In human erythroleukemia (K562) cells, the highly related protein kinase C (PKC) α and PKC βIIisozymes serve distinct functions in cellular differentiation and proliferation, respectively. Previous studies using two domain switch PKC chimera revealed that the catalytic domains of PKC α and βII contain molecular determinants important for isozyme-specific function (Walker, S. D., Murray, N. R., Burns, D. J., and Fields, A. P. (1995) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 92, 9156–9160). We have now analyzed a panel of PKC chimeras to determine the specific region within the catalytic domain important for PKC βII function. A cellular assay for PKC βII function was devised based on the finding that PKC βII selectively translocates to the nucleus and phosphorylates nuclear lamin B in response to the PKC activator bryostatin. This response is strictly dependent upon expression of PKC βII or a PKC chimera that functions like PKC βII. We demonstrate that a PKC α/βIIchimera containing only the carboxyl-terminal 13 amino acids from PKC βII (βII V5) is capable of nuclear translocation and lamin B phosphorylation. These results are consistent with our recent observation that the PKC βII V5 region binds to phosphatidylglycerol (PG), a potent and selective PKC βII activator present in the nuclear membrane (Murray, N. R., and Fields, A. P. (1998) J. Biol. Chem. 273, 11514–11520). Soluble βII V5 peptide selectively inhibits PG-stimulated PKC βII activity in a dose-dependent fashion, indicating that PG-mediated activation of PKC βII involves interactions with the βII V5 region of the enzyme. We conclude that βII V5 is a major determinant for PKC βIInuclear function and suggest a model in which binding of PG to the βII V5 region stimulates nuclear PKC βIIactivity during G2 phase of the cell cycle.


With the rapid development of the channel coding technology, low density parity check(LDPC) code has been widely concerned by researchers all of the world as an approaching code to Shannon limit. Error floor is an important issue in the theory of LDPC codes and the research of iterative decoding algorithms. Based on the decoding of LDPC codes, a new improved decoding algorithm, Group Belief Propagation (GBP) based on variable nodes is proposed for the different scheduling strategies of the LDPC codes. According to the difference between the messages and the hard decision values, the variable nodes are divided into reliable nodes and unreliable nodes. And the unreliable nodes are priority to update. Further, the effect of threshold for judging the group on GBP strategy is analyzed. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can achieve better convergence and decoding performances compared to three classical scheduling algorithms. Meanwhile, it can overcome the error floor phenomenon caused by the trapping set effectively.


For the digital test requirements of space test field,the research and application of the test equipment,that is,the corresponding test-bed,is of utmost importance.The successful use of FPGA as the hardware control logic circuit effectively improves the system reliability,security,scalability,functional scalability,and a high-efficiency and high-accuracy gyro pulse signal is generated.And the two-way non-charged and six-way 28V-charged instructions and directions are realized.Various methods of test signal design are given,the principles of their implementations are described.These methods are successfully applied in the test system of certain aerocraft.


"Lady education" has swept all over the world in recent years and aroused extensive attention.It also has prompted a series of education discussions associated with social issues.The paper analyzes the main causes of"lady education"as employment pressure,the social expectations of males,commercial operations,the plight of education,and social diversity impacts.At the same time,it explains some effects on the education and society caused by"lady education"from both positive and negative aspects.


In general, the coke formed from Athabasca bitumen is high in metals and sulfur content. In oreder to minimize by-products and increase production of saleable products, reduction in coke formation is desirable. The object of this study is to investigate factors that impact the heat and mass transfer on the overall formation of coke at conditions relevant to fluid coking.


ABSTRACT Area contingency planning guidance advocates a unified command support mechanism. Marine Safety Office (MSO) Hampton Roads used total quality management to improve the unified command proc...


Mitral annuloplasty using the Carillon Mitral Contour System (CMCS) reduces secondary mitral regurgitation (SMR) and leads to reverse left ventricular remodelling. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of the CMCS on the mitral valve annulus (MA) and left atrial volume (LAV).


British government recently redesigned its War Crimes Act to exclude Allied (Russian?) criminals from its jurisdiction. In view of these recent Russian denials and the changes in British law, it is good thatWadaw Godziemba-Maliszewski has produced this book on the Katyn forest massacre. It is very much needed. The reader, however, must be warned that it is not a very polished book and will not be very easy to read. The book provides English and Polish on facing pages. The English version, unfortunately, is less elegantly written and edited. The author does not hide the fact that he has been emotionally involved in the Katyri forest massacre since the age of fourteen, when he readjanusz Zawodny's book and subsequently learned that his father's cousin, Bronislaw, was one of the victims. Since then, he has been interested in amassing all possible evidence connected with this horrible crime. The evidence that is found in the book is not the kind that historians traditionally collect. But historians know that when documentary evidence is lacking they must turn to other primary sources for their historical studies; that is what Godziemba-Maliszewski provides. The heart of the book consists of over 40 aerial photographs taken by the German air force between 1941 and 1944 around Smolensk and 16 maps. General readers and most historians are not in the position to submit this evidence to either external or internal criticism. Therefore, they must rely on highly trained experts who can provide a scientific interpretation of the aerial photographs. After speaking to a former CIA employee, this reviewer can state that the quality of the photos published in the book is not sufficient to make scientific interpretations possible. The originals would have to be examined to do so. Happily, as the author indicates, the original photos are available in the National Archives Records Administration in College Park, Maryland. The same is true for the maps made by the U.S. Army Map Service which, thanks to Godziemba-Maliszewski's efforts, have been declassified and made available through the Defense Intelligence Agency. The author has devoted eight years of intensive study and research to writing this book. He has consulted with geophysicists and aerial photography specialists and has developed his writing skills. He has analyzed the aerial photographs and maps and then carefully studied motion picture films, available documents, and the testimony of witnesses, some of which appear in the book. It was a herculean effort that gives historians very strong evidence of the Soviet Union's complicity in the unspeakable crime of the Katyn forest massacre. One can only hope that the representatives of the Russian people in the Duma, its president, and government will eventually open the archives and permit historians to gain access to the documents that will tell the full story. It is only then that a genuine reconciliation between the Polish and Russian nations can begin.


An optical axis angle inspection device (20) is provided with a first camera (25) and a screen (26) which are disposed in front of a laser distance meter (11), is provided with a point light source (25) on the screen, and is provided with a second camera (28) disposed behind the laser distance meter (11). An image of the laser distance meter is captured by the first camera, and the height of the point light source is fitted to the height of the laser distance meter on the basis of the captured image. Then, an image of the point light source is captured by the second camera, and a difference in height between the centroid of the captured image and the point light source is specified. The optical axis angle of the laser distance meter is calculated from the difference in height and the distance from the screen to the laser distance meter.


Recently, the authors of this paper proposed systematic Luby transform (SLT) codes and their soft decoding using the classic loglikelihood message passing algorithm for transmission over hostile Wireless Internet channels, where the transmitted data is affected by both packet loss events and random Gaussian noise. This scheme is further improved here with the aid of a new degree distribution and a novel random integer generator, which are termed as the truncated degree distribution and the conditional random integer generator. The SLT code using the new design is capable of achieving BER les 10-5 at low Eb/N0 values. For example, the SLT(1200,3600) code attains BER < lCT5 in excess of an Eb/No value of 1.5 dB for transmission over the AWGN channel and above 3.5 dB over the uncorrelated Rayleigh channel if additionally a packet erasure probability Pe of 0.1 is inflicted, an Eb/No value above 2 dB is required for transmission over the AWGN channel and in excess of 4 dB over the uncorrelated Rayleigh channel, when using a maximum of Iter = 20 iterations and quadrature phase- shift keying.


A gas-fired coal preheating (GFCP) technology, offering a flexible method to reduce NOx, could be used with other de-NOx combustion technology such as air staging to seek maximum NOx reduction. The preheating chamber key apparatus of GFCP was investigated with the help of infrared camera. The results show that devolatilization and partial oxidation (combustion) of coal occurred in the preheating chamber, and this may prove the main heat source of preheating chamber is combustion of coal volatiles and gas is only used to prevent flameout. A self-sustaining combustion drop furnace was used to investigate the NOx reduction potential of GFCP with air staging. Gas species concentrations along furnace are plotted for several runs, offering details to further study and analyze the GFCP. With GFCP, much HCN, CiHj, and soot were produced in the preheating chamber, so under the similar air staging condition, the NO destructed by HCN and soot was stronger than that without. NOx reduction could archive up to 72% with...


During the plant's life cycle, plenty of information is generated manually and automatically, not only in the stage of plant operation. Such information concerns all entities which can be described by property models, for example field devices, functional roles from the P&IDiagram or even software units for process control.


The garbage in our country is moist,less calorific ashy and with complicated composition.There are too many uncontrollable factors in combustion control.Combined with the characteristics of TIF-CFB and analyzing such related factors as the garbage quality,the components of combustion fire,excess air ratio and the load change,we can find out the factors which influence the stability of combustion.Through the analysis of such products in combustion as dioxin,heavy metal,acid gas,and solid waste,we can take corresponding counter,measures,and achieve the maximum environmental benefits of trash-fired power.


Obesity and Diabetes are leading causes of cardiovascular disease and mortality. They are closely linked because of insulin resistance. Hypertension and dyslipidaemia together with poor exercise drive atherosclerosis. Early treatment of blood sugar, dyslipidaemia and hypertension reverse the atherosclerosis process. Bariatric surgery and low calorie diets have in recent years been shown to reverse or improve blood sugars lipids and blood pressure. The risk of premature myocardial infarction and death should no longer be the desired outcome.


