The radioactive microsphere technique was used in dogs to assess the effect of sympathetic stimulation on temporal bone blood flow. The stellate, caudal cervical and superior cervical ganglia, and the vertebral and cervical sympathetic nerves were stimulated. In a large majority of the animals, stimulation had no effect on temporal bone blood flow although nasal tissue was greatly affected. In a minority of animals, a small effect was seen in temporal bone tissue. Similarly, norepinephrine infusion usually did not produce evidence of reduced blood flow in the temporal bone. It was concluded that the sympathetic innervation of otic blood vessels was not capable of controlling otic blood flow, only modulating it. A sympathetic vasospasm does not seem possible. Mention is made of the dual sympathetic innervation of the cochlea described by Spoendlin and Ross. The possible mediation of sympathetic effects in the cochlea by cyclic AMP is suggested.


Leprosy is a complex condition involving the physical health and quality of life of the patient. Measurement of quality of life aims to assess health and health care obtained by patients. Quality of life is closely related to the stigma. Stigma in leprosy patients can decrease the quality of life of leprosy patients. The purpose of this study is to analyze quality of life leprosy patients with post-Multy Drug Therapy at Sumberglagah leprosy hospital Mojokerto Regency. This research was an observational research, using cross sectional research design. A sample of 80 subjects, was taken by consecutive sampling. Secondary data in the form of list of leprosy patients and primary data was obtained by questionnaires. Data was analysed by Chi Square. The result showed that the distribution of leprosy patients was mostly in the productive age group of 49 people (61,3%), male gender 45 people (56,3%), low educated 58 people (72,5%), and had high social support 52 people (65%). Age factor (p=0,035), education (p=0,003) and social support (p=0,009) have positif correlation with quality of life of leprosy patients. The sex factor (p=0.623) has no relationship with quality of life of leprosy patients. The conclusions of this study were age, education, and social support factors has relationship with the quality of life of patients with post-Multy Drug Therapy mutlibacillary leprosy in Sumberglagah Mojokerto Hospital. Efforts to hold discussion groups for leprosy patients, increase the leprosy confidence of lepers to be active and productive, and conduct health promotion with socialization is expected to improve the quality of life of leprosy patients.


Improving the quality of environment in ecologically fragile areas had been paid much attention by scholars and government at different levels. Over the past decade, a large number of rural labors had migrated into urban areas. To what extent would the migration affect the changes of vegetation cover in ecologically fragile areas? In this study, we analyzed the spatio-temporal variation of vegetation cover and its relationship with human activities at the county level based on the NDVI data with a resolution of 1 km, meteorological data and economic data from 2000 to 2010 in Inner Mongolia. The major methods included trend line analysis method, significance testing and multi-regression analysis method. The main conclusions were as follows:(1) The vegetation cover of the study area increased by 10.1%during 2000-2010. More than 28% of the vegetation cover increased significantly, and only about 2% decreased evidently during the study period.(2) The area with significant degradation presented a banded distribution in the northern fringe of farming-pastoral ecotone in the central part of Inner Mongolia. It is shown that the ecological environment is still fragile in this area, which should be focused on. The area where vegetation cover significantly improved showed a concentrated distribution in the southeast and west of Inner Mongolia.(3)Effects of agricultural labor on vegetation cover had exceeded those of natural factors such as climate. The emigration of agricultural labor had improved vegetation cover significantly.


In recent years, fire and explosion accidents occur frequently in dangerous chemical warehouse in China. It has become an important problem for fire department to extinguish the fire in large dangerous chemical warehouse. In order to enhance the training effect of these fires, this paper introduces the simulation training system into the field of fire fighting training for fire rescue team in hazardous chemical warehouse, and develops a prototype of dangerous chemical rescue command simulation training system framework.


Medical terminologies and ontologies are a crucial resource for semantic annotation of biomedical text. In French, there are considerably less resources and tools to use them than in English. Some terminologies from the Unified Medical Language System have been translated but often the identifiers used in the UMLS Metathesaurus, that make its huge integrated value, have been lost during the process. In this work, we present our method and results in enriching seven French versions of UMLS sources with UMLS Concept Unique Identifiers and Semantic Types based on information extracted from class labels, multilingual translation mappings and codes. We then measure the impact of the enrichment through the application of the SIFR Annotator, a service to identify ontology concepts in free text deployed within the SIFR BioPortal, a repository for French biomedical ontologies and terminologies. We use the Quaero Corpus to evaluate.


Enterprises are moving into cloud, so deployment and configuration of virtual machines and application software are becoming highly complex. The solution to this problem is to automate the deployment and configuration using templates. These templates allow the users to specify the information about resource requirements of an application. In this paper, firstly, we present the methods for development of complex templates that consist of various properties like input parameters and conditional logic, lacking in existing simple templates. OpenStack is the popularly used private Cloud deployment tool and many other similar tools lack in providing the complex templates in their architecture. The complex templates proposed in this paper are generic in nature and designed keeping OpenStack in mind. Using the proposed complex templates, based on user defined input values and conditional logic, various infrastructure stacks can be created in simple templates and can be directly fed into heat engine for deployment. The complex templates can be developed to accept input parameters, including conditional logic or auto scaling constructs. Though the complex template allows us to specify the requirement in an easy way but it is difficult and sometimes inaccurate, to visualize the outcome. Under such circumstances estimating the billing cost of the infrastructure stack is extremely difficult. In order to alleviate this problem, in this paper secondly, we propose a system that can automate the cost estimation of a stack before its creation. In order to assess the cost estimates, we have implemented machine learning using decision trees on the templates data that can produce the output in the form of two classes and give the decision that whether it is good to deploy templates or not. The preliminary assessment is done on the proposed model and results achieved are produced.


Selection of animals for sampling should consider relevance to the problem at hand. The animals selected should have the following characteristics: 1). Relationship to contemporary problems, 2) Be in the initial phases of disease; and 3) Should have not received treatment for this disease. Sampling of animals should focus on those showing the same signs as affected animals, albeit earlier on in the process. Sampling animals after treatment or after death will have less value due to impact of antimicrobial or other therapeutics on the disease process. Animals in the "at risk" or affected groups which have chronic problems will either be of limited value or lead to findings that complicate interpretation of the problem. Animal information should include 1) Age of animals in the group and age of those selected for sampling; 2) number of days in the group (or days on feed); 3) environmental concerns (housing, bedding, cleaning, animal movement), 4) Group morbidity and mortality and how these correlate to prior groups, 5) Duration of problem in group and time since diagnosis (duration of disease) in sampled animals; 6) Clinical signs, treatment(s) and the animal responses, vaccination(s), ancillary treatments, and clinical diagnoses (working diagnoses) for the group.


Th is work deals with detection of sub-lesions and major lesion in breast ultrasound (US) images. Most of the recent classificat ion uses normal and abnormal breast images to develop their algorith m. The majority of the current algorith ms are interested in the majo r lesion when detecting the lesion boundary. US images, in first step were roughly preprocessed and classified. A function based on classification parameters is used to select the best segmentation threshold. A Second involved step of US image p rocessing includes: Linear and non-linear filtering, segmentation, mo rphology operations and lesion classification and detections. Seven gray intensity statistical features and 4(distances) x 22 gray level co-occurrence matrices (GLCM ) texture features were calculated fro m segmented masses and background samples. Support vector machine (SVM) was implemented to classify the segmented suspicious masses features against the background and major lesion features. The GLCM features are reduced to 8, at distance 4, such that 93% of lesions were having classification greater than 80% versus the background. For 20 images one sub-lesion (satellite), on average, was detected beside the major lesion. The ob jective of the paper is to estimate the amount of features similarity between the majo r lesion and the sub-masses that could be segmented from the same image. The proposed algorithm would effect ively help in the early detection of breast cancer.


Practical work is seen as an essential part of science courses. However, practical work is very resource intensive and in the current HE environment, in which academics will inevitably find themselves teaching more students with fewer resources, it is important to justify the cost in terms of educational benefit and so the objectives must be clear. This report describes the results of a survey of students undertaking chemistry undergraduate courses and staff in Higher Education chemistry departments in England. These surveys aimed to ascertain the range of practical work being carried out, alongside staff and student opinions of practical work. It also examined the reasons why practical work is included in undergraduate courses and what students take away from participating.


ist Population Policy" he points out: "Our administration (the Government of India) as is well known, does not owe or recognize any allegiance to the mandate of socialism and in practice it is completely apathetic to its realization. But the mandate is so clear and inescapable from a practical standpoint that it has to be understood as a social imperative, and the population policy of the country has to be formulated with reference to the terms of this imperative and applied with complete fidelity and earnestness." The reviewer, like most students of Indian affairs, has been under the impression that Mrs. Indira Gandhi's victory at the last general election was based on her socialist manifesto as opposed to the old Congress vanguard which supposedly espoused vested interests. But apparently Dr. Gyan Chand believes that the Prime Minister does not believe in socialism. To avoid any misunderstanding it must be pointed out that Dr. Gyan Chand is in favour of family planning, women's liberation, abolition of the caste system through inter-caste marriages, and other progressive causes, but he simply maintains that all these good things cannot be had unless India embraces socialism


We have examined the effects of RH 5849, a non-steroidal ecdysteroid mimic, on the growth and development of Plodia interpunctella. When RH 5849 was administered in the diet, larval growth was inhibited in a dose-dependent manner, while concentrations of 15 ppm and greater were highly toxic. However, the deleterious effects of RH 5849 could be prevented, except at very high concentrations of RH 5849, by the simultaneous administration of the juvenile hormone mimic methoprene. Larvae simultaneously treated with both hormone mimics continued to grow until they attained a size about three times normal. This growth was accompanied by at least one and sometimes two supernumerary molts, whereas, only an occasional supernumerary molt occurred in larvae treated with methoprene alone. In larvae undergoing super numerary molts, wing imaginal discs produced a tanned pupal cuticle, but did not evaginate. When wing discs were cultured in vitro, RH 5849 stimulated evagination and chitin synthesis at concentrations of 10 and 1 μM, respectively. Likewise, RH 5849 stimulated GlcNAc uptake and inhibited cellular proliferation in IAL-PID2 cells at similar concentrations. These in vitro effects of RH 5849 also were produced by 20-hydroxyecdysone, but at lower concentrations. We conclude that RH 5849 exhibits molting hormone activity in vivo as well as in vitro. However, the toxicological effects in P. interpuncetella result from action on feeding and growth, rather than molting. Thus, RH 5849 represents a new class of IGR, which will have impact on our understanding of endocrine regulation and open up new avenues for pest control.


