This article presents the results of research, whose purpose was to use alleles AEB-locus of blood groups with individual selection of cattle in animal herds of STE "Maximovca". For individual fixing have been selected 2 bullproducer - Academician 767 and Kiperush 79/395360, which are improvers on a complex of traits with the category А2Б2. Productivity of their mothers was 9331 kg of milk, with fat content 4.90% and 10915 kg of milk with 4,42 percent of fat, respectively. At bull Academician 767 allele of EAB locus - B2O1/G2Y2E'1Q', at bull Kiperush 79 - G2Y2E'1Q'/G". Heifers (mother of the future bulls) belonged to the lines Rozeyf Siteyshna 2671510, Montvik Chifteyna 95679, Pawnee Farm Arlinda Chifa 1427381, of which 47% - marked with allele B2O1, 20,0% - with allele G2Y2E'1Q' 'and 35,4% of the animals are marked with other alleles. Genetic distance between the lines, which include dockable bulls and heifers, is large, thus avoiding a future inbreeding.


Sendzimir mills have already been referred to as notable examples of cluster mills (p. 142 and Fig. 9). They exploit the advantages of well‐supported small diameter work rolls, making heavy reductions possible and producing very accurate cold rolled strip. The work rolls can be finished to produce the sheet surface quality required, can be very rapidly changed in service, and can be made of special very hard material such as tungsten carbide when minimum flattening is needed. Accordingly these mills are used for a great variety of materials — not only all types of steel (including stainless), copper and its alloys, and aluminium and its alloys, but titanium, tantalum, zirconium and even rarer or more intractable metals.


The European steel industry is heavily dependent on raw material and refractory supplies from Chinese origin and therefore exposed to the risk of excessive price increases and material shortages. Besides this it is conceivable, that the export of finished refractory products ex China will be increasingly expensive. With the expected problems in the supply of high grade fused magnesia, magnesia sinter and products thereof, this could become a matter of serious concern for refractory users. RHI as the leading supplier for the European steel industry must be prepared to secure alternative sourcing of raw materials but also to offer alternative refractory concepts with the same performance level.


Classical cryptographic schemes in use today are based on the difficulty of certain number theoretic problems. Security is guaranteed by the fact that the computational work required to break the core mechanisms of these schemes on a conventional computer is infeasible; however, the difficulty of these problems would not withstand the computational power of a large-scale quantum computer. To this end, the post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standardization process initiated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is well underway. In addition to the evaluation criteria provided by NIST, the energy consumption of these candidate algorithms is also an important criterion to consider due to the use of battery-operated devices, high-performance computing environments where energy costs are critical, as well as in the interest of green computing. In this paper, the energy consumption of PQC candidates is evaluated on an Intel Core i7-6700 CPU using PAPI, the Performance API. The energy measurements are categorized based on their proposed security level and cryptographic functionality. The results are then further subdivided based on the underlying mechanism used in order to identify the most energy-efficient schemes. Lastly, IgProf is used to identify the most energy-consuming subroutines within a select number of submissions to highlight potential areas for optimization.


With the ubiquity of GPS-enabled smart devices equipped with high-fidelity sensors and increased availability of the wireless network, spatial crowdsourcing has been recently proposed as a general framework to employ smart device carriers as workers to provide services and perform location-sensitive tasks. In this paper, we focus on the task assignment in spatial crowdsourcing, which aims to find the optimal strategy to assign each task to a proper worker such that the total number of completed tasks is maximized and the traveling time cost is minimized, while the workers can return to their initial locations before deadlines after performing the assigned tasks. Finding the optimal global assignment turns out to be intractable since it does not simply imply optimality for an individual worker, as a typical nearest-neighbor heuristic does not render a satisfactory result in general. In spatial crowdsourcing, we model the task assignment problem as a multiple objective joint optimization problem, which focuses on maximizing accomplished task rate and minimizing travel time cost rate simultaneously, and solves it with a mixed priority queue scheduling algorithm. We also introduce a spectral clustering algorithm in spatial crowdsourcing for the first time to divide the task network into different subdomains, considering the task clustering phenomena in real scenarios. Experiments on synthetic and real-world networks demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of our method in the task assignment of spatial crowdsourcing and provide insights into its application in practice.


