The invention relates to a device (1) for multiple electrical connection, comprising: - a base (13) adapted to cooperate removably with a base (2); and - an upper portion (11) having at least one socket (111, 113) for electrical connection, said device being characterized in that - the base (13) includes contacts (131) Electrical adapted to electrically cooperate removably with connectors (22) Control of the base (2), the magnetic body (131) adapted to magnetically cooperate with the body (22) magnetic the base (2), the removable magnetic cooperation of the body allowing the removable electrical engagement of the contacts and connectors. The present invention also relates to a corresponding base, and the assembly formed by the device and the aforesaid base.


Negative consumer behavior is an important research topic as it explores consumer behaviors that threaten a brand's image and financial stability. However, prior research offers conflicting findings on whether a strong consumer-brand relationship hurts or protects a brand following a market disruption or brand transgression. In order to offer clarity to this issue, this work argues that disrupting the consumer-activity relationship motivates consumers to re-affirm and protect their identity thereby leading to negative consumer behavior. The data reveal that, following a brand initiated market disruption, consumers with high activity identity fusion are more likely to spread negative word-of-mouth, boycott the brand, and avoid repurchasing the brand in the future. Moreover, the data suggest that high brand identity fusion protects the brand during market disruptions; therefore, prior conflicting results may be due to the fact that the consumer-activity relationship was not accounted for. Theoretically, this work establishes that a consumer's relationship with their consumption activities has significant impacts on consumer behavior. Brand managers and marketers are urged to develop strategies that focus on strengthening the consumer-brand relationship and not the consumer-activity relationship.


Objective of this research; 1) determine the perception of ranchers against the properties and behavior of the leadership of the companion in the Society of Al-Awwaliyah 2) analyze the relationship between productivity breeder with productivity of livestock in the Society of Al-Awwaliyah 3) identify the relationship perceptions of ranchers against the leadership companion with productivity of livestock in the Society of Al-Awwaliyah , The data used in this study are primary and secondary data. Primary data were obtained from questionnaires which stem from ranchers while secondary data sourced from literature in the form of books and articles. Data processing was performed using Chi-square analysis using SPSS software version 21. One of the factors relating to the productivity of ranchers is the perception of ranchers against the leadership of their companion. Leadership companion views of the nature and behavior of which is owned by a companion. Productivity ranchers indirectly related to the productivity of the cattle business. Characteristics breeder visits of age, years of education, experience ranchers, and businesses in addition to ranchers. The results of data analysis showed that there is a significant relationship between business other than ranchers with ranchers productivity. The relationship between the perception of the nature of the companion breeder with productivity ranchers produce Pearson Chi-Square value is 9.751 and Asymp. Sig. (2-sided) of 0.002. This is due to interest ranchers against leadership qualities possessed by a companion who produce prolific ranchers. Ranchers consider that a companion of his leadership qualities are ideal as a companion.


The purpose of this study was to train a paraprofessional to implement the Direct Instruction (DI) Spelling Mastery (Dixon, Engelmann, & Bauer, 1990a, 1990b) program and to investigate the effectiveness of the instruction delivered by the paraprofessional for students with learning disabilities. We investigated (a) the extent to which the paraprofessional could be trained effectively and efficiently to implement Spelling Mastery, (b) the effectiveness of the program for students with learning disabilities when instruction is delivered by a paraprofessional, and (c) the extent to which the students with learning disabilities maintained and generalized spelling skills. Results indicate that the paraprofessional was trained efficiently and effectively. The students learned and maintained spelling skills that they generalized to unpracticed words. In order to ensure sufficient training in instructional delivery, Darch, Gersten, and Taylor (1987) suggested that when designing training programs for staff personnel, one should consider the specific requirements of the classroom so that training is functional and efficient. In addition, one should target teaching behaviors that are clearly defined, easily learned, easily implemented in the classroom situation, and unquestionably related to classroom performance (Darch et al., 1987). This same model of teacher training should be accessible to paraprofessionals. According to Giangreco, Edelman, Broer, and Doyle (2001), appropriate training of paraprofessionals should not be optional but should be required of school districts as mandated in the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA 1997). Characteristics of effective staff training programs include (a) performance-based training, (b) efficiency of training, (c) effectiveness of training, and (d) buy-in from the staff (Reid, Parsons, & Green, 1996). Characteristics of effective instruction include (a) explicit teacher direction, (b) learning strategies based on rules, and (c) sequential introduction of skills (Engelmann & Carnine, 1991). By training paraprofessionals through research-validated steps and training them in research-validated practices, paraprofessionals can provide more effective academic instruction. Students With Learning Disabilities and Spelling Deficits The ability to spell correctly is critical for success in educational activities (Bos & Vaughn, 1997; Mercer & Mercer, 1998). Limited spelling skills can influence a student's capacJournal of Direct Instruction 153 Training a Paraprofessional to Implement Spelling Mastery and Examining Its Effectiveness for Students With Learning Disabilities Journal of Direct Instruction, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 153–172. Address correspondence to Laura D. Fredrick at email@example.com SHERIE H. OWENS, LAURA D. FREDRICK, and MARGARET E. SHIPPEN, Georgia State University article 1=4.qxd 7/9/2004 10:52 AM Page 153


HE Yulin XU Yuehua TANG Amao Department of Rehabilitation, Hangzhou First People's Hospital Affiliated to Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310000, China [Abstract] Objective To investigate the effect of motor imaging on upper limb motor function and quality of life in pa鄄 tients with hemiplegia after stroke. Methods A total of 120 patients with hemiplegia after stroke from June 2017 to June 2019 were enrolled in our hospital. The patients were divided into study group and control group according to the random number table method, with 60 cases in each group. The control group received routine rehabilitation training and the study group received exercise imaging therapy. Before and after treatment, the upper limb motor function, mus鄄 cle strength test, daily living ability and quality of life were compared between the two groups. Results After treatment, the FMA-U score, Lovett grade, and ARAT score of the two groups were significantly higher than those before treatment, and the scores of the study group were higher than those of the control group(P<0.05). The scores of daily living ability of the two groups were significantly improved, and the score of the study group was higher than that of the control group (P<0.05). After treatment, the quality of life scores of the two groups were significantly higher than those before treat鄄 ment, and the score of the control group was significantly higher than that of the control group(P<0.05). Conclusion Mo鄄 tor imagining can significantly improve the upper limb motor function of patients with hemiplegia after stroke and im鄄 prove the quality of life of patients. It is worthy of clinical application. [Key words] Motor imagination; Stroke; Hemiplegia; Rehabilitation


The sensitivity to ultraviolet light (uv) and photoreactivating ability of cultured fish clone cells (CAF-MM1) were investigated. Dose-survival relationship curves were obtained using the colony-forming technique at various postirradiation temperatures (33, 26, and 20/sup 0/C). At 26/sup 0/C the values of D/sub 0/, D/sub q/, and the extrapolation number (n) were 1.74 J/m/sup 2/, 2.62 J/m/sup 2/, and 4.5, respectively; no marked differences in these values were found among different temperatures. Visible light illumination after uv irradiation produced a marked increase in survival. No photoreactivation effects were observed beyond about 30 h. Caffeine increased uv sensitivity of the CAF-MM1 cells, and from the results it is suggested that the cells have some caffeine-sensitive dark repair mechanisms.


The status quo and market situation of fumed silica industry in China were summarized. The development trend and existing problems of domestic fumed silica industry were analyzed. The beneficial relationship mutually between industries of fumed silica, polycrystalline silicon and silicone were discussed And the development suggestions for it were put forward.


Paleomagnetic analyses of Mesozoic sedimentary rocks (8 sites, 115 samples) from the Perija Mountains, Venezuela, yield well-grouped directions of both polarities. Fold tests imply that the magnetization of the Jurassic La Quinta Formation is pre-mid-Cretaceous in age and that the Lower Cretaceous Cogollo Group acquired its magnetization prior to its mid-Tertiary deformation. These data as well as the results from the Cretaceous Apon and La Luna Formations yield consistent northeast or southwest declinations and inclinations corresponding to the present latitude of the sampling area. The clockwise rotations indicated by these data are interpreted to be the result of rotation of fault-bounded blocks in a left-lateral strike-slip zone. Faults such as the Cogollo, La Ge, and Totumo faults which intersect the Perija-Tigre fault at low angles, had initially a north-northwest strike. The Late Oligocene northwest-southeast compression which initiated the uplift of the Perija Mountains rotated these faults to their present north-northeast orientation imparting the observed left-lateral slip. Our paleomagnetic data measure the corresponding rotation of the fault-bounded blocks. Model calculations suggest that a displacement on these faults of less than ten kilometers would be sufficient to cause the observed approximately 45[degrees] clockwise rotations.


Referring to works of four poets, the author analyses a special image of the "invisible cross" that appears when horizontal and vertical poetic images come into contact. In Boris Pasternak's poem Winter Night, it is formed by the image of windstorm and candles in the first stanza, in Blok's The Twelve by crossing the lines from the "black sky" to the "white snow" with the "wind line". In Georgy Ivanov's poem, the image of the "invisible cross" appears from the troika's movement and the image of the falling "black music by Blok". The image of "windstorm" in Pasternak's poem and that of "Blok's music" in Ivanov's poem allude to  The Twelve . All the three works refer to the same historical reality: the collapse of former Russia and the uncertainty of human destiny in the tragic period of history. In Vyacheslav Ivanov's poem written in Rome on 23 May 1944, the image of the "invisible cross" is also present. However, it appears when comparing the first and second stanzas of the poem. The first stanza represents the European image of the world, which is characterised as "vertical" which is accentuated by the images of "Gothic churches" and "cyclopic hammer". The second stanza represents the "horizontal" image of the world, characteristic for Russia, accentuated by the images of "ways", and "rails". Every stanza contains details adding to the sensation of instability of both historical entities. The third verse is like looking from space at the earth and at the historical path of humanity, which has led it to the current war. The image found by Ivanov could emerge as a result of his life in Rome and his memory of Russia. At the same time, the perseverance with which the "invisible cross" appears in works of different authors at different times makes the image typical of the entire twentieth century.


