is mostly sensitive to E, the less constrained GPD, wich allows to access to the quark angular momentum. The first dedicated DVCS experiment on the neutron ran in the Hall A of Jefferson Lab in fall 2004. The high luminosity of the experiment and the resulting background rate recquired specific devices which are decribed in this document. The analysis methods and the experiment results, leading to preliminary constraints on the GPD E, are presented.


This paper presents the simulation and measurement results of a C-Band microstrip array antennas for Ground Surveillance Radar. The antenna requirements include: operating frequency in C-Band, minimum gain of 20 dBi, horizontal beamwidth 2.8 degree, vertical beamwidth 7.5 degree, horizontal polarization, and physical dimensions less than 100 cm x 42.9 cm x 18.2 cm. The simulation and measurement processes use patch slit array 4x12 antenna with physical dimension of 38 cm x 16.2 cm. The simulation and measurement results showed that the antenna operating frequency, minimum gain, polarization, and physical dimension comply with the requirements, while the horizontal and vertical beamwidth could not comply with the requirements. Both simulation and measurement results yield that the patch slit array antenna are operating in C-band, horizontally polarized, and have minimum gain over 20 dBi. Both results also comply with updated physical dimension requirement. However, horizontal and vertical beamwidth of both results don't satisfy the requirements, which are maximum 2.8° and 7.5°, respectively.


A statistical analysis of the syphilis incidence in Moscow and regions from 2006 to 2017 was carried out. Despite a decrease in the general syphilis incidence an increase in incidence of such severe forms as late neurosyphilis and cardiovascular syphilis was observed. We analyzed 1,600 archive case histories of inpatients and outpatients of the Sechenov University clinics in Moscow and identified the specific lesions in heart tissues, blood vessels and the nervous system. in literal data a relatively small number of cardiosyphilis cases was described. it can be explained by the fact that earlier only gummas, that are rarely to be located in the heart and difficult to be identified clinically, were considered to be the only specific pathological and anatomical changes for syphilis of the heart.


We describe weak BCC-algebras (also called BZ-algebras) in which the condition (xy)z=(xz)y is satisfied only in the case when elements x and y belong to the same branch. We also characterize branchwise commutative and branchwise implicative weak BCC-algebras satisfying this condition. We also describe connections between various types of implicative weak BCC-algebras.


The invention discloses insecticidal compositions suitable for use in preparation of insecticidal liquid fertilizers comprising a pyrethroid, a hydrated aluminum-magnesium silicate, and at least one dispersant selected from the group consisting of a sucrose ester, a lignosulfonate, an alkylpolyglycoside, a naphthalenesulfonic acid formaldehyde condensate and a phosphate ester are disclosed.


This study aimed to evaluate the public knowledge and attitude toward how to use, store and discard unused and expired pharmaceutical drugs among the Saudi population. A descriptive cross-sectional study design was used to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, and practice of participants toward the usage and disposal of expired pharmaceutical products among the Saudi population via an online survey distributed throughout social media sites during the period of two months from March 2020 to May 2020. Microsoft Excel and graph pad software analyzed the cleaned data. Descriptive statistics on sample characteristics were computed in frequencies and percentages and presented using tables and figures. 650 participants enrolled in the study. 75% of the participants had unused medicine stored at home during study time. The common types of medications kept in households were analgesics (90%) and antibiotics (67%). Most participants showed a well understanding of medication waste (70%) and the potential risks associated with improper drug disposal (85%). There was a lack of received information about safe usage, storage, and disposal practice. About 55% of the participants discarded the unused and expired medications by throwing them in the trash. In light of this study's results, which showed a large percentage of participants kept unused or expired medications in their homes despite their knowledge of the seriousness of this situation. Therefore, it is essential to plan educational programs about the rational use and expiry date of drugs to improve their awareness, attitudes, and practices regarding the safe disposal of unused and expired medications. Guidelines on safe disposal are required, and an organized method of collecting unused and expired pharmaceuticals such as the "drug take-back program" is needed. The pharmacist also has a significant role as a drug expert in educating patients about the drug's uses and how to store and discard it.


