Correspondence: Hisashi Kawashima, Department of Paediatrics, Tokyo Medical University, 6 7 1 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo160 0023, Japan. Email: email@example.com Received 29 March 2004; revised 19 January 2005; accepted 28 February 2005. Generalized morphea (GM) causes not only pathological changes of the skin but also progressive contracture of joints. GM, especially in childhood, is very rare and there is no established therapy. Although steroids and cyclosporine are used in some cases, neither the effects nor the doses have been determined. We experienced two children with GM, and used methotrexate (MTX) and steroids, and both cases responded differently. In order to fi nd an improved therapy for GM in childhood we investigated the courses and compared the literature.


Little is known about the clinical presentation and prognosis of patients with mild cognitive impairment with Lewy Bodies (MCI‐LB). We aimed to describe clinical characteristics, cognitive decline and risk factors for progression to dementia in MCI‐LB and compare these to MCI due to Alzheimer's disease (MCI‐AD).


The invention relates to insulation flocculus which is made by 20-80 percent by weight of superfine denier fiber, 10-70 percent by weight of fine denier fiber, 5-30 wt% of tacky fiber and 0-5 wt% of bond. The insulation flocculus is made by adopting the following steps of: loosening and mixing the fiber raw materials; carding and lapping to form a fiber web; carrying out disorder traction on the fiber web to enable the fiber web to form a solid meshy across structure; spraying the bond on the two faces of the fiber web; heating and baking the fiber web to enable the tacky fiber to bond the fiber around and to solidify the bond. In the invention, due to the adoption of the superfine denier fiber and the fine denier fiber, heat conduction can be effectively reduced, cross ventilation in the space can be prevented or reduced, and the insulation property of the insulation flocculus is improved. In addition, due to the adoption of the tacky fiber and the bond, the fill power and the compression resilience of the insulation flocculus can be improved, and the fill power and the compression resilience of the insulation flocculus are higher through disorder traction.


This paper briefly describes Wittgenstein's " Language Games Theory". " Language Games Theory" reveals the basic features of the language and clearly illustrates the process of language acquisition. Based on Wittgenstein ' " Language Games Theory",and for the current situation of English teaching in higher vocational colleges,the paper emphasizes exploratory learning the language of instruction in the use. It showed that this form of teaching activities focus on increasing the students' interest in learning and active participation in class.


An addition chain for a positive integer n is a set 1 = «Ό < CLi < < a r = n of integers such that every element α* is the sum aj + a k of two preceding members (not necessarily distinct) of the set. The smallest length r for which an addition chain for n exists is denoted by l(n). Let λ(n) = [Iog2^], and let v(n) denote the number of ones in the binary representation of n. The purpose of this paper is to show how to establish the result that if v(n) ^ 9 then l(ri) Ξ> λ(n) + 4. This is the m = S case of the conjecture that if v{n) ^ 2 m -f-1 then l(n) Ξ> λ(n) 4- m + 1 for which cases m = 0,1, 2 have previously been estabished. The fact that the conjecture is true for m = 3 leads to the theorem that n = 2 m (23) + 7 for m ^ 5 is an infinite class of integers for which l(2ri) = l(n). The paper concludes with this result.


Interceptor net® is a long-lasting insecticidal net (LN) made of multifilament polyester fabric in which the insecticide alphacypermethrin is incorporated directly into the polymers at a dose of 200 mg/m2. This paper presents the results of an efficacy trial on Interceptor nets on malaria transmission in an area under the influence of pyrethroid susceptible vector species Anopheles culicifacies and A. fluviatilis in Sundargarh District, Orissa, India. There was a reduction of 57-76% in malaria incidence in Interceptor net area as compared to the control areas. Cross-sectional point prevalence surveys showed a reduction of 73.1% and 40% in malaria prevalence in Interceptor net and untreated net users respectively, whereas there was an increase of 17% in no net villages. The net usage rate in the study population was between 80-98% during different months. With respect to the adverse effects of the insecticide, people reported skin irritations but transitory in nature hence did not pose any danger. Interceptor nets also provided collateral benefits in terms of relief from other household pests such as head lice, bed bugs, cockroaches, ants and houseflies.


Introduction: Chlorpromazine belongs to the category of typical antipsychotics or neuroleptics, also known as FirstGeneration Antipsychotics (FGAs). It is found to be effective in hiccup management by its action as dopamine antagonist in the hypothalamus. Olanzapine act as an antagonist at postsynaptic serotonergic receptors which augment phrenic motoneuronal activity and play a role in the generation of hiccups. Aim: To compare the effectiveness of combination therapy (Olanzapine plus Chlorpromazine) with monotherapy (Chlorpromazine) in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) patient admitted to trauma Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Material and Methods: The present study was a control trial which was conducted between November 2020 to October 2021 on patients aged 18-65 years diagnosed with intracranial injury due to trauma. A total of 100 patients (50 in each group) were randomised into Group 1 (patients receiving chlorpromazine 25 mg thrice daily for five days) and Group 2 (patients receiving chlorpromazine 25 mg thrice daily and olanzapine 5 mg once daily for five days). The primary outcome measure was to compare cessation or reduction in the frequency of hiccups. Various laboratory parameters were investigated and compared between both the groups on day zero and day five. The secondary outcome was side-effects of the drugs. Results: In the present study, the distributions of age and gender were similar in both groups with mean age of patients being 39.16±13.88 years and 43.30±12.51 years in group 1 and 2, respectively. Cessation of hiccups were found in 29 (58%) of the patients in group 2 as compared to 27 (54%) patients in group 1, which was not statistically significant. However, improvement in the status of patients was observed in 18 (36%) in group 2, as compared to 10 (20%) in group 1 (p<0.05). No serious adverse events were documented in either groups. Conclusion: A better outcome was observed with combination of chlorpromazine and olanzapine than chlorpromazine alone, in treating hiccups due to TBI. The present trial has established the role of drugs for managing hiccups caused after TBI.


The invention provides a system and a method based on a shared baseband pool and distributed radio frequency units. The system comprises a baseband pool and a plurality of distributed radio frequency units, wherein the distributed radio frequency units are connected with the baseband pool and share the baseband processing resource of one logic channel of the baseband pool. Under the condition of coverage limitation, the system and the method support a plurality of radio frequency units to share the baseband processing resource of one logic channel; for intervals sharing the baseband processing resource of one logic channel, the coverage gain of a forward link and a reverse link is brought so as to improve edge coverage; and by software configuration, upgrade and subdistrict scission support from a coverage limitation scene to a capacity limitation scene are realized, all maintenance workload is finished in the baseband pool and does not need to be finished in far end RRU, and upgrade and capacity extension are convenient.


The availability of ICT has raised the issue of meaningful use of Mobile technologies (smartphones, tablets, sensors, data loggers, data collectors, as well as other devices and options) in the teaching/learning process of physics to deepen the students' knowledge and develop their research skills. Mobile technologies are constantly and rapidly evolving, and there is practically no social domain where they are not used, including education. Thus, the acquisition of mobile technology usage skills is an integral part of the learning process in a modern school. Education experts are now emphasizing not only the integration of Mobile technologies into the learning process but also the need to improve the efficiency of the learning process for both teachers and students. Success is based not only on what or how much one knows, but also on one's ability to think and act creatively. Mobile technology-based learning process is based on the Educational Technology Competency Standards for Teachers and accentuates the demand for improving teachers' technology skills and with a focus on knowledge and capacity building.
This paper summarizes the research on the use of Mobile technologies in teaching physics in Latvia for the last nine years, as well as analyses the issues and suggestions for improving the process. A pedagogical experiment is conducted based on pre-planned and prepared participation in the learning process.


ALEGRA is a coupled physics framework originally written to simulate inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments being conducted at the PBFA-II facility at Sandia National Laboratories. It has since grown into a large software development project supporting a number of computational programs at Sandia. As the project has grown, so has the development team, from the original two authors to a group of over fifteen programmers crossing several departments. In addition, ALEGRA now runs on a wide variety of platforms, from large PCs to the ASCI Teraflops massively parallel supercomputer. The authors discuss the reasons for ALEGRA`s success, which include the intelligent use of object-oriented techniques and the choice of C++ as the programming language. They argue that the intelligent use of development tools, such as build tools (e.g. make), compiler, debugging environment (e.g. dbx), version control system (e.g. cvs), and bug management software (e.g. ClearDDTS), is nearly as important as the choice of language and paradigm.


Article history: Received January 11, 2012 Received in Revised form January 19, 2011 Accepted 19 January 2011 Available online 21 January 2012 A series of novel metal complexes containing metal atoms such as Zn, Co, Cu, Cd, Ni, Mg and Sn have been synthesized from 3-(1,3-benzoxazol-2-yl)naphthalen-2-ol. The synthesized ligand was well characterized by IR, H-NMR and mass spectrometry. The electrochemical properties were studied by cyclic voltammetric analysis. The synthesized complexes are fluorescent and absorb in the range of 317 to 323 nm while emit in the range of 371 to 416 nm with good quantum yield. All metal complexes show significant in vitro antibacterial activity against E. coli and S. aureus strains and in vitro antifungal activity against C. albicans and A. niger strains by using serial dilution method. The antibacterial activities were expressed as the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) in μg/mL. © 2012 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved.


This paper analyses the process of an ongoing research (MICINN, Ref. EDU2011-29928-C03-03) whose interest is promoting student leadership in schools and the development of democratic school communities following the theoretic ideas of student voice. Each of the stages of the research is analyzed following the crystallization metaphor (Richardson y St. Pierre, 2005). We try to demonstrate how every agent in the research participates from their own position, with the narratives available for them, their own truths,


Based on survey data of enterprise,the text explores the impact on talent aggregation of hi-tech enterprises and their relations by the use of factor analysis and structural equation model.The study shows that system and social organizational factors have a significant positive effect,and economic factors have significant passive role,it does not effectively promote the flow of talent aggregation and retention in the process of personnel aggregation,The paper provides useful reference for the policy formulation of talent aggregation.