FMM). The FMM work has involved numerical modeling using the V-TOUGH code (Nitao 1989a), which is a modified version of the Adequate representation of fracture-matrix interaction during TOUGH code (Pruess 1987), as well as the development of analytical episodic infiltration events is crucial in making valid hydrological and semi-analytical models (Nitao 1989b). Recent calculations also predictions of repository performance at Yucca Mountain. Various used the NI.JFT (Nonisothermal Unsaturated How and Transport) approximations have been applied to represent fracture.matrix flow code, which has recently been developed at LLNL. This report interaction, including the Equivalent Continuum Model (ECM), which describes the modeling of nonequilibrium fracture-matrix flow at assumes capillary equilibrium between fractures and matrix, and the Yucca Mountain. The relative importance of matrix imbibition is Fracture-Matrix Model (FMM), which accounts for nonequilibrium analyzed for the eight major hydrostratigraphic units in the unsafracture-matrix flow. We analyze the relative impact of matrix imbiturated zone. We also address the question of what sequencing of bi)ion on episodic nonequilibrium fracture-matrix flow for the eight infiltration events gives rise to episodic behavior vs behavior which major hydrostratigraphic units in the unsaturated zone at Yucca may be time.aggregated. The implications of nonequilibrium Mountain. Comparisons are made between ECM and FMM predicfracture-matrix flow for radionuclide transport are also discussed. tions to determine the applicability of the ECM. The implications of nonequilibrium fracture-matrix flow on radionuclide transport are also Background and Available Data discussed. Yucca Mountain consists of a series of variably fractured, INTRODUCTION nonwelded to densely welded tuff units with an eastward tilt of about 5 to 30 deg (Montazer and Wilson 1984). The thickness of the unsaThe Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project (YMSCP)of turated zone varies from 500 to 750 m. The potential repository the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is investigating the suitability location is in Topopah Spring (TSw2) moderately to densely welded of the fractured, tuffaceous rocks occurring in the unsaturated zone at tuff, which is about 350 m below the ground surface and 225 m Yucca Mountain, Nevada, for nuclear waste storage. Adequate above the water table (Klaveater and Peters 1986). Montazer and representation of fracture-matrix interaction during episodic Wilson (1984) report the absence of perennial streams at Yucca infiltration events is crucial in ,:_aking valid hydrological predictions Mountain. Therefore, recharge due to rainfall or snowmelt occurs of repository performance under nominal and perturbed conditions, episodically. Various approximations have been applied to represent fxacUtre-maUix flow interaction. The Equivalent Continuum Model 0ECM) is a The matrix properties of the hydrostratigraphic units at Yucca zeroth order approximation (Klavetter and Peters 1988) which Mountain am summarized in Table 1 (Klavetter and Peters 1986). assumes instantaneous capillary equilibrium between the fracture and The units generally fall into two categories: (1) the welded tufts matrix. Under this assumption, the fracture and matrix properties can O'I2w, TSwl, TSw2, and TSw3) and the nonwelded zeolitized unit be pore-volume-averaged into an equivalent (or effective) continuum. (CHnz), ali of which have low matrix permeability, km, and low-toIn the dual porosity approach, effectively a first order approximation, medium matrix porosity, _=, and (2) nonwelded vitric tufts of high mass transfer between fracture and matrix is represented by a mass km and 0m ff'Tn and CHnv). The we!ded PPw has medium km and transfer coefficient, implying quasi-steady-state flow. The dual pores4)m. The km of the nonwelded vitric tufts is 4 to 5 orders of magniity approach has been applied to model single phase flow in fractured rude greater than those of the welded tufts and flus CHnz. Because of reservoirs (Barrenblatt et al. 1960; Warren and Root 1963). the small matrix pore size of ali of the units, water in the matrix i) pores is held under high suction potential, causing the capillary fringe The second order approximation (Busc_ and Nitao 1988; to extend from the water table to the ground surface (Fig. 1). Nitao and Buscheck 1989; Nitao, 1991) explicitly accounts for the Because of the low capillarity of ali fractures except those with very fracture and matrix porosities using the Fracture-Matrix Model small apertures, most fracture.s will be drained of water under ambient DISTRIBUTION OF THIS DOCUMENT IS UNLIMITED


. In the present work we investigate the effects of interstitial fuid flow and interstitial fluid drainage on the spatio-temporal response of soft tissue strain. Our motivation comes from the ability to measure in vivo strain distributions in soft tissue via elastography, and the possibility of using such techniques to investigate soft tissue fluid flow. Our study is based upon a mathematical model for soft tissue mechanics from the literature. It is a simple generalization of biphasic theory that includes not only the coupling between the tissue fluid and solid phases, but also the fluid exchange between the interstitium and the local microvasculature. As in the biphasic theory, it follows from the assumption that both solid and fluid phases are incompressible that dilatation can occour only when the corresponding volume of fluid percolates or drains from the interstitial compartment. We solve the mathematical equations in two dimensions by the finite element method (FEM). Realistic input tissue properties from the literature are used in conjunction with FEM modelling to conduct several computational experiments relevant to quasistatic imaging for the characterization of fluid flow in solid tumors. The results of these simulations lead to the following conclusions: (i) different hypothetical flow mechanisms lead to different spatio-temporal patterns of stress/strain relaxation; (ii) representative tissue properties show fluid drainage into the local microvasculature to be the dominant flow-related stress/strain relaxation mechanism; (iii) the relaxation time of solid tumours due to fluid drainage into the microvasculature is on the order of 5 - 10 s; (iv) under realistic applied pressure magnitudes, the magnitude of the strain relaxation can be as high as approximately 0.4% strain (4000 microstrains), which is well within the range of strains measurable by elastography.


Abstract. This paper primarily aims to investigate the seasonality of weekly and monthly stock returnsin an emerging stock market of Indonesia. Evidence on return seasonality and January effect wouldhave important implications for investment strategies to gain abnormal returns and it would invalidatethe paradigm of the efficient markets hypothesis. For the period 2010 -2014, daily returns on theIndonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) are employed. Untuk mengetahui ada tidaknya anomali montly effectdi BEJ. analysis using two statistical analysis, test analysis of two average difference using independentsample t test and simple linear regression analysis.we found no evidence of Weekly and monthly seasonality as well as January effect in the IDX returns.These results indicate that investors cannot take any advantage of information about the month of theyear when investing in the ASE to gain abnormal returns. On other words, these new findings indicatethat investors in the IDX should not consider the seasonal effects when constructing their portfolio. Key Word: Indonesia stock exchange, Anomaly, Monthly Effect


In order to get the maximum transportation benefit under the limited traffic resources, an optimal model of daily freight plans of railway sub-administration dispatch was established based on the benefit mechanism and the exact mathematics descriptions of traffic restrictions such as capability of stations, supply of empty vehicles, capability of limited nodes and capacity of dividing stations. In this optimal model, the object function is to get the maximum transportation benefit, and the constraint conditions are the traffic restrictions.


Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP), through its uniqueness has provided the world with a great molecular diagnostic tool. This innovative gene amplification technique, amplifies nucleic acid at a very rapid pace, maintaining high sensitivity, specificity and efficiency. The most innovative features of LAMP, is the simplicity of its protocol, and overall low cost of application. The demerits include highly technical and cumbersome primer design protocol, and relative scarcity of some materials needed for the technique. The standout features however, ranges from the strand displacement activity of the Bst and Bsm polymerase enzymes, to its ability to amplify gene in an unprocessed samples. The PCR and other several pre-existing techniques, has contributed immensely in disease diagnosis and molecular biology at large. However, their use in molecular diagnostics is mostly limited to highly resourced establishment, leaving the low resourced settings with little or no hope. The cheapness and user-friendliness of LAMP amongst other advantages made it an ideal diagnostic tool that provides solution to the odds of PCR and its likes. The outstanding qualities displayed by LAMP in various researches, have led to several modifications in the technique. Presently several forms of LAMP kits, such as lyophilized LAMP Kit, electric LAMP device (eLAMP), and combined use of LAMP and Lateral Flow Assay (LFA), have been adopted for diagnosis of many pathogens. This paper provides a brief description of the LAMP assay Vis avis its comparative advantage and its potential application in resource. Keywords: Developing Countries, Disease Diagnosis, Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP). Limited countries and under field conditions.


