: The key physical processes responsible for inner-core structural changes and associated fluctuations in the intensification rate for a recent, high-impact western North Pacific tropical cyclone that underwent rapid intensification [Nepartak(2016)]areinvestigatedusingaset ofconvection-permittingensemblesimulations.Fluctuationsintheinner-core structurebetweenringlikeandmonopolestatesdevelopin60%ofsimulations.Atangentialmomentumbudgetanalysisofa single fluctuation reveals that during the ringlike phase, the tangential wind generally intensifies, whereas during the monopole phase, the tangential wind remains mostly constant. In both phases, the mean advection terms spin up the tangentialwindintheboundarylayer,whereastheeddyadvectiontermsdeepenthestorm'scyclonic circulationbyspinning up the tangentialwindbetween1.5 and 4 km.Calculationsof the azimuthally averaged,radiallyintegratedverticalmassflux suggest that periods of near-constant tangential wind tendency are accompanied by a weaker eyewall updraft, which is unable to evacuate all the mass converging in the boundary layer. Composite analyses calculated from 18 simulations produce qualitatively similar results to those from the single case, a finding that is also in agreement with some previous observational and modeling studies. Above the boundary layer, the integrated contribution of the eddy term to the tangential wind tendency is over 80% of the contribution from the mean term, irrespective of inner-core structure. Our results strongly indicate that to fully understand the storm's three-dimensional evolution, the contribution of the eddies must be quantified.


Objective: To evaluate feasibility of using antiepileptic drug (AED) efficacy data from published trials conducted in adults and children to extrapolate efficacy in pediatric patients with PGTC seizures. Background: Availability of new AEDs for pediatric patients has been delayed due to the challenges of conducting clinical trials in children. The feasibility of extrapolation of adjunctive efficacy results for partial-onset seizures has been shown from adult to pediatric populations when the disease course and pharmacokinetics of drug effects are comparable between populations (Pellock et al. Neurology 2012;79:1482–1489). In response to a request from the Pediatric Committee of the European Medicines Agency, our study explored the feasibility of extrapolating AED efficacy data from adults to pediatric patients with PGTC seizures. Design/Methods: Electronic searches in EMBASE ® , Medline ® , and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials were conducted for randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials of adjunctive AED treatment for PGTC seizures in adults and children published from 1970 to 2015. Outcome data, expressed as median percent reduction in PGTC seizure frequency and ≥50% responder rate, were extracted from eligible trials for adult and pediatric patients receiving adjunctive AEDs or placebo, and used to determine the relative strength of baseline-subtracted efficacy measures. Results: Seven published trials of AED adjunctive therapy for PGTC seizures were eligible for quantitative analysis. Changes in efficacy measures were similar in adults and children with PGTC seizures and were not age-dependent. The 95% confidence intervals for the standardized mean difference in median percent reduction of seizure frequency and estimated risk ratios in ≥50% responder rate were consistently in favor of the AED treatment and comparable between adult and pediatric groups. Conclusions: Across a likely spectrum of syndromes with generalized seizures, the effect of adjunctive AED treatment on PGTC seizures appears similar between adults and children. Study Supported by: Eisai Inc. Disclosure: Dr. Nordli has received personal compensation in an editorial capacity for UpToDate. Dr. Nordli has received research support from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Bagiella has received personal compensation for activities with a DSMB for DBV. Dr. Arzimanoglou has received personal compensation for activities with UCB, Eisai, and Shire as a advisor. Dr. Arzimanoglou has received personal compensation in an editorial capacity for International League Against Epilepsy Journal Epilepsy Disorders. Dr. Wang has received personal compensation for activities with Eisai as an employee. Dr. Kumar has received personal compensation for activities with Eisai Inc as an employee. Dr. Laurenza has received personal compensation for activities with Eisai Inc. as an employee. Dr. French has received personal compensation for activities with Acorda, Adamas, Alexza, Anavex, Biogen, BioPharm Solutions, Cerecor, Concert Pharmaceuticals, Convance, Eisai, Georgia Regents University, GSK, GW Pharma, Marinus, MonosolRx, Monteris, Nestle-Health Science, Neurelis, Novartis, Ovid Therapeutics Inc., Pfizer, Pfizer-Neusentis, Pronutria, Roivant, Sage, SK Life Sciences, Sunovion, Supernus, Takeda, UCB Inc., Upsher Smith, Xenon Pharmaceuticals, Zogenix, Zynerba as a consultant.


This paper presents evidence that corporate strategies provide the basis for agribusiness development and managing risk and uncertainty. These strategies are driven by, among others, employee factors, which are, however, usually given less attention. Conference Paper presented at ANAFE Symposium 2014, Agribusiness Development and Managing Risk and Uncertainty in African Agriculture: The role of Tertiary Agricultural Education, At Yaounde, August, 2014.


This chapter highlights clinical depression and anxiety. What seemed like a major step forward both in the understanding of depression, and how to treat it, occurred in the 1950s, when evidence emerged that depression might be due to low levels of the neurochemical serotonin. In particular, neuroscientists discovered that certain chemicals that alleviated the symptoms of depression appeared to work by inhibiting the reuptake of serotonin into certain neurons in the brain. The chapter then looks at the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), which are now used to treat far more conditions than clinical depression. Recently, doubts have surfaced about the appropriateness of doctors prescribing SSRIs for such different conditions, the effectiveness of these drugs, and the mechanisms by which they affect brain function. One problem in determining the true effectiveness of SSRIs for the treatment of depression is how little is understood about the biological basis of this disorder and how drugs like SSRIs alleviate it. A complicating factor for any attempt to identify a biological basis to depression, or for that matter any mental disorder, is the important role that the social environment plays in the genesis of such disorders.


There was a great impact on tourism industry by the 2008' financial crisis around the world.Financial crisis influenced the disposable income and leisure,influenced consumption capacity of tourism market.In this paper,the author analyzed the financial crisis' impact on domestic tourism market and international tourism market of Jiangsu Province by questionnaire survey and mathematical statistics.In the end,the author proposed the development strategies of domestic tourism market and international tourism market of Jiangsu Province in the context of the financial crisis.That was issuing tourist voucher in a long-term and carrying our national recreation plan for domestic tourism market and developing international tourism market by "Shanghai World Expo" and "Shanghai Disneyland" project.


ABSTRACT This article presents an overview and historical analysis of child welfare from its inception in the 19th century through the Social Security Act of 1935 and into the present. An argument is made that the historical de-professionalization of child welfare is reflected in changing societal values and resultant legislation framing investments in child welfare, as well as the influence of child welfare on the quality of services to children and families. De-professionalization has resulted in lowering the professional credentials of child welfare staff, increasing levels of employee turnover, the formulation of questionable policies, all affecting the quality of services to children and families. Implications of the findings for the re-professionalization of child welfare and for policy and practice are discussed.


Differentiating physiological adaptation from cardiac pathology can prove challenging in athletes, as the nature and magnitude of cardiac remodelling in response to exercise are governed by several important factors. These factors include age, sex, anthropometry, ethnicity and sporting discipline. One element not routinely considered in the athlete's heart continuum, is the impact of repeated exposure to hot environmental conditions. Several major sporting events take place in the summer months, often in hot ambient conditions (e.g. 2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing and 2016 Rio Olympics, 2015 Beijing and 2019 Doha IAAF World Championships). The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are predicted to be the hottest on record. Exercising in the heat induces thermoregulatory and physiological strain, which in turn lead to reductions in endurance exercise capacity. Athletes will accordingly train repeatedly in a hot environment prior to a competition as a method to offset these potential performance impairments. Most natural acclimatisation (or artificial acclimation) protocols require athletes to undertake daily exposure to the heat for up to 14 days, in an attempt to increase whole-body (core and skin) temperature, induce sweating and increase skin blood flow. Heat acclimation, also induced by passive heating, elicits cardiovascular adaptations allowing for a lowered heart rate, an increased stroke volume, a better sustained _ Q, a better defended blood pressure and an increased myocardial efficiency and compliance while exercising in the heat. However, the repercussions of repeated heat exposure on cardiac structure remain unknown. Accordingly, we aimed to isolate the influence of repeated heat exposure on the myocardium, without the confounding factor of exercise, by examining the impact of 12 days of passive heat acclimation (PHA) on the resting cardiac structure and function of welltrained male athletes. Twelve healthy male participants (aged 32.7 9.3 years, height 177.4 7.8 cm, body mass 74 7 kg, and regular physical activity 7 2.3 hours per week) undertook a resting two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiographic examination (i33 Philips, USA) in a temperate environment (24 C and 40% relative humidity (RH)) in a normothermic state, the day before and the day following a 12-day PHA protocol. The study was conducted at the end of the winter in order to avoid possible heat acclimatisation. Participants were instructed to maintain their normal training routines in the weeks prior to and during the study, in order to avoid excess increases and decreases in training load. All participants were asked to refrain from exercise and alcohol consumption at least 24 hours, and abstain from caffeine/stimulant containing drinks 6 hours prior to echocardiography. Both echocardiographic examinations were performed at the same time of day to avoid diurnal variations. After each echocardiographic examination, a 10ml venous blood sample was collected from an antecubital vein to ascertain haemoglobin and haematocrit concentrations (Coulter DxH 800), from which possible changes in blood volume or plasma volume following PHA were calculated using the Dill and Costill formula. PHA consisted of 12 daily sessions of 60 minutes of heat exposure in a seated position in an environmental chamber set to 50 C and 50% RH for the first 10 minutes and then adjusted to 48 C and 50% RH for the remaining 50 minutes. Participants reached a rectal (Ellab, Hilleroed, Denmark) temperature above 38.5 C in 97% of the sessions. Data are presented as mean standard deviation. All echocardiographic parameters were assessed for normality using the Shapiro–Wilk test prior to data analysis. Pre and post-PHA values of body mass, heart rate, haematocrit and all echocardiographic parameters were assessed using a paired samples t-test.


