We present SMARTEST, a novel symbolic execution technique for effectively hunting vulnerable transaction sequences in smart contracts. Because smart contracts are stateful programs whose states are altered by transactions, diagnosing and understanding nontrivial vulnerabilities requires generating sequences of transactions that demonstrate the flaws. However, finding such vulnerable transaction sequences is challenging as the number of possible combinations of transactions is intractably large. As a result, most existing tools for smart contract analysis use abstractions and merely point out the locations of vulnerabilities, which in turn imposes a steep burden on users of understanding the bugs, or have limited power in generating transaction sequences. In this paper, we aim to overcome this challenge by combining symbolic execution with a language model for vulnerable transaction sequences, so that symbolic execution effectively prioritizes program paths that are likely to reveal vulnerabilities. Experimental results with real-world smart contracts show that SMARTEST significantly outperforms existing tools by finding more vulnerable transaction sequences including critical zero-day vulnerabilities.


Vochysia antioquiae, a new species from the Department of Antioquia, Colombia, is described. It is characterized by having one petal. It is related to V. pacifica Cuatrec., but they can be separated on the basis of petiole size, number of flowers per cincinnus and size of the floral buds.


But initial data analysis has lead me to a series regarding practices of digital literacies during the writing of assignments, and one of them is the concept and practice of 'curation' as a digital literacy, and what the implications are for curation practices to be better understood, theorised, and subsequently harnessed for educational purposes. My PhD thesis (Bhatt, 2014) contains some ideas that are worth disseminating out to collide with others as part of what I believe is a public conversation. [Aside: see this brief lecture by Steven Johnson on the 'collision' of ideas and the sharing of half-baked hunches] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU]


The modification of the curing behaviour and the phase separation process for an epoxy resin blended with a crystalline thermoplastic was investigated in the case of the diglycidylether of bisphenol-A (DGEBA)/4,4'-methylene bis(3-chloro-2,6-diethylaniline) (MCDEA) blended with syndiotactic polystyrene (sPS) and cured at 220 degreesC. Phase separation taking place during curing of the blend was investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and optical microscopy in order to get a better understanding of the complex interactions between cure kinetics of epoxy matrix and crystallisation of sPS, both influenced by blend composition. Results suggested that phase separation and crystallisation of sPS occurred at almost similar times, with phase separation just being ahead of crystallisation. DSC and near-infrared measurements were used for the determination of the cure kinetics. Slow delays on the cure reactions were observed during the first minutes for the sPS-containing blends compared with the neat DGEBA/MCDEA system but, after some time, the reaction rate became faster for the blends than for the neat matrix. Phase separation occurring in the mixtures may explain this particular phenomenon. (C) 2004 Society of Chemical Industry.


VO2 thin films are prepared on three kinds of substrates by the sol-gel dip-coating method followed by heat treatment under vacuum conditions. The IR and UV-visible spectra of the films are studied during heating and cooling between room temperature and 100 degree(s)C. The experimental results show that the films exhibit thermally-induced reversible phase transition and, as a result, the maximum changes in transmittance and reflectivity are 58% and 25%, respectively, in the case of vacuum heat treatment at 400 degree(s)C and silica glass substrates. The refractive index n decreases and the extinction coefficient k increases when heating these films from room temperature to 100 degree(s)C, and vice versa. The reasons why the optical constants and IR absorption spectra change so remarkably are discussed.


The issue of digitalization of the notarial process in the context of reforms in Ukraine is considered. Emphasis is placed on the role of e-notary implementation in protecting property rights and ensuring access to notarial acts in the conditions caused by a pandemic. Attention is drawn to the need to ensure a proper balance between the interests of the state in the implementation of digitalization of the notarial process, on the one hand, and the interest of citizens to receive quality services, on the other hand. In view of this, a number of provisions have been explored that help ensure the right of access to notarial acts online. It should be noted that the current legislation of Ukraine does not provide provisions that would provide the possibility of notarial acts remotely. Emphasis is placed on the fact that the Law of Ukraine «On Notaries» should define notarial acts that can be performed using an electronic service, and which — no. The criteria that can be taken into account when deciding on the possibility of performing a specific notarial act electronically are identified. In particular, the legislator should proceed from the expediency of performing a certain notarial act and demand from interested parties, as well as taking into account the need for personal appearance when performing a notarial act. Emphasis is placed on the fact that before the development of the platform on the basis of which the transition to electronic notary will be carried out, it is necessary to determine the entity that will administer this resource. It is noted that such a subject can be both the Notary Chamber of Ukraine and a specially created body. The issue of identification of a person in case of notarial act online is considered. The possibility of identifying persons who have applied for notarial acts with the help of the web portal of electronic services «Portal Diia» in case of making appropriate changes in the legislation that will regulate the commission of notarial acts remotely is indicated. Attention is drawn to the feasibility of a test environment where a person can test the ability of their own computer to ensure uninterrupted and safe participation in the performance of a notarial act. Emphasis is placed on the need to ensure the preservation of notarial secrecy in determining the platform for videoconferencing during the performance of notarial acts.


Real time big data analytics has become important to meet the business as well as other decision-making needs in many complex applications. A significant portion of such data is available and stored in semi-structured form. A tree-based organization is commonly used in such cases. Tree matching is a core component for many applications such as fraud detection, spam filtering, information visualization and extraction, user authentication, natural language processing, XML databases, bioinformatics, etc. Comparing ordered (unordered) trees is compute-intensive, in particular for Big Data. To facilitate comparison of ordered trees, in this paper we address the problem of shaping the semi-structured data to enable time efficient processing on contemporary hardware such as a GPGPU (General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit) and INTEL MIC (a multi-core processor). Specifically, our data shaping approach enables pre-computation of partial edit distance values in parallel. We also develop processor-specific techniques keeping in mind compute requirements of various constituent stages of PTED. We evaluate our work using real world data sets. Our experimental results show that our SIMT-based PTED-GPU (Parallel Tree Edit Distance using GPU) implementation shows speedup of up to 12X when compared to the state-of-the-art in tree edit distance (TED) computation. In addition, our techniques when ported on CPUs are scalable. Finally, we discuss appropriateness of compute platforms w.r.t. various constituent stages of proposed PTED.


The contradiction between the rapid socio-economic development and a shortage of natural resources on the one hand on the other is becoming increasingly conspicuous,mankind is faced with new opportunities for economic development.new ways for investigating actuality of their innovations in technology,system and new energy sources,reduction of energy consumption and reducing emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide,With low power consumption,lconsumption,emissions,and pollution,low-carbon economy is characterized by future economic development of Guizhou's new choice.based on analysis of the concept and requirement of low cost surface to air missile,and the feasibility and necessity for achieving low-carbon economy,put forth several plans for economic and social development in the twelfth Five-Year Plan of Guizhou Province.


Objective: We discussed the treatment effect of BQ-123 on subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) in rats and analyzed the working mechanism. Method: SD rats were randomly divided into sham operation group, SAH group, high-dose BQ-123 group and low-dose BQ-123 group. Double hemorrhage injection was used to produce SAH model in rats and morphological changes were observed under the optical microscope and electron microscope. Hippocampal expressions of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3-K), protein kinase B (PKB/Akt) and mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) were detected by immunohistochemistry and Real-time PCR. Learning and memory capacities of rats were determined by the shuttle box paradigm. Result: Compared with the sham operation group, SAH group showed severe neuronal damage in the hippocampus, with an upregulation of phosphorylated PI3-K, Akt and mTOR. SAH group had less surviving neurons and a decline in learning and memory capacities (P<0.05). Compared with SAH group, the BQ-123 treatment groups showed alleviated neuronal damage, upregulated PI3-K and Akt, downregulated mTOR, more surviving neurons and improved learning and memory capacities. These changes were more obvious in the high-dose group (P<0.05). Conclusion: BQ-123 has a good therapeutic effect in early brain injury after SAH, possibly by regulating the PI3K/Akt and inhibing mTOR activity.


Bisphenol-A (BPA, 4,4-isopropylidinediphenol) belongs to the family of endocrine disrupting chemicals and is commonly used in the production of epoxy resins and polycarbonate (PC) plastics. The aim of present study was to determine the acute toxicity of BPA to Grass carp fry and its effect on biochemical constituents. The 96hours LC50 of BPA for grass carp fry (Ctenopharyngodon idella) was calculated as 3.44mg/l using Finney probit analysis. The effect of sub-lethal concentration of BPA on biochemical constituents like cholesterol, glycogen, total proteins and lipids was evaluated at 95% confidence interval.


In the paper, we present a new kind of function photonic crystals, which refractive index is a function of space position. Unlike conventional PCs, which structure grow from two materials, A and B, with different dielectric constants εA and εB. Based on Fermat principle, we give the motion equations of light in one-dimensional, two-dimensional and three-dimensional function photonic crystals. For one-dimensional function photonic crystals, we investigate the dispersion relation, band gap structure and transmissivity, and compare them with conventional photonic crystals. By choosing various refractive index distribution function n(z), we can obtain more wider or more narrower band gap structure than conventional photonic crystals.


The present invention discloses a method for intelligent terminal interactive fusion faces and gestures, belonging to the image processing technical field. Step: The intelligent terminal face image captured by the camera to a person; Step: human face image normalization processing obtained; The third step: collecting gesture images and a background color hand built according to the smart terminal camera mold; fourth step: detecting a gesture image to the third step.


