The purpose of this study was to determine and examine the effects of organizational communication and working groups on the performance of employees at the Regional Environmental Agency of Kutai Kartanegara Regency as well as to know the most dominant variable affecting the performance of employees at the Regional Environmental Agency of Kutai Kartanegara Regency. The analysis of data obtained by the researchers was done using multiple tools, multiple regression analysis, and SPSS reI12 application for Windows, resulting in the following regression equation: Y = 4.116 + 0,358X1 + 0,338X2. Based on the equation, it was found that the variable of X1 (organizational communication) amounted to 35.8%, indicating that it has a significant influence on the performance of employees. Meanwhile, the variable of X2 (working group) showed an effect of 33.8% on the employee performance, suggesting that organizational communication has the most dominant effect on the performance of employees. Thus, the second hypothesis was also accepted.


One of the important contents of legislating for the brave deeds of acting for a just cause is that the state and t he society are responsible for protecting the r ights and interests of the people who do brave deeds of acting for a just cau se.This article considers that to provide legal protection for these brave people is a good way to solve the phenomenon of looking on with f olded arms as well as a legal norm which is a reflex of the needs of the objective reality.Formula ting and implementing of relevant la w can enrich the justice spirit of law,embodying the legal value by a ll sides.But the author argues that we can't work out the obligatory legal norm about brave deeds of acting for a just cause at the prese nt stage of our country.


Contents: Introduction. Part 1 The New German School: Weber's ghost: Euryanthe, Genoveva, Lohengrin, Laura Tunbridge Wagner amongst the Hegelians, Nicholas Walker. Part 2 Wagnerian Politics: Magnificent obsession: Tristan und Isolde as the object of musical analysis, Thomas Grey From critical tool to political metaphor: thoughts on the writings of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Roger Allen A question of identity: Die Meistersinger von NA1/4rnberg in Weimar Germany, A ine Sheil. Part 3 The Politics of Reception: SchA1/4tz's Dafne and the German operatic imagination, Bettina Varwig Deception on stage: Don Carlos di Vargas and Franz Werfel's politics of operatic translation, Gundula Kreuzer Bruckner in the theatre: on the politics of 'absolute' music in performance, Nicholas Attfield. Part 4 An Excursus on Vienna: 'Wer weiss, Vater, ob das nicht Engel sind?' Reflections on the pre-Fascist discourse of degeneracy in Schreker's Die Gezeichneten, Peter Franklin 'The republic of the mind': politics, the arts and ideas in Schoenberg's post-war projects, Jennifer Shaw Berg's operas and the politics of subjectivity, Julian Johnson. Part 5 Interwar Germany: 'Stadtluft macht frei': urban consciousness in Weimar opera, Peter Tregear Magic boxes and VolksempfAnger: music on the radio in Weimar Germany, Alexander Rehding Socialism and the 'free development of art': Karl Amadeus Hartmann's Opera Simplicius Simplicissimus, Egon Voss. Bibliography index.


Road accidents are one of the most relevant causes of injuries and death. This is also one of the serious issues, which can possibly cause disabilities, injuries and even fatalities. There are many of reasons that contribute to accidents. Some of them are internal to the driver but many are external. For example, adverse weather conditions like rain, cloudy, and fog cause partial visibility and it may become difficult as well as risky to drive on such roads. This paper aims to provide an Overview of the area of the art in the prediction of road accidents through clustering techniques and machine learning algorithms. Index Terms – road accident data, Machine learning, K-means Clustering, Analysis, Visualization, prediction.


Predicting fluorescently labelled cellular structures from brightfield images is a recent application of convolutional neural networks and has already proven a valuable tool in biological imaging studies. These methods reduce the need for time-consuming manual annotations for supervised datasets, potentially reduce the costs in high-throughput imaging screens, and open up a number of potentially novel analyses. However as with any prediction there can be sources of error and uncertainty. Here we present BFNet, a method to visualise the uncertainty in predicted images by applying Monte Carlo dropout during inference and calculating per-pixel variance as an uncertainty map. Our method demonstrates the ability to highlight regions of an image where prediction is difficult or impossible due to imaging artefacts such as occlusions or out-of-focus images, as well as more general uncertainty when a trained model is applied to new data from different imaging of experimental settings. We have provided a python implementation of the method which is available at github.com/swarchal/bfnet.


---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract – Activities of humans and their recognition has many practical and real world applications such as safety, security, surveillance, humanoid assistive robotics and intelligent simulation systems. Numerous human action and emotion recognition systems included analysis of position and geometric features and gesture based co-ordinates to detect actions. There exits additional data and information in the movement and motion based features and temporal and time-sequential series of image and video frames which can be leveraged to detect and extract a certain actions, postures, gestures and expressions. This paper uses dynamic, temporal, time-scale dependent data to compare with decision rules and templates for activity recognition. The human shape boundaries and silhouette is extracted using geometric co-ordinate and centroid model across multiple frames. The extracted shape boundary is transformed to binary state using eigen space mapping and parameter dependent canonical transformation in 3D space dimension. The image blob data frames are down sampled using activity templates to a single candidate reference frame. This candidate frame was compared with the decision rule driven model to associate with an activity class label. The decision rule driven and activity templates method produced 64% recognition accuracy indicating that the method was feasible for recognizing human activities.


Until recently chemical weed control technology in forestry nurseries was limited primarily to soil fumigation, a very expensive and laborous weed control procedure. Herbicides for preemergence application Ilave been registered and are currently being used to control many annual weeds. Removal of perennial weeds such as nut-sedge, (Cyperu s s pp.) bermudagrass [Cynodon dactylon (L) Pe rs.] and johnsongras s I Sorghum halepense (L) Pers.] is still accomplishe d by hand labor which is very expensive and increLlsingly difficult to obtLlin. Our objective was to evaluate and/or deve lop equipment to apply non-selective herbicides selectively in forest nursery stock. The Stoneville Wiper was developed in 1978 to make post-emergence band applications of non-selective herbicides in various rm.) crops from the cotyledon stage through layby (Figure 1). The Stoneville Wiper was utilized in 1979 to treat a very dense stand of broadleaf signnlgrass [Brachiaria platyphylla (Cris e h.) Nash), large crabgrass [Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop.], and goosegrass lEleusine indica (L.) Caertn.] in black walnut (Juglan s nigra 1..) ' seedling beds at Baucum Nursery, Little Rock, Arkan sas. Clyphosate at 3 lb/A applied with the Stoneville Hiper without th e carpet to grass 28 to 36 inches tall in mid August resulted in 70% control 30 days after application. Crass control of 90% was obtained when the grass was only 4 to 10 inches tall. Blackwalnu t s ee dling injury was limited to leaflets that were pulled under the applicator. In late August hand weeding data indicated that $1350 per acre would be required to clean the beds. The cost per acre for the glyphosate treatment was approximately $30 per acre. During 1980 the Stoneville Wiper.' was utilized with and without the carpet in a cottonwood (Populus deltoides Marsll.) nurs e ry (F igure 2). Clyphosate application at 1 to 3 lb/ A \.)as made to winter annuals. The lower rate did not provide adequate control. A hooded sprayer that covers an area 40 inches wide was huilt to apply herbicides to the middles between the cottonwood trees in mid sununer (Figures 3 and 4). This applicator consist of a fiberglass hood LIO inches by 12 inches and 9 inches ta 11 with nozzles mounted in the top 8 inches apart. Glyphosate at 2 Ih/A gave 90 to 10U% control of all vegetation present \.)h ich included johnsongrass.


In this paper, we revisit the no black hole theorem in three dimensional (3D) gravity in the Newman-Penrose formalism in a generalized Newman-Unti gauge. After adapting the well established 4D NP formalism and its gauge and coordinates system to 3D gravity, we show that the no black hole theorem is manifest in the NP equations. We further study in detail the horizon properties of the 3D charged rotating Martinez-Teitelboim-Zanelli solutions and confirm that a black hole solution requires a negative cosmological constant.


Bone pain, especially back pain, is a presenting symptom in myeloma in 60% of cases and the combination of bone pain, pathological fractures and hypercalcaemia accounts for a large percentage of the morbidity of this disease.1,2 Aggressive bony disease can result in increased mortality, especially when associated with pathological fractures of long bones.These complications are predominantly due to increased bony destruction with osteoblastic overactivity, bone reabsorption and irreversible destruction of bony architecture associated with, and invariable proximal to, malignant plasma cells. This is due to an increase both in osteoclast numbers and osteoclast activation by factors produced by plasma cells and normal bone marrow cells in response to the malignant plasma cells.3,4


The article explores the global and local factors influencing on the educational setting of the region. The author comes to the conclusion that pedagogical education in this period became authoritative and recognized by society not only due to the results of professional activity of pedagogues but also because of the quantitative and qualitative increase of the Siberian teaching staff that appeared to be one the most socially active professional groups.


Abstract. The aim of this study was to obtain ex vivo monolayer culture cells migrated from individual granulomas isolated from the spleens of the Balb/c line mice through 1–2 months after BCG vaccine infection. The second goal was to evaluate influence of different types of cells in the development of granulomatic inflammation and analysis of BCG bacteria content in these cells in the latent stage of tuberculosis. Granulomas were presented by macrophages in general. The number of granulomas was varied as in one mouse as between mice. Granulomas contained also dendritic cells (in average 10% from macrophages of granulomas) and lymphocytes. In some granulomas fibroblasts, neutrophils, eosiniphils, multinuclear cells of Pirogov–Langhans, megacariocytes and platelets were observed in all stages of infection. The number of these cells was also varied between granulomas. The acid staining BCG bacteria were only detected in macrophages, dendritic cells and Pirogov–Langhans cells of mice granulomas. Mice were different as by number of cells with BCG bacteria in granulomas as by number of granulomas with BCG-containing cells. The proposed model of granuloma cells of mice in ex vivo culture can be used to study interaction between host cells and mycobacteria to find new ways and methods of influence to intracellular pathogens in latent stage of tuberculosis.