The electromagnetic environment of substation threats the safe operation of secondary systems in substation,the electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) immunity test of secondary system in substation with strong electromagnetic environment is very important. According to the experimental and analysis results of electromagnetic environment parameters in substation in literatures,this paper summarized the characteristic values of electromagnetic environment parameters in substation,and proposed the recommended values for the electromagnetic environment parameters of substation,including power frequency electrical and magnetic fields,1~3 s short-time magnetic field,lightning transient magnetic field,switching transient electric and magnetic fields,lightning interference voltage,switching interference voltage,short-circuit interference voltage,transient and power frequency ground potential rises. By analyzing the general demand to the EMC immunity of secondary system,the requirement to the EMC immunity test of secondary system in substation is proposed. The main characteristic parameters for the EMC immunity test of secondary systems in different locations of substation are also discussed,the test items,which should be added,are also listed,these test items and requirements are more suitable to the actual electromagnetic environments of substations.


The spread and change strategies relied on in institutionalizing two applied behavioral science movements, psychoanalysis and the labora tory method of experiential learning, within the larger social system have been described in previous articles. This paper contrasts the strategies in the two cases and concludes that one movement was premised on elitist concepts of purity and discipline in matters of applied practice, while the other relied on egalitarian notions of spread through participation, involvement, and "ownership." This conclusion poses a clear issue regard ing choices of approach that can be selected by present and future inter ventionists who would lead major movements.


The effects of Rubus hyrcanus L. and Philonotis marchica (Hedw.) Bridon on runoff generation and soil loss from cutslopes of forest roads were investigated. The study was conducted at the northern forest of Iran, about 30 km south of the city of Sari. Runoff and sedimentation after each rainfall simulation and chemical and physical soil properties were measured in 14 plots with an area of 0.48 m 2 . The obtained results indicate that the vegetation dominated by Philonotis marchica exhibited the higher runoff coefficient and soil loss, with averages of 27.25% and 92.40 g·m -2 ·h -1 (gram per square meter per hour), respectively, in comparison to Rubus hyrcanus . For Philonotis mar- chica (Hedw.) Brid. the sediment concentration increased quickly at the beginning of rainfall simulations and after 10-12 min there was a fast decrease in sediment concentration. The peak of sediment concentration was for the Rubus hyrcanus L. in the 13 th -15 th min In conclusion, Rubus hyrcanus L. prevented or decreased the risk of runoff and soil loss from cutslopes of forest roads in our study area.


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This dissertation has been devoted to the rigorous modal analysis of multilayer HDRA excited by four different feeds namely the microstrip-slot feed, the waveguide slot feed, the coaxial probe feed, and the conformal strip feed. The analysis is carried out using the Green's function and the Method of Moments (MoM) approach. The theoretical results have been verified by experiments.
The exact Green's function of the N-layer HDRA resting on an infinite ground plane and excited by magnetic and electric point sources has been derived. The unknown constants in the Green's function are evaluated using a matrix formulation. The characteristics equations of the TE and TM modes of the N-layer HDRA have been obtained in the matrix form, from which the resonant frequencies of the TE and TM modes can be obtained.
In addition, a novel and efficient computation technique named as "Product of Two Double Integrations" for the evaluation of input impedance of the slot-fed and the co-axial probe fed HDRA has been demonstrated. It has been shown that the overall computation time needed to obtain the input impedance of the microstrip slot coupled HDRA and co-axial probe coupled HDRA can be reduced by a factor of 37 and 100 respectively. The time reduction factor of about 319 has been obtained for centre-probe fed HDRA with Product of Two Single Integrations technique.
Thereafter, the analysis of the three-layer HDRA excited by the above-mentioned four feeds for wide band operation is presented. For the microstrip slot fed three-layer HDRA the wide impedance bandwidth is achieved by using a three-layer HDRA topology with unity permittivity in the second layer. Also, the parametric variation of the second and third layer permittivities for realization of maximum bandwidth is discussed. The maximum impedance bandwidth is also justified using source free Q factor curves. In addition, the modal analysis of the three-layer HDRA is presented.
Thereafter similar analysis has been carried out for waveguide slot feed, co-axial probe feed and conformal strip feed to the three-layer HDRA. The efficient algorithm has been used to determine the return loss, input impedance, radiation pattern and mode efficiency of the antennas.
Key Words: Method of Moments, Green's Function, DRA mode, efficient computation, mode excitation, Dielectric Resonator Antenna, hemispherical DRA, multilayer HDRA, wideband DRA, slot-coupled, probe-coupled, Galerkin's technique, entire-domain basis, piecewise sinusoidal basis.


Fecundity, egg, size, condition factor, gonad somatic index etc of the specie Siluronodon auritus were studied between the months of AprilAugust 2008, in the mid Cross River flood system. The total of 350 fishes that were studied showed the specie to be a multiple spawner and the breeding period was identified to be between May and June. The fecundity of the population varied from 6031 eggs (L= 21.4cm, W= 35.3g) and 1130 eggs (L=16.0cm and W=23.1g). A mean relative fecundity of this population of 270 eggs/cm or 155 egg of the fish was obtained with the total length measured in (cm) and weight (g). The condition factor (k) of the population varied from 0.96-1.43 with 0.634 as the mean; 53.7% had higher condition factor than the mean and 46.1% had condition factor below unity indicating that the population was slightly in good condition. The fecundity and condition factor obtained in this study are evidence that the CrossRiver basin population of S. auritus can make or provide excellent bloodstock.


Assisted by foreign jurisprudence, especially that developed in industrialized countries, and because of the rule stated in Article 232 of the new Penal Code Draft, the article analyzes the problems of so called "general cause" and proposes a reply in the context of Chilean penal and procedural law. The article's main point is considering that judicial evidence of a causal nexus, even when facing scientific dissent, is legitimate, as long as a strict interpretation method is adopted, with its developed components excluding any "reasonable doubts".


Artemisia judaica L. (Asteraceae) is a perennial fragrant small shrub widely growing in desert and coast of Egypt. Microscopical features of the leaves were characterized by the presence of non glandular T-shaped trichomes beside the tube like secretory duct responsible for oil production and storage. Phenolic and flavonoid contents were estimated using colorimetric assays where ethyl acetate had the highest phenolic and flavonoid contents. Orientin was the major identified flavonoid. Radical scavenging activity was estimated using DPPH assay where butanol extract showed the highest potency compared with ascorbic acid and butylated hydroxyanisol. A. judaica represents a future antioxidant candidate from natural source.


A detailed measure of picture recognition was used to compare memory under 3 instructional variations: (1) intentional instructions, where subjects were aware of the memory task, (2) incidental instructions, where subjects were asked to perform an orienting task of looking for object repetitions in each picture, and (3) a control group, where subjects were given the orienting task as well as intentional instructions. No differences between groups in accuracy of recognition were found, replicating findings for word recognition. Since free recall has been found to be lower under incidental than intentional instructions, the lack of a difference for word recognition has been used to support a theory of separate recall and recognition processes. Present findings partially support this view.


Many species of moths (Lepidoptera) possess ears which enable them to hear the echolocation calls of bats and avoid predation. The range of best hearing of eared moths is to frequencies usually between 20 and 50 kHz; therefore, bats with calls above or below these frequencies are predicted to capture eared moths more frequently than other bats. This prediction is the basis of the allotonic frequency hypothesis. We conducted a field test of the hypothesis using three species of flutter-detecting bats which capture flying insects. The species were diadem leafnosed bat Hipposideros diadema (call frequency 55-58 kHz), eastern horseshoe bat Rhinolophus megaphyllus (67-71 kHz) and dusky leafnosed bat H. ater (160-164 kHz). Eared moths represented only 7.2% of individuals among prey remains of H. diadema. Moths dominated the diet of both R. megaphyllus and H. ater, being present in almost all faeces and representing the vast majority of prey remains. However, R. megaphyllus captured predominantly non-eared moths (Anthelidae, Lasiocampidae, Hepialidae) or Gelechioid moths, a superfamily which has not been tested for hearing. By contrast, H. ater fed mostly on eared moths, predominantly members of the family Noctuidae. Eared moths made up 91.7% and 82.5% of all moths captured by H. ater at two sites. The data show that the incorporation of eared moths in the diet was much higher in the bat species, H. ater, with a call frequency well above the range of best hearing of moths. This result supports the allotonic frequency hypothesis. Our study indicates that flutter-detecting bats could have imposed selective pressures on moths during the evolution of moth hearing.


The succeeding pages were destined, had matters gone otherwise, to form one section of a chapter devoted to the text of those deservedly neglected authors whom, after a mortal illness released Anton Westermann from the task, Rudolf Hercher marshalled between the two covers of the Didot Epistolographi. That chapter, in its turn, was to have been the last in a volume of Adversaria, and, if the truth is to be told, perhaps not the least important function of some of my proposals was to supply a colourable pretext for dealing with passages of other writers (especially Clement of Alexandria and Libanius) whom I had not treated in the body of the book.


In December 2009, the U.S. Department of Transportation proposed to establish and enforce minimum federal safety standards for rail transit systems to correct the status quo with 27 state programs responsible for rail safety and the resulting inconsistency in practices and effectiveness. In the study described in this paper, a statistical analysis of publicly available safety data was conducted to address two questions empirically: (a) How safe is rail transit compared with other modes of transport? (b) Does a statistically significant record of inconsistent safety exist among rail transit agencies? The analysis found that travel by rail transit was generally safer than travel by automobile or truck, but statistically significant long-term differences in safety records existed in the array of domestic heavy rail and light rail operations. However, a detailed review of the findings showed the difficulty in assigning these differences because of inconsistent regulation and enforcement, as some of the most profound differences were found in agencies that operate in the same state under the same regulatory regime. Finally, the analysis found that incident and injury rates were statistically poor predictors of fatality rates. This finding suggested that rail transit fatalities were so infrequent that existing information concerning rates of incidents and injuries had little or no statistical value in predicting the incidence of fatal accidents. Further statistical analysis of fatality rates might be fruitful.


