This paper proposes a generalized and practical parallel algorithm for flexible approximate string matching which is executed for several kinds of clusters such as homogeneous cluster and heterogeneous cluster. This parallel algorithm is based on the master worker paradigm and it implements different partitioning schemes such as static and dynamic load balancing cooperating with different data allocation techniques such as the allocation of texts and allocation of text pointers. Furthermore, the parallel algorithm is analyzed experimentally using the Message Passing Interface (MPI) library for different strategies of load balancing and data allocation onto two kinds of clusters. Further, we propose a general performance model that can be used to predict the performance of the parallel flexible approximate string matching algorithm for both types of clusters. The theoretical performance model has been validated against experimental results and it is shown that the model is able to predict the parallel performance accurately.


As an explosion develops in the collapsed core of a massive star, neutrino emission drives convection in a hot bubble of radiation, nucleons, and pairs just outside a proto-neutron star. Shortly thereafter, neutrinos drive a windlike outflow from the neutron star. In both the convective bubble and the early wind, weak interactions temporarily cause a proton excess (Ye ≳ 0.50) to develop in the ejected matter. This situation lasts for at least the first second, and the approximately 0.05-0.1 M☉ that is ejected has an unusual composition that may be important for nucleosynthesis. Using tracer particles to follow the conditions in a two-dimensional model of a supernova explosion calculated by Janka, Buras, & Rampp, we determine the composition of this material. Most of it is helium and 56Ni. The rest is relatively rare species produced by the decay of proton-rich isotopes unstable to positron emission. In the absence of pronounced charged-current neutrino capture, nuclear flow will be held up by long-lived waiting-point nuclei in the vicinity of 64Ge. The resulting abundance pattern can be modestly rich in a few interesting rare isotopes like 45Sc, 49Ti, and 64Zn. The present calculations imply yields that, when compared with the production of major species in the rest of the supernova, are about those needed to account for the solar abundance of 45Sc and 49Ti. Since the synthesis will be nearly the same in stars of high and low metallicity, the primary production of these species may have discernible signatures in the abundances of low-metallicity stars. We also discuss uncertainties in the nuclear physics and early supernova evolution to which abundances of interesting nuclei are sensitive.


Dobrogea's wind energy sector has one of the most auspicious futures in Europe and has been recently targeted by a large number of foreign investors. This paper works towards an understanding of the advantages of using renewable energy (in particular wind energy), while also and presents the importance that the region can play in the sustainable development of the European Union. In addition, a few of the projects that are undergoing will be discussed, as well as their impact on the local communities.


Many stress-strain models of high strength steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) were proposed to account for major characteristics of SFRC; however, the presence of bond strength between steel fibers and matrix was not considered in most studies. In this study, the bond strength is considered in the proposed stress-strain model. The empirical expressions for determining the proposed stress-strain model are obtained by regressing 61 of stress-strain curves of SFRC. The compression tests on SFRC specimens are also conducted to verify the proposed stress-strain model. In addition, the comparison study between pullout energy obtained from fiber pullout tests and that obtained by using empirical equation are presented, since the bond strength is an important parameter to describe fiber characteristics. By treating steel fibers as confinements, the mechanical properties of SFRC are expressed in terms of reinforcing index, equivalent bond strength, and ultimate compressive stress. The proposed stress-strain model has good agreements with the experimental stress-strain curves obtained either in this study or by other researchers. Furthermore, by considering the bond strength between fibers and matrix and treating steel fibers as confinements, the post-peak behavior of SFRC can be well described and avoid either overestimating or underestimating the post-peak behavior.


A genetic linkage map of 23 markers on porcine chromosome 10 was constructed with a resource pedigree based on an Australian commercial pig population. Six new markers (UMNP885, UMNP1049, UMNP875, UMNP925, UMNP876 and UMNP519) were linkage mapped to porcine chromosome 10 for the first time. Phenotypes were available for juvenile IGF-I along with feed intake, average daily gain and feed conversion ratio (FCR) recorded over a 6 week performance test period; associations between QTL and residuals for these traits were investigated. A significant QTL for FCR was found between marker UMNP875 and UMNP925 by single family and across family analysis with maximum likelihood using composite interval mapping, confirmed by linkage disequilibrum and linkage analysis (LDLA). In single family analyses, a significant QTL for average daily gain was found in sire family 896TS and an IGF-I QTL was found in sire family 52103. The study provided strong justification for further fine mapping and positional cloning of causative genes for FCR on chromosome 10 for marker assisted selection in pig breeding.


The proliferation of radio-enabled equipment, including sensors, controllers, actuators, mobile handhelds, etc., into the today's heterogeneous wireless network (HWN) has led to the support of different vertical services on-top of the same physical infrastructure. Such an approach increases the potential for enhanced multiplexing gains due to the joint utilization of multiple network tiers and their resources. However, it also links the availability of new services to the robustness of the HWN infrastructure against malicious attacks. In this paper, we study the impact of two prominent denial of service (DoS) attacks, the jamming and the black hole attack, on network coverage of multi-tier HWNs. In particular, we consider a HWN model of multiple tiers, where the locations of nodes belonging to each tier are modeled by a homogeneous Poisson point process (PPP) with known intensity. Each tier consists of regular nodes, jammers (disrupting downlink communications by transmitting at constant power), and black holes (appearing as regular nodes but without forwarding received packets to their legitimate destination). The type of a node for a given network tier is determined by a prescribed probability, whereas jammer and black hole nodes are considered to act independently from each other. We further focus on the challenging scenario where end users can access a limited number of network tiers, while we also allow different tiers to potentially utilize different spectrum bands. Assuming that successful service reception from a node belonging to a given network tier requires a minimum received signal quality threshold to be attained, we derive exact expressions and performance bounds on the coverage probability of random multi-tier HWNs with joint jamming and black hole attacks, which depend on the capability of network nodes to detect and avoid association with malicious nodes (i.e., jammers or black holes). Detailed numerical results highlight the usefulness of the proposed analysis, providing valuable insights on system design and parameterization towards enhanced network robustness.


Previous models of parental educational investments focus on the composition of the sibship (number, gender, ordering, and spacing) and on the social and institutional context in which investment decisions are made. Social— institutional models predict that parents in Japan are likely to underinvest in girls because of their transient status in the family of origin and their limited earnings potential. This article contributes an understanding of the family contexts under which this model of investment does and does not apply. Through an analysis of 45 in-depth interviews conducted by the author, a family culture of investment model is developed that identifies parental gender beliefs and valuation of education as key factors shaping parental investments in prewar cohort groups. The findings from this research have implications for our understanding of international variation in the gender equity of educational attainment.


PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To produce a graphite film excellent in bending resistance and thermal diffusivity and having less variation of its surface thickness, wrinkle and break, and to drastically improve workability in a compression process. SOLUTION: There is provided a method for producing a graphite film including: a graphitizing process for heat-treating a polymeric film having the thickness of ≥5 μm but ≤250 μm at 2,400°C or higher; and a post-planar pressurization process for bringing a graphitized film obtained by the above process into contact with a compression surface having the surface resistivity of 1×109 Ω/square and for pressurizing the film in a plane form under the pressure of 2-40 MPa. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT


Blends of polyethylene (PE) and polyamide (PA) were prepared by a melt mixing process. The dependence of the number average size An of the dispersed phase on hydrodynamic conditions not only of shear rate but also temperature, inter-facial tension, viscosity of the blends (WU's treatment), and dispersed phase concentration were studied. The analysis of PE-PA blend morphology shows An to be the result of a balance between coalescence and disruption of the particles in the melt, and to display a strong increase in particle size when the minor component concentration is enhanced. These observations can be explained by a change in the rheology of the system. These assumptions are confirmed by the insertion in the blend of an ethylenemaleic anhydride (EMA) copolymer that yields EMA-g-PA graft copolymer during mechanical processing. Formation of this graft copolymer has been indicated by a strong particle size reduction and its concentration was measured by infrared experiments. The EMA-g-PA copolymer seems to decrease the blend interfacial tension and to deter the coalescence process.


between, wetlands are by their nature protean. Such constant change makes wetlands ecologically rich; they are often as diverse as rain forests. These shallow waterÐfed systems are central to the life cycle of many plants and animals, some of them endangered. They provide a habitat as well as spawning grounds for an extraordinary variety of creatures and nesting areas for migratory birds. Some wetlands even perform a global function. The northern peat lands of Canada, Alaska and Eurasia, in particular, may help moderate climatic change by serving as a sink for the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. Wetlands also have commercial and utilitarian functions. They are sources of lucrative harvests of wild rice, furbearing animals, Þsh and shellÞsh. Wetlands limit the damaging eÝects of waves, convey and store ßoodwaters, trap sediment and reduce pollutionÑ the last attribute has earned them the sobriquet ÒnatureÕs kidneys.Ó Despite their value, wetlands are rapidly disappearing. In the U.S., more than half of these regions in every state except Alaska and Hawaii have been destroyed. Between the 1950s and the 1970s more than nine million acresÑ an area equivalent to the combined size of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode IslandÑwere wiped out. Some states have almost entirely lost their wetlands: California and Ohio, for example, retain only 10 percent of their original expanse. Destruction continues today, albeit at a slightly reduced rate, in part, because there are fewer wetlands to eliminate. No such numbers are available internationally, but we estimate that 6 percent of all land is currently wetlands. The extensive losses can generally be attributed to the same feature that makes wetlands so valuable: their ever changing nature. The complex dynamics of wetlands complicate eÝorts to create policies for preserving them. Their management and protection must incorporate a realistic deÞnition, one that encompasses all these intricate


The invention discloses a broadband radar space target characteristic signal simulator which is used for solving the technical problem that the target simulation range of an existing radar signal simulator is narrow. According to the technical scheme, target characteristic calculation is performed, a frequency synthesizer is controlled by a control module according to the center frequency of radar signals, and the radar radio frequency signals are converted to intermediate frequency in work of a high speed AD through a down converter; the acquired radar intermediate frequency signals are converted into a data stream by the high speed AD, and a high-resolution one-dimensional distance image and a high-resolution two-dimensional image can be modulated and simulated in a target characteristic modulation module. Because the target characteristic calculation, the control module and the target characteristic modulation module are used, the application range of the broadband radar signals is widened to 2-18GHz from 8-12GHz in the background technology; the signal simulator can adapt to linear frequency modulated signals, nonlinear frequency modulated signals and stepping frequency modulated and frequency coded signals and further can generate radar echoes for simulating the scattering characteristics and the motion characteristics of a target of a space target satellite.