The authorities had been initiative in the reforms of Securities and Exchange law, introducing independent directors as a way to strengthen corporate governance since Procomp and Rebar embezzlement scandal. However, Ya Hsin and Far Eastern Air Transport still broke out the management malfeasance during April 2007 and February 2008 respectively, which resulted in the serious financial crises. The right of shareholders, creditors and employees were seriously violated, not to mention the damages it has done to Taiwan's capital market. The financial fraud patterns were variable. In order to provide warning signs for investors and creditors through the understanding of financial statements, and to avoid the similar fraud events occurred repeatedly, this study investigates the reasons of financial crises about Ya Hsin and Far Eastern Air Transport. Through the gathering of financial fraud patterns, the hidden warning signs in the financial statements and the corporate governance issues, we expect to provide the authorities with future precautions, and to prevent the similar fraud events early. The authorities gave an impetus to corporate governance in Taiwan in recent years. However, it still has room for improvement. Regarding internal supervision, it is suggested to strengthen the boards' structure by requesting all listing companies to introduce independent directors to director boards, strengthening the independence of the independent directors, promoting the internal audit to the supervision of independent directors, and provide the openness of the information disclosure about final shareholders and subsidiaries. Regarding external supervision, it is suggested to specialize an institute to inspect the auditing quality of CPAs, develop forensic accounting and strengthen the investor protection function.


Michigan has identified Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) as an innovative driver of its mission to provide higher quality transportation through improved safety, traffic management, and asset management. Throughout the United States, VII has the potential to produce a definitive reduction in highway fatalities and injuries. And vehicle communication initiatives in many countries have a common objective of enhanced road safety. For VII and similar initiatives to move from local tests to wide deployment, benefits need to be measured, and data shared. This paper describes the Naturalistic Driving Methodology and a framework for its use in VII deployment and evaluation. For the covering abstract see ITRD E140665.


A simple and precise method was developed for determination of total As and Se in sewage sludges by using hydride-generation atomic absorption spectrometry (HGAAS). It involves boiling a 50-mg sample with sodium hypobromite (NaOBr) solution to dryness in a sand bath (260-280{degrees}C), extraction of the As and Se in the digest with 1.25 M H{sub 2}SO{sub 4}, and determination of these elements by HGAAS after reducing As(V) and Se(VI) to As(III) and Se(IV), respectively. The proposed method gives quantitative recovery of As and Se in standard reference materials (96-103%) and of these elements added to sewage sludges (95-100%). The average results of AS (9.8 mg/kg) and Se (7.5 mg/kg) in 12 sewage sludges determined by the proposed digestion method agreed closely with those obtained by the acid digestion methods recommended by USGS and USEPA. Tests with 13 metals indicated that, at the concentrations expected in sewage sludges, none of the metals interfered with determination of As and Se by the proposed method. A single operator can complete analysis of one of the elements in 40 samples in a normal working day, or both elements in 1.5 d.


Wood strength is highly anisotropic and tissue‐specific. We herein show how it can be predicted from local failure of the nanoscaled wood component lignin and from the microstructure and the composition of the wood tissue, by means of continuum micromechanics. The suitability of the model is confirmed by the good agreement between model‐predicted biaxial strength values of wood and corresponding experimental results. (© 2006 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


Brinkmann's plane-fronted gravitational waves with parallel rays — in short pp-waves— are shown to provide, under suitable conditions, exact string vacua at all orders of the σ-model perturbation expansion.


The article examines the performance of the Chinese, Indian and Russian economies in the context of the world economy. The major features of the world economy has been (i) its slowing down for all regions except Asia since the oil price shocks of 1973–74, (ii) the increasing integration of the different economies as barriers to trade have been reduced, and (iii) increasing importance of private capital flows. While the Russian economy, or that of the erstwhile Soviet Union, was not affected by the oil price shocks other economies apart from the Asian economies were. A major aspect of this effect is the decreasing productivity of capital. An important challenge is how the international economic system can be managed to return the world economy to higher rates of growth. In particular, how can growth rates in the developing world be raised? Trade liberalization must assist in this endeavor. Furthermore, increasing private capital flows have created the potential for destabilizing capital movements. It has been recognized that changes must be made in the international financial system. In this article we examine the interests of China, India and Russia in the international economic system.


The potential due to a distribution of the sources and normal dipoles over a flat panel is evaluated. The described method gives a more intuitive and generalized approach to the potential computation. In particular, it provides a formulation for the potential which does not depend on the coordinate system and which is much easier to implement than previously known methods.


A fixed plot field experiment was carried out during kharif and spring seasons of 2008-09 and 2009-10 at New Delhi, to study the effect of sunflower stover and nutrient management on growth, yield and energy dynamics of sunflower in a pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.] -sunflower (Helianthus annuus L). cropping system. Results revealed that residual effects of sunflower stover incorporation resulted in higher values of growth attributes, seed yield (2.45 tonnes/ha), oil content (41.3%) and energy use efficiency (8.3) in succeeding sunflower crop in a pigeonpeasunflower cropping system. Residual effect of sunflower stover incorporation increased seed yield of sunflower by 19.5% over the no stover incorporation. Among the P levels applied to preceding pigeonpea, residual effect of 30 kg P/ha recorded the highest values of growth parameters resulted in 23.3% increase in the seed yield of sunflower over the control. Direct effect of RD of N and P (80 kg N+15 kg P/ha) recorded the significantly higher values of growth parameters, seed (2.71 tonnes/ha) and stover (4.44 tonnes/ha) yields, oil (42.3 %) and protein (14.9%) contents and net energy output (120.0× 103 MJ/ha)). Increase in seed yield due to RD of NP was 12.4% and 66.3% higher than 50% RD of NP and control, respectively.


The seamless and effortless integration between eye movements and cognitive functions signifies tight coordination between eye movement control and the underlying perceptual, cognitive, and motor processes. In this paper we aim to deconstruct the coordination between eye movements and manual responses exhibited in performing a sequence of choice responses through a combination of experimental and modeling methods.


Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has developed an elective laboratory course intended to motivate freshmen for further study of engineering in general and to spur interest in electrical and computer engineering in particular. The course philosophy is that hands-on laboratory and design experiences will build strident confidence, stimulate curiosity, and demonstrate the relevance of engineering work. These, in turn, should increase motivation and retention. To assess the impact of this course, a multi-dimensional evaluation process has been conducted consisting of: attitudinal surveys of the students at the end of the course; structured interviews with students in the course; surveys of the students in a subsequent design course; and pretests and posttests of student creativity. Evaluation results indicate that carefully structured hands-on experience is an effective way of motivating freshmen for further engineering study. The results also indicate that the course has increased student creativity and confidence in their abilities. Furthermore, the improvements in motivation and confidence can still be measured in subsequent semesters. Thus, since the new course is just a one-credit laboratory, it appears possible to address the problem of motivating engineering freshmen with only a modest impact on already crowded first-year programs.


Nowadays, innovation is perhaps the most widely spoken global keyword in the field of economy. Everyone talks about innovation and the European Union already for more than a decade, has wanted through innovation to catch up with and take the leading position in the world. However, what is the reality? Europe still has difficulties with the pace of economic growth, which according to many is joined combined with innovation and knowledge. Asian countries often set a price of an innovated product of poor quality and with no added value that includes huge cost of efficient marketing and aggressive advertising. Therefore, is innovation everything what is called this way? Though the world controls the speed and acceleration of changes, it does not mean necessarily an advantage or positive effects. And evolution of a star in a supernova and then a black hole is in the final stages accelerated in an unusual way. The inspiration for our article was slanted to cheap using the word "innovation", just because it is a European priority. We just drew from his knowledge and life experiences.


The role of literacy is very significant in any person's life and so is for the development of any nation. It is assumed that learning literacy would bring positive changes in person's life. The literacy reports and documents inform a very grim picture of literacy in India. Children in primary schools are not able to read with comprehension and write meaningfully. Despite spending huge amount of money we still lag way behind to attain literacy. Reading and writing abilities of students are confined to gaining mastery over decoding skills and copying the text in the notebook. Study reports inform that such pedagogy pushes children to drop out from schools even without completing the primary schooling. The situation compels us to question the issue of development in such scenario. There is also an urgent need to challenge the existing definition and pedagogy of literacy. The present paper explores the definition of literacy from socio-cultural and critical literacy framework. The following section will critically discuss the pedagogy of literacy in classrooms and the final section will discuss about an alternative pedagogy for literacy teaching.


The author analyzes the main role of the OPEC in the international arena and the phenomena of the OPEC's influence on the oil market and on the world politics and economy. The author highlights that due to the shale revolution in the North America, the importance of the OPEC is becoming lower, although its states-participants are still important political actors in the world politics. The author notes that in situation when the leverages of the influence on the oil prices are passing to USA, Russia faces with a new challenge, because the oil price reduction may undermine its financial stability.


Purpose:
In order to contribute to a sustainable logistics system, there is a need for actions that not only improve one part of the system, but improves the system as a whole. This means e.g. focus on the interaction between logistics and transport systems, as well as analyzing the overall environmental effects. To increase the load factor in vehicles is on the agenda due to both environmental and economic reasons. However, how actions at different actor's setting interact and influence the load factor is scarcely analyzed in literature. The aim of this article is to investigate how actions in the area of packaging, loading and booking in the transport buyer's system affect load factor in the freight forwarder's system.

Research approach:
A case study has been performed, studying the outgoing goods flow from the central warehouse of a large retailer. The basis for the data collection has been interviews and transport data from internal statistics in both the transport buying company and the freight forwarder involved in operating the transports. A survey investigating load factor measures at the vehicles before departure to three of the districts are complementing the statistical data.

