Tuberculosis is a major health problem throughout the world. It is the second leading cause of death, affecting approximately 1 million people each year (1-2).

Ecuador is a South American country located in the pacific coast of the continent. It is and divided into four main regions, the coast, highlands, rainforest and the Galapagos Islands, and it has 13 026 891 inhabitants (3). Guayas is the province where this study was performed, it is located in a coastal region, its capital is Guayaquil. The city and its surrounding rural areas have 2 515 146 inhabitants. In 2004, 2 318 new cases of AFB + tuberculosis were reported in Guayaquil. This represents 53,41% of the nationwide reported cases (6).


Empirical evidence indicates that the control of postural sway and cognitive functioning are not independent systems. The present experiment employed a dual-task paradigm to investigate the role of visual cognitive tasks of varying cognitive load on postural control. Eleven participants (aged: 19.45 ± 0.93) stood on a force platform as still as possible while performing a series of five visual cognitive tasks of varying difficulty. For the RT tasks, participants faced a panel at eye level (3 m away) that contained 3 tri-colour (blue, green and red) LEDs and verbally responded "top" once the correct LED was illuminated. For the SRT task, participants responded once the center LED was illuminated red. For the CRT task, participants responded when the left LED was illuminated blue or when the right LED was illuminated green. Additional lights were presented to increase task difficulty. The continuous choice counting task (CCC) was similar to the CRT, however, participants silently counted the number of times blue was illuminated on the left and green was illuminated on the right. For the last two tasks, a 19" computer monitor was used. For the math task, participants silently performed a series of math operations. For the double number task, participants silently counted the number of times two randomized digits were presented in a 3-digit sequence. Results revealed that the math and double number tasks produced the smallest area compared to SRT, CRT and CCC (ps <0.01). The math and double number tasks significantly reduced sway variability in AP and ML compared to SRT, CRT and CCC (ps < 0.01) (ps < 0.05). No significant difference was found between the math and double number tasks. This suggests that by increasing the cognitive load, overt attention is more effectively shifted away from the postural task thereby enhancing postural performance.


In 1647 the Dutch ship Haarlem, en route from Batavia to the Netherlands Republic, was wrecked in Table Bay. The survivors were encamped over the next year before they were rescued in a fort they constructed called Sandenburgh. Their successful sojourn in the Cape led directly to the establishment of the Dutch colony there in 1652. They survived by living on hunted cormorants and penguins, bartered cattle and sheep, and by drinking fresh water obtained from a well which they sank to a depth of 20 m. The sequence of sediments encountered in the well was recorded by Jodocus Hondius III, grandson of the famous mapmaker, in a book published in 1652, based on accounts given to him by the sailors from the Haarlem. A comparison of the stratigraphy recorded in the well (five sedimentary units) with the Pleistocene and Holocene stratigraphy known from modern studies of these coastal sediments, shows a very good correspondence in terms of lithologies and thicknesses, and attests to the veracity of the sources that provided Hondius with his information. This singular case of a detailed stratigraphic column is interesting in the light it throws on the rudimentary understanding of rock types, stratigraphy and hydrology by Dutch sailors in the mid-17th century, at the beginnings of South African colonial history, more than a decade before the study of stratigraphy was initiated by the work of Steno. The measurements recorded in the description of the well are some of the earliest quantitative data recorded in the history of South African science.


ABSTRACT Korean pressurized water reactors (PWRs) generally use radioactive effluent monitors for monitoring the concentration of radioactive effluents released to the environment. In this study, the operating margins for radioactive effluent monitors were analyzed to determine the levels of real-time concentration of effluents compared to effluent control limits (ECLs), the regulatory limits. The results show that the concentration of radioactive effluents released from Korean PWRs complied with the ECLs during the years 2012–2016. It was also found that outages at Korean PWRs did not impact the operating margins for radioactive effluent monitors; that is, there was no remarkable difference of the concentration of effluents between normal operation and maintenance periods. In terms of simultaneous effluent releases, the results demonstrate that exceeding the ECLs is unlikely to occur even under the hypothetical condition of coincident effluent releases from multiple discharge points at a Korean PWR.


Elizabeth Peters' novel The Camelot Caper, published in 1969 when the excavations at South Cadbury were in progress, offers a clever pastiche of Gothic novels, set partly at Glastonbury and South Cadbury. The protagonists face potential dangers on every hand but suffer little from them, and the narrator even characterizes a chase scene set in the Glastonbury ruins as a 'merry romp.' The climax of the narrative features an episode that inverts the imagery of the Cadbury excavations as the villains dig in order to place objects into the ground.


In this paper we attempt to address the issue of endogeneity of education in the Mincerian earnings function and the heterogeneity of returns to education using data from South Africa. We used the compulsory education policy of 1996 as a source of exogenous variation in schooling to control for endogeneity and applied quantile regression analysis to trace the evolution of returns to education across the earnings distribution. Our findings reveal that the OLS estimates of returns to investment in education are much lower than those from a Two-stage Least Squares regression and a control function quantile regression, which suggests that the OLS estimates may be biased. Further, estimates from the quantile regression suggest that returns to education are heterogeneous across the earnings distribution. *Department of Economics, University of Pretoria


Recently, the incidence of both diabetes mellitus and diabetic foot has been increasing.Ischemia, neuropathy, and infection are major causes of diabetic foot ulcer. In addition to other conventional treatments, hyperbaric oxygen is an effective adjunctive therapy with less side-effects. Hyperbaric oxygen may play a role through different mechanisms in improving the prognosis of diabetic foot.

Key words:
Diabetic foot;  Ulcer of foot;  Hyperbaric oxygen


Three-Dimensional Galois Representations and a Conjecture of Ash, Doud and Pollack Vinh Xuan Dang Department of Mathematics Master of Science In the 1970's and 1980's, Jean-Pierre Serre formulated a conjecture connecting two-dimensional Galois representations and modular forms. The conjecture came to be known as Serre's modularity conjecture. It was recently proved by Khare and Wintenberger in 2008. Serre's conjecture has various important consequences in number theory. Most notably, it played a key role in the proof of Fermat's last theorem. A natural question is, "what is the analogue of Serre's conjecture for higher dimensional Galois representations?" In 2002, Ash, Doud and Pollack formulated a precise statement for a higher dimensional analogue of Serre's conjecture. They also provided numerous computational examples as evidence for this generalized conjecture. We consider the three-dimensional version of the Ash-Doud-Pollack conjecture. We find specific examples of three-dimensional Galois representations and computationally verify the generalized conjecture in all these examples.


Over the past few years, mobile cellular networks have witnessed an enormous growth in the carried data-traffic volume. The current networks' features are not enough to cope with this traffic trend, and the concept of small cells has emerged as a feasible solution to increase the network capacity. However, the deployment of small cells introduces several technical challenges, such as the cross-tier interference between the macrocell and the small cells or the use of the subscriber landline to send the backhaul data. In this paper, an analytical model is proposed to study the impact that the user traffic dynamics, the mobility of macrocell users, the scheme chosen to associate macrocell users to the small cells, and the changing available capacity of the small-cell backhaul have on the system performance. To make the solution of the model computationally feasible, we exploit the time-scale decomposition approach. In most practical scenarios, the arrival and departure rates of traffic flows are much larger than the rate of events associated with the mobility of macrocell users. Then, flows perceive that macrocell users are still. This model is applied to identify the scheme to associate macrocell users to the small cells, which maximizes the performance perceived by the small-cell users.


The baseline avionics system features a central digital computer that integrates the functions of all the space tug subsystems by means of a redundant digital data bus. The central computer consists of dual central processor units, dual input/output processors, and a fault tolerant memory, utilizing internal redundancy and error checking. Three electronically steerable phased arrays provide downlink transmission from any tug attitude directly to ground or via TDRS. Six laser gyros and six accelerometers in a dodecahedron configuration make up the inertial measurement unit. Both a scanning laser radar and a TV system, employing strobe lamps, are required as acquisition and docking sensors. Primary dc power at a nominal 28 volts is supplied from dual lightweight, thermally integrated fuel cells which operate from propellant grade reactants out of the main tanks.


Social assistance is an important element of welfare states. Each country has some social assistance, but its structure, production and eligibility criteria can differ. In last decades, researchers have focused on the comparative analysis of social assistance. The aim of the paper is to introduce the comparative analysis of social assistance and its complexity. This paper is based on descriptive analysis of literature and statistical data. It discusses the concepts 'social assistance' and 'comparative analysis', as well as gives an overview of indicators and proposed typologies of social assistance. The analysis of social assistance mostly focuses on the following aspects: what resources are used, who and on what pre-conditions can get different types of benefits, and whether it affects poverty. The paper gives an insight into several typologies of social assistance, based on different criteria – ideas and values, relations between assistance, insurance and social work, generosity, selectivity, targeting etc. To illustrate the complexity of the comparative analysis of social assistance, the case of the Baltic countries is used. The comparative analysis of social assistance has faced several methodological problems – there is no precise definition of the concept 'social assistance', and different terms are used as synonyms of it. Often it is difficult to make distinction between social assistance and other elements of social protection. Social assistance varies significantly from country to country in different dimensions.


For the Indian Dairy Industry, efforts need to be directed to accelerating the pace of application and adoption of modern technologies to improving productivity, and to reducing costs of operations and ensure greater availability of milk and milk products. To attain this, national development programs need to be dove tailed with state Governments programmes on animal husbandry and dairying, poverty alleviation programmes, R&D strategies, Agricultural Universities and other developmental agencies. Infrastructure needs to be strengthened for the improvement of milch breeds of cattle and buffaloes in context with the 14 agro-climatic zones of the country. Intensive financial and scientific inputs are needed to mechanise the processes for the manufacture of indigenous milk products. Scope is also indicated for the development of a new range of dairy products to meet the needs of the urban consumer for health, safety, convenience and shelf-life.


