Cooking oil is one of the essential ingredients of everyday life. Cooking oil is made from the mother's acid ester with glycerol. Cooking oil that is used repeatedly can harm health. The use of recurrent oil results in oil damage and affects the quality where the indicator of damage to cooking oil can be seen from the levels of free fatty acids and peroxides. To determine the effect of repeated frying on the quality of cooking oil in terms of the parameters of the levels of free fatty acids and peroxides. The research design used in this study is quantitative with experiments. The cooking oil used is bulk cooking oil and packaged cooking oil used to fry vegetable food ingredients, namely tofu. Numbers of peroxide and free fatty acids can be known through the titration method. The peroxide number test results have increased from the repetition of the third frying to branded oil and second repetition of bulk oil. Peroxide numbers obtained are higher than required by SNI (1.00 mg O2/100g). Examination of the levels of free fatty acids in samples of branded oil and bulk oil shows that all samples are by the oil quality requirements set by SNI (Max. 0.30% b/b).


The invention relates to a method for producing selenium-enriched germinated brown rice and a process thereof. The method is characterized in that fresh rough rice or brown rice used as a raw material is supplied with water in segments, namely the semi-dry and semi-humid germinated process (the water for germination is specially-prepared selenium containing water with selenium content between 0.1 and 250ppm.). The water supply quantity can ensure the minimum water quantity needed for the germination of the rough rice and the brown rice; the germinated temperature is between 15 and 40 DEG C; the germinated time is between 10 and 72 hours; when the germinated length of 80 percent of the rough rice and the brown rice is between 0.5 and 1mm(the rough rice is processed by the first drying into the brown rice), the rough rice and the brown rice are subjected to gelatinization and enzyme-killing treatments; the germinated brown rice is dried at normal temperature or at the temperature of below 50 DEG C; and the water content of the finished production is less than or equal to 14 percent. The organic selenium content of the selenium-enriched germinated brown rice is 0.9mg/kg; and compared with other brown rice, the r-propalanine content of the selenium-enriched germinated brown rice produced by the method is nearly 40 percent higher. The method has the advantages that the special mechanism of the germination of rough rice and brown rice seeds is utilized; and after the seeds absorb the selenium containing water and are subjected to enzymatical conversion, the contents of the organic selenium and other nutrient components in the rough rice and the brown rice are higher.


A notion of unique ergodicity relative to the fixed–point subalgebra is defined for automorphisms of unital C–algebras. It is proved that the free shift on any reduced amalgamated free product C –algebra is uniquely ergodic relative to its fixed–point subalgebra, as are autormorphisms of reduced group C–algebras arising from certain automorphisms of groups. A generalization of Haagerup's inequality, yielding bounds on the norms of certain elements in reduced amalgamated free product C–algebras is proved.


The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of participation in basic motor skill programs on children's self-efficacy and social competence. Jun's physical education program for children was conducted in 46 children in experimental group, and a childhood education institute's own program was conducted in 48 children in control group. Also, to compare scores of self-efficacy and social competence of each group before and after the programs, the independent sample t-test and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) were performed, and the following results were obtained. First, the basic motor skill program for children had effects on self-efficacy and its sub-domains including physical, cognitive, social and emotional domains. Second, the basic motor skill program for children showed effectiveness in improving children's social competence and its sub-factors including social activity, stability, cooperativeness, autonomy, adaptability, and leadership. The children in experimental group, particularly, generally exhibited higher degree of improvement in self-efficacy and social competence than those in control group. Hence, it was found that the basic motor skill program could facilitate children's self-efficacy and social competence more effectively than the child education institute's own physical education program did. These results implied that it is necessary to improve conditions of education for dissemination of systemic children's physical activity programs and invigoration and change the way of dealing with these programs.


Gold sea cucumber extract (Stichopus hermanni) is rich in collagen and unsatturated fatty acid also known omega 3 such as docosahexaenoic acid and eicosapentaenoic acid that highly effective as an antioxidant. Oligomeric proanthocyanidin is the main content in grape seed oil and the most powerful antioxidant agent that can protect collagen. The aim of research was to determine the effect of gold sea cucumber extract concetration on antioxidant activity of grape seed oil nanoemulsion. The three formulas with results test of antioxidant activity with DPPH method using 15% Brij CS12® and 30% propylene glycol has done which the oil phase was dispersed in the aqueous phase.Variation that have been done is to use the antioxidant activity (IC50) of gold sea cucumber extract  for 2, 4, and 6 times. The resulting preparations was conformed of organoleptic, nanoemulsion type, clarity, globule size, viscosity and rheology, pH and freez thaw test. Antioxidant activity of gold sea cucumber extract and grape seed oil were  (IC50= 53.79 and 17.41 μg/mL respectively). The nanoemulsion was analysed using two-way ANOVA method. Antioxidant  activity at storage for 0; 2 and 4-weeks of formula I, II, III were (IC50=  49.15; 49.45, 51.15 µg/mL), (IC50= 44.12, 47.48, 48.14 µg/mL), and (IC50= 42.14, 43.45, 45.33 µg/mL) respectively. Can be concluded that the higher concentration of gold sea cucumber extract, the antioxidant activity of nanoemulsion is higher, but it decreased during the storage.


We compare the properties of planar single track balanced and unbalanced sputtering sources by comparing the film properties of NbN and (Nb, Ti)N films sputtered from each source. Our experiments show that reducing the effectiveness of the magnetic trap by changing the magnet configuration is equivalent to reducing the sputtering pressure. We also examine the behavior of the sputtering sources throughout the target lifetime. The balanced sputtering source shows an increase in the magnetic trap effectiveness and a reduction in the heat flux towards the substrate surface as the target becomes grooved (for the fixed applied power and gas pressure), while the unbalanced design shows the opposite behavior. We also show that it is possible to optimize the configuration of the magnetron magnets to produce stable and reproducible (Nb, Ti)N films under the same gas pressure and applied power throughout the target lifetime.


An article containing carton, and method of assemblying it, for packaging a lamp and lamp shade in the same carton in a minimum of space and with little chance that the lamp and lamp shade will be damaged during transport. The lamp is attached to a first support panel with heat shrinkable material, and the lamp shade is attached between second and third support panels with heat shrinkable material surrounding the support panels and the shade. The first support panel is operatively fastened to the bottom of the carton, and the assembly of the lamp shade and second and third support panels, wrapped by heat shrinkable material, is positioned within the carton so that the lamp and shade are always maintained in spaced relationship in the carton horizontal dimensions, and so that the lamp does not abut the shade supporting spider. The third panel has a central opening through which a portion of the lamp extends into the interior volume defined by the shade. A detachable harp from the lamp may be disposed between the second support panel and the heat shrinkable material, and impact absorbing pads may be disposed between the supporting spider and the second support panel.


Based on heat transfer theory,and in the standard conditions of temperature curve,taking vermiculite fire door as an example,a temperature rise prediction model of fire door on the backs was built.The fire door was divided into door and doorframe,and the thermal conductivity and thermal resistance were decided separately.By heat balance equation on the backs of fire door,the temperature rise prediction model was built.It was shown by the contrast results between model and experiment that the error of the model is acceptable.


The paper is a survey of the recent model of P systems with proteins on membranes introduced by Păun and Popa in 2006. This model can be viewed as an extension of the highly successful paper of (Păun and Păun 2002) describing P systems based on symport/antiport. The previous model represented an important change of direction from strings to objects in the area of P systems. The main drawback of the model from 2002 was the massive parallelism that is not seen in real life. The 2006 model was a step in controlling the parallelism the same way it is done in nature in symporters and antiporters: these processes take place through protein channels embedded at the level of the membrane which can only be used by a molecule at a time, thus yielding a sequentiality with respect to the number of such proteins embedded in the membrane.


The capture of thermal effects in solid state physic is a long standing issue and several stand-alone or post-process computational codes are now available. Using different theoretical framework, they propose to provide some thermodynamic quantities involving the so called anharmonic effects. In this article, we show that a-TDEP can produce almost all the temperature dependent thermodynamic quantities you want, from a single ab initio molecular dynamic (AIMD) trajectory and by means of a Graphical User Interface (GUI) very easy to use. We start by detailing how the originally "Temperature Dependent Effective Potential" method proposed by Hellman al. [1] is implemented in the ab initio code Abinit. In particular, we present the various algorithms and schemes used in a-TDEP to obtain the Interatomic Force Constants (IFC). The 2 and 3 order IFCs are produced self-consistently using a least-square method fitting the AIMD forces on a model Hamiltonian function of the displacements. In addition, we stress that we face to a constrained least-square problem since all the IFCs have to fulfill the several symmetry rules imposed by the space group, by the translation or rotation invariances of the system... Numerous thermodynamic quantities can be computed starting from the ∗Corresponding author. E-mail address: email@example.com Preprint submitted to Computer Physics Communications March 25, 2019 2 order IFCs. The first one is the phonon spectra, from which a large number of other quantities flow : internal energy, entropy, free energy, specific heat... The elastic constants and other usual elastic moduli (the bulk, shear and Young moduli) can be also produced at this level. Using the 3 order IFCs, we show how to extract the Grüneisen parameter, the thermal expansion, the sound velocities... and in particular, how to take into account the anisotropy of the system within. As representative applications a-TDEP capabilities, we show the thermal evolution of the soft phonon mode of α-U, the thermal stabilization of the bcc phase of Zr and the thermal expansion of Si. All these features highlight the strong anharmonicity included in this system.