Salmonella is, for a long time, the subject of several studies due to the complexity presented by the gender. From the beginning, the difficulty of classifying it in a clearly way, has created controversies and different opinions that have led researchers to work with multiple systems and classification schemes. In order to prevent and treat this bacteria in an effectively form, some specific and rapid detection methods have been developed over the last decades. In addition, the necessity of the companies of obtaining reliable results in less time has increased until today. In the project there is a Salmonella spp investigation in food using the traditional method ISO 6579, immunofluorescence (ELFA) method and immunoenzimatic (ELFA) with recombinant phage protein method, in order to obtain quantitative data and finally an extended validation of an immunoenzimatic method. The results obtained show trustworthiness and certainty in the three detection techniques used. The immunoenzimatic methods respond positively to the needs that companies have of obtaining results in a short period of time (24-48 hours). Certain food groups such as fresh meat, levels of presence and absence of Salmonella are higher than in other groups, depending on the method used. The extension of the ratification has allowed improving the conditions of the sample preparation in eggs and poultry meat.


The effects of oxygen on a solid-state dye-sensitized solar cell (sDSC) based on the molecular hole transporting material 2,2',7,7',-tetrakis(N,N-di-p-methoxyphenyl-amine)-9,9',-spirofluorene (spir ...


This chapter outlines various tactics that artists, filmmakers, curators, architects, city planners, and arts administrators can employ to develop works, sites, and audiences that support a more participatory and representative public culture through massive media. These include: the application of analytical tools from cinema studies, namely superimposition, montage, and apparatus/dispositif, high-level coordination and provision of technical support from curatorial groups that see themselves as public space activists and community facilitators, and sensitivity towards context, both digital and virtual, of large-scale public data visualisations centred upon led façades. More study and practice is needed as the technologies and contexts of massive media shift and merge with the practices of digital placemaking and smart cities.


In a consecutive correction of the variation, the implication of the serotonergic system on the central neuromodular disturbance might improve or prevent the progressive course both in transient and in permanent mental disorders. However, an unsuccessful attempt to improve the depressive symptomatology leads mostly to an overproportional exaggeration of the behavioral changes.


We consider a model based on the logistic equation and linear kinetics to study the effect of toxicants with various initial concentrations on a cell population. To account for parameter uncertainties, in our model the coefficients of the linear and the quadratic terms of the logistic equation are affected by noise. We show that the stochastic model has a unique positive solution and we find conditions for extinction and persistence of the cell population. In case of persistence we find the stationary distribution. The analytical results are confirmed by Monte Carlo simulations.


Investigation of linear instability mechanisms is essential for understanding the process of transition from laminar to turbulent flow. Many studies over several decades have reported results in simple one-dimensional steady laminar basic flows, such as the boundary and shear layers. However, most flows of practical engineering significance remain unexplored. The main reason is that the geometry and underlying basic state in most applications depend on an inhomogeneous manner on more than one spatial direction,
which does not permit use of simplified equations. The consideration of two or three inhomogeneous directions in the stability problem formulation results in formidable computational costs for completing parametric studies, which are, on the other hand, mandatory from a physical point of view.


Based on Euler multiphase model of FLUENT software,the paper researches on 3-D numerical simulation of liquid-solid two-phase flow field in the impeller of the low specific speed slurry pump.According to the results of numerical simulation,liquid-solid two-phase flow field in the impeller has been analyzed.Further more,the research on testing for the impeller has been done,the testing results conform to design requirements.By comparing the results of numerical analysis with the test results,it is found that the head and the efficiency of both are close.


An autoradiographic study was made using S35-sulfate for the localization, distribution, and variation in the mucopolysaccharide content of the femoral periosteum of rats from birth to old age. The mucopolysaccharides were also studied histochemically, using toluidine blue O, Rinehart and Abu'l-Haj's colloidal iron method, and the periodic acid-Schiff reaction, before and after hyaluronidase treatment. Autoradiograms revealed the uptake of S 35 particularly in the vicinity of the preosseous zone and adjacent osteoblasts. This labelling was highest at the period of rapid bone growth. With increasing age, the S 35 uptake became progressively less. The preosseous zone showed "y-metachromatic staining at all ages after treatment with toluidine blue. Active osteoblasts were mostly orthochromatic, however, /3-metachromasia was exhibited at a later age. Abundant amounts of intraand extracellular mucopolysaccharides of both the acid and neutral type were demonstrated in the periosteum. S 35 uptake and "y-metachromasia show the presence of sulfated mucopolysaccharides, of which chondroitin sulfate predominates in the preosseous zone. Since S 35 uptake is high in active osteoblasts, the inability to demonstrate metachromasia in osteoblasts may indicate either that chondroitin sulfate is liberated as fast as it is being produced, or that it may be present within the cells in a precursor form not detectable by histochemical methods. Numerous investigators using S 35 have shown that the isotope becomes incorporated in chondroitin sulfate of bones and cartilage (Dziewiatkowski et al., 1949; Bostr6m and Mansson, 1952; Dziewiatkowski et al., 1957 and Johnston and Comar, 1957). I t was pointed out by Dziewiatkowski (1951), that in the diaphysis of long bones of rats, localization of S 35 occurred at the periosteal region. Vincent (1954) also indicated that S 35 is * Supported by the United States Atomic Energy Commission and work performed in the Medical Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York. Research Collaborator at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Present address: Brookhaven National Laboratory. J. BiOPHYSIC. AND BIOCHEM. CYTOL., 1959, Vol. 6, No. 2 fixed in regions of recently formed osseous tissue which has not yet been mineralized. Autoradiographic studies in the anlage of long bones of the chick embryo, revealed radiosulfate deposition apparently at the level of the periosteum and perichondral bone trabeculae (Amprino, 1956). Although the major composition of bone sulfated mucopolysaccharide is chondroitin sulfate, Meyer (1956, 1958) has found another sulfated polysaccharide, keratosulfate, and a non-sulfated polysaccharide, hyaluronic acid. Sulfated acid mucopolysaccharides are believed to serve as the linkage between the fibrous and crystalline elements or the "local factors" in initiating calcification (Leblond et al., 1955; Sobel, 1955). On the other hand, it has also been suggested that sulfated mucopolysaccharide may serve to maintain an 171 on O cber 3, 2017 jcb.rress.org D ow nladed fom 172 STUDIES ON EFFECTS OF AGING uncalcified condition in various areas (Logan, 1935; Haas, 1943, and Syl~en, 1947 a, b). Very little work has been reported concerning the biochemical contr ibut ion and relationship of the periosteum to the physiology of bone growth, development, and part icularly aging. Previous reports by Tonna (1958 a, b; 1959) have indicated tha t this s tructure is part icularly adapted for the s tudy of bone physiology, and al though acid and alkaline phosphatases are not altered appreciably by aging, respiratory enzyme activities change considerably. The apparen t impor tan t role played by mucopolysaccharides in the biochemistry of bone and cartilage pose, from the point of view of the periosteum, a number of per t inent questions, namely: 1. W h a t is the distr ibution and localization of the sulfated and non-sulfated acid mucopolysaccharides and neutral mucopolysaccharides? 2. W h a t changes occur in the distr ibut ion and concentrat ion of these substances during aging? 3. W h a t roles do the osteoblasts play with reference to production, storage, and liberation of mucopolysaccharides during the life of the animal? The object of this investigation was to obta in fur ther information about mucopolysaecharides during the processes of skeletal aging. Materials and Methods Sprague-Dawley strain rats were segregated into six age groups. Each group was made up of 3 males and 3 females. Group I consisted of 1 week-old rats, Group II of 5 weeks-old, Group I I I of 8 weeks-old, Group IV of 26 weeks-old, Group V of 52 weeks-old, and Group VI of 104 weeks old rats. Sulfuric acid-S 35, diluted with sterile physiological saline solution, was given in two subcutaneous injections to each animal (4 #c./gram of body weight per injection), 12 hours apart. 1 Five hours after the last injection, the animals were sacrificed with ether. Immediately after death, cross-sections of bone were taken from the mid-femoral region of both legs and placed in a 3:1 mixture of absolute ethyl alcohol and glacial acetic acid for 2 hours followed by an additional 24 hours of fixation in formol saline and washing for 24 hours (Pelc and Glficksmann, 1955). Paraffin sections were prepared without prior decalcification. Autoradiograms were prepared using British Kodak AR-10 stripping film and placed in a cold, dry atmosphere as suggested by Messier and Leblond (1957). Emulsions were exposed for 40 days after which time the sections were developed, dehydrated, cleared, and 1 Obtained from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as carrier-free H,.,SasO4 in 0.2 N HCI. covered. One set of sections were treated with Feulgen stain prior to covering them with stripping film (Glick, 1949); another set was stained with metanil yellowiron hematoxylin after developing (Simmel, Fitzgerald, and Godwin, 1951). Data on the length of the femora (as measured with a pair of calipers from the greater trochanter to a horizontal line with the lateral and medial condyles) were compared with the uptakes of sulfate as assessed by an examination of the autoradiograms. The following histochemical methods were employed: 1. Toluidine blue O method for metachromasia (Ham and Harris, 1950). 2. Rinehart and Abu'l-Haj colloidal iron method (1951). 3. Periodic acid-Schiff method of Hotchkiss (1948), and 4. Hyaluronidase treatment prior to the application of the histochemical procedures. In the toluidine blue method, loss of metachromasia was minimized or eliminated by the use of a mixture of equal parts of 5 per cent ammonium molybdate and 1 per cent ferrocyanide and acetone instead of alcohol, for the dehydration of the sections. They were immersed in this dehydrating mixture for 2 minutes. The Schiff reagent was prepared by the method of Barger and DeLamater (1948). In order to increase the specificity of the reaction, additional slides from all groups were treated with a mixture of 10 per cent acetic anhydride in dry pyridine for 1 hour at room temperature to induce aceylation of the 1:2 glycol groups responsible for the PAS reaction (Pearse, 1950). Another set of slides, after treatment with acetic anhydride-pyridine mixture, were treated with 0.1 KOH for 1 hour, to reverse the process of acetylation and thus color with PAS reagent so that a better comparison can be made between the 1:2 glycol group distribution and non-specific staining, (MeManus and Cason, 1950). Diastase ~ control sections incubated at 37°C. for 2 to 3 hours were also used to eliminate glycogen staining. Representative sections of all groups were treated prior to toluidine blue 0, colloidal iron, and periodicSchiff staining with a 0.1 per cent testicular hyaluronidase (wydase, 150 TRU/mg.) 3 in physiological saline for 4 hours at 37°C. (Greulich and Friberg, 1957). The quantitation of results was based on a visual inspection and evaluation of the number of grains per unit area in the autoradiograms and the intensity of the precipitate or staining reactions in the histochemical sections. Comparisons were always made with the results found in the sections of the animals of Group I. 2 Obtained from Coleman and Bell Co., Norwood, Ohio. 3 Wydase is the trade name for a lyophilized testicular hyaluronidase prepared by Wyeth Inc., Philadelphia. on O cber 3, 2017 jcb.rress.org D ow nladed fom EDGAR A. TONNA AND EUGENE P. CRONKITE 173