Findings and Originality:
Increased load factor are shown in both the transport buyer´s and freight forwarder's system although the freight forwarder is required to consolidate a larger goods flow in order to see positive effects on the vehicle as a whole. The up-to-date load factor observations show a high potential to increase the load factor by a increased consolidation rate in the freight forwarder's system as well as to work with offering differentiated lead times to the end customers in the transport buyer´s system. A framework describing how to increase load factor in the freight forwarder's system is presented consisting of load factor indicators, measures and interacting variables. In order to see the effect on traffic levels, changes in routing in the freight forwarder's system needs to be further investigated.

Research impact:
The framework is unique in that sense that it describes ways of increasing load factor from a more holistic way, three levels of load factor indicators are related to each other as well as including interactions with the transport buyer's system.

Practical impact:
In order to develop long-term strategies towards sustainable logistics, actors in the logistics system require knowledge about the complexity of the problem and the interdependencies of their actions. The mapping of actions and its effects shown in this paper is contributing to a more holistic view of the concept of load factor having a clearer connection to actors' environment and its contribution to a sustainable logistics system.


In order to simulate lines disconnection of long-span transmission tower-line system,this paper takes a tension segment(five-towers-four-lines) of 1 000 kV Jindongnan-Nanyang-Jingmen UHV transmission lines crossed the Yellow River for an example.ANSYS software is used to establish finite element model of tower-line system.And the structural analysis software ANSYS/LS-DYNA is applied to simulate the line disconnection impact process under conditions of 10 mm thickness icing and without icing.Then the axial force of corresponding position and displacement response of the transmission tower are extracted.The results show that the impact of icing lines disconnection on cross arm,ground wire stand and crank arm is large.Finally,it calculates the impact factor of the above locations.


Earlier and more accurate water supply forecasts for the Colorado River Basin (CRB) could help reduce uncertainty and risk when making decisions and lengthen lead time for planning more efficient and effective water supply strategies. The approach presented quantifies characteristic hydrograph responses to interannual variations in hydroclimatic conditions in snowmelt-dominated river systems. Results for the CRB indicate that beginning in fall (4-6 months prior to April forecasts), dif- ferences in timing, magnitude and form of seasonal hydrographs and amount of streamflow variability correlate closely with relative magnitude and timing of up- coming snowmelt runoff. These results suggest and recent advances in understanding effects of ocean/atmosphere interactions on precipitation in the CRB support, that es- sential hydroclimatic conditions that drive snowpack development and snowmelt es- tablish by fall and persist into spring. The use of teleconnections to develop charac- teristic streamflow responses in the CRB provides insight into atmosphere/land proc- esses that influence snowpack development and runoff characteristics.


Coupled multiple-tank systems are very important for a wide range of industrial applications due to their unique uses. However, the liquid level control for the coupled two-tank multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system is quite challenging because it has strong nonlinearity and coupling, and it is susceptible to multiple external disturbances. For this process, this paper proposes a novel anti-disturbance control strategy consisting on a nonlinear composite hierarchical anti-disturbance predictive control (CHADPC). First, a model-based explicit nonlinear model predictive controller (ENMPC) is designed assuming that all disturbances are measurable and its global exponential stability is proved. Then, a nonlinear disturbance observer (DO) is designed to estimate the lumped disturbances. The composite controller handling the estimated disturbances is then proposed. Finally, simulation and experimental tracking control tests under perturbations and comparisons with recently reported works have been carried out to highlight the promising performance of the proposed ENMPC and CHADPC schemes.


ABSTRACT Black Technical and Professional Communication is defined as "practices that are centered around Black community, culture, and rhetorical practices that are inherent in the Black lived experience. Black TPC is reflective of the cultural, economic, social, and political experiences of Black people across the Diaspora" (Black TPC Taskforce). This special issue emphasizes the importance of valuing Black TPC as fundamental to developing a comprehensive understanding of the technical and professional communication.


Young's double-slit experiment is one of the most historically significant works in physics, and one that is easily done in an introductory physics class. It is also an excellent example of an investigation that allows us to infer the nature of phenomena beyond direct observation. Unfortunately, perhaps because of this, it is often also an excellent example of the problem with canned cookbook labs. Students dutifully go through the physical motions of the investigation and can easily get good measurements. But actual intellectual engagement is missing. This paper details an instructional sequence that allows an authentic, student-centered approach to this historic investigation. Key to the approach is creating the context in which students can meaningfully devise an investigation into light's wave character.


A 46-year-old male rheumatic heart disease (RHD) patient with history of balloon mitral commissurotomy 10 years back presented in cardiac arrest. He was successfully resuscitated. He was in NYHA class IV dyspnea for the past 3 months. On the day of presentation, he had developed fever which precipitated acute breathlessness. On the way to hospital, he had developed cardiac arrest. Postresuscitation cardiovascular examination revealed soft S1 with loud pulmonary component of S2. Opening snap and mid-diastolic murmur was not appreciated. Grade 3/6 pan systolic murmur at left lower parasternal area was audible. He was in sinus rhythm transiently after resuscitation, but later developed atrial fibrillation. Two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiogram (Philips iE33, Eindhoven, The Netherlands) showed severely thickened and calcified mitral leaflets with restricted mobility and fused commissures (Figs. 1, 2, 3[arrow]; movie clip for Figs. 2 and 3). Critical mitral stenosis was noted with pinhole opening of the valve (movie clip for Fig. 2). The mitral valve orifice area by planimetry was 0.14 cm (Fig. 3B). Massachusetts General Hospital score for mitral valve morphology was 16 (maximum score). Mean pressure gradient across the valve was 14 mmHg (Fig. 4A). Left atrial (LA) volume was 57.86 mL/m. There was severe tricuspid valve and mild aortic valve regurgitation. Tricuspid regurgitation peak gradient was 56 mmHg (Fig. 4B), with inferior vena cava dilated and noncollapsing suggesting severe pulmonary hypertension. The left ventricular (LV) internal diameter was 3.4 cm in diastole and 2.3 cm in systole. Right ventricle was dilated measuring 3.6 cm in parasternal long-axis view. Three-dimensional echocardiography confirmed the critical nature of the stenosis both from LA


The utility model discloses a vertical cutting type pressure-bearing solar water heater. Wherein, the vertical cutting type pressure-bearing solar water heater comprises a heat collector and a storage water tank. Wherein, the inside of the storage water tank is provided with a heat exchanger which is formed by the tubular body through bending. One end of the heat exchanger is connected with a tap water inlet by sealing, and the tap water inlet is arranged on the lower part of the storage water tank; the other end of the heat exchanger is connected with a hot water outlet by sealing, and the hot water outlet is arranged on the upper part of the storage water tank. The tap water directly provides the hot water for bathing after flowing across the heat exchanger and being heated by the heat exchanger through adopting the water in the storage water tank as the heat conducting medium. Therefore, the utility model has the advantages of no scaling in the system, pure and fresh water quality, effective heat collection, low cost and easy use.


Through most of the last century, three endemic kilka species supported major commercial species in the Caspian Sea. It is clear that catches and abundance of all species have changed, but catch and sampling data are limited and stock assessments are inadequate. Recent changes in the Caspian Sea ecosystem have occurred as a consequence of climatic environmental change (sea level change) and ecologic change caused by the invasive ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi. This paper examines the effects of these changes on the population biology and biomass of anchovy kilka Clupeonella engrauliformis in Iranian waters of the Caspian of catch, length-weight relationship, von Bertalanffy growth parameters, condition factors, sex ratios, maturity stages determined from ovarian analysis, natural and fishing mortality, age at first capture, and spawning biomass. The instantaneous coefficient of natural mortality was estimated as 0.473/year and the instantaneous coefficient of fishing mortality varied during the 10-year period between 0.541 and 2.690/year. Biomass of anchovy kilka declined from about 186000 t in 1996 to less than 12000 t in 2004. Recent high fishing rates were not sustainable after the introduction of Mnemiopsis, so overfishing is part of the explanation for the collapse of anchovy kilka in the Caspian Sea.


Significance: The authors report the total syntheses of (+)-saxitoxin and several structural analogues including saxitoxinethanoic acid. These bisguanidinium natural products have been of high interest due to their extraordinary activity against voltage-gated sodium ion channels. Comment: Electrophilic aromatic substitution and rhodium-catalyzed oxidative cyclization yield tricyclic system E from simple starting materials. Clever application of an Evans–Mislow rearrangement gives access to advanced intermediate F that is used to complete the synthesis of both target structures. N NH


Background: Prostate cancer (pCa) is the most frequently diagnosed visceral cancer among men. The main role of radical prostatectomy and external-beam radiation therapy (EBRT) in the management of patients with localized pCa has been established. Objectives: This study aims at comparing the clinical outcomes of hypofractionated versus conventional EBRT in the definitive management of patients with localized pCa. Methods: From 2013 to 2019, a consecutive series of patients with localized pCa was treated with conventional (74 Gy at 2 Gy fractions) or hypofractionated (70.2 Gy at 2.7 Gy fractions) radiotherapy schedules, using 3-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3D-CRT) and intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), respectively. The impact of the fractionation schedule on biochemical or clinical relapse-free survival (bc-RFS) and overall survival (OS) was assessed. Results: The median follow-up was 42 months (range: 8 - 81 months). Among 170 patients, 81 were treated with conventional and 89 with the hypofractionated schedule. The patient characteristics between groups were comparable. The mean bc-RFS of patients in conventional and hypofractionated groups was 34.9 and 35.4 months, respectively (confidence interval (CI) 95%: 34.5 - 35.7, P = 0.25). Accordingly, the mean OS of patients in conventional and hypofractionated groups was 34.6 and 38.6 months, respectively (CI 95%: 37.3 - 38.6, P = 0.04). The sub-analysis showed that the OS benefit of hypofractionated schedule was limited to intermediate- and high-risk groups with a trend toward significance (CI 95%: 0.02 - 1.46, P = 0.054). Conclusions: Hypofractionation had OS benefit over the conventional schedule for definitive radiotherapy of localized pCa. This benefit was limited to patients with intermediate- and high-risk pCa.


