1. Paul VI, EvangeliiNuntiandi (Apostolic Exhortation, 1975) n. 18. See also n. 4. After an extensive search, little research was discovered pertaining to the connection between evangelization and the conscience. Even essays that have come to print since the appearance of EvangeliiNuntiandi fail to look at the specific connection between conscience and evangelization. Regis Duffy wrote an essay highlighting the cultural challenges one encounters in trying to evangelize conscience, but he did not specifically look at the dynamic of the conscience being evangelized. Regis Duffy, "Evangelization and the American Culture: Proclaiming the Good News in a New Key," pp. 121ff. in Kenneth Boyack, ed., Catholic Evangelization Today: A New PentecostjOrtheUnitedStates(NY: Paulist, 1987).See also Bede McGregor, 0.1'., "Commentary on Evangelii Nuntiandi" in Austin Flannery, ed., Evangelization Today (NY: Costello, 1977). 2. See, for example, Evangelium Vitae, wherein he explores a western culture that "lives as if God does not exist," n. 22.Also, Crossing the ThresholdofHope(New York:Knopf, 1994),p. 115. I want toanalyze whatit couldmean to evangelize the conscience, OJ; using themore currenttermof John PaulII, to reevangelize the conscience.


The valuation of ecosystem services can play an important role in conservation planning and ecosystem-based management. Unfortunately, gathering primary, site-specific data is costly. As a result, a popular alternate method is to conduct a "benefit transfer" (applying economic value estimates from one location to a similar site in another location). Among the potential pitfalls of such an approach, the correspondence (or lack thereof) between the locations is probably the most important for evaluating the probable validity of the benefit transfer. A common type of benefit transfer in ecosystem service valuation applies an estimate of value per hectare to all areas having the same land-cover or habitat type, and is particularly susceptible to errors resulting from lack of correspondence. Enhancing the use of benefit transfers in this and other ecosystem service applications requires paying closer attention to simple guidelines, developed by economists, for improving validity and accuracy.


The paper deals with the manifestation of nonlinear properties of granular materials. In addition, the analysis the possibility to take into account the influence of the geogrid on the strength characteristics of the layer is made. For a numerical experiment, a pavement structure was chosen. It was designed in accordance with the calculation methodology existing in Russia and consisting of three layers of asphalt concrete, a base layer of granular incoherent materials and a base layer of sand. For a comparative analysis of the methodology, the specified structure was also designed using the algorithm that takes into account the stress-deformed state of granular particles in the bearing course layer using a mechanic-empirical model for the determination of the elastic modulus. The topic was further justified by appropriate structural calculations, taking into account the influence of a geogrid placed above the underlying layer, both in accordance with the current legal document and according to the proposed method, which is based on the change in horizontal compressive stresses in terms of the geogrid operation. The comparison of the results showed that the current method for the design of road pavements is not enough to reflect the effect of the use of a geogrid on the strength of the structure during the calculation and, in general, underestimates the requirements for the strength of pavements.


Kenya is encountering many challenges. One of them includes the tendency of manipulating ethnic identities for private interest. We can grasp the root causes of the prevailing ethno-political violence insofar as we take seriously the following questions. How is ethnic identity related to the conflict of loyalties and interests? How have the dynamics of ethnic identities fashioned the existing understanding of the common good and political life? Have Christian churches managed to stand above ethnocentrism and the tension it generates? In search for long-term solutions to these questions this study shows how ill-founded methodologies tend to sideline equal citizenship among citizens in favor of the model of exclusion founded upon ethnocentrism. The challenge of integrating cultural identities in the processes of political integration and democratization is closely related to the problematic concepts of nation-state, citizenship, and common good.


Nowadays there are many novels that have been published in Indonesia. One of the novels is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone that is written by J.K. Rowling. This novel is so popular not only in Indonesia but also in the world. This novel has been sold more than six million copies and has been translated more than six languages. Apart from that, I want to have deeper analysis about this novel. The problems in this study are: (1) What elements of the novel do relate with main character's early development and, (2) What effects does setting of place do on main character's  early development? This is qualitative descriptive study. The data of this thesis was collected by reading the novel thoroughly and comprehensively. Then, the elements of novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone were written down on individual notes. This novel is analyzed with the structural approach. The structural approach is an approach that finds the relationship among the various components of systems. From components of system and the relations among that system, the structural approach can understand the beauty of literary works. Based on the problems of the study, the result of this study are: the elements of Harry Potter and Sorcerer's Stone  that relate with the main character's early development are setting, character and characterization. The effects of setting of place does on the main character's early development is  Harry Potter becomes unsure about his wizard abilities that he had since he was a baby. Wizard world awakes his abilities totally and makes him dare to face Lord Voldemort. Based on the result above I suggest the next research to analyze the next series of Harry Potter for example Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secret. The next research can analyze the character and characterization of Harry Potter by compares it in the first novel with the second novel.


Abstract Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease which usually affects women of reproductive age and may coexist with pregnancy. Its multisystem involvement and therapeutic interventions pose a high risk for both mother and the foetus. Therefore obstetrician should know about their effects on pregnancy and vice-versa and the therapeutic options available for optimizing maternal and foetal outcome. Keywords: IUGR; LMWH; Proteinuria


We review the potential of graphene in ultra-high speed circuits. To date, most of high-frequency graphene circuits typically consist of a single transistor integrated with a few passive components. The development of multi-transistor graphene integrated circuits operating at GHz frequencies can pave the way for applications in which high operating speed is traded off against power consumption and circuit complexity. Novel vertical and planar devices based on a combination of graphene and layered materials could broaden the scope and performances of future devices.


According to the practice of implementing the credit system in PCCC,this paper ana- lyzes the influences on teaching management from implementing the credit system in college,devel- ops some specific ways on strengthening second-level teaching management and enhancing teaching quality and puts forward some issues to solve.


Given a simply connected domain , the cellular decompositions for approximation, whose faces are not necessarily triangles, are produced by a family of Delaunay circle patterns. The regularities of cellular decompositions and associated volume cellular decompositions are derived by the properties of circle patterns. The discrete Dirichlet problems for Poisson equations with these cellular decompositions are defined by means of finite volume techniques. Based on the regularities of decompositions, the error estimate between the discrete solutions in these cellular decompositions and the classical one in is obtained in terms of discrete seminorms and it is proved that these discrete solutions converge in and to the exact solution, respectively.


The digitalisation of the economy required the training of specialists with competencies to develop and implement digital technologies. The purpose of the study is to characterise the digital educational environment as a tool for improving the university's academic personnel's skills. The study's methodological basis was the digital approach, which provides digital content as an objective condition for personal and continuing professional development in the digital economy. The study's main results are to identify and scientifically substantiate the structural components of the digital educational environment (content, technology, administrative), criteria for evaluating its effectiveness (pedagogical, subject, innovative). The content component provides for the focus of content on the development of competencies. Technology component includes software that allows you to organise continuing professional development using distance learning technologies. The administrative component provides for the possibility of offline training. Criteria (pedagogical, professional, innovative) allow us to assess the digital educational environment's effectiveness in developing pedagogical culture, professional competencies, and abilities to innovations. The research limitations are in a random sample of respondents. Practical significance is the experience of organising professional development with the use of a digital educational environment. The research's uniqueness substantiates the digital educational environment as a multidimensional and multifunctional reality characterised by continuity, processability, and openness for the effective tasks' solution.


An Rb2CoSi5O12 leucite analogue has been synthesized. An ambient temperature X-ray powder diffraction study shows that this analogue has the Pbca orthorhombic structure of Cs2CdSi5O12. A high temperature X-ray powder diffraction study on this analogue shows a Pbca orthorhombic to cubic phase transition at 457 K. The Rb2CoSi5O12 unit cell volume initially decreases with increasing temperature on passing through this phase transition.


Principal recruitment has attracted national and international attention in recent years (eg. Barty et al, 2005 in Australia; Earley et al, 2002 in the UK; Brooking et al, 2003 in New Zealand; Williams, 2003 in Canada). Importantly, Australian research in both state and non-state schools suggests that potential principal aspirants are less enthusiastic than might be expected in their desire to become principals (D'Arbon et al, 2002; Cranston et al, 2004; Lacey, 2002). Given the importance of ensuring we have quality leaders for our schools in the future, the research reported here (which is on-going) examined the views of potential aspirants (primary and secondary deputy principals) from one large government education system in Australia about the principalship and their intentions in seeking promotion (or otherwise) to such positions and the reasons driving these intentions. Data were collected via the Aspiring Principals Questionnaire (APQ) – especially developed for the study – comprising 38 closed items mainly of a Likert-type format, 5 open-ended items linked to particular closed items allowing participants to add their own suggestions/ideas, expand/elaborate on responses; and 4 further more general open-ended items. A number of system-level policy and practice recommendations have been developed from the findings.