Organizational learning, along with a framework for diversity, is an effective approach for campuses seeking sustained institutional change with regard to diversity.


this paper proposed a small-signal compact model for AlGaN/GaN HEMT up to 110 GHz. In this equivalent circuit the manifold parts of gate and drain are considered to improve the model accuracy at mm-wave frequency. As some extrinsic parameters can't be extracted directly from measurement data in this equivalent circuit, some empirical equations are shown here to generate the initial values. After that an optimization method is used here to decrease the errors between simulation and measurement, the optimization procedure are also shown here. The intrinsic parameters are optimized with the same method. Finally the 0.1 μmAlGaN/GaN HEMT transistors with the gate-width 4x30 μm and 4x50 μm are used to verify the model. Compared with results of other papers, the model errors show in this paper are quite small.


Providing vehicle audio devices and methods. Word or phrase is associated with each item of audio content stored in the in-vehicle audio device. Vehicle audio device, in accordance with the voice command, performs an action on one of the items stored in the audio content. The voice command includes a word or phrase corresponding to one of the stored items. When the audio content is added to the vehicle audio device, the audio content is associated voice data to be generated and added to the lexicon during the editing process. When the stored audio content is deleted from the in-vehicle audio apparatus, its is deleted, the audio data associated with the stored audio content is between editing lexicon is removed from the lexicon. Deletion of the audio data, in some embodiments, is performed during the shutdown process.


ABS>Reverse isotope dilution analysis is shown to provide a convenient method for determining the optical purity of L-amino acids. Use of this technique confirmed the absence of racemization during acylation of nine monobasic amino acids with benzyloxycarbonyl chlorides. The preparation of several 4-bromobenzyloxycarbonyl derivatives is described. (auth)


AIM To study molecular mechanisms of lipoic acid(LA) protective action on neurons during aging. METHODS Using serum-free culture of mouse neuroblastoma cells as the experimental model for the study of neuronal aging,and using two-dimensional electrophoresis with MALDI-TOF MS,we analyzed and identified some proteins whose expression levels were regulated by LA during aging.RESULTS Nineteen protein spots whose expression were regulated by LA in the aging process,and five spots of them were successfully identified.The expression of four proteins(TPM4, STMN1,SERB,PARK7) was decreased and the expression of DLDH protein was increased in aged control group.CONCLUSION The molecular mechanisms of the LA protection could be involved to regulate STMN1,PARK7,TPM4, SERB and DLDH proteins.


Author(s): Binder, Gary Allen | Advisor(s): Klein, Spencer R | Abstract: At the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, neutrino interactions are observed across a broad energy range extending from ~ 5 GeV to ~ 1 PeV. Above ~ 100 TeV, neutrinos primarily originate from distant astrophysical objects whose identity is yet unknown. At lower energies, most neutrinos result from cosmic-ray interactions in Earth's atmosphere. In this work, two studies of contained neutrino interactions in IceCube are presented.In the first study, three years of IceCube data recorded from May 2010 to May 2013 are analyzed to measure the flavor composition of astrophysical neutrinos in the energy range from 35 TeV to 1.9 PeV. The flavor composition is found to be consistent with the ratio of ~ (1/3 : 1/3 : 1/3) expected from the oscillation of neutrinos produced by complete pion decay in distant astrophysical sources. Limits are placed on non-standard flavor compositions that could arise in exotic physics scenarios. The energy spectrum of astrophysical neutrinos is also measured and is well-described by a falling power law with index 2.6+-0.15.In the second study, five years of IceCube data from May 2011 to May 2016 are analyzed with improved background rejection and event classification techniques, and the inelasticity in charged-current muon neutrino interactions is reconstructed. Improved limits on the flavor composition of astrophysical neutrinos are obtained, and there is consistency with the expected flavor ratio of ~ (1/3 : 1/3 : 1/3). Additionally, the energy spectrum of astrophysical neutrinos is found to be consistent with a power-law with index 2.62+-0.07 in the energy range from 6.6 TeV to 2.2 PeV. Limits are placed on a power-law flux from a second population of astrophysical sources that may explain the harder power-law index of 2.13+-0.13 found in an IceCube analysis of up-going muons at higher energies.The inelasticity distribution of charged-current muon neutrino interactions is also obtained and is found to be consistent with the calculation of Cooper-Sarkar et al. across an energy range from 1 TeV to 100 TeV. The inelasticity distribution can also be used measure the neutrino to antineutrino ratio of the atmospheric neutrino flux. A scaling factor on the muon neutrino to antineutrino flux ratio calculated by Honda et al. is found to be 0.77+0.44-0.25 in the energy range from 770 GeV to 21 TeV. Lastly, the inelasticity distribution can also be used to perform an indirect search for charged-current charm production by neutrinos. Assuming a leading-order calculation of the inelasticity distribution for charm production events, zero charm production can be excluded at 91% confidence level in the energy range from 1.5 TeV to 340 TeV. In the future, it is expected that the techniques developed for this analysis can be applied to search for neutrino interactions beyond the Standard Model in IceCube and next-generation neutrino telescopes.


Many interesting real-life mining applications rely on modeling data as sequences of discrete multi-attribute records. Mining models for network intrusion detection view data as sequences of TCP/IP packets. Text information extraction systems model the input text as a sequence of words and delimiters. Customer data mining applications profile buying habits of customers as a sequence of items purchased. In computational biology, DNA, RNA and protein data are all best modeled as sequences. Classifying, clustering and characterizing such sequence data presents interesting issues in feature engineering, discretization and pattern discovery. In this seminar we will review techniques ranging from item set counting, MDL-based discretization and Markov modeling to perform various supervised and unsupervised pattern discovery tasks on sequences. We will present case studies from network intrusion detection and DNA sequence mining to illustrate these techniques. Sunita Sarawagi researches in the fields of databases, data mining, machine learning and data warehousing. She is a member of the faculty at IIT Bombay. Prior to that she was a research staff member at IBM Almaden Research Center. She got her PhD in databases from the University of California at Berkeley.


Four-phase (ice + structure-H hydrate + large-molecule guest substance liquid + methane-rich vapor) equilibrium pressure−temperature conditions were measured at temperatures from 252 K to 272 K in systems of water + methane + LMGS, where LMGS is a large-molecule guest substance for a structure-H hydrate. The tested LMGSs were 2,2-dimethylbutane (neohexane), methylcyclohexane, and tert-butyl methyl ether. The results obtained in the 2,2-dimethylbutane system agree with the corresponding data reported by Makogon et al., which were the only data set on the structure-H hydrate phase equilibrium at temperatures below the freezing point of water. Among the three systems studied, the lowest equilibrium pressure at a given temperature was observed in the 2,2-dimethylbutane system, and the highest, in the tert-butyl methyl ether system.


Objective To evalute the efficacy and safety of ganciclovir of the treatment on herpes zoster(HZ).Methods In this study,80 cases of HZ were recruited. 50 cases in experiment-group were treated with intravenous ganciclovir 0.25 g/d,while the other 30 cases in control-group with intravenous aciclovir 0.5 g/d.Results Follow up in 7 days,the effective rate in experiment-group was 82.0 %,and the effective rate in control-group was 70.0 %.Significant difference was found in efficacy between the two groups using ridit test. The side effects of both medicine were mild.Conclusion Ganciclovir is safe and effective in the treatment of HZ.


The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of self-image congruence on attitudes toward purchase intentions of children's clothing via the Behavioral Intention Model. The empirical study was conducted via on-line survey and data were collected from mothers with children aged 6 to 10 years. A total of 593 respondents answered the questionnaire and 574 usable data were statistically analyzed. SPSS 18.0 was used to conduct descriptive statistical analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, cluster analysis, Chi-square test, ANOVA, and multiple regressions. A K-means cluster analysis was conducted based on three dimensions brand images of children's wear. Respondents were divided into four groups: elegant image group, multiple image group, ordinary image group, and childlike image group. Characteristics of consumers and clothing evaluative criteria that mothers considered important differed significantly across groups. Moreover, based on these groups, each dimension of self-congruence had different effects on brand attitude. Brand attitude and subjective norms had different effects on purchase intentions. In conclusion, levels of self-congruence and factors influencing purchase intention varied according to brand images of children's wear.


With the improvement of environmental protection awareness and transformation of industrial structure, China's energy consumption structure has changed constantly. Although the proportion of coal consumption is gradually decreasing, the consumption has not seen a significant decline; it even increased in 2018. Many researchers have focused on changes in one specific type of energy such as coal or solar. However, the overall energy structure was ignored. In this study, an integrated convolutional neural network (CNN) with Long Short‐term Memory (LSTM) was used to predict the energy structure of China. Historical data were considered as pixels for convolution by layers of the CNN and then encoded by LSTM layers. To verify the effectiveness of the method, CNN‐LSTM was compared with six previous methods using data from 1965 to 2018. The results showed that CNN‐LSTM was superior in predicting energy structure. Finally, the energy structure of China in the next decade was predicted. The prediction results demonstrated that although the share of clean energy consumption will continue to increase, coal consumption will not decline.


