Bataineh M, Ali-Nawaiseh A, Taifour A, Judge L. Dead Sea Marathon-Induced Muscle Damage and Acute Oral Vitamin E Supplementation. JEPonline 2017;20(3):1-13. Downhill running and eccentric muscle contractions provoke muscle damage. The Dead Sea Marathon has a unique race course with a 1368 m decline in elevation from start to finish. The aim of this study was to determine the magnitude of muscle damage and the effectiveness of short term α-tocopherol (Vitamin E) supplementation in reducing muscle damage induced by the Dead Sea Marathon. Fourteen well-trained distance runners were randomly assigned to a control group (n = 7) or a Vitamin E group (n = 7). The vitamin E group was orally supplemented with vitamin E (400 IU·d) for 5 days (3 days premarathon, marathon day, and post-marathon day). Dietary and training logs were obtained and analyzed. Fluid consumption, running pace, and rate of perceived exertion (RPE) were collected for each participant before, during and immediately after the race without any significant differences between groups. During-race weight loss was significantly higher in the Vitamin E group (control: 5.8 ± 0. 9% vs. Vitamin E: -6.31 ± 0. 3%; P=0.001). Serum creatine kinase (CK) activity was analyzed 24 hrs post-race, and although values were high in both groups, no difference existed between groups (control: 5351.6 ± 1331.9 U·L vs. Vitamin E: -5337.3 ± 1058.4 U·L; P>0.05). In conclusion, the Dead Sea marathon induced high muscle damage with no protection from Vitamin E supplementation.


The utility model provides a sand-proof sieve tube of the prismatic net of stainless steel of small ripple for the oil gas well, comprising a protection sleeve tube on the outer layer, a strength net, a plug cap, a protection cap, a base tube and a connection loop. The utility model is characterized in that the space between the protection sleeve tube on the outer layer and the strength net be provided with a filter net of stainless steel of prismatic small ripple which is a prismatic net with a triangular cross section. The prismatic filter net of stainless steel of small ripple has single layer or double layers structure. The prismatic cross section of the prismatic filter net of stainless steel of small ripple can surround the tube axle line or be parallel to the axle line of the tube. The net holes of the prismatic filter net of stainless steel of small ripple can be triangular, circular, elliptical, quadrate or trapezium. The prismatic filter net of stainless steel of small ripple is adopted and thus the strength of the net cylinder is improved and simultaneously the filter area and space are enlarged, the oil penetration rate is increased, the blocking is reduced, the service life of the oil tube is prolonged and the production cost of the oil gas is reduced. The utility model is suitable for the exploitation production of various oil gas wells.


Introduction: Acute Pancreatitis during pregnancy is a rare cause of abdominal pain and, although rarely progresses, isa serious complication whose diagnosis is complex. Thereare many causal factors of pancreatitis during pregnancy; the most frequent disease lithiasic of the bile, althoughmetabolic alterations such as hypertriglyceridemia may actas a trigger even the same pregnancy. Objective: To describe um case of acute Pancreatitis during atwin pregnancy with hypertriglyceridemia associated. Material and methods: retrospective descriptive study forum clinical case presentation. Results: The case of 32-year-old woman, pregnant with 31.1weeks of gestation, to sign com um arises classical picture ofpancreatitis acute acalculous. Managed under hydration, oral restriction and Fibrates with appropriate clinical andparaclinical response with significant decrease in triglyceridelevels, 24 hours after treatment and remission of symptoms. Conclusion: Hypertriglyceridemia is um fator's risk duringpregnancy to the development of acute pancreatitis.


With the increase of power communication services, the survivability of power communication network has attracted much attention. Traditional protection schemes consume more free capacity, whose protection efficiency is low, so they can not adapt to the rapid development of power communications business. In this paper, a p-cycle protection scheme for power communication service is proposed to provide different protection for different dynamic services in power communication network. The simulation results show that compared with the two traditional protection schemes, the proposed scheme reduces the redundancy and blocking rate of the network, and can not be neglected in the power communication network.


The University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI) under contract by the US Air Force has designed and constructed a fully automated ultrasonic inspection system for the detection of embedded defects in rotating gas turbine engine components. The system performs automated inspections using the "scan plan" concept developed for the Air Force sponsored "Retirement For Cause" (RFC) automated eddy current system. Execution of the scan plan results in a fully automated inspection process producing engine component accept/reject decisions based on probability of detection (POD) information. Use of the phased‐array ultrasonic instrument and probes allows for optimization of both the sensitivity and resolution for each inspection through electronic beamforming, scanning, and focusing processes. However, issues such as alignment of the array probe, calibration of individual elements and overall beam response prior to the inspection have not been addressed for an automated system. This paper will discuss current pr...


Background. Although the value of primary cytoreductive surgery for epithelial ovarian cancer is beyond doubt, the value of debulking surgery after induction chemotherapy has not yet been defined. In this randomized study we investigated the effect on survival of debulking surgery. Methods. Eligible patients had residual lesions measuring more than 1 cm in diameter after primary surgery. After three cycles of cyclophosphamide and cisplatin, these patients were randomly assigned to undergo either debulking surgery or no surgery, followed by further cycles of cyclophosphamide and cisplatin. The study end points were progression-free survival and overall survival. At surgery 65 percent of the patients had lesions measuring more than 1 cm. In 45 percent of this group, the lesions were reduced surgically to less than 1 cm. Results. Of the 319 patients who underwent randomization, 278 could be evaluated (140 patients who underwent surgery and 138 patients who did not). Progressionfree and overall survival were both significantly longer in the group that underwent surgery (P 0.01). The difference in median survival was six months. The survival rate at two years was 56 percent for the group that underwent surgery and 46 percent for the group that did not. In the multivariate analysis, debulking surgery was an independent prognostic factor (P 0.012). Overall, after adjustment for all other prognostic factors, surgery reduced the risk of death by 33 percent (95 percent confidence interval, 10 to 50 percent; P 0.008). Surgery was not associated with death or severe morbidity. Conclusions. Debulking surgery significantly lengthened progression-free and overall survival. The risk of death was reduced by one third, after adjustment for a variety of prognostic factors. (N Engl J Med 1995;332:629-34.) From the Rotterdam Cancer Institute, Daniel den Hoed Kliniek, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (M.E.L.B., M.L.); the International Institute for Drug Development, Brussels, Belgium (M.B.); the Medical Academy, Gdansk, Poland (A.K.); Ospedale San Gerardo, Monza, Italy (N.C.); the University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy (G.F., S.P.); the Central Hospital of Asturias, Oviedo, Spain (A.J.L.); the Regina Elena Cancer Institute, Rome (M.N.); and the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Data Center, Brussels, Belgium (J.R.). Address reprint requests to Dr. van der Burg at the Rotterdam Cancer Institute, Daniel den Hoed Kliniek, P.O. Box 5201, 3008 AE Rotterdam, the Netherlands. *Other principal investigators who contributed to the study are listed in the Appendix. T HE value of cytoreductive surgery in the management of ovarian cancer has been debated for years. The reasons for cytoreductive surgery are manifold. Large tumors with relatively poor central blood supplies and the areas with the lowest growth rates are both rather insensitive to cytotoxic drugs. 1 In betterperfused small, residual tumors, the growth rate and the diffusion of chemotherapeutic agents are higher — factors that are apt to increase the efficacy of chemotherapy. The removal of large tumors also reduces the likelihood that drug-resistant clones will appear as a result of spontaneous mutations. 2 Moreover, small tumors require fewer cycles of chemotherapy, thus decreasing the probability of drug-induced resistance. Several nonrandomized studies showed improved survival of patients with residual tumors less than 1 cm in diameter after primary surgery, as compared with patients with larger lesions. 3-5 In a case–control study of patients with minimal residual disease, Eisenkop et al. reported that patients whose small lesions were all resected survived significantly longer than patients in whom such lesions were not resected. 6 On the other hand, Hacker et al. 7 and Hoskins et al. 8 reported that despite optimal cytoreduction, the survival of patients with large intraabdominal metastases before resection was significantly worse than that of patients with small initial intraabdominal lesions. These results suggest that in addition to residual disease after cytoreduction, intrinsic tumor factors are of prognostic importance. They also raise the question of whether cytoreduction has a significant effect on survival among patients with the same size tumors and the same intrinsic prognostic factors. The value of debulking surgery after induction chemotherapy is even more difficult to assess. Several studies indicated that patients in whom cytoreduction was optimal after induction chemotherapy had approximately the same survival rate as patients in whom cytoreduction was optimal at primary surgery. 9-12 Neijt et al., however, reported just the opposite. 4,13 Patients with optimal cytoreduction at intervention surgery had poorer rates of survival than patients with optimal cytoreduction at primary surgery. Moreover, the survival of patients with optimal cytoreduction at intervention surgery was the same as that of patients with suboptimal cytoreduction. All these studies, however, included only small numbers of patients with different prognoses. In 1987 the Gynecological Cancer Cooperative Group of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) initiated a randomized phase 3 study to establish the effect on survival of debulking surgery after induction chemotherapy.


Composite mining of tungsten vein deposits has long been a technical bottleneck of tungsten industry.This paper studies some typical mining technologies adopted by Tieshanlong Tungsten Mine.