No study of world energy would be complete without including Russia. Yet despite so much potential, this resource-rich country has failed to take full advantage of its energy abundance. Through its egregious mismanagement of these resources, Russia has become one of the world's most inefficient and wasteful producers and consumers of energy.(1) This is due in part to the presumption that there will always be more oil or gas to be discovered, and, as a result, there is no particular need for Russia to use what it has efficiently. Historically Russia has frequently been a major player in the energy game. For a time during the late czarist era at the turn of the 19th century, Russia was the world's largest exporter of petroleum. Almost half a century later, one of Hitler's targets was the oil fields of Baku, today a part of Azerbaijan but then a part of the Soviet empire. After the Second World War, the Soviet Union developed other oil fields, particularly in Western Siberia, and by the 1970s, though its deposits were not as large as Saudi Arabia's, it surpassed the United States as the world's largest producer of petroleum. Russia briefly became the world's largest exporter once again when the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) tried to impose an embargo on the West in 1973. Furthermore, with the world's largest natural gas deposits, by 1993 it had become the world's largest exporter of natural gas, a status it still retains (see Table 1). TABLE 1 Producers (in 1996) and Exporters (in 1995) of Crude Oil and Natural Gas (in million tons [Mt] and million cubic meters [M[m.sup.3]]) % of Crude Oil World Crude Oil Producers Mt Total Exporters Mt Saudi Arabia 431 12.7 Saudi Arabia 337 United States 388 11.4 Iran 130 Russia 301 8.9 Norway 126 Iran 184 5.4 Russia 122 Venezuela 169 5.0 Venezuela 99 % of Natural Gas World Natural Gas Producers M[m.sup.3] Total Exporters M[m.sup.3] Russia 587,657 25.4 Russia 191,571 United States 542,211 23.5 Canada 79,114 Canada 164,977 7.1 Netherlands 40,672 Netherlands 95,432 4.1 Algeria 37,881 Indonesia 75,195 3.3 Indonesia 32,800 Source: International Energy Agency, Key World Energy Statistics (Paris: International Energy Agency, 1996) pp. 11, 13. The wasteful and inefficient use of energy so characteristic of Russia today stems from the ideologically driven price relationships established during communism and the priority that era's leaders placed on providing the Soviet military-industrial complex with cheap energy and raw materials. The Soviets intentionally kept energy prices low to stimulate economic growth. Unfortunately these practices became part of the inherited infrastructure of present-day Russia. In what follows, one can see how Russia's reliance on the abundance of its natural resources has led it to adopt not only wasteful production practices but an inefficient economic system. Moreover, Russia's immense supply of valuable natural resources almost guaranteed the enormous corruption and theft that resulted from the privatization of state industry Too much was up for grabs and the rewards for unethical behavior were too high. That sorry failure accounts in large part for the precipitous drop in the present day output of all of Russia's energy sources. For Russia, energy has been both a blessing and a curse. ENERGY POLITICS IN THE SOVIET UNION Lenin realized soon after the Bolshevik Revolution that Russia's economic progress would be dependent on the development of the country's energy potential. One of his first efforts at central planning and coordination centered around the creation of the State Electricity Development (GOELRO) program. …


Recently the subject, insurance got one of the most controversial topic swhich has been being discussed as long lasting phenomenon by the Islamic scholars. To choose a much known and thoroughly acceptable agreements of the Islamic scholars is to act through other logical possible approaches named contributive insurance instead of non-Islamic commercial Insurance that is currently the modern world typical forms of protecting and assuring goods and people.


A company library can only exist if it contributes to a positive result for the company. As endusers are beginning to perform searches on the Internet and have access to databases and electronic documents via their desktops it becomes important for company librarians to thoroughly think through what services should be offered to the users so that the library still contributes to the company s profit. The aim of this dissertation was to try to define the services that the company library offers its users having in mind the changes that have taken place concerning the availability of information. I also wanted to explore whether the librarians had the necessary competence to perform the services offered. Six information specialists were interviewed to give their view on the services their libraries offered. The interviewees were chosen for leading progressive company libraries where they had already thought about what services should be offered and why. Two end-users were also interviewed. The result shows that there are three discernible directions for the services of the company library. One direction is doing work which will facilitate for the end-user to perform his or her searches such as designing the intranet and educate users in information retrieval The second direction concerns rather the opposite. Instead of taking a step back the information specialists work actively with providing information to the users, giving it to them even before they have been asking for it. The third direction is about working with the users in teams or on special projects. There is a possibility that the company library thus can become a more active partner in the overall strategic information management. However, to be able to do this it is important that the value of the company library is understood in the organization. From the point of view of the company it is no end in itself to have a library.


The therapeutic use of ionophores in veterinary medicine has grown in the last years, with resultant increase in the risk of poisoning in animals. Ionophores are used as food additives as coccidiostacts in several animal species and growth promoter and bloat prevention in ruminants. The most often used ionophores are monensin, lasalocid, narasin and salinomycin. There is a great variation in the susceptibility to the toxic effect of ionophores in different animal species. Poisoning can occur when the dosage is too high or when not correct doses for a certain animal species are given. Cases of poisoning have been described in sheep, swine, horses, dogs and poultry. For horses ionophores are extremely toxic. The use of ionophores is only safe when used accordingly to the instructions of the manufacturer and especially for each animal species. In this paper the most important data regarding clinical-pathological and pathogenic aspects, and also the conditions in which the poisoning may occur are critically reviewed.