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The authors of this contribution have recently proposed new straightforward formulas for the serviceability analysis of non-prismatic timber bea ms, limiting the validation to pitched, tapered, an d kinked beams. The comparison between the new formulas, the ones a vailable in the literature, and highly refined 2D F inite Element analysis have revealed that literature formulas cou ld lead to errors over 100% whereas the new formula s' errors are usually smaller than 10% for most of cases of pract ic l interest. This contribution extends the valida tion of the new straightforward formulas to more realistic geometri es, indicating that the proposed formulas can be ap plied successfully also to cambered beams. Conversely, the results her ein discussed highlight also that the new formulas commit errors over 15% when the curved region is larger than 30% of the beam length and when the maximum boundary sl ope of curved beams is greater than 30%.


Management and Outcome of Traumatic Peripheral Vascular Injuries in A Nigerian Teaching Hospital Ekpe EE1*, Dim EM2, Etta O3, Eyo CS3 and Akpan AF1 1Department of Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery Unit, University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Uyo, Nigeria 2Department of Orthopaedic & Traumatology, University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Uyo, Nigeria 3Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Uyo, Nigeria


(1) Various procedures for the fractionation of glutinous, non-glutinous and sen rice starch have been studied. It is here shown that special caution is necessary for the fractionation of glutinous-rice starch. (2) The intensity of the coloration of starch fraction with iodine (iodine-coloration degree or coloration degree) was used as the indication of the characteristic properties of amylose and amylopectin which were prepared from glutinous, non-glutinous and sen rice starch.


AbstractThe capacity of the Wuku-Yangmei freeway is insufficient for developing the Taoyuan Aerotropolis. To provide more traffic lanes to the existing freeway, a series of pier foundations at the ...


Grouting-efficiency evaluation is a key element in grouting-construction control. However, most existing grouting-efficiency evaluation models do not consider the hesitation and bounded rationality of experts and have difficulty in handling the problem of incomplete decision-making information generated by experts. Furthermore, the diversity of the evaluation indicators used can be further improved. This study conducts a comprehensive evaluation model to address these problems. An objective and reasonable fuzzy evaluation method is demonstrated through the integration of interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets, prospect theory, and improved D numbers. The secondary permeability index is introduced to establish a more scientific evaluation indicator system. The proposed model is implemented in evaluating the curtain-grouting efficiency of a hydropower station, and its consistency, representativeness, and superiority are validated and analyzed.


The olfactory system of Drosophila provides an excellent model to define the neural circuits and mechanisms which control behaviors elicited by environmental stimuli. Here, we show that the Dystrophin Dp186 isoform plays an important role in maintaining information transfer through the olfactory system. Dystrophin's roles have been primarily described as those of a structural anchor required for muscle integrity. A variety of recent studies have also, however, implicated Dystrophin in both peripheral and central synaptic function likely by its acting to scaffold components of signaling pathways. We show that the Dp186 protein is expressed at both sides of the primary synapse between the antennal olfactory receptor neuron and its downstream projection neuron in the antennal lobe which subsequently relays information into the central brain. No apparent abnormalities are observed in the number or the spatial organization of the olfactory sensillae, in olfactory receptor axon targeting or projection neuron morphology in Dp186 mutants. Dp186 is, however, required in olfactory receptor neurons for their wild type levels of output upon odorant-evoked stimulation. Mutants also display decreased odor avoidance behavior at low, but not high, odorant concentrations. Dp186 expression in either the olfactory receptor or projection neurons rescues the low concentration odor avoidance phenotype. These results suggest that Dp186 is required to maintain wild type synaptic transmission levels at both the primary olfactory synapse and at downstream synapses. Furthermore, they indicate that increasing response or transfer gain at a particular point in this circuit can compensate for reduced function elsewhere.


In a data transfer method, at the time of handing over a mobile station, a base station from which the mobile station is to be handed over transfers user data stored in a buffer for the mobile station to a base station to which the mobile station is to be handed over. The method is provided with a transfer order determining step wherein the base station from which the mobile station is to be handed over determines the transfer order of the user data, and a transfer step wherein such base station transfers the user data to the base station to which the mobile station is to be handed over, based on the transfer order.


e13556 Background: We have shown that nearly all patients with solid tumors have an increase in tumor proliferation during acute withdrawal of SU as quantified by FLT PET/CT imaging. We hypothesize that this results from compensatory increases in proangiogenic factors such as VEGF and HIF1-α during SU exposure. We conducted this study to understand the contribution of plasma VEGF, HIF1-α, and PKs to withdrawal flare.

METHODS
Pts with advanced solid cancers and no prior anti-VEGF therapy were enrolled. SU was given at 50 mg QD using standard 4:2 (Part A) or alternative 2:1 (Part B) schedule. SUVmean from FLT PET/CT scans, plasma SU, SU metabolite, VEGF, and HIF1-α were measured at baseline, peak SU exposure, and after SU withdrawal (A: baseline, wk 4, wk 6; B: baseline, wk 2, wk 3). Changes in parameters over time were evaluated using a paired t-test and nonparametric Wilcoxon signed rank test. Multivariate regression analysis was conducted to evaluate the association between changes in PK and PD parameters.

RESULTS
Of 25 pts enrolled (A: 14, B: 11), complete data were available for 8 in Part A and 5 in Part B. During SU exposure: plasma SU, SU metabolite, and VEGF increased, while SUVmean decreased. Likewise, during SU withdrawal: plasma SU, SU metabolite, and VEGF decreased, while SUVmean increased (Table). No significant difference in HIF1-α was observed. Change in VEGF during SU exposure was identified as a statistically significant independent predictor for change in SUVmean after SU withdrawal (r=0.90; p=0.002) from change in HIF1-α and change in SU concentration.

CONCLUSIONS
Upregulation of plasma VEGF during SU exposure independently predicts tumor proliferation after withdrawal as evidenced by an increase in SUVmean. An ongoing study ( NCT01243359 ) sequences SU with the VEGF mAb bevacizumab in an attempt to block the withdrawal flare. [Table: see text].


This paper analyses the potential bottlenecks that might emerge in the North-western European electricity supply system as a result of a number of (autonomous) long-term developments. The main long-term developments we identify are (i) a continuing increase in the demand for electricity, (ii) a gradual shift from conventional electricity generation towards unconventional (green) generation, (iii) a gradual shift from centralised generation towards decentralised generation and (iv) a shift from national self-sufficient electricity supply systems towards a pan-European electricity system. Although it has been recognised that these developments might cause certain problems in some or more elements of the electricity supply chain, a coherent and comprehensive framework for the identification of these problems is lacking. More specific, governments and regulators seem to focus on certain parts of the electricity supply system separately, whereas certain interdependencies in the system have received relatively little attention. This paper presents such a framework and identifies some potential bottlenecks that receive relatively little attention from policy makers. These are (i) the increasing penetration of distributed generation, (ii) an increasingly important role for demand response and (iii) the lack of locational signals in the electricity supply system. The potential role of governments and markets in these issues is briefly explored.


Gifted adolescents often demonstrate emotional and social difficulties. The quality and homogeneity of social networks are related to emotional well-being. This study focuses on the relationship between quality and homogeneity of the social network and well-being of gifted adolescents. The goal of this study is to increase the limited knowledge about social networks of gifted adolescents and the understanding of factors that contribute to well-being of gifted youth. Method A sample of 70 gifted Dutch adolescents filled out a questionnaire about their social network, the quality and homogeneity of their social network. Results A significant Pearson correlation between quality of social network and well-being of gifted adolescents is found. For both sexes are quality of social network significantly associated with well-being. The results indicate a stronger relationship for family-relationships than for friendships. Homogeneity of gender and a shared sense of humor are both significant related to well-being of gifted youth. No significant correlation was found between homogeneity of giftedness and well-being. Conclusion Quality of a social network, homogeneity of gender and a shared sense of humor prove to be significant predictors of well-being in gifted adolescents. Future studies are important to clarify the influence of social relationships on well-being. Attention for social relationships of gifted youth will provide implications for the content of prevention and intervention of psychosocial problems.


This study examines the analysis of factors affecting the value of bonds in the registered banking sub-sector in IDX. In this study the data used is secondary data that is data directly obtained from the Indonesia stock Exchange. Bond prices are usually influenced by many factors such as coupons, bond rating, Bond liquidity, due period and external factors such as JCI, interest rates, exchange rate and inflation. Independent variables in this study used coupons, interest rates, liquidity and leverage, while for the dependent variable used was the value (price) of the bonds. The number of population in this research is 43 companies engaged in banking, where the number of sample there are 38 bonds of 7 companies of banking sub-sector period of 2013-2017. In this study samples were taken in purposive sampling, namely the selection of samples based on the criteria that had been determined by the study. The analysis in this study used multiple linear regression analyses. Regression analysis serves to test the influence of independent variables (coupons, interest rates, liquidity, and leverage) on dependent variables (bond values). The results of the partial test of the study showed that coupons affect significantly and positively against the value of bonds, interest rates did not affect the value of bonds, liquidity has no effect on bond prices, and independent variables Leverage affects significantly and negatively against the value (price) of bonds. Simultaneously coupons, interest rates, liquidity and leverage affect the value (price) of bonds.