The transient electromagnetic (TEM) method is a geophysical exploration method commonly used in the detection of subsurface structures. Underground conductivity information at different depths can be obtained by interpreting the observed time-varying TEM data. Three-dimensional forward modeling is important for studying TEM responses and is also essential for inversion. The calculation accuracy of mesh-based forward modeling methods, such as the finite volume method (FVM) and finite-element method (FEM), is greatly affected by the quality of the mesh. In this article, a TEM forward modeling method based on a meshless generalized finite difference method (GFDM) is proposed. It is based on the Taylor expansion and weighted least squares fitting. In the GFDM, a partial derivative of the unknown parameter in the governing equation is expressed as a linear combination of the function values of support points. Numerical integration is not required during the forward modeling process, which simplifies the program implementation and increases the numerical calculation efficiency. In this article, a 3-D GFDM forward modeling method for simulating ground wire source TEM data is investigated; a corresponding program is developed, and the correctness of the code is verified through several 3-D models. By comparing the forward modeling results of this method with those of the FEM, it is verified that the GFDM offers higher computational speed and lower memory requirements.


The present invention provides an apparatus (10) for dispensing a dental substance. Said means (10) comprises a cartridge for accommodating the dental material (11). The cartridge (11) having a plunger (20) and a dispensing opening (13). Further the device (10) is operable to move the dental material is pressed into the dispensing opening (13). The cutting means further comprises a cutter projecting into the dispensing opening (31) above (13) a portion of the dental material. In particular, the apparatus may facilitate accurate dispensing high viscosity dental material.


The Efficient Markets Hypothesis is one of the fundamental concepts of modern financial theory. It states that the random behavior of prices stems from the ...


Aim
Covid-19 has engulfed the world and involved the healthcare workers (HCWs) worldwide. So, they should have the most updated knowledge and good attitude towards the disease. Hardly there is any study which evaluates the knowledge and attitude of healthcare professionals regarding Covid-19. This study assesses knowledge and attitude toward Covid-19 among HCWs across the country.
Methods
 This was a multicentric cross-sectional study. It was performed from 10th-20th April, 2020. Convenient random sampling was used. Data was collected through self-administered questionnaire of knowledge and attitude of HCWs regarding Covid-19. Data was analysed to describe: demographic, mean knowledge and attitude score. Pearson correlation, Kruskal Wallis-H test and one way ANOVA were carried out to evaluate the relationship between study variables. Wherever required, post-hoc analysis was done using Tukey's HSD method.
Results
Total 458 HCWs (56.8% were senior residents/postgraduate trainee) had mean knowledge score of 14.2±1.65 and mean attitude score of 3.80±0.52. 69.4% had sufficient knowledge but lack of knowledge was seen when Covid-19 infection rate and fatality rate was compared with seasonal flu. Nearly 85% didn't know when to screen a patient and the components of Personal Protective Equipment. Significant difference in knowledge was seen between the junior residents/MBBS and senior resident/Postgraduate trainee, between nursing/allied sciences and consultants, and between nursing/allied sciences and senior resident/postgraduate (p-value <0.001). There was positive correlation between knowledge and attitude score (r =0.111, p =0.019).
Conclusion
Most HCWs had good knowledge and positive attitude but there were few lacunas. More frequent educational training programmes are required to overcome this chasm.

Keywords Covid 19, Knowledge and attitude, Pandemic


The purpose of this article is to explore, from an ethnological perspective, the transformed traditions of social relations of Bulgarian and Romanian-speaking Gypsy workers (Rudari) in Greece and Spain, focusing on how they cope with the challenges of living and working in different socio-economic and cultural settings. Some of those Bulgarians and Rudari are temporary migrants, sooner or later they return to Bulgaria; others turn from temporary labour migrants into emigrants. They settle permanently in the host country and adjust to the "Greek and Spanish way of life". Both groups have developed similar migration strategies in Greece and Spain but their patterns of social adaptation and the way they create social ties have ethnic specifics. The social circles formed on the base of these ties can include people from Bulgaria as well as immigrants and locals and in many cases accumulate positive integration effects.


We examine the effects of nonprofit organizations' resource streams and network ties on changes to the services provided and clientele served as specified in the mission statements. The organizations' network ties are used to develop a measure of the services and beneficiaries mentioned in their inter-organizational (IO) peers' mission statements. These measures of the content of peers' mission statements were significant in predicting future changes in organizations' mission statements. We argue that although mission statements are consistent with the rational systems approach by directing action toward some goal, future mission activities and clientele are greatly influenced by nonprofits' IO ties, which is consistent with a hybrid open-natural systems approach.


Over the past three decades, several man-made vehicles have being sent into space to explore the extra-terrestrial bodies. As the search for water and other useful substances in the extra-terrestrial surfaces increases, this exploration activity is set to dramatically increase over the next decade (2020); with NASA planning to explore the surface of Mars, Moon and other planets and satellites. In this regard, it is imperative to build an extremely energy-efficient communication system that will cover a large area in the range of hundreds of kilometers which unfortunately is absolutely not possible today. A two-hop communication mechanism that has been well researched in the literature is insufficient to cover the extremely large distance of extra-terrestrial surface. In this paper, a novel three-hop cluster-based hierarchical communication architecture is proposed which could be easily extended to higher number of hops. In particular, it allows the individual rovers to move large distances for collecting data and at the same time provide an extremely energy-efficient mechanism for continuously exploring the surfaces. The simulation results show that in a Martian surface, the proposed three-hop design results in a higher capacity as compared to a single-hop or a cluster-based two-hop design even when the rovers move 100 km.


As the armed forces continued to siphon away labour from the land following the outbreak of the war, the Ministry of Agriculture's County War Agricultural Executive Committees were hard put to meet the demand for labour to sustain the plough-up campaign. While schoolchildren made a major contribution, there were few prisoners-of-war before the North African campaign and volunteers from all walks of life were sought to attend harvest camps, weekend farm clubs and other land-based activities. At the end of the war the Ministry of Agriculture turned to mainland Europe for volunteers to work towards the solution of the British and pan-European food shortages. They were supplemented by members of the Polish Resettlement Corps, German prisoners who had opted to defer repatriation and volunteers from the British zones of Austria and Germany. The article raises the issue of how far the enterprise promoted international understanding as was assumed at the time or, indeed, whether the home volunteer experience narrowed the so-called rural-urban divide as opposed to reinforcing entrenched prejudices.


The article deals with the issues of attracting students of pedagogical universities to independent research. The problem stated in the article is related to the fact that it is difficult to attract students to scientific work, since research is performed on an independent basis and is not evaluated in mid-term or continuous assessment. In the course of theoretical and practical analysis, it is concluded that the management of independent research activities of students requires a special approach. It is revealed that the most effective approach is the implementation of coaching, which corresponds to the specifics of interaction between the teacher and the student when performing independent research activities. The author designed and implemented an experimental model for managing research work of students of a pedagogical university using elements of coaching. The article describes a step-by-step work plan to manage students' independent research using coaching methods and techniques integrated with the traditional stages of scientific research: introductory, exploratory, and final. During the implementation of the experimental model, it has been established that the elements of individual coaching contribute to the development of students' interest and motivation for scientific research, and provide immersion in the problem under study. As a result of applying elements of the coaching approach, students have developed research competencies required for future teaching activities, and the performance of students' scientific work has improved.


The present thesis entitled "Constuction of electrical libraries in AutoCAD, for
outdoor electrical installations (gardens, squares etc)" is based on ELOT HD – 384
Standard and ELOT EN 60617.08. "Graphical symbols for diagrams" Standard.
The subject of the project is the creation of an electrical library of symbols for
outdoor electrical installations.
In order to achieve the best possible scientific approach of the subject – matter,
this thesis is divided into three main chapters.
In the first chapter the designing tools provided by AutoCAD 2008 are thoroughly
examined.
The second chapter consists of an analysis of "ELOT HD – 384 Standard",
dissecting its regulations compared with the standards of "KEHE", the former official
electrical regulation in Greece.
In the final part there is a step by step description of the construction of an
electrical library, including all the formatting needed during the procedure, as well as
the code in AutoLISP which accomplishes our library.
The conclusion of the thesis leads to the fact that collecting specific symbols to
create an electrical library results to facilitate each and every electrical engineer or
designer, by providing a useful tool for one's scientific work.


Root–soil mechanical interactions are of vital importance in soil reinforcement by plant roots. However, it is unclear how the angles of the roots in the soil affect the root–soil mechanical interactions. To better understand the effect of this factor on root–soil mechanical interactions, pullout tests were conducted on alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) roots with five root diameter groups (0.10–0.30 mm, 0.31–0.50 mm, 0.51–0.70 mm, 0.71–0.90 mm and 0.91–1.10 mm) and four embedding angles (30°, 45°, 60° and 90°) in sandy loam soil. Root tensile tests were also carried out to understand the process of root failure in the pullout tests. The results showed that the roots had two failure modes, slippage failure and breakage failure. The critical diameter of the two failure modes was 0.35 mm. Peak pullout force and pullout energy were positively related to the root diameter in power functions. Displacement was negatively related to the root diameter and embedding angle in exponential functions. Peak pullout force, root–soil friction coefficient and pullout energy all increased and then decreased with increasing embedding angles. The peak pullout force and root–soil friction coefficient reached their maximum values under an embedding angle of 60°, and pullout energy reached the maximum value under an embedding angle of 45°. Pullout energy was suggested as a preferred index of root–soil mechanical interactions for both thick/fine roots and inclined/upright roots.


