Antecedents of maternal separation anxiety were examined in 83 Italian mothers prior to the entry of their infants or toddlers into group care. As measured by the Maternal Separation Anxiety Scale, mothers'anxiety did not vary with the age of the child. Hierarchical regressions revealed that anxious mothers were younger and less educated, received less support, had temperamentally negative infants, and provided less varied stimulation in the home (accounting for 44% of the variance in general anxiety, subscale 1). For infants, only parent background and social support predicted anxiety, but for toddlers negative temperament and social isolation were predictive (together accounting for 38% of the variance). Anxiety of Italian mothers was similar on subscale 1 to U.S. samples, but lower on subscale 3


The original Muskat problem was proposed in 1934 by Muskat [31] to study from Darcy's law the encroachment of water into an oil sand. Due to applications to oil reservoir, this problem obtains a great practical interest and also, in view of the mathematical difficulties, the well-posedness for the Muskat problem takes attention of many mathematicians. In fact, many important results concerning the Muskat problem were obtained during the last 20 years. Most of existence and uniqueness results are related with the situation when there exists only one moving horizontal interface, that separate two different fluids. Two regimes were found for the Muskat problem: a stable regime, when this horizontal interface is stable under small deviations and an unstable one, which is to say, fingering occurs. The stable regime could be realized, if initially a horizontal interface separates the two fluids with a denser fluid from below and in the presence of gravity force. In the case of the stable regime we can mention the following results: Yi [41], Siegel, Caflisch, Howison [37] shown global-in–time existence for initial data, that is a small perturbation of a flat interface, which separate two fluids. Ambrose [3], Córdoba A., Córdoba D., Gancedo [17], Escher, Matioc [19] proved local-in-time existence and uniqueness of solutions for initial data in the Sobolev spaces. Further global well-posedness results were established by Constantin, Córdoba, Gancedo, Strain [15] for initial data smaller than an explicitly computable constant. Nevertheless the well-posedness of the Muskat problem for general initial data is not known. It is also interesting to mention the existence and non–uniqueness results of weak solutions for the Muskat problem obtained by Córdoba, Faraco, Gancedo [16] and Székelyhidi Jr. [39]. The number of constructed weak solutions, corresponding to the same initial data, is infinite. Indeed, the weak solutions considered have low regularity, and in particular, they do not satisfy a standard


A cerium sulfate hydrate, [C4N2H12]3[Ce2(SO4)6 (H2O)2]•H2O, was synthesized via the hydrothermal method with piperazine as a template and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The compound crystallizes in monoclinic system, space group P21/c with cell parameters a=0.66335(10)nm, b=28088(4)nm, c=l.02212(15)nm, β=96.160(2)°, final R indices [I>2σ-(I)]R1=0.0466 and wR2=0.1226. The compound exhibits a corrugated layer structure, which is constructed from inorganic anionic sheets of cerium sulfates with diprotonated piperazine cations and water molecules locating between the layers. An eight-membered ring is created in the layer with a diprotonated piperazine molecule locating in it. The thermal behavior of the compound was also examined.


The Centenary of Federation rightly led to a renewed consideration of the state of Australian citizenship and identity. This article will add to this discussion by attempting to show how the political subject, the democratic citizen, is formed within certain spatial determinants, particularly in relation to nature itself. That is, when we think about how Australians understand their democracy and how they act as citizens we have to take into account how such a political culture necessarily developed within the speciŽ city of this continent's natural environment. Now this aspect, the space of nature, is not usually accorded much time in the debates over politics and citizenship (at least not beyond the well-known Green interventions). The major reason for this is that the weight of European/American theory will tend to push away such questions as relatively unimportant because a common, standard view of nature can be assumed as a given within their argumentation. However, two points should be emphasized. Firstly, there is indeed a particular relation to nature which underpins a very strong form of the liberal-democratic tradition of citizenship which emanates from Euro/American sources; and, secondly, this relation to nature proved difŽ cult to realize in part of Australia's identity-shaping history. If these two points are indeed correct then we might be able to explain some of the peculiarities of Australia's particular version of the liberal ideal of democratic citizenship by bringing the question of nature and politics into focus. Firstly, then, the understanding of nature which abides in the dominant discourse on citizenship has to be brought out for examination. What has often been called the liberal tradition of democratic citizenship is full of disputed terms and interpretive debates. I want to emphasize just one seminal text within this enormous arena, but one which has been termed the 'Bible of modern liberalism' (Ebenstein, 1969, p. 394): Locke's Second Treatise on Civil Government. Locke's book will be used here because it has been such an in uential and widely quoted work, and because it provides a strongly deŽ ned relationship between the space of nature, the citizen and the state. With John Locke's late seventeenth-century vision of the good state, the rational control of a mundane nature by the dominating subject is unequivocally assumed. Nature had become thoroughly disenchanted, following the scientiŽ c and Protestant assaults against the ancient divinities. That is, any magical or enchanted forces that had hitherto populated the natural world had been dispelled through the in uences of the scientiŽ c revolution, which assumed that there was nothing in nature which could not be known by human reason; and by the Reformation, which had vigorously attacked any suppos-


A common model of vibratory diagnostics objects is the stochastic difference schemes, and theirs para met ical identification is carried out least squares and lea st absolute deviations techniques. It is well known that these techniques are unstable under stochastic heterogeneity of obse rvabl process, specifically, in the presence of ou tliers. One way to make the stable parametrical identification of vibr ato y diagnostics objects is implementation of gene ralized least absolute deviations method based on concave loss function. O btained requirements to the loss function guarantee i g the steadiness evaluation, algorithms of identification and exampl es are presented.


Abstract The objective of this study is to describe the epidemiology and causes of traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA) in Kuwait aiming to provide a preliminary background to update the current guidelines and improve patients' management. This is a retrospective analysis of TCA cases retrieved from emergency medical services archived data between 1 January and 31 December 2017. The TCA cases were sub-grouped based on mechanism of injury then compared in terms of patient demographics, vital signs, patterns of injuries, resuscitation practices, and outcomes. Outcomes; On scene mortality rate and pre-hospital return of spontaneous circulation. Among the 204 TCA patients, 140 patients met the inclusion criteria. This whole group was then divided in to 4 subgroups: road traffic accident (RTA) 76% (n=106), fall from height (FFH) 13% (n = 18), slip/fall 4% (n = 6), and assaults 7% (n = 10). There was significant difference between the four mechanisms in: mean age (P =  < .001), type of injury (P = .005), head injury (P = .005), chest injury (P = .003), GCS score < 9 (P = .004) and initial hypertension (P =  < .001). Initial hypertension and GCS score < 9 were only documented in head injuries of RTA and slip/fall groups. Significant difference was also seen in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (P = .006), airway management (P = .035) and on scene mortality rate (P = .003). All patients who had isolated head injury in FFH were pronounced dead on scene, 60%. Not all TCA incidents are the same, there are different pattern of injuries in each TCA mechanism. Head injuries are predominantly seen in RTA, FFH, slip /falls and chest injuries are seen in assaults. This can influence emergency medical services personals resuscitation plan. Further research is required to address the resuscitation of TCA of different mechanisms.


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The invention relates to a light-emitting element intended in particular for copying machines by electrophytography. It comprises a substrate 101 covered with a light-receiving layer 102 which consists of a first film. REGION 103 COMPRISING AN AMORPHOUS MATTER CONTAINING ATOMS OF GERMANIUM AND A SECOND REGION 104 WHICH IS PHOTOCONDUCTIVE AND INCLUDES AMORPHOUS MATTER CONTAINING SILICON ATOMS. LAYER 102 ALSO CONTAINS OXYGEN ATOMS AND A SUBSTANCE DETERMINING THE CONDUCTIVITY AND WHOSE CONTENT IS DISTRIBUTED SO AS TO MAXIMUM IN THE SECOND REGION 104 OR AT THE INTERFACE OF THIS REGION 104 WITH THE FIRST REGION 103. IN SECOND REGION 104, THE SUBSTANCE IS DISTRIBUTED SO AS TO BE LARGER IN QUANTITY TO SUBSTRATE 101. FIELD OF APPLICATION: ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC COPYING MACHINES, ETC.


Purpose
This paper aims to analyse the role of central bank digital currency (CBDC) in bank earnings management and focus on how CBDC activity might influence banks to engage in accrual earnings management using loan loss provisions (LLPs) and the implications for earnings quality.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper used conceptual discourse analysis to explain the role of CBDC in bank earnings management.

Findings
Banks will use accruals, such as LLPs, to manage earnings when CBDC-induced bank disintermediation leads to a reduction in bank deposits, a reduction in bank lending and a likely reduction in reported earnings. Bank managers will mitigate the reduction in reported earnings by lowering discretionary LLPs to increase reported earnings.

Originality/value
The recent emergence of CBDC in the digital currency universe has led to increased research interest on the role of CBDC in corporations and society. This study contributes to the literature by focusing on banks, and examining the effect of CBDC on bank earnings management.