This book deserves the attention of every scholar interested in contemporary Italian historical studies. While I had surmised that it dealt with an interesting but relatively inconsequential case from the archives of Italian religious history, it is the most gripping and informative study of the years surrounding Italian unification (circa 1860) 1 have ever found. In addition, it is a romantic and tragic story of one family's loss of a child, written in as engaging a style as any work of social history I have encountered. This is a tour de force and more than deserves its status as finalist for the National Book Award. The plot seems at first a simple tale of the tragedy of one family. In 1858 Momola Mortara, a Jewish merchant, was living quietly in Bologna with his wife Marianna and their seven children. Though only two years hence Bologna would be part of the united Italy and under (relatively) secular rule, at that time it was still one of the papal states, and the Church exercised considerable direct control over civic life. This became particularly evident to the Mortaras when the police knocked at their door, one night in June, to inform them that their six year old son Edgardo had been secretly baptized several years earlier by a former servant in their house. Since he was now a Catholic, he could not be raised by Jewish parents, and the police had instructions from the local Inquisitor to bring the child to the Inquisition offices. Thus begins a tale that is eventually implicated in the decimation of papal power in Italy and the formation of the liberal state. It directly involves Pope Pius IX, Napoleon III of France, Camillo Cavour (the first prime minister of unified Italy), several members of the Rothschild family, the British Sir Moses Montefiore, and other elite figures of the nineteenth century. Giuseppe Garibaldi even wrote some of the details of the case into his novel, I mille (1982 [19331, Cappelli). Though few in our time have heard of Edgardo Mortara (including, according to Kertzer, surprisingly few Italian historians), this story was front-page news throughout Europe for much of 1859 and 1860. Edgardo Mortara was in fact removed from his home and taken off to Rome. He was placed in the House of the Catechumens, established 300 years earlier by Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, in order to aid in the conversion of Jews and Muslims. There Edgardo began a long stay in the arms of the Catholic Church, while his parents, the international Jewish community, and a variety of judges, police officials, and diplomats from several countries struggled over his fate. This is a detective story in part, as the legal authorities had to decide whether in fact the baptism had taken place, whether the Church had the right to seize the child in any case, whether the subsequent establishment of a new state invalidated the Church's actions, and whether the Church could or should be required at that point to return the boy to his family. This book provides further evidence for the fact that it is often in the apparent "asides" of history that good historians find the material for unraveling the most important political and social events of the time. Like Natalie Zemon Davis' The return of Martin Guerre (1983, Harvard University Press) and Carlo Ginzburg's The cheese and the worms (1980, Johns Hopkins University Press), The kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara takes events that, though perhaps extraordinary, seem unlikely to have lasting historical significance. …


Background: Expiratory pressure relief continuous positive airway pressure (pressure relief CPAP, C-Flex®) is known to be as effective in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) as conventional CPAP while improving overall patients' adherence. However, the effects of C-Flex on ventilation during sleep have not been studied yet. Objective: This study investigates the effects of pressure relief CPAP on respiratory parameters and possible inspiratory flow limitation with increased difference between inspiratory and expiratory pressure compared with conventional CPAP. Methods: In total, 24 patients were investigated both during conventional CPAP and during three C-Flex pressure relief settings in randomized order during rapid-eye-movement (REM) and non-REM (NREM) sleep. Airflow was monitored with a pneumotachograph; inspiratory flow limitation was assessed by analyzing airflow and esophageal pressure swings. Results: Using higher C-Flex gains, expiratory time decreased in favor of the inspiratory duty cycle while there was no significant change in tidal volume. Analysis of inspiratory flow limitation showed no significant difference between conventional CPAP and the C-Flex gains studied. Conclusions: The increase in the inspiratory duty cycle with C-Flex might either indicate an increase in the work of breathing or a decrease in the work of breathing due to a lower peak end-expiratory pressure and consecutive alleviation of passive expiration. Both treatments appeared equivalent regarding the occurrence of inspiratory flow limitation.


Safety criteria system for construction technology is established on the basis of the features of construction technology procedure,from the aspects of people,machine,environment and management.The safety evaluation is processed by the combination of rough sets and artificial neural network.At first,the expert evaluation method is combined with rough sets,the elements of safety criteria are reduced,and the core elements that influence the construction safety are determined.Then,the evaluation indexes reduced by rough sets are used for the treatment and calculation by artificial neural network.The results show that the prediction values by artificial neural network after training are similar to theoretical values,indicating that this evaluation model has rationality in the safety evaluation of construction technology.


The semiclassical long-time limit of free evolution of quantum wave packets on the torus is under consideration. Despite of simplicity of this system, there are still open questions concerning the detailed description of the evolution on time scales beyond the Ehrenfest time. One of the approaches is based on the limiting Wigner or Husimi distributions of time-evolved wave packets as the Planck constant tends to zero and time tends to infinity. We derive explicit expressions for semiclassical measures corresponding to all time scales and the corresponding stages of evolution: classical-like motion, spreading of the wave packet, and its revivals. Also we discuss limitations of the approach based on semiclassical measures and suggest its generalization.


4084 Background: The feasibility of UFT (tegafur-uracil) plus LV with alternating irinotecan and oxaliplatin was investigated in a two-stage, phase I/II, open-label, dose-finding trial in patients with ACRC. The study is now closed. Here we present results from the phase II cohort and overall results from the phase I/II study. Methods: Eligible patients aged =18 years had histologically confirmed, advanced, inoperable, measurable metastatic disease, no prior chemotherapy other than adjuvant bolus 5-FU administered =6 months previously, and adequate hematologic, hepatobiliary, and renal function. Patients in the phase I study received irinotecan 180 mg/m2 on d1, oxaliplatin 85–100 mg/m2 on d15 plus UFT 200–300 mg/m2/d with LV 90 mg/d on d1–21 of a 28-d cycle. Diarrhea, lethargy, and vomiting were dose limiting. The maximum tolerated dose (MTD) established was irinotecan 180 mg/m2, oxaliplatin 100 mg/m2, UFT 250 mg/m2/d, and LV 90 mg/day. Patients were treated at the MTD in the phase II study. Primary endpo...


This study aims to discover the personality of the main character reflected in the One Day novel by David Nicholl. This study correlates the structural elements and psychoanalytic perspectives put forward by Sigmund Freud. Sigmund Freud's literary theory is used to explain literary elements such as character and characterization, point of view, irony and symbols. Meanwhile, the theory of psychoanalysis is to discover the psychological aspects of the main characters in the One Day. This study uses a qualitative method. Retrieval of data sources from this method takes data from primary and secondary data. Retrieval of primary data sources contained in the One Day novel written by David Nicholl through sentences, dialogues, conflicts and events from the novel. Meanwhile, the retrieval of secondary data sources is contained in the primary source that is related in David Nicholl's One Day. This data collection uses library research techniques.The analysis used by researchers to analyze the data is Descriptive Analysis.


Effect of treatment of eggs with thyroxin and Cortisol on larval morphometry and survival in the freshwater carp, Catla catla (Ham.)


The present invention, controlled-release granules technique, a method for producing such granules, and methods of using the granules in pest control.


All earth pressure theories put forward hitherto are based on an ideal, dry soil which is endowed with hypothetical, ideal, and uniform properties. This permits the engineer to solve earth pressure problems only approximately. By lateral earth pressure is understood the force which is exerted by the soil mass and which acts upon an earth- retaining structure, for instance a retaining wall or bulkhead, or sheet piling. The magnitude of the lateral earth pressure is known to vary considerably with the displacement of the retaining wall and with the nature of the soil. The effect of displacement of a retaining wall on the magnitude of the lateral earth pressure is best illustrated by Terzahi's paper on large-scale retaining wall experiments with dry and saturated sand as well as with fine-particled soils. These experiments revealed that the lateral earth pressure on a retaining wall varies with the lateral displacement of the wall. Theory, as well as experiments described by Prof. Junikis, shows that the passive earth pressure is always greater than the active earth pressure.


White-light emitting diodes(W-LED) were prepared by using YAG fluorescent material of making oneself and W-LED reading lamps were made.Various illuminance parameters of the W-LED reading lamp fluorescent lamp and incundescent lamp are tested based on photometry principle.The results show that the W-LED reading lamp have many advantages,such as economizing energy,long lifetime,steady working capability,good direction.


One of the most important factors in a successful ablation procedure is catheter-endocardial contact. There is little information available to predict the geometric factors that affect this (depth or angle). We present a method that uses a computer model to calculate the complex electrical impedance between an ablation catheter and dispersive electrode. This method takes into account a more realistic ablation scenario that also considers not just penetration depth but also several different catheter angles. We predict that the impedance is a better indicator of catheter-endocardial contact area then just simply penetration depth. It is found that there is an extremely high correlation between increasing impedance and catheter-endocardial tissue contact area. This is clinically relevant because it allows the operating physician to know how well engaged the catheter is with the tissue given the measured complex impedance.