We study the Keller–Segel model of chemotaxis and develop a composite particle-grid numerical method with adaptive time stepping which allows us to resolve and propagate singular solutions. We compare the numerical findings (in two dimensions) with analytical predictions regarding formation and interaction of singularities obtained through analysis of the stochastic differential equations associated with the model.


The healthcare, financial and social burden of chronic diseases, such as diabetes mellitus, coronary heart disease, asthma, chronic obstructive airway disease, hypertension, chronic depression, osteoporosis, end stage renal failure and stroke, are steadily on the rise. In the US alone, some 125 million people now suffer from at least one chronic disease. While no nationwide studies on chronic disease have been done in Singapore, National Health Surveys have shown a definite and significant increase in chronic diseases over the past few decades. Our mortality indicators support this with a consistent picture of an epidemiological transition from acute infectious diseases towards chronic debilitating illnesses which was obvious from the mid-sixties. Meeting the complex needs of patients with chronic diseases is the single greatest challenge facing our healthcare system today. With the increasing numbers of patients afflicted with chronic diseases, it is imperative that clinicians, healthcare administrators and health policy makers plan and ensure that the healthcare delivery system is configured to provide care for these patients across the continuum of their healthcare needs. Chronic disease management has been referred to be the best and most comprehensive approach for providing holistic and comprehensive care for patients with chronic illnesses. Tackling chronic diseases at the system level has been the focus of many recent publications. In the US, the recent Institute of Medicine Report – Crossing the Quality Chasm – focused on the need to reorganise care delivery to meet the healthcare needs of populations of patients who suffer from chronic illnesses. In October 2001, the British Medical Journal and the Western Journal of Medicine both published special issues focusing on the problem of chronic diseases and highlighted how various nations are dealing with this growing epidemic. It is therefore timely that a special issue of the Annals focuses on the needs of patients with chronic disease, on the advances in clinical and non-pharmacological management, and the challenges faced in ensuring that patients receive optimal care meeting the needs at the various stages of their disease. Disease management is a multidisciplinary, continuum-based approach to healthcare delivery that proactively identifies populations with, or at risk for established medical conditions that: supports the physician-patient relationship and plan of care; emphasises prevention of exacerbations and complications, utilising cost-effective evidence-based practice guidelines and patient empowerment strategies such as self-management; and continuously evaluates clinical, humanistic and economic outcomes with the goal of improving overall health. Wagner et al derived a model for evidence-based chronic disease management which emphasised 4 main factors: · well-developed care processes and incentives for making changes in the healthcare delivery system; · presence of behaviourally sophisticated self-management support that empowers patients with self-efficacy, which in turn enables them to be their own disease manager; · focus on team-based care delivery; · use of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and clinical pathways, including patient education and reminders; and · enhanced information systems to facilitate the development of disease registries, tracking systems and reminders, and to enable the team to evaluate the care provided.


Hypothesis / aims of study Identical twin studies are regarded as an ideal methodology for assessing the contribution of environment to human disease states, providing a degree of 'natural control' over genetic variance that cannot be achieved within random samples of unrelated individuals. We conducted an extensive survey of incontinence symptoms at the world's largest annual gathering of twins, to determine the main environmental risk factors associated with stress urinary incontinence (SUI).


The risk of transmission of malaria parasites through blood transfusion has been noted. A study was conducted to determine
the prevalence and intensity of malaria on healthy blood donors who attended Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital
(NAUTH), Nnewi, from April to May 2002. Blood samples were collected from 200 blood donors, which comprises of 159 males
and 41 females grouped according to age in years. Thick and thin films prepared from the samples were examined and malaria
parasites were counted according to the World Health Organisation recommendation. The result shows an overall prevalence
rate of 46% for malaria parasitaemia among the blood donors. Females showed a higher prevalence rate (48%) than males
(45%). Only Plasmodium falciparum (43%) and Plasmodium malariae (3%) were seen. A higher parasite load of 24.8 x 103
parasites/microlitre of blood was observed among the males than the females with 4.9 x 103 parasites/microlitre of blood. The
differences observed were not statistically significant (p>0.05). The age-group 20 years and below and the 51– 60 years had the
highest prevalence rate of 50% while the 41-50 years age-group had the least (40%), a difference which is statistically
significant (p Keywords : Malaria, prevalence, intensity, Nnewi, Nigeria. Nigerian Journal of Parasitology Vol. 27 2006: pp.11-15


The expanding worldwide move towards optical communications indicates a long term need for system designers proficient in fiber optic design techniques. Consequently, designers must have an array of CAD and CAE analysis tools applicable to the lengthy and often-tedious calculations required for the evaluation of fiber optic communication networks. The proposed multimedia programme package ADAFOX for modelling of digital and analogue fiber optic networks, is a computational aid for fiber optic designers to use in the development of networks that conform to given system performance specifications. The proposed paper gives the results of the development work related to design multimedia CAD and CAE tools for digital and analogue fiber optic networks design and analysis.


44 ■ For The Defense ■ October 2012 ■ Andrew Tauber is a partner and Brian Wong is an associate at Mayer Brown LLP in Washington, D.C. Mr. Tauber is co-leader of the firm's Supreme Court & Appellate Practice and focuses on federal preemption. Mr. Wong focuses on representing corporate clients in courts nationwide. Max Heerman is principal litigation counsel at Medtronic in Minneapolis, where he supervises both medical device and general business litigation. Daniel Ring, a partner in Mayer Brown LLP's Chicago office, and Kristina Portner, an associate in the firm's Washington, D.C., office, assisted in the preparation of this article. A Powerful Tool to Wield Early How to Argue Medical Device Preemption


To make the J-TEXT tokamak more flexible for physics experiments, an electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) system is being developed. The main parts of the J-TEXT ECRH system are donated by the Culham Science Center from the former COMPASS-D, including six 60 GHz/200 kW/5 s (0.5 s) gyrotrons, six magnets, and auxiliary power supplies for the gyrotrons, transmission parts, and so on. For the ECRH system, the output mode of the gyrotron from the former Varian Associates, Inc. is TE02 mode and converted to TE01 mode for low loss transmission. The TE01-TE11-HE11 mode converter is used at the end of the transmission lines for efficient coupling. Then, the high-power wave is injected to the desired area of the plasma by a rotatable quasi-optical launcher. A 100 kV/60 A power supply based on a pulse step modulation technology has been developed to feed all the gyrotrons. The control system based on the compact reconfigurable I/O-9068 platform of National Instruments for monitoring, timing, and protection is being designed. Other units, such as the cooling loops, the launcher, and a spared auxiliary power supply, are on the way. We hope that four subsystems can be finally used on J-TEXT.


With the development of science and technology, the capacity of science and technology result conversion exercises great influence on the development of the university.Therefore the evaluation of ST(achievements,) conversion is increasingly important.Up to now,China has no effective measurement method of ST achievement conversion performance because of the fuzzy of science and technology result conversion at present.It brings forward a fuzzy evaluation model of university's science and technology result conversion by studying on the high technology result configuration and the system of indices.


ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL -- The AAP Department of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health, Division of Quality Care is making progress in its effort to develop practice guidelines for pediatricians to follow when treating otitis media in children. The Academy and its contract partners from the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS), entered into an 18-month contract with the federal Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) in September.


1Medical Oncology, SG Moscati Hospital, Taranto, Italy; 2CNR-IASI, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy; 3Research Laboratories in Ophthalmology, IRCCS — Fondazione Bietti, Rome, Italy; 4Department of Biomedical Sciences and Clinical Oncology, Oncogenomic Research Center, Aldo Moro University of Bari, Bari, Italy; 5Radiology, SG Moscati Hospital, Taranto, Italy; 6Department of Precision Medicine, Luigi Vanvitelli University of Campania, Napoli, Italy; 7Infectious Disease Unit, SG Moscati Hospital, Taranto, Italy; 8Italian Association of Pharmacogenomics and Molecular Diagnostics, Ancona, Italy; 9Oncology and Hematology Department, F Miulli Hospital, Acquaviva delle Fonti, Italy; 10Endocrine and Metabolic Surgery, A Gemelli Polyclinic Foundation, Rome, Italy


A plasmid carrying the 5′‐flanking region (– 1584 to + 47 with respect to the transcription initiation site) of the mouse proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) gene was fused with the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) gene, and then cotransfected into mouse N18TG2 cells with expression plasmids for the adenovirus type 12 E1 genes. Expression of E1A gene products elevated the CAT expression by 5‐ to 9‐fold, but expression of the E1B gene product did not. RNase protection analysis revealed that the activation of the PCNA gene promoter by E1A was at the transcription step. Both the 13S E1A and the 12S E1A activated the PCNA gene promoter, indicating that the activation domain of El A resides in a common region(s) of 13S and 12S El A products. The major target region of El A was mapped within the 68 base‐pair region (‐21 to +47) of the PCNA gene, which includes consensus sequences for transcription factors PEA3 and E2P, although the upstream region (–83 to – 21) including ATF(CREB)‐binding consensus had an additional effect in the transactivation.