A heat-damming compound profile for window or door frames or similar components in which there is provided two metal profile rods and an intermediate layer connecting these profile rods. The intermediate layer is composed of a profiled shape-retaining insulating strip. Each profile bar is provided with a forcible guide for the insulating strip and are connected by oppositely located lugs outside the insulating strip. Each lug is provided with a small continuous cam which is movable against a corresponding projection of the insulating strip. The invention also provides a method of making a heat-damming compound profile by pushing the insulating strip into the forcible guides and into the lateral pins of the profile bars, and exerting pressure from the exterior by means of rollers or pressure gliders upon the metallic lugs at simultaneous directed support of the profile bars at the sides opposite the lugs.


We have designed photonic crystal based bandpass filters whose characteristics are suitable for WDM communication system. The filters consist of coupled point defect resonators in two-dimensional photonic crystal. The frequency response of coupled resonators has been analyzed by the coupling of modes in time, from which the design parameters for the coupled resonator filters have been extracted. For the appropriate choice of the design parameters, each resonator is treated as a lumped L-C resonance circuit, and from the analogy between the equivalent circuit and the standard L-C filter circuits, the design parameters are simply determined from the table for general filter circuit design. Based on the determined design parameters, a photonic crystal based filter has been designed and its performance has been calculated using the finite-difference time-domain method. The designed filter shows a pass band of 50GHz and 0.5 dB in-band ripple, which is suitable for typical WDM communication systems with 100GHz channel spacing.


Rough set can be established on mutually-inversistic set theory constructed by the author, forming mutually-inversistic rough set. The main functionality of traditional rough set is to mine decision rules from lower approximations. From the point of view of mutually-inversistic rough set, it is to mine mutually inverse being contained connections from lower approximations. Mutually-inversistic rough set can also mine mutually inverse intersection connections from upper approximations. It can mine not only the strong mutually inverse intersection connections, but also weak mutually inverse intersection connections. It can also make chain reasoning on the mutually inverse intersection connections mined. Therefore, mutually-inversistic rough set excels traditional rough set in functionality.


A method for determining the quantum efficiency of a solar cell (11) having an active layer sequence (3) specified comprising the steps of: A) providing the active layer sequence (3) with at least one opto-electronically active layer (4, 5), having an absorption spectrum; B) performing a plurality of measurements of (in the opto-electronically active layer 4, photocurrents generated 5) in which - the photo-currents generated by light having mutually different illumination spectra in the plurality of measurements, - the mutually different illumination spectra differently weighted superposition of a plurality of individual spectra (50, 60) each having different characteristic wavelengths (51, 61), - individual spectra (50, 60) with adjacent characteristic wavelengths (51, 61) overlap, and - each of the different illumination spectra overlaps the absorption spectrum; C) determining the quantum efficiency of said plurality of photo currents and the corresponding weighted interference. Furthermore, an apparatus for determining the quantum efficiency of a solar cell (11) is specified.


The launch in May 2014 of the lecture series delivered by Visiting Professor Jean-Louis Cohen from New York University, opened a new chapter in the history of teaching at the College de France, namely that of the Pluri-Annual Visiting Professorships. The new system increases the College de France's freedom of action: it can now invite professors and ask them to teach for relatively long periods of time, even if they choose not to give up the permanent position they hold in another institution...


We build a two sector (agriculture and manufacturing) heterogenous agent model to analyze the effects of a food subsidy program on output and prices. The government may finance this subsidy by levying a distortionary income tax or a tax on manufacturing consumption. We find that in the long run the program increases the food output but lowers the manufacturing output, in both methods of its financing. While the price of food crop relative to the price of manufacturing good falls with subsidies in the income tax regime, the effect is opposite in the consumption tax regime. We also find that the food subsidy program may have long-run welfare gains for the two agents, but only for a certain range of subsidies. However, our simulations suggest that there is no subsidies which benefit both agents at the same time. Further, financing this program using an indirect consumption tax is a Pareto improvement over the direct income tax regime.


Pronatalist policy under Nicolae Ceausescu and the Orthodox Church have perpetuated a social climate in Romania in which family planning and contraceptive usage are taboo. Abortion is the most common method of birth control and condoms are expensive when available. The consistent and correct use of condoms has been demonstrated to largely prevent the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases like AIDS. The prurient attitude toward sexuality and contraception in Romania, however, combined with ignorance about AIDS and its prevention is fueling an impending epidemic of HIV infection and disease in the country. The Ministry of Health under the control of Health Minister Iulian Minu, former dictator Ceausescu's personal physician and creator of the Communist diet claiming meat and other foods in short supply to be unhealthy, is doing nothing to control the spread of HIV and AIDS. Funding for AIDS research ended in 1992 when Minu was appointed in a new government of nonreformers. Some say that government inaction against AIDS and its refusal to acknowledge the existence of a growing problem in Romania stem from the desire based in national pride to avoid worldwide scrutiny like that of 1990 about AIDS babies in the country. Many children with AIDS remain in inhuman conditions, even chained to cots in villages in Transylvania. Vertical transmission of HIV has appeared for the first time and youths aged 13-14 years are now falling ill from HIV-related diseases. Charges have also been leveled that national blood banks are contaminated with HIV and the Health Ministry has misused World Health Organization funds. Although the government claims that 2547 children and 189 adults were registered as having AIDS in the four years ending March 1994, more people are definitely infected in the country, but no one knows for sure how many.


Department of Surgery, University of the Witwatersrand was an acute focal but extensive myocarditis. Foci of inflammation were also found in the suprarenal and pleura. The other organs showed :marked congestion,' but no inflammation. In virus studies, a Coxsackie grQup-B type-4 virus was isolated from the faeces of one of the patients who recovered, but not (on one attempt) of the other. The same type of Coxsackie-B virus \Vas recovered from the faeces and from the caecal contents of the baby who died. Immunity studies were not done On the babies' blood, but tests on specimens of blood taken 3 months after the outbreak from the mothers concerned revealed that 2 of them had no antibodies. The mother who had antibodies had a febrile illness while in the maternity home soon before her baby became ill. It seems probable that this illness was caused by the same infection as later affected the babies. It is concluded that the cause of t.his outbreak was a Coxsackie group-B type-4 virus. Coxsackie group-B viruses thus far have been incriminated as the cause of pleurodynia or Bornholm disease, m.eningo-encephalitis and, as a result of the study of this episode and of a similar one in Johannesburg in 1952, of myocarditis in newborn babies, which may end fatally.


The formation of both [2]- and [7]pseudorotaxanes, which are obtained by mixing of a dibenzylammonium derivative with mono- and hexakis-adducts of [60]fullerene bearing malonato-benzo[25]crown-8 rings, has been monitored in dichloromethane by both 1D and 2D (1)H NMR spectroscopies.


Definition The indexing set of dimension p in a particular space; denoted by IP P is the set of all indexing points of p in that space. A spatial database allows for storing and retrieving spatial objects and consists of spatial relations which may contain spatial as well as non-spatial data. Spatial data can be points. lines, rectangles, surfaces. or more complex objects. Similar to other database systems. efficient query processing relies upon auxiliary data structures used to support spatial indexing of these objects. In this paper. we discuss how the SB+-tree can be used to process the spatial selection and join operations: PointContainment and Regions-Containment respectively.


Objective To Screen the strains with high chondroitinase-producing activity from soil,identify the active strain,optimize its fermentation conditions,and analyze the hydrolysates.Methods A highyielding chondroitinase strain was selected by rapid flat screening method and rescreening method.According to the morphological observation,and the analysis of 16SrRNA gene sequence,the strain was preliminarily identified to be Arthrobacter sp.The strain was optimized by single-factor and orthogonal experiments.The hydrolysates were detected by mass spectrometry.Conclusion Phylogenetic analysis based on 16SrDNA gene sequence showed that the strain LHYM225had a high homology with Arthrobacter sp.The strain LHYM225was identified as Arthrobacter sp..The optimal fermentation medium:chondroitin sulfate 0.8%,KH2 PO4 0.02%,yeast extract 0.6%,MgSO4 · 7H2 O 0.8%;the optimal fermentation conditions:temperature 25℃,initial pH6,inoculum concentration 1.5%,aeration culture for 72hwith reciprocation(150r/min).Maximal chondroitinase activity of strain LHYM225 was 3.981U/mL.The hydrolysates were mostly monosaccharides and disaccharides.


Synthesis of ioversol,a non-ionic x-ray contrast agent,was studied.In the study,5-amino-N,N'-bis (2,3-dihydroxypropyl) -2,4,6-triiodoisophthalamide(2) as raw material was reacted with chloroacetyl chloride in N,N'-dimethylacetamide and subsequently hydrolyzed in alkali aqueous medium to afford 5 -chloroacetamido-N,N'-bis(2,3 -dihydroxypropyl)-2,4,6-triiodoisophthalamide(3).The latter was reacted further with chlorohydrin to form 5-[(N-2-hydroxyethyl) chloroacetamido]-N,N'-bis (2,3-dihydroxypropyl) -2,4,6-triiodoisophthalamide(5).Without purification,the resulting solution was hydrolyzed to form ioversol(1).After recrystallization in 1-methoxy-2-propanol twice,its purity was over 99%(HPLC) with yield of 66.8%.