The purpose of this report is to analyze how it is possible to articulate the interests of the WEU, the EU and NATO in their common desire of achieving peace and stability for a safer Europe. It will not describe the fundamental changes that occurred in the continent since the end of the last decade. But it is important to spend a few words on the consequences these significant changes had on the WEU and the conceptual factors that will determine its future role in Europe. Firstly, it will consider the restructuring of the WEU over the last years. Secondly, it will discuss the relations between the WEU and the EU after the 1991 Maastricht Conference. It will then looks at the management of links with NATO. Finally, it will contribute an analysis on required convergence of issues which will be the subject of three main events: the 1996 EU Intergovernmental Conference (IGC), the 1997 Heads of State and Government NATO Summit and the expiration of the Modified Brussels Treaty of the WEU in 1998. It will conclude analyzing the prospects for the WEU at the end of the century and the alternatives for future security arrangements in the Euro-atlantic area.


Theories of Neoliberalism have acknowledged cross-national variations in Neoliberal trajectories but have been remiss in identifying subnational variations in the Neoliberal agenda. To explore this subnational variation, we examine the multifaceted Neoliberal attack on public sector unions in the 50 US states during the Tea Party era. We undertake a qualitative case study of four states as well as a quantitative historical study of all 50 states and find substantial regional variation between Southern and non-Southern states. In the non-South where public sector unionism is strong, we find that states that experience a transition from either Republican-to-Democratic or Democratic-to-Republican party control of state government experience declines in public sector union membership, but no such effect is found among Southern states where public sector unionism is already weak. Thus, despite variable events, circumstances and policy agendas in different states, Tea Party forces constrain state budgetary options and undermine public sector union membership.


The offshore branch of the East African Rift System (EARS) has developed during Late 19 Cenozoic times along the eastern Africa continental margin. While Oligo-Miocene extensional 20 tectonic deformation has been evidenced along the northern segment of the Davie Ridge, the 21 spatial extent of deformation further south remains poorly documented. Based on recent and 22 various oceanographic datasets (bathymetric surveys, dredgings and seismic profiles), our study 23 highlights active normal faulting, modern east-west extensional tectonic deformation and Late 24 Cenozoic alkaline volcanism at the Sakalaves Seamounts (18°S, Davie Ridge) that seem tightly 25 linked to the offshore EARS development. In parallel, rift-related tectonic subsidence appears 26 responsible for the drowning of the Sakalaves Miocene shallow-water carbonate platform. Our 27 findings bring new insights regarding the development of the EARS offshore branch and tend 28 to support recent kinematic models proposing the existence of an incipient plate boundary 29 across the Mozambique Channel.


Low Speed Experiments Of Parametric Study On Few Upswept Afterbody Models Were Carriedout In The 0 .9m Diameter. Low Speed Tunnel For Independent Determination Of Profile And Vortex Drag Using 3-D Wake Survey Method, With A Primary Objective Of Providing Preliminary Information About
Afterbody Drag Relevant To Light Transport Aircraft . This Study Has Broughtout Particularly The Influences Of Various Afterbody Geometric Parameters On The Vortex Drag.


The only-called 'Digital Apps - Apps' have become the reality the' digital tools ' devices associated with smartphones and tablets.  The increase in this offer have been different areas and areas. In this article, it i intended to make known to set of Apps, through the brief description of them, in an area associated to the training of the cognitive domain. It adds results of investigations that have demonstrated with caregivers and older citizens  in order to prevent associated with dementias. The results have shown regular that uses of Apps, through the activities / you love they provide, you have become advantageous by stimulating training of several capacities that can combat the increase of dementias, mainly, the elderly.


The problem of an electron moving in a random potential in four dimensions is examined. It is argued that the apparent simplicity of the white-noise potential is due to an improper limiting process. It is demonstrated that localised states occur when finite ranged potential fluctuations are considered, and that they do not disappear as the range of the fluctuations gets shorter. The Ioffe-Regel criterion for localisation is examined, and the coherent potential approximation is used to estimate the deviation of the density of states from a linear dependence on energy.


Objective To investigate the expression and alteration of leptin in placenta and serum in preeclampsia and its relationship with the disease. Methods Immunohistochemistry(SP) was used to determine the distribution and intensity of leptin staining in the placenta of 45 cases of preeclampsia(28 severe and 17 mild) and 30 cases of normal gravidas(contr01 group).Antepartum leptin level was examined using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay method. Results (1)Leptin expression was located in the endochylema of the syncytiotrophoblast in both groups.Positive linear correlation existed between the leptin level and the severity of preeelampsia,expressed as darker staining with aggravating disease condition.(2)The serum leptin levels in all preeclampsia,mild and severe preeclampsia and normal group were(10.41±4.78)ng/ml,(6.33±1.87)ng/ml,(12.88±4.27)ng/ml and(5.73±2.19)ng/ml,respectively.Significant differences were found between preeclampsia women and normal group,mild and severe group,and severe and normal group(P 0.05).Positive linear correlation existed between the leptin expression and the severity of preeclampsia.(3)Serum leptin level had a positive correlation with systolic pressure,diastolic pressure,and mean arterial pressure(r=0.602,0.566 and 0.585,P 0.05).Conclusion Increased level of leptin in placenta and serum in preeclampsia may be involved in the occurrence and the development of the disease.


Freshly prepared salted pastes (2.5%, w/w NaCl) of muscle tissue of the Antarctic fishes Pagothenia borchgrevinki (white muscle) and Dissostichus mawsoni (red and white muscle) rapidly formed cold-set gels. Set times were minutes rather than the hours required to cold-set salted pastes of fish from cold- temperate waters. Cold-setting was related to habitat temperature and the stability of fish muscle myosin, the protein responsible for gel formation.


Introduction: Depression, anxiety, and stress among medical undergraduate students are often underrecognized and undertreated. Prolonged online classes in the backdrop of COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in tremendous psychological stress among students. Objective: To assess the prevalence of stress, anxiety and depression among medical students during the COVID pandemic and the associated factors. Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted among undergraduate students in a medical college in Delhi. A self-administrated questionnaire, containing general information (on-screen time, death or hospitalization in family due to COVID) and the DASS-21 version, was circulated to students enrolled before 2020. Data collected was tabulated in Microsoft Excel and analysed using SPSS version 23. Results: Out of 550 students, 345 (62.7%) participated in the study, of which 341 gave consent. High frequencies of depression 214 (62.8%), anxiety 199 (58.3%) and stress 150 (43.7%) were reported. Significant association was found between the determinants like hectic online classes and curbs on travelling and socializing. Conclusion: The high burden of depression, anxiety and stress detected among the students is a pointer towards a negative impact of online classes that can negatively impact academic performance, professionalism and empathy towards patients.


In order to explain changes and variations in patterns of gender relations over time and space, the article analyses women's and men's participation rates in equestrian sports focusing on equestrianism in the Olympic Games 1952–2000 with an emphasis on Britain and Sweden. More men than women compete in Olympic equestrianism, although the number of female riders has increased over time and gender patterns vary within equestrianism. A majority of competitive dressage riders are women. Also, British women were involved in equestrian sports earlier than Swedish women. A comparison between Britain and Sweden provides insight into how national politics and cultural context shape gender relations. The destabilization of the societal gender order brought about by the First World War and the Second World War may have disrupted the gender order in equestrianism, creating opportunities for some female riders. Furthermore, governmental support or lack thereof is likely to have influenced female and male participation patterns.


The magnetization and deflection profiles of magnetic clusters in a Stern-Gerlach magnet are calculated for conditions under which the magnetic moment is fixed in the intrinsic frame of the cluster, and the clusters enter the magnetic field adiabatically. The predicted magnetization is monotonic as a function of the ratio of magnetic energy μ0B to the rotational thermal energykBT. In low field the average magnetization is 2/3 of the Langevin function. The high-field moment approaches saturation asymptotically asB−1/2 instead of theB−1 dependence in the Langevin function


This research work oriented to use Geographical Information System (GIS) in mapping and selection of dam/reservoir site in Albaha Area (KSA) based on analyzing Digital Elevation Model (DEM). The Digital Elevation Model of the study area was used as a base of this study. After identifying the most suitable site for locating dam/reservoir, three cases were studied; Higher elevation, Intermediate and Lower elevation. Results showed that the topography of the study area can be utilized to locate a proposed dam at Almikhwah province. This dam can reserve water between about 426 to 9.8 million cubic meters with a dam height of 78 to 5 m respectively. On the other hand, the proposed dam length may vary from 625 to 247m. Moreover, GIS tools with DEM reflect powerful, easy, quick, and cheap tools for preliminary dam or reservoir site selection.