Rule the Village And You Rule The Country, an adage that inspired the authors to examine the BUMDes Jalancagak. This study focuses the problem on: Role BUMDes Jalancagak in the implementation of the Creative Economy; Attempts were made BUMDes Jalancagak; Constraints BUMDes Running Jalancagak in business. The method used is a method descriptively by inductive approach the author in the sample using a sample set aims (purposive sampling). The data collection techniques through interviews, questionnaires and documentation. Based on the analysis we concluded that BUMDes Jalancagak has been cast as the implementation of the creative economy in order to empower villagers Jalancagak accordance with Regulation Subang District No. 14 Year 2007 on Guidelines for the Establishment BUMDes. Credit management BUMDes Jalancagak use banking management, especially rural banks and credit is the most desirable BUMDes business community. Low BUMDes human resource officer is the main limiting factor BUMDes in business management. The authors suggest that the role of BUMDes Jalancagak as the implementation Creative Economy village-owned Jalancagak maintained and further improved, because of the benefits BUMDes has been strengthening revenue village, so the village Jalancagak able to independently finance the activities of the village in order to realize the improvement of living standards and maintain preservation of customs and culture of the people in order to empower villagers Jalancagak. Keywords: implementation, creative economy, empowerment


Telegram from Col. Howard F. Bresee to Amon Carter providing information about the name change of Amon, Jr.'s prisoner of war camp.


Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) is a common subset of atherosclerosis characterized by plaque build-up in the arteries of the lower extremities. Current therapies include drug eluting stents (DESs) and drug coated balloons (DCBs). DCBs offer a more promising therapy than DESs because they do not require a permanent implant, they cost less, and prevent restenosis of the artery longer. DCBs are made up of angioplasty balloons coated in an antiproliferative drug, usually paclitaxel, and are inserted into the artery via a guide wire. The balloon inflates at the target site, mechanically compressing the plaque and delivering antiproliferative drug into the arterial wall which can prevent restenosis up to 14.5 months after treatment. Previous studies within our lab show that the excipient microstructure of the DCB can modulate the amount of drug transferred into the arterial wall. Therefore, we set out to determine what factors control the formation and morphology of excipient microcrystals and how these properties correlate to drug delivery. We hypothesized that the dehydration temperature of urea (excipient) and paclitaxel (drug) solution on Nylon-12 sheets at temperatures of 4°C, 23°C, and 37°C will affect the rate and size of crystal formation thereby altering drug transfer. We also hypothesized that the substrate hydrophobicity will impact drug delivery. To alter substrate hydrophobicity, we pre-treated the Nylon-12 sheet with UV/Ozone for 20m and 40m before coating application and dehydration at 23°C. Following SEM imaging of our samples, the coated nylon-12 sheets were mechanically compressed against a porcine artery at 8N and 12N for 30s and 180s using a uniaxial mechanical compression device. PTX was extracted from the arterial tissue and eluted through HPLC to determine drug transfer. There was no significant difference between drug transfer of the different dehydration temperatures with mean transfer rates of 5.11%, 4.7%, and 4.39% for 4°C, 23°C, and 37°C respectively (Kruskal-Wallis p = 0.12). There was a significant increase in drug transfer between no UV/Ozone pre-treatment (5.02%) and 20 minutes (28.28%) (p= 0.00092), no pre-treatment and 40m pre-treatment (12.99%) (p =0.0033), and between the 20m pre-treatment and 40m pre-treatment (p = 0.031). In conclusion, temperature of dehydration plays no role in drug delivery, however, pre-treatment of Nylon-12 surface using UV/Ozone can dramatically increase drug delivery. Future studies will focus on optimizing the UV/Ozone pre-treatment for delivery of PTX into the arterial wall, quantifying microcrystal structures in SEM images using image processing software, and performing uniaxial mechanical testing to determine adhesion forces between the artery and the surface coating. Microstructural-Mechanical Interactions in Drug Coated Balloon Therapy Final Report April 30, 2019 Design Team Jesse Lauber: Team Leader 724-464-9976; firstname.lastname@example.com John Warrington: Project Manager and Experimental Specialist 856-723-5294; email@example.com Justin Gerow: Laboratory Manager and Solution Specialist 303-907-2875; firstname.lastname@example.com Christopher Wu: Chief Financial Officer and Material Specialist 704-858-2192; email@example.com Sponsors Dr. Tarek Shazly Dr. James Blanchette Dr. Vijaya Kolachalama Dara Azar


Objective To show the skeletal and dental changes contributing to the correction of Class Ⅲmalocclusion with reverse headgear in the mixed dentition.Method Twenty patients with anterior crossbite were treated with reverse headgear in the early mixed dentition.Lateral cephalometricfilms taken at the beginning,the end of the treatment and one year after the active treatment,were analyzed with Pancherz analysis.Results and Conclusions After active treatment,the overjet correction was 6.5mm using reverse headgear.40% of the overjet correction was due to skeletal changes and 60% due to dental changes.During the twelve months follow-up period the overjet was decreased by 1.2mm and skeletal changes contributed to 23% of overjet correction.This decrease was mainly due to forward growth of the mandible and proclination of lower incisors.


Bovine infectious keratoconjunctivitis, commonly known as pinkeye, is estimated to occur in nearly half of all herds in the United States and affects at least 3% of all beef cattle. Pinkeye has several etiologies and predisposing factors. Moraxella bovis is considered to be the most prevalent bacterial cause of pinkeye and infectious bovine rhinotracheitis is one of the more common viruses incriminated. Advenoviruses, mycoplasma, Brahamella (Neisseria), Listeria, and Rickettsia have also been recovered from clinical cases of pinkeye. Neisseria is reported to be a factor only if the cornea or conjunctiva is already injured or infected by other agents. Rickettsaia will only produce this condition if injected into the anterior chamber of the eye. Chlamydia has been found in the conjunctivae of sheep in some outbreaks of pinkeye and is reported to be spread by contact. In a study in Czechoslovakia, Dyml isolated chlamydia from conjunctival scrappings of a bovine animal showing signs of pinkeye. It has been shown that if psittacoid bodies are placed on the conjunctiva of susceptible cattle, acute conjunctivitis occurs6. Also, when material from infected eyes of cattle was placed on the conjunctiva of uninfected animals, the majority became infected. However, if this material was cultured on special bacteriological media that is required for the growth of Moraxella bovis and placed on the conjunctiva of uninfected animals, considerably fewer cattle develop pinkeye6. Because of the chronic or reoccurring lesions in some pinkeye cases and the lack of a definitive diagnosis, some producers and veterinarians have asked about chlamydia causative agent are often disappointing at best. Also, chlamydia is not routinely investigated in bovine eye problems. Chlamydia (being an obligate intracellular bacteria) requires biopsies, scrappings, or swabs containing epithelial cells for proper testing. To evaluate the possibility of chlamydia involvement in bovine pinkeye, veterinary practices in each of the four corners and central Kansas were requested to send conjunctival biopsy samples from pinkeye cases. A total of 47 samples from cattle showing clinical signs of pinkeye were received-representing samples from 35 different herds throughout the state of Kansas. Using a monoclonal antibody enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) to a specific outer membrane protein (unpublished data), chlamydial proteins were found in 7 (14.89%) of the samples. The positive samples were further confirmed by inoculating sample supernatants into embryonated chicken eggs and observation of Gimenez stained elementary bodies in yolk sac impression smears. It is not the authors' contention, at this time, to incriminate chlamydia as a major pinkeye etiology. However, based on the results of this survey, it appears that further work needs to be done. Both clinically positive and negative cattle should be tested to determine the significance of these findings. Also, Koch's postulates should be satisfied. Only then can we completely evaluate chlamydial involvement in bovine pinkeye.


The cusptron is based on an axis-encircling beam produced by magnetic cusp injection. The fundamental properties of the cusp dynamics have been examined by using simplified, but still realistic, models that assess the effects of various experimental parameters in terms of gain reduction. An attempt has been made to devise experimentally realizable optimum beam configurations. Special emphasis is given to off-centering sources and methods to reduce them. The single particle orbit equation has been solved using simple approximations from which the effects of several field contributing factors are examined. The experimental factors considered were the magnetic field profiles, including the degree of the field reversal, the cusp transition thickness, and the adiabatic compression after the transition. It has been found that the unbalanced field effect generally contributes most to the off-centering and that adiabatic compression after the cusp reduces both the beam radius and the off-centering effect. The features of an optimum magnetic field are given.<<ETX>>


The urban niche from multidimensional factor consists of resources and environment space and is the foundation of urban developmen. This thesis is based on that urban ecology-technology innovation is the only regulatory factor of urban niche expansion from the perspective of recycling economy. This thesis builts the urban niche expansion evaluation index system in order to reveal the support situation of urban ecology-technology innovation to the urban recycling economy ecological effect and provide reference for city technoloy innovation policy.


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are of the utmost importance from a geological standpoint. That crystalline affinity is a definite molecular force accompanied by exothermic changes is doubtless correct, but whether this force can determine chemical changes of an endothermic character is a question involving an entirely new conception, and requires careful consideration before it can be accepted as a reasonable hypothesis. More especially is this the case when we have to deal with the constitution of hydrates, which afford such excellent examples of the application of the phase rule in chemical physics. Hydrates, as is well known, have a vapour pressure of their own, and only continue to exist when in equilibrium with the vapour pressure which they have to support. Thus the hydrates of copper sulphate can be successively decomposed under varying conditions of temperature or pressure. The instability of the aluminium hydrate, Al2 O3 . 3 H2 O, at moderate temperatures, also, is a fact •well known in chemistry ; and it seems probable that the occurrence of any hydrate, either of aluminium or of iron, in nature will depend upon which happens to be the stable phase under the existing conditions of temperature and pressure. In connection with the crystallization of alumina the researches of W. Spring, of Liege, appear to have some bearing. According to this observer, amorphous alumina or ferric oxide, if damp, can be rendered compact, presumably with the occurrence of an incipient crystallization, by pressure alone; and we are induced to consider whether the amorphous state in solids may not, in some cases at least, be comparable with the condition of superfused solutions and glasses. In fact, many of the distinctions between solids and liquids are gradually breaking down under the researches of modern physics. There does not, therefore, appear to be any necessity for a new theory to explain the facts in this case. It appears rather that Mr. Holland has unnecessarily introduced a difficulty by presupposing that the molecules in laterite are isolated from extraneous energy. If this were really the case there could be no change of entropy such as he describes, and rightly, to be the result of the reactions involved. J. VINCENT ELSDEN.


