Incentives are one of the core practices of strategic human resource management and their effect on motivation and performance has been studied extensively. Particular attention is devoted to pay-for-performance (PFP) incentives while research on the effect of PFP incentives on performance has produced contradictory results. More importantly, incentives are not an isolated process; the effect of incentives goes beyond individual or organisational performance because they affect an entire organisation. Although incentives are included in most organisational design frameworks, the effect of incentives on other organisational design components has been neglected. The study uses the organisational design framework to focus on neglected relations between incentives and other organisational design components. The purpose of the study is to explore what are the organisational design components and how they are influenced by PFP incentives. A case study research design was used. The data was collected in a small company in which the incentive system was changed to PFP incentives as a part of substantial changes in the organisational design. Data was collected through interviews with employees, supported by internal documentation and observation. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. In the case, the PFP incentives led to higher performance although the PFP incentives restricted the new exploratory strategy and harmed cooperation. The effect of the PFP incentives on exploration and cooperation was slow, and hardly visible, predominantly as a result of unintentionally deviated attention.The study points out that focusing solely on performance when designing incentive systems may be myopic because PFP incentives may have a detrimental effect on other organisational design components. Based on the results, the paper provides a set of suggestions to consider when implementing PFP incentives.


Type II cardiorenal syndrome (CRSII) is characterized by declining renal function in the face of chronic heart failure (CHF). Abnormal renal hemodynamics and neurohormonal activation are thought to play prominent roles in this process and are initiated in part via aberrant carotid body chemoreflex‐mediated (CBC) increases in sympathetic nerve activity. Sleep apnea (SA) is a common comorbidity in CHF patients and is independently associated with renal dysfunction. Chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH) in SA may play a key role in driving development of CRSII as it adversely affects CBC function, autonomic control, renal hemodynamics, and renal oxygen flux. In this study, we sought to determine if CIH has additive effects in CHF that hasten the decline of renal function, and if this is mediated by the CBC.


Types of special-purpose computers: 1. Inflexible and highly dedicated structures 2. Structures, enabling some programmability and reconfiguration. Systolic and wavefront arrays are determined by pipelining data concurrently with the (multi)processing-data and computational pipelining. ✤ Wavefront arrays use data-driven processing capability. ✤ Systolic arrays use local instruction codes synchronized globally. Definition: A systolic array is a network of processors that rhythmically compute and pass data through the system.


The number of Internet users in China was more than 590 million at the end of June 2013. Among these users, 460 million accessed the Web through mobile devices such as cellphones and tablets. Many Chinese are now using cellphones to perform a wide range of transactions, such as transferring money, paying bills, booking hotels, buying tickets, and shopping in online stores such as Taobao, Paipai, Dangdang, and Yoybuy. An investigation of the development of mobile banking and mobile payments in China, as well as opportunities and barriers, is therefore important. This article is part of a special issue on mobile commerce.


We studied the kinetics of O2 release by oxyhemoglobin caused by sodium dithionite, in the presence and in the absence of organic cosolvents (monohydric alcohols and formamide) at 10°C. This study was performed by using standard stopped‐flow techniques coupled with microprocessor‐based data acquisition. We have fitted the experimental data to a mathematical expression obtained on the basis of a two‐state model that takes into account the kinetic heterogeneity between α‐ and β‐chains and the presence of αβ‐dimers in oxyhemoglobin solutions. Results indicate that the cosolvents mainly affect the allosteric parameter L, i.e., the T ⇄ R conformational equilibrium of hemoglobin, leaving the intrinsic deoxygenation rates of both R and T states almost unaltered. The L values obtained in the present work are in excellent agreement with analogous values previously estimated from oxygen equilibrium measurements.


We have fabricated Al-doped ZnO thin-film transistors (AZO TFT) on plastic substrate at room temperature. The effect of O2/Ar ratio during channel deposition is investigated on the electrical properties of the Al-doped ZnO thin-film transistors (TFTs) on plastic substrates at room temperature. As the O2/Ar ratio increases, the threshold voltage increases monotonously while the saturation mobility and the subthreshold swing show a non-monotonic change, reaching a maximum and a minimum respectively when the ratio of O2 is 5%. And it's further demonstrated that TFTs with as-deposited AZO films (5%O2) exhibit the best electrical properties, with an on/off current ratio of 106, an of current in the order of 10-11 A, a threshold voltage about 1.06 V, a subthreshold swing of about 0.76 V/dec, and a saturation mobility of about 47.76 cm2V-1 s-1. Compared to the AZO film with 100% Ar during the radio-frequency (RF) sputtering deposition, the grain size of AZO films abruptly decreases to a few nanometers as O2 is added(5% O2), and then becomes almost unchanged with the further increase of pO2 (10% O2 and 20% O2). The resistivity experiences a substantial increase correspondingly The results show that Al-doped ZnO is a promising candidate for the channel material of high performance flexible TFTs.


The article discusses the features of financial support for the agricultural sector under martial law to ensure food security. The normative definition of food security and its changes in accordance with the challenges of our time are analyzed. The positions of Ukraine and individual countries on the GFSI Global Food Security Index in 2018 and 2022 are considered and a pattern is determined that since the beginning of the war, Ukraine has decreased in the ranking position from 63 to 71 place, but continues to import products to countries that occupy a significantly higher position in the ranking food security. Systematized financial measures to ensure the food security of Ukraine under martial law. The state, dynamics and trends of financial support and individual indicators of the financial potential of the agricultural sector of Ukraine in 2018-2022 are analyzed. ., when its share in the budget was more than 1%. The rating of regions of Ukraine according to the state of production and the level of budget support has been determined. It has been established that most regions are financed in proportion to production volumes, but there are regions where funding is ahead: Ternopil, Volyn, Sumy regions; or production: Kirovograd, Chernihiv, Dnepropetrovsk regions. In the context of a reduction in budgetary financing of the industry due to the need to direct spending on defense and security, the social sphere and debt servicing, the sources of increasing the volume of state financial support for the development of the agricultural sector in Ukraine are the resources of the global financial market, international borrowings and donor funds. In 2022, programs for financing the industry at the expense of donor funds for UAH 1.5 billion are provided, and their expansion is expected in 2023. Based on the assessment of foreign experience of Checkoff, possible directions for expanding sources of support for domestic enterprises that form value chains in the field of food security are analyzed. Proposed measures to be taken to overcome existing problems and ensure the further development of the agricultural sector and ensure food security in Ukraine. State financial support for the agricultural sector under martial law provides for the improvement of legislation in order to generate additional financial resources by optimizing tax, budgetary and investment regulation, simplifying the requirements for doing agricultural business, resolving problems with logistics and export of agro-industrial products, mitigating the impact of inflation and foreign exchange pressure The results of this study can be used in the formation of a package of state support measures for the agricultural sector, detailing directions and programs, as well as distributing funds across agricultural regions.


Cerebrovascular accident is the third most common leading cause of death worldwide, after coronary heart disease and cancer. The World Health Organisation defines stroke as "rapid ly developing clinical signs of focal (or global) disturbance of cerebral function, with symptoms lasting for 24 hours or longer, or leading to death with no apparent cause other than of vascular origin". A mong 80% of all cerebrovascular accidents are ischemic, rest being due to haemorrhage. There are many factors which alter the outcome of stroke. Acute hyperglycemic response to stress has been recognized since Claude Bernard's observations more than a century ago. This "diabetes of injury" exemp lifies the obligatory metabolic rearrangements required to cope with crit ical stress. The concept evolved as glucose became identified as metabolic mirror of the severity and outcome of crit ical illness.


Northeast India has been plagued by insurgency related violence and conflicts for many decades. The greater threat and concern have been, however, the rising regional tensions albeit promulgation of series of insurgency crack-down policies by successive central and state governments since the 1950s. To contain insurgency activities, new winning formulas have been announced occasionally, promising incentives or job to the surrenderees, with events of surrendering insurgent's ceremonies yet several newer insurgents and splinter groups have been formed. The volatile state power relations intrigue the entire geopolitical condition and create space for development of newer geographical landscape of conflict thereby turning the region to one of the most sensitive regions in India. The paper is an attempt to examine the emergence of insurgency movements, the nature of contextualization insurgency activities and spatial conflict in Northeast India in the backdrop of the contesting state power relation.


We report a case of inflammtory fibroid polyp (IFP) of the ileum which caused an intussusception. A 41-year-old man was seen at the hospital because of right lower abdominal pain, vomiting and bloody stool. The abdominal pain lasted for about six months. Barium enema and abdominal CT indicated an intussusception in the ascending colon. Under a diagnosis of intussusception, an emergency laparotomy was performed. During surgery, the intussusception had been spontaneously released by that time and a tumor of the ileum located at 25cm oral from the terminal ileum was identified. A partial resection of the small intestine by 20cm including the tumor was performed. In the resected material, a 3.0×2.5×3.3cm polyp was confirmed which might cause the intussusception. This lesion was diagnosed as IFP histopathologically. IFP of the small intestine is rare. As far as we know, 68 cases including present one have been reported in Japan. In conclusion, it is important to consider IFP as a probable underlying disease in case of adult intussusception.


The Anshan ferrian deposit(Banded ferriferous quartzite) is a wide distributive,rich one.There is a high quality Anshan type ferrian deposit in the large,thick,poor iron ore beds.The Anshan type geologic features and prospecting direction of ferrian deposit are mianly discussed in this paper.


