The present work synthesises the self-talk literature and constructs a transdisciplinary self-talk model to guide future research across all academic disciplines that engage with self-talk. A comprehensive research review was conducted, including 559 self-talk articles published between 1978 and 2020. These articles were divided into 6 research categories: (a) inner dialogue, (b) mixed spontaneous and goal-directed organic self-talk, (c) goal-directed self-talk, (d) spontaneous self-talk, (e) educational self-talk interventions, and (f) strategic self-talk interventions. Following this, critical details were extracted from a subsample of 100 articles to create an interdisciplinary synthesis of the self-talk literature. Based on the synthesis, a self-talk model was created that places spontaneous and goal-directed organic self-talk as well as educational and strategic self-talk interventions in relation to variables within their nomological network, including external factors (e.g. task difficulty), descriptive states and traits (e.g. emotions), behaviour and performance, metacognition, and psychological skills (e.g. concentration).


An investigation of charge transfer in collisions of ground-state Cl{sup 7+} with H has been conducted based on a fully quantum-mechanical molecular-orbital close-coupling (QMOCC) approach. The charge-transfer process Cl{sup 7+}({sup 1}S)+H{yields}Cl{sup 6+}(2p{sup 6}nl {sup 2}S,{sup 2}P{sup o},{sup 2}D,{sup 2}F{sup o},{sup 2}G)+H{sup +} with n=5 and 6 is taken into account for collision energies between 10{sup -4} eV/u and 1 keV/u. The relevant adiabatic potentials and nonadiabatic coupling matrix elements for the ClH{sup 7+} system are evaluated with the configuration-interaction method. The investigation shows that electron capture into the 5d, 5f, 5g, and 6p states dominates for collision energies less than {approx}1 eV/u, while above 100 eV/u the 5s, 5p, 5d, and 6p are the primary capture channels. Comparison with experimental data for collisions of Cl{sup 7+}({sup 1}S) with D reveals a discrepancy over the full range of measured energies (5-430 eV/u), while no significant isotope effect is found for QMOCC calculations with deuterium. Furthermore, comparison with a previous calculation of the one-electron N{sup 7+}+H system, as well as measurements of the multielectron Al{sup 7+}+H and Fe{sup 7+}+H systems, suggests that the electronic structure of the core has a non-negligible effect on the charge-transfer process. A one-electron model for relative lmore » distributions is found to agree with the QMOCC results for n=5 between 100 and 1000 eV/u, but fails at lower collision energies. Finally, state-selective and total rate coefficients are given for temperatures between 10 and 200 000 K.« less


Just as sermons were central to Dissenting identity, so too were hymns. Hymns rapidly became a means of creating a sense of group cohesion, as well as transmitting important ideas and doctrine to the congregations that sang them. Particularly when there were concerns about spiritual lethargy, hymns were an excellent way to ensure that Dissenting congregations maintained a sense of 'spiritual wakefulness'. Not only could hymns be used to inculcate a sense of Dissenting identity and transmit paraphrases, prayer, and praise, they also proved to be a popular evangelistic tool both as part of domestic revivals and, later, in foreign mission fields. They were a means to convey practical Christian experience and also to point towards the best ways to practise the Christian life.


An increased data sample of identified secondary muons is collected at detection level. Project GRAND identifies secondary cosmic ray muons from electrons utilizing a thin steel absorber and tracking (PWC) chambers. The resulting angular resolution for the primary is about +/- 5 degrees. Since there is a 1.5% probability that a 100 GeV gamma primary will produce a single muon track at ground level, the high statistics allows a search for angular enhancements due to gammas. More than 100 billion muons are identified and analyzed. A table of stellar sources is examined.


The complexes [M(L^1)_2(NO_3)] and [M(L^2)(NO_3)_2] (M = Pr, Er; L^1 = the tetradentate ligand dihydrobis-[3-(2-pyridyl)pyrazolyl]borate; L^2 = the hexadentate ligand hydrotris-[3-(2-pyridyl)pyrazolyl]borate) were prepared and their structural and photophysical properties studied. All complexes are 10-coordinate. Crystallographic analysis of [M(L^1)_2(NO_3)] (M = Pr, Er) showed that for the smaller Er( iii ) ions steric congestion at the metal centre results in two of the Er–N(pyridyl) distances being particularly long, which does not occur with the larger Pr( iii ) ion that is better able to accommodate 10-fold coordination. On UV irradiation, both Pr( iii ) complexes show, in the visible region of their luminescence spectra, transitions originating from both the ^3P_0 level (at ca. 21 000 cm^-1) and the ^1D_2 level (at ca. 17 000 cm^-1), a consequence of the fact that the lowest triplet state of the coordinated pyrazolylborate ligands lies at ca. 24 000 cm^-1 in each case so is high enough in energy to populate both levels. This contrasts with Pr( iii ) complexes based on diketonate ligands in which the lower triplet energies of the ligands result in emission from the ^1D_2 level only. At longer wavelengths, near-infrared luminescence arising from the ^1D_2 emissive level is observed with lifetimes (in both the solid state and solution) being in the range 50–110 ns. For both Er( iii ) complexes, luminescence at 1530 nm occurs following UV excitation of ligand-centred transitions. In CH_2Cl_2 both complexes gave dual-exponential luminescence, with the major component having a lifetime characteristic of an intact Er( iii ) complex (≈ 1.5 μs) and the minor component being much shorter lived (0.2–0.5 μs), suggestive of a species in which a ligand is partially detached and the metal is solvated, with the two forms interconverting slowly. This behaviour is consistent with the steric congestion and long M–N(pyridyl) bonds that were observed in [Er(L^1)_2(NO_3)]. In the solid state both Er( iii ) complexes gave very weak luminescence, which could be fitted to a single exponential decay with a lifetime similar to the longer-lived of the solution components.


Abstract A finite-element method is used to analyse the transient–temperature and residual-stress fields in an axisymmetric metal specimen during quenching. In the calculation of transient-temperature fields it is assumed that an unsteady source of latent heat exists in the specimen when a phase transformation occurs. Factors such as the surface heat transfer coefficient, heat conductivity coefficient, linear expansion coefficient, density, specific heat capacity, latent heat, and so forth are all temperature dependent. The elastic-plastic properties of the specimen are modified according to temperature fields, which are determined; the influence of plastic deformation on the temperature fields is neglected. The agreement between the calculated results and the experimental data shows that the numerical analysis method is reliable. The method may also be applied to the analysis of specimens with other than axisymmetric shape.MST/15


This report documents the procedures and results associated with the assessment of U.S. 83 Expressway and cross-street interchange operations between Conway Avenue and Sugar Road in Mission, McAllen, and Pharr, Texas. This area is faced with increasing congestion and is characterized by a mixture of freeway ramp and cross-street interchange designs. The results of this analysis support the need for widening U.S. 83 from four lanes to six lanes and indicate that converting to uniform "x-ramp" configurations will produce improved long-term freeway mainlane operations. Construction of a new interchange at McColl Road and U.S. 83, as well as improvements to several additional cross-street interchanges, are also recommended.


Under an atmospheric pressure of carbon monoxide, photoinduced reductive carbonylation of organic halides (RX) with samarium diiodide (SmI2) occurs to afford the corresponding unsymmetrical ketones...


Nowadays natural resources have a controversial accounting treatment which is caused, firstly, by neglecting their inherent properties and, secondly, by a free and one-sided interpretation of the legal framework. The definition of natural resources is bad too, which also creates additional difficulties in accounting of the operations connected with the preparation for natural resources usage and exploitation.


Abstract Objective. General practitioner (GP) involvement may be instrumental in obtaining successful palliative cancer trajectories. The aim of the study was to examine associations between bereaved relatives' evaluation of palliative cancer trajectories, place of death, and GP involvement. Design. Population-based, cross-sectional combined register and questionnaire study. Setting. The former Aarhus County, Denmark. Subjects. Questionnaire data on GPs' palliative efforts and relatives' evaluations of the palliative trajectories were obtained for 153 cases of deceased cancer patients. Main outcome measures. A successful palliative trajectory as evaluated retrospectively by the relatives. Results. Successful palliative trajectories were statistically significantly associated with home death (PR 1.48 (95% CI 1.04; 2.12)). No significant associations were identified between the evaluations of the palliative trajectory at home and GP involvement. "Relative living with patient" (PR 1.75 (95% CI: 0.87; 3.53)) and "GP having contact with relatives" (PR 1.69 (95% CI 0.55; 5.19)) were not significantly associated, but this may be due to the poor number of cases included in the final analysis. Conclusion. This study indicates that home death is positively associated with a higher likelihood that bereaved relatives will evaluate the palliative trajectory at home as successful. No specific GP services that were statistically significantly associated with higher satisfaction among relatives could be identified, but contact between GPs and relatives seems important and the impact needs further investigation.


IEC61970 defines bay model. The bay is a collection of equipment within a given power station. Switching order given by regional dispatching center is comprehensive, which means an order of the paper involves in many related power equipments. Power system graphic model is set up based on the bay topology model and a heuristic power network topology parsing algorithm is designed in this paper and an expert knowledge library is set up based on bay model which tally with the features of comprehensive operation orders and also the expert knowledge library is highly scientific. Actual application in a region power grid scheduling center shows that the method is highly effective and reliable.