Thank you for your interest in our study and for your valuable comments. First, we agree with Drs. Akhtera and Hashemi, and acknowledge the inherent limitations of this pilot study and the need for a controlled followup study. This we have also stated in the article. Based on our study and previous literature we still do not know if ketamine is effective as a preventive medication in cluster headache (CH) nor do we understand its potential mechanism of action. It could potentially be local as proposed in this comment as the sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) is suspected to play an important role in the pain process in the trigeminovascular system.1 However, there is considerable anatomical variation2 and a magnetic resonance imaging study found that the SPG is not located just beneath the nasal mucosa, and simple diffusion may not be possible due to anatomical difficulties.3 Clinical trials in CH are lacking due to limited funding and many other challenges. The attacks are short and accompanied by agitation, which makes them difficult to study, and the exact attack onset is unpredictable, even though the attacks follow a circadian rhythm. Even though CH is not a rare disorder, many of the patients are in remission, thus limiting the recruitment potential for trials. Acute treatment should be initiated within minutes of headache onset restricting the design to be either hospital based or biased by patientreported outcomes. A potential future trial should therefore carefully consider what is logistically possible based on recruitment and funding opportunities. The involvement of an SPG approach is really interesting and we have also been involved in several of the past SPG– neuromodulation trials.1,4 We agree that an external block has many advantages as it is quick, cheap, and the side effects are minimal, but we find it very important that patients can selfadminister the acute therapy. It would be very interesting to see if it has a consistent effect in CH; however, comparing a manual block and a nasal spray may additionally cause blinding difficulties, a wellknown issue in CH. Statistics is always debatable, and Drs. Akhter and Hashemi wonder why we chose to apply the parametric tests. Therefore, we put forward our reasoning behind the paired ttest: The assumptions of a paired ttest are that the subjects should be independent, each paired measurement should be obtained from the same subject, and the difference should be normally distributed. The two first assumptions are easy and true for this trial but the normal distribution in small sample sizes is always debatable. We investigated the distribution before assuming normal distribution of the differences. We also collaborated with the biostatistical unit at University of Copenhagen before drafting the manuscript and they agreed with the statistics applied. Based on your comments we additionally performed a ShapiroWilk test for normality on the difference and the pvalue was 0.303. Based on this we believe it is correct to assume that the data were normally distributed. We are thankful for the comment and the chance to elaborate on this trial and hope that it may inspire muchneeded further research into new treatments for CH.


According to the classification of the geological types of loess tunnels,the paper introduces the main points for the route selection for the loess tunnels from the topology,the geological components,the rock features and the underground water condition,and illustrates the allocation for the positions of the entrance and the exit for the loess tunnels and their damage forms,so as to provide the reference for the tunnel design and the route selection for the loess areas.


The temperature coefficient of reactivity caused by the Doppler broadening of U/sup 235/ resonances was calculated ior the EBOR. Assuming that the NRlA approximation applies in a loading of 100 kg U/sup 235/ and 89 kg U/sup 238/, the contribution to the prompt coefficient by U/sup 235/ is negative and about an order of magnitude less than the U/sup 238/ contribution at 300 and 980 deg K. (J.R.D.)


Construction equipment for extraterrestrial applications is only at the initial development stage. This paper summarizes preliminary results in three types of construction equipment which are motivated by the construction problems involved in First Lunar Outposts.


Estimating the pose (position and orientation) of 3D objects solely from images is a challenging task of current relevance to a wide range of robotic and artificial intelligence applications. In this paper, we employ the empirical local observability Gramian as a metric for assessing the quality of image-based pose estimation. We show how the Gramian can be used to describe the local "estimatability" of images of static and dynamic objects. We also show connections between the Gramian matrix and symmetries and near-symmetries of an object, and use this result to characterize the subspace of the pose vector which is unobservable using image data. Results are demonstrated using images constructed in a 3D virtual environment.


The fast-moving nature of the industry has led to various measures designed to manage the competing pressures inherent in the development process. For example, hardware standardisation, such as the interfaces or bus systems in a vehicle, and the modularisation of components, have increasingly been used to simplify the design of varied configurations and enable production processes tailored to specific end uses and markets.


The active optics concept using a thin deformable mirror has been successfully demonstrated using a 30 in. diameter, 1/2 in. thick mirror and a 61 point matrix of forces for alignment. Many of the problems associated with the design, fabrication, and launch of large aperture diffraction-limited astronomical telescopes have been resolved and experimental data created that can provide accurate predictions of performance in orbit.


This study entitled "Assessment of the perception of TVET Tutors in Rwanda on their level of Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK): a Case of Integrated Polytechnic Regional Colleges (IPRCs)", was conducted to assess the perception of TVET Tutors in Rwanda on their level of Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge. The output of this study will be helpful in contributing towards Rwanda current educational goals assessment and implementation review for their achievements since it demonstrates the level of TVET tutors in relation to Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge. It also suggests possible solutions that among them TPACK training will facilitate to achieve its goals.The methodology that was used in data collection is descriptive survey. Purposive and stratified random were used as sampling techniques. Questionnaires were used as data collection instruments. The sample size was determined by Slovin's Formula as the population size is definite. 218 teaching staff were selected to answer to research questions. 192of them responded and returned questionnaires. The data collected was analyzed using SPSS software, to determine the tutors' perception on their level of TPACK. The study came up with the following findings: The results from the respondent showed that , the mean number of those who strongly agreed with the statements assessing their level of TPACK is 39.4 (20.6%), those who agreed are 33.8 (17.7%), neutral are 12.4 (6.5%), those who disagreed are 34.4 (18.2%) while 70.6 (36.8%) strongly disagreed. The rate is very high and varied from Neutral to strongly disagreeing respondents (between 6.5 and 36.8%). The negative attitude scale is high on a rate counting between 16.1 and 41.7% of all respondents. The mean range is between 6.5.0 and 36.8%. The above findings confirm that most of TVET tutors in Rwanda have a low level of Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK). It has been recommended that the government of Rwanda should establish a pre-service institute dedicated to training trainers who would teach in technical and vocational schools at all Rwanda Qualification Framework. Those in-service teaching staff should be offered Technological and Pedagogical Training to enhance their teaching activities preparation and implementation. This would stop hiring employees who would not provide ineffective and inefficient output in the institutions' graduates' production. Private sector in Rwanda should invest in establishing training and consultancy companies that would upgrade the tutors' level of TPACK. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date of Submission: 05-06-2019 Date of acceptance: 20-06-2019 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


In addition to filtering also other operations like insertion of zeros etc. can be employed for the processing of multi-dimensional data arrays. A list of these operations and some examples will be presented. The mathematical description will be given by means of appropriate impulse fields and their Fourier transforms rather than by means of the z-transform.


Through this article, the author strives to show that, in parallel with a transmission of the signifier, filiation implies an appropriation of the voice on the mode of incorporation. From a study of the Freudian scientific myth exposed in Totem and Taboo and a clinical case, he shows how this voice of the archaic father knows a double destiny. Foreclosed, it is at the origin of disruption of the superego, while assumed and forgotten it enables the subject to pass from vocation to invocation.


many decades, an accepted assumption in health care system planning has been that a high physician-to-population ratio (P/PR) and an equitable distribution of a nation's physician manpower pool are important and desirable goals. The general reasoning has been that an increasing number of physicians will disperse themselves equitably among the population. This disbursement will logically lead to improved access to care, and this access, in turn, will result in improved health status. This has certainly been the assumption upon which Swedish health manpower polices and strategies have been developed. Sweden has a relatively decentralized health care system, bestdescribed as a national insurance plan tied to county-provided services with shared national and local planning features and universal access. All doctors are salaried, and patients contribute a small copayment. Until recently, Sweden has also sustained a very small private sector, highly constrained, tied to the national insurance plan, and slowly diminishing.


As a common predictive control method, the Dynamic Matrix Control (DMC) algorithm has been widely studied and developed in the last two decades. It has been successfully applied in many chemical/petrochemical plants, where it has an excellent performance. For the control problem of the liquid level of the pre-fractionating tower in the catalyzing reforming plant in a refinery, this paper presents the system identification of the dynamic predictive model and the application of the DMC algorithm, besides the improvement of the algorithm to speed up the controller and make it more suitable for computer use.


Rotation invariance is an important requirement for the analysis of 3D point clouds. In this paper, we present a learnable descriptor for rotation- and reflection-invariant 3D point cloud analysis based on recently introduced steerable 3D spherical neurons and vector neurons. Specifically, we show the compatibility of the two approaches and apply steerable neurons in an end-to-end method, which both constitute the technical novelty. In our approach, we perform TetraTransform -- which lifts the 3D input to an equivariant 4D representation, constructed by the steerable neurons -- and extract deeper rotation-equivariant features using vector neurons. This integration of the TetraTransform into the VN-DGCNN framework, termed TetraSphere, inexpensively increases the number of parameters by less than 0.0007%. Taking only points as input, TetraSphere sets a new state-of-the-art performance classifying randomly rotated real-world object scans of the hardest subset of ScanObjectNN, even when trained on data without additional rotation augmentation. Additionally, TetraSphere demonstrates the second-best performance segmenting parts of the synthetic ShapeNet, consistently outperforming the baseline VN-DGCNN. All in all, our results reveal the practical value of steerable 3D spherical neurons for learning in 3D Euclidean space.


The loss-based process capability index Cpm sometimes called the Taguchi index. In practice, Taghchi index is estimated using sample data, thus it is of interest to obtain confidence limits of estimate Cpm far assessing processes. Most of the traditional methods for measuring the manufacturing process capability are based on crisp estimates of Cpm wherein the output process measurements are precise. In the present study, we investigate the more realistic in general that the output of data from measurement of the quality of a product Is insufficiently precise. The fuzzy hypothesis testing on the fuzzy estimator of Cpm for finding process performance is proposed. We also considered the real-world problems in selecting the better manufacturing/supplier process from several available manufacturing/supplier processes


The theme of my diploma work is brand and its role in the life of Czech consumers. The work is divided in theoretical ? methodological, practical and project parts. Firstly is the work consecrated to basic elements of brand, brand value and place of brand in marketing mix, subsequently on customers and their relationship to brands. There is focused on brand equity triangle that is demonstrated in theoretical part and concrete example is analyzed in practical and project parts. Czech consumers, their attitudes and behavior, are defined in segment of premium spirits regarding analyzed brand. The main goal of work is determined what a role play brand Chatillon in mind of Czech consumers by relevant research and identify the potential target audience.