Our data show that HED meteorites have a homogeneous oxygen isotopic composition consistent with a magma ocean on Vesta. Ibitira, Asuka 881394, Pasamonte, and NWA 1240 probably come from separate parent asteroids.


The peach pyralid moth,Conogethes punctiferalis is a polyphagous insect pest which bores the fruits,and appears to have made more and more damage in recent years. A survey was conducted on the occurrence,distribution and population dynamic of C. punctiferalis in Guangdong,China. The moth occurred mainly in Heyuan located in the east region of Guangdong and Qingyuan and Shaoguan located in the north region of Guangdong,and made serious damage to chestnut and Yingzui peach. The occurrence of the moth in pearl river delta was more lower,and no infestation was observed in the west region,Meizhou and Chaozhou- shantou region of Guangdong. Nine species of crops infested by C.punctiferalis were found,which were chestnut,Yingzui peach,Sanhua plum,Suisho pear,litchi,longan,carambola,helianthus and sweet corn. Since the emergence of adult showed 5 peaks a year in Heyuan and overwintered as larvae during Nov. to Mar. next year.


Retinal vascular vessels have the role to indicate the retinal diseases and for systematic diseases wh en there are any abnormalities in retinal vascular pattern. A characteristic of the vascular pattern that is ap preciated by clinicians is vascular tortuosity, i.e., how cur ved or kinked a blood vessel, either vein or artery , appears along its course. In this study we suggest a novel mask filter to track the blood vessel along its cou rse and measuring the blood vessels tortuosity over the ent ire human retinal vessel network in fundus eye imag e, by using the arc to chord ratio. The suggested algorit hm tested with straight and curve hand drawing line s and gives high accurate results.


This research paper presents an attempt to explore the
phenomenon of a consistent disconnection between the online and offline
personality traits of Internet users. The research delves deeper into this
notion, explores the possible drivers and stimulants, and then puts special
emphasis on its implications and repercussions on various business aspects,
such as online advertising and e-marketing techniques.
The research uses a variety of instruments and tools, including structured
observations, face-to-face interviews, online surveys, and mock computer
User Interfaces designed specifically for the purpose of the experiments
conducted as part of the primary data collection for the research. The paper
then proceeds to analyze the primary data and presents an attempt to
understand the phenomenon and its underlying stimulants. Finally, the
paper presents a set of conclusions, again with more focus on marketing
and business-related issues.
The research, through its primary data analysis and rationalization,
concludes that there is strong evidence that most internet users exhibit different facets of behavioral
dissonance between their online and offline traits. The research also concludes that such dissonance may
be induced by the social internet ecosystem and dynamics, rather than intrinsic tendencies in the users'
actual characters. The research also relates these findings with common business practices of successful
online businesses and sheds the light on potential ethical dilemmas pertaining to internet businesses
exploiting these phenomena (albeit sometimes unknowingly) to lure their users into buying products or
to generate more traffic.


Argues that freedom to love, court, and marry in nineteenth-century English Canada was constrained by an intricate social, institutional, and familial framework which greatly influenced the behavior of young couples both before and after marriage.


The software industry stands on feet of clay. However carefully we may strive to build correct and reliable software, we have no way of guaranteeing the quality of the result. Building correct and reliable software depends on the quality of so much else, from the hardware and the operating system to the compiler and the runtime libraries. And any significant software system has so many details and components of its own that we can hardly expect to get everything right if we do it all by ourselves. We describe an ambitious but realistic project that combines the ideas of reuse and formality with other more pragmatic techniques. The goal is to provide the entire software industry with a powerful set of reusable components deserving a high degree of trust.


This essay undertakes an analysis of ESPN's coverage of the "Penn State sex abuse scandal" during the first week following the release of the November 2011 Grand Jury presentment, which indicted former Penn State college football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky on 40 counts of criminal sexual abuse. Understanding ESPN's coverage—its particular framing of this story—is important and instructive, for it reveals how the news media shape public attitudes and opinions, pressure public officials, and model agentive citizenship in response to public traumas. Specifically, it is argued that ESPN's visualnarrative framing of the scandal perpetuates a hypermasculine (and heteronormative) fantasy of violent vigilante justice that reduces political agency to personal and private acts.


The point of view of The American Physical Society, scholarly society of 40,000 physicists which has the mission to "advance and diffuse knowledge of physics" and not to publish journals or to make money doing it.


Ensuring that instruments are in proper working order is a critical aspect of making any analytical measurement. Failure to confirm system suitability can lead to uncertainty in results and incorrectly formed conclusions. Evaluating system suitability for analytes that are challenging to handle, separate, and measure requires special considerations. Analytes with a propensity to chelate to metals are one such class of molecules. To better facilitate separations of these types of molecules, Waters has designed the ACQUITY Premier System and MaxPeak Premier Columns to have chromatographic surfaces based on hybrid silica instead of metal or metal alloy surfaces. When adopting MaxPeak Premier instruments, or attempting to make do with workarounds, analysts should consider test approaches that would report on their system's inertness to metal sensitive compounds. To this end, two test standards have been developed. Chemically, a nucleotide would be a useful test probe, however, they are subject to hydrolysis. As an alternative, we have made use of a non-hydrolyzable analog of adenosine diphosphate (ADP) to improve shelf life and solution stability of the standard. This molecule is adenosine 5'-( α,β- methylene)diphosphate (AMPcP) and is formulated as an AMPcP-only standard, as well as an equimolar mixture of AMPcP and adenosine. Each type of standard was used to characterize the extent of metal interaction on both the ACQUITY Premier and ACQUITY UPLC H-Class PLUS Bio systems. Two different test approaches were used to successfully demonstrate the attenuation of metal-binding in the inert ACQUITY Premier System when compared to the standard ACQUITY UPLC H-Class PLUS Bio System. Specifically, the AMPcP standard showed Waters Premier Standards to Investigate the Inertness of Chromatographic Surfaces more reproducible recovery upon injection through the sample flowpath. Peak area RSD from five repeat injections decreased from 20% to 0.2% upon switching from an ACQUITY UPLC H-Class PLUS Bio System to an ACQUITY Premier System. Additionally, replicate injections of AMPcP and caffeine with an ACQUITY Premier System partially configured with HPS readily identified exposed metal surfaces through increased peak area relative standard deviation as well as a reduction in the peak area ratio (of AMPcP relative to caffeine). Increases in absolute peak area and improvements in peak shape were also observed. With respect to the AMPcP and adenosine standard and testing via a chromatographic separation, it was also found that the ACQUITY Premier System provided significantly higher peak area ratios for AMPcP/adenosine and thus higher recoveries of metal-sensitive analytes. results as a means of confirming proper system performance. As predicted, these results show a significant increase in peak area for AMPcP (16%) when comparing the inert ACQUITY Premier System to the metal-containing biocompatible system. In contrast, the non-metal sensitive compound adenosine shows comparable peak areas on the two systems, with a difference of only 1%. The adenosine peak gives very reproducible retention times and peak areas, thus indicating that the performance of the system components (pump, autosampler, injector, and detector) are all functioning properly. This shows the ability of the combined sample to highlight any potential for metal adsorption and to help give a quick indication of overall LC performance.


In the paper, Sesame oils were obtained with supercritical CO_(2),microwave and ultrasonic for their optimum extraction conditions. The uniform design experiment was used to optimize the SFE CO_(2) conditions, and the optimal conditions were determined: the pressure 32MPa, the temperature 60℃, the CO_(2) flowing rate 31kg/h and the time 80 min. The optimum conditions of the microwave extraction were obtained by orthogonal experiment: acetone as solvent,the rate of mass of material to solvent 1:7, the radiating time 7min, the microwave power 810w. The optimum conditions of the ultrasonic extraction were obtained by orthogonal experiment: the rate of mass of material to solvent 1:7, petroleum ether as solvent, the soaking time 30h, The oils were obtained by supercritical CO_(2), microwave and ultrasonic, extraction rate 46.39%, 23.01% and 23.99% respectively. The results showed that the extraction rate of supercritical CO_(2) was highest, quality best and stable in the three methods.


Recently, the term "cognition" has secured a special place in the etiology and treatment of emotional disorders in psychology and psychiatry. Cognitive psychology, compared with behavioral psychology, considers that mental events are not mere association phenomena, but rather the cognitive processes have influence on behavior. Therefore, the study attempted to examine the relationship between irrational beliefs and psychological security and quality of life among university students in Golestan University. This study adopted a correlational descriptive approach. The sample for the study included all students is Golestan University. Being randomly selected, a sample consisting of 342 people responded to the Jones Irrational Beliefs test, Maslow's psychological security questionnaire and Warosherbon life quality questionnaire (SF36). To analyze the data, Pearson statistical correlation and multivariate regression analysis were used. Pearson correlation test results showed that students' irrational beliefs had a significantly negative relationship with psychological security and quality of life indicating the fact that irrational beliefs enlighten the students' psychological security and quality of life which results into the point that irrational beliefs impose inappropriate consequences on the psychological security and quality of life.