The numerical simulation results of shock initiation performance of composition B explosive with cover board subjected to tungsten fragments with different number and distribution were presented. In order to study the fragment parameter effect on shock initiation of composition B explosive. Numerical simulation of different number and distribution tungsten fragments which impact on cover board and composition B explosive were conducted with AUTODYN software. The critical detonation velocity of composition B explosive was obtained by the "up-down"method. It is indicated the superposition of shock wave caused by that multi-fragments impact on composition B explosive at the same time or not has an obvious effect on the critical detonation velocity and detonation time. When multi-fragments impact on composition B explosive at the same time,the critical detonation velocity of shock initiation decrease with the fragment number increase. The initiation detonation velocity of composition B explosive impacted by six fragments at the same time is about of 65% comparer to the situation that the explosive is impacted by single fragment. While the explosive is impacted by multi-fragments at the same time,the initiation detonation velocity increases gradually with the distance of horizontal and uptightness orientation increase,and tends to a critical value of one fragment.


In the title compound, [CaCs2(C2O4)2(H2O)4]n, the Ca2+ ion, lying on a twofold rotation axis, is coordinated by four O atoms from two oxalate ligands and two bridging water molecules in an octahedral geometry. The Cs+ ion is coordinated by seven O atoms from six oxalate ligands, one bridging water and one terminal water molecule. The oxalate ligand displays a scarce high denticity. The structure contains parallel chain units runnig along [10-1], formed by two edge-sharing Cs polyhedra connected by CsO9 polyhedra connected by a face-sharing CaO6 octahedron. These chains are further linked by the oxalate ligands to build up a three-dimensional framework. O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds involving the water molecules and the carboxylate O atoms enhance the extended structure.


Dr. Stricker and Ms. Johnson blame for the poor statistical significance. The authors screened 3,368 patients to identify 37 subjects. Dr. Stricker criticized earlier studies8 that showed no benefit of prolonged treatment on the grounds that patients in those studies were ill an average of 3 years which is about a third of that in this study. Dr. Stricker and Ms. Johnson's comparison of B burgdorferi to Mycobacteria tuberculosis repeats a common canard: comparing this extracellular, highly antibiotic-sensitive spirochete to an intracellular, often drug resistant, mycobacterium. Even in TB, patients are not subjected to the risk of 10 weeks of intravenous access. Their assertions aside, it is acknowledged that standard treatment regimens are not 100% effective. Rather, it is clear from this and previous studies8,9 that prolonged courses of antibiotics are without significant merit and carry substantial risk. John J. Halperin, Summit, NJ


Through field trials,it showed that different application of fertilizer could increase 58%-87% of the yield of Euonymus fortunei.Applying nitrogen fertilizer could significantly increase the absorption of nitrogen,but the absorption of phosphorus and potassium could not significantly increased by increasing phosphorus and potassium fertilizer.It needs to absorb nitrogen 4.088-5.672 kg,P2O51.573-1.802 kg,K2O 2.544-4.517 kg to produce 1000kg fresh Euonymus fortunei.The absorption of nutrients for Euonymus fortunei was maintaining a balanced trend,so the supply of nutrients can be balanced according to the actual situation that will be able to maintain normal growth.


Aim: The aim of this study was to verify vertical distribution of phosphorus in the water column and relate it to the phosphorus release from sediment during a period of extreme drought. Methods : Two reservoirs in the semi-arid region of Rio Grande do Norte were analysed during a period from May 2015 to June 2016. Analyses were performed for: suspended solids (SS), chlorophyll-a (Chl-a), dissolved oxygen (DO) and temperature. Vertical profiles were set for total phosphorus (TP), total dissolved phosphorus (TDP), particulate phosphorus (PP), dissolved organic phosphorus (DOP) and soluble reactive phosphorus (SRP). Results : Gargalheiras presented anoxic conditions near the sediment for several months during the stratified period and in two of the months Cruzeta had a minimum DO value of 1mg L -1 . Both reservoirs presented noticeably high values of phosphorus distributed in the water column. Gargalheiras presented the highest TP and PP, while Cruzeta presented the highest SRP. Chl-a and SS Showed proportional growth as phosphorus, Chl-a was higher in Gargalheiras, while SS (mainly inorganic), were higher in Cruzeta. Some of the months which had anoxic conditions at the bottom also presented the highest values of TP and SRP, which may indicate release. In addition, the excessively high values during the shallowest months may have been due to the influence of wind favouring release through resuspension of sediment. Conclusions : The distribution of phosphorus forms and their quantities in the water column are important for restoration plans of eutrophic lakes, however, it is not enough. It is necessary to know the flux of P release and existing P forms to understand variables that influence release mechanisms.


The work presented here is concerned with the robust control problem for the inverted pendulum with mismatched disturbances via a non-linear disturbance observer (NDO)-based sliding mode control (SMC) method. The NDO-based SMC method provides a solution to the main limitation of conventional first-order sliding mode controllers that is the presence of high frequency oscillations in the control input known as chattering while retaining the nominal performance. To show the effectiveness of NDO-based SMC, both the conventional SMC and the integral SMC (I-SMC) methods are employed in the simulation studies for the purpose of comparison studies and results demonstrate the merits of NDO-based SMC.


Introduction and Overview: Looking back over one Mars year, we report on the accomplishments of the HiRISE EPO program during the primary science phase of MRO. Our HiRISE E/PO effort has focused primarily on delivering high impact science opportunities for the general public and students through our various web sites. Uniquely, we have invited students from around the world to become virtual HiRISE team members by submitting target suggestions and analyzing acquired images. The large image sizes and incredible spatial resolution of the HiRISE camera can tax the capabilities of the most capable computers, so we have also focused on enabling typical users to access and enjoy our images. A few key highlights are discussed below. Quest Challenges: A highlight of our outreach effort has been our ongoing student image suggestion program, conducted in association with NASA Quest as HiRISE Image Challengeslenges, students, either individually or as part of a collaborative classroom or group, learn about Mars through our webcasts, web chats and our educational material. They then use HiWeb, HiRISE's image suggestion facility, to submit image suggestions and include a short rationale for why their target is scientifically interesting. The HiRISE team gives priority to obtaining a sampling of these suggestions as quickly as possible so that the acquired images can be examined by the students. During the challenge, a special password-protected web site allows participants to view their returned images before they are released to the pub-are encouraged to write captions for the returned images. Finished captions along with mention of the suggesting class, teacher's name, and the school name are then posted and highlighted on the HiRISE web site (http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu). Through these HiRISE challenges, students and teachers become virtual science team members, participating in the same process (selecting and justifying targets, analyzing and writing captions for acquired images), and using the same software tools as the HiRISE team. Such an experience is unique among planetary exploration EPO programs. To date, we have completed three HiRISE challenges and a fourth is currently ongoing. More than


Production of highly porous composite materials by traditional materials processing is limited by difficult processing techniques. This work investigates the use of self propagating high temperature (combustion) synthesis (SHS) to create porous tricalcium phosphate (Ca3(PO4)2), TiB-Ti, and NiTi in low and microgravity. Combustion synthesis provides the ability to use set processing parameters to engineer the required porous structure suitable for bone repair or replacement. The processing parameters include green density, particle size, gasifying agents, composition, and gravity. The advantage of the TiB-Ti system is the high level of porosity achieved together with a modulus that can be controlled by both composition (TiB-Ti) and porosity. At the same time, NiTi exhibits shape memory properties. SHS of biomaterials allows the engineering of required porosity coupled with resorbtion properties and specific mechanical properties into the composite materials to allow for a better biomaterial.


Services are always unique from a marketing perspective due to their intangible nature. Especially in the case of a service like mobile airtime service where there is no service encounter, attributes required for brand loyalty become more complex. This article tests the relationship of customer loyalty and the approach of service providers in India. It looks into the airtime service market in India and delves into customer psyche.


Abstract Using chicken feathers as bait, Acremoniumglobosisporumsp. nov. and Acremoniumcurvumsp. nov. were collected from the soil of Yuncheng East Garden Wildlife Zoo and Zhengzhou Zoo in China. They were identified by combining the morphological characteristics and the two-locus DNA sequence (LSU and ITS) analyses. In the phylogenetic tree, both new species clustered into separate subclades, respectively. They were different from their allied species in their morphology. The description, illustrations, and phylogenetic tree of the two new species were provided.


thegrowthofPleioblastuschino.Jap.J.Ecol.30:1-8. Pteioblastus ch ino, one ofthe dwarf bamboos, is an important fbrage plant for the Sika deer on Kinkazan Island, northeastern Japan. Sika deer prefers this plant and the leaves arc mostly exhausted in winter. As the result ofthe long-term grazing, P. ehino was reduced in its size and the total standing crop in the grazed plot was by fai: smaller than in the ungrazed plot. However, the following results showed that P. chino was considerably to]erant ofgrazing if the grazing was not excessiyely heavy : (1) the culm density was remarkably high in the grazed plot, (2) the proportion ofIeaf weight was greater in the grazed plot than in the ungTa zed, (3) the P. chino community has been maintained as a biocIimax for these sQme decades. Under heavy grazing conditions, however, the P. chino community was retrogressively replaced by a Zbysia iaponica community.


