police and the public is tenuous, and the public wants officers to be more accessible through being friendly and helpful as well as available. Police officers likewise recognize the need for improved relations with the community. Public confidence in them is lacking. Intrusive policing measures, such as high levels of police searches of people stopped, undermines further public confidence in the MPS, and young people and Black people are particularly vulnerable to and aware of such actions. The final section of the Policing for London report presents its discussions in chapters 8 and 9. Although this report does not engage fully with the academic literature, the discussion sections are informed by contemporary notions of concern in policing studies. Chapter 8 considers the external constraints placed on the police that can explain in part their inability to be responsive. Despite the drop in crime levels, the police have increasingly been called on to fulfill other tasks by central government and local agencies while their resources have reduced in real terms. Chapter 9 extends this discussion to the internal organizational constraints placed on the MPS that are in part identified as due to new managerialism in policing. However, issues presented 20 years ago by the Policy Studies Institute are clearly noted as continuing to constrain the MPS. So overcentralization, quantitative performance measures, fragmentation of resources, poor management, and resultant low staff morale are adversely affecting the ability of MPS to be a responsive force. In its conclusion, Policing for London sets out its objectives for future policing in London that attempts to engage the police with the community. As the report states, without the confidence of the public, its help and assistance, the MPS will lose legitimacy and thus authority and will increasingly be unable to function effectively. The report is wholly successful in getting its point across, as the extensive data used draw a clear picture of public priorities and police constraints.


An improved correlation reflectometer technique has been developed and implemented on TJ‐I to measure the radial correlation lengths of the density turbulence. The method uses homodyne detection and is based on the slow sweeping of one oscillator while the other remains at fixed frequency. The decay of the coherence shows maxima and minima as the distance between the two probing points increases. The maxima correspond to the relevant coherence values. The correlation length for the overall turbulence as well as the correlation length for the different frequency intervals can be directly determined in a single shot. By the operation in the Q‐band (33–50 GHz) extraordinary mode, the system reaches most of the plasma radius. Correlation lengths obtained at the edge are compared with those measured at deeper positions in the plasma. The proposed method can provide the values of the differential phase delay along the sweep, avoiding the effect of lost fringes even in the presence of turbulence. This opens the ...


During the next 5 - 10 years, text and graphic systems will tend to merge because of the demand for a more productive man/machine interface, failing memory costs and the availability of higher performance VLSI controllers. This panel will discuss video controllers, memory components and their architectures, graphic systems configurations and the evolution of enhanced system performance versus reduced system cost.


Histological and histochemical observation of corpuscle of Stannius was made in Zoarces elengatus Kner. The Stannius is partitioned off many gland alveoli by connective tissues and develops as three stages: enlargement, secretion and degeneration according to the histological characteristics. The secretions contain protein, mucoprotein and glucoprotein, but do not contain calcium.


Applications executed in the cloud can exploit its elasticity features, varying dynamically the amount of leased resources so as to adapt to load variations and to guarantee good quality of service. As auto scaling has severe implications on execution costs, making optimal scaling choices is of paramount importance. This paper presents an analysis method based on off-line benchmarking that allows to define scaling policies to be used by auto-scalers. The indexes obtained by benchmarking multiple deployment configurations can be used on-line, to scale the application making a trade-off between cost and user-perceived performance.


This paper presents the design of a Frequency Conversion Assembly for downconversion of an input signal in the 6–18GHZ range to 750MHz IF with a bandwidth of 400MHz. The assembly is based on Hybrid technology in that it contains both packaged and bare-chip components. The paper presents a description of the design methodology. Fabrication and testing steps have also been outlined. Test results have been observed to be in good agreement with the design parameters. Gain with flatness 3±3dB was achieved throughout the band with input VSWR<2.5, as desired.


Obscurins, encoded by the single OBSCN gene, are giant cytoskeletal proteins of vertebrate striated muscles composed of adhesion and signaling motifs. The prototypical obscurin (obscurin‐A; ~720 kDa) intimately surrounds sarcomeres at M‐bands and Z‐disks where it participates in their assembly, stability and integration with other sarcomeric elements. We have identified a novel obscurin isoform (obscurin‐D) resulting from complex differential splicing at the 3′ end of the gene. Using immunofluorescence combined with confocal microscopy, we show that obscurin‐D preferentially concentrates at the intercalated disc (ID) of cardiomyocytes, a unique membrane microdomain that mediates mechanical and electrical coupling between neighboring cells. More importantly, immuno‐electron microscopy further demonstrated that obscurin‐D is present at the transitional zone of the ID. Consistent with this, biochemical assays indicate that obscurin‐D exists in a complex with ID proteins, including N‐cadherin, vinculin and connexin‐43, potentially acting as a linker between the ID and the sarcomeric cytoskeleton. Experiments are currently under way to further examine the roles of obscurin‐D at the ICD.


my country's higher vocational education has made great progress and has made great achievements. The scale of higher vocational education has expanded rapidly, which has greatly enriched higher education resources, achieved a historic leap in the "popularization" of higher education, and satisfies the economic and social development of my country. And the people's higher education needs. At this stage, to fully understand the current situation of higher vocational education in our country, carefully examine the problems in the development of higher vocational education, correctly grasp the development trend of higher vocational education, and further promote higher vocational education to take the road of connotative development and achieve new leaps. Has important meaning.


Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to describe the student learning outcomes (SLOs) for a sustainability major, evaluate faculty incorporation of the SLOs into the courses in the sustainability major curriculum and measure student performance on the SLOs from entry into the major to the senior capstone course.

Design/methodology/approach

Through an iterative approach with a faculty advisory committee, SLOs were developed for the sustainability major. Curriculum mapping followed by evaluation of course syllabi were used to determine the extent to which each course addressed the SLOs. Student performance on most SLOs was measured through student assessment in an introductory and capstone course to evaluate the change in performance over time.

Findings

The core courses of the sustainability major were more likely to address the SLOs of the major than that of the elective courses. Where measured, student performance on the SLOs increased from the introductory course to the capstone course. Sustainability majors participated in an average of almost ten experiential learning opportunities focused on sustainability.

Originality/value

This research provides a longitudinal assessment of student learning in an undergraduate sustainability major. Because undergraduate sustainability degrees are generally new, this research can serve as a base upon which to continue to improve sustainability curriculum design.


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Phosphates are used to increase of meat product. In this article, hexametaphosphate, pyrophosphate and trisodium phosphate are chosen for study. By mixture design, the mathematics model is built to optimize the proportion of these phosphates. The result shows that the different phosphates have different water binding capacity of meat product, and the order is pyrophosphate, trisodium phosphate, and hexametaphosphate.


Milk is an essential part of day to day life in Indian society. Majority segment of Indian consumers begin their day with this health and energy drink. The purpose of this study was to identify consumers' needs and wants, their buying behaviour, preferences, perceptions and attitudes towards dairy products. The study was carried out in Miraj which is a taluka in 100 households through questionnaire and discussions. Women being the major influencers in decision making questions were asked to them in presence of their family members to get an overall response towards the dairy's product-milk. As dairy products have a shorter life and is one of the most perishable product it was necessary to know about customers response towards various attributes like taste, quality, odour, availability etc. The question arising is "Is supplying of a perishable product to various middlemen only would suffice to the reputation of the brand?" Most of the times it could happen that product may spoil or die due to fluctuating demand or storage facilities or hygiene reasons. Consumer buying behavior helps to understand the key factors influencing the consumers' role in decision making towards a particular product and the attributes influencing their choice in it.


Cardanol, the cashew phenol, is subjected to diazotization with aniline and o-Toluidine to get different cardanol-based dyes. A large no of interpenetrating polymer networks (IPNs) were Synthesized by condensing polyurethane (PU) of castor oil with cardanol-based dyes using ethylene glycol dimethacrylate (EGDM) as cross linker and benzoyl peroxide (BPO) as initiator. The cardanol-based dyes were characterized by IR spectroscopy. The thermal behaviour of IPNs was studied by TG and the morphology was studied by XRD studies.


Therapeutic optimism can be defined as the belief on the part of research subjects that they are more likely to receive a benefit and less likely to experience risk than others who are similarly situated. It can be distinguished from other forms of therapeutic misunderstanding including therapeutic misconception and therapeutic misestimation. Empirical evidence from subjects who participated in phase 1 oncology trials indicates that therapeutic optimism is high in a significant percentage of these subjects. The phenomenon of the optimistic bias (overestimation of benefit and underestimation of risk) underlies the therapeutic optimism. Among the risk factors that may dispose a subject to optimistic bias is the factor of perceived controllability in which the very act of consent may inform the optimism. Two theories in social psychology may be useful in explaining the optimistic bias. These are Gollwitzer's mindset theory and Kahneman's fast and slow thought system theory. According to these theories the implementation mindset and the fast thought system may in part explain the optimistic bias. Application of these theories to the informed consent process and using the empirical evidence derived from subjects in phase 1 oncology trials, a hypothesis is offered that the decision to participate in such trials is accompanied by an active rejection of the risk content of informed consent and occurs early in the informed consent process. Exploitation of the optimistic bias and steps that may be taken to curb this exploitation are discussed.


Later Preface of JinShiLu is Li Qingzhao's later article,with Memories of her early life.It is historical information of research on Li Qingzhao.In this article,the author not only expressed the suffering on her dead husband,but also truthfully recorded the historical influence of Jin Dynasty on Song Dynasty,having significant historical value and social value.In the article,she used the language of sorrow to express her understanding of life.Thus we can find her later writing style from later preface of JinShiLu.According to this article,we can make some research on the formation and development of literati's character in Song Dynasty.