This dissertation has as its theme those factors involved in the sustainability of health promotion initiatives, most especially in the alliances consolidation in the perspective of intersector action for the creation of healthy environments. The study addresses the theoreticalethic- political ideation, seeking to focus on those conceptual displacements that characterize the paradigmatic rupture translated by this movement, outlining the extended health
conception which embeds the social determinants thematic, updating the discussion over
inter-sectors in the commitment consolidation with equity and social justice. It discusses
controversies and political-ideological implications expressed in the plurality of views over such strategy, focusing on distinctions and conceptual approaches among health promotion,
prevention and health education. The qualitative research was adopted as a strategy, with
typical descriptive and interpretative case study methodological approach. The empirical basis
was developed in one of the SESC regional departments, with well succeeded experience of
the "Transando saude project" ("Dealing with Health Project"), and its analysis focus is on
strategies of inter-sector mediation and articulation, in this context. The project in question is of initiative of the Health Education Activity and is turned to the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and Aids, with actions in the school and local work settings through the establishing of inter-sector alliances and the use of peer education methodology. In the performed investigation, it was made a cut in the analysis unit, opting for this latter setting. The triangulation technique was used in the data collection through documental research, direct observation and semi- structured interviews. The data analysis was made according to the hermeneutical-dialectic perspective, and it addresses the implied elements in the ordering of the inter-sector network, discussing on the conceptions and values that guide the practices and factors which are favorable and restricted to the establishing of inter-sector alliances in view of the health promotion initiatives. Thus, it points out those aspects that may inform the initiatives in other institutional hallmarks, outlining the importance of the nexus connective responsibility / ethics / commitment in the consolidation of alliances network; the relational and communicative perspective of power fluxes in the network; the importance of fostering the continued education with co-engendering of subjects and the work world; and the actors capability to dialogue and negotiate, extending the inter-subjective consensus that generate co-responsibilities in the management and care processes. The formulated hypothesis on the potential of SESC is confirmed on the inter-sector mediation which is then materialized by the creation of practical and symbolic conditions for the conformation of new identities among network entities, which will gradually become more related, in the assay of strategies that embed the most broadened political, ethical and cultural perspective of health promotion.


Minor and major disruptions by explosive MHD instabilities were observed with the novel quasi 3D electron cyclotron emission imaging (ECEI) system in the KSTAR plasma. The fine electron temperature (Te) fluctuation images revealed two types of minor disruptions: a small minor disruption is a q∼2 localized fast transport event due to a single m/n  =  2/1 magnetic island growth, while a large minor disruption is partial collapse of the q⩽2 region with two successive fast heat transport events by the correlated m/n  =  2/1 and m/n  =  1/1 instabilities. The m/n  =  2/1 magnetic island growth during the minor disruption is normally limited below the saturation width. However, as the additional interchange-like perturbation grows near the inner separatrix of the 2/1 island, the 2/1 island can expand beyond the limit through coupling with the cold bubble formed by the interchange-like perturbation.


The vertical configuration open MRI Scanner (Signa SPIO, General Electric) has been used to assess the place of interventional MR in the management of developmental dysplasia of the hip over the last four years. Twenty-six patients have been studied. In static mode, coronal and axial T1 – weighted spin echo images are initially obtained to assess the anatomy of the hip, followed by dynamic imaging in near-real time. In all cases, dynamic imaging was very good for assessing and demonstrating stability. The best position for containment can be assessed and a hip spica applied. Scanning in two planes gives more information and allows more accurate positioning than an arthrogram. Confirmation of location of the hip after application of the spica can be easily demonstrated. Adductor tenotomies have been performed within the imaging volume, and in two cases, this enabled planning of femoral osteotomies. All patients have had a satisfactory outcome, but five have required open reduction and a Salter innominate osteotomy. In ten cases, the opportunity has also arisen to alternative perform an arthrogram, either because of the complexity of the cases, or at a later date as an alternative to a repeat MRI, or because of difficulty with access to the machine. The place of interventional MRI in DDH is not yet defined. As machines get better and the definition improves, the amount of information about the nature of dislocation, the relative size of the acetabulum to the femoral head, the state of the limbus, the best position for containment and stability, and the potential for growth of the acetabulum, particularly posteriorly will be increased. It follows that the potential for more accurate definition of each hip and the outcome is better – and safer – than by arthrography, which remains the 'gold standard' but involves radiation and is only one-dimensional.


Cranberries of Cv. Beaver have been observed to flower in September and October at Vancouver, British Columbia. The flowering uprights all showed umbrella bloom while the flowering runners bore terminal racemes. This behavior is contrary to reported photoperiodic and chilling requirements of cranberries. Mixed buds of the cranberry overwinter in a far more advanced state at Vancouver than has been previously reported.


Formation of microparticles initiated by XeCl laser radiation photolysis of Mo(CO)6 mixed with buffer gas was studied. It was shown that micron-sized heavy objects (microparticles) of little mobility were formed and scattered the beam of the He-Ne probe laser. The microparticle mass and size were determined from probe laser beam scattering. The average density of microparticle was estimated (ρ ≈ 0.1 g·cm-3).


We give in this paper a formal definition of the concept of weak and strong a-polarization. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for a decision maker who respects the Lorenz order and who behaves in accordance with the expected utility model, with Yaari's dual model or with the rank-dependent expected utility model to be weakly or strongly a-polarization averse. Finally these results are applied to the specific problem of inequality measurement.


The three epics discussed in The German Epic in the Cold War are not easy reads. At a cumulative page count of over five thousand pages, Die Asthetik des Widerstands, Jahrestage, and Chronik der Ge...


It is very important when search methods are being designed to know which parameters have the greatest influence on the behaviour and performance of the algorithm. To this end, algorithm parameters are commonly calibrated by means of either theoretic analysis or intensive experimentation. However, due to the importance of parameters and its effect on the results, finding appropriate parameter values should be carried out using robust tools to determine the way they operate and influence the results. When undertaking a detailed statistical analysis of the influence of each parameter, the designer should pay attention mostly to the parameters that are statistically significant. In this paper the ANOVA ANalysis Of the VAriance method is used to carry out an exhaustive analysis of an evolutionary algorithm method and the different parameters it requires. Following this idea, the significance and relative importance of the parameters regarding the obtained results, as well as suitable values for each of these, were obtained using ANOVA and post-hoc Tukey's Honestly Significant Difference tests on four well known function optimization problems. Through this statistical study we have verified the adequacy of parameter values available in the bibliography using parametric hypothesis tests.


This paper analyzes the relevant laws and regulations on patent involved in standard in China which including: the <Rules of patents involved in national standards> published by National Standardization Administration of China (hereinafter referred to as SAC) and the State Intellectual Property Office of China (hereinafter referred to as SIPO), <Provisions on the prohibition of the abuse of intellectual property rights and restrictions on competitive behavior> published by State Administration for Industry and Commerce of China (hereinafter referred to as SAIC)and <Interpretation of several issues concerning the application of law in the trial of patent infringement dispute cases (II)> published by Supreme People's court of China (hereinafter referred to as SPC). And there are also some regulations that are still under being developed which including: <Revised Draft of Patent Law drafted> by SIPO, <Draft of the anti-monopoly guide on the abuse of intellectual property rights> drafted by National Development and Reform Commission (hereinafter referred to as NDRC), Ministry of Commerce of People's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as MOFCOM), SAIC and SIPO. This paper analyzes these regulations, discusses the roles and the problems may exist and points out that it is not only to highlight the laws and regulations targeted but also to strengthen the coordination and unity between them in order to deal with the issue of patent involved in standard.


In allusion to complex sand body distributions and uncertain provenance directions of submarine fans of middle-deep layers in DF area,Yinggehai basin,palaeogeomorphologic restoration,provenance and slope break belts in Member 1 of Huangliu Formation(Nh1),Upper Miocene in DF area were researched with techniques of high-precision sequence stratigraphy analysis and borehole-seismic strata thickness restoration,and palaeogeomorphologic control on sedimentary process and its relationship with hydrocarbon accumulation were also discussed.It is concluded that the macro-regional ancient tectonic setting is the main factor in triggering large submarine fans in Nh1 in DF area,western Yinggehai basin,and the micro-palaeogeomorphologic units and their combination patterns obviously controlling sedimentary evolutions,migration directions and internalstructures of large submarine fans.Palaeo-slope break belts control the development degree of submarine fans.Palaeo-ditchs control sedimentary input locations and directions.Palaeo-lows control sedimentary locations,migration directions and internal structure,and macro-palaeogeomorphologic patterns positively affect distributions of regional hydrocarbon source rocks and mudstone caprocks,and hydrocarbon reservoirs formation and distribution.Exploration practices show that comprehensive techniques of high-precision palaeogeomorphology and seismic sedimentology can improve macroscopic cognition of submarine fan sedimentary process and reservoir prediction accuracy,provide guidelines for construction of accumulation pattern of independent lobe sandstone traps,and achieve satisfactory exploration.


Objective To establish the SYBR Green Ⅰ fluorescent quantitative PCR method for accurate detection of DNA methylamine of the p16 gene in cervical carcinoma(CC),so to diagnose CC in the early stage.Methods The 133bp bisulfate-treated ACTB gene was amplified and cloned into T vector which was transformed into E.coli DH5α.The positive recombinant plasmid was used as quantitative template to generate standard curve.We used SYBR Green Ⅰfluorescent quantitative PCR determine the methylation status of 5'CpG islands of the p16 gene in 60 sample from patients with CC.Results The results showed absence of methylation of the p16 gene in the control and adjacent tissues of CC.Hypermethylation of the p16 gene was detected in 21.67%(17/60)of the tumor tissues.Detection of aberrant methylation of p16 gene may be useful for diagnosis of CC.Conclusions The SYBR Green Ⅰfluorescent quantitative PCcerivical carcinoma;p16 gene;methylationR method is a rapid sensitive method for detection of DNA methylamine of the p16 gene in the early stage of cervical carcinoma.