This article describes how engineers are using penetrating gamma rays to examine power plant steam pipes for signs of erosion, corrosion, and weld flaws. Using computed tomography techniques, the new nondestructive testing tool may help electric utilities cut the high cost of piping inspections. High-energy pipes in the main steam and reheat lines of power-generating plants are subject to severe operating conditions in which high temperatures and stresses combine with corrosion, erosion, and vibration to degrade the steel pipes and the welds that join them. Regular life-extension examinations of critical points on steam pipes using conventional non-destructive evaluation (NDE) techniques, followed by estimation of mean-time-to-failure predictions, is key to avoiding pipe failures and the expensive plant outages they engender. Widely used life-assessment procedures include frequent visual checks, mechanical dimensional gauging, and NDE techniques that use magnetic particles, dye penetrants, eddy currents, x-ray and gamma-ray radiography, and ultrasonics. Seeking an improved and more cost-effective alternative for power plant pipe inspection, experts in nuclear physics and digital imaging have developed a high-energy gamma-ray scanning device that can locate tiny incipient flaws and other piping degradation using computed tomographic (CT) techniques. A mobile version of the Integrated Real-time Inspection System (IRIS) can bemore » brought to a power-generating station where it can probe live steam piping for structural weaknesses right through the surrounding insulation.« less


Theory predicts that when economies become more integrated through the removal of tariff and other barriers to trade, resulting in an increase in competition in product markets, there should be effects on wage and employment outcomes in labour markets, particularly those in which unions are active. We investigate this idea empirically using a cross-section of UK manufacturing establishments from the 1990 WIRS data set. A reduction in non-tariff barriers from high to medium leads to lower wages, particularly for unskilled workers. Further reductions in non-tariff barriers produce a less well-determined effect. Intra-industry trade flows relative to sales, which are also used as a proxy for international integration, do not appear to affect wages so markedly.


Several researchers have measured and analyzed cognitive performance (Newcomb & Trefz, 1987; Cano, 1988; Pickford, 1988) and analyzed critical thinking abilities of students (Kahler, Millers, & Rollins, 1988; Arter & Salmon, 1987; Ennis, 1985). Past research has indicated that most students show little evidence of using critical thinking abilities when solving problems; in fact, most students continue to operate in a concrete operational manner (Day, 1981).


The all-cis substituted cyclopentane 3a, an analogue of the Corey lactone, has been prepared from a readily available nortricyclanone derivative by a five-step sequence in an overall yield of 34 %. This chiral building block has been applied in total syntheses of two diastereomeric isoprostanes belonging to the 5-F2 family: ent-5-F2c-IsoP (ent-1) and 5-epi-ent-5-F2c-IsoP (ent-2). Key features of the syntheses are the introduction of the two unsaturated alkyl side chains through an E-selective Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons reaction with the base-sensitive syn-aldehyde 10, along with a Z-selective Wittig olefination.(© Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2008)


We demonstrate a fully integrated polarization beam splitter with a polarization extinction ratio above 25dB for both polarization states and an insertion loss of 2.5dB. The footprint of the device including electrical contacts is 0.4×2mm2. A Mach-Zehnder configuration is used, the birefringence in both arms differs due to different waveguide widths. Fabrication tolerances can be compensated with thermal tuning. The device is realized in our generic integration platform, making it viable to provide monolithically integrated solutions for polarization diversity applications.


ABSTRACT Klebsiella pneumoniae KP3 was isolated from a patient transferred from India to the Sultanate of Oman. K. pneumoniae KP3 was resistant to all β-lactams, including carbapenems, and expressed the carbapenem-hydrolyzing β-lactamase OXA-181, which differs from OXA-48 by four amino acid substitutions. Compared to OXA-48, OXA-181 possessed a very similar hydrolytic profile. The blaOXA-181 gene was located on a 7.6-kb ColE-type plasmid and was linked to the insertion sequence ISEcp1. The ISEcp1-mediated one-ended transposition of blaOXA-181 was also demonstrated.


Ships and shipping operations are becoming increasingly regulated to prevent pollution and degradation of the marine environment. At the highest level, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), through its Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), develops regulations for global application to minimise the impact of shipping on the marine environment. A significant achievement of this body has been the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL 73/78). MARPOL expanded the application of an earlier convention on oil pollution to encompass all forms of pollution, with annexes considered to date addressing oil, noxious liquid substances carried in bulk, harmful substances carried in package form, sewage, and garbage. A new annex to MARPOL will address air pollution from ships. Two further issues of concern currently under consideration within MEPC are the transfer of harmful aquatic organisms in ballast water and the harmful effects of the use of antifouling paints on ship hulls. Management options for both have been considered, and significant progress made in the development of international conventions to address the concerns. At the national level, the Australia and New Zealand Environment and Conservation (ANZECC) played a major role in investigating the impact of shipping and in developing strategies to minimise such impact. The Australian Government's Oceans Policy, released in 1998 to coincide with the International Year of the Ocean, also contained strategies applicable to shipping. Consultative bodies, such as the National Introduced Marine Pests Coordination Group (NIMPCG), have also provided advice to Government and, within the States, authorities, such as the Environmental Protection Authority and the Victorian Channels Authority in Victoria, have a role in acting to protect coastal waters.


Presented by Corresponding Member of the NAS of Ukraine V.Ya. Gutlyanski ĭ We study semilinear elliptic equations of the form div( ( ) ) ( ) = in Ω ⊂ C , where ( ) A z stands for a sym met ric 2 2 × matrix function with measurable entries, det 1 A = , and such that Making use of our Factorization theorem, we give some explicit solutions for the above equation if or q f u = , when matrices ( ) A z are chosen in an appropriate form.


The nodal admittance method is being used in this paper for the steady-state analysis of self-excited induction generator involving mathematical modeling. Further the nodal admittance method has been used to predict the values of the capacitance and capacitive reactance required for the self-excitation of induction generator at different operating conditions of load, speed, and frequency. The performance characteristics and capacitance range required for self excitation have been determined in Matlab environment.


Six new proline-benzofuran-acetamide/propanamide/butanamide hybrids (6a-b, 7a-b, 8a-b)
were synthesized. The structures of the synthesized compounds were confirmed on the basis of their
elemental analyses and spectral characterization. The anticonvulsant screening was determined using the
two classical animal models, namely, maximal electroshock seizure (MES) and subcutaneous metrazol
(scMET) models followed by motor impairment study by rotarod test in mice. Compounds 6b, 7b, 8a, and
8b showed potent anticonvulsant activity in MES model with median effective dose (ED50) of 65.3 mg/kg,
36.5 mg/kg, 56.7 mg/kg, and 31.6 mg/kg, respectively. Compounds 7b (100 mg/kg, 0.5 h; 300 mg/kg, 4 h)
and 8b (100 mg/kg, 0.5 h and 4 h) also showed significant anticonvulsant activity against scMET test.


In this paper, we develop a visualization tool which will facilitate malware reverse engineering to understand characteristics of Portable Document Format (PDF) malware. This tool is useful as it is an online tool which renders it fully accessible regardless of user devices (eg. desktops, tablets, smartphones, etc.). Malware authors typically embed malicious codes into PDF documents which execute JavaScript exploiting a vulnerability within the Adobe Reader JavaScript parser. This then can allow shellcode to be placed into the memory of a computer to run arbitrary codes. By translating PDF binary information into higher level diagrams and images, potential visual signs which differentiate between malicious and legitimate PDF documents can be observed. The proposed online binary visualization tool maps bytes in a file to pixels of assorted colors that somewhat resemble a 2D pixelated heat map. By mapping different schemes of assorted colors, we can identify JavaScript and shellcodes in a PDF document which can then raise a red flag for the human analyst.


This study aims to confirm the relationship between accounting conservatism and the financial performance of companies in Indonesia in the 2019 period. Accounting conservatism is still debated between standard setters and accountants. The accountants argue that accounting conservatism is still needed to reduce the opportunistic behavior of managers. Meanwhile, accounting standard setters stated that accounting conservatism had an impact on biased financial statements. The research sample was selected with several criteria so that 564 companies were obtained. Panel data were analyzed by regression and the results showed that conservative accounting had an effect on Return On Assets (ROA). Accounting conservatism will reduce information asymmetry, which will reduce managers' opportunistic behavior and increase investment efficiency and improve company performance. However, accounting conservatism has no effect on firm value (Tobin's Q). Accounting conservatism will cause financial statements to tend to be biased because financial statements cannot describe the actual situation. Therefore, financial statements are not able to predict future cash flows.


Data clustering has been a major research and application topic in data mining. The self-organizing map (SOM) has been widely applied to tasks including multivariate data visualization and clustering. SOM not only quantizes the input data but also enables visual display of data, a property that does not exist in most clustering algorithms. In the past decade many developments have reported towards to mining useful information from a trained map. Most of them use post-processing methods in a two- or three-step procedure to enable finding clusters as contiguous regions on the map. The basic assumption relies on the data density approximation by the neurons through the unsupervised learning. By analyzing neighboring neurons and their relations and activities it is possible to draw, in many cases, the geometry of clusters. This paper discusses issues related to SOM clustering and segmentation with morphological image processing methods, such as filtering and watershed transform. It also briefly reviews SOM clustering related literature, such as surface-based and clustering (hierarchical and partitioning) algorithms. A new gradient-based visualization matrix is presented and results of benchmark data sets are described.


Abstract : The general theory of pretwisted beams and columns is applied t o the bending of an initially straight and uniformly pretwisted beam of doubly symmetric thin-walled section. Pretwisting brings planes of various bending stiffness into play with a resulting stiffness which may be regarded as averaging the stiffness of the beam in its principal directions. Compared with bending of an untwisted beam in its most flexible direction, a thin strip can have its defelction in the plane of bending reduced 72% by an initial twist of 0.83pi. Simultaneously, lateral deflections of almost equal magnitude are induced. For pretwists above 2 pi, the lateral deflections in the plane of bending are still reduced as much as 44%. With increasing initial twist the pretwisted beam becomes more flexible, and for an initial twist of 6.5 pi it is as flexible as the untwisted beam in its most flexible direction. Beams of equal flexibility in all directions become more flexible with initial twist; this corresponds to the observations made by Den Hartog (Advanced Strength of Materials, 319, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1952) in some of his experiments.