Objective To evaluate the technique and effect of laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy via retroperitoneal approach. Methods Thirty-two donors (15 males and 17 females) underwent laparoscopic donor nephrectomy at our institution. Twenty-nine left and 3 right procedures were performed. Under general anesthesia, all donors were placed in lateral decubitus. Three transretroperitoneal trocars were used through different ports. The first 12 mm port was placed 2 cm inferior to the edge of rib and 1 cm lateral to the edge of sarcospinous muscle. The second 10 mm port was about 8 to 10 cm anterior to the first, or on the anterior axillary line and 2 cm inferior to the edge of rib. The third 5 mm port was also on the anterior axillary line but 2 cm superior to the iliac crest. The surgeon created the retroperitoneal working space with a constructed catheter balloon device, and made the donor kidney and ureter dissociated. Renal arteries and veins were cut with endoscopic articulating linear stapler for the first 6 patients and then with Hemo-Lok, a plastic clip with a lock, for the others. Finally, the dissected donor kidney and ureter were taken out through an incision extended from the first trocar port. Results All the 32 donor grafts were dissected successfully. The duration of procedure was ranged from 60 to 180 min, and the volume of blood loss was from 20 to 200 ml. The range of warm ischemia time was 3 to 8 min, and 25 to 50 min of cold ischemia time. Short renal veins were found in 3 cases, 1 cm, 1.5 cm and 2 cm respectively. And one case of renal endoarterial injury occurred. On the day after transplantation, the urine volume of recipients was from 2800 to 10 100 ml. There was no delayed graft function found in recipients. Conclusion Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy via retroperitoneal approach is available and safe to renal transplantation with minimal invasion to donors. It can help to obtain donor grafts with higher quality, though skillful laparoscopic technique is demanded.


This paper describes a study of respiratory in 31 families living around and the results of virological investigations of their and of whom


Organic–inorganic halide perovskite materials have attracted wide attention and research because of their adjustable bandgap, high absorption coefficient, and simple preparation methods. The power conversion efficiency (PCE) of single‐junction perovskite cells has increased from 3.8% to 26% in recent years. Using bandgap complementary photovoltaic technology to pair wide‐bandgap with low bandgap perovskites to build all‐perovskite tandem solar cells (all‐PTSCs) is one of the best strategies to break the limitation of Shockley‐Queisser (SQ), which is expected to obtain a PCE higher than 30% at low cost. In this brief review, the structure and working principle of all‐PTSCs is first introduced. Then the latest progress of each component of tandem devices is reviewed according to the two different tandem modes of 2‐terminal (2‐T) and 4‐terminal (4‐T). Besides, the existing problems and optimization strategies of different components are discussed. Finally, the future development of all‐PTSCs is prospected.


Backround: Activated leucocytes can bind and subsequently phagocytose microbubbles thal are used for contrast-enhanced ultrasound assessment The purpose of this study was lo investigate whether left heart contrast agents can influence the inflammatory response of human polymorphonuclear neutrophil granulocytes (PMN). Methods: PMN isolated from peripheral blood of healthy volunteers were incubated with albuminor phospholipid-microbubbles for 20 to 40 minutes and then stimulated with the bacterial peptide fMLP 01 with the calcium ionophore A23167. In other experiments actIvation of PMN was performed using TNF-a 01 the protein kinase C activator PMA before incubation with the microbubbles. The neutrophtl respiratory burst activity was quantified photometrically through the superoxide-induced reduction of cytochrome C and elastase release was quantified through measuring enzymatic hydrolysis after addition of a substrate solution. Resuhs: Albuminand phospholipid-microbubbles (starting at contrast agent concentrations of 5x1& microbubbleslml) induced an extensive oxidative response of human PMN to fMLP as well as to the calcium ionophor A23187 (maximum 213~34 % for albuminand 161*17 % for phospholipid-microbubbles for fMLP and 232*23 % for albuminand 169+23 % for phospholipid-microbubbles for A23187). Activation of PMN with TNF-a or with PMA induced also an extensive oxidative response of human PMN which was in the case of TNF-a possible at l&fold lower contrast agent concentrations. The effect of both contrast agents on burst activity could be significantly impaired through preincubation of the cells with the polymerisation-inhibitor Cytochalasin 6, indicating that phagocytosis of the microbubbles contributes to their effect on the burst activity. Albumin-microbubbles could also significantly amplify the release of neutrophil elastase after stimulation of PMN with fMLP 01 PMA. Conclusions: Left heati contrast agents used for contrast-enhanced ultrasound assessment can activate human PMN inducing an extensive rsspwatory burst to secondary stimuli. The potential climcal relevance of this effect remains to be elucidated.


In this paper,the relationship between the typical air pollution indexes and the per capita GDP in Urumqi City is analyzed based on the data of economic growth and the air environment quality in Urumqi City during the period of 1981-2004 by developing the regression model between the concentrations of main air pollutants and the per capita GDP.The linear regressions from first order to fifth order between the 3 main air pollutants(SO2,NOX,TSP) and the per capita GDP in Urumqi in recent 25 years are carried out.The results show that the simulated result of third-order regression is the best,so it is considered that the regression model between the concentrations of main air pollutants and the per capita GDP in Urumqi City fits the Kuznets third-linear regression fitting curve characteristics.The fitting curve reveals that the concentration of SO2 in air over Urumqi has been continuously increased in recent 25 years,that of NOX fluctuate violently but was significantly increased during the period of 2002-2004,and that of TSP is significantly decreased.It is predicted that the air pollution in Urumqi will become more serious with the economic development,so it is urgent to take some measures for controlling air pollution in Urumqi.


In 1936, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser traveled to Spain to report on the People's Olympiad, an alternative to Hitler's Berlin games. Instead, she witnessed the outbreak of civil war. Rukeyser's writings on her experience span more than forty years, including a lost, unpublished novel, Savage Coast. Recently recovered from her archive, the novel is significant because it hybridizes the forms of aesthetic and political modernism and provides a more complex understanding of how women modernists write about politics and history through modes that both interrogate and transform the boundaries of genre.


Monolayers of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are grown on graphite substrates using high-temperature molecular beam epitaxy (HT-MBE). The hBN monolayers are observed to grow predominantly from step edges on the graphite surface and exhibit a strong dependence of the morphology, including the dominant crystallographic edge, of the hBN monolayers, on the growth temperature, as well as systematic variations in growth rate and coverage, and significant differences in the growth at monolayer and multilayer graphite steps. At graphite monolayer steps hBN grows laterally across the surface on the lower terrace, but hBN growth on the upper side of the graphite step is more limited and is nucleated by three-dimensional clusters. Multilayer graphite steps exhibit a much higher density of non-planar hBN aggregates and growth on both the upper and lower terraces occurs. The results show that the hBN monolayer growth edge type, hBN island shape and the presence of hBN aggregates can be controlled in HT-MBE, with the highest quality layers grown at a substrate temperature of about 1390 °C. Sequential HT-MBE growth of hBN, graphene (G) and a second cycle of hBN growth results in the formation of monolayer thick lateral hBN–G–hBN heterostructures, in which a strip of G is embedded between monolayers of hBN.


Despite the fact that there have been research reports by others such as Development agencies, the research topic on collaboration between Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the private sector has received relatively little attention from academic researchers until quite recently. Often seen as having divergent, if not contradictory values and goals, there have been a number of changes in the global environment which have driven these institutions closer together of late. The aim in this paper is to examine ways of leveraging inter-organizational learning between NGOs and the private sector, with a focus on the use of Web 2.0 technology. Firstly, we will briefly define what is to be understood by organizational learning, business and Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) and an outline of the somewhat contested concepts of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the so-called 'Triple Bottom Line' (TBL). Secondly, we will give an overview of some of the general drivers of such collaborative arrangements, organizational learning lessons drawn from both the literature and from case examples before thirdly, focusing on examples of how Web 2.0 technology has been used by NGOs especially.


The leakage current effects for the midgap levels in the electron‐beam‐metallized (EBM) Al/GaAs junction were studied by isothermal capacitance transient spectroscopy. In this junction, a new electron deep level which might be due to the surface defects induced during the EBM process was detected. The observed thermal emission time constants of the new deep level and the EL2 level (Ec −0.81 eV) in EBM‐Al/GaAs were increased during the low‐temperature annealing up to 355 °C, while the leakage current density in this junction was decreased down about 4×10−7 A/cm2. We represent that these behaviors of the midgap levels could be well explained by the effect of the leakage current in the Al/GaAs Schottky junction.


The polymorphism of microsatellite on prolactin gene in muscovy ducks were studied with five pairs of primers,which were designed based on microsatellite sequences of chicken and turkey prolactin gene.And the results showed:The primer AW21831 failed to be amplified;The primer AW21827 and the primer AW21833 were monomorphic;The primer AW21825 and the primer AW21829 had abundant polymorphism,which can be used in microsatellite marker on prolactin gene,detection of quantitative trait loci and marker assistant selection.Of the primers the PIC were 0.68 and 0.62,respectively.