Sophia Papaioannou, Angeliki Mouzaki, Georgios D. Sideridis, Foteini Antoniou,Suzanna Padeliadu & Panagiotis G. Simos (2014): Cognitive and academic abilities associated withsymptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a comparison between subtypes in a Greeknon-clinical sample, Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental EducationalPsychology, DOI: 10.1080/01443410.2014.915931


This paper presents a new method of path planning for a robotic hand/eye coordinate system to approach and grasp a moving object. This method, which is called variant proportional guidance(VPG) method, stems from the proportional guidance(PG) law for missile interception. Unlike the PG method, the visual angle of the robot gripper in the VPG method is set to change regularly, which is to ensure the gripper intersecting the target from ahead of the target's moving direction. Meanwhile, the pose of the gripper can also be adjusted during the approaching process, so that the gripper can grasp the object from ahead in an outflanking way. This method is superior to the traditional tracking path planning methods in that it can tolerate larger errors in the position estimation of the object and is more capable of dealing with the maneuvering motion of the target. Thus the possibility for the object to be grasped can be greatly improved. The simulations and experiments concerned show that the method is both effective and practical.


C. W^ Chalklin, The Provincial Towns of Georgian England; A Study of the building Process 1740-1820, Edward Arnold, London, 1974, Studies in Urban History 3. xxii+367 pp. £10.00. This book, the third in an interesting series of studies in urban history edited by Professor H. J. Dyos, deals in detail with the development of seven English towns. It is divided into four parts, an introductory section on the growth of urban society, followed by studies of the building land promoter, the builder and the course of urban building. There are twenty-four pages of appendices containing useful statistical material. The work involved the extensive and scholarly use of a wide range of primary sources because, as is well known, the secondary sources available to urban historians have been very sparse, owing to the late development of interest in the subject. Dr Chalklin's book, however, takes urban history a further step forward into academic respectability. With this solidly packed repository of illuminating facts it will no longer be possible to complain of the paucity of published material or of the lack of data for comparison in future urban studies. This book does not study anything which architects would recognize as 'the building process', showing little interest in building methods, materials and structure or in the operative builder. Indeed Chalklin has chosen to use the word 'builder' to mean not the constructor but the owner of buildings, the provider of capital. The longest, most useful and most interesting part is that which deals with the procuring and preparing of land for building development. In this book Chalklin has done for the urban historian what the best of the eighteenth-century land promoters did for the builders he has prepared the site in such a way that it is now capable of supporting an edifice both elegant and structurally sound. If this is not a major work, as Professor Dyos claims for it in his foreword, it is certainly an indispensable one. ENID GAULDIE School of Architecture, Dundee


Unexpected disruptions in an urban transportation system may severely damage its structure and functionality. The resilience of urban transportation networks, i.e. the ability to recover from destroyed conditions, is thus significant for the mobility of passengers and freight in cities. However, its definition and measurement have been confused with robustness. This research advances a trackable assessment framework for the resilience of two typical urban transportation modes, i.e. road system and metro system, considering the characteristics of their structure and functionality. Individual vertex-based and edge-based failure models are established for the two transportation systems based on their network models. The proposed measurement approach is applied to an inner-city road freight system and the metro system in Hangzhou, China, to analyse their resilience, considering different combinations of vertex-based and edge-based failures. The proposed approach is compared with an efficiency-based resilience measurement method and outperforms in two parts. First, it has a broader application than previous related methods because it can describe disruptions occurring on one directed vertex or edge using a directed network model. Second, the new method outputs more reliable results due to considering more structural and functional characteristics of urban transportation systems than previous methods.


The evaporation amounts of volatile Cd, Pb and Zn were characterized by measuring their total concentrations in the EAF dust-clay bodies with various mixing ratio and heat treatment temperature. TCLP test was conducted for evaluating the chemical stabilities of the heavy metal elements. Evaporation amounts and leaching concentrations of heavy metal components were strongly dependent on the mixing ratio and heat treatment temperature. The evaporation of the heavy metal components in EAF dust was effectively suppressed by increasing the clay content. The leaching concentrations of heavy metal components were decreased with increasing clay content and temperature. 20 wt% EAF dust-80 wt% clay sample shows nearly zero evaporation and leaching concentrations of heavy metal components. XRD analysis showed that peak intensities of major crystalline phases such as franklinite and quartz were decreased with increasing the heat treatment temperature which means that the stabilization mechanism of the heavy metals was related with the vitrification process of the in the clay.


Abstract Background: Cnestis ferruginea is a plant species widely used in the traditional african medicine to treat diabetes mellitus. The present study aimed to evaluate the antidiabetic activities of the aqueous extract of the leaves of Cnestis ferruginea (AECF) in diabetic mice. Methods: The mice were grouped into five groups of five animals per group: Group A was not induced with alloxan, Group B animals were induced but not treated, Group C animals were treated with 500 mg / kg of BW of metformin, Group D and E animals were treated with 100, 200 mg/kg BW of AECF respectively. The extracts were administered to the animals orally for 14 days. Fasting blood sugar was measured by a glucometer. Serum concentrations of hematological and biochemical parameters were measured by standard methods. Results: The animals administered with 100 and 200 mg/Kg B.W of extract showed highly significant decrease (P ˂ 0.0001) in blood sugar level compared to the untreated animals. The 100 mg / kg BW dose of AECF produce low significant decrease (P <0.05) of total cholesterol, HDL Cholesterol, AST, ALT, urea, levels of white blood cells, platelets, hematocrit. The 200 mg / kg BW dose of AECF produce in addition significant decrease (P <0.01) of AST and urea. Conclusion: The 200 mg / kg dose of BW of AECF had a greater antidiabetic activity than the dose of 100 mg / kg BW. Keywords: Cnestis ferruginea; antidiabetic activity; alloxan; diabetes mellitus.


Aurface functionalization of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) is performed using a tris(2-aminoethyl)amine (TAA) to generate functional moieties (-NH2) on the surface. The functionalized MWCNTs (f-MWCNTs) are incorporated in the blend polymers of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) to fabricate a nanocomposite membrane via phase inversion process, which are named PVA/PVP/f-MWCNT. The nanocomposite membranes are characterized by field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), Fourier transform infrared spectrometry (FT-IR), X-ray diffraction, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and water contact angle. The FE-SEM images show that the PVA/PVP/f-MWCNTs nanocomposite membrane (100:50) consisting 0.01 g of f-MWCNTs exhibits uniform morphology and good dispersion of f-MWCNTs. The X-ray results demonstrate that the incorporation of f-MWCNTs has successfully changed the structural properties of the nanocomposite membranes. TGA analysis indicates that the PVA/PVP/f-MWCNTs nanocomposite membranes exhibit higher thermal properties than the pristine PVA/PVP blend membrane. The weight loss within 420-550°C is increased from 34.62 to 55.66% with increasing PVP content from 1 wt% to 8 wt%, respectively. The contact angle measurements indicate that addition of f-MWCNTs to the PVA/PVP blend membrane has improved hydrophilic properties.


The culture condition of callus formation and plantlet regeneration of revers genic sterile rice variety FHS was studied. By selecting suitable medium and adjusting the concentration of 2,4-D,the induction frequency of calli reached 92.5%;After adjusting the concentration of KT and NAA,the rate of calli differentiation was 81.3%. The result showed that the suitable concentration of phytohormone could promote the efficiency of FHS plantlet regeneration.


Classical theatre did not permit death on stage. This ban had been laid down by Horace in his Ars poetica and justified by Medea's infanticide: "Medea should not slaughter her children in the presence of the people […]. Whatever you show me like this, I detest and refuse to believe. " Due to this illustrious reference, from the 16th to the 18th century, Medea became a choice example for reflections on verisimilitude and on the means of achieving dramatic effectiveness. Stage adaptations of the story of Medea raised the issues of the limits of what could be represented and the reasons why violence had to be controlled and limited by playwrights in order to become acceptable. While they stand for a climax of violence, Medea's crimes also call for investigations in specific fields. Compendia of myths, medical treatises, books of demonology, theories on power and women: texts from all these fields of knowledge, in which Medea served as a paradigm, have been consulted to shed new light on the theatrical treatment of the subject. Making violence plausible does not imply eliminating it entirely; violence is effective dramatically, as the popularity of the subject-matter demonstrates. Therefore, this study focuses on confronting the theoretical discourse on theatre with the plays themselves, in order to understand better the advantages and risks for the tragic genre entailed by the representation of violence. These Medeas mark the limits of what is tolerable on stage and sketch out a history of the theatrical representation of bloody crimes. In this respect, the scandal represented by Medea appears as a particularly rich theoretical and dramatic object


It is a pleasure to all of us to hold forth upon subjects about which we know very little. It is particularly a temptation to university professors to get away from the subjects of their own chairs and lecture as dogmatically as their nature demands on subjects of other people's chairs. That is why I am speaking to-night about Psychology. As to Vice, the case is a little different. Even if my own experience is regrettably limited, I have for some years studied the Chairman, and I bring my observations before a society full of persons whose range and profundity of knowledge will be sufficient to correct any hasty generalizations on my part.


Objective: To establish the model of heterotopic small intestinal transplantation after bone marrow infusion in inbred rat.Methods: Thirty inbred Brown-Noway(BN)rats were choosed as donors and fifteen inbred Lewis(LEW) rats were choosed as receptors.Each animal of LEW rats received 2×108 bone marrow cells from BN rats through tail vein on day 0,and received anti-CD 25 monoclonal antibody,CTLA4Ig and anti-CD 154 monoclonal antibody by intraperitoneal injection(i.p.) on day 0(through tail vein),day 2,day 4,and day 6,then heterotopic small intestinal transplantation from BN to LEW was performed on day 8.Detection of chimerism was detected by flow cytolmetery.GVHD,weight,general state and life span were observed.Results: GVHD was not observed in all receptors.Survival rate was 86.7% on POD 5,80% on POD 7,60%on POD14,and longest survival time was more than 50 days.Conclusion: It is feasible to establish the model of heterotopic small intestinal transplantation after bone marrow infusion in inbred rat.