This paper argues that a generalized model of social preferences must simultaneously pass two tests; the Variety test (explain outcomes under variety, the V-test) and the Sen's Weak Equity Axiom test (the S-test). It is shown that none of the models proposed to date unconditionally passes these tests. The paper extends the Fehr and Schmidt model of inequality aversion to a generalized model of inequity aversion which passes the two tests and parsimoniously explains interior outcomes in the dictator game and dynamics of outcomes in other games. This is done through introducing equity-bias in the Fehr and Schmidt model. The paper postulates that a player's idea of equitable distribution is state-dependent, where the state is determined by psychological and structural parameters. The state could be fair, superior or inferior. Individuals in a fair state have zero equity-bias and split the pie evenly; those in a superior (inferior) state have positive (negative) equity-bias and accept more (less) than fair distributions as equitable.


Aiming at the large volume of the pure water(several tons),high measuring frequency in astringent manufacturing process,a pure water measurement device applied in cosmetic industry was developed.The device combined with the process of astringent manufacturing,which transfered the data of pure water volume to totalizer by electrical controlling,the pneumatic valves which control the switch of pure water transformation was closed automatically when the numerical value accumulated and reach to the setting value.In the meanwhile,the actual measuring pure water volume was printed by the printer.Comparing the original method like manual measuring the height of liquid level and weighing by scales,the pure water measuring device controlled by electricity has some improvements in the automaticity and working efficiency.In additional,it has some special advantages,for instance,distinctive principle,novel design,high measuring accuracy and so on,it is a very effective device for pure water measuring in cosmetic manufacturing process.The results indicate that the device not only can fulfill normal production requirements,but also can save equipment original cost,production cost and decrease the labor intensity.


width, since the total trichophytic width is within almost 4 mm. However, it is inevitable that tensionfree closure is required to obtain a satisfactory result regardless of the method.When the scar width is more than 4 mm, the scar heals in the wound that is narrower than the previous suture, but it may be open completely or partially. In this case, resuture using a combination of double trichophytic closure and other treatments, including flaps and a hair transplant, is used. Figure 3 shows a simple algorithm for a thin linear scar.


Background: World health organization also reported that as the high prevalence of dengue infection seen worldwide it requires immediate action and planning to combat the situation. It is reported that globally more than 2.5 billion of population living in the areas which are endemic for dengue viral infection. Approximately near about 50 million new dengue infections reported each year. Material & Methods: The present cross-sectional study includes 100 Patients who had dengue IgM antibody positive were enrolled from outdoor and from ward by simple random sampling. Clearance from Institutional Ethics Committee was taken before start of study. Written informed consent was taken from each study participant. Results: 92 % patients had myalgia which was followed by headache in 86% patients, 84% patients had retro-orbital pain and 83% patients had vomiting. Out of the total pain abdomen was present among 72% patients, bleeding tendencies were found among 21% patients, petechiae/purpura was present in 13% patients. Oliguria was found among 2% patients, 1% patient had altered sensorium and convulsions was present among 1% patient. Conclusion: The common presenting symptoms of dengue viral infections were fever, headache, myalgia, retro orbital pain, vomiting, pain abdomen, purpura and bleeding tendencies. The most common presenting sign was skin rash followed by ascites and splenomegaly. The most common presented complication was hepatic dysfunction.


Part I. Introduction: 1. Tunable micro-optics Hans Zappe 2. Tunable optics in nature Robert Brunner and Erik Forster Part II. Devices and Materials: 3. Soft matter micro-optics Wolfgang Monch 4. Tunable reflective optics David Dickensheets 5. Tunable liquid lenses J. Andrew Yeh and Yen-Sheng Lu 6. Optofluidic micro-shutters and micro-irises Philipp Muller 7. Solid-body elastomeric lenses Sebastian Petsch, Peter Liebetraut and Hans Zappe 8. Spatially tunable polarization devices Frederik Schaal, Michael Rutloh, Susanne Weidenfeld and Wolfgang Osten 9. Aluminum nitride and diamond membranes for tunable micro-optics Daniel Patz, Steffen Leopold, Verena Zurbig, Fabian Knobber, Oliver Ambacher, Martin Hoffman, Vadim Lebedev and Stefan Sinzinger 10. Piezoelectrically actuated tunable microlenses Jan Draheim and Ulrike Wallrabe Part III. Systems and Applications: 11. Characterization of micro-optics Heidi Ottevaere, Lien Smeesters and Hugo Thienpont 12. Photonic crystals Olav Solgaard and Xuan Wu 13. MEMS scanners for OCT applications Hiroshi Toshiyoshi, Keiji Isamoto and Changho Chong 14. Liquid crystal elastomer micro-optics Sebastian Petsch, Richard Rix, Stefan Schuhladen, Rudolf Zendel and Hans Zappe 15. Adaptive scanning micro-eye Daniel Patz, Stefan Sinzinger, Steffen Leopold, Martin Hoffmann, Verena Zurbig, Oliver Ambacher, Vadim Lebedev, Tobias Deutschmann and Egbert Oesterschulze 16. Hyperspectral eye Robert Brunner, Erik Forster, Ulrike Wallrabe, Moritz Sturmer, Mohammad Abdo, Jan G. Korvink, Patrick Bohnert, Benjamin Ryba, Kaustubh Banerjee and Stefan Schuhladen 17. Plenoptic cameras Andreas Tunnermann, Alexander Oberdorster, Frank Wippermann, Sylvia Gebhardt, Bernhard Bramlage, Dorthe Ernst, Henning Fouckhardt, Carina Heisel, Christina Kimmle, Johannes Strassner, Dominic Palm, Felix Paries and Ben Bockwinkel.


Based on selecting background, target at college students, using the way of questionnaire, this paper investigates the comprehensive competitiveness influence factors of humanities and social science of colleges and universities. Using Factor analysis method analyzed the investigation results, got the factors which the students consider more important, then compared doctor, master and undergraduate's opinions with each other. In the end, this paper gave some advice to competitiveness evaluation system of human and social sciences of universities and improving there competitive capacity.


We conducted a cross-sectional study of 5,018 participants aged 67–90 years (1,574 with and 3,444 without diagnosed diabetes) who attended visit 5 of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study (2011–2013). Risk factor targets were defined using both stringent (and less stringent) goals: hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) <7%, or <53 mmol/mol (<8%, <64 mmol/mol); LDL cholesterol (LDL-c) <100 mg/dL (<130 mg/dL); and blood pressure (BP) <140/90 mmHg (<150/90 mmHg). We used Poisson regression to obtain prevalence ratios (PRs).


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Our previous studies have indicated that naive human CD4+ T cells of neonatal or adult origin may be the initial source of IL–4 which is required for their development into Th2 effectors. In addition to minute amounts of IL–4, anti–CD3/B7.1–activated naive cells also release readily detectable levels of IL–13 and IFN–γ. The production of IL–4 and IL–13 by naive T cells is differentially regulated by TGF–β and IL–12. Shortly after activation, naive T cells express surface OX40, a TNF–R family member whose ligand (OX40L) is constitutively expressed on a subset of dendritic cells. Engagement of OX40 on activated naive T cells increases their expression of IL–4 and IL–13, suppresses that of IFN–γ and promotes their development into Th2–like effectors.


Simple Summary High local failure and treatment-related morbidity represent a great challenge for postcricoid carcinoma which appears to be more aggressive and requires more morbid oncologic surgery with reconstruction of the larynx and hypopharynx. This paper presents a retrospective analysis focusing on the evaluation of clinical characteristics, therapeutic approaches, quality of swallowing, voice rehabilitation, and verbal communication after a long-term follow-up. To date, this is the first and largest cohort published to reveal a deep understanding of clinical routines in postcricoid carcinoma. Abstract Background: Postcricoid carcinoma is a rare but aggressive type of hypopharyngeal carcinoma with poor prognosis and high mortality; thus, it is indispensable to investigate the surgical efficacy and multimodal strategies. Methods: This retrospective study included postcricoid carcinoma patients undergoing surgical resection from 2008 to 2022. Treatment methods and clinical characteristics were analyzed to evaluate prognostic factors for oncological outcomes. Results: Of 72 patients, 13 cases were in the I–II stage and 59 in the III–IV stage. The overall survival (OS) was 50.0%; the laryngeal function preservation rate was 69.4%. Univariate analysis found that high mortality was associated with low tumor differentiation, lymph node metastasis, neck recurrence, and smoke history via log-rank test (p < 0.05); postoperative radiotherapy (RT) remained positive in OS (p = 0.04). The multivariable model further revealed that lymph node metastasis was a dominant determinant after accounting for covariates (HR 1.75; 95% CI 0.85–3.59). The data also indicated that neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) and tumor diameter ≤ 2 cm were causing lower rates of pharyngeal fistula and locoregional relapse. Conclusions: Surgeons should emphasize high-risk features and optimize individualized surgical procedures for postcricoid carcinoma patients. Combined with multimodal treatments, it is feasible to reconstruct laryngeal function and lessen postoperative morbidities in advanced patients.


Estimation of soil organic matter content (SOMC) is essential for soil quality evaluation. Compared with traditional multispectral remote sensing for SOMC mapping, the distribution of SOMC in a certain area can be obtained quickly by using hyperspectral remote sensing data. The Advanced Hyper-Spectral Imager (AHSI) onboard the ZY1-02D satellite can simultaneously obtain spectral information in 166 bands from visible (400 nm) to shortwave infrared (2500 nm), providing an important data source for SOMC mapping. In this study, SOMC-related spectral indices (SIs) suitable for this satellite were analyzed and evaluated in Shuyang County, Jiangsu Province. A series of SIs were constructed for the bare soil and vegetation-covered (mainly rice crops and tree seedlings) areas by combining spectral transformations (such as reciprocal and square root) and dual-band index formulas (such as ratio and difference), respectively. The optimal SIs were determined based on Pearson's correlation coefficient () and satellite data quality, and applied to SOMC level mapping and estimation. The results show that: (1) The SI with the highest in the bare soil area is the ratio index of original reflectance at 654 and 679 nm (OR-RI(654, 679)), whereas the SI in the vegetation area is the square root of the difference between the reciprocal reflectance at 551 and 1998 nm (V-RR-DSI(551, 1998)); (2) the spatial distribution trend of regional SOMC results obtained by linear regression models of OR-RI(654, 679) and V-RR-DSI(551, 1998) is consistent with the samples; (3) based on the optimal SIs, support vector machine and tree ensembles were used to predict the SOMC of bare soil and vegetation-covered areas of Shuyang County, respectively. The determination coefficient of the soil–vegetation combined prediction results is 0.775, the root mean square error is 3.72 g/kg, and the residual prediction deviation is 2.12. The results show that the proposed SIs for ZY1-02D satellite hyperspectral data are of great potential for SOMC mapping.