The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that tend to influence the behavior of interest in returning to a destination. This study develops a problem regarding how the quality of destination services and destination attractiveness can positively affect tourist loyalty in terms of interest in returning to visit. This study uses 2 types of research data, namely primary data and secondary data. In this research, the population determined is the people who visit the Kota Lama Semarang tour who have visited more than 3 times. This research uses analytical techniques that are quantitative analysis using the Structural Equation Model (SEM) technique as a statistical instrument to test various hypotheses that have been determined. The results of this study indicate that destination attractiveness affects tourist satisfaction; destination service quality affects tourist satisfaction; This study cannot prove the effect of destination attractiveness on interest in returning to visit; however, this research can prove the influence of destination service quality on interest in returning to visit; and the influence of tourist satisfaction influences the interest in returning to visit.
Keywords : Destination attraction; Quality of Service; Destination Service Quality; Tourist Satisfaction; SEM


Review(s) of: Living Aboriginal History of Victoria - Stories in the Oral Tradition, by Alick and Dereck Powell, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 203pp.


It is shown that strongly basic anion exchangers AV-17 and Varion-AD in definite conditions are able to retain Cr(III)-containing ions from Cr(III) sulfate solution. It is found that the sorption of Cr(III)-containing ions on the polymers is essentially dependent on the pH, temperature, and Cr(III) sulfate concentration. The maximum temperature dependence of sorption was found to be about 60°C. The sorption isotherms are well described by Langmuir's equations. The sorption kinetics is determined by the diffusion of Cr(III)-containing ions into polymer's phase. It is assumed that the Cr(III)-containing ions are retained through formation, in polymer's phase, of the jarosite-type mineral compounds: R4N[Cr3(OH)6(SO4)2], H3O[Cr3(OH)6(SO4)2], and K[Cr3(OH)6(SO4)2]. For comparison of sorptional capacities, the sorption of Cr(III)-containing ions was determined on different cation and anion exchangers. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 102: 3978–3985, 2006


The Boraginales (Boraginaceae a.l.) comprise more than 2450 species worldwide. However, little knowledge exists of the characteristics of the complete plastid genome. In this study, three new sequences representing the first pt genome of Heliotropiaceae and Cordiaceae were assembled and compared with other Boraginales species. The pt genome sizes of Cordia dichotoma, Heliotropium arborescens, and Tournefortia montana were 151,990 bp, 156,243 bp, and 155,891 bp, respectively. Multiple optimal codons were identified, which may provide meaningful information for enhancing the gene expression of Boraginales species. Furthermore, codon usage bias analyses revealed that natural selection and other factors may dominate codon usage patterns in the Boraginales species. The boundaries of the IR/LSC and IR/SSC regions were significantly different, and we also found a signal of obvious IR region expansion in the pt genome of Nonea vesicaria and Arnebia euchroma. Genes with high nucleic acid diversity (pi) values were also calculated, which may be used as potential DNA barcodes to investigate the phylogenetic relationships in Boraginales. psaI, rpl33, rpl36, and rps19 were found to be under positive selection, and these genes play an important role in our understanding of the adaptive evolution of the Boraginales species. Phylogenetic analyses implied that Boraginales can be divided into two groups. The existence of two subfamilies (Lithospermeae and Boragineae) in Boraginaceae is also strongly supported. Our study provides valuable information on pt genome evolution and phylogenetic relationships in the Boraginales species.


In recent decades, many works have been devoted to the study of materials and painting techniques used to produce illuminated manuscripts. If the analyses were once largely invasive, the approach has become increasingly more in situ and non-invasive over the years. This work presents the results of the analysis of the Portuguese Charter of Évora, an illuminated manuscript that dates back to 1501, combining an elemental mapping technique (MA-XRF) with the non-invasive imaging techniques of infrared reflectography and digital microscopy. Remarkably, this approach allowed us to obtain unexpected results regarding the chronology of production of the illumination of the view of the City of Évora and of the Charter of Évora itself, posing new questions for art history on the political, social and artistic context of the early 16th century City of Évora.


Videogames are a fundamental tool in shaping new generations' collective imagination. In particular, videogames usually present limited depictions of masculinity and femininity and, for this reason, offer canonical norms concerning gender identity. The present paper explores narrative videogames as a key medium to indirectly deconstruct gender canons. Specifically, the paper focuses on the analysis of non-conventional female identities in three videogames based on the adventures of three different protagonists that counteracts gender standards.


This article presents the development of printed antennas arrays with formed patterns, operating in a 15% over 20% bandwidth (in C and X bands), with mono or dual linear polarization and intended for radar applications. These arrays are created by multilayer radiators fed across the slots, by a corporate feed distribution of microstrip lines and power dividers like Wilkinson (1960) and (or) hybrid rings. They are optimized in order to observe a good polarization purity (/spl sim/-25 dB), and a weak sidelobe (/spl sim/-25 dB) and cross-polarization level (/spl sim/-25 dB).


BLEOMYCIN is an antibiotic that was isolated in Japan in 1965 from the fungus Streptomyes verticillus and found to depress the growth of tumours (Umezawa et al., 1966; Ishizuka et al., 1967). A trial of bleomycin in 237 patients with a wide variety of malignant tumours by the Clinical Screening Cooperative Group of the European Organisation for Research on the Treatment of Cancer (1970) indicated that the drug was particularly active against squamous carcinoma. Few of this group of tumours have been found sensitive to the chemotherapeutic agents previously available. Another unusual feature of this substance has been the absence, both in experimental animals and in clinical trials, of reported toxic effects on the haemopoietic system. In view of these findings and the suggestion in the literature that bleomycin was particularly effective against squamous carcinoma of the head and neck, the drug was used in this hospital in a series of sixteen patients with advanced otolaryngeal squamous carcinoma. The results of this treatment and a description of the complications that arose are published separately (Grey and Michaels, 1972). The present report is concerned with a description of the morphological changes, after bleomycin treatment, in serial biopsies of human tumours, in a transplantable mouse tumour and in a continuous line of human squamous cells in culture in vitro.


Miscarriage is the commonest complication of pregnancy. Historically, surgical evacuation was the treatment of choice to prevent death from haemorrhage and sepsis. Access to medical care, progress in ultrasonography and legalisation of abortion have allowed the use of conservative treatment such as medical and expectant management. Transvaginal ultrasound is essential in making a diagnosis of early fetal demise. Surgical evacuation after resuscitation remains the gold standard for treatment of women who are haemodynamically unstable or who have concurrent sepsis. Appropriate counselling, availability of transport and access to the health care facility are prerequisites to conservative treatment of miscarriage. Clinicians must know the exclusion criteria before embarking on medical treatment with misoprostol. All rhesus-negative women receiving surgical and medical management of first-trimester miscarriage must receive anti-D immunoprophylaxis.


We optimized a bovine endometrial epithelial cell (BEEC) line as a valuable research model for the study of early embryo-maternal interactions in vitro . Therefore, we aimed to characterize the BEEC monolayers along the primary culture and the first three passages with respect to the expression of cell-origin markers, by immunofluorescence, and abundance of functional key transcripts, by Real Time PCR. BEECs isolated from uteri (at early luteal phase) ex vivo were cultured and subpassed three times. Based on the markers studied, we conclude that BEEC monolayers undergo an epithelial-mesenchymal transition in vitro but preserve functional characteristics after few passages.


Two-dimensional materials have been received significant interest after the discovery of graphene due to their fascinating electronic and optical properties for the application of novel devices. However, graphene lack of certain bandgap which is essential requirement to achieve high performance field-effect transistors. Analogous to graphene materials, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) as one of transition-metal dichalcogenides family presents considerable bandgap and exhibits promising physical, chemical, optical and mechanical properties. Here we studied nonvolatile memory based on MoS2 which is grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method. MoS2 growth was taken on 1.5x1.5 cm SiO2/Si-substrate. The samples were analyzed by Raman spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Current-voltage (I-V) characteristic was carried out HP4156A. The CVD-MoS2 was analyzed as few layers and 2H-MoS2 structure. From I-V measurement for two metal contacts on CVD-MoS2 sample, we found typical resistive switching memory effect. The device structures and the origin of nonvolatile memory effect will be discussed.


Objective. To analyze the parameters characterizing various aspects of quality of life, adherence to treatment and satisfaction with it in patients receiving a regimen of ART consisting of domestic medications. Patients and methods. A questionnaire survey of 49 patients with HIV infection was conducted. All respondents received ART for 48 weeks, which included domestic medications: 2 nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (phosphazide + lamivudine in one tablet) and a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (elsulfavirine). Conclusion. The data obtained at week 48 of ART with domestic medications phosphazide/lamivudine (Phosphaladine) and elsulfavirine showed that most patients were satisfied with the treatment they received, its convenience and severity of side effects. The adherence rate to this regimen was high. Key words: antiretroviral therapy, HIV infection, quality of life


Biological species resources are kind of strategic resources essential to sustainable development of the national economy.The research and development of a bio-species resources information system is of great significance to rational protection and sustainable utilization of the rich bio-species resources,as well as to improvement of the management of national bio-species resources information.In response to the requirements of the national protection and management of the bio-species resources and with the aid of the technologies of GIS,information network and database,a GIS-based national bio-species resources information system(NSRIS) was designed and developed,and a national bio-species resources spatial distribution database was built up using county as basic unit.The overall framework of NSRIS consists of four subsystems,that is,platform management,data acquisition and management,data query and statistical analysis,and comprehensive analysis.With this system,users can effectively collect,manage and retrieve wild vascular plants and vertebrates data and information,and make use of its statistical analysis and prediction functions investigation and evaluation of the large-scale national of regional bio-species resources distribution patterns,and their status,future trends and potential threats,and hence provide decision-makers with essential early-warning information for protection and management of the national bio-species resources.To update and upgrade NSRIS,it is essential to strengthen collection and collation of important bio-species resource data from field surveys,and long-term dynamic monitoring,and ocean biodiversity data and information,to build up a mechanism for trans-departmental sharing of bio-species resource information and to develop and integrate bio-species resources predictive and early warning models,so as to form a decision-making support system.