People usually express their feelings and emotions positively to others when they have happy occasions. However, the ways of expressing congratulation may vary because the expressive speech act "congratulations" is not the only way to express happiness and share others their happy news. The present study investigates the congratulation strategies of Pakistani English as second language (ESL) learners and British English speakers under the influence of social distance variable. A quantitative approach is applied in the analysis with the frequency of strategies (semantic formulas) being numerically analyzed. The current study recruited 120 participants, and who were further divided into four different groups: 30 British English speakers, 30 Pakistani ESL learners in the elite class, 30 Pakistani ESL learners of the middle class, and 30 Pakistani ESL learners in the lower class. For data collection, a discourse completion test (DCT) was used as a tool. The findings reveal that the most frequently used types of congratulation strategy are illocutionary force indicating device (IFID) followed by overlapped strategies (a combination of two), an offer of a good wish, expression of happiness, request for information, encouragement, expression of surprise, and suggestion of celebration , while other types of strategies are not used by the participants. The study reveals the existence of crosscultural differences in the use of congratulations by Pakistani ESL learners. The findings further show how the middle and lower class of Pakistani ESL learners use a more elaborated form of compliment responses (CRs) as compared to Pakistani ESL learners of elite and British English speakers. The findings may help in understanding the pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic aspects of Pakistani ESL learners as compared to British English speakers.


Objective Innovative areas of care in Western National Training Mode.Methods Select 2007 and 2008 the 307 undergraduate nursing students in class were randomly divided into control group(2007 123) and experimental group(2008 184).Control group used traditional nursing teaching mode,the experimental group to adopt innovative nursing training mode,that is,through innovative teaching nursing teaching objectives,program design,evaluation strategy and the reform of basic research and promote innovative learning nursing students,to achieve sustainable development,learning ability,so that the harmonious development of body and mind nursing students.Comparison of teaching effectiveness.Results Experimental group of students hold a positive attitude towards the reform model;Experimental group of test results,research awareness and teaching hospital than the control group selection(P0.01).Conclusion Innovative use of Western National Area Training Mode practical nursing,nursing care can significantly promote the training of personnel in the region.


The results of development and implementation of organizational structural and functional model of primary prevention of non-communicable diseases in out-patient clinic level of health service in the railway transport, as a health center example, are presented. System of «health-improving technologies» was implemented on the basis of health center «Novosibirsk» station (1999-2002). Medico-social and economical effectiveness of this system implementation was estimated directly at work place among locomotive staff using the life quality evaluation. Received results showed significant improvement in health and quality of life of railway employees.


B The ups and downs of BACE1: Walking a fine line between neurocognitive and other psychiatric symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease b Saak Ovsepian, Jiri Horacek, Valerie O'Leary & Cyril Hoschl B Neural stem cell niche and adult neurogenesis b Yue Li & Weixiang Guo B COVID-19 pulmonary and olfactory dysfunctions: Is the chemokine CXCL10 the common denominator b Antonio Oliviero, Fernando de Castro, Francesca Coperchini, Luca Chiovato & Mario Rotondi B Multiple motor learning processes in humans: Defining their neurophysiological bases b Danny Spampinato & Pablo Celnik B Migraine and Two-Pore-Domain potassium channels b Clement Verkest, Stephanie Häfner, Pablo Ávalos Prado, Anne Baron & Guillaume Sandoz B Memory engrams in the neocortex b Svenja Brodt & Steffen Gais B -Synuclein in Parkinson's disease: Does a prion-like mechanism of propagation from periphery to the brain play a role? [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Neuroscientist is the property of Sage Publications Inc and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use This abstract may be abridged No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract (Copyright applies to all Abstracts )


Kaufmann, Jill Bridging into Small Business: A Program for Aboriginal People. Gordon Inst. of TAFE, Geelong (Australia). Adult, Community, and Further Education Board, Melbourne (Australia). ISBN-0-7311-2664-5; ISBN-0-7311-2665-3; ISBN-0-7311-2666-1 1998-00-00 135p.; Videotape is not available from ERIC. Adult Education Resourc4 and Information Service, Language Australia, GPO Box 372F, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia ($16.50 Australian for each gook and videotape). Guides Classroom Learner (051) MF01/PC06 Plus Postage. Adult Basic Education; *Basic Business Education; *Basic Skill's; Business Skills; *Calculators; Course Content; Entrepreneurship; Foreign Countries; *Indigenous Populations; Learning Activities; Mathematics; *Mathematics Instruction; Small Businesses; Units of Study *Aboriginal Australians; Australia


The reliable year of King Wu conquered over Shang Dynasty is an important year in Chinese ancient historiography. Recently ,the technique of 14C dating has been gready improved, and the possibility of distinguishing the year of King Wu conquered over Shang Dynasty using ' C dating was discussed in conferences, some pre ~ research works performed. Since 19%,the program 'Xia~ Shang- Zhou chronology project' has put into practice,our team began to take part in the study of above chronological problems.
la early 1998,the samples collected from Fenghao site,Shanxi province,China,were determined in two conventional 14C laboratories vvith the measuring error are less than 3%e. On October 6th and 7th,the results were announced succes-sively that the year of King Wu conquered over Shang Dynasty vvere distinguished in the period of B. C. 1050 to B. C. 1020. in later 1998,the AMS 14C laboratory began dating too. The results of three 14C laboratories are identically vvith each other.
14C dating of the samples unearthed from tombs at Yirmi site,and Liulihe site and wiggle - matching with curve to-gether reached the results that the boundary years coincided with the year range determined above.
On November 30th 1998, the result by astronomical calculations were announced, the year of King Wu conquered over Shang Dynasty located also in the age range by 14C dating. From early 1998 to March 2000,almost during two years, the age range distinguished by 14C dating had been examined many times. At last,the results would be trustworthy ac-knowledged.


We propose an over-dispersed, and under-dispersed Generalized Poisson Distribution. This distribution will overcome some of the potential limitations suffered by the existing dominant distributions including lack of modeling over-dispersion, under-dispersion. This distribution is flexible and could be applied to a variety of problems from different disciplines like business, finance, medicine and reliability in engineering.


In order to understand the behavior of carbon nanotubes in-vivo, we develop an original flexible microelectrode array. We place on it two types of electrodes, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and titanium nitride (TiN). We used this device to monitor electrocorticogram of a non-human primate during one year. Our results demonstrate the biocompatibility of our CNT. We also show the magnitude of the ECoG is greater using CNT electrodes than TiN electrodes when performing long term in-vivo assessments.


It's an inevitable request for the Arts in the key universities of science and techonology to make strides forward. The experiences of Hua Zhong University of Science and Techonology in the past 20 years show that it's a path to build up top Arts, actualize quality education and eventually bring forth a first\|class comprehensive university. Under the new trend, the key universities of science and techonology ought to broaden their views, take in new ideas and fully recognize the importance of Arts to make strides forward.


This research aims to determine the effect of marketing public relations and customer value on customer loyalty at Starbucks Coffee Batam City. The research variables are marketing public relation (X1), customer value (X2). The research approach uses quantitative approaches and uses descriptive statistical analysis with data processing using multiple linear regression tests with SPSS tools. The population and research sample amounted to 100 respondents. Data collection for this study uses questionnaires with a Likert Scale. The conclusion of the research are positive and significant on customer loyalty in Starbucks Coffee Batam City. Hence, maintaining customer loyalty so that customers are willing to return repeating purchases of the same product and make customers choose Starbucks Coffee products as the first choice.


The purpose of this study is to reveal elements of Neoplatonism and the ideology of Dionysius the Areopagite in the structure of the film "Andrei Rublyov" by Andrei Tarkovsky. Dionysius the Areopagite is known as a Syrian Christianity spokesman, an ascetic who authored literary works in the Neoplatonic atmosphere at the end of the 5th century. The metaphysical principles of Neoplatonic philosophy postulate the ideas of the "One," "Intellect," and "Soul" that are based on the ideology of Plotinus. The "One" in Neoplatonic philosophy is a transcendental and limitless being, the source of all creation and the first principle. "Intellect" is the divine mind first emanated from the "One," and the "Soul" is emanated from the "Intellect". And lastly, the lowest substance of the being is produced. The first evidence that is presented in the film in the introductory scene, when a farmer flying across the sky in a hot-air balloon crashes down to earth along with the balloon. By recreating an era when the hot-air balloon wasn't even invented and through the image of the crash, the director introduces an image that corresponds to the "emanation" in the ideology of Dionysius the Areopagite, who said "In the creationism of Neoplatonism, all creation is emanated from the One, and this emanation is a type of corruption and imperfection". The opening scene of crashing and collapse down to earth symbolizes the escape from the monastery to the world and from the world of ideas to the world of reality. The wandering of Andrei Rublyov shown in the latter parts of the film can be viewed as an analogy to the period of "purification" that is presented in the philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite. In the film the three phases of advancing toward divinity begin with "self-purification" then "illumination" and finally the "union" of becoming one with the ultimate existence. The director shows Rublyov achieving top artistic heights through suffering, pain, and artistic skepticism. In particular, the representative episode that demonstrates the divine equivalence is the one where Rublyov is gazing at the boy Boris who is making a bell on behalf of his dead father. Here, Andrei Tarkovsky uses the boy who inspires national spirit through casting a bell to foreshadow Andrei's victory over his own fears and ignorance based on faith and strength.