Concentration ratios (CR's) used for modeling the uptake and food chain transport of radionuclides in fish have usually been conservative; that is, at the high end of reported values. This practice ensures that the dose to the consumer of contaminated fish will not be underestimated. In many models, however, conservative values have been used for all variables that have any uncertainty associated with them. As a result the dose to the consumer is overestimated. Realistic CR values need to be developed to establish model parameters that will accurately reflect tissue burdens in fish and resulting dose rates to consumers. This report reviews and summarizes published literature on the uptake and distribution of stable and radioactive isotopes of 26 elements. Based on this review, we have made recommendations on CR values to be used for modeling the accumulation of radionuclides in fish. Our recommendations are compared with CR values reported in other publications. A generic discussion of abiotic and biotic factors that influence CR values is provided so that CR values may be adjusted based on site-specific characteristics of the fishes habitat. Recommended CR values for freshwater fish and for marine fish are listed. Although this report emphasizes radionuclides, it ismore » applicable to stable elements as well.« less


This study aimed at evaluating the 10 th grade computerized mathematics curriculum from the perspective of the teachers and supervisors in the southern region in Jordan. The study population consisted of all the teachers who teach the 10 th grade in the southern region, with the total of (309) teachers and (20) supervisors. The sample consisted of (288) teachers and (15) supervisors. A questionnaire of (43) items was prepared, it was verified for validity and reliability. Results showed statistically significant differences ( ∝ = 0.05) between the evaluating estimations of the teachers and supervisors for the computerized mathematics curriculum in favor of the supervisors.


From candles to prayer beads to icons and more, tangible artifacts have long played a central role in religious and spiritual life. However, despite growing interest in HCI on design within religious and spiritual contexts, the intentional design of tangible interactive artifacts for religious or spiritual purposes is still relatively uncommon. This workshop aims at advancing our understanding of tangible interactive artifact design in religious and spiritual contexts and how religious and spiritual purposes may offer alternative approaches to design. We invite those interested from all professional and religious/spiritual backgrounds to imagine and design tangible interactive artifacts for religious or spiritual purposes such as beliefs, practices, or rituals. The workshop will include the demonstration of (imagined) artifacts, reflection on designing for religious/spiritual purposes, and hands-on design sessions.


With relevance theory,this paper analyses humorous discourse and believes the humorous effect comes from the interpretation of the humorous discourse.According to relevance theory,the course of dis- course interpretation of the listener is the best relevant information searching from the speaker's hypothesis. In this process the listener gets two interpretations that are related but not in accordance with the discourse. The listener has to make greater cognitive effort to find out the congruous aspect of the discourse,to under- stand the humor and to get the joviality of thorough understanding.


Purpose: To study the tumourigenic effect of prenatal low-dose gamma-irradiation in the mouse. Methods and materials: Pregnant Swiss albino mice were exposed to 0.1-1.5Gy gamma-radiation on days 14 or 17 of gestation. The F1 offspring were observed up to 18 months of age. All the mice were killed at 18 months and the incidence of tumours in different organs was recorded. Results: Exposure to doses from 0.1 to 1.5Gy on days 14 or 17 of gestation produced a linear-quadratic dose-dependent increase in tumour incidence in adult F1 mice. The main organs affected were the ovary, uterus, liver and spleen. The highest incidence was observed in the ovaries, which was significantly higher than spontaneous incidence, even at 0.25Gy. In other organs the tumour incidence was not significant compared with controls at doses <0.5-1.0Gy. Tumours in the ovary and uterus developed at an earlier age than in the liver and spleen. Conclusions: Exposure to gamma-radiation <1.0Gy at the foetal period (days 14 or 17 of gestation) can cause induction of tumours in the Swiss albino mouse. The carcinogenic effect, particularly on the ovary among the female mouse, is detectable after low-dose foetal irradiation.


The use of tracer amounts of radioactive steroids for metabolic studies has led to problems in the identification of very small quantities of metabolites. Techniques such as melting-point determinations or infrared spectroscopy are rarely applicable and characterization is usually based on chromatographic mobility and crystallization (with carrier) of the radioactive compound. The specific binding of some steroids to proteins has been described recently (see Pincus, Nakao & Tait, 1966). Such protein binding might be exploited as an additional parameter in establishing the radiochemical purity of radioactive metabolites. This possibility has been tested using testosterone as a model compound. A mixture of pregnancy plasma (3 ml.) and 0\m=.\5m-borate buffer (9 ml., pH 7\m=.\8)


C. version)" in Chinese Medical Journal (Chin Med J 2013, 126:4786–4790). Since then, China has the standard for the determination of brain death. In order to further promote the brain death related work, Brain Injury Evaluation Quality Control Center of National Health Commission (BQCC) aimed to revise and update "Criteria and practical guidance for determination of brain death in adults". This 2018 new editionwas based on the 5-year clinical practice of brain death determination, BQCC quality control analysis of brain death cases, and the opinions and suggestions of BQCC expert committees, technical committees and advisory committees. We hope that the development of brain death determination will be more standardized and orderly in China.


The present invention relates to the use of benzamide and nicotinamide compounds and compounds. Compounds, for example, hematologic malignancies (e.g., leukemias) may be used to treat cancer, such as.


This paper derives optimal lifecycle asset allocations for consumers who select work hours and retirement ages given uncertain labor income and investment returns. These shocks shape retirement and asset allocation patterns in complex ways: negative labor market shocks and high stock returns influence the young to work less and buy more annuities, and later, to retire early. This flexibility enhances welfare; our model also fits several important empirical stylized facts including the two peaks in retirement rates, the hump-shaped pattern of work hours, the sizeable discontinuity in consumption at retirement, and low annuity take-ups of older households. Copyright 2011, Oxford University Press.


Stellar evolution calculations with variable abundance ratios were used to gauge the effects on temperatures, luminosities, and lifetimes in various phases. Individual elements C, N, O, Mg, Si, and Fe were included. Most of the effect relevant to integrated light models is contained in the temperature variable, as opposed to the timescale or luminosity. We derive a recipe for including abundance-sensitive temperature effects that is applicable to existing isochrone grids. The resultant enhanced isochrones are incorporated into composite stellar population models and compared with galaxy data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. A severe oxygen-age degeneracy is apparent, 2 3 Gyr per 0.1 dex in [O/R], where R represents a heavy element such as Fe. Over the range of early-type galaxy velocity dispersion, the spans of all abundance ratios are reduced but the age range increases, systematically older. Allowing Fe-peak elements the freedom to vary accentuates this increase of age span. Overall, these results sharpen the age-mass correlation known as downsizing but decrease the steepness of abundance ratio gradients. Both of these observations, in turn, imply a more robust contribution from gas free mergers in the histories of typical elliptical galaxies.


Within the critical state soil mechanics framework, the two-surface formulation of plasticity is coupled with the state parameter to construct a constitutive model for sands in a general stress spa...


With the arising of the "sun tribe"genre of filme as the beginning of the japanese youth film,this kind of genres has made itself one of the leading power in the japanese film industry.The develepment of the so-called janpanese post youth film,meanwhile,along with its outstanding styles and artistic qualities,has enriched the expression of the japanese youth film.The post youth film would be methodologically more versatile and divers,as more and more newly rising-up janpanese directors make their debuts successfully.It's believed that the janpanese post youth film could flourish too.


Web applications can have vulnerabilities that result in server-side data leaks. Securing sensitive data from Web applications while ensuring reasonable performance and without requiring developers to rewrite entire applications is challenging. We present SilverLine, which prevents bulk data leaks caused due to code injection in Web applications as well as compromised user-level processes on the application server. SilverLine uses login information to associate a user with each Web session; it then taints each file and database record and applies information-flow tracking to the data associated with each session to ensure that application data is released only to sessions of authorized users. SilverLine focuses on isolating data between user sessions and is thus most suitable to applications that involve single user sessions (e.g., banking, e-commerce). We have implemented SilverLine on Linux; our implementation demonstrates that SilverLine can protect a PHP-based Web application from many of the most common server-side Web application attacks by modifying only about 60 lines of code from the original application. Our evaluation shows that SilverLine incurs a performance overhead of about 20-30% over unmodified applications.


In designing modern computer equipment and digital electronics, the use of simulation models is of great importance. At first, monolithic models were widely used for this. However, they worked well only when their size was relatively small. Because of it developers began to refuse gradually use of monolithic models and to pass to use of the distributed models allowing to increase their speed and to expand borders of their admissible sizes. At the same time, they begin to pay special attention to hierarchical distributed models, which provide the opportunity to investigate the behavior of the created devices at different levels of detail. Similar models made it possible to noticeably expand the permissible boundaries of their sizes and increase the speed of work. However, such distributed models have the disadvantage that their effectiveness is noticeably dependent not only on the number of components included in their composition, but also on the size of these components. he paper presents the results of a study of the effect of introducing an additional upper hierarchical level on the performance of distributed models based on Petri networks. The use of such a method of modifying distributed models leads to an increase in their speed in a wide range of changes in their sizes. At the same time, the most significant effect achieved in distributed models containing a large number of small components. The maximum speed of the thus modified models can be an order of magnitude higher than that of the non-modified ones. As a result, in addition to the overall increase in the efficiency of the modified hierarchical distributed models, this also led to a significant equalization of the performance of the modified distributed models with subordinate components of different sizes.