DAΦNE (Double Annular Φ factory for Nice Experiment) is the Frascati(Italy) electron positron collider operating at the energy of 510 MeV, a rather low energy with respect to the other existing factories. DAΦNE includes two collision points, and KLOE detector is located at one of these points. The KLOE detector is designed primarily for the goal of detecting direct CP violation in K 0 decays with a sensitivity of ~10 -4 in R ( e′/e ), with a vast amount of other physics subjects.  radiative dacays, especially its pure neutral final states are very important subjects to test the Chiral Perturbation Theory approach both in the anomalous and non anomalous sectors. In this paper, a new kinematic fit method--TELESIS--is used for the data analysis of  radiative decay →γη→3γ and →γπ 0→3γ based on a part of 2000' data collected by KLOE detectors in DAΦNE, the  produced cross section and the partial cross section of e +e -→→γπ 0→3γ have been obtained as follows: σ e +e -→ =(4.04±0.04±0.24)μb, σ e +e -→→γπ 0→3γ =(5.3±0.3±0.6)nb. These results are in good agreement with that of VEPP and theoretical predictions.


Date The final copy of this thesis has been examined by the signatories, and we find that both the content and the form meet acceptable presentation standards of scholarly work in the above mentioned discipline. Components Thesis directed by Prof. Zoya Popovi´c This thesis presents the analysis, design, and measurement of air-filled millimeter-wave rectangular coaxial components microfabricated on 150-mm silicon wafers. There is currently considerable interest in the application of new fabrication techniques for the implementation of classical microwave devices to improve performance while reducing size. In addition, the enabling of the design of novel, heretofore unrealizable devices is of interest. The air-filled transmission lines presented in this thesis have advantages over traditional planar transmission lines in that they are non dispersive, possess high isolation, are amenable to dense integration and sharp turn radii, are low loss for their cross section, and are much smaller than rectangular or circular metallic waveguides for a given frequency. As an example, a 50-Ω line with a 250 µm by 250 µm cross section has the first higher order mode starting at 450 GHz, the losses are 0.22 dB/cm at 26 GHz, and the isolation between two adjacent lines with a center-to-center separation of 300 µm is better than 60 dB/cm. In a multi-layer configuration, vias and crossovers with excellent broadband performance are quite naturally implemented. Millimeter-wave designs on both the component and subsystem levels are of interest. Air-filled, copper rectangular coax lines and devices with cross sections between 125 µm by 300 µm and 630 µm by 700 µm are fabricated by Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials LLC according to designs from this thesis. The research focus is the development of usable, high-quality millimeter-wave components which demonstrate the merits of this technology. Ka-band components have been designed, fabricated, and tested. Scaling in frequency has been investigated up to W-band, and the presently used fab-iv rication process could conceivably be used at frequencies into the hundreds of GHz. Connections to probe-based test equipment and standard circuit lines are designed. A method of de-embedding the probe structures of four-port data using the two-port TRL model is developed and shown to agree with simulations. Among other components, this thesis presents the design and comprehensive analysis of half-wave metallic cavity resonators fabricated using this technology. To the best of the author's knowledge, the measured quality factor of these resonators comes closer to the theoretical maximum than those …


The compuer model, which could simulate the transport phenomenaof the COREXmelter-gasifier considering the pyrolysis behavior of raw coal, wasdeveloped. This model was madeup of 192 ordinary differential equations for gas and solid phases in the I -dimensional fixed bed part and balance equations for gas phase in the combustion zone and the freeboard zone of O-dimensional assumption. This coupled non-linear equations are calculated by the LSODEpackages and Gibbs free energy minimization method. The effluent gas temperature showedgood agreement with the operationai data. The temperature of the gas wasdecreased linearly with the distance from the combustion zone. The predicted melting position of ore and flux mixture was2.0 mhigh from the combustion zone. COwasmainly generated in the combustion zone and H. was mainly produced during the devolatilization of coal. The fixed bed in the melter-gasifier could be divided into four distinct zones. Each zone has its own reaction characteristics such as heating zone, primary pyrolysis zone, secondary pyrolysis zone and gasification zone.


In today's discussion of the service bureau's role in multimedia diversification, I will touch upon four areas. First, I will provide a brief definition of the publishing business. Second, I will examine the information publishing processes. I will then describe the service bureau's role in support of information publishing, and the services which bureaus offer to information publishers. Finally, I will review several media applications of International Computaprint Corporation including: the Oxford English Dictionary, Thomas Publishing Media, Florist's Transworld Delivery, the Physician's Desk Reference and the ABC Travel Guides.


If velocity and temperature profiles are known at a particular distance along a vertical heated plate, the equations of motion determine the velocity and temperature at points downstream, for a given varition of plate temperature. The problem of continuing the boundary layer solution for given initial conditions was investigated by Goldstein [2], for the isothermal case of the laminar, incompressible flow past plate, with a given streamwise varitain of pressure gradient outside the boundary layer. He showed that the solution is not always free from singularities and developed an expansion procedure to calculate the flow downstream when these occurred. Typical singularities occur, for instance, near the leading edge of the plate where the no-slip condition is imposed on the plate surface and near the trailing edge, where this condition is relaxed to one of zero stress along the axis of symmetry of the wake.


A method of prediction based on linear extrapolation with the use of the mathematical expectation of the rate of variation of the values of a controlled parameter as the slope of an extrapolating line is presented. A method constructed with the use of a correction of a linear function is considered. Correction is performed with the use in the method of least squares of variable weight coeffi cients that regulate the infl uence of the interpolation nodes on the fi nal result as a function of the distance of these nodes from the current values of the argument of the extrapolating function.


The bachelor work is directed to possibility of the pigments of Bi2-xLnxO3 type, where x = 0,4 and x = 0,8 (Bi1,6Ln0,4O3 and Bi1,2Ln0,8O3) and Ln = Yb, Lu. Pigments were prepared in different ways of preparation - based on suspension mixing of materials and precipitation.


Recent research indicates that political developments and events can have important implications for health. In this study, we use data from a large, nationally representative survey (N = 1750) fielded in December 2020 to understand how the 2020 Presidential Election impacted self-reported health ratings. Several important findings emerge. First, many Americans report that their mental (14%) and general (6%) health has worsened compared to before the 2020 presidential election; similar number of Americans report improvements to their mental (15%) and general (8%) health. Second, those who voted for Trump and who disagree that Biden won the election are significantly less likely than their counterparts to report better mental, but not general, health compared to before the 2020 election. These relationships persist even in the context of a wide range of controls, including demographics, political predispositions, and perceptions of polarization.


Detecting and understanding the world is an important step for any intelligent system, but also one that often requires significant processing power. This places great emphasis on the creation of efficient but flexible data processing pipelines. In this paper, we discuss the use of OpenRTM-aist and a component-based approach to rapidly create sensor processing pipelines. The sensor pipeline is made up of a series of filtering and processing steps, provided by pre-existing components for each step. We illustrate the techniques with a pipeline for processing point clouds using the PCL library.


Previously obtained data on the Wega tokamak by lower hybrid heating (f = 500 MHz; PHF = 130 kW) are re-visited in the light of recent theories on ion stochastic heating and quasi-linear electron Landau damping. It is possible, with the help of these theories, to correctly estimate the fast-ion mean energy, the HF power density coupled to the ions and that coupled to the electrons. The values of the parallel index of refraction, N‖, which are necessary to obtain a good quantitative agreement between experiment and theoretical estimates, are the same for ions and electrons, although higher than expected.


To explore the possibility of Streptococcus suis as the horizontal transmission host of tetracycline resistant gene tetM in Listeria monocytogenes,the filtermating experiment was performed in which tetracycline-resistant L.monocytogenes strain carrying tetM gene was used as the donor strain and erythromycin-resistant S.suis strain as recipient strain.The int-Tn gene related to transfer of tetM gene was detected from the donor strain by PCR.19 transconjugants resistant to tetracycline were obtained at a frequency of 4×10-7.The tetM gene was amplified from transconjugants,which shared 100% homology in nucleotides with tetM gene from donor strain.The int-Tn gene that encoded integrase was amplified from the donor strain.The results demonstrated that S.suis could become the horizontal transmission host of tetracycline resistant gene tetM in L.monocytogene,and horizontal transfer of tetM gene was closely related to integron.


Modern cars are getting so computerised that ENISA's phrase "smart cars" is a perfect fit. The amount of personal data that they process is very large and, yet, increasing. Hence, the need to address citizens' privacy while they drive and, correspondingly, the importance of privacy threat modelling (in support of a respective risk assessment, such as through a Data Protection Impact Assessment). This paper addresses privacy threats by advancing a general modelling methodology and by demonstrating it specifically on soft privacy, which ensures citizens' full control on their personal data. By considering all relevant threat agents, the paper applies the methodology to the specific automotive domain while keeping threats at the same level of detail as ENISA's. The main result beside the modelling methodology consists of both domain-independent and automotive domain-dependent soft privacy threats. While cybersecurity has been vastly threat-modelled so far, this paper extends the literature with a threat model for soft privacy on smart cars, producing 17 domain-independent threats that, associated with 41 domain-specific assets, shape a novel set of domain-dependent threats in automotive.