East Asia was hit by a severe financial crisis in 1997. The crisis led to a proliferation of research on the exchange rate regimes and financial stability in the region. A large literature suggested that East Asian economies should move toward exchange rate coordination and monetary integration. However, there is no explicit form of policy coordination to date. The inconsistency between actual exchange rate behavior and research that suggested monetary integration comprises the motivation of this thesis. It may complement the existing literature about the degree and the pattern of economic integration in the region and help shed light on how far the region is from being economically feasible to initiate monetary integration. The thesis is divided into seven chapters. Chapter 1 is the Introduction which described the research background, the definition of monetary integration, the research questions, the methodologies, and the structure of the thesis. Chapters 2 to 6 are five essays centering on the topic of exchange rates and monetary integration in East Asia. The main findings of the five essays are summarized as follows. Chapter 2 provided a literature review on exchange rates and monetary integration in the region. Although considerable research has been devoted to the topic, little attention has been paid to a number of issues: (i) research on the evolution of exchange rate regimes in the region after 2004 is relatively rare; (ii) it is still not clear about the implications of the original sin hypothesis for monetary integration in the region; (iii) little is known about the impact of vertical intra-industry trade on the correlation of business cycles, one of the most important criteria of monetary integration, among East Asian economies. Chapter 3 explored the evolution of the de facto exchange rate regimes in the region over 2003–2014. Based on a seemingly unrelated regression model, the empirical results are three-fold: (i) the exchange rate regimes in the region changed considerably over time; (ii) the role of the US dollar became more important during the recent global financial crisis; (iii) average correlation among exchange rates of East Asian currencies increased over time even after controlling for the effect of potentially important international and regional currencies including the US dollar, the euro and the Japanese yen. The results imply the important unobserved common factor that influenced the daily movements of exchange rates of East Asian economies, which might serve as another indicator of increased economic linkages in the region. Chapter 4 examined the original sin hypothesis and analyzed whether the elimination of "original sin" through monetary integration could be viewed as a benefit for monetary integration in East Asia. The empirical analysis using a panel dataset, based on a random effects tobit model, revealed that it was rather hard for all East Asian emerging markets to eliminate "original sin" through domestic policies within the intermediate term. The relation between "original sin" and currency mismatch was also checked based on the available data. Although on average economies with higher level of "original sin" were likely to have bigger pressure of currency mismatch over the past decade, there was no direct relationship between the annual variation of the level of "original sin" and that of currency mismatch. Combining the experience of the 2008 euro area crisis, this research suggests that there is no direct relationship between monetary integration and strengthened financial stability through the elimination of "original sin" in the region. Chapter 5 focused on the impact of vertical intra-industry trade on the correlation of business cycles in the region. This analysis used the threshold method to divide trade into inter-industry trade, vertical intra-industry trade and horizontal intra-industry trade. Using a fixed effects model and a random effects model, the empirical analysis found that the rise of vertical intra-industry trade from the 1990s until the recent global financial crisis strengthened the correlation of business cycles in the region because it increased total intra-industry trade (not because it increased the share of vertical intra-industry trade in intra-industry trade). The recent global financial crisis strongly affected the region; the average share of vertical intra-industry trade and intra-industry trade as a whole declined. Moreover, the crisis brought a temporary halt to the increased synchronization of business cycles among East Asian economies from 2003 to 2007. Chapter 6 extended the analysis of the suitability of monetary integration in East Asia to other evidence by examining other optimum currency areas criteria and real effective exchange rates. The first part of the chapter found that capital mobility increased considerably compared to two decades ago. Nevertheless, capital market integration process was affected by the recent global financial crisis. The second part of the chapter evaluated the suitability of monetary integration in the region using real effective exchange rates. In a vector autoregressive model, granger causality tests showed that a subgroup of East Asian economies seemed to be more closely associated. Chapter 7 presented the conclusions. The thesis concluded that economic linkages among East Asian economies increased significantly during the past years. Although there is still no explicit form of exchange rate coordination and monetary integration in the region to date, economic forces that increased the desirability of monetary integration accumulated rapidly in the region.


A procedure to calculate capacitance-voltage (C-V) characteristics from numerical solutions of the Poisson equation for metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) capacitors with traps located both at the oxide/semiconductor interface and in the semiconductor is presented. This method is tested for the simple case of a uniform distribution of a single acceptor or donor level in the semiconductor, for which an approximate analytical solution was derived by analogy with the results obtained for a Schottky diode within the depletion approximation. This method is then applied to model the high-frequency C-V curves of n-type 4H- and 6H-SiC MOS capacitors, which show a kink at depletion bias voltages that broadens with decreasing temperature below 150 K. This feature of the high-frequency capacitance occurs at the same temperature and voltage range as a signal detected by constant capacitance deep-level-transient spectroscopy (CCDLTS) measurements and attributed to SiC traps. When only interface traps are considered, the ...


The development of an energy efficiency programme has many direct and indirect benefits. It can significantly reduce a manufacturer's energy use per unit of output, and thus the unit costs to ensure persistent profitability, and it can lead to markedly improved operational and financial information such as activity-based costing, as Mark Venables discovers


In a solid-state circuit QED system, we extend the previous study of generating and stabilizing a two-qubit Bell state [Phys. Rev. A 82, 032335 (2010)] to a three-qubit GHZ state. In a dispersive regime, we employ the homodyne joint readout for multiple qubits to infer the state for further processing, and in particular we use it to stabilize the state directly by means of an alternate-flip-interrupted Zeno (AFIZ) scheme. Moreover, the state-of-the-art feedback action based on the filtered current enables not only a deterministic generation of the pre-GHZ state in the initial stage, but also a fast recovery from occasional error in the later stabilization process. We show that the proposed scheme can maintain the state with high fidelity if the efficient quantum measurement and rapid single-qubit rotations are available.


- Amla ( Emblica officinalis ) is the most celebrated herb of traditional systems of medicine in Asia particularly in South and Southeast Asia and is Called Amalaki or Dhatriphala in Sanskrit. The tree is found in all deciduous forests throughout the Indian subcontinent. Amla is a commonly used ingredient in most of the Ayurvedic preparations in the form of Fresh Fruits, Dried Fruits, Fruit Pulp or as Extract. Chyavnaprash which constitutes 70% 0f the Amla formulations is immune enhancer and a health tonic for both Children and Elders. The eminence of amla is so well recognised in Ayurveda that all the famous ancient texts have discussed its preventive, restorative and curative usefulness and extolled its extraordinary medicinal qualities. It promotes iron absorption and hence can combat anaemia which is prevalent among women and children in rural areas. It is also helpful in curing skin problems, hair problems acidity, diabetes, asthma, cholesterol and cholesterol induced atherosclerosis. Charaka has specifically mentioned it as a great rasayana that helps protect people from disease and keeps away the manifestations of premature ageing. Since amla pacifies all the three doshas - vata, pitta and kapha - it has a wide range of corrective and curative effects on the human body. It is rightly called sarvadosha hara - a remover of all diseases and therefore National Medicinal plants board took up a national campaign to promote this valuable herb in the country. Dry amla is wrinkled and of grey-black colour. Amla fruit which contains all tastes except salty. With sourness as the foremost taste, it is at the same time sweet, astringent, bitter and pungent. It is light, dry and cold in effect and the richest source of vitamin C. Laboratory tests show that every 100 gm of fresh amla provides nearly 700 mg of this vitamin which is 20 times higher than what is found in an orange. Latest investigations show that Vit. C present in Amla is not as a free Vit. C, but in a Complex Form. Emblicanins, the active ingredient of Amla constitutes Gallic acid or Ellagic acids structures attached to the Vit. C. The fresh fruit contains more than 80 per cent water besides protein, minerals, carbohydrates and fibre. The mineral and vitamin contents include calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene and vitamin B complex. Even if dried in shade, amla retains much of its vitamin C. The leaves and bark of the tree are rich in tannin.


This article moves between Aristotle, Maimonides, and the Stoics. Aristotle's moral taxonomy, outlined in NE 7.1, appears problematic, given his view that, in the sphere of moral virtue, the intermediate (temperance, courage) is the extreme, and there is no excess of temperance or courage. This is hard to square with the moral agent whom he describes as possessed of "hyperbolic" (hyperbole, excessive) virtue. As Aristotle has very little to say about the latter, I turn to Maimonides and the Stoics for clarification and enlightenment.


Direct Regional Head Election is one of the goals of decentralization within the framework of regional autonomy. With the Direct Regional Head Election is expected to build and realize the accountability of local government. Election of Head of Boyolali District assumed how the candidates of Head of Region able to influence and win the heart of society hence participation of society of Boyolali Regency at election moment because beroroentasi on improving prosperity and empowerment of society of Boyolali Regency. Voting in the District Head Election Boyolali very dependent of the behavior of community voters Boyolali District. In addition to voter behavior from the community, the role of Head of Region in leading Boyolali District is also very important. Teter Village and Wates Village Simo District Boyolali District as one of the areas that vote in the District Head Election Boyolali Year 2015 is relatively small for the first candidate Head of Region is Seno Samodro. This study aims to determine the behavior of voters in the village of Teter and Wates Village in District Head Election Boyolali Year 2015 who feel dissatisfied with Seno Samodro so that voters divert his voice. In addition, this study also aims to determine the acquisition of Seno Samodro votes in the selection of incumbent leaders in the village of Teter and Wates village is relatively small. This research uses descriptive qualitative method with observation, interview and documentation technique. The results of this study indicate that there is disappointment and dissatisfaction of the people of Teter Village and Wates Village against Seno Samodro. This is because the policies promised by Seno Samodro to the people of Teter Village and Wates Village are not kept. Besides that, Seno Samodro is considered to have less responsibility to be the Head of Region well, then the weaknesses of Seno Samodro that happened in Teter Village and Wates Village are used by Agus Purmanto to create a strategy in attracting people sympathy to choose Agus Purmanto. Keywords : Election of Regional Head, Voter Behavior, Vote Acquisition


Setting and hardening of fresh blends of ordinary Portland cement (OPC), fired drinking water treatment sludge (DWTS) and calcined anhydrite gypsum were investigated. Sludge or Portland cement was substituted with 5 wt%, 10 wt% or 15 wt% of anhydrite gypsum. These systems lead to the preparation of supersulfated cement. These blends were shown to possess both the advantages of gypsum (early hardening, high early strength and enhanced workability) and Portland cement (improved durability in moist conditions). The initial and final setting time, bulk density and compressive strength of cement pastes were measured. Differential scanning calorimetry, X-ray diffraction and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy techniques were used to investigate the hydration products. Substitution of DWTS with 15% anhydrite accelerates the final setting time and increases the bulk density as well as the compressive strength. Substitution of OPC with 5% anhydrite gives the same results but extends the final setting time. It ...