The interpretation of ultrasonic B‐scan images can be a time‐consuming process and its success depends on operator skills and experience. Removal of the image background will potentially improve its quality and hence improve operator diagnosis. An automatic background noise removal algorithm is proposed, enabling the highlighting of defects and aiding the operator in the location and sizing of any anomalies. The method provides a means to successfully remove the background from a B‐scan image. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Let K be a quadratic imaginary field and π an irreducible regular algebraic cuspidal automorphic representation of GL(2,AK). Under the assumption that the central character χπ is isomorphic to its complex conjugate, Taylor et al. associated p-adic Galois representations ρπ,p : GK → GL(2,Qp) which are unramified except at finitely many places, and such that the truncated L-function of the Galois representation equals the truncated L-function of π. We extend this result to include crystallinity of the Galois representation at p, under some restrictions on π (we require distinct Satake parameters). We first follow Kisin and Lai in constructing geometric families of finite slope overconvergent Siegel modular forms. This is achieved by defining overconvergent Siegel modular forms geometrically, and then showing that an Atkin-Lehner operator acts completely continuously on the space of such forms. Geometric families are then defined using eigenvarieties. We exhibit, in a rigid neighborhood of a theta lift of the representation π, a dense set of classical Siegel modular forms whose associated Galois representations are crystalline at p. Using this dense set of classical points we construct an analytic Galois representation in the chosen neighborhood of the theta lift. Finally, we appeal to a theorem of Kisin to show that crystalline periods at the dense set of classical points extend to the theta lift of π.


Systematic researches undertaken during several short visits to Banyuls, France (Departement des Pyrenees Orientales), have procured 33 species of Copepoda associated with Invertebrata, of which 2 belong to the Harpacticoida, 30 to the Cyclopoida and 1 to the Caligoida. Seven species (numbers 2, 6, 7, 13, 16, 21, 28 of the preceding list) are new to science; of these two had to be referred to new genera. Moreover, six species are new to the Mediterranean (numbers 1, 12, 23, 24, 25, 27) and fifteen are already described species parasiting new hosts (numbers 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 22, 23, 27, 30, 32, 33).


Purpose
This study aims to identify the nature of the characteristics and the social results of partnerships established between nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and the company.

Design/methodology/approach
This research is a qualitative collective case study. Data were collected through 12 interviews and analyzed through the content analysis technique.

Findings
The findings indicate that in the first case, the partnership is driven by the company's interest in qualifying its supplier, facing a relational identity orientation, establishing philanthropic relationships. In the second case, the search for social legitimacy is evident, in the face of a collectivist identity orientation, in which Petro establishes a relationship of a transactional nature. Thus, the differential in intersectoral collaboration lies in the interaction among company, NGO and cooperatives. The results also show that the dialogue proximity between companies and civil society have a strong relationship with social results for the local communities.

Social implications
This study reveals the need to broaden the understanding of the social results of social partnerships to local communities.

Originality/value
The nature of the relationship among state, companies, NGOs and local communities in developing countries are different from developed countries. In the first case, companies are called to assume state's role in improving quality of life and income generation.


The paper is devoted to hyperbolic (generally speaking, non-Lagrangian and nonlinear) partial differential systems possessing a full set of differential operators that map any function of one independent variable into a symmetry of the corresponding system. We demonstrate that a system has the above property if and only if this system admits a full set of formal integrals (i.e., differential operators which map symmetries into integrals of the system). As a consequence, such systems possess both direct and inverse Noether operators (in the terminology of a work by B. Fuchssteiner and A.S. Fokas who have used these terms for operators that map cosymmetries into symmetries and perform transformations in the opposite direction). Systems admitting Noether operators are not exhausted by Euler-Lagrange systems and the systems with formal integrals. In particular, a hyperbolic system admits an inverse Noether operator if a differential substitution maps this system into a system possessing an inverse Noether operator.


The mechanical properties of aluminum alloy treated by plasma microarc oxidation (PMAO) were researched. The tensile tests were carried out at room temperature, 100, 200 and 300℃, respectively. Then the fractographs of tensile specimens and surface morphology of ceramic coating were studied by using SEM, at the same time, the nano-hardness and elastic modulus of the ceramic coating were determined using Nano Indenter XP system. The results show that the surface hardness of aluminum alloy increases greatly and the fracture strength of aluminum alloy coated by ceramic coating is not reduced at high temperature.


In this paper, the current situation of engineering education teaching evaluation is analyzed. The importance and necessity of engineering education teaching evaluation is explained too. Then a teaching evaluation form is designed, and engineering Education of the private and public institutes is evaluated; SPSS analytical software is applied; a scientific basis to grasp the current engineering education situation generally is provided. At last, determinants the factors which can makes teaching effective in both private and public institutes and analysis of these factors. I. Introduction Engineering is the practice and method of applying scientific and empirical knowledge to the service of humanity through the design, analysis, and/or construction of works for practical purposes. In the Word Web dictionary, engineering is " The discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems ". Engineering focuses on the issues associated with developing a specific kind of product, or using a specific type of technology. The general purpose of " Engineering Education " is: To provide you with the technical tool, to encourage the use of your own creativity to solve a given problem by making a new design or improving an existing System. Numerous Studies and reports have called for improvement in modern engineering education [2]. Since poor teaching by engineering faculty has been shown to be a contributing factor to student attrition from engineering, studying the beliefs and practices of faculty who are committed to teaching may provide ideas of how to improve engineering education in general. Attendees at Frontier in Education (FIE) conference comprise a diverse population of engineering educators who have a demonstrated interest in pedagogy, probably beyond that of the typical engineering faculty member who is focused on technical research. Thus this population affords a rich source of data to begin to answer the research questions of what engineering educators believe are effective teaching practice. Although faculty may hold popular beliefs about what constitute effective teaching, few researchers have conducted systematic studies to provide data to theorize these beliefs. With this focus, this article identifies and highlights the factors which can makes teaching effective according to the statistical analysis [4].


We study the nonlinear optical properties of quasiparabolic quantum-well systems with a potential 1/2m * ω 0 2 z 2 +V(z), where V(z) is an anharmonic correction. First, we give the exact solution of the Schrodinger equation for a strictly parabolic quantum well with intense applied infrared (ir) and dc electric fields. We then treat the anharmonic potential V(z) perturbatively to obtain the analytical expressions for the density matrix and the electronic polarizations of the system


In this article, the authors seek to determine the initial compressive stress to avoid cracking and leaking in precast, prestressed concrete bridge deck panels. They use an age-adjusted effective modulus method to evaluate time-dependent stress redistribution in composite systems. The evaluation found an initial precompression of 200 to 300 psi to be adequate for single span bridges, 200 to 700 psi for three-span bridges, and 100 psi for two-span bridges. They also determine that accelerated construction schedules for continuous span bridges make it necessary to substantially increase initial compressive stress.


ABSTRACT We introduced following system and applied it to process of making holograms for science education. The procedures we proposed in this report are so simple that it is realized easily. By using this method, a hologram is produced simply and the process is safe and less expensive. Therefore, holography can be easily demonstrated to younger generation.


On the whole, this is a very just brief appraisal of Moore's work. One can only applaud Mr. Jeffares' conclusion that "Moore's achievement needs reconsideration," that "his merits should not be ignored," and that "he was a man in whom imagination and narrative skill, capacity for industrious work and artistic conscience so fused that he produced fiction and fictionalized autobiography which has the timeless quality of all great art."


Archaeological data from the lower Red River in Louisiana indicate that the modern course of the river is 1200 years older than previously suggested. Geologists claim a diversion of Red River through Moncla Gap approximately 500 to 1000 years ago. Marksville period occupations dating prior to A.D. 200 are identified at archaeological sites adjacent to the river below Moncla Gap. The position of these sites on Red River levees demonstrate that they post-date the river's occupancy of the area. Extensive Marksville and later prehistoric occupations in the Moncla Gap area are seen as a direct result of the development of riverine environments resulting from this diversion.


The implementation of dynamic windows that possess electronically tunable transparency is a promising method to increase the energy efficiency of buildings. Long-term dynamic window cyclability is a key issue that has prevented the widespread adoption of many different device architectures. In this manuscript, we have developed an inexpensive (less than $1,000) optoelectronic cycler to improve dynamic window durability testing. The cycler is programmed to process transmission data to dynamically adjust the voltage profile used for window switching throughout the course of long-term cycling experiments. We demonstrate that this optoelectronic cycler results in significantly improved cycle lives for three different dynamic window chemistries that facilitate reversible metal electrodeposition. Taken together, these results showcase a new tool for the dynamic window research community to improve device cyclability in the laboratory setting.


One of the important aspects of health is mental health. Job constitutes a major part of man's social life. Job plays a fundamental role through creating a situation for the participation of employees and working groups in meeting the social needs of humans like the need to respect. The objective of this research is to examine the Factors threatening mental health in organizations and offices. The method of research, documentation and library.