The kinetic equation describing a surface gas containing components adsorbed physically and chemically has been written down and solved by the Chapman-Enskog method. In this equation chemical reactions between adsorbed components, and the desorption of the component adsorbed physically have been taken into account. The description of the desorption process resulting from the theory has been presented in some detail. The existence of coupling effects between elementary molecular processes has been demonstrated and the order of magnitude of these effects estimated. The importance of the desorption-chemical reaction coupling to heterogeneous catalysis has been pointed out.


OBJECTIVE
To investigate the chemical constituents of Chinese herb Melastoma dodecandrum.

METHOD
The chemical constituents were isolated by solvent extraction and chromatography. Their structure were identified on the basis of physic-chemical constants and specral data.

RESULT
Five compounds were isolated and identified as hexacosanoic acid (I), quercetin(II), avicularin(III), gallic acid (IV), kaempferol(V).

CONCLUSION
The above-mentioned compounds were separated from the plant for the first time.


Objective: On the " primary duty nurse responsibility system"(referred to as the" main support system") of clinical nursing model in high quality nursing service in practice.Methods: To tie in with my courtyard "the attending physician responsibility system " carry out,the nursing department in the hospital ward." Most of the main protective system" in clinical nursing model,in the development of high quality nursing service at the same time,we randomly sampled 20 ward as the observation group,10 of which implement the "main support system" ward as experiment group in addition,10 not implemented " the main protective system" Ward served as the control group,and the experimental group and the control group for comparing the related content,such as a hospital patient satisfaction to nurses,doctors,and nurses in nursing quality evaluation of occupation identity and so on.Results: The experimental group of the above indicators than those of control group(P0.01).Conclusion: The implementation of " the main protective system" to optimize the clinical nursing model,mobilize nurses learning and work of the initiative,enthusiasm and creativity,enhance the quality of nursing,improve the doctor on the behavior of nurses ' satisfaction and patient and family satisfaction with nursing service,to promote quality care to the work carried out in-depth,is worth popularizing.


To study the genetic polymorphism of Menba ethnic group in China about ABO system and the genetic relation among Menba and other 17 ethnic groups.The ABO blood group distribution of 100 Menba and Luoba people that inhabited Tibet were detected and analyzed by glass sheet technique.The data of 17 populations about ABO blood group system were collected by intemate network(viz,Chuangdu,Linzhi,Lasa,Shannan,Rikaze,Naqu Tibetan in Tibet Autonomous Region,Guinan,Huangnan,Xining Tibetan in Qinghai province,Gansu Tibetan,Yunnan lijiang Tibetan,Mongolian,Ningxia Hui,Han in Shanxi,Henan,Shandong province),and the genetic distances and cluster analysis were calculated among Menba ethnic group and other population.Phenotype type of ABO system in Tibet Menba ethnic group is OBAAB(=0.2128, =0.2523,=0.4681,AB=0.0638),gene frequency is rqp(r=0.6770,q=0.1742,p=0.1488).They are accord with the law of Chinese ABO system;Menba cluster with Tibetan firstly,then with other ethnic groups by means of count genetic distance and cluster analysis to Menba and other ethnic groups by ABO system gene frequency.The relation between Menba and Tibetan is nearer than that between Menba and other ethnic groups.The genetic relation between the Menba and Tibetan is nearer than that with other populations.


Neat PMMA and the PMMA/Carbon Black (CB), and Graphene (G) composites with different loading (PMMA/0.05%(CB), PMMA/0.10%(CB), PMMA/0.15%(CB), PMMA/0.02% (G), PMMA/0.02% (G), PMMA/0.04% (G), PMMA/0.06% (G), PMMA/(0.1%(CB)+0.02%(G) and PMMA/(0.15%(CB)+0.02%(G)) were prepared by dissolving them in the suitable solution and then casted thickness of ~0.3mm.The optical measurements declared that all the prepared samples have an energy gap for the direct allowed transition.The optical energy gap decreases as Carbon black(CB) and Graphene(G) added the PMMA from 5.0 eV to 1.1eV and to 1.0 eV as (CB) and(G) added in the ratio 0.15 and 0.04 % respectively. The transmittance spectra are measured and the optical constants were determined. The measurements showed that the optical constants reveal nonsystematic growing with loading ratio whereas they increase, decrease and return to increase after there. The electrical measurement showed that the A.C conductivity obeys the empirical formula σa.c(ω)=Aωs , where(s) lies between (0.78- 0.0013), σa.c(ω) declared frequency-dependent of the neat PMMA and PMMA doped with 0.06 G while it was frequency independent for all composites samples in hole frequency range. The Real and Imaginary Dielectric Constants showed progressive growth with the rise of the loading ratio.


Land is a crucial resource for rural communities of Ethiopia for more than 85% of the population is engaged in agriculture. However, land policy in Ethiopia has been a very debating and controversial issue for the last few decades. The debates revolve around state versus private ownership of rural land. The current government of Ethiopia preferred state ownership of land and for which it has received serious critics form opposition political parties, academia, international organizations, and donors. The basic reason behind the critics is that state ownership of rural land creates tenure insecurity, discourages long-term investment on land, and decreases productivity. As a response to these critics, the government of Ethiopia has implemented a rural land certification program in its major regional states, including Amhara regional state. The major objective of this paper was, therefore, to systematically review such land-related issues as land tenure history of Ethiopia; debates related to modes of land ownership; land policies; and causes, processes & effects of rural land certification. As the review clearly indicates the controversial issue of rural land is still unresolved. It is possible to say that the rural land certification program could not bring meaningful positive effects compared to its intended objectives. There is still a considerable amount of tenure insecurity in the minds of the land holders; farmers prefer short-term investment on land; and land productivity is very low in Amhara regional state.


Increasing incidence, difficulties in early diagnosis, and a high mortality rate in liver cancer (LC) determine the relevance of studying the mechanisms of its development. The aim of the work is to evaluate the expression of high molecular weight glycoproteins MUC-1, MUC-13 in liver cancer. The object of study is LC tissue samples of 65 patients from the archives and 34 blood serum samples from patients with morphologically confirmed LC. The age of subjects was 26– 97 years. The level of antibodies to MUC-1 and MUC-13 was studied by ELISA. The reference value ranges of MUC-1 (0.250 ± 0.10 ng/ml) and MUC-13 (0.321 ± 0.13 ng/ml) in the blood serum of healthy individuals were established. The concentration of antibodies to MUC-1 and MUC-13 in the blood serum in RP was significantly higher than that in practically healthy individuals. The concentration of MUC-1 and MUC-13 in the LC tumor tissue was higher than that in the blood serum of apparently healthy individuals and LC patients. With a confirmed LC diagnosis, the level of antibodies to MUC-1 in the blood serum, which exceeds 0.373 ng/ml, and the level of antibodies to MUC-13, which is more than 0.939 ng/ml, may indicate a high risk of a tumor process.


The results of psychologic testing and level of aspiration and analysis of internship doctors' professional competence self-rating, made according to Dembo – Rubinshtein methodology modified by A. M. Prykhozhan at the Family Medicine Department of State Institution "Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy of Ministry of Health of Ukraine" are represented in the article. Outsized ambitions and self-evaluation towards professional competences among most of first year internship doctors are identified; 54 % of respondents have basic practical skills particularly the conflict between ideal self and real self in the context of professional abilities. Received data allow to develop practical skills quality correction and management methods among internship doctors.


Adaptation of health workers to the conditions of production activities in the health care facility is one of the cardinal component in the overall system of the professional training and the professional becoming specialist. All the processes of professional adaptation characterized by certain stages. Considering the features of professional work of health workers, in the course of their professional adaptation can pick out into three stages: preparatory, qualification and production, each one of which has its own characteristics and is characterized by the difficulties of professional adaptation.


This paper describes the application of combining steepest descent smoothing, swappings and de-meshing techniques to bound the worst mesh quality in the h-version adaptive mesh refinement process. Numerical results include a microstrip patch antenna and a microstrip meander line and show the the effectiveness of the current approach.


The seismic structure of the transition zone beneath the northwestern Pacific ocean is studied by comparing regional distance seismic waveforms with synthetic seismograms. By modeling waveforms we incorporate the travel times of secondary waves that are not included in traveltime data used in most P wave tomography experiments. These secondary waves are highly sensitive to the velocity above the 660 km discontinuity and thus add information on the seismic structure of the transition zone independent of that used in many tomography experiments. We used just two one-dimensional models in the waveform comparison. The iasp91(slightly modified in the shallower depths as aiasp) is used as a global average structure, and model M3.11 is used as representative of transition zone structure near a deep subducting slab. Model M3.11 is faster than iasp91 from 525 to 660 km depth but also has a 30 km deeper "660" km discontinuity. Our results show strong variations in the transition zone structure beneath the northwestern Pacific. Data that sample beneath the northwestern Japanese subduction zone and the southern Kuriles are well fit by model M3.11. The deep structure beneath the Bohai Sea, to the west of Korea, also appears to show slab-related velocity anomalies in the transition zone. In contrast, the seismic data sampling beneath the Yellow Sea to the East China Sea are better modeled using the global average model iasp91. Data that sampled beneath the Philippine Sea showed evidence for anomalously high velocity in the transition zone, but there is little apparent change in the depth of the 660 km discontinuity there. The overall results are in agreement with past work indicating fairly broad regions where subducting plate is lying flat or piling up within the transition zone, although we find that the region where this occurs, and thus the total volume of slab within the upper mantle, is considerably less than that seen in past studies. The unusual structure beneath the Philippine plate may be due to the relatively recent descent of slab beneath this region. The slab itself is cold, and thus anomalously fast, but the deeper mantle may not have cooled enough for the 660 km discontinuity to have deepened.