One of the most significant elements in the successful development of an unconventional multi-layered horizontal shale play, such as the Permian Basin Wolfcamp and Spraberry shales, is the continuous refinement of completion design programs in order to account for the specific geological characteristics of the target formation and spatial considerations. This paper examines a number of well completions, a large percentage of which are multi-stacked, over a four-year period in the Permian Basin.
 In this paper, we describe the ways in which a completion design program has been constantly refined in the development of Wolfcamp and Spraberry formations over certain areas of Midland Basin. Key performance drivers, such as regional pore pressure, rock properties and stresses, well spacing, etc. along with multidisciplinary data sets such as microseismic, tracers, bottom hole reservoir pressure, and production history are incorporated into modeling the completion designs.
 Details of the workflow, analysis of results and implementation of the Permian multi-stack design optimization plan are presented. The paper includes lessons learned from early vintages to modern completions, parent/child mitigation strategies, and future ideas to further optimize the operations.
 Information presented in this paper will help multi-disciplinary asset teams, consisting of engineers, geologists, analysts and managers; design a workflow for selecting appropriate design solutions for their individual shale assets.


Open-end winding permanent magnet synchronous machines (OW-PMSMs) supplied by dual inverters have gained increasing research focus due to its advantages in multilevel modulation, flexible control capability, and enhanced fault-tolerant performance. Zero-sequence current is one of the most concerned issues when the common dc bus configuration is adopted. Feedback control of zero-sequence current has been previously proved to be an effective solution to suppress zero-sequence current. However, due to the existence of current measurement errors, dc disturbance and periodic disturbances will inevitably occur in zero-sequence current, which may result in obvious deteriorations of the suppression performance of zero-sequence current. Zero-sequence current circulates in the OW-PMSM, which will lead to unexpected power losses and reduced efficiency. In addition, current measurement errors also cause increased periodic disturbances in the torque and the rotor speed, resulting in torque ripples and speed fluctuations. To address these problems, the exact closed-form hold-equivalent model of OW-PMSMs is derived, and the specific periodic disturbances introduced by current measurement errors are analyzed. Subsequently, zero-sequence current controller and speed controller are designed with enhanced mitigation capability of periodic disturbances resulting from current measurement errors. Its effectiveness under different operation conditions is confirmed experimentally on a 2.3-kW OW-PMSM setup.


How should new securities be designed? Traditional theories have little to say on this: the literature on capital structure and general equilibrium theories with incomplete markets take the securities firms issue as exogenous. This paper explicitly incorporates the transaction costs of issuing securities and develops a model where the instruments that are traded are chosen optimally and the economy's market structure is endogenous. Among other things, it is shown that the firm's income stream should be split so that in every state all payoffs are allocated to the security held by the group that values them most.(This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.)


A dual-channel digitizing capability has been established to digitally record and analyze electrical waveforms associated with exploding bridgewire (EBW) burst. The system is interfaced to a computer for data management and analysis. Programs for calibration and for analysis of voltage and current waveforms have been written. Error sources have been reduced to an acceptable level, and provisions have been made for generation of a waveform data library.


Cladius (Trichiocampus) gregarius, n. sp. Allied to Cladius viminalis, Fallen. The larval habits are also identical, as seen by Dr. J. A. Lintner's account of viminalis in his Fourth Report, p. 44 (as Aulacomerus lutescens). The fly, however, is differently coloured; the larva differs but slightly, in that the lateral black spots are larger than the subdorsal ones, whereas in viminalis the reverse appears to be the case.


Business Intelligence plays an important role in the organization for collecting, integrating, analyzing and transforming data to be useful for effective decision making process. Nowadays, organizations are flooded with various kinds of unstructured data such as e-mail, images, reports, maps, charts, publications. An effective and efficient business model of these data could help in decision making. Currently, there is no study done on the business intelligence model for managing unstructured data that can fulfil the organization needs. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to improve the organization's business intelligence process through the exploitation of unstructured data that is owned by the organization. In this study, unstructured data are classified, enriched and complemented with diversity of data through the process of creating metadata for each unstructured data. Four main processes are proposed to transform unstructured data to structured data which are extraction, classification, storage and mapping of data classes. Each process and its activities are combined to produce an effective and efficient business intelligence model for unstructured data management. This model helps in generating new data and information that is more comprehensive and collective to help business intelligence through advanced analysis, decision-making process and planning new research areas. Output from this study is to make unstructured data as renewable assets that is easily accessible and used as a reference and foundation in business intelligence and decision making process.


Abstract This article focuses on Paolo Trubetskoi's statue of Alexander III and the controversy surrounding it. Trubetskoi won the commission over other well-known sculptors thanks to his aristocratic origins, the approval of the imperial family, and his successful portraits of Lev Tolstoi and others. Through an analysis of the monument's artistic value and its contemporary and subsequent reception, the article considers whether it was a failure, and if so why.


Renal stones are a common condition causing significant morbidity and economic burden. The prevalence of urinary tract stones in the developed nations ranges from 4–20%. Renal stones are of different types, the most common being the calcium oxalate stones. Various dietary, non-dietary, and urinary risk factors contribute to their formation. Their frequent association with systemic diseases (like hypertension, diabetes, and obesity) highlights the role of dietary and lifestyle changes in their occurrence, recurrence, and possible prevention. Non-contrast computed tomography (CT) identifies almost every stone and is the preferred investigation for identification. Ultrasound has its advantages, as it is low cost and requires no radiation, but is observer dependent. Metabolic profiles (including blood calcium, phosphate, magnesium, creatinine, uric acid, sodium, and potassium) should be measured and a detailed urinalysis should be done. This review further discusses the formation in depth, and covers risk factors and management of renal stones, and lays down the importance of preventive measures to avoid their recurrence.


Recommender system usually suffers from severe popularity bias — the collected interaction data usually exhibits quite imbalanced or even long-tailed distribution over items. Such skewed distribution may result from the users' conformity to the group, which deviates from reflecting users' true preference. Existing efforts for tackling this issue mainly focus on completely eliminating popularity bias. However, we argue that not all popularity bias is evil. Popularity bias not only results from conformity but also item quality, which is usually ignored by existing methods. Some items exhibit higher popularity as they have intrinsic better property. Blindly removing the popularity bias would lose such important signal, and further deteriorate model performance. To sufficiently exploit such important information for recommendation, it is essential to disentangle the benign popularity bias caused by item quality from the harmful popularity bias caused by conformity. Although important, it is quite challenging as we lack an explicit signal to differentiate the two factors of popularity bias. In this paper, we propose to leverage temporal information as the two factors exhibit quite different patterns along the time: item quality revealing item inherent property is stable and static while conformity that depends on items' recent clicks is highly time-sensitive. Correspondingly, we further propose a novel Time-aware DisEntangled framework (TIDE), where a click is generated from three components namely the static item quality, the dynamic conformity effect, as well as the user-item matching score returned by any recommendation model. Lastly, we conduct interventional inference so that the recommendation can benefit from the benign popularity bias while circumvent the harmful one. Extensive experiments on four real-world datasets demonstrated the effectiveness of TIDE.


The benign violation theory argues that humor perception results from a violation appraisal, a benign appraisal, and both appraisals occurring simultaneously. The benign violation theory offers a plausible explanation for why seeming diverse stimuli, including puns, sarcasm, jokes, tickling, and slapstick all similarly elicit humor. It also helps explain why people and cultures often hold differing opinions about what is funny and what is not.


'l'HE personal equation of an ohserver is the interval of time which habitually intervenes between the actual aud the observed transit of a star over a given thread of the transit instrument. This may be termed the absolute personal equation. The relative personal equation of two observers is the interval of time by which one habitually observes a transit either earlier or later than the other; or, it is the difference between their absolute equations. It is well known that personal equation is one of the most uncertain elements in chronographic determinat.ions of longitude. It has been the cust.om, at least in this country, in observations for longitude, to assume that the value of'this function of the time remains unchanged during the entire series, even though the comparisons for the determination of this element were delayed for several weeks. Now if the personal equation of the observers is not a constant quantity, if it can be shown that from any cause it varies from week to week; from day to day, and even fi'om hour to hour, between limits nearly as large as the usnal value of the function itself, it will be evident that some uncertainty yet remains in the accepted values of longitude, especially since in almost every instance, the observations for longitude and personal equation have been separated by a considerable interval of time. The investigation of the variability of personal equation is, therefore, not an idle inq niry.


In this study, Mn-doped ZnO nanoparticles with compositional formula Zn1-x Mnx O (where, x = 0.00 and 0.10) have been synthesized by simple co-precipitation method. Rietveld refinement of X-ray patterns verifies that the obtained samples have been crystallized in single phase hexagonal wurtzite structure. X-ray peak profile analysis has been used for estimation of crystalline sizes and lattice strain induced by Mn doping with the help of Williamson-Hall (W-H) analysis. The morphology of undoped and Mn-doped samples was examined using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis. The mean particle size from TEM results are consistent with results obtained by the Scherrer's formula and W-H analysis. From the optical studies, the absorbance spectra show the increment in energy band gap by Mn doping. Photoluminescence (PL) spectra show different emission peaks due to different defect states. This paper heightens the understanding of structural and optical properties of Mn-doped nanoparticles and paves the path for its potential application in modern optoelectronic devices.