This work presents a speed sensorless permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drive for single-stage solar photovoltaic (PV) powered water pumping. The elimination of speed sensor reduces the system cost and improves the system robustness. The estimation of rotor speed and position is achieved through estimation of stator flux from voltage and current in stationary reference frame. Conventional maximum power point technique uses two sensors for PV array voltage and current sensing. In the presented work, an effort is made to eliminate the PV array current sensor without compromising the system performance. The proposed system is modelled and its performance is simulated in MATLAB/Simulink. The experimental performance is validated on a developed laboratory prototype using a digital signal processor (DS-1202). A comprehensive comparison is made to validate the significance of the proposed work.


Genetic diversity of 112individuals from 4 Cerasus discoidea populations was investigated using 15SSR markers.A total of 54alleles were amplified,and the mean number of alleles per locus was 3.6,the average of polymorphic locus percentage was 86.67%.The Nei's diversity index was 0.367 6~ 0.499 0and Shannon's diversity was 0.588 3~0.851 5.The AMOVA analysis showed that the majority of genetic variation occurred within populations(78%),and 22%occurred among the populations.The coefficient of genetic differentiation(Fst)and gene flow(Nm)were 0.264and 0.694 4,which indicated that the genetic differentiation was relatively evident,with fewness gene flow in Cerasus discoidea populations.The 4populations were divided into 2clades according to genetic distance.The possible formation of the middle level genetic diversity and the high genetic differentiation were discussed,and further strategies and suggestions for utilization and conservation of these resources were proposed.


We have recently demonstrated that Py/Nb bilayers patterned in a strip geometry can exhibit asymmetric transport properties and bistability. Here, with the help of numerical simulations in the framework of time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau model for superconductor and Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert model for ferromagnet, it is demonstrated that the asymmetric and bistable magnetotransport response of the bilayers can be accounted for by the stray fields from the patterned ferromagnetic layer. Numerical simulations on vortex dynamics show that in the dissipative branch of the bilayer a peculiar spontaneous channeled flux flow regime is realized, with alternating vortex and antivortex chains moving in the opposite directions in the superconducting layer.


Despite persistent record-breaking flood losses from tropical cyclones (TC), the U.S. continues to be inadequately prepared for these TC flood events, with the lack of residential flood insurance in place being a prime representation of this. One way to address this is through a better TC flood risk understanding of both the probability of the flood hazard (freshwater flooding and storm surge) as well as its expected damage impacts, facilitated by data analysis and dissemination. Here we analyze actual residential flood claim data from the National Flood Insurance Program for the full set of all 28 significant U.S. landfalling TC related flood events from 2001 to 2014 which we further split by storm-surge and freshwater. We illustrate key differences between the numbers of claims, paid claim amounts, and damage for freshwater and surge claims, as well as evaluate differences in flood claims and damage associated with flood zone, geography, TC event, and flood depth and duration. The findings provide important insights for flood loss and insurance considerations as well as for the mitigation and management of TC flood risk.


A refrigerating compressor control circuit installed in a (21) Appl. No.: 09/987,219 refrigerator and connected between AC power Supply and 1-1. the compressor motor of the refrigerator and adapted for (22) Filed: Nov. 14, 2001 controlling the operation of the compressor motor, the (51) Int. Cl. .............................. F25B 1/00; H02H 7/00 refrigerating compressor control circuit including a CPU (52) U.S. Cl. ............................................ 62/230; 361/22 (central processing unit), a current phase detector, a voltage (58) Field of Search ................................ 62/230, 228.1 phase detector, a trigger circuit having a TRIAC, a Voltage 62/228.3, 158; 361/22. 31 877s level detector, a high current detector, a low current detector, •-1s s s an input filter, and an output filter. The CPU starts the (56) References Cited compressor motor a length of time delay after a Sudden


The purpose of the study was to identify the effects of neck stabilization exercises on neck and shoulder muscle activation in individuals with forward head posture. Twenty-five healthy adults participated in the study. All subjects performed neck stabilization exercises using three methods. The types of exercise included craniocervical flexion (CCF) exercise, upper extremity and lower extremity cross exercise in a four-point kneeling posture with CCF, and gym ball exercise with CCF. Muscle activation was simultaneously assessed and recorded in the upper trapezius and splenius capitis muscles by using surface EMG. The EMG values were normalized into the variable of maximum voluntary isometric contraction (%MVIC). A paired t-test was used to compare the upper trapezius and splenius capitis muscle activation before and after the neck stabilization exercise. The results of this study showed that there were statistically significant differences in EMG activation between the two muscle groups (p<.05). These findings show that neck stabilization exercises improve unbalanced neck muscle activation and contribute to reducing neck pain.


We show that a general linear transformation from one single photon qudit to another, the dimension of which can be either equal or unequal to that of the first one, can be implemented by linear optics. As an application of the scheme we elaborate a method to deterministically realize any finite-element positive operator-valued measure on single photon signals, which is also generalizable to any quantum system in principle.


The Bayesian network, a powerful tool for predicting and diagnosing uncertain phenomena, is used in various fields including artificial intelligence, business administration, and medical science. We use a statistical approach, and present a simple algorithm for learning Bayesian network structure from data. First we obtain from data the original correlation graph and the correlation graphs when one or two variables are fixed. Then we construct a Bayesian network that would produce the most similar correlation graphs. Simulation results are given to demonstrate that the algorithm determines the network structure with a high accuracy.


Sexuality is a complex and multifaceted domain – encompassing bodily, contextual and subjective experiences that resist ready categorisation. To claim the sexual as a viable research object therefore raises a number of important methodological questions: what is it possible to know about experiences, practices and perceptions of sex and sexualities? What approaches might help or hinder our efforts to probe such experiences?


This study proposed the concept of management system as one of the variables that are considered to have an influence on the resulting performance of the company, meant that by applying the participatory management system, which is considered as the most ideal management system, the performance of the companies have a tendency to be better when compared to the company which implements a non participatory management system. This study has three main objectives, namely: (i) analyze the extent to which the implementation of the Management participatory system by a number of companies in the manufacturing sector, (ii) analyze the performance of a number of manufacturing companies ranging from 1998-2000, and (iii) analyze the influence that occurs between the implementation of management system to the company performance. Measurement tool for management system, implemented by the company, using a questionnaire "Profile of the Organizational Characteristic" developed by Rensis Likert (1986). Corporate performance measurement using two items of financial performance, namely Return on Investment (ROI) and Return on Equity (ROE) . These results indicate that : (i) only 7 % or 25 companies that implement participatory management system of the 28 sampled companies, (ii) the performance of the resulting company is generally very low, the average values for the ROI are -7.81 and ROE is -118.8 , (iii) there is no significant relationship between the application of the management system to company's performance, it can be known through the scale coefficient of determination (R2) of 0.109 or 10.9 % of ROI and 0.018 or 1.8 % for ROE.


The text of Thomas Tallis ' s seven-voice motet Suscipe quaeso Domine is not (as has previously been suggested) a liturgical collect or a piece of Marian Catholic pro paganda. It is taken from a devotional soliloquy by the early medieval churchman and polymath Isidore of Seville. This fact links it closely to Byrd ' s motet Tribue Domine, which appears near it in the 1575 Cantiones, quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur. In an era marked by escalating religious controversy, both composers chose to adorn their musical offering to Queen Elizabeth with large-scale settings of patristic or quasi-patristic texts, an implicit nod to the era of at least nominally undivided Christianity.


deterred from reminding the public of the criminal record long ago of a man who is sincerely trying to rehabilitate himself, it would, as Lord Radcliffe said in Plato, be outrageous that a person should recover damages for injury to character he is generally known not to possess, and a plaintiff who has only just started to serve one of the longest terms of imprisonment ever imposed in England, after a previous life of crime, would normally fall into the category his Lordship had in mind.


An interesting item in the above essay, published in the Journal for December, 1931, is the solution, given in Appendix II, of the determinantal equation ΔN=0, But before this equation is discussed a dynamical problem will be formulated in the solution of which a similar determinantal equation arises.


SINCE the advent of sulfonamides and the antibiotics of the past decade, the decrease in otorhinogenous intracranial complications has been remarkable. Despite this fact, however, reports of such complications are still appearing in the literature with fair regularity. The reasons for the continuation of these occasional complications are varied and speculative. Many authors believe that many otorhinogenous infections still must be treated with adequate surgical drainage in addition to sulfonamides or antibiotics to safeguard against intracranial complications. Maxwell1stated that common causes for failure in the treatment of the original infection are (1) starting the use of specific drugs too late; (2) inadequate therapy, either by too small amounts of chemotherapeutic agents or by timid and intermittent administration of these agents, and (3) use of nonspecific therapy, i. e., treating an infection with a nonspecific agent, emphasizing the need for routine cultures. RHINOGENOUS COMPLICATIONS Maxwell1stated that in


A modified orbit algorithm with sparse ground control points(only three points)for high accuracy geo-rectification of space-borne SAR image is proposed,which is based onrange-doppler position model and high precision orbit data of GPS.The algorithm decreasesthe number of ground control points through simplifying the orbit parameter model,so it canimprove the work efficiency on the basic of high accuracy correction.


The ZSM-5 and its larger single crystals were crystallized hydrothermally from Pr3N-SiO2-AS2O3-H2O-HF (Pr3N=tripropylamine) system.The scanning electron microscopy and electron probe microanalysis show that the morphology of ZSM-5 crystals was influenced by A! contents and the crystal nuclei were first produced from the gel enriched in silicon.Tripropylamine molecules in the protonated from are occuluded in the chanels.The numbers of organic template molecules per unit cell are 4.15.