Pulp calcifications stones are discrete calcifications within the pulps of teeth. They are a frequent finding on bitewing and periapical radiographs. Johnson and Bevelander stated that a single tooth may have stones ranging from 1 to 12 or even more, with sizes varying from minute particle to large masses that occlude the pulp space. They often develop in teeth that appear quite normal in other respects. They have been seen in both functional as well as embedded teeth. Inspite of this frequent occurrence, they have received relatively little attention in textbooks. The purpose of this review was to examine these pulp stones from all the aspects including their pathogenesis, clinical aspects, histopathology, current perspectives and contemporary research on the same.


In this paper, we describe a simulation study aimed at investigating whether a momentary limitation ofthe tram power-output can be effective in reducing current overload, while maintaining the tram ...


most positive tones the unhistorical character of a narrative which even Von Bohlen had allowed to be authentic, the spade of the excavator and the patient skill of the decipherer were vindicating its trustworthiness in the most complete and unexpected manner. The history of the campaign of Chedorlaomer and his allies against Palestine, which we have been told was but a projection into the distant past of the western campaigns of the Assyrian kings, has been shown to be in exact accordance with the testimony of the ancient monuments, while the account of Melchizedek, king of Salem, which the critics were unanimous in pronouncing to be mythical, has also received


There is a growing recognition of the impact of lockdowns on non‐COVID‐19 demand for critical care services. While a reduction in demand has been postulated, there remains a paucity of quantitative data on the extent and nature of this reduction. The present study aims to quantify the impact of lockdown on critical care services, namely ED, intensive care unit (ICU), medical emergency team (MET) and emergency theatre (ET) demand, during the lockdown in Victoria, Australia.


Based on analysis of application protocols,a group of multi-flow characteristics with low complexity,high quality is proposed to mitigate the problem of low recognition rate and high implementation complexity associated with the traditional flow classification algorithms using single flow statistics.These characteristics can effectively identify peer-to-peer(P2P) traffic in network flow classification,and improve the recognition rate of the traditional algorithms.They also enable the use of multinomial logistic regression algorithm to classify the network flow,and reduce the complexity of the traditional algorithms. Experiment results show that the proposed characteristics can achieve good generalization,and only need a small number of training samples to get a model that can maintain good performance for a long time.


A method is proposed to estimate the number of vibration cycles caused by frequency locked-in ice loads on a bottom fixed structure. Studies of the onset of frequency lock-in have been performed and based on that, different onset criteria are studied. It is shown in this work that most existing onset criteria significantly overestimate the vulnerability to frequency locked-in ice loads. The method described proposes a 90 % reduction in the number of vibration cycles in a winter season. The 2002–2003 winter at Norstromsgrund lighthouse is compared with the proposed method. The comparisons show that all available methods overestimate the number of vibration cycles significantly.Copyright © 2014 by ASME


In search of a nonparametric indicator of deterministic signal complexity, we link the Renyi entropies to time-frequency representations. The resulting measures show promise in several situations where concepts like the time-bandwidth product fail.


Among white non-Hispanics older than 50 years, nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) incidence is likely to exceed 3.5 million annually in the United States.1 From a clinical and public health perspective, identifying the characteristics of those at the highest risk would allow allocating limited resources to screen those most at need. Those with a prior NMSC are known to be at high risk, but data on the magnitude of and patient characteristics related to this risk are particularly important in deciding how these patients should be monitored. The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPTF) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) do not recommend skin cancer screening for all at-risk persons. The number of persons at risk for NMSC greatly exceeds the total number of visits each year to dermatologists. With a prevalence exceeding 13 million persons with a history of at least 1 NMSC,2 current annual screening of patients with a history of NMSC would alone account for more than one-third of visits to dermatologists.3,4 In this issue of JAMA Dermatology, Wehner et al5 provide data that help to identify patients at highest risk for subsequent NMSCs and highlight additional information needed to rationally direct resources for monitoring patients with this history. This study of 1284 immunocompetent patients with NMSC treated at a university academic practice and the San Francisco Veterans Administration assessed timing of subsequent basal cell cancer (BCC) or squamous cell cancer (SCC). Patients were followed up for an average of 5.7 years (0-12.3 years). Basal cell cancers (1234 [75.6%]) were more common than SCCs (399 [24.4%]). The authors found that the risk of a subsequent SCC or BCC occurring within 2 years of the first tumor was 41%, half as great as the risk after a non-first BCC or SCC (81%). For those who had a BCC at study entry and remained tumor free for 2 years, the incidence of BCC in subsequent years was relatively low, less than 5% per year. For comparable patients with SCC, the development of another SCC after year 2 was almost twice as high (data supporting this finding are reported by Wehner et al5 in their online supplemental materials). Subsequent tumors were usually of the same types: only 5.1% of the study cohort subsequently developed both BCCs and SCCs. These findings support those of prior studies indicating that patients tend to develop a single type of NMSC.6,7 Although the incidence of SCC is lower than that of BCC, the risk of developing a second tumor of the same type was higher in SCC: 69% of those with 1 SCC developed at least 1 additional tumor. Over half of the patients who had multiple SCCs were likely to develop another SCC within 2 years (Wehner et al,5 online supplemental materials). Given the higher morbidity and the risk of mortality with SCCs, closely monitoring patients with SCCs is clearly indicated. According to the findings of this study, about 12 patients with SCC would have to be screened each year to detect another SCC. For persons with a single BCC, a second BCC will be detected for about every 20 patients screened annually.5 In a similar study of the Dutch population, slightly higher numbers of persons with a BCC would need to be screened to detect another BCC.8 These risk and incidence estimates are in line with results from previous publications on subsequent NMSCs in patients with a history of NMSC.7 Both Australian and Dutch data suggest fairly long median intervals between new tumors (1.5 to ≥2 years).8,9 Reflecting this observation, Dutch guidelines suggest yearly follow-up only for patients with an SCC, 2 or more BCCs, or a BCC in a high-risk zone.8 The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) recommends that every patient with a history of low-risk BCC or SCC be screened with skin examinations every 6 to 12 months for life.10 The data from this and prior studies combined with the high incidence of BCC suggest that the wisdom and feasibility of such a recommendation is in doubt. With an increased number of screenings, a higher proportion of BCCs is likely to be detected in sites other than the head and neck, forearms, and hands—areas such as the trunk, where superficial BCCs are the most common histologic subtype.11 The magnitude of benefit of earlier detection of slowgrowing asymptomatic tumors in less cosmetically sensitive areas is not clear.12 The frequency with which screenings will allow clinicians to detect a subsequent BCC of the head and neck or hands sooner (or later, due to waiting for the annual appointment) than it would otherwise be detected by an educated patient with a prior BCC is also uncertain. Nor is it known the extent to which regular dermatologic examinations for patients who have gone 2 years without a subsequent BCC result in earlier detection and better outcomes. For patients who remain tumor free for 2 years after the first BCC and who are likely to recognize a subsequent tumor, further follow-up may not provide much value. About two-thirds of BCCs occur on the head and neck.5,8,13 The authors did not analyze the association of anatomic site or histologic subtype on the first and subsequent NMSCs. This information could be useful to practitioners and patients in targeting areas for surveillance and identifying suspect lesions that could be NMSC. Related article page 382 Opinion


An essential component of initiatives that aim to address pervasive inequalities of any kind is the ability to collect empirical evidence of both the status quo baseline and of any improvement that can be attributed to prescribed and deployed interventions. Unfortunately, two substantial barriers can arise preventing the collection and analysis of such empirical evidence: (1) the sensitive nature of the data itself and (2) a lack of technical sophistication and infrastructure available to both an initiative's beneficiaries and to those spearheading it. In the last few years, it has been shown that a cryptographic primitive called secure multi-party computation (MPC) can provide a natural technological resolution to this conundrum. MPC allows an otherwise disinterested third party to contribute its technical expertise and resources, to avoid incurring any additional liabilities itself, and (counterintuitively) to reduce the level of data exposure that existing parties must accept to achieve their data analysis goals. However, achieving these benefits requires the deliberate design of MPC tools and frameworks whose level of accessibility to non-technical users with limited infrastructure and expertise is state-of-the-art. We describe our own experiences designing, implementing, and deploying such usable web applications for secure data analysis within the context of two real-world initiatives that focus on promoting economic equality.


This edition of Practical Strategies provides ideas for using picture books in middle years classrooms. It provides: an outline of why picture books should be used with middle years students; ideas for the classroom; how Luke and Freebody's (1999) four resources model can be used to frame discussion and analysis of picture books, and an analysis of The Hero of Little Street (Rogers, 2009) as an example of how the four resources model can be used to frame students' discussion and textual analysis.


This research presents and analyses, from a language interational and discursive point of view, proposals of clinical accompaniments presented in manuals destined to dyslexic or reading and writing difficulties individuals. It also reflects above the relation among traditional practices involved with writing acquisition developed in educational context and proposals – manuals – of clinical accompaniments.
We believe that mechanic and out of context tasks, devoid of grieved and without social role are produced into the educational and clinical environments as it is proposed in those manuals. In other words, in educational and clinical actions, the individual linguistic performance is surrounded by the artificiality of methods developed by fragmented conceptions of language.
 To overcome those mistakes, we analyze, in agreement with a social and discursive perspective of language, the history of a child taken as she had writing difficulties, we also highlight her writing productions which were made by the light of many dialogic plans. This analysis, embased in the comprehension of the singularity of the path trailed by this individual into the language learning process, allowed us to verify that this child is capable of acting above language, taking risks building her knowledge, producing texts with cohesion and coherence, as well as making different hypothesis about graphic and conventional aspects of writing.
 From this analysis, we stand some differences among the work with writing focused in a social and discursive perspective of language and the traditional practices with writing.