29 JASMONATE ZIM-DOMAIN (JAZ) transcriptional repressors are key regulators of 30 jasmonate (JA) signaling in plants. At the resting stage, the C-terminal Jas motifs of 31 JAZ proteins bind the transcription factor MYC2 to repress JA signaling. Upon 32 hormone elicitation, the Jas motif binds the hormone receptor CORONATINE 33 INSENSITIVE1 (COI1), which mediates proteasomal degradation of JAZs and 34 thereby allowing the Mediator subunit MED25 to activate MYC2. Subsequently, 35 plants desensitize JA signaling by feedback generation of dominant JAZ splice 36 variants that repress MYC2. Here we report the mechanistic function of Arabidopsis 37 Plant Cell Advance Publication. Published on December 18, 2019, doi:10.1105/tpc.19.00583 ©2019 American Society of Plant Biologists. All Rights Reserved 2 thaliana MED25 in regulating the alternative splicing of JAZ genes through recruiting 38 the splicing factors PRE-mRNA-PROCESSING PROTEIN 39a (PRP39a) and 39 PRP40a. We demonstrate that JA-induced generation of JAZ splice variants depends 40 on MED25 and that MED25 recruits PRP39a and PRP40a to promote the full splicing 41 of JAZ genes. Therefore, MED25 forms a module with PRP39a and PRP40a to 42 prevent excessive desensitization of JA signaling mediated by JAZ splice variants. 43


Abstract Background Diabetic Foot Ulcers (DFU) are a major complication in patients with diabetes and affect globally 170 million patients. Approximately 28% of patients with infected DFU require amputation. Diabetic foot infections (DFI) caused by persistent or multidrug resistant organisms are a threat to the outcome of therapy. Infections are mostly polymicrobial, and major pathogens include Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. A promising new approach using phages may potentially be a novel modality to increase treatment success. TP-102 is an innovative bacteriophage cocktail for treatment of DFI, a diabetes related unmet need. Methods TP-102 comprised of 5 different phages, targeting S. aureus, P. aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii. This study is a Phase I/II clinical trial performed in Israel looking at safety and tolerability. TP-102 bacteriophage cocktail was applied topically at a titer of 109 PFU/mL/cm3 of target ulcer. Two cohorts receive multiple doses of TP-102. In non-infected DFU (cohort 1) for 1 week and for 28 days in DFU with infection grade 2 or 3 (PEDIS classification, cohort 2). Treatment groups were TP-102 with standard of care versus placebo and standard of care. Outcomes include microbiologic data on the 3 target bacteria, ulcer healing characteristics, incidence and severity of TP-102-emergent solicited local and systemic adverse events, and their relationship to the treatment, from the first application of TP-102 until the end of study. Results For the evaluation of safety in patients with non-infected ulcers, eight patients were enrolled to the first cohort. Six were treated with TP-102 and 2 with placebo. TP-102-treated patients had no severe adverse events associated with the treatment. In the second cohort a total of 18 patients are currently being treated with TP-102 or placebo for 28 days, three times a week. Recruitment is ongoing and results of the trial will be presented. Conclusion TP-102 appeared to be safe when applied to patients with uninfected diabetic foot ulcers. The treatment is a potential new non-traditional antimicrobial for topical application. The efficacy of TP-102 in the treatment of infected diabetic ulcers is being assessed in an ongoing randomized clinical trial. Disclosures Ran Nir-Paz, MD, BiomX: Advisor/Consultant|Technophage: Advisor/Consultant Clara Leandro, PhD, Technophage: Employee Raquel Barbosa, PhD, Technophage: Employee Helena Dordio, PhD, Technophage S.A.: Employee Miguel Garcia, n/a, IBV Innovation Bioventures Lda: Board Member|IBV Innovation Bioventures Lda: Ownership Interest|LX Bio Pharmaceuticals SA: Board Member|LX Bio Pharmaceuticals SA: Ownership Interest|TechnoPhage, SA: Board Member|TechnoPhage, SA: Author of several patent applications|TechnoPhage, SA: Ownership Interest.