Ravel transcribed his piano work Le Tombeau de Couperin (In Memory of Couperin; 1917) to the orchestral one himself, the paper discussed the technique ways of orchestration several kinds pedal notes in Prelude transcribe from origional piano score.


Literature The substance of \The Greek Tragic Poets is preceded by some fifty pages devoted to the political, economic, and religious background of Athenian drama—a wise move, for the author intended his book to be a guide mainly for non-Greek readers. The rest is concerned with the life and work of the three great tragedians. All the extant plays •of Aeschylus and Sophocles are described in outline; of Euripides five only (Medea, Hippolytus, Bacchae, Heracles, Ion), although general remarks are made on the others. What Lucas has to say on the delineation of character (particularly in the case of Aeschylus) and on the role of the chorus is most interesting. Essentially he says little that is new, but the narrative is vigorous, and the subject required a fresh interpretation anyway. His style is clear and easy, his arguments and criticisms moderate. There are notes (concise but useful), chronological tables, a brief bibliography, and an appendix dealing with a new papyrus fragment (a few lines on the Gyges-Candaules story). *The Roman Stage not only traces the development of Latin drama (in all its manifestations) during and immediately after Republican times, but enters the controversies over its production. Generally Professor Beare relies on the internal evidence of the plays and fragments (unfortunately he does not always quote with full references), but he is prepared to argue the merits of critica et exegetica. On the problem of the five-act law, for instance, he spends some pages on the Nauplios puppet-show described by Hero Alexandrinus and claimed by some modern commentators as evidence of the division into five actus. His own conclusion is that performances were continuous, at least from Aeschylus to Terence. Fifty pages are devoted to appendixes where technical aspects of play-production are examined in greater detail. Altogether this is an entertaining and valuable book. Whether engaged in polemics (on contaminatio, for example) or lively description (chapter xxii), the author is lucid and pointed: no words are wasted. The • illustrations are excellent, and there is a short but up-to-date bibliography. L. P. Wilkinson's book, *Horace and his Lyric Poetry, is provocative, well written, clear. Not all his opinions will be everywhere applauded—the poet's character and to a greater extent his philosophy impress alias aliter, but always with fiery intensity. He respects Horace, sees in him something more than the fat, jovial, generous, and amoral •epicurean. Although he admits change as the poet grew older, he does build up a picture that is reasonably consistent and probable. He is, moreover, fair to his opponents. The difficulties of translation are delicately touched on, and in the Epilogue he gives a short history of Horatiana to the present day. Probably most readers will find pleasure (and food for thought) above all in the chapter on the Horatian Ode. It is worth noting, by the way, that the author gives his own version of quoted passages (in nearly every case), for the sake of those who feel their Latin is rude or rusty. \*Greek Poetry for Everyman* is a monumental work, obviously a labour of love. From Homer to Joannes Barbucallus (perhaps fifteen centuries), with introductions and notes and a preface that sparkles with wit and humour. Those who have read and enjoyed Mr. Lucas's Aphrodite already know the dignity and fineness of his style; in this volume they will not be disappointed by his ventures in a wider field, though they will probably regret the absence of some great names (was not Sophocles a poet ?). Another book well adapted to the needs of the general reader, written in a simple and direct manner, is *Books and Readers in Ancient Greece and Rome.* This second edition includes much


The Brazilian Atlantic forest degradation resulted in a mosaic of forest fragments, compromising natural resources. The maintenance of forest cover allows maintaining the level of water in rivers and biodiversity. This paper aims at the selection of sustainability indicators in forest fragments of Atlantic Forest in the river basin Poxim through geoprocessing, aiming to support recovery strategies and conservation of these fragments. We used to aerofotografias corresponding to the year 2004 and projection UTM, Zone 24 South Datum and DSS-69. The selection of sustainability indicators is related to the use and occupation vectorized through tools of Geographic Information System (GIS), in this case the program ARCGIS 9.2, allowing to identify and quantify environmental sustainability indicators in the river basin Poxim. In the basin there are only 01 reserve with 198.84 hectares, demonstrating the failure of the Brazilian Forest Code (1965). Of the total existing riparian forest, less than half (46.22%) is in accordance with the Brazilian Forest Code. The forest fragments suffer serious impacts on agriculture of sugar cane and pasture. With the selection of indicators, it is possible to monitor and evaluate the behavior of these indicators, we can state that the agroecosystem is sustainable over time.


2098 APPLIED OPTICS / Vol. 21. No. 12 / 15 June 1982 Fig. 1. Optimum obtainable mechanical efficiency for each dielectric substance and concentration plotted as a function of the refractive index. Encircled on the curve are the numbers of the substances of Table I of Ref. 1. There are two groups of substances for dispersion and UV absorptance: substances 1, 2, and 3 with high dispersion and high absorptance and substances 4, 5, 6, and 8 with smaller dispersions and very small UV absorptance. Owing to this fact two different curves appear, one for n ≥ 2.2 and the other for n ≤ 2.2. Substance 7 has the dispersion of the low index group and UV absorptance of the high index one.


Abstract For five β-ketols of varying substitutions, analysis of the associated v OH band, and examination of the X-ray data of analogous fragments evidence two different intramolecular association processes of weak and high energy, respectively attributed to eclipsed or bisected chelates. MM2 or semi empirical calculations do not give results quite consistent with experiment, suggesting some caution as to their use for interpreting hydrogen bonding effects in such systems.


This study was designed to establish a new and simple surface ECG method for locating right accessory pathways. Sixty seven patients with manifest right accessory pathway which was confirmed by successful radiofrequency catheter ablation were enrolled in this study. The leads III and aVR in surface ECG were used to predict the locations of the accessory pathways. Results: By using the new surface ECG method, the sensitivity, specificity and accuracy for predicting septal accessory pathway were 86.67%, 75.68%, and 80.60%, respectively. The sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy were 55.56%, 93.10%, and 86.57% for anteroseptal pathway; 95.45%, 86.67%, and 89.55% for mid and inferoseptal pathway; 75.86%, 94.73%, and 86.57% for inferolateral pathway; 87.50%, 89.83%, and 89.55% for anterolateral pathway. Conclusion: The new surface ECG locating method is simple and accurate for predicting the location of right manifest accessory pathway.


International Scientific Conference "Grammar of Meletius Smotritsky in the Linguistic Context of Europe of the 16th – 18th centuries". (Vilnius, September 29–October 2, 2019)


Objectives Atorvastatin was used to treat familial hypercholesterolemia and its pharmacological action was investigated.Methods 95 patients with familial hypercholesterolemia were treated with atorvastatin at the dose of 10mg/d for one month.Results After one month treatment , all the patients took a turn for the better, which was reflected in the decrease in TC, TG, LDL-C and CRP as well as the increase in HDL-C.Conclusion Atorvastatin can be used safely and effectively to treat familial hypercholesterolemia.


Demographic study of the region Polimlje Ibar reveals intensification of the process of depopulation and aging population, as well as differences in their manifestation in some municipalities that are correlated with differences in their basic geographic and socio economic characteristics. The age structure of the population, due to migration and reducing birth rate is changed and takes on unfavorable characteristics reduces the proportion of younger, while increasing the share of the elderly population. In both cases deranged age structure has feedback influence on the movement of population (size reproductive contingent), but also to all other population structure (size of the working population, the active population, schools compulsory contingent relationship serving a), which are essential for the development of population and economic activity in the region. Despite significant changes in all demographic structures considered geo-space has kept the characteristics of an ethnically very heterogeneous environment. Given that demographic processes are interconnected, it is necessary to take appropriate measures in population and social policies to achieve the objective of constituting a new socio cultural models of biological reproduction, which will include greater birth, halting the aging process of the population, improving the demographic situation and quality of life in Montenegro.


Introduction and Aims: The purpose of this study was to assess pre-operative bone stock and immediate postoperative cement-bone interface as factors affecting infection control and mechanical outcome after one stage revision THR for deep infection. Method: This study included 115 cases which satisfied the following conditions: 1) One stage revision THR for deep infection was the primary intervention for infected hip replacement by a single surgeon (BMW) unless the bone stock was too poor for fixing implants; 2) follow-up of more than five years; 3) A complete series of radiographs was available for radiological study including pre-operative and immediate post-operative ones. Pre-operative bone stock was classified into four grades (Grade 0: No bone loss, Grade 1: Demarcation, Grade 2: Localised cavitation, Grade 3: Extensive bone loss). The immediate post-operative cement-bone interface was also graded into four categories (Grade A: White-out, obscure interface, Grade B: Clear line, no measurable gap, Grade C: Gap>1mm, Grade D Results: Bone stock did not have significant influence on infection control, while it did affect mechanical outcome. The cement-bone interface was an affecting factor for not only the mechanical survival of implants but also the cure of infection. Conclusion: There was a good chance of curing the infection even with extensive bone loss. Good cement fixation was an important factor with regard to infection control, as well as the mechanical survival of implants. The results suggested that it was important to shield the medullary space from the infected joint space with antibiotic-loaded cement in revision THR for deep infection.