Due to the rapid growth of online e-commerce, customers can now voice and express their reviews and thoughts on online products. Therefore, companies who market their product on the e-commerce website will receive thousands of reviews and feedback from their end-users directly on this platform. As the amount of textual data grows tremendously, developing sentiment analysis that automatically analyses text data becomes increasingly vital. It is because reading every review manually can be a tedious task and time-consuming. Analyzing the sentiment for all reviews can provide the companies with an overview of how positive or negative the customers are about their products. The convolutional neural network (CNN) has recently been used for text classification tasks and has achieved impressive results. Hence, this study proposes a CNN method for sentiment analysis to classify the reviews on mobile phone brands. The customer reviews dataset is obtained from the Amazon website. This study combined the Word2Vec-CNN model to predict the sentiment of mobile phone reviews effectively. Pre-trained Word2Vec model is utilized to generate word vectors in word embedding. CNN layers are used to extract better features for sentence categorization to identify the sentiment polarity of the reviews, whether positive or negative. The obtained results give us 88% accuracy and the developed application can also function well in analyzing the sentiment of customers' reviews.


The generally accepted categories of Design and Construction Margins and Future Growth Margins are discussed briefly, and a third major category, Assurance Margins, is introduced and discussed in more detail. The connection between Assurance Margins and the probability of successful performance is shown. The feasibility of reducing margins to reduce ship size and cost is examined.

Following a brief discussion of certain significant aspects of a version of the Naval Ship Engineering Center DD07 destroyer computer synthesis model and of the baseline ship employed, the results of some computer studies of margin impacts on that baseline ship are presented and interpreted. Changes in margins on weight, vertical center of gravity, space, accommodations, propulsion power, and electrical power are investigated and their impacts expressed primarily as changes in full load displacement and in acquisition cost. The effects of combinations of margins are illustrated, and attempts are made to explain the mechanisms by which interactions occur.


Obedience pressure is when individuals receive commands from their superiors to act unethically. Group pressure refers to individuals within a group that considers unethical actions acceptable. Meanwhile, whistleblowing refers to the reporting action of whistleblowers aware of fraud in their workplaces. This research aims to examine the causal association between obedience pressure and group pressure, and whistleblowing intentions. This research uses a 2x2 between-subject experimental study. Our subjects are students from an accounting department in Central Java. Our results demonstrate that individuals under low obedience pressure have higher whistleblowing intentions than those under high. Second, individuals under low group pressure have higher whistleblowing intentions than individuals under high group pressure. Third, there is an interaction between obedience pressure and group pressure on whistleblowing intentions. This research contributes to the whistleblowing literature and informs companies in developing an optimal whistleblowing system.


Background

Large scale randomized trials have demonstrated that bevacizumab in addition to chemotherapy as first-line or second-line treatment has significant survival benefits. We aim to explore the clinical impact of bevacizumab in combination with chemotherapy in first-line or second-line in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC).
Methods

The medical records of patients with CRC who received bevacizumab at first or second-line of treatment were collected retrospectively. The primary outcome of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of bevacizumab in combination with chemotherapy by survival endpoints i.e. overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) and the secondary outcome was to evaluate its safety by incidence of adverse events (AE).
Results

Fifty-one patients with CRC had met the selection criteria for treatment with bevacizumab to either cetuximab or FOLFOX or both. The median age was 54 years. During follow-up, ten patients had exhibited progression after treatment while 5 patients died. The median OS and PFS of the overall population were not reached. The Cox proportional regression analysis revealed no significant prognostic factors of OS and PFS for treatment with bevacizumab in various demographic subgroups. The 1-year PFS rates of all 51 patients was 76%. The 1-year and 3-year OS rates for all 51 patients were 95% and 88%, respectively. Toxicities were usually mild in nature, with nausea, vomiting, hand and foot syndrome, neutropenia, asthenia and palpitation being the commonly reported adverse events.
Conclusion

In this real-world setting, the efficacy and safety of bevacizumab in combination with chemotherapy is limited and further research is warranted as to whether bevacizumab with chemotherapy is an optimal treatment as first-line or second-line therapy in Chinese CRC patients.


The out-of-plane resistivity (rho(c)) and magnetoresistivity (MR) are studied in antiferromangetic (AF) Nd2-xCexCuO4 single crystals, which have three types of noncollinear antiferromangetic spin structures. The apparent signatures are observed in rho(c)(T) measured at the zero-field and 14 T at the spin structure transitions, giving a definite evidence for the itinerant electrons directly coupled to the localized spins. One of the striking features is an anisotropy of the MR with a fourfold symmetry upon rotating the external field (B) within ab plane in the different phases, while twofold symmetry at spin reorientation transition temperatures. The intriguing thermal hysteresis in rho(c)(T,B) and magnetic hysteresis in MR are observed at spin reorientation transition temperatures.


As the baby boomer generation begins to fill nursing facilities nationwide, the prospect of elder abuse and negligent facility practice becomes a growing concern for key decision-makers. This study evaluates a sample population in Wichita, KS of 17 independent, long-term care facilities by charting their bed numbers and occupancy rates over a five year period. In comparison to the 17 care facilities, the study evaluates over 200 regionally printed articles associated to long-term facility care between the dates of January 1, 2004 to December 31, 2008. By using thematic analysis, a correlation was discovered between the use of negative media and the projected occupancy rates for subsequent years. Although not statistically significant, the data collected by this study provides substantial information concerning the relationship between regional print media and long-term care facilities.


Up to June 1995, twenty-seven persons with HTLV-I infection have been identified i n Spain. Eight (29%) of them have been diagnosed as having diseases caused by HTLV-I: four had HTLV-I-associated myelopathy (HAM)/tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP), three had adult T cell leukemiailymphoma (ATL), and one developed lymphomatoid vasculitis and angiocentric T cell lymphoma. Since additional hystological information from the last patient is still not available and he was coinfected with HIV-I, we decided to mention his case separately from the other classical ATL patients. Table 1 summarizes the global features of persons with HTLV-I infection identified in Spain to date. Most of the information was presented at a forum on HTLV organized in Madrid i n October 1994 [I]. Table 2 describes the main characteristics of patients with HTLV-I disease. No cases of uveitis, subacute arthropathy, chronic dermatitis or lymphocytic alveolitis have yet been reported in Spain. The other 19 subjects were asymptomatic at the time they were diagnosed as HTLV-I infected. Four HTLV-I-seropositive natives were identified on the occasion of a blood donation, and all originated from Galicia, a region located in the northwest part of Spain


Acoustic determination of the concentration o f gas bubbles in the sea is based on the phenom enon of resonant backscattering. A bubble o f a definite size resonates with an incident acoustic wave of a precisely defined frequency, inversely proportional to a bubble radius. On a basis of the deter mination o f the backscattering intensity o f various sound frequencies, the number of bubbles o f various dim ensions can be determined. The values measured in situ allowed an approximation o f the dependence of the number o f bubbles on their size and the depth, as well as an evaluation of the effect of bubbles on the sound propagation conditions in the Baltic.


The static and dynamic experimental results of polycarbonate circular cell honeycombs subjected to in-plane uniaxial loading are simulated through numerical analysis using the finite element method. The experimental results were presented in Part 1 (Chung, J., and Waas, A. M., Compressive Response of Honeycombs Under In-Plane Uniaxial Static and Dynamic loading, Part 1: Experiments. AIAA Journal, Vol. 40, No. 5, 2002, pp. 966-973). Through a comparison between the experimental results and numerical analysis, the crushing mechanism of the circular cell honeycomb material is studied. The influence of friction between the loading plate and the honeycomb material is studied numerically in the simulation of the dynamic experimental results.


To the EditorGranular cell tumors (GCT) are uncommon benigntumors. They may occur in various sites. The tongueand breast comprise the two most common loca-tions, while a lesion in the digestive and respiratorytracts is not unusual. Laryngeal involvement is fairlyuncommon and is present in approximately 10% ofall cases [1]. Malignant GCTs represent less than2% of all granular cell tumors [2]. As with theirbenign counterparts, malignant GCT have a wideanatomic distribution. However, they carry a poorprognosis, with recurrence and metastasis typicallywithin one year of diagnosis [3].We present a case of malignant granular celltumor arising from larynx, which has metastasizedto lungs and bones. We also conducted a search onthe MEDLINE database (National Library ofMedicine, Bethesda, MD) and identified 52 pre-viously reported cases of metastatic GCT whosesurvival data were reported. Basic characteristics ofthese cases together with ours are described in thefollowing sections. We also review the metastaticGCT in literature.Case ReportA 43-year-old woman was admitted to the hospitalfor long-standing cough and recent hemoptysis. Inher past history, she had undergone right verticallaryngectomy in another institution two years ago.The diagnosis was laryngeal GCT. Physicalexamination was unremarkable except for decreasedbreath sounds in the apex of the right lung. Chestx-ray revealed infiltration of right upper lung region.Computed tomography (CT) of the thorax showedmediastinal lymphadenopathies as well as a lesionthat partially obstructed the upper lobe bronchusand invaded the inferior vena cava. Bronchoscopyrevealed a bright, smooth and vascularized mass,obstructing the right upper lobe entrance. Punchbiopsy was performed. Histopathological examina-tion showed a GCT. The lesion appeared inoperabledue to the invasion of large vessels. Ultrasound andCT of the abdomen showed a giant hemangioma inthe right lobe of the liver. This finding was con-firmed by biopsy. Sixty Gy of external radiotherapywas administered to the pulmonary lesion.This intervention resulted in the palliation of he-moptysis, but the size of the lesion remained stable.As no other effective treatment modality wasavailable, a decision to administer chemotherapywas made. She received three cycles of cisplatinand fluorouracil. Toxicity was acceptable, however,the pulmonary lesion remained unchanged whilemultiple osteoblastic lesions appeared on directx-rays and radionuclide bone scan. Chemotherapywas discontinued, and she was given radiotherapy tothe right distal femur for pain palliation. Oraletoposide 50 mg/day was prescribed, but patientcould not tolerate and refused to use it after onlyten days of treatment.