【Objective : The study aims to investigate the effect of moxibustion treatments on autonomic nervous system function of cancer patients through the evaluation of heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback testing. Materials and Methods : Six cancer patients from inpatient care unit of Dunsan Oriental Hospital, Daejeon University were given three moxibustion treatment sessions every other day over one week period on five Oriental Medicine meridian points CV4, CV6, CV12, KD1, and PC8. HRV biofeedback was conducted before and after each treatment sessions. Three areas of analyses were done from the test conducted; Time Domain Analysis, Frequency Domain Analysis and Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) balance analysis. Results : Time Domain Analysis has shown increased Standard Deviation of all Normal R-R Intervals (SDNN), and decreased Mean Heart Rate and Physical Stress Index (PSI) levels, with statistical significance (P】


Wang Chuanshan used Yuefu Poetry to reflect the situations of that time and express his emotion. A strong ethos of Han permeated through his Yuefu poetry. He was good at using several kinds of expressions to convey the same meaning. The deep meaning was often hidden in his literal words.


A representative of heavy metal oxide glasses, i.e., a PbO- Bi2O3-Ga2O3 glass, was investigated to identify the network structure of the glass and the electronic transition properties of rare-earth ions doped. X-ray absorption spectroscopic analyses showed that gallium forms GaO4 tetrahedral units with an average Ga-O bond length of approximately 1.87 A. Lead forms both PbO3 and PbO4 polyhedra, but the fraction of PbO4 decreases with decreasing PbO content. Bismuth in glasses constructs BiO5 and BiO6 polyhedra, which have a similar coordination scheme of the (alpha) -Bi2O3 crystal. Formation of three-coordinated oxygens is necessary to compensate shortage of oxygens to be two-fold coordinated. These glasses exhibit a relatively good thermal stability as well as the lowest phonon energy among oxide glasses, and thereby enhance numerous fluorescence emissions that are quenched in the conventional oxide glasses. Magnitudes of multiphonon relaxation are the lowest among oxide glasses and comparable to those of fluoride glasses. Fluorescence emission characteristics of Pr3+: 1.3 micrometer and Er3+: 2.7 micrometer were discussed in detail. In addition, influence of OH- on the Nd3+: 1.3 micrometer emission was analyzed. Further research efforts on impurity minimization and fiberization may realize a new oxide-based fiber-optic host.


The electronic commerce development is a transformation to business managements, which transforms from the traditional marketing pattern to the network marketing pattern. Seeking opportunities and markets through the electronic commerce activity for the enterprises and enhancing the volume of trade is the direction of small and medium-sized enterprise marketing development. The small and medium-sized enterprise should adjust their strategies from the following aspects: making the general plan of electronic commerce; constructing electronic commerce environment; establishing enterprises' network station; initiating network marketing; enhancing human resources management. So the enterprises can achieve the innovation of the marketing pattern, the value chain and commercial space.


In this paper a novel concept for active vibration control of storage and retrieval machines is presented. The storage and retrieval machine is modeled based on the Bernoulli-Euler beam theory, yielding an infinite-dimensional model, and the assumed modes method in order to obtain a finite-dimensional model. The resulting model is of low order, a fourth-order model regarding the first and the second eigenfrequency describes the dynamics sufficiently. The model is verified on an experimental storage and retrieval machine. Several active vibration control strategies are studied, including trajectory planning approaches like higher-order trajectory planning, feedforward control approaches like trajectory filtering and input shaping, and feedback control approaches like state-feedback control. The strategies are evaluated by simulation and compared via performance measures.Copyright © 2008 by ASME


ABSTRACT English as an additional language (EAL) and language diversity attract much interest amongst policymakers and educationists; yet little is known about the performance in English schools of EAL pupils who are not fluent in English and speak different languages at home. The findings of the aggregated data confirm that EAL pupils achieved less well at Reading, Writing and Maths at Key Stage 2 (KS2) than those with English as their first language. It also suggests smaller achievement gap in England and a wide variation in performance between regions. However, it is important to note that using EAL status alone is not necessarily an accurate marker for studying EAL attainment. The EAL variable in the National Pupil Database is blunt and includes EAL pupils who are fully fluent in English and pupils who recently arrived as migrants who speak little or no English. We would argue that EAL is a very heterogeneous group made up of pupils from many different linguistic and ethnic backgrounds and different stages of proficiency in English, which are likely to show a wide variation in achievement. Further analysis of the data by language spoken at home and level of fluency in English highlighted the potential to disaggregate EAL categories and attain a greater insight into their performance. The study confirms that EAL pupils not fluent in English are underachieving compared to monolingual English speakers in English schools.


5G as an evaluative mobile communication network is expected to respond to the traffic volume explosion and the diverse demands for communication. For the deployment of 5G, there have been many researches of heterogeneous network, especially they employ for named data networking (NDN). As a future network architecture, NDN focuses on the content, where forwarding information base (FIB) performs name-based forwarding to achieve the communications. In this paper, a novel FIB named B-MaFIB is proposed to enhance the performance of NDN router that well supports heterogeneous network toward 5G, which is designed based on an improved index called a bitmap-mapping bloom filter (B-MBF). Owing to the B-MBF, the B-MaFIB can dynamically allocate memory to effectively reduce the memory consumption. The experimental results indicate that for 2 million names based on 5G, B-MaFIB: 1) only consumes memory with 112.079 MB, reaching 50% memory reduction and 2) achieves a throughput of 1.099 million searches per second, obtaining at least six times speedup over the other schemes, which provides a potential in the deployment of NDN router.