Toxoplasmosis in pregnancy Acute toxoplasmosis during pregnancy is asymptomatic in more than 90% of cases. When symptomatic, it consists of a flu-like episode (fever, lymphadenopathy and malaise) similar to the one seen in non-pregnant women. The classic congenital toxoplasmosis is characterized by the tetrad: chorioretinitis, hydrocephalus/microcephaly, cerebral calcifications and neurological abnormalities.The screening for T. gondii should be performed by dosing IgG and IgM antibodies in all pregnant women. The diagnosis of acute toxoplasmosis is made when there is positive IgM associated with negative IgG or in the presence of positive IgG and IgM with low avidity for IgG in the first trimester of pregnancy or in the presence of seroconversion. The diagnosis of fetal infection is done by detecting T. gondii in the amniotic fluid obtained by am


In this article, the life of a Yusaeng/儒生 figure named Lee PIl Ik/李必益, when he was in a political exile in the Anbyeon area of the Hamgyeong -do province during the latter half period of the 17th century, is examined, through his memoir ??Pukchan-rok/北竄錄(Exile diary in North)??. During the Second Yaesong/禮訟 Controversy(Fiery debates and conflicts over ceremonial protocol issues), Lee Pil Ik prepared an appeal supporting Song Shi Yeol and presented it to the King, and was summarily sent to exile. But this incident managed to change his life. Although he had been a nameless Yusaeng/儒生 figure only engaged in Confucian studies, the cause of his exile took him out of obscurity, and the Seoin/西人 party Seoweon/書院 and Hyanggyo/鄕校 schools aligned with Song Shi Yeol/송시열, the Yurim/儒林 society and other influential social figures actively organized a major supporting campaign for him. With their support, Lee Pil Ik was able to maintain a stable living even in his exile, and was elevated to the status of a national figure, with significant political influence. His wife and son came to his place of exile and lived there together. To support his own family, he had to make plans for a living, including the renovation of the residence he was living in, and securing some land for agricultural cultivation. The local authorities also actively helped him. But even when he was officially freed from his exile(解配), the Hwangok grains he received from the local affairs office became an issue, and along with certain agricultural problems caused by a streak of bad years, he was forced to remain at the place of his exile for a few more years.


This paper introduces conceptual problems that arise in the next 10-20 years as electronic circuits reach nanometer scale, i.e. the size of molecules. Such circuits are impossible to make perfectly, due to the inevitable fabrication faults in chips with an Avogrado number of components. Hence, they need to be constructed so that they are robust to faults. They also need to be (as far as possible) reversible circuits, to avoid the heat dissipation problem if bits of information are routinely wiped out during the computational process. They also have to be local if the switching times reach femto-seconds, which is possible now with quantum optics. This paper discusses some of the conceptual issues involved in trying to build circuits that satisfy all these criteria, i.e. that they are robust, reversible and local. We propose an evolutionary engineering based model that meets all these criteria, and provide some experimental results to justify it.


Luminescence Dating of the Sediments from a Buried Channel Loop in Fatehabad Area, Haryana: Insight into Vedic Saraswati River and its Environment Geomorphology and sedimentary composition of an archeologically important palaeochannel segment of the Vedic Saraswati River in northwestern Haryana have been evaluated and its temporal relation with the surrounding upland examined with the help of OSL dating. Sediment composition and OSL ages suggest that the channel received enough water supply between 5.9 and 4.3 ka ago, and even before. Several lakes and ponds had developed during this period in the surrounding areas. It was a wet phase in this area as well as in Rajastahn. After ~4.3 ka, the river got starved of regular water supply, became sluggish and finally dried up. Reduced water supply, indicative of decreased rainfall, occurred between 4.3 and 3.4 ka ago. The environmental history of the channel might have influenced the Harrapan archeology of the area.


The results showed that the quantity of insects lured by single solar double-wave trapping light of 8 ~18W gradually increased with the lamp power. In rice pests such as Naranga aenescens Moore, Sesamia inferens Walker, Chilo supressalis Walker,Cnaphalocrocis medinalis(Guenee)and Nephotettix cincticeps Uhler and so on, the trapping peak times were obvious, the early warning function were strong. The effective control distance to Naranga aenescens Moore, Cnaphalocrocis medinalis(Guenee) and rice planthopper in the rice field were about 50 m, 30 m and 20 m respectively. Compared with far light district, the quantity of insect near light district reduced by more than 30%.


Compared to the towed measurements of the total field,the marine three-component geomagnetic field contains more information and could be measured in larger areas with ship-mount.In this paper,we present the development of shipboard and towed measurements for marine three components of the geomagnetic field.Two key technologies of vector field calibration and attitude determination are summarized.Lastly,it is recommended that the shipboard marine geomagnetic three-component measuring system should be developed firstly based on the current situation of marine magnetic survey.


Polyaniline/neodymium(III) oxide (PANI/Nd2O3) composites were synthesized by in situ chemical oxidative polymerization method, and the new electrode materials were used for supercapacitor. The composites were characterized physically by scanning electron microscope (SEM), Fourier transform infrared spectra (FTIR) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). SEM, IR and XRD results showed the existence of interactions between PANI and Nd2O3. The electrochemical capacitance performance of the composites was investigated by cyclic voltammetry, galvanostatic charge-discharge tests and ac impedance spectroscopy with a three-electrode system in 6M KOH solution. Cyclic voltammetry and galvanostatic charge/discharge tests proved that the addition of Nd2O3 enhanced the capacitance of the composites. However, the conductivity of the composites decreases with increasing the amount of Nd2O3. Electrochemical impedance tests manifest that the charge-transfer resistance of the composites is smaller than that of the pure PANI, which indicates the addition of Nd2O3 could lower resistance and facilitate the charge transfer of the active materials. All results support that Nd2O3 has a significant contribution to the performance of PANI and makes the composites have more active sites for faradiac reaction and larger specific capacitance than pure PANI. Copyright (c) 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


The field of mechanical circulatory support is evolving at a rapid rate. The advances parallel the tremendous growth in the volume of scholarly communications and in the efforts taking place to support a more rapid and open communication of scientific results. With the open access publication model, online content is freely available immediately upon publication everywhere, to everyone, and with free access to readers. This, combined with online tools to support rapid peer review and quicker productions times, represents a significant step forward in the way in which science is advanced. (Published: 6 September 2010) Citation: Mechanical Circulatory Support 2010, 1: 5382 - DOI: 10.3402/mcs.v1i0.5382


The FINESSE (Field Investigations to Enable Solar System Science and Exploration) team of NASA's Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) is focused on a science and exploration field-based research program aimed at generating strategic knowledge in preparation for the human and robotic exploration of the Moon, Near Earth Asteroids, and the moons of Mars. The FINESSE science program is infused with leading edge exploration concepts since "science enables exploration and exploration enables science." The FINESSE education and public outreach program leverages the team's field investigations and educational partnerships to share the excitement of lunar, Near Earth Asteroid, and martian moon science and exploration locally, nationally, and internationally. The FINESSE education plan is in line with all of NASA's Science Mission Directorate science education objectives, particularly to enable STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education and leverage efforts through partnerships.


There is no country in the world that does not have at least one law or policy dealing with climate change. The most prolific countries have well over 20, and globally there are 1,800 such laws. Some of them are executive orders or policies issued by governments, others are legislative acts passed by parliament. The judiciary has been involved in 1,500 court cases that concern climate change (more than 1,100 of which were in the United States). We use Climate Change Laws of the World, a publicly accessible database, to analyze patterns and trends in climate change legislation and litigation over the past 30 years. The data reveal that global legislative activity peaked around 2009–14, well before the Paris Agreement. Accounting for effectiveness in implementation and the length of time laws have been in place, the United Kingdom and South Korea are the most comprehensive legislators among G20 countries and Spain within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Climate change legislation is less of a partisan issue than is commonly assumed: the number of climate laws passed by governments of the left, center, and right is roughly proportional to their time in office. We also find that legislative activity decreases in times of economic difficulty. Where courts have gotten involved, judges outside the United States have ruled in favor of enhanced climate protection in about half of the cases (US judges are more inclined to rule against climate protection).


This paper contains the equivalence between tvs-G cone metric and G-metric using a scalarization function $\zeta_p$, defined over a locally convex Hausdorff topological vector space. This function ensures that most studies on the existence and uniqueness of fixed-point theorems on G-metric space and tvs-G cone metric spaces are equivalent. We prove the equivalence between the vector-valued version and scalar-valued version of the fixed-point theorems of those spaces. Moreover, we present that if a real Banach space is considered instead of a locally convex Hausdorff space, then the theorems of this article extend some results of G-cone metric spaces and ensure the correspondence between any G-cone metric space and the G-metric space.


Purpose The purpose of this study was to assess the perceptions of stuttering of school-age children who stutter and those of adults who stutter through the use of the same tools that could be comm...


Universities and colleges are the important institutions for cultivating talents and scientific research.The universities and colleges teachers are entrusted with the dual missions of teaching and researching.The universities and colleges teachers are related to the future of the state and the nation,and the profession morals of the universities and colleges teachers affect the performs of the teachers.Therefore,the universities and colleges teachers need to have good profession morals.Currently,there are some problems on the professional morals of the universities and colleges teachers.People need to know how to solve these problems.