It has been agreed that forestry is a key sector in the effort to tackle global warming. The government has demonstrated actual commitment to reduce GHG emissions by 26% with their own budget and by 41% with international financing. This commitment is set forth in Presidential Decree No. 61 Year 2011. This regulation indicates that one of the largest emitters is the forestry sector. The government has already allocated Specific Allocation Fund (DAK) Forestry in the State Budget annually to support forest rehabilitation. Despite the relatively small amount, the fund allocation is increasing significantly each year. The question is how the allocation for DAK Forestry can be synchronized with the GHG emission reduction target set forth in Presidential Decree No. 61 of 2011. For that reason, this study has been conducted in order to analyze the conformity of DAK Forestry funding with the emission reduction targets set forth in Presidential Decree No. 61 of 2011. By using qualitative descriptive statistical approach, it is known that the use of DAK Forestry fund as from 2010 to 2014 has had a significant alignment in support of GHG emission reduction target set forth in Presidential Decree No. 61 of 2011.


Due to their exceptional mechanical properties,xerogels attract increasing attention forstructural applications. In this study, the mechanical behavior of two types of polymeric xerogelsis investigated. The excellent energy-absorbing capability of those xerogelsis demonstrated by their stress-strain relations with respect to their microstructure determined withscanning electron microscopy (SEM). A pilot study on the effects of xerogellayers in an FRP system for concrete confinementis conducted.Test results clearly indicatedthat the proposed multi-layer systemcan significantly increase the ductility of confined concrete.


BACKGROUND
A large number of studies have shown that polymorphisms in the interleukin 10 (IL-10) gene are implicated in susceptibility to tuberculosis (TB). However, the results are inconsistent and inconclusive.

OBJECTIVE
A meta-analysis was performed to analyse the association between polymorphisms in the IL-10 gene and TB susceptibility.

RESULTS
A total of 18 studies that referred to three polymorphisms (-1082G/A, -819C/T and -592A/C) were identified. No association was found between these three polymorphisms and TB risk in combined analyses: -1082G/A (AA+AG vs. GG): OR 0.87, 95%CI 0.66-1.14, P = 0.30; -819C/T (TT+TC vs. CC): OR 1.02, 95%CI 0.92-1.14, P = 0.66; -592A/C (CC+CA vs. AA): OR 0.99, 95%CI 0.88-1.11, P = 0.82. However, in the subgroup analysis by ethnicity, European subjects with the -1082(AA+GG) genotypes have a decreased risk of TB: OR 0.55, 95%CI 0.35-0.88, P = 0.01.

CONCLUSION
This meta-analysis suggests that the -1082G/A polymorphism of the IL-10 gene could be a risk factor for TB in Europeans. Further studies with larger populations are required to assess the association between IL-10 polymorphisms and TB susceptibility.


There is a deeply tragedy meaning in Tian Qilang.The spiritual durance made the intellect couldn't defend them against an injustice as the former intellect had done;while the chivalrous Tian Qilang did this not by his will;the hard existence of the former chivalry spirit in the intellect and knights was the tragedy of the society.


In response to the Philippines growing problem in air pollution, a custom-made Differential Optical Absorption Spectrometer is being built in the Manila Observatory. Unique to the spectrometer is the Calibration System. In this paper, we focus on the development of the ozone detector for the calibration system. Using a gas chamber, a UV light source and the S8746-01 photodiode, an ozone detector was successfully fabricated. The setup was tested for its given photodiode output voltage and its corresponding concentration.


The potentialities of current Neuroimaging methods were established to allow one to make an early minimally invasive diagnosis of arteriovenous [correction of arterioventricular] malformations. The most promising method is a combined use of X-ray computer and magnetic resonance tomography with transcranial Doppler echography, which is in conformity with the unity principle of morphological and functional non-invasive diagnostic methods. At present, cerebral angiography should be used only in combination with preoperative examination of these patients.


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In this Article the authors examine how the Supreme Court exercises its virtually unfettered control over case selection. With its certiorari power, the Court sets its direction and influences the country's social agenda, yet relatively little is known about how the Justices choose cases because of the intense secrecy that envelops this aspect of their work. Using data from the private papers of retired Justices, the authors analyze whether, and to what extent, the Justices cast their votes to grant or deny cases based on whether they expect to win on the merits. More specifically, the authors analyze whether Justices who are ideologically aligned on the merits also tend to vote together at the case selection stage and, similarly, whether Justices who are ideologically opposed on the merits also tend to cast opposing votes at the case selection stage. In addition, the authors look more closely at the Justices' voting behavior from the certiorari stage through the merits stage in two special sets of cases-those granted unanimously and those granted by a minority-to see whether the Justices' votes on certiorari are merely a precursor to their votes on the merits. The authors find that although there is a substantial strategic element in the Justices' case selection decisions, jurisprudential and institutional considerations play a significant role as well.


The provision of appropriate mental health services for Australians is an urgent national health priority. The introduction of new Queensland mental health legislation precipitated widespread industrial concern within the Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) regarding the ability of paramedics to comply with explicit legislative requirements, citing poor education in mental illness and assessment techniques. The related nursing and medical literature demonstrates that recognition and assessment of mental illness is significantly problematic, often citing inadequate education preparedness. Using a case study approach applying ethnographic and ethnomethodological research methods, the study will examine paramedic accounts and constructs of judgment and decision-making (JDM) of mental health and illness and mental health assessment practices. In particular, paramedic JDM practices in the pre-hospital emergency care setting will be examined. Particular emphasis will be placed on understanding on how paramedics come to make, arrive at and account for their judgments, the quality and nature of paramedic JDM, and the influence of context and ecology of the paramedic setting on JDM. By investigating the policy-practice interface, the study aims to improve the quality of care provided to individuals suffering from a mental illness by improving pre-hospital recognition and management of conditions, and the preparedness of paramedics to do so.


To study how archaeal community responds to environmental changes, we investigated archaeal community structures in waters of three Tibetan saline lakes in northwestern China (Gahai, Xiaochaidan, and Charhan Lakes) with 16S rRNA gene phylogenetic analysis. Temperature, pH, and water chemistry (major anions and cations) of the lakes were measured. Three archaeal clone libraries were constructed with a total of 297 sequences. Incorporating our previous data obtained from other lakes on the Tibetan Plateau, we performed statistical analyses to identify dominant environmental parameters that could account for the observed variations in archaeal community structure. We concluded that salinity and water chemistry (Na and bicarbonate concentration in particular) played an important role in shaping archaeal community. In particular, the relative abundance of archaeal 16S rRNA genes affiliated with the Halobacteriales of the Euryarchaeota increased with salinity, whereas that of crenarchaeotal 16S rRNA gene sequences showed the opposite trend. Crenarchaeotal 16S rRNA gene sequences were retrieved from lake waters with salinity up to 28.3%. These results have important implications for our understanding of response of archaeal community to environmental changes in high-altitude lake ecosystems.


This paper briefly analyses the following papers: stresses in a sand mass under a simulated moving load (morgan=jr and harvey=rj); an in situ method for determining the elastic parameters of pavement materials by an ultrasonic technique (keith=rj and cogill=wh); an investigation of diaphragm earth pressure cells (mills=kg matthews=s and richards=bg).


Microbial electrolysis cells are devices that use biocatalysis and electrolysis for production of hydrogen from organic matter. Biorefinery process streams contain fermentation by products and inhibitors which accumulate in the process stream if the water is recycled. These molecules also affect biomass to biofuel yields if not removed from the recycle water. The presence of sugar- and lignin- degradation products such as furfural, vanillic acid and 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde has been shown to reduce fermentation yields. In this work, we calculate the potential for hydrogen production using microbial electrolysis cells from these molecules as substrates. Conversion of these substrates to electricity is demonstrated in microbial fuel cells and will also be presented.


The level of sustainable development can be measured by eco-efficiency, which is a combination of economic and ecological performance. Utilizing the weighted sum of the improved proportions of the indicators as the objective function, this paper develops a proportional slacks-based measure model to assess eco-efficiency, in which the conventional inputs, and desirable and undesirable outputs are improved to different proportions along the elements of a given directional vector. Moreover, this paper presents a weighted proportional slacks-based measure model using the ranges as the divisors instead of the input and output values in the objective function. Finally, this paper presents an empirical analysis by applying proposed measure models with the data of 30 provinces in China in 2015. The empirical study results indicate the developed slacks-based measure models can be used in the assessment of eco-efficiency effectively and reasonably.


The trachytes of Mont Dore were described, in the early days of microscopic petrography, by A. von Lasaulx; and they have since been noticed, in conjunction with other trachytes of the Auvergne, in papers by Fouqué, Lévy and Lacroix, and Dickson and Holland.


Organizing different components collected for effective retrieval and search process, has become the fundamental problem in software reuse. It should be noted that both retrieval techniques and representations are interrelated. Component Based Software can be helpful in achieving software quality enhancement along with efficiency analysis. Neural network has been an active research area which can be applied to various fields and only a few have tried the combination of Neural Networks applied to software engineering in identifying suitable reusable components. The paper tries to throw some light on the research carried out in application of neural networks for identifying reusable components and also proposes a new model for the same.


Today's at-speed testing methodology of the Universal Serial Bus(USB) 2.0 functionality cannot be readily achieved, unless high cost testers are used. Even if high cost testers are used, the success of at-speed testing cannot be guaranteed because of the high-speed interfacing between the off-chip memory, tester and the Device-Under-Test, i.e. the USB2.0. This paper presents a methodology that bridges the gap of the near-end and external loopback methods. The logic built in self test (BIST) proposed encompasses solution to test USB2.0 at-speed, single port and full functional with a low cost tester.


Special relativity offers the possibility of going on a trip to the center of our galaxy or even to the end of our universe within a lifetime. On the basis of the well known twin paradox, we discuss uniformly accelerated motion and emphasize the local perspective of each twin concerning the interchange of light signals between both twins as well as their different views of the stellar sky. For this purpose we developed two Java applets that students can use to explore interactively and understand the topics presented here.