In this paper we are going to discuss the data of a combined experimental study in perception and judgment of the characteristics of complex acoustic signals. The structure of the experiment involved joint activity of subjects and the possibility of their verbal interaction. Some results of this work have been published previously [2,9], but they dealt only with analysis of data provided by the individual phases of the experiment. The main emphasis in this paper is on data obtained under various conditions of joint activity compared with the characteristics of individual activity.


The realization of China's "double carbon" goal is of great significance to the world environment and China's economy and society. Through the establishment of the "government–enterprise–public" evolutionary game model, this paper explores the interaction between government policy guidance, low-carbon technology R&D behavior of enterprises, and public purchase of carbon label products, as well as the micro-driving path, aiming to provide suggestions for the implementation of the "double carbon" policy and carbon label system in China. The results show that the choice of government, enterprises, and public strategies is closely related to their own costs and benefits. Public sentiment can effectively urge the government to actively fulfill its responsibilities. Effective government policy guidance plays a key role in low-carbon technology R&D behavior of enterprises. There is an interaction between low-carbon technology R&D behavior of enterprises and public purchase of carbon label products.


ABSTRACT Heat stress markedly impairs the growth performance of broilers, such as the reduction of breast muscle mass and yield. The aim of this study was to examine the molecular mechanism of depressed muscle mass and yield caused by heat stress. A total of 144 (28‐day‐old) male broilers were allocated randomly into 3 treatment groups: (1) the normal control group (environment temperature was 22°C), (2) the heat stress group (environment temperature was 32°C), (3) the pair‐fed group (environment temperature was 22°C and pair‐fed to heat stress group). The experiment lasted for 14 d (from the age of 28 to 42 d). After 14 d of heat exposure, heat stress decreased (P < 0.05) broiler average daily gain, breast muscle mass, and muscle yield, and increased (P < 0.05) feed to gain ratio. After 14 d of heat exposure, heat stress increased (P < 0.05) the activities of aspartate aminotransferase and the concentrations of uric acid and most amino acids in serum, and reduced (P < 0.05) the concentration of insulin like growth factor 1 (IGF‐1) in serum. Additionally, heat stress decreased (P < 0.05) the mRNA expressions of IGF‐1, IGF‐1 receptor, insulin receptor substrate 1, mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), the 70 kD ribosomal protein S6 kinase, myogenic differentiation, myogenin, solute carrier family 38 member 2, solute carrier family 7 member 5, and solute carrier family 3 member 2 of the breast muscle. In conclusion, chronic heat stress resulted in lower breast muscle mass and yield, and decreased muscle protein synthesis and amino acid transportation by downregulating IGFs‐mTOR signal pathway. These findings have important practical significance in discovering effective means to alleviate muscle loss caused by chronic heat stress.


The effect of bath parameters, such as concentration of the dispersoid, current density, pH, stirring rate, surfactant and chloride ion concentrations, on the codeposition of TiO 2 with cobalt from a sulfate bath have been studied. The first three factors showed an optimum value for maximum codeposition, whereas the latter factors detrimentally influenced the codeposition. The crystal structure of the cobalt matrix also showed variations with current density and pH. The conventional electro-codeposition (CECD) method produced a very uniform and unagglomerated distribution of TiO 2 in the matrix, unlike the sediment electro-codeposition (SECD) method. Guglielmi's model shows a reasonable fit with the CECD codeposition mechanism. A modified model, however, explains the mechanism better


Super Vision considers common problems of therapeutic practice. The aim is not to define a single 'best' way but rather to show the diversity of valid approaches. Three senior practitioners were asked how they would handle the problem of 'the silent client'. (editor abstract)


Sangju, a city in the North Gyeongsang Province, is well known as "Three Whites", representing its three main agricultural products: rice, silkworm, and dried persimmons. Therefore, development of a variety of dishes or products that can promote the consumption of dried persimmons is an urgent requirement for this region. This study was designed to provide fundamental information for revitalizing community-based specialized agriculture through scientific inquiry into medicinal foods and to develop a medicinal food menu based on the results of previous research and pre-survey. The pre-survey results and incompatibility revealed that palatability influenced people's decision to consume dried persimmons far more than pharmacological functionality. Therefore, palatability played an important part in the development of dried persimmon puddings with acceptable texture. These dishes are in high demand as they suit the tastes of variety of consumers. The inclusion of various additives lowered the sugar content in the developed foods and made the products alkalescent (pH > 7), thereby improving functionality. Unique color and flavor additives were also important criteria that determined the selection attributes of the developed medicinal foods. In addition, the additives had a positive effect on the fragrance and texture of the foods. In conclusion, the results suggested that use of additives provides significant advantages in promoting the consumption of Sangju-dried persimmons by improving both functionality and palatability.