Longitudinal studies of community samples consistently find links between active spiritual/religious involvement and increased chances for living longer, pointing to the relevance of spirituality/religion as a potential health factor. For a large proportion of either medically ill or mental health patients, spirituality/religion may provide coping resources, enhance pain management, improve surgical outcomes, protect against depression, and reduce risk of substance abuse and suicide. However, study findings also show patient spirituality/religion may serve as a source of conflict linked with poorer health outcomes. Whether identifying helps or harms, research elucidates the potential relevance of patients' spirituality/religion, with potential for collaboration with trained chaplains as part of the healthcare team to provide spiritual support or deal with spiritual distress for particular patient needs.


Authors deal with a deep-bite case treated by sectional arches selective intrusion (Burstone technique). Results obtained after eighteen months of active therapy are reported.


The article discusses the organization of audit in the Republic of Uzbekistan in the digital economy. It is also based on the fact that in the context of the digitalization of the economy, significant changes will occur in the theoretical aspects of audit, its practice, methods and the audit process.


Increasing attention has been paid on fatigue performance evaluation in the recent years. More efficient fatigue testing methods are imperatively needed to accomplish the test requirement. The modified staircase theory is introduced in this paper. Traditional staircase method and modified staircase method are respectively used to evaluate the fatigue performance of pressure vessel steel Q345R. Results show the fatigue limits are 194MPa and 193MPa respectively, which indicates the modified staircase method can enhance the testing efficiency about 50% and keep the test veracity.


This article moves toward remedying an omission in ethical trade-off thinking by providing a systematic overview of how ethical trade-offs can be conceived within private competitive enterprises. T...


Abstract:This essay is part of a special section on Edward Kamau Brathwaite's 1975 essay "Caribbean Man in Space and Time" (reprinted in the issue), briefly tracing the dis- semination history of Brathwaite's essay, then focusing on two main lines of argument in it to explore their significance for current practices and possibilities in Caribbean studies. Using three contemporary digital projects as examples, the author elaborates on the potential affordances and limitations of digital platforms and technologies as (in Brathwaite's terms) "agents of change," while arguing the case for "how the digital allows us to think the Caribbean differently."


Abstract This paper investigates the attitude synchronization problem under communication time delays. The encountered difficulty in synchronizing rigid body attitudes is non-convexity of the rotation group. Through exploiting the geometrical structure of the rigid body attitude kinematics, we propose a PD-like synchronization control law. Using Lyapunov stability analysis, it is shown that the attitude synchronization errors converge asymptotically to zero, and that the proposed controller achieves robust stability for communication time delays. Simulation results are presented to show the performance of the proposed synchronization control algorithm.


Burn-in effects are used to demonstrate the potential impact of thermally activated aging effects on functional and parametric radiation hardness. These results have implications on hardness assurance testing. Techniques for characterizing aging effects are proposed.


Internet is changing by leaps and bounds, and the internet ideological and political education ofcollege students is the new requirement of the present information environment. Therefore, it is important tohave a full understanding about the connotation and characteristics of the internet ideological and political edu-cation and grasp its construction patterns, which is helpful for the colleges to learn the new situation faced.Based on this, the article makes a preliminary study on the mode and value of the college students' networkideological and political education.


Application of FPGA in data collection and exchange with embedded system for on-line detection temperature of initial crystallization was described,and a detecting system based on embedded processor of ARM9(EP9315) and FPGA was presented.The system is not only highly stable even under the environment of high temperature and powerful electromagnetic situation and but also of high measurement accuracy through 6 times on-site testing within two years.So,this equipment is applicable in aluminum electrolysis enterprises.


Background: Zinc (Zn) is highly important for metabolism in humans and its deficiency is associated with various diseases. The present retrospective study has assessed the serum Zn level in cases of acute stroke. Methods: Study cohort included 47 patients (mean age, 73 years) with minor (N = 27), moderate (N = 13), and severe (N = 7) stroke. The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score at admission varied from 1 to 40 (median, 3). Results: Serum Zn level ranged from 23 to 102 μg/dL (mean, 68.4 μg/dL). It inversely correlated with the NIHSS score (P = 0.0340), was associated with the stroke severity (P = 0.0133), was significantly lower in patients with thrombotic stroke (P = 0.0434), and inversely correlated with the age of patient (P = 0.0220). In those aged >74 years (N = 23), but not in younger individuals, serum Zn level inversely correlated with the NIHSS score (P = 0.0155) and was associated with the stroke severity (P = 0.0117). Conclusions: In patients with acute stroke the serum Zn level is frequently decreased. It is associated with the stroke severity, thrombotic type, and older age, and may contribute to more severe clinical course of the disease among the elderly.


FOR A large part of Mr. Ian Ward's recent article on Berkeley, he is arguing that I have "been guilty of 'bending the rod too far the other way' in seeking to find in this Irish philosopher's thoughts the seeds of current economic doctrines" (W., p. 35).1 Whichever way (and whichever rod) this may be, I do not think that the subject should be left just as it has been by Ward. He seems to me to have misinterpreted Berkeley at some points, mainly in finding in him not merely the "seeds" but the actual application of even more current doctrines, or distinctions, which Berkeley did not use or, at any rate, consistently follow.


Objective To compare the effectiveness of nano-hydroxyapatite/collagen (nHAC)and autologous mesenchymal stem cells (AMSCs) for the repair of femoral defect in a rabbit model with femoral defect under the monitoring of the synchrotron radiation hard X-ray. Methods The rabbit models of traumatic bone defect were established and completely randomized into three groups. The femoral defects filled with nothing were used as control group (Group A) , the femoral defects filled with nHAC as Group B and the femoral defects filled with nHAC + AMSCs as Group C. Phase-contrast imaging with synchrotron radiation hard X-ray was applied to detect the degradation and repair process of each group at postoperative weeks 4, 8 and 12, respectively. Results Phase-contrast imaging with synchrotron radiation hard X-ray could display the reparative process. Four weeks after operation, there was collapse in some defect areas in Group A, and the degradation of nHAC and new bone formation were observed in Groups B and C. Eight weeks after operation, fibrous tissues were observed in the defect area in Group A, while osteogenesis and nHAC degradation were more obvious in Groups B and C. Twelve weeks after operation, the defect areas were still unhealed and were substituted by fibrous tissues in Group A, tissue densities of defect areas in Group C were identical with periphery areas, and trabecular bones were formed in Group C. There were statistical differences in the osteogenesis between Group A and Groups B and C,with Group C the best. Conclusion Phase-contrast imaging with synchrotron X-ray can detect the reparative process at a micro-level and plays an important role in the development of tissue engineering.

Key words:
Femur head;  Radiographic image interpretation, computer-assisted;  Synchrotrors


Mobile computing systems provide new challenges for verification. One of them is the dynamicity of the system structure, with mobility-induced connections and disconnections, dynamic creation and shutdown of nodes. Interaction scenarios have then to consider the spatial configuration of the nodes as a first class concept. This paper presents GraphSeq, a graph matching tool for sequences of configurations developed in the framework of testing research. It aims to analyze test traces to identify occurrences of the successive spatial configurations described in an abstract scenario. We present the GraphSeq algorithm, as well as first experiments using randomly generated graphs, outputs from a mobility simulator, and test traces from a case study in ad hoc networks.


The influence of refining slag-changing operation on the compositions of 82B steel and inclusions were studied on the basis of plant trials combined with thermodynamic analysis. The optimized refining slag system for the refining of 82B steel was obtained through the plant experiments. The slag-changing operation had no effect on the type of oxide inclusions (CaO-SiO2-MnO-Al2O3) compared with the operation without slag-changing, whereas the CaO/SiO2 in inclusions decreased with the decrease of basicity of the top slag. The liquidus temperature of oxide inclusions were decreased with the slag-changing operation. The basicity of the refining slag should be controlled in the range of 2.5 to 3 at the early stage of LF in order to control the oxygen and sulfur in steel. At the later stage of LF refining, the basicity of refining slag should be changed to 1∼1.5, aiming to reduce the activity of [Al] in molten steel and target the good plasticity of oxide inclusions.


The blueschist and greenschist units on the island of Sifnos, Cyclades were affected by Eocene high‐pressure (HP) metamorphism. Using conventional geothermobarometry, the HP peak metamorphic stage was determined at 550–600 °C and 20 kbar, close to the blueschist and the eclogite facies transition. The retrograde P–T paths are inferred with phase diagrams. Pseudosections based on a quantitative petrogenetic grid in the model system Na2O–CaO–FeO–MgO–Al2O3–SiO2–H2O reveal coeval decompression and cooling for both the blueschist and the greenschist unit. The conditions of the metamorphic peak and those of the retrograde stages conform to a similar metamorphic gradient of 10–12 °C km−1 for both units. The retrograde overprint can be assigned to low‐pressure blueschist to HP greenschist facies conditions. This result cannot be reconciled with the (prograde) Barrovian‐type event, which affected parts of the Cyclades during the Oligocene to Miocene. Instead, the retrograde overprint is interpreted in terms of exhumation, directly after the HP stage, without a separate metamorphic event. Constraints on the exhumation mechanism are given by decompression‐cooling paths, which can be explained by exhumation in a fore‐arc setting during on‐going subduction and associated crustal shortening. Back‐arc extension is only responsible for the final stage of exhumation of the HP units.