High Performance Computing (HPC) systems generate a large amount of unstructured/alphanumeric log messages that capture the health state of their components. Due to their design complexity, HPC systems often undergo failures that halt applications (e.g., weather prediction, aerodynamics simulation) execution. However, existing failure prediction methods, which typically seek to extract some information theoretic features, fail to scale both in terms of accuracy and prediction speed, limiting their adoption in real-time production systems. In this paper, differently from existing work and inspired by current transformer-based neural networks which have revolutionized the sequential learning in the natural language processing (NLP) tasks, we propose a novel scalable log-based, self-supervised model (i.e., no need for manual labels), called Time Machine 11A Time Machine allows us to travel into the future to observe the health state of HPC system and report back. Here, we travel into the log extension to report an upcoming failure., that predicts (i) forthcoming log events (ii) the upcoming failure and its location and (iii) the expected lead time to failure. Time Machine is designed by combining two stacks of transformer-decoders, each employing the self-attention mechanism. The first stack addresses the failure location by predicting the sequence of log events and then identifying if a failure event is part of that sequence. The lead time to predicted failure is addressed by the second stack. We evaluate Time Machine on four real-world HPC log datasets and compare it against three state-of-the-art failure prediction approaches. Results show that Time Machine significantly outperforms the related works on Bleu, Rouge, MCC, and F1-score in predicting forthcoming events, failure location, failure lead-time, with higher prediction speed.


FireTraSe stands for Fire, Tracking and Sensors. In order to track the movements and follow the gestures of a dancer, we developed tracking algorithms for a stereoscopic video camera and we built a small and light wireless sensors system to be worn by the dancer. The combination of those two complementary methods can be used in many kinds of interactive contexts: to track performers or to track the audience. Within this numediart project, we have used those results for the artistic project "Fire experiences and projections" proposed by the pyrotechnician Pierre D'Heanens [40]. He developed at ShowFlamme a ramp of 20 fire projectors whose heights can be individually controlled in real time by software. We programmed a flexible pattern generator that allows us to create and combine various complex flame patterns controlled by the movements of a dancer. Additionally, as it is not always easy to work with real fire, we also programmed a flame simulator using a particles generator in OpenGL. It comes as a Jitter objet for the Max environment. It becomes then possible to rehearse with a dancer, by projecting the flame simulation on a wall or on a screen. At the end of the project we also decided to combine those results with those of the Dancing Viola project (Numediart #04.2) [48] and with the pitch detection algorithms developed for the Multimodal Guitar project (Numediart #07.1) [18] [36]. The level and pitch of the sound can then also control the flame patterns. And the viola player Dominica Eyckmans [47] could then control various sound transformations, prerecorded sound sequences and spatialisation concurrently with the flames, as shown in Figure 3.


New two-terminal nonvolatile memory cells are proposed, in which an n-channel MNOS transistor is functionally integrated with a p-channel MNOS or MOS transistor. The operational principle of both types of the cells is substantially based on the Λ (lambda)-shaped I-V Characteristic of complementary FET's. The most valuable feature of the new cells is the unipolar pulse operation of the simple diode-matrix array which can be used in a RAM mode by the use of selective writing and erasing as well as in an electrically alterable PROM mode.


Objectives : Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disease caused by a decrease in the dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra. The abnormal expression of solute carrier family 6 member 4 (Slc6a4) has been reported in patients with Parkinson's disease. Methods : In this study, we used MPTP to examine the changes in the expression of Slc6a4 in the brain of mice with Parkinson's disease and investigate its effect on dopaminergic neuronal cell death. Results : In the examination of the Slc6a4 expression in the substantia nigra of MPTP-treated mice for 4 weeks. The gene expression was increased compared to the normal group. To investigate the relationship between Slc6a4 and dopaminergic neurons, we performed a study using siRNA of Slc6a4 in the dopaminergic neuronal cell line SH-SY5Y. Using the siRNA of Slc6a4 to evaluate gene expression, it revealed that the tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) expression increases when Slc6a4 decreases. Moreover, this confirms its effects on the dopaminergic neurons. Additionally, through the evaluation of factors related to apoptosis, in particular, it was established that the value of bax/bcl2 decreased and was affected. These results suggest that a decreased Slc6a4 expression induces an increase in TH expression, providing a mechanism of action for dopaminergic neurons regulated by Slc6a4 expression. Conclusions : Slc6a4 is deemed to be involved in the regulation of dopaminergic neurons, suggesting that an increased Slc6a4 expression induced by MPTP may influence a reduction of dopaminergic neurons.


The invention discloses a high-frequency mixed-compression circuit board capable of quick heat dissipation. The high-frequency mixed-compression circuit board comprises core plate layers and prepreg layers, which are successively and alternately arranged in a multilayer manner, wherein a high-frequency daughter board is locally pressured in the first-layer core plate layer at the top of the high-frequency mixed-compression circuit board; a layer of copper foil is also arranged under the prepreg layer at the bottom; a copper block is inlaid in the high-frequency mixed-compression circuit board capable of quick heat dissipation, one end of the copper block is inlaid in the second-layer core plate layer under the high-frequency daughter board, and the other end of the copper block is inlaid in to be in contact with the copper foil at the bottom. According to the high-frequency mixed-compression circuit board capable of quick heat dissipation disclosed by the invention, the high-frequency daughter board is adopted to be locally pressured in the core plate layer in a mixed-compression manner, so that the usage amount of expensive high-frequency board materials is reduced, besides the integrated requirements in the assembly process of products can also be satisfied, and the PCB processing cost and the assembly cost are greatly reduced; a manner that copper is inlaid is adopted, and a layer of the copper foil is pressed at the bottom of the mixed-compression circuit board, so that the heat of the high-frequency daughter board is longitudinally conducted to a copper foil layer through the copper block, the heat dissipation speed of the mixed-compression circuit board is greatly increased, and besides the warping problem of the circuit board is solved.


Creating and guarding boundaries is one of the pervasive features of modern states. Many boundaries have been contested in the Southeast Asian region between states, and boundaries are always locations of great insecurity for states, and for the people who live on them. The case to be explored in this paper is about boundaries that are not international, but local boundaries between districts within the nation state of Indonesia, in the eastern region of western Flores. The years of political change in Indonesia have created considerable attention to the creation of new boundaries, with the "pemekaran", or "flowering" of new districts. This has caused the revival of concern over the actual boundaries of western Flores districts, resulting in various extreme instances of boundary contestation and protection. One contestation revived a much older dispute of the eastern boundary of the western Flores district of Manggarai, which dates from the time of the beginning of the Indonesian modern state. In this paper it will be queried what makes internal, domestic boundaries important, including how they are complicated by issues of ethnicity, foreign investment in natural resources, and religion, all of which can create considerable insecurity for the local communities who live near and on these contested borders.


There exist some problems, such as theory fundation, ecolugical compensation etc. which constrain the implementation of natural forest protection project. The problems should be solved. By means of envinonmental economic policy and case analyse, some policies were presented and discussed. This paper provides the policy framework of protecting natural forest to face the market economy.


OF DISSERTATION Emily Lauren Brown Lykins The Graduate School University of Kentucky 2009 EFFECTS OF MINDFULNESS AND MEDITATION EXPERIENCE ON COGNITIVE AND EMOTIONAL FUNCTIONING AND EGO DEPLETION __________________________________________ ABSTRACT OF DISSERTATION ___________________________________________OF DISSERTATION ___________________________________________ A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky By Emily Lauren Brown Lykins


The rising demand for creating lifelike avatars in the digital realm has led to an increased need for generating high-quality human videos guided by textual descriptions and poses. We propose Dancing Avatar, designed to fabricate human motion videos driven by poses and textual cues. Our approach employs a pretrained T2I diffusion model to generate each video frame in an autoregressive fashion. The crux of innovation lies in our adept utilization of the T2I diffusion model for producing video frames successively while preserving contextual relevance. We surmount the hurdles posed by maintaining human character and clothing consistency across varying poses, along with upholding the background's continuity amidst diverse human movements. To ensure consistent human appearances across the entire video, we devise an intra-frame alignment module. This module assimilates text-guided synthesized human character knowledge into the pretrained T2I diffusion model, synergizing insights from ChatGPT. For preserving background continuity, we put forth a background alignment pipeline, amalgamating insights from segment anything and image inpainting techniques. Furthermore, we propose an inter-frame alignment module that draws inspiration from an auto-regressive pipeline to augment temporal consistency between adjacent frames, where the preceding frame guides the synthesis process of the current frame. Comparisons with state-of-the-art methods demonstrate that Dancing Avatar exhibits the capacity to generate human videos with markedly superior quality, both in terms of human and background fidelity, as well as temporal coherence compared to existing state-of-the-art approaches.


In this article, we study the deep learning-based reading detection problem in an online exam proctoring. Pandemia-related restrictions and lockdowns led many educational institutions to go to online learning environments. It brought the exam integrity challenge to an online test-taking process. While various commercial exam proctoring solutions were developed, the online proctoring challenge is far from being fully addressed. This article is devoted to making a contribution to the exam proctoring system by proposing an automated test-taker reading detection method. To this end, we obtain our own dataset of short video clips that resemble a real online examination environment and different video augmentation methods utilized to increase the training dataset. Two different deep learning techniques are adapted for training. The experiments show quite satisfactory results with model accuracy varying from 98.46% to 100%. The findings of the article can help educational institutions to improve their online exam proctoring solutions, especially in language speaking tests.