The information regarding the dynamic response of lattice towers is scattered throughout the literature, making it difficult for the practicing engineers to obtain the necessary information for design purposes. The Task Committee prepared the Guide by compiling and clarifying current methodologies in a single source. Both self-supporting lattice towers and guyed lattice masts are included in the Guide, which is targeted to practicing design engineers. The topics covered in the Guide include, among others, dynamic analysis, response to wind loads, ice shedding, seismic input, and vibration control. Extensive bibliography, divided into six topics, is appended.


Previously, at Brunel University, two computer programs had been developed to facilitate the analysis of the diastolic material properties of the human left ventricle. These two computer programs consisted of; a finite element program, "XL1", which ran upon a Cray-1S/1000 and a post-processor and pre-processor, "HEART", which ran upon the Multics computer system. The computer program "HEART" produced the finite element model, which was then solved by "XL 1", and it also allowed for plotting the results in graphical form, The patient data was supplied by the Royal Brompton Hospital in the form of digitised cine-angiographic X-ray data plus pressure readings. The first stage was to transfer the two separate computer programs "HEART" and "XL 1" to the Sun Workstation system. The two programs were then combined to form a single package which can be used for the automated analysis of the patient data. An investigation into the effect that the elastic modulus ratio has upon the deformation of the left ventricle during diastole was performed. It was found that the effect is quite small and that using this parameter to match overall shape deformation would be extremely sensitive to the accuracy of the initial data. The main part of this work was the implementation of active cardiac contraction, by means of a thermal stress analogy, into the finite element program. This allows the systolic part of the cardiac cycle to be analysed. The analysis of the factors that affect cardiac contraction, including the material properties and boundary conditions was performed. This model was also used to investigate the effect that conditions such as ischaemia and the formation of scar tissue have upon the systolic left ventricle. The use of the thermal stressing analogy for cardiac contraction was demonstrated to mirror global and local deformation when applied to a realistic ventricular geometry.


Author makes the attempt to define term 'propaganda map' and determines place of such kind of presentation in cartography. The main part of the article is the discussion of the most typical features of propaganda maps. These features are dependent on map's form, scope of contents and graphics and were determined based on review of domain literature. Features are then illustrated with maps which are used in ecological propaganda. Both, directions for map authors, and practical advices for maps users can be found in the article.


Purpose: The purpose of this work was to analyse functional results in patients with objective patellar instability who underwent surgery between 1988 and 1999. Material and methods: One hundred eighty knees, 140 patients, were included in this series. Minimum follow-up was two years, and the mean follow-up was five years (range 24 – 152 months). The IKDC 99 subjective knee chart was used for postoperative assessment. This chart has ten items for sports activities and functional status of the knee for everyday activities. Eighty-three percent of the patients (118 patients) responded to the questionnaire. Results: Clinical assessment was available for 98 patients (63%) and phone interview data for 29 (20%). Subjectively, 111 (94.87%) patients were very satisfied, five (4.27%) were satisfied, and one was dissatisfied. We assessed results by pain level (37.6% mild or weather-related pain), residual oedema, sensation of blockage (15.8%), instability, daily activities (68% with difficulty in the kneeling position), sports activity and level. Discussion: Certain authors (Insall) question the pertinence of operating objective patellar instability because of the risk of secondary femoropatellar degeneration. For us, surgical treatment is indicated when there has been at least one dislocation associated with morphological anomalies. We have not observed any cases of femoroatellar degeneration among our patients who were operated on more than ten years ago. The patients' own subjective assessment shows that surgical treatment with medialisation and/or lowering of the tibial tuberosity has been effective with a very excellent rate of satisfaction. The quality of the results is directly related to correct treatment of the lesions (for patients without recurrent dislocation) and systematic analysis of the different factors contributing to patellar instability (trochlear dyplasia, patellar height, quadriceps dyplasia, length of the patellar tendon). Our rate of revision appears to be low but was directly related to the young age of this population and is close to or above the revision rates observed in series with follow-ups greater than two years. Conclusion: Surgery for objective patellar instability gives good mid- and long-term results. The subjective IKDC score allows precise self-evaluation. We have not been able to find any correlation between subjective results and objective results.


The present study estimates the long-term and short-term health impacts of particulate matter on humans in Alwar, Rajasthan (India), with the help of AirQ+ software. The annual concentration of particulate matter violates the Indian and WHO standards. The PM2.5 induced long-term estimated number of attributable cases (ENACs) for mortality due to all-natural causes in adults, LC, ALRI, COPD, IHD, and stroke were 12867, 2225, 634, 1089, 4671, and 4353, respectively, while short-term ENACs for hospital admission due to respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease, and all-cause mortality in adults were 4399, 174, and 2333, respectively. The PM10 induced long-term ENACs for post-neonatal infant mortality, chronic bronchitis in adults, and the prevalence of bronchitis in children were 878494, 32698, and 700, respectively, while short-term ENACs for incidence of asthma symptoms in asthmatic children were 1799. The estimated human health risk assessment results are terrifying and require immediate actions from policymakers for mitigation.