With the globalization development, schools around the world have embraced a globally oriented model of education. An embraced change that combines international education with traditional education has become a new trend for the future. Due to the acceleration of internationalization, more and more people have been seeking a higher quality of teaching and learning. The presence of an international school allows students to acquire a second language while having a good foundation in their mother tongue, and at the same time, it may also provide them a different concept from the one they would get from a regular school. Global education has become an irreplaceable part of modern education. In this paper, the development of the worldwide international schools has been introduced, and the hypotheses and discussion of the necessity for the establishment of international school in China has been obtained. Finally, the future trend and evolvement of the international school in China 2022 is also analyzed in the end of the paper.


Describes the current status of public transport in Antwerp, Belgium. Tramway lines and bus routes are the major carriers, with some rail transport.


Through the 20th century, the embryonic heart tube was thought to consist of the adult cardiac components in their primordial form. We now know this is not the case and that the early heart contains little more than the precursor cells for the left ventricle or even less, whereas cells are continuously added to the heart tube when it grows and loops. Using new molecular genetic techniques, it is now possible to label cells irreversibly that once expressed a specific gene, thus permitting the composition of fate maps which unveil the origin of the cells building the different components of the heart. This, in turn, provides crucial information when we seek to understand the normal development of the heart and, as a corollary, the causes of cardiac malformations. The question, nonetheless, justifiably arises whether this is of clinical relevance at all, the more because the general building plan of the heart is laid down in the first 2 months of life, a period inaccessible for the pediatric cardiologist. In this chapter, we frame the new molecular and genetic insights into a proper morphological context. These new insights permit us to draw inferences concerning a variety of structural congenital cardiac malformations and potential substrates for arrhythmias, such as atrial fibrillation and outflow tract tachycardias.


Aspects of the reproductive biology of gag Mycteroperca microlepis in the southern Gulf of Mexico were studied by following seasonal variations in the gonado-somatic index and through histological examination of gonads. Gag were collected from inshore and offshore waters of the Campeche Bank, Yucatan, Mexico, between April 1996 and December 2001. This species is a protogynous hermaphrodite, and appeared to be depth-size distributed. The smallest gag (9-49 cm LF) collected were all juvenile females, and were caught in inshore waters (1-10 m depth), while the largest (49-116 cm L F ), mainly adult females, males and transitionals, were captured in offshore waters (33-167m depth). Overall the offshore male to female ratio was female-biased (1:3.3) and differed significantly from unity. The species spawns at depths of c. 50-53 m, from early winter to mid-spring, with peak spawning activity occurring between January and March. Fifty per cent of females reached first maturity at 72.1 cm L F . At 103 cm L F , 50% of sampled females had changed into males. Gag can be considered a monandric species, and sexual transition for this grouper seemed to occur in fish distributed within a narrow size range (85-111 cm L F ). The results are compared with those of other authors for gag stocks from the south-east Atlantic coast of the U.S.A. and the north-east Gulf of Mexico.


Why it's important that your practice management system can integrate with the EHR and six other features it must have.


A cellular communication antenna has a base with a length that exceeds its width and an inside surface with internal mounts for a plurality of electrical components that generate heat when in operation. A top encapsulates the electrical components and incorporates a radome. A plurality of fins are mounted on the outside surface of the base. They may be non-parallel with the length of the base. They may all be substantially the same length. They are further constructed and arranged to be in thermal communication with the electrical components such that heat generated by the electrical components is dissipated by the fins. Each fin may be in thermally conductive communication with more than one electrical component.


Sulphydryl protecting groups (p-methoxybenzyl and t-butyl), for cysteine are cleanly removed by the action of mercury(II) trifluoroacetate in aqueous acetic acid or mercury(II) acetate in trifluoracetic acid; treatment of the sulphides formed with thiols regenerates the cysteine derivatives.


Aiming at the infinite dual porosity composite reservoir,the variable(constant) flow rate mathematical models which with two inner(bottom) boundaries(whether considering wellbore storage and skin effect) were established,the dimensionless bottom pressure solutions in Laplace space were obtained by the dimensionless processing and Laplace transform,and it was indicated that these solutions totally satisfy the need of well test analysis by using numerical inversion methods.Moreover,based on analyzing the structure and interrelation of the solution,the interrelations of the bottom pressure of some familiar composite,dual porosity and homogeneous reservoir were found out and the corresponding application was introduced.This research perfected well test analysis theory,and it has profound application value for the development of corresponding well test analysis software,and it has also guidance significance for numerical simulation methods in reservoir engineering.


I once asked a lesbian friend of mine "what is your favorite TV show?" She said it is "The L word" (a lesbian-themed show on HBO). She admitted that it really wasn't that good, but it was about people like her, and it was one of the few such shows. I approach fiction (and even nonfiction) about mathematicians in the same light. I give it some credit just for relating to us.In this review I consider three such works and ask the following questions: (1) is it fun to read (or view) independent of the math? (2) does the math fit in well? (3) will it get people interested in math? (4) does it portray mathematics and mathematicians in an accurate light (and is that a good thing)?


Endocrocin and related naturally occurring anthraquinone pigments like cinnalutein could be synthesized regioselectively via a Marschalk type reaction, starting from the natural hydroxy anthraquinone emodin. Furthermore, the new tri-O-methyl protected emodin-2-carbaldehyde may serve as a promising synthon for new bathochromically shifted, higher generation photodynamically active hypericin derivatives.


This letter reports the design of a suspended substrate stripline bandpass filter with relocatable second pass band using tri-section folded stepped impedance resonators (TFSIRs). Resonance conditions for the TFSIR in terms of impedance ratios have been derived. Location of the second pass band as a function of impedance ratios (of TFSIRs) has been studied in detail. Experimental results of a filter designed at 2.95 GHz with 31% bandwidth have been compared against the simulation results.


905 L ymphedema is greatly misunderstood in every possible circle—from healthcare providers to patients at risk. Lymphedema is a collection of excess water, interstitial fluid, plasma proteins, bacteria, and cellular waste products in the interstitial tissues as a result of an impaired lymphatic system (Cheville, McGarvey, Petrek, Russo, Taylor, et al., 2003; International Society of Lymphology [ISL], 2003). Ninety percent of interstitial fluid is removed by the circulatory system with the remaining 10% managed by the lymphatic vessels (Ridner, 2002). The lymphatic system is extensive throughout each of us. It begins as a fine network just under the skin surface and converges to become larger vessels deeper in the tissue. Fluid from the lower extremities moves up through the thoracic duct, running up the abdomen, and is affected by diaphragmatic pressures. Lymphatic fluid moves up through the nodal beds and dumps into the vascular system at the entrance of the superior vena cava. Fluid exchange occurs at the blood capillary-interstitiallymphatic vessel interface. Fluid exchanges requires blood circulation, tissue channels, proteolytic cells in the tissues, and initial lymphatics. Each of these "systems" interacts with and regulates the others to preserve the extracellular and intracellular environments. Muscular contractions, respiration, and external pressure changes cause pumping and filling of lymph fluid from the tissue into the initial lymphatics via the many openings between the endothelial cell junctions, which, in turn, connect to collecting lymphatics or lymph angions. Lymphatic flow proceeds in the direction of the heart with numerous lymph-venous communications, including the thoracic duct and right lymph duct, with the great veins of the neck.


Excerpt Reports on the effectiveness of sodium diphenyl hydantoinate (dilantin sodium) in epilepsy have accumulated rapidly since Merritt and Putnam1inaugurated the use of the drug in 1938. Natural...


This study explores the relationship between civic and citizenship factors and the middle proficiency level of students' civic knowledge in the Baltic countries: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The study uses large scale data from the IEA's International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) 2016. According to ICCS 2016, 39% of students from the three Baltic countries and only 26% of students from the Nordic countries had a middle proficiency level of civic knowledge. This middle proficiency level is the largest group in comparison to other levels. Therefore, the study aims to recognise the differences between the highest and lowest achievements in the middle proficiency level of civic knowledge and to examine the relationship between factors such as background, values, behaviour, citizenship activities and attitudes. Multivariable linear regression was used for the data analysis, creating several models. The results show that there are different factors associated with the highest and lowest achievements in the middle proficiency level. For example, the results indicate that students with a lower proficiency level participated in illegal protest activities more often and had lower critical thinking skills. Moreover, the research investigates differences inside the middle proficiency level of civic knowledge and between the lowest middle-level students and students from the lower level of civic knowledge.