A dense, dry granular target can cause a free-falling intruding object to come to an abrupt stop as its momentum is lost to the grains. An empirical force law describes this process, characterizing the stopping force as the sum of depth-dependent friction and velocity-dependent inertial drag. However, a complete interpretation of the stopping force, incorporating grain-scale interactions during impact, remains unresolved. Here, the momentum transfer is proposed to occur through sporadic, normal collisions with clusters of high force-carrying grains at the intruder's surface. To test this model in impact experiments, we determine the forces acting on an intruder decelerating through a dense granular medium using high-speed imaging of its trajectory. We vary the geometry of the impacting object to infer intruder-grain interactions. As a result, we connect the inertial drag to the effect of intruder shape based on the proposed collisional model. These impact studies serve as an approach to understand dynamic force transmission in granular media.


Natural language processing (NLP) has a significant impact on society via technologies such as machine translation and search engines. Despite its success, NLP technology is only widely available for high-resource languages such as English and Chinese, while it remains inaccessible to many languages due to the unavailability of data resources and benchmarks. In this work, we focus on developing resources for languages in Indonesia. Despite being the second most linguistically diverse country, most languages in Indonesia are categorized as endangered and some are even extinct. We develop the first-ever parallel resource for 10 low-resource languages in Indonesia. Our resource includes sentiment and machine translation datasets, and bilingual lexicons. We provide extensive analyses and describe challenges for creating such resources. We hope this work can spark NLP research on Indonesian and other underrepresented languages.


In this article the current understanding of fundamental particles and their interactions is presented for the interested non-specialist, by adopting a semi-historical path. A discussion on the unresolved problems is also presented.


archaeology, historical biogeography, and anthropological research, is needed for a full understanding of past culture, and even then some aspects of pre-European Tonga will be difficult to determine, so intense have been some of the changes since the end of the eighteenth century. As a readable and thorough introduction to the material recorded in contemporary European accounts of early Tonga the book is clearly successful, but as a datum for assessing culture change it has some limitations.


The paper is focused on derivational semantics of action nouns. The combination of process and subject meanings is explained by the polysemy of a suffix. Action nouns with subject meanings form an intermediate zone between syntactic derivation and lexical derivation.


This report introduces the state prevailing wage laws and provides an inventory of states in which, to varying degrees, they are in effect.


The foamed composite could be completely biodegradable which was mainly prepared by corn starch and PVA,reinforced by waste pulp paper,foamed by NH4HCO3,plasticized by the mixed plasticizer of glycerol/urea and other adjuvants by extrusion foaming method.Then,the foamed composites' density,foam expansion ratio,water absorbability,rebound rate,cell morphology and the effect of mixed plasticizer on the plastication of cornstarch were discussed.The results showed that the density decreased with increasing NH4HCO3 content,then increasing.When the content of NH4HCO3 was 1.2%,the composite had the lowest value which was 0.16 g/cm3.The foam expansion ratio,water absorption rate and increase in length were all increasing with increasing NH4HCO3 content,then decreasing.When the content of NH4HCO3 was 1.2%,they had the highest values.The number of cell firstly increased with increasing NH4HCO3 content,then decreasing.The side of cell became larger with increasing content of NH4HCO3.When waste pulp paper content was 20%,the number of cell was most and the side of cell was small and distributed well.When mixed plasticizer content was 30%,starch and waste pulp paper had good compatibility,the number of cell was more and the side of cell distributed well.


Lifestyle medicine is a relatively new and emerging discipline within the practice of medicine dedicated to using lifestyle changes in the prevention, management, and reversal of chronic diseases. Information on lifestyle medicine has not appeared in the literature of recreational therapy. Recreational therapists need to understand lifestyle medicine because recreational therapy practice is closely tied to lifestyle medicine. This article is about chronic conditions and the recently established discipline of lifestyle medicine as they relate to the delivery of recreational therapy services. It is concluded that the recreational therapy profession should make itself known to those in the lifestyle medicine community and take a rightful place in the movement to prevent, manage, and reverse chronic diseases by assisting clients to engage in healthy lifestyle behaviors.


Within the past few months, federal agencies passed two major healthcare regulations that could have significant consequences to the healthcare market. The Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final rule on Association Health Plans (AHPs) that expands the definition of "employer" under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), and the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury issued a final rule that expands access to short-term, limitedduration coverage plans (STLDs). The two plans should not be conflated with each other as they offer health insurance coverage for different consumers with slightly different benefits. The most important similarity between the two plans is the lack of consumer or healthcare anti-discrimination protections one would find in an Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace plan. Ultimately, the new AHP and STLD regulations could hurt consumers in the long run due to the anticipated rise in premiums for ACA marketplace plans and the risk of incurring medical debt from purchasing cheaper plans with fewer benefits.


Objective: To investigate the role of hyperoxaluria and unilateral ureteral obstruction in the development of renal oxalate crystal deposition in rats.Methods: Forty male Wistar rats were divided into four groups,with ten rats in each.The groups were named A(control),B(hyperoxaluric),C(obstuctive)and D(hyperoxaluric+obstuctive).B and D rats were given 1% ethylene glycal (a precursor for oxalates) in the drinking water,A and C rats were given distilled water,A and B rats underwent sham operation,while the proximal ureteral ligation with a 4~zero suture was performed on C and D rats.The rats were sacrificed 2 weeks after operation;left nephrectomy was then performed.Tissue sections obtained from kidneys were examined under light microscopy for the presence and the degree of crystal deposition in the tubular lumen.Results: Oxalate crystal deposition was evident in the renal tubular lumen in group B and D,while no evidence in group A and C.There was a statistically significant difference between A and B or D as well as B and D(P0.01).Conclusion: Oxalate crystal deposition in the tubular lument results from hyperoxaluria which could be enhanced by obstruction.Only obstuction couldn't result in oxalate crystal deposition.


Subclinical mastitis is a major contributor to the bulk tank somatic cell count (SCC). Dairies with a moderate to high bulk tank SCC and a low clinical mastitis rate can expect to have a number of cows with subclinical mastitis. Using Dairy Herd Improvement (DHI) SCC results on a regular basis, subclinical mastitis can be identified as the high SCC cows. Identifying the high SCC cows is relatively easy on herds that utilize DHI testing on a regular basis. However, not all high SCC cows need treatment nor is it cost effective to treat all high SCC cows. Antimicrobial treatment should be reserved for those cows that treatment is likely to cure. It is generally regarded that these cows are relatively early in lactation with gram-positive, environmental mastitis (Staphylococcus spp and Streptococcus spp) and have not had chronic episodes of clinical mastitis. This study compared the cure rates of fresh cows with subclinical gram-positive mastitis with and without intramammary antimicrobial treatment.


Piaget [1952] proposed a mechanism by which infants integrate experience into progressively higher-level representations, which he called "constructivism." According to constructivism, infants progress from simple to sophisticated models of the world by use of a "change mechanism" that allows the infant to build higher-level representations from lower-level ones. Constructivism is a powerful model of grounded knowledge acquisition that has been applied with considerable success [Drescher, 1991; Cohen, Atkin, Oates and Beal, 1997]. Constructivism, though, has long been criticized for its vagueness regarding the precise nature of the change mechanism. The lack of detail in this area has hampered the production of more powerful models of cognitive development, and has led some to suggest that the primitives of the infant's world model (such as solidity and causality) are innate [see Spelke, Brienlinger, Macomber & Jacobson, 1992]. However, recent studies of infant cognitive development [Cohen & Younger, 1984; Cohen & Amsel, 1998; Cohen, Amsel, Redford & Casasola, 1998] have provided strong evidence that these primitives are indeed acquired and, in doing so, they have shed light on the details of the change mechanism itself. Cohen [1998] has integrated several of these studies to produce a set of principles that describe constructivist development using an information processing approach. Specifically, Cohen and Cashon [in press] postulate that infants organize stimuli into categories based on criteria such as frequency, invariance and co-occurrence. Moreover, infants then build higher-level representations by applying these criteria to lower-level representations. Given this work, it is now possible to implement a more accurate computational model of developmental cognition. In addition, these studies provide a body of empirical data against which developmental models can be tested. The Constructivist Learning Architecture (CLA) is such a model. Based on the principles of constructivist learning described by Cohen and Cashon, CLA uses a hierarchy of SelfOrganizing Maps (SOM) [Kohonen, 1997] to build representations of observed stimuli at progressively higher levels of abstraction. The SOM is already recognized as a useful tool for the development of categories. By connecting the SOMs hierarchically, higher-level representations can be built from the activation of lower-level representations. In this


45 Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a common cause of secondary systemic hypertension 46 in cats. We investigated the relationship between indirect blood pressure and the 47 prevalence of systemic hypertension in various CKD stages in cats. Client-owned cats 48 (24 control cats and 77 cats with CKD) were included. Biochemical examinations of 49 plasma were conducted by a commercial laboratory. Diseased cats were divided into 50 two groups based on the International Renal Interest Society (IRIS) guidelines (II and 51 III–IV). Indirect blood pressure was measured using an oscillometric technique. Severe 52 hypertension was diagnosed if systolic blood pressure (SBP) was ≥ 180 mmHg. Indirect 53 blood pressures were significantly higher in IRIS stage III–IV than in the control cats. 54 Of 77 cats with CKD, 25 (32.5%) had severe hypertension. The frequency of severe 55 hypertension increased with an increase in IRIS stage; 0% in the controls, 27.6% in the 56 IRIS stage II, and 47.4% in the IRIS stage III–IV, respectively. The indirect SBP was 57 weakly correlated with urea nitrogen ( r = 0.27) and creatinine ( r = 0.23) concentrations 58 in plasma. Binary logistic regression analysis showed that if plasma creatinine 59 concentration is >3.7 mg/dl, cats with CKD had an increased risk for developing severe 60 hypertension ( P < 0.001). Our results suggest that indirect blood pressure was correlated 61 with the severity of CKD, and the prevalence of severe hypertension increased in cats 62 with severe CKD. The risk of severe hypertension may be high in cats with severe 63 CKD. 64


In modern conditions, investments are an incentive for the development of any economy, without which sus-tainable development of the region is impossible. The inflow of funds into the region depends on its investment attractiveness. In this regard, the priority task of public administration is to increase the investment attractive-ness of the region. Solving this problem requires the development of two directions: increasing the investment potential of the region and reducing investment risks. This article discusses the methods of formation and de-velopment of the investment potential of the region. Among the most common methods of state regulation of the economy, including the region, affecting the increase of certain components of investment potential, one can distinguish such as: territorial development tools, tax regulation, financial engineering tools, financial sup-port for enterprises, PPP mechanisms and administrative regulation mechanisms, etc. Consequently, regional authorities need to develop investment potential by influencing each of its constituent factors by appropriate methods.