Let F be a field of characteristic p (p = 0 allowed), and let F(t) be the rational function field in one variable over F. We say F is Brauer-Hilbertian if the following holds. For every α in the Brauer group Br(F(t)) of exponent prime to p, there are infinitely many specializations t → a ∈ F such that the specialization α ∈ Br(F) is defined and has exponent equal to that of α. We show every global field is Brauer-Hilbertian, and if K is Hilbertian and F is finite separable over K(t), F is Brauer-Hilbertian


This thesis presents a novel methodology for computational modelling in cognitive science. It emphasizes identifying sets of models and ranges of parameter values which are equivalent to observed real-world cognitive behaviour. This equivalence is determined by a new statistical measure called relativized equivalence, which places an upper bound on the difference between the model and reality, taking into account the sampling confidence intervals. If the models are constrained to be process models, then this equivalence can also be evidence that the models follow the same algorithm as the real cognitive system.
This methodology also provides guidance for the overall process of modelling. When many models are found to be equivalent, the only way to distinguish among them is to include more empirical data. This usually involves new empirical results with different measures than originally considered. When few models (or none at all) are equivalent, this suggests that either the modelling constraints should be relaxed by removing measures or requiring less accuracy, or that new models should be developed.
To demonstrate the usefulness of this methodology, it is applied to a variety of cognitive modelling tasks. The RELACS model of repeated binary choice (Erev & Barron, 2005) is reinvestigated, showing that it is only a good model for situations with simple reward structures. In the original, standard approach, these situations were combined with many more complex situations, so this fine-grained conclusion could not be reached. Furthermore, this analysis shows that an internal component of RELACS is vital to its performance, in contrast with the original conclusion.
The methodology is also applied to a model of peer group interaction, demonstrating how new models can be created, including the use of existing cognitive architectures (ACT-R; Anderson & Lebiere, 1998) to guide and constrain. Finally, situations involving qualitative modelling (i.e., modelling without numerical comparison to real-world data) are explored.
The result is a method for analyzing computational cognitive models emphasizing explanation rather than prediction. This is meant to be usable by any modeller, without requiring extensive mathematical or computational skill. A software toolkit (CCMSuite) is developed to support this process.
Keywords. cognitive modelling, philosophy of modelling, cognitive architectures, statistical comparison, equivalence testing, modelling methodology, repeated binary choice, sociometric status, epistemic structures, ACT-R, Python ACT-R, CCMSuite


In affluent societies the penalties of over-nutrition and under-exercise are manifest in a rising death-toll from degenerative-vascular and metabolic diseases. A great deal of information is available on the composition of diets and the 24-hour dietary intakes of such populations, but little is known of the 24-hour metabolisms and the patterns of activity of the members of their more sedentary sections. As a first step in this direction, a time-study and measurement of metabolism was made of the various daily activities of a sample of male and female 2nd-year medical students. These metabolic studies were complemented by a survey of the dietary intake of the same individuals.


The purpose of this research is to create a microcontroller-based start reaction time measuring instrument using Research and Development (R&D) approach. This measuring instrument works when the START button is pushed, LCD becomes active, buzzer rings, and the LED indicator turns on. When athletes hear the sound from the buzzer, they release their feet from start block which causes push button on the right and left side of the start block sends voltage to ATMega micro controller and causes timer to stop and LED showing timer stops turn on. From this process, athlete reaction time can be seen on LCD. To restart the initial process, RESET push button can be pressed. The sample in this research was divided into two groups. The first group consisted of 30 students from sport science major, batch 2012 and the second group consisted of five sprinters from PPLP Atletik Jabar, using simple random sampling technique. The analysis showed that this measuring instrument had high validity score, which is 0.771 and a high reliability score, which is 0.834. The analysis also showed that the relationship between sprinter's start reaction time and 30-meter distance was not


On July 1, 1986, I will begin my 2-year term as the president of the AGU Ocean Sciences Section (0s). I'm always open to suggestions about what the OS, should be doing for the ocean community; feel free to contact me via telemail, telephone, letter, or dark alley with your comments and suggestions.


By analyzing the geochemical indicators of trace elements and rare earth elements in shale oil cores, this paper clarifies the depositional environment of the Lucaogou Formation, and it provides some guidance for the exploration and deployment of shale oil in the Jimsar Sag. The average value of Th/U in the Lucaogou Formation is 1.89, which of V/(V+Ni) is 0.74, which of V/Cr is 3.05, which of V/Sc is 8.31, and w(Ni) are less than 40×10−6, indicating the terrestrial reduced environment. The Sr/Ba ratio changes frequently, ranging from 0.55 to 25.62, averaging 4.42, reflecting a higher paleo-salinity.87Sr/86Sr ratio ranges from 0.705286 to 0.705784, averaging 0.705486, and it is substantially lower than the average value of the strontium isotope of the crustaceous silicon-aluminum rock. Besides, 143Nd/144Nd ratio ranges from 0.512419 to 0.512722, and sediments have the characteristics of the origin of the mantle, reflecting the intracontinental rift formation environment. The analysis of rare earth elements indicates that the sediments has the characteristics of LREE relative enrichment, Ce weak positive anomaly and Eu negative anomaly, and furtherly excluded the possibility of marine sedimentary environment. Comprehensive analysis shows the sedimentary period of the Lucaogou Formation is a reduced and salty intracontinental rift lacustrine environment.


This article deals with promising methods of compressor station efficiency increase of the main pipe lines – creation of own gas turbine energy plants with gas turbo-expander energy plant as well as combined energy plants utilizing heat of exhaust gases of gas turbine units.


Abstract We monitored the persistence of a remnant population of pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) near Hillside, AZ, over an 11-year period from May 2008 through December 21, 2019. Originally consisting of three bucks, two does, and one female yearling, the last pregnant doe was seen March 13, 2014, and the last fawn was seen on November 10, 2014. Only one buck was seen after June 17, 2014, and no males after July 7, 2018. The last pronghorn seen were three does on a follow-up survey April 3, 2021. Although the possibility exists of animals immigrating or emigrating from the 78 km2 study area, we did not document such behavior during our study. With no overt attempts at management the population doubled, before losing four animals following a May 2014 Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) of -4.09. The persistence of this population through 2021 is attributed to low adult mortality and a greater recruitment of females than males. The low percentage of available habitat utilized suggests an adequate carrying capacity. The disappearance of this population is attributed to inbreeding depression and low recruitment due to genetic bottle-necking. The Hillside population was too small and too isolated to survive without periodic translocations. Although we frequently observed coyotes during our surveys, predation was not considered the principal factor in the population's demise.


Ailing 1 reported seven cases of exfoliation of the lens capsule. I likewise observed seven cases of this condition at Bellevue Hospital. The appearance of the capsule of the lens and the conclusions to be drawn from the observations tallied with those of Dr. Alling. It is important to define the condition more accurately, however, as a separation and exfoliation of the most superficial lamella of the capsule of the lens. It has been demonstrated that the lens capsule can be separated into layers by chemical treatment in the laboratory.1Clinically, separation and exfoliation occur in a certain small percentage of cases in elderly people. I have seen seven cases in seven years, and, as a routine measure, have examined the lenses of all elderly patients with the biomicroscope for early signs of cataract. When exfoliation of the anterior capsule is present, the appearance is that of a roughened


We present here a new method using interferometric measurements of quasars, that allows the determination of direct geometrical distances on cosmic scales. Quasar Broad Emission Line Regions sizes provide a 'meter rule' with which to measure the metric of the Universe. This method is less dependent of model assumptions, and even of variations in the fundamental constants (other than c). We discuss the spectral and spatial requirements on the VLTI observations needed to carry out these measurements.


In the presence of rhodium complexes of triethylphosphine, CO and ethene react in methanol to give pentan-3-one with selectivities up to 85%; model studies and deuterium labelling suggest that the mechanism involves hydroxycarbene and η2-3-oxopentyl derivatives.


This systematic review aims to highlight the contribution of medical imaging methods used in neuroscientific research in the field of learning disorders. More specifically, special emphasis has been given on functional Magnetic Resonance imaging (fMRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET), as these two techniques are able to provide functional imaging of the brain and to highlight any under-or-over activity of specific anatomical areas, which are associated with various learning disorders. This is a fact of paramount importance, since by decoding the structures of the brain and correlating their function with the development of learning disorders, human intervention becomes possible, both theoretically and practically-invasively, in order to improve the quality of life of persons with a history of learning disabilities. The study was carried out with a critical view of the literature on the specific topic and on a defined set of scientific articles and researches from valid electronic sources published in the last 20 years. The various evaluation techniques of the studied sources were compared based on their methodology, results and commentary.
 This post-graduate thesis is developed in four chapters. Each of them plays a key-role in providing the necessary information, so that what is analyzed in the following chapters can be easily understood. The first chapter refers to the anatomy and physiology of the brain while extensive reference is given to the central nervous system, since it includes the brain. The subsection of brain anatomy analyzes the most important structures that play a crucial role in the development of learning disorders, while that of physiology describes the function they normally perform, so that the reader can understand their dysfunction in any learning disorder.
 The second chapter deals with brain imaging techniques. Here, the main imaging techniques are analyzed, while special emphasis is placed on the two main functional imaging techniques: the functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and the Positron Emission Tomography (PET). These techniques, while using completely different medical technology, are able to depict at a molecular level the function of cells and therefore the various structures of the brain, which makes them particularly valuable. The functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) uses radio frequency pulses and offers functional imaging, in addition to anatomical imaging, high spatial resolution. The Positron Emission Tomography (PET) uses indirect ionizing radiation-γ (derived from the interaction of positrons with electrons).
 The third chapter describes and analyzes both learning disorders and their grading, so that the reader is introduced to the complex world of learning difficulties. Here, special reference is made to the main definitions of learning disabilities and disorders while also, a brief reference is made to their etiology.
 Finally, the fourth chapter is the essence of this study and includes extensive reports of symptoms, characteristics and causes for the already analyzed learning disorders. Additionally, by using scientific references made by past researches, all the brain anatomical structures that play an important role in the aforementioned learning disorders are presented. Their specific role is also examined.
 The purpose of this thesis is to study and understand the highly complex processes that support the development of learning and to investigate the causes of developmental disorders, in the light of neuroimaging and specifically functional neuroimaging.