In August 1999, Larry Killgallon, president of Ohio Art, sat in his Bryan, Ohio, office and reviewed his marketing plan for the coming Christmas season. For years, Ohio Art had sold its line of educational and activity toys through brick-and-mortar retailers such as Toys 'R' Us and Wal-Mart. The Internet presented new opportunities for Ohio Art: 11 on-line retailers planned to carry the company's products in 1999. Killgallon wondered what kind of sales volume he might expect from these e-retailers. He also wondered what implications the growth of e-retailing had for Ohio Art's own on-line store and the company's other Web pages.


The first results of monitoring the slow dynamics of an anthropogenic landslide located in the mountainous part of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania are presented in the article. Landslide motion measurements were performed using tacheometric surveying and the GPS/GLONASS global positioning system. The article considers the selection of sites for installation the basic network points for landslides monitoring.


After describing Japanese slow but steady progress and Chinese very rapid progress of high-speed railways, comparison and analysis of ways of development and those of specific components are discussed. By adding descriptions of European developments which are much different to Japanese, comparisons are made between Japanese and Chinese strong and weak points in order to contribute to the improvement of worldwide rail passengers' transport including inferior aspect of both countries systems.


Results are reported of clinical trials of a drug obtained from the prostate of cattle. Prostatilen possesses an anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, immunomodulating effect, improves urination, stimulates the copulative and generative functions. Prostatilen is recommended for serial production and use in medical practice.


This paper explores the relationship between the TT and its ST by applying Wolfgang Iser's notion "Implied Reader". It is concluded that the TT and its ST are connected with each other in the sense that the latter is the undeniable historical origin of the former. That is, any TT is born out of a certain ST.In the whole process of translating, the ST serves both as a trigger and as a controller simultaneously. On the other hand, as the result of the translator's interpreting of the ST, any TT is merely one, but not all, of the innumerable possible interpretations anticipated by the ST.


Recently, a new type of three-phase boost inverters was developed by using switched-capacitor (SC) units to feed the traditional three-phase inverting bridge. With the cooperation of the coupled structure and a specific modulation strategy, this type of inverters has many attractive features. In this article, an SC-based multilevel inverter (MLI) with this coupled structure is developed by using a triple-mode SC unit with varied terminal voltage to feed the three-phase bridge. Compared with the existing topologies, the proposed SCMLI has advantages of higher boost factor and more output levels. In addition, with the improved virtual vector space vector modulation strategy, the capacitor voltage ripple is optimized by selecting the vector's redundancy states, and the switching stress dv/dt of the end-side inverting bridge is reduced to two third of its blocking voltage. The topology, working principle, capacitors' voltage ripples, and power losses as well as comparative study are analyzed in detail. Finally, its feasibility and performance are experimentally evaluated by a downscale prototype with a rated power of 1200 W and the measured efficiency is above 97.6%.


Low cycle fatigue characteristics of cast aluminum alloy A356 with a yield strength and ultimate strength of 229 and 283 MPa respectively was evaluated using smooth axial specimen under strain controlled condi-tion. Reversals to failure ranged from 16 to 10^7. The cast aluminum alloy exhibited cyclically strain-hardening behavior. The results of low cycle fatigue tests indicated that the conventional low cycle fatigue life model was not a satisfactory representation of the data This occurred because the elastic strain-life curve was not log-log linear and this phenomena caused a nonconservative and unsafe fatigue life prediction at both extremes of long and short lives. A linear log-log total strain-life model and a bilinear log-log elastic strain-life model were proposed in order to improve the representation of data compared to the conventional low cycle fatigue life model.
Both proposed fatigue life models were statistically analyzed using F tests and successful1y satisfied. However, the low cycle fatigue life model generated by the bilinear log-log elastic strain-life equation yielded a discontinuous curve with nonconservatism in the region of discontinuity. Among the models examined, the linear log-log total strain-life model provided the best representation of the low cycle fatigue data Low cycle fatigue life prediction method based on the local strain approach could conveniently incorpo-rated both proposed fatigue life models.


196 inhabitants left the camp to their original homes in Deir-ez-Zor governorate during the reporting period, reducing the total number of the camp inhabitants to 70 285. 18 static medical points, eight medical mobile teams, two leishmaniasis teams, two immunization teams, three maternity delivery clinics and three field hospitals are providing health services to the camp inhabitants on a daily basis.The newly established static health point in Phase 5 has opened and is providing health services to the camp's inhabitants. The threefield hospitals (with a total 72-bed capacity) are partially operating due to lack of health staff to operate 24/7 and shortages of medical equipment. However, the hospitals are providing simple surgical procedures, normal deliveries and primary health care services through their emergency rooms. At the Foreigners Annex, the availability of health services has been extended for three additional hours each day until 8.00 p.m. Additionally, four mobile medical teams and one static health point supported by WHO and other health partners are providing health care services to the Annex inhabitants. The availability of safe water is still a grave concern, as most water tanks are still without proper covering; the quality of the drinking water is currently not consistent with established standards, resulting in different waterborne diseases amongst the IDPs. 11 health facilities are reporting to the Early Warning and Response System (EWARS) at Al-Hol camp. The most common morbidities reported areacute diarrhoea, influenza-like illnesses, tuberculosis, brucellosis and scabies. During the reporting period, therewasone confirmed case of a 5-year child with acute flaccid paralysis and two suspected tuberculosis (TB) patients. No suspected measles cases were reported.


Failure process for the reinforced concrete free beam under static loading is formulated based on the elastic damage theory with the finite element method.By taking account of the different damage behaviors of concrete under tension and compression conditions,a damage mechanics model with 3 independent parameters is derived from the elastic damage theory.By combining the proposed damage model with the FEM,the damage mechanics-additional load-finite element method is developed to analyse the failure process of the reinforced concrete free beam.The theoretical results for the failure modes and displacements are in good agreement with the experimental observations.This indicates that the proposed damage constitutive model can be applied to describe the damage and fracture behaviors of the reinforced concrete free beam.


Holothurin, a biotoxic principle from the Cuvierian glands of the iiahamian sea-cucumber, Actiuopyga agassizi, was studied as an antitumor agent capable of retarding tumor growth and prolonging the life of tumor-bearing mice. White Swiss mice injected with Sarcoma 180 had a mean survival time of 18.1 days with an average weight gam representing tumor and ascites fluid accumulation amounting to 25.1 grams in 15 days. Of five white Swiss mice with Sarcoma 180 receiving 0.15 mg Holothurin every other day, one was alive at 57 days and the average weight gain of the group was 10.4 grams in 15 days. White Swiss mice with Sarcoma 180 which survived the lethal effects of slightly higher doses of Holothurin also had prolonged survival times and negligible tumor growth. C57-B1-6J mice with B-16 melanoma tumors did not show increased survival time using the same doses of Holothurin that were effective in white Swiss mice. Toxicity tests indicated that the safe upper limit for intraperitoneal Holothurin injection in white Swiss mice was 0.10 mg/day, 0.15 mg given every other day, and up to 0.30 mg given in a .single injection. Similar tests with C57 black mice showed survival with as much as 0.60 mg Holothurin in a single subcutaneous injection. Holothurin was found to be 250 to 500 times more effective in causing red blood cell hemolysis than saponin and thus appears to have some action on living cells in addition to its surfactant action.


A demand characteristics survey was used to determine the implications of system design trends on distributed power architectures. The largest number of respondents came from the communications segment (28.6%), with military having the second-largest number of respondents (20.0%). Selected results from the survey indicate that within five years, engineers overall expect today's centralized power architectures will be replaced with distributed power architectures, spot power architectures and intermediate bus architectures (IBAs). But only a small percentage of respondents believe IBAs will be the "most often used" power system architecture in the future. The end-use segment expecting to use IBAs the most is the military segment.


NAD(P)H oxidases (Noxs) produce O2− and play an important role in cardiovascular pathophysiology. The Nox4 isoform is expressed primarily in the mitochondria in cardiac myocytes. To elucidate the function of endogenous Nox4 in the heart, we generated cardiac-specific Nox4−/− (c-Nox4−/−) mice. Nox4 expression was inhibited in c-Nox4−/− mice in a heart-specific manner, and there was no compensatory up-regulation in other Nox enzymes. These mice exhibited reduced levels of O2− in the heart, indicating that Nox4 is a significant source of O2− in cardiac myocytes. The baseline cardiac phenotype was normal in young c-Nox4−/− mice. In response to pressure overload (PO), however, increases in Nox4 expression and O2− production in mitochondria were abolished in c-Nox4−/− mice, and c-Nox4−/− mice exhibited significantly attenuated cardiac hypertrophy, interstitial fibrosis and apoptosis, and better cardiac function compared with WT mice. Mitochondrial swelling, cytochrome c release, and decreases in both mitochondrial DNA and aconitase activity in response to PO were attenuated in c-Nox4−/− mice. On the other hand, overexpression of Nox4 in mouse hearts exacerbated cardiac dysfunction, fibrosis, and apoptosis in response to PO. These results suggest that Nox4 in cardiac myocytes is a major source of mitochondrial oxidative stress, thereby mediating mitochondrial and cardiac dysfunction during PO.