A motor bearing system is a nonlinear dynamics system with nonlinear support stiffness. It is an asymmetry system, which plays an extremely important role in rotating machinery. In this paper, a center frequency method of double thresholds is proposed to improve the variational mode decomposition (VMD) method, then an adaptive VMD (called DTCFVMD) method is obtained to extract the fault feature. In the DTCFVMD method, a center frequency method of double thresholds is a symmetry method, which is used to determine the decomposed mode number of VMD according to the power spectrum of the signal. The proposed DTCFVMD method is used to decompose the nonlinear and non-stationary vibration signals of motor bearing in order to obtain a series of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) under different scales. Then, the Hilbert transform is used to analyze the envelope of each mode component and calculate the power spectrum of each mode component. Finally, the power spectrum is used to extract the fault feature frequency for determining the fault type of the motor bearing. To test and verify the effectiveness of the DTCFVMD method, the actual fault vibration signal of the motor bearing is selected in here. The experimental results show that the center frequency method of double thresholds can effectively determine the mode number of the VMD method, and the proposed DTCFVMD method can accurately extract the clear time frequency characteristics of each mode component, and obtain the fault characteristics of characteristics; frequency, rotating frequency, and frequency doubling and so on.


This paper revisits the mechanism of overvoltage and voltage unbalance production in the context of the connection of small single-phase DG units to LV distribution grids. Based on quite simplified models of typical LV distribution feeders, the phenomenon is illustrated and quantified, through the introduction of a new index (distribution factor). Finally, some mitigation solutions are investigated.


Boreal forests cover approximately 11% of the terrestrial surface of the world or 14.7 million km2 in the circumpolar region of the northern hemisphere. Of this total, approximately one third of these forests are found in Canada. This accounts for on the order of 50% of the total land area in Canada. A static chamber technique was used to determine the fluxes of nitrous oxide and methane from four Boreal forest sites near Cochrane, Ontario (49°03′N,80°40′W), during the summer of 1992. The four sites included a lowland forest, a drained lowland forest, a clear-cut and drained lowland forest, as well as an upland forest. The N2O fluxes ranged from an uptake of 7.7 μg(N2O)/m2/hr from a drainage ditch to an emission of 3.1 μg(N2O)/m2/hr from an unvegetated clear-cut region. The CH4 fluxes ranged from an uptake of 23 μg(CH4)/m2/hr from an upland forest site, to an emission of 2900 μg(CH4)/m2/hr from a drainage ditch. Drainage ditches which contained a large amount of algae exhibited large CH4 production and large N2O uptake.


The San Emidio Nose oil field has a reserve of 64 million bbl. The accumulation is in a stratigraphic trap in upper Miocene beds; the trap crosses the plunge of a subsurface anticline. The field was discovered in 1958 by the Richfield Oil Corporation (now Atlantic Richfield Company) after 24 years of exploration by six companies. Geographically, the field is located on the southernmost rim of the San Joaquin Valley. Structurally, it is located in the Maricopa subbasin and is one of several simple folds that were defined by geophysics and drilled during the 1930s. At San Emidio, however, the absence of suitable reservoir rocks on the crest of the structure was partly responsible for delaying the discovery until 1958, and six expensive dry holes were drilled before the sand tone geometry was fully defined. The trap is closely related to the westward thinning of the reservoirs (Reef Ridge and Stevens sandstones) and their enclosing shales up the east plunge of the fold. This thinning, which was shown geophysically prior to the discovery, is an elementary example of the stratigraphic application of geophysics.


In the minimal supersymmetric standard model, assuming universal scalar masses at large energies, there are four intragenerational relations between the masses of the squarks and sleptons for each light generation. In this paper we study the scalar mass relations which follow only from the assumption that at large energies there is a grand unified theory which leads to a significant prediction of the weak mixing angle. Two new intragenerational mass relations for each of the light generations are derived. In addition, a third mass relation is found which relates the Higgs masses, the masses of the third generation scalars , and the masses of the scalars of the lighter generations. Verification of a fourth mass relation, involving only the charged slepton masses, provides a signal for SO(10) unification. PACS numbers: 14.80.Ly, 12.10.Dm This work was supported in part by the Director, Office of Energy Research, Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics, Division of High Energy Physics of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC03-76SF00098 and in part by the National Science Foundation under grant PHY-90-21139.


We present propagation analysis results for so called typical and bad urban macrocellular scenarios measured at 5.3 GHz carrier frequency and 100 MHz chip rate in Helsinki. Propagation characteristics between these scenarios have been compared, and small and large scale channel parameters have been extracted for stochastic geometry based channel models.


To determine whether measures of pitch perturbation relate to the occurrence of hoarseness in a neurological disease, patients with Parkinson's disease (hypokinesia) and normal aging controls were recorded. Pitch period lengths were measured from recordings of extended vowel productions to compute: mean adjacent differences; mean deviations of cycles from predicted values based on adjacent cycles; and jitter ratios. Three trained judges rated hoarseness on a seven‐point scale from the same recordings. Mean adjacent differences were linearly related to fundamental frequency in hypokinesia but not in normal speech. Judgements of hoarseness were significantly related to mean adjacent differences, mean deviations and jitter ratios in the hypokinetic speakers. No significant relationships between hoarseness and the perturbation measures were found in the aging controls. Judgements of hoarseness did not accurately discriminate between normal and hypokinetic speakers, while the mean adjacent differences and devi...


Quantitative structure–activity relationships (QSARs) and quantitative structure–property relationships (QSPRs) rely on regression equations containing numerical descriptors of molecular structure. In constructing these models, highly correlated descriptors are sometimes excluded from the regression equations. Although this exclusion seems reasonable, in fact it can lead investigators to overlook significant descriptor combinations, because the small differences between highly correlated descriptors sometimes encode important structural information. Furthermore, the multicollinearity that results from employing correlated descriptors is not as serious a problem as is often assumed. Described are several examples of cases in which pairs of highly correlated, poorly performing single-parameter descriptors yield highly significant structure–property regression equations. In effect, the descriptors act synergistically and yield regression equations that model the systems examined better than the sum of the individual components. A discussion of practical approaches to this problem is given. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2004


Today's world cloud computing becoming so popular because of an effective and efficient way to provide computing resources and services to customers on demand. A cloud service providers view point profit is one of the most important considerations and it is mainly determined by the configuration of a cloud service platform under given market demand. But traditional single resource renting scheme cannot guarantee the quality of all requests and also wastes a large amount of resources. To defeat this issue, we propose a Load-Balanced One-jump Overlay Multipath Routing calculation (LB-OOMR), in which the activity is first part at the source edge hubs and afterward transmitted along numerous one-bounce overlay ways. So as to decide an ideal split proportion for the activity, we plan the issue as a direct programming (LP) definition, whose objective is to minimize the more regrettable case system blockage proportion.


The spanish word pedante has experienced an important semantic change since the XVI'h century until nowadays. This study shows the evolution from the first meaning as school teacher until the most recent onc, based on a great number of literary pieces in which is possible to see the semantic evolution.


A modification of a trypan blue exclusion technique for detection of cyto-toxicity is described with the use of a trypan blue exclusion test followed in sequence by hematoxylin-eosin counterstaining of smears permanently fixed. This technique, as applied to the suspension of parietal cells, permits the distinction between intact, moderately damaged, and severely damaged cells, determination of their ratio to each other, and an insight into the interrelations of aggressive cells (sensitized lymphocytes) to target cells (parietal cells) in the permanently fixed gastric cells suspension.


A new important intermediate of electrophosphorescent material,namely,1-phenyl-2-[4-(9-phenylcarbazole-3-yl)phenyl]-1H-benzoimidazole,was synthesized by using 2-nitrochrolobenzene,4-bromobenzaldehyde and 3-(9-phenyl)-boronic acid as raw materials via a serial of reactions,such as the Ullman reaction,reduction,addition,cyclization and the Suzuki reaction.The product yield could reach 76% with its purity exceeding 99%.The product structure was characterized by elemental analysis,1HNMR and LCMS.


We consider an underwater optical wireless communication network in which an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) fleet is used to collect information from seabed sensors. Specifically, AUVs cover circular areas or cells and sensors are required to form associations with AUVs for uplink communication. To this end, we propose an efficient algorithm using four-adjacency or eight-adjacency maneuvers to find the optimum AUV positions such that the number of sensors assigned to a cell is maximized. The proposed algorithm, despite its low implementation complexity, achieves near identical coverage as compared to the brute force optimal solution for different parameters such as sensor density, AUV number and height. We also extended our algorithm to consider sensor coverage when they have high/low priority levels.


Summary Thermodynamic data on the phases of iron are assembled in the form of speculative projections on the temperature-volume plane. Following a proposal by Kraut and Kennedy, the melting curves, for each phase, are assumed to be straight lines in this representation. As the position of the triple point, gamma-epsilon-liquid, is unknown, two hypothetical locations are considered: (1) at about 4Mb, (2) at about 1 Mb. In the former case, the gamma phase is in equilibrium with the liquid at core pressures, in the latter, the epsilon phase. Nothing is known directly about the slopes of these melting curves, but the gamma melting temperatures are estimated to lie some 700" above the projection given by Higgins and Kennedy, with epsilon melting temperatures still higher. The relation of the isentropes of the liquid to these melting curves is also unknown, but ' conventional ' isentropes, originating on the melting curve, may be found which lie in the liquid field at the pressures of the outer core. Application to the Earth is complicated by the requirement for a light alloying element in the outer core; if the alloying element is silicon, a proportion of about 15 per cent by weight accounts satisfactorily for the density-velocity relation. The phase relations may be considerably modified by the presence of so much silicon: it is conjectured that the gamma phase is suppressed or confined to low pressures, that the epsilon phase will be the stable solid phase at core pressures, and that the isentrope originating at the melting temperature of the inner core-outer core boundary lies entirely in the liquid phase.


Naming disorders of aphasic patients have generally been considered as resulting from an impairment of the 'peripheral' mechanisms connecting the central semantic system with the cortical structures subsuming perceptual and motor operations. In recent years, however, some investigators have suggested that semantic-lexical disorders of aphasic patients may be due to a disruption of the semantic system itself. The results of some personal investigations supporting this last view are reported and two alternative (or complementary) interpretations are advanced to explain the central semantic disorder of aphasic patients. These interpretations assume: (a) a disruption of the information stored in each semantic representation; (b) a disorganization of the mechanisms subsuming semantic storage and semantic retrieval.