Data are presented on benefits observed in the immediate post-recruitment phase of outpatient treatment of opiate addicts with oral methadone. On re-interview by independent researchers at one-month, levels of drug use had reduced, with weekly intake of heroin reducing to a fifth, and of cocaine to a quarter (with significant reductions in both frequency of use and in amounts used per occasion). Significantly fewer opiate addicts were still injecting at follow-up, and those who were injecting were doing so less often. Measures of both physical and psychological health showed significant improvements over the first month of methadone treatment. A trend of reduction in involvement in acquisitive crime was also found. The finding of such wide-spread benefits so early within methadone treatment is encouraging in view of the recent increased provision of methadone programmes in the UK. However, the early acquisition of such benefits should prompt more rigorous study of the extent to which these changes are ass...


A MIMO-OFDM channel estimation is proposed based on RLS adaptive filtering algorithm for anti-noise.The algorithm in the time domain equalization filter is added for adaptive filtering of the estimated result in the channel.After simulation analysis,the RLS adaptive filtering algorithm with traditional RLS algorithm in the bit error rate(BER) performance comparison drawn channel estimation algorithm based on the RLS adaptive filtering algorithm has high-precision anti-noise.The system input signal containing noise,through adaptive filter,get the output signal waveform,and it compares with the input signal waveform,to verify that the adaptive filtering has the function of noise suppression.


The performance of Nd:YAG and Nd:YAlO lasers on the long wavelength end of the 4F3/2 ⇒ 4I13/2 transition around 1440nm were tested under cw diode excitation. Output powers of 4.9W (Nd:YAG) and 2.2W (Nd:YAIO) were achieved.


S 1. General Cartography JOURNAL PAGE 3011 3111 3112 3011 3111 3112 69 115 169 II. Cartographic Education 69 115 169 111. Historical Cartography 3111 3112 115 169 V. Spatial Data Assembly and Storage 3011 3012 3111 3112 69 55 115 169 VI Cartographic Design and Production VII. Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 3112 170 3011 3012 3111 3112 70 55 117 170 VIII. Cadastral Mapping, Geodesy and Land Registration 3011 3012 3111 3112 3112 72 56 118 172 IX. Map Perception and User Needs 170 KEYNOTE ADDRESS JOURNAL PAGE Imagination and Innovation in Australian Cartography: Examining the Past to Chart our Future R. Furness 3112 1 REVIEWS JOURNAL A Map Celebrating Centenary of Federation 1901-2001 Australia 3011 Advances in Remote Sensing and CIS Analysis 3011 Armenia: A Historical Atlas 3111 Australian Railway Routes 1854-2000 3111 Bibliographia Cartographica 3112 Canberra following Griffin: A Design History of Australia's National Capital 3112 Cartographic Treasures of the Newberry Library: The Newberry Library October 10,2001January 19,2002 3112 Computer Aided Design (CAD) Modelling and Mapping for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) 3012 Geographic Information Systems and the Law: Mapping the Legal Frontiers 3111 Global Positioning Systems 3111 Information Systems for Urban Planning: A hypermedia co-operative approach 3012 International Bibliography of Maps and Atlases 31/2 Mapping and analysing crime data: lessons from research and practice 30/2 Practical Applications for GIS for Archaeologists 3011 Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China 3012 Reading the World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Pieter Van Den Keere's Map, Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica AC Hydrographica Tabula (Amsterdam 1608136) 3111 The GIS Book 30/1 The Search for the Inland Sea: John Oxley, Explorer, 1783-1828 3112 World Mapping Today 30/1 AUTHORS JOURNAL Aberline, P. (and Bellman, C. and Smith, C.) 3111 Investigation and Prototyping of Emerging Web Standards for Web GIS Adams, J.M. (and Bryan, B.A.) 3012 Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of the Accuracy of Neurointerpolated Annual Mean Precipitation and Temperature Surfaces for China PAGE 77 75 124 125 174


One of the most vital resources for the human being is blood, its collection requires the establishment of a strategy allowing to maximize the collected quantity with a minimum cost. Several constraints should consider the blood and its components as perishable products which affects the storage and transfer activities. Our paper defines the optimal structure of bloodmobiles network over several periods of time. Based on the P-median facility location problem, we suppose that the number of located bloodmobiles is fixed in advance for all periods. Furthermore, located bloodmobiles in a given period are moved to new locations in the next period in order to have new donors (relocation). A non-linear mixed-integer programming mathematical model is proposed to define the best possible locations for bloodmobiles, for each period and analyzes the trade-off between economic costs and total collected quantity. We propose a multi-objective approach based on an Archived Multi-objective Simulated Annealing Approach (AMOSA). We apply this approach to the Tlemcen city bloodmobile network by proposing several locations as potential locations to make it easier for donors and maximize the quantity of collected blood.


approved: Redacted for Privacy ze,v H. A. TURNER Ninety-two spring-born and 76 fall-born steer and heifer calves (Hereford and Angus x Hereford) averaging 188 and 255 kg, respectively, were utilized in a 2x2 factorial arrangement of treatments to study the effects of zeranol and monensin, alone and in combination, on growth rate, feed efficiency and carcass characteristics. After weaning, calves were stratified by weight for random allotment to four treatments: 1) control (no monensin, no zeranol); 2) zeranol alone; 3) monensin alone; and 4) zeranol-monensin combination. Zeranol (36 mg) was implanted subcutaneously in the ear every 90 days and monensin (200 mg) was fed daily. The diet for both growing periods consisted of hay free choice and a barley-biuret supplement. The diet of both finishing periods (steers only) consisted of a full feed of barley with limited hay intake and biuret for additional protein. Results for the spring-born calves indicated treatments 3 and 4 increased ADG (P<.05) during the winter (196 days) while feed efficiency for steers and heifers was improved by 8, 5; 24, 21; and 27, 27% on treatments 2, 3 and 4, respectively, as compared to 1. Average daily gain for the summer grazing period (98 days) was increased (P<.05) by treatments 2 and 4. During the finishing period (97 days), treatment 4 increased ADG (P<.05), while monensin improved feed efficiency by 12%. Overall ADG (391 days) for steers was increased 3, 7 and 16% on treatments 2, 3 and 4, respectively, as compared to 1. During the growing period (111 days), fall-born steers and heifers gained .68, .61; .86, .70; .82, .71; and .88, .86 kg, respectively, on treatments 1, 2, 3 and 4. All treatments increased gains (P<.05) over 1 with treatment 4 producing increased gains (P<.05) with the heifers. During the 153-day finishing period for treatments 1, 2, 3 and 4, gains were .85, .95, .92 and 1.01 kg, respectively, with treatments 2 and 3 different (P<.05) from 1 and treatment 4 different (P<.05) from 1 and 3. Again, monensin improved feed efficiency by 12%. Overall ADG (264 days) for steers was increased 13, 9 and 18% on treatments 2, 3 and 4, respectively, over 1. Carcass data for all steers indicated a one-third older maturity score (P<.05) for steers receiving zeranol. Zeranol-implanted steers also exhibited a tendency for a slight reduction in quality grade but improved (2.1 vs. 2.3) yield grade. Either zeranol or monensin produced an acceptable increase in gains, but the additive effect exhibited by their combination provided additional and more consistent gains during the growing and finishing periods. Monensin and Zeranol Alone and in Combination for Growing-Finishing Steers and Growing Heifers


In 2016, Gallup reported 80 percent of recent U.S. college graduates who had visited career services offices (CSO) rated their engagement to be somewhat to very helpful. Quantitative reports such as this provide student views of CSOs, but neither address CSO staff's perceptions of the value of their work nor the tools they use to assist students. Staff perceptions provide insight into how they communicate with students and align with emerging career education paradigms. Through in-depth interviews and participant observations, this study illuminates the communicative strategies used by CSO staff at a large U.S. Midwestern public university to support student employability. This study extends our theoretical understanding of career education and employability discourse, where staff engaged students' assumptions about careers and provided opportunities for them to diversify knowledge about themselves and work to develop their career identities. Additionally, career education activities supported the development of students' social capital and personal adaptability through staying positively focused and proactive in career exploration and job searches. Practical implications for this study are that employability discourse could (1) emphasize how institution-sponsored activities could increase student job seeker competitiveness, but also (2) instill a "no guarantees" academic culture where students are responsible for their employability.


The article presents the main historical milestones associated with the creation, formation and functioning of the 73rd Internship of the medical staff of the Red Banner Turkestan Military District of the Armed Forces of the USSR in the period from 1938 to 1992 and its successor - the internship of the medical staff of the medical service of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the period from 1992 to 2012.


A multi-language, portable text-to-speech system has been developed at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The system contains a formant speech synthesizer on a signal processing chip, a powerful microcomputer and a variety of text input equipment. A special attachment is a 500-symbol Bliss Board. Swedish and English Bliss-to-speech programs transform a symbol string to the corresponding well-formed sentence. Bliss symbols and spelled text can be intermixed to produce either a spoken or written message. A lexicon gives the pronunciation, part of speech and other grammatical features for each Bliss symbol on the Bliss Board. This information is used in phrase structure grammar which can be modeled by a simple ATN to delimit noun, verb and prepositional phrases. Once the phrase structure is established, phrases are marked according to a transformational analysis. Referring to these phrase features, pronouns, nouns, verbs and (in Swedish) adjectives are given correct forms and pronunciations.