HE assessment of pre-school children in the Borough is a continuing process which commenJtces at birth. It is based on the need to assess the potentialities of children who are obviously handicapped, and the abilities of children who appear to be potentially handicapped. Their educational needs are used as a focus for assessment and to enable the Local Education Authority to make the appropriate educational provision for these children. This educational objective is chosen deliberately to provide a definite target for the many disciplines which may be involved in the total assessment process; a process which can only be carried out effectively in association with the parents and with their willing co-operation as well as the co-operation of all personnel and disciplines concerned. Initially, obvious congenital abnormalities are reported to the Medical Officer of Health on the Birth Notification form by a person who is present at the birth, and such children are immediately recorded on punch cards by a Senior Medical Officer-other children are added to this


* Authors' reference: 1. American Process Inc., Atlanta. GA. USA Corresponding author: Bahador Bakhtiari. Atlanta. 30308. USA. Phone: (404) 872-8807. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com ABSTRACT Process integration is a proven powerful tool for the improvement of the overall energy efficiency and the optimization of the water usage in pulp and paper mills. The application of thermal Pinch analysis, combined with practical mill experience, has resulted in very important energy, operating and capital cost savings for many mills. American Process Inc. (API) has applied Process integration in more than 200 pulp and paper mills for energy optimization and the minimization of the water usage and the effluent flow. API has also developed the O-PinchTM, a complimentary methodology to the pinch analysis that focus on operational projects with low or no capital cost. This paper will provide the theory and practice of Pinch technology, as well as examples of its application in different mills.


The human eye's state of motion and content of interest can express people's cognitive status and emotional status based on their situation. When observing the surrounding things, the human eyes make different eye movements according to the observed objects which reflects human's attention and interest. In this paper, we capture and analyze patterns of human eye-gaze behavior and head motion and classify them into different categories. Besides, we compute and train the eye-object movement attention model and eye-object feature preference model based on different peoples' eye-gaze behaviors by using machine learning algorithms. These models are used to predict humans' object of interest and the interaction intention according to people's real-time situation. Furthermore, the eye-gaze behavior and head motion patterns can be used as a modality of non-verbal information in the computing of human emotional states based on the PAD affective computing model. Our methodology analyzes human emotion and cognition status from the aspect of eye-gaze behavior and head motion, understands the cognitive information that human eyes can express, and effectively improves the efficiency of human-computer interaction in different circumstances.


The aim of present study was to demonstrate spontaneous recovery effect in humans using a swimming virtual task analog to Morris pool. Two experiments with a task of spatial learning of swim virtually (VSL Nesplora ©) are presented. In the first experiment the participants learned to locate in 8 trials the exit platform that was located between the points of reference that formed the objects A and B. In Experiment 2, the spatial task of the previous experiment was presented to two groups, but during the first phase the platform was located between objects A and B, whereas during the second one it was located between C and D; both phases consisted of 12 trials. A test was performed with the four objects present and without the platform, a group at 0h and the second one 24h later. The results showed that when the test was made at 0h, platform searching is based on landmarks C and D, but when the test was made at 24h an intermediate choice between landmarks AB and CD was observed. The experimental model presented is contrasted with the studies of spatial learning in animals where associative effects have been observed.


Ventricular septal defect (VSD) is one of the most common congenital cardiac defects. However, in some cases, VSD sites are difficult to expose due to obstruction from chordal attachments and leaflets of the tricuspid valve (TV). To systematically review the efficacy and safety of tricuspid valve detachment, (TVD) versus conventional surgical repair (non‐TVD) in the treatment of ventricular septal defect (VSD). This article is aimed to compare the many outcomes from existing studies and provide evidence regarding the necessity of performing TVD.


Our students' reading comprehension skills underpin their ability to learn the concepts and competencies in computer science. However, there has been little attention given to evaluating how well our students comprehend what they read and the effectiveness of strategies to improve their reading comprehension. In this paper we focus on the case of a non-major course on internet ethics and the reading of the original writings of key figures in ethical theory. Due to the observed weakness of the reading comprehension skills of the students, we have been teaching our students strategies to improve their skills in reading comprehension and meta-comprehension within the framework of an in-class group reading. The reading strategies we have been using are described, evaluated, and placed in the context of the reading comprehension literature. Increased awareness of the limitations of the reading comprehension skills of our students and of ways to teach the students strategies to improve those skills should prove useful in helping instructors ensure that our students have the foundation they need to be successful in their computer science studies.


The time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) was used to calculate the vibronic absorption spectrum of berberine (BER) in an aqueous solution. The best agreement with the experimental spectrum gives the O3LYP functional. Functionals with long-range correction showed poor agreement with experiment. The molecular orbitals of BER involved in the electronic transition during light absorption in the visible spectral region have been obtained. The dipole moments and atomic charges of the ground and excited states of the BER molecule have been calculated. Maps of BER electron density and electrostatic potential have been drawn. A significant photoinduced electron transfer from the outer di-oxygen five-membered heterocycle to the center of the BER chromophore has been found. According to our calculations, vibronic coupling and Boltzmann distribution play a significant role in the absorption spectrum of BER.


It is shown in this paper that it is consistent (relative to almost huge cardinals) for various club guessing ideals to be saturated.


Both tectonic belt, the South Purulia Shear Zone (SPSZ) and the Singhbhum Shear Zone (SSZ) within the Singhbhum craton of East Indian Shield, has been identified with similar geometrical shape and mineralization. The mineralization of these regions is mainly structural guided and hydrothermally generated. An integrated gravity-magnetic study has been conducted around Manbazar-Kutni area across SPSZ to decipher the subsurface configurations, presence of faults/fractures. These structural features may form favourable condition for mineralization. The first degree trend surface separated residual gravity as well as the Bouguer gravity and magnetic anomaly maps depicted the ESE-WNW trending SPSZ on the SW part of the area. The observed negative gravity and moderately high magnetic anomalies around Dighi, Chepua villages are also characterized by medium to high hydrouranium anomaly from earlier hydro-uranium anomaly studies. Therefore, the negative gravity and moderate positive magnetic anomaly zones are concluded to be hydrothermally altered brecciated zone and the possible uranium mineralized zone. The interpreted faults /lineaments from the gravity-magnetic anomaly maps show good correlation with the exposed one and with the hydro-uranium anomalous zones. Further, the 2D gravity model across the shear zone depicts three low density altered zones (most likely sheared granite and mineralization zone) over the granitic basement along SW-NE profile from Kutni to Chepua village under a thin cover of granitic schist of CGGC. Since surface signature of nuclear radiation has not been observed, uranium mineralized zone could be at a large depth within these altered zones. Thus, the study demonstrates the effectiveness of gravity-magnetic methods in delineating subsurface configuration and to identify the altered zones/faults/lineaments which will act as favourable factors for structural guided radioactive mineralization in conjunction with other know mineralization indication.


SLEUTH is a modified cellular automata (CA) model which consists of an urban growth sub model and a land cover change transition sub model. The urban growth model is the main component of SLEUTH, which is tightly coupled with the land cover change transition model. This model was chosen to calibrate urban growth in two Asian cities, Chiang Mai (Thailand) and Taipei (Taiwan). These cities are undergoing rapid land use/land cover change as a result of robust economic and population growth. SLEUTH cellular automata model contains characteristics that offer advantages for modelling physical dynamics. Because of its cellular data structure, it can be integrated with raster-based remote sensing data. Calibration of the SLEUTH model requires gridded inputs of topographic slope, land use, zones excluded from growth, urban spatial extents, transportation networks and terrain hillshading. These data were developed from remote sensing and from topographic maps using GIS, and were prepared at three different resolutions.


We analyze the performances and characteristics of multiwavelength Raman amplifiers that are designed in backward or bi-directional pumping which can be used in dispersion compensator and low noise amplifiers and compare several configurations of a Raman amplifier system. The results show that amplitude spontaneous emission (ASE) in backward pumping is less than bi-directional pumping with improved noise figure. In addition, for backward and bi-directional pumping the system ability can be better by appropriate design of pump powers and wavelengths of system.


This thesis theoretically investigates dispersal evolution in a wider ecological context. It factors in ecological relevant dependencies e.g. trade-offs or spatial heterogeneity, and allows coevolutionary interactions between immigration and other traits. It extends well-known models to include more biological realism, reveals novel evolutionary mechanisms and helps to understand the complex dispersal patterns more accurately. In particular, this work studies the evolution of dispersal, i.e., natal emigration when it is under a trade-off with fecundity. Furthermore, dispersal is divided into its three phases and hence studied as emigration, transfer and immigration. Emigration and immigration are made dependent on the local conditions experienced by the individuals: the patch types. The coevolution of patch-type dependent immigration is investigated alone, but also the coevolution of patch-type dependent immigration and patch-type dependent emigration or local adaptation is studied. The evolutionary framework was chosen to be adaptive dynamics, a way of describing the long-term evolutionary outcomes of single populations that can lead to evolutionary diversification of strategies.