There are two well known reduction formulae for structural constants of the cohomology ring of Grassmannians, i.e., LittlewoodRichardson coefficients. Two reduction formulae are a conjugate pair in the sense that indexing partitions of one formula are conjugate to those of the other formula. A nice bijective proof of the first reduction formula is given in the authors' previous paper while a (combinatorial) proof for the second reduction formula in the paper depends on the identity between Littlewood-Richardson coefficients of conjugate shape. In this article, a direct bijective proof for the second reduction formula for Littlewood-Richardson coefficients is given. Our proof is independent of any previously known results (or bijections) on tableaux theory and supplements the arguments on bijective proofs of reduction formulae in the authors' previous paper.


A survey is a research tool that gathers information from a relatively large sample of people to help provide inferences about a wider population. To ensure data gathered from this type of research are reliable and of quality, researchers are required to ensure that systematic and thoughtful planning is given to the design, delivery and reporting of the survey. While there is no universal standard for best practice, there are certain steps that should be followed when sampling, designing and reporting the results. This chapter introduces the reader to survey research and offers guidance on the design of a survey, the sampling and recruitment process and the ethical considerations. The chapter also briefly describes how researchers can best report their results in health and physical activity research.


Would you rather have youth, or power and money? In this work of philosophical short story fiction, a 20-something software engineer, after an extensive physical exam, is brought into meet the elderly head of the mega-corporation he works for. The wheelchair bound owner makes him an offer; they will switch bodies. The wealthy tycoon gets the young man's body, and nothing else, while the young man gets the old man's body and all the wealth and power that comes with it in the remaining years. The young software engineer has a sister in need of money medical expenses, and he thinks of all the good he could do. He accepts the offer and they switch bodies. The young man almost immediately regrets his decision.


Since research on the middle years was released (Hill & Russell, 1999) and state curriculum documents began to focus on essential and authentic learning based around productive pedagogies rather than focusing on Key Learning Areas, curriculum structures and teaching approaches have begun to focus on the development of thinking skills. Thinking about artworks, and discussion of controversies associated with art, can be used by teachers to help their students extend their thinking skills while at the same time fostering the examination of the complex relationships that exist between people, cultures and artefacts. As part of my research and work as a teacher educator with art and generalist teachers I have formulated strategies and collected resources that, alongside art making, can be used to engage students and develop their analytical, conceptual and perceptual skills and understandings. Some are described below.


We present several classes of second-order (q, h)-difference operators which can be factorized using first-order operators acting in certain Hilbert spaces. AMS Subject Classifications: 39A13.


In 2014, heads of Caribbean governments of the CARICOM states (Caribbean Community and Common Market), a regional association mainly comprised of the Anglophone countries which were British colonies, adopted a ten-point action plan entitled 'Reparatory Justice Framework' (CARICOM 2014a). This program was designed and presented by the CARICOM Reparations Commis‐ sion (CRC), a regional organization of community activists, academics, and lawyers from different Caribbean countries founded in 2013.1 The CRC claims reparations for the long-term damage caused by the enslavement of dozens of millions of Africans during the transatlantic trade. The CRC seeks in particular to engage European governments, as descendants of former colonial powers which actively participated in the slave trade (such as Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark), in a dialogue on reparatory justice. This article deals with the agenda of the CARICOM Reparations Commis‐ sion (CRC), focusing on the arguments raised by Caribbean leaders and their transnational mobilizations on behalf of slavery reparations. Emphasizing the pivotal role of Jamaicans in both the historical and the present struggle in the Caribbean, I first reconstruct the national as well as international domain within which the Jamaican National Commission on Reparations (NCR) actively advocates for reparations, and address first of all British reactions and policies. I then elaborate on the transnational networks of activism established between the CRC and the US-based National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC), arguing that the Caribbean claims might be conceived as a model for global reparation approaches. The observations here generally rely on the self-representation of the respective reparation groups based on analyses of their websites, declarations, and reports. I also include empirical data from preliminary research in Jamaica in 2014, where I conducted inter‐ views with different members of the NCR; conversations with its chair, Verene


Classification is a major research field in pattern recognition and many methods have been proposed to enhance the generalization ability of classification. Ensemble learning is one of the methods which enhance the classification ability by creating several classifiers and making decisions by combining their classification results. On the other hand, when we consider stock trading problems, trends of the markets are very important to decide to buy and sell stocks. In this case, the combinations of trading rules that can adapt to various kinds of trends are effective to judge the good timing of buying and selling. Therefore, in this paper, to enhance the performance of the stock trading system, ensemble learning mechanism of rule-based evolutionary algorithm using multi layer perceptron (MLP) is proposed, where several rule pools for stock trading are created by rule-based evolutionary algorithm, and effective rule pools are adaptively selected by MLP and the selected rule pools cooperatively make decisions of stock trading. In the simulations, it is clarified that the proposed method shows higher profits or reduces losses than the method without ensemble learning and buy &hold.


This paper introduces three periods of CICMs m issionizing in Gansu:the period of Hamber Bishop,Hobert otto Bishop,and Golfried Bishop.It also arranges their missionary work of forty years in the late Qing dynasty and the early days of Republic of China.


In this paper,testers tested stray current in city pipes in stray current interference area with the stray current mapper.They tested it in four areas of a pipeline and analyzed the size and direction of the stray current with test results to determine the impact of AC stray current on the direct potentical of gas pipeline and to find the current inflow and outflow locations.They determined the location of the pipeline as most vulnerable to corrosing.The use of conclusions of the analysis of test results to determine the imposition of drainage measures program,and test the effect of drainage.The test results show that the drainage measures was imposed properly,the drainage was well done,and the cathodic protection system was maintained in a normal state.


The Carpentier‐Edwards supra‐annular porcine bioprosthesis has been utilized at the University of British Columbia since its introduction in 1982. The prosthesis was designed to improve hemodynamics with the supra‐annular configuration and to reduce tissue failure with low‐pressure glutaraldehyde preservation of the porcine aortic tissue. The prosthesis was inserted in 1,956 patients with 2,129 prostheses between 1982 and 1989. The mean age of the patient population was 62.7 years (range 13 to 87 years). The mean follow‐up was 3.7 years per patient. The freedom from thromboembolism and antithromboembolic therapy‐related hemorrhage at 8 years was 92% for aortic valve replacement (AVR), 83% for mitral valve replacement (MVR), and 92% for multiple valve replacement (MR) (p < 0.05, AVR > MR > MVR). The freedom from structural valve deterioration was 86% for AVR, 73% for MVR, and 96% for MR at 8 years (p < 0.05, AVR > MR > MVR). The freedom from nonstructural valve dysfunction and prosthetic valve endocarditis was not different between positions (p = NS). The freedom from valve‐related mortality at 8 years was 98% for AVR, 94% for MVR, and 98% for MR (p < 0.05, AVR > MR > MVR). The freedom from residual morbidity was not different at 8 years (p = NS). The freedom from treatment failure (valve‐related mortality and residual morbidity) was 96% for AVR, 89% for MVR, and 94% for MR (p < 0.05, AVR > MVR > MR). The freedom from all valve‐related complications at 8 years was 74% for AVR, 54% for MVR, and 78% for MR (p < 0.05, AVR > MVR > MR). The Carpentier‐Edwards supra‐annular porcine bioprosthesis provides clinical performance characteristics similar to first generation porcine bioprostheses.


The purpose of the present investigation is to perform a comparative study of microfiltration using different restoration materials and different surgical protocols, in dental pieces with cervical lesions.


Raman spectra recorded on different crystallographic faces of the YBa2Cu3O6+δ crystals in both the tetragonal and orthorhombic phases are presented which show that the spectra differ for the (001) face in the two phases.


The dynamical treatment of the nonrelativistic three-body problem with Coulomb and short-range interactions is reexamined. The screening technique is abandoned in favor of the general two-potential formalism and a set of well-behaved three-body equations is derived. An approximate Alt-Grassberger-Sandhas-type form of the new equations is also proposed that treats the long-range polarizability forces to first order and preserves post-prior symmetry.


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Most networks consist of several components such that only nodes in each component are connected by a path. Then the degree correlation of each connected component is different from that of the whole network. Recent works have formalized the joint probability of degrees in the giant component (GC) by the generating function method, investigating the average degree of nearest neighbor nodes of degree k nodes [Tishby et al. PRE 2018] and the assortativity r defined by Pearson's coefficient for nearest degrees [Bialas and Oles PRE 2008]. As shown in previous works , the GCs extracted from the configuration model and from Erdos-Renyi random graphs can have the negative degree-degree correlation (disassortativity) even though the whole network does not possess any degree correlation. In this study, we focus on GCs formed by the site percolation processes in networks. Analyzing the GC formed by site percolation on uncorrelated networks with arbitrary degree distribution p(k), we discuss the generality of the disassortativity of GCs [Mizutaka and Hasegawa PRE 2018]. Deriving the general expression for the assortativity r of the GC, we prove that r<0 above the percolation threshold if the third moment of p(k) is finite. The result is persistent at percolation threshold if the fourth moment of p(k) is finite. In addition, it has been shown that the average degree of nearest neighbor nodes of degree k nodes at the percolation threshold is inversely proportional to k on the GC for arbitrary p(k) with a finite third moment. These results mean that the GC formed by the site percolation process on uncorrelated random networks possesses disassortativity above and at the percolation threshold. This supports the previous report [Yook et al. PRE 2005] about the relation between fractality and disassortativity of real-world networks in that the GC is fractal at the percolation threshold.