Darwinula stevensoni (Brady and Robertson 1870) is the type species of Darwinula, the ubiquitous living and fossil nonmarine nominate genus of the Darwinulidae and the Darwinulacea. To date, the additional families Darwinuloididae (fossil), Microdarwinulidae (living and fossil), Panxianidae (fossil), and Suchonellidae (fossil) have been referred to the Darwinulacea. A type specimen for D. stevensoni has not been previously designated. In order to stabilize the species, a lectotype is selected from the type series in the Brady collection at The Hancock Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne. The species is redescribed and reillustrated based on the study of the carapace of a paralectotype and also of valves and appendages of specimens from both England and the United States. Living species of Darwinula have a cosmopolitan distribution in fresh and brackish water. Fossil Darwinulacea, documented in the Carboniferous, serve as indicators of continental Paleozoic to Holocene deposits.


INTRODUCTION The first Tropical Milking Criollo (CLT, by its spanish acronym) herd was stablished in 1971 in Mexico with cows from Rivas, Nicaragua and sires and semen from Turrialba, Costa Rica, by Dr. Jorge de Alba and cofounders of a civil organization, the Mexican Association of Animal Production (AMPA). In Mexico most of the original criollos (cattle brought to the Americas from Spain during the colonial epoch) were disappearing by that time. De Alba and Kennedy (1985) described extensively the Turrialba herd, now disappeared. Results from the original mexican herd of the CLT breed were given by de Alba and Kennedy (1994). In contrast to the present study, in those studies pure and crossbred cows were included. Heritability of milk production ranged from .17 to .27 for the Mexican and Turrialba herds; in the former cows were milked once a day with the presence of the calf, in the latter milking was done twice a day without the calf. After moving the original herd from Tamaulipas to North Veracruz, nowadays, most of the descendant cows from that herd are located in Central Veracruz under the supervision of an academic institution, while the rest are in private hands. Objectives of this study were to estimate productive and reproductive performance, and genetic parameters of the CLT population that has produced under mexican conditions.


The technique for measuring the depth of water using a multispectral scanner is discussed. The procedure takes advantage of the absorption properties of different wavelengths of light. Making use of the property of the selected transmission of light at different wavelengths, an equation was developed relating the outputs of at least two channels of multispectral scanner to measure water depth.


In this article the author looks at how a recent stream of authority, particularly Kennon v Spry, has muddied the waters with respect to the position of the object of a discretionary trust. This has cast doubt on the conventional long-term view that the beneficiary of a discretionary trust does not enjoy a proprietary interest in any of the assets of the trust, or in the trust funds as a whole.


The crystal structure, and cryogenic magnetic and magnetocaloric properties in RE2T2Al (RE = Dy, Ho, Er, and Tm; T = Co and Ni) compounds have been investigated. All the compounds belong to an orthorhombic W2B2Co-type structure (Immm space group). A second order paramagnetic to ferromagnetic phase transition exists for RE2Co2Al compounds at TC = 62, 27, 32, and 11.5 K, whereas the compounds of RE2Ni2Al undergo a paramagnetic to antiferromagnetic phase transition with the Neel temperatures (TN) of 19, 12, 12.5, and 6 K for RE = Dy, Ho, Er, and Tm, respectively. Moreover, an additional low temperature magnetic transition occurs for all present RE2T2Al compounds. An obvious hysteresis was observed at a low temperature in the Dy2Co2Al, Ho2Co2Al, and Er2Co2Al compounds. The values of the maximum magnetic entropy change (−ΔSMmax) are 10.4, 11.5, 5.9, 7.7, 6.0, and 16.2 J/kg K for Dy2Co2Al, Ho2Co2Al, Er2Co2Al, Tm2Co2Al, Ho2Ni2Al, and Er2Ni2Al compounds with a field change (ΔH) of 0-5 T, respectively. Moreover, two peaks (or shoulder) in the −ΔSM (T) curves of Ho2Co2Al can be observed, which lead to a wide cooling temperature interval.The crystal structure, and cryogenic magnetic and magnetocaloric properties in RE2T2Al (RE = Dy, Ho, Er, and Tm; T = Co and Ni) compounds have been investigated. All the compounds belong to an orthorhombic W2B2Co-type structure (Immm space group). A second order paramagnetic to ferromagnetic phase transition exists for RE2Co2Al compounds at TC = 62, 27, 32, and 11.5 K, whereas the compounds of RE2Ni2Al undergo a paramagnetic to antiferromagnetic phase transition with the Neel temperatures (TN) of 19, 12, 12.5, and 6 K for RE = Dy, Ho, Er, and Tm, respectively. Moreover, an additional low temperature magnetic transition occurs for all present RE2T2Al compounds. An obvious hysteresis was observed at a low temperature in the Dy2Co2Al, Ho2Co2Al, and Er2Co2Al compounds. The values of the maximum magnetic entropy change (−ΔSMmax) are 10.4, 11.5, 5.9, 7.7, 6.0, and 16.2 J/kg K for Dy2Co2Al, Ho2Co2Al, Er2Co2Al, Tm2Co2Al, Ho2Ni2Al, and Er2Ni2Al compounds with a field change (ΔH) of 0-5 T, respectively. Moreover, t...


This paper describes a study carried out with K-12 students. This study proposes to understand the motivation of these students in the use of robots in the Project Area curricular unit and whether they want to continue their studies in technology areas. K-12 students participated in the RoboParty® event, where the main task is to assemble and program a robot. In other words, the students, in a simple and entertaining way and supported by qualified tutors, learned how to build a robot. At the end of the academic year, a questionnaire was applied to identify and evaluate the K-12 students' opinions regarding the experience. The students' reaction to this experience was quite positive as well the direct contact with the university environment.


The features of the signals received by acoustic monitoring system are analyzed,investigates methods used to com-press signals dynamically by means of logarithmic amplifier are researched.Operation principle of logarithmic amplifier AD8310 and its application in acoustic monitoring system are introduced.The corresponding circuit is designed.Lastly,it is also shown how to calculate the compensation for the propagation loss in compression.


Graphene oxide sheets (GOSs) are introduced between indium tin oxide (ITO) and CH3NH3PbI3 in inverted hole-transport layer-free planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells. The concentration of the GOSs is extremely low and they are sporadically covered on the ITO substrates. Combined with the high resistance of these GOSs, they cannot be regarded as an interface layer. However, the GOSs can act as the nucleation sites in the crystal growth process of CH3NH3PbI3 films, which results in dramatically improved morphology and crystallization of the CH3NH3PbI3 films. As a result, the performance of the devices is significantly improved as compared with the reference device. The optimized device shows a power conversion efficiency of 6.62%, which is about 40% higher than the reference devices. This improvement is attributed to the increased charge carrier transporting property and reduced charge carrier recombination in the CH3NH3PbI3 films.


Delineation of structural defects by molten KOH etching is not satisfactory for highly doped n-type Si-face SiC substrates. This difficulty was overcome by converting the substrates to p-type via diffusion of boron, followed by molten KOH etching. Three kinds of typical etch pits were clearly distinguished, corresponding to elementary screw, threading edge, and basal plane dislocations. Comparison of molten KOH etching effects on 4H-SiC samples of different types indicates that molten KOH etching is a combination of chemical and electrochemical processes, during which the preferential and isotropic etchings are competitive, depending on the SiC conductivity type and doping concentration.


BY MICHAEL CODNER, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, RUSI This Index was first published in 1998 in the RUSI International Security Review. It is designed to give a measure of a nation's ability to use its armed forces to influence events beyond its own borders. The Index is logarithmic to allow the US at one extreme and some of the smallest nations at the other to appear on a single ranking from approximately 0 to 10. It uses the quantitative measures of defence spending and manpower numbers. Manpower figures include conscripts, reserves and paramilitary forces but are adjusted to take account of the differing utility of these categories. Figures are adjusted using two additional measures. The first is a measure of government and popular commitment to defence and integrates such factors as defence budget per capita and defence spending as a proportion of GDP. The second is a measure of the extent to which a nation might be prepared to deploy its forces beyond its own borders and be effective in doing so. This measure aggregates a number of judgements including: type of government (military dictatorship, democracy with proportional representation, etc.); participation in coalitions; history of intervention; recent experience of combat; and internal problems of disorder and insurrection. These two additional measures typically modify the index figure by a few tenths.


Current research has been directed in the use of autonomous airships as less expensive alternatives to satellites. A key component in these applications is the control and guidance systems. In this paper an existing airship has been considered, and the control and guidance laws have been tailored to it. Furthermore, the addressed airship is limited in its control authority. This presents a challenge in these designs. A realistic model of the airship was developed to test the performance of a guidance and control scheme. Simulation results show the efiectiveness of the approach.