This paper describes ECLAIR, an extensible object-oriented class library, which can be used to construct information retrieval systems and applications. ECLAIR is implemented in C++ and uses an object-oriented database management system for persistent object storage. The library provides data structures and operations necessary to allow the efficient indexing, storage and retrieval of data items based on their text content using automatic indexing and best-match retrieval techniques. By exploiting the object-oriented paradigm, we have been able to develop a library which is usable by any application requiring information retrieval functionality, and further, is extensible such that many of the functions provided by the library can be changed as required by an application. Additionally, applications can exploit the features of the underlying object-oriented database management system, which include support for persistence of data (objects), modelling complex objects, concurrent access to data, and reliable processing of data in the presence of system failures. In the paper we consider how to deliver information retrieval functionality to the developers of application systems and we evaluate current approaches. The design and implementation of ECLAIR is described in detail. A number of experiments applying ECLAIR are reported.


Based on the new teaching demand of compulsory module Organic Compound and elective module Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry,the different teaching strategies for these curriculums are proposed from the understanding of the starting point and knowledge points of organic chemistry,teaching materials,modern science and technology etc.


We show how the novel use of a semantic representation based on Osgood's semantic differential scales can lead to effective features in predicting shortand long-term learning in students using a vocabulary learning system. Previous studies in students' intermediate knowledge states during vocabulary acquisition did not provide much information on which semantic knowledge students gained during word learning practice. Moreover, these studies relied on human ratings to evaluate the students' responses. To solve this problem, we propose a semantic representation for words based on Osgood's semantic decomposition of vocabulary [16]. To demonstrate our method can effectively represent students' knowledge in vocabulary acquisition, we build models for predicting the student's short-term vocabulary acquisition and long-term retention. We compare the effectiveness of our Osgood-based semantic representation to that provided by Word2Vec neural word embedding [13], and find that prediction models using features based on Osgood scale-based scores (OSG) perform better than the baseline and are comparable in accuracy to those using Word2Vec score-based models (W2V). By using more interpretable Osgood-based scales, our study results can help with better understanding of students' ongoing learning states and designing personalized learning systems that can address an individual's weak points in vocabulary acquisition.


Our external appearance plays a key role in everyday life's social interactions. Hence, taking care of our appearance allows us to adjust and protect ourselves, as well as communicate emotional disposition (i.e. sympathy or aversion) and social information (i.e. values, status). However, some discrete body parts or characteristics appear to be more salient than others in contributing to global body image. For example, authors showed that facial attractiveness is one of the best predictors of overall physical attractiveness and represent one of the primary factors influencing global self‐esteem. Make‐up is therefore ought to play a major influence in these parameters. Moreover, in a previous study whose subject was to explain the reasons that motivate women to make‐up, we showed a high implication of specific psychological traits in correlation with two make‐up functions (i.e. psycho‐behavioural profiles 'Seduction' and 'Camouflage'; group S and group C, respectively). The purpose of this study was to assess the possible relation between our two psycho‐behavioural profiles and some morphological parameters know to be involved in facial attraction (i.e. facial asymmetry and skin visual quality). First of all, our study revealed for women from the group C a greater asymmetry of the lower face (i.e. mouth area) that could be related to a possible larger amount of negative emotional experiences. Concerning make‐up behaviour, women from the group S more extensively manipulated their relative facial attractiveness, by using a large range of colours, but also through a significantly longer make‐up process used to adjust their visual asymmetry and therefore increase their potential of attractiveness. On the overall, our results suggest that make‐up is used differentially, according to stable psychological profiles of women, to manipulate specific visual/morphological facial features involved in attractiveness.


Pepsi has been working on its new image for quite some time now, but what if it went in another, completely different, bolder direction? A Saudi Arabian design studio, Design Boutique, has reimagined Pepsi as a much stronger and bolder brand. Changing the complete visual and corporate identity, Design Boutique imagined Pepsi as a brand that's, if anything, definitely louder:…


We consider the problem of formation of small amplitude spatially localized oscillatory structures for atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) confined in two and three dimensional optical lattices (OL's), respectively. By using kp-method we have demonstrated mapping of the initial Gross-Pitaevskii equation on nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations. Formation of breather-like oscillating localized states - atomic oscillons - have been predicted in this case.