CD8 is a T cell surface glycoprotein that participates in recognition of peptide/MHC class I molecules by binding to their α3 domains. In addition, the cytoplasmic domain of CD8 associates with the intracellular tyrosine kinase p56lck (lck) promoting recruitment of lck to the TCR signaling complex. Recent data have suggested also that CD8 may interact with the TCR to promote energetically favorable conformations which increase its ligand binding. We have used the techniques of co‐capping and confocal microscopy to ask whether we can detect an association between CD8 and the TCR independently of their binding to MHC class I molecules. We show that capping CD8 heterodimers with antibodies to the CD8β polypeptide is significantly more efficient than antibodies to the CD8α polypeptide at inducing co‐localization of TCR molecules with CD8, suggesting that there may be preferred conformations of CD8 which stabilize interactions with the TCR. In addition, we show by microscopy that intracellular lck redistributes very efficiently to the area of a CD8 cap, suggesting that there is a stronger association between lck and CD8 than has been proposed from immunoprecipitation analyses.


In recent years, with the increasingly serious problems such as environmental pollution and fossil energy exhaustion, distributed generations have been developed rapidly, and will become an important component of the construction of new power system. However, large-scale grid connection of distributed generations will cause a series of problems. Under conventional control, the inertia of distributed generations integration system is low and the anti-interference performance is poor. Therefore, this paper proposes a robust virtual synchronous control technology for distributed generation to improve the stable operation ability of the system under external disturbance. Firstly, the structure of distributed generations integration systems is described in detail. Based on the traditional distributed generations droop control strategy, an improved converter control strategy based on robust virtual synchronization is then proposed. Finally, the PSCAD simulation platform is used for modeling and perturbation examples to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.


In this paper we consider the institutional arrangements needed in a decentralised framework to cope with the potential adverse welfare effects caused by negative shocks (like natural disasters, clinical errors, or terrorist attacks), that can be "limited" (in their probability of occurrence or in their severity) by precautionary investments. We build on the work by Goodspeed and Haughwout (2007), and analyse the potential role of private insurers in solving the under-investment problem in protection, stemming from moral hazard by local governments in the presence of a transfer rule by Central government, which takes into account also the equalisation of resources across Regions. Somewhat surprisingly, our analysis shows that a public fund is always superior to the private insurance solution in the presence of hard-budget constraints for local governments. However, when the Central government cannot credibly commit to an optimal transfer rule, private insurers are able to improve on the mutual public fund solution by inducing an higher level of investments.


LaPO4 and LaPO4:xEu 3+ (x=0.1, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0mol %) phosphors were synthesized by the solid-state reaction method. X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), photoluminescence (PL) spectra and the particle size analysis were used to characterize these samples. The XRD results reveal that the synthesized LaPO4:Eu 3+ phosphors are well crystalline and assigned to the monoclinic structure with a main (120) diffraction peak. The crystallite size was estimated by using the Scherrer formula, and 62nm size was obtained for LaPO4:Eu 3+ phosphor and 67.6nm for LaPO4. Upon excitation at 254nm, the LaPO4: Eu 3+ phosphor emits the characteristic 5 D0→ 7 F1–2 emission lines of Eu 3+ . The emission spectra of LaPO4:Eu 3+ (1.5 mol%,) phosphor under excitation at 254nm exhibited two strong intense band at 589nm and 594nm with maximum intensity and the energy difference between the two peaks was 0.02eV. From the emission spectra the emission transition 5


Objective To understand electromagnetic radiation field strength and its influencing factors of certain 110KV high-voltage lines in one urban area of Chongqing by measuring110KV high-voltage line's electromagnetic radiation level. Methods According to the methodology as determined by the National Hygienic Standards, we selected certain adjacent residential buildings, high-voltage lines along a specific street and selected different distances around its vertical projection point as monitoring points. The levels of electromagnetic radiations were measured respectively. Results In this investigation within the frequency of 5Hz～1000Hz both the electric field strength, and magnetic field strength of each monitoring sites was lower than the public exposure standards as determined by the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP); However, the electrical field strength on the roof adjacent to the high-voltage lines was significantly higher than that as measured on the other floors in the same buildings (P<0.005). The electromagnetic radiation measurements of different monitoring points, under the same high-voltage lines, showed the location which is nearer the high-voltage line maintain a consistently higher level of radiation than the more distant locations (P <0.005). Electromagnetic radiation generated by high-voltage lines decreases proportionally to the distance from the lines. Conclusion The buildings can to some extent shield (or absorb) the electromagnetic radiation generated by high-voltage lines nearby; The electromagnetic radiation intensity near high-voltage lines may be mitigated or intensified by the manner in which the high-voltage lines are set up, and it merits attention for the potential impact on human health.


Kandyan Forest Gardens (KFG s) are a specific vegetation type covering a considerableland area of the Central Province of Sri Lanka. Therefore, water use by KFG s form animportant component of the catchment water balance of this area. KFG s consist of amixture of tree species whose canopies are arranged in different vertical layers. The study was conducted in a typical Kandyan Forest Garden located at Pilapitiya,Pilimathalawa within the agroecological region ~IJ.·hA vegetation survey was carried outin this garden and it showed 201 trees belonging to 24 different species. Out of these, twotree species were selected to represent upper and middle canopy layers. They were jak(Artocarpus heterophyllus) and toona (Cedrella laona). Transpiration of these trees wasmeasured as the sapflow in their trunk using thermal dissipation probes. Measurements ofthe weather parameters were also taken. The incident solar radiation was measured usingthe tube solari meters. Relative humidity in the open and inside the KFG was measured bytwo solid state sensors. The soil moisture content al five soil depths (i.e. 20, 40, 60, 80 and100 em) was measured by gravimetric sampling. All the data except soil moisture weretaken at 30 second time intervals integrated over five minutes and stored in the data logger.Tile measurements that were taken during the period from 25.12.2001 to 20.02.2002 wereanalyzed. Both species showed a similar pattern of daily variation of sapflow. However, the sapflowwas substantially greater in jak than in toona. The total water use of jak for theexperimental period was 3881.25 kg/tree. The corresponding value of toona was 462.83kg/tree. The upper canopy jak received a greater irradiance than middle canopy toona.There was a linear relationship between the radiation incident on jak and toona canopies. Daily water use of the upper canopy jak showed a clear linear relationship with dailyirradiance on its canopy. However, the water use of toona did not show such a relationshipIn both species, there were significant negative linear relationships between daily sapflowand daily mean relative humidity. However, air temperature did not have a significanteffect on sapflow of both jak and toona trees. The canopy leaf area of jak remained more orless constant during the experimental period. But in toona, the canopy leaf area increasedduring the latter parr of the experimental period. Water use of both jak and toona did notshow a significant relationship with the variation of soil moisture content of the top l m ofthe soil profile. This indicated that the trees were extracting water from the deeper layers ofthe soil profile. It can be concluded from results of the present study that water use of aKFG is dominated by large upper canopy trees and that it is largely determined by theincident solar radiation. This study also showed that large trees in this ecosystem maintaintheir high levels of water use even during dry periods of the year by extracting water fromdeeper layers of the soil profile.


ObjectiveTo study the factors influencing the prognosis and surgical effectiveness of hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC)with portal vein tumor thrombus(PVTT).MethodsThe clinical data of 68 cases of HCC with PVTT from 2001 to 2004 were analyzed retrospectively.All patients were subjected to surgical operation.In terms of postoperative chemotherapy,liver cirrhosis and tumor size,Child-Pugh stage,the cases were divided two groups and analyzed respectively.ResultsIn the group of surgical resection plus postoperative chemotherapy,the median survival time was 17.8 months and the postoperative 0.5-,1-,2-,3-year survival rates were 80.4%,64.7%,47.1% and 31.4% respectively.In the group of simple surgical resection,the median survival time was 14.5 months,and the postoperative 0.5-,1-,2-,3-year survival rates were 70.6%,52.4%,29.4% and 5.9% respectively.There were significant difference between the two groups(P(0.05)).ConclusionSurgical resection combined with postoperative chemotherapy or chemoembolization is an effective therapy for the HCC with PVTT;Liver cirrhosis,tumor size and Child-Pugh stage may be important parameters to estimate the prognosis of HCC with PVTT.


Abstract While the major emphasis in plastics application has been in the novelty field, these materials have many chemical and physical characteristics which make them almost ideal as materials of chemical construction. In modern chemical process industry plastics are used primarily as protective coatings, linings, chemical resistant cements, joining materials and cast plastic structures. Typical applications of these materials are fairly well known but additional knowledge on corrosion resistance and physical properties is required to insure proper application. The use of reaction vessels, towers, hoods and pipe cast from filled plastics is expected to increase as additional technical information becomes available. The greatest growth in industrial plastics application will be in the field of extruded, laminated and reinforced plastic materials based on plastics which are already available commercially. Considerable advances in research, design and application of such materials can be assured. This will...


Editor's Introduction: We feel privileged to republish portions of The Power of Balance: Transforming Self, Society, and Scientific Inquiry. Originally published by SAGE in 1991, the book's copyright has reverted to the author, who wished to share our selection of excerpts as a contribution to this special issue's theme. Torbert's body of work has always been about fostering "the development of politics and the political," at each of the scales highlighted in the book's title, as well as in all of the domains in which he has served. As he wrote in the original preface to the book, the work was 20 years in the making, and now, nearly 20 years after that, we wish for at least some portions of this classic work to be back in circulation. 2 The "power of balance" as conceived by Torbert represents an integral paradigm of principles, theory, and praxis. Deployed, the paradigm is one that can indeed inform and shape the development of self, society, and scientific inquiry. To explicate that fulsome vision, the book's fifteen chapters develop the themes of three sections: Theory and Strategy, Heart and Practice, and Vision and Method. Here, we have excerpted from several chapters in Theory and Strategy, and from one chapter in Vision and Method. This means, of course, that we present but a small fraction of this integral classic, leaving out all of the rich, in-depth illustrations, including the author's learning practice as he first attempted to enact the principles. Yet, we hope even this abbreviated form of The Power of Balance supports at least two goals: to offer deployable insights and practices for developing politics and the political; and to take root as part of a foundational canon for integral political thought, research, and praxis. How we readers deploy these principles in our own actions will determine the degree to which self, society, and scientific inquiry transform.