The article reveals pedagogical value of Tatar lullabies and nursery rhymes that play an important role in childhood pedagogy. The concept "childhood pedagogy" is relatively new in general pedagogy, and it should be disclosed. We've defined this concept in the following way: it is a science that studies the main stage of development and education of a child, covering the period from birth to adulthood, the main aim of which is to create a sustainable educational environment in which the formation and development of an active personality with all the necessary qualities of social responsibility happens. As for teaching values of Tatar lullabies and nursery rhymes, people give important place in childhood pedagogy to the birth of a child, his upbringing in the cradle, citizenship education, inculcation of intellect and knowledge. In this genre of folklore methods of upbringing and education of a child since very early age are disclosed.


More than ever, the development process in the field of automotive engineering requires shorter development cycles for a higher range of vehicles. In order to meet the ambitious goals of the automotive industry regarding CO2 reduction and at the same time increasing the vehicle requirements in view of comfort and dynamics, it is necessary to decrease the drivetrain weight. Parallel, research and development in the field of automotive engineering is e.g. characterized by power upgraded combustion engines and by higher transmission ratios in the drive train. As a result, the rising of the weight specific power should not involve a reduction of the drivetrain reliability and the related increase of the failure probability. These demands lead to the conclusion that lightweight and robust designs have to be applied for all drivetrain components. All these factors affect the dimensioning of today's clutch systems and step up the demands for future clutch systems. Thus, organic friction facings are getting closer to their limits due to temperature resistance. Within the frame work of the Centre of Excellence in Research CER 483 "High performance sliding and friction systems based on advanced ceramics" one approach is to apply advanced ceramics as friction material for e.g. a dry running motor vehicle clutch using the ceramic specific benefits as wear and temperature resistance combined with lightweight design to fulfill today's demands.Copyright © 2008 by ASME


The 1970s were characterised in Italy by the radicalisation of radical left political groups, but also by far-right bombings in public spaces: the decade is still a subject of strong political and historical controversies. This paper will present the cases of two commemorative stones in two Italian cities, how they have become areas of contention and how they embody the conflicting memories of the "years of lead". The plaque at the station of Bologna in commemoration of the bombing on 2 August 1980 has been contested several times over the last twenty years by right-wing politicians for the adjective "fascist" used on its inscription "Victims of the fascist terrorism". On the other hand, the stone in memory of the death of the anarchist worker Giuseppe Pinelli, allegedly from falling from a fourth-floor window of the police station in Milan in 1969, has had a difficult existence since it was first put in place in 1977. The controversies about this memorial stone epitomise the long-lasting disagreement over Pinelli's death. These two cases offer an example of how places of memory can be highly charged with political meanings and reveal competing interpretations of the past as well as contemporary political struggles and ideological contexts. Analysis of these local and activist forms of memorialisation illustrates the tension between attempts by different actors to depoliticise or re-politicise the memory of the 'years of lead' in Italy and show how the interpretation of the past is continuously shaped by a complex interplay of actors, groups and levels.


This paper explores the link between organizational identity (OI) and strategy in an analysis of data from an organization actively engaged in a strategy development process. It strengthens the findings of Dutton and Dukerich (1991) and Glynn (2000) by supporting the idea that OI and strategy are linked, but it also extends their work by showing that the OI-strategy relationship is important not only in the " crisis " situations they discuss. Moreover, the preliminary findings we gathered during a series of workshops with this firm directly implicate imaginative processes in representing OI, akin to the concept of national " imagined communities " proposed by Anderson (1991). We suggest that " imagining OI " can therefore improve strategy, just as it appears to have done for the 3 business divisions discussed in this research. As a result, this research is the first to discern a close relationship among OI, imagination, and strategy. The growing discourse about organizational identity (OI) has only haphazardly addressed the seemingly implicit link between identity and action. Although the link between organizational identity (OI) and strategy has been, only a few facets of this relationship have been explored. Specifically, where the link between OI and strategy has been investigated, the relationship between the two has involved reactions to threats to identity (e.g., Dutton and Dukerich 1991, Glynn 2000) as opposed a more proactive, intentional self-description of organizational purpose, in turn, shaping strategy. This may be due largely to attempts to limit the wide-ranging implications of the concept of OI to dimensions which bear on the ways that individual members " identify " with their organization. Consequently, the research previously conducted on the OI-strategy relationship has rightly grasped that such identification processes are thrown into relief and are more susceptible of analysis in " threat " or " crisis " situations. However, there are other aspects of organizational identity that grow from the feedback processes between self-description and activity in which should also be explored, be they the result of impression-management tactics (Elsbach and Sutton 1992, Fombrun and Shanley 1990), autopoietic conditions of being and emergence (Von Krogh et al. 1994), or other factors – like the role of the " imagination " in conceptualizing the identity of large groups. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to explore and clarify the link between OI and strategy in proactive, not reactive, situations, by presenting data from three …