Effective Management and conservation of wildlife populations and their habitats largely depend on our ability to understand and predict species-habitat interactions. Intensive ground surveys cannot keep pace with the rate of land-use change and consequently habitat composition over large areas. We explored how effectively do Remote sensing satellite imagery and GIS modeling technique could be used for assessing habitat suitability of Rhinoceros unicornis and what are the habitat factors influencing rhinoceros distribution in lowland floodplain of Nepal. The Landsat ETM+ satelli te imagery (Path-142& Row-041) of the study area was used for classifying land use/land cover. Image processing and feature extraction was done in Erdas Imagine 8.7. We used supervi sed classi fi cation technique wi th 350 trai ni ng points and 40 test points. GI S l ayers of habitat parameters- continuous distances from grasslands, water body, guard posts, Agriculture/ settlement and categorical land use/land cover map were used as predictor variables. The points of animal presence location were used as suitable pr oxies and Maximum entropy (MAXENT) modeling was run for predicting species potential geographic distribution. The most significant result of the image classification was that the proportion of pure grassland patches in the chitwan National Park is only 7 percent of the total area. Riparian forest, developed as a result of grassland succession, accounts for 8 percent of the park area which otherwise, as a grassland, served as a food source for R. uni corni s. The Maxent model based on remotel y sensed factors, habitat factors and rhino presence locations resulted in much larger area classified as suitable for Rhinos. The contribution of the variable distance to water (48.6 percent) was highest to impact the model. The model performance was assessed usi ng recei v er operating Characteristics (ROC) plots and Jackknife tests. The area under the training data ROC cuve (AUC) was 0.952 and that of test data ROC curve was 0.931 highly acceptable than the Random model AUC of 0.5. Therefore we concluded that Maxent model i n g approach can be used to model the species geographic location for assessing habitat sui tabi l ity of the target wil dli fe wi th the help of presence onl y datasets. The sui tabil i ty map resul ted from the modeling was useful to delineate the sites that required speci fi c pl anni ng and management interventions. This result can be effectively used for enhancing suitability of different habitat types in favor of Rhinoceros and the ecosystem services the area provides for overall socio -economic and ecological sustainability that the forestry sector aims to provide.


In this paper, two algorithms were introduced to describe two algorithms to describe and compare the applying of the proposed technique in the two types of the distributed database system. The First Proposed Algorithm is Homogeneous Distributed Clustering for Classification (HOMDC4C), which aim to learn a classification model from unlabeled datasets distributed homogenously over the network, this is done by building a local clustering model on the datasets distributed over three sites in the network and then build a local classification model based on labeled data that produce from clustering model. In the one computer considered as a control computer, we build a global classification model and then use this model in the future predictive. The Second Proposed Algorithm in Heterogeneous Distributed Clustering for Classification (HETDC4C) aims to build a classification model over unlabeled datasets distributed heterogeneously over sites of the network, the datasets in this algorithm collected in one central computer and then build the clustering model and then classification model. The objective of this work is to use the unlabeled data to introduce a set of labeled data that are useful for build a classification model that can predict any unlabeled instance based on that classification model. This was done by using the Clustering for Classification technique. Then presented this technique in distributed database environment to reduce the execution time and storage space that is required.


In order to estimate the fault occurrence quickly and fast identification of the type of fault, the algorithm based on Haar function is proposed herewith. In this paper, the sine and cosine Fourier co-efficient are expressed in terms of Haar co-efficient. The Haar co-efficient and the data samples in post fault period give the Fourier coefficients by using simple mathematical operations. Thus the amplitude of different harmonics is determined in terms of Haar functions. Haar functions have amplitude characteristics which is very suitable for fast computation. It has constant amplitude (plus or minus) over the entire period. In case of transmission line, the relative value of the combined amplitude of the second and fifth harmonics compared to the amplitude of the fundamental waveform forms the basis of the fault detection. Also by identifying the dominance of a particular harmonics, the type of fault can be confirmed.


CT images and MR images provide different human body information from different facet in clinic field.It is of great value that the two kinds of images merge together to obtain comprehensive information in one image.A new method of regional average gradient maimum fusion based on wavelet transform is presnted.Comparison and evaluation are made for the proposed method and the other general methods.The result shows that the method is better than the others in the quality of fusion.


In this paper, the resonant transmission of a moving particle which interacts with a one-dimensional array of N δ-function potentials is investigated. A suitable transfer matrix formulation is used to obtain the particle transmission. We give the parameters for perfect tunneling and the transcendental equation for the quasi-bound state energies for N = 2, 3 and 4. Conditions for perfect tunneling and resonant transmission are discussed for arrays with arbitrary N. A model to explain how the tunneling energy filter works in these systems is proposed here.


Currently there is a growth in the demand for cell phones of unrecognized brands. These devices may present technical failures or of the physical components themselves, which in most cases requires the replacement of the damaged part. The main difficulty is finding the necessary spare parts for the repair since they are imported components and in most cases it leads to running out of the mobile device for several days or weeks. For this research, the survey technique was applied, addressed to 8 companies that import spare parts for cell phones who are located in the Jebai Center Gallery in Ciudad del Este, through the elaboration of a questionnaire with closed questions, with the objective of knowing the difficulties that prevent the importation of spare parts for little-recognized cell phone brands, the approach used was quantitative and the level of research was descriptive. Thanks to the results of the data collection instrument, it was possible to identify that the main difficulties that prevent the importation of spare parts for little-known cell phone brands are the high import taxes.


An environmental friendly flame retardant with a low price, a good effect and a wide application is disclosed, comprising the following components by weight: 100 parts of water, 1 to 4 parts of silanecoupling agent, 2 to 15 parts of sodium borate. Wood, cardboard, composite material and the like are immersed in the environmental friendly flame retardant for 2 to 48 hours, thereafter dried and flame retardant properties thereof are obtained.


Due to their excellent strength-to-weight ratio and corrosion and wear resistance, γ-TiAl alloys are selected for aerospace and automotive applications. Since these materials are difficult to cut and machine by conventional methods, this study performed drilling tests using Electro Discharge Machining (EDM) to compare the machinability between two different types of γ-TiAl: extruded MoCusi and ingot MoCuSi. Different electrode materials and machining parameters were tested and wear, surface hardness, roughness and integrity were analyzed. The results indicate that extruded MoCuSi is preferable over MoCuSi ingots.


THE MINING REPORT Luisa Moreno, managing partner and analyst with Toronto-based Tahuti Global, says there are many things investors must pay attention to when it comes to critical metals projects, but nothing should trump metallurgy. That's because no two deposits are precisely the same, and having a clear understanding of how to economically recover those metals and get them into end-users' hands is usually the difference between higher share prices and failure. In this interview with The Gold Report , Moreno discusses several companies developing critical metals deposits with established metallurgy and other attributes that put them on the path to success.


Introduction Angiotensin II (AngII) of the renin-angiotensin system is the active biological peptide that regulates blood pressure and salt and water homeostasis. AngII exerts its actions by binding the specific receptors. There are two major subtypes of the angiotensin receptors; type 1 (AT1) and type 2 (AT2). In the human skin, little is known about the expression of the angiotensin receptors. We studied the expression of angiotensin receptors in the normal human skin. Based on the results, we studied the expression of AT1 in squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and keratoacantoma (KA). It is sometimes difficult to distinguish SCC of the skin from KA because of the histological resemblance of these tumors. At present, few methods enable it possible to distinguish SCC from KA. Our experiments revealed differences between SCC and KA in AT1 expression. Materials and Methods A total of fifty cases of SCC of the skin and fourteen cases of SCC of the lip were selected from a consecutive series of sixty-nine cases diagnosed and treated for SCC at Yamagata University Hospital, Japan between 1978-1999. All twenty-two cases that were diagnosed and treated for KA at the hospital between 1978-1999 were also studied. Normal back skin from a 38-year-old Japanese woman, normal lip from a 64-year-old Japanese man, and normal brain tissue from a 33-year-old man were used as normal controls. Fiveμ m-thick paraffin-embedded tissue sections were offered for hematoxylin and eosin stain and immunohistochemical study using the labeled streptavidin-biotin method. The primary antibodies used in this study were antiangiotensin type-1 and type-2 receptor antibodies. In cases of SCC of the skin, SCC of the lip, and KA, the percentage of AT1-positive tumor cells of all neoplastic cells in the section was estimated and graded into one of three categories: low (<35%); intermediate (35 to 75%); or (c) high (>75%). Among the cases that were graded high, there was a group of cases that showed a distinct staining


Atmospheric lead and cadmium either in particilate form or fumes were measured in three main departments of a factory which produced different types of metals and alloys, and where lead and cadmium were the predominant air pollutants. The blood levels of these metals as well as the serum choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) and cholinesterase (ChE) activities and total protein content of 118 workers were determined. The concentrations of both forms of lead measured in the work environment exceeded the threshold limit value (TLV) whereas those of cadmium were below the (TLV) set for cadmium. An increase in blood levels of lead and cadmium and a decrease in the ChAT and ChE activities and protein content of serum of the exposed workers was noticed.


Summary Background: Sophisticated anti-fraud systems for the healthcare sector have been built based on several statistical methods. Although existing methods have been developed to detect fraud in the healthcare sector, these algorithms consume considerable time and cost, and lack a theoretical basis to handle large-scale data. Objectives: Based on mathematical theory, this study proposes a new approach to using Benford's Law in that we closely examined the individual-level data to identify specific fees for in-depth analysis. Methods: We extended the mathematical theory to demonstrate the manner in which large-scale data conform to Benford's Law. Then, we empirically tested its applicability using actual large-scale healthcare data from Korea's Health Insurance Review and Assessment (HIRA) National Patient Sample (NPS). For Benford's Law, we considered the mean absolute deviation (MAD) formula to test the large-scale data. Results: We conducted our study on 32 diseases, comprising 25 representative diseases and 7 DRG-regulated diseases. We performed an empirical test on 25 diseases, showing the applicability of Benford's Law to large-scale data in the healthcare industry. For the seven DRG-regulated diseases, we examined the individual-level data to identify specific fees to carry out an in-depth analysis. Among the eight categories of medical costs, we considered the strength of certain irregularities based on the details of each DRG-regulated disease. Conclusions: Using the degree of abnormality, we propose priority action to be taken by government health departments and private insurance institutions to bring unnecessary medical expenses under control. However, when we detect deviations from Benford's Law, relatively high contamination ratios are required at conventional significance levels.