The study and implementation of innovative systems of environmentally friendly and energy-efficient transport based on magnetic levitation (MLT), the principle of which is based on the use of new solid-state magnetic materials, including compounds of rare earth materials, is very important due to the growing logistical problems across Russia and Eurasia. This paper touches upon the following aspects: Development of a theoretical model for calculating the maglev suspension of the MLT route based on high-temperature superconductors (HTSC) and rare-earth permanent magnets (REPM); design and manufacture of models of the MLT route in vacuum (VMLT) and in the atmosphere (AMLT). Experimental study of the power characteristics of the vertical and lateral stability of the MLT movement on the track. Design developments to create a model of a microcryogenic cascade cooling system for the subsequent design of MLT systems without the consumption of liquefied gases. Development of a software and hardware complex for controlling the process of movement of the VMLT and AMLT mock-up, including using the gravitational and electromagnetic principles of acceleration and deceleration. Experimental study of the speed, stability and energy efficiency of the model movement in the VMLT and AMLT modes. Development of the principles of the process of energy recovery during acceleration and deceleration of the VMLT model. Prediction of the main parameters of a promising MLT line based on the principles of scaling developed as a result of generalizing studies of MLT layouts.


The purpose of this study was to reveal the subjective semantic space of the metalinguistic consciousness of a subject via semantic differential methods. 53 adult interviewees ( 31 lawyers and 21 non-lawyers) evaluated three variants of Russian legal terms representing the same law concept FRANCHISING using 18 pairs of bipolar adjectives on seven point scales, with each asessement being performed on a different day. It was assumed that the choice of connotative and denotative attributes (good – bad, precise – vague, valid – invalid, useful – useless, etc.) would reflect the subject's picture of the law term quality. The collected data were processed by descriptional and multidimensional statistics procedures. Factor analysis gives the researchers an opportunity to find out the groups of interdependent features and provides them with a relatively small number of semantically invariant categories. The results of this psychosemantic experiment show that there is a statistically significant discrepancy in assessing the terminological representation of the concept FRANCHISING by lawyers and non-lawyers. The research also demonstrates the cognitive complexity of semantic spaces and the nature of underlying categorical structures.


The purpose of this study was to determine the microbiological quality of Aam Panna sold by street vendors in Allahabad city. A total of 10 samples, of Aam Panna from different areas in Allahabad city were collected in sterile containers and analyzed using standard microbiological method of standard plate count (nutrient agar), yeast mould count (Potato dextrose agar), pathogen in Cfu/g (Hi Touch Hexachrome Flexiplate), total coliform count in MPN/g (LST broth). Public health services guidelines which used to classify food as satisfactory, acceptable and unsatisfactory on the basis of SPC the microbial quality (Cfu/g) of Aam Panna sample.1 sample was satisfactory, 8 were acceptable, 1 was found unsatisfactory. According to Pathogenic profile of Aam Panna, Escherichia coli, Proteus mirabilis, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecalis were found in 55.5%, 100%, 100%, 55.5%, 85.5%, 100%.


The hypothesis that Protestant fertility patterns result from differences in social characteristics among denominations is set against the hypothesis that doctrinal differences lead members of conservative denominations to have both higher wanted and unwanted fertility. Data for white couples from the 1965 National Fertility Survey support the doctrine hypothesis for wanted fertility among conservative Protestants low in formal participation. It is suggested that couples who follow conservative doctrine and have larger families participate less frequently because of conflicting demands associated with larger families. Further analysis with a measure of participation less sensitive to differences in family size produces results consistent with this argument. (authors)


The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is a major new interferometer operated on Llano de Chajnantor at 5050 m altitude in the Chilean high Andes. This location is considered one of the world's outstanding sites for submillimeter astronomy. ALMA is still under construction, but science observations has started already in what is commonly known as ALMA Early Science Cycle 0. The purpose of ALMA Early Science Cycle 0 is to deliver scientically useful results to the astronomy community and to facilitate the ongoing characterization of ALMA systems and instrumentation as the capability of the array continues to grow. Early Science will continue through Cycle 1 and until construction and commissioning of ALMA is complete. This publication aims to give an insight into the challenges we face operating telescope of this scale at Chajnantor, a plateau 4800{5100 meter above sea level in one of the driest places of earth. It also will also present statistics from the proposal submission, describe the path from an accepted proposal to a calibrated data product, and nally an outlook for the future.


Commentators have highlighted the growing political and research interest in user involvement, with particular reference to social policy (Kemshall & Littlechild, 2000). Beresford (2002) has noted the tendency to present it as a 'good thing' pointing out, however, that it has both liberatory but also regressive potential. At the same time, Barnes (2001) has illuminated the limitations of 'mainstream' theory and practice in user participation in their failure to accommodate emotional experience, storytelling and diverse debates, as well as to develop more creative ways of working.This paper describes elements of the above as part of a critical reflection on the experiences of working with older women from a range of communities in research. The focus is on the practicalities of setting up and carrying out the research, though implications for the process of policy‐making are also briefly highlighted.


The effects of temperature and strain rate on elongation of Al-4.5Mg alloy were investigated at 10 -4 -10 -2 s -1 and at 573-773 K. The elongation depended on the temperature and strain rate even in the solute-drag creep region; as a result, a large elongation of 352% was attained at 653 K and at 10 -3 s -1 . Necking developed due to a decrease in plastic stability arising from apparent strain softening behavior at 10 -2 s -1 at 653 K or the low strain rate sensitivity at 10 -3 s -1 at 573 K. Also, significant cavitation was caused due to grain boundary sliding at 10 -4 s -1 at 653 K and at 10 -3 s -1 at 773 K. The development of necking and cavitation is responsible for the temperature and strain rate dependence of elongation.


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The present invention relates to a vertical transistor and a method for forming a semiconductor device having a channel region formed in a semiconductor substrate and a vertical direction. The present invention is a gate electrode a semiconductor pillar by proceeds with a subsequent process for forming the after wrapping the semiconductor pillar and the side wall of the semiconductor pillar, which corresponds to the length of the semiconductor channel form a gate electrode, first, the silicon patterns and the like corresponding to the junction region to be able to support. The present invention even when the gate electrode supporting the semiconductor pillar, so increasing the height of the semiconductor pillar, which corresponds to the length of the channel can be prevented from tilting or collapse of the semiconductor pillar along. A semiconductor pillar (pillar), a vertical-type transistor, surrounding gate


The invention discloses a real-time on-line monitoring system for the water turbid degree, comprising a sample cell, a standard cell filled with purified water, a light path system, a water pump and a computer data acquisition and display system, wherein the light path system comprises a visible light source, a spectroscope, a holophote, two beam expanders, two focusing convex lenses and two photoelectric probes. Two braches of light are respectively formed; and after two braches of light respectively pass through the water bodies in the sample cell and the standard cell, two paths of signals are recorded, compared and analyzed by the computer data acquisition and display system in real time so as to realize the purpose of monitoring the sewage turbid degree on line in real time. The monitoring system has the main principle that the water turbid degree is monitored on line in real time by monitoring the variation of visible light transmittance for water with a certain volume, i.e. the bigger the water turbid degree is, the smaller the visible light transmittance is. The invention not only considers the adsorption action of sewage on light but also considers the dispersion action of sewage on light, thus the invention is more scientific and accurate to represent the water turbid degree.


Purpose – The purpose of presented study is to investigate the development of the barreling obtaining the variation of the surface area during upsetting of cylindrical specimens for various metals and alloys.Design/methodology/approach – Variations of the surface areas were first obtained analytically using mathematical equations for uniform and non‐uniform upsetting. Barreling contours were accepted as circular segments in the development of the equations. In the experimental part of the study, barreling radii and other related dimensions of upset specimens were measured and inserted into the developed equations in order to obtain the variations of total specimen surface areas.Findings – As it is expected, barreling effects the variation of total surface areas of the specimen. It can be concluded that the total surface area first decreases at low upset ratios for all the test materials and then begins to increase as the upset ratios increases. Consequently, total surface areas for non‐uniform upsetting a...


The present study was conducted to study diversity and damage assessment of snails in cultivated crops and ornamental plants. The study revealed two types of snail species Macrochlamys indica and Indoplanorbis exustus in the study area. The sampled plots of tomato, Karam, Palak, Dhania, Maize, Fresh beans, Sunflowers, Aloe Vera, Loki, Pumpkin, Bitter guard, Kheera, Kachmach, Hund were taken. The study revealed that at Neelabut, when 39 plants of Fresh beans were examined out of them 18 were found damaged and the damage percentage was 46%, 38 plants of sunflowers were examined and 17 (45%) were found damaged, 85 plants of tomato were examined and 11 (12.94%) were found damaged, 82 plants of Karam were examined and 12 ( 15%) were found damaged, 62 plants of Palak were examined and 16 (25%) were found damaged, 51 plants of maize were examined and 15 (29%) were found damaged. The snail is pest in the study area and measures should be taken to manage them through ecofriendly programs.


Advances in environmental perception enable innovative driver assistance systems that can increase the comfort and safety of automotive driving. Further, these driver assistance systems depend on an "intelligent" information processing that must include a spatial and temporal look-ahead. Based on a method for potential field vehicle guidance, this paper presents experimental results of an assistance system for collision avoidance with moving objects. Different "junction-scenarios" are tested successfully. The paper concludes with a brief comparison of experimental results with simulations.


To judge from the arguments and discussions which have appeared in the medical press, the problem of the spread of the tubercle bacillus to the epididymis has not been solved to the satisfaction of all who are interested in this subject. For many years two opposing schools of thought have been propounded, one led by Barney 1 who believes that the primary genital lesion is in the epididymis, while the second, the greatest advocate of which is Young,2 holds the view that the primary genital lesion is in the seminal vesicles and prostate, the epididymis becoming secondarily infected. To myself, having read the results of investigations by these two workers, the problem persisted and it seemed that the proper procedure was to investigate all the cases of male genital tuberculosis at my disposal, in an attempt to f clarify the position at least in my own mind. Since the problem before the Society is the pathogenesis of tuberculous epididymitis, I hope you will forgive me if I omit much of the information I collected from the cases studied. Lastly, I would like to point out that the study did not rely entirely on hospital case records but included past patients and all those who, for the purpose of this investigation, came under my nominal charge. General Incidence of Tuberculous Epididymitis.?The


Retail credit scoring has become more efficient in recent years because of the use of data mining techniques that allow marketing officers and top managers to better estimate their customers credibility. In recent years, many complicated models have been developed; however there are few of them which continues to be used because of its efficiency and simplicity. This study investigates k-Nearest Neighbourhood (kNN), support vector machines (SVMs), gradient boosted model (GBM), Naive Bayes classification, Classification and Regression Tree (CART) and Random Forest (RF) as analytical methods for customer credit scoring estimation and evaluation, using real dataset. At the end of the study it is found that Random Forest model with down-sampling (RF_US) has better accuracy rate when compared to other models.