ABSTRACT Designs are made for longitudinal-flux, single-sided linear induction machines (SLIMs) and transverse-dc-flux homopolar linear synchronous machines (HLSMs). All machines have passive reaction rails. The machines are designed to provide tractive effort for conventional rail vehicles requiring output powers from 200 to 3735 kW and top speeds ranging from 112 to 400 km/hr. Magnetic levitation is not a design consideration for these vehicles. All designs are optimized to achieve minimum track weight and are made according to specified magnetic and thermal criteria. Under these assumptions, some of the HLSM advantages are: a higher power factor, much greater restoring forces for track misalignments, and less track heating. Some of the SLIM advantages are: no need to synchronize vehicle speed and excitation frequency precisely, a lower copper weight, simpler machine construction, and a more easily anchored track structure. When the required output power and available frequency are low the HLSM track is...


We prove that any metric surface (that is, metric space homeomorphic to a 2-manifold with boundary) with locally finite Hausdorff 2-measure is the Gromov-Hausdorff limit of polyhedral surfaces with controlled geometry. We use this result, together with the classical uniformization theorem, to prove that any metric surface homeomorphic to the 2-sphere with finite Hausdorff 2-measure admits a weakly quasiconformal parametrization by the Riemann sphere, answering a question of Rajala-Wenger. These results have been previously established by the authors under the assumption that the metric surface carries a length metric. As a corollary, we obtain new proofs of the uniformization theorems of Bonk-Kleiner for quasispheres and of Rajala for reciprocal surfaces. Another corollary is a simplification of the definition of a reciprocal surface, which answers a question of Rajala concerning minimal hypotheses under which a metric surface is quasiconformally equivalent to a Euclidean domain.


166 Background: The degree to which cancer caused financial problems may influence ca pts par in cts and negatively impact quality of life (QoL). Financial burden of cts par, may include finding an appropriate trial, traveling to the trial site, paying for travel, lodging and some medical expenses. The Lazarex Cancer Foundation (LCF) was founded in 2006 with mission to improve care, giving hope, dignity, and life to advanced ca pts by providing assistance with options and costs to cts par, community outreach, and education. LCF developed processes to removing the barriers to cts par by improving equitable access to cancer care, increasing cts enrollment, retention and minority par, and increasing cts referrals.

METHODS
To determine the extent of benefit of LCF, we conducted a retrospective analysis of LCF beneficiaries participating in cts by reviewing and summarizing the #pts, states and countries of residence, age, type of cancer, location and distance to cts site, type of assistance, and #of advocacy/outreach.

RESULTS
From 1/01/2010 - 12/31/2015 1479 pts were assisted; age range 4-86 yrs, median 50-60; 638(43%) male, 790 (53%) female, 51 (3.4%) undeclared. 434 did not give racial/ethnic identity; of 1045, 67 (6.4%) were African American, 108 (10.3%) Hispanic, 38 (3.6) Asian Pacific Islander, other 22 (2.1), and Caucasian 760 (72.7%) -total minority 235 (22.5%). Pts resided in 49 states with largest CA-280, TX-131, MA-119, FL-81. Cts were at 115 sites; 38 NCI CCC, 8 NCI DCC. The most common diagnoses were breast-116, leukemia-87, colorectal-48 and many rare type tumors. The median household income was $75,000. Financial assistance to travel to and living expenses at the cts site was the most frequently identified need.

CONCLUSIONS
Relieving pts of financial burden allows greater access to and participation in cancer clinical trials. Further research and greater resources are needed to define the patient needs and determine methods to eliminate and remove barriers to enrollment and retention. Future research should investigate coverage thresholds that minimize adverse financial outcomes and identify ca pts at greatest risk for financial toxicity to increase par in cts and enhance QoL.


This article analyzes the definition of exceptions in IEEE STD 754 and specific implementation standards of them from the perspective of circuit design. Besides, handling principles and methods of exceptions in different floating-point operations are proposed in this paper.


The walls of two holes in a photonic crystal fiber were selectively coated with graphene oxide (GO)using a simple procedure. Thermally reducing GO then yielded 356-fs pulses in an all-fiber passively mode-locked ring laser. © 2019 The Author(s)


This paper aims at controlling a robot that is a tank like vehicle using a universal infrared remote control. The infrared signal sent from the universal infrared remote control is received by IR receiver and decoded by the microcontroller PIC16F873A using an algorithm embedded in the microcontroller. The output from the microcontroller is fed to the motor driver which drives the left and right motors. The robot"s motor control can be speed controlled by using PWM/PDM (Pulse Width Modulation/ Pulse Duration Modulation) technique.


The present article discourses about the need and the importance of the continuous formation of High School teachers in Uberlândia's city public schools. It rescues and analyses the project Creation and Implementation of in loco and Virtual Biology, Chemistry and Physics Teachers' Formation Environments (CIAFD, in Portuguese), financed by Projects and Studies Financer (FINEP, in Portuguese) and with Universidade Federal de Uberlândia's (UFU) support,


Summary Low doses of PGE1 (1-20 ng/ kg/min) infused into the vertebral artery elevated the arterial blood pressure in anesthetized cats. When administered by infusion via the femoral vein, identical doses of PGE1 produced pressor effects which were less intense than that produced by the arterial route. Low doses of PGE1 which have slight pressor effects when infused into the vertebral artery were shown to potentiate the centrally mediated pressor effect of angiotensin II when the two drugs were infused simultaneously into the vertebral artery of cats. We are grateful to Dr. John E. Pike of the Upjohn Co., Kalamazoo, MI for supplying the Prostaglandin E1 and Dr. William Wagner, Ciba-Geigy Corp., Summit, NJ for supplying the Angiotensin II.


Monocular simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) is a cheap and energy efficient way to enable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to safely navigate managed forests and gather data crucial for monitoring tree health. SLAM research, however, has mostly been conducted in structured human environments, and as such is poorly adapted to unstructured forests. In this paper, we compare the performance of state of the art monocular SLAM systems on forest data and use visual appearance statistics to characterise the differences between forests and other environments, including a photorealistic simulated forest. We find that SLAM systems struggle with all but the most straightforward forest terrain and identify key attributes (lighting changes and in-scene motion) which distinguish forest scenes from "classic" urban datasets. These differences offer an insight into what makes forests harder to map and open the way for targeted improvements. We also demonstrate that even simulations that look impressive to the human eye can fail to properly reflect the difficult attributes of the environment they simulate, and provide suggestions for more closely mimicking natural scenes.


We evaluated the relative weight (Wr) condition index as a field assessment tool with pumpkin seed Lepomis gibbosus and golden shiner Notemigonus crysoleucas, focusing on sources of variability and potential of Wr as a predictor of growth, prey availability, and environmental conditions in 10 southern Quebec lakes over 2 years. To allow calculation of Wr, we developed standard weight (Ws) equations for both species, using the regression-line-percentile (RLP) tech- nique. The proposed Wv equation in metric units (grams wet weight and millimeters total legnth, TL) for pumpkinseed is log|<)W; v = -5.179 + 3.237 log,0TL; for golden shiner it is Iog!0lV;v = —5.593 + 3.302 logioTL. Spatial and temporal variation in Wr was highly significant and largely asynchronous in both species, although spring values were lowest in most lakes. The Wr index frequently varied with length, prompting us to examine relationships in stock and quality length fish separately. We found little evidence for a relationship between Wr and growth in either species. Pumpkinseed Wf& were positively correlated with total benthic invertebrate biomass: stock length Wr was positively correlated with chironomid biomass, and quality length Wr was positively correlated with gastropod biomass. The relative weight of quality length golden shiners was positively correlated with chironomid biomass. Our results and those of other studies suggest that the common assumption of a relationship between Wr and growth in field populations should be reconsidered, but that Wr could be cautiously used as a working index of prey availability. We recommend empirical or experimental verification when Wr is used as an assessment tool in field populations.


The crystal structures of dichloro(2) and dibromo[ N-( 2-p yridylmethylidene )-2-thien ylmethylamine-N, N']copper(II) (1) have been determined to investigate the coordination of the metal centre. In both cases, the two N atoms and two halogen anions are coordinated to the copper(II) and the S atom is free. For the dibromo complex, the structure is monomeric, while the dichloro complex forms dimers (di-#-chlorobis{chloro[N-(2-pyridylmethylidene)-2-thienylmethylamine-N, Nt]copper(II) }) C o m m e n t The results presented here form part of a project directed towards the synthesis and study of ligands designed to Jc~81 ,.o c(7} Br(2) ." ~(2) /0 . ~ ~CI6) -" .. ~..'Br.(1, ~N(1) ~C(4'


The invention provides a double-stroke reciprocating piston internal combustion engine with a crank circular slide block. The internal combustion engine adopts a crankcase to exchange air, the crankcase of the internal combustion engine is provided with a crankcase bottom cover, and the capacity of the inner chamber of the communicated part of the crankcase bottom cover and the crankcase can be adjusted. The double-stroke reciprocating piston internal combustion engine with the crank circular slide block has the advantage that the capacity of the inner chamber of the crankcase bottom cover ofthe lower part of the cylinder body can be adjusted; and as the capacity of the inner chamber of the crankcase bottom cover is a part of the capacity of the crankcase, the capacity of the crankcase can be changed by the adjustment. As the volume of the crankcase is only one fourth of the volume of the internal combustion engine adopting the crank-connecting-rod mechanism, relatively speaking, thechange of the capacity of the crankcase caused by the change of the capacity of the inner chamber of the crankcase bottom cover, accounts for an obvious ratio, and therefore the scavenging ratio can be effectively adjusted, thereby solving the problem of adjusting the scavenging ratio during the application of the same engine in different external environments.