INTRODUCTION Thyroid carcinoma patients, despite their generally excellent prognosis, have cervical nodal involvement at presentation in approximately 35% to 40% of cases. Furthermore, the vast majority of the 5% to 20% of recurrences are of a locoregional nature. Ultrasound (US) is commonly employed for both diagnosis and staging of the thyroid and cervical lymph nodes. The cytology of suspicious nodes or thyroid nodules can then be verified by fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytology. US guidance of FNA increases the number of representative samples as compared to non-US guided FNA. If the node is not palpable the US report is used to guide the surgeon to its location. A text description of the location of pathology typically involves mentioning the anatomical location (Union Internationale Contre le Cancer) or numeric level (American Joint Committee on Cancer). Although useful, descriptive methods are far from a definitive way of localizing the abnormality. Still pictures from the dynamic US scan are rarely helpful as a surgical map as they are normally only interpretable by the ultrasonographer. Cases of recurrent thyroid carcinoma are usually managed with radioiodine for small volume, iodine-avid disease or surgery with or without radioiodine for macroscopic cervical recurrence. The operation, as with surgical resection of primary disease, can be highly selective but is dependant on accurate preoperative disease localization. This is usually with iodine uptake scans and US. We describe how we use a simple sketch drawing to aid lymph node localization during therapeutic neck dissections for thyroid carcinomas. We also explain how we employ thyroglobulin assays from FNA samples in recurrent cases to enhance preoperative planning. TECHNIQUE FOR CERVICAL STAGING OF NEWLY DIAGNOSED THYROID CARCINOMA New presentations of suspected thyroid carcinoma not only have ultrasound of both lobes of the thyroid itself but also both sides of the neck. There are several features of lymph nodes that alert the ultrasonographer to an increased likelihood of malignancy within a lymph node. These include round shape, short axis diameter >8 mm, heterogeneous echotexture, cystic or necrotic areas, fatty hilum, ill-defined margins, and invasion of surrounding tissue. FNA cytology of the thyroid and suspicious cervical areas under ultrasound guidance is performed. A simple line drawing of the nodal map of the neck is then sketched with suspicious nodes crosshatched, and the areas from which cytological aspirates were taken are indicated. This produces an easily interpretable picture to use as a surgical map (Fig. 1).


Matured, integrated, with a glossary, a ten-study symposium, with a critical preface, contributes to philosophy, art, mythology, poetry, and, perhaps, psychology (e.g. p. 121). The widely-read contributors combine learning, discrimination, taste, and courage. Glyn Richards, in dialogue with Braithwaite and Tillich, sees symbols as conventional, but, as a form of language, not arbitrary. A scenario like the Last Judgment may serve as an aid to moral effort, but the potential does not rest there. Literal use of religious language, if not construed in its own setting, betrays it. Philip Rawson, in a marvel of compression, authoritatively introduces classical Indian productions, sculpted, painted, written, showing how the Indian mind (still) focusses on constants, drawing the viewer to intuit the absolute, both Dancer and Sleeper. Karel Werner makes an original contribution concerning Aditi (the Vedic seer's mystical experience of mankind's unity with reality), Varuna ("the encompasser", cf. pp. 181, 184), and the Creation Hymn, to show how an ancient Indian mind thought conceptually. Those remote seers earned their pervasive influence (cf. pp. i8iff.). Here, too, we have John Irwin's and Peter Harvey's disagreement about the Buddhist stiipa, the former combining archaeology and doctrine, the latter relying more on literature and cult. The summary of "Irwin" is of great value. Harvey's beautiful account seems to imply (p. 85) that a symbol of the bodhi tree appeared on top of the axis mundi if this formed the centre of the relic-mound. Irwin's cosmogonic theory (p. 61) enchants those who find such symbols everywhere. Yiipa, yasti and the Indra-kila, and the latter's derivative ideas (p. 94) could all manifest tree-worship, the stiipa itself owing nothing to Brahmanical sacrifices (cf. p. 93)? Jeanine Miller's research into the Vena-Prthu legends contributes to dharma-s'astra, utilizing Vedic material without a source-criticism which would only increase the Indologist's despair at the crossthreading of independent symbolisms. David Smith, studying Ratnakara's addiction to the motif of the submarine fire, raised from metaphor to symbol (p. 137), illuminates literature's parameters. Valerie Roebuck's study of weapons in Hindu art enjoyably explores weapons in iconography of deities, ancient and modern, revealing present-day archaising tendencies. I was unaware that weapon-attributes appeared as companions to the main image, e.g. the Cakrapurusa of Visnu. In this volume the involvement of Indologists in literature and art is shown as livelier than ever.


Novels by the Jewish writer Saul Bellow always reveal the dilemmas and confusion confronted by the protagonist and the humanistic crisis of the middle class.His works also reveal the innermost desire for the sense of security.The themes in his works are always multiple such as alienation,identification.His works reflect the new characteristic in the American literature and provide a new perspective in the study of literature.


The international monopoly capitalism is the only root of the world war,is the impotent root of the area and local wars,provides the fitting soil of terrorism,and destroy the foundation of world peace in many ways.The breakage of international capitalism to world peace has profound root,and is inevitable.The peace-loving people of China and the world should prepare early and answer actively.


Grid computing is a computing framework to meet the growing computational demands. Essential grid services contain more intelligent functions for resource management, security, grid service marketing, collaboration and so on. The load sharing of computational jobs is the major task of computational grids. Grid resource manager provides functional mechanism for discovery, publishing of resources as well as scheduling, submission and monitoring of jobs. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach based on Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) for scheduling jobs on computational grids. The representations of the position and velocity of the particles in the conventional PSO is extended from the real vectors to fuzzy matrices. Our approach is to dynamically generate an optimal schedule so as to complete the tasks in a minimum period of time as well as utilizing the resources in an efficient way. We evaluate the performance of our proposed approach with a direct Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Simulated Annealing (SA) approach.


A multi-state approach to defining basic notions of the system safety analysis is proposed. A system safety function and a system risk function are defined. A basic safety structure of a multi-state series system of components with degrading safety states is defined. For this system the multi-state safety function is determined. The proposed approach is applied to the evaluation of a safety function, a risk function and other safety characteristics of a ship system composed of a number of subsystems having an essential influence on the ship safety. Further, a semi-markov process for the considered system operation modelling is applied. The paper also offers an approach to the solution of a practically important problem of linking the multi-state system safety model and its operation process model. Finally, the proposed approach is applied to the preliminary evaluation of safety characteristics of a ship system in varying operation conditions.


The following paper describes a feasibility study of butt joining friction stir welding between aluminum alloy AA6016 and magnesium alloys AZ91 and AM50. Because of the variety of inimitable properties according to lightweight design and constructions, the interest in aluminum and magnesium alloys is increasing in many fields of industry. Due to the low solubility of aluminum in magnesium and inverse, these alloys tend to the formation of intermetallic phases during the joining process. This leads to an increasing micro hardness within the seam, which should be avoided. By the use of joining methods with low process temperatures, the formation of intermetallic phases is reduced. According to this circumstance, friction stir welding is an excellent alternative to fusion welding techniques used to join this alloys. The main welding process variables were exposed in the studies of similar butt joints of Al/Al and Mg/Mg. These were examined in connection to their transferability to the dissimilar joints and tailored blanks. Furthermore, the influence of different tool geometry on seam quality was investigated. The effect of process variables (mainly welding speed and revolution speed) were correlated to the results of tensile strength test. The welded samples were assayed in the presence of intermetallic phases.


Summary One hundred and thirty-eight men with their first attack of non-specific urethritis were treated with oxytetracycline, rifampicin, Septrin and trimethoprim at random. Oxytetracycline and rifampicin were found to be most effective, giving a cure rate of 97 per cent. Thus, rifampicin can be used as an alternative therapy in the treatment of non-specific urethritis in lieu of oxytetracycline. Septrin and trimethoprim are less effective.


Electron spectroscopy experiments were attempted to the measure the electronic structure of organic field effect transistors (FETs) under a gate bias. Sample structure, experimental condition and results of FETs made of C60 are described. C60 FET structures showed irreversible change of the valence spectra during the ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy measurement under a gate bias voltage. Electron energy loss spectroscopy after the change revealed a substantial lowering of the plasmon energy which indicates that the discrete spherical boundary condition of the molecular plasmon was broken. This suggests polymerization of C60 by a combined effect of the gate bias and vacuum ultraviolet irradiation.


The query optimizer is the component of a database management system that attempts to determine the most efficient way to execute a query. The high quality, structured data from Web structured sources is invaluable for many applications. A critical but still largely unresolved question is: how to efficiently acquire the structured information inside Web databases through iteratively issuing meaningful queries? So, a general purpose Web Service Management System (WSMS) that enables querying multiple web services in a transparent and integrated fashion is analyzed. This paper tackles a first basic WSMS problem: query optimization for Select-ProjectJoin queries spanning multiple web services. Our main result is an algorithm for arranging a query's web service calls into a pipelined execution plan that optimally exploits parallelism among web services to minimize the query's total running time. Surprisingly, the optimal plan can be found in polynomial time even in the presence of arbitrary precedence constraints among web services, in contrast to traditional query optimization where the analogous problem is NP-hard.


The local porosity of a real porous material (obtained by averaging over volumes containing a sufficiently large number of pores) is different from the mean porosity of the material as a whole. This difference is caused by large-scale defects of the porous structure and can be treated as a random function of position in the porous material. Such a random deviation of the local porosity from the average value causes random local flows superimposed upon the mean filtration flow. The characteristic scale of such motion is much larger than that of the flow of a fluid through individual pores. The phenomenon appears to play an important role in transport processes in filtration. In this paper the statistical characteristics of the random fields under consideration are determined on the basis of the assumption that the local porosity is a random function of position with independent increments. Expressions for correlations of various quantities are obtained in terms of the characteristics of porosity fluctuations and the effective coefficients of diffusion caused by the random motions under study are estimated.


This paper is to explore further results regarding Total Fault Information-based Residual (ToMFIR) approach to fault detection in dynamic systems. The TomFIR contains the essential fault information and remains unaffected by control actions in a closed-loop system. It is composed of control input residual and output error residual. The TomFIR is formulated in frequency domain. More importantly, the ToMFIR is able to detect faults/failures resulting from control-used computer. Currently, all of existing fault-detection schemes cannot achieve the same task at all. A practical DC motor example, with a PID controller, is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the ToMFIR-based fault detection. Comparison with standard observer-based technique is also provided.