Lean manufacturing is necessary for company nowadays to be competitive. In order to achieve lean manufacturing the company need to eliminate all the waste that occurs in their operation. There are many ways to achieve lean manufacturing, for example by improving cycle time in company production. Hence there are many tools can be used to apply lean system, one of the famous lean method to improve cycle time is value stream mapping (VSM). The main objective of this study is to improve process cycle time by applying Value Stream Mapping. This research applied Value Stream Mapping to Mitsumi Technology Sdn. Bhd. DOCOMO production process. Based on the data collected the current state map were created and the analysis on the current state map were done to identify the waste. The main waste in DOCOMO adapter production is ineffective time management. Then the improvement were suggested by proposing future state of VSM. Based on the future state VSM, final results showed that the total operation time and NVA time were successfully decreased from 352.6 seconds to 199.5 seconds for total operation time, and NVA time from 119.7 seconds to 17.6 seconds, respectively. The finding of this study indicates that VSM is an efficient and effective approach to identify the waste and doing improvement from the analyzed data.


This note provides guidance to policy makers, the World Bank task managers and mining, environmental, and social specialists for undertaking strategic environmental and social assessment (SESA) to support mining sector reform. If well-implemented, SESA can be the catalyst of the following outcomes: 1) increased attention to environmental and social priorities associated with mining development; 2) strengthened environmental constituencies; 3) improved social accountability by making the mining policy process more transparent; and 4) enhanced sector capacity for managing environmental and sociopolitical risks associated with mining sector development. Ultimately, these outcomes will lead to a more sustainable development process driven by mining sector growth. SESA is thus a process of sector institutional and governance strengthening that materializes along with the implementation of mining reform.


Differential Diagnosis in Musculoskeletal MRI is a recent addition to the excellent range of diagnostic imaging references published by Thieme. Although, primarily aimed at clinicians, this is a valuable resource for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) radiographers who wish to further their knowledge of image interpretation as it covers both common and rare findings. The high quality images and a tabulated format, including discussion on incidence and mechanisms of these disorders, adds to the interest of musculoskeletal MRI.


The first part of this review papers presents the history of tall fescue endophyte toxicosis, which used to be a real constraint on grazing beef industry in southern US. The second part reviews some up-dated scientific publications, dealing with vitamins, fats and fatty acids in grass, grass products as well as in animal products produced on these feedstuffs. The papers cited prove that inclusion of grass or conserved (hay, silage) grass in the diets for cattles (beef and dairy) pigs or poultry (broiler chicken and leying han):
- reduces the fat content of the body- improves some vitamin contents of animal products (milk, butter, meat, eggs)- improves the unsaturated fatty acid contents of the same animal products.
The consumption of these high quality animal products consequently may contribute to better human health status of consumers.


A fermentation process for the microbial production of an amphipatic lipopolysaccharide, emulsan, has been established using a triglyceride carbon source in a coordinated carbon–nitrogen feed strategy. The polysaccharide was produced by the Acinetobacter strain at a productivity of about 0.5 g emulsan/L h while utilizing only the fatty acids (FA) portion of the triglycerides or free fatty acids that were fed into the medium.


The super large-sized natural circulation Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) eliminating short-term Emergency Core Cooling System (ECCS) is conceived as sophisticated approach to future Light Water Reactor (LWR) plant design promising simplified systems with improved safety and economics. The reactor is a low power density, natural circulation design capable of long power production cycles (3--5 years). A large power output of 2,000 MWe was selected for the initial scoping study. High power output and long cycle length lead to a large core diameter that requires a reactor pressure vessel diameter of more than 10 meters. Since such a large vessel is beyond the existing capability of steel vessel fabrication, the possible use of a prestressed concrete reactor vessel (PCRV) is under investigation. Short-term ECCS can be eliminated by taking advantage of the large water inventory in the vessel and by applying an isolation system which terminates loss of inventory should any external break occur for large piping penetrating the PCRV.


Abstract This paper compares three different but related examples of a process I am calling 'Democratizing Shakespeare'. It begins with class work conducted on the Drama programme at King Alfred's College in Winchester and links this work with 'popular traditions' to performance work that the writer has both undertaken with students and watched in a professional context. The confluent strands of these three perspectives demonstrate and explore the possibilities of resisting dominant appropriations of Shakespeare in performance through the use of more democratic and popular methodologies and practices.


Megasonic cleaning is routinely used in the
semiconductor industry to remove particle
contaminants from wafer and mask surfaces. Cleaning
is achieved through proper choice of chemical
solutions, power density & frequency of acoustic
field. Considerable work has been done to increase
the understanding of particle removal mechanisms in
megasonic cleaning using different solution
chemistries with varying ionic strengths. However,
to date, the focus of all these studies of particle
removal has been either cavitation or acoustic
streaming. It is well known that the propagation of
sound through a colloidal dispersion containing ions
results in the generation of two types of
oscillating electric potentials, namely, Ionic
Vibration Potential & Colloid Vibration Potential.
This book reviews some of the current work that
shows that these potentials and their associated
electric fields can exert significant forces on
charged particles adhered to a surface, resulting in
their removal.


A multigraph is a nonsimple graph which is permitted to have multiple edges, that is, edges that have the same end nodes. We introduce the concept of spanning simplicial complexes $\Delta_s(\mathcal{G})$ of multigraphs $\mathcal{G}$, which provides a generalization of spanning simplicial complexes of associated simple graphs. We give first the characterization of all spanning trees of a uni-cyclic multigraph $\mathcal{U}_{n,m}^r$ with $n$ edges including $r$ multiple edges within and outside the cycle of length $m$. Then, we determine the facet ideal $I_\mathcal{F}(\Delta_s(\mathcal{U}_{n,m}^r))$ of spanning simplicial complex $\Delta_s(\mathcal{U}_{n,m}^r)$ and its primary decomposition. The Euler characteristic is a well-known topological and homotopic invariant to classify surfaces. Finally, we device a formula for Euler characteristic of spanning simplicial complex $\Delta_s(\mathcal{U}_{n,m}^r)$.


Abstract The objective of this study was isolation of humanized single-chain variable fragment (scFv) antibodies against IL1RAP, a promising cancer marker in leukemia and other tumors. Here, we screened for antibody fragments that recognized IL1RAP using a phage-display library of humanized scFv through several rounds of bio-panning and further FACS selection of enriched yeast-display sub-library. Two specific scFv clones 02 and 61 were isolated with high affinity against IL1RAP. Selected IL1RAP scFv antibodies containing Fc segment were expressed and purified from 293F cells. scFv-02 expressed and purified from mammalian cells exhibited higher IL1RAP binding affinity on IL1RAP-positive 293F cell surface compared to scFv-61. In addition, scFv-02 was significantly specific to IL1RAP, as no binding signal of IL1RAP was detected on the surface of IL1RAP CRISPR-Cas9 edited cell line generated in this study. Two scFv antibodies targeting IL1RAP were isolated by phage and yeast display screening. scFv-02 could serve as a promising material for further development of IL1RAP targeted immunotherapy of leukemia and other diseases. Our work also modified the process for the selection of scFv against targeted antigen by stepwise using phage display, yeast display and mammalian cell display techniques.


This article discusses the experiences of Supervised Internship in Geography of Universidade do Estado da Bahia (UNEB, Campus IV), via remote teaching, during the unique COVID-19 pandemic moment, emphasizing the reality of Bahia's semi-arid region, specifically in the city of Caém. The problem of work revolved around the question: How to teach and learn geography in supervised internship in high school, in the context of remote teaching? Which are the potentialities and obstacles of a remote teaching in the region of Caém-BA? The research took place from the performance of the qualitative approach, from the perspective of action research, during the regency of Supervised Internship from April to June 2021. We also carried out bibliographic research, which helped to support the discourses contained in the work. The locus of the investigation was Colégio Arnaldo de Oliveira, a high school part of the State Education Network in the city of Caém-BA. Data collection occurred from experience, in the development of activities in the virtual classroom, in the interaction with students, and in assessments of the geography discipline. The results reveal that although geography can work with the lived space of students and the different spatial scales, remote teaching characterizes the contradiction of the multiple realities experienced by students in this pandemic moment, especially when regarding digital inclusion and exclusion, access to technological and pedagogical devices throughout the class process, thus demonstrating the need to readjust the educational planning of the State Department of Education, as well as the teaching practice.


This paper describes a design analysis methodology for hypersonic vehicles that treats the vehicle configuration and trajectory simultaneously. Vehicle geometry, dynamic discontinuities, and time-dependent control variables are all treated as optimization parameters with respect to a single performance measure. A generalized first order gradient method is used to affect changes in the optimization variables to minimize a performance or cost measure. This is done while maintaining prescribed two-point boundary conditions and any path constraints imposed on the problem. The current research status and projected benefits of these activities are discussed.


We have developed a magneto-optical measurement system in the terahertz region and measured the Faraday effect of III-V semiconductors. The system consists of a cryogen-free superconducting magnet, a refrigerator for samples and a terahertz time-domain spectroscopy system. In this study, we have investigated the magnetic field and temperature dependences of the Faraday ellipticity and rotation angle of Si-doped n-type GaAs. The frequency dependence of the ellipticity and rotation angle is well described by semi classical models, that is, the Drude model and the Boltzmann transport theory around room temperature. However, below /spl sim/150K, both models are not appropriate to describe results because of the appearance of quantum effects.