446 Background: Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) survivors have an increased risk of developing second primary cancers. We sought to determine the role of RCC tumor histology for the risk of developing second primary solid tumors. Methods: The Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database was used to detect RCC cases diagnosed up to 12/31/2011. The Standardized Incidence Ratio (SIR) was calculated as the ratio of observed to expected cases of second primary malignancy based on incidence data in the general United States population. The two most common RCC histological subtypes were included; clear cell and papillary. The latency exclusion period from the date of diagnosis was 60 months. We investigated for the effect of latency period after initial diagnosis (5-10 years and >10 years) that may increase the risk for a second primary cancer. Results: A total of 2,669 patients with an initial diagnosis of RCC (clear cell: 2,368, papillary: 301) that developed second primary cancers were included in our...


The function and apparatus of the dummy bar of the 1350 mm slab caster of Panzhihua Group is introduced. The count tracking of the dummy bar head and tail when sending the dummy bar and beginning the cast is analyzed. The accurate positioning of the dummy bar and slabs at Continuous Casting Machine ensures the correct movements of the transmission electrical motor, hydraulic cylinder and airwater cooling apparatus etc. according to process requirements and the automatic operation of the caster. The condition parameters of the Continuous Casting Machine can be detected by use of rollers gap measurement in place of the dummy bar head. The system has been running successfully since its launch, and contributed to increased production and improved slab quality.


In this paper, we have analyzed about the dipolar approach in magnetostatically coupled bistable magnetic micro and nanowires and shown the experimental hysteresis loop for two parallel interacting Fe base microwires 130 /spl mu/m in diameter and 11.7 cm in length, placed in contact.


During the COVID-19 pandemic, the conventional education revolution to technology-based education became the world's spotlight.  Online learning activities are one of the most effective solutions in Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic. The government has begun to transitiofrom face-to-face learning (convectional learning) to distance learning (online learning) through. Blended learning activities are one of the best options that can be implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic situation. Blended Learning has the ability to improve student learning outcomes in terms of conceptual knowledge and procedural competence. The integrating technology in the learning system with humanistic interactions has a great influence on motivation and achievement of expected learning competencies and skills. Blended learning combines traditional and online learning. Humanistic elements in learning are still used because students direct interaction with teachers as a form of psychological support and some things that need to be explained directly, particularly in affective and psychomotor abilities. blended learning in education enables learners to choose when and where they want to access lessons. Students are not required to travel long distances to delivery location e-learning can be done from anywhere, at any time.


Evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (eMBMS) is used in cellular networks to improve the utilization of scarce wireless resources in high user density service areas. However, eMBMS configuration involves interwoven decisions including which base stations (eNB) to synchronize to form Single Frequency Networks (SFN), which video qualities to be serviced, and how to distribute resources among different videos. These decisions should accommodate disparate channel conditions for eMBMS users, and the impact of eNB's unicast-load in the service area. In this paper, we formulate eMBMS configuration as an optimization problem that maximizes the video QoE for users. Additionally, we present NIMBLE as an eMBMS configuration heuristic, guided by our optimization framework, to solve the problem in realtime. Furthermore, NIMBLE's design integrates elements to accommodate the dynamic nature of cellular networks resulting from changes in both user, and network state over time. We developed a simulation testbed, and performed extensive experiments to show that, in comparison to state-of-the-art schemes, NIMBLE can increase the average user throughput by 150%, and reduce the bitrate switches by 75%.


SUMMARY The author discusses the development of the Polish émigré press in Great Britain for the period since 1940. The paper discusses the chief newspapers and periodicals published over the intervening sixty years, and mentions the principal editors and personalities affiliated with these publications.


Objective To evaluate the clinical efficacy of laparoscopic radical cystectomy with orthotopic ileal neobladder.Methods From November 2008 to April 2011,5 patients underwent laparoscopic radical cystectomy with orthotopic ileal neobladder.All of them were male.Mean age was 67 years old.Five-port transperitoneal approach was applied.The standard bilateral pelvic lymphadenectomy was performed first,then radical cystectomy was completed laparoscopically.The construction of the ileal neobladder and the anastomosis of ureter-neobladder were performed extracorporeally.The neobladder was anastomosed to the urethral stump under laparoscopy.Results The mean operative time was 480 min(420-600 min).The mean intraoperative blood loss was 400 ml(350-800 ml).The lymph nodes as well as the surgical margins were negative for tumor.The follow-up period was 3-24 months.All cases had satisfactory urinary continence day and night,except 1 case mildly incontinent at night.The mean reservoir capacity was 270 ml(200-350 ml).The average maximum urinary flow rate was 12 ml/s.1 case of erectile dysfunction.Conclusions Laparoscopic radical cystectomy with orthotopic ileal neobladder is minimally invasive,less bleeding,fewer complications and effective for the surgical treatment of bladder cancer patients.


The temporary lull in the economy had resulted mainly from uncertainties following the rise in energy prices. These concerns were further augmented by the fact that part of US refinery production was out of service in autumn. From January to August, the price of crude oil surged by 50% to reach a peak level of some USD 65, before a partial correction set in. As a result, business and consumer confidence was shaken. Demand for capital goods softened while at the same time the growth in consumer demand was slow. Not until the second half of 2005 did unmistakeable buoyancy in economic activity become apparent.


Taking "hotong" as common name in the lanes of Tianjin account for more than 60% of total amount of the lanes name. In order to show the characteristic of the historical culture in Tianjin, it is a very meaningful job to classify, explain and analyze the name derivation of these hotongs with the terms of social linguistics.


So far as known Fitymys leucurus Blyth is chiefly confined to the Qinghai-XizangPlateau, being represented, according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, by foursubspecies in China. After an examination of the specimens (? 30, ? 11) of P. l.fuscus from southern Qinghai, which agree well with the description and plates ofBuchner (1889) and have the first lower molar M_1 bearing four to five triangles insteadof three in front of the posterior loop, we are of the opinion that fuscus should beregarded as a full species and referred to Microtus (Lasiopodomys) instead of Pitymys.P. l. everesti (Thomas et Hinton) is practically identical with P. l. waltoni in size, colorand structure of skull, and is hereby treated as a synonym of waltoni. There remaintwo subspecies of Pitymys leucurus in China. In addition, this paper reports a newsubspecies, which we propose to name as:Pitymys (Phaiomys) leucurus zadoensis, snbsp. nov.Holotype: No. 02056, ?, collected on July 6th, 1963, from Jeduo, Zado Xian,Qinghai Province.Allotype: No. 02059, ?, July 7th, 1963, from the same locality as holotype. Paratypes: 12 ?, 12 ?, 4 youngs, collected during July-September from ZadoXian and Zhidoi Xian, Qinghai Province.Diagnosis: Differs from other subspecies of the species chiefly by its darker pelage.Entire upper surface dark grayish ochraceous with the hairs dark gray at their basesMeasurements: (g, mm)and pale drab terminally. Below paler, slightly washed with dull buffy tinge. Taildistinctly bicolored, upper dark buffy brown and under pale. The youngs still darkerthan the adults.Range: Habitating the meadow between Tanggula Shan and Bayan Har Shan,North-Western China.


The fringe pattern correlator (FPC) can recognize 3D objects using a height transformed complex amplitude as 3D information. The height transformed complex amplitude is a two-dimensional (2D) complex amplitude whose phase factor includes actual height information of 3D objects. The FPC can perform effective 3D correlation using 2D correlation with the height transformed complex amplitude. In this study, we describe the effect of the amplitude factor of the height transformed complex amplitude in the FPC. The amplitude factor represents contrast information of the projected grating on the object, which corresponds to the reflectance property depending on 3D shape. We classify the amplitude factor by the 3D shape (flat surface, slope, edge, large step) and other factor (illumination condition, shadow, random pattern). We present the recognition characteristics with respect to the amplitude factor.


The purpose of the paper is to propose a simple experimental method to evaluate the execution time in programmable controllers. First, features of the cyclic scan are examined experimentally by fundamental programs for evaluation. Second, the experimental evaluation method of the execution time of LDs and SFCs using stochastic tests is established. Furthermore, discussions on the evaluation method of other functions, the design for programming, and application to the real systems are also given.


We developed a general method based on fluorescence microscopy to characterize the interface dissolution in multi-layer organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) by blade coating. A sharp bi-layer edge was created before blade coating, with the bottom layer being insoluble and top layer soluble. After blade coating, fluorescence images showed that the edge of the top layer shifted when the layer dissolved completely, whereas the bottom layer's edge remained in place as a positioning mark. The dissolution depth was determined to be 15–20 nm when the emissive-layer host of 2,6-bis (3-(9H-carbazol-9-yl)phenyl) pyridine (26DCzPPy) was coated on the hole-transport layer of N,N′-bis(naphthalen-1-yl)-N,N′-bis(phenyl)-benzidine(NPB), which was consistent with a sudden drop in efficiency of orange OLEDs with layer thickness below 20 nm. Thus, the layer thickness of OLEDs was optimized to stay more than 20 nm for blade coating. For a two-color white OLED with the structure TCTA/26DCzPPy:PO-01-TB:FIrpic/TPBI, efficiency was 24 cd/A and 8.5 lm/W at 1000 cd/m2. For a three-color white OLED with Os(fptz)2(dhpm) added as the emitter, the efficiency was 12.3 cd/A and 3.7 lm/W at 1000 cd/m2. For a green device with the structure TCTA/26DCzPPy:Ir(mppy)3/TPBI, the efficiency was 41.9 cd/A and 23.4 lm/W at 1000 cd/m2.