I wish to comment on Eugene Moll's tirade against our Aussie cousins. Although the taxonomy group in South Africa (and elsewhere) is a respectable, law abiding bunch I would still advocate a policy of, what they would call in the army 'dumb insolence'.


This paper is a guide to operators and designers of activated-sludge plants. It is designed to present information on bulking in a logical sequence of control measures which can be used to alleviate problems.


The time course and pattern of fruit growth, and changes in physical and physiological properties and texture dynamics of pomegranate fruit (cvs. "Bhagwa" and "Ruby") were studied over two seasons under South African agro-climatic conditions. Significant variations in fruit growth, respiration rate and physico-textural properties of fruit were found at five maturity stages (S1-S5). Fruit lineal dimensions (length and diameter) and weight exhibited a linear growth pattern. All fruit cultivars showed a decline in respiration rate during fruit development, with the highest respiration rate measured in immature fruit ("Bhagwa", 66.83 mL CO2 kg -1 h -1 ; "Ruby", 51.17 mL CO2 kg -1 h -1 ) and minimum rates in fully ripe fruit ("Bhagwa", 23.84 mL CO2 kg -1 h -1 ; "Ruby", 19.16 mL CO2 kg -1 h -1 ). No ethylene gas was detected throughout fruit development. Fruit pigmentation increased with advancing maturity and the lowest total colour difference (TCD) between fruit peel and arils was noted in immature fruit. Aril yield remained less than 50% until the middle of the season (S3), and increased until commercial harvest for "Ruby", but remained below 50% throughout the season for "Bhagwa". Fruit peel thickness increased with advancing maturity as the cells underwent periclinal growth, while fruit calyx opening reduced significantly (p<0.05) with advancing maturity for both cultivars. The kernel index (KI=kernel weight/aril weight) ranged from 20.72 (S1) 13.46% (S5) for "Bhagwa" and from 19.21 (S1) 11.83% (S5) for "Ruby". This study showed that textural dynamics of pomegranate fruit peel and arils change with fruit maturity. Textural dynamics of aril revealed increasing trend in bioyield force and elasticity with advancing maturity. The results indicated that fruit reached mature stage between the 132 139 DAFB for "Ruby" and 140165 DAFB for "Bhagwa". This period could be regarded as the physiological mature stage of the fruit for the investigated cultivars. These findings could be used as a tool to assist growers in assessing fruit readiness for harvest.


Nadia Magnenat ThalmannUniversity of GenevaGeneva, SwitzerlandDaniel ThalmannComputer Graphics LabSwiss Federal Institute of TechnologyLausanne, SwitzerlandThe 5th Dimension Project is a large research project in three-dimensional animationand visualization. The main objective of the project is the animation of syntheticactors in their environment, which involves a number of related areas of computeranimation and scientific visualization. In particular, the following applications arebeing developed: • animation of articulated bodies based on mechanical laws• vision-based behavioral animation• hair rendering and animation• object grasping• facial animation• personification in walking models• synchronization in task-level animation• deformation of flexible and elastic objects• cloth animation with detection of collisionTo coordinate efforts and allow good communication between the variousapplications, a toolkit of high-level dynamic graphical classes, both two and threedimensional, has been constructed. This toolkit, called the


This study aims to identify the degree to which mathematics learning approximates either to a process of enculturation or to a process of acculturation. We examine the practice of a secondary mathematics teacher, in terms of Bishop's notion of 'aculturator-teacher', and the impact of this practice over the students' affect. We conclude by discussing some pedagogical implications resulting from the study.


One hundred twenty male Wistar rats were divided into three groups of 40 each. One was fed on low potassium-high sodium, another on low sodium-high potassium, and the third a control diet. Half of ...


The Storfinnforsen hydro power dam was completed in 1954 and is the largest concrete buttress dam in Sweden. A few years after completion, horizontal cracks were found in the lower parts of the front-plates and freeze-thaw damage was detected on the upstream side of the front-plates. This resulted in a structural rehabilitation program where cracks were grouted and an insulating wall was installed to reduce the thermal gradient over the thickness of the front-plate. Despite these measures, additional cracks were found on the dam several years after where especially diagonal cracks from the inspection-gangway were found in the buttress walls. In this paper, numerical analyses are presented which shows that most cracks found in-situ have developed or propagated as a result of the seasonal temperature variations. One important finding is that the location of the insulating wall had contributed to increased stresses in the buttress wall and is a likely cause of the new cracks. Therefore, an alternative placement for the insulating wall is presented which reduces the stresses in the buttress wall. As a result of these studies, comprehensive rehabilitation and life-extension program is now being performed to maintain and further develop an already high dam safety of Storfinnforsen and in Ramsele which is a similar dam downstream. The program consisted of moving the insulating walls, improving the stability with ground anchorage tendons, strengthening the front-plates and in addition to widen the road on the dam crest to allow for heavy traffic.


At present,large diameter radial tubewells are used for taking water intaking in order to utilize usefully groundwater.Sump wells are constructed by means of drop shaft sinking and cast-in-place backout methods.Radial tubewells are constructed with anchor eye drilling or machine horizontal drilling.


Keywords: transgender, social psychology, interpersonal relationship, group dynamics Transgender is the term that is used to describe someone with different gender behavior from their actual gender. Nowadays, there are some phenomena in which a transgender has come out in juvenile age that is called as transgender youth. A transgender usually tends to not reveal his identity due to the social opinion toward transgender as a social problem. This study focuses on the role of external factors toward transgender youth in Luna by Julie Anne Peters which shows the influence of society toward transgender in the process of coming out. The story depicts the life of a transgender youth, Liam who tries to come out in public with help from people around him. This study aims to reveal the role of people around Liam in helping him find his identity as a transgender youth. Social psychology approach is used to analyze the role of people around Liam that influence his thought and behavior with interpersonal relationship, group dynamics. In addition, Transgender Identity Affirmation and Mental Health theory by Nuttbrock, Rosen blum and Blumenstein is used to support the analysis. The study findings reveal that there are two external factors which influence Liam's behavior and thinking in the process of coming out. They are family and affiliation. They have significant influences to his behavior in making him confident in facing his life as a transgender. Liam's process of coming out as a transgender is influenced by the acceptance from his surroundings. When the surroundings accept his come out process, it actually becomes the significant support for a transgender. In fact, that acceptance has a correlation with his mental health as shown in this study. For future research the writer suggests that the English Department students do research on transgender-themed literature by using Devor's Transgender Identity model that describes fourteen processes of transgender identity development. The writer hopes that doing this study can raise the awareness of the existence of transgender, particularly the young people's.


: Greenhouses are controlled area environment to grow plants. In order to achieve maximum plant growth, the continuous monitoring and controlling of environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity, soil moisture, light intensity, soil pH etc. are necessary for a greenhouse system. The main aim of this project is to design a simple, low cost, Arduino based system to monitor the values of environmental parameters and that are continuously updated and controlled in order to achieve optimum plant growth and yield. 4 in 1 sensor module is designed which consist of temperature sensor, humidity sensor, light intensity sensor and pH sensor to measure respective parameters. All environmental parameters are sent to user mobile via internet (IOT). A mobile app is designed to get plant data from any distance around the worlds. An alert message is displayed on the mobile app (LCD display as well) user when the sensor value exceeds a defined level. All farmers can control their greenhouses from any place by knowing the status of their greenhouse parameters at any time and they can control actuators (cooling fan, exhaust fan, water pump) to adjust environmental parameters. In addition colour sensors are used to get the RGB values of soil. With RGB values it is possible to predict the health of soil, i.e. we can analyze the nutrients present in the soil. If it is observed that the RGB values of soil are mismatching with the standard values, suitable mixtures can be added to compensate for the same. Ardiuno Mega controller is used as a controller device is programmed in such a way that it continuously monitors the data from the sensors, displays data parameters on LCD display, and transfers data to mobile app via IOT module. And also whenever the controller observes that the parameters are getting exceed of threshold values, it sends signal to the controlled devices (e.g. Fan) to turn it ON, at the same time alert message will be displayed on LCD display and mobile app. and monitor the parameters continuously from any distance. The sensor data will be sent to mobile app via node MCU. Here node MCU acts as a medium between arduino and mobile app.


The effect of Casimir force on dynamical behavior of nanoelectromechanical switches is simulated in this paper. The system investigated in the current study is an electromechanical nanostructure switch such as cantileverbeam type. Considering basic parameters of nanoelectromechanical switches, the effect of Casimir force and pull-in voltage on the process of switching has been investigated. Results demonstrate that these two factors play a significant role in every type of nanoelectromechanical switches. Thus, bending rate of plates and finally the performance of switching can be controlled by increasing or decreasing these two elements.