A study of swindlers convicted in the Court of General Sessions, New York, was made to ascertain the psychologic meaning of this offense. We have found that in the swindler himself the offense often means an unconscious gratification of a neurotic conflict. Neurotic conflicts of a psychosexual nature form an important aspect of the swindler's personality. In addition, there is a psychology of the total situation to be considered in this as in all offenses involving society. In this group of offenses we have described and termed this as the "swindle-situation." Here there are found psychologic mechanisms, perhaps unconscious, common to all men which operate in the victim.


and Applied Analysis 3 For the second set of the solutions, φ is of the following form: φ (V 1 ) = aU 2 + bU 3 ,


Characteristics of four kinds of typical flow regimes are discussed in this paper. Thinking of the actual physical mechanics in a trickle bed reactor, a new experimental method is proposed to detect the typical flow regimes. Based on the frequency spectrum of the local conductance variance, characteristics of different flow regimes have been discovered. A frequency of about 3Hz with large amplitude exists in trickling flow, pulsing flow and spraying flow, and the frequency spectrums of this three categories of flow regimes are different from each other within 0~3Hz. Under bubbling flow, the main component of frequency is distributed between 0 and 3Hz.


Standardization is a significant tool for ensuring the quality of herbal drugs. The drug identity, purity, content, chemical and other biological properties determine the quality of the products. Quantitative estimation of chemical markers within the crude drugs is usually troublesome. Separation of markers using optimal separation techniques offer high resolution of the compounds and least interferences.1 Herbal medicine has been utilized by 85% of the world's population since prehistoric eras for the treatment of a variety of diseases.2 Therapeutic efficacy and safety depend upon the quality of herbal medicine. Lack of quality control profiles created obstacles in the approval of ayurvedic medicines for healthcare needs. Establishment of quality control parameters gets affected due to the complexion nature in the chemical compounds and its variability of herbal medicines. Advancement in the modernized analytical methods is increased to subdue these complications by developing an effective separation of marker compounds.3 The approaches in chromatographic separation techniques made quantification of chemical markers in crude drugs with very limited clean-up.4 Mainly, reverse phaseliquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) used for the estimation of various chemical compounds existing in single drug or mixture of drugs and its herbal formulations.5


This paper presents design of a circularly-polarized (CP) two-element microstrip antenna (MSA) array excited by a cross slot on a broad wall of the rectangular waveguide for a waveguide-fed planar array. In order to realize a CP slot array arranged at a spacing of one guided wavelength on a broad wall of the waveguide, it is proposed to place two CP MSA elements on each cross slot with a dielectric substrate. In this paper, a series-fed two-element CP MSA array excited by a cross slot on a broad wall of the rectangular waveguide is designed as an element of a waveguide-fed CP planar array on the broad wall by using ANSYS HFSS. The design frequency is 11.2 GHz and an X-band standard waveguide is used. It is confirmed by the simulation that CP radiation with an axial ratio of 2.2 dB as well as a sharp main beam in the waveguide axis plane for grating lobe suppression can be obtained by the designed MSA array at the design frequency.


Abstract : This project demonstrates how the current limit of thermospheric mass density predictability can be extended by systematically integrating observations into a coupled thermosphere-ionosphere first-principles model. An ensemble data assimilation procedure, constructed with the NCAR Data Assimilation Research Testbed (DART) and the NCAR Thermosphere-Ionosphere Electrodynamics General Circulation Model (TIEGCM),can take advantage of the tight coupling between the ionosphere and thermosphere, enabling the inference of thermospheric temperature and compositions from abundant GPS-based ionospheric observations. Observing system simulation experiments suggest that thermospheric states, particularly temperature, can be well inferred by assimilating electron density profiles obtained from the COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 mission into the TIEGCM. This in turn leads to a significant improvement of the neutral mass density forecasting longer than 3 days. Furthermore, validation of assimilation analyses with independent CHAMP mass density observations confirms that the approach indeed improves the thermospheric mass density specification. Predictability of the ionosphere can also be extended considerably by the approach developed in this project.


Tungsten in the presence of molybdenum stimulates nitrate reductase activity and growth of the salt-tolerant yeast Rhodotorula glutinis on medium with nitrates. Tungsten is not incorporated in proteins possessing nitrate reductase activity. A significant increase in molybdenum cofactor in cells grown on medium with equimolar amounts of molybdenum and tungsten may relate to the stimulatory action of tungsten.


A dual‐port antenna with shared radiator and self‐decoupling characteristics is proposed. The feed position of the two ports is asymmetrically arranged for the radiator. The working principle of the proposed dual‐port antenna is analyzed by using the equivalent transmission line theory model. The analysis results show that the high isolation characteristic is realized when the two ports of the antenna satisfy a certain layout. The isolation between the two ports of the proposed dual‐port antenna is better than 16 dB across the 3.4 ~ 3.6GHz. The envelope correlation coefficient is less than 0.042. Based on the dual‐port antenna, a set of 8 × 8 MIMO antenna array was designed and measured. The isolation of the proposed 8 × 8 MIMO antenna array is better than 15 dB between all ports, the total efficiency is 38.75% ~ 87.5% with an average efficiency 64.58%.


Computer programs of GO, because of enormous complexities of the game, are typically constructed using a knowledge-based approach with heuristics and pattern matching. In this approach, quantity, quality and consistency of patterns used in computer programs of GO determine, to a large extent, the strengths of the programs. This paper presents an effective method to automatically acquire comprehensive GO patterns from large collections of game records. Statistical usages of the patterns ensure consistency and quality of the patterns, which, in turn, can help improve the strengths of computer GO programs. Additionally, statistical usages of patterns from different sources of game records clearly show subtle and significant discrepancies among various types of GO players, and clarify certain myths in the playing of GO.


This paper presents new valuable field data and a comprehensive approach to the determination of the rock mass classification and tunnel support systems for tunnels in unconsolidated sedimentary rocks as a special soil condition. The main objective of this study is to investigate and present the characteristics of the unconsolidated sedimentary rock by using the point load tests and slake durability tests. In addition, the appropriate rock mass classification and tunnel support system for the unconsolidated sedimentary rock tunnel are proposed, based on the results of experimental tests. The proposed rock mass classification and tunnel support system are validated through comparison against results from measuring the convergence of a tunnel under the construction. The proposed tunnel support system is appropriate for the unconsolidated sedimentary rocks, since the convergence factors, such as the maximum displacement and velocity of displacement, satisfy the criteria.


Currently, pharmacovigilance relies mainly on disproportionality analysis of spontaneous reports. However, the analysis of spontaneous reports is concerned with several problems, such as reliabilit ...


Microforming processes have recently attracted considerable attention from industry and academia since they enable the production of microscale parts using various materials at a high production rate, minimize material loss, and provide parts with excellent mechanical properties. However, for successful development and applications of the microforming process it is critical to take the tribological size effect into consideration because previous studies have shown that traditional friction models for macroscale forming generate significantly erroneous results in the case of microforming. In this paper, we performed scaled ring compression experiments to investigate the tribological size effect of aluminum and brass materials in microforming. The sensitivity of the interfacial friction to the deformation characteristics of the ring was quantitatively analyzed by the finite element analysis. In addition, a friction model based on slip line field and upper boundary techniques was used to theoretically explain the friction mechanism in microforming.


Many of the Mira stars observed with adequate spatial resolution show detectable asymmetry. This asymmetry can be caused by an asymmetric stellar photosphere and/or asymmetric envelope around the star and can be the origin of asymmetries in the subsequent planetary nebula. In this paper, we present the results of long baseline interferometric observations of the Mira-type star U Ori at 1.51 (H2O band), 1.64 (pseudocontinuum), and 1.78 (H2O band) μm in 2005. We performed model-independent image reconstruction of the envelope around the star using measured visibilities and closure phases. The images show asymmetric structure of the U Ori envelope that is similar to the structure of 22 GHz H2O masers obtained by Vlemmings et al. in 2003. Further comparison of near infrared images with available radio maps gives some evidence for differential rotation of the envelope with rotational velocities varying between 3 and 5 km s−1. Finally, we discuss the geometric and kinematic structure of the U Ori envelope based on a model of an almost face-on expanding and rotating disk around the star.


Outdoor air pollution is a killer. A recent report from the World Health Organization estimated that 3.7 million deaths per year are due to outdoor air pollution. Most of these deaths are in low and middle income countries, with China being the country that often springs to mind. However, Australia still has a relatively big air pollution problem with an estimated 3,000 deaths per year. Traffic pollution is the major contributor to urban air pollution in Australia. Extreme events, such dust storms, bushfires and the recent coal fire in Morwell, dramatically increase pollution levels (for days or weeks) and are also very hazardous to health. Australian governments in the last 30 years have committed to improving air quality, and policies have been discussed and implemented with the aim of creating cleaner air. One key policy measure is the National Environment Protection Measures for air quality. These set standards for six important outdoor pollutants. Their key goal is to create "ambient air quality that allows for the adequate protection of human health and wellbeing".


To improve and perfect the medical examination system,the establishment of medical technology,file management system that doctor's personal information so that a comprehensive,unified,centralized,easy to update and supplement information to improve the work efficiency,and objectively reflect the performance of individual doctors for the comprehensive evaluation of job performance provide a basis for a doctor,and doctor's promotion,job classification and provides more complete information,with objectivity,scientific and practical.


Considerable effort has been devoted to the development of Artificial Intelligence tools able to support the detection of fraudulent accounting reports. Published results are promising but, till the present date, the use of such research has been limited, due to the "black box" character of the developed tools and the cumbersome input task they require. The tool described in this paper solves both problems while improving specificity of diagnostics. It is based on Web Mining and on Multilayer Perceptron classifiers where a modified learning method leads to meaningful representations. Such representations are then input to a features' map where trajectories towards or away from fraud and other features are identified. The final result is a robust Web Mining-based, self-explanatory fraud detection tool. Keywords–Type of Information Mining; Knowledge Extraction; Accounting Fraud Mining.