We present the result of our extensive intranight optical monitoring of the well-known lowenergy peaked BL Lac (LBL) object PKS 0735+178. This long-term follow-up consists of R-band monitoring for a minimum duration of ∼4 hours, on 17 nights spanning 11 years (1998–2008). Using the CCD as an N-star photometer, a detection limit of around 1 per cent was attained for the intranight optical variability (INOV). Remarkably, an INOV amplitude of ≥3 per cent on hour-like time-scale was not observed on any of the 17 nights, even though the likelihood of a typical LBL showing such INOV levels in a single session of 4 hours duration is known to be high (∼50 per cent). Our observations have thus established a peculiar long-term INOV quiescence of this radio-selected BL Lac object. Moreover, the access to unpublished optical monitoring data of similarly high sensitivity, acquired in another programme, has allowed us to confirm the same anomalous INOV quiescence of this LBL all the way back to 1989, the epoch of its historically largest radio outburst. Here, we present observational evidence revealing the very unusual INOV behaviour of this classical BL Lac object and discuss this briefly in the context of its other known exceptional properties.


Unlike civil law jurisdictions, the good faith principle in Islamic law is a notion not directly discussed, the foundations of which this article seeks to root out through an analysis of related, but distinct, Islamic law doctrines. As such, since Islamic law is a significant source of codification and adjudication in many Islamic countries, the perspective of some MENA countries as well as Iran towards good faith is also explored. In practice, courts and tribunals could invoke the good faith principle where Islamic law or Islamic-based laws govern the contractual relationships. This article contends that good faith permeates every sphere of a contractual relationship, particularly negotiation under Islamic law.


The 2011 historic Indigenous March for Life, for Indigenous Rights and for the Environment was the eighth such march in Bolivia since 1990, when indigenous organizations began a tradition of walking from the lowlands up the Andes to La Paz to bring public attention to their demands. Often wearing only sandals, the marchers covered nearly 750 miles on their journey from the tropical forest of the Beni region to the cold, dry highlands of La Paz. Mothers marched with their children strapped to them. As protestors entered Cochabamba, a city halfway along the route, they filled the plaza with music and lowland accents. Protestors planted the Bolivian flag in the middle of the plaza alongside a banner bearing the patajú flower, a symbol now associated with lowland indigenous culture. They shouted: "We are defending ourselves from destructive capitalism, long live the march!" Urban residents, students, intellectuals, and non-governmental (NGO) representatives joined the rally. Surrounding the plaza, they chanted in unison: "We are all TIPNIS!" This march was in response to President Morales's plan to build a highway linking the tropics of Cochabamba to the Brazilian border, to be funded by the Brazilian national development bank, opening new possibilities for trade with Brazil. The Morales government claimed that the road would bring prosperity and trade to lowland peoples and help the state achieve control of the national territory. But the proposed highway would run through the forest preserve and communally held indigenous land of the Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure (TIPNIS; Isiboro Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park). The protesters charged that the road amounted to internal colonialism, and that 5


Mobile phone was touted as an innovative device in the twentieth century. With the advent of advanced technologies like GSM, CDMA, WLL and 3G technology and a growing number of service providers, the competition has increased considerably. Day by day, both the public players and the private players are putting in their resources and efforts to improve their services so as to give the maximum service delivery to their customers. The focal point of this study is to assess the consequence of Mobile Number Portability on total subscribers and also to fish out the operators that are better-off or worse-off as a result of the launch of MNP in Nigeria. On the basis of this, static panel data analysis was used among the four major operators (MTN, Airtel, Etisalat and Glo). Quarterly data were used from 2013 to 2014 and the study reveals that there exists an inverse relationship between MNP and subscribers of each operator. The study discovered the dominance of MTN and Glo ahead of other operators as a result of the launch of MNP. On this premise, it is highly recommendable that MNP should be encouraged by government and regulatory agencies so as to enhance the competitive framework among the operators in the industry.


The characteristics of the rhyme scheme of ZHAO Jia's of poetry such as his taking words with high and level tone,rising tone and entering tone as the rhyming words give an objective picture of the rhyme system in the middle of the Tang Dynasty.


Finite-domain constraint programming can be used to solve a wide range of problems by first modelling the problem as a set of constraints that characterise the problem's solutions, then searching for solutions that satisfy the constraints. Experts often augment models with implied constraints and constraints that break symmetries in the model. An emerging pattern in the modelling process, highlighted and demonstrated here, is that some powerful implied constraints can be derived only after symmetry-breaking constraints have been added. Furthermore, the choice between alternative symmetry-breaking constraints is commonly made by considering either the amount of symmetry broken or the strength of pruning obtained in comparison with the overhead of enforcing the constraints. We demonstrate that the choice should also consider the strength of the implied constraints derivable from the symmetry breaking constraints. We also discuss future automation of the selection of symmetry-breaking constraints and the derivation of implied constraints.


1. This document presents the state-of-play on OECD activities on avian avoidance testing, as of 2014. Originally intended as a harmonised OECD guidance document, however no consensus has been reached yet among countries on the level of guidance to provide, on the test design and sequence of testing, and on several other issues. Each sub-section contains a brief record of the arguments considered by the Expert Group and the conclusions reached.


Over ninety percent of Mongolia's energy load is run through the Central Energy System. This primary grid provides Mongolia's capital, Ulaanbaatar, with the power it uses to function. In the first half of 2010 the Central Energy System managed 1739.45 million kWhs, a 4.6 percent increase from 2009. If this growth rate continues, by 2015 Ulaanbaatar's three power plants will be unable to generate enough heat and electricity to meet the city's needs. Currently, plans have been proposed to rehabilitate the aging coal power plants. However, rising maintenance costs and growing emission levels make the long‐term sustainability of this solution uncertain. The following paper analyzes the capital, maintenance, and decommissioning costs associated with the current rehabilitation plans and compares them with a nuclear alternative.


The construction of a harmonious society made new developing requirements to adult edu- cation service training,and the social realities gave it distinctive characteristics of the times.Through re- thinking its functional location,this article explores school laws of adult education training from its func- tional innovation,operating mode,vocational abilities training focus on practical skills and other aspects. It integrates adult education service training whose concepts are people-oriented and harmonious educa- tion into a harmonious social development.


Introduction: Magnetic resonance arthrography, a procedure which utilizes intra-articular gadolinium containing contrast agents, has become a useful tool in musculoskeletal diagnosis. Although gadolinium is considered safe for systemic use, toxicities in some tissues and cells have been identified. In this study, toxicity of gadolinium on cartilage was assessed by measuring the effect of gadolinium on proteoglycan synthesis, cell proliferation, and apoptosis in cultured chondrocytes. The hypothesis is that gadolinium is not an inert substance with respect to cartilage metabolism.


A detailed structural analysis of the copolyesterification in bulk without any external catalyst at 160°C between o-phthalic anhydride (P), oleic acid (O), and trimethylolpropane (T) with a mol ratio ([COOH]/[OH]) = 0.70 has been carried out by high resolution 13C nuclear magnetic resonance (13C-NMR) (DMSO-d6 and CDCl3 solutions), 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-NMR) (CDCl3 solution), and by volumetry. The use of CDCl3 as NMR solvent has allow us to identify several signals that have been assigned to trimethylolpropane monoesters with different esterification degrees in the o-phthalate residue. Identically, we have detected signals assignable to monoesters at the chain ends in structures with different chain lengths. These monoesterified structures have been also confirmed by analyzing samples modified by the diazomethane addition. These modified samples have been also used to determine free acid groups as their methoxylic derivatives by 1H-NMR in CDCl3 solution. We have not observed any detectable signs of gelation nor products produced by secondary reactions. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci A: Polym Chem 35: 3409–3429, 1997


The paper examines four variants of the oil track from the south of the Siberian platform to the APR countries in the 2005-2025 period. The efficiency of the northern variant was estimated using the dynamic simulation model of the financial-economic evaluation of the oil pipelines projects developed at the IEIE SB RAS. The benefits of the Nizhniaya Poima – Verkhniechonsky – Chayandinsky – Lensk – Tynda – Skovorodino – Nakhodka variant answering the interests of the project participants and providing maximum involvement of the oil resources of the Siberian platform into the economic turnover are shown. A procedure of estimation of the multiplicative effects of the influence of the route variants of the Eastern corridor of oil mains on the economic growth in the Krasnoyarsk krai, Irkutsk region and Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) is given.


The recruitment of lymphocytes via the hepatic sinusoidal channels and positioning within liver tissue is a critical event in the development and persistence of chronic inflammatory liver diseases. The hepatic sinusoid is a unique vascular bed lined by hepatic sinusoidal endothelial cells (HSECs), a functionally and phenotypically distinct subpopulation of endothelial cells. Using flow‐based adhesion assays to study the migration of lymphocytes across primary human HSECs, we found that lymphocytes enter into HSECs, confirmed by electron microscopy demonstrating clear intracellular localization of lymphocytes in vitro and by studies in human liver tissues. Stimulation by interferon‐γ increased intracellular localization of lymphocytes within HSECs. Furthermore, using confocal imaging and time‐lapse recordings, we demonstrated "intracellular crawling" of lymphocytes entering into one endothelial cell from another. This required the expression of intracellular adhesion molecule‐1 and stabilin‐1 and was facilitated by the junctional complexes between HSECs. Conclusion: Lymphocyte migration is facilitated by the unique structure of HSECs. Intracellular crawling may contribute to optimal lymphocyte positioning in liver tissue during chronic hepatitis. (Hepatology 2017;65:294‐309).