In recent years, the visualization technology of Kansei has been studied, and the database-driven Kansei feedback control scheme has been proposed. It aims at improving Kansei, which is human sensitivity, when the equipment operation is conducted. It is necessary to appropriately determine the learning rate included in the database-driven control scheme to achieve better control performance. This paper proposes a database-driven Kansei feedback control scheme with a determination mechanism of learning rate, and the stability is proved based on the Lyapunov function. In addition, the effectiveness of the proposed scheme is numerically verified.


The aim of this study is to critically analyse the identity issue based on postcolonial theory in one of the most important novels of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and another novel, The White Tiger with which Indian writer Aravind Adiga won the Booker Prize in 2008. This study attempts to implement such an exploration not only in the context of western thought, but also from different angles with the realities of the oppressed nations of the Third World, especially India in order to construct the 'other' based on the other individuality. Both of the prominent writers in their works lay bare many scenes that focus on the problems of the heroes creating the basis of the events in question. That is why they take into consideration the state of the individual, because the central characters' conflicts and developments present different aspects of the novel while constructing the individuality and identity behind the societal problems in terms of class conflict. They live under different circumstances to discover themselves and in each of the novels we can bear witness to the existence of some characters who achieve a sense of personal and social identity in the Victorian society of England, a time when great social and economic changes were taking place; and then in India where people suffer from the administrations of the members of Gandhi family led by especially Indira and Rajiv Gandhi. This study thereby examines how the individuals are exposed to the social, economic and political factors of the country where they live.


This invention relates to the use of lycopene, in or for the preparation of a composition for treating, preventively and / or curatively, cutaneous signs of aging. In particular, lycopene or the composition are intended to inhibit the degradation of the skin and / or mucous membranes by inhibiting collagenases.


Production and nutrition of Marandu grass fertilized with zinc. The goal of this work was to evaluate the effect of zinc on the nutritional status and dry matter production of Marandu grass. The experiment was conducted in a greenhouse with containers filled with 4dm 3 of an Oxisol soil. The experimental essays included six different doses of zinc (0; 15; 30; 60; 120 and 240mg.dm -3 ), with four repetitions. The study evaluated the number of tillers and leaves, plant height, dry mass of the shoot and root system and the concentration of zinc in the soil and leaves. The assessment was made during two different periods (cuts), with an interval of 30 days. After the second cut, the concentrations of Zn in the soil and root dry mass were determined. The application of zinc to the soil increased its concentration and absorption by the Marandu grass, which reached 140 and 181mg.kg -1 (first and second cut, respectively) in the dry mass. The zinc doses used were not toxic to the plants.


How can philosophical theories of justice possibly translate into fullyfledged fiscal proposals? Reading Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel's Myth of Ownership will definitely be of great use to political philosophers interested in answering this key question. The book is organized around two central (sets of) claims that repeatedly resurface across the chapters.


Image-schema is an important concept widely used in linguistics,which concerns our experience in life and higher cognitive domains like language.Image-schema is very important to the acquisition of a second language,especially to the acquisition of prepositions.Image-schema theory can be applied in the choice of the prepositions TO FOR in the transformation of the structure of double objects.Image-schema theory can also be applied in the choice of the prepositions TO FOR in the collocation with other dynamic verbs,and this needs further researching.


The necessity to reassess what is meant by the second spectrum and where and in what context it has to be assigned a separate meaning are considered presenting evidence that its usefulness is mainly to interpret the results obtained from an application of the Timoshenko beam theory to distinguish a set of physically meaningful results from a set that may only be an aberration arising from the structure of this beam theory.13;


This report documents energy distribution measurements of field emission from single-tip Si field emitter arrays. The emission energy distributions are much broader than clean metal distributions, extending several volts below the Fermi level and often including multiple peak structure. The peak positions typically move to lower energy as the gate voltage is increased, however, the emission history as well as the emission current and/or gate voltage can change the energy as well as intensity of the energy distributions. Changes in the distribution including shifts to higher energy occur suddenly and spontaneously as well as slowly during emission. These results show that the emission comes from oxide and interface states, which refill at a finite rate, limiting the emission current. Changes in the local electric potential due to single charges becoming trapped in the oxide account for large and discrete changes in the emission distribution.


Currently, in the context of Western sanctions, the main goal of the agriculture of the Russian Federation is food security and reducing import dependence. The modernization of agricultural machinery, as well as the search for new ways of pre-sowing seed treatment, will increase the germination of seeds and provide agricultural livestock with high-quality fodder legumes. The paper considers an experimental scarifier of legume seeds, which makes it possible to scarify the seeds of legumes, thereby increasing their germination. The article describes the theoretical basis for the movement of seeds along a conical surface, considers the method of discrete elements, which underlies the Rocky DEM software package, which allows modeling complex systems of models. Laboratory studies were carried out, during which the angle of repose was determined for two varieties of alfalfa seeds (Sarga and Vega) and eastern goat's rue seeds. On the basis of the obtained modeling data, an experimental scarifier with a scarifying working unit was constructed and production experiments were carried out, during which the quality of processing and germination of seeds of oriental goat's rue on the experimental scarifier were determined.


In this work, rare earth Y3+ ion doped Ni0.2Cu0.2Co0.6Fe2−xYxO4 (x = 0.0, 0.025, 0.05, 0.075, 0.1) ferrite nanoparticles are synthesized by sol–gel auto‐combustion technology. High purity metal nitrates and citric acid are used as precursor solutions, and citric acid is used as a complexing agent. The X‐ray diffraction (XRD) analysis, Fourier transform infrared (FT‐IR) spectroscopy, energy dispersive X‐ray (EDX) spectroscopy, and vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) measurements are used to investigate the effect of Y3+ doping on the structure and magnetic properties of the samples. The analysis of the XRD patterns confirms that all the samples showed cubic spinel structure. The FT‐IR also confirms the spinel structure of ferrite, and with the increase of Y3+ ion content, the peak of the Fe–O bond moved to high frequency. It has been proved that the synthesized ferrite has pure phase and structure by EDX, and Y3+‐doping is successfully achieved. The magnetic parameters of the samples are measured by VSM at room temperature with a maximum magnetic field of 1 T. By characterization with VSM it can be found that saturation magnetization and remanent magnetization increase first and then decrease with increasing doping amount of Y3+ ions. Compared with pure sample and other doped samples, the best magnetic properties are obtained when the doping amount of Y3+ ions is x = 0.025.


A filter insert comprises a filter configured as a bellows member having a first pleat portion and a second fold portion with parallel folds. The adjacent to the clean room downstream of each folding portion is formed geradflachig, wherein the length of the folds of a fold edge to the opposite edge fold increases monotonically.


. Semantic drift is an active research field, which aims to identify and measure changes in ontologies across time and versions. Yet, only few practical methods, directly applicable to Semantic Web constructs, have emerged, while the lack of relevant applications and tools is even greater. This paper presents a novel software tool that integrates currently investigated methods, such as text and structural similarity, into the popular ontology authoring platform, Protégé. The graphical user interface provides knowledge engineers and domain experts with access to methods and results without prior programming knowledge. Its applicability and usefulness are validated through two proof-of-concept scenarios: Web Services and Digital Preservation, a field in which such long-term insights are crucial.


The author explains that the genius of Miguel Delibes' literature lies on the creation of words in which the reader can drown and feel as their own, built upon realities as daily as those of a frustrated wife who reproaches her husband's corpse of everything he never did, the wisdom of a child who lives in a cave with his rat-hunter father or that of a hunter on the verge of death, who receives the Anointing of the Sick, believing in the existence of heaven for those of his kind.


ABSTRACT Zinc deficiency is a global nutritional problem which is caused by low dietary intake. Wheat is mostly low in bioavailable Zn and is sensitive to zinc deficiency compared with other grain crops and as a result is reflected as cereal with low Zn efficiency. Zn deficiency prevails in arid to semiarid regions of the world for reasons of less solubility and more fixation of Zn in these soil conditions. Biofortification is currently one of the useful approaches to overcome worldwide malnourishment. A pot and two years field trials were conducted on wheat crop with following treatments: control, Zn @ 3 mg kg−1, Zn @ 6 mg kg−1, Zn @ 9 mg kg−1, Compost @ 20 t ha−1, Zn-enriched compost @ 3 mg kg−1, Zn-enriched compost @ 6 mg kg−1, Zn-enriched compost @ 9 mg kg−1, Biochar @ 20 t ha−1, Zn-enriched biochar @ 3 mg kg−1, Zn-enriched biochar @ 6 mg kg−1 and Zn-enriched biochar @ 9 mg kg−1 and treatments for field trial: control, Zn @ 18 kg ha−1, Compost @ 20 t ha−1, Zn-enriched compost @ 18 kg ha−1, Biochar @ 20 t ha−1 and Zn-enriched biochar @ 18 kg ha−1. Results of field trial revealed that maximum grain Zn (29.18 mg kg−1) recorded in Zn-enriched compost @ 9 mg kg−1 and minimum (17.8 mg kg−1) was in control. It is concluded that Zn-enriched organic amendments especially compost found to be appropriate for yield of wheat crop and grain Zn biofortification of wheat that in result increased protein contents and reduced phytic acid concentration.


1. Device waste separator according densities, of the type consisting of a fluid refillable Cuba for separating debris by flotation and decantation, with respective removal belts outside the floated materials and decanted, and attended by one beater element the fluid surface to cooperate in guiding the float to the corresponding tape; characterized in that is disposed on the vibrating screen Cuba one preseparadora some remains of certain type; while in one of the walls of Cuba, conveniently inclined tape extraction settled sludges are implemented; in the area of the sieve cleaning device it is arranged blow; optionally a wash sprinklers are arranged residues.