BACKGROUND
Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) research is hampered by low numbers of microbiologically confirmed TBM cases and the fact that they may represent a select part of the disease spectrum. A uniform TBM research case definition was developed to address these limitations, but its ability to differentiate TBM from bacterial meningitis has not been evaluated.

METHODS
We assessed all children treated for TBM from 1985 to 2005 at Tygerberg Children's Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa. For comparative purposes, a group of children with culture-confirmed bacterial meningitis, diagnosed between 2003 and 2009, was identified from the National Health Laboratory Service database. The performance of the proposed case definition was evaluated in culture-confirmed TBM and bacterial meningitis cases.

RESULTS
Of 554 children treated for TBM, 66 (11.9%) were classified as "definite TBM," 408 (73.6%) as "probable TBM," and 72 (13.0%) as "possible TBM." "Probable TBM" criteria identified culture-confirmed TBM with a sensitivity of 86% and specificity of 100%; sensitivity was increased but specificity reduced when using "possible TBM" criteria (sensitivity 100%, specificity 56%).

CONCLUSIONS
"Probable TBM" criteria accurately differentiated TBM from bacterial meningitis and could be considered for use in clinical trials; reduced sensitivity in children with early TBM (stage 1 disease) remains a concern.


In the early development of polymer systems for use in outdoor HV applications, short time arc-resistance test methods were established to rapidly determine if materials would track or carbonize under wet-arcing. To obtain arcing, a conductive water film was formed on the material surface by introducing artificial polluting and wetting agents. Materials were screened and classified according to their capability to withstand time and/or voltage. Non-tracking polymers were usually classified based on surface and volume erosion. Many of these materials were also evaluated in outdoor functional tests as rods, plates, or model insulators. The performance of these insulator bodies was monitored through periodic inspection of surface condition of the polymers and/or by observation or measurement of electrical surface activity under wet service condition. These tests indicate that the electrical surface phenomena and stability not only vary with time and location but are also dependent on the long term surface properties of polymer systems evaluated.


To a certain extent, the position of radio in Botswana since the colonial period has benefited significantly from recent developments in the media. The potency of radio as a mobile medium; its usefulness for public dialogue and entertainment; and its effectiveness as a less sophisticated technology that is easily accessible and adaptable in remote communities, have ensured that radio remains the most preferred and dominant medium of mass communication in Botswana. The recent introduction of the Internet and digital communication technologies also meant that in Botswana, radio is appropriately situated in the World Wide Web and mobile phones.


The present invention relates to a recliner for a car seat, which adjusts the angle of a seatback of the car seat. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a recliner for a car seat includes: a holder plate fixed to a seat cushion side, and having one surface with a plurality of guide blocks formed to be spaced apart from each other along a circumferential direction to protrude; a sector tooth fixed to a seatback side, coupled to the holder plate to form an installation space between the sector tooth and the holder plate, and having gear teeth on an inner peripheral surface; a cam lever arranged at the center of the installation space between the sector tooth and the holder plate, and rotated to be interlocked with an operation lever controlled by a passenger; a plurality of pole teeth arranged around the cam lever to move inside or outside in a radial direction according to the rotation of the cam lever, and having gear teeth engaged with gear teeth of the sector tooth on an outer peripheral surface, wherein one side of the pole teeth comes into close contact with one side of the guide blocks of the holder plate when the sector tooth and the pole teeth are engaged with each other.


addictions associated with specific risk factors. As in any addictive disorder, individuals display different susceptibility levels to over nutrition and under exertion. Individual variations in risk of addiction can exist at a neuroendocrine, psychological, or psychosocial level. While some obese patients visiting obesity clinics are inherently at a higher risk for obesity owing to genetics and underlying medical diseases a vast number of our patients are at a higher risk from neuroendocrine hormonal dysregulation, psychological imbalance, and psychosocial stressors that promote disordered eating. The latest guidelines on obesity suggest dietary interventions, exercise programs, commercial weight loss programs, pharmacological agents, and bariatric surgery as tools in the management of obesity. They mention the use of behavioral strategies to facilitate patients' adherence to diet and activity recommendations. Below we discuss the epidemic of obesity in a different light, as a disease of addiction, associated with stress-related triggers for food intake, increased vulnerability to addictive eating, and disordered neuroendocrine responses and abnormal feedback mechanisms following food intake. Several groups have presented data to indicate that obese people (and animals) still have robust feedback mechanisms for defending body weight and adiposity – but at a higher set-point – and in the obese, the set-point rises with age. Thus, many of the feedback mechanisms must still work. Why the set-point is elevated remains a topic of


Monte Carlo simulations of growth of defected fcc Lennard-Jones clusters with internal structure proposed by van de Waal were realised from N = 3281 up to 10000 atoms at two reduced temperatures, T* = 0.30 and 0.50. The preference for the growth of fcc phase is observed solely at the temperature T* = 0.50 in accordance with theoretical predictions. However, about one-half of the clusters larger than N = 6000 forms some spurious hcp layers. The stable growth of the fcc phase is attributed to kinetic (movement of surface atoms and presence of nonvanishing surface steps) as well as entropic effects preferring fcc over hcp stacking of growth layers.


e starting point of the article is the criticism of the conventional view of sexual abuse as something inexplicable, as an exclusive issue of a group of insane persons, mostly men, and their victims, women, girls, and boys. In the first part of the article, we recover global consensus, data and studies to characterize the problem of sexual abuse. While advances in the recognition of rights in childhood and adolescence are positive, sexual abuse is barely recognized as a social problem and its magnitude is dismissed. In the second part of the article, interest shis to how to prevent sexual abuse. To pay for the construction of social response, we define a model of integral and community-based work, to intervene in the individual, social and structural aspects that affect vulnerability to it.


The study was conducted in Chellampatti block of Madurai district in Tamil Nadu among 90 vegetable growers to assess the knowledge and extent of adoption of recommended vegetable cultivation practices. Interview schedule was constructed, pre-tested and finalized and used for collecting data. From the findings of the study it could be found that the average knowledge of vegetable farmers on recommended technologies was 74.72 per cent. Method of transplanting, recommended variety and HYV, fertilizer application, weed management, mulching and seed treatment practices were known to the farmers ranging from 75 to 90 per cent. Overall adoption level of farmers on technologies was 55.27 per cent. Soil testing, SHC recommendations, growth regulators, mulching, foliar spray, plant protection measures were having low adoption ranging from 40-48 per cent. Rise in fertilizer and pesticide prices, unavailability of timely and quality inputs, lack of knowledge to identify pest and diseases, lack of communication and training cum demonstrations on improved practices were felt by 35-45 per cent of the farmers as constraints for yield gap. The extension system have to popularize the recommended technological packages in fields through effective training, demonstrations, field visits, monitoring, etc. which helps to reduce yield gaps and thereby increasing the productivity of crops.


This paper proposes a consequent-pole flux reversal machine (CP-FRM) with biased flux modulation theory, which employs homopolar permanent magnets (PMs) placed between the adjacent stator poles. The machine topology is introduced from the perspective of FRM with a shifted magnet position and CP arrangement, and the performance comparison between the proposed CP-FRM and its original surface-mounted PM (SPM) counterpart is presented to highlight the torque improvement of the CP structure. Then, a simplified permeance model is applied to the CP-FRM to identify the principal effective air-gap field harmonics engaging in the torque productions. It shows that the CP-FRM works based on a biased flux modulation effect due to its asymmetric air-gap field distribution caused by the CP configuration, which unveils its underlying torque improvement mechanism over its SPM-FRM counterpart. In order to obtain the highest torque capability, the key design parameters are analytically optimized by analyzing the winding configuration, which aids the establishment of a general design guideline for the CP-FRM. The analytical and FE results are validated by experiments.