ABSTRACT Triggered by declines in newspaper circulation since the 2008 recession, "print is dying" is a prevailing assumption among journalism scholars and practitioners. However, circulation data are often reported out of context, resulting in misinterpretations of reader preference and misinformed strategy. To accurately assess demand for print newspapers, this study examines the price of 25 widely-circulated U.S. newspapers in 2008, 2012, and 2016. The analysis documented industry-wide, more-than-substantial price hikes. Seven-day home delivery price more than doubled, and weekday single-copy price tripled. Seven-day subscription now costs $510 a year – print subscribers are paying on average $293 more to have the same newspaper delivered to their doorstep. Despite the increase in price, about two-thirds of print readers remained loyal to a product that has become much more expensive and is considered dying by many. Further analysis on price elasticity of demand indicates that demand for the print product remains inelastic, which explains why so many newspapers implemented price hikes to increase circulation revenue. Nevertheless, the constantly increasing price raises concerns about the sustainability of newspapers' pricing strategy in the longer term. These concerns and managerial implications are discussed.


The present invention improves the manufacturing yield for power storage devices such as lithium-ion cells. In order to overcome the above problem, an electrode sheet manufacturing apparatus has a dispenser, a first slit die coater, and a second slit die coater installed in the stated order along the first direction of travel of a collector foil. The dispenser applies a plurality of first insulation materials in a slurry form onto the surface of the collector foil, the first slit die coater applies a positive electrode material in a slurry form onto the surface of the collector foil, and the second slit die coater applies a second insulation material in a slurry form onto the upper surface of the first insulation materials and the positive electrode material. The first insulation materials are applied so as to be set apart from each other in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and the positive electrode material is applied between first insulation films adjacent to each other in the second direction.


The utility model discloses a dry coke quenching furnace, belonging to steel coke production field. In the utility model, a feed inlet is arranged on the top of a taper position; a prestoring chamber and a cooling chamber are arranged on the lower part of the taper position in order; an annular flue is disposed on one side of the prestoring chamber; a discharging opening is disposed on the bottom of the cooling chamber; an inclined flue is disposed between the prestoring chamber and the cooling chamber; and the annular flue is connected with the inclined flue. The dry coke quenching furnace is characterized in that a fireproof layer taking the mullite as fireproof material is arranged on the inclined flue position, inside the taper position, the prestoring chamber and the cooling chamber. The utility model employs the mullite as the fireproof material and has excellent thermal shock stability, volume stability and wear resistance; meanwhile, a dust removing device is added on the dry coke quenching furnace, thus removing coke dusts in the circulating gas, prolonging the service life of the dry coke quenching furnace and increasing the production efficiency. The mullite brick can be used in equipment such as the heating furnace, the pit furnace, and the brick furnace.


The PENTATRAP-experiment in Heidelberg for high precision mass measurements is using a construction of 5 Penning traps and focuses on long-living heavy ions. This bachelor thesis is about the distribution of radiofrequency excitations to create a quadrupole field within a Penning trap. For this a module of a multiplexer box was developed and tested on suitability. This possibility of distributing should give more flexibility with the excitation and also a saving of time between different measurements. The quadrupole excitation with radiofrequencies was simulated to obtain the optimized potentials of the trap electrodes. Those should be useful in the first startup of the experiment and can serve as a rough starting point.


The use of charcoal blood agar supported a good recovery of staphylococci incorporated in Mupirocin ointment in a test in vitro system. The efficacy of this medium was particularly emphasised in the recovery of staphylococci damaged by six hours' exposure to Mupirocin. The media will be of value in following the progress of staphylococcal carriage or infection in patients or carriers being treated with topical Mupirocin.


ABSTRACT This paper presents a model that describes how decision aid users interact with decision aid recommendations. Past research assumes that users reject a decision aid recommendation if they disagree and rely upon a decision aid recommendation if they agree with the recommendation. In fact, user interaction with an aid may be more complex and is influenced by organizational policy regarding relying upon an aid recommendation and the perceived utility, self-perception, and impression management gained through relying upon an aid. Understanding user interaction with a decision aid recommendation presents opportunities to further decision aid research. The model may also be useful in setting an organization context of using decision aids. INTRODUCTION Whether a decision aid is accepted by its users is an important question in decision aid research. Systems acceptance in general is a crucial question in information systems research. This paper presents a framework for analyzing user acceptance of decision aid recommendations. A pair of frameworks already exist that focus on antecedents of decision aid acceptance or rejection. The framework presented in this paper focuses on the decision aid user's actual decision about whether to accept a decision aid recommendation. The framework is based on the Social Response Context Model (MacDonald et al., 2004), and is useful for predicting how decision aid users may react to different social contexts in using decision aids. This framework is useful in two ways. First, it provides guidance for future research on decision aid reliance. Most research on decision aid reliance focuses on factors that are associated with decision aid reliance without placing those factors within a larger context. This has led to a fragmented understanding of decision aid reliance. Development of a framework can guide the structure of future research. Second, a framework can guide implementers of decision aids both in recognizing pitfalls of an implementation and in devising strategies to increase decision aid reliance. The following sections will review the research literature regarding decision aids and present the framework. DECISION AIDS Decision aids may be used for a variety of purposes, such as improving group communications, promoting creativity, or assisting data gathering. For the context of this paper, a decision aid is a tool used to recommend a solution to a problem. Research on decisions aids has sought to answer two related questions. First, does using a decision aid improve the quality of a decision? Second, are decision aid users willing to use a decision aids recommendation? Decision aids regularly outperform decision makers' un-aided decisions (Dawes et al, 1989). Examples of decisions aids that have been shown to have superior accuracy to experts include bankruptcy prediction (Sun, 2007), management fraud assessment (Hansen et al., 1996; Eining & Jones, 1997; Bell & Carcello, 2000), and audit materiality judgment (DeZoort et al., 2006). In addition to improving accuracy, firms may adopt decision aids to guide or direct a decision process (Silver, 1990). Even though decision aids tend to improve the quality of a decision and promote firm goals, decision aid recommendations are often ignored by users. Investigating what encourages or discourages users to accept or reject decision aid recommendations has long been an area of interest to researchers. A firm implementing a decision aid would find the aid useless without users being willing to adopt the aid's recommendation. Indeed, may decision aids used by audit firms have fallen into disuse (Gill, 1995). Probably the most common finding in research is that more expert users are less likely to rely upon a decision aid than novice decision makers (Arkes et al., 1986; Whitecotton, 1996; Glover et al., 1997). This seems intuitive, as more experienced decision makers have more confidence in their decision ability than novices. …