Objective:To establish a method for determination of 16 PAHs in paper containers for food by gas chromatography-masss spectrometry.Methods:The disposable paper cups were soaked with water,4% HAc,20% ethanol and n-hexane respectively,and the PAHs were extracted with CH2Cl2 ultrasonically from the four soaking solutions,and then determined by GC-MS.Results:The linearity of the method was good within the range of 0.01 μg/ml~10.0 μg/ml for 16 PAHs.Linear correlation coefficients varied from 0.9985 to 0.9999.Limits of detection(LODs) ranged from 0.24 to 3.80μg/L.The average recoveries were 75.9%~123.1%,with the relative standard deviations(RSDs) of 1.17%~13.9%.Conclusion:The method is simple,accurate and suitable for determining 16 PAHs in the paper containers for food.


Let X(t) be a controlled one-dimensional diffusion process having constant infinitesimal variance. We consider the problem of optimally controlling X(t) until time T(x) = min{T1(x), t1}, where T1(x) is the first-passage time of the process to a given boundary and t1 is a fixed constant. The optimal control is obtained explicitly in the particular case when X(t) is a controlled Wiener process.


Designing computer-human interfaces for multiple-goal environments is challenging because people pursue multiple goals with conflicting priorities. Safety-critical environments, such as driving, aggravate the need for a more nuanced understanding of interfaces that may reconcile conflicting tasks. Speech interfaces are prime examples of such interfaces. In this article, we investigate how design variations of an in-vehicle speech interface influence performance of a primary task (driving safely) and a secondary task (e-mailing). In a controlled experiment, we test the performance implications of using single computer-generated Text-To-Speech (TTS) voice and multiple matching TTS voices while users respond to e-mails with varying levels of complexity during driving. Our results indicate that the number of voices used has a significant effect on both driving performance and handling e-mail--related activities. We discuss potentially unintended consequences of making the interface too naturalistic and too engaging for the driver and conclude with theoretical and practical implications.


Nikon is developing an Electron Beam (EB) stepper as one of the next-generation lithography systems for feature sizes of less than 100 nm. As a reticle for the EB stepper using a high power EB (acceleration voltage: 100 kV, current on reticle: 100 (mu) A), a scattering stencil reticle with a grid-grillage structure has been investigated, EB projection experimental column which operates a high power EB was constructed. Some experimental data of scattered electron characteristics using the EB projection experimental column are given as follows: (1) Scattering contrast of 99.9% can be obtained using 100 kV electron beam (membrane thickness; 2 micrometer, aperture half angle onto reticle; 2 mrad). (2) Changes of resist pattern width of 1:1 and 1:2 lines and spaces are around 40% and around 20% respectively due to the proximity effects by backscattered electrons form the silicon substrate. (3) Contrast of EB mark detection for the system calibration, the reticle alignment, and the wafer registration is obtained. Comparing with the values that be obtained by theoretical calculation, some of experimental data gave good agreement.


As the background of the preparation of glyoxylic acid by the electroreduction of oxalic acid on Pb electrodes, the effects of additives structure on electrode reaction have been studied.The results show that the cation of the additives has the most influence on current efficiency and the reaction selectivity.Furthermore, cation radicle is more symmetrical or the longest alkyl chain is shorter, the current efficiency and the reaction selectivity are higher.The tetraethyl quarternary ammonium salt has the best active effect.


MR is a potentially attractive modality for evaluating hemodialysis access anatomy and function. However, the wide range of flow rates in the hemodialysis access complicates interpretation of phase contrast, time‐of‐flight, and even contrast‐enhanced MR angiograms. At high flow rates, signal voids may easily arise at mild narrowings or sharp‐angled anastomoses. A method is proposed which visualizes hemodialysis accesses without flow artifacts. Diluted Gd‐DTPA is hand‐injected directly into the access, while a cuff is used to reduce and subsequently interrupt access flow. Filling of the access is monitored using a fast projection technique with complex subtraction. When filling is satisfactory, a 3D acquisition is started. The feasibility of this selective contrast‐enhanced MR angiography technique is demonstrated in four Cimino‐fistulae and four PTFE grafts. Magn Reson Med 45:557–561, 2001. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Painting in typical fashion with a brush only was seemingly too limited in its scope for the inventive mind of abstract painter Dan Christensen (19422007). With tools that included spray guns, rollers, and squeegees, he created pictures of festively tinted looping strips resembling ribbons, mysterious wedges of color, and spheres that were all a-shimmer. His painting processes were fascinating in their own right, and in making the bright pictures that epitomize his body of work he may have had more fun than just about anyone else. Christensen was born in Nebraska, in the same region where renowned painter Robert Henri had lived for a time in his younger years during the 19th century. An important point along Christensen's artistic path occurred when in his teens he encountered work by painter Jackson Pollock, which may have suggested to him the possibility of developing one's own unique style (Peters L. Dan Christensen: The Stain Paintings, 1976-1988. New York, NY: Spanierman Modern; 2011:3-7). Christensen received a degree from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1964 and shortly thereafter moved to New York. As a measure of his soon-realized success, his work was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art while he was still in his 20s. It seems likely his early approaches to abstract painting were influenced by that of contemporaries who were color field painters, including his friend, the artist Jules Olitski (Adlmann JE. Dan Christensen (1942-2007): Pure Painting: A Forty-Year Retrospective. Santa Fe, NM: LewAllen Contemporary; 2007:2-4). Indeed, some of Christensen's own work during his bold experimentations with methods was considered to be color field in character, a style of painting in which sections of uninterrupted color are salient features of the picture. Although his brilliant spray-painted ribbony bands were well enough received, Christensen seemed compelled to find newways toexpresshisdelightwith color, and in several years or so hence he began juxtaposing rectangular blocks of pigment inworks that came tobeknownashis "plaid" series. For this group of his paintings, he used squeegees and paint rollers to apply paint to canvases secured to the floor. This experimentwas followed by another one, resulting inwhatwas termed "slab" paintings. The technique for these works included the layering of different colors that created a sense of depthand intrigue.Theprocessof creating theslabgenrecould include use of trowels or squeegees or involve forceful brushwork (Peters, p 3). Other artistic approaches for Christensen included a lyrical etching of lines and other ciphering on a painted surface. In later developments around the 1990s, his work evolved tohis admired "circle" images. Thepaintings of radiant rounded forms at this stage of his careerwere someof his more sought-after pieces (Adlmann, p 4). An example of the glowing disks that characterized his work during this era isDo-Si-Do, in which a retina-searing seriesofconcentric circles is seen.Thecoreandsurroundingrings each seems to have its own oscillating nimbus of energy. Perhaps in creating this image, Christensenwas recalling a childhood with sweltering summer days dominated by a relentless fireball in the sky.Theviewer's gazemaypause inaneffort to register the flux of galvanic hues rippling out from the center. As noted, "Do-Si-Do is a work from late in his career, but showshis career longobsessionwithcolor.Thecircular shapes in the painting are less of a focus than the vibrant color. ... " (http://acm.wichitaartmuseum.org/acm/detail.php?action =v&id=1424724902535936.) An alternate interpretation of the work involves consideration of the "do-si-do" dance maneuver in which participants move around one another. Christensenmayhave intended to convey a dynamic sense of elements rotating around a central entity not unlike that seen in a solar system. Christensen is said to have had a condition thought to be polymyositis. He died in 2007, leaving behind his wife and children. The curiosity that characterized his adventurous tryouts of new color interplay, techniques, and forms resulted in images that in some cases seem to nearly pop from the picture in 3D. More particularly, his enjoyment in working with color as it pleased him seems reflected in the vivid effervescent renderings that become unforgettable images in the mind's eye of the viewer. Perhaps Christensen's philosophy of his artistic pursuits is best summarized by his proposition that " ... painting is for pleasure. It's like listening to music. That's all." (Adlmann, p 3.)


AIM: To investigate the effect of urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) on metastasis inhibition of gastric cancer SGC7901cells induced by parthenolide. METHODS: The changes of SGC7901 cells reproductive activity were analyzed by MTT. Light microscope was used to observe the cell morphological changes. The effects of parthenolide on migration and invasion capacity of SGC7901 cells were determined by using matrigel and transwell system. The expression of uPA was detected by Western blot and RT-PCR assays. RESULTS: Parthenolide inhibited the proliferation of SGC7901 cells in a time-and concentration -dependent manner ranging from 100 to 200 μmol/L. Light microscopy showed the suppressing effect on growth of SGC7901 cells. After exposed to parthenolide, the migration and invasion capacity of SGC7901 cells were significantly decreased, the number of cells gradually decreased through the basement membrance. The Western blot assay showed that the expression of uPA protein declined gradually after exposed to parthenolide for various period of time. CONCLUSION: Parthenolide can inhibit the growth and metastasis activity of SGC7901 cells, and uPA played an important role in the latter process.


allows primary materials to guide him (xvi). Th e work, however, might have been richer had he probed the "whys" of Calamity's life and legends. For instance, Etulain tiptoes into gender realities when he notes that she "bruised and broke social expectations" (128). He also explores whether Calamity had been a prostitute, a question that has occupied other scholars, ultimately claiming that no evidence proves that she sold sex (xv). Discussion of frontier sexrole scripts and cultural realities of sex workers during that era could have proved useful. Th e Life and Legends of Calamity Jane is thorough, measured, and readable. As Etulain claims, the general public "will remain fascinated with . . . the lively, unorthodox woman of the Old West" (344). Etulain has also left room for further investigations, particularly by scholars who seek to illuminate why Americans are gripped by stories of the wilderness.