Background: One of the most common cancers is squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck which is a serious health challenge worldwide. Considering the importance of knowledge of incidence, death and risk factors in prevention programs, this study was conducted to investigate the incidence, mortality and risk factors for oral cavity and lip cancer in the world.
Methods: A search was performed in Web of Science, PubMed and Scopus. The search keywords included: oral cavity or lip cancer, epidemiology, incidence, mortality, risk factors, and a combination of these terms. Studies that referred to epidemiological aspects of oral cavity and lip cancer epidemiology and risk factors were included in the review.
Results: The five countries with the highest number of cancer of the oral cavity and lip included India, the United States, China, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The standard incidence of these cancers in the world was 4 per 100,000 people (in men versus women, 5.5 and 2.5 per hundred thousand, respectively). The five countries with the highest number of deaths from oral cavity cancer were India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Russia. In 2012, the standardized death rate for this type of cancer was 1.9 per 100,000 people in the world (2.7 vs. 1.2 in every 100,000 of men vs. women, respectively). The most important risk factors for oral and lip cancer include tobacco smoke, alcohol drinking, viral infections, exposure to sunlight, and socioeconomic status.
Conclusion: In order to reduce the burden of this cancer, there are the strategies for preventing risk factors such as tobacco and alcohol control, and vaccination against HPV infection to prevent oral cancers. Also, early detection by screening high-risk populations for oral cancer as well as risk reduction through training programs for physician and patients are effective.


Based on the perturbation theory,a method for calculating the energy levels of hydrogen atom in intermediate strong magnetic field is derived,first-order energy levels for n = 2 state of hydrogen atom in the intermediate strong magnetic field(23.5126≤B≤1.881728×10~4 T ) were calculated,in which the interactions between the orbital motion magnetic moment,the spin magnetic moment and the induced magnetic moment and the external magnetic field are taken into consideration.The calculated results are compared with that listed in the literature.


PITTSBURGH, Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC) today reported net income of $925 million, or $1.64 per diluted common share, for the third quarter of 2012 compared with $546 million, or $.98 per diluted common share, for the second quarter of 2012 and $834 million, or $1.55 per diluted common share, for the third quarter of 2011. For the first nine months of 2012 the company earned net income of $2.3 billion, or $4.06 per diluted common share, compared with $2.6 billion, or $4.79 per diluted common share, for the first nine months of 2011.


This report is based on research carried out for a GMC study into the effectiveness
of Continuing Professional Development (CPD). It has involved non-training
doctors from staff grades to senior consultants, including those primarily involved in management, CPD provision and assessment; and institutional officials, such as in Deaneries and universities, across a range of specialties to determine their understanding of: their own learning, or the learning of other doctors within their
organisations ; how this learning relates to conceptions of CPD, its provision and its
uptake ; effective CPD The research was conducted by a team comprised of clinicians and educators. The intention was to interview medical practitioners, educators and managers regarding their experiences from various expert points of view, supplemented by, and contrasting with, data collected by a more quantitative methodological approach.


The paper discussed the necessity of applying GIS technology into agricultural resource management.Based on the character of agricultural resources environment of Ningbo city and the requirements of users,the paper introduced how to build the Agricultural Resource Management Information System of Ningbo using the developing technology of GIS.


The wide-band Suzaku spectra of the black hole (BH) binary GX 339−4, acquired in 2007 February during the Very High state, were reanalyzed. Effects of event pileup (significant within ∼3′ of the image center) and telemetry saturation of the X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (XIS) data were carefully considered. The source was detected up to ∼300 keV, with an unabsorbed 0.5–200 keV luminosity of 3.8 × 1038 erg s−1 at 8 kpc. The spectrum can be approximated by a power law of photon index 2.7, with a mild soft excess and a hard X-ray hump. When using the XIS data outside 2′ of the image center, the Fe K line appeared extremely broad, suggesting a high BH spin as already reported by Miller et al. based on the same Suzaku data and other CCD data. When the XIS data accumulation is further limited to >3′ to avoid event pileup, the Fe K profile becomes narrower, and a marginally better solution appears which suggests that the inner disk radius is 5–14 times the gravitational radius (1σ), though a maximally spinning BH is still allowed by the data at the 90% confidence level. Consistently, the optically thick accretion disk is inferred to be truncated at a radius 5–32 times the gravitational radius. Thus, the Suzaku data allow an alternative explanation without invoking a rapidly spinning BH. This inference is further supported by the disk radius measured previously in the High/Soft state.


Since the double-loop atom interferometer consisting of Raman π2−π−π−π2 four-pulse sequences can eliminate the dependence of the interferometric phase shift on the atomic initial velocity, it is widely used for rotation measurements. However, our research shows that by coupling itself with both the atomic initial velocity and the laser detuning, the short pulse duration can contribute to unknown systematic errors within the current instrument sensitivity. The coupling of the pulse duration with the laser detuning inside the device is verified experimentally and presented in this work. An improved pulse sequence design is developed to eliminate these systematic errors and improve the precision of the rotation measurements.


ABSTRACT The term, perception, means different things to different investigators. Some differences are fundamental to the definition while others are a matter of semantics. Confusion tends to be minimized if the act of perception is related to the act of human communication. Perception is presented in this paper in terms of the organism as both a "source" and a "receiver" of information not only to and from others in the external environment but to and from itself as well.


SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK HUGGINS, VERONICA CLAREASE B.A. JOHNSON C. SMITH UNIVERSITY, 2002 M.S.W. UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, 2009 A STUDY OF PERCEIVED PREPARATION AND SELF-EFFICACY AMONG OFFENDERS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION AND REHABILITATION WHO ARE INCARCERATED AT THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY AND PARTICIPANTS OF THE REENTRY PROGRAM Committee Chair: Richard Lyle, Ph.D. Dissertation dated May 2015 This study examines the perceived preparation and self-efficacy among offenders in the Department of Correction and Rehabilitation who are incarcerated at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Montgomery County, Maryland and are participants of the reentry program. Eighty-nine (89) participants were selected for the probability sampling. The 89 survey participants were sentenced inmates who were within the last 90 to 120 days of incarceration. The respondents were males and females over the age of 18. Findings of the study revealed that there was a statistically significant relationship between perceived preparation and successful release of the offenders in the


Providing data binding workflow activities for modeling the messaging between the workflow instance and the workflow host. Workflow author without specifying the details of messaging technology underlying associates a data source to the data binding activities in the workflow. Data Binding activity in the workflow instance, to exchange data, communicate with the data source service in a workflow host.


Introduction A combination of increased testing and improved testing modalities has contributed to substantially higher incidences of chlamydia (CT) and gonorrhoea (GC) infections globally. Previous studies have noted the differing epidemiological profiles of CT and GC, resulting in different public health prevention and intervention strategies. Using a population-based perspective, this study describes recent trends, and assesses inequalities in the geographic distribution of CT and GC in a Canadian city. Methods Analyses included all laboratory-confirmed cases of CT and GC among residents of the Winnipeg Health Region from 1996 to 2008. Annual CT and GC incidence rates were directly age-standardised to the 2000 Winnipeg Health Region population. Adjusted rate ratios (ARR) for the effect of age and gender, and 95% 95% CI, were estimated by negative binomial regression models. Generalised estimating equations (GEE) were used to correct for clustering within neighbourhood areas (n=25). Inequalities in the neighbourhood area distribution of annual CT and GC rates were measured by the Gini coefficient, with 95% CI estimated by bootstrapped samples. For regression and Gini analyses, cases were grouped into 10–19, 20–29 and 30+ age groups. Results The age-adjusted incidence of CT increased from 198/100 000 in 1996 to 513/100 000 in 2008. During this same time period, GC increased from 62/100 000 to 89/100 000, with a peak of 133/100 000 in 2006. For females, and compared to those aged 30 or over, equally high rates of CT were observed in those 10–19 (ARR 24.2; 95% CI 18.7 to 31.4, p<0.0001) and 20–29 years (ARR 24.4; 95% CI 18.8–31.7, p<0.0001). For males, differences in rates were observed in those aged 10–19 (ARR 5.3; 95% CI 4.1 to 6.9, p<0.0001) and 20–29 (ARR 10.5; 95% CI 8.2 to 13.5, p<0.0001) years. A similar pattern was detected for GC infections. Inequality by neighbourhood area, as measured by Gini coefficients decreased over time for CT infections, regardless of age group. For GC infections, increases were observed in those 30 years or older, for both males and females. Conclusion Since 1996, the distribution of CT incidence is suggestive of a generalised spread; while for GC the distribution has narrowed in those aged 30 or over, suggestive of concentration among core populations within this age group. CT and GC continue to display differing and dynamic epidemiological profiles.


Phosphor-doped titania nanoparticles were synthesized by a one step method, which were prepared by conventional calcination method. These samples have much higher photocatalytic activity for methylene blue degradation. The resulting materials were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), etc. Moreover, we use high P/TiO2 molar ratio to get the most suitable proportion for the synthesis of P-doped titania photocatalyst.