The invention discloses a chemical synthesis method of valnemulin hydrochloride, which comprises the following steps of: taking refined pleuromutilin as raw material, carrying out sulfonation by paratoluensulfonyl chloride, and reacting with dimethyl cysteamine hcl, to obtain the pleuromutilin dimethyl cysteamine substitute; reacting D-valine, methyl acetoacetate and potassium hydroxide to obtain (R)-2-(1-methoxycarbonyl group-2-allyl) amino-3-methyl potassium butyrate, activating by ethyl chloroformate and reacting with the pleuromutilin dimethyl cysteamine substitute, adjusting PH value, carrying out reverse phase extraction, and carrying out freeze-drying to obtain the valnemulin hydrochloride. The method has the advantages that due to the refining of the raw material pleuromutilin, the impurities in the product can be effectively removed, and the purifying process can be simplified from the source; the carboxyl of D-valine can be activated by the ethyl chloroformate, so that the reaction is easier to carry out; and due to the pH adjustment, the reverse phase extraction, and the freeze-drying, the product can be obtained, so that the product is stable in quality, and high in purity.


Abstract Exosomes are nano-sized small extracellular vesicles secreted by cells, carrying nucleic acids, proteins, lipids and other bioactive substances to play a role in the body's physiological and pathological processes. Compared to synthetic carriers such as liposomes and nanoparticles, the endogeneity and heterogeneity of exosomes give them extensive and unique advantages in the field of disease diagnosis and treatment. However, the storage stability, low yield, low purity, and weak targeting of exosomes limit its clinical application. For this reason, further exploration is needed to optimize the above problems and facilitate future functional studies of exosomes. In this paper, the origin, classification, preparation and characterization, storage stability and applications of exosome delivery system are summarized and discussed by searching a large number of literatures.


Significance: 1,3-Dithianes have been used as acyl anion equivalents in synthetic organic chemistry. However, no transition-metal-catalyzed asymmetric reaction using 1,3-dithianes had previously been reported. The authors describe a palladium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic substitution with 1,3-dithianes. Comment: The Pd/BenzP* system promoted the reaction of the allylic substrates with 2-aryl-1,3dithianes or 2-aroyl-1,3-dithianes to give the corresponding products with excellent yields and enantioselectivities. The protocol can be performed on a gram scale, and the 1,3-dithiane moieties of the products can be converted into carbonyl or methylene groups. [Pd(η-C3H5)Cl]2 (2.5 mol%) BenzP* (5.5 mol%)


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The study is concerned with the optimum savings-assets position of an individual. This optimum position is the outcome of simultaneous utility maximization with respect both to intertemporal consumption flows and to stocks of more than one kind of asset. The optimal conditions of these stock-flow-decisions are stated in the form of a model based on the assumptions that the individual has a multiperiod planning horizon, and that he is confronted with two types of assets. This stock-flow equilibrium is examined 1. for a single period, and 2. for a whole series of periods. Using the Hicksian concepts, revived by Archibald and Lipsey, we speak, in the first case, of weekly equilibrium, and, in the second, of full equilibrium meaning that the individual reaches, after a series of weeks, the invariance over time of his desired stock of assets. This article may also be regarded as an attempt to fill the lacunae in the graphical presentation of Patinkin's'Utility Theory of Money, Assets, and Savings' (Money, Interest, and Prices, 2nd ed.).


A techno-economic assessment of rock carbonate deposits in Malawi and South Africa was conducted using a qualitative analytical approach. This was done to identify occurrences that were amenable to Portland cement production by artisanal to small-scale methods. First, geographic information system (GIS) software was used to capture sites or clusters of sites and chemical characteristics of natural carbonate deposits in the two countries. In addition to the geological setting and chemical composition, other factors plotted were nearness to transport and electric power infrastructure, surface water sources as well as areas or centres with high human population density. In Malawi, three targets for potential small-scale Portland cement production are identified at Mkamasa and Mwapu-Sere in the Northern Region and Songwe Hill in the Southern Region. This is out of 58 potential sites scattered around the country. For South Africa, a similar analysis reduces the 709 potential sites to four. These fall on the farms Wieduow in the Western Cape Province, Syferfontein and Rietfontein in the Limpopo Province and Rooikop in the Free State Province. The study has, in addition, revealed that there are also many deposits with very little chemical data, some of which may have better potential for exploitation.


The British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) is the body appointed by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to archive, maintain and distribute data issued by atmospheric research projects based in the UK (Figure 1). As such, BADC has been designated as one of the four data centres to archive data delivered by URGENT (Urban Regeneration and the Environment), a 7-year thematic programme launched by NERC in 1996. The programme addresses scientific and monitoring issues related to the pollution of urban and suburban water, soil, ecology and air. Air data are currently being archived at the BADC. Urban Regeneration and the Environment


In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for creating, exporting, viewing and testing, and importing custom applications in a multitenant database environment. These mechanisms and methods can enable embodiments to provide a vehicle for sharing applications across organizational boundaries. The ability to share applications across organizational boundaries can enable tenants in a multi-tenant database system, for example, to easily and efficiently import and export, and thus share, applications with other tenants in the multi-tenant environment.


In a method of molding resin to seal electronic parts, an internal die space defined at least by pots, cull portions, resin passages and cavities when an upper mold section and a lower mold section are closed, is cut off or sealed from the exterior atmosphere. Thereupon the die space is evacuated using a first evacuation by a vacuum source and a second or instantaneous evacuation by an instantaneous evacuation mechanism. The vacuum source for the first evacuation may be an active vacuum pump, while the instantaneous evacuation mechanism may be a vacuum tank that has been previously pumped down, for example. According to this method, it is possible to quickly improve the degree of vacuum in the internal die space by efficiently and reliably discharging air, moisture and gas from the internal die space to the exterior due to a synergistic action of the evacuation and the instantaneous evacuation. Consequently, the formation of voids in resin molded members is prevented.


There are few studies of the mechanistic links between physical environmental pro- cesses and biotic responses in marine ecosystems that have strong predictive power. At Triangle Island, the largest seabird colony along Canada's Pacific coast, annual breeding success of rhinoceros auklets Cerorhinca monocerata varies dramatically. Previous studies have correlated this variability with ocean temperature, but this relationship occasionally fails, suggesting that it is not causal. We used historical satellite data time series of sea surface temperature, chlorophyll, and winds to study the oceanography of this remote colony. We found that rhinoceros auklets bred more successfully when the spring transition in regional winds and the resulting spring phytoplankton bloom occurred early in April. These factors appear to control the annual recruitment of Pacific sandlance Ammodytes hexapterus, as measured by the percent by biomass of young-of-the-year sandlance in the nestling diet. These linkages imply bottom-up control in this system. Suggesting broader impli- cations of our work, we also found that marine survival of economically and culturally important sockeye salmon Oncorhynchus nerka from nearby Smith Inlet was strongly correlated with the fledg- ling mass of the rhinoceros auklets, sandlance in the chicks' diets, and regional chlorophyll in April. The timing of the spring wind transition and phytoplankton bloom appear to be important for other predators in this system. We think that these relationships with wind and chlorophyll derived from satellite data are potentially valuable explanatory tools that will be widely applicable to studies of early marine survival of many marine species.


Nuclear shadowing effects are checked in the production of direct photons and neutral pions in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC/LHC energy within a next-to-leading order perturbative QCD parton model. The transverse momentum dependence of the nuclear modification factors is presented in p + A and A + A collisions to distinguish different parameterizations for nuclear shadowing effects. Our numerical results show that in central A + A collisions the nuclear modification factor for direct photons is more sensitive to shadowing effects than the factor for pion hadrons, and it is a powerful observable to discriminate different parameterizations for parton distributions.


Due to the ever increasing growth rate of malwares, Memory Forensics has become unavoidable in a cyber crime investigation. This is because physical memory may contain crucial information that is available nowhere in the system hard disk. Memory Forensics deals with collection of forensically sound evidence from physical memory content of Suspect's system. This is a fast growing and challenging field in computer forensics where a live forensic methodology is adopted in order to acquire physical memory content. Analysis of the collected memory dump is very difficult due to the complex data structures in it, especially in Windows ×64 systems. Also, the complexity involved in 64-bit address translation makes the analysis tougher. This translation can be done only after finding an artifact called Directory Table Base (DTB). Even though there are few methods available for finding DTB, none is efficient for adopting in a memory analysis tool. In this paper, a novel methodology for finding DTB in a 64-bit Windows system is described in detail. The paper also explains algorithms for retrieving forensically relevant information like running processes and its associated details from physical memory dump collected from Windows7 × 64 machines.


This article briefly discusses on foundation and tasks of further developing special education on the basis of special education development during the past 60 years,especially the past 30 years from the aspect of studying documents in the 4th National Special Education Conference.