Fusarium species are found world-wide in maize and cause not only considerable crop losses, but produce also toxic secondary metabolites (mycotoxins) like deoxynivalenol (DON) and zearalenone (ZEA). The purpose of this study was to carry out exploratory research about the presence of mycotoxins in maize. In a first experiment the varietal differences in susceptibility to Fusarium and contamination of mycotoxins were evaluated. Silage maize varieties seemed more susceptible to Fusarium than corn varieties. Even plants with no visible symptoms contained mycotoxins. High concentrations of DON and ZEA were found in kernels as well in the vegetative parts of the plant. Mycotoxins were especially located at the stem base. A clear relationship was detected between chlorophyll content and visible symptoms of Fusarium species. An ensilage experiment indicated that the ensilage process has no reducing effects on the mycotoxin content. Further research is necessary to confirm these first results.


It is analyse and calculation about the dynamic characteristic of motorcycle frame by FEM model,carry on validation through experimental modal method,Get back frame modal parameter and shake type.On the base of analyse,ameliorate the structure of motorcycle frame,and validate the effect of amelioration, elevation the comfortable porperty of riding motorcycle. Therefore, it has important theoretic significance.


When I was growing up in South Arkansas in the 1950s the Civil War was very much still with us. I had a great-grandfather who fought in the war and his Civil War musket was an heirloom in our home. My friends drove pick-up trucks with Confederate flags and signs that showed a mean looking Confederate soldier saying "Forget Hell" or "The South's going to rise again!" My thesis here tonight is that the old slogan "The South's going to rise again" has proved prophetic in American politics. That is, in the words of the title of my lecture, we have seen over the past two decades the "Southemization" of American politics.


According to the current situation of mullite preparations,micro-crystal muscovite in west Sichuan is studied to calcine for mullite with the high temperature.X-ray diffraction、SEM and complete analysis are used to monitor their characteristics to determine the better techniques method and technical process.The results show that mullite samples,with glass phase,were synthesized from micro-crystal muscovite by reaction calcining at 1500 ℃ for 3 h.The main cause is that the content of alumina is inadequate.The micro-crystal muscovite and industrial alumina were mixtured and grinded by the ball grinder together.Then,mullite samples,with better crystallinity,were synthesized from the mixtures by reaction calcining at 1450 ℃ for 3 h.


Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with unclear etiology and few treatment options. Engineering of human cells for therapy has great potential to provide a means to create long-lived therapeutics that can respond to local signals within tissues. One challenge for development of human cell therapeutics is to have disease models that do not reject transplanted human cells. G93A mutant superoxide dismutase-1 (mSOD1) transgenic mouse model is a robust disease model for ALS, with development of local inflammation, activation of microglia and astrocytes, motor neuron death, and development of paralysis. To create a mouse model for ALS that permits the transplantation of human T cells without immune-mediate rejection, we bred the G93A transgene onto the NOD-SCID-IL-2Rγ-deficient (NSG) mouse model to create mSOD1-NSG mice. We report that mSOD1-NSG mice develop a progressive ALS-like disease with microgliosis, astrogliosis, and paralysis development with an average onset at 11 weeks and end-stage at 14 weeks. Transplanted human T regulatory cells survive in these mice for at least 60 days. This mSOD1-NSG mouse model for ALS can be used to test human T cell-based therapeutics, and it may be helpful to test any human cell-based therapy for ALS. Significance Statement G93A SOD1 transgenic NSG mice develop a progressive ALS-like disease and are an in vivo model for testing human T cell-based therapies for ALS.


Compost leachate is produced by conversion of municipal waste to compost. It contains significant amounts of organic materials, nutrients, soluble salts and small amounts of some heavy metals. Adding compost leachate to the soil can pollute it, and also improve soil fertility. In this study, we investigated absorption and growth performance of Populus deltoides under irrigation with leachate of the Compost Plant of Rasht. At the beginning of the growing season, in mid-March 2013, cuttings were processed from young, one-year-old seedlings of Populus trees in the greenhouse of the Safrabaste Poplar Research Station. Cuttings were planted in pots filled with loamy-sandy soil in the vicinity of the area with 40cm depth. Compost leachate was taken from a collection reservoir where lea - chate from the open composting of organic municipal wastes and various gardening and plant wastes had been col -


The accuracy of 231Pa‐235U measurements can be readily assessed using a secular equilibrium reference material (RM), but a secular equilibrium RM is also required to calibrate the 233Pa spike used in 231Pa determinations. The only silicate RM commonly accepted to be in secular equilibrium is Table Mountain Latite (TML) and so an additional reference is required. Our measurements on the widely available USGS BCR‐2 (Basalt Columbia River) rock powder yielded (231Pa/235U) = 0.997 ± 0.013 2s (n = 10), indicating its value as a secondary reference to test the fidelity of U‐Pa determinations. Such a reference material additionally provides a useful check on data reduction, which our literature survey highlights can lead to discrepancies of up to 53% between reported (231Pa/235U) activity ratios and corresponding U and Pa concentration data.


A 60nm wide tunable all erbium-doped fiber ring laser based on the multimode interference effect (MMI) is presented. The tuning range goes from 1549nm to 1609nm with better than 40dB signal to noise ratio.


A rescaling transformation of space and time is introduced in the study of nonlinear dissipative systems that are described by a second‐order differential equation with a friction term proportional to the velocity, β(t)v. The transformation is of the form (x,t)→(ξ,θ), where x=ξC(t)+α(t), dθ=dt/A2(t). This rescaling is used to find each potential for which there exists an exact invariant quadratic in the velocity and to find the invariant. The invariants are found explicitly for a power‐law potential, γ(t)xm+1/(m+1), and an arbitrary coefficient of friction β(t). We show in an example how the rescaling transformation can be chosen to give an asymptotic solution of the equation in cases where the exact invariant does not exist. For certain parameters, the asymptotic solution is a self‐similar solution that is an attractor for all initial conditions. The technique of applying a rescaling transformation has been useful in other problems and may have additional practical applications.


Objective: To explore the implement effect of integrative electronic clinical pathway in single disease management,quality management in order to provide the referential management mode of medical management for the hospital. Methods: Related indicators of four kinds of diseases in hospitalized patients of the integrative medicine hospital after implementing the clinical path management were statistical analysed. Results: This study evaluated the senile cataract,children bronchitis, cerebral infarction, transient ischemic four diseases through the implementation of electronic integrative medicine clinical path management,which can shorten the average length of stay,reduce hospital costs and drug costs,improve patients' satisfaction degree. Conclusion: Integrative electronic clinical pathway management model has a good effect and application value in single disease in medical quality management.


This article aims to know the different uses of music as a symbolic resource in Pentecostal Peruvian and Bolivian migrants in Iquique city to know the musical bonding generated (in the practicing and listening) in domestic and ecclesiastic spaces in the process of adaptation to the new place (Iquique). We will try to know the re-significations and symbolizations generated by the migrant-believer in family bonds and belonging place with the arrival place, where music becomes a central symbolic resource linking nostalgia/consolation (past) and hope (future). To this, a qualitative methodology of work was used with a participative observation and biographical stories from interviews to relate the told and the lived story through the ecclesiastic and daily experience of the Pentecostal migrant-believer.


Here in this third paper in a series of three papers (time-space circuits, time-space constants, and timespace manifolds), Temporal Mechanics presents the case for time-space manifolds on the macroscopic scale, correctly deriving the distance of the Heliopause, Bow Shock, and Oort Cloud from Sol as three key manifolds, while explaining the time-space circuitry involved in and between those manifolds via the required feature of the time-space constants. Subsequently, the stellar light phenomena of the Milky Way is derived and appreciated with known data, including its alignment compared to the solar system plane, and thence the phenomena of light from sources presuming to be separate and unique stars clustered as galaxies. The key feature of this theoretical process is in properly resolving the "Black Hole Information Paradox", assigning the concept of a spacetime singularity as a Black Hole to a specific manifold, a grand manifold as what is termed here as the "Black Expanse", or more simply the "Epoch", a harbour of information.


Growing pigeonpeas cv. ICPL85014 during the rainy season had no significant effect on the mean grain yield of subsequent crops of sorghum hybrids SPH280 and ICSH86646 grown in the postrainy season, and substantially increased gross monetary returns


Conditions which favored the production of hemolytically competent C4 sites over incompetent C4 sites on IgM-sensitized cells included a low ratio of Ab:C1 (SA:SAC1 ratio), prior exposure of the EAC1 to 0°C for 30 min or more, and reactive with C4 at 0°C. Other important factors included Ab class, C1 and C4 multiplicity, and the time of incubation. The status of a given C4 site seemed to be set irrevocably at the time C4 first interacted with SAC1, and this status was associated with the affinity with which the C1 was bound to the cell. Cell-bound C1 underwent a completely reversible "super-activation" at 0°C which increased the proportion of hemolytically competent C4 sites generated during subsequent interaction with C4. The configuration of a C1 molecule, as determined by the affinity with which it is bound to a cell, may determine the hemolytic competence of a C4 molecule reacting with that site.