In his essay on the landscape and still life paintings of Dupuis, Zepp refers to the nine large-scale pieces exhibited in Regina and Vancouver as "spiritual abstractions," and suggests the artist's exploration of the duality between representation and abstraction contributes to the transcendence of emotion. The author also traces the evolution of Dupuis' work. Biographical notes. 8 bibl. ref.


Rice production has been decreasing on the Guapi river strands and had disappeared on the Timbiqui river strands, in the rain forest of the Colombian pacific coast. The rice crop is an important stable and it needed for food security of this region. From two surviving traditional varieties, Brilla Lola and Chino Grande at least 3 other traditional cultivars are recovered. Another six traditional varieties were tentatively identified, and these results need to be confirmed. These recovered traditional varieties are very important as genetic resource. Commercial lowland varieties Orizica Caribe 8 and Fedearroz 2000 were identified as adapted to this area and were accepted by the farmers. Four tones of seeds of these varieties were provided to augment rice production. The first participatory trials showed that the upland variety Irat 216 was adapted for upland and lowland conditions and was accepted by the farmers. This variety is known to have a salt tolerance and may be a widely adapted to a range of local conditions. (Texte integral)


From an anthropological perspective focused on the incidence of culturaldiversity in the definition of laws in modern states, we consider that the historicalfact of the prohibition of psychoactive drugs is based on the opinion that qualifiesas a vice certain habits belonging to members of different cultures. Drugs which areconsidered unlawful are precisely the ones associated in its moment of spreading inthe U.S.A. -epicentre of the standard policy- with foreign minorities: the opium withthe chinese, the cocaine with the african-americans and the marihuana with thehispanics -as well as mushrooms and cactus with the aborigines. As a conclusion weobserve that, carried out at an international level as an instrument forneocolonization, the global policies on drugs justify a repressive attitude that,criminalizing behaviour considered socially "deviated" -which turns into an "illness"due to the judgment of medical authorities-, eventually perpetuates a way ofundercover ethnical discrimination.


A new mechanism of atmospheric corrosion was proposed for silver in H 2 S ︲ NO 2 ︲ SO 2 ︲ Cl 2 environments. Hydrogen sulfide is oxidized by nitrogen dioxide to form reduced sulfur. The chemical reaction for silver was worked out by using the generated reduced sulfur. After the generation reaction of reduced sulfur, the electrochemical reaction was worked out by using the surplus hydrogen sulfide or the nitrogen sulfide. A novel estimation equation of the corrosion rate for silver was proposed as a function of both pollutant concentration and temperature-humidity. By using the equation, the experimental data in published papers was able to be estimated by a factor of two.


Abstract. In line with the growth and evolution of the internet, electronic word of mouth has become an important phenomenon. The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is a relationship between electronic word of mouth on social media Google Reviews with buying interest in Brocode Barbershop Bandung consumers. This study uses a quantitative approach. The population of this research is @brocodebarber Instagram's followers @brocodebarber and the sample is 108 respondents where the whole respondent has never used the services of the Barbershop Brocode before. The data is collected by using questionnaire and analyze by using Rank Spearman correlation to know whether there is a relationship between these variables.The overall results of this research indicate that buying interest is determined by eight dimensions of electronic word of mouth: platform assistance, concern for others, economic incentives, helping the company, expressing positive emotions, venting negative feelings, social benefits, and advice seeking. There is a relationship between electronic word of mouth on social media Google Reviews with the consumer buying interest of Brocode Barbershop consumers. Keywords: Electronic Word of Mouth, Social Media, Google Review, Buying Interest Abstrak. Seiring dengan pertumbuhan dan evolusi internet, electronic word of mouth telah menjadi fenomena yang penting. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mencari tau apakah terdapat hubungan antara elecetronic word of mouth di media sosial Ulasan Google dengan minat beli konsumen Brocode Barbershop Bandung. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif. Populasi dari penelitian ini adalah followers instagram @brocodebarber dan sampelnya berjumlah 108 responden dimana keseleruhuan responden ini belum pernah menggunakan jasa Brocode Barbershop sebelumnya. Teknik pengumpulan data dari penelitian ini menggunakan kuesioner dengan menggunakan uji korelasi Rank Spearman untuk menguji apakah ada hubungan antara variabel-variabel tersebut. Keseluruhan hasil dari penelitiian ini menunjukkan bahwa minat beli ditentukan oleh delapan dimensi electronic word of mouth, yaitu platform assistance, concern for other, economic insentive, helping the company, expressing positive emotions, venting negative feelings, social benefit, dan advice seeking. Terdapat hubungan antara electronic word of mouth di media sosial Ulasan Google dengan minat beli konsumen Brocode Barbershop. Kata Kunci: Electronic Word of Mouth, Social Media, Ulasan Google, Minat Beli


The effect of addition of polyethylene oxide (PEO)on the phase behavior of the TX - 114/n -octane/n - butanol/water system is reported. It has been found that the addition of PEO results in a decrease in the amount of solubilized water in W/O microemulsion region, and an increase in the amount of solubilized water in lamellar liquid crystalling phase. The W/O microemulsion has been studied by using methylene blue as an absorption probe and 5 - doxyl stearic acid (5 - DNS) as a spinning probe. The result clearly indicates that there are three types of water present in the polar core: bound water, which interacts directly with ethylene oxide chains of the surfactant; trapped water, which is located between the ethylene oxide groups, with high mobility; bulk - like water, which forms at high water contents. In the presence of PEO, the polymer molecules can replace some bound water or trapped water molecules, which leads to a looser arrangement of ethylene oxide groups of the surfactants at the interface. This structure may induce the formation of higher


Abstract : This report discusses guidelines for the minimum Day/Night Level (DNL) values that should be used with NOISEMAP type computations to: (1) insure adequate accuracy of the lowest contour level for a given set of aircraft operations; and (2) minimize the number of machine computations and thereby reduce operating costs. An analysis is made of the errors introduced in the DNL contour values due to truncation of the partial DNL cutoff determined by the single event noise level or the number of aircraft operations for a particular flight path. For a given airbase and fixed volume of aircraft operations, the cutoff occurs at higher single event noise levels as the number of aircraft flight paths or aircraft classes are increased. Finer detail in describing the aircraft operations results in the cutoff noise levels being raised with an increased error at the edges of the DNL grid computations, but with a corresponding decrease in the machine running time. These DNL cutoff guidelines have been incorporated into version 3.4 of NOISEMAP.


The present chapter concerns image segmentation via the methods of morphological image processing. A generally accepted meaning of the word segmentation in the image processing community is the decomposition of the image under study into its di erent areas of interest. Here, we shall take the perspective that there are essentially two kinds of segmentation: segmentation of images of texture and segmentation of images of particles. In texture segmentation, an image is partitioned into regions, each of which is de ned by some set of features characteristic to the micro image structure within it, this structure typically being viewed in terms of the small texture primitives composing it. Typical applications include segmentation of vegetation types in aerial photographs, segmentation of text and halftones in document pages, and medical imaging applications (like the extraction of bone tissue according to trabecular structure in magnetic resonance images [15], see Fig. 10). The second kind of segmentation is concerned with images of particles (or objects), where textural information is either not present, or cannot be simply used as a discriminating factor. The segmentation task consists of extracting the particles from the image(s) under study. In other words, the goal is to partition the image in as many connected components as there are objects or regions to extract, plus some background regions. We distinguish between binary and grayscale particle segmentation: in the binary case, i.e. when the images under study are binary, the segmentation task consists in separating the overlapping particles (e.g., see the co ee beans example of Fig. 11a). In the grayscale case, the segmentation task is equivalent to a contour extraction problem (e.g., in Fig. 11b, the contours of the electrophoresis spots have to be extracted as precisely as possible). The chapter is divided into two sections, the rst concerning regional texture oriented segmentation and the second concerning particle segmentation. The literature on image processing of textures is too abundant to be thoroughly reviewed in this chapter, even if we restricted ourselves to purely morphological methods. Instead, we focus on the approach based on local granulometries, which o ers an intuitive formulation, can be applied to a wide range of images, and can be used for both texture segmentation and classi cation. In this section, we only deal with binary images, but the method can be used for graycale images equally well (see example of Fig. 10) As concerns particle segmentation, we shall mainly concentrate on watershed segmentation, which has the advantages of being very general, usually accurate and fast, and applicable to both binary and grayscale images.


Einstein gravity is considered in a special one-parameter background gauge. The one-loop effective action of the theory is calculated to the first order in the gauge parameter. It is shown that, on the mass shell, the effective action is independent of the gauge parameter. 57 refs.


Dynamical, rheological, and some structural properties of 1 wt % aqueous solutions (semidilute regime) of ethyl(hydroxyethyl)cellulose (EHEC) and of a hydrophobically modified analogue, with (HM4-EHEC) and without (HM0-EHEC) spacer (the spacer consists of four EO groups), in the presence of various amounts of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) have been investigated by different experimental methods. Both the dynamical and rheological relaxation processes were slowed at moderate surfactant concentrations due to enhanced hydrophobic associations. The time correlation data obtained from the dynamic light scattering (DLS) experiments showed the existence of two relaxation modes, one single exponential at short times followed by a stretched exponential at longer times. The slow relaxation time, as well as the rheological counterpart (the longest relaxation time), revealed an optimum in intermolecular hydrophobic interactions for the HM4-EHEC/SDS and HM0-EHEC/SDS systems at a surfactant concentration of ca. 4 mm, wh...


My Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship is funded by the Irish Research Council. This project relies heavily on the support of developer led archaeology and national archaeological agencies, especially in the form of knowledge and data sharing. Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), and archaeology companies such as Irish Archaeological Consultancy have already kindly shared their repositories, but I am keen to expand my dataset so would like to encourage anyone who knows of other excavated medieval houses in Ireland to get in touch @karrycrow or email@example.com


The present invention provides a method based on the track record of the address chain memory garbage collector in the state of the object, the system used in the technical field of software compiler and runtime. The method of the present invention for the occurrence of new objects in memory garbage collector, access the object, while moving an object or release objects of different events, different content information items recorded in the address list, and then based on various items of information, generate a status for each object chain, the chain containing the object program status assigned address, access time, release time and an ordered sequence of addresses. The method of the present invention to achieve the status of all the objects in memory to track recording, recording can find long-term memory for objects without releasing further optimize procedures for these objects, thereby improving the overall efficiency and reliability of the operation of program memory .


This work is concerned with the Coulomb friction model in continuum linear elastostatics. We consider the two-dimensional problem and we recall that an infinity of solutions corresponding to slip may exist when the friction coefficient (or its opposite value) is an eigenvalue of a specific problem. We show that such coefficients exist and we determine them explicitly for a simple class of problems. Finally, we exhibit cases in which the static friction problem admits an infinity of solutions slipping in the same direction.


The French-German Initiative for Chernobyl (FGI), implemented by IRSN and GRS from 1997 until the end of 2003, included the "Project on the Radioecological Consequences of the Accident". The most relevant fields of radioecology and post-accidental aspects have been studied. The main goal was to collect and harmonise in NIS countries, the data and results on these topics. These data have been verified, validated and organized in a common georeferenced database REDAC (RadioEcological Database After Chernobyl). For linking the data, topographic maps and maps of contamination by 137 Cs have been used and relevant environmental non-radioactive data have been included. The operational database built will also allow the management of the wastes disposal sites. Countermeasures used after the accident have been described and classified. An evaluation of their effectiveness has been done. The database constitutes a tool for the development and validation of operational, assessment and explicative models. This allows the quantification and assessment of radionuclide transfer in the ecosystems. The main parameters influencing the transfers can be identified. REDAC should be completed by further investigations, for example on transuranic elements, and extended to larger geographical zones and combined with others provided by different organisations.


This demo presents a triangular actuating device stand that can automatically adjust the height and tilt angle of a mounted mobile device (e.g., smartphone) to adapt to the user's varying interaction needs (e.g., touch, browsing, and viewing). We employ a unique mechanism to deform the stand's triangular shape with two extendable reel actuators, which enables us to reposition the mobile screen mounted on the hypotenuse side. Each actuator is managed by the mobile device and controls the height and base of the stand's triangular shape, respectively. To demonstrate the potential of our new actuating device stand, we present two types of interaction scenarios: manual device repositioning based on the user's postures or gestures captured by the device's front camera and automatic device repositioning that adapt to the on-screen contents the user will interact with (i.e., touch-based menus, web browsers, illustrator, and video viewers).


The present invention discloses a method and system to provide a light emitting and sensing light illumination apparatus. In one embodiment, the lighting apparatus (101) comprising: a light guide (105) having a first planar surface, the light guide is configured such that at least some of the ambient light entering through the first surface of the light guide and in which propagation; and at least one light detector (509), along an edge of the light guide is disposed, said at least one detector (509) optically coupled to the light guide (105) to receive light propagating therein. The light detector (509) may be configured to generate a control signal. In some embodiments, the lighting device further comprises a first surface disposed on said at least one light turning features (203), said at least one light turning features (203) configured to direct light through the first incident on a surface of the light guide (105).


Thirty years on from the seminal works on human resource management (HRM) by Beer et al., we examine how the subject has developed. We offer a normative review, based on that model and critique the assumption that the business of HRM is solely to improve returns to owners and shareholders. We identify the importance of a wider view of stakeholders to practitioners and how academic studies on the periphery of HRM are beginning to adopt such a view. We argue that the HRM studies so far have given us much valuable learning but that the subject has now reached a point where we need to take a wider, more contextual, more multilayered approach founded on the long-term needs of all relevant stakeholders. The original Beer et al. model remains a valuable guide to the next 30 years of HRM.


This thesis explored the Finnish game industry. The aim of the research was to find out how well work and private life are balanced in the industry and the factors contributing to it both positively and negatively. The game industry, in general, is high demanding and can be a stressful workplace. Previous research has shown that the two most common reasons for people exiting the industry are poor quality of life and burnout. Since Finland generally reports one of the highest work-life balance rates, it is an interesting platform for the research. The research approach was quantitative. The material was collected through an online questionnaire. The online link to the questionnaire was distributed to the game industry operators through some of the Finnish game industry's social media platforms and websites in order to gain a better access to the targeted population. The overall perceived work-life balance among the Finnish game industry operators is good. However, work and private life do have implications on one another. Which of them has a stronger influence depends on different variables in question, such as the respondent's gender and role in the company. Overall work intensity, continual connection to work and long working times turned out to be the most reported factors contributing to one's work-life balance negatively. Flexible working times is by far the most reported factor to support the balance. The results indicate that the general high demands of the game industry also apply in Finland. Suggestions on how these high demands could be eased and how a better work-life balance could, perhaps, be achieved were given. Keywords/tags (subjects) Work-life balance, WLB, the Finnish game industry


Background: Interstitial lung disease (ILD), is common in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) and strongly impact on patients' morbidity and mortality. Patients with anti-aminoacyl-transfer RNA-synthetases (anti-ARS) antibodies are associated with an increased risk of ILD. Objectives: Defining the radiological characteristics of IIM patients, with special focus on serological groups, through qualitative, semiquantitative and quantitative analysis of lung CT. Methods: This was a prospective study conducted from 2016 to 2019. Ninety-eight IIM patients (35 men, 63 women) were included. Myositis specific autoantibodies (MSA) were assessed with Myositis Prophyle III (Euroimmune, Lubeck). Each patient had a baseline CT; the total score of Warrick (WS) was obtained at semiquantitative analysis. The radiological scores ILD% (interstitial lung disease %) and PVRS% (pulmonary vascular related structure) were the result of quantitative analysis in 61 patients (CALIPER). Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) included TLC%, FVC% and DLCO% (65 patients). The analysis was conducted in the whole group and divided in subgroups based on their MSA pattern: in particular anti-ARS (Group 1) and patients negative to MSA (Group 2) were analysed. Results: Positive correlations between ILD% and PVRS% (Rho=0.916; ρ=0.000), WS and ILD% (Rho=0.663; ρ=0.000) and WS and PVRS% (Rho=0.637; ρ<0.001) were found. The most relevant inverse correlations were found between ILD% and DLCO% (Rho=-0.590; ρ=0.001), PVRS% and DLCO% (Rho=-0.549; ρ<0.001) and WS and DLCO% (Rho=-0.471; ρ<0.001). Statistically significant higher values of WS, ILD% and PVRS% were found in Group 1 (WS=15, ILD%=11 and PVRS%=3.5), compared to Group 2 (WS=2.5, ILD%=0.84 and PVRS%=2.2). NSIP pattern resulted dominant represented in the two groups (80% Group 1, 75% Group 2). No statistically significant differences of DLCO%, FVC% and TLCO% were found. Conclusion: The inverse correlations between the radiological scores and the functional data TLC% and DLCO% (ρ<0.001) confirm the role of lung CT in the clinical management of ILD in IIM patients, and may represent a promising tool for clinical trials. For the first time anti-ARS and serological negative patients were defined through qualitative, semiquantitative and quantitative analysis of lung CT. Further study should be conducted in order to define the prognostic value of the quantitative analysis of lung CT in the follow up of IIM patients. Disclosure of Interests: None declared


(v3.1 released September 2006)We present a teaching approach to uniform continuity on unbounded intervals which, hopefully, may help to meet the following pedagogicalobjectives:(i) To provide students with efficient and simple criteria to decide whether a continuous function is also uniformly continuous;(ii) To provide students with skill to recognize graphically significant classes of both uniformly and nonuniformly continuous functions.Assembling some well-known facts and refining the resulting statement, we establish a useful asymptotic coincidence test for theuniform continuity on unbounded intervals. That test is the core of the present note and yields an easily applicable technique. Inparticular, one of its immediate consequences is the elementary fact that continuity and existence of horizontal or oblique asymptotesimply uniform continuity.Keywords: Uniform continuity; oblique asymptotes.


This paper designs and implements a real-time detection system for flammable liquid residues based on embedded system. It gives full play to the advantage of embedded technology,and realizes portable and real-time accurate detection combining with gas chromatography and photo ionisation detector. Many experiments prove that this system can stably detect the characteristic peaks of gasoline in the condition of combustion of gasoline mixed with a variety of disrupting chemicals. It has the characteristic of linearity,sensitivity,detection limit and stability.


Breast milk is the best nutrition for a baby's health. The WHO and the UNICEF recommended an initial commitment for exclusive breastfeeding during the first 6 months of life, and continue breastfeeding until the age of 24 months, as an important strategy for reducing infant stunting, disease and mortality in developing country. One of the purposes of the ASI Production Stimulation Support Group (KPSTIPASI) activities was to increase the understanding, awareness and skills of pregnant women in Karangroto Village to prepare for the process of maintenance and exclusive breastfeeding. The implementation method consisted of socialization, competency improvement, skills training, monitoring, and evaluation. The results showed the formation of a health care discussion forum with activities focused on pregnant women to prepare the breast-milk-feeding under the auspices of the Puskesmas Kumawula : Jurnal Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat 2019 42 Bangetayu. This supported the ability and skills of health care in stimulating milk production from 25% to 87% and increasing the effectiveness of prenatal breastfeeding from 35% to 85%. The KP-STIPASI based community support was the right strategy to empower the community in increasing the readiness and trust of pregnant women for exclusive (prenatal breastfeeding self-efficacy). The next community support activities are expected to be able to develop community support based KP-STIPASI in all regions of Karangroto Sub-District. The activity will not only focus on pregnant women, but also for mothers with children under two years of age and breastfeeding mothers.