This issue marks the 50th anniversary of the first observation of synchrotron radiation light from the General Electric 70 MeV synchrotron and coincides with the third anniversary of the Journal of Synchrotron Radiation (JSR). The issue brings together review articles from some of the pioneers of the field and in our view forms a unique historical record. The interdisciplinary nature of synchrotron radiation research has been apparent from the early 1970's and the planners of the secondand third-generation sources have paid particular attention to the requirements of such an interdisciplinary community. It is clear that synchrotron radiation has removed the boundaries in otherwise somewhat isolated research areas. Indeed, JSR is playing an important part in furthering such interdisciplinary interactions. Over the last three years we have brought together the broad synchrotron radiation community by offering rapid communication of scientific and technical developments in the journal. We have not compromised on the quality of the contributions and have managed to combine this with a speed and high standard of production. In this period, more than half a dozen third-generation synchrotron radiation sources have come into operation and several more are now at an advanced state of planning or construction (e.g. SLS, DIAMOND and SOLEIL). Worldwide this is still a rapidly expanding field. It is now just over 40 years since the first synchrotron radiation experiments were performed by Tomboulin and Hartman at Cornell in the soft X-ray region. These experiments were immediately followed by those of Madden and Codling in 1961 at the National Bureau of Standards in the UV/VUV region. This early utilization demonstrated the wealth of physics that needed to be explored by these new continuum light sources. Initiatives in Europe (Frascati, DESY, NINA), the former Soviet Union (VEPP) and Japan (INS-SOR) began in the mid-1960's along with expanding scientific opportunities. The first biological experiments were performed at DESY by Holmes, Rosenbaum and Witz in 1970, opening synchrotron radiation to the biological community. We again reiterate the main objectives of JSR; namely, to provide a focus for the whole of the Synchrotron Radiation community, and to accept papers only of a high standard covering sources, instrumentation, methods and applications. Through 1997 our main aim has been to increase the size of each issue. We are grateful to the many authors who have responded enthusiastically to our call. We continue to urge you to always consider JSR as the first choice when you have new results, methods or instrumental facilities. It is only through your high-quality contributions that our community will be able to sustain a high-quality journal. We accompany this editorial with a photograph (Fig. 1) taken in August 1997 at the Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation Conference in Himeji, Japan, featuring some of the pioneers of the synchrotron radiation field (papers from the conference will be published in the May 1998 issue of the journal).


Fuzzy modeling of multivariable discrete-time nonlinear dynamical systems is approached analytically in this paper. We start by developing a proper framework based on the key notions of fuzzy quantization and function approximation. This framework allows the fuzzy modeling to be justified with mathematical rigor, and the modeling problem be formulated in a way suitable for an analytical solution. Based on the formulation, an online scheme is developed that adaptively forms the fuzzy model from samples of a dynamical system by generating and modifying a set of fuzzy rules and membership functions. The convergence analysis of the scheme is carried out rigorously based on the Lyapunov theory, and the major convergence result is established. The scheme is also applied to a few nonlinear modeling problems to demonstrate its feasibility and effectiveness.<<ETX>>


Carli Flynn is a PhD candidate in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Syracuse University. She has a MS degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS degree from Cornell University. Her engineering research interests include studying green infrastructure adoption for stormwater management in U.S. municipalities. Her education research interests extend to understanding how learners make sense of complex problems that require coordinating knowledge from multiple disciplines, the integration of stakeholder considerations into the engineering design process, and mixed methods research designs.


Ulrich Wengenroth, Enterprise and Technology: The German and British Steel Industries, 1865-1895 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, 293 pp., $69.95). The German version of this book was published in 1986. It was well received by the critical academic press and the English version has been translated by Sarah Hanbury Tenison. The purpose of the book is to add to the debate surrounding Britain's relative economic decline during the latter part of the nineteenth century. The period covered by Wengenroth's text, 1865-95, saw Britain lose its position as the "workshop of the world" and most powerful industrial nation, being overtaken by the USA and then Germany. Performance in relation to steel production - an area of rapid technological advance and one which has captured the imagination of historians - is seen as symptomatic of Britain's failure, with British levels of steel production overtaken by the USA in the late 1880s and Germany in the early 1890s. This turn-around was for many years explained in terms of British entrepreneurial failure, with its management characterised as essentially pragmatic, technically ill-educated and no match for its efficient, university-trained, German counterparts. The accusation against management is seen to gain strength from the fact that all the major innovations in new steel technology, the Bessemer, Thomas and Siemens-Martin processes, were substantially developed in Britain in the 186Os and 187Os. Wengenroth utilises the records of numerous companies, governmental archives and the trade literature to build-up a picture of how British and German steel managers tackled the strategic problems and business opportunities implicit in rapid technological change. Following a brief introduction, chapter one provides a detailed account of late nineteenth-century steel-making methods, with its purpose being to provide a technical perspective for the arguments developed in the later chapters. Chapter two deals with the early expansion of steel-making, resulting in over-capacity which was exacerbated by a decline in the level of railway construction. Chapters three and four examine respectively the individual and collective strategies used by firms to "surmount the slump." Chapter five contains an in-depth examination of the new steel-making processes and new markets, as a further preliminary step before moving on to reach a judgment concerning relative entrepreneurial efficiency in Britain and Germany. The last chapter is divided into two parts. The first part reexamines the British debate concerning entrepreneurial decline and, specifically, the steel question. Wengenroth rehearses the respective stances of the two main British protagonists, Duncan Burn and Donald McCloskey. Burn believes that late-nineteenthcentury British entrepreneurs missed opportunities for the development of Bessemer steel based on the use of iron ores available in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire (these were not exploited until Stewarts & Lloyds built the Corby works in the 1930s). McCloskey's reinterpretation of the evidence leads him to conclude that British entrepreneurs did as well as could be expected given the prevailing economic conditions and resource constraints. Indeed "by any cogent measure of performance, in fact, they did very well indeed" [McCloskey quoted in Wengenroth, p. …


During August 2004, Florence, Italy, was host to the 32nd International Geological Congress (IGC), an eight-day meeting that attracted 8,000 geologists from most of the world's nations. The surroundings of Florence offered many distractions to the geologists attending the IGC, including unique geology, a pleasant environment, and many tourist attractions. Despite these distractions, the remarkably organized technical sessions were well attended and many new friendships (and potential collaborations) were made. Some 650 U.S. geologists attended the IGC, which was sponsored by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). Behind the scenes, meetings required much work and some diplomacy by representatives from the 117 nations in attendance.


The different pile-raft connection forms of ordinary pile foundation, composite pile founfation, rigid pile composite foundation and the vertical degree of the pile body have a great influence on the internal force of pile. The existing specifications and the calculation method only make the description of determining the nature, without quantitative analysis and given the difficulties to the design and calculation. The paper analyses the effect of different connection forms of pile-raft on pile stress under the same condition, respective designed by ordinary pile foundation, composite pile foundation, rigid pile composite foundation and obtain each form of pile stress by m method. Also calculating the influence of the vertical degree according to the allowable deviation of the existing specifications. The result showed that, if only the horizontal load in considered, the ordinary pile foundation and composite pile founfation have a large moment on the one quarter of the pile top and the rigid pile composite foundation is far less than the two former. If the allowable deviation of the existing specifications are in considered, the pile stress of rigid pile composite foundation have increased a lot and close to the two former in numerical. The rage of the one quarter of the pile top should strength the reinforcement, the plain concrete pile in refuse in the rigid pile composite foundation, the other place can decrease requirement.


There are three (3) documented Cathodic Protection (CP) criteria included in the NACE standards. The appropriate use of these are often debated and sometimes thought to be conservative in dry soils and possibly insufficient in some wet soil conditions. The need exists to evaluate the risks of an improperly installed and/or maintained CP system. The criteria for cathodic protection have been the subject of various research projects conducted for the Pipeline Research Council International, Inc. (PRCI) over a number of years. The programs have responded to the need to establish whether the present criteria are adequate or inadequate, and under what conditions, and whether the specific requirements for protection may depend upon the particular soil environment. The results of this study provide a comprehensive overview of the technical literature and the laboratory studies that formed the basis for this work. The results of this work include the first systematic study of the criteria as installed in the field. Field studies were initiated in 1984 with a multiyear (thru 1994) plan and objective of verifying the requirements for protection in a variety of natural environments, some of which were studied in the earlier laboratory research. Part I: Results of the research.Part II: Applications to the study, the limitations, methods of determining requirements of the pipeline, and the measurements needed to implement the results (60 figures and 56 tables).Part III: Study data (100 pages of charts and tables)


This work focused on investigation of the food colouration properties and phytochemical screening of extract from Garcinia kola (G. Kola) seed. The seeds were collected, pulverized using pestle and mortar and weighed. The extract was obtained after soaking the sample in absolute ethanol for twenty four hours. The extract was used to colour food, alcoholic drink and cosmetics. The research revealed that this fruit perfectly coloured food (pap), illicit gin, and petroleum jelly. The pytochemical screening revealed the presence of saponins, steroids, terpenoids, tannins and flavonoid. The following recommendation was made among others; that the extract studied be used for food, petroleum jelly and illicit gin colouration.


XML schemas are used extensively in e-commerce standardization initiatives. Such XML-based standards define the structure and the semantics of messages that are used to implement business transactions in a particular industry domain (e.g. travel). The design of the document structures that form the message payloads is of key importance as once the specification is published it is difficult to re-design the documents without impacting on existing applications. Furthermore, such domain standards need to be maintained and evolved over long time periods, typically decades, without unduly increasing the complexity of the specification. The concept of software entropy has been used in the literature to estimate complexity and to express decline in quality, maintainability and understandability of software though its lifetime. In this paper we propose a Message Software Entropy (MSE) metric that estimates the complexity of XML message structures and we use this metric to study the complexity of a subset of the Open Travel Alliance Specification as it evolves over time.