The thesis introduces a new theoretical tool named Strategic Framework of Energy Projects designed to link fundamental aspects of international relations theory with the basic principles of energy security.


retrospective review of varicella-zoster (V-Z) infections In adult cancer patients, 766 episodes of V-Z infection were studied among 740 patients seen at a large comprehensive cancer center from 1972 to 1980. The highest risk of infection was present among patients with lymphoma and leukemia. The risk of dissemination of V-Z Infection was significantly associated with the presence of active tumor at the time of infection. The site of the primary tumor correlated with the site of subsequent zoster infection among patients with breast cancer, cancer of the respiratory tract, and gynecologic cancer. Pain attributable to V-Z Infection was present in a large majority of episodes. The median time from the completion of therapy to the onset of infection was seven months for patients receiving radiotherapy and less than one month for those receiving chemotherapy. Various attributes of this study group were compared with those of previously studied cancer and noncancer populations. (Arch Intern Med 1988;148:1561-1566) "ITaricella-zoster (V-Z) infection is usually a localized skin " disease that shows little preponderance to serious symptoms or sequelae within the general population.16 Certain subgroups of individuals have been identified, however, who may be at increased risk for V-Z infection. Factors that have been reported to define such cohorts include a previous history of cancer,6 trauma,1 surgery,1·7 increasing age,2·8 anticancer therapy,9-12 and bone marrow transplantation.1314 Patients within these cohorts may also be at higher risk for certain sequelae such as dissemination of localized infection or postherpetic pain. Among the subgroup of individuals with a history of cancer, few studies exist that characterize the features of V-Z infection within a general cancer population. In 1972, Schimpff et al9 reported on 37 patients with localized V-Z infection (hereafter referred to as zoster) and two patients with varicella among 419 cancer patients studied during a two-year period. Certain malignant neoplasms such as Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas were more often associated with V-Z infection. Furthermore, subsets of patients with Hodgkin's disease were considered at particularly high risk for infection, including those with advanced disease, and those receiving radiotherapy or chemotherapy. Guinee et al10 more recently used univariate and multivariate statistical analyses to define factors associated with increased risk of V-Z infection among patients with Hodgkin's disease. While the study of Schimpff et al9 provided useful information on various aspects of V-Z infection in cancer patients, the small number of cases precluded extensive statistical analyses. Other questions such as the character¬ istics of multiple episodes, seasonal incidence of V-Z,


The invention discloses a remote data acquisition method, which comprises the following steps that: a data acquisition parameter is set; an SCADA server transmits a data acquisition command to an intelligent instrument through a data converter every a period of time; the intelligent instrument returns the acquired data to the SCADA server through a data converter; the SCADA server checks and stores the acquired data, and judges whether the acquired data is normal, and if the acquired data is abnormal, the SCADA server transmits alarm information to a monitoring center and a client. The invention also provides a remote data acquisition system. Through the remote data acquisition method and the remote data acquisition system, the communication protocol and data transmission protocol of different equipment can be packaged into a unified interface, and the different equipment is accessed through the unified interface.


Understanding ecological dynamics has been a central topic in ecology since its origins. Yet, identifying dynamic regimes remains a research frontier for modern ecology. The concept of ecological dynamic regime emerged to emphasize the dynamic property of steady states in nature and refers to the fluctuations of ecosystems around some trend or average. Identifying and characterizing ecological dynamic regimes is of utmost importance in the current context of global change since they form the reference against which post‐disturbance dynamics must be compared to assess ecological resilience. However, the implementation of ecological dynamic regimes in empirical science is still challenging given the high dimensionality and stochasticity of ecological data and the large volume of data required to distinguish stochastic dynamics from general and predictable dynamics. The era of big data and the recent advances in quantitative ecology and data science offer an opportunity to study dynamic regimes using empirical approaches from a new perspective. This paper presents a novel methodological framework to describe ecological dynamic regimes from a set of ecological trajectories defined by the temporal changes of state variables in a multidimensional state space. In our framework, we formally define ecological dynamic regimes and include analytical tools to identify, characterize, and compare ecological dynamic regimes based on their geometric characteristics. More specifically, we propose different ways to identify ecological dynamic regimes from empirical data, develop a new algorithm to identify representative trajectories summarizing the main dynamic patterns, propose a set of metrics to describe the internal distribution of ecological trajectories, and define a dissimilarity index to compare two or more dynamic regimes based on their shape and position in the state space. We used artificial data to illustrate the different elements of our framework, and applied our analyses to real data, using permanent sampling plots of Canadian boreal forests as an example. Overall, our framework contributes to filling the gap between theoretical and empirical ecology by providing robust analytical tools to assess ecological resilience and study ecosystem dynamics from a multidimensional perspective and considering the variability of natural systems.


To the Editor:

I am a practicing physical therapist in a private orthopedic and sports medicine practice in downtown Manhattan. In my practice, a vast majority of my patients have cervical, scapular, and thoracic pain as well as headaches with related trigger points throughout the scapular musculature. In reviewing the literature and attempting to expand my expertise in this area, I have found a disappointingly sparse amount of research focusing on the treatment of myofascial trigger points. Because of this, I was excited to find "Effectiveness of a Home Program of Ischemic Pressure Followed by Sustained Stretch for Treatment of Myofascial Trigger Points" by Hanten et al in the October 2000 issue of Physical Therapy .

As a physical therapist, I am fully aware of the pressure that third-party payers place on our practice patterns and patient care, many times forcing us to treat patients for a shorter period of time than our better judgment would otherwise dictate. In keeping with Hanten and colleagues' statements, I am also in favor of involving my patients in their treatment as much as possible through home exercise programs and patient education. I feel that doing so is as important as any other element of the care we provide for all diagnoses, especially in orthopedics.

I believe that Dr Hanten and his colleagues used sound research and data analysis. Their results are important to our profession and should lead to further study in this area. I find a problem, however, with the statements in the conclusion of the article. The authors stated, "Our results indicate that clinicians can manage neck and upper …


Modeling plasmas in fluid codes is essentially limited to the region of plasma quasi- neutrality since, due to their high thermodynamic equilibrium, fluid models near the plasma boundaries fail. Recently a concept of the polytropic coeffi cient function, which is a local quantity (rather than a constant, as usually assumed in plasma physics), has been introduced by Kuhn et al. (Phys. Plasmas 13, 013503 (2006)) . This concept has been already applied to the Tonks-Langmuir discharges in the case of ions created in plasma from a cold ion source, yet, due to the non-reliability of the existing models never to the important case with finite ion sources. Recently a highly reliable solution of the plasma equation with finite temperature in the limit e � λD=`= 0 (where λD is the Debye length andis a proper characteristic length of the discharge) has been reported by Kos et al. (Phys. Plasmas 16, 093503 (2009)). Unlike previous Bissell-Johnson models (Phys. Fluids 30, 779 (1987)), the validity of which was limited to the rather narrow ranges of ion source temperatures, with the model by Kos et al. this range is unlimited and solutions are obtained with a high reliability and in a high resolution. Here we employ this model to find relevant plasma parameters a t the sheath edge. Special attention is given to the fluid Bohm criterion, which with the ion polytropic coefficient function turns out to be exact. It shows that a kinetic generalization of this criterion might be disregarded for practical purposes.


The aim of this paper is to present both the main parts of the designing and the implementation of a useful and user-friendly electronic tool, the Greek grammar checker. This tool carries out the function of analyzing morphologically and syntactically sentences, phrases, and words in order to correct syntactic, grammatical, and stylistic errors ([Iordanidou, 1999][1], [2004][2]). Our premise in order to deal with all these issues is the settings of Grammar (adaptation of Little Modern Grammar of Manolis Triantafyllidis), which is the formal grammatical codification of Modern Greek, since 1976 ([Triantafyllidis, 1991][3]). This paper also presents the formalism used (the Mnemosyne), a formalism that handles with the particularities of the Greek language that hinder the computational processing. This formalism has already been used to identify multi-word terms and to phrase grammars, aiming to automatically extract information. We tested the Greek grammar checker by giving texts that were to be evaluated both to the grammar checker and to a person. In the majority of cases, the human corrector accuracy is almost equal to the grammar checker one. As far as mistakes that have to do with the coherence of the text or with meaning are concerned, the human corrector was the only accurate corrector, not the grammar checker one ([Gakis, 2015][4]).

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The Taiwan Light Source (TLS) has been operated in the Top-up mode since October 2005 and has maintained a beam current of 360mA since 2010. Several essential parameters and waveforms are constantly recorded as routine accelerator operation reference. Therefore, five LabVIEW-based data and waveform logging software programs have been developed for the purpose of preliminary diagnose at the TLS. In this report, certain actual cases in regular operation are presented.


As European governments adopt new circular built environment policies to cope with the socio-ecological crisis, the need for evaluating such policies gains in urgency. Ex post evaluation is, however, difficult as these policies have not been in place long enough to have had significant effects. Nonetheless, ex ante policy evaluation may be possible by assessing policy coherence or the alignment and synergies of policy goals, instruments and implementation practices. This paper proposes a framework to analyse circular built environment policies. This framework is based on a combination of two existing analytical frameworks: circular city development and policy coherence analysis. The framework is tested for the case of a circular built environment in campus development at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, which is regarded as an urban development proxy. Policy documents and semi-structured interviews were analysed and coded. Results confirm previous findings about a prevailing focus on looping actions and indicates limited policy instrumentalisation across governance levels. Identified multilevel (in)coherence in circular city policy is pointed out as consequence of siloed-led and supply chain-based thinking and underdeveloped circular policy frameworks. Finally, the analytical benefits of circular city development and policy coherence frameworks are discussed.
Policy relevance
Circular economy policies are conceptually limited in delivering a more circular city and built environment. By proposing and testing a circular city policy coherence framework, this article reveals the limited effect of circular economy policies in coping with unsustainable urbanisation. Policymaking and implementation for circularity in the built environment require frameworks that embrace urban complexities instead of reductionist approaches seeing the built environment as a mere agglomeration of supply-chains. Policymakers may use the proposed circular city policy coherence framework as a tool for ex ante policy evaluation in diverse areas of urban development, and specifically for built environment interventions. The combination of both content- and process-based frameworks enables the identification of possible (in)coherence in current and future policy goals, instruments and implementation practices. This can improve policy in early stages of implementation and create more effective policy outputs and outcomes in the long term.