From the context of the research on Upin and Ipin, there are many influences, starting from the moral message that educates students so that they are able to imitate the language contained in the film, namely Malay. The purpose of this study is to analyze the character values in Upin and Ipin's film Ikhlas from the heart. The type of research used is qualitative with a descriptive method. Methods of data collection is done by observation, interviews, questionnaires, and documentation. Checking the validity of the data is done by triangulation. The data analysis technique uses data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing/verification. The data presentation technique is presented in tabular form. Based on the results of data analysis in this study, it was found that the character values in each scene of the Upin and Ipin film were found. The character values found in Upin and Ipin's film "Ikhlas Dari Hati" include hard work, social care, curiosity, creativity, respect for achievement and communicative/friendly. The teacher can also explain the positive and negative impacts when watching the film and provide guidance on what character values can be imitated by students to practice the value of character education in everyday life.


When DL -cis-2-aminocyclohexantiol (ACT), vitamin K, merthio B/sub 1// sub 2/, adrenoohrome (AC-17), and neominophagen C were used after a whole-body single dose of 700 r, survival time was lengthened. A slight recovery from bony growth disturbance produced by 1000 r in young rats was observed after vitamin K and merthio B/sub 1//sub 2/ used alone, but AC-17 was not effective. ACT plus vitamin K and ACT plus merthio B/sub 1//sub 2/ were effective; however, the combined use of ACT and AC-17 was not as effective as AC-17 alone. The radiationprotective action was generally seen near the lethal dose of each agent. If less than the effective dose was administered, the effect was usually unfavorable, and no combined effect was demonstrable. (Absts. Japan. Med., 1: No. 7,


BOOK OVERVIEW Dancing on Our Bones explores the dynamic and complex relationship between South Africa and New Zealand from when their rugby teams first took the field in 1902, through the introduction of Apartheid, the development of the "no Maori, no tour" protest movement, the establishment of HART and CARE, the growing polarisation in New Zealand, the period of politics vs sport debate, the 1981 tour itself where New Zealanders squared off against each other, the aftermath of the tour and ends with the swearing in of Nelson Mandela as President and looking forward to a honourable relationship with South Africa. The book provides an insight into the inner workings of the HART movement and how a group of dedicated individuals significantly influenced New Zealand history.


The authors contend that the current, popular view of the quality of life neglects to consider the reciprocal relationship between persons and their environments. This ecological view is presented conceptually by summarizing two analyses of data on the daily functional performance of 15 spinal cord-injured patients during hospitalization. The first analysis reveals various dimensions of the patients' behavior during the entire period of their hospitalization . Such behavioral vital signs represent the minimum requirements for measuring quality of life . In the second analysis, the data on performance in the hospital were used to predict patient functioning after discharge into the communty. An extremely high level of predictive validity was found. The authors conclude that to obtain an accurate indication of the quality Of life, the measurements must include quantitative indices of what persons do and where, how, and with whom they do it . This approach is important to rehabilitation, for it , relates to one of its important goals—that of reintegrating disabled persons into society and enhancing the quality of life therein.


According to this industrial process, tailings are mixed with water. The sludge obtained is then separated in a ball mill, before undergoing 2 successive steps of cyanide leaching (known as cyanidation) and carbon leaching. The residue (water plus leachates) is then pumped, transported by a 7-km long pipe and stored in a 96-ha capacity sedimentation basin fitted with a plastic membrane to prevent leakage. The basin was surrounded by an interior dyke as well as a lower exterior dyke. The interior structure was


To the Editor: Paul et al. should be congratulated for examining the body of evidence on the comparison of patient-controlled analgesia opioid or epidural analgesia with femoral nerve blockade for analgesia after a common operation, total knee arthroplasty. A meta-analysis, by pooling and analyzing statistically the results from several combinable studies, can increase the statistical power to detect small but clinically important treatment harms and effects. Paul et al. clearly demonstrated that femoral nerve blockade improved analgesia and reduced opioid consumption compared with intravenous patient-controlled analgesia techniques. The quality of the systematic review performed by Paul et al. is high, as evidenced by the comprehensive and systematic search of the literature and explanation of statistical tests and models used for their analyses. Furthermore, the authors (and the accompanying editorial) clearly emphasize the limitations of their meta-analysis regarding comparison of single shot femoral nerve blockade (SSFNB) with continuous femoral nerve block, including that:


Vertical axis turbine is one of the tools used to extract tidal current energy. The purpose of this study is to show the effect of diagonal layout on the efficiency of vertical axis tidal turbine (VATT), using commercial software ANSYS CFX. For this purpose the angle between the incoming current flows is varied while the distance between the turbines is kept constant. The layout is observed at an angle of 200, 300, 450, 600 and 900. From study we observed that when the twin turbines are at angle of 900 to the incoming flow, the turbines have maximum efficiency.


If they are given support in their work environments, these well-prepared hybrid clinician-managers will span the boundaries between clinicians of all types, managers at all levels and those being served (patients, politicians and a variety of patient representatives). Qualified by disposition and education, these leaders will carry and translate complex messages across the many internal boundaries within organisations so that constructive debate occurs, new work processes develop and desired changes become efficiently integrated into the daily life of the organisation. Without such talented and respected individuals being able to perform their roles, change either will not occur or it will remain unnecessarily disruptive and painful. Over the past two decades in the USA some of these boundary spanning roles have changed dramatically and they continue to evolve.P Two decades ago the clinical director carried as heavy a clinical load as anyone on the service. Further, where decisions regarding matters of organisational change and system-wide leadership were involved, most clinical directors dealt with such matters as hurriedly and superficially as possible to allow themselves a prompt return to direct patient care. A clinician attracted to dividing his or her time between clinical practice and addressing organisational needs was, more often than not, assumed by colleagues to be inadequate as a competent energetic clinician. And there were cases where this was true. Today, clinicians with first-rate clinical skills are eager to develop their skills as effective managers. They are respected for their efforts to broaden their knowledge and their leadership skills. Clinical director roles are increasingly filled by clinicians who are educationally prepared for such roles. Such women and men are heavily recruited in comparison to those without such education. Some who sought an advanced degree in business administration abandoned their clinical lives for the world of business. However, even from beyond the direct delivery system many continue to play valuable roles as managers, drawing upon their past clinical expertise.!" To support financially this three-pronged strategy will be inexpensive in comparison with not doing so. Creating the programme will present a challenge well worth the investment. Indeed, the future of health services rides on it. Don Detmer Dennis Gillings Professor of Health Management The Judge Institute of Management University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 lAG, UK


The eye is the most important sensory organ of vision function. But some eye diseases can lead to vision loss, so it is important to identify and treat eye disease as early as possible. Eye care professionals can help protect their patients from vision loss or blindness by recognizing common eye diseases and recommending for an eye exam. Eye diseases with early detection, treatment, and appropriate follow-up care, vision loss, and blindness from eye disease can be prevented or delayed. In this study, rule-based eye disease identification and advising the knowledge-based system are projected. The projected system is targeting using hidden knowledge extracted by employing the extraction algorithm of data mining. To identify the best prediction model for the diagnosis of eye disease, four experiments for four classification algorithms were performed. Finally, the researchers decided to use the rules of the J48 pruned classification algorithm for further use in the development of a knowledge base of KBS because it exhibited better performance with a 98.5% evaluation result.


The paper presents an experimental research on the calculating method of the bearing capacity of normal cross-section,for steel reinforced concrete(SRC)irregularly-shaped columns.Based on plane assumption,the simple tangent stiffness matrix formulation of a cross-section is gained,for SRC irregularly-shaped columns under Bi-eccentric Bending and Compression.The simple tangent stiffness matrix formulation is used to calculate the stiffness of shaped steel and concrete.The arc-length is used to solve nonlinear equations set in order to trace the down part of the curve.Then the numerical analysis program is developed.Some cross-sections of SRC irregularly-shaped columns are traced in full load path;and the theoretical results correspond very well with other existing experimental data.This shows that the method in this paper is feasible.The normal cross-section bearing capacity of SRC irregularly-shaped columns is larger than that of RC irregularly-shaped columns.The conclusion is that the calculating method may be used to calculate the bearing capacity and analyse the mechanical performance for SRC irregularly-shaped columns.


Attention is drawn to the test carried out by the British College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (Jouirnal, February 8, 1936, p. 273), in which it was stated that gas and air administered by the Minnitt apparatus was a safe and satisfactory method. At the same time menticn was made of the expensiveneses of the nitrous oxide. Thne figures at Wellhouse, however, do not seem to be very formidable. The total cost for gas to the maternity unit over th_ investigation lasting nearly three years was £117, working out at 2s. 3d. per case. The value of the method in hospital use having been established, the question now arises as to its applicability to the large number of women attended by midwives in their own homes. Dr. Elam mentions a machine made by the Dental Manufacturing Company specially for Wellhouse, described with illustrations in the Journal of September 26, 1936 (p. 630). This is a portable machine in the sense that, complete with gas cylinders, it weighs only 201b., and can be easily attached to the handle-bars of the midwife's bicycle. Dr. Elam expresses the hope that finality has not been reached. Further work has yet to be done in providing some sedative drug for giving relief in the early stage of labour and to eliminate the causes of failure to obtain adequate relief in the second stage.


This paper investigates the university-industry interaction and its effect on the likelihood of product and process innovation, in a developing country. We a...


The ferroelectric plasma thruster (FEPT) is being developed for use in micro-spacecraft propulsion, large scale structure vibration damping, and proximity operations. An advantage of the FEPT over other thruster technologies such as colloid and field emission electric propulsion (FEEP) thrusters is that the FEPT operates with a single power supply. Additionally it is believed that the FEPT is self-neutralizing since both electrons and ions are accelerated to produce thrust. In order to test the self-neutralization capabilities of the FEPT, it must be operated with a power supply that is isolated from the ground of the vacuum chamber wall. Presented is the design of an isolated power supply to test the self-neutralization of the FEPT operating in a vacuum chamber.