Liquid metal convection plays an important role in natural and technical processes. In experimental studies, an instrumentation with a sub-millimeter spatial resolution is required in an opaque fluid to resolve the flow field near the boundary layer. Using ultrasound methods, the trade-off between the frequency and imaging depth of typical laboratory experiments limits the spatial resolution. Therefore, the method of ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) was introduced in liquid metal experiments for the first time in this study. To isolate the intrinsic scattering particles, an adaptive nonlinear beamformer was applied. As a result, an average spatial resolution of 188 μm could be achieved, which corresponded to a fraction of the ultrasound wavelength of 0.28. A convection experiment was measured using ULM. Due to the increased spatial resolution, the high-velocity gradients and the recirculation areas of a liquid metal convection experiment could be observed for the first time. The presented technique paves the way for in-depth flow studies of convective turbulent liquid metal flows that are close to the boundary layer.


This article addresses ethical and liability issues arising from the work of patent agents, including the unauthorized practice of law, risk of waiver of privilege, and related issues.


West Nile virus (WNV), a member of the Flaviviridae family is an important emerging pathogen transmitted by mosquitoes of the Culex sp . wild-and (peri) domesticated birds act as the natural hosts of WNV. Birds are not only susceptible to WNV, but also participate in maintaining the transmission cycle.


After decades of oblivion, a document has come to light that,
for years now, has aroused the curiosity of Byzantine scholars
and many others. It is the last work of Nikodim Pavlovich
Kondakov (1844-1925), the "legendary" manuscript that was given
to the Vatican in the 1920's and later considered missing.
After many noteworthy texts Kondakov had begun publishing his
mature works: the great monograph on the iconography of Christ
and the three volumes of his celebrated Ikonografija Bogomateri
(The Iconography of the Mother of God). While the first two
volumes of The Iconography of the Mother of God were published
in St. Petersburg in 1914 and 1915, the Russian Revolution of
1917 didn't permit the publication of the third. Now Kondakov
in exile, the final volume of his Ikonografija Bogomateri had
been acquired by the Vatican. The publication never took place
but the manuscript did reach the Pontifical Oriental Institute
(PIO) in January of 1926 for translation and publication in
French. It is in the archives of the PIO that it was found.


Dodecyl glycidyl ether is a good reactive diluent with low toxicity and no irritation.The studies were concentrated on the synthesis and the factors effecting the quality of the diluent.


A novel planar ultra-wideband antenna with dual band-notched characteristics is proposed.With the trapeziform structure at the bottom of radiating patch,good impedance match can be achieved.Meanwhile,two U-shaped slots are embeded into the radiating patch,to obtain the notched bands at the frequency of 3.5GHz and 5.5GHz.With and without the notched structure,the change of the current density on the surface of antenna is compared,and the cause of notched band is analyzed with the transmission line theory.The simulated and measured results show that the antenna has a good radiating characteristic within the transmission band.The gain of the antenna within the notched band has been reduced by 5dB by contrast with that within the transmission band.


Analyzed the tunnel effect and its mechanism of production in multibeam bathymetry sonar and pointed out that the side lobe interference was an important factor which caused the tunnel effect,and the emergence of tunnel effect would lead to the multibeam bathymetry sonar mistake relatively flat seafloor for concave-up horizontal half cylinder terrain.Studied on the adaptive beamforming algorithm based on GSC structure,deduced and presented the continuous adaptive realization method,and used the algorithm to process the tunnel effect existed in the lake experiment data.The processing results proved its validity in eliminating the side lobe interference in edge beams of multibeam bathymetric data.