The main aim of the paper is the identification of current macroeconomic as well as demographic factors influancing the key changes in Japanese management system. Based on statistical data and indicators the problem of long-term economic slowdown in Japan is described. Since 1990's the macroeconomic stagnation and natural disasters force a necessary adjustment, not only within the human resources management, such as: abandoning the rules of long-life employment or senioral system in Japanese enterprises. The authors also focus on additional changes in configuration and risk management in Japanese supply chains.


Objective To analyze adverse drug reactions of nervous system and its related factors in 120 elderly patients.Methods ADR reporting forms over years of our hospital were collected and reviewed.Patients with ADR were over 60 years old.Results ADR of nervous system in elderly patients occurred more in male than in female.Most cases had light or medium reaction;most of the ADR by fluoroquinolones were dizziness and insomnia.They ranked firstly and secondly respectively on the ADR order list.ADR of nervous system by Levofloxacin is more common than other fluoroquinolones;ADR in intravenous infusion occurred more commonly than other way of administration.Conclusions Occurrence of ADR of nervous system in the treatment by fluoroquinolones in the eldery patients is in close relation with their age and the way of administration.


We apply a reliable reverse engineering approach for post-production characterization of an optical coupler. We perform reverse engineering on the basis of in situ data analysis and validate results using transmittance and group delay measurements.


Localization of sensor nodes is the foundation of all application of wireless sensor network. The article introduces the Centroid-based algorithm firstly. Based on this, it proposes an improved two-hop centroid-based algorithm which increases the precision and the degree of coverage. The new algorithm adds two-hop anchors' communication restrict to unknown node, which reduces the area of unknown node may in, therefore the allocation accuracy is improved. Furthermore, the algorithm can localize nodes which have no one-hop anchors but have two-hop anchors, thus improves the localization degree of coverage. The simulation results show that the improved algorithm is better than the old one in localization accuracy and coverage.


The present invention comprises a step (step 1) for preparing particularly an aqueous solution by dissolving a biocompatible polymer in purified water relates to ulcer paste is prepared according process for producing a ulcers paste containing honey with radiation and thus; The step of pouring the aqueous solution into the tray formed from a gel-like sheet (step 2); Irradiating radiation to an aqueous solution formed from a gel-like sheet in the step 2 (step 3); The method comprising the step of radiation of the three freeze-drying an irradiated gel (step 4); Pulverizing the freeze-dried gel of step 4 (step 5); It provides a gel, honey and methods of treatment for ulcers paste which comprises dissolving preservative in purified water includes the step of preparing a paste (step 6) and crushed in the step 5. Paste is prepared through the above method has the basic characteristics, moisture evaporation loss, Gamyeong prevention, adhesion to the wound or skin, transparency, ease of handling from a body fluid absorbent bacteria, preservation and sterilization are possible characteristics for use for wound healing has, there is an effect that can be applied as antibiotics.


The transmission of sound through pipe walls is an important component of the problem of determining the noise generated by valves. In this paper we present a progress report on an experimental program to determine the transmission loss (TL) of a series of pipes, as a function of flow within the pipe. The experimental program is outlined, and the results of measurements on a 6‐in.‐diam., schedule 40 (0.29‐in. wall thickness) pipe are discussed in detail. The experimental data for this pipe indicate three different frequency regimes, where different processes controlled the TL. At low frequency (below ka ≈ 3), the TL shows a −12 to −18 dB per octave slope, and is relatively unaffected by flow. Between this frequency and the ring frequency (∼10 kHz), the TL is roughly independent of frequency, but is strongly affected by flow. (TL in this frequency range decreased by approximately 10 dB with a flow change from 0 to 400 ft/sec.) Above the ring frequency, the TL exhibited a 3 to 6 dB per octave slope, and a l...


Although debris discs may be common in exoplanet systems, only a few systems are known in which debris discs and planets coexist. Planets and the surrounding stellar population can have a significant impact on debris disc evolution. Here, we study the dynamical evolution of debris structures around stars embedded in star clusters, aiming to determine how the presence of a planet affects the evolution of such structures. We combine NBODY6++GPU and REBOUND to carry out N-body simulations of planetary systems in star clusters ($N=8\, 000$; Rh = 0.78 pc) for a period of 100 Myr, in which 100 solar-type stars are assigned 200 test particles. Simulations are carried out with and without a Jupiter-mass planet at 50 au. We find that the planet destabilizes test particles and speeds up their evolution. The planet expels most particles in nearby and resonant orbits. Remaining test particles tend to retain small inclinations when the planet is present, and fewer test particles obtain retrograde orbits. Most escaping test particles with speeds smaller than the star cluster's escape speed originate from cold regions of the planetary system or from regions near the planet. We identify three regions within planetary systems in star clusters: (i) the private region of the planet, where few debris particles remain (40–60 au), (ii) the reach of the planet, in which particles are affected by the planet (0–400 au), and (iii) the territory of the planetary system, most particles outside which will eventually escape (0–700 au).


The present article is devoted the analysis of structure of an account part of the budget of the Russian Federation for 2012, its equation and expediency. The urgency of problems which the author concerns, is caused, that the given problem in growing world financial crisis sharply faces all states of the world. The author considers possible ways of optimization of the State expenditure.


Since their discovery, fluctuations in the initial state of heavy-ion collisions have been understood as originating mostly from the random positions of nucleons within the colliding nuclei. We consider an alternative approach where all the focus is on fluctuations generated by QCD interactions that we evaluate at leading logarithmic accuracy in the color glass condensate effective theory. We validate our approach using BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data on anisotropic flow. In particular, we show that, compared to standard Glauber-inspired calculations, our formalism provides a better description of the centrality dependence of the ratio of elliptic flow and triangular flow. It also naturally explains the evolution of elliptic flow fluctuations between RHIC and LHC energies.


The present study aimed at exploring the relationship between an individual's cognitive appraisal of their lives and its relation to affect. Cognitive and emotional well-being plays an integral role in the way an individual perceives his/her life and its outcomes. Quantitative data was collected from 100 young adults between the ages of 18-24 using the Satisfaction with Life Scale (Diener et. al 1985) and Positive Affect Negative Affect Scale (Watson et. al 1988). Analysis of data revealed that there was a significant difference in the level of cognitive well-being and positive affect between men and women. A moderate positive correlation was found between cognitive well-being and positive affect as well.


A method of operating an idle mobile unit (120) is registered in a first ysegundo systems (105) wireless communications operate using different techniques deradio interface, the method comprising: providing a message location update in response to the inactive mobile unit (120) passing from a first tracking area (115 (2)) associated with the second system (105 (1)) wirelessly to a second tracking area (115 (1)) associated with decomunicaciones segundosistema (105 (1)) wireless communication, so that the first and second systems (105) wireless decomunicaciones still be able to send a message to the mobile unit (120) despuesdel message location update, wherein the idle mobile unit (120) remains associated with the first tracking area (105 (3)) associated with a first system (105 (2)) of wireless and wired communications as and message location update contains indications lasegunda monitoring area (115 (1)) associated with the second system (105 (1)) of comunicacionesinalambricas and the first tracking area (115 (3)) associated with the first system (105 (2)) wireless decomunicaciones.


The National Space Development Agency of Japan's (NASDA) JERS-1 SAR began collecting data in 1995 for the Global Rain Forest Mapping Project (GRFM). The GRFM data quality has been examined for products resulting from both the NASDA and Alaska SAR facility's (ASF) processing facilities.


We designed and validated a novel simulator for efficient development of multi-robot marine missions. To accelerate development of cooperative behaviors, the simulator models the robots' operating conditions with moderately high fidelity and runs significantly faster than real time, including acoustic communications, dynamic environmental data, and high-resolution bathymetry in large worlds. The simulator's ability to exceed a real-time factor (RTF) of 100 has been stress-tested with a robust continuous integration suite and was used to develop a multi-robot field experiment.


Abstract The Walkley‐Black Method is shown to recover charcoal carbon (C) from both charcoal samples made in the laboratory from a range of plant materials as well as from soils containing various amounts of relic charcoal. The rate of recovery of charcoal C depends on the nature of the material from which it is derived and its particle size but not on its surface area. From the data presented, it is clear that the Walkley‐Black Method recovers charcoal C with a high enough efficiency so that, at the concentrations of charcoal found in soil, given its fine particle size and the potentially diverse nature of its origin, it is not possible to differentiate between charcoal C and other organic forms found in soil by this method.


Hunting husbandry of Belarus received the status of a separate branch of economy. State Program on hunting husbandry development for 20062015 was worked out. The main goal of this Program is to make hunting husbandry of the Republic be a profitable branch of economy. A state sector in the economy of hunting husbandry of the Republic of Belarus becomes stronger. The investments of a private capital to hunting husbandry increase.


With the importance of defense language ability,the study focuses on the review and prospect of defense language textbooks in China.The development of defense language textbooks falls into three phases:budding stage,booming stage and material stage.At the same time,the real all-encompassing defense language textbooks designing based on multimedia network and virtual context is a new trend in future.