It has been recognized that clonal T‐cell receptor delta (TCRδ) gene rearrangement is present in both T‐ and B‐cell malignancies. The highly sensitive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique may be applicable to cases of leukemia and lymphoma of non‐T‐cell origin for detection of minimal residual disease (MRD). A PCR technique was used in this study to investigate the pattern of clonal TCRδ gene rearrangement in Hong Kong Chinese patients with non‐T‐cell hematological malignancies. Seventy‐three patients with the diagnosis of acute leukemia and non‐Hodgkin's lymphoma of non‐T‐cell origin were included in this study. There were 20 patients with common ALL (cALL), seven precursal B‐cell ALL (PreB‐ALL), 23 acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and 23 non‐Hodgkin's lymphoma of B‐lineage (B‐NHL). Clonal rearrangement was detectable by Southern analysis using a Jδ1 probe in 41 per cent of ALL of B‐lineage but in none of the B‐NHL or AML. The samples were also studied further by monoclonal PCR amplification for TCRδ gene rearrangement. Three different sets of primers were employed to detect clonal rearrangement of the TCRδ gene. The Vδ1(D)Jδ1 recombination typically seen in T‐cell malignancies were not seen in any of the of the non‐T‐cell malignancies. The Vδ2(D)Dδ3 recombination was found exclusively in ALL of B‐lineage and was seen in 73 per cent of the Southern positive cases. Although clonal TCRδ gene rearrangement was undetectable by Southern analysis in our AML cases, 26 per cent had a Vδ2(D)Jδ1 recombination found by the PCR technique. Sensitivity of the PCR technique was determined by serial mixing and was up to 5–10 leukemic cells per 104 nucleated cells. It was apparent from this study that it was feasible to detect clonal TCRδ gene rearrangement by the PCR technique in a proportion of the cases of non‐T‐cell hematological malignancies. The PCR technique can be applied to detect residual leukemic cells in marrow of patients in an apparent morphological complete remission. The value of this application requires further clinical evaluation and correlation.


Microreactors are miniaturized chemical reaction systems, which contain reaction channels with characteristic dimensions in the range of 10-500 µm. One possible application for microreactors is the conversion of ethanol to hydrogen used in fuel cells to generate electricity. In this paper a rigorous isothermal, steady-state two-dimensional model was developed to simulate the behavior of a membrane microreactor based on the hydrogen yield from ethanol steam reforming. Furthermore, this membrane microreactor is compared to a membraneless microreactor. A potential advantage of the membrane microreactor is the fact that both ethanol steam reforming and the separation of hydrogen by a permselective membrane occur in one single microdevice. The simulation results for steam reforming yields are in agreement with experimental data found in the literature. The results show that the membrane microreactorpermits a hydrogen yield of up to 0.833 which is more than twice that generated by the membraneless reactor. More than 80% of the generated hydrogen permeates through the membrane and, due to its high selectivity, the membrane microreactor delivers high-purity hydrogen to the fuel cell.


The popularization of the PDA as a mass market productivity tool and the increasing focus on using technology to augment learning has led to many experiments with digital assistants in the classroom setting. Most such systems simply combine existing networking and database technologies to create an unimaginative application that converts traditional classroom activities into a digital format. We propose a wireless handheld system which contains feedback and retrieval capabilities, plus an integrated onboard camera to enable image capture and save directly from the classroom, as well as image search and retrieval from the same information server. This system not only presents advancement over existing digital tools for the classroom, it also means a step forward for the smart classroom environment.


When machining anisotropic material with a thin milling cutter, there is a high probability of tool breakage. Tool breakage leads to time waste, because a conventional small CNC machine is unable to detect tool breakage. One way to solve this problem could be system based on OpenCV library, which uses a cheap digital camera.


In this article, we shed light on the debate about the financial performance of socially responsible investment (SRI) mutual funds by separately analyzing the contributions of before-fee performance and fees to SRI funds' performance, and by investigating the role played by fund management companies in the determi- nation of those variables. We apply the matching esti- mator methodology to obtain our results and find that in the period 1997-2005, US SRI funds had better before- and after-fee performance than conventional funds with similar characteristics. The differences, however, are dri- ven exclusively by SRI funds run by management com- panies specialized in SRI. While these funds significantly outperform similar conventional funds, funds run by companies not specialized in SRI underperform their matched conventional funds. We find no significant dif- ferences in fees between SRI and conventional funds


Rapidly emerging applications for microaccelerometer and microgyroscope position sensors require a major advance in stability and resolution. A highly sensitive, stable, and robust sensor interface circuit that can be applied to inertial navigation sensors is presented in this paper. The circuit can be applied to any fully-differential capacitive sensor or to a differential piezoresistive one. The high sensitivity is achieved by a double-sampling technique, compensating switch, and feedback method with a high loop gain. The charge injection by the MOS switches was reduced below the thermal noise level of the opamp. Resolution and stability levels of 10/sup -8/ with a supply variation of 10% are achieved.


Traditional distributed systems generally use the client-server model, where data is served by dedicated servers and clients are consumers. This model has limited scalability since the servers can become performance bottlenecks and the maintenance costs are high. Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems have emerged as a scalable model for distributed computing as they allow the sharing of resources available at the client machines in a decentralized manner. They gained a lot of popularity with file sharing applications such as Napster and Gnutella. These applications, however, do not provide efficient search mechanisms and do not scale well with the increasing number of users. As a result, Distributed Hash Table (DHT) based structured P2P systems have been proposed. DHTs support efficient exact key lookups in addition to offering very desirable properties such as scalability, dynamic node insertion and departure, fault tolerance, and efficient routing. However their applicability is limited as they only support exact key lookups. We believe that DHTs can be extended to support more complex querying operations, and thus provide the infrastructure for a larger set of applications. In this thesis, we describe how various complex querying operations can be supported over DHTs. Among the operations we explored are range queries, content-based event dissemination, and similarity search. We also describe several applications that can benefit from these operations such as publish/subscribe systems and distributed Web service discovery.


This paper intends to explore the intergenre and interart aspects in the fiction of Julian Barnes.Flaubert's Parrot,juxtaposing fiction and nonfiction,is no less a metaphorical parody of literary criticism than a self-reflexive meditation on the narrative itself,while in A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters and the latest short story "The Limner",Julian Barnes transforms "ekphrasis",an old tradition in poetry,into a central postmodern device,to serve the particular function of opening up the arts to each other.


There is free flow of information in the cyberspace and as a result, nations are obviously wary of the integrity of its data as part of both public safety and national security concerns. There are ways that the associated risk could be mitigated and mostly has to do with a proper development and implementation of Cyber security policies and strategies. This research focuses on the cyber security policies, strategies and laws of both Nigeria and South Africa and also making a comparative analysis of the current National Cyber Security Policy and Strategy of both countries and the necessary recommendations going forward. In the case of Nigeria, analytical evidence shows that the national documents were found to have satisfied most of the requirements in terms of content, but failed to address other aspects of cyber security concerns in the country. On the other hand, South Africa as a country is lagging especially in governmental coordination, cybersecurity legislation, engagement with business and citizens, and skilled labour. The paper tends to explore these loopholes evident in the cyber security laws and policies of the aforesaid countries, and made the necessary recommendations on how to adopt best and sustainable practices in dealing with issues related to cyber security breaches including cybercrime in both countries.


In countering the problem that there are much more dropping ends in cocoon inner layer during reeling, it is used such methods as direct steaming for cooking, adding agent for second time and external penetration in cooking. Through optimization process, it is achieved that inner dropping end rate decreases by 18 .4%, unwinding ratio increases by 6. 8%, raw silk grades rises by 0. 68% and reeling discount reduces by 5. 8Kg.


Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) is a group of biopolymers that are extensively researched for such purpose due to the biocompatibility with mammal tissue and similar properties with conventional plastic. However, commercialization of PHA is impended by its high total production cost, which half of it are from the cost of pure carbon source feedstock. Thus, cheap and sustainable feedstocks are preferred where waste materials from various industries are looked into. This paper will highlight recent studies done on PHA production by utilizing crop and agro waste material and review its potential as alternative feedstock.


The assessment of pathologies characterized by pain situated at the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) or cheek, consequent on disorders of the TMJ itself and/or of the craniofacial or masticatory muscles is still controversial. As verbal pain assessment techniques are of help in discriminating between different pain sensations, our purpose was to assess the discriminative capacity of the McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) in patients with TMJ disorders or with myogenous facial pain (MP).

The MPQ was administered to 57 TMJ and 28 MP patients. Weighted MPQ item scores, subscale Pain Rating Indexes (PRI), total PRI and the number of words chosen were calculated. Mean scores were tested for significant differences (Student's t) and the frequency with which each descriptor was chosen by the patients of both groups was also analysed. Furthermore, the data were processed through two systems based on a counter-propagation neural network: the Self Organising Map (SOM) system, and a cluster-like analysis.

In the MP group 16 of 20 mean MPQ item scores and all mean PRI were significantly higher than those of the TMJ group. The SOM analysis was able to distribute the two groups in the two different halves of the map; only two of 28 MP cases (7%) and 12 of 57 TMJ cases (21%) were misplaced. The cluster-like analysis based on the 20 MPQ item scores was able to correctly recognize 94·73% TMJ patients and 89·28% MP patients.

In conclusion, the MPQ showed a consistent discriminative capacity between TMJ and MP patients.


A quantitative estimate is made of the magnitude of the world's scientific and technical journal literature problem. Using a number of basic sources of statistical information, a composite picture is established to show such things as the total volume, linguistic and national origins, breakdown by subject field, and degree of coverage by the abstracting and indexing services.