Approximately 10% of all patients with untreated central Cushing's syndromes have clinically verifiable tumours of the pituitary. After bilateral adrenalectomy 10 to 20% of patients with apparently normal pre-operative pituitary glands develop clinically and roentgenologically demonstrable pituitary tumours, of the so called Nelson type. These are usually very active chromophobe adenomas which are dangerous because they expand rapidly. They secretee considerable amounts of ACTH and MSH. A typical case is described.


: The literature shows that scabies has been considered endemic in Aboriginal communities for some time, that similar situations have been effectively treated overseas with community participation and education and that strains resistant to medication currently considered effective in Australia have been identified overseas.

The article will briefly define the disease, describe the particularly debilitating form, Norwegian Scabies, then give a description of a recent drug trial combined with patient education, family and community discussion and treatment which is currently still in progress in an area of the Northern Territory of Australia.


Summary When an aircraft lands on a runway on which there are extensive puddles, it appears that sometimes the water exerts a large upwards force on the wheels, so preventing them from making contact with the ground. The wheels are then said to "aquaplane". In the aquaplaning condition the braking effectiveness of the wheels is reduced virtually to zero, and even at touch-down speeds insufficient to cause aquaplaning, when there is some contact between the wheels and the ground, water on the runway may cause appreciable reductions of runway friction forces. This note offers some tentative suggestions concerning the nature of the water flow when aquaplaning occurs, and is put forward as a basis for discussion of this important practical problem.


How to cite this paper: Drogalas, G., Anagnostopoulou, E., Koutoupis, A., & Pazarskis, M. (2018). Relationship between internal audit factors and corporate governance. Journal of Governance & Regulation, 7(3), 13-17. http://doi.org/10.22495/jgr_v7_i3_p2 Copyright © 2018 The Authors This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b


Abstract This paper presents a semi-empirical geophysical model function to retrieve wind fields from SAR data acquired by the Italian satellite constellation COSMO-SkyMed (CSK). The model is suitable for X-band data with vertical VV polarization. A data set of more than 300 CSK images has been used for the model coefficients estimation. QuikSCAT and Global Forecast System analysis data have been used for model development. The validation of the results has been carried out with a new data set of 24 images acquired over three oceanographic buoys. The agreement between the wind model and in situ data is quite satisfactory. We consider the present results adequate for a large variety of applications.


Abstract To enhance the reliability of the wafer level package (WLP) for larger chip sizes, WLPs with a compliant layer under the pads have to relieve the thermal stress on the solder joint. Usually, the thicker the stress compliant layer, the better the reliability. However, the fabrication process restricts the thickness. With that in mind, this paper proposes a novel WLP with a bubble‐like buffer mechanism, which is composed of a bubble‐like plate and a buffer layer. The main goal is to study the effects of both the geometric dimensions and material properties of the bubble‐like layer on the packaging reliability. For parametric analysis, a 2‐D non‐linear finite element analysis (FEA) is conducted. Furthermore, the experimental results are compared in order to verify that the adopted FEA procedures are reliable.


Alton N. Sparks, Jr. and Scott Utley, Georgia Cooperative Extension, University of Georgia Tifton Campus, P.O. Box 748, Tifton, GA 31793, and Turner County Extension Office, 414 County Farm Road, Room 2, Ashburn, GA 31714 Introduction Spider mites have become a more consistent pest in a variety of vegetable crops in Georgia over the past few years. They are prone to population outbreaks under the hot, dry conditions we tend to experience in the summer months. In 2007, spider mite reached potentially damaging populations in watermelons in many areas of south Georgia. This test was conducted in Turner County to evaluate several currently registered acaricides for efficacy against the twospotted spider mite in watermelons.


In the article the scanline energy optimization algorithm, its characteristics and implementation method with the help of message passing mechanism is considered. The method of searching for energy function minimum and the method of searching for the argument at which this minimum occurs have been observed in the review.


Depression is a frequent psychiatric symptom in epilepsy and has been related to epilepsy of temporal origin, especially of left-sided foci. The present investigation has been designed to assess the personality features and the effects of depression on personality, in patients with mesial temporal lob epilepsy with hypocampal sclerosis (MTLE-HS). Twenty-six patients undergoing presurgical evaluation for treatment of intractable MTLE-HS, 23 patients with depression and 25 healthy subjects included in the study. Self-report measures of depression (Beck Depression Inventory-BDI) and anxiety (Beck Anxiety Inventory-BAI), and an empirically derived measure of psychopathology (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-MMPI) were used to evaluate the subjects. Results indicated that MMPI subscales of hysteria, paranoia, social inversion, and depression subscales were higher in patients with MTLE-HS and with depression relative to controls. There were higher scores for females with epilepsy on the Mf (masculinity/femininity) subscale of the MMPI relative to males with epilepsy and the other two control groups. Patients with epilepsy and depression had higher levels of anxiety and depression compared to healthy controls. This study results showed that depression may have some effect on personality changes seen in epilepsy, and female epileptics seem to have a tendency towards a masculine attitude. New controlled studies with homogeneous study samples and with specific scales designed for patients with epilepsy have to be conducted.


I. INTRODUCTION The International Conference on Population Development (ICPD)1 has many admirable goals: it strives to reduce maternal mortality rates;2 it aims to enhance the lives of low-income residents of both residential and urban areas;3 and it seeks to eradicate poverty, perhaps its most important objective.4 Unfortunately, however, the theme of "population development" for many participants in the Conference is merely a subtle euphemism for population "reduction" or "control." While asserting that "[p]eople are the most important and valuable resource of any nation,"5 the Conference's Programme of Action is replete with policy proposals and declarations which attempt to dissipate that "most important" resource. A number of justifications have been advanced for such an approach, but none appear to validate the serious harms that population reduction programs cause. Ultimately, those programs seeking to diminish or discourage the existence of people-the so-called "anti-natalist" agenda-simply do not enhance people's lives. Delegates to the ICPD conference in Cairo "assumed that people were essentially a problem rather than a resource.' With so many challenges facing populations worldwide, our task should be to eliminate problems, not people. This Comment attempts to show the fallacies and hazards involved in population control. Part II examines the major justifications advanced by population reductionists, briefly responding to each in turn. Part III provides a substantive analysis of population reduction, examining its negative effects and reinforcing responses to issues introduced in Part II. Part IV outlines several recommendations for the ICPD, encouraging the Convention to pursue better avenues of serving populations than simply reducing them. II. JUSTIFICATIONS ADVANCED IN SUPPORT OF POPULATION REDUCTION PROGRAMS Various justifications have been advanced for promoting population reductions.7 They range from a simple fear of the unknown to serious questions about environmental depletion. Many of the justifications are founded on inaccurate information, illogical assumptions, or fear induced by the scare tactics commonly used by population control advocates. Ultimately, all of the reasons given are inadequate in comparison with the harms they create. A. Fear of the Unknown The first reason can be understood simply as a fear of the unknown. Many commentators point out that we have never had this many people on the earth before, and that our rate of growth is disturbing.8 Most commonly, writers point to the time it took for the world's population to reach one billion, then how quickly it rose to the nearly six billion people today.9 Population alarmists invoke images of children being born with the "speed of a machine gun,"lo adding a "new Germany" each year.ll Scare tactics are the common technique employed in such statements, attempting to alarm people at the rapid rate of population growth.12 Media, celebrities, and academia alike13 have assumed that unprecedented population increase can only mean that there will be countless billions of people without food, leeching the planet of scarce resources before falling prey to famine, war, and other cataclysmic events. Amazingly, this argument has little to do with sound logic or economic reality. By itself, the fact that we have no record of larger world populations only means that our experience is incomplete in understanding how to thrive with larger numbers of people. Declaring that having much larger populations than ever before will be a catastrophe is something akin to the worldwide fear of only 500 years ago that travel too far overseas would cause one to fall off the edge of the earth.l4 Moreover, there is abundant evidence that our planet is capable of sustaining a population nearly seven times our current amount-at least forty billion people.lb By itself, the fact that we have never supported so many people does not necessarily mean that we are incapable of doing so in the future. …


The effect of ozonated water on plant growth was examined. Ozonated water, produced by an atmospheric barrier discharge, was supplied intermittently twice a day, except on rainy and cloudy days, to the underground roots of komatsuna (Brassica rapa var. perviridis) by changing the feeding time interval. Being apart from the feeding position, the weights of komatsuna increased by 2.4 times in the case of 5-sec feeding and 2.9 times in the cases of 78-sec feeding, compared to those of control. Intermittent supply of a suitable amount of ozonated water to the underground roots was found to activate plant growth.


Wang Fuzhi reconstructs the Confucius'theory of nature and destiny on the ground of the view of reason and Qi.First,he animadverts on conscious nature and turns it into non-artificial nature.Nature and Qi have same meanings.Second,destiny no longer has mystic character and it is the blending of reason and Qi.Third,ghosts and gods are the Qi's attribute.In a word,it has an important effect on the foundation of Wang Fuzhi's thought and the development of Confucianism.Meanwhile it changes the method in the study on Wang Fuzhi.


Background Though omega-3 fatty acids reduce seizures in several animal models, considerable controversy exists regarding the association between omega-3 fatty acids and epilepsy in human. Objective To assess whether genetically determined human blood omega-3 fatty acids are causally associated with the risk of epilepsy outcomes. Methods We conducted a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis by applying summary statistics of genome-wide association study datasets of both exposure and outcomes. Single nucleotide polymorphisms significantly associated with blood omega-3 fatty acids levels were selected as instrumental variables to estimate the causal effects on epilepsy. Five MR analysis methods were conducted to analyze the final results. The inverse-variance weighted (IVW) method was used as the primary outcome. The other MR analysis methods (MR-Egger, weighted median, simple mode, and weighted mode) were conducted as the complement to IVW. Sensitivity analyses were also conducted to evaluate heterogeneity and pleiotropy. Results Genetically predicted the increase of human blood omega-3 fatty acids levels was associated with a higher risk of epilepsy (OR = 1.160, 95%CI = 1.051–1.279, P = 0.003). Conclusions This study revealed a causal relationship between blood omega-3 fatty acids and the risk of epilepsy, thus providing novel insights into the development mechanism of epilepsy.