The formation mechanism of craters with diameters D ⩾ 10 km, as well as seas and mascons on the Moon, caused by the periodic falls of galactic comets, is considered. The basis of this mechanism is the cumulative effect due to the large kinetic energy of galactic comets and the high intensity of their falls. In contrast to craters, formation of seas and mascons occurs with the participation of geodynamic (magmatic) foci, which are formed due to strong heating and melting rocks beneath craters by cometary shock waves. The heating energy needed to create such foci is provided by falls of multiple galactic comets in conditions of high density of their falls. The model has been developed that allows studying cumulative effects at formation of lunar seas and mascons, based on the data of high-precision gravimetric and altimetric studies of the Moon. The model quantitatively explains the differences in the total number of seas and distribution them in size on the visible and reverse side of the Moon.


Objective To explore the clinical characteristics and pathologic mechanism of basal ganglia calcification combined with cerebral infarction.Methods The clinical data,radiation demonstration and prognosis in 53 cases of cerebral infarction were reviewed retrospectively,31 cases with basal ganglia calcification and 22 cases without basal ganglia calcification.Results Cerebral infarction with basal ganglia calcification mostly occurded in infants and after slight traumar,CT scan all showed lacunar infarction in basal ganglia and MRA demonstrated no severe changes on cerebral vessal.Compared with the infants without basal ganglia calcification,the infants with basal ganglia calcification recovered quickly and had better prognosis.Conclusions The infants of cerebral infarction with basal ganglia calcification had unique clinical characteristics.The occurrence of cerebral infarction is closely associated with basal ganglia calcification which perhaps resulted from cerebral hypoxia and ischemia previously.


To the editor:

Since the introduction of imatinib as the first-line therapy in chronic phase chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), the prognosis for patients has dramatically improved.1 As female patients who wish to conceive are currently advised to discontinue imatinib during conception and pregnancy due to the recognized teratogenic effects of the drug,2,3 these patients are often without ideal therapy for a prolonged period of time. Responses to imatinib can be regained after prolonged cessation of therapy on account of side effects or pregnancy4; however, the ideal degree of response that patients wishing to conceive should achieve before stopping therapy is not clear, nor is it clear whether a lengthy discontinuation of the treatment is safe in all the cases. Here we report the effect of discontinuing imatinib on the clinical response in 7 patients.

The median age was 32 years (range, 25-34 years). All patients received 400 mg of imatinib daily as initial therapy for CML in chronic phase. In 4 patients the imatinib was discontinued as soon as the pregnancy was confirmed, and 3 patients stopped imatinib to conceive. Before discontinuation, imatinib was received for a median time of 19 months (range, 7-42 months, Table 1), and all patients were still receiving 400 mg. The median period of drug interruption was 9 months (range, 6-23 months). All patients had lost their cytogenetic response, and 4 lost the complete hematologic response (CHR) before the imatinib was reintroduced, but only patient no. 3 required therapy (leukapheresis) during imatinib discontinuation.

Table 1

Summary of patient data and outcomes

Before imatinib discontinuation, patients 2, 3, 4, and 6 were suboptimal responders5 (Table 1). None of these 4 patients obtained an appropriate response when imatinib was reintroduced after the delivery. Patients 2, 4, and 6 (Table 1) failed to achieve complete cytogenetic response (CCyR) on subsequently restarting imatinib therapy. Patient 3 achieved CCyR but failed to achieve major molecular response (MMR) after 26 months of therapy. The 3 patients (nos. 1, 5, and 7) who had obtained an optimal response at the time of stopping imatinib regained at least MMR after restarting therapy (Table 1). None of the 7 patients had developed kinase domain mutations.

Our results demonstrate that an adequate response after restarting imatinib after discontinuation in pregnancy is seen only in patients who had an optimal response (MMR) before stopping the drug. Suboptimal responders to initial treatment with imatinib either demonstrated the same response after discontinuation or, more of concern, deterioration of the response eventually meeting criteria for imatinib failure. Indeed, it is not clear whether the poor results after reintroduction of imatinib occurred because the patients had not yet achieved an appropriate response before conception or because they were poor-risk patients. It is possible that the use of nilotinib or dasatinib in suboptimal responders to obtain MMR before therapy discontinuation may reduce the risk of treatment failure after the reintroduction of therapy. Our findings emphasize the need for further investigation into the effects of discontinuing imatinib therapy in those patients who wish to conceive.


A challenge in marine and offshore engineering is structural integrity management (SIM) of assets such as ships, offshore structures, mooring systems, etc. Due to harsh marine environments, fatigue cracking and corrosion present persistent threats to structural integrity. SIM for such assets is complicated because of a very large number of rewelded plates and joints, for which condition inspections and maintenance are difficult and expensive tasks. Marine SIM needs to take into account uncertainty in material properties, loading characteristics, fatigue models, detection capacities of inspection methods, etc. Optimising inspection and maintenance strategies under uncertainty is therefore vital for effective SIM and cost reductions. This paper proposes a value of information (VoI) computation and Bayesian decision optimisation (BDO) approach to optimal maintenance planning of typical fatigue-prone structural systems under uncertainty. It is shown that the approach can yield optimal maintenance strategies reliably in various maintenance decision making problems or contexts, which are characterized by different cost ratios. It is also shown that there are decision making contexts where inspection information doesn't add value, and condition based maintenance (CBM) is not cost-effective. The CBM strategy is optimal only in the decision making contexts where VoI > 0. The proposed approach overcomes the limitation of CBM strategy and highlights the importance of VoI computation (to confirm VoI > 0) before adopting inspections and CBM.


In this paper, we introduce a new class ℒ Σ λ (φ) of λ-pseudo bi-starlike functions and determine the bounds for |a2| and |a3| where a2, a3 are the initial Taylor coefficients of f ∈ ℒ Σ λ (φ). Furthermore, we estimate the Fekete-Szeg¨o functional for f ∈ ℒ Σ λ (φ).


During the aging process, the lung exhibits structural changes accompanied by a decline in its function. The related information currently available is still scarce and contradictory. In addition, changes in some pulmonary parameters through aging process are species- and strain-dependent. The aim of this study was the assessment of the area and the number of pulmonary alveoli through the normal aging process in CD1 mouse. Paraffin-embedded sections of lungs from CD1 mice at age of 2, 6, 12, 18, or 24 months were stained with hematoxylin and eosin and examined using a light microscope. Images were captured using a camera linked to an image analysis software to measure areas and count alveoli. There was a significant difference in the alveolar area among the ages analyzed (F=87.53, Sig.=0.000). The alveolar area of the 6-, 12-, 18-, and 24-month-old mice was significantly greater (all p values < 0.001) than in mice at 2 months of age. Also, the alveolar number was significantly different among the ages tested (F=3.21, Sig.=0.023). The number of alveoli in mice at 2 months of age was greater than in mice at all other age groups, reaching statistical significance when compared with the 6-, 12-, and 18-month-old mice (p values of 0.044, 0.014, and 0.002, respectively). Thus, we observed an increase in alveolar area and a decrease in alveolar number through the aging process. This information might be useful to understand pathologic changes underlying susceptibility of elderly individuals to chronic lower respiratory tract diseases.


We study the quantum melting of quasi-one-dimensional lattice models in which the dominant energy scale is given by a repulsive dipolar interaction. By constructing an effective low-energy theory, we show that the melting of crystalline phases can occur into two distinct liquid phases having the same algebraic decay of density–density correlations but showing a different non-local correlation function expressing string order. We present possible experimental realizations using ultracold atoms and molecules, introducing an implementation based on resonantly driven Rydberg atoms that offers additional benefits compared to a weak admixture of the Rydberg state.


The CDC Field Epidemiology Manual is the definitive resource for the most up-to-date guidance for epidemiologists and other experts conducting field investigations to address acute public health concerns that require prompt action. This latest edition (an update of the 3rd edition of the popular book Field Epidemiology, edited by Dr. Michael Gregg) offers practical advice to guide investigators through the core elements of field investigations, beginning with initiating operations and ending with developing interventions and communicating findings to the public. The manual also provides special considerations to address challenges that often arise during field investigations, such as addressing legal issues, working with multiple state and federal agencies, navigating a multinational outbreak investigation, and working within an incident management structure. The manual includes updated information on using new tools for field investigations, such as the latest technologies for data collection and management and incorporating data from geographic information systems (GIS). Finally, the manual includes tips for investigations in a wide variety of settings, including healthcare and community congregate settings, and different types of outbreaks, including acute enteric disease outbreaks, those suspected to be related to intentional use of biologic and toxic agents, and outbreaks of suicide, violence, and other forms of injury. The manual is written primarily for epidemiologists who will be conducting field investigations in local, state, federal, or international settings. However, others who contribute to field investigations (e.g., laboratory scientists, lawyers, experts in public policy and communications) will also find the book to be an excellent source of information. The manual is written in an easily readable format, including boxes and bulleted points, to provide greater utility for investigators in the field.


In September 1785, the Hohe Schule, an academy of higher education in the town of Herborn in the present-day German state of Hesse, received a visit from a man who claimed to be the prince of Palestine Joseph Abaisy or, as his name would be more properly transliterated from Arabic today, Yūsuf H ̣ubaysh. The single available source on this event strongly suggests that the occasion had none of the pomp and spectacle ordinarily associated with the arrival of an illustrious visitor of such elevated rank. For, in spite of his title, Yūsuf came to Herborn not so much as a foreign dignitary, but as a person seeking aid.1 The alleged reason for the presumed prince's journey to the Holy Roman Empire is summarized in a memorandum from Professor Anton Philipp Wasmuth (1726–89), the academy's vice-chancellor (Prorektor), to his colleagues on the governing body.2 According to this document, Yūsuf H ̣ubaysh had "been forced to flee his homeland and his people because he was unable to pay the heavy tribute to the Turks since


On the basis of the beaming model, we have derived a relation between the observed polarization (Pob) and the observed magnitude (mob), log Pob = -0.4(k-1)mob+C, which indicates that the observed polarization is anti-correlated with the observed magnitude. Making use of the optical data of polarization and magnitude observed simultaneously for 47 blazars, we found that there is a significant anti-correlation between the observed polarization and the observed magnitude in the V-band, the linear regression equation of which is , with the correlation coefficient of γ = -0.4537 and the chance probability of p = 1.360×10-3. Obviously, the statistical results are consistent with the theoretical results derived by the beaming model. Our results of both theory and statistical analysis of the data observed simultaneously are consistent with the observations of 3C345, Mrk421. In addition, using these data, we have also analyzed the relation between the maximum optical polarization ( in the V-band) and the maximum infrared polarization ( in the H-band). For 20 objects with both the maximum optical and infrared polarization, a linear regression analysis gives a strong correlation of , with a correlation coefficient of γ = 0.9071 and a chance probability of p < 1.0 ×10-4. The results suggest that both the infrared and optical emissions of blazars originate from the synchrotron radiation.