The extensive use of pesticides for increasing the agricultural production is affecting the quality of groundwater. The objectives of this article are to (i) develop pesticide relative leaching ranks for well sites, (ii) develop maps for human health risks due to pesticide applications, and (iii) identify the most significant parameters in pesticide simulations for groundwater vulnerability assessment. The methods include (i) development of acifluorfen relative leaching ranks for 25 well sites using ArcPRZM-3, (ii) development of health risk maps using model simulated maximum dissolved bentazon concentrations on the basis of USA drinking water quality guidelines, (iii) sensitivity analysis for 14 ArcPRZM-3 input parameters using the Plackett–Burman method. ArcPRZM-3 is a user-friendly system for spatial modeling of pesticide leaching from surface to groundwater. Thirteen acifluorfen relative leaching potential ranks were developed in which the pesticide leaching decrease from 1 to 13. The model predicted ranks for well 34 and well 9 were 2nd and 3rd, respectively, and acifluorfen was detected in both wells during the physical monitoring. The percentages of high health risks in the agricultural areas were 48.38 and 72.72% for Randolph and Independence Counties, respectively. The most significant parameters were thickness of horizon compartment, runoff curve number of antecedent moisture condition II for cropping, soil bulk density, and total application of pesticide. The irrigation, soil permeability, and numerical dispersion could impact the pesticide leaching in soils toward groundwater. The ArcPRZM-3 system could be efficiently applied for spatial modeling and mapping of pesticide concentrations for groundwater vulnerability assessment on a large scale.


With the increasing accessibility of commercial space flight, the environmental impacts of space launches will become increasingly significant in the coming years. An increasing of space launches has brought the issue of pollution by chlorine-containing combustion products of modern ammonium-perchlorate-based propellants into focus. Here, a review is presented of the environmental impact assessment of solid rocket motor exhaust obtained due to main composite propellants components combustion. This review highlights the need for further study of the cumulative impacts that frequent space launches have on all areas of the environment, including global climate, ecosystem toxicity, and human toxicity, and with consideration given to all commonly used propellants, to ensure that the impacts are well characterized and well understood before the number of launches greatly increases. Research and development efforts made in the direction of high energy material technology have brought an array of new materials into prominence. The new materials, having minimum emissions and significant improvements of the impulse, are under investigation for their use in propellants formulations. The paper is addressed to the discussion of the technical, process and safety concerns arisen from the use of new ingredients for solid propellant.


Dense moss cushions colonize bare limestone pavements on Oland's alvar, southeastern Sweden. As these cushions grow larger and thicker and can store more water, they should physically protect and facilitate their own performance as well as the colonization by vascular plants. We tested these predictions by measuring the airflow and water economy of moss cushions. We found that cushions are imbedded in boundary layers formed by ground and moss surfaces. Near-surface flow was reduced immediately upwind and negligible downwind of the moss cushions, which should facilitate their centrifugal expansion. The calculated diffusion boundary layer was thin (<0.7 mm) above moss cushions exposed to free airflow of 1–6 m·s−1 in accordance with substantial turbulence measured by small sensors at 0.5 cm distance from moss surfaces. Evaporation from the wetted cushions increased linearly with wind speed (0 and 8 m·s−1) in wind-tunnel experiments, and neither evaporation nor airflow followed standard formulas for objects i...


The invention magazine do not install a large number of tools brought to the diameter of the plate or magazine when increasing the rotational speed of the plate, even if increase the centrifugal force exerted on the tool holder clamped in the gripper tool holder is not released from the grippers of the non-cutting time while seeking to shorten relates one tool stored in the tool magazine with no need to stop the machining center in which processing operations carried out by the tool stored in the tool magazine to the tool magazine for automatic tool exchange device that can be replaced with other tools outside the .


The first decades of the Qing dynasty witnessed prolific development of historical writings on Southern Ming history. The comparatively relaxed atmosphere provided a platform for literati with diverse political stances to voice their views on the historical events that concerned them. Emphasizing the use of history in statecraft, many Chinese historians considered the history of the Ming fall and Qing rise to offer a valuable lesson for rulers in the future. In the social construction of the early Qing discourse on the resistance history of 1644-1662, the narratives by historians from different social groups became a tool in the struggle for cultural dominance and hegemony. To the remnant Ming loyalists, the Ming yimin, their remembering and appreciation of the late Ming martyrs, to a large extent, were an expression of their anti-Qing sentiment and determination to live as yimin. However, to the Han Chinese in the new government, the history of the Ming-Qing dynastic change merely indicated a shift of Heaven's Will. Influenced by the yimin scholars, many Han Chinese in the early Qing were ambivalent about accepting the legitimacy of Qing rule and considered the Southern Ming a legitimate dynasty in Chinese history. This ambivalence in time led to a less politicized interpretation of the resistance history that regarded the deeds of the Ming loyalists as an embodiment of Confucian principles and virtues. As a result of reconciliation, the new interpretation in the end became a collective memory of the history of the Ming-Qing transition among the Qing's subjects.


Any system must take a certain value understanding,valuation and value choice as precondition,and take a certain ethics as details,this is the mode Marx said to grasp the world with practical spirit.Although,the writers of Marxist classic do not use the conception of system ethics directly,there are plentiful system ethics ideas in their works.Their value orientation on social system ethics has guidance significance for social system ethics construction.


Community-onset Staphylococcus aureus (CO-S. aureus) infections, methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA), have a high burden on United States (US) Emergency Departments and urgent care, particularly within the pediatric population. Although individual risk factors have been well-studied, the influence of specific geographic locality and place-based risks for CO-S. aureus infections have not been well-characterized. Maximum entropy (MaxEnt) is a machine learning technique for ecological niche modeling, which predicts the distribution of disease vectors and their possible disease transmissions using environmental and other relevant risk factors. The aim of this study is to predict socioecological factors that contribute to the spread of CO-S. aureus in a major urban area.

 Electronic medical records from children with staphylococcal infections, who were treated at two pediatric hospitals from 2002 to 2016, were retrospectively reviewed. Children were included in the analyses if they had a confirmed S. aureus infection within 48 hours of hospital admission (i.e., CO-S. aureus), less than 19 years old, and a geo-referenced address within Atlanta's metropolitan statistical area (MSA). The timespan was divided into two periods, 2002-2005 (early) and 2006-2010 (later), mimicking the trend of CO-S. aureus. Fourteen place-based factors, obtained at the US Census Bureau block group level, were included in the MaxEnt model: population under 18 years old, Caucasian, African American, ethnicity, poverty, low education (high school diploma), high education (Bachelor's degree and above), crowding, nursery school enrollment, kindergarten enrollment, distance to K-12 school, distance to a children's hospital, distance to a daycare center, and population density. These were based on factors previously determined a priori. A total of four models (CO-MRSA early, CO-MSSA early, CO-MRSA later, and CO-MSSA later) were run using the MaxEnt software (v.3.4.1). For each model, 75% and 25% of data was randomly assigned to training and testing groups, respectively. Models were assessed by jack-knife tests.

 16,124 records met the eligibility criteria and were included in the MaxEnt models. Preliminary analyses of data from 2002-2010 suggest training Area Under the Curve (AUC) ranging from 0.802 to 0.828 and the test AUC ranging from 0.796 to 0.809, demonstrating these models are performing very well. Population density had the highest contribution in predicting CO-MRSA and CO-MSSA locations, which was confirmed by jack-knife tests.

 By applying MaxEnt to pediatric CO-S. aureus infections in the Atlanta MSA, it was found that higher risks of CO-S. aureus infections may exist in more densely populated areas. MaxEnt can be utilized to identify potential future areas of CO-MRSA and CO-MSSA infections based on estimated or predicted changes to the place-based factors used to build these models, most notably population density. Predicted risk areas should have more frequent monitoring to prevent S. aureus infection outbreaks, which will also allow for more time to pool public health resources for these areas to quickly and effectively control outbreaks.


Efficient design of energy converters heavily depends on the capacity of the designer to accurately predict the device's dynamic, which ultimately leads to the power extraction. This is specially true for wave energy converters (WEC), which usually present a high cost per kWh generated. In this thesis a particular WEC which uses a rotating mass for power extraction is studied. A numerical model for the prediction of its motion and power extraction is presented. The nonlinear dynamic model consists of a time-domain three dimensional Rankine panel method coupled, in the time integration, with a MATLAB algorithm which solves for the equations of the gyroscope and Power Take-Off (PTO). The former acts as a force block, calculating the forces due to the waves on the hull, which is then sent to the latter through TCP/IP, which couples the external dynamics and performs the time-integration using a 4th order Runge-Kutta method. With the proposed code, two case studies are examined. The first consists of two gyroscopes, rotating in opposite directions, to negate undesirable yaw effects on the WEC's hull. The device's optimum PTO damping value and flywheel spin are then shown, which change for different sea states. The second is a comparison against results from experimental testing of a 1:50 model at the Davidson Laboratory during the Wave Energy Prize. Thesis Supervisor: Stefano Brizzolara Title: Visiting Research Scientist, PI


Colorectal cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer-related death in the western world (Jemal et al., 2009). Most non-hereditary colorectal cancers arise from benign adenomas (Morison et al., 1974). It has been reported that removal of adenomatous polyps reduces the risk of subsequent colorectal cancer by as much as 80% (Winawer et al., 1993). Therefore, detection and removal of colorectal adenomas, as well as of cancer in the early stages, is utmost importance in improving the prognosis of patients with colorectal cancer. Although colonoscopy is one of the most reliable methods for diagnosis of colorectal neoplasms, conventional colonoscopy could be improved by addressing some of its shortcomings. In this article, the new and promising technologies that comprise image-enhanced endoscopy (IEE) are reviewed, and a new colonoscopic strategy that incorporates some of these techniques is proposed.