Here we present the methodology and initial results for a new near-field antenna radiation measurement system for submillimeter receivers. The system is based on a 4-port vector network analyzer with two synthesized sources. This method improves on similar systems employing this technique with the use of the network analyzer, which reduces the cost and complexity of the system. Furthermore, a single set of test equipment can analyze multiple receivers with different central frequencies; the frequency range of the system is limited by the output range of the network analyzer and/or the power output of the source signal. The amplitude and phase stability of the system in one configuration at 350 GHz was measured and found to be accurate enough to permit near field antenna measurements. The proper characterization of phase drifts across multiple test configurations demonstrates system reliability. These initial results will determine parameters necessary for implementing a near-field radiation pattern measurement of a Schottky diode receiver operating between 340-360 GHz.


Chipless technology is based on the modulation of the backscattered signal. The challenge in designing chipless RFID sensors is how to perform data encoding without the presence of a chip and adding the sensing capability. The aim of this work is to investigate chipless RFID design able to face these challenges.


T HE present paper concerns the proposition that primary controls may be functional within instituted social organizations. For this purpose, evidence will be submitted which suggests that such primary controls may make their appearance precisely when formal or institutional controls prove inadequate. As such, these primary controls enable the organization to accomplish its formal purpose. The study uses two sources of data-one, a manufacturing concern in Chicago, with approximately 1500 workers, which produces plastic raincoats, belts, jewelry and other items; and second, a radar airsite in the Air Defense Command, United States Air Force.' The two cases are utilized first in order partially to avoid the dangers of the unique case, and second, in order to provide a comparison between a small, independent civilian factory on the one hand, and a huge interlocking military organization on the other. The data in both cases were gathered by means of interview and participant observation techniques.2 It is


Background Systemic hypertension is a major risk factor both for stroke and for myocardial infarction. The search for underlying treatable cause is a part of the management of a hypertensive patient. Renal vascular hypertension is the most common form of potentially curable hypertension and if untreated may terminate in renal failure. It has been estimated that 10% to 20% of new patients presenting with end-stage renal disease have treatable renal vascular disease. The purpose of screening strategies is to identify significant renal artery stenosis (RAS) in earlier stages before irreversible damage or loss of renal mass occurs. Due to the relatively low prevalence of RAS in the hypertensive population an inexpensive, accurate and non-invasive screening test is required in patients with normal or impaired renal function. Duplex Doppler sonography (DUS) is non-invasive screening test for the detection of RAS. It combines visualization of renal arteries with measurement of various hemodynamic factors within the kidney. Recent studies have shown improvement of diagnostic values of DUS. Encouraging results were obtained by the combination of extrarenal and intrarenal Doppler scanning (2,3,4,5). The aim of the study was to determine the usefulness of DUS of the renal arteries in identifying patients with RAS >50%.


The paper demonstrates relationship between morphological characteristics of articular cartilage and its functional properties in osteoarthritis. An automated analysis of the sections of the rat articular cartilage has revealed these mutual dependences. An algorithm for assessing the functional properties of cartilage by certain characteristics of its tissue in a natural full-color reconstruction is proposed.


Black-box optimization algorithms typically start a search from scratch, assuming little prior knowledge about the task at hand. In practice, this approach can be prohibitive for computationally expensive problems, as a large number of costly function evaluations are often needed before a suitable (near-optimal) solution is found. Under this observation, recent efforts have incorporated transfer learning capabilities into sequential model-based Bayesian optimization (BO) solvers, resulting in substantial performance speed-ups by leveraging information from related past problems. However, a common simplifying assumption in existing approaches is that the search spaces of a previously encountered source and the ongoing target task bear the same features and dimensionality, with the difference lying in their respective objective functions. In this article, we present a generalized transfer BO algorithm that relaxes the aforementioned assumption. Our method jointly transforms source features while training probabilistic transfer regression models for the target, thus applying to practical use-cases where (in addition to the difference in objective functions) the number of features could change across the source and target tasks; for example, features can be added and/or removed. The theoretical basis of our proposal is analyzed, and its empirical performance is demonstrated on synthetic benchmark functions as well as in realistic examples spanning engineering design and the automated configuration of a machine learning model. Note to Practitioners—Problems of industrial interest have a tendency of being repetitive in nature. For this reason, domain experts are always in high demand, as they are able to harness their experience of similar problems to come up with fast solutions in difficult situations. However, domain experts are not easy to find. Given this fact, the present paper puts forth a method for automating the process of knowledge extraction (through experiential learning) and transfer across problems in the domain of computationally expensive black-box optimization. The key novelty and motivation of this work lies in enabling the adaptive transfer of knowledge even when the number of features changes across the source and target problems. Our proposed approach is verified experimentally on a range of benchmarks as well as real-world problems of a computationally expensive nature, highlighting the utility of an optimization engine that is able to learn from experience without the need for constant human intervention.


This paper attempts to analyze the relationship between major agricultural exports and economic growth in the U.S. economy. Using the annual data from...


We demonstrate self-trapping and self-rotation of quadruple-like gap solitons by single-site excitation in 2D photonic lattices under self-focusing nonlinearity. Such a self-trapped soliton cluster resides in the 2nd Bragg reflection band gap.


Disputes over the regional order in post-Soviet Europe and Eurasia are at the core of the breakdown in relations between Russia and the West and have created major security and economic challenges for states caught in between. The authors of this volume propose a new approach to the regional order that bridges current disagreements on the security architecture, economic integration, and regional conflicts.


The technique of an assessment of business within the comparative approach based on four consecutive stages is considered in the article. As a result of research the contents and an analysis algorithm of each stage are in detail stated for objectivity of receiving the effective final result. The practical importance of research is that the received conclusions will allow financial managers and investors to raise validity of managing decisions concerning transactions in the market of corporate control.


This paper analyzes the causes and patterns of primary disability in the persons of working age residing in areas with high magnetic background. Increasing the magnetic field is considered on the example of the changes generated by the Kursk magnetic anomaly. It is shown that the existing legal framework in the provision of medical care, medico-social examination and rehabilitation in Russia needs to be revised, with accentuation on the region of residence of patients, especially its geographical status, complex ecological situation. The authors noted that there is need for more effective, coordinated work of medical-social examination and outpatient health care services under the rehabilitation of persons with disabilities. Malignant neoplasms, cardiovascular disease, musculoskeletal and nervous systems, cerebrovascular pathology are leading nosological group of diseases with a high risk of disability in persons residing in the area of the magnetic field. Conducted medical examination in recent years of the population allowed, as one of the reasons to reduce the number of persons who received a disability for diseases of the circulatory system -is one of the most common socially significant diseases.


This research study set out to explore a specialist nursing role in the field of Telehealth for chronic disease management. This study aimed to explore the role of the nurse through measurement of nursing activity during the one-year period of participant follow-up. The study aimed to effect long-term secondary prevention of stroke through an evidence based approach to the management of modifiable cardiovascular risk factors and post stroke depression in the community setting. Research suggests that up to 80% reduction of risk of successive stroke can be achieved if recommendations from evidence-based guidelines are implemented. Notwithstanding these findings a gap exists in the implementation of preventative strategies for stroke survivors in the community. Results from previous research indicate that Telehealth is cost effective and potentially may significantly reduce socioeconomic burden and the probability of successive stroke. A small number of studies have highlighted potential mechanisms through which Telehealth can benefit the stroke survivor, carers, families and health professionals. Researchers have recommended more research into Telehealth in order to develop and to define effective interventions. A pilot randomised controlled trial (RCT) conducted at two metropolitan hospitals showed positive results in risk factor and depression outcomes. Integral to this model of care was the role of the nurse. In the current nurse-led, nested multicentre RCT, study nurses gained increased telephone access, to follow-up and support stroke survivors and their General Practitioners. There were 93 participants (43 intervention) recruited from four metropolitan hospitals over a period of two years. Nursing staff were integrated with the multidisciplinary team in designated stroke centres and General Practitioners in the community. Specialists were available to NURSE – LED TELEHEALTH STROKE PREVENTION 3 participate in shared care. Telephone follow-up was initially attenuated by risk for second stroke, with high-risk individuals receiving a greater frequency of follow-up. The results indicated that nurses engaged in both fundamental nursing process and advanced activities to assist stroke survivors through transitions across the health landscape after stroke. Case management, assessment and care planning were frequent fundamental activities and occupied a relatively large percentage of the nurse's time. The mean difference in outcome systolic blood pressure was significantly improved in the intervention group. The mean difference in post stroke depression screening score was significantly better for the intervention group. Lifestyle modification in particular physical activity was better in the intervention group. The results add support to the place of nursing in the ongoing care of stroke survivors in the community setting. NURSE – LED TELEHEALTH STROKE PREVENTION 4