Nanoparticles have successfully come to aid various disease states, but the advances in biomedical imaging depend largely on the shape, size, and selectivity of the nanoparticles to the target. Among nanoparticles, gold nanoparticles demonstrate special advantages in this field due to their unique properties, small size and high surface area-to-volume ratio. These particles have been widely used in various biomedical applications and drug delivery systems due to their inert nature, stability, high dispersity, non-cytotoxicity and biocompatibility. Gold nanoparticles are being used effectively in laboratory based clinical diagnostic methods while concurrently showing great promise in vivo either as a diagnostic imaging agent or a therapeutic agent.Gold Nanoparticles have appeared as an attractive candidate for various drug molecules or considered as extraordinary molecular carrier for the targeting including DNA, RNA, proteins, pepetides,drugs, genes and other molecules of therapeutic significance. This Review focuses on gold therapy and its biodistribution in humans, characteristics, types, synthesis methods, and functionaliztion of gold nanoparticles and its emerging applications various fields.


Although the committee for the evaluation of anticoagulants of the American Heart Association recommended in its initial report in 1948 1 that "anticoagulant therapy should be used in all cases of coronary thrombosis with myocardial infarction unless a definite contraindication exists," this problem is far from solved. There is more disagreement now regarding the correct management of these patients than when the report was orginally published. This presentation in the form of questions and answers is intended to indicate many of the points at issue and to present the views of an increasing number of cardiologists. It is not the purpose of this report to present a comprehensive and detailed review of the literature nor to indicate all the studies on which these conclusions are based but rather to discuss this subject in a manner most advantageous to the general physician. 1. Has the American Heart Association ever officially recommended


It provides an electronic commerce method and apparatus using a digital ticket that guarantees your anonymity. E-commerce method using a digital ticket according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of generating a message comprises the step, the random number for generating random numbers, comprising the steps of applying a hash function to the message, the method comprising concealing the value is a hash function has been applied, transmitting the concealment hash value to the digital ticket issuer, the method comprising: receiving an electronic signature, digital ticket issuer on transferred hash value message, the verification is spent verifying the digital signature of the received message and the digital ticket the digital signature of the message and the value one less than the hash function, the hash value is applied and transmitting a digital ticket issuer. Anonymity, a digital ticket


We present results from several searches for various exotic physics phenomena like large extra dimensions, leptoquarks, and dark matter, in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 and 8 TeV delivered by the LHC and collected with the CMS detector. Many different final states are analyzed using data collected in 2011 and 2012 corresponding to an integrated luminosity up to 5.0 fb$^{-1}$ and 19.7 fb$^{-1}$. No sign of physics beyond the standard model has been observed so far and the results are used to set new limits on various new physics model parameters.


The implementation of the policy of cost sharing and compensation in higher education has attracted much attention. A systematic analysis has been made of its theoretical footing and its influence on education equality, on basis of which a further discussion is carried out in terms of the basic framework of the cost sharing and compensation system in primary supplementary type higher education in China.


Using Agaricus bisporus AS2796 as the material,the effects of shelf cultivation technology and basket cultivation technology on the hypha growth,yield and economic benefit were studied.The results showed that compared with shelf cultivation technology,the hypha growth speed of basket cultivation technology was 0.7 days faster,the yield increased 0.7 kg/m2,while the benefit decreased 11.3 yuan/m2.The basket could be reused.With long-term consideration of economic benefit,the basket cultivation technology was suitable for the development of recycling economy,which had a broad application prospect.


Objective
To develop a conceptual framework for the synopsis of information of health examination reports (HERs) and its style sheet so as to provide a reference for information collection and management in health examination institutions.

Methods
A conceptual framework for the synopsis of information of HERs and its core data elements were developed based on HERs items from 11 health examination institutions, and a style sheet for the synopsis of information of HERs was then designed.

Results
The conceptual framework included 4 dimensions (e.g.identification information, health-related information, health exam summary, health evaluation and guidance), 16 sub-dimensions, 52 core data elements and 25 value domains.The structure and content of the designed sheet were consistent with the dimensions, sub-dimensions and core data elements of the conceptual framework.

Conclusions
The developed synopsis of information of HERs could be a feasible solution for structured and standardized representation of clients' health examination information.The selection and filling of some items should be validated and refined in the future.

Key words:
Physical examination; Informationization services; Conceptual framework


In this paper we explore solvability of steady-state variational inequalities with multivalued operators. Moreover, we are studying the connections between the class of radially semi-continuous operators with semi-bounded variation and classes of pseudo-monotone and monotone mappings, and some properties of this operators.


A simple method for rearing house-flies, suitable for the maintenance of small cultures in teaching laboratories, is described. Suggestions are included for observations and experiments with house-flies.


The invention discloses a method for manufacturing a thinning multi-folded-face evaporator with a surface updating function. Materials flow downwards along the conical face of a cone under the action of gravity to form a thinned liquid film. A turbulent flow object is arranged on the conical face of the cone, liquid flows downwards to pass through the turbulent flow object, consequently, the turbulent degree is increased, the surface updating function that mass points in the materials are transferred to the surface, and surface mass points are transferred inwards is achieved, and the heat transfer and mass transfer rate is increased. Under the condition that the liquid film is heated and is in a vacuum state or a normal-pressure heating state, volatile components in the liquid are evaporated. A concentrated liquor material with very low volatile components is obtained through many times of folded face evaporation.


Many different interventions have been used to influence the prescribing behaviour of physicians, and qualitative evaluations (metaethnography) of such interventions have been reported. So far quantitative evaluations of such interventions have not been reported; this study is an attempt in that direction. Twenty–six published studies (January 1979 – September 1991) on the interventions for influencing the prescribing behaviour of physicians were pooled and effect sizes were extracted. Mean effect size (Zr) was 0.559 and Cohen's d= 0.886. Estimated Fail–Safe N was 89. Success rates of interventions varied from 1% to 99%.


The work consists of four chapters, two annexes and an appendix. In the first chapter the author gives an ordered classification of the subjects of the financial markets, focusing on Polish markets. The next chapter presents a detailed history of the formation of the markets of the Polish financial institutions. The third chapter contains detailed information about consolidation processes in Polish financial institutions. That chapter gives a systematization of consolidation processes in financial institutions and an application of that scheme to Polish conditions. The fourth chapter presents information about measures of market concentration theoretical and those used by Polish institutions of supervision. Finally the author presents his own conception of measuring market concentration the "P"�Index which has been used for the measurement of Polish financial markets. Additionally Annex no. 1 contains a detailed calendar of the formation of the markets of Polish financial institutions. Annex no. 2 gives a presentation of the three groups of institutions of nearfinancial markets: institutions of supervision, institutions of guarantee and institutions of self-management. The appendix presents a graphic view of chosen consolidation processes of financial institutions.


The article deals with the evolution of V.V. Bobynins views on the genetic method and ways of its application in teaching. The forms of the historical-genetic method use are characterized. The article reveals the role of analysis as a mental activity method in studying geometry at school. The role of the mathematics history in solving educational problems is determined.


This international conference aimed to critically reconsider the apparently parallel development of the so-called "late nations" Italy and Germany in the "long" Nineteenth Century from a new and transnational perspective, based on the analytical category of gender and the integration of Jewish history into general history. There was a particular focus on the experience and memory of historical protagonists and families in the First World War, drawing on hitherto unknown or neglected ego-documents, with a view to contributing to current historiographical reassessments of the war in terms of gender as well as Jewish history. The conference was opened by MARTIN BAUMEISTER (Rome), who welcomed the international and interdisciplinary group of scholars and the innovative collaborative enterprise. In their introduction, PHILIPP LENHARD (Munich) and RUTH NATTERMANN (Munich) explained the historiographical framework within which their project was conceived, pointing to the late discovery of the analytical category of gender as well as the generally scarce attention towards Jewish history in both the German and Italian historiographies on nation, nationalism and war. Although the cultural turn in historical studies has led to increased attention to gender, religious and ethnic differences within the processes of nation-building, there is still a dearth of relevant comparative projects. Lenhard and Nattermann also emphasized the relevance of concepts of nation, gender and emancipation for an in-depth understanding of the First World War. AMERIGO CARUSO (Saarbrücken) completed the introduction with a critical reassessment of the interpretative traditions of Italian and German nation-building, discussing new methods and research on nationalism and nation-building that has emerged since the turn of the millennium. He highlighted transnational history, global intellectual history and a new political history that systematically integrates cultural history – i.e. the role of non-state actors, women and parental networks – as "best practices" which helped avoid methodological nationalism. In the first session of the Conference, the discursive as well as conceptional relationships between family and nation were examined by MARCELLA SIMONI (Venice), who focused on a Livornese Jewish family that emigrated to Tunis in 1830, and by GIULIA FRONTONI (Hamburg), who discussed the image of political womanhood in Germany around 1848. Starting from one of the members of the eminent Moreno family, the businessman Raffaello, Simoni reconstructed the family's attitudes to nationality and religion, reflecting on the complex relationship between Jewish and Italian national identities. Frontoni concentrated on two German writers – Ludmilla Assing and Hermine Wurm – whose commitment to contemporary liberal politics and to writing she explained on the basis of their family networks and social backgrounds, hereby highlighting the characteristics of the "political lady" and its entanglement with the ideal of the "mother of nation". The keynote address was given by ILARIA PORCIANI (Bologna) who offered an extensive historical panorama on the interrelations between family and nation in public discourse on national identities. Her paper drew on debates on gender and nation, using juridical, parliamentary, literary, iconographical and historiographical sources, thus creating a wide-ranging and transnational comparison with a particular focus on Germany, Italy, France and the United States. The second day began with a session on emancipation matters and religious terminology. PHILIPP LENHARD (Munich) focused on gender education in Jewish "catechisms" in 19th century Germany. Comparing Jewish with Christian textbooks, Lenhard stated that both were manifestations of contempo-


Since January 1999, the island of Ambon, located in the province of Maluku (Moluccas) in Eastern Indonesia, has been the scene of a virtual war between Christians and Muslims. Amid its religious underpinnings, two competing nationalistic ideologies have developed, one based on allegiance to an ethnic Moluccan nation and the other to a civic nation of common residence. Attempts to rationalise the underlying sentiment of the masses in these movements have purported rational explanations of the pursuit of common material interests, while others have focused on innate emotions of individual loyalty to their community. The other explanation suggests that identity is constructed as an ideological myth that convinces the individual of the simplicity of otherwise complex situations. In this respect, this paper has focused on the psychological and political appeal of myths of kinship as strengthening ideas of national consciousness and individual loyalty. It is asserted that the construction of new 'us' and 'them' visions of imagined community occur in the context of social, economic and political processes. These disruptive forces place individuals in stress situations and make them susceptible to these ideologies which offer simplistic diagnoses of complex social and political changes.