Objective— Adenosine monophosphate activated protein kinase (AMPK) has been identified as a regulator of vascular function via the preservation of endothelial cell (EC) function. In this study, we examined whether the beneficial effects of AMPK on ECs are dependent on its involvement in cholesterol efflux and its impact on hypercholesterolemia-induced endothelial dysfunction. Methods and Results— Using human aortic ECs and bovine aortic ECs, we show that AMPK activation upregulates ATP binding cassette G1 (ABCG1) expression independently of liver X receptor alpha (LXRα) transcriptional activity but through a posttranscriptional mechanism that increases mRNA stability. Using a heterologous system and a luciferase reporter, we further identify that the 3′-untranslated region of the ABCG1 mRNA is responsible for the regulatory effects of AMPK activation. 5-Aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide-1-β-d-riboside treatment promotes endothelial 7-ketocholesterol efflux and prevents 7-ketocholesterol (7-KC)–induced reactive...


There has appeared in the literature [K. D. Shere, Introduction to multiple asymptotic series with an application to elastic scattering an attempt to extend the concept of asymptotic series to "multiple asymptotic series" of the form \[\sum_{m = 0}^\infty {\sum_{n = 0}^\infty {a_{mn} \frac{{e^{ - \lambda mx} }}{{x^n }}} .} \] Applications referring to this work have also appeared in W. Buhring [J. Mathematical Phys.,18 (1977), pp. 1121–1136], W. Buhring [Angew. Math. Mech., 57 (1977), T226–T227], K. D. Shere [SIAM J. Math. Anal., 3 (1972), pp. 263–271], and K. D. Shere [SIAM J. Math. Anal., 3 (1972), pp. 272–284]. It is the purpose of this note to show that the definition of a "multiple asymptotic series" given in K. D. Shere [J. Mathematical Phys., 12 (1971), pp. 78–82] is unsound in the sense that it fails to satisfy certain basic criteria (for instance when the series involved are convergent then they are not necessarily asymptotic, according to this definition); also even though uncountably many alter...


The primary purpose of this research was to collect data for Canadian First Nations educators and policy makers to use in making decisions surrounding issues of First Nations women and technology education. Nine First Nations women preservice teachers at the intern stage of their Indian Teacher Education Program at the University of Saskatchewan were engaged in indepth interviews concerning their experiences and perceptions regarding technology.
The study found that the participants defined technology first and foremost as computer-related. Some viewed technology from the cultural aspect, and thought technology used for financial gain would take away from traditional family values. The participants thought that women needed technology training and that they needed to develop self-confidence and become role models in order for First Nations women to exercise leadership in the field of technology.
The participants stated that their university experience was responsible for most of their learning about technology. They did not, however, feel prepared to face the technology they would encounter in schools.
Intimidation, stereotypes, the lack of access and exposure to technology, the lack of a good self-image, lack of time, and lack of role models were perceived to be some of the biggest barriers to First Nations women learning about and using technology. Men in their use of intimidation and stories with negative images of women and technology were perceived as one of the strongest deterrents to First Nations women advancing in the area of technology.
Findings from this study had significant implications. First Nations teacher preparation programs should include required credit courses and establish daycare centers. Band controlled schools should update computers and make provisions for technology education by providing for such courses. Further research such as a collection of stories embracing positive images of First Nations women involved in technological pursuits should be undertaken to help ameliorate the status of First Nations women in technology.


Which need is greater, the need for standard measures of vocabulary knowledge, or the need for vocabulary measures tailored to learners' first languages (L1s)? This question is explored using placement test data from more than 1,000 Francophone students entering English language courses at a francophone university in Montreal in 1997 and 1998. The test consisted of several measures including a standard vocabulary size test, Nation's (1990) Levels Test. The study shows that a standard vocabulary measure can miss important information about learners' knowledge. It also suggests that an interlanguage sensitive measure can be a better predictor of broader language proficiency, and concludes that different tests may be needed for different stages of second language development.


This paper investigates the role of institutional theory for integrating information technology (IT) within the ship safety management system for enhancing compliance with the International Safety Management (ISM) Code. The importance of this integration is based on the needs of ship management companies for proper management of safety information between the head office ashore and their ships at sea. This paper contributes to the theory and practice of e-management and IT adoption research through providing empirical evidence from different business activities, by highlighting how an e-system for maritime ship safety management can be accepted and institutionalized. Thematically, the empirics of the paper has focused on exploring the role of the regulator in institutionalizing the IT integration process; as the institutional theory and the structurational technology adoption model has reflected a positive impact on investigation and explanation organizational change caused by IT adoption, and the role of resourcing in enhancing this process in the maritime safety. In this regard, this paper is the first to utilize institutional theory and legitimization strategies to explain needs of the IT integration process in shipping companies exclusively. The findings of the research show that external institutions such as governments, regulators and international organizations can play a pivotal role in institutionalizing organizational practices.


Abstract INFORMATION on the hydrogen ion concentration in the gizzard of the domestic fowl has been recorded by McLaughlin (1931), Mussehl et al. (1933), Kerr and Common (1935), Heller and Penquite (1936), and Farner (1942). In each case, however, the determinations were made on the fluid removed from the gizzards of freshly killed birds. Collip (1922) removed gizzard fluid from live birds by lumbar puncture and determined the titratable acidity to Toepfer's reagent before and after injections of certain extracts. Cheney (1938) removed gizzard fluid by means of a tube inserted through the esophagus, crop, and proventriculus of anesthetized birds. Free and total acidity were determined by titration to end points with Toepfer's reagent and phenolphthalein, respectively. It was noted that the gizzard contents removed from live birds contained "free acid" whereas those from autopsied birds did not. Preliminary investigations by the author showed that marked differences in hydrogen ion concentration . . .


The author discusses: 1) decisive criteria for statutory succession; 2) the circle of statutory heirs; and 3) the order of succession.


At the windtunnel for straight cascades a PIV set-up was established. The flow field of a transonic rotor cascade was investigated. The gained PIV data agree very well with probe measurements and numerical results. Finally, the time resolved data were evaluated applying a wavelet analysis.


Objective To investigate the relationship of serum insulin-like growth factor-1(IGF-1) and inflammation state with the malnutrition of kidney failure patients of type 2 diabetic nephropathy.Methods Serum IGF-1,albumin,C-reactive protein(CRP) were detected in kidney failure patient groups of both type 2 diabetic nephropathy and chronic glomerulonephritis.During the interval of 3 months,the circumference change of the thickest part of the lower extremity and the mid-arm muscle circumference(MAMC) change were measured in these two groups.Results The serum IGF-1((69.07)±(18.46)) μg/L vs((86.37)±(15.06)) μg/L and the serum albumin((35.07)±(2.74)) g/L vs((37.37)±(2.68)) g/L were significantly lower in type 2 diabetic kidney failure group(P(0.01),(0.05)),while the serum CRP level was significantly higher in this group((32.00)±(24.56)) g/L vs((13.95)±(10.11)) g/L(P(0.01)).The circumference change of the thickest part of the lower extremity and MAMC were more significant in type 2 diabetic kidney failure group (P(0.01)).In both groups,the serum IGF-1 and CRP were negatively correlated((r=-0.50),(-0.56),P=(0.046),(0.014)),the serum IGF1 and the circumference change of the thickest part of the lower extremity was positively correlated(r=(0.59),(0.48),P=(0.016),P=(0.03)).Conclusion Kidney failure group of type 2 diabetic nephropathy showed poorer nutritional state compared with that of chronic glomerulonephritis group.The lower serum IGF-1 was closely related with the higher CRP level,the interaction of them is a key factors that caused the protein-caloric malnutrition in kidney failure patients of type 2 diabetic nephropathy.


The text presented in this article describes an initial experience of an online course "Mathematical Dynamics" aimed at primary and secondary school mathematics, enabling them to make efficient and effective use of new tools and resources - GeoGebra and Moodle - through proper technology educational. The tools chosen are freely accessible and easily used, an important factor for the new technology will be incorporated into teaching practice. Nowadays, many teachers become increasingly distant from the students who belong to a generation steeped in digital media. Besides acquiring new skills due to new tools, teachers need to rediscover themselves in a new role, interacting in a dynamic new system that includes teacher, student and tools. The positive results show that a well-construct ed proposal with clarity regarding what it intends to achieve can meet the expectations of the teachers, showing also that the challenge of using new technologies involves not only technical issues but changes in behavior and relationships between the actors involved in the system.


Nowadays, a rapid growth in the rate of life expectancy can be seen especially in the developed countries. Accordingly, the population of elderlies has been increased. By another point of view, the number of hospitals, retirement homes along with medical staffs has not been grown with a same rate. Hence, Home Health Care (HHC) operations including a set of nurses and patients have been developed recently by both academia and health practitioners to consider elderlies' preferences willing to receive their cares at their homes instead of hospitals or retirement homes. To alleviate the drawbacks of pervious works and make HHC more practical, this paper introduces not only a new mathematical formulation considering new suppositions in this research area but also a solution approach based on Lagrangian relaxation theory has been employed for the first time. The main strategy of used algorithm aims to fill the gap between the lower bound and upper bound of problem and finds a solution which has both optimality and feasibility properties. By generating a number of numerical examples, results show the performance of the proposed algorithm analyzed by different criteria as well as the efficiency of developed formulation through a set of sensitivity analyses.


Mr President, Members of the society, and guests

Thank you very much for the kind words, Jay, and let me just say that it is a great honor and a great pleasure to be recipient of this year's MSA award. I am not at all confident about the extent to which I deserve this recognition. Be sure I am extremely honored to be added to the list of previous recipients.

Needless to say that there are many people to whom I owe my deepest thanks. I can only mention here few of them, and I will begin with two friends who came to see me receive this award, Jay Bass from Urbana-Champaign and Dan Farber from Livermore. Thank you for being here.

It is a strange and somehow random walk that led me here today. In my early years, I was indeed close to signing up for a school for cooks. My parents finally convinced me to follow a more serious and conventional track, which began at University of Lyon with a general program in Life and Earth sciences. After discovering how fish could breathe in water and the …