The spiral galaxy NGC 6503 exhibits a regular kinematical structure except for a remarkable drop of the stellar velocity dispersion values in the central region. To investigate the dynamics of the disc in general, and that of the central region in particular, a theoretical framework is described. This includes a mass decomposition of the galaxy into a family of disc/halo realizations compatible with the observed photometry and rotation curve. For this family, stellar velocity dispersion values and stability parameters have been calculated, showing that the more massive discs, although having larger dispersions, are less stable. However, a reliable theoretical description of the inner regions where the drop occurs cannot be given. We have therefore resorted to numerical calculations, not only to study the central region, but also to investigate the appearance of the disc in a general sense. Pure stellar three-dimensional simulations have been performed for the family of decompositions. A clear result is that disc/dark halo mass ratios approaching those of the maximum disc limit generate a large bar structure. This is incompatible with the observed morphology of NGC 6503. For radii larger than similar to 0.2 scalelengths, the stellar kinematics resulting from the simulations essentially agrees with that predicted by the theory. Unfortunately, however, the central velocity dispersion drop cannot be reproduced. A close inspection reveals that the central nuclear region is very small and bright. Therefore, tentatively, this nucleus has been considered as an isothermal sphere and a core fitting procedure has been applied. For an adopted equal mass-to-light ratio of disc and nucleus, a velocity dispersion of 21.5 km s(-1) is predicted, in excellent agreement with the observed central value. An analysis, in retrospect, of the local densities involved proves that the nucleus is local and gravitationally dominant such that its approximation as an isothermal sphere is justified. The observed dispersion drop can thus be explained by a separate kinematically distinct galactic component.


The utility model discloses a low-temperature lubricating system for an offshore high-power wind power gearbox. The low-temperature lubricating system comprises a gearbox (1) and an oil tank (2), wherein the oil tank (2) constructs a lubricating circulation loop together with an oil pump, a filter and a distributor (3); and the oil tank (2) is arranged on the back part of the gearbox (1), and is integrated with the gearbox (1). On the premise of meeting the requirement of the oil loading amount of the gearbox, the physical dimension of the gearbox is reduced, the weight is reduced, and the use reliability is enhanced; meanwhile, an independent part arrangement form is adopted, so that the installation space is saved effectively; the design of double filters and double coolers is adopted, so that the purchasing cycle is shortened, and the overall cost is reduced; and due to the design and configuration of an offline filtering system, lubricating oil is always kept in a high-cleanliness state, and the safe and reliable running of the gearbox is ensured.


The present invention discloses a halogen-free resin composition and a method for manufacturing a prepreg and a laminated board by using the halogen-free resin composition. The halogen-free resin composition is prepared by dispersing the following components in an organic solvent, wherein the components comprise, by weight, 10-100 parts of a halogen-free epoxy resin, 10-80 parts of cyanate, 10-70 parts of an anhydride curing agent, 10-100 parts of a benzoxazine resin, 0.01-1.0 part of a curing accelerator, 1-15 parts of a toughening agent, 0-50 parts of a fire retardation agent, and 0-100 parts of an inorganic filler, and the solid content of the halogen-free resin composition is 30-70 wt%. The prepared prepreg and the copper foil-clad laminated board have characteristics of good heat resistance, high glass-transition temperature, low water absorption rate, excellent fire retardation, low dielectric constant and low dielectric loss factor.


A novel hydrodynamic coefficients model is proposed for the components of floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT). First, the formulas for evaluation of the added mass and drag coefficient for the components of FOWT are proposed to consider the interaction effects between columns as well as the frequency and amplitude dependencies. The global matrices of hydrodynamic coefficients are then evaluated by the proposed formulas and validated by the experimental data from the forced oscillation test. The predicted dynamic response of FOWT is also validated by the water tank test. Finally, the improvement of dynamic behaviour of the platform by the skirts is investigated. The decrease of amplitude and the increase of natural period for the heave motion of the platform with skirts are successfully simulated by the proposed model.


IBM Watson Analytics (WA) helps a broad spectrum of users to discover patterns in their data. It is a natural language processing platform to transform data into meaningful insight. The current WA recommendation algorithms consider both the attributes of target dataset as well as the attributes of the user questions to come up with the prediction outcome. Our research is focused on exploring how users interact with the system. First, we investigated how the users make decisions in selecting recommendations. Second, we looked into the kind of questions that users ask. Our analysis shows two prominent kind of questions: (1) questions starting with interrogative words, such as "What" or "How" (2) questions entered in the form of keywords. Third, we evaluated whether the user behavior in entering questions is related to their decision in selecting recommendations. Our analysis shows the kind of questions the users asks influences the selected visualisation type, the selected relevancy type and selected position ranking. The p-value for all selection characteristics is p < 2.2e--6. This result supports the thesis that the user behavior defined by the kind of questions asked (question type feature) can be used as a user identifier of decision in selecting recommendations.


In this paper, the novel transformed bands in adiabatic shear bands (ASBs) were researched which was characterized as melting or solid to liquid phase transformation. By split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB), optical microscope (OM) and scanning electron microscope (SEM), microstructure characteristic in the transformed bands at varied strain rates were observed. From the experimental results, it was found that molten aluminum bands and aluminum balls agglomeration, which called transformed bands, were found on the shearing surface for 55%TiB2/Al composites compressed at strain rates of 1~2×103 s -1 . It was concluded that there were the molten aluminium alloy and the molten aluminium particles on the shear flat surface oriented at an angle approximately 45°to the compression axis, which was transformed band. It was formed due to aluminium alloy melt at high temperature and solidified sharply by analysis. The formation of transformed bands was ascribed to adiabatic temperature rise, which caused aluminum alloy matrix softened and molten. The adiabatic temperature rise was 800-900K by caculation. The local high temperature led to the formation of the molten aluminium particles whose diameter was 1-3µm on the adiabatic shear flat surface. With the rapid convergence of molten aluminium particles and growing up, the adiabatic shear band was finally formed.


Abstract The chapter introduces risk assessment and examines the basic concepts of risk and hazard, their causes, consequences and probabilities. The methodology of environmental risk assessment including effect assessment, exposure assessment and risk estimation/characterisation is overviewed. Application of risk assessment for chemicals is described with regard to human health and the environment. Some of the commonly used techniques in risk assessments are introduced and illustrated by examples. Environmental risk assessment should provide input to the risk management so well-informed decisions can be made, to protect human health and the environment.


ABSTRACT Environmental education that incorporates civic ecology can contribute to social-ecological resilience through programs designed to advance youth civic leadership and environmental stewardship. This research used an interpretive qualitative approach to study the environmental education activities of a Watershed Avengers at the Ocean Discovery Institute in Southern California that focused on urban canyon stewardship and restoration. The first author conducted ethnographic fieldwork with the Watershed Avengers from fall 2014 through spring 2015. Civic ecology emerged as a concept that resonated with what was observed on the ground and then informed the focus of our study. We found that Ocean Discovery Institute's strength in developing youth civic leadership was a defining feature that contributed to its other practices of collaborative urban canyon restoration and engagement in community priorities. These findings suggest that environmental education practices can build social-ecological resilience through a focus on youth leadership.


The astronomical significance of Stone- henge has been the subject of intermittent debate and speculation ever since 1740, when Stukeley [I] first observed that the axis of the sarsen structure and of the Avenue pointed at least approximately to the sunrise at the summer solstice. Apart from Sir Norman Lockyer [z], however, few professional astronomers concerned themselves with this question, until the appearance in,Nature of the two articles by Gerald S. Hawkins, Professor of Astronomy at Boston University, in 1963 and 1964 [3]. The first of these claimed the discovery of a number of additional alignments of astronomical significance, marked by pairs of stones and other features of the site; and the second suggested that the Aubrey Holes had been used as a neolithic 'computer' for the prediction of movements of the moon and of eclipses. Subsequently these theories received much wider publicity, in Britain as well as in the United States, through a CBS television programme, The Mystery of Stonehenge, which provided a superb example of partiality and tendentiousness in the presentation of an academic controversy. Professor Hawkins has now elaborated his ideas in a book whose title, Stonehenge Decoded, leaves no doubt of his confidence in the rightness of his conclusions-a confidence explicity echoed in his text. 'There can be no doubt that Stonehenge was an observatory; the impartial mathematics of probability and the celestial sphere are on my side' (p. vii). 'I think I have demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that the monument was deliberately, accurately, skilfully oriented to the sun and the moon' (pp. 146-7). 'I think I have put forward the best theory to account for the otherwise unexplained holes' (p. 147). 'I think there is little else in these areas that can be discovered at Stonehenge'(p. 147).


An upgraded femtosecond slicing facility has been commissioned successfully at the Advanced Light Source. In contrast to the original facility at the ALS which pioneered the concept, the new beamline uses an undulator (the first in-vacuum undulator at the ALS) as the radiator producing the user photon beam. To spatially separate the femtosecond slices in the radiator, a local vertical dispersion bump produced with 12 skew quadrupoles is used. The facility was successfully commissioned during the last 1.5 years and is now used in routine operation.


The interaction of yeast glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase with a cationic fluorescent dye, auramine O, was studied by equilibrium dialysis, circular dichroism and fluorescence spectroscopy. Two equal and independent dye binding sites per tetrameric enzyme were detected with a dissociation constant of (4.5 ± 1) × 10−5 M. The maximum fluorescence of bound auramine O is at 515 nm, the excitation spectrum is characterized by the maxima at 380 nm and in the region of 460–470 nm. The complex of auramine O with the enzyme exhibits circular dichroism with a maximum at about 455 nm.