A battery ejection device is used to eject the battery in a portable electronic device main body. The battery ejection device contains a button, an elastic arm connected with the button and a shaft body, wherein the button and the elastic arm are assembled on the main body through the shaft body to ensure that the elastic arm is against the battery; and the button is pressed to drive the elastic arm to rotate around the shaft body and eject the battery, and the shaft body is also driven to twist and provide an elastic force to ensure that the battery ejection device is restored. By using the battery ejection device, the battery can be disassembled conveniently and the battery ejection device has simple structure.


classical thought raises prospects for the development of innovative theoretical and clinical approaches to psychology (as with, for instance, the recent development of 'positive psychology', Snyder & Lopez 2001).
Background: Classical Greece is well known for its far-reaching innovations in diverse areas of thought, notably in the fields of mathematics, medicine, philosophy and literature. The ancient Greeks famously developed a culture of innovation which stimulated creative change and
competitive intellectual endeavour. Ancient thinkers from Heraclitus to Aristotle proposed, articulated, and debated theories, principles, and mechanisms of innovation that remain valid today.
Key Points: Recent research into ancient responses to novelty, particularly into ideas and experiences of innovation in 5th century BCE Athens (the preeminent centre of ancient innovation) has shown how paradigms of change
and creativity developed in Greek antiquity underlie and can be productively used to inform modern psychological models of innovation. These range from models of personality and
mental growth that underlie psycho dynamic and developmental psychology (e.g. Freud, Piaget), to constructionist and rhetorical notions such as those adopted by social psychologists (e.g. Berger & Luckman, Billig), to analyses of creativity and models of adaptation-innovation employed in cognitive and organisational psychology (e.g Csikszentmihalyi, Kirton).
Conclusion: The conclusion is not that 'there is nothing new under the sun', but that the profoundly innovative nature of the classical tradition of Western thought makes it an
inexhaustible and inescapable source for innovation – not least for the psychology of innovation.


Green eggshell eggs and pink eggshell eggs produced by the old chicken of Lushi were divided into three groups and hatched three times,including normal eggs,sand-shell eggs and wrinkle-shell eggs.The result showed: in the green and pink eggshell eggs groups,the fertilizing rate,the hatching rate of fertilized eggs and the percentage of healthy day-old chicks in all hatched eggs were significant differences from the normal egg group(P0.01).And three indexes of hatching are equally separately lower by 11.9%,15.3%, 23.1% than that normal group;There is not significant difference in fertilizing rate between normal egg group and wrinkle egg group(P0.05),But there is significant difference in hatching rate of fertilized egg,and the percentage of healthy day-old chicks in all hatched eggs compared with normal egg group(P0.05),And two indexes of hatching are equally separately lower by 9.7%,9.8% than normal egg group.And the difference between the normal egg group of the green eggshell and the pink eggshell is not remarkable(P0.05).


Body potential of amphibian vehicle with different sacrificial anode material was measured with continuous measure method.It was proved by measuring data that quinary and hexahydroxy alloy anode both cannot provide enough protection potential for amphibian vehicle;the polarization rapidity of quinary alloy anode is slower than hexahydroxy one;The hexahydroxy anode is suited for amphibian vehicles better.


A moulding machine comprises first and second non-complementary moulds (20a, 20b). The first mould (20a) defines a female mould cavity (36). The second mould (20b) defines a flat moulding surface (30). The first and second moulds (20a, 20b) are movable between a first position in which the moulds are apart and the female mould cavity (36) and the flat moulding surface (30) both face upwards, and a second position in which the moulds are brought together and the flat moulding surface faces into and closes the female mould cavity to form a completely enclosed cavity. Each mould (20a, 20b) has a plurality of bores (22) formed through it and with an opening (24) at each end. At least two of the bores (22) are connected to each other by a block (38) positioned over the opening at one end of one bore and the opening at the end of another bore. The block (38) is formed with a groove (40) which connects the openings to each other.


This paper mainly studies the high power factor control strategy of single-phase electroless capacitor variable frequency speed control system. The power factor of 0.977 can be obtained through matlab/simulink simulation. The single-phase non-electrolytic capacitor frequency conversion speed regulation system uses small-capacity film capacitors instead of traditional large-capacity electrolytic capacitors. It has the advantages of high power density and high input power factor on the grid side.


0 I66 Ins^itute for Nurses, said that the late tUeen a very short while before her death visited a Military hospital and asked one man who had been erribly mutilated in a South African battle if there JJas anything she could do for him. " Only to thank ('le nurse," was the soldier's faint answer, and the |ueen gravely laid her hand on the Victoria nurse's sh?ulder and said, " I thank you, my daughter, for y?Ur goodness to my son."


Smartphones and tablets (mobile devices) worldwide usage has reached an all-time high, of which the services they provide to users are also increasing in popularity. While mobile banking and mobile payments are increasing in consumer adoption in the UK, mobile shopping (m-shopping) surprisingly remains an under-utilised commodity. Responding to the call for specific theoretical understanding in the mobile context, this study seeks to examine the factors influencing consumers' mobile shopping (m-shopping) adoption intention, through development of the mUTAUT model, to incorporate more consumer-orientated constructs of innovativeness, risk and trust. The research model is tested using quantitative data (n = 435) and structural equation modelling analysis. Findings reveal performance expectancy, hedonic motivation, habit, risk and trust to be significant influencers of consumer m-shopping intention. Despite inclusion of three control variables of age, gender and experience, only age is found to have a partial moderating effect.


We calculate the critical temperature of the Ising model on a set of graphs representing a concatenated three-bit error-correction code. The graphs are derived from the stabilizer formalism used in quantum error correction. The stabilizer for a subspace is defined as the group of Pauli operators whose eigenvalues are +1 on the subspace. The group can be generated by a subset of operators in the stabilizer, and the choice of generators determines the structure of the graph. The Wolff algorithm, together with the histogram method and finite-size scaling, is used to calculate both the critical temperature and the critical exponents of each structure. The simulations show that the choice of stabilizer generators, both the number and the geometry, has a large effect on the critical temperature.


Abstract this work is devoted to the analytic study of the characteristic roots of scalar autonomous Delay Differential Equations (DDEs) with complex coefficients. The focus is placed on the robust analysis of the position of the roots in C with respect to the variation of the coefficients, with the final aim of obtaining suitable representations for the relevant stability boundaries and charts. The investigation benefits from a preliminary shift of the coefficients which reduces the number of free parameters allowing for useful graphical visualizations. The present research is motivated on the base of studying the stability of systems of DDEs.


This paper describes the ebony (Diospyros celebica Bakh.)site characteristics in Amaro Forest,Barru District, South Sulawesi including its secondary succession to create a favourable conditions for stand establishment. Association analysis shows that a wide variety of lowland species have been identified grows together with the ebony.Physical characteristics rather than chemical fertility of soils show a great value in supporting ebony stand growth.Poor stand with low natural regeneration of these remaining fragmented forests suggest the need to apply enrichment planting and improvement cutting to increase their productivity.


In-fact, gender equality has been regarded as one of the basic human rights, an important social determinant of health and in many ways acts as an indicator of the development of a nation [2-3]. Further, due to the prevailing imbalance between the two genders accounts for poor health outcomes and reduced access to education and welfare measures to women across many settings, especially in the developing nations [1].


This chapter begins with an essentially sceptical critique of the case for "placebased" policies, presenting "a rule of thumb for calibrating regional development policies" that specifies those circumstances in which a place-based approach might make sense. It then compares the Irish, Iberian and Italian approaches to regional policy over the last few decades, concluding that there is a strong association between growth and agglomeration and arguing that regional policies should facilitate agglomeration, migration and specialisation rather than resisting them. The chapter then looks at the implications of this view for public policy in the current tight fiscal environment, with particular emphasis on social policy and connectivity.


Abstract : The objective of this demonstration was to test and validate weak base anion resin ion exchange (WBA IX) technology using established performance objectives in order to obtain permitting and certification from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) as an approved perchlorate treatment technology. This 1000 gallon per minute system was constructed by Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) to treat groundwater at the Rialto No. 3 well site in the Rialto-Colton, CA area under Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) Project No. ER-200312, Perchlorate Removal, Destruction, and Field Monitoring Demonstration. Because perchlorate concentrations at Rialto No. 3 are elevated, this site is considered to be an extremely impaired source as defined by the CDPH 97-005 Policy Memorandum. ARA worked with water utility and regional CDPH representatives to obtain all of the necessary permits to conduct the test and demonstrate performance. The quantitative performance objectives are: meeting perchlorate regulatory standards; demonstrating posttreatment capability; minimizing process waste, demonstrating spent regenerant treatment; minimizing perchlorate bleed from regenerated vessels; demonstrating treatment flow rates; validating operating costs and future system scalability. Additionally, qualitative performance objectives included demonstrating the ability to model resin treatment capacity for drinking water applications and demonstrating effective system control during operation.


This paper introduces a new methodology to generate additional hardware security in commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) system-on-a-chip (SoC) integrated circuits (ICs) that have already been fabricated and packaged. On-chip analog hardware blocks such as analog to digital converters (ADCs), digital to analog converters (DACs) and comparators residing within an SoC are repurposed and connected to one another to generate unique physically unclonable function (PUF) responses. The PUF responses are digitized and processed on-chip to create keys for use in encryption and device authentication activities. Key generation and processing algorithms are presented that minimize the effects of voltage and temperature fluctuations to maximize the repeatability of a key within a device. Experimental results utilizing multiple on-chip analog blocks inside a common COTS microcontroller show reliable key generation with minimal overhead.