Plasmid pULBll3 (RP4::Mini-Mu) promoted homologous gene transfer in Aero- monas hydrophila; transfer of chromosomal markers occurred at frequencies of between 10 -3 and 10 -4 per donor cell regardless of the marker selected; this indicated chromosome transfer from multiple origins. With a variety of amino acid biosynthetic markers, a single circular map of this bacterium was constructed. Aeromonas spp. are readily isolated from a variety of aquatic environments and have been implicated as pathogens of both warm- and cold-blooded ani- mals (3, 9-11). Aeromonas hydrophila, in particu- lar, has been shown to be a causative organism of acute gastroenteritis, frequently in children (7). Clinical and environmental isolates ofA. hydrophila have been found to produce enterotoxic, cytotoxic, hemolytic, and proteolytic activities in culture su- pernatant fluids (14); furthermore, these character- istics have been suggested as possible virulence fac- tors (2, 4). Chakraborty et al. (4) have recently used gene cloning techniques to provide conclusive evidence that the enterotoxic, cytotoxic, and hemolytic ac- tivities of two A. hydrophila strains are distinct and are determined by different genes. Further genetic analysis of these virulence-associated characteris- tics is essential to complement the extensive bio- chemical (I, 12, 17) and pathologic (5, 16, 19) data rapidly being accumulated. Such studies would be greatly facilitated by the availability of genetic tech- niques for chromosome mobilization and mapping in A. hydrophila. This article reports that chromo- some transfer in A. hydrophila is mediated by RP4::Mini-Mu and, using this system, we have constructed a single, circular linkage map.


During August 1996 members of the Archaeological Field Unit of Cambridgeshire County Council carried out an archaeological evaluation and recording brief at Tower Farm, Little Downham, Cambridgeshire (TL 51935/84200). The work was funded by Mr. L.J. Stevens and undertaken in accordance with a brief designed by the County Archaeology Office. The site lies within the grounds of the former palace of the Bishops of Ely, which dates back to the 10th century and was used until the Civil War. Remains of buildings from the 15th century palace have been incorporated into the present farm buildings. Significant archaeological remains were exposed during the excavation of foundation trenches in advance of the construction of an orangery. Three phases of archaeological activity were identified, including early stone building foundations and a later brick-built extension or renovation, both with little associated dating evidence, as well as a metalled surface probably related to the 18th or 19th century farm. The remains were preserved in situ after recording, using protective conservation processes which were agreed in consultation with the appropriate specialists.


Oceanic central gyres cover large areas of the earth and contribute significantly to global productivity. Oceanic phytoplankton production is believed to be Limited by nitrogen (N) in central gyres and iron (Fe) in high-nutrient low-chlorophyll regions. Bacterioplankton have been less studied but are believed to be limited by organic carbon. We report here that bacterioplankton in the Sargasso Sea were phosphorus (P) limited on cruises in 1992 and 1993. This assertion is supported by measurements of high dissolved and particulate N:P and C:P ratios, high alkaline phosphatase activity and phosphate uptake rates, and bacterioplankton growth rate responses In bioassays where inorganic P was added. Particulate C:P ratios were always higher than the Redfield ratio (106:l) and occasionally greater than 400:l. N:P ratios were 75:l and 46:l on 2 cruises and tlme-series data indicated that ratios were always greater than 24:l over nearly a 2 yr span. Phosphate concentrations were extremely low in the euphotic zone (< 10 nM) and biomass-normalized alkaline phosphatase activities indicated moderate to severe P limitation, with most severe lunitation occurring in the spring. Bioassays indicated that heterotrophic bacteria may be P limited in the northwestern Sargasso Sea, especially in the spring. Limitation by P and not dissolved organic carbon may explain why dissolved organic carbon accumulates in the water column at that time.