The binding of NADH has no effect on the enzyme-dye interaction, whereas the oxidized coenzyme and nicotinamide mononucleotide displace auramine O from the protein. Nicotinamide mononucleotide was shown to induce conformational changes upon binding to the enzyme and to be capable of serving as a coenzyme in the dehydrogenase reaction. AMP, ADP and ADP-ribose form ternary complexes with the enzyme-dye binary complex. This results in a marked increase in fluorescence of the bound dye and was used to characterize the interaction between the enzyme and the adenine-containing NAD+ fragments. In the presence of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate, the fluorescence of the bound auramine O is quenched, the dye-protein association constant remaining unchanged. Glyceraldehyde, a non-phosphorylated substrate analog, and glycerol 3-phosphate, a competitive inhibitor, are without any effect. Modification of the active-site cysteine-149 with iodoacetate does not affect the dye binding or fluorescence, whereas modification with iodoacetamide diminishes the fluorescence of the enzyme-bound dye without altering the dissociation constant. The effect of adenine-containing NAD+ fragments on the fluorescence of the enzyme-bound dye does not change upon modification of cysteine-149. Auramine O, added together with ADP-ribose, protects the apoenzyme against the inactivation due to modification of essential arginine residues. The effect is similar to that of NAD+ and is absent with auramine O alone or ADP-ribose alone.


This paper puts forward pieces of constructive opinions such as building the normative database,accelerating the cultivation of to cultivate the network persons,perfecing the information retrieval system and strengthen the user's training work etc..It points out the exited questions in college library about the construction of the network service and the share of information resources,for instance, the homepage quantities faultiness,the database construction lacking of criterion and unification,the absence of multiple ability person,the information products inconvenient for users' search and the lack of knowledge of users' network retrieval etc.


Suitability of strawberry microplants of cv. Teresa to the field cultivation was examined. In comparison to vegetatively propagated plants, microplants produced more leaves, runners and inflorescences. Also, yielding and resistance to leaf scorch of these plants were much higher. Good condition of microplants in the autumn positively influenced on the plant vigour and yielding in the next year of cultivation. The obtained results displayed, that strawberry microplants of cv. Teresa were more suitable for field cultivation when compared with standard propagated seedlings.


We establish existence and uniqueness of quasi-stationary and quasi-ergodic measures for almost surely absorbed discrete-time Markov chains under weak conditions. We obtain our results by exploiting Banach lattice properties of transition functions under natural regularity assumptions.


The improvised trap arrangement described here has the advantage that it does not involve the use of rubber tubing or stoppers and is consequently free of contamination from those sources.


Social media has become a platform to provide big data services. In healthcare applications, online E-health platforms have enabled patients to obtain useful references on the Internet, as well as to share information and exchange experiences among people with similar diseases. Such social networks also enable researchers and marketers to conduct studies or advocates on targeted groups of patients. However, how to protect user privacy while assure user and data reliability at the same time remains a challenge in practice. This article tackles the problem by exploring trust-engagement mechanism and developing a dynamic multi-trust model integrating multilevel access control, credible anonymity, and mutual rating mechanism for a multi-purpose healthcare social network. The social network model we presented in this study mainly focuses on the purpose of big data privacy preserving, and user and data reliability assurance. We discuss the mechanism of the model and present practical implementation designs on achieving the goals. We also apply the model in the healthcare social network to elaborate how electronic health records (EHRs) and personal health records (PHRs) can work together to support a social health record (SHR) network which enables privacy preserving and user and data reliability.


The operating status and the process of technical reformation were introduced since the Snam ammonia stripping urea plant has been put into operation, the multi-item of reformation schemes for comprehensive reformation of CO2 compressor, adding ammonia preheater and anti-corrosion of stripper etc was described, comparison was made for process indexes before/after reformation, the final result indicates that the average ammonia consumption is reduced from 594.4 kg/t· urea to 577 kg/t· urea, waste liquid is reduced to less than 10 × 10-6, production capacity is increased by 10% of design capacity.


The delta sound system for television receivers incorporates the three features of AM compression, high-level audio output FM detection, and fundamental AM cancellation in a circuit having cost advantages. Design information is presented for the system to enable the circuit designer to specify component parts and to predict the performance. AM compression in the range of 12 to 24 db and a peak-to-peak audio output voltage of about 60 volts with cancellation of the fundamental component of the undesired AM are obtainable with readily available low-cost tubes and circuit components.


The goal of this study is to define the optimal PWM strategy adapted to a given variable-speed induction motor drive. A complete set of simulation programs performs steady-state and transient analysis of wave-forms. Some original PWM modes have been implemented on two digital modulators.


The London Inn of the bishops of Exeter in the fourteenth century occupied the greater part of the space between the Temple and the bishop of Bath's Inn. The whole site was probably at one time the property of the Knights of the Temple, to whom Henry II in 1173 granted the church of St. Clement Danes. In the thirteenth century the advowson of St. Clement's together with certain messuages opposite to the church had passed into the possession of the Canons of the Holy Sepulchre at Warwick. When or how this took place I have not discovered. But these messuages, like the Temple, were held of the Honour of Leicester, and when in 1280 the Inn of the Canons opposite St. Clement's Church was granted to William de Breuse, bishop of Llandaff, for life, the grant was made with the assent of Edmund, earl of Lancaster, to whom that Honour belonged. In 1323 Walter de Stapledon, bishop of Exeter, was anxious to provide a London Inn for his see, and for that purpose desired to acquire the property of the Canons of the Holy Sepulchre in St. Clement Danes. With a view thereto he purchased from Walter de Cantelupe land at Snitterfield in Warwickshire with the advowson of the church there. In the following year he obtained the king's permission to exchange this property for five messuages and the advow-son of St. Clement Danes together with some land at Hornsey. The exchange was confirmed by two fines levied in Michaelmas Term 1325. From another source it appears that the Canons had held four messuages together with the reversion to a fifth which had been demised for life to William de Bereford. Bereford, who was Chief Justice of the Common Bench, died in 1326, and Stapledon then became fully possessed of the property. The messuages were stated in 1324 to be held of the king as of the Honour of Leicester, having come into the king's hands through the forfeiture of Thomas ot Lancaster in 1322; it was not known of whom the advowson was held.


We introduce a non-interactive RSA time-lock puzzle scheme whose level of difficulty can be arbitrarily chosen by artificially enlarging the public exponent. Solving a puzzle for a message m means for Bob to encrypt m with Alice's public puzzle key by repeated modular squaring. The number of squarings to perform determines the puzzle complexity. This puzzle is non-parallelizable. Thus, the solution time cannot be shortened significantly by employing many machines and it varies only slightly across modern CPUs. Alice can quickly verify the puzzle solution by decrypting the ciphertext with a regular private key operation. Our main contribution is an offline submission protocol which enables an author being currently offline to commit to his document before the deadline by continuously solving an RSA puzzle based on that document. When regaining Internet connectivity, he submits his document along with the puzzle solution which is a proof for the timely completion of the document. We have implemented a platform-independent tool performing all parts of our offline submission protocol: puzzle benchmark, issuing a time-lock RSA certificate, solving a puzzle and finally verifying the solution for a submitted document. Two other applications we propose for RSA time-lock puzzles are trial certificates from a well-known CA and a CEO disclosing the signing private key to his deputy.


This paper looks into the non-performing loan problem in commercial banks. Using the threshold regression technique, we found some evidences that non-performing loans have non-linear negative effect on banks lending behaviour. JEL Codes: G21 E44


Biodiesel fuel (BDF) can be effectively used as an alternative fuel in diesel engines. The BD, however, may affect performance and exhaust emissions of the diesel engine because it's physical and chemical properties, such as viscosity, compressibility and so on, are different from the diesel fuel. To investigate effects of an injection timing on characteristics of performance and exhaust emissions with the BDF in an IDI (Indirect injection) diesel engine, this research applied the BDF derived from soybean oil in this study. The engine was operated with six different injection timings from TDC to BTDC 12°CA and six different loads at engine speeds of 1500 and 2000 rpm. In less then the BDF 20, the diesel engine showed the similar trend compare to the diesel fuel. But, the best injection timing with the BD 50 was 2°CA retarded compare to the diesel fuel.


Uluwae II Village is one of the villages in the District on Nort Bajawa, Ngada Regency, whichis also a target village for receiving sicial assistance in the formof the Hope Program (PKH) assistance. PKH is a program of providing conditional social assistance to Beneficiary Families (PKM). In the particular, the objectives of PKH are to improve access and quality of education and health services for PKH participants, to in crease the education level of PKH participants, and to improve the health and nutritional status  of PKH participants. Therefore, Uluwae II village official smust carefully select the right community to receive PKH assistance. In determining the PKH recipient community in Uluwae II village, it was still not right on targer, because the selection procces for the PKH recipient community was not running as expented by the community. Therefore, it is necessary to have a system to determine decision in determining the PKH recipient community. The purpose and benefit of this researchis to design and build decision support system to determine the right community to receive PKH according of the weigh to feach criterion. This research was completed through several stage, namely, collecting information through directre search at the location. The method used  the SAW method to calculate the weight and determine the ranking.