Summary. The paper presents analysis of equipment with the machinery park in 30 ecological farms. Area of arable land was accepted as a grouping variable. Activities related to integration of our country with the European Union constituted the second aspect of the paper. In order to fully realize the accepted objective of the paper, replacement value of the machinery park, which was at the average 16.44 thousand PLN . ha -1 AL, was calculated. Quantitative machinery equipment proved that each examined farm possessed inter alia one tractor and a farm trailer as a transport mean. Characteristics of tractors proved that they were at the average 16 years old and their average power was of 5.91 kW . ha -1 AL. 24 out od 30 responders, declared that they additionally used available subsidies within structural funds both preaccession and after integration with the EU.


ELF-Band Noise Cancel System for Underground Transmission of Electromagnetic-Measurement While Drilling (EM-MWD) Satoru Inoue, Member, Akio Jitsumori, Member (Mitsubishi Electric Corp.), Kageo Akizuki, Member (Waseda University), Takashi Shimada, Member, Takaaki Maekawa, Non-member, Teruo Usami, Member (Mitsubishi Electric Corp.), Takafumi Sakai, Non-member (Japan National Oil Corp.) In the field of oil or natural gas well drilling, Measurement While Drilling (MWD) is desired for the sake of safe and economical drilling operation. Among them, Electromagnetic-MWD (EM-MWD) has the advantage of higher data transfer rates. However, electromagnetic waves attenuate during propagation in the soil and are received as the weak signals that have been corrupted by environmental noises. The properties of the drilling field noise have been investigated. In order to increase transmission reliability, a new communication method has been established and a real-time adaptive noise canceller (ANC) has been developed. It has been verified by experiments in the drilling fields that the ANC reduces the noise by up to 20dB and an underground transmission from a depth of 3,300m has been successfully achieved.


Preparation techniques of wheat peptides through hydrolyzing wheat isolated proteins by Alcalase were studied. Through orthogonal test,effects of temperature, pH value, concentrations of substratum, dosages of enzyme and time on enzymic hydrolysis were studied. The optimum hydrolysis conditions were determined: dosages of enzyme 22.5 μL/g, pH 9.5, 60 ℃, substratum concentration 4%, hydrolysis time 100 min and the hydrolyzing degree 18.63%. Then the mixture was separated by strongly acidic styrene type cation exchange resin and four compounds were got. The immunostimulating activity was assayed by MTT colorimetry, results showed that there were two compounds got at pH8 and pH10 can enhance lymphocyte proliferative responses.


Cloud computing became recently a common paradigm in both industry and academia. Sensitive applications such as medical, military, and financial ones rely on clouds' platform. Therefore, services continuity should be guaranteed as much as possible. However, services are sensitive to the network Quality of Service (QoS). Heavy network traffic may have its negative impact on services execution in a cloud environment. In extreme cases, cloud services may be completely interrupted due to many reasons including natural disasters - such as earthquakes and tornadoes - and human-induced disasters ranging from hackers to terrorists. In such circumstances, services should be automated without human intervention in order to minimize losses as much as possible. In this paper, the Partitioned Services Layer (PSL) architecture is proposed. It categorizes services into real-time and non realtime. Since real-time services are critical, they should not be subject to QoS. Therefore, they run on a Distributed Autonomous Control (DAC) environment in which devices are connected through a Local Area Network (LAN). On the other hand, non real-time services are executed in the cloud environment to reduce costs. Nevertheless, basic services are automated by another autonomous system which is based on case reasoning. Finally, the proposed architecture is analyzed and compared to other related work.


The robustness and stability of the closed-loop system is analyzed with uncertainty in the form of the additive/multiplicative perturbation and the coprime factorization respectively. The difference between them is also investigated. A new method to solve the perturbation stability margin by the coprime factorization is proposed when the controller is fixed. And the perturbation stability margin is respectively researched when only the perturbation plant is coprime or when the perturbation plant and the fixed controller are coprime simultaneously. Also the equality of them is testified while the Bezout equation is satisfied. This method has solved the problem of perturbation stability margin when the controller is fixed and provided a quantitative index for the robust analysis of the perturbation plant. The simulation has proved its effectiveness


This paper proposed a set of DSP-based platform for real-time monitoring of network video system's overall design,aimed at the available in the market for network video surveillance system shortcomings.Firstly described the design of the monitoring system.Then focus on the design of the key part of the system model,like porting uClinux OS in DSP Processer,the achievement of the video compression,the achievement and the optimization real-time transmission module.Finally,Tested the overall performance of the model.Proved this model can meet the needs of the networking remote real-time monitoring system.


The debate about how to "fix" business schools is intensifying which has coincided with a call for a greater attention to sustainability in business and business education. Teaching sustainability in MBA programs, however, raises a number of questions and challenges. This article presents a few straightforward ideas to address these challenges and offers findings from MBA level sustainability courses I have taught at a major U.S. business school- including a study abroad course to Scandinaviain which these ideas have demonstrated their effectiveness.


Peristome structure in Discelium nudum (Dicks.) Brid. has been the subject of varying interpretation. Scanning electron microscopy confirms that the peristome is double, consisting of sixteen vertically striate exostome teeth and a hyaline, warty-papillose endostome adherent to the exostome teeth. Transverse and longitudinal sections through capsules at various stages of maturity indicate that prior to deposition of the exostome and endostome the peristomial formula is 4:2(-4):4, but only the outer and primary peristomial layers actually contribute wall material to the mature peristome. The warty-papillose ornamentation present on the ventral endostomial sur- face is probably deposited by the matrix material surrounding spores in the endothecium. A taxo- nomic position for the Disceliaceae in the Funariales is confirmed.


The purpose of this note is to show that neither a Loeb measure nor the image of a Loeb measure have to be compact, thus answering in the negative two questions of D. Ross. D. Ross asked in a recent paper whether Loeb measures are always compact [D, Problem 1] and whether the image of every Loeb measure is compact [D, Problem 2]. Using 0-1 measures I will show that both questions have negative answers. A typical application of the Loeb measure construction goes as follows: Given a standard measure, find a Loeb measure which represents it and then work within a nonstandard model instead of using the original measure. This allows one to obtain standard results by utilizing the special properties of nonstandard models. It is therefore a central question in nonstandard measure theory to determine which measures can be represented by Loeb measures. Both of Ross's problems address this issue. Early on Anderson [A] proved that Radon measures have Loeb preimages, a result extended by Ross [D] to arbitrary compact measures. A positive answer to the first problem would have allowed (by Ross's result) the use of Loeb measures to represent other Loeb measures, making it possible to use even higher saturation conditions than those of the original model. The second example given below shows that the converse of Ross's result does not hold; that is, a "pushed down" Loeb measure need not be compact. Recall that a (finite) measure is compact if it is inner regular with respect to a compact family. A family of sets is said to be compact if every subfamily with the finite intersection property (finite intersections are nonempty) has nonempty intersection. Prime examples of compact families are the compact subsets of a Hausdorff topological space and the closed subsets of a (not necessarily Hausdorff) compact space. Thus compact measures constitute a generalization of Radon measures. The following lemma will be used to answer both of Ross's questions. 1. Lemma. Let (X ,stf , p) be a measure space such that all points are measurable. If p isa 0-1 measure which vanishes on points, then p is not compact. Proof. Let p be inner regular with respect to the family 377. It will be shown that 777 is not compact. For each x £ X, select Kx £ 377 with Kx c ^\{x} Received by the editors December 30, 1992 and, in revised form, April 14, 1993. 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 28E05; Secondary 03H05, 28A12. © 1994 American Mathematical Society 0002-9939/94 $1.00+ $.25 per page


The Pharmacopeia of the United States (U.S.P.) has been published since 1820 and is the standard reference work for information on the purity and physical state of a pharmaceutical. It is kept up to date through periodic five-year revisions and supplements. The drugs and physical standards listed in it are selected by a panel of experts in the varied pharmacologic fields. The specialty of Radiology is represented by a radiologist heading an advisory panel of radiologists who consider the individual drugs used by the specialty. The two other standard pharmaceutical reference books are The National Formulary, published by the National Pharmaceutical Association since 1888, and New and Nonofficial Drugs, published by the Council on Drugs of the American Medical Association. The purposes of these publications differ in that The National Formulary lists all the modern drugs not found in the U.S.P., as well as many that are, and New and Nonofficial Drugs includes drugs whether new or old. (Some of the drugs hav...