The purpose of this study is to crash test and evaluate new or modified roadside safety hardware and, where necessary, redesign the devices to improve their impact performance. The three major areas addressed in this study are the impact performance of bridge railings, transitions from guardrails to bridge railings, and end treatments for guardrails and median barriers. This report presents the results of three crash tests conducted on a new bridge railing design by the New England Transportation Consortium (NETC) in accordance with guidelines set forth in the 1989 American Association of State and Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Guide Specifications on Bridge Railings for a performance level 2 (PL-2) and National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 350 for test level 4 (TL-4). The first crash test (test no. 471470-18) involved an 817-kg (1800-lb) passenger car impacting the bridge rail at a nominal impact speed and angle of 96.5 km/h (60mi/h) and 20 degrees. The second crash test (test no. 471470-19) involved a 2452-kg (5400-lb) pickup truck impacting the bridge rail at a nominal impact speed and angle of 96.5 km/h (60 mi/h) and 20 degrees. The bridge rail was judged to have performed satisfactorily in both tests. However, the bridge deck and curb section sustained some structural damage in the pickup truck redirection test. The design details for the bridge deck, curb section, and steel reinforcement were therefore revised for the third crash test (test no. 471470-29), which involved an 8000-kg (17,636-lb) single-unit truck impacting the bridge rail at a nominal impact speed and angle of 80 km/h (49.7 mi/h) and 15 degrees. The bridge rail was also judged to have performed satisfactorily in this single-unit truck redirection test. This volume is the ninth in a series of 14 volumes for the final report.


Learning Objectives: Global hypoxic-ischemic (GHI) events are a common cause of morbidity and mortality. There is a paucity of literature on the cerebrovascular response following GHI; thus, no evidence-based, goal directed therapies exist. Understanding the basic response is necessary to inform trials aimed at therapeutic options. Methods: This is a single-center, prospective, observational study of children (0–18 years) admitted to our PICU following a GHI. Those with prior pathology that would alter cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFV) were excluded. Patients underwent daily transcranial Doppler ultrasonography for 8 days, during which the bilateral middle cerebral arteries (MCA) were insonated and cerebral autoregulation was tested using the transient hyperemic response ratio. 3 month follow-up was performed using the Glasgow Outcome Score– Pediatric Extended Version (PE-GOS). Results: 18 patients met inclusion criteria, 3 declined for a sample size of 15. Median age was 3 years (0.33, 9.5), 67% male. GHI etiology included: drowning+cardiac arrest–2, asphyxia without arrest–1, asphyxia+cardiac arrest–4, and cardiopulmonary arrest–8. Median GCS 3T (3,3), initial pH 6.88 (6.66,6.99), and initial lactate 5.9 (3.9,11.3). Mean MCA CBFV was near normal for critically ill children on post-injury day (PID) 1. Hyperemia occurred on PID 2–3 with return to normal by day 8 in survivors (n=7). Non-survivors (n=8, 53%) did not follow this pattern as their CBFV was abnormal until the end of the study period. 91% of those with a bad outcome (n = 11, PE-GOS 5–8) compared to 50% in the good outcome group (n=4, PEGOS 1–4) had at least one episode of extreme CBFV (+/2 standard deviations), p=0.1538 (Fisher's exact). Autoregulation was not reliably intact in any child. Median PE-GOS score was 8 (6,8). Conclusions: Following a GHI, survivors had a hyperemic response on PID 2–3 with normalization thereafter. Non-survivors and those with poor neurologic outcome had persistently abnormal CBFV. Abnormal cerebral autoregulation was noted in all cases. These findings may aid prognostication and encourage the use of neuroprotective measures.