A linear set of ordinary differential equations with a matrix depending on a set of adiabatically varying parameters is considered. Its asymptotic solutions are constructed to an arbitrary accuracy in the adiabaticity parameter «. By extending the phase space of the system not only with the space of parameters, like in the theory of Berry's phase, but also with the space of their derivatives, it proves possible to represent the phase of the solution as a sum of the dynamic phase and a generalized geometric phase~determined by a contour integral in the space of parameters and derivatives!. Hence, it is possible to obtain the asymptotic results to any degree of accuracy in«, while earlier they were obtainable only in the first-order adiabatic approximation. Namely, for linear oscillatory adiabatic systems, the quantizability, parametric stability, and the Hamiltonian nature of the system are equivalent properties. As a consequence, one can obtain the well-known result regarding conservation with accuracy to any power of « of adiabatic invariants in a Hamiltonian system on a torus. An important point is that the generalized geometric phase can appear, in contrast to Berry's phase, with only one real varying parameter. © 2002 American Institute of Physics. @DOI: 10.1063/1.1506954 #


In this theoretical work, we report quasiclassical dynamics predictions for the attack angle-dependence exchange processes for the H + HS (v = 0, 1; j = 0) reaction by using the new triplet 3A″ and 3A′ potential energy surfaces, respectively. The calculated quasiclassical reaction probabilities of exchange reaction channel of reaction H(D)′ + H(D)S for J = 0, 10, 20, 30, 40 are in good agreement with quantum wave packet results over the collision energy range from 0.1 to 2.0 eV on 3A″ surfaces. The attack angle dependence reaction probability of the title reactions at J = 0 are calculated, respectively, on the two surfaces. The reaction probability was found to be strongly dependent on the attack angle. It may be ascribe to the significant difference of the effective potential barrier height in the two reactions. Besides, the reaction probabilities of exchange reaction channel of reaction H(D)′ + H(D)S for J = 0, 10, 20, 30, 40 are also predicted on 3A′ surfaces. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


Organizational citizenship behaviors help to make effective communication within the organizations, save organizational resources and eliminate the need for more formal and costly control methods. Also, organizational citizenship behaviors benefit both the organization and the employees as well, by reducing the rate of turnover of employees, and raising the quality and efficiency of services. Therefore, the research aims to identify the extent to which some four and five star hotels in Jordan are applying the dimensions of organizational citizenship behaviors. The research found that there is no difference among the employees about the importance of organizational citizenship behaviors regarding (departments, age group, educational level, number of years of experience), and the research recommends hotels to provide the requirements and steps necessary to apply organizational citizenship behaviors, provide sufficient information about it in hotels and take into account the different capacities of employees.


Every year, population growth in Cilacap Regency inevitably results in various impacts in various fields, including transportation and solid waste. The number of motorized vehicles in the Cilacap Regency has increased from 588,283 units in 2017 to 714,533 units in 2020. On the other hand, solid waste generation in Cilacap Regency in 2020 reached 0.22 tons per capita per year. Both activities can potentially reduce the air quality of the Cilacap Regency. One of the causes of the decline in air quality is CO2, CH4, and N2O gases, which can cause global warming. This study aims to inventory and project GHG emission loads, determine mitigation strategies and design regulations related to GHG emission reduction in the transportation and solid waste sector in Cilacap Regency. The method used to inventory GHG emissions in this research is the 2006 IPCC method with Tier 1 and Tier 2 accuracy. Then it is projected for the next ten years with a Business As Usual (BAU) scenario. To determine the selected reduction strategy using SWOT and QSPM analysis. The inventory results and projected GHG emissions in the solid waste sector in 2030 are 109.29 Gg CO2e. 4 GHG emission reduction programs in the solid waste sector could reduce up to 29.49% Gg CO2-e in 2030. Then the BAU scenario GHG emissions in the transportation sector in 2030 reached 21,417 Gg CO2e. The six proposed scenarios were able to produce a percentage of GHG reduction of 7 65% in 2030 or 1,638,409 Tons of CO2e or 1,638 Gg CO2e from 2021-to 2030 with a priority strategy for reducing GHG emissions is increasing pollution buffers by building green open space and non-motorized pathways with a reduced rate of 2%.


The NSW Labor Party has become a crime scene. Sussex Street has been cordoned off and forensic scientists sent in to gather evidence. On the other side of the thick yellow tape, a crowd of confused ALP branch members has gathered in search of answers.


e15181 Background: Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NC) with MVAC for muscle invasive transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the bladder has been shown to improve survival, with pathologic complete response (pCR) serving as a robust predictor of survival benefit. While gemcitabine/cisplatin (GC) is often substituted in the neoadjuvant setting, positive randomized neoadjuvant data are available only for MVAC, and recent retrospective data have noted low pathologic complete response rates with GC.

METHODS
Data was retrospectively collected on 110 patients with T2-T4Nany TCC of the bladder who underwent radical cystectomy (RC) at the University of Washington Medical Center between September 2003 and July 2009. Information on clinical stage, neoadjuvant chemotherapy, comorbidities and pCR were collected. The prespecified primary endpoint was pCR rates comparing MVAC and GC neoadjuvant groups.

RESULTS
Of 110 patients, 43% received NC (total=47: GC=18, MVAC=12, dose dense MVAC=2, gem/carboplatin=7, other=8). Percentage of patients with advanced clinical stage at diagnosis as defined by T3 or greater or node positive was higher in patients administered NC and highest in those administered GC (any NC 43%, GC 72%, MVAC 50%, no NC 22%). pCR rates were significantly improved in patients undergoing NC versus surgery alone (28% vs. 12%, p=.03). No significant difference was noted in pCR rates (pT0) between GC and MVAC subgroups (33% vs. 17%, p=.31). When comparing rates of pCR allowing for residual in situ (pTIS) disease, NC provided superior response rates when compared with surgery alone (49% vs. 15%, p=.0001), and neoadjuvant GC provided superior response rates when compared to MVAC (67% vs. 25%, p=.025).

CONCLUSIONS
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy for muscle invasive bladder TCC produced significantly increased pCR rates in comparison to surgery alone in patients who underwent RC at our institution. Interestingly, while there was no statistical difference in pathologic pT0 rates in the GC versus MVAC subgroups, when residual pTIS was allowed GC improved response rates over MVAC. These observations are in contrast to prior observations and support the use of GC as an alternative regimen in the neoadjuvant setting.


In precise usage, "objective" can be distinguished from certain partial synonyms. "End" may suggest that education by its very nature should be ordered toward something (or that man as man has a nature which education should perfect). "Aim" may suggest a psychological state in somebody's mind. "Object" could usually be substituted for "objective" in its educational uses, but is apt to be popularly confused with "physical things." "Objective" seems to indicate the controlling and determining function of the "object" in relation to subjective process.1


The idea of holding a Spanish International Exhibition of Electrical Industries
and their Applications in Barcelona in 1913, led the City Council to develop the
urbanisation of the lower part of Montjuic mountain through the plans of architects
Josep Puig i Cadafalch and Guillem Busquets. Despite this, in around 1920
the Board of Directors of the International Exhibition entrusted Ferran Romeu i
Ribot with a draft project to restructure and improve Placa Espanya. Between 1923
and 1926 Romeu's studio would develop another project, led by Antoni Darder,
which aimed to definitively solve the alignments and the network of links at Placa
Espanya for the event that was to take place in 1929.


Accross river basins water can have different types of values according not only to its production costs but also due to changes in the willingness to pay across the territory. The generalized view that integrated water management must be made through a centralised mechanism does not consider those facts and often assumes that command and control policies are the only tool available and effective. Therefore the functioning of river basins tend to be symplified with dams and the reserach agenda has been directed to design major models with powerful decision support systems for one coordinator body to decide. Nevertheless the effects of these centralised and controled systems has not been able to address the impredictability of human and ecosystem behaviour. The hypothesis we would like to test is that boundaries and negotiation between boundaries can be good tools for sustainable water management. First we review the literature on cases of basins' manegement trying to discuss the relation between boundaries. Then we develop a formal model with upstream and downstream regions and try to understand in what conditions boundaries can be good for sustainable water management. Finaly we try to introduce the concept of boundaries in an applied model for a particular river basin and simulate the solutions for a centralised planning body and for a descentralised negotiation system.


The language of "human dignity" features prominently in seminal documents in the human rights literature, in a variety of recent declarations and conventions, in many traditional and more recent statements from religious bodies and working groups, and in bioethics writings of the past several decades (Cochrane 2009; Davis 2008; Schmidt 2006). Appeals to human dignity have buttressed arguments on a wide range of particular bioethics topics, often from quite diverse perspectives— from debates about "appropriate" forms of conception (e.g., techniques of assisted reproduction, surrogate parenting, and reproductive cloning) or about the moral status of nascent forms of human life (e.g., the use of embryonic stem cells and fetal tissue) to questions about appropriate decision making at the end of life (e.g., the status of particular interventions, especially artificial nutrition and hydration; judgments about treatment for patients in persistent vegetative state; and issues of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide). Perhaps less prominently, or implicitly rather than explicitly, notions of human dignity also inform discussions of allocation and triage, undergirded by judgments about what constitutes a "natural life span" (Callahan 1995) or the implications of a "prudential life span account" di sc us sio n diussion


Agricultural extension work is rapidly acquiring the status of a profession. The salaries of county agents are somewhat higher than formerly, and the turnover is lower. Interest is increasing in professional training courses for experienced extension workers, and such courses are now given in the summer sessions of at least five universities. Some of this work is of post-graduate grade. Present plans contemplate the development of several graduate training centers at leading universities, where seasoned county agents may secure additional training and work for higher degrees. A few states already encourage their extension workers to take advantage of existing facilities for further training by granting them sabbatical leaves of absence. Work among the negroes of the South has recently been improved by means of special summer schools for negro agents. In various ways, therefore, the grants from the federal treasury to the states are establishing more firmly their claim to a permanent place in the scheme of American administration. Every year they receive the support of additional precedents. They are rapidly becoming a habit. Still more important, they are producing results. Accordingly, while vehement protests are still raised against specific subsidy laws, there is little reason to doubt that the general scheme of federal aid will continue unchanged. AUSTIN F. MACDONALD. University of California.


The text tries to identify and structure the newly-arising phenomena in the sphere of formal requirements, triggered by the European private law. It deals, in particular, with EU rules on consumer contracts - the broadest and the most significant sphere of novel occurrences in the sphere of formalities. The paper addresses both the general issues (especially functions of formal requirements and their array) , as well as indicates discusses more particular problems (for instance, form of a withdrawal declaration). It draws also attention to peculiarities of transposition of rules on formalities into domestic legal systems of the EU Member States.