We conduct simulations based on the Rice Convection Model to evaluate the spatial distributions of total flux tube entropy (S) in the near‐Earth plasma sheet resulting from an earthward moving plasma bubble, and their dependences on two parameters: (1) the bubble's initial magnetic local time location and (2) strength of large‐scale convection. The plasma and magnetic field changes caused by the simulated bubble as it moves earthward qualitatively agree with an observed event. The simulated large‐scale convection is weaker in the premidnight than postmidnight sector because auroral conductance becomes lower toward dusk. The S reduction region resulting from the bubble expands azimuthally at smaller radial distances. The dawnward expansion is due to electric drift, while the duskward expansion is a result of proton's magnetic drift. The S within the bubble is not conserved as the bubble moves because particles of different energies within the bubble drift apart. The radial and azimuthal extents of the S reduction vary with the bubble's initial magnetic local time location. The S reduction region caused by a premidnight bubble extends substantially closer to the Earth and azimuthally wider than does a postmidnight bubble. This difference is mainly due to the weaker convection in the premidnight sector. Comparing with those under strong convection, the bubble plasma is colder under weak convection so that the bubble transport is affected more by electric drift. The S reductions under weak convection are much more confined in their azimuthal width and do not extend as far inward.


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BACKGROUND Several studies have shown a significant relationship between weight and high blood pressure. High blood pressure is correlated with overweight and obesity which can be assessed by anthropometric indices. Therefore, this study was undertaken to determine the predictors, and correlation of anthropometric indices with blood pressure among females. METHODS A cross sectional study was conducted among 300 females (25-40 years of age) of known endogamous groups baniyas and jats of Punjab. Measurements taken include systolic and diastolic blood pressure and anthropometric parameters such as height, weight, waist and hip circumference. Information was obtained about lifestyle and dietary habits. Data was statistically analysed. RESULTS Mean and standard deviation of BMI, WHR, SBP, DBP of Baniya was higher as compared to jats. p value was statistically significant for height, SBP, DBP, HC, BMI and WHR. Overweight (53.2%) and obesity (36%) were seen in both groups. Derived anthropometric indices for example WC, WHtR and WHR were raised and prevalence of prehypertension was more in both endogamous groups. A positive correlation was observed between blood pressure and anthropometric indices with significant p value. BMI, WC and WHtR have a significant association with the risk of hypertension among females aged 25-40 years. Hence, approaches to reduce the risk of hypertension may include prevention of overweight and obesity in the form of diet education, weight monitoring and regular exercise.


The architecture of PC blade and the concept of network performance management model are introduced,and a performance management mode in C/S pattern in allusion is designed according to the characters of PC blade and the need of management.The mana- gement port constitute relevant detection rules by the performance decision-making application of PC blade,and put forward performance value through these rules;then put the management of other network cells on PC blade in this management model,use two kinds of IPSec-based SNMP and SNMPv3 management correspondence mode to manage PC blade and other network cells.A network manage- ment environment is implemented where other network cells in the intranet are in cooperation and hands-offmutually,and the security of management correspondence is improved.


Objective To prepare a fast action gliquidone dispersible tablets.MethodsCrospovidon was selected as disintegrants according to orthogonal test.The dispersible tablets were prepared by the combination of internal addition and external addition of disintegrants.The stability of the tablets was studied.ResultsThe tablets totally disintegrated within one minute,and their quality conformed to the standard.ConclusionThe tablets prepared can meet the require ment of dispersible tablets.


SALVADOR DA BAHIA SPEAKS TO WRITING OR ABOUT WRITING IN THE LOST MEMORY OF AFRICA, THE SHIP AND THE GRADMOTHER, REINVENTED IN THE VOYAGE OF THE WORD.


Technologies are increasingly reaching areas of everyday life that were previously separated from the digital world, including traditional crafts. HCI work has explored hybrid craft as activities that manipulate smart materials for interactive physical outcomes. This however, excludes the ways in which traditional crafts become hybrid through other related uses of digital technologies. This paper discusses how urban knitting, a collaborative textile craft augmenting public space, incorporates various online practices to facilitate urban participation. We conducted a survey with 40 urban knitters to identify the roles technologies play in their practices. The results illustrate how the participants use digital tools for personal inspiration, global collaboration, individual self-expression and collective meaning-making around their craft. Through discussing how technologies can re-contextualise creative craft practices, we contribute insights into how a wider understanding of hybrid craft is needed to embrace new design opportunities within this hybrid realm of urban citizenship.


This paper seeks to facilitate research on the processes of innovation and change in higher education, an area of scholarly endeavor which is attracting much interest of late. To meet this goal, a conceptual distinction is first drawn between the broad process of organizational change and the more specific processes of purposive change and innovation. Then, a typology of four research frameworks relevant to innovation and change is presented and illustrated through exemplary studies in the field of higher education. Using techniques of causal modeling, a prototypic flowgraph is constructed to capture the major features of each framework. Flowgraphs are cast in terms of posited relationships between generic variables which can be operationalized to suit the particular needs and setting of a given study. The authors further suggest that the most productive research on change and innovation in higher education will be based on sound theoretical reasoning employing combinations of the four frameworks. They argue that the specificity inherent in causal modeling can clarify important conceptual issues and thereby promote more informative investigation.


In this study, the biosensor detection system can be determined the detection range from pH 1 to pH 11 with a 0.983 linearity, and was completed via a wireless measurement device. The ruthenium dioxide (RuO2) membrane was fabricated on the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) by radio frequency (R. F.) sputtering technique. The biosensor combined with the reference electrode can measure the characteristics of test solutions. The readout circuit device processes the detection signal. The graphical measurement software LabVIEW (Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench) for the biosensor was real time, which showed the detection signals in the computer. The wireless measurement device could successfully monitor and transmit detection signals.


The molecular quadrupole moments of HCCH, FCCF, and ClCCCl have been studied as a function of basis set at the self-consistent field, density functional theory (B3LYP), and CCSD(T) levels. The CCSD(T) results, in units of ea0 , are 4.856 (HCCH), 0.6389 (FCCF), and 3.7685 (ClCCCl). When corrected for vibration, the HCCH result is reduced to 4.795 and is in excellent agreement with experiment, 4.71 0.14. There are no experimental data for FCCF and ClCCCl. The molecular quadrupole moments are shown to have the form atoms cr, where atoms is the sum of the quadrupole moments of the separated atoms and cr is the contribution due to charge redistribution upon molecule formation. This model accounts for the magnitude and signs of in this series. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem 95: 697-705, 2003


The industrial development status of raw material sources(oils and fats) and technical progress in two-stage hydrogenation and biodiesel generation bio-jet fuel by hydroprocessing was reviewed with 28 references.The relevant proposals were put forward about short and long term sources of raw materials,catalysts and other key technologies development and utilization,product standards and biomass gasification-FT synthesis technology for China's bio-jet fuel industry.


October 12, 2022 Type Package Title Unconditional Exact Test Version 3.2 Author Peter Calhoun [aut, cre] Maintainer Peter Calhoun <firstname.lastname@example.com> Description Performs unconditional exact tests and power calculations for 2x2 contingency tables. For comparing two independent proportions, performs Barnard's test (1945) <doi:10.1038/156177a0> using the original CSM test (Barnard, 1947 <doi:10.1093/biomet/34.12.123>), using Fisher's p-value referred to as Boschloo's test (1970) <doi:10.1111/j.14679574.1970.tb00104.x>, or using a Z-statistic (Suissa and Shuster, 1985, <doi:10.2307/2981892>). For comparing two binary proportions, performs unconditional exact test using McNemar's Z-statistic (Berger and Sidik, 2003, <doi:10.1191/0962280203sm312ra>), using McNemar's conditional p-value, using McNemar's Z-statistic with continuity correction, or using CSM test. Calculates confidence intervals for the difference in proportion. This package interacts with pre-computed data available through the ExactData R package, which is available in a 'drat' repository. Install the ExactData R package from GitHub at <https://pcalhoun1.github.io/drat/>. The ExactData R package is approximately 85 MB. License GPL-2 Depends R (>= 3.5.0) Imports graphics, stats, utils, rootSolve Suggests ExactData


In this study, a novel target tracking algorithm based on fading memory filter model and adaptive markov transition matrix is proposed to achieve a better tracking performance for the case where the measurement noise is high, target are distant and target maneuvers are intense. The proposed adp-FastSIMM-FM algorithm has been shown to have a better position estimation than the FastIMM-FM algorithm which has a better estimation than FastIMM and FastIMM-imp. Also, adp- FastSIMM-FM algorithm has a low computational cost.


Method inlining is one of the most important optimizations in method-based just-in-time (JIT) compilers. It widens the compilation scope and therefore allows optimizing multiple methods as a whole, which increases the performance. However, if method inlining is used too frequently, the compilation time increases and too much machine code is generated. This impacts the performance negatively.
 Trace-based JIT compilers only compile frequently executed paths, so-called traces, instead of whole methods. This may result in faster compilation, less generated machine code, and better optimized machine code. In previous work [7], we implemented a trace recording infrastructure and a trace-based compiler for Java, by modifying the Java HotSpot VM. Based on this work, we evaluate the effect of trace inlining on the performance and size of generated machine code.
 Trace inlining has several major advantages when compared to method inlining. First, trace inlining is more selective than method inlining, as only frequently executed paths are inlined. Second, the recorded traces may contain information about virtual calls, which simplifies inlining. A third advantage is that trace information is context-sensitive, so that different method parts can be inlined depending on the specific call site. These advantages allow to perform aggressive inlining while the size of the generated machine code is still reasonable.