In order to efficiently solve the problem of rooting,this paper introduced the thinking of game theory and presented UCEER algorithm for wireless sensor networks.Simulation results show that the routing algorithm efficiently balances the energy consumption of nodes in wireless sensor networks prolongs the network lifetime and guarantees the path reliability.


ON A DRIVE along the Kanawha River from Charleston, W.Va., to the DuPont plant in nearby Belle, the sights include a Moose Lodge, the local Boy Scouts headquarters, and Daniel Boone Park. Executives from Japan's Kureha making the trip can be excused for thinking, "We're not in Tokyo anymore." Those executives are placing a big bet on the faraway town of Belle. At that Du-Pont facility the Japanese firm plans to spend $100 million on the world's first commercial-scale plant for polyglycolic acid, a polymer they say has the potential to remake the market for polyethylene terephthalate, the bottle plastic better known as PET. New-to-the-world plastics don't have a great track record these days. Although corporate chemists dream of inventing the next nylon, the chemical industry's recent history suggests such finds are becoming rare. Dow Chemical took what looked like a $150 million loss in 2004 when it threw in the towel on polylactic ...


The structural genes of the photosynthetic apparatus of two purple bacteria, Amoebobacter (Amb.) purpureus ML1 and Roseospirillum (Rss.) parvum 930I, were investigated by molecular biological methods. Analyses were focused on their light harvesting (LH) 1 core antenna, which is encoded within the puf operon. The puf-operon of the purple sulfur bacterium Amb. purpureus differs from the puf operon of the purple non-sulfur bacteria by exhibiting multiple copies of the LH1 genes pufBA and by variations in gene transcription and expression. Horizontal transfer of genes between Amb. purpureus and Allochromatium vinosum might have played a role during the evolution of the multiple pufA genes. Along with extraordinary absorption properties of the LH1-antenna (909 nm), Rss. parvum exhibits substitutions of amino acids within the LH1 alpha and beta polypeptides at positions that are highly conserved in other purple bacteria. 3D structural models of the polypeptides suggest that cysteine side chains in particular are involved in the modulation of the spectral properties of Rss. parvum.


The aim of this study was to verify whether exaggerated natriuresis is always present after PSAGN,as previously reported.Nine patients(7 children,2 adults) two years after PSAGN and four healthy control subjects(3 adults,1child) were studied.All subjects had normal urinalysis,GFR and BP.Following two control periods of 30 min(I,II) an i.v. saline load (2.5%NaCl, 1L/1.73m2) was given over 45 min(III).GFR,UVna and venous HTC were measured during these periods as well as during four 30 min collection periods following completion of the saline load (IV,V,VI,VII).GFR was comparable in the two groups.No significant differences were found in absolute or fractional excretion of sodium.We thus found no evidence for exaggerated natriuresis two years after PSAGN.We conclude that PSAGN as seen by us in Israel, carries a good (short-term) clinical and renal functional prognosis.


Objective To Study the characteristics of clinical and coronary lesions in female patients with coronary heart disease(CHD) so as to contribute to the improvement of diagnostic level. Methods The clinical data and results of selected coronary angiography(SCA) of 135 female patients with CHD were analyzed, 150 male patients with CHD were served as the control group. Results In cases60,the incidence of CHD in female patients was lower than that in males (32. 3% vs 67. 7%, P0.05). In cases≥60, the incidence of CHDin female patients was higher than that in males(59. 5% vs 40.5%, P0.05). The average incidence age in female patients (60) withCHD was late (56. 4 ± 3. 2 vs 47. 4 ± 6. 2, P0.05). The incidence of hypertension was higher than that in male patients younger than60, but the incidence of diabetes mellitus and hyperlipidemia were balanced between the two groups, clinical characteristics of chest pain wasatypical. ST-T changes in electrocardiogram were not obvious. Coronary lesions were light. In female patients with CHD elder than 60, hyper-lipidemia incidence was higher. Hypertension and diabetes mellitus were not different between the two groups. Clinical characteristics of chestpain were typical. Special ST-T changes were not obvious. Coronary lesions were serious. The number of single vesse lesion was decreased.Conclusions The clinical characteristics were atypical in non-old female patients. With age increasing gradually, the incidence and the coro-nary artery lesions in female with CHD were increased. In order to make righ diagnosis, female patiemts should be examined by coronary an-giography (CA) in time.


The availability of rapid and reliable methods for rapid determination of small molecules, as contaminants in food samples, including Aflatoxins, is an increasing need also for human health. In order to monitoring food contaminants, as Mycotoxins (MTXs) Gas Chromatographic (GC) and High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) methods are generally utilized, due to their high detection sensibility and selectivity. However, GC and HPLC analyses are time consuming and needs sample pre-treatment or pre-concentration procedures. Immunoassays and biosensors are becoming a recognized alternative or complementary to conventional analytical techniques for the detection of mycotoxins, as Aflatoxins. Recently, biosensors based on the use of monoclonal or polyclonal antibodies have seen a great development in the field of small molecules analytical determination and specifically in the mycotoxins analyses. Among biosensors for mycotoxins monitoring, optical or electrochemical devices for Aflatoxins detection were described by different authors. The present Chapter describes the different biosensors for Aflatoxins developed and utilized in food analysis. The absence of cross-reactivity obtained with most of these biosensor, the possibility of on-line measurement, the absence of sample pre-treatment, can really put it in competition with other conventional systems such as HPLC and ELISA. Chapter describes also main biosensors features and vantages for these innovative devices and various examples of biosensors and reviews some biosensors for Aflatoxins and other mycotoxins detection methods, as microarray. In particular, we will focus our attention on biosensors developed for mycotoxins detection that utilize immunoglobulins or aptamer showing affinity for a correspondent analyte, associated to various transduction elements. Various biosensing platforms will be introduced, including, but not limited to, surface plasmon resonance and quartz microbalance crystals. Examples of biosensors array, as microarray, detecting Aflatoxin and Fumonisin will be also presented. Some of these biosensing devices were developed in our laboratories and the sensing performance of each device will be evaluated and compared in terms of sensitivity and detection limit. Analytical methods used for mycotoxins determination are mainly based on TLC, HPLC or ELISA. Actually biosensor and microsystem technologies are used for different applications including studies of human and veterinary diseases, drug discovery, genetic screening, clinical and food diagnostics. According to these approaches the aim of many authors was to transfer the methods of the immunological assay from microtiter plates into a biosensor format in order to develop a rapid, sensitive and inexpensive method for the detection of


A series of p type bulk(Bi0.25Sb0.75)2Te3 thermoelectric materials were prepared by melt spinning-mechanical milling(MM) and spark plasma sintering(SPS).Electrical conductivity,Seebeck coefficient and thermal conductivity of the sintered samples were measured in the temperature range from 300K to 523K.The effects of milling time on thermoelectric properties were investigated in system.The results show that,with the extension of milling time,the electrical conductivity of the sample increases and then decreases,Seebeck coefficient changes little,while the thermal conductivity decreases with the increase of milling time.As a result,the bulk milled for 20h has the highest ZT value 0.96 at room temperature,meanwhile the bending strength reaches 91MPa.


Both isomers of naphthotectone, an isoprenoid quinone from Verbenaceae Tectona grandis possessing interesting biological activities, were enantioselectively obtained by two different synthetic routes in which the carbon side-chain of the naphthoquinone core was introduced using either a Sonogashira or a Heck coupling reaction. In both cases, the naphthoquinone core of the final products was obtained by a late-stage anodic treatment. (R)-Naphthotectone was obtained in six steps from leuconaphthazarin with an overall yield of 38 % and an enantiomeric excess of 86 %. This compound was found to have the same absolute configuration as the natural product at its C-3′ stereogenic center. (S)-Naphthotectone was obtained in five steps from leuconaphthazarin with an overall yield of 36 % and an enantiomeric excess of 80 %.


We conduct a statistical study of cold protons in the near-Earth magnetotail under quiet magnetotail conditions. Performing two-component Maxwellian fits to velocity distributions, we extract densities and temperatures of cold protons. Cold protons are separated into three distinct populations in the density-plasma b space. We interpret that Population I, characterized by a positive correlation of density to b, is solar-wind origin plasma transported over the polar regions. Population II, seen only in the high-b (>0.1) and tailward region (r > 20 Re) particularly on the dusk side, is solar-wind origin plasma entering through the flank magnetopauses and remains cold. Population III, clearly identified in the near-Earth region (r < 10 Re), is of ionospheric origin. The results also suggest that plasma supply to the plasma sheet is dominated by Population I and that cold plasma in the near-Earth magnetotail is mostly of ionospheric origin.