The procurement system is a key means through which the client creates pre-conditions for successful achieve ment of project specific objectives. The use and the development of procurement systems in any construction industry are affected by various factors. Thus it is interesting to discover different systems used in different instances. This paper presents the results of a questionnaire survey carried out among major contracting organi zations in Sri Lanka on procurement systems to discern the trend from year 1977 to 2000. The paper also sheds some light on the underlying factors that affected the changes in procurement systems in Sri Lanka during the period concerned.


The extracellular calcium‐sensing receptor (CASR) controls body calcium homeostasis. Increased levels of calcium are associated with protecting against colorectal cancer (CRC). This study aimed to determine the relationship between CASR gene rs1801725 polymorphism and CRC risk and prognosis.


Developed in 1928, the epoxy resins are extremely valuable in industry and the consumption is still increasing. Dermatitis from contact with the epoxy resins may be due to either irritation or allergic sensitization. The most highly sensitizing is bisphen- ol A type resin with a molecular weight of 340. As well as contact dermatitis, the epoxy resins can induce contact urticaria simultaneously via immunologic or nonimmunologic mechanism. Here we report two cases of simultaneous occ- urrence of epoxy resininduced contact dermatitis and contact urticaria which occurred during handling of epoxy resins in a motor factory.


The rationality of students' alternative frameworks is discussed by considering the role played by their beliefs, their understanding of other views and the reasons they give to justify their own beliefs and to reject alternatives. These notions are used in an investigation of some of the cognitive effects of a series of introductory lessons about electricity on a class of 14‐year old boys. Changes which occurred not only in the beliefs of the students but also in the mental context in which these beliefs were embedded, were studied. Some of the implications of the findings for teaching science are briefly discussed.


In Tunisia, like in other MENA countries, feminism has opened the door to activism advocating for individual liberties and sexual rights. After the 2010-2011 revolution, a new wave of political activism has relied on new forms of cultural and creative practice to reconfigure the public space. This paper utilises ethnographic fieldwork to investigate the experience of the Chouftouhonna Feminist International Art Festival in Tunis as an example of 'artivism' – i.e. artistic activism – grounded in secular feminism and advancing LGBTQ+ claims. The first section of this paper explores the multiple 'dimensions of subversion' of the Festival. The second section aims to demonstrate why Chouftouhonna's experience can be analysed as part of a political strategy contributing to a new imagination for a substantive egalitarian citizenship, through both 'affirmative and transformative remedies to social injustice'. Because the Festival is meant as an expression of 'transformative agency', its founders and organizers strive for a new politics of recognition for women and sexual diversity in post-revolutionary Tunisia.


Since the year 2000, we have witnessed several outstanding results in geometry that have solved long-standing problems such as the Poincare conjecture, the Yau Tian Donaldson conjecture, and the Willmore conjecture. There are still many important and challenging unsolved problems including, among others, the Strominger Yau Zaslow conjecture on mirror symmetry, the relative Yau Tian Donaldson conjecture in Kahler geometry, the Hopf conjecture, and the Yau conjecture on the first eigenvalue of an embedded minimal hypersurface of the sphere. For the younger generation to approach such problems and obtain the required techniques, it is of the utmost importance to provide them with up-to-date information from leading specialists. The geometry conference for the friendship of China and Japan has achieved this purpose during the past 10 years. Their talks deal with problems at the highest level, often accompanied with solutions and ideas, which extend across various fields in Riemannian geometry, symplectic and contact geometry, and complex geometry


Mud motor failure is a significant contributor to non-productive time in lower-cost land drilling operations, e.g. in North America. Typically, motor failure prevention methodologies range from re-designing or performing sophisticated analytical modeling of the motor power section, to modeling motor performance using high-frequency downhole measurements. In this paper, we present data analytics methods to detect and predict motor failures ahead of time using primarily surface drilling measurements.We studied critical drilling and non-drilling events as applicable to motor failure. The impacts of mud motor stalls and drill-off times were investigated during on-bottom drilling. For the off-bottom analysis, the impact of variations in connection practices (pick up practices, time spent backreaming, and time spent exposing the tools to damaging vibrations) was investigated. The relative importance of the various features found to be relevant was calculated and incorporated into a real-time mud motor damage index.A historical drilling dataset, consisting of surface data collected from 45 motor runs in lateral hole sections of unconventional shale wells drilled in early to mid-2019, was used in this study. These motor runs contained a mix of failure and non-failure cases. The model was found to accurately predict motor failure due to motor wear and tear. Generally, the higher the magnitude of the impact stalls experienced by the mud motor, the greater the probability of eventual failure. Variations in connection practices were found not to be a major wear-and-tear factor. However, it was found that connection practices varied significantly and were often driller-dependent.The overall result shows that simple surface drilling parameters can be used to predict mud motor failure. Hence, the value derived from surface sensor information for mud motor management can be maximized without the need to run more costly downhole sensors. In addition to this cost optimization, drillers can now monitor motor degradation in real-time using the new mud motor index described here.


Electric motors are highly customizable products that have to meticulously comply with the client's needs, commercial and legal requirements of each market. In this context, the configure‐to‐order (CTO) approach allows the user to define the product configuration at the time of the order and the supplier to develop a product that meets the customer's needs. This paper presents an object‐oriented knowledge‐based system (OOKBS) that integrates rule‐ and case‐based reasoning to verify the compliance of a variant‐rich and complex product—electric motors—in a multinational‐level company. The system adopts a modular structure to evaluate distinct compliance aspects, such as technical constraints and commercial requirements, and to improve the compliance assessment based on the designs of motors previously sold. The work targeted a product line with significant market share in North America, and is the result of a collaboration among the following teams: product compliance, international sales, engineering systems, and product engineering. In total, the system development involved nine experts from these areas. This study has the originality of presenting a product configuration system (PCS) that integrates rule‐based and case‐based approaches to verify the compliance of a modular product. The results indicate a reduction of 73% of internal technical queries within the prototype scope. Moreover, the system usability tests highlight the completeness of outcomes, quick access to information, and easy integration of automatic product compliance verification into the company's design flow. Furthermore, we discussed how the system was effectively implemented in a design routine based on both concurrent engineering and CTO scenarios.


—Controlling soft continuum robotic arms is challenging due to their hyper-redundancy and dexterity. In this paper we experimentally demonstrate, for the first time, closed-loop control of the configuration space variables of a soft robotic arm, composed of independently controllable segments, using a Cosserat rod model of the robot and the distributed sensing and actuation capabilities of the segments. Our controller solves the inverse dynamic problem by simulating the Cosserat rod model in MATLAB using a computationally efficient numerical solution scheme, and it applies the computed control output to the actual robot in real time. The position and orientation of the tip of each segment are measured in real time, while the remaining unknown variables that are needed to solve the inverse dynamics are estimated simultaneously in the simulation. We implement the controller on a multi-segment silicone robotic arm with pneumatic actuation, using a motion capture system to measure the segments' positions and orientations. The controller is used to reshape the arm into configurations that are achieved through combinations of bending and extension deformations in 3D space. Although the possible deformations are limited for this robot platform, our study demonstrates the potential for implementing the control approach on a wide range of continuum robots in practice. The resulting tracking performance indicates the effectiveness of the controller and the accuracy of the simulated Cosserat rod model.


Primitive questions root in the natural interactivities between teachers and students in the process of classroom teaching. From the perspective of students learning, it will help the students to improve the consciousness and exploration of mathematics problems. From the perspective of teachers, it will help teachers to transfer an original question in the history of mathematics into a primitive question in classroom teaching. In the paper, we offered three cases about quasi-variation, complex number and negative number.


Indonesia's imports, especially the food and beverage sector, from ASEAN countries continue to increase. These conditions cannot be allowed to continue, unprocessed agricultural products and weaknesses in the domestic processing industry need to be addressed immediately and quickly. Hargomulyo Village and Tawangrejo Village in Ngrambe Subdistrict, Ngawi District, including 5 major coffee producing areas in East Java. Based on data in the field and data from the Ngawi District in Figures 2015, Ngrambe District has 620 ha of coffee plantations. Existing problems are the coffee farmers do not have SOPs related to the post-harvest process of coffee products, coffee bean peeler production equipment is still manual so that the quality of coffee is low, do not have coffee roaster equipment, there is no standardization of the quality of ground coffee. coffee in Hargomulyo Village and Tawangrejo Village, Ngrambe District, Ngawi Regency is still low.