This study was conducted to assess the impact of water hardness on egg hatchability and larval viability of Labeo rajasthanicus. For this purpose, five hardness levels were tested [200(T1), 175(T2), 150(T3), 125(T4) & 100(T5) mg/l ] in relation to fertilization rate, ova diameter, hatching duration, hatching per cent and hatchling survival of Labeo rajasthanicus. In each hatchery jar of two liters capacity, 5000 eggs ware incubation & each treatment was run in triplicate. The smallest (3.33 mm) ova diameter was observed in T1, whereas the biggest (3.54 mm) ova diameter was in lowest water hardness level (T5). The Minimum hatching time (15.45 hrs.) was noticed in lowest hardness treatments (T5), which was significantly increased with increasing hardness level and the highest hatching time was recorded in highest (200 mg/l) concentration of hardness. The highest hatching rates (95%) occurred in groups of eggs that were hardened in the softest water treatment (100 mg/l), whereas the lowest hatching rates (69%) was in (T1). The highest larval survival (79.46%) was recorded in 200 mg/l water hardness and lowest larval survival rate (65.71%) was found in 100 mg/l hardness. Further, the survival rate had positive relationship with hardness as the rate of larval survival significantly increased with increasing water hardness. Further, the second order polynomial regression analysis between water hardness and breeding indices (Fertilization rate, ova diameter, hatching rate & larval survival) indicated that a water hardness of 125 mg/l is most suitable for Labeo rajasthanicus breeding.


In this essay, we survey Enlightenment authors' relationship to print, and explain how footnotes, foldout sheets, catalogues, and review magazines gave shape to a network of citation that we call "the Enlightenment Index." The print technologies examined here, along with their human counterparts (i.e. the authors and publishers), will be characterized as agents co-constitutive of a Great Chain of Reference that was supposed to manage bibliographic excess by bibliographic means. As a heuristic, the Index functions in two ways: it refers to the proliferating empirical traces on particular pages as well as to the ideal of a completely assembled network of all such pages and cross-references. In the context of eighteenth-century philosophy, the two aspects of the Index align with empiricist and rationalist accounts of knowledge. Our argument may also be understood in terms of periodization: while a tension between real and ideal obtains, we operate in an Enlightenment media environment. Because the Enlightenment pursues a complete account of all that has been printed, its Index is both a material reality and a functional means, (albeit an incomplete one), for navigating that reality. It was Romanticism that repudiated the Index as an ideal and promoted competing practices of indexicality to control and transcend the excesses of print.


Cerebral and whole-body carbohydrate metabolism were studied in 12 normal men during four different levels of cyclopropane anesthesia. Each subject was studied while conscious and during anesthesia with either 13 md 37 per cent or 5 and 20 per cent cydopropane in oxygen. All received d-tubocurarine. The lungs were artificially ventilated, and Paco; was held constant at about 35 torr. Cyclopropane depressed cerebral oxygen consumption (CMRoc), but there was no corralation with depth of anesthesia and degree of depression. There was evidence of increased brain lactate prodoction during anesthesia with 5 per cent cyclopropane. Arterial glucose conembation increased with cyclopropane and is desaiied by the equation. a glucose = 2.53 CaH4 + 2.52 where A glucose is the increased concentration in mg/100 ml and CaH4 represents (the arterial cyclopropane concentration in vol per cent. Subjects who inhaled 13 nnd 37 per cent cydopropane had increased arterial blood Iactate concentrations. Arterial excess lactate did not increase in either group.


It is clear that in process architecture definition, process hierarchy and granularity definition is a crucial step. But this varies from enterprise to enterprise and can also vary from function to function in the enterprise. It is important to have a definition of process architecture terms clear so that one can easily refer to them so as to avoid confusion in process hierarchy definition.


This study was designed to evaluate the relationship among clinicopathologic findings, preoperative computed tomographic (CT) and ultrasonographic (US) findings, and cervical lymph node metastasis in squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity. The subjects consisted of 209 patients with oral cancer who underwent primary therapy during the 12-year period from 1985 through 1997. A total of 117 cervical lymph nodes suspected to have metastasis on preoperative CT and 56 suspected to have metastasis on preoperative US were studied retrospectively. The largest and the shortest diameters of each node was measured on axial CT scans, and the absence or presence of rim enhancement was confirmed. Analysis of the relations among short-axis diameter, rim enhancement on CT, and pathological findings indicated that lymph nodes that show rim enhancement tend to be metastatic lymph nodes. Therefore, on US the shortest diameter of each node was measured, and border findings were observed. Metastatic lymph nodes less than 10mm in shortest axis diameter tended to have a score higher than 12 points in the clinicopathologic malignancy grading. US findings showed a similar tendency. The accuracy of CT alone increased from 81.4% to 84.6% with the addition of clinicopathologic malignancy grading. The accuracy of US alone increased from 87.5% to 89.3% with the addition of clinicopathologic malignancy grading. When CT and US findings were combined with clinicopathologic malignantcy grading to evaluate the same lymph nodes, the accuracy increased to 93.9%.


Special Issue editors, reasonably enough, rarely clamber up the Leviathan mast-head for a full tour d'horizon. But having been invited by John Bryant to guest-edit an issue on Melville and Japan derived from papers delivered at the "Melville and the Pacific" conference at Maui in June, 2003, I hope I can be forgiven for feeling a touch above the water-line, and that of the Atlantic as much as the Pacific. For at hand are six essays reflective of Melville's connection to Japan—five by Japanese scholars, one by an American in residence—with three poems by an American scholar, once a resident in Japan; and the whole under the editorial midwifery of a "Brit" Americanist and longtime Melvillean, a gaijin academic, resident this past decade at Tokyo's largest university. Given his sea travels, not to mention the celebrated energy of his "diving," it can hardly surprise that Melville would be drawn to the imaginative if not actual "unbolting"—to adapt his own term in Moby-Dick—of a Japan, an East, so elusively sealed, as it seemed, from the West of his own time. With the exception of one contribution which takes on Native American figuration in The Confidence-Man, the essays gathered here give due recognition. They look, respectively, to Melville's place—be it historical, shrewdly prophetic, symbolist-mythic, or even prone to orientalist obfuscation—in the western envisioning of Japan and Asian culture at large, and to his Japanese reception in the post-Meiji literary-cultural order. It was Carl Van Doren who observed in the Bookman for April 1924 "[Melville] writes with the energy of a man who is tirelessly alert." An interest in the world as multicultural, and whether far or near, takes on quite special force in this respect.


Synopsis : This research was undertaken to clarify effect of phosphorus and boron on cryogenic mechanical properties of a sensitized 17Cr-12.5Ni-2Mo-0 .05Nb-0 .2N steel. The steel was sensitized at 923--993 K for 270•`720 ks and was investigated at low temperature, especially at 4 K. An addition of either phosphorus or boron affected precipitation at grain boundaries during sensitization. Phosphorous increased the grain boundary precipitates. Boron suppressed the phosphorous effect. Both elements, however, did not show clear effect on tensile properties at 4 K of the sensitized steel. In a high phosphorus alloy, Fe2Mo other than CrNbN, M23C6, Cr2N and Nb (CN) precipitated and led to intergranular fracture. Therefore a deterioration of fracture toughness at 4 K for sensitized steel became much evident with an increase in phosphorous content. On the otherhand, boron addition prevented intergranular failure and resulted in high fracture toughness for the sensitized one. Segregated phosphorus atoms seem to promote nucleation of precipitation and weaken an interfacial binding of precipitates, especially Fe2Mo. On this assumption, effect of phosphorus and boron addition on mechanical properties at 4 K could be explained.


Objective . The aim of this study is to evaluate the hygienic and sanitary quality of bovine milk from dairy farms of Nariño, Colombia by determining the presence of environmental microorganisms of public health importance such as Salmonella spp., Escherichia coli O157, Listeria monocytogenes , Staphylococcus aureus and Yersinia enterocolitica and to evaluate the impact that the rainy seasons have on milk quality Materials and methods . Milk samples were taken in 180 farms located in four natural subregions, both in the high rainfall season and in the low rainfall season. Mesophilic aerobic count, a somatic cell count by automated methods, and a total coliform count in 3M Petrifilm ® plates were done to each milk sample. Detection of Salmonella spp., Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Listeria monocytogenes was done by the 3M MDS system, Staphylococcus aureus and Yersinia enterocolitica were isolated by conventional microbiology techniques. Results . The highest somatic cell counts were found during the high rain season. The median of the mesophilic, total coliform and somatic cell counts were 20,085 CFU/ml, 265 CFU/ml and 219,170 cells/ml, respectively, with no significant differences in the two rainy periods. Neither Salmonella spp. nor E. coli O157/H7 were detected. There was no significant difference among the presence of Listeria sp., L. monocytogenes , Y. enterocolitica , Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase negative Staphylococcus between the two rainy seasons. Conclusions . 80% of the milk samples met the hygienic and sanitary quality standards and no influence of the sampling period on the hygienic quality of the milk was observed.


The experiment was carried out at the Amazon Research, Postgraduate and Conservation Center (CIPCA) of the Amazon State University, where two levels of substitution of Chinese potato flour in the diet of growing pigs were evaluated for the effect, 3 animals were used castrated males resulting from crossbreeding (Largewhite x Duroc x Pietrain), with an initial average weight of 25 kg. The animals were placed in 3 metabolic cages and fed a control diet (T1) and two experimental diets T2 (20%) and T3 (40%) of Chinese potato rejection tuber flour. Food consumption was adjusted at a rate of 0.10 kg.MS.kg PV0.75 day-1. Fed twice a day (08:00 am and 3:00 pm) with drinking water at will. The research consisted of three stages, and divided into two phases, (one of adaptation to the diets with a duration of five days and the other phase of five days for stool collection). The feces weres collected in the morning, by the total collection method, stored in hermetic bags and kept refrigerated for the evaluation of the apparent digestibility of dry matter (DM) and organic matter (MO). The experiment was conducted through a 3x3 Latin square design; the comparison of means was performed with the Newman Keuls test (P≤0.05). Chinese potato tuber meal showed high coefficients (P≤0.05) of dry matter digestibility (DM), being higher in T2 (96.06%) and T3 (94.19%) with respect to control. However, in organic matter (MO) there were no significant differences (P> 0.05) between treatments: T1 (99.63%); T2 (99.62%) and T3 (99.67%). The inclusion of 20 and 40% of Chinese potato tuber meal in the diet of fattened pigs (largewhite x Duroc x Pietrain) did not affect the digestibility of MO. The best digestibility coefficient of the DM was obtained by replacing 20% of the corn with Chinese potato tubers meal, so that Chinese potato rejection can be used in pig feeding


Researches in speech synthesis and speech analysis are underpinned by the databases they used. The performance of an emotion classifier relies heavily on the qualities of the training and testing data. A good database can make researches in these fields achieving better results. Hearing-impaired people are poor in presenting their emotions in speech. We want develop a computer-assisted speech training system that can help to teach them to present their emotions similar to normal people. In this paper, we present a way to build a Mandarin emotional database, including the process of collecting data, arranging data, clips naming rules, and a listening test. Then we construct a computer-assisted speech training system to help in teaching the hearing-impaired people presenting their emotion in their speech correctly by analyzing the emotion in their speech and those in the database using KNN and M-KNN techniques.