Antiallergic drug Histamine receptor antagonist IL-4 Correspondence to: Dr. Takemasa Nakagawa, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Marianna University Toyoko Hospital, 3435 Kosugi-cho, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki, 211 (Japan) Introduction T lymphocytes, with their capacity to produce Th2 cytokines from CD4+ cells, are thought to play an important role in orchestrating the inflammatory process in various allergic diseases. Among these cytokines, IL-4 and 1L-5 have been strongly implicated in the pathophysiology of such disorders, since the former promotes IgE synthesis and the latter regulates eosinophil and basophil differentiation and maturation [1]. Epinastine hydrochloride (epinastine) is a newly developed histamine receptor antagonist possessing antiallergic activity, as is evident from its inhibitory action on histamine and leukotriene C4 release from human mast cells and ba-sophils, and has been employed in the treatment of allergic rhinitis, atopic dermatitis and bronchial asthma in Japan with good clinical results [2]. Based on the finding that this compound can suppress Ca2+ uptake into the cells [3], the present investigation was carried out to evaluate whether epinastine can modulate T helper cell functions by affecting IL-4 and interferon (IFN)-γ mRNA expression on peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of allergic patients. Materials and Methods Subjects Fifteen nonsmoking asthmatic subjects were selected from the outpatient clinic of the St. Marianna University Hospital who were judged to be sensitive to house dust mite (H DM) on the basis of clinical history and positive IgE CAP RAST (score ≥ 2). Informed consent was obtained from these subjects, and the study was approved by the hospital ethical committee. Blood Sampling and Cell Culture


Breakthrough curves (BTCs) obtained from column tests in heterogeneous soils are not satisfactorily simulated with the advection-dispersion equation (ADE) for some heavy tailed cases. Furthermore, the dispersion coefficient calculated with the ADE for heavy tailed BTCs are scale dependent when simulating columns of soil larger than the original test depth. In this paper we compare the usage of a fractional ADE (FADE) and the classical ADE to fit column tests BTCs made with Brazilian lateritic soils, discussing both contaminant transport theories and underlying stochastic models. The FADE can more accurately simulate heavy tailed BTCs, and when applying the adjusted FADE parameters to longer depths of soil, the FADE also predicts a more realistic scenario of contaminant transport through heterogeneous soil. The addition of fractional calculus in the advection-dispersion equation proves to improve contaminant transport predictions based on column tests over the classical ADE, with the use of a constant fractional dispersion coefficient that is scale independent.


Background: Focal cerebral hypothermia via intracarotid cold saline infusion (CSI) is an emerging therapy for acute stroke. Systems of cold saline delivery tested in humans have been thermally inef...


College Chinese course is the basic course for freshmen.It should be the starting point of mother tongue education and humane quality education in college,and should be different from high school Chinese course.The paper puts forward to a new thinking of College Chinese teaching and practice in its contents,methods,materials and test.


Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) allows hundreds of wavelength channels to be carried in a single optical fiber, at the rate of 40 Gb/s and beyond, and is the most promising solution for the next generation networks. However, an all-optical-packet switched DWDM network cannot be practically realized due to limitations on optical technologies. We presented a DWDM multimode router architecture, which supports electronic packet switching, optical circuit switching, and optical burst switching modes on the same router platform. The multimode router is capable of dynamically reconfiguring wavelengths to operate in the desired switching modes. This approach allows short messages to be switched electronically using packet switching, while allowing majority of the data transfer (e.g. video) to pass core routers optically. It greatly reduces the need for expensive Optical/Electrical/Optical (O/E/O) converters.


The standard term takes an important role in expressing responsibility and improving efficiency,but also leads to quite a few disadvantages.Especially the term may depart from freedom of contract and contractual justice.So to keep its merits and to get rid of its defects become one of the most important problems for civil and commercial law.


PURPOSE: To execute micro-lithography by mask patterns generated electronically by a method, whereby a reflection pattern image is radiated so that generated reflection patterns are changed with the movements of positions of a radiation responsive face, and decides a position of incident radiation responsive face. CONSTITUTION: An argon laser outputs monochromatic beams 18. These beams 18 are reflected by a deflecting beams splitter 22 and are introduced to a surface of a liquid crystal light valve(LCLV) 26 through a quarter-wave plate 24. The LCLV 26 is connected optically to a screen 29 of a cathode-ray tube 30 by an optical fiber face plate 28. A CRT 30 is controlled by a computer 50. Accordingly, when the computer 50 controls a display of an image on the CRT screen 29, reflection patterns of this image are generated on a surface of a LCLV 27 and function as a lithograph-mask, and a face 12 with which a semiconductor wafer 14 is covered is micro-patternized. COPYRIGHT: (C)1993,JPO


In this paper, a viable alternative design for silicon solar cells using backside contacts with through-wafer interconnects (TWI) is discussed. TWI technology allows conductive paths to be created without sacrificing top surface area. Using this technology, we were able to provide a connection from the top n-type material to the cathode at the rear of the solar cell. The potential advantages and the proposed design are also discussed


The research presented here is an attempt to explore teachers' classroom practices in mathematics lessons in Turkish state schools and privately owned educational institutions. I will present data on the use of examples in mathematics lessons in two classrooms from different schools teaching the same content: inverse functions. The results indicate that the time given to student engagement on examples differs. In private college, the time allowed for students' engagement with problems is markedly less than in state schools. Further analysis on the use of examples shows that the examples teachers selected to use and the way they made use of them are also different. I will discuss the results in the light of socio cultural theories.


Our studies in the field of endosurgery in collaboration with the physicians of the National Research Center of Surgery of the Academy of Medical Sciences are carried out beginning in 1983. These studies laid the foundation for the new direction of X-ray surgery--X-ray Nitinol stenting of vessels and tubular structures. X-ray nitinol stents are unique self-fixing shells based on the shape memory effect and superelasticity of nickel-titanium alloys self- reconstructed under human body temperature. Applied for stenting of arteries in cases of stenosis etc., bile ducts in cases of benign and malignant stenoses, digestive tract in cases of oesophageal cancer and cervical canal uterus in cases of postsurgical atresiss and strictures of uterine. The purpose of stenting is restoration of the shape of artery or tubular structure by a cylinder frame formation. The especially elaborated original method of stenting allows to avoid the traditional surgical operation, i.e. the stenting is performed without blood, narcosis and surgical knife. The stent to be implanted is transported into the affected zone through the puncture under the X-ray control. Clinical applications of X-ray endovascular stenting has been started in March 1984. During this period nearly 400 operations on stenting have been performed on femoral, iliac, brachio-cephalic, subclavian arteries, bile ducts, tracheas, digestive tract and cervical canal uterus.


This chapter considers the role of race in the adoptive placement of children. In examining the law and policy issues, the chapter raises questions both about the role of race in American society and about the needs of children. These issues are reflected in the interplay in adoption law of two pivotal principles: the best interests of the child standard and the antidiscrimination principle. The best interests of the child standard is the guiding principle of child welfare law; the antidiscrimination principle has been incorporated into family law during the past half-century and disfavors decision making on the basis of race and certain other characteristics. Policy makers confront the challenge of how best to define each of these principles, and also how to balance or choose between them when they conflict. The chapter also identifies an apparent persistent gap in this realm between official policy and the daily practices of the social workers who orchestrate adoptions in the foster care system.


The paper investigates whether the notion of impoliteness worked out for synchronic pragmatics is also applicable in diachronic pragmatics. An analysis of two Early Modern English court trial records demonstrates that the answer is positive provided some new dimensions are added. My model of impoliteness cuts across the following axes: structural, semantic, and pragmatic. Structural impoliteness ranges from words and phrases to portions of texts, thus the syntactic dimension cuts across the complexity dimension. The semantic/pragmatic dimension includes numerous non-literal meanings of impoliteness. An utterance can be judged as impolite on the basis of its surface representations ("overt impoliteness"), or the impoliteness of an expression has to be inferred and takes the form of an implicature ("covert impoliteness"). Thus, the final interpretation would depend both on the speaker's intention when producing an utterance, its (perlocutionary) effect(s) on the addressee, and the overall context. Finally, all these variables cut across the socio-historical dimension.


It is the best of times; it is the worst of times. Globally, the percentage of people who are underweight has fallen from 32% to 28% in the last decade. Proportionally, more children now have enough to eat. Yet malnutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa is increasing and the Millennium Development Goal to cut hunger in half by 2015 seems far away. On top of this, more and more people in the developing world are becoming overweight or obese. Significant increases in the prevalence of obesity are being reported from numerous developing countries. Worldwide, over 10% of children are already overweight or obese. It is a tale of two malnutritions.


Studies on the complementary mating types of Paramecium primaurelia (Protozoa, Ciliates) have shown that cell lines which differ from each other in mating type expression are characterized by different cell contents, organization, and physiology. Referring to these differences and to the differential rates of food vacuole formation, oral apparatuses of the two mating type cells are assumed to possibly differ from each other in some traits, such as, for instance, in their lengths. In our work, the highly organized oral structures are analyzed by means of a laser scanning confocal optical microscope (CLSM), which provides their 3-D visualization and measurement. The extraction of the 3-D intrinsic information related to the biological objects under investigation can be in turn related to their functional state, according to the classical paradigm of structure to function relationships identification. In our experiments, we acquired different data sets. These are optical slices of the biological sample under investigation, acquired in a confocal situation, through epi-illumination, in reflection, and, for comparison with conventional microscopy, 2-D images acquired via a standard TV camera coupled to the microscope itself. Our CLSM system is equipped with a laser beam at 488 and 514 nm and the data have been acquired with various steps of optical slicing, ranging from .04 to .25 micrometers. The volumes obtained by piling-up the slices are rendered through different techniques, some of them directly implemented on the workstation controlling the CLSM system, some of them on a SUN SPARC station 1, where the original data were transferred via an Ethernet link. In this last instance, original software has been developed for the visualization and animation of the 3-D structures, running under UNIX and X-Window, according to a ray-tracing algorithm.