To improve the sufficiency of common used Y2O3 partly stabilized zirconia(YSZ) in heat resistant and thermal insulation properties,pyrochlore compound La2Zr2O7 was synthesized by air sintering of ZrO2 and La2O3.As top coating material of thermal barrier coatings(TBCs),the compound was evaporated and deposited on super alloy substrate by EB-PVD.The composition,microstructures and thermo physical properties of the coating were investigated and compared with its YSZ counterpart.Our results show that the composition of La2Zr2O7 coating in this study range over pyrochlore structure,the crystal of the coating presents typical columnar characteristic.The head of each columnar crystal appears clear pyramid shape.In comparison of YSZ,the columnar crystals of La2Zr2O7 coating are thinner,more disordered and have more dendritic sub grains.within 25~1200℃,the maximum thermal conductivity of La2Zr2O7 coating is 0.985W/(m·K) and the minimum is 0.796 W/(m·K),which are greatly lower than YSZ coating at the same conditions.Apparently,low inherent thermal conductivity,small columnar crystal diameter,chaos,light density and high cavity rate are main factors responsible for the low thermal conductivity of La2Zr2O7 coating.


In 1982, the Government of Canada established the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Office (LLRWMO) as Canada's agent for the management of historic low-level radioactive waste. Occurrences of historic waste have been discovered across Canada. The LLRWMO has conducted remediation activities in Port Hope, ON, Toronto (Scarborough), ON, Vancouver (Surrey), BC, Fort McMurray, AB, Tulita, NT, and various other locations across the country. At this time, a key area of focus for the LLRWMO is putting in place a strategy to address sites in Canada's north that were contaminated, long ago, by the spillage of radioactive ores in transport. The contamination is located along what is known as the Northern Transportation Route, a 2200 km long route of lakes, rivers and portage points beginning at the former Port Radium site on Great Bear Lake, NT and extending to Fort McMurray, AB. To carry out its work in the north, the LLRWMO is adapting methods of community engagement and technical approaches that have led to successful remediation projects in Canada's southern regions. Adjustments are being made to meet the realities of the north. Those realities include the challenges of Canada's northern geography and environment and the need for understanding the ways of northern peoples. Currently, dialogue has begun with three First Nations and communities in order to plan the remediation of sites located along the Slave River in the South Slave Region and on the shores of Great Bear Lake and the Great Bear River in the Sahtu Region. This paper will present the challenges of planning and advancing the remediation of these northern contaminated sites and the approaches that are being used to address those challenges.


Is for the present invention is to, by so adjusting the flow rate of the coolant supplied to each indoor unit, to prevent the capacity variation occurs at room period improves the heating and cooling efficiency of the multi-type air conditioner configured which, depending on the capabilities of the plurality of indoor units connected to the outdoor unit . To this end, the groups in the present invention is a plurality of indoor units connected to the outdoor unit configured multi-type air conditioner, and the shared exchanging operation information with each other in the plurality of indoor period; Comparison determination step of the operation information from the said exchange in each indoor unit grasp the operating condition of each other and; And, according to the identified operation state of each indoor unit in the indoor unit provides a control method for a multi-type air conditioner, characterized by configured to include a control step of adjusting the flow rate of the refrigerant supplied to the indoor unit, respectively. Multi-unit air conditioner, the outdoor unit, indoor unit


AbstractThe purpose was to investigate whether a recovery perspective, viewed from a psychosocial approach is applied in municipal / private and county related care and rehabilitation. A recovery p ...


The current race to identify promising repurposing drug candidates for COVID-19 highlights a significant limitation of existing property prediction algorithms. Since their accuracy tightly depends on the access to large amounts of in-domain training data, these algorithms provide limited utility today when high-throughput screening is lacking. At the time of writing, there are only 48 drugs and 880 fragments with measured in-vitro SARS-CoV-2 activity in the public domain [6]. This scenario is not unique to the current pandemic, but is also common for initial stages of novel therapeutic development where limited screening data has to inform on-going experimental exploration.


The work that follows is a qualitative research that attempts to understand the behavior of some Latin American governments over the issue of technological innovation as a development strategy. This approach adds to the modern technology proposal as a promoter of development. In this paper, an analysis of technological innovation policies emanating from the government through the plans of the nation and political speeches or patterns that have been called development models, to check what type of policies arise, if they are opening or statist in nature, concepts that are defined in the course of this work.


Technological innovations have meant that the way images of the victims of war and other categories of body horror are procured and disseminated has changed. Soldiers in theatre may record what they witness, and upload this material online. Terrorist groups have staged the executions of hostages for the camera and distributed this imagery via the internet. Thus, the circulation of body horror is enabled in ways that evade the prerogatives of the mainstream press to produce news which accords with notions of "taste and decency", using practices which protect publics from imagery which may cause harm yet also often map with a propagandist function to conceal the carnage of war from public view. The essay explores online spectatorship which takes place outside that which is deemed appropriate for the publics of news, arguing that we must move beyond the reductive ways in which looking at body horror has been conceptualized. Neither witnessing, as the posited correct form of spectatorship, nor the pervasive pornographic analogy used to render moral judgment on such looking account for the diversity of spectatorial positions taken up by those who choose to look at online imagery of the dead and suffering.


Most discussions of potential changes within China since Deng Tsiaoping's demise focus on possible political and leadership changes that may ensue in the next several years. Yet these dimensions of China's landscape are probably less prone to change, and more likely to exhibit continuity, than some others. To be sure, Jiang Zemin did not ascend to the peak of China's hierarchy with nearly as strong prior credentials—notably those relating to close associations and high formal military rank in the PLA—as did Deng and Mao. Nevertheless, this difference can be overdrawn. In the half-dozen years that Jiang has been chairman of the Central Military Commission, he has so enhanced his support among the top military leaders that one among them, General Chi Haotian, China's defense minister, has been quoted as placing Jiang on a par with Deng and Mao in having made " unique contributions to the PLA. " In addition to the strong base Jiang has acquired in the military, his entrenchment in the party is apparently as solid and secure as the ar-cane world of intramural Chinese politics permits. So, China's political landscape is likely to continue its brand of strong authoritarian, perhaps gradually liberalizing, centralism, led by Jiang as president, party chairman, and chairman of the Central Military Commission. Major changes within China are therefore more likely to ensue in the next decade in two other dimensions rather than in China's politics ______________ A slightly edited version was published in The Los Angeles Times on April 6, 1997 under the title " New Focus on Military Might. "


In order to stabilize the cooperative relationships between the related groups of vocational education interests in the operation of the modern apprenticeship system and promote a more developed balance of the interests of all the participated in the Modern Apprenticeship System. Vocational planning of higher vocational talents has become a key element during the process of personnel training. This paper focused on the training of hotel professionals, based on modern apprenticeship as connotation-oriented, considered the government's demands fully, including the demands of Vocational colleges, enterprises' demands and the demands of trade associations, made an in-depth study on the necessity of vocational planning for hotel professionals in Higher Vocational colleges, solving the problems about the practice process in order to ensure that hotel professionals are fully benefited to meet the needs of high-end hotel talents in the hotel industry of regions, countries or wider regions.


Background: Canal wall down procedure may be with or without reconstruction such as tympanic membrane, ossicular chain or posterior canal wall reconstruction. To preserve and improvement of hearing, prevent discharge and recurrence, now a days canal wall down mastoidectomy with reconstruction such as type III tympanoplasty under magnification is a modern advancement in otology Objectives: To find out hearing status before mastoidectomy and hearing status after canal wall down mastoidectomy with and without reconstruction. Methods: Prospectove study done on 3 tertiaty hospitals in Dhaka. Number of patients were 40 who underwent for modified radical mstoidectomy, 20 were with reconstruction and 20 without reconstruction (Type 3 Tympanoplasty) Results: hearing was deteriorated in most of the cases (60%) of MRM without tympanoplasty. Air Bone (AB) Gap Increased 3.65dB after CWD without reconstruction. Closer of AB gap (9.77 dB) occurred after CWD with reconstruction. 1. Assistant Professor of ENT, Pabna Medical College 2. Associate Professor of ENT, Pabna Medical College 3. Assistant Professor of ENT, Pabna Medical College 4. Associate Professor of ENT, Popular Medical College, Dhaka 5. Professor of ENT, Ibrahim Medical College, Dhaka Address of Correspondence: Dr. Sheikh Mohammad Rafiqul Hossain, Assistant Professor of ENT, Pabna Medical College. Introduction: Atticoantral variety of CSOM most commonly involves the epitympanum & usually associated with cholesteatoma. Cholesteatoma is histologically benign but may be aggressive locally and associated with significant morbidity or mortality if untreated. The choice of treatment of cholesteatoma is surgery for which the goal is total clearance of disease, to obtain a safe, dry ear, restoration or maintaining the functional capacity if possible. There are different surgical modalities of treatment according to the extent of cholesteatoma and amount of destruction such as suction clearance, intact canal wall procedures (cortical mastoidectomy, combined approach tympanoplasty) and canal wall down procedures (atticotomy, atticotoantrostomy, Modified radical mastoidectomy and Radical mastoidectomy) In the early days of chronic ear surgery radical mastoidectomy was the operation of choice but poor hearing and high incidence of chronic or intermittent discharge were the limitations of this procedure. To overcome this disadvantage modified radical mastoidectomy was proposed and most commonly performed. 4,2 In intact canal wall procedure there is good preservation of hearing but more chance of incomplete clearance or recurrence of disease. Canal wall down procedure causes disease clearance properly but the disadvantage of poor preservation of hearing which can be overcome by reconstructive surgery. 1,4 The techniques and concepts of modern reconstructive middle ear surgery came into the field when Moritz (1952), Zollner (1953, 1955), Wullstein (1953, 1956) in Germany introduced tympanoplasty operation 2 Canal wall down procedure may be with or without reconstruction such as tympanic membrane, ossicular chain or posterior canal wall reconstruction. To preserve and improvement of hearing, prevent discharge and recurrence, now a days canal wall down mastoidectomy with reconstruction such as type III tympanoplasty under magnification is a modern advancement in otology. 2,3 In most of the patients of chronic suppurative otitis media, Pure Tone Audiometry shows the hearing loss ranges from mild to severe depending on extent of the disease. In canal wall down mastoidectomy without reconstruction there is destruction of ossicles and/or Tympanic membrane for complete clearance of disease. The postoperative audiometric evaluation shows further hearing loss. On the other hand canal wall down mastoidectomy with reconstruction i.e. tympanoplasty, ossiculoplasty improves hearing in variable amount. In the study of MU Ahmed (2005) and Ajalloueyan (2006) shows that significant number of patients receiving such procedure have improved their hearing status. Careful follow up, by clinical, radiological and audiometric means are essential to make a comment about hearing status of the patient. The worldwide practice of performing such surgery and it's good outcome has encouraged to do this research work. Modified radical mastoidectomy with tympanoplasty The types of Tympanoplasty Type-1: reconstruction of the tympanic membrane (ossicular chain intact and mobile). Type-2: malleus handle absent, reconstruction of the tympanic membrane over the malleus remnant and long process of incus. Type-3: malleus and incus absent, reconstruction of the tympanic membrane over an intact and mobile stapes (myringostapediopexy) with stapes acting as columella. Type-4: mobile stapes footplate exteriorized with reconstruction of the tympanic membrane as a round window buffle. Type-5: stapes fixed, fenestration. Aims and Objectoves: 1. To findout hearing status before mastoidectomy. 2. To find out hearing status after canal wall down mastoidectomy with and without reconstruction. Methods: This study was conducted using following methods and materials: Type of Study : Prospective Study Place of Study : ENT department of Mymenshingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH), Sir Salimullah Medical College and Mitford Hospital (SSMC & MH), Dhaka and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Dhaka. 147 Post operative hearing status in canal wall down mastoidectomy Sheikh Mohammad Rafiqul Hossain et al