Saudi Vision 2030 aims to engender structural economic change in Saudi Arabia and promises greater transparency, accountability, citizen engagement, and more open economic and social spaces. If successful in the long term, it could reconfigure the relationship between state and citizenry and reshape the entire political system, or lead to democratic transition. This paper examines the impact of Vision 2030 on democratisation in the kingdom. Drawing on the concepts of democratic transition, the rentier state, and the authoritarian bargain as a theoretical framework, the paper adopts a descriptive analytical approach to understand the relationship between economic reform and democratisation. It concludes that the Saudi regime tactically implements economic reforms for several purposes: to contain internal and external changes, to monopolise power, and to endow the regime with new legitimacy at home and abroad. Three indicators support this conclusion: the reconstitution of elites and the centralisation of power, the continued suppression of the opposition, and the regime's interest in ensuring the stability and perpetuation of authoritarianism.


In order to control the corona loss and the interference to the environment from the UHVAC transmission line,to reduce the investment of the line,and to get the rational split way and conductor section,in the paper,the conductor surface potential gradient,conductor critical corona inception voltage,corona loss,radio interference and audible coronal noise of 1000kV AC transmission line under different phase split way and different diameter of conductor section are analyzed.The influence of high altitude on conductor critical corona inception voltage,corona loss,radio interference and audible corona noise is studied,and the adjustability of all the conductor schemes to different altitude is compared.Conductor section and phase split way with good electric performance and mechanical performance that fits UHVAC transmission of electricity in China,are put forward based on power engineering.The conclusion benefits to economical run and investment of 1000kV AC power engineering.


Polymerisation of 1-decene, 1-dodecene, 1-hexadecene, and 1-octadecene by Cp*TiCl2(O-2,6-iPr2C6H3) (1) – MAO catalysts yielded high molecular weight polymers with unimodal molecular weight distributions, and the Mn values in the resultant polymers were higher than those prepared by linked half-titanocene, [Me2Si(C5Me4) (NtBu)]TiCl2 and ordinary zirconocenes (Cp2ZrCl2 etc.); Cp*TiMe2(O-2,6-iPr2C6H3) – [Ph3C][B(C6F5)4] catalyst showed higher catalytic activities, affording ultrahigh molecular weight polymers (Mn = >1.07 × 106).


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The objective of the review is to evaluate the effectiveness of Mohs micrographic surgery on the mortality, recurrence and quality of life of patients with nonmelanoma skin cancers when compared with other treatment modalities.Specifically, it aims to examine the effectiveness of Mohs micrographic surgery compared with other treatment modalities such as excisional surgery, curettage and electrodessication and radiation therapy, as well as nonsurgical/chemotherapeutic interventions such as topical 5-fluorouracil and imiquimod immunotherapy in the management of nonmelanoma skin cancers.


This article examines the general topic of dispute resolution in a future FTAA, focusing on issues such as "Are the FTAA negotiators ultimately more likely to adopt a legalistic or pragmatic approach to disputer resolution?" and "What institutions will they create, if any, to administer FTAA dispute settlement? After describing the work undertaken by the Organization of American States and other international organizations in the field of dispute resolution since the 1994 Summit of the Americas, Professor Lopez argues that the FTAA's dispute resolutions mechanisms are most likely to be drawn from only three existing models, the WTO, NAFTA, and MERCOSUR, but will not entirely duplicate any of these models. Rather, at the outset of the FTAA, the American democracies are likely to utilize flexible, informal dispute settlement mechanisms, somewhat akin to the mechanisms now in place in MERCOSUR. He predicts that, only after a period of years, after the FTAA matures, will reliance substantially increase on more formal, rule-driven devices such as those present in NAFTA and the WTO.


Abstract Mixed Reality (MR) technologies are widely available and applied in a variety of design and engineering applications. MR prototypes capture the respective benefits of physical and digital prototypes by merging these domains saving the time and resources required to create them. This advantage is compelling in the context of design education where tight time and resource constraints exist. However, it is known that new digital prototyping tools can cause problems for students applying appropriate prototyping tools during practice-based studio design projects. Our paper contributes a systematic appraisal of MR prototyping's proposed dimensions value against constraints and issues in design studio education. This highlights MR Visualisation and Knowledge Management dimensions as most readily realised in education. Recommendations are then reflected on via an illustrative case study into the implementation of MR prototyping via these dimensions. Reflections corroborate the value proposition, but also highlight a need for further research exploring activities to scaffold MR prototyping to further support reflective design thinking.


With the increase in data-driven analytics, the demand for high performing computing resources has risen. There are many high-performance computing centers providing cyberinfrastructure (CI) for academic research. However, there exists access barriers in bringing these resources to a broad range of users. Users who are new to data analytics field are not yet equipped to take advantage of the tools offered by CI. In this paper, we propose a framework to lower the access barriers that exist in bringing the high-performance computing resources to users that do not have the training to utilize the capability of CI. The framework uses divide-and-conquer (DC) paradigm for data-intensive computing tasks. It consists of three major components - user interface (UI), parallel scripts generator (PSG) and underlying cyberinfrastructure (CI). The goal of the framework is to provide a user-friendly method for parallelizing data-intensive computing tasks with minimal user intervention. Some of the key design goals are usability, scalability and reproducibility. The users can focus on their problem and leave the parallelization details to the framework.


Electricity production is a sector that controls the lives of multitudes. Electricity supply crisis which resulted a rolling blackouts is such a heavy disadvantage to the users consumers of PT. PLN (Persero) services. The researched problems are 1) What is the causes of the inability of PT. PLN (Persero) in delivering electricity to customers on rolling blackouts. 2) What kind of responsibility is PT. PLN (Persero) as electricity enterprise had on rolling blackouts. 3) What kind legal actions that can be taken by  electricity consumers public for losses wich caused  by rolling blackouts. The research conducted at PT. PLN (Persero) Bukittinggi Branch, with sociological juridical research methods. The results showed that the rolling blackouts due to electricity shortage caused by the elevation of water debit and a damage to the generating plant which caused by climates, weathers and an increase of supply demand due to the growth of electricity consumption. The rolling blackouts execution and the copensations provision by PT. PLN (Persero) has applied the principles of consumer protection which has regulated in UUPK, based on the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) and the Service Quality Grades (TMP). Consumers can take legal action through a direct peaceful settlement of the parties, through BPSK, or through the courts under the provisions of general judiciary. Keywords : Protection, Consumer, Power Outages


This briefing paper discusses the state of the art of nanotechnology R&D and products in food and nutrition. After a short explanation of what nanotechnology is, present and expected future applications of nanotechnology in agriculture and food are discussed. The paper then follows a description of how nanotechnology can be used in agriculture and food packaging and discusses of applications of nanotechnology in food. At the last some conclusions are derived from the research.


AbstractA series of short-term puncture tests is conducted to investigate the deformation behavior of a 0.5-mm-thick high-density polyethylene (HDPE) geomembrane on particulate underliners subjecte...


A case of Bowen's disease (BD) that appeared in the perianal region of a 65‐year‐old Japanese woman coexistent with chronic adult T cell leukemia (ATL) is described. Histopathological findings revealed that irregularly arranged tumor cells with atypical nuclei throughout the epidermis, which itself disclosed hyperkeratosis, dyskeratotic cells, and clumping cells. Positive staining for HPV antigens was immunohistochemically seen in several nuclei of the tumor cells. Electron microscopic study of the tumor tissue disclosed virus particles of about 50 nm in diameter form the squamous cells. A positive band at 256 bp was obtained by PCR using HPV‐L1 primer. The amplified DNA by L1 primer completely corresponded to that of HPV‐58.


VRP is usually studied by researchers from its beginning.An improvement of VRP is studied in this paper.An VRPTW model considering both weight and volume restricts is seted, then solve the problem using PSO(Partical Swarm Optimization) method.


Such the geological hazards as landslide, rockfall, debris-flow and so on frequently occur in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, so it is a very practical and immediate job to explore the mechanism caused the geological hazards and how to forecast and control the geological hazards. For this reason, this paper introduces the situation of the geological hazards occurred in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area and the major type and feature of the geological hazards occurred in Chongqing, and discusses the basic principle about the modern nonlinear science applied to the geological hazards and the creep-slip, stick-slip occurred on the joints of rock mass and the monitoring technology of the geological hazards.The basic thinking is put forward which can be applied the modern nonlinear science to the geological hazards occurred in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area.