According to the data of the fifth national forest resources continual investigation,the paper analysised Jiangxi Province forest resources current situation.Throuth the anaylsis,the authors provided some countermeasures of forest management from improving forest quality and forest land productive forces,adjusting inner structure of commercial forest,protesting exploiting reasonably forest tourism resources and strengthening the value worth research of forest resouces.


Presenteeism (attending work despite complaints and ill health, which should prompt rest and absence) has been overlooked in the field of hand eczema.


??The number of centenarians (people aged 100 years and over) across the industrialised world has been growing at an increasing rate since the 1950s1. At the start of the 20th century, Scottish centenarians were extremely rare, but by the start of the 21st century, there were estimated to be over 500 people aged 100 or over in Scotland. Since the 1950s, centenarians have been growing at a faster rate than any other age group.


Parent ZSM-5 and Ga-modified ZSM-5 catalysts with different Si/Al ratios and particle sizes were prepared. The physicochemical properties of the prepared catalysts were investigated by performing X-ray powder diffraction analysis, BET surface area analysis, and NH3-TPD analysis. The performance of the aromatization reaction of the prepared catalysts was evaluated with 1-hexane as a model compound. The zeolite catalysts with a low SiO2/Al2O3 ratio possessed better activity than those with a high SiO2/Al2O3 ratio. Ga modification significantly improved the catalyst aromatization selectivity. Through aromatization, the acid sites of Ga-modified nano-sized zeolites promoted the selective conversion of produced olefin to aromatics by removing H-atoms. For the parent ZSM-5 and Ga-modified catalysts, the catalyst stability increased with an increase in the SiO2/Al2O3 molar ratio. The nano-sized ZSM-5 catalyst with a high SiO2/Al2O3 ratio exhibited better catalytic stability than the microscale ZSM-5, and the nano-sized catalyst with a low SiO2/Al2O3 ratio showed very low stability.


By the methods of mathematical statistics and comparative analysis,this paper analyzed the recent 45 years meteorological data and the status of grassland desertification,degenerated area,and vegetation growth on Hulunbeier sandy land.Overall,the climate condition on Hulunbeier sandy land had a warming and drying trend.The air temperature increased with year,precipitation decreased,evaporation increased,and extreme weather events occurred more frequently,which made the area of mobile sand increased and the vegetation cover decreased.Satellite remote-sensing monitoring and general investigation of desertification over the country further indicated that the desertification on Hulunbeier sandy land was expanding,and the ecological environment was deteriorating.The decreased days with strong wind and sandstorm year after year would be beneficial to the ecological protection and construction of this area.Since the 1980s,the management of desertification has been strengthened by the local governments at all levels in desert regions,and the vegetation recovery was quite quickly on partial sandy land.


This study aimed to assess the reading curriculum in Philippine basic education. It specifically focused on determining the reading competencies, the approaches in reading instruction and assessments before and during COVID-19, and the alignment of the written and intended to the implemented and assessed curriculum. This qualitative research employed the following data gathering techniques: document analysis, online focus group discussion, and constructive alignment checklist. Findings reveal that the basic education curriculum includes reading competencies categorized into text processing and task management competencies. In terms of the reading levels, it was found that there are more instructional readers than independent readers in basic education. Further, a number of students from different year levels, including in the secondary level, were also found to be non-readers. Regarding the approaches to reading instruction and assessment, the approaches were more extensive, varied, and teacher-directed before the COVID-19 pandemic involving class and group dynamics, while in the new normal, teachers employed self-paced/independent reading using printed modules and a few digital reading resources. Finally, the curriculum assessment reveals that there is generally a low alignment between the written, assessed, and delivered curriculum in reading. This implies that there are learning outcomes specified in the K-12 curriculum guide that have not been processed and assessed by teachers.


Environmental studies on river basins are fundamental to understanding the natural resources use and the problems related to the space occupation. In Sergipe, it is necessary to obtain information for planning purposes and future management of their watersheds, once the watercourses volume and its quality are reducing gradually, which are essential for human supply and use in agriculture and industry. Due to the accelerated removal of vegetation in the river Poxim sub-basin, formed by the Poxim-Mirim, Poxim-Acu, Pitanga rivers, and its small tributaries, a diagnosis was carried out to verify the conservation status of their main sources, the situation on the water flow, the different uses, and land use around these sources and the remaining vegetation physiognomic types. The information is useful for carrying out environmental restoration projects, promoting improvements in the environment and in the rural communities and for the flora and fauna diversity rescue in these areas. It was observed that the 20 rivers sources top and tributaries that compose the river Poxim sub-basin showed changes from accelerated human anthropization (90%), most (65%) with high degradation (no vegetation in the minimum radius of 50 m), being occupied by agriculture (50%) and pastures (35%). Only two sources were preserved. The floristic composition, the identified species (43) can be used in future projects for sources and watercourses restoration in this sub-basin.


The study room is where the people doing their work. They spend most of the time after coming back from office especially for working adult. Furthermore, furniture in study room also plays a very important role in perform some activities like sleeping, relaxing or reclining. Furniture in study room not just for use only but it must have an aesthetic value. The research provides an attempt to redesign an existing normal shape of home chair into organic concept that have a aesthetic value and it can be use in a multi way of sitting posture. Out of several furniture in study room that can be listed, only one of furniture being focused through certain justification. Several of method being used such as observation, literature review, peer review and reference implemented in this study. Quantitative method was used to get the final concept of the product. The finding suggests that the home chair need to have a multi way of sitting posture and ergonomic to sit in multi way of position. Also the furniture must have an aesthetic value in terms of form and shape. Most of the existing home chair just have a simple shape and not more than just for one purpose. In a nutshell, the organic concept would be suitable to apply in designing hybrid chair in study room area with multi way of sitting posture.


The rapid change of technological and human-machine co-evolutionary processes due to smart working and smart industries, present several issues that are also influencing the world of e-learning systems. Nowadays is quite hard to distinguish between learning spaces/systems/organizations and working organizations especially when smart working and tele-monitoring are becoming widespread. In this work we analyze smart learning concepts that are leading to a new emerging scenario in which the distinction between learning and working activities is dynamic and in evolution. In particular we present an integrated smart learning model called EcoPolytechnic which aims to redesigns the organization model of a Polytechnic by introducing several concepts of agile learning and project-based learning. The model is built upon the notion of smart learning cell that replaces in a flexible and sustainable way the notion of set of courses and can be used in a better way in smart learning scenarios. The result is a complete and easy to be configured smart learning organization system for which a comparative analysis is carried out. The benefits in terms of innovation and adaptive learning performance are given by using agile learning analysis.


Due to the nature of its operations, the transportation industry in itself is a potential source of danger. In case of unlawful aggressive intrusions the danger becomes real and fraught with grave consequences. The statistics of the last 10 to 15 years show that 50 to 70% of accomplished terrorist attacks were associated with transportation. Individual measures cannot ensure transportation security. The problem must be approached comprehensively and systemically. Transportation security greatly contributes to the national security of the Russian Federation. The Federal Law of February 9, 2007 no. 16-FZ On transportation security, for the first time in Russian practice, raised the question of securing the entire transportation industry of the Russian Federation, established the legal foundations of the activities related to the protection of transportation infrastructure and vehicles against acts of unlawful interference, including those of terrorist nature. For the first time, a single systemic approach to anti-terrorist protection is provided for all means of transportation. The transportation industry is quite vulnerable to terrorist attacks. We are talking about vehicles, transportation lines, stations, vehicles carrying dangerous loads. The vulnerability of transportation is due to the possibility of damage to signalling, automation and communication assets, whose protection is complicated due to the scale and extent of Russia's railways. Despite the problems and objective difficulties related to the legislation in the area of transportation security, the workers of the Russian railway industry make their best effort to ensure protection of transportation infrastructure and vehicles against acts of unlawful interference. Promptly reacting to other challenges and threats, they ensure reliable operation of the transportation industry, thus preserving the peace and safety of our citizens. This paper examines matters related to ensuring efficient safety of transportation infrastructure. A significant emphasis is placed on the systems that enable detection of intrusions into protected areas of a facility.


The production of shapes in bony structures, in particular, a cavity for an artificial hip-joint, is always complicated when the shape has to have a non-circular cross-section. A surgical instrument with a linear drive (8) and a linearly displaceable shaping tool (9) is disclosed, whereby the linear drive (8) is embodied for an oscillating and recoil-damped movement and has on one side a quick-fit coupling (10) for mounting the shaping tool (9) and, on the other side, an instrument mounting unit (5), for connection to an instrument support unit (1) of a robot. Furthermore, the instrument mounting unit (5) is equipped with a force-moment sensor for regulating the forward motion.