Based on studies of differences in physicochemical properties of antagonists and agonists of ionic channels it has been proposed that the magnitude of the elementary currents might influence the gating properties of ionic channel (personal communication) who reported that in inwardly rectifying potassium channels increased unitary currents induced prolonged single channel openings. A similar finding has already been reported by Payet et al. (1985) working on the inward K + rectifier channel in myocytes of newborn rat hearts. However, for the delayed K + rectifier in skeletal muscle no similar correlation could be found (Standen et al. 1985). Herein we report data on single cardiac sodium channels suggesting a positive correlation between the magnitude of single channel currents and the mean duration of the open state when the unitary currents were changed only by variation of the concentration gradient for sodium. Experiments were carried out on single ventricular cells of guinea pig hearts dissociated by a method described elsewhere (Kao et al. 1980). The solution in the experimental chamber for patch clamp studies contained (mmol/1): 140 K-aspartate; 10 EGTA; 1 MgCl 2 ; 5 Hepes; pH 7.4 adjusted with KOH. Single channel recordings were performed in this medium in cell attached patches only. The cells were zeroed close to 0 mV resting potential in the medium used. The patch clamp pipettes contained (mmol/1): 0.5 CaCl 2 ; 0.5 MgCl 2 ; 11 glucose; 5 Hepes; pH 7.4 adjusted with NaOH. NaCl was changed between 140 and 250 mmol/1, and osmotically balanced by sucrose. Experiments were performed at room temperature. The patch clamp device used was standard (Hamill et al. 1981) and has been described in detail elsewhere (Nilius et al. 1986, 1987). Figure 1 shows single channel currents with two different sodium concentrations in the patch pipette. Short openings cluster at the very beginning of the


In face recognition, there exists significant challenges like scale, pose, illumination and occlusions in images acquired from real-world conditions. In this work, to cope with these challenges robust, real-time executable, person-independent, component-based, scale and pose invariant a face recognition system has been proposed. In order to align face images, Constrained Local Models (CLM) has been employed. Features have been extracted using Gabor Wavelets from face images aligned with CLM as holistic-based and component-based. After features extraction, the features have been classified by linear Support Vector Machines. Successes of classification acquired using by holistic-based and component-based methods on IMM face database has been evaluated by 5-fold cross-validation and the results have been shown comparatively.


1Department of General Surgery, Istanbul University Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Capa, Istanbul, Turkey 2Department of Medical Oncology, Gayrettepe Florence Nightingale Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey 3Department of General Surgery, Demiroglu Bilim University, Istanbul, Turkey 4Department of Medical Oncology, Demiroglu Bilim University, Istanbul, Turkey 5Department of General Surgery, Sisli Memorial Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey 6Department of Physical Therapy Rehabilitation, Biruni University, Istanbul, Turkey 7Department of Nutrition and Dietetic, Demiroglu Bilim University, Istanbul, Turkey 8Department of Pathology, Sisli Memorial Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey 9Department of Radiation Oncology, Gayrettepe Florence Nightingale Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey 10Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health Sciences, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey 11Department of General Surgery, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida, USA


Since the proposal of Minimalist Program, a major issue in recent second language research has revolved around the status of functional categories of non-native grammars. These researches mainly focus on two aspects: one is the status of functional categories in the initial state, the other being the extent to which L2 grammars diverge from the target language in terms of the representation of functional projections.


Introduction: Alternative payment models and even traditional fee-for-service Medicare are increasingly relying on measures of quality to determine provider and hospital reimbursement. For chronic ...


The micro-electromechanical semiconductor component is provided with a semiconductor substrate (4, 5), a reversibly deformable bending element (8a) made of semiconductor material, and at least one transistor that is sensitive to mechanical stresses, said transistor being designed as an integrated component in the bending element (8a). The transistor is arranged in an implanted active region pan (78a) that is made of a semiconductor material of a first conducting type and is introduced in the bending element (8a). Two mutually spaced, implanted drain and source regions (79, 80) made of a semiconductor material of a second conducting type are designed in the active region pan (78a), a channel region extending between said two regions. Implanted feed lines made of a semiconductor material of the second conducting type lead to the drain and source regions (79, 80). The upper face of the active region pan (78a) is covered by a gate oxide (81a). In the area of the channel region, a gate electrode (81) made of polysilicon is located on the gate oxide (81a), a feed line likewise made of polysilicon leading to said gate electrode.


On Friday 27 July at 08:12, a group of people will be gathering by the War Memorial to join in the national All the Bells initiative to ring in The ...


With the rise of poststructuralist critiques of the autonomous subject, attention has shifted from the nature of "intentional persuasion" to the constitutive nature of discourse. Although this turn has led to valuable new insights into the nature of rhetoric, it also threatens to discount one of the most vital contributions of the rhetorical tradition—the nature of rhetorical invention. This essay seeks to recover the notion of invention by drawing from John Dewey's naturalistic interpretation of experience. In Dewey's framework, "consciousness" is neither the private contents of thought nor a point of articulation for social discourse, but a practice of manipulating public meanings as a means of responding to problematic situations. I then use Dewey's notion to advance the concept of a "rhetorical consciousness," which I define in terms of the sophistical principles of imitatio and dissoi logoi. To demonstrate the pragmatic significance of this concept, I then show, through an analysis of Charles Darwin's notebooks, how Darwin employed his own rhetorical consciousness within his struggle to invent the revolutionary arguments that led up to his publication of On the Origin of Species. My hope is that this naturalistic interpretation of rhetorical invention will contribute to the ongoing project of cultivating a more intelligent, critical, and creative citizenry through the application of classical rhetorical principles to contemporary democratic forms of education in both the arts and sciences.


Culture is being 'appified'. Diverse, pre-existing everyday activities are being redesigned so they happen with and through apps. While apps are often encountered as equivalent icons in apps stores or digital devices, the processes of appification – that is, the actions required to turn something into an app – vary significantly. In this article, we offer a comparative analysis of a number of 'challenger' banking apps in the United Kingdom. As a retail service, banking is highly regulated and banks must take steps to identify and verify their customers before entering a retail relationship. Once established, this 'secured' financial identity underpins a lot of everyday economic activity. Adopting the method of the walkthrough analysis, we study the specific ways these processes of identifying and verifying the identity of the customer (now the user) occur through user onboarding. We argue that banking apps provide a unique way of binding the user to an identity, one that combines the affordances of smart phones with the techniques, knowledge and patterns of user experience design. With the appification of banking, we see new processes of security folded into the everyday experience of apps. Our analysis shows how these binding identities are achieved through what we refer to as the patterning of finance/security. This patterning is significant, moreover, given its availability for wider circulation beyond the context of retail banking apps. Computational Culture a journal of software studies 9/26/23, 3:28 PM The Patterning of Finance/Security: A Designerly Walkthrough of Challenger Banking Apps – Computational Culture computationalculture.net/the-patterning-of-finance-security/ 2/37 Introduction Seemingly innocuous, even trivial, apps are profoundly enmeshed with the practices and habits of everyday life. Across the uniform grids in app stores and mobile GUIs, the icons of dating apps sit next to fitness apps, reading apps next to news apps, navigation apps and transport apps next to shopping apps, smart home apps and learning apps, ad infinitum. These activities associated with apps, along with their perceived 'free' or low-cost disposability, it has been claimed, lend them a sense of being a 'mundane' type of software. Yet given their integration within vast monopolistic platforms, such conventional qualities invite some consideration of how the everydayness or mundanity of apps is achieved, not only as the inevitable result of widespread adoption but rather as a deliberate strategy of app design. A successful app, in this regard, is a habituated app; an app that takes its place within an everyday that it thereby contributes to reconstituting. The presentation of apps in online stores and on digital devices can communicate a sense of equivalence, especially since they are accessed, compared, downloaded and opened in similar ways. But the labour of 'appification', of re-composing already existing everyday practices into what Philip Agre described as a grammar of action, can vary significantly in its practical articulation and sociotechnical implications. Part of what appification means, we contend, is a widespread instrumentation of diverse everyday activities through software, where new equivalences can be observed as well as new points of differentiation. Appification, in other words, involves the translation of a prior everyday into a new everyday. Understanding this translation is key, since it provides a sense of history to the 'appified' everyday and a contingency to its present. Studying processes of appification, therefore, provides a perspective on the changing material configurations of the everyday, and allows us to reflect on emergent economic, cultural and political dynamics. Our specific focus lies with retail banking apps and infrastructures, particularly those provided by so-called 'challenger' banking apps in the UK. Banking apps offer many of the retail banking services previously provided by branches and internet banking, including saving, transfers, overdrafts, new accounts, loans, insurance, credit card applications, and so on. Sometimes these are handled exclusively 'in-app', while others combine multiple channels, including web browser redirects or the use of SMS. Until recently, banking apps could best be understood as one 'channel' among a bank's multi-channel retail provision 1


Competence-oriented education was implemented in the third generation of the Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Professional Education (FSES HPE) basic and special professional competencies to graduate qualification (degree) Bachelor of direction 071900.62 «Library and Information Activities». In this case it is logical to understand that competence is an ability of graduate bachelor of library and information direction to apply the knowledge, skills and personal qualities for the successful work. It should be noted the informational and analytical competence which include analysis routines is the most important professional competence that must have a Bachelor of direction «Library and Information Activities». «Analytic-synthetic processing of information» was included such fundamental information-analytical course in the basic part the preparation students of direction «Library and Information Activities» for the implementation of the basic educational program in the direction of Baccalaureate in FSES HPE. Variety of the training cycle professional education Bachelor of Library and Information activities is determined by the particular institution according to the specialized units installed by FSES HPE. For the educational program provided for the standard profile «information-analytical activity» of the Department of Library and Information Activities of «Tyumen State Academy of Culture, Arts and Social Technologies» was offered 23 education courses: «The Russian language and culture of speech», «Concepts of modern science», «Foreign language (the profile)», «Politology», «Local His-tory», «Conflictology», «Mathematical methods and models in professional activities», «Personal Information Culture»; «Information Resources», «Analytical Technology», «Text Analytics», «Or-ganization of information and analytical activities», «Information and analytical products and ser-vices», «Intelligent Information Systems», «Multimedia Technology Library and Information Activi-ties», «Organizational Culture information firm», «Bibliography activities of the library», «Information Law», «Introduction to the profession», «Regional library», «Document management», «information and legal systems», «Methods of Teaching library disciplines». So presented in a projected series of Library Information and Analytical Bachelor of Library and Information Activities disciplines meaningful coordinated with each other and systematically reflect the totality of theoretical and applied knowledge, focused on the usage of a professional activity.