This article proposes to characterize the situation of Afro-Colombian immigrant families, with emphasis on women living in the Region of Antofagasta, Chile. A mixed methodology was used, with interviews, conversation groups, and surveys of groups of men and women born in Colombia who have settled in Chile. It was sought to describe their experiences in two contexts: the first, from outside in, as a context of emigration from Colombia, and the second, the current context of immigration in Chile. The principal findings include a description of what the displacement means for the women based on their motivations to migrate and the relevant experiences they had in accessing Chilean territory and in the normalization of their migratory status. Transversally, the authors observed whether or not their basic, social, and economic rights were prevalent and the constant impact that the contextual and ethnic systems that affect them had on the immigrant women.


The digital forms of art are a type that includes work of art that was created with the new means of technology, including the digital art, the graphic depictions, the virual art, the art of internet, the interactive technologies and other means that are differentiated permanently. For this reason, it is necessary, that Art, as instructive object to be coordinated with the demands of modern art and offer to the students the necessary knowledge and dexterities in order that they create modern work of art. Is however the Greek educational system and more concretely the teachers of Art ready for such an undertaking. What they are afraid also what are theyexpecting from the responsible institutions... Can individual initiatives and pilot programms find wider application in the teaching of figurative education...


Since its inception in 1970, the use of RICO in civil actions has exploded. The popularity of RICO among plaintiffs can be traced to its generous remedies, which provide for treble damages as well as attorneys' fees and costs. Franchisees have recognized the potential recovery allowed by the stat? ute and, accordingly, have used it in litigation against their franchisors in a wide range of contexts. The opposite can also hold true?RICO can be just as powerful a weapon for franchisors in dealing with franchisees that have wrongfully disrupted the franchise system. For the most part, however, franchisors have neglected to use RICO to their advantage.


Russian Federation SDG Region: Northern America and Europe GNI per capita, PPP (2021) $ 32000 ‐ Middle income (July 2022) Poverty headcount ratio at $3.65 a day (2015) 0.4 % (2011 PPP) Poverty headcount ratio at $3.65 a day (2016) 0.4 % (2011 PPP) Poverty headcount ratio at $3.65 a day (2017) 0.4 % (2011 PPP) Population, total (2017) 144.5 millions * Key statistics from the World Bank. Flag from flagpedia.net International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED):


SUMMARY L-Amino acid esters, such as L-Leu-OMe, kill Leishmania amazonensis amastigotes by a mechanism which appears to involve ester hydrolysis by cysteine proteinases located in the parasite megasomes. We have examined the killing of isolated amastigotes by L-dipeptide esters and derived some structure-activity correlations. Toxicity of the compounds for the parasites was measured by a tetrazolium (MTT) reduction assay. The results show that active dipeptide esters contained at least I hydrophobic amino acid (Leu, Ile, Val, Phe or Trp). The activity of homodipeptide methyl esters depended on the nature of the amino acid, as indicated by the following series: Phe-Phe-OMe < Val-Val-OMe < Leu-Leu-OMe < Trp-Trp-OMe < Ile-Ile-OMe. The nature of the amino acids in Leu-X-OMe and X-Leu-OMe was relatively unimportant when X was Phe, Trp or Val. However, when X was Ala or Gly, Leu-X-OMe was several-fold more active than X-Leu-OMe.


Report presenting a flight investigation of a rocket-launched ram-jet engine incorporating an end-burning solid fuel. Results regarding acceleration, altitude, booster separation, survival time of booster adapter, and air specific impulse are provided.


Elemental analysis, and in particular stratigraphic distribution of elements themselves, is a fundamental method to address the composition of materials, but its nature, often invasive, crashes with the necessity of avoiding artefacts' damage when dealing with Cultural Heritage objects. In fact, when work of art are involved, sampling is often forbidden, and transferring an artistic artefact to equipped laboratories is a not negligible issue. The skill to employ in situ non-destructive and non-invasive analytical method is essential. In this scenario, portable X-ray fluorescence (p-XRF) has become one of the most employed techniques due to the development of adaptable and open architecture instruments. In this paper, we show a new data analysis protocol and its application to XRF data acquired from awork by Giotto never studied before: 'God the Father with Angels' (ca. 1330, San Diego Museum of Art). The measurements have been performed in situ during the closing time of the exhibition 'Giotto, l'Italia' (Milano Palazzo Reale – 2 September 2015/10 January 2016). Combining the effectiveness of scanning p-XRF with the responsive of image spectroscopic analysis, we move step by step toward the discovery of Giotto's palette for the flesh tones in God the Father with Angels; ourmethod allows to argue the stratigraphy of the paintingwithout complementarymeasurements and, at the same time, provides a sequential and smart representation of complex data. Copyright© 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


The technology of friction-stir welding of dissimilar materials of copper (T2) and brass (H62) was investigated. The mechanical characteristics, microstructure and formation of the weld between plates with different thickness were analyzed after welding test with different technological parameters. Meanwhile, the distribution of the two dissimilar metals in the weld and their phase composition in the interface were also analysed in microscopic view. The test showed that sound microstructures and properties of weld could be successfully achieved with proper welding parameters, and the transitional substance with 1~10 μm width took shape in the interfacial region near the weld. It was also discovered that the micro-hardness and mechanical properties were between that of copper and brass.


The paper discusses sustainable development of regional economy,improving clean production,strengthening environmental management of enterprises,utilizing natural resources reasonable and promoting coordinated development of human and environment on the basis of implementation of the scientific concept of development.


Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) patients exhibit signs of memory impairments even when seizures are pharmacologically controlled. Surprisingly, the underlying molecular mechanisms involved in TLE‐associated memory impairments remain elusive. Memory consolidation requires epigenetic transcriptional regulation of genes in the hippocampus; therefore, we aimed to determine how epigenetic DNA methylation mechanisms affect learning‐induced transcription of memory‐permissive genes in the epileptic hippocampus.


Chlorophyll content plays an important role in the growth of crop. Chlorophyll content of crop not only shows the situation of crop growth but also has important significance in disease diagnosis. By using hyperspectral imaging technology, chlorophyll content can be diagnosed non-destructively. Before the correlation analysis, the experiment gets the SPAD values and vegetation indexes. The result shows that VOG1 quadratic model has the best performance (R2=0.83 and RMSE=2.68). After using the best model for each pixel of the image, we can get a grayscale image, on which each pixel value is the SPAD value of this point. Then grayscale image is changed into pseudo-color image. As can be seen from the image, both from the veins to the mesophyll and from the bottom to the top, chlorophyll content is increased gradually. The study can provide the rape researchers with more information and a new thinking of rape studies.


Objective To investigate the relationship between the serum levels of hepatocyte growth factor(HGF)and clinicopathological characteristics of breast cancer.Methods The serum HGF levels of 100 patients with breast cancer were measured by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay before treatment and the relationship between changes in serum HGF levels and age,expressions of estradiol receptor,tumor size,histologic grade,lymphonodus metastasis and TNM stage were analyzed.Results The serum HGF levels were significantly correlated with lymphonodus metastasis,histologic grade and TNM stage(P0.05),but it was insignificantly correlated with ages,tumor size and ER state(P0.05).Conclusion The serum HGF may play an important role in the carcinogenesis and progression of the breast cancer,and HGF may be an independent markers of prognosis.


We provide an overview of hurricane disturbance regimes in the north-eastern United States and the Caribbean, with a focus on ecological effects on temperate and tropical forests. Hurricanes in tropical regions occur with a higher frequency and reach higher intensity levels than in temperate regions. Slower movement of hurricanes in the tropics exposes forests to longer periods of damaging winds from a broader range of wind directions. At the regional to landscape level we are applying models of hurricane meteorology and topographic exposure to reconstruct wind conditions during historically important storms in order to compare these results with observations of forest damage, and to test two hypotheses: (1) regional gradients of hurricane frequency and intensity result from prevailing hurricane tracks and the configuration of coastlines and mountain ranges and (2) landscape gradients in wind exposure result from the interaction of peak wind directions and local topography. At the community level damage is controlled by windspeed, vegetation structure and composition, and site conditions. Damage patterns strongly control subsequent vegetation dynamics: (1) differential species damage determines the initial composition and structure of the vegetation, (2) leaf area establishment is controlled by damage type and forest composition, and (3) microenvironmental conditions and resource distribution are determined by the spatial pattern of residual vegetation. Field studies underline the offentimes low rate of initial mortality following catastrophic storms and the importance of releafing and sprouting in vegetation development. Changes in key ecosystem processes are often slight following even major hurricanes. Studies in Puerto Rico and New England document that nutrient retention was high, nutrient losses were minimal, soil moisture changed little, and minor changes in trace gas fluxes returned rapidly to pre-disturbance


Hydroxyapatite and Bioglass® are two well-known biomaterials, belonging to the vast class of ceramic supplies, both highly biocompatible and widely applied in the biomedical field. In spite of a huge research regarding engineering applications of both inorganic materials, still many aspects of their tissue integration mechanism have not been completely cleared at a molecular level. Thus, in silico studies play a fundamental role in the prediction and analysis of the main interactions occurring at the surface of these biomaterials in contact with the biological fluid when incorporated in the living tissue (prevalently bones or teeth). Hydroxyapatite [HA, Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2] owes its relevance and use as a biomaterial since it constitutes the majority of the mineral phase of bones and tooth enamel in mammalians (Young & Brown, 1982). For sake of completeness, we mention that hydroxyapatite is also studied as an environmental adsorbent of metals and a catalyst (Matsumura & Moffat, 1996; Toulhat et al., 1996). One of the first applications of HA in biomedicine dates back to 1969, when Levitt et al. hot-pressed it in powders for biological experimentations (Levitt et al., 1969). From then on, several commercial forms of HA have appeared on the market. The material has also been utilized for preparing apatitic bioceramic, due to its bioresorbability which can be modulated changing the degree of cristallinity. There are so many examples of applications, from Mg2+-substituted hydroxyapatite (Roveri & Palazzo, 2006) to the synthesis of porous hydroxyapatite materials by colloidal processing (Tadic et al., 2004), starch consolidation (Rodriguez-Lorenzo et al., 2002), gel casting (Padilla et al., 2002) and more. Furthermore, recent applications follow a biologically inspired criterion to combine HA to a collagen matrix aiming at the improvement of mechanical properties and bioactivity (Wahl et al., 2007). However, a complete review of all the practical as well as hypothetical uses of HA in the biomaterial area is outside the scope of this Chapter. Inside the bone, a highly hierarchical collagen-mineral composite, hydroxyapatite is in the form of nano-sized mineral platelets (Currey, 1998; Fratzl et al., 2004; Weiner & Wagner, 1998) and contains carbonate ions for the 4-8 weight % (Roveri & Palazzo, 2006). In section 2.1 of this Chapter, two aspects of defects which can be encountered in a synthetic or natural HA sample will be presented. The first aspect deals with non-stoichiometric surfaces and