We consider a group of Bayesian agents who are each given an independent signal about an unknown state of the world, and proceed to communicate with each other. We study the question of asymptotic learning: do agents learn the state of the world with probability that approaches one as the number of agents tends to infinity?
We show that under general conditions asymptotic learning follows from agreement on posterior actions or posterior beliefs, regardless of the communication dynamics. In particular, we prove that asymptotic learning holds for the Gale-Kariv model on undirected networks and non-atomic private beliefs.


− A fundamental study was conducted on the dissolution of North Korean magnesite using hydrochloric acid to understand the dissolution behavior of the magnesium and impurities. The influence of the acid concentration, particle size of the magnesite, reaction temperature, and pulp density on the dissolution of magnesium, iron, calcium, aluminum, and silicon dioxide was studied. The experimental results showed that 98.5% of magnesium, 86.9% of iron, 87.3% of calcium, 23.6% of aluminum, and 20.4% of silicon dioxide were dissolved when magnesite particle sizes within the range of 75~105 μm were reacted using 3 M HCl solution under 6% pulp density at 363 K for 3 h. The residues that remained after the dissolution were silicon dioxide, talc, and clinochlore.


METHODS In the PRISM trial 3,232 patients were randomly assigned to receive tirofiban or UFH. In the early phase, 879 patients were allocated to phosphate-buffered tirofiban and 874 patients to UFH group. After a protocol amendment due to a study drug instability report, citrate-buffered tirofiban replaced the phosphate-buffered formulation. Therefore, in the late phase, 737 and 742 patients were treated with citrate-buffered tirofiban and UFH, respectively.


MLP model training has the problems of local optimum and its unsatisfactory generalization performance.Although the genetic algorithm can jump out of local optimum, it increases computational complexity. The purpose of this paper is to overcome the above shortcomings. This SSGAMLP(Small Set Genetic Algorithm Multilayer Perceptron)model combines the genetic algorithm and MLP model. The down connection weights of MLP model nodes are regarded as low to high level mapping, so each node(including the down connection weights and thresholds)can be regarded as the expression of a feature, namely gene expression of the genetic algorithm. Individual training using a random subset along with crossover and mutation of genetic algorithm, they are equivalent to introduced random factors, thus having the possibility of obtaining the unknown feature expression. This paper's experiment is based on MNIST dataset. Its result confirms SSGAMLP model's advantages. The model reduces the individual computational complexity, improves the generalization.To a certain extent, this model overcomes the over fitting.


Creativity is an important aspect of child development which has been shown to be positively associated with academic achievement. The present study investigated conceptions of creativity and teaching methods to foster creativity in teachers from three elementary schools in the Telemark region of Norway. Teachers participated in a verbal interview and completed the Creativity-Fostering Teacher Behaviour Index (CFTIndex). Years of education ( = -.31, t (4) = -7.61, p = .00) and years spent teaching ( = -.03, t (4) = -6.83, p = .00) were both significant predictors of scores on the judgment subscale of the CFTIndex. It was concluded that these factors may influence the degree to which teachers delay judging a student's ideas until they are fully developed. Intercorrelations among subscales of the CFTIndex were further discussed. These results have implications for informing teachers' personal practice as well as broader educational reform.


Imidazolinyl-ammonium-salt HF-01 was synthesized from oleic acid,diethylenet riamine and benzyl chloride.Through orthogonal experiment,the optimal complex HF-02 was investigated.The effect of HF-02 concentration,reaction time and calcium concentration on scale inhibiting performance was studied.When HF-01 was 18 mg/L,1,4-butynediol was 14 mg/L,tween20 was 6 mg/L,alcohol solution(mass ratio of 50%) was 21 mg/L, cinnamic aldehyde was 2 mg/L,the corrosion inhibition efficiency of HF-02 to A3 steel reached 99.97%.Under the condition of HF-02 10μg/ml,reaction time 6 h and calcium 100~200 mg/L,HF-02 had optimal scale inhibition.


The mechanical properties of embedded reinforcement seriously affect the stability of rammed earth. However, more researches was focused on to analyze the mechanical properties of rammed earth to put forward improvement measures, but there were few studies on the impact of embedded reinforcement in rammed earth. In this paper, the effect of temperature alternation on mechanical properties of embedded reinforcements in rammed earth was investigated through microscopic morphology analysis and electrochemical experiments. The results showed that with the increase of the cycles, the mechanical parameters (including yield strength, tensile strength, section shrinkage and elongation rate) all decreased, and the mechanism characteristics of 20MnSi steel changed from plastic to brittle at Tc = 30 cycles. The corrosion current density increased rapidly from 6.29×10 -3 A/m (Tc = 20 cycles) to 62.84×10 A/m (Tc = 30 cycles), and then basically remains unchanged, while the cathodic process changed from oxygen diffusion control to activation control. This is because temperature alternation destroyed the mesh skeleton structure of 20MnSi steel, and 20MnSi steel precipitated the second phase mainly composed of Ni and Cr element, which caused decreasing corrosion resistance and plastic of 20MnSi steel.


INTRODUCTION 91 GASTRULA nON 92 Basic Features 92 Role of Fibronectin 93 NEURULATION 93 THE NEURAL CRFST 95 Definition . 95 Separation /rom the Neural Tube . 95 Patterns of Migration ..... 96 Substrate of Migration 97 Behavior of Crest Cells 99 Final Localization and Aggregation 101


Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICPMS) has recently been used for isotope ratio analysis. The isotope discrimination effect in the mass spectrometer is a primary factor contributing to loss of precision and accuracy in isotope ratio analysis. The discrimination effect of zinc isotopes was investigated by comparing the results obtained using a quadrupole type ICPMS with those obtained using a thermal ionization mass spectrometer.


In-depth interviews were carried out in 23 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to explore issues regarding their use or non-use of the patent system and patent information. A semi-structured interview approach was adopted. Among the issues explored were: (i) the level of research and development and propensity to innovate, (ii) patenting behaviour and appropriability, (iii) the way patent information is obtained and expectations of patent information, (iv) the reasons for patent information being used and (v) the impact of the Internet on these issues. A classification to differentiate segments of the SME patent information market is proposed. The three segments are called 'inept' or 'irrelevant', 'unaware' and 'aware'. The latter group can be further broken down into six types: avoiders, off loaders, defenders, learners, checkers and professionals. The paper concludes that approaches to SMEs' use of patent information hitherto has been too simplistic. A strategy for increasing patent use information among the different segments is recommended.


: Guided mainly by providing decision makers with advice adaptable to their emotional characteristics, the emotion research on advice taking explores specific emotion and cognitive assessment of emotion, based on analyzing the emotion valance development and the emotion influences on cognition strategies respectively. Combining with the previous research and drawing lessons from Affect Infusion Model, Emotion As Social Information Model, Appraisal-Tendency Framework, the paper analyzes and elaborates the emotion source and the mechanism associating with the emotional impact on the advice taking. Besides, the research hotspot-anger mood is taken as an example to further explain. Future research can try to explore the direct effect of emotion on advice taking, the relationship and role of integral and incidental emotion, as well as the combination of new emotional theory to enrich the study of advice taking field.


Geometry is the archetype of modem mind. The grid is its ruling trope ... Taxonomy, classification, inventory, catalogue and statistics are paramount strategies of modem practice. Modern mastery is the power to divide, classify and allocate - in thought, in practice, in the practice of thought and in the thought of practice. Paradoxically, it is for this reason that ambivalence is the main affliction of modernity and the most worrying of its concerns.' Legal reason is a hierarchical form of reason, establishing relationships of inferiority and superiority between units and levels of legal discourse.2 Sometimes law's hierarchical character is elaborated as an essential aspect thereof. Classical and modem naturalisms, for instance, often conceptualize the law in terms of systemic derivations that assume the existence of relationships of entailment between normative units and levels. St Thomas Aquinas posits a many-layered structure of behavioural norms deriving from other norms, existing at progressively higher hierarchical levels.3 The naturalism of an argument in this respect (i.e., in respect of superior norms), however, is not dependent on its being an explicit part of naturalist theory. The concept of 'fundamental' , used in human rights law, as well as the ideas of jus cogens or imperative norms and rules valid in an erga omnes way each presuppose relationships of normative hierarchy that implicate some form of moral naturalism.4


1. A study has been made of the mechanical behaviour and the heat production of frog slow muscle fibres in iliofibularis nerve—muscle preparations at 20° C.


Supplemental Digital Content is Available in the Text. Objective: Paradoxically, overweight and obesity are associated with lower odds of complications and death after hip fracture surgery. Our objective was to determine whether this "obesity paradox" extends to patients with "superobesity." In this study, we compared rates of complications and death among superobese patients with those of patients in other body mass index (BMI) categories. Methods: Using the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database, we identified >100,000 hip fracture surgeries performed from 2012 to 2018. Patients were categorized as underweight (BMI <18.5), normal weight (BMI 18.5–24.9), overweight (BMI 25–29.9), obese (BMI 30–39.9), morbidly obese (BMI 40–49.9), or superobese (BMI ≥50). We analyzed patient characteristics, surgical characteristics, and 30-day outcomes. Using multivariate regression with normal-weight patients as the referent, we determined odds of major complications, minor complications, and death within 30 days by BMI category. Results: Of 440 superobese patients, 20% had major complications, 33% had minor complications, and 5.2% died within 30 days after surgery. When comparing patients in other BMI categories with normal-weight patients, superobese patients had the highest odds of major complications [odds ratio (OR): 1.6, 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.2–2.0] but did not have significantly different odds of death (OR: 0.91, 95% CI, 0.59–1.4) or minor complications (OR: 1.2, 95% CI, 0.94–1.4). Conclusion: Superobese patients had significantly higher odds of major complications within 30 days after hip fracture surgery compared with all other patients. This "obesity paradox" did not apply to superobese patients. Level of Evidence: Prognostic Level III. See Instructions for Authors for a Complete Description of Levels of Evidence.