Active shielding has been previously considered as an effective means for the attenuation of extremely low frequency magnetic fields. In the present paper an effective (digital) discrete time controller for active shields is presented pointing out its capability to drive active circuits in order to generate a magnetic field with the same amplitude as the incident one but oppositely directed. The digital controller is tested with several magnetic field waveforms showing very good tracking capabilities due to its wide bandwidth. Finally the proposed discrete time controller is used to drive an active circuit to reduce the low frequency magnetic shield radiated by the power section of an electronic system.


A contribution to the understanding of one of the many puzzling features of West African art history, this article deals with the stone sculptures found in an area centred in southern Sierra Leone. These 'nomoli', as they are usually called, were made and used in the area where they are found, rather than having been imported. The authors believe that these figurines were made by the groups of peoples called 'Sapes' by the early explorers of the region. This is partially confirmed by the fact that features of these people at the time of the first contacts seem to correlate with features found on nomoli. Originally intended as ancestor figures, these stone statuettes are used by some of the modern inhabitants of Sierra Leone as 'swearing' devices and to help increase agricultural yields. This latter use, at least, would go along with the authors' contention that the nomoli, after they ceased being regarded as ancestral figures—due to being lost, stolen or forgotten—were regarded as material representations of spirits known as krifi. The similarities between the supposed appearance of some of the krifi and the features of the nomoli would support this hypothesis. The 'monstrous' appearance of many of the nomoli might be due to their being carved as representations of krifi or of heads of secret societies. As to their dating, stylistic relationships between some of the nomoli and some of the ancestral figures in the Sudan, along with an apparent influence from that area dated about the seventh or eight century A.D., might mean that they were first manufactured at that time. Evidence exists that they were still being made in some places in the present century, but this might represent a revival of the art rather than a continuance, since the sale of these figures is quite profitable.


A GPSS model was developed to simulate the flow of parts through the stages of a network manufacturing process. The general network consists of M sequential stages, with a variable number of machines per stage. Parts can be processed on any of the Ni machines at stage i, and different types of parts may be mixed within a single machine. The simulator is used to evaluate scheduling policies proposed for each stage of the process. Scheduling policies to be considered are first in-first out (FIFO), last in-first out (LIFO), minimum process time, maximum process time, random, and priority.


The present invention relates to pentamines and cancers using (a) oxaliplatin, (b) gemcitabine, (c) taxol, (d) 5-fluorouracil, or (e) CPT 11 For the treatment of ovarian cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer or colon cancer.


By using information taken from inventories (registers) and wedding certificates of free and slave people, this abstract talks about the existence of slave families in Lencoes by the time this village was a boca do sertao (hinterland access), a conflicting area between the white settlers and the remaining indians who inhabited western Sao Paulo Province in the middle of the nineteenth century. Differently from what traditional history has emphasized, the slaves formed their families even under difficult conditions in which they lived. In Lencoes, about one third of the adult, slave population over 15 listed on the inventories was or had been married before. Some groups of this village were formed exclusively by families. The wedding certificates also carried the family's mark: more than half of the slave population had, at least, their ancestor's name, which was the official recognition of kinship among them.


The COVID-19 virus pandemic has thrust libraries, along with institutions and communities of all types across the globe, into managing situations many never imagined they would have to face. This E...


It is an important task to develop the media industry and liberate the media productive force. It is also inseparable from the productivity theory of Deng Xiaoping to recognize and analyze the problem,which is our ideological weapon. In the system, productivity theory is the core of its theoretical framework. Liberation of cultural productivity is a vital component of the Productivity Theory. In future, competition in the world will eventually become the competition of culture, and the liberation and development of cultural productivity has become one of the core topics in the 21st century. Media industry is the most important part in the cultural industry chain. It relates not only to the development of the media industry itself, but also to the development of cultural industries and the whole society and economy. The key to liberate the productive forces of media lies in the innovation of


The Field Reversed Confipation (FRC) is attractive for the design of a magnetic fusion reactor because of its intrinsically high plasma beta, natural divertor, and engineering simplicity. The lifetime of FRCs produced by the conventional field reversed theta pinch (FRTP) method is restricted to only hundreds of microseconds due to resistive flux losses. Rotating Magnetic Field (RMF) offers a promising tool for toroidal current drive in FRCs and maintaining the configurations in steady state.


Its first step was studied with the simplex centroid design the effects in the combination of nitrogen phosphorus and potassium fertilizer on yield of the Znathoxylum Bungeananum.According to the data obtained,a mathematical model was established,in which N、 P、 K were variables,the skin and seed of the Z.Bungeananum were dependent variables.The data reduction analysis showed that the effect of fertilizer combination is that high K and low P and low Nhigh P and low N and low Khigh N and low P and low Kbalanced N、 P and K.It is calculated maxima of yield as the combination of nitrogen and phosphorus and potassium fertilizer at different degree and draws out the expand line of nutrient influence yield.


The design and performance of an arcjet NEP spacecraft, suitable for use in the Space Nuclear Power System (SNPS) Reference Mission, are outlined. Several arcjet technology levels were considered in this study, and the vehicle design was based on an 30 kW ammonia arcjet system operating at an Isp of 1000 s and an efficiency of 45 percent. The arcjet/gimbal system, PPU and propellant feed-system are described. A 100 kWe SNPS was assumed and the spacecraft mass was baselined at 5500 kg excluding the propellant feed system. A radiation/arcjet efflux diagnostics package was included in the performance analysis. This spacecraft, launched from Kennedy, can perform a 50 degree inclination change and reach a final orbit of GEO with a 180 day trip time providing a six month active load for the SNPS. Advanced ammonia and hydrogen systems were examined for precursor SDI platform applications.


This dissertation focuses on event detection within streams of Tweets based on sentiment quantification. Sentiment quantification extends sentiment analysis, the analysis of the sentiment of individual documents, to analyze the sentiment of an aggregated collection of documents. Although the former has been widely researched, the latter has drawn less attention but offers greater potential to enhance current business intelligence systems. Indeed, knowing the proportion of positive and negative Tweets is much more valuable than knowing which individual Tweets are positive or negative. We also extend our sentiment quantification research to analyze the evolution of sentiment over time to automatically detect a shift in sentiment with respect to a topic or entity. We introduce a probabilistic approach to create a paired sentiment lexicon that models the positivity and the negativity of words separately. We show that such a lexicon can be used to more accurately predict the sentiment features for a Tweet than univalued lexicons. In addition, we show that employing these features with a multivariate Support Vector Machine (SVM) that optimizes the Hellinger Distance improves sentiment quantification accuracy versus other distance metrics. Furthermore, we introduce a mean of representing sentiment over time through sentiment signals built from the aforementioned sentiment quantifier and show that sentiment shift can be detected using geometric change-point detection algorithms. Finally, our evaluation shows that, of the methods implemented, a two-dimensional Euclidean distance measure, analyzed using the first and second order statistical moments, was the most accurate in detecting sentiment shift.


zGlue Smart Fabric, an active silicon interposer, enables rapid development of Systems in Package (SiPs) and Chips using chiplet stacking in a modular style and software programmability. zGlue Smart Fabric works with off-the-shelf chiplets in known good die and wafer level chip scale packages format without dictating a footprint constraint on chiplets. This is achieved by making a fine pitch copper pillar micro-bump array on the surface that can conform to the chiplet ball map using a programable connectivity and power array built into zGlue's fabric. Connection to RF and sensitive analog signals are handled in RDL. Programmability of zGlue bumps also enable some repair and reconfigurability after manufacturing. The design process with zGlue includes usage of a cloud-based software design tool called ChipBuilder. This tool performs most conventional SiP design functions but more importantly it is used for creating soft and hard routes among IOs. ChipBuilder starts with a data representation of zGlue's Smart Fabric. A growing library of chiplet data has been encoded into the tool and is made available to the users of ChipBuilder via the cloud. Users select chiplets, enter design, perform IO planning, and route the design. With this modular IC design style, zGlue can handle high mix devices that are expected with the growth of connected smart devices everywhere.