Two hundred and eighty nine adult birds were trapped in one day in an isolated area. The operation was divided into 3 sub‐sessions. Estimates of populations size using two different models (Generalized Removal (Otis et al. 1978) and Craig‐du Feu's) are given. Results and simulations to check the validity of both models show that two‐day schedules are to be preferred.


【Objective】This study was to elucidate the effect of wheat Wx protein deficiency on starch physiochemical properties and noodle quality. 【Method】Starch physiochemical properties and noodle quality of 14 cultivars with 6 types Wx protein combinations were studied and analyzed. 【Result】The contents of enzyme and amylose, affected by Wx protein deficiencies significantly, were increased correspondingly with Wx protein amount. In contrast, flour swelling power and starch pasting peak viscosity decreased, while noodle quality was not consistent with lack of Wx protein lacking. Most starch physiochemical properties of waxy cultivars were less significantly than that of other types. Different Wx subunits influenced starch physiochemical properties and noodle quality differently, while the Wx-B1 subunit had greatest effect on amylose synthesis, and the Wx-D1 and the Wx-A1 subunit had least. The cultivar null in Wx-B1 subunit, with lowest amylose content and highest flour swelling power and peak viscosity, scored highest in noodle quality among the three types without all three subunits. 【Conclusion】Judging from the cultivars with different Wx protein compositions, noodle score was not linearly correlated to amylose content, flour swelling power and peak viscosity, especially for amylose content. Therefore, the cultivar suitable to make noodle should have a reasonable amylose content, flour swelling power, peak viscosity and noodle score increased with the decrease of amylose content within the range, while noodle score decreased beyond the confines.


An apparatus for generating an ion mobility in the compound depends on a number of peak RF voltage for a given unique compensation signal is a function of high mobility field for the identification of chemical species and as a basis by measuring. In order to identify the chemical species detected, thus produced detection data are compared with the database.


Objective: To investigate the clinical and prognostic effects of myocardial ischemic preconditioning on acute myocardial infarction. Methods: According to patient ever having of not having angina pectoris before occurring acute myocardial infarction (AMI), the patients with AMI were divided into two groups: group A (ischemic preconditioning group, the patients ever having angina pectoris before occurring AMI) and group B (no ischemic preconditioning group, the patients not ever having angina pectoris before occurring AMI). The peak of serum creatine phosphatase kinase (CPK). the incidences of complications (heart failure, cardiac shock and severe arrhythmia) and cardiac mortality during hospitalization were detected in two groups. Results: The peak of serum CPK, incidence of cardiac shock and severe arrhythmia during hospitalization were lower in group A than those of group B (P0. 05). Conclusion: Myocardial ischemic preconditioning may decrease the extent of myocardial infarction, myocardial infarction size and reduce the complication occurrence of AMI.


Quality data in manufacture process has the features of mixed type, uneven distribution, dimension curse and data coupling. To apply the massive manufacturing quality data effectively to the quality analysis of the manufacture enterprise, the data pre-processing algorithm based on equivalence relation is employed to select the characteristic of hybrid data and preprocess data. KML-SVM (Optimised kernel-based hybrid manifold learning and support vector machines algorithm) is proposed. KML is adopted to solve the problems of manufacturing process quality data dimension curse. SVM is adopted to classify and predict low-dimensional embedded data, as well as to optimise support vector machine kernel function so that the classification accuracy can be maximised. The actual manufacturing process data of AVIC Shenyang Liming Aero-Engine Group Corporation Ltd is demonstrated to simulate and verify the proposed algorithm.


The long-range dipole field interaction between a low energy electron and the hydrogen atom in the n = 2 state is shown to be the key for understanding significant features of a number of Hdetachment processes. Collisional, single photon, and two-photon detachment processes are examined, each of which is shown to be sensitive to different aspects of low-energy H(n=2e however, in the adiabatic approximation all but the diagonal coupling matrix elements are dropped so that each Fp(R) satisfies a one-dimensional radial Schriidinger equation, In Eq. 5 the effective radial potential Vp(R), which characterizes the dynamical features of a particular hyperspherical channel p converging to the nth level of the H atom is defined by where (0~,d2$~/dR2) is the R-dependent diagonal coupling matrix element for the pth channel. Since the long-range dipole interaction due to the degeneracy of the H(n=2) states9 is diagonal in the hyperspherical representstion,lta the asymptotic form of the effective radial potential is In Eq. 7 XP is an effective orbital angular momentum, which may be real or complex depending on the channel p.. For channels p in which the long-range dipole interactiong is repulsive at asymptotic distances, 3c is t real. Hence at threshold the cross section for any excitation to the c annel p. is zero since it depends on I k&+mP, which is zero for k + 0. On the other hand, for channels p in which the long-range dipole interaction9 is attractive at asymptotic distances, one may write quite generally,l* As a consequence,the threshold value of the cross section for any excitation to the channel p is finitell since it depends on lk$+U2l2 = 1. In addition, as noted by Gailitis and Damburg,ll the transition matrix elements for channels having complex Xp are influenced above threshold by the term k$+u2 = kicyl (cf. Eq. a), which, when re-written as exp ( i 9 In k), may be seen to oscillate as a function of ln k. The effective potentials Vp(R) which converge asymptotically to the H(n=2) threshold and which are most relevant for the detachment processes in Eqs. 1-3 are shown in Fig. 1. All of the 1Se and 1PO potential curves are shown as well as the most important 1De potential curve. Since the total orbital and spin angular momenta are insufficient to specify the potential curves uniquely, additional specification is necessary. In Fig. 1 we have employed abbreviated labels corresponding to Lids classification of doubly excited states.12 FIG. 1. Effective radial hyperspherical potentials Vp in Ry plotted vs the hyperradius R for six channels converging to H(n=2): ~s(K= f I), l m , l ~ ( ~ d ) , and ID+. Note that the zero of energy is chosen to be the H(n=2) threshold and that near R = 25 the vertical energy


Mango has emerged as an important area for diversification and as an alternative cropping pattern due to higher returns and productivity. The study was conducted in three mango growing districts, namely Chapai Nawabganj, Natore, and Rajshahi during 2014-2015 to estimate the financial benefit of shifting cereal lands to mango production, factors influencing shifting decision, and explore related problems of mango cultivation in the study areas. A total of 180 farmers taking 60 farmers from each district were selected through using multistage stratified random sampling for the study. About 49% lands were shifted to mango cultivation from cereal crops which was higher in Chapai Nawabganj (55%) followed by Natore (48%) district. The main reason of this shifting was reported to be higher profit compared to other crops. The average total cost of mango cultivation was Tk. 1, 33,889 per hectare. Higher cost was observed in the 16th-20th year of garden (Tk. 1, 52,010) followed by 11th -15th year (Tk. 1, 48,952). The average yield of mango was found to be the highest in 16th – 20th year (26.48 ton/ha) followed by 11-16th year (19.38 ton/ha). Per hectare net return from mango cultivation was Tk. 1, 75,244. Total cost of mango cultivation was 10% higher than Boro-Fallow-T.Aman cultivation. On the other hand, total cost was about 40% lower than Wheat- Jute- T.Aman, Wheat-Aus-T.Aman and Potato-Fallow-T.Aman. The net return from mango cultivation was 75% higher than other cropping patterns. The shifting of cereal lands to mango cultivation was found to be a profitable since the BCR (2.89), net present value (Tk. 33, 71,166) and internal rate of return (39%) were very high. Relative income, farm size and education turned out to be positively significant, whereas age was negatively significant for shifting decision from cereal crops to mango cultivation. Therefore, Farmers should be motivated to cultivate mango in the fallow lands or areas where other crops are not grown well. Bangladesh J. Agril. Res. 42(1): 137-158, March 2017


It is important for the non-destructive testing carried out the measurement of wave propagation velocities to know the extent of variation of the propagation velocity of elastic waves in porous rocks by changing water content. We had been made an investigation of this problems. In this paper, we showed experimental results of the propagation velocity of elastic waves in rock specimens cured at the four circumstances which are the most easy curing method. They are (1) cooling in a desicator contained silicagel silicagel at room temparature after heating in the drying oven at 100•`110•Ž above 24 hours, (2) drying in desicator contained silicagel to become a constant weight, (3) room dry, and (4) immersing in water during about a month to become a constant weight. On the experiment, the velocity dilatational wave Vpl and the velocity of shear wave Vps were measured by ultrasonic pulse method, and the velocity of longitudinal vibration VRl and the velocity of torsional vibration VRS were measured by resonant frequency method. Summary of this experiment are;


OBJECTIVE:To provide reference for revising Good Supply Practice(GSP) in China.METHODS:The differences of Good Distribution Practice(GDP) recommended by WHO from new GSP(consultative paper) in China were compared in term of circulation field to put forward revision suggestions.RESULTS CONCLUSIONS:There is a little gap between GSP(consultative paper) and GDP.It is suggested to strengthen the management of drug use in GSP(consultative paper),and expand the usage range of GSP;improve quality management system,and strengthen the prevention of counterfeit and low quality drugs;increase the regulation of drug import management;further improve the rules of storage and transportation;enhance management of transportation,complaint,recall and goods returned,etc.A complete quality management system covering the whole drug supply chain should be built to ensure the stability of drug quality and drug traceability.