Prologue G.Milano Introduction B.Winder and P.Banyard Arson A.Daykin and L.Hamilton Burglary D.Putwain Domestic Violence W.Morgan and E.Gilchrist Drug Offences G.W.Smith and J.Clough Fraud D.Rowson and B.Winder Gangs E.Scowcroft, P.Banyard and B.Winder Internet Sex Offences K.Sheldon Murder D.Wilson Paedophilia and Sexual Child Contact Offences B.Winder and K.Thorne Rape of Adults N. Blagden, S.Pemberton and C.Breed Shoplifting and Kleptomania A.McNally and L.Hamilton Stalking M.Foellmi, J.Cahall and B.Rosenfeld Violent Crime: Robbery and Assault M.Takarangi and H.D.Flowe Voyeurism, Exhibitionism and other Non-contact Sexual Offences K.Hocken and K.Thorne Conclusion B.Winder and P.Banyard


Efficiency of sectional and individual
physical therapy for children 8–12 years aged who have got
bronchial asthma. Work subject. The lung ventiliation for children,
who have been treated for bronchial asthma. Problem of the research
work. Bronchial asthma has become a very common disease of nowdays
and children are more tend to be ill it than adults. Bronchial
asthma is becoming the global health problem. Topicality. At
present the treatment of bronchial asthma and its prevention are
the matters of great importance to our society. Physical therapy is
one of the most important things of rehabilitation. Objective. The
sectional and individual physical therapy effect for 8����12 years
aged patients who have got bronchial asthma. Aims: 1. To measure
and compare the rates of lung ventiliation, which has been done for
two explorative groups of patients. 2. To rate the changes of
Stang's test using sectional and individual physical therapy. 3. To
find out the changes of Stang's test in these explorative groups.
Conclusion. The positive results were reached in both investigated
groups of patients, still the better effect was found in the group,
which has experienced the individual physical
therapy.


In this article, our aim is to develop an efficient numerical scheme for approximating solution of a system of nonlinear equations, using modified decomposition technique. Rate of convergence is proved under some suitable conditions and upper bounds of error is derived for the new technique. Some real life problems involving circuit equation, chemical equilibrium system and combustion problem, are solved with the new scheme and the numerical results are compared with some existing methods.


Data citizen to be one of important instrument in every policy and program, because through the data can be discovered potentials, capacities and needs required in successful development. There are two primary problems in the data nationals in Indonesia, are technically and substantively. Substantially there are errors of understanding that the population data became a base for the rights and obligations of citizens. While technically there are two main problems: First is data available from different agencies, less valid and less reliable due to weak systems, human resources and the carrying capacity of the technology. Second, there is no interconnection data among government agencies resulting in inefficiency and ineffectiveness, caused by ego respective sectoral government agencies, the interests of each sector and the absence of a firm poli9 from the government. The various steps that need to be done to make improvements is to reform the national data systems into a centralized and integrated with a firm poli9· support, human resource enhancement, improved tools of support, and interconnection policy data among government agen6es.
Keywords: citizens, data collection, system reform


The purpose of this study is to explore the possibility of reflective writing as a creative teaching-learning method to promote introspective thinking of pre-service teachers. Reflective writing is a new method to understand one's points of view on the world. Reflective writing refers to reflecting process on writers' previous writing experiences, which reveals cognitive and emotional process. Reflective writing provides researchers with the data which is impossible to be recognized from result text, and it also offers the opportunity to develop systematic thinking ability. In these regards, reflective writing has the possibility of the creative and ingenious research method. The results of this study show that reflective writing provides pre-service teachers with the opportunity to scrutinize their attitudes and belief on education. It can also provide meaningful data for educators to understand their students' perception on education and help to organize the effective teaching project to customize their students' needs and interests.


In order to develop a kind of shaped active coke with high compressive strength and desulphurization capacity to meet the requirements of sintering flue gas desulphurization,the orthogonal design method was introduced in the research of shaped active coke preparation from Yulin semi-coke powder.The optimum condition was found out to produce shaped active coke with high compressive strength and desulphurization capacity.Compressive strength has been measured by microcomputer control electron universal testing machines;pore structure of raw materials and the shaped active coke has been measured by nitrogen isothermal adsorption.The iodine adsorption value of the active coke prepared under the best conditions is 304.8mg/g,specific surface area is 303.6m2/g,volume is 0.2299mL/g and the desulphurization capacity above 80% for 5h to meet the requirements of sintering flue gas desulphurization.


Ethernet is the indisputable de facto technology for local area networks due to its simplicity, low cost, and wide-scale adoption. In recent times, Ethernet has entered new networking areas, such as Metro Area Network (MAN) and Industrial Area Network (IAN), where specialized protocols dominate the market. In addition to the well known advantages, Ethernet acts as the common platform to integrate multiple protocols. However, Ethernet falls short of the stringent resilience requirements mandated by applications in MEN and IAN, despite progress made by the community on additional standardization. We describe a new approach for swift failure detection and recovery in Ethernet ring topologies called Rapid Ring Recovery (RRR). RRR is based on the novel usage of multiple virtual rings. Our implementation augmenting an off-the-shelf Ethernet switch shows that RRR reconverges after a fault in 294 microseconds while sustaining the loss of only eight large frames at 95 percent traffic load.


Abstract ¤ Para citar este articulo: Thays Diniz T, Borba H, Malagoli de Mello JL, Oliveira Silva H, Granja-Salcedo YT. Efeito da temperatura ambiente e reutilizacao da cama na qualidade da carne de frangos de corte. Rev CES Med Zootec. 2014; Vol 9(2): 218-226. Effect of environmental temperature and reuse of bed on broiler meat quality ¤ Efeito da temperatura ambiente e reutilizacao da cama na qualidade da carne de frangos de corte Efecto de la temperatura ambiental y la reutilizacion de la cama sobre la calidad de la carne de pollos de engorde The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of environmental temperature and bed reuse on dressing percentage, breast quality and productive performance of broilers. A total of 900 Cobb® chicks were used, of which 450 were housed in a barn equipped with heaters and coolers while the rest (450 birds) were housed in a traditional shed for broiler production. In both facilities, birds were distributed either to a new or reused bed -the reused bed was previously treated with lime. Performance indices, dressing percentage and physicochemical quality of Pectoralis major muscle at 42 days of age were evaluated. The experimental design consisted in a completely randomized 2x2 factorial arrangement (temperature: thermo neutral or room temperature; bedding: new or reused bed) with five replicates per treatment. No effect of treatment on productive performance or dressing percentage was observed.


Mahalanobis model of development planning has decisively influenced the strategy of growth of Indian economy for a pretty long time. Naturally, the model has been examined critically from time to time. The model assigns pivotal role to investment in capital/producer goods for achieving accelerated growth. The model envisages consumer goods sectors, particularly the household industries to generate employment opportunities. But the model assumes implicitly as if investment in productive capacity alone determines growth. It totally neglects the working capital/inventory needed for the operationalisation of installed capacity. Consequently, Mahalanobis growth profiles over-estimate the growth effects of investment. The extension and modification of Mahalanobis model, attempted in the study, incorporates inventories into the model as endogenous variables to generalize it. The generalised model shows mathematically, theoretically and empirically that the inventory investment lowers growth, while disinvestment in inventories considerably accelerates growth. Solution of two sector Mahalanobis model with Indian data generates highly exaggerated growth performance. The generalised model almost approximates the actual growth performance of the Indian economy, lending empirical support to the thesis of inverse relationship between the size and accumulation of inventory capital and growth.


Thirty‐six neurons from laminae III‐VII in cat sacrocaudal spinal cord were labeled by intracellular injection of horseradish peroxidase, following physiological characterization. Of these 36 neurons, 24 had cell bodies within lamina V. Twelve lamina V neurons were multireceptive; i.e., they responded differentially to innocuous and noxious mechanical stimuli. Most multireceptive neurons had the following morphological features: (1) large cell bodies; (2) extensive dendritic spreads in all directions; and (3) axons which ascended in the contralateral ventral white matter.


The invention discloses a waterproof air-permeable valve and a sealing containing device. The waterproof air-permeable valve comprises an air-permeable valve body and a waterproof air-permeable sheet, the air-permeable valve body is connected with a sealing casing of the sealing containing device in a fixed and sealed mode, and an air hole on the air-permeable valve body is communicated with an inner cavity of the sealing casing through the waterproof air-permeable sheet and a vent hole on the sealing casing sequentially. By the aid of the waterproof air-permeable valve, the inner and outer pressure balance of the sealing containing device can be achieved, outside moisture and impurities are prevented from entering the inside of the sealing containing device, and the sealing integrity of the sealing containing device and the safety of articles inside the sealing containing device can be guaranteed.


Abstract A category A of algebras is constructed, which has the following features: A is an HSP-class of algebras. A is not equationally definable. A is implicationally definable. However an illegitimate collection of implications, each having a proper class of premises, is needed.