Objective: To study the changes of the expression of Caspase-3 and NOS-1 in mouse brain and discuss the effect of formaldehyde sulphoxylate on mouse brain. Methods: Take healthy male mice of Kunming genus, divide them into two groups at random: 10d group and 30d group. Each group is separated into control group, 0.4‰, 0.8‰ and 1‰ tests group. On the 10th day, quickly take out mice brains in 10d group; On the 30th day, quickly take out mice brains in 30d group; fixed in the Zamboni fixation solution, conventionally produce frozen section and stain section by immunohistochemical technology. Results, The expression of Caspase-3 and NOS-1 in l0d test group is increased, there is no obvious change in different dose groups. The expression of Csspase-3 In 30d test group is like as control group, there is no obvious change in different dose groups; The expression of NOS-1 in 30d test group is induced, there is no obvious change in different dose groups. Conclusion, After mice was fed Formaldehyde sulphoxylate solution, the expression of Caspase-3 and NOS-1 visibly increased, then induced. Which suggested that formaldehyde sulphoxylate can promote neuronal apoptosis.


Aerodynamic forces on bridges are commonly separated into static, self-excited, and buffeting force components. By delving into the relationships among force descriptors for static, self-excited, and buffeting components, novel perspectives are developed to unveil the subtle underlying complexities in modeling aerodynamic forces. Formulations for airfoil sections and those based on quasi-steady theory are both considered. Time domain modeling of unsteady aerodynamic forces is presented, including their frequency-dependent characteristics and spanwise correlation, which are often neglected in current time domain analyses due to modeling difficulty. A nonlinear aerodynamic force model is given that considers nonlinear dependence of the aerodynamic forces on the effective angle of incidence. Nonlinear aerodynamics may become increasingly critical when aerodynamic characteristics of innovative bridge deck designs, with attractive aerodynamic performance, exhibit significant sensitivity with respect to the effective angle of incidence and with the increases in the bridge span. Synergistic review of the authors' recent work in bridge aerodynamics presented here, in light of current state-of-the-art in this field, may serve as a building block for developing new analysis tools and frameworks for the accurate prediction of the response of long span bridges under strong wind excitation.


Abstract Starting from the recent promotion of the inuksuk, which was crowned the official logo of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games, this article examines the ways in which Inuit culture is currently being deployed within Canada and to what ends. We focus our examination on sanaugait, the Inuktitut term for things created by hand, which encompasses what is conventionally labeled craft production. Structuring our discussion around two case studies, we first delve into the artistic practice of Inuk textile artist and arts administrator Theresie Tungilik. This analysis reveals how Tungilik employs fiber arts to engage with oral histories and to comment on the production of sanaugait historically. Subsequently, we address the changes in the management of visual and material culture in Nunavut, Canada's newest territory, which was established in 1999. Examining territorial policy and strategies, we assess how sanaugait have been harnessed for specific economic growth. Through our examination of sanaugait as they have been mobilized by individual artists, as well as territorial and federal governments, we suggest that craft production is central to a renegotiation of power. Specifically, we argue that sanaugait reveal a shift in control between the predominantly Inuit territorial government and the Canadian federal government.


In order to study the effect of different sowing dates and different irrigation regimes on morphological characteristics and grain yield of chickpea (cultivar 3279 ILC) (Cicer arietinum L.), an experiment was conducted at Agricultural Research-Education Station of Shahid Rejaee, Neyshaboor during 2001-2002. Four irrigation regimes (without irrigation, one time irrigation (at early flowering), two times irrigation (at early flowering and 50% flowering) and control (irrigation every 10 days)) and Four sowing dates early planting (autumn, Entezari), and late planting (spring and delayed) were compared in a spilt plot layout based on randomized complete block design with four replications per treatment. The results showed that all chickpea plants with delayed sowing date on combination of without irrigation, one time irrigation (at early flowering) and two times irrigation (at early flowering and 50% flowering) were dead. By delaying sowing date, duration between the time of starting flowering and maturity became shorter. Plant height, distance of the first pod from earth surface, distance between nods, number of nods per plant, number of stems per plant, number of pods per plant, number of pods with one, two and with no seed per plant, number of seeds per plant, seed weight per plant, 100 seed weight and grain yield were increased when the number of irrigation increased. By increasing the growing season, plant height, distance of the first pod from earth surface, number of nods per plant, number of stems per plant, number of pods per plant, number of pods with two and without seeds per plant, number of seeds per plant and seed weight per plant were increased. The autumn sowing date had the highest and the spring date had the lowest grain yield. The highest plant height, number of nods per plant, number of stems per plant, number of pods per plant, number of pods with one and with no seed per plant, number of seeds per plant and grain yield were obtained at autumn sowing date with control treatment (every 10 days irrigation). Plants of spring sowing date with no irrigation treatment because of decreasing growth period and declining water availability had the lowest plant height, number of nods per plant, number of pods per plant, number of pods with one seeds per plant, seed weight per plant, 100 seed weight and grain yield.

Key words: Chickpea, sowing date, irrigation regime, seed yield, yield components.


There are substantial benefits from having an indexed unit of account for denominating bonds, contracting, and for quoting commodity prices. A new real effective exchange rate (REER) index is derived using GDP weights and an implicit world price index obtained incidental to the derivation of the indexed unit of account. In a prototype exports function estimation, this new index beats most of the other published real effective exchange rate indices. The superior performance is probably due to the fact that with globalization and production fragmentation trade weights have become increasingly misleading because of the prevalence of re-exports and even re-re-exports.


In this study, variation of root development of teak from different propagation methods such as tissue culture, shoot-cutting, and seedling by conventional way, different origins of explant for tissue culture method and different stages at tissue cultural lab, nursery and field were investigated. Study-area I for tissue culture experiment, 'bud' (terminal and lateral) from mature teak-plus-tree, 'nodal segment of sterile seed' collected from different seed sources, and 'shoot-tip' from seedling grown in nursery were mainly used as explants for tissue culture. The 'bud' was found to be the best than other sources of explants. Rooting in sterilized sand box showed the best for survival, hardy and cost effective than rooting in culture media. For study-area II in nursery experiment, variation of root development found out only in small-bag (7"x3"x 3⁄4") but the similar root development was observed between tissue cultured-plant and rooted shoot-cutting. Teak plants grown in big-bag (12"x8") were found no significant differences of root performance among all plant propagation methods. For study-area III in the field, the study found out that significant difference was only remarkable in height growth influenced by the origin of plant. Tissue cultured-teak was found to be the best in height growth in this study. Growth rate of teak trees in the field were no significant difference up to 4 year old while there is no site effect. The study proposed that there was an initial establishment growth-stage for tested origins and propagation methods up to 4 year-old in this study. Moreover, the result revealed that the morphological characteristics of crown diameter and 'root-spread' were positively associated with the growth of DBH. This study found out that there was no correlation between number of root and any other root performances such as root-spread and root-depth. Moreover the result indicated that rootdepth (vertical development) was not so important factor affecting height growth within tested ages. Finally, this study concluded that root development of teak in all stages except in small bag was found no significant differences between conventional seedling and vegetatively rooted teak.


A comb-generating laser suitable for DWDM application is demonstrated on the basis of a multimode quantum-dot laser. Bit error rate <10−13 at 10 Gbit/s external modulation was measured for 10 longitudinal modes owing to low (<0.3% over 0.001–10 GHz) relative intensity noise of each individual mode.


This paper proposes a new non-destructive methodology to estimate physical parameters for LSIs. In order to resolve the estimation accuracy degradation issue for low-k dielectric films, we employ a parallel-plate capacitance measurement and a wire resistance measurement in our non-destructive method. Due to (1) the response surface functions corresponding to the parallel-plate capacitance measurement and the wire resistance measurement and (2) the searching of the physical parameter values using our cost function and simulated annealing, the proposed method attains higher precision than that of the existing method. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method by application to our 90 nm SoC process using low-k materials.


. We use linked data on over 20,000 individuals and almost 1,500 workplaces from the Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998 to analyze the perceived and actual availability of six major family-friendly work practices amongst British employees. We find a low base rate of actual availability, a lower rate of perceived availability, and evidence that accurate awareness of availability is further limited. We identify a range of individual worker and workplaces characteristics that are associated with greater perceived availability and typically also to awareness.


In this study, characteristics and immuno-modulatory effects of Weissella cibaria JW15 isolated from Kimchi, traditional Korean fermented food, were examined for investigation of the capacity of potentially probiotic strains. We measured acid, bile, and heat tolerance, adhesive properties to intesti...


Diffractions possess the potential to reveal subsurface discontinuities, including faults, collapsed columns, and the rough edges of the salt body. We propose a novel diffraction separation method that flattens the dominant reflections at first and then identifies the diffraction wavefields through an orthogonal polynomial transform. Based on the plane-wave assumption and local slope, the reflection events can be predicted and flattened using plane-wave differential equations. To enhance the stability of the flattening process, a sliding window algorithm, and three finite-difference forms were adopted. As the dominant coherent event, a reflection often corresponds to low-order coefficients in the orthogonal polynomial transform. To better preserve the diffraction energy, a time-varying order threshold was used when removing the dominant reflections. Two field data applications are presented to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed diffraction separation strategy.


Interrogation is an ancient means of investigating and solving cases, which occupies an important position in the ancient Chinese judicial system. The methods of interrogation in ancient China have a long history. They mainly include the method of divine judgment, the method of "five observing", the method of torture, the method of crossexamination, the method of "hooking on the distance", the method of "logic and mark", etc. These methods have their own science and shortcomings. From the barbaric belief in gods to the determination of cases to the emphasis on confessions and physical evidence, these interrogation methods are based on the historical background of the time, and also reflect the growth of civilization and rational consciousness. The interrogation methods summed up by the ancients with experience and wisdom is of great significance for improving the level of the trial work in the current judicial practice. Keywords—interrogation method; ancient China; experience;


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We apply a unit root test that allows for heteroskedasticity and two structural breaks to daily data for natural gas spot and futures prices. In contrast to previous findings, the main result is that natural gas spot and futures prices are mean reverting. More generally, the results emphasize the need to allow for heteroskedasticity when applying unit root tests to energy spot and futures prices with high frequency data, such as daily data.