We evaluated the neuroprotective effects of β‐methylphenylalanine in an experimental model of rotenone‐induced Parkinson's disease (PD) in SH‐SY5Y cells and rats. Cells were pre‐treated with rotenone (2.5 µg/mL) for 24 hours followed by β‐methylphenylalanine (1, 10 and 100 mg/L) for 72 hours. Cell viability, reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels, mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP), mitochondrial fragmentation, apoptosis, and mRNA and protein levels of tyrosine hydroxylase were determined. In a rat model of PD, dopamine (DA) and 3,4‐dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) levels, bradykinesia and tyrosine hydroxylase expression were determined. In rotenone–pre‐treated cells, β‐methylphenylalanine significantly increased cell viability and MMP, whereas ROS levels, apoptosis and fragmented mitochondria were reduced. β‐Methylphenylalanine significantly increased the mRNA and protein levels of tyrosine hydroxylase in SH‐SY5Y cells. In the rotenone‐induced rat model of PD, oral administration of β‐methylphenylalanine recovered DA and DOPAC levels and bradykinesia. β‐Methylphenylalanine significantly increased the protein expression of tyrosine hydroxylase in the striatum and substantia nigra of rats. In addition, in silico molecular docking confirmed binding between tyrosine hydroxylase and β‐methylphenylalanine. Our experimental results show neuroprotective effects of β‐methylphenylalanine via the recovery of mitochondrial damage and protection against the depletion of tyrosine hydroxylase. We propose that β‐methylphenylalanine may be useful in the treatment of PD.


The energy levels, ground state binding energies, and electric dipole polarizabilities of hydrogenic impurities in quantum dots and quantum nanowires have been investigated using a non-relativistic B-spline based variational method. Firstly, we have worked on the characterization of those impurities (donor/electron) in quantum dots and quantum nanowires, considering the two cases where the impurity is centered or off-centered in the nanostructure. Secondly, the electric dipole polarizabilities have been computed and their sensitivity with confinement parameters investigated. So the energies, binding energies, and dipole polarizabilities were reported for the centered and the off-centered donor and electron impurities as a function of the cavity radius and the off-center displacement. We found that the polarization of the studied system greatly depends on the model potential form, the off-center displacement, and the cavity radius. In the case of quantum dots and for the parabolic potential, the convergence of the polarizability for large values of the quantum size is shown. For the quantum nanowire case, we have shown that the polarizability is greater in the case of the z axis displacement than that of the transversal one. This leads to the fact that the system is more polarizable when the impurity is moved along the z axis than the transversal one.


Modern Poetry's horizon of expectation means how people think of the prior knowledge of modern poetry. Zhang Mo was hailed as a leading voice of the "new poetry" movement. His anthologies and poetics set standards of good poems, which greatly influence the formation of "horizon of expectation". Poems compiled by Zhang Mo are all around the history of modern poetry and his anthologies arouse great interest of the Taiwanese poetic group. His anthologies have an effect on how readers take the horizon of expectation and therefore establish the model of Taiwanese modern poetry. As for his poetics, it is practical. It tells readers how to tell a good poem. A good poem should on the one hand reflect one's life on its theme and on the other hand focus on the forms of artistic expression in its language. Therefore by observing the pattern of Zhang's anthologies and poetics, we easily get his ideas to poetry.


Within the changing management concept, employees and employers have the constant feeling of keeping up with the changing environment. In this regard, performance evaluation activities are regarded as an indispensable element. Data obtained from the results of the performance evaluation activities, shed light on the development of the employees and enable the enterprises to stand in the fierce competitive environment. This study sets out to find out the effect of the applied performance methods on the objective of the managers. The population of the study comprises 182 hotel enterprises with five stars operating in Antalya, İzmir and Muğla D. Kara / İşletme Araştırmaları Dergisi 1/1 (2009) 53-64 54 with 2184 managers. Sample population was comprised of 578 managers. The results of the study suggest that the effect of the applied performance methods on the objective of the managers counts. The objective of the managers applying 360-degree performance evaluation method is found to be "finding out the training and development needs", while the objective of the managers applying conventional performance evaluation methods is found to be "enhancing the existing performance".


Approximately 70% of American adults are considered overweight or obese putting them at increased risk for metabolic syndrome, which includes a constellation of abnormalities that can result in cardiovascular disease, type II diabetes, and fatty liver. Sexual dimorphism in metabolic syndrome is clearly established. Adult men display increased prevalence of metabolic syndrome comorbidities when compared to fertile women. However, post-menopause, the incidence of metabolic syndrome in women significantly increases. It is widely proposed that the increased post-menopausal incidence of metabolic syndrome is due, in part, to estrogen deficiency. Within the brain, estrogen regulates metabolism primarily through actions on estrogen receptor alpha (ERα). While a major emphasis has been placed on hypothalamic nuclei, whether there is a distributed neural network of ERα that works through autonomic and endocrine actions to influence metabolism remains incompletely defined. We have recently shown a critical role for the subfornical organ (SFO), a circumventricular region that lies outside the blood barrier, in the regulation of peripheral metabolism in males. However, whether this brain nucleus and further estrogen signaling within this region is involved the control of metabolism in females is unknown. Taken together, we hypothesized that ERα in the SFO may regulate peripheral metabolism in female mice during obesity. To investigate this, 6 wk old female ESRαflox mice received targeted SFO microinjections of AAV-Cre-GFP and titer matched control AAV-LacZ-GFP. Following 2 wks of viral incorporation, mice were fed a high fat diet (HFD; 60% kcal from fat) for 10 weeks. Indirect calorimetry measurements indicated that SFO ERα removal resulted inhyperphagic behavior during HFD feeding (Cumulative food intake: 27.4±2.7 g vs 37.5±3.3 g, GFP vs. Cre, n=7-8, p<0.05) that was counterbalanced by increased energy expenditure (0.46±0.02 vs. 0.51±0.02 kcal/hr, GFP vs. Cre, n=7-8, p<0.05) resulting in no influence on body weight (ΔBody weight: 18.9±3.2 vs. 20.3±1.6 g, GFP vs. Cre, n=4, p>0.05) or adiposity. Interestingly, SFO ERα knockdown exacerbated hepatic steatosis during diet-induced obesity (Oil Red staining, 8.8±1.9 vs 18.8±2.8 au x 107, GFP vs. Cre, n=7-8, p<0.05), although this was in contrast to improved whole-body glucose tolerance in response to an i.p. glucose load (6.1±0.2 vs 4.7±0.5 AUC x 104, GFP vs. Cre, n=5-6, p<0.05) and upregulation of skeletal muscle long-chain fatty acid b-oxidation genes (e.g. Cpt1: 2.3±0.7 Cre fold GFP, n=4-5, p<0.05). Finally, deletion of SFO ERα was associated with a reduction in circulating estrogen during obesity (80.0±4.3 vs 45.2±12.5 pg/mL, GFP vs. Cre, n=3-4, p=0.06). Collectively, these findings indicate that SFO ERα may differentially regulate target organs during obesity and points to a complex set of interactions whereby SFO estrogen signaling can both positively and negatively regulate peripheral metabolism. R01DK117007, R01HL141393, F31 NIDDK12829388 This is the full abstract presented at the American Physiology Summit 2023 meeting and is only available in HTML format. There are no additional versions or additional content available for this abstract. Physiology was not involved in the peer review process.


Cloud computing becomes the basic alternative platform for the most users application in the recent years. The complexity increasing in cloud environment due to the continuous development of resources and applications needs a concentrated integrated fault tolerance approach to provide the quality of service. Focusing on reliability enhancement in an environment with dynamic changes such as cloud environment, we developed a multi-agent scheduler using Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithm and Neural Fitted Q (NFQ) to effectively schedule the user requests. Our approach considers the queue buffer size for each resource by implementing the queue theory to design a queue model in a way that each scheduler agent has its own queue which receives the user requests from the global queue. A central learning agent responsible of learning the output of the scheduler agents and direct those scheduler agents through the feedback claimed from the previous step. The dynamicity problem in cloud environment is managed in our system by employing neural network which supports the reinforcement learning algorithm through a specified function. The numerical result demonstrated an efficiency of our proposed approach and enhanced the reliability.


AbstractThe drag reduction method using polymer additives is a common strategy to minimize friction losses when carrying fluids (water, oil, or slurries) in pipes over long distances. Previous stud...


Indonesia is a rule of law, where the laws and regulations put forward by Hans Kelsen, namely the theory of legal levels (Stufentheorie). This theory emphasizes that in the hierarchy of existing laws and regulations, they should not conflict with existing regulations. Hans Kelsen's theory is in line with the principle of the law of lex superior derogat legi inferiori, which emphasizes that the law under it must not conflict with the law above it. The existence of an online or online virtual trial during the Covid 19 Pandemic in Indonesia has become a polemic in the community. This is because most Indonesians think that this does not have a constitutional basis, so that many defendants refuse to be tried virtually online or online. On that basis, the author is interested in examining the extent of the existence of an online or online virtual trial according to the point of view of criminal law through a paper in this journal.


Previous studies have demonstrated that beta-glucans stimulate Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L., head kidney macrophages both in vitro and in vivo and increase protection against various pathogens. Based on our previous work that showed potent immunostimulatory CpG motif-containing oligodeoxynucleotides increased resistance to amoebic gill disease (AGD), the present study investigated the immunostimulatory effects of three commercial beta-glucan-containing feeds and their ability to increase resistance to AGD. All three commercial beta-glucans were able to stimulate the respiratory burst activity of Atlantic salmon head kidney macrophages in vitro, albeit at different times and concentrations. However, dietary incorporation of the beta-glucans was unable to stimulate the in vivo respiratory burst activity of head kidney macrophages, or serum lysozyme production, and did not increase resistance against AGD. However, this trial showed for the first time that a small subpopulation of Atlantic salmon subjected to a severe AGD infection was able to resist becoming heavily infected and furthermore survive the challenge.