Inexact Newton Methods are widely used to solve systems of nonlinear equations. The convergence of these methods is controlled by the relative linear tolerance, $\eta_\nu$, that is also called the forcing term. A very small $\eta_\nu$ may lead to oversolving the Newton equation. Practical reservoir simulation uses inexact Newton methods with fixed forcing term, usually in the order of $10^{-3}$ or $10^{-4}$. Alternatively, variable forcing terms for a given inexact Newton step have proved to be quite successful in reducing the degree of oversolving in various practical applications. The cumulative number of linear iterations is usually reduced, but the number of nonlinear iterations is usually increased. We first present a review of existing inexact Newton methods with various forcing term estimates and then we propose improved estimates for $\eta_\nu$. These improved estimates try to avoid as much as possible oversolving when the iterate is far from the solution and try to enforce quadratic convergence in the neighbourhood of the solution. Our estimates reduce the total linear iterations while only resulting in few extra Newton iterations. We show successful applications to fully-coupled three-phase and multi-component multiphase models in isothermal and thermal steam reservoir simulation as well as a real deep offshore west-African field with gas re-injection using the reference CPR-AMG iterative linear solver.


Background. According to the literature data, long-term and poorly controlled hypertension (HTN) leads to target organs damage, and in some cases, to the development of associated diseases, the severity of which in men may be partly due to the characteristics of the androgenic status.The aim: to reveal the features of hormonal indicators of androgen status and their relationship with the anthropometric and metabolic characteristics of the therapeutic clinic male patients, depending on the severity of HTN.Materials and methods. 296 men aged 59,0 [54,0; 65,0] years with confirmed HTN were examined. All study participants in the morning on an empty stomach underwent anthropometry, determination of metabolic and androgenic status, and assessment of comorbid burden. Depending on the severity of hypertension, all patients were divided into two groups (G): G1 (n = 134) – patients with hypertension without a history of coronary artery disease or stroke; G2 (n = 162) – patients with hypertension with a history of ischemic heart disease (IHD) and/or stroke.Results. In male patients of G2 with severe HTN, a decrease in the levels of free testosterone (FT) and, to a greater extent, dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-S), as well as total cholesterol, high and low density lipoproteins, was revealed. The correlation analysis performed revealed statistically significant negative correlations between the levels of total testosterone (TT) and FT with body mass index, the value of the ratio of waist circumference to hips, only the level of FT – with the presence of IHD, chronic heart failure (CHF), disorders of carbohydrate metabolism and abdominal type of fat distribution, and the level of DHEA-S – with the presence of IHD and CHF.Conclusion. A decrease in FT and DHEA-S is associated with early progression of atherosclerosis and the risk of developing HTN-associated cardiovascular events, which can aggravate the course of HTN.


Chronic cough is a common respiratory disease,we integrated the domestic literature on the etiology and pathogenesis of chronic cough and treatment profiles summarize the clinical level to improve the diagnosis and treatment of chronic cough to provide evidence. The cause of longer duration,so the pathogenesis is complex,with the evils of the invasion and dysfunctional organs close. There are theories of traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment of chronic cough and rich clinical experience systems,because cough phenotype,its complex syndromes,therefore,need diagnosis and treatment of the disease,we cough variant asthma(CVA),upper airway cough syndrome(UACS),eosinophilic bronchitis(EB),gastroesophageal reflux cough(GERC)4 kind of cough are discussed,mostly internal organs for the program currently conducted type of treatment,or on the basis of dialectical proposed a basic side treating. Combined on the basis of diagnosis and treatment of different causes of Western medicine dialectical combination of treatment with disease,good effect,is worth promoting. But due to the complexity of the pathogenesis of chronic cough,longer duration,clinical treatment is difficult,therefore,when clinical disease should stick to prescription or apply some type of,when the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine syndrome differentiation combined with the core in order to achieve therapeutic purposes.


Research background: Managers of the companies intentionally manipulate business earnings to achieve the required status of the company. Earnings management is a legal and widely preferred phenomenon of business finance that financial managers use to maintain and improve the company´s competitiveness. The consequence of these activities is to provide a positive view for the owners, encourage the profitability for the creditor and the investors as well as demonstrate economic strengths to competitors. Consequently, these activities lead to the modification of financial statements of the companies, which have a direct impact on the prediction ability of bankruptcy models.
Purpose of the article: The main goal of the paper is to point out the impact of earnings management in the companies on the possibility and ability of bankruptcy prediction. There is a correlation between application of earnings management in companies followed by changes in financial statements of the companies. Therefore, the ability of bankruptcy prediction models to predict possible financial problems of the company is questionable.
Methods: The paper presents the connection of earnings management and its impact on bankruptcy prediction based on the bibliometric overview and deep literature review.
Findings & Value added: The paper presents results, connections and impact of earnings management on bankruptcy prediction.


A little over 4 yr ago, Admiral James D. Watkins became Secretary of Energy. President Bush, who had appointed him, informed Watkins that his principal task would be to clean up the nuclear weapons complex and put the US Department of Energy (DOE) back in the business of producing tritium for the nation's nuclear deterrent. Watkins recognized that in order to achieve these objectives, he would have to substantially improve the DOE's safety culture. Safety culture is a relatively new term. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) used it in a 1986 report on the root causes of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. In 1990, the IAEA's International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group issued a document focusing directly on safety culture. It provides guidelines to the international nuclear community for measuring the effectiveness of safety culture in nuclear organizations. Safety culture has two principal aspects: an organizational framework conducive to safety and the necessary organizational and individual attitudes that promote safety. These obviously go hand in hand. An organization must create the right framework to foster the right attitudes, but individuals must have the right attitudes to create the organizational framework that will support a good safety culture. The difficulty in developingmore » such a synergistic relationship suggests that achieving and sustaining a strong safety culture is not easy, particularly in an organization whose safety culture is in serious disrepair.« less


A series of 2-(4-alkoxyphenyl)-5-p-tolyl-1,3,4-thiadiazole derivatives 2a–2h were synthesised efficiently under microwave irradiation and solvent-free conditions. The thermal properties were determined using polarised optical microscopy (POM), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). All these compounds exhibited enantiotropic liquid crystal properties with wide mesomorphic temperature ranges and good thermal stability. Compounds 2a–2f with short alkoxy chain (n = 1–6) all exhibited an enantiotropic nematic mesophase, while both nematic and smectic C mesophases were observed in compounds 2g (n = 7) and 2h (n = 8) with longer alkoxy spacer. The effect of the length of the alkoxy chain on liquid crystal properties is discussed in this paper.


The purpose of our study is to determine the Glycemic Indexes (GIs)of three Algerians varieties of dates in healthy subjects, evaluate the satiety and effect on arterial pressure after their consumption. We have first documented the chemical composition of the dates. 10 healthy subjects consumed the dates (carbohydrates content of 50 g) in order to determine the GIs. The responses of glycaemia were monitored during two hours after the dates taking and compared to the reference glucose. In a randomized trial, 20 healthy adults consumed the dates after 12h of fast. We reported the level of satiety on a Visual Analog Scale for 2h further to the ingestion of the dates. Furthermore, 28 normotensive and 45 hypertensive individuals ingested the three varieties in randomized order during 21 days to assess their impact on the Pressure Arterial Systolic (PAS) and Pressure Arterial Diastolic (PAD). We noted significant differences (p<0.05) for the different fractions of sugars, soluble fibers, polyphenols, K + , Mg 2+ . The low GIs are denoted among 44.31-52.35, deducting a moderate impact on blood glucose level. The dates reduced hunger and increased satiety. Our varieties studied following their ingestion induced a significant hypotensive activity (p<0.05)on the PAS and, PAD from hypertensive subjects.


Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is prominent and effective in making use of limited road resources, improving the public transport capacity and settling traffic jams. Signal priority is the core technology to improve the operating efficiency of BRT. When bringing BRT priority into effect, how to minimize the influence on the whole intersection is the main objective of signal priority control strategy study. This article puts forward a cycle-flexible actuated control method which can improve the operating efficiency of the whole intersection compared with the present cycle-fixed actuated control method. Taking an intersection of a BRT line 1 in Beijing as a case study, a simulation model was built by traffic simulation software VISSIM. The simulation outputs of actuated control method were contrasted with the present signal control, and the results indicate that cycle-flexible actuated control method improved the operation efficiency of vehicles of other phases compared with the cycle-fixed actuated control method. This control method exerts positive effects on improving the operational efficiency of the entire intersection of BRT signal priority.


Map shows six continents, major cities, and the trans-Atlantic cable with the north pole at the center of the map; the northern hemisphere as a full circle and the southern hemisphere in sections. Scale [1:185,000,000].


Anti-corruption is an important life-or-death struggle of our Party and country. The regime can be held any more if the corruption is rampancy. We should realize profoundly the strictness of present anti-corruption situation and work out the effective prevention and inspection system so as to stick anti-corruption struggle out.


Designed for residents and practicing ophthalmologists, this multiauthored text edited by Dr Karcioglu is intended to "detail in step-by-step fashion those laboratory procedures that supplement clinical and radiological observations in reaching a diagnosis." The first section of the book is devoted to anatomic pathology. Chapter 1 by R. Jean Campbell is an excellent, concise review of eyelid and conjunctival lesions. Dr Karcioglu discusses orbital lesions in chapter 2 and, with the collaboration of Barrett Haik, intraocular tumors in chapter 3. However, the book does not discuss the histopathology of the cornea or lens, although corneal buttons and cataracts are common ocular specimens in many surgical pathology laboratories. "[It] give[s] the practicing ophthalmologist access to clinical laboratory information that is not readily available elsewhere." In chapter 4, the application of new immunopathologic techniques to ocular diagnosis is reviewed in a scholarly and rigorous fashion by L. David Ormerod, Delia Sang, and