EVALUATING THE PREPARATI ON TOR TEACHERS ,OF DYING AND DEATH ; The purpose of t h i s study was to explore the significance of preparation (by measuring changes i n the fear of dying and death) for teachers interested i n teaching about dying and death. The preparation was an experiential and didactic workshop (see "Definition of terms" on page 58). Subjects of t h i s study were secondary school teachers employed with the Vancouver School Board. A group of 32 teachers (Experimental: males 6; females 26) were given a three evening experiential and didactic workshop on dying and death. This workshop took place one evening a week over a three week period. The C o l l e t t Lester Fear of Death Scale was administered at the beginning of the tr a i n i n g and again at the end. A second group of teachers (Control: males 11; females 22) was not given the workshop. The Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale was administered twice, with a three week period between testings. There are three hypotheses i n t h i s study. The f i r s t was that an experi e n t i a l / d i d a c t i c workshop would lower the death anxiety of those who p a r t i c i pated. The second was that an experiential/didactic workshop would not lower the anxiety of the r e l i g i o u s l y committed participants to any greater extent than the death anxiety of the non-religiously committed participants. Hypothesis three dealt with sex and proposed that male participants' scores would be decreased to a greater extent than those of the female participants. The results of t h i s investigation indicated that an experiential/ didactic workshop i s a means of lowering death anxiety. The teachers who were involved had s i g n i f i c a n t . score changes, on the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale, indicating a.decrease i n death fears. There was.no difference in.scores between the male and female participants as to lowering of death anxiety. The death anxiety scores of the r e l i g i o u s l y committed participants did not decrease more than those of the non-religiously committed. In f a c t , on some of the Collett-Lester sub-scales, just the opposite occurred. The results of t h i s study point to the value of preparation for teachers interested i n teaching about death. A case i s made for the need of such preparation and the value of an experiential/didactic workshop i s supported. Another implication of t h i s research i s the value of such t r a i n i n g to any indi v i d u a l interested i n becoming more comfortable with his or her mortality.


This research was conducted at MAN 1 Mataram. Focus of this study is an impact of religious education toward health reproduction of students. The main objective of this research is, are there any difference impact of religious learning toward reproduction attitudes among students majoring IPA, IPS and language?  This study uses a qualitative approach. Data are analyzed using two way anova analysis. This research shows that students' understanding of health reproduction  is good and very good.  The impacts of health reproduction attitude are, firstly there is a significant difference reproduction attitude between students of IPA, IPS And Language With significant value 0,024 < 0,05. Secondly, There is difference reproduction attitude between male and female students with significant value 0,000 < 0,05.  To cope with this result, it needs a specific handbook related to health reproduc- tion referred to Islamic teaching for students. Keywords : Impact, Health reproduction, religious education


This paper analyzes, from a bibliometric viewpoint, those publications that relate COVID-19 and eye indexed in Scopus since the beginning of the pandemic, and it identifies the resulting main research lines. A bibliographic search in the Scopus database was conducted for publications that simultaneously include ocular and visual manifestations and aspects with COVID-19, from 1 January 2020 to 16 March 2021, and the obtained bibliographic information was processed with VOSviewer (v. 1.6.16). A total of 2206 documents were retrieved, and 60% were original articles. The USA published the most studies (24.6%). The retrieved documents had a total of 18,634 citations. The h index of the set of retrieved documents was 58. The Indian Journal of Ophthalmology was the most productive journal, while JAMA Neurology and The Lancet accounted for 20% of citations. Three keyword clusters representing hotspots in this field were identified. Eye-related COVID-19 research is an emerging field with plenty of scientific evidence whose growth is expected to increase as the aspects and manifestations of the disease, its treatment and the effect of vaccination on it become known.


The research conducted on this project aimed to improve our understanding of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation in the atmosphere, and how the properties of the SOA impact climate through its size, phase state, and optical properties. The goal of this project was to demonstrate that the use of molecular composition information to mechanistically connect source apportionment and climate properties can improve the physical basis for simulation of SOA formation and properties in climate models. The research involved developing and improving methods to provide online measurements of the molecular composition of SOA under atmospherically relevant conditions and to apply this technology to controlled simulation chamber experiments and field measurements. The science we have completed with the methodology will impact the simulation of aerosol particles in climate models.


13:00 13:05 Opening (Walter G. Kropatsch) 13:05 13:15 Automated Fluorescein Angiography Image Quality Assessment based on general image features (Omar Ismail BSc) 13:15 13:25 Automatic Quality Control of Optical Coherence Tomography (Burak Baltali BSc) 13:25 13:35 Automated Color Fundus Assessment based on generic Image Quality Characteristics (Michael König BSc) 13:35 13:45 Analysis of Elschnig's Pearls growth on artificial lenses and their influence on vision using images (Katharina Pescoller-PR) 13:45 13:55 Object Detection with OpenCV (Rebeka Koszticsak PR) 13:55 14:05 Object Recognition for 2D baggage screening (Anna Sebernegg BSc) 14:05 14:15 Break 14:15 14:25 An Intuitive Robot Interface via Offline Sketch Recognition (Timon Höbert BSc) 14:25 14:35 Segmentation and beyond (Daniel Pucher MSc) 14:35 14:45 Horse Articulated Pose Estimation from Video (Maximilian Langer MSc) 14:45 14:55 Automatic human-head and shoulder segmentation of frontal-view face images (Robin Melan MSc) 14:55 15:05 Automatic segmentation of knee cartilage in MRI using particle filters (Patrick Valdellon MSc) 15:05 15:10 Closing (next organizer?) (Walter G. Kropatsch)


Knowledge and understanding of concepts of disease is important in the delivery of veterinary services and how students learn in veterinary medicine. This study analyzes the conceptual and philosophical basis for epidemiologic advances and changing paradigms in Ethiopia from the historical and modern viewpoint of disease concepts. Our finding shows that, there existed a multiple of concepts of disease, in an interface of science and spirituality namely: predator, evil spirit, religious and biomedical; in chronology. Despite these concepts were diametrically opposing each other, the general public had not reject old concepts, simply all were amalgamated. Hence, Ethiopian farmers seek assistance from sorcery, traditional healers, priests and veterinary doctors. In traditional Ethiopian disease concept, major cause of disease was supposed evil spirit, which originated from metaphysics and cosmological belief. A similar crosscutting of concepts were observed among veterinary students and professionals. We suggest if an antagonistic relationship between science and religion is perceived by student the learning outcome will be superficial and will suppress further scientific progress. While a symbiotic relationship between science and religion will alleviate the apathy.


The chest of a person moves due to the heart beating and the lungs expanding and contracting. So the chest movement contains information about the heart and breathing rates. This property is used to detect vital signs using Doppler radar and On-Body antennas. These methods can be accurate, cost-effective, portable, comfortable and low profile alternatives to present commercial heart and breathing rate monitoring devices. The 1st method employing Doppler Effect is non-contact. It detects both the heart and breathing rates using the modulated reflected signals from the chest of a person. A parametric study is conducted considering frequency, power and distance to determine the best parameters for maximum accuracy. A small population study is conducted considering 5 people to validate the accuracy and working of Doppler radar as a vital signs monitor. The 2nd method monitors the heart and breathing rates by sensing motion in the near field proximity of an antenna using the antenna's reflection coefficient. Simulation studies are conducted using CST chest models to verify the principle. An extensive parametric investigation considering frequency, antenna type, power, antenna location on body, body Position, and distances (between chest and antenna) is conducted to find parameters for maximum detection accuracy. A human population study considering 13 people is conducted to establish heart rate and heart rate variability (HRV) measurement feasibility. A signal processing study is also performed and the best algorithms are identified for accurate detection of vital signs. Besides this novel frequency and pattern reconfigurable antennas are proposed and designed for communications and/or vital signs monitoring purposes.


Art that concerns itself with themes of concentration camps, the Holocaust and genocide is extremely varied. Many authors of different generations have been engaged in it in different media. And yet, similar problems and dilemmas appear in the analysis of this art. Often questions about the artistic merit of the works are secondary, being overshadows by questions about the moral justification of the existence of the work of art and its historical accuracy. Reflections on the aesthetics of these works of art turn out to be very delicate. The cycle We Are not the Last by Zoran Music (1909–2005), one of the most recognisable Slovene painters, is distinguished at once by aesthetic perfection and the immediate cruel reality of the imagery. Reflecting upon his works within the framework of concentration camp art and survivor's testimony can contribute to a better understanding of his works.


Physicists learn early that no statement should be accepted without question. Indeed at the core of the physicist's approach to both experimental data and theoretical structures is an insistence on asking questions, looking for patterns and checking for consistency. In this context, incorrect data, bad analysis, and overblown claims are subject to immediate challenge to prevent them from being perpetuated and making the already difficult work of understanding natural phenomena even more difficult.


The investigation of electromagnetic fields (EMF) in human health risk assessment include epidemiology, human and animals, cellular system, biochemistry and molecular biology, and biophysical mechanisms. The causal chain describes a series of sequential steps to lead to disease outcome for EMF to cause biological effect. To complete the first step, or say primary effect, the physical reaction between EMF with bio-molecules must come into being chemical reaction in organism, and then bring biological reaction. To research relationship of radical, energy and cytosolic calcium has significance to know primary effect of EMF. The effect of exposure to 48 h at 0.1mT, 0.5mT and 1.0mT power frequency EMF on rat-hippocampal neurons was investigated by evaluating the reactive oxygen species (ROS) and cytosolic Ca2+ concentration. The results show that the reactive oxygen species (ROS) and cytosolic Ca2+ concentration at 0.1mT, 0.5mT and 1.0 mT EMF have be all signification increaser (P 0.01) than control (sham exposure), ROS at 0.1mT and 0.5mT and Ca2+ at 0.1mT have be no difference (P 0.05) than Trolox + EMF, ROS at 1.0 mT and Ca2+ at 0.5mT and 1.0 mT have be signification increaser (P 0.01) than Tolox + EMF. It is known that EMF may enhance ROS formation in neurons, and there is positive correlation between ROS level and cytosolic Ca2+ concentration.