Bronchial asthma is one of the allergic diseases characterized by reversible bronchial narrowing due to bronchial hyperactivity and obstruction of respiratory tract. The prevalence and hospitalization rates of bronchial asthma keep increasing from year to year, causing asthma to be the top ten causes of morbidity and mortality in Indonesia. The decrease of the forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) is one of the indicators of the respiratory tract obstruction. Moreover, the cortisol hormone level is also associated with asthma. Asthma can be treated not only with pharmacological intervention but also physical exercises. The aim of the study was to assess the increase of FEV1 and cortisol hormone level after swimming and asthmatic exercise on asthmatic patients. This was a quasi experimental study using pre and post test control group design. Two groups of 10 asthmatic patients each conducted swimming and asthmatic exercise as intervention. On pre, middle and post swimming or asthmatic exercise, those two groups underwent the measurement of FEV1 using a spirometer and cortisol hormone levels using ELISA methods. The result showed that the value of FEV1 and cortisol hormone levels increased significantly after swimming and asthmatic exercise (p<0.05). Moreover, the improvement of FEV1 value and cortisol hormone levels of asthmatic patients in swimming were higher than asthmatic exercise. In conclusion, swimming and asthmatic exercise can increase the value of FEV1 and the levels of the cortisol hormone. Keywords : swimming - asthmatic exercise - FEV1 - cortisol hormone - asthma


Focused ion beam milling (FIB) provides a unique solution for metallurgists who are interested in investigating very specific regions of their alloys in the transmission electron microscope (TEM). Before FIB metallurgists investigating highly heterogeneous alloys had to make many TEM samples hoping the area of interest coincided with the electron transparent region. This ad-hoc method is time consuming and one can never be absolutely sure where the specimen is extracted from in relation to the surrounding material. FIB solves this problem. Our research with a variety of Al-Si casting alloys and steels from the de Center (WTC) has benefited from FIB because we can select microstructures from exact areas of interest to study and characterize in the TEM. Furthermore we can image and analyze the general microstructure beforehand in the FIB to show exactly where the TEM sample came from, hus connecting several orders of spatial magnitude together for a more complete analysis. This is important because the scale of features in these alloys is generally much larger than a typical TEM sample. In this paper we present a case study of results from the Al-Si and steel alloy TEM samples created using the FIB.


It has been known that some situations in the closure condition. On the base of that, some researches have been done on the effects of pH, the size of articles, different of buildup substances and retention drainage aids on the fines retention and drainage of water in the wet end of apaper machine. It is proved in the paper that the PEO/PFR is efficient additives when the white water system is closed, and its stability is excellent under the closure system.


An out‐of‐phase relationship between moisture variations in arid central Asia (ACA) and Monsoon Asia is revealed in various Holocene sedimentary records. To determine whether this relationship also occurred during previous warm intervals, we reconstructed the history of moisture variations during Marine Isotope Stage 5 (MIS 5) recorded in a loess profile from the Yili valley in the Tienshan Mountains, in ACA, and compared it with the record from the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP). Three humid episodes in the Yili valley are recorded, at 72–79.5, 93.5–101 and 113.5–125.5 ka; in addition, intervals of fine grain size, indicating a low incidence of dust storms, and thus low ice volume in the Northern Hemisphere, occurred during 76–83.5, 97–106 and 117.5–130 ka. Our findings indicate that during MIS 5, variations in humidity in ACA lagged (by ∼3–5 ka) variations in the Asian Monsoon recorded by magnetic and grain‐size proxies from the CLP. Furthermore, we propose that precipitation variations in ACA were negatively correlated with the intensity of the Asian Monsoon because of corresponding movements in pressure and rain belts, and were positively correlated with sea surface temperature variations in the North Atlantic.


The present invention relates to aging and inhibit blood vessel a composition for promotion of new stem cells, and stem cell therapy comprising the same adjuvant containing (Tauroursodeoxycholic acid) TUDCA.


The groe fish Barbodes binotatus is one of the commercial freshwater fish occurred in Nagan River, Aceh Province, Indonesia. To date, information on the growth pattern and condition factor of this species were not available. Hence, the objective of the present study was to examine the growth pattern and condition factors of the groe fish B. binotatus in Nagan River, Nagan Raya District, Aceh Province, Indonesia. The sampling was conducted for 12 months from January 2016 to December 2016. The sampling locations were determined based on the information from local fishermen. The Linear Allometric Model (LAM), Fulton's and Relative Weight conditions factors were utilized to analyse the length-weight relationships and condition factors of the groe fish. A total of 409 fish samples were collected during the study. The results showed that the highest coefficient of b was recorded in October, where the b value was 5.19 with the average b value was 2.91 indicates an isometric growth pattern. The average Fulton's condition factor (K) was 2.41 and the average Relative weight (Wr) condition factor was 100.52. It is concluded that fish had an isometric growth pattern and based on K and Wr value, the results indicate that the waters are still in good condition and supports the life of fish. Furthermore, the availability of food sources, low competitors, and low predators indicate that the aquatic environment is in a stable condition.


Abstract This paper evaluates the influence of the first lactation yield and age at first calving on lifetime production and determines the relative importance of them for selection purposes. The data refer to Tharparkar, Sahiwal, and Red Sindhi breeds and one-half Jersey × one-half Thari crossbred cows. Age at first calving had more influence on the estimation of yield up to a certain age than on certain numbers of lactations, the first lactation yield being of equal importance in both cases. Regression equations to predict total yield up to five lactations, on the basis of the first lactation yield, explained 70% of the variation in Tharparkar and Sahiwal breeds and about 42% in Red Sindhi and crossbred cows. Multiple regression equations to predict yield up to 10 yr of age on the basis of the first-lactation yield and age at first calving explained more than 75% variation in purebred cows and only 40% in crossbred cows. The latter character explained more variation. The partial regression coefficients indicate that an increase of 73kg of milk in the first lactation yield is equivalent to a reduction of one month in age at first calving in the Tharparkar breed. Similar figures in the Sahiwal, Red Sindhi, and crossbred cows are 57, 92, and 126kg of milk, respectively.


Introduction The growth of heart surgery has imposed on surgeons the responsibility of defining the indications for operation in the various disease entities that are being considered for surgical relief. Since the operations for acquired heart disease are as yet seldom without risk or known to be permanently curative, indications for operation in individual cases must be set against the background of the natural history of the particular disease. Review of the Literature In aortic stenosis, much study has been concentrated on the clinical course of the disease under nonsurgical treatment. In reviewing articles dealing with the subject, it is important to divide the cases reported into two groups: (1) those with pure aortic stenosis in which all complicating cardiac lesions except an insignificant degree of aortic insufficiency are excluded, and (2) aortic stenosis complicated with significant degrees of aortic insufficiency or with other heart lesions. Table 1 summarizes the


Endogenous production of alcohol in the gastrointestinal tract of humans was first reported in 1948 (1). Several cases were reported particularly in Japan and then from around the world (1–8). The term "auto-brewery syndrome" has been used to describe patients who become repeatedly inebriated after ingestion of food of high carbohydrate nature in the presence of abnormal yeast proliferation, particularly of Candida species (8). To our knowledge, the association of auto-brewery syndrome with short gut syndrome in children has not been reported. The purpose of this article is to decribe one patient with this unusual syndrome and discuss its diagnosis and treatment.


The paper concerns the analysis of equilibrium problems for 2D elastic bodies with thin inclusions modeled in the framework of Timoshenko beams. The first focus is on the well-posedness of the model problem in a variational setting. Then delaminations of the inclusions are considered, forming a crack between the elastic body and the inclusion. Nonlinear boundary conditions at the crack faces are considered to prevent a mutual penetration between the faces. The corresponding variational formulations together with weak and strong solutions are discussed. The model contains various physical parameters characterizing the mechanical properties of the inclusion, such as flexural and shear stiffness. The paper provides an asymptotic analysis of such parameters. It is proved that in the limit cases corresponding to infinite and zero rigidity, we obtain rigid inclusions and cracks with the non-penetration conditions, respectively. Finally, exemplary networks of Timoshenko beams are considered as inclusions as well.


【Objective】 To investigate the operative techniques of retroperitoneal laparoscopic live related donor nephrectomy.【Method】 Retroperitoneal laparoscopic live related donor nephrectomies were performed to 5 cases,and renal transplantations were performed to 5 donees.【Result】 The left kidneys of the donors were successfully harvested laparoscopically,the operation time was 120~200 min,blood loss was 50~150 mL,warm ischemic time was 3~6 min.The allografts were implanted into the recipients and produced urine on the table immediately upon revascularization.There is no rejection and complications related to the techniques.The donors had a short hospitalization of 7 days postoperatively.【Conclusion】 Laparoscopic live related donor nephrectomy can lessen the damage for living donor and has few effects on the allograft,the operation is technically feasible and safe.


Cefepime hydrochloride was one-pot synthesized from 7-amino-3[(1-methyl-1-pyrrolidino)methyl]ceph-3-em-4-carboxylate(7-ACP)with a new activated thioester solution,which was prepared by reaction of Aminothiazolyl Oximateacid and O,O-Diethylthiophosphoryl chloride.The synthetic process,featured with high yield,good quality,and low cost,can be applied to the industrial production.


Christopher Zachary, M.D., notes that in California, the concerns of cosmetic dermatology patients differ from those of patients in other parts of the country.