For little over a century, the American region of Appalachia was an internal mineral colony of the United States. This internal colonization produced innumerable negative environmental and economic effects, as well as – most insidious of all – the constructed stereotype of the Hillbilly that even in the Twenty-First Century refuses to die. Yet part and parcel of that same stereotype is something found all over Appalachia, representing a freedom, an identity, and an heritage so long denied to Appalachia and the Appalachian people on its own terms: moonshine, the colorless, unaged corn whiskey long produced both in Appalachia and its Celtic cultural antecedents in Europe. I use the pioneering work of Ronald D. Eller and Helen Matthews Lewis for the muchneeded re-identification of Appalachia from the American Civil War onward to the 1960s as an internal mineral colony, the theoretical framework laid out by Étienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein's joint theories on core-periphery relations, and some theories on the latter's reversal by the tourism industry in the work of Dean MacCannell. However, with them, I go further: in the contemporary day and age, most if not all of the challenges Appalachia presently faces is due to it falling away from colonization and having entered into a postcolonial state, and that only a newfound rootedness in the facets of traditional culture can assuage, and perhaps reverse it. I draw upon the cultural, social, and economic history of the home distilling of corn liquor – moonshine and moonshining. I show that, although found outside of the Appalachian region, moonshining should be best understood to be most closely associated with Appalachia and the Appalachian people. Further, I deconstruct, at least partially, the Hillbilly stereotype and show that part of its makeup – the making and drinking of moonshine – should instead be understood as a component of Appalachian culture and heritage.


This paper will explore Peter Weir's critically and popularly acclaimed Gallipoli (1981) as an expression of an Australian civil religion. Whilst many nations and cultures have produced films conveying religious themes, exploring them in an Australian film should expose elements that are either uniquely Australian and/or demonstrate how they are affected in a peculiarly Australian way. Gallipoli is the story of Australia's foundation myth portrayed through the experiences of two young Australians, Archy Hamilton (Mark Lee) and Frank Dunne (Mel Gibson), who enlist to fight for their country in the Great War. Whilst Gallipoli is primarily historical and nationalist, it also contains Christian elements of sacrifice and redemption, along with connotations of classic mythology, and devotional expressions of mateship and patriotism. It follows that the key to identifying Australian aspects of religious expression is to discover how Weir uses these expressions to act upon the national psyche. Accordingly, this essay explores the religious and spiritual expressions in Gallipoli and evaluates them in context to Australian national identity and the notion of an Australian civil religion and concludes that Gallipoli is, of itself, an expression of an Australian civil religion.


Seismic exploration and other imaging configurations are typically characterized by large data sets corresponding to response recordings at a set of receiver locations for the source at each of a large number of source points. Recording, storing and processing such large data sets is very resource demanding. In this paper we discuss an approach where we can reduce this work significantly without compromising imaging quality. The approach involves sounding all the sources simultaneously. We show using high-frequency asymptotics that common imaging functionals are not affected by this as long as the sources satisfy certain scaling assumptions. We refer to the approach as noise blending in the sense that the sources are blended in a particular "noisy" way so that cross-talk terms that otherwise could impede image quality with simultaneous sources are small. A significant aspect of our analysis is that we prove that the scheme is statistically stable with respect to the realization of the noise blending. We illustrate our results with numerical examples.


Objective To investigate the status of psychophysical diseases and their associated factors among elementary school teachers.Methods The checklist of psychophysical diseases and the self-designed background information questionnaire were used to investigate the elementary school teachers in Hefei City.Results 55 percent of the elementary school teachers in Hefei City suffered from psychophysical diseases that had a positive-correlation of work pressure and sleep.Conclusion There was a high incidence rate of psychophysical diseases among the elementary school teachers in Hefei City.


We test the structuralist hypothesis that industrialization is growth enhancing due to inherent dynamic efficiences of externalities. We used four data sets ranging over different country samples and in all cases found industry's contribution to economic growth significantly exceeded its share in GDP. Furthermore, we found our estimates to be robust in each case.


We present preliminary work on "change knowledge" through a study investigating what exemplar "changemakers" understand about the process of undergraduate STEM education transformation.


In this paper, using a generalized Jacobi-Dunkl translation operator, we prove an analog of Titchmarsh's theorem  for functions satisfying the Jacobi-Dunkl Lipschitz  condition in $ L^{2}(\R,A_{\alpha ,\beta}(t)dt), \alpha \geq \beta\geq-\frac{1}{2}, \alpha \neq -\frac{1}{2}.$


━━ Background. In mesothelioma, there are no clinically specific tumor markers, and it is difficult to evaluate an effective therapy from serum markers. Case. A 64-year old man presenting with general malaise and abdominal distension was admitted for observation showed elevated serum CRP, and ascites recognized by abdominal ultrasonography. The patient showed continuing high fever, and high levels of WBC and CRP, and was scheduled for diagnostic laparoscopy. A laparoscopic examination revealed a peritoneal tumor, and epithelial mesothelioma was observed histopathologically from the biopsy finding. This case was diagnosed as malignant thoracoabdominal mesothelioma, because thoracoabdominal enhanced CT showed abdominal mass, ascites, dif-fuse peritoneal thickening of 30-50 mm, and abnormal pleural thickening along the diaphragm. The antitumor drugs, pemetrexed and cisplatin were prescribed and while effective in reducing the volume of ascites, showed no effect on the thoracoabdominal thickening. Serum IL-6 level was high, and IL-6 antibody staining was positive. An IL-6-producing tumor was diagnosed and IL-6 production was thought to be accompanied by the onset of leukocy-tosis, thrombocytosis, elevated CRP levels, and fever. STAT3 antibody staining was positive, indicating the JAK-STAT pathway. Conclusion. The serum IL-6 level in this case was considered reflective of therapeutic efficacy.


Income smoothing practices is a common phenomenon and is one of the earnings  management  that  is  defined  as  a  reduction  in  income  likely  fluctuations from year to year by moving income from year to year high earnings to periods that  are  less  favorable.  This  study  aimed  to  examine  the  influence  of  NPM,  ROA, firm  size  and  financial  leverage  on  the  income  smoothing  on  companies  listed  in the  Indonesia  Stock  Exchange.  This  study  uses  Eckel  index  to  classify  companies that  do  or  do  not  do  income  smoothing  practices.  The  sample  used  in  this  study were  68  companies  listed  on  the  Stock  Exchange  within  three  years  from  2012  to 2014 with the selection purposive sampling method. The statistical analysis used in this study with descriptive statistics and logistic regression results from Eckel index menunjukkanadanya income smoothing practices undertaken by companies listed on the Stock Exchange. In the multivariate analysis of the four independent variables, it turns out all the variables significantly influence income smoothing practices.


The article defines the legal mechanism of access to justice in martial law. The first part analyzes the problems with access to justice related to the introduction of martial law. The second part deals with the use of electronic means to ensure access to administrative justice. The third part reveals the role of administrative justice in ensuring human rights and freedoms in martial law. It is concluded that with the introduction of martial law the right to judicial protection cannot be limited, and the state has a positive obligation to provide the widest possible access to justice, in particular through electronic document management and video conferencing with the authorization of participants with an electronic signature. The introduction of elements of e-government better ensures the activities of administrative jurisdiction, because with the proper authorization of the participants in the process, allows for a court hearing by videoconference. Also, the improvement of access to administrative proceedings is facilitated by the provision of electronic document management, in particular the execution of case materials in electronic format, which is allowed by the current Code of Administrative Procedure of Ukraine. Analysis of the peculiarities of administrative courts in martial law shows that administrative proceedings are possible by videoconference, the participation of judges remotely in court is carried out in exceptional cases where there are real and insurmountable obstacles to access to the workplace. Under martial law, it is possible to move a court to another location in connection with hostilities or the temporary occupation of the territory in order to ensure the continuity of justice, including the security of judges.


Changes in the economic and political climate have resulted in income generation becoming increasingly important for cultural organisations and one method of achieving this is to develop closer relationships with individuals, for example, members. Friends' schemes (also known as membership schemes, societies and organisations) exist in a variety of formats and provide organisations with a range of benefits in addition to their income-generation potential. These include advocacy, influence and a stable volunteer base. This paper makes a contribution in three areas of cultural management: it presents the findings of a study of friends' schemes within large museums and galleries in London and identifies distinctive typologies of scheme; creates a framework that practitioners can use as a diagnostic tool to analyse their own scheme; and finally, provides strategic direction to assist in the evolution of membership schemes.


Alice Springs traditional owners are voicing their anger about the disconnection of water to Whitegate but a sustainable solution seems out of reach.


Title: Discerning competence within a teaching profession Language: English Master thesis: 40 hp/ects Program: EMEC; European Master in Early Childhood Education and Care Level: Advanced level Term/year: Spring term 2009 Supervisor: Niklas Pramling Examiner: Biorn Hasselgren Report no: VT09-2611-02 Master