Nowadays the quality of students, especially for the female high school students is changing. Female students have irrational beliefs problems. Social adjustment, emotional adjustment and educational adjustment are three main adjustments for the female high school students. The objectives of this study are to identify the relationship between irrational beliefs and social, emotional and educational adjustment of female high school students; and to identify which irrational beliefs has the most positive influence on social, emotional, and educational adjustment of female high school students. Questionnaire has been done by a sample of 208 respondents from Sekolah Tun Fatimah (STF). There are two parts in the survey form where Part A is Irrational Beliefs Test (IBT), and Part B is Adjustment Inventory for School (AISS). Other than that, Pearson Correlation Analysis and Multiple Regression Analysis were used to analyze data. The study found there is a relationship between irrational beliefs and social, emotional, and educational adjustment of female high school students. It is also found that demand of approval was among ten IBs factors which has influenced the most on social adjustment; dependency was among ten IBs factors which has influenced the most on emotional adjustment; and dependency was among ten IBs factors which has influenced the most on educational adjustment.


The present invention relates to a micro-battery comprising a file (10) of the solid-state thin layer on the substrate (11), upwardly from the substrate 11, the first electrode 14, solid electrolyte 15 and second electrode 16 It includes / collector (17) set in a row. The first surface 18 and second surface 20 of electrolytes are each in contact with the main surface 19 and the second electrode 16 / current collector (17) major surface 21 of the set of the first electrode 14 . The second surface of the first electrode (14) major surface 19, the dimension is smaller than the dimension of the main surface 21 of the set, the first surface (20) dimension is the solid electrolyte 15 of a solid electrolyte 15 of the It is smaller than the dimensions of 20. In addition, the solid electrolyte 15 is not in contact with the substrate 11.


Introduction Epiphysiodesis is a common orthopaedic procedure used to intervene when there is disproportional long bone growth. A technique involing the open surgical ablation of the physis was decribed by Phemister more than 70 years ago and was the standard for decades. Since the early 1980's, several alternative methods with efforts to reduce the invasiveness and surgical dissection appeared, such as epiphyseal stapling or percutaneous epiphysiodesis. Success of each method requires late growth stages and is irreversible. The use of staples has problems of asymmetrical fusion and or incomplete fusion. Currently, percutaneous epiphysiodesis is the method of choice. The percutaneous technique is limited in the amount of physeal plate to ablate under fluoroscopic control and in how to ensure the completeness of the ablation. This experimental study was designed to develop a simpler and more reliable method of epiphysiodesis with minimal trauma, which we believe can be achieved through electrically stimulation using direct current. To achieve this we used a rabbit model and inserted an electrode into the distal femoral growth plate and observed the changes after two weeks of no current, or constant 10 microamps, or 50 microamps. Comparisons were be made within each group between the operatied and non operated, contralateral limb. We assesed bone growth by longitudinal length measurements, histological appearance and morphometric and volumetric analyses.


The PCM-FM system telemetry is the most widespread system in the field of aerospace telemetry in the day. However, the characteristics of traditional analog circuits make the system less flexible, the layout of the circuit is difficult, and the low-frequency response characteristics are not ideal. In response to the problems above, this paper uses a fully digital FPGA to implement the PCM-FM algorithm, with high accuracy, parameterized configuration and other features. Telemetry form is flexible and easy to debug. And it is easy to receive and send signals at both ends of the digital processing. The experimental results show that the use of FPGA chip to achieve digital signal processing algorithm for PCM-FM full digital baseband modulation can meet the requirements of a wide range of 1kbps~10Mbps baseband rate modulation.


The isothermal full Gibbs function which is negative definite and the adiabatic internal energy which is positive definite are used to develop a linear fracture theory for isothermal and adiabatic cracking in a piezoelectric material, respectively. Both the full Gibbs function release rate and the internal energy release rate for crack propagation are evaluated and revealed to be positive functions of crack lengths and remote loads, even under pure electric loads only. When the electric permittivity inside the crack is treated as zero, each of the full Gibbs function release rate and the internal energy release rate has a compact form in terms of the mode II, I, III stress and electric displacement intensity factors.


Physical changes that occur in the elderly, especially women who have entered menopause include the cardiovascular system with increased blood pressure. Elderly Gymnastics is a form of physical activity that can reduce blood pressure. The aim of the study was to determine whether there was an influence of elderly gymnastics on blood pressure reduction in elderly women with hypertension in the Banjarsari Health Center working area in 2018. This research is pre-experiment using the Two Group Posttest Design design. The sample of 60 elderly women who will be divided into two groups, namely 30 people in the intervention group and 30 people in the group. The research instrument was measurement of blood pressure (stethoscope) and observation sheet for the implementation of elderly exercises. The statistical test used is the T Test with a significance level of 0.05. The mean blood pressure for the control group in systolic BP was 167.17, and diastolic 99.33. In the experimental group systolic 160.83 and diastolic blood 94.67. Statistical test of the influence of elderly gymnastics on blood pressure reduction in elderly women with hypertension with p value for systolic (p value: 0.002) and diastolic (p value: 0.004). Conclusion there is the influence of elderly gymnastics on blood pressure reduction in elderly women with hypertension in the Banjarsari Health Center working area in 2018, so it can be suggested that health workers, especially midwives, to socialize elderly gymnastics to those who have not participated in elderly exercises given the influence of elderly gymnastics on blood pressure reduction.


The mixed quark-gluon condensate from the global color symmetry model is derived. It is shown that the mixed quark-gluon condensate depends explicitly on the gluon propagator. This interesting feature may be regarded as an additional constraint on the model of gluon propagator. The values of the mixed quark-gluon condensate from some ansatz for the gluon propagator are compared with those determined from QCD sum rules.


The results of this systematic review are relevant to nurse practitioners in the mental health field and to public health nurses. The findings provide evidence that nurses confronted by both an increased need for service and a shortage of service providers can partially close the gap by using a group based parenting programme to address the emotional and behavioural adjustment of children <3 years of age.However,this review did not compare and contrast specific types of group based parenting programmes. Further studies are needed to show the effect of specific group based parenting programmes.Research is also needed to examine the long term effects of treatment programmes and to study approaches to prevent mental health problems in children


Connection between simulation and full-field measurement was originally a critial task. With the advent of finite element based digital image correlation methods [9, 2, 4], it is now possible to bridge efficiently both of them with a common language: a unique finite element mesh [6]. However, choosing an appropriate mesh and / or resolution may be quite tricky because of the resolution / uncertainty compromise [3], even if FE DIC approaches may significantly reduce the measurement uncertainties as they assume the continuity of the displacement field [5]. In addition, this choice is also constrained by hardware limitations. Moreover, in the context of mechanical parameter identification, the resolution is often limited because the field of view generally needs to include the boundaries of the specimen [8]. At the same time, a high resolution is required in the regions where the displacement is sensitive to the parameter to identify. And in some cases, these region are very small.


The nonvolatile storage system having a non-volatile memory (NVM) provides its own logging and hierarchical consistency, thereby initiating the recovery latency and Force Unit Access handshake. Mapping between host address and an address in the NVM via one or more map entries is maintained, enabling the position of the data written to the NVM of the host. Objects stored in the NVM includes sufficient information to recover only the objects in the object itself. NVM in one or more data streams, and mapping a stream flow to manage checkpoints. Host data is written to the stream, the stream mapped map entry is written, the entry point map and the other inspection data structure is checkpointed stream. Tag embedded in the stream of time makes it possible to determine the selected portion coincide with each other, and the flow is discarded during recovery.


AIM To explore the effects of exogenous Angiotensin II on ACE2 gene and its protein expression in cultured cardiomyocytes.METHODS Cardiomyocytes of neonatal SD rats were primarily cultured in vitro.The cardiomyocytes were randomly divided into control group and Ang II stimulation group.After pretreatment,the cellular surface area and the diameter were measured.RT-PCR and Western blot were used to detect the expression of ACE2 mRNA and its protein in cultured cardiomyocytes.RESULTS 10-7mol/L Ang II alone caused obvious increases in the diameter and the cell surface area of cardiomyocytes(P0.01).Ang II down-regulated ACE2 mRNA and its protein expression(P0.01).CONCLUSION Exogenous Ang II directly causes cardiomyocyte hypertrophy.Ang II down-regulates ACE2 mRNA and its protein expression,as well as Ang(1-7) production,and cooperatively participates in the process of cardiomyocyte hypertrophy.


Metallic nickel was electrodeposited from aqueous nickel(II) acetate dissolved in the lyotropic liquid crystalline phases of Brij 56 and Brij 78 surfactant templates to form metal films with hexagonal arrays of nanometer-sized channels. The applicability of these materials as inexpensive, large area and low-resistance current collectors was demonstrated by cyclic voltammetry. The redox charge capacity of the surface oxide in aqueous KOH was enhanced by 2 orders of magnitude over that of a nontemplated sample with no detectable impedance of the reaction rate.


The study provides a review of the admission to universities models in different countries and also a comparative analysis of the educational systems characteristics from an international perspective. The aim of the research is to assess the possible impact of the educational system characteristics on the accessibility of higher education. There is also proposed an analytical model which explains how the level of autonomy and selectivity of the educational system, along with the characteristics of the student financial support influence the level of accessibility of higher education. The framework of the model is supported by the cases of selected groups of countries: post-Soviet countries, the USA and the UK, Scandinavian countries and Western European countries. Based on the classification of higher education systems, countries with the highest level of access to higher education tend to have low levels of autonomy and selectivity, or they also can be characterized by highly developed system of financial support. As a result, it was found that high selectivity and autonomy level can negatively influence the accessibility of higher education, while high level of the financial support system may neutralize this effect and positively influence on the access to higher education. Results of the study can be useful while reforming the selection system in Russia, since comparative analysis shows which tools make it possible to increase the accessibility of higher education and, as a result, to reduce educational inequality among different social groups.