In today's knowledge-based economy, academic and professional literacies have increasingly been recognized to be an important attribute that university graduates should possess. Rather than taking a peripheral role as they have done for many years, academic and professional literacies, as embodied in writing and communication skills, have started to be placed in a central role in many university curricula, often as core modules. However, the perennial question of how best to cater to as large a student population as possible has always been a great concern to university administrators of different levels and curriculum developers. In this paper, we will broadly outline some common approaches used in different parts of the world and then zoom in to describe an evolving approach that has been developing in an Asian context to enhance students' academic and professional literacies. This approach is a mixture of writing and communication courses run by writing and communication specialists, content subject courses embedded with a significant writing and communication component, and the provision of a writing centre. The premise underlying this approach is that the development of academic and professional literacies is reliant not just on one or two semesters' writing and communication courses but more importantly on the provision of sustained opportunities for practice and an institutionalized support system throughout students' entire university education.


Bacteria have evolved gibberellin phytohormone biosynthesis independently of plants and fungi. Through 13C-labeling and NMR analysis, the mechanistically unusual "B" ring contraction catalyzed by a cytochrome P450 (CYP114), which is the committed step in gibberellin biosynthesis, was shown to occur via oxidative extrusion of carbon-7 from ent-kaurenoic acid in bacteria. This is identical to the convergently evolved chemical transformation in plants and fungi, suggesting a common semipinacol rearrangement mechanism potentially guided by carbon-4α carboxylate proximity.


paediatricians the greatest value must surely be the discussion about controversial topics. The current treatments for bacterial meningitis are debated and referenced, the management of pyloric stenosis in the UK is provocatively criticised but not referenced, and the need to develop research techniques to discover the harm of recurrent otitis media is considered. Many abstracts reflect practice and cultural issues in the United States. Tennis elbow in breast feeding mothers due to overzealous use of the breast pump, the perceived attractiveness of preterm infants with cranial moulding, the value of aerobic excercise in delinquent adolescents, may all strike readers in other countries as peculiarly American issues. The commentaries are filled with observations and commonsense advice which reflect broad experience and extensive knowledge. Both editors write as they think. Time which might have been spent on improving the syntax is devoted to amplifying each abstract with further references on the topic. The anecdotes and schoolboy humour are both refreshing and informative. I was interested to learn, for example, that Dr Wizwell has become a successful urologist, and to discover the odd man out among herpes, AIDS, a condominium in Buffalo, and gonorrhoea (the last because it is the only one you can get rid of!). It has been a pleasure to review and to recommend the yearbook.


Corpus callosotomy is a palliative neurosurgical treatment for patients with either generalized or multifocal refractory epilepsy and injurious drop attacks. This report aims to systematically review the pediatric literature.


In the work, long-term fluctuations in the annual runoff of rivers flowing into lake Sevan were identified, analyzed and evaluated. As the source material, daily data of long-term actual instrumental observations of the annual runoff of rivers flowing into the lake, as well as air temperature and atmospheric precipitation of the lake basin for the entire observation period were used.


This chapter briefly discusses the article XXIV: territorial application-frontier traffic-customs unions and free-trade areas. Art. XXIV provides the legal framework for several distinct subjects. These are, first, the territorial application of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 and its observance at the local and regional levels; second, the purpose and admissibility of customs unions (CUs), free trade areas (FTAs) and interim agreements as a fundamental exemption from the most-favoured-nation (MFN) principle of Art. I:1; and, third, exceptions to the MFN principle for geographic or special historical reasons. Since the establishment of the European Community of 1957, which was soon followed by an ever-growing number of regional trade agreements (RTAs) worldwide, the most significant provisions of Art. XXIV have been its paras 4-8 relating to CUs and FTAs. Keywords: customs union (CU); free trade area (FTA); General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; regional trade agreement (RTA)


Applications are now being accepted for the 1976-77 Public Administration Fellows Program of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. The program, sponsored jointly by the U.S. Civil Service Commission and NASPAA, provides one-year policy-level positions in the Executive Branch of the federal government for college and university professors teaching at NASPAA member institutions.


The Federal Housing Administration has been accused of playing a major role in neighbourhood change. This paper examines the empirical evidence from a comparison of FHA and conventional activity in Columbus, Ohio. Clear differences in areas and units served by the two loan types are found, but the lack of strong conceptual frameworks makes their interpretation unclear. The paper goes on to discuss these results in light of the theoretical issues involved in examining neighbourhood change. It concludes with a call for detailed empirical studies firmly grounded on improved theoretical constructs.


Once the most essential and time-consuming of activities, the procurement offood had become by the mid-twentieth centuryfor many Americans a simple matter of opening the refrigerator. This essay considers the refrigerator as a modern symbol of triumph over the physical distances of hunting and the temporal dimensions of agriculture. When it was new, electric refrigeration was promoted for the engineering that made it cleaner and more reliable than the iceman. As refrigerator technology became commonplace, advertising strategies shifted. Borrowingfrom themes in architectural circles regardingfluid relations between inside and outside, refrigerators were pitched as labour-saving machines that revitalized relations with the outdoors by virtue of the leisure time they helped create. Even more vividly, the refrigerator by the early 1950s was itself promoted as a window on to a larger food landscape. Gathering together the fruits of this earth, the refrigerator was increasingly marketed toward mid-century as a spectacle of nature's bounty.


Objective To study the feature of MRU in ureter transitional cell carcinoma,to discuss the diagnostic value of MRU in tranlitional cell carcinoma of ureter.Methods We retrospectively analyzed the MRU of 11 cases of ureteral transitional cell carcinoma confirmed by surgery and pathology.Combined with literature review,we also analyzed the shape,scope and surrounding tissue changes of lesion.Results One lesion was located at the upper portion of the ureter,2 at middle portion and 8 at lower portion.Each case presented urinary obstruction,distention and uretal hydrocele;5 showed nodular shape irregular,4 showed infitrative growth in location,2 showed enlargement of lymph nodes in surrounding of abdominal and renal major artery out in 4 cases,2 showed cylindrical intraluminal soft tissue,muscle of ureters did not break through the surrounding fat,state clearly.The diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of MRU in ureteral cancer 100%(11/11) and 81.81%(9/11).Cnclusion The location,the shape,the spectrum of the tumor and change of surrounding tissue were clear cuted in MRU,confirmation of the diagnosis need but further research the.


Objective To evaluate the surgical effect and complication of FPKRP in BPH patients under bladder low-pressure perfusion with Cystostomy.Motheds From February 2011 to May 2012 in the Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University 62 patients were treated with BPH require surgery,of which 36 cases(test group) underwent line of low-voltage(bladder perfusion pressure 30 cmH2O) with FPKRP,26 patients(control group) underwent conventional pressure(bladder perfusion pressure of 60 cmH2O) perfusion downlink FPKRP.Operative time,blood loss,operative time,blood loss,postoperative indwelling catheter time and before and after surgery,prostate symptom score(IPSS),quality of life score(QOL),residual urine volume(RUV),differences in maximum urinary flow rate(Qmax) of two groups were observed and compared.Resluts The test group patients were pulled out bladder fistula within 24 h after operation,two groups in 3-5 d after catheter were unplug urination,patients after 5-7 d discharged.Return on pathological examination were in line with the prostatic nodular hyperplasia changed.The patients were followed up for 3 months,in the test group 1 patient was lost to follow-up(death) due to other diseases.Short operation time of the test group than the control group,the intraoperative blood loss was lower than the control group,the difference was statistically significant(P0.05),resection of prostate weight and postoperative indwelling catheterization time was not statistically significant between two groups(P0.05).Test and control groups after PVRRUV value was significantly lower than the preoperative Qmax values improved significantly compared with the preoperative difference was statistically significant(P0.05).The preoperative and postoperative PVRRUV,Qmax was no significant difference between groups(P0.05).Test group urinary tract infection incidence was lower than the control group,the difference was statistically significant(P0.05),postoperative urethral stricture,the incidence of urinary incontinence by the difference between the two groups were statistically significant(P0.05).IPSS,IPQoL were significantly reduced than before surgery,and the difference was statistically significant(P0.05).The postoperative BPHQLS scores improved,the difference was statistically significant(P0.05).Each dimension with the satisfaction of the two groups of diseases to improve the most obvious,followed by the physical,social and psychological dimensions,each dimension of the test group and the control group,postoperative difference was not statistically significant(P0.05).Conclusion Using low-pressure perfusion has no occurrence of prostate TURP syndrome(TURS),both to ensure cutting clear vision,but also to ensure that the bladder low pressure filling,improve patient tolerance and increase security.


• Allocation methods should be utilized by districts that align resources at the school sites with the district's plan of action for effective instructional strategies and resource deployment. Two common allocation methods include staffing ratios and weighted student funding. When employing these methods, a district should use current student enrollment figures and document supporting rationale for selecting any basis.


A marketing department's power is substantially driven by the resources and capabilities the department provides to the firm. Customer connection is critical to success, yet it has seen equivocal results as a source of power. This study explores contextual circumstances and their influence on the functioning of power sources like customer connection. Combining resource dependence theory and strategic contingency theory, we argue that, while marketing power depends on power sources, the strength of this relationship is affected by context factors. Following a framework from Yan and Gray (2001), we test six context variables that affect the availability of alternatives and the strategic importance of customer connection. An analysis of 257 German firms reveals that selection & training and environmental dynamism positively affect customer connection, and market orientation and asset specificity negatively affect customer connection. Differentiation strategy and political skill show no effect.


The simulation of unsteady conjugate mass transfer between a spherical droplet and the surrounding continuous fluid is based on the solution of the balance equations for momentum and mass in both phases. To reduce the effort required various approximations have been introduced. Some authors, for instance, compute the mass transfer in both phases seperately and add the resulting transfer resistances to estimate the rate of the whole process. The reliability of this procedure is discussed in the paper. Even in the case of a simulation of the conjugated problem differences between simulations and experiments are obvious. The neglection of instabilities in the phase interface by the model is supposed to be a reason for that. The influence of the Peclet number on the Sherwood number for a given Schmidt number is discussed. An upper and an lower limit of Pe can be found where further changes of that value have no influence on the mass transfer.