Chlorophyll (Chl) and Total Suspended Matter (TSM) are both important water quality parameters since they influence the amount of oxygen a amount of light penetrating the water. Oxygen and light are vital in marine ecosystems. The Dutch governmental organisation, Rijkswaterstaat (RWS), has been monitoring the water quality of the Dutch part of the North Sea for the last 35 years. A research vessel takes off to sample parameters such as chlorophyll and TSM every few weeks at fixed locations. Recently, Sentinel-3 satellites started to provide satellite-based information on air or water quality. It is expected that products from the Ocean Land Colour Instrument (OLCI) sensor, on board of Sentinel-3, can greatly improve both the geographical and temporal coverage of these parameters. For the Dutch coastal waters this is challenging, because they predominantly consist of complex coastal waters. This study focusses on the validation of water quality parameters (Chl and TSM) available from Sentinel-3A OLCI observations. To verify the processing line of the OLCI data products it was desired to evaluate the following variables as well: 1) the aerosol optical thickness used in the atmospheric aerosol correction process, which is an important step for deriving the water-leaving reflectance, and 2) the water-leaving reflectance itself used as the main signal for deriving Chl and TSM. OLCI water quality data products were compared to Rijkswaterstaat in-situ measurements for the months May until September of 2017. Furthermore, OLCI's Chl and TSM were compared with climatologies of MERIS data. The OLCI water-leaving reflectance and aerosol optical thickness data products were compared with observations from the Belgian AERONET-OC station Thornton. To evaluate the spatial distribution of OLCI's aerosol optical thickness comparisons with nearly coincident MODIS-AQUA observations were made. To evaluate the spatial variability of OLCI's data products boxplots were created of Chl, TSM and the aerosol optical thickness. The water quality products of OLCI consist of a Chl product determined by the OC4Me algorithm and a Chl a TSM product derived from a neural network. OLCI Chl obtained from the OC4Me algorithm showed an overestimation of a factor 2 compared to the in-situ measurements. The Chl results of the neural network compared well with the in-situ measurements showing a correlation coefficient of 0.77. OLCI TSM showed an unrealistic underestimation of a factor 4 compared to in-situ measurements. Boxplots showed that the largest spatial variability is found at stations l50 km from the coast for the three water quality products. This unrealistic underestimation of scattering TSM would imply an underestimation of the water-leaving reflectance in all the bands. Comparing OLCI's water-leaving reflectance with AERONET's showed underestimations in the blue and green bands only. OLCI's water-leaving reflectance of the red and near-infra-red (NIR) bands correlated well with the AERONET-OC measurements. The aerosol optical thickness data product showed unrealistic overestimations of OLCI compared to AERONET-OC, but had a correlation coefficient of 0.58 when comparing it to MODIS aerosol optical thickness product. The spatial variability of OLCI's aerosol optical thickness is very high with differences of more than 40% per kilometre. In general, all products seem to have unrealistic values around clouds and in coastal areas, especially the aerosol optical thickness product. The pixels in those regions are different from other pixels. These results imply that further research into the software implementation of the radiative transfer models, lookup tables, vicarious calibrations and Neural Networks is needed to understand how retrievals of Chl and TSM concentrations are influenced. Such a fundamental understanding is ultimately also of interest for end users and all parties providing products and services for marine applications.


Hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) reside in specialized niches in the bone marrow (BM), that regulate their survival, proliferation and differentiation. Two types of HSC niches have been reported: endosteal niches in close contact with osteoblasts, and endothelial niches near vascular sinuses. Whether these niches have distinct functions in controlling HSC fate remains unknown. One difference between these two niches is the constitutive expression of E-selectin and P-selectin by BM endothelial cells. E- and P-selectin are two cell adhesion molecules that modulate hematopoietic progenitor cell (HPC) survival, proliferation and differentiation in vitro. We now show that deletion of E-selectin, but not P-selectin, delays HSC turn-over in the BM in vivo. Mice lacking either E-selectin (E −/ − ), P-selectin (P −/ − ) or both (PE −/ − ) were given bromo-deoxyuridine (BrdU) in their drinking water for up to 14 days. Lineage-negative c-KIT + Sca-1 + CD34 − (LKS34) cells were sorted from the BM and stained for BrdU incorporation into genomic DNA. Although it took only 3.6 days for 50% of LKS34 cells from wild-type (WT) and P −/ − mice to incorporate BrdU, 9 days were required for 50% BrdU incorporation in LKS34 cells from E −/ − and PE −/ − double KO mice. Thus, HSC cycling time is 2.5 times slower in the absence of E-selectin. To confirm these findings, LKS cells were stained with rhodamine123, a vital dye that is retained by metabolically active cells but effluxed from quiescent HSC. A higher proportion of LKS cells from E −/ − mice were rhodamine dull (34±2%) than WT LKS (23±1%; p=0.037) confirming that a greater proportion of HSC from E −/ − mice are quiescent. To further support these findings, we determined the effect of E-selectin deletion on HSC recovery following cytotoxic stress with a single dose of 5-fluorouracil (5FU 150mg/kg). As KIT is strongly down-regulated in the BM of 5FU-treated mice, we examined frequency and BrdU incorporation in Lin − Sca1 + CD41 − CD48 − CD150 + long-term reconstituting HSC. We found HSC recovery to be enhanced in E −/ − mice with a 5-fold increase in HSC numbers per femur compared to WT mice at day 7 post-5FU. Despite the more rapid recovery of E −/ − HSC, BrdU incorporation remained significantly lower in E −/ − HSC on days 3 and 7 post-5FU suggesting the decreased HSC turn-over in the absence of E-selectin protects them from the cytotoxic effect of 5FU. To determine whether this effect was mediated by the two described E-selectin receptors PSGL-1 and/or CD44, BrdU incorporation experiments were repeated with mice lacking both the PSGL-1 and CD44 genes. LKS cell turnover in these mice was identical to that of WT suggesting that the effect is mediated by a distinct unknown receptor(s) on HSC. The fact that a novel E-selectin receptor on HSC/HPC is involved was confirmed both using flow cytometry with selectin-IgM chimeras as well as cell adhesion assays using plastic-adsorbed selectin-IgG chimeras. In both assays, 90-95% of LKS cells from CD44 −/ − PSGL-1 −/ − double KO mice bound E-selectin whereas adhesion to P-selectin was completely lost. Taken together our findings suggest that E-selectin, whose constitutive expression is restricted to BM endothelial cells, plays an important role in the regulation HSC turnover in vivo, endothelial niches, where E-selectin is expressed, support more rapid HSC turn-over within the BM, and this effect is mediated by unknown E-selectin receptors distinct from PSGL-1 or CD44.


The study aims to determine the law on the protection of to the protection of freedom of speech through the internet which is set the Act. 11 Year 2008 on Information and Transactions Electronic viewed from the perspective of human rights. This research is a normative legal prescriptive. The method used in this research is a method normative. Secondary data sources used include legal material primary, secondary legal materials and legal materials tertiary. collection techniques data used in the study of literature and cyber media. Data obtained and analyzed by grammatical interpretation and interpretation systematic examination of the provisions contained in the Act ITE. The results showed that the law No. 11 Years 2008 on Information and Electronic Transactions cannot be said to have protect the freedom of expression of a person as personal right to communicate via the Internet. As has been explained that the provisions of the Act relating to the ITE freedom of speech is only regulated in one article and there are only a prohibition without rights. Based on that, then that provision it is still obscurity. So requires setting Further the Act ITE. As human rights are also included within the political right individual and personal rights, freedom of expression must be absolute protected and cannot be reduced. But considering that the right is also raise an obligation to honor and respect the rights of others, the implementation of these rights may be restricted by law. While the ITE Law there is no clear restrictions regarding them.


We describe how correlations between electrons can be used to trace the dynamics of correlated two-electron ionization with attosecond precision, without using attosecond pulses. The approach is illustrated using the example of Auger or Coster-Kronig decay triggered by photoionization with an extreme ultraviolet pulse. It requires correlated measurements of angle-resolved energy spectra of both the photo- and Auger electrons in the presence of a laser pulse. To reconstruct the dynamics, we use not only classical time and energy correlation, but also entanglement between the two electrons.


Apparatus and method for providing a fault Lock function in a headlight apparatus, with an optical module to form a plurality of beam patterns by a predetermined shield, a shield driving unit for driving the shield of the optical module, a module drive unit to control a left and right radiation angle of the optical module , a leveling drive unit for controlling an upward and downward radiation angle of the optical module, and a control unit for controlling the pattern of light distribution or the radiation angle when disturbance in the shield drive unit, the module driving unit and / or the leveling drive unit is detected, wherein the control unit at least one drive unit that usually works so controlled that in case of failure in at least one of the plate drive unit, the module driving unit and the leveling driving unit, the light which would cause glare at another driver and irradiated to an upper end of a section of the shield is eliminated.


This research wants to identify the implementation of e-government conducted by the city government in Indonesia that could synergize and support city diplomacy activity in boosting city economic development. The research method was qualitative methods, with data collection techniques through literature studies. The results showed that the implementation of E-government in several cities in Indonesia are still focused on improving the quality of public services, using the use of information technology through the pattern of Government to Citizen (G2C), Government to Business (G2B), Government to Government (G2G). The orientation of data and information distribution is still focused on the local population. The use of multilingual or foreign language options in accessing information is still less optimal. Various fields that can boost the city's development, such as investment, trade, and tourism with a focus on overseas audiences, are informed well but the data or information presented is not integrated into one portal. There are several cities that are considered doing city diplomacy very well, by combining the e-government implementation and city diplomacy will greatly improve and accelerate the city's economic development, and the city could be becoming an important player at the global level.


A 67-year-old right-handed man who worked as a shipping merchant was brought to medical attention by his wife in May 2011. Although born and brought up in Scotland, he was at the time living alone in South Korea; he had last seen his family in January 2011, when he was well. His wife kept in daily contact with him, and in March 2011 she noted he was occasionally forgetful, for example, mixing up friends' names. This progressed and by May 2011 he was losing his way home from work, prompting her to visit him. In addition to the cognitive symptoms, she noted he was eating little and had an unsteady gait. He was assessed in Seoul, where a new diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus was made. He had a normal CT scan of head, and his gait was attributed to a diabetic peripheral neuropathy.

He returned to the UK and attended clinic in May 2011. He could give a reasonable history and had a mini-mental state examination score of 26/30. He had been previously well, took no medications and had no relevant family history. He was an ex-smoker of 26 pack-years and drank in moderation. Before moving to Korea he had worked in the Merchant Navy, mainly in Asia. On examination, his gait was unsteady and he had signs consistent with a peripheral neuropathy, with reduced sensation in a glove and stocking distribution, and reflexes diminished in the arms and absent in the legs. Outpatient investigations were organised, but 2 weeks later his general practitioner requested admission due to a marked deterioration.

On admission, his Addenbrooke's cognitive examination (revised) (ACE-R) was 51 (attention and orientation 7/18, memory 6/26, language 21/26, fluency 9/14 and visuospatial 8/16) with confabulation noted. The general examination was normal. The neurological examination showed an ataxic gait, …