In this paper we have introduced a perhaps new form of the contagious stochastic process, which may be recognized to be one of the simple and natural generalizations of the independent one and the POLYA-EGGENBERGER's scheme. The limit theorems we obtained hitherto are the generalizations of the classical and elementary ones in these fundamental schemes. It may be also to be remarked that we have incidentally obtained the construction-methods, which are simple in the standpoint of the theory of probability, of some classes of the infinitely divisible probability-laws, which are of the central importance in the realm of the independent scheme. In the case of the strong contagion we have obtained a class of distribution functions of PEARSON TYPE I, and in the case of the transition, we have reached the probability-law whose characteristic function is the product of those of the distribution functions of the PEARSON TYPE III. It is also to be remarked that our theorems show that the limiting probability-laws we obtained, except the Gaussian law, are such that their characteristic functions are the products of the limiting probability-laws which POLYA-EGGENBERGER established in their elementary scheme. The application of our limiting laws themselves will be given in another occasion. In conclusion the author wishes to point out that the problem of discussing the limiting theorems without the essential restrictions of our Assumptions I and II is still open to us, and that the problem suggests us that a more general form of the probability-law can be obtained as limiting theorems in our scheme.


Shooting practice in youth basketball is "cornerstone" for proper shooting technique, likely, enabling the player to get high shooting percentage in a Professional League (adults). The purpose of this study was to verify the efficiency of the shooting fundamental program (n = 18, age 9.85 ± .53). Experimental groups were used in these results. The results showed the effect of shooting fundamental program. Shooting test the lay-ups after this period of an experiment was increased by +1.83 successful attempts in comparison with the result in the control time (+1.45) (p < .01). These findings show that efficiency of basketball shooting fundamental program increase shooting percentage during the period of an experiment.


Critical Care Medicine • Volume 46 • Number 1 (Supplement) www.ccmjournal.org Learning Objectives: Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome, also known as 'Ondine's curse,' is a rare disorder characterized by abnormal control of respiration in the absence of neuromuscular, lung or cardiac disease, or brainstem lesion. Patients breathe normally while awake but profoundly hypoventilate during sleep. Most cases present in the newborn period but CCHS is occasionally diagnosed in older patients. Methods: A 9-month-old male had been seen by his pediatrician the day prior to presentation with symptoms consistent with an upper respiratory infection; he was given a prescription for ibuprofen for fever. Two hours after receiving his first dose of the medication, the patient developed difficulty breathing and altered mental status. In the emergency department, he had a similar episode with desaturation which was treated with nasal suctioning, supplemental oxygen and ultimately two doses of naloxone, given for suspected unintentional toxic ingestion. Several hours later while under observation in the PICU, he had a similar episode with apnea and desaturation requiring intubation. Toxicology consult obtained, comprehensive urine drug screen was negative, and the relapsing symptoms were inconsistent with toxic exposure. His nasal congestion and tracheal secretions improved and he was extubated after 3 days. Later that day, he was re-intubated for hypercapnic respiratory failure with hypopnea followed by decreased responsiveness. He failed multiple CPAP trials due to hypoventilation during this course. EMG was abnormal showing diffuse myopathy with myotonic features but muscle biopsy histopathology was negative. Genetic testing revealed heterozygous mutation of the PHOX2B gene confirming diagnosis of CCHS. The patient underwent surgical tracheostomy and was discharged with mechanical ventilation when sleeping. Results: Patients presenting as suspected toxic ingestion require thorough evaluation. However, when the symptoms do not suggest a particular medication overdose or exposure, it's important to broaden the differential diagnosis. CCHS is a rare but important diagnosis to make as the mortality rate approaches 40%. Outcomes are improved with appropriate treatment.


This article sets out the CNB's approach to the countercyclical capital buffer in the Czech Republic and describes its decision-making process from assessing the position of the economy in the financial cycle through to setting the buffer rate. The CNB's approach is based on a set of simple and composite indicators of the financial cycle and systemic risk, but also puts an emphasis on comprehensive expert assessment of developments in the financial sector. The article then describes the factors that the macroprudential authority takes into account when setting the specific countercyclical capital buffer rate. These include estimates of credit losses in the event of adverse shocks and stylised facts about the financial cycle.


Almost a half-century ago, Anastasi' reformulated the intelligence quotient (IQ) debate by asking the question: "Heredity, environment and the question 'how'?" She argued, instead of asking which (heredity or environment) determines IQ we should be asking how do these factors combine to predict IQ. A quarter of a century ago, Sameroff and Chandler61 redefined our approach to the study of development in low-birth weight (LBW) infants with a model that combines biologic and environmental factors. Old questions may or may not apply to new populations, however, and it is important to ask which models are appropriate for the new generation that includes populations of extremely low-birth weight (ELBW) survivors.


Deploying standard intelligent transportation system (ITS) architectures in a brand new project will enhance the capacity of the services with a higher integrity, better communication and more familiar platform for the end users likewise travelers. The existing ITS service providers (including road operators) have already the skeleton of their Architecture. Therefore it's vital to evaluate the current projection of their services according to the standards introduced in the ITS architectures and picture out the overlaps and deviations. All elements of ITS architectures including conceptual models, functional, physical and communicational viewpoints, have been extracted from stakeholders aspiration which road users having a major rule among them. The methodology introduced in this study is an approach for such adoption according to the stockholders aspiration and mainly traveler needs according in comparison to the Standard European ITS architectures. This methodology will carefully walk through one of the major services provided by a case study and try to position it with user-needs introduced in ITS architecture. The service has been selected from Traveler Information services as a high priority one. While the results shows high correspondence between covered user-needs and those introduced on the Traveler Information Service although huge part of future user-needs are missing.


For multi-variable nonlinear system evolution with time-varying, a neural network model based on multi-variable phase-space reconstruction has been proposed, and is used in civil engineering for synthesized deformation prediction of deep foundation pit. By the various time series time delay and embedding dimension determined respectively in this model, the multi-variable series of excavation deformation for deep foundation pit has been done in the first phase space reconstruction. The neural network input extraction by the use of partial least squares regression method can be the strongest impact components. Finally non-linear fitting between the various components has been completed via BP neural network model. With practical application for deformation prediction of deep foundation pit, the method's effectiveness has been verified.


Directorate for Accreditation of Kosovo (DAK) is only National Accreditation Body in Republic of Kosovo, recognized by Government, which in accordance with international standards, assesses technical competences of the Conformity Assessment Bodies (CAB)s that deal with activities such as: testing, calibration, certification and inspection both in public and private sector. Till now application for accreditation and all other procedures for accreditation of CABs are carried out so that all the documents of the application and the receipt of the certificate of accreditation are conducted in the offices of DAK. By Management Information System (MIS), database of DAK (DAK-MIS), customers will have 100% documents online, starting from the application, check of documents, selection of nonconformities, through this database. DAK-MIS database will facilitate the work of DAK and CABs. The main goal of this paper is to inform the CAB's and other Interested Parties about DAKMIS database.


The effect of inter-dot many body interactions on the transport properties of coupled dots connected to leads is studied. Results are obtained by exactly diagonalizing a cluster composed by the double-dot and its vicinity, which is then connected to the leads. We analyse two configurations: coupled dots aligned and perpendicular to the leads. We show that in the weak coupling limit they present quite different conductance features as a function of gate potential. In the strong coupling limit they show qualitatively similar behaviour. q 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.


The influence of the cultivation of the common osier on sodium, calcium, potassium and magnesium concentrations in groundwater was evaluated between January 2011 and December 2012 in north-eastern Poland. The analyzed site is situated in Sam3awki on the premises of the Educational and Research Station in £e?any administered by the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. Groundwater samples for chemical analyses were collected once a month from seven piezometers. Four piezometers were installed in a willow plantation: one on a hilltop, one on a slope and two varied-depth piezometers (904A – depth of 1.62 m, 904B – depth of 2.65 m) in a surface depression. The remaining three piezometers were installed for comparative purposes on arable land, in a forest on a hilltop and in a surface depression. Magnesium, calcium, sodium and potassium concentrations were determined in water samples by standard methods. The highest groundwater levels were noted in arable land (110.8 53.7 cm below ground level), and the lowest levels – on the forest hilltop (572.8 27.0 cm below ground level). In the willow plantation, the highest groundwater table was noted in a surface depression (272.0 25.4 cm below ground level). Growing common osiers for energy significantly influenced magnesium and calcium concentrations in groundwater, which were highest on the slope of the plantation (15.1 3.8 mgMg dm and 88.8 26.4 mgCa dm) and on the hilltop (13.6 4.5 mgMg dm and 109.1 22.3 mgCa dm). The highest sodium levels in groundwater were noted on the plantation hilltop (10.2 1.6 mgNa dm) and in arable land (11.5 2.0 mgNa dm). Potassium concentrations in groundwater were determined by the height of the groundwater table, and they were highest on hilltops in the willow plantation (5.2 4.4 mgK dm) and in the forest (4.3 2.7 mgK dm).


This article mainly elaborated the computer network course particularity,combined with years of teaching experience,and advocate in the computer network course teaching reform is very necessary,mobilize the initiative of students,and stimulate students' creative thinking,so as to promote the " computer network " classroom teaching practice.