A study was undertaken in the fall of 1948 by the Oregon Fish Commission to determine the possible presence and importance of a delay in the migration of adult chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) at Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River. Approximately 650 chinook were captured, tagged, and released at the Oneonta trap 6.7 miles below Bonneville Dam and 200 were handled similarly at the dam and released above. The tag returns from Cello Falls, the main commercial fishing area, 60 miles above Bonneville, were compared by location of tagging with regard to date of tagging and the number of days en route. The linear correlation between tagging date and days out was significant for the 39 recoveries tagged at Bonneville but not for the 35 from Oneonta. The later in the season the fish were tagged at Bonneville the more rapidly they migrated to Cello Falls. With no adjustment for the difference in distance between the two tagging locations, the fish from Oneonta took a significant 3.4 days longer to make the trip to Celilo than the Bonnevilletagged fish. When correcting for the distance difference, the delay was reduced to 3.0 or 2.6 days, either of which was still significant. Although the number of recoveries is small, all of those used are believed to be reliable and sufficient for statistical analysis. The study represents only one year's work and investigations of another year may refute or substantiate these findings. (3 Formerly Aquatic Biologist with the Oregon Fish Commission, now Research Supervisor with the Washington State Department of Fisheries.


Blood glucose level predicting device (10) for predicting a user (30) of the blood glucose level. Blood glucose level predicting device (10) is provided with a pattern selecting unit (11), based on a user (30) fasting blood glucose levels of blood glucose levels preset time series change pattern selected from a plurality of patterns; and a correction processing unit (12), using by a plurality of measurements for a user (30) in the optical measurement performed a plurality of measurement date obtained by the blood glucose level correction selecting a pattern.


ABSTRACT This paper reflects on fieldwork undertaken at youth-led community radio station, KCC Live. It draws on Goffman to elucidate the differences between front and backstage spaces at KCC Live, and provides snapshots from research encounters to illustrate the importance of observant participation (over participant observation) in permitting access to these spaces. This paper celebrates the embeddedness of the researcher as a member of the community under study. In doing so, it argues that immersion in community research settings can enable insight into the functioning, relationships, rules and peculiarities of the place and people, all of which are fundamental to ethnographic research.


In order to study the relaxation effects in a turbulent boundary layer with zero and nonzero free stream turbulence the Reynolds-averaged equations of motion and energy are solved. As the closure of the Reynoldsaveraged equations the transport equation for turbulent shear stresses is used. The proposed approach allows the calculation of the relaxation scales in the turbulent boundary layer with zero and nonzero free stream turbulence. The calculation results for friction coefficients, velocity profiles, shear stresses, thicknesses of the boundary layer and so called "sublayer" in a flat-plate turbulent boundary layer are presented. These results that account for the relaxation effects in a turbulent boundary layer are in agreement with the available experimental data.


To establish a sensitive and specific HPLC method for quality control of Caulis Mahoniae.A validated reversed phase high performance liquid chromatographic method has been developed for chromatographic fingerprint analysis and for quantification of the three bioactive alkaloids: bererine,palmatine and jatrorrhizine.Chromatographic fingerprints were compared visually and analyzed using Similarity Evaluation System and Hierarchical Cluster Analysis.In the fingerprint analysis,17 chromatographic peaks were selected as characteristic peaks,of which 6peaks were identified.The similarity of chromatographic fingerprints from the samples was over0.8.In quantitative analysis,the recovery of the three bioactive alkaloids(jatrorrhizine,palmatine and bererine)was 97.83%,100.03% and 100.08%,respectively and good linearity(r 0.999 0)was observed for the three compounds over a relatively wide range of concentrations.These results showed that the established method for fingerprinting and quantitative analysis was suitable for the quality control of Caulis Mahoniae.


In order to analyze the distribution of individual opinions (decision rules) in a group, clustering of decision tables is proposed. An agglomerative hierarchical clustering (AHC) of decision tables has been examined. The result of AHC does not always optimize some criterion. We develop non-hierarchical clustering techniques for decision tables. In order to treat positive and negative evaluations to a common profile, we use a vector of rough membership values to represent individual opinion to a profile. Using rough membership values, we develop a K-means method as well as fuzzy c-means methods for clustering decision tables. We examined the proposed methods in clustering real world decision tables obtained by a questionnaire investigation.


The geological hazards occurred frequently from Leiwuqi to Eluoqiao,the Yunnan-Tibet Highway,which influences the traffic a lot.We found that there 48 geological hazards in this section,including collapses,landslides and debrisflows etc. This paper preliminarily evaluated the risk of geological hazards at present and in the future reconstruction engineering through analyzing the geological environmental factors and hazardous features.Furthermore,the integrated evaluation of the risk on geological hazards,the feasibility of rebuilt field and the classification of hazards prevention of 7 sections in the studied region are evaluated respectively by using the hazardous losing index and hazardous classification methods,which are important for future highway rebuilding and hazards prevention.The result of the assessment basically accords to the field investigation.Some suggests about the risk evaluation of geological hazards in the QinghaiTibet Plateau are put forward and discussed in the end of the paper.


SUMMARY This paper examines how remote-sensing data and regional social and economic data can be used together to identify changes in land-use patterns in particular regions. Study of the spatiotemporal dynamics of remote-sensing data can identify trends in competing uses of land, water and other natural resources for agriculture, industrial development and urban settlements. When combined with information on trends in industrial production, population, agricultural production, pollutant releases, water usage and natural forest coverage, these data reveal patterns of anthropogenic disturbance that can provide early signals of problems in resource decline or land-use management. This study focuses on land-cover changes in southern Jiangsu Province of the People's Republic of China between 1976 and 1984. This region, to the west of Shanghai and to the south of the Yangtze River, experienced unprecedented economic growth after the end of the Cultural Revolution. Remote-sensing imagery reveals the rapid growt...


After 1945 Germany was more and more taken in by the Cold War. It was no surprise, that two German states were founded 1949. One essential issue for both of them was the construction of a new German identity. This question was discussed at different levels within society. Bernhard Giesen has created a framework for discribing the answers to this question: he describes, how an interest in the present and the future was most influential within the so called 'Wirtschaftswundernation', whereas the other side looked at the difficult German past in creating a new German identity. Many writers contributed in focussing on the past as is shown in this dissertation by looking at the work of Heinrich Boll, Wolfgang Koeppen, Gunter Grass, Uwe Johnson en Martin Walser. In the 60s, 70s and 80s, a new paradigm became influential within German society: postmodernism. The research project then focusses on the contribution of postmodern German writers to the discourse on identity. Analysed are Arno Schmidts Nobodaddy's Kinder (1963), Peter O. Chotjewitz' Die Insel (1968), Rolf Dieter Brinkmanns Keiner weis mehr (1968), Helmut Heisenbuttels Projekt Nr. I. D'Alemberts Ende (1970), Peter Sloterdijks Der Zauberbaum (1985) en Hanns-Josef Ortheils Schwerenoter (1987), which are commonly considered to be postmodern. These novels seem to take position between ontological and epistemologicol aims and levels. On the one hand they make clear, that any relation to reality is constructed, on the other hand however, they don't seem to be able to abandon epistemological aims completely. They refer to reality, although they show at the same time, that this is not possible, because in them their authors', one could say, postmodern commitment to contribute to the construction of German identity on the basis of the 'Holocaust' is reflected, thus showing at a Sonderweg in postmodernism within the FRG


Anti‐social behaviour orders (ASBOs) are increasingly used against young people. This article argues that their offending behaviour frequently masks a catalogue of individual and material disadvantage of which the behaviour may be a consequence. The criminal consequences of a breach of an ASBO only serve to exacerbate the disadvantage.


In this study, a modeling framework is presented for simulating water temperature in shaded stream. The attention is given to the function of riparian vegetation in regulating water temperature. The model solves the unsteady heat advection-dispersion equation with source terms accounting for various energy exchange processes. The performance of the model is examined in River Oppegawa, and then used to highlight a number of aspects of riparian vegetation shading, and the response of water temperature to change in riparian vegetation shading. It is shown that the water temperature can be significantly affected by bank-side vegetation shading. Particularly, the daily maximum water temperature is more sensitive to the shading than mean and minimum water temperature. In addition, the impact of stream temperature regime on aquatic life is briefly discussed.


In the context of data grid technology, data replication is mostly used to reduce access latency and bandwidth consumption. Two of well-known replication strategies are Fast-Spread and Cascading , which work well for different kinds of access patterns individually. Later, Chang et al. propose the static different threshold ( DT ) strategy, which can work for any kind of access patterns. However, among a large number of different data files, there may exist some hot data files which have been most requested. To reduce the number of requests for the hot files, we should replicate those hot files as soon as possible. Therefore, in this paper, we propose the dynamic DT strategy. In the dynamic DT strategy, data replication of hot files occurs earlier than others because the thresholds of hot files are decreased earlier than thresholds of the normal files. From our simulation results, we have shown that the performance of the dynamic DT strategy is better than the previous strategies.


Memory CD8 T cells provide highly specific and long-lasting protection against previously experienced pathogens. This potent protection is mediated by hundreds to thousands of unique clones with distinct T cell receptors (TCRs). Higher T cell clonal diversity and recognition of a wider range of pathogen antigens are associated with improved host protection. Therefore, understanding how clonal responses are organized is important for improving T cell function in a range of diseases. To comprehensively test the range of clonal memory T cell differentiation capacity, we deeply profiled polyclonal mouse memory CD8 T cells from acute lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) infection before and after viral rechallenge by paired single cell RNA and TCR sequencing. We found that individual memory T cell clone expansion and differentiation at the peak of the rechallenge response is highly variable. Clones are spread across various patterns of unique phenotypes ranging from highly cytotoxic to stem-like memory states. To quantify clonal differentiation plasticity, we transferred memory T cells into multiple new congenic recipients. Clonal progeny in different hosts acquired highly similar differentiation states suggesting that emergent memory clone behavior is imprinted by events during the primary infection. Indeed, transcriptional state of clones prior to rechallenge was sufficient to predict clone behavior upon rechallenge. This work provides a platform for understanding the mechanisms by which memory T cells make decisions and future studies will aim to perturb clones to elicit specific functions during a memory response.
 Supported by grants from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (Career Award for Medical Scientists [ATS]), Cancer Research Institute (Technology Impact Award, Lloyd J. Old STAR Award [ATS]), American Society of Hematology (ASH Scholar Award [ATS]), Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (ATS), Stanford School of Medicine (Propel Postdoctoral Scholarship [KHG]), National Institutes of Health (5T32AI007290-38 [CJR])


Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to study the variations of composition and properties of the passive film on 316 L stainless steel surface in 80°C, 0.5 mol L-1 H2SO4 + 2 mg L-1 NaF solution, is helpful to understand the mechanisms of corrosion resistancethe of plated Pd on 316 L ss.