Refugees who are resettled in third countries may be at greater risk of experiencing identity problems, such as identity distress, crisis, and its resolution, than are their nonrefugee, nonimmigrant peers. A multidimensional approach was employed to explore the identity (re)formation and resolution of 50 Karen refugees who were resettled in London, Ontario, Canada. Problematic identity processes in social, personal, and ego domains of identity were examined. Fifty nonrefugee Canadians served as comparisons. The findings revealed that the resettlement process impaired the sense of temporal sameness and continuity, promoted confusion and crisis in identity, prolonged identity resolution, and stimulated distress concerning social and personal identity issues (work, career, values, group loyalties) for the refugees who participated in this study.


This paper is the second in a series of three, describing a research project being carried out at Technion in Israel to study the influence of plant roots on the stability of slopes. In the present...


SCANMail is a prototype system developed at AT&T Labs for the purpose of providing useful tools for managing and searching through voicemail messages. Content is extracted from voicemail messages using various speech and text processing tools. One such content category is the identity of the message caller. This paper describes CallerID, the server tool attached to SCANMail for the purpose of providing caller labels for voicemail messages. CallerID makes use of text independent speaker recognition techniques. Two kinds of requests are handled by the CallerID server. A request triggered by the arrival of a new voicemail message results in the processing of the message to score it against the models of callers assigned to the user (recipient) in order to propose the identity of the caller. A second request is initiated by a user who provides a caller label for a message he/she has reviewed. CallerID processes the message and uses it to train or adapt a speaker model for the caller whose label is provided. The paper describes in detail the CallerID functions and provides some results of performance evaluations of the caller identification capability.


The utility model relates to a guide line with a carbon fiber composite core, which comprises a core and an aluminum conductive layer consisting of plural aluminum conductors to coat the core from outside. The core is composed of at least two carbon fibers which are combined together. Since the guide line adopts a core composed of at least two carbon fibers, the diameter of each composite core is smaller than a single carbon fiber composite core contained in another type of guide line. Similarly, the bending stress is also smaller; thereby, the toughness of the guide line with the carbon fiber composite core is increased. Further, the core is capable of distributing curvature from a certain point when bended, thereby, providing a compact structure and a high electric conductivity.


OBJECTIVES
The objective of this study is to report disease outcomes and toxicity with the use of SBRT in the treatment of pediatric metastatic disease.

METHODS
All pediatric and adolescent young adult (AYA) patients' who received SBRT were included between the years 2000-2020. Study endpoints included local control (LC), progression free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS), cumulative incidence (CI) of death or local failure and toxicity. The endpoints with respect to survival and LC were calculated using the Kaplan-Meier estimate. The cumulative incidence of local failure was calculated using death as a competing risk.

RESULTS
16 patients with 36 lesions irradiated met inclusion criteria and formed the study cohort. The median OS and PFS for the entire cohort were 17 months and 15.7 months, respectively. The 1 year OS for the entire cohort was 75%. The 6- and 12 month local control was 85 and 78%, respectively. There were no local failures in irradiated lesions for patients who received a BED10 ≥100 Gy. Patients who were treated with SBRT who had ≤5 metastatic lesions at first recurrence had a superior 1 year OS of 100versus 50% for those with >5 lesions. One patient (6.3%) experienced a Grade 3 CNS toxicity.

CONCLUSIONS
Local control was excellent with SBRT delivered to metastatic disease, particularly for lesions receiving a BED10 ≥100 Gy. High-grade toxicity was rare in our patient population. Patients with five or fewer metastatic sites have a significantly better OS compared to >5 sites.

ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE:
This study demonstrates that SBRT is safe and efficacious in the treatment of pediatric oligometastatic disease.


Objective: Try to establish the immortalized lymphoblastoid cell line of male gonad agenesis, in order to preserve the genome resource for the future study. Methods: 40 male gonad agenesis peripheral blood samples were collected and the B-lymphocytes transformed by Epstein-Barr virus to establish the immortalized cell lines. Karyotype and DNA analysis were used to check the genetic stability. Results: All 40 immortalized cell lines were established and the genetic integrity of the cell lines were stable. Conclusion: The cell lines of male gonad agenesis established in this study could be useful for exploring the mechanism in the future research.


Background: Cardiac dysfunction after brain death has been described in a variety of brain injury paradigms but is not well understood after severe pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI). Cardiac dysfunction may have implications for organ donation in this patient population. Materials and Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of pediatric patients with severe TBI, both with and without a diagnosis of brain death, who underwent echocardiography during the first 2 weeks after TBI, between the period of 2003-2011. We examined cardiac dysfunction in patients with and without a diagnosis of brain death. Results: In all, 32 (2.3%) of 1,413 severe pediatric TBI patients underwent echocardiogram evaluation. Most patients had head abbreviated injury score 5 (range 2-6) and subdural hematoma (34.4%). Ten patients with TBI had brain death compared with 22 severe TBI patients who did not have brain death. Four (40%) of 10 pediatric TBI patients with brain death had a low ejection fraction (EF) compared with 1 (4.5%) of 22 pediatric TBI patients without brain death who had low EF (OR = 14, P = 0.024). Conclusions: The incidence of cardiac dysfunction is higher among pediatric severe TBI patients with a diagnosis of brain death, as compared to patients without brain death. This finding may have implications for cardiac organ donation from this population and deserves further study.


In recent years there has been an increase in income inequality in Costa Rica. This technical note shows the study of the relationship between-firm wage inequality and firm productivity for the country under the framework of the OECD LinkEED project. The analysis was carried out using an empirical procedure provided by the OECD with a dataset from the Costa Rican Central Bank that matches employer-employee data in the period 2006 to 2017. The results indicate that wage inequality slightly increased in Costa Rica between 2006 and 2017. The results also show that of this increase 36% was due to between-firm dispersion. This increase seems to be completely explained by an increase of differences in the workforce composition between firms, while the dispersion between firms due to factors related to firm wage premia was decreased. The estimates of the pass-through of firm productivity to wages was around 0.05%.


The present application relates to a method of dithiopyr to control the growth of resistant trifluralin annual rye in cereal crops. The method comprises at planting or to the locus a herbicidally with cereal crops before emergence of the weeds an effective amount of a dithiopyr contacts. Dithiopyr may be applied to soil and incorporated into the cereal crops at planting in the soil surface or applied to the soil before weeds have been excavated after planting.


We consider the following nonlinearly perturbed version of the elliptic-parabolic system of Keller-Segel type: @tu u + r · (urv) = 0, t > 0, x 2 R 2 , v + v v p = u, t > 0, x 2 R 2 , u(0,x) = u0(x) 0, x 2 R 2 , where 1 < p < 1. It has already been shown that the system admits a pos- itive solution for a small nonnegative initial data in L 1 (R 2 ) \ L 2 (R 2 ) which corresponds to the local minimum of the associated energy functional to the elliptic part of the system. In this paper, we show that for a radially sym- metric nonnegative initial data, there exists another positive solution which corresponds to the critical point of mountain-pass type. The v-component of the solution bifurcates from the unique positive radially symmetric solution of w + w = w p in R 2 .


Among the global warming issue and production process using machinery and modern technology, these Batik SMEs still strongly exist. This research aims at empirically proving the influence of green product competitiveness and green product success on green product innovation performance through green product competitiveness and green product success as the mediating variable. This research employs a survey approach and questionnaire to collect information related to the research samples. The quantitative approach in this research is conducted by testing the research hypotheses. 223 respondents consisting of Batik SMEs' owners/ managers in Yogyakarta, Indonesia are taken as the samples with a purposive sampling method. The hypotheses test results show positive and significant correlation between green product innovation and green product competitiveness and green product success. Green process innovation positively, significantly influences green product competitiveness and green product success. Green product competitiveness positively, significantly influences green innovation performance. Green process success positively, significantly influences green innovation performance.


The processes of creating prerequisites for transforming the English language into the global language of universal communication are considered. The experience of using natural languages as languages of international exchange in the the historical epochs preceding the emergence of capitalist relations and the industrial revolution is presented. The processes that have eventually led to the choice of English as the chief means of international communication are followed, and an attempt is made at clarifying the causes for the fundamental change in the world system of languages, with the English language acquiring the status of the global language.


Human beings embrace the information technology era through their own wisdom, and the information age has brought indelible contributions to human beings in all fields. Based on the expectation that the computer big data will still work in the future, this paper puts forward some practical application directions for its further utilization and creative application in ideological and political education in colleges and universities through the analysis of many small aspect.


Nowadays many corporations have used advertisement decision support system, which can be used to help people make scientific, reasonable advertisement planning and marketing work. Direct Mail (DM) is a popular advertisement means, however there lacks DM advertisement fee model in those advertisement decision support system. Thus it is necessary for bookshop to build a DM advertisement fee model that can help its manager make the decision on the optimized advertisement fee and obtain maximized profit of the bookshop. To solve the above problem, a brief analysis and three hypotheses on advertisement fee model of DM are given firstly, then the aforementioned fee model is modeled and relational solution is proposed. Finally conclusion and further research issues are presented.


The low-temperature polycrystalline silicon thin films(LTPS),as the first choice for the fabrication of thin film transistor(TFT),have attracted more and more attention recently because of its excellent performance for flat panel display.Describes systematically the working principle and RD of the three preparation processes of LTPS,ie.,the metal-induced lateral crystallization(MILC),excimer laser annealing(ELA) and inductively coupled plasma CVD(ICP-CVD),with their advantages and disadvantages compared with each other.An outlook for the three processes is made in respect to their applications and developments in LTPS-TFT.


EDITOR—The overlap between mood disorders and diabetes is an important area of research because a fuller understanding of the pathophysiology of insulin resistance and how this impacts on mood could lead to new insights and treatments for depression.1 Timonen et al reported a positive …


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