A baculovirus system was used to express the oxyge- nase and reductase domains of human endothelial nitric-oxide synthase (ecNOS) as distinct proteins. The oxygenase domain (residues 1–491) was expressed using a vector containing a His 6 tag at the N terminus. The purified oxygenase domain had an apparent molecular mass of (cid:59) 54 kDa, and retained the ability to bind L arginine and form the ferrous CO complex. The purified reductase domain (residues 492-1244) had an apparent molecular mass of (cid:59) 82 kDa and retained the ability to catalyze NADPH-dependent cytochrome c reduction, which was enhanced 10-fold by the presence of Ca 2 (cid:49) / calmodulin. Both purified domains exhibited immuno- reactivity to rabbit anti-ecNOS IgG. The NOS activity was successfully reconstituted by mixing the two do- mains. These results demonstrate for the first time that the two domains of ecNOS are catalytically intact and can be reconstituted in vitro .


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Relevance. Prevention of circovirus diseases in swine management is one of the urgent problems in the industry. The article provides data on the results of the use of two regimens for administering vaccines against circovirus infection to piglets according to immunological, biochemical and zootechnical indicators.Methods. The work was carried out on piglets, which were vaccinated with "Ingelvak CircoFLEX" vaccine (Germany) against circovirus at the age of 21 days, in the experimental group it was administered together with "leukocytic lysate" obtained from donors hyperimmunized with this vaccine. Evaluation of the effectiveness of post-vaccination immunity formation was carried out based on the results of immunological, biochemical, zootechnical and statistical studies.Results. It was established that when the vaccination was combined with the introduction of «leukocytic lysate» from hyperimmunized donors, the number of piglets with a positive test for the presence of viral neutralizing antibodies was 79.30–82.33%, in the control — 67.80–71.60%, as a result of changes in the leukocytic blood pool within the normal limits. In piglets of experimental group blood concentration of total protein and albumins starting from 60-day age exceeds control level by 7.73–8.68 and 17.84–30.27% respectively. In the experimental group, compared with the control group, the co-storage of animals is increased by 9.02%, the live weight of piglets at the end of the nursery period is increased by 12.88 kg, or 31.85%, based on one head and the value of medium increases in live weight — by 90 g, or 26.01%.


There is now convincing evidence, much of which is quoted in the Opinions article by Powe and colleagues (pp. 987–997), that tissue production of specific IgE occurs in allergic disease. A number of authorities including Powe et al. as well as Peter Barnes in an Opinions paper last year [1], have argued that this is the explanation for intrinsic allergic disease. In other words the difference between extrinsic allergic disease and non-atopic disease is that in the former the specific IgE gets into the blood and in the latter it doesn't, although if this is the case the reasons remain unknown. If this hypothesis were correct then allergen challenge in intrinsic disease would also result in an early and late response. As inclusion criteria for allergen challenge is a positive skin prick test or circulating specific IgE this is not often done in non-atopic subjects. However Lopez and colleagues (pp. 1007–1014) have convincingly shown that patients who they describe as having 'local allergic rhinitis' (defined as people with perennial symptoms to dust mite with negative circulating specific IgE), have both early and late responses to allergen challenge measured by symptoms and mediator release including mast cell tryptase. This is an important and exciting observation, not least because it suggests that anti-allergic therapy including specific immunotherapy and omalizumab would be beneficial in intrinsic disease.


Psoriasis, whose symptom is shown in around 1∼3% American people, is a chronic and inflammatory skin disease. There are many treatments for pustular and erythrodermic psoriasis and oral retinoid which is a synthetic derivative of vitamin A is the most popular drug of them. Acitretin called as the second generation retinoid is a kind of active retinoid metabolite, which shows some drug toxicities in hepatic, skeletal and cardiovascular systems including atherosclerosis after a long term use. Even though that, we have just one case which has ever reported on acitretin-associated thrombotic stroke so far. We report a case on a patient who has multiorgan thrombotic occlusions resulted from longstanding psoriatic treatments by using acitretin for five years. This patient suffers from lots of complications such as superior mesenteric artery thrombosis, small cerebellar infarctions, cerebral infarction, acute renal failure concomitant with both small renal infarctions and atherosclerosis obliterans in his two legs. (J Korean Acad Rehab Med 2007; 31: 375-379)


The passive type micromixer enhances the increase of interfacial area of liquid species and generates effective diffusion/advection behavior of fluids without any additional power. In this paper, we describe the mixing behavior of liquid streams in microchannel with rib-shape micromixer. For qualitative and quantitative estimation of mixing performance, we conduct a numerical analysis on diffusive/convective behavior of streams using a commercial CFD code, Fluent 6.3.26. Using a response surface method (RSM) as an optimization technique, we have obtained an optimal mixer structure of which design variables are rib angle, rib height to channel height ratio, rib width to rib height ratio and spacing between ribs to rib height ratio. for the shortest channel length to reach 95% of mixing.


The Study entitled "Estimation of osteoporosis risk among women attending orthopaedic clinics in South India was designed to estimate the risk of osteoporosis in women, assessment of adherence and awareness on treatment of hip fracture patients & to counsel the patients for improving the health outcomes. The prospective observational epidemiological study for six months duration was carried out in women over 45 years of age. Discussion on risk estimation for osteoporosis through SCORE questionnaire was done in patients visiting orthopaedic clinics in Anantapur, Andhrapradesh. From the score of risk estimation questionnaire for all the patients (500) it was found that females are at more risk for developing osteoporosis with increasing age and statistically significant P-value (0.0429) was found between age groups 65-69 years. Among the study populations 56% of the patients were having R.A and 27% of the patients had broken bones. 56.3% of the female with increasing age were having risk for developing osteoporosis. This can be attributed to the factors like poor knowledge regarding disease, life style modifications, fall reduction and medication adherence. Failure to receive estrogen therapy due to low socio-economic status is the other confounding factor for developing osteoporosis. In conclusion, improving patient's knowledge through counseling regarding disease and medication adherence can


Electromagnetic fields carry momentum: . But if the centre of energy of a (localized) system is at rest, its total momentum must be zero. The compensating term has come to be called 'hidden' momentum: Ph =  − Pem. It is (typically) ordinary mechanical momentum, relativistic in nature, and is 'hidden' only in the sense that it is not associated with motion of the system as a whole—only with that of its constituent parts. This article develops a catalogue of field momenta and hidden momenta for ideal electric and magnetic dipoles—both the 'standard' variety made from electric charges and currents and the 'anomalous' variety made from hypothetical magnetic monopoles and their currents—in the presence of electric and magnetic fields (which themselves may be produced by 'standard' or 'anomalous' sources). This article is part of the theme issue 'Celebrating 125 years of Oliver Heaviside's 'Electromagnetic Theory''.


Various species of nanoparticles present the capacity to interact with vegetal structures, with stimulating or repressive effects, depending on the species of nanoparticles, the biological media and the reference level for the interaction. The present study targeted the influence of biocompatible magnetic nanofluid (F3O4/H2O - MNF) on the chlorophyll content of sunflower. An interdependence relation was found between chlorophyll and the MNF concentration in the tested interval (0.01 – 1% MNF), described by a second degree polynomial function, with high statistical confidence (p<0.01; R2 = 0.743). The average increase in the chlorophyll content given by MNF is between 1.01 and 4.58 SPAD units, with statistical confidence (p<0.01; R2 = 0.977). Chlorophyll variation rate ranged from 1.01 to -0.85, and negative increase Δ (growth rate) was recorded above the value 0.75% MNF with statistical confidence (p = 0.035; R2 = 0.814).


An apparatus is described that includes a processor. The processor has a processing core to execute an instruction that specifies a performance state of an application thread. The instruction belongs to the application thread. The processor includes a register to store the performance state. The processor includes power management control logic coupled to the register to set a performance state of the processing core as a function of the performance state


Objective
To investigate and compare collaborative behavior between physicians and nurses in stomatological hospitals, and factors influencing nurse-physician collaboration.

Methods
Physicians and nurses were surveyed by Nurse-Physician Collaboration Scale (NPSC). Factors influencing nurse-physician collaborative level were screened out by analyzing various factors with ANOVA.

Results
The difference of total collaborative behavior scores between physicians and nurses was not significant (P>0.05); among the 21 items in 3 dimensions of "information exchange among patients" , "joint participation in decision-making of treatment and nursing" and "relationship between nurses and physicians" , 7 items showed differences between the two groups (P<0.05); better nurse-physician collaborative behavior appeared between physicians with extrovert character and emotional stability, and nurses with emotional stability, 3-5 years of working and professional title as registered nurse.

Conclusions
The difference of nurse-physician collaborative behavior in stomatological hospitals was not significant; however, education and training of collaborative behaviors, such as nurse-physician relationship, dealing with complicated situation, etc. still need to be improved; hospital managers should build a positive collaborative environment, so as to promote team cooperation between nurses and physicians.

Key words:
Physician; Nurse; Nurse-physician collaboration; Stomatological hospital