An intelligent network monitoring system comprises a plurality of on-site collection control terminals, a main station monitoring center and a background management center, wherein the on-site collection control terminals communicate with the main station monitoring center through the network, each on-site collection control terminal comprises a single-chip microcomputer, a monitoring sensor, an alarm linkage device and a 3G wireless communication module, and the main station monitoring center comprises a monitoring server, a database and a displaying unit. The on-site collection control terminals are used for collection data in the site environment, and the single-chip microcomputers input monitoring signals collected by the monitoring sensors, output alarm control signals to the alarm linkage devices, output monitoring alarm signals to the 3G wireless communication modules to be transmitted, and input background management center control signals received by the 3G wireless communication modules. The background management center comprises a 3G wireless communication module and a computer, and the 3G wireless communication module is connected with the computer.


In pH 3.0 hydrochloric acid,trace gold in geological sample was separated and preconcentrated quantitatively on polypropylene-Diphenyl carbazide resin column, eluted with 3% sulfourea including 0.1mol/L hydrochloric acid as eluant, and determined by atomic absorption spectrometry. The recovery of gold is in the range of 91.6%—101.6%. The method was applied to the analysis of gold in geological samples with satisfactory results.


The author's father, an African-American, fostered an awareness of Africa in church and in the family's daily life. Early experiences of hospitality toward Liberian and Nigerian friends instilled a sense of Christian mission and a love for Africa. The author traveled to Sudan with Operation Crossroads (OCA) in 1983, after graduating from Yale Divinity School, and she learned valuable lessons about interfaith respect, cross-cultural cooperation, and the importance of those attributes to authentic Christian mission and witness. She served again with OCA twice, in Lesotho. Her OCA experiences gave her a foundational framework for effective community organizing and leadership.


Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the nature and extent of corruption in the telecommunications sector in Azerbaijan and the associated issues of governance.

Design/methodology/approach

– A case study examining a wide range of sources on Azerbaijan.

Findings

– Unusually, perhaps uniquely, ownership of major operators has been concealed. Nonetheless, the presidential family controls one of three mobile operators and has a stake in a second.

Research limitations/implications

– A law from 2012 conceals the beneficial ownership of some operators, others merely use offshore registries.

Originality/value

– One of only half a dozen case studies on corruption in telecommunications. It is very unusual in the extent to which ownership of operators is hidden.


In the thirteenth century, Italian artists published a series of stories called novellas. It was the extension of this that later gave rise to the tradition of telling stories through prose. Culture refers to the spheres of human activity and the symbolic systems that give special characteristics and significance to such activities. Cultures are divided into two types. One can be classified as a culture based on internal/domestic life and the other based on social/ political life. Marriage is a socio-legal relationship system. There is no tradition of marrying a girl who has been raised since childhood. There are probably no poets who have not sung about children since the Sangam period. It is a Tamil tradition to plough and produce rice and make food. The 'Sool' novel has also stated the practise of giving food without paying wages if rice is pounded. It also shows how to prepare the soil before plowing. Scatter clods of litter and top it with mullein, then summer ploughing. The land will be fertile as a bride. News about ploughing as rain water accumulates and the soil is happy and mixed with manure and ready for sowing can be seen. Once upon a time, the community appointed someone for water protection, and through them they have been protecting water. At that time, there was no name for the watering device (Neer Paaichi). They call it the "sluice control" (Madai Kudumban). From generation to generation, Madai Kudumban and Kattak Karuppan have been maintaining the sluice and distributing water. The high dignity of not giving food for money can also be seen. Thus, the best practises of society in the past are not in practise today. In this way, the aim of this article is to investigate the cultural changes through the Sahitya Akademi award-winning novel "Sool" by Karisal region writer Cho. Dharman.


ABSTRACT Objectives: To explore psychological factors associated with emotional eating and obesity in a sample of overweight and obese adults attending a weight management programme. Design: A cross-sectional quantitative research design. Methods: Participants (n = 97) completed the Emotional Eating Subscale of the Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire, the Attitude towards Emotional Expression (AEE) scale and the mindful awareness observe subscale of the Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills scale. Clinical measures of body mass index (BMI) were also recorded. Results: Regression analyses revealed that AEE was a significant predictor of emotional eating (β = 0.59, p = .000). Control, the belief that emotions should be controlled (β = 0.39, p = .026) and the response to eat to diffuse emotion (β = 0.37, p = .045) were statistically significant predictors of BMI. Mediation analyses revealed that mindful awareness skills had a significant indirect effect on the relationship between AEE and emotional eating. Conclusions: Findings highlight the influence of AEE on emotional eating and body weight, thereby helping to validate recent developments in an affect phobia model of emotional eating. The authors highlight the prevalence of emotional eating in overweight and obese adults. The potential preventative role of mindful awareness skills may be limited. Validation of the model may be a useful framework for the development and implementation of future weight management interventions.


Plastic standards for use in geochemical prospecting have been prepared by impregnating a clear thermosetting resin with different amounts of a stable dye or colored metal complex. The colored plastic is molded or subsequently milled into convenient shapes to form standards that are less bulky and more stable than the liquid standards conventionally used in rapid field methods. The use of such standards is limited only by the availability of stable coloring materials. The preparation of plastic standards for use with Cu, Zn, Sn, and Hg field procedures is described.


Objective To determine the expressions of MMPs and TIMPs and their correlation with biology factors in 138 human non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) patients at protein and mRNA level. Methods Immunohistochemistry S-P method was used to determine the expressions of MMPs and TIMPs in 138 NSCLC,and detect the expressions of MMP9 and TIMP3 in 14 NSCLC tissues by RT-PCR. Results The positive expression rates of MMPs and TIMPs in NSCLC were higher significantly than normal tissue and hyperplastic or dysplastic epithelium; The positive expression rates of MMPs and TIMPs in NSCLC were associated with TNM stage、lymphatic node metastasis, but without association with cell differentiation of NSCLC and tumor types and tumor size. The expression of mRNA of MMP9 and TIMP3 was associated with lymph node metastasis. Negative correlation was observed between the expression of MMP2 and survival time of NSCLC,but the expression of TIMP3 was positively associated with survival time. Conclusion MMPs and TIMPs are associated with infiltration and metastasis of lung cancer and thus they are the important indexes for determination of lymph node metastasis,TNM stage and prognosis of lung cancer.


Breast cancer is the one common cause of death in both developed worlds and the most death-causing disease diagnosed among women. Early recognition of this condition can help to minimize death rates. The breast problem statement, in brief, is not reliable for accuracy recognition. They have a high degree of classification accuracy as well as diagnostic capabilities. The most common classifications are normal, benign cancer, and malignant cancer. Machine learning (ML) techniques are now widely used in the classification of breast cancer. In this paper, some machine learning technics have been investigated to diagnose breast cancer (BC) on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images using multi-step processes. The first step has been to take the MRI image as an input image and have been pre-processing an image, then use feature extraction by using (scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT), histogram of oriented gradient (HOG), local binary patterns (LBP), bag of words (BoW), and edge-oriented histogram (EOH)). Next step we implement the classifying algorithms (KNN, decision tree (DT), naïve Bayes, ANN, SVM, RF, AdaBoost), have been used to detect and classify the normal or breast cancer region for this purpose datasets like ACRIN-Contralateral-Breast-MRI, In and breast cancer MRI dataset) has been collected our breast cancer MRI images from Erbil and Sulaymaniyah hospital the results was 91.9%, the result of ACRIN was 97% and the results Breast Cancer was 92.3%.


Three compounds were isolated from the active fraction of Alisma orientalis (Sam.) Juze extract that inhibits urinary oxalate calcium calculi formation, and identified to be alisol F 24-acetate, alisol A 24-acetate and alismoxide. The proton chemical shifts of alisol F 24-acetate were assigned by using 2D NMR techniques including {}+1H-+1H COSY、HMQC and HMBC.


This paper presents our experiments in question answering for speech corpora. These experiments focus on improving the answer extraction step of the QA process. We present two approaches to answer extraction in question answering for speech corpora that apply machine learning to improve the coverage and precision of the extraction. The first one is a reranker that uses only lexical information, the second one uses dependency parsing to score robust similarity between syntactic structures. Our experimental results show that the proposed learning models improve our previous results using only hand-made ranking rules with small syntactic information. Moreover, this results show also that a dependency parser can be useful for speech transcripts even if it was trained with written text data from a news collection. We evaluate the system on manual transcripts of speech from EPPS English corpus and a set of questions transcribed from spontaneous oral questions. This data belongs to the CLEF 2009 track on QA on speech transcripts (QAst). Index Terms: question answering, answer extraction, oral question answering, speech transcriptions


Yangtake gas condensate field exists a suit of composite salt bed in Eogene system,in which interspersing soft mudstones.Hole diameter reduction and circulation loss co-exist in composite salt bed,resulting in unstable well condition.This,in turn,brings about lots of complexity and accident during drilling and cementing operation,especially for well logging and 8 1/2" casing running procedures.This paper analyzed the genesis,danger and characteristics of composite salt bed in Yangtake gas condensate field based on Well Yangtake 1-10 drilling data.Meanwhile,it also analyzed the drilling technology of composite salt bed in Yangtake gas condensate field from the drilling procedure,drilling fluids etc.aspects,and provided technical reference for drilling in this area.