A new technique for generating millimeter-wave (mm-wave) signals from a semiconductor laser without an intracavity saturable absorber, is presented, The method multiplies the signal frequency by using optical injection of short optical pulses at a subharmonic of the cavity round-trip frequency to drive the laser oscillating at its resonant frequency. A 34.64 GHz signal is generated using a multisection semiconductor laser operated under continuous wave conditions, by injecting optical pulses at a repetition rate equal to the fourth subharmonic (8.66 GHz). The generated millimeter-wave signal exhibits a large subharmonic suppression ratio (>17 dB), large frequency detuning range (>300 MHz), low levels of phase-noise (-77.5 dBc/Hz), and large locking range (>400 MHz).


Cooking made humans evolve. Cooking modified our gastrointestinal system, reducing the gut size and energy expenditure for digestion, which enabled the appearance of a more energy-dependent brain. Cooking process have emerged as a way to maximize the nutritional benefits from a limited amount of food. During the evolution, different diets appeared, in which culinary techniques and combination of ingredients led to what we know today as dietary patterns, such as Mediterranean Diet. This diet is characterized by a high intake of phytochemicals and recommended as a dietary standard in the prevention of cardiovascular and chronic diseases. However, the health outcomes of Mediterranean Diet are reportedly difficult to reproduce in non-Mediterranean populations, indicating the differences between cultures gastronomic techniques as one of the causes. Mediterranean cuisine was historically an excellent cooking model capable of exploring the healthy potential of different foods. Some traditional Mediterranean cooking process have a positive effect on nutritional quality of food, improving digestibility, retention of phytochemicals and caloric density. However, a scientific approach to how Mediterranean culinary process, the combination of their ingredients and their main dishes could influence bioactive compounds related to health has not yet been explored. The use of science in gastronomy is recent. In the 1980s, the term molecular gastronomy emerged as a discipline to approximate gastronomy and science in order to explain the mechanism and phenomena that occur during a dish preparation and consumption. This discipline is usually focus in physical and chemical process in relation to flavor but leaves aside nutritional aspects. Currently, some studies have characterized how different culinary techniques affect the content of phytochemicals, especially polyphenols and carotenoids, but with a simplistic approach, analyzing only one food and targeted compounds already known in raw food, forgetting the complexity of the dishes we eat and the formation of new chemical products. Therefore, an approximation between gastronomy and health needs to be more realistic, in which food consumption cannot be separated from culinary habits and cultural aspects. The aim of this thesis was study the role of traditional Mediterranean cuisine, especially home-made preparations, could impact the content of bioactive compounds and promote health using the Mediterranean technique of sofrito. For this, different methodological approaches such as factorial designs and "omics" technique were used to describe a simple cooking technique that transforms dishes into complex systems.


The objective of implementing decentralization in Indonesia government system offering autonomy to local government is to minimize the gap between the government as policy maker of the development and society as the object of development. The decentralized policy and regional autonomy which was implemented recently was aimed to overcome problems in centralized development with the expectation that development policy was formulated for more oriented on the society needs and importance. Results of this study showed development of human resources have a great influence on productivity of staff Therefore development of resources can be made as one potential factor that was observed in this study showed to improve the tin ding for example the formal education, training the government officers have become a measurement to know his work ability. From this study it can be concluded that development of human resources in Kabupaten Minahasa Selatan can be categorized as "good". Work productivity of staff can be categorized as good as indicated by applying of efficiency in performing tasks. Keywords : human resource, development, government


Objective To investigate the influence of methamphetamine(MA) on the level of epinephrine(N),noradrenaline(NE) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha(TNF-α) in peripheral blood in rats.Methods 25 healthy adult SD rats of male sex were randomly divided into experimental group(n=20) and control group(n=5).The experimental group was sub-divided into four MA groups(n=5)which were intraperitoneally administered with MA(10mg/kg per day) for different intervals(1 week,2weeks,4weeks and 8 weeks).Accordingly,rats were given the same volume of saline in control group.The levels of N and NE were detected by radioimmunoassay.The level of TNF-α was detected by Enzyme-linked immunoadsordent assay(ELISA).Results As compared with control group,decrease in food-intake and increase in water-intake were observed in rats after MA delivery(P0.05).The levels of N,NE and TNF-α in peripheral blood were significantly elevated in rats after MA administration(P0.05).Conclusion Long-term administration of MA can result in elevation of N,NE and TNF-α in peripheral blood of rats,which suggests a mechanism for cardiac toxicity by MA.


ABSTRACT Since the commercial introduction of acetylated wood on the market by Titan Wood in 2007, Accoya ® wood has been applied in many different ways. In general, wood modi-fication opens a whole new and broad range of innovative or renewed applications for timber. Timber may now also be used in structures previously made in steel, synthetic materials or concrete. An example is the heavy load-bearing traffic bridge constructed using Accoya ® wood at Sneek in the Netherlands for which the whole process of design, fabrication, and project monitoring were commissioned by the principal to enable the bridge design and construction. All results are specific to this bridge and a second bridge of the same form is now in construction. Standardised testing is required to de-scribe the performance of Accoya ® in the wide range of structural application. This pa-per presents an overview of the properties of acetylated wood and discusses how this might be considered in the current regulations for structural applications. INTRODUCTION Use of wood in structural applications Due to its properties ( e.g. strength to weight ratio), its ease to process and its availabil-ity, wood has been used for structural applications throughout history. Wood is also a renewable material, which is, when used properly, completely in balance with the natu-ral surroundings. However, since it is a product of nature, wood has a time limited life. At the end of its service life it goes back into its basic constituents of carbon dioxide and water through biological, thermal, aqueous, photochemical, chemical, and mechanical degradation processes. Most time limiting (durability) problems are associated with wood destroying fungi under high humidity conditions. Associated maintenance and decay risk raise, perceived or real represent the major barrier to increased use of timber in e.g. bridge design. Furthermore, due to water changes, moisture absorption and de-sorption, resulting in swelling and shrinkage, stresses develop, resulting in surface


The present invention provides a power control device which, when not grounded, may be connected to a suitable ground potential. Said power supply control means comprises a control circuit having a switching element and a switching control unit, and a load. End of a load connected to the DC power source through the switching element, and the other end connected to a ground potential. The switch control unit has a ground terminal connected to the ground potential, and the output flow of the current to ground potential. The control circuit includes a bypass means, which has a load side bypass system, when a connection between the ground terminal and the ground potential is off, and the current flows to the ground potential. The load impedance comprises, a local current flows, the potential of the ground potential of the control unit becomes stable operation.


Cellular automata have the characters of simplicity of basic components, locality of cellular automata interactions, massive parallelism of information processing, and exhibit complex global properties. These ensure that cellular automata have higher speed and more potential applications than LFSR. This paper introduced the concept of cellular automata, and analyzed the structures and characteristics in contrast of the LFSR from the viewpoint of VLSI implementation. The simulation of a pseudo-random sequence generated by cellular automata and LFSR (type I, II) respectively, which implemented by Xilinx CPLD chip XC95144-7-PQ160 demonstrated that the locality of signal path of cellular automata contributes more higher speed than the LFSR. So in the form of VLSI implementation, cellular automata have more speed advantages than the LFSR.


Recent research on career interest in children and college students (Evangelou et al., 2008) has identified large gender differences in how interested men and women are in person and things (person-thing orientation, PTO, Little, 1972). These differences lead to differences in interest in STEM and nonSTEM careers for men and women. The current research examines the role elementary and middle school teachers play in these differences in PTO. Taken together, results indicate that teachers are able to translate students' interest in person and things into career interest better than 3 rd graders, but not 6 th graders. These results provide additional evidence that interventions targeted at increasing the number of women (and men) in engineering should start early developmentally, when students' interests are plastic and able to be shaped. Results examining the influence of teacher self ratings on student's self ratings are also discussed.


To support decision makers in the national BHV1-eradication program in The Netherlands, the spatial, dynamic and stochastic simulation model InterEBR-endemic was developed (Vonk Noordegraaf et al., 2000). InterlBR-endemic simulates the spread and control of BHV1 within and between cattle farms in The Netherlands. This model contains many uncertain input factors and for validation purpose we want to evaluate the sensitivity of model-outcome to these factors. For this, we applied the techniques of Design of Experiments (DOE) and metamodeling (Kleijnen, 1998). This paper will present background on this technique and first results of the analysis.


Prominent linguists not only from Russia, but also from near and far abroad, took part in the International Round table organized by the Bulletin of the Moscow Region State University (e-journal). Among them: L.V.  Ratsiburskaya (Nizhny Novgorod State University named after N.I.  Lobachevsky), O.S.  Issers (Omsk State University named after F.I. Dostoevsky), I.P. Zaitseva (Vitebsk State University named after P.M.  Masherov, the Republic of Belarus), J. Sipko (Prešov University, Slovakia), M.V. Radchenko (the University of Zadar, Croatia), E.M. Markova (Moscow Region State


Based on the analysis of information engineering requirement about the spaceflight manufacture enterprise,it presents the Dynamics AX-based manufacture resource management used for these factories,designs the system structure and develops the management model including the equipments,instruments,tooling,frocks and measure management.As an example of equipment management,it combines the model enterprise to show the equipment logging,assignment,out of use and rejection.The method achieves the equipment lifecycle management.


The professional training dynamics model related to the psychiatry speciality is an expression of the essential relations among its configurations and dimensions, where movements and transformations that allow changes to both categories in the object occur. Different methods (historical-logical, analysis and synthesis, induction-deduction, and the like) were used. It was concluded that essential regularity, revealed in the model, constitutes the strategy support. Starting from this, its novel character in pedagogical sciences was established. Thus, the model and its dialectical relations were arranged.