Design/methodology/approach
The variations of composition and properties of the passive film on 316 L stainless steel surface in 80°C, 0.5 mol L-1 H2SO4 + 2 mg L-1 NaF solution after connected to Pd electrode were studied with methods of potential monitor, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis and electrochemical impedance spectrum (EIS) measurement.

Findings
By connecting to a Pd electrode, the potential of the SS sample increased from the active region to the passive region. By connecting to the Pd electrode, the contents of Cr, Cr(OH)3 and Fe3O4 in passive film increased obviously. With increased Pd/SS area ratio, the Cr(OH)3 content in passive film increased but the Fe3O4 content changed little. The results show that after connecting to Pd the corrosion resistance of the passive film on 316 L stainless steel increases obviously, which may be attributed to the more compact passive film because of higher Cr, Cr(OH)3 and Fe3O4 contents and less point defects in the film.

Originality/value
The effects and mechanism of Pd on passivation of SS was studied.


Objective: To explore the relationship between ambulatory arterial stiffness indexes(AASI), AASI-blood pressure variability(AASI-BPVR) and left ventricular mass index(LVMI) left atrium diameter(LAD) in patients with hypertension.Methods: A total of 286 hypertensive patients were enrolled in this study. The AASI, AASI-BPVR were calculated from 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. Left ventricular internal dimension in diastole(LVIDd), interventricular septal thickness in diastole(IVSd), posterior wall thickness in diastole(PWd), LAD were detected by echocardiography and LVMI, relative wall thickness(RWT) were calculated. The fasting blood glucose, blood lipids were examined. According to 24 h AASI, the patients were divided into 2 groups, Group A, the patients with AASI 0.51, n=133 and Group B, the patients with AASI ≤ 0.51, n=153. Pearson and multi regression analysis were conducted to analyze the relevant correlations.Results: Group A had increased LVMI than that in Group B, P0.05, the left ventricular masses were similar between 2 groups, P=0.384. Pearson correlation analysis indicated that LVMI and LAD were not related to arterial stiffness index, the coefficient between 24 h-AASI and LAD was at r=0.111, P=0.057.Conclusion: AASI and AASI-BPVR were not the independent factors for left ventricular hypertrophy and left atrial enlargement, therefore, they were not the predictors for cardiac damage in patients with hypertension at present time.


In this paper,a virtual reality programmable logic controller (PLC) experimental system was developed.The industrial touch screen was used as a PC,the PLC was used by a slave computer,inverter and three-phase motor,stepper motor screw and temperature control module were used as actual controlled elements in this system.This system not only had the advantages of virtual technology,but also had the intuitiveness of real action.The touch-screen interfaces of this system were prepared by Easy Builder software to compile touch screen interface and virtual large-scale equipment functions,and realizes common control elements of the professional through virtual interface plus real components.This system was inexpensive but powerful,it was similar to the realistic industrial control,and has achieved good results.


FIELD: personal use articles. SUBSTANCE: oral care tool contains an oral care agent. In one implementation version, the oral care agent may be provided for on one or more surfaces of the oral care tool or contained in the head cavity (50) or inside one or more surfaces of the head In another implementation version, the oral care agent may be provided for on or in a thin plate that is subsequently attached to a surface or applied as a stationary coating The oral care tool may be equipped with a wear indicator (120). Oral care agents may be released during a non-recurrent usage, during recurrent usages or during the tool service life. Water, oral excretions and/or chemical substances in the oral cavity may activate the oral care agent. EFFECT: increased convenience. 18 cl, 10 dwg


Gendered barriers that have traditionally impeded entry into entrepreneurship are lessening. Nonetheless, there is still a clear need to further encourage female students into an entrepreneurial career pathway. To do so, traditional classroom discourse that promotes the masculinised concept of the 'heroic' entrepreneur who experiences overnight success needs to be challenged. By providing a case study of a young successful female entrepreneur we open a pathway beyond a narrow vision of the homogenous entrepreneur driven by purely profit-seeking motives. It is well recognised that the socialisation process differs between individuals, making it important to consider the lived experiences of a variety of entrepreneurs that can appeal to the idiosyncratic needs of our students. At the same time, to amplify the value of such narratives they need to be connected to what we already know. The overriding aim of this teaching case is to offer a narrative of a successful female entrepreneur that can be used as a tool to stimulate an entrepreneurial mindset in students.


T follicular helper (Tfh) cells and cytokine IFN-γ are involved in Ig class switching in B cells to produce IgG2a(c). Tfh cells mainly produce IL-21 as their signature cytokine, and several studies have also shown that some Tfh cells are capable of expressing Th1 signature cytokine IFN-γ without expressing the Th1 master transcription factor T-bet. In Toxoplasma gondii peptide AS15/Complete Freund's Adjuvant (CFA)-induced immune response, we found antigen AS15-specific IgG2a(c) were abolished in CD4-Cre-mediated T-bet-deficient mice. By using T-bet-fate-mapping mouse strains, we reported that transient expression of T-bet epigenetically imprints the Ifng locus for cytokine production in a subset of Tfh cells; In germinal centers, multi-color tissue imaging revealed that the ex-T-bet Tfh cells express IFN-γ in situ; IFN-γ-expressing Tfh cells are absent in T-bet-deficient mice. More interestingly, we noticed that IFN-γ-expressing Tfh cells were fully present in mice with T-bet deletion at late stages of T cell differentiation, and antigen AS15-specific IgG2a(c) were even further up-regulated in such "T-bet late knockout" mice. Taken together, our findings demonstrate that IFN-γ expressed by T cells plays a dominant role in antibody IgG2a(c) production; T-bet expression is fine-tuned as spatiotemporal manner for balancing Th1 and Tfh cell differentiation in vivo and regulating the strength of antibody production.


Existing deep learning-based object removal methods produce plausible results. However, they generate unsatisfactory results when the object is large, especially in facial images due to the lack of information about the affected region. Most of these methods rely on the object information in terms of a binary segmentation map which is insufficient to provide information about the face boundary and semantics symmetric relation. To address the problem, we propose a two-stage GAN-based image-to-image translation method that exploits the face semantic segmentation instead of the binary segmentation map of the object. Specifically, our model learns a complete facial segmentation map from an input image (face image with unwanted object) in the first stage and translates that generated semantic segmentation map combined with input image into a plausible face image without the object. We also exploit the joint loss function that consists of low-level loss, adversarial loss, and perceptual loss to produce semantically realistic facial images. Experimental results show that our method outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods both quantitatively and qualitatively.


In this paper, a formula was derived for calculating the total current generated in a tunnel diode under the action of a microwave field and a magnetic field. In addition, the dependence of the total current of the tunnel diode on the total power induced by the microwave field is theoretically presented and compared with experimental data. For the total current in the tunnel diode, without taking into account the excess current, volt-ampere characteristics was obtained for cases with and without the influence of a microwave field.


This study examined the removal efficiency of BOD and COD from wastewater at the Supanburi municipal slaughterhouse by treating with alternate flooding and drying of soil containing the cattail (Typha angustifolia) in a RCBD experimental design. The result removal efficiency of BOD, COD, dissolved oxygen, electrical conductivity and total dissolved solid from the 1st oxidation pond with cattail were of 73.18, 61.92, 82, 31.12 and 50.23 percent, respectively. That is higher than removal efficiencies of oxidation pond 2 with cattail were of 61.65, 47.44, 7.05, 26.07 and -2.12 percent, respectively. Cattail plot have removal efficiency higher than soil plot. Then using wastewater from oxidation pond 1 with cattail is better.


Translation errors are analyzed on the basis of an operational translation Model. They can be classified either according to their location in the Model's components (knowledge base, hypothesis formulation, plausibility, fidelity and acceptability tests), or according to functional criteria. Isolation and explicitation strategies help locate their sources. Two practical strategies are suggested for remedial action against errors arising from weak motivation in the students: one aims at heightening their awareness of the importance of particular aspects of translation, and the other puts pressure on specific components of translation through marking tactics.


The present invention relates to a vehicle air-conditioning refrigeration cycle, more particularly it relates to a vehicle having an air conditioner configured as a refrigeration cycle, which comprises a simultaneous manner cooled condenser and air-cooled condenser is formed, passing through the air-cooling in a two-phase state after the condensation region of the refrigerant through the condenser water-cooled condenser, air-cooled condenser is then passed through the supercooling region.


The paper presents the results of studying the anti-ulcer activity of a combination of complex plant extracts on experimental models of stress and acetylsalicylic gastric ulcers when administered per os extract at a dose of 150 mg/ kg to laboratory animals. The experiments were performed on nonlinear male rats and mongrel male mice. Determination of the Pauls index, the anti–ulcer action index (AUE) - the main criteria for evaluating the anti-ulcer activity of drugs. It is shown that in stress ulcers, the effectiveness of the extract is characterized by a decrease in large, point, stripe-shaped ulcers, a decrease in the number of ulcerative lesions in mice, the AUE index = 4.6. It was found that in the acetylsalicylic model of gastric ulcers against the background of the introduction of the extract, ulcers were detected only in 70% of animals, less pronounced damage to the gastric mucosa was observed, the AUE index is 4.5.