The article proposes a conceptual clarification of the relation between identity and self in which identity is conceived as a field of self-understanding and the self is conceived as a concept of organized motivational directedness. While the self encompasses motivational agency, identity refers to a non-agentic frame of reference for ways of recognizing and understanding oneself. Inhabited by the life-stories we tell, the memories we have and the life-scenarios we imagine, identity is a psycho-social construction. But at the same time, it is also a manifestation of prefigured procedural self-dynamics related to the motivational structures of the self. When identity becomes a life-issue in adolescence, the formational dynamics of the self will provide a more or less healthy base for the ways in which the individual can establish and develop his identity. Though identity is not as such a motivational concept, it can be very motivating for people to act in ways that sustain or confirm their identity. By focusing on the motivational dynamics of the self, this article delimits itself from giving a detailed account of other aspects of the self with relevance for the subject (e.g. the development of self-reflectivity). The content of the article, therefore, should not – in itself – be considered a full-spectrum theory, but rather as building blocks towards a more integrative approach to understanding the relation between identity, self and motivation.


The basic trend of current government governance reform is from ruling to governance and from good politics to good governance.The pursuit of a harmonious society and good governance is always the fundamental aim and value for China's government reform.The several rounds of reform of government institutions since the 1980s have always been aimed at simplifying the administrative structure,enhancing work efficiency and benefiting the masses.However,because of excessive dependence on the pattern of "subject substitution",contradiction arises between means and end,thus resulting in some disharmonious phenomena in government governance.In order to build a harmonious society,it is necessary to establish the idea of multi-centers governance,pay more attention to the balance of the administrative structure,perfect the citizen participation system and improve the self-governance ability of society.


The increasing use in the industries of composite materials implies finding a suitable way for testing and evaluating them. Non-destructive testing by ultrasounds is an appropriate method to detect defects in this type of materials, and phased array probes are used in order to detect component failures and thereby determine their quality. The objective of this study is to optimize this type of ultrasonic inspection transducers regarding ultrasonic parameters, the constructive aspects as well as those more general aspects such as coupling material with better signal / noise relation and higher wear resistance than polybutadiene polymers that nowadays exist in the market.


Periodontitis is a major cause of tooth loss, which affects more than 80% of people. Thus far, little is known about the changes in mRNA expression in periodontal ligaments during chronic periodontitis. The objective of this study was to identify differentially expressed mRNAs related to chronic periodontitis, which may offer insight into chronic periodontitis treatment. The gene expression profiles of periodontal ligaments from five chronic periodontitis patients and five healthy controls were determined using oligonucleotide microarray. Bioinformatic analyses, including Gene Oncology (GO) and KEGG pathway, were performed to identify genes and pathways associated with chronic periodontitis. The signal transduction network was established to determine the core genes regulating chronic periodontitis processes. A set of genes was differentially expressed in periodontal ligaments from chronic periodontitis patients. A total of 317 GO terms and 145 common pathways were identified. All various gene interactions in the Signal-Net were analyzed. IGF1R, FGFR2, and PDGFRA were the most significantly altered genes. We identified a novel gene expression pattern for chronic periodontitis. Thus, further study could provide new targets for chronic periodontitis treatment.


Monitoring is considered as reflexive frame-work for the effective management of quality con-trol process in the establishment of additional edu-cation in this article. The approaches underlying the construction of a model of monitoring the qual-ity of audience training.


The students with difficulty remembering mathematics facts, concepts, rules, formulas, sequences, and procedures, are referred to as "learning disabled". Teaching "mathematics education" (which refers to "the practice of teaching and learning mathematics, including research") to such students is a major challenge before teachers/mathematics educators. Use of technology enables teaching mathematics to students with disabilities with greater ease. This paper primarily aims to give an insight into the strategies that can enhance the mathematical learning of all students, but especially those students with mathematics difficulty. The paper concludes that over the years, the commitment to improving outcomes for students with mathematics difficulty continues to grow. One strategy that needs additional attention involves the use of technology designed to teach mathematical concepts in non-traditional ways. At present, the sheer quantity of educational software and other tools that are available for teachers to use in the classroom is significant. Additionally, the cost of much of this hardware and software is relatively low. One major goal of educators of students with mathematics difficulty should be to conduct ongoing research to determine the best use of existing technology for enhancing mathematical learning.


CASE HISTORY A 28-year-old woman undergoing investigations for primary infertility was found to have splenomegaly and thrombocytopenia. On examination, there were no markers of chronic liver disease. The ultrasound showed 18 cm spleen indicating moderate splenic enlargement. The enlargement was diffuse and there was no space occupying lesion to suggest lymphoma. Laboratory investigations revealed platelets = 56 x 103/pl in theperipheral blood. This platelet count was below the normal range of 130 to 400 x 103/pl. The liver function tests were within normal limits. The serology for hepatitis B and C were negative. The serological test for bilharzia and specific immunological test for leishmaniasis were negative. Iron, copper studies and a-1 antitrepsin level were normal. The bone marrow aspirate had normal appearance with plenty of megakaryocytes. The malarial IgG specific antibody titre was elevated at 1 : 80 while IgM specific antibody titre was within the normal range. Liver biopsy was deferred at this stage due to low platelet count. The patient received prednisolone 60 mg orally daily for 2 weeks, but there was no improvement in the platelet count. The patient refused splenectomy but agreed to alternative proposal of partial splenic embolization (PSE) for the treatment of thrombocytopenia. The splenic artery was catheterized by percutaneous transfemoral approach and a 6 F single hole catheter was guided into the splenic artery, distal to the dorsal artery of pancreas. The embolic material consisted of gelfoam cut into small 1 mm cubes, suspended in 50ml solution containing normal saline and Omnipaque together with penicillin 1 000 000 units and gentamycin 80 mg. About 5-10 Gelfoam cubes were injected at a time. The injection was repeated several times and extent of embolization in the distal splenic branches was assessed Figure I . Computerized tomography of the abdomen after I week of partial splenic emobilization showing splenic infarction represented by hypodense areas


The 1st Workshop on Children and Recommender Systems (KidRec) is taking place in Como, Italy August 27th, 2017 in conjunction with the ACM RecSys 2017 conference. The goals of the workshop are threefold: (1) discuss and identify issues related to recommender systems used by children including specific challenges and limitations, (2) discuss possible solutions to the identified challenges and plan for future research, and (3) build a community to directly work on these important issues.


A numerical an anlaytic study of a plasma confinement in magnetic cusp systems is reported. The basic representations of the physical processes which occur in nonadiabatic confinement systems are shown to be consistent with the results of the experiments which have been carried out to date on the confinement of dense plasmas in cusp systems. This analysis is used to examine the confinement of dense plasmas with large values ..beta..>>1 in a long cusp confinement system consisting of a system of five connected axisymmetric, MHD-stable confinement systems: a main central confinement system (a linear theta-pinch), two end cells for reducing the end loss of ions (half-cusps), and two auxiliary cells for reducing the energy loss through the electrons (these cells, which expand the outflowing plasma, have the form of halves of Budker--Post adiabatic confinement systems). It is shown that experiments on plasma confinement in a multicell array of this sort could be carried out at the 2MK-200 device at the the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy. The expected parameter values are a plasma enthalpy approx. =200 kJ, an ion temperature approx. >1 keV, and electron temperature greater than or equal to100 eV, and a product ntaugreater than or equal to10/supmore » 12/ s/cm/sup 3/.« less


A new type of active antenna (self-radiating oscillator) is presented that consists of a half-wave dipole and a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT). An output power of 2.43 mW was measured at 14.5 GHz with a 24.1% DC-to-RF efficiency. The circuit should have applications in microwave and millimetre-wave power combining.


Brake systems can be installed into a locomotive in different ways, more traditionally with separated electro pneumatic blocks each of them implementing a specific brake function or with an unique brake panel providing a modular approach. With this modular approach, based on the concept of the electronic devices motherboard, the brake system, possibly integrating the reservoirs too, is made of a single panel where the components devoted to each brake function are grouped onto functional sub-panels or modules. The achievements of this modular approach in terms of 'Plug and Play' solution are highlighted because of the presence of Eurotrol, a compact Driver's Brake Valve driven by an Electronic Brake Control Unit, mounted on the same panel. Moreover, the availability of an Electronic Control Unit, other than an accurate and diagnosed Brake Pipe pressure management, provides: ○ Redundant features ○ Blending function capabilities ○ Bus interface ○ EP-Brake interface This modular solution of a locomotive brake system and the innovative Eurotrol Electronic Driver's Brake Valve are shown in this memory with particular enphasys to the freight locomotive for SNCF.


The etiology of Castleman disease(CD)was associated with viral infection,angiogenesis,and abnormal modulation of cytokines,etc.The pivotal roles of infection with human herpesvirus 8 and interleukin-6(IL-6)production in the development of CD are emphasized.Early interventions in the treatment of CD were surgical excision,cytoreductive chemotherapy and radiation therapy.With a greater understanding of CD pathogenesis,monoclonal antibodies therapies such as anti-CD20 and anti-IL-6 receptor monoclonal antibody show great promise.


Multi- thread is an important capability supported in Windows 95, 98 and NT etc, and especially is useful for program with multi tasks. Serial communication is used to communicate between computer and PLC,SCM etc in many cases of automation. The problem of serial communication with multi- thread in windows system is discussed.