A long time ago in the ancient mythical land of Atlantis the mysteries were betrayed and the land was becoming corrupted with evil practices. The mighty leader of the Sun Oracle, the great Manu, saw this and gathered around him the most advanced human souls and, with this group of people, a great migration occurred through Northern Europe, across the top of Asia and into a region in the vicinity of the Himalayas where they were settled and could develop in isolation from other peoples. In the mean time the land of Atlantis was destroyed by mighty water and storm catastrophes because of the betrayal and misuse of spiritual powers. The great Manu, after a long period of time, passed on the leadership of his people to seven disciples. These seven disciples or teachers worked as though by magic through their wisdom of the spiritual world onto the peoples of Ancient India. Some of their teachings formed what was later written down in the Vedas. The Ancient Indian civilisation was the centre for mankind's evolution. From these teachings the first religion arose. These teachers are know as the seven Holy Rishis. This story is derived from spiritual philosophy.


Inflammation is pivotal in atherosclerosis. M‐CSF regulates macrophage growth and differentiation and plays a role in atherogenesis. C‐reactive protein (CRP), a cardiovascular risk marker, may promote atherogenesis. However, the effects of CRP on M‐CSF release and subsequent macrophage proliferation have not been examined previously. Human aortic endothelial cells (HAEC) were incubated with boiled CRP or native CRP 12.5, 25, and 50 μg/mL for 12–15 h, and M‐CSF release was examined by flow cytometry and ELISA. CRP resulted in a significant and dose‐dependent increase in M‐CSF mRNA and secretion from HAEC as well as human monocyte‐derived macrophages (HMDM; P<0.01). Furthermore, conditioned medium (5%) from HAEC pretreated with CRP, when incubated with HMDM, increased macrophage proliferation significantly. This was blocked with M‐CSF antibody but not irrelevant antibody. Inhibition of NF‐κB resulted in significant abrogation of CRP‐induced M‐CSF release and subsequent macrophage proliferation. Antibodies to CD32 and CD64 but not CD16 abrogated CRP‐induced M‐CSF release. Thus, CRP up‐regulates M‐CSF release from HMDM and HAEC and increased macrophage proliferation. These effects appear to be mediated via activation of NF‐κB via CD32 and CD64. These studies provide further evidence for a proatherogenic role for CRP.


The large-scale integration of renewable energy sources has led to challenges related to frequency stability in low-inertia power systems. Utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESSs) based on grid-following (GFL) and grid-forming (GFM) inverters are being explored to enhance networks' resilience. For example, by providing new frequency control ancillary services (FCAS) such as fast frequency response (FFR) and simulated inertia. However, only a limited number of delivered utility-scale BESS projects with GFM technology have been reported, while GFM for microgrid or small island applications have been well studied, it is rare in large-scale power grid studies. This paper studies the FFR and simulated inertia services of utility-scale GFL and GFM BESSs. The dynamic study is performed by using an existing large-scale power network with two renewable penetration levels. The theoretical differences between a set of BESSs with GFL and GFM inverters have been validated based on simulation studies for critical generation trip events. The results demonstrate that the simulated inertia of GFM-BESSs benefits the FFR service in terms of frequency nadir, power reserve and the rate of change of frequency (RoCoF). This research contributes to the appropriate assimilation of new frequency control mechanisms of utility-scale BESSs towards converter dominated grids.


This article focuses on developing a novel noniterative fat water decomposition algorithm more robust to fat water swaps and related ambiguities.


Background: Patients with facial trauma were analyzed to determine the clinical presentation of fractures of the naso-ethmoid, mid and lateral face.
Methods: 61 patients in the trauma unit of Dayanand Medical College were prospectively analyzed during a period of two years (August 2013 to August 2015).
Results: Road traffic accidents were the major cause of fractures (72.13%) followed by assaults (14.75%) and falls (8.19%). The age group commonly affected was 21-30 years (54.09%) followed by 31-40 years (13.11%). Facial fractures were more in males, the females being 5 times less at risk. Epistaxis, swelling, tenderness, nasal obstruction, external nasal deformity and crepitus were noted in almost all patients. Ecchymosis, telecanthus and CSF rhinorrhea were noted in 90.9%, 72.7%, and 18.18% respectively. 90% presented with circumorbital ecchymosis, facial edema and anterior open bite. Other symptoms were epistaxis (81%), infraorbital nerve anesthesia and surgical emphysema (47.6%) and lengthening of face (42.8%). The commonest presentation was circumorbital ecchymosis (95.5%), subconjuctival hemorrhage (85.7%), flattening of cheek and step deformity at the infraorbital margin (81%). Facial edema was seen in 76% and trismus in 42.9%.
Conclusions: Common symptoms and signs of nasoethmoid fractures included epistaxis, swelling and tenderness, nasal obstruction, external nasal deformity and crepitus in all patients, circumorbital ecchymosis in 90% and telecanthus in 73%.


The current development and utilization of the island has set off a new upsurge. In future,islands development will become an important mode of island development. Through a case study of foreign typical islands economic development,this paper summarizes its successful mode and management experience. On this basis,this paper puts forward four aspects of islands management strategies of economic development,that is to carry out regional Islands selection and planning,prepare regional islands infrastructure construction plan,strengthen the study of foreign island policy and development,strengthen the supervision and management of regional island construction projects.


Dear Editor, We read with interest the experiences of SEJ Todd et al.'s use of dolutegravir (DTG). We would like to reflect on their experiences by sharing the findings from our own patient cohort, with particular focus on DTGassociated adverse events. We reviewed all patients who were commenced on DTG-containing antiretroviral regimens over a three-year period: a total of 178 patients. Fifty-nine of the 178 patients (33%) experienced adverse events. Psychiatric side effects were the most frequent with 20% (35/178) of patients reporting at least one psychiatric side effect. These findings correlate with those by Todd et al., who report a 35% adverse event incidence, with 25% suffering psychiatric side effects. Of the 35 patients with psychiatric side effects in our cohort, 69% suffered sleep disturbance, 43% mood disturbance and 17% anxiety. One of the 35 patients had suicidal ideation and self-harm which stopped two weeks after discontinuation of DTG. Other common side effects were: gastrointestinal (10%) and neurological (7%). Ten patients (6%) in our cohort had to stop their DTG-containing regimen, similar to the 10% discontinuation rate in Todd et al. In our cohort, 70% (7/10) stopped due to adverse events, four due to psychiatric side effects, two due to musculoskeletal problems and one due to dermatological complications. DTG discontinuations occurred between weeks 2 and 20. We found no significant difference in rates of adverse events between treatment-naı̈ve and treatmentexperienced patients. There was also no significant difference between rates of adverse events in patients with and without abacavir-containing regimens. Our data confirm the increased risk of neurological adverse events published by other studies. Sabranski et al. have presented the largest cohort to date where neuropsychiatric adverse drug reactions (ADRs) were more common in DTG-containing regimens compared to regimens with other integrase inhibitors (p<0.0001), with adverse effects generally resolving quickly after discontinuation. Other studies have reported 4.3% and 4.4% rates of DTG discontinuation, respectively, (mainly driven by neuropsychiatric side effects) and SINGLE, the only randomized placebo-controlled trial of DTG that actively looked for central nervous system side effects, found a 7% rate of anxiety, 8% rate of depression, 8% rate of insomnia and 10% rate of sleep problems. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) 'Yellow Card' data reveal 485 DTGrelated ADRs since 2014. Of these patients, 128 were serious, with 11 being fatal. Similar to our data, psychiatric and neurological ADRswere common, with 128 and 53 reported, respectively. Within the psychiatric ADRs there were two attempted and two completed suicides. There have also been 10 reports of depression developing. In conclusion, our data confirm the relatively high rate of neuropsychiatric adverse events with DTG. Clinicians need to be alert to the development of neurological and psychiatric side effects in patients on DTG and more work needs to be done to identify those at increased risk of these side effects.


This article describes a short-term treatment insight-oriented model for American Indian adolescents, called Dream Catcher Meditation. It is aimed at helping clients' express unconscious conflicts and to facilitate differentiation and healthy mutuality. Though its duration can vary, twelve sessions are outlined here. Session descriptions include goals and sample questions. Also included are anecdotal material and reflections about cultural relevancy.


Aims:  Isolates of Candida valida, Rhodotorula glutinis and Trichosporon asahii from the rhizosphere of sugar beet in Egypt were examined for their ability to colonize roots, to promote plant growth and to protect sugar beet from Rhizoctonia solani AG‐2‐2 diseases, under glasshouse conditions.


Azimuthal measurements of the high frequency ground wave over-the-horizon (OTH) radar are either coarse or unavailable in an actual environment. It is very hard for a single station OTH radar to performance effective tracking under that condition. A bi-station OTH radar system is proposed to triangulate target tracks using range and Doppler measurements only. Multi-sensor data association and combining positioning are key issues of this system. This paper focuses on positioning and tracking filter algorithm. The locating and tracking model is established and the extended Kalman filter (EKF) is used to solve the bi-station nonlinear tracking problem. Simulation result shows that EKF can handle this well, and the bi-station OTH radar system can meet or slightly better than the accuracy of the conventional single station OTH radar tracking system with poor bearing resolution.


The Spanish real estate boom and bust of the 2000s caused immense economic, social, and environmental changes across the country. Massive urbanization, however, does not necessarily entail the end of nature and natural processes, instead marking a radical transformation of environments and societies. Through a political ecology approach, we analyze how ornamental species have become a fundamental part of new natures induced by urbanization in the Spanish province of Alicante. We connect the economic and ecological characteristics of ornamental plants like the palm tree to urbanization and real estate trends in Alicante. Our evidence indicates that, in Alicante, economic recession and environmental crises (manifested in the pests affecting palm trees) have mutually reinforced one other, creating a new geography of ecological desolation in many areas.