Background The effects of vitamin D supplementation on mild hepatic dysfunction and glycemic control are unclear in children and adolescents with either type 1 (T1D) or type 2 diabetes (T2D). Hypothesis Vitamin D supplementation will improve hepatic dysfunction and glycemic control. Aim To determine the effect of vitamin D supplementation on alanine transaminase (ALT), hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), and serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] concentration. Subjects and Methods A retrospective study of 131 subjects with either T1D (n = 88∶46 females, 42 males), or T2D (n = 43∶26 females, 17 males) of ages 3–18 years between 2007–2013. All subjects had (1) a diagnosis of diabetes for >12 mo, (2) received vitamin D supplementation for the management of vitamin D deficiency (3) had baseline and subsequent simultaneous measurements of HbA1c, ALT, and 25(OH)D. Vitamin D deficiency was defined as 25(OH)D concentration of <50 nmol/L (20 ng/mL). Results At baseline, vitamin D deficiency occurred in 72.1% of patients with T2D and in 37.5% of T1D patients (p<0.001). Patients with T2D had significantly higher values for BMI SDS (p<0.001), alanine transaminase (ALT) (p = 0.001), but lower 25(OH)D (p<0.001), and no difference in HbA1c (p = 0.94), and total daily dose (TDD) of insulin per kg body weight (p = 0.48) as compared to T1D patients. After 3 months of vitamin D supplementation, there was a significant increase in 25(OH)D in both T2D (p = 0.015), and T1D patients (p<0.001); significant reduction in BMI SDS (p = 0.015) and ALT (p = 0.012) in T2D, but not in T1D. There was a clinically-significant decrease in HbA1c in T2D from 8.5±2.9% at baseline to 7.7±2.5 at 3 mo, but not in T1D, 8.5±1.2 to 8.53±1.1%. Conclusions Vitamin D supplementation in subjects with T2D was associated with statistically significant decreases in BMI SDS, ALT, and a clinically-significant decrease in HbA1c.


The present invention provides a data display control apparatus suitable according to output it is possible to easily obtain detailed information on the network, detailed information, unnecessary expansion of the memory of the portable terminal and the addition to reduce the processing load on the mobile terminal do. Data output control terminal 300, capable of communicating via the mobile terminal 100 and the printing apparatus are installed by dotted all over (PR1 to PRn) and, WWW server (DS1 to DSm) and the Internet (400) by the user in possession connected, and accepts data printing request from the portable terminal 100, and acquires data regarding the data print request from a WWW server (DS), and selecting one of the plurality of printing apparatus (PR) for the acquired data, and outputs to the selected printing device (PR).


The concept of strategic groups was tested using payroll data to classify NFL teams into four strategic groups and multiple measures of on-the-field and financial performance data. These groups were then examined to see whether spending on player talent was related to organizational performance as measured by winning percentage, points, and yards, and to financial performance as measured by revenues, operating income, and current value. The results show that strategic groups based on talent investment, do exist. Strategic groups were only a moderate predictor of on-the-field performance, but were a significant predictor of financial performance.


In this paper, we introduce a method for analyzing the temporal dynamics of affiliation networks. We define affiliation groups which describe temporally related subsets of actors and describe an approach for exploring changing memberships in these affiliation groups over time. To model the dynamic behavior in these networks, we consider the concept of loyalty and introduce a measure that captures an actor's loyalty to an affiliation group as the degree of 'commitment' an actor shows to the group over time. We evaluate our measure using two real world affiliation networks: a senate bill cosponsorship network and a dolphin network. The results show how the behavior of actors in different affiliation groups change dynamically over time, reinforcing the utility of our measure for understanding the loyalty of actors to time-varying affiliation groups.


While the a history of previous cesarean section,and an early first trimester transvaginal color Doppler ultrasound are advised to confirm the intrauterine location of the implantation site. Three dimensional ultrasound and three dimensional power Doppler ultrasound have improved the accuracy of diagnosis. Magnetic resonance imaging is used for late scar pregnancies,when the differential diagnosis has to be made between abnormal placentation such as accrete and normal placenta during the second or third trimester. Digital subtractive angiography can show the branches of uterine artery. In some cases,Digital subtractive angiography showed branches of uterine artery were bleeding,the site of the branches were equivalent to the lower segment of uterus.


e15006 Background: At diagnosis BM occur in approximately 10-15% of AGC pts and their prognosis is poor (Park 2011; Silvestris 2013). Aim of this study is to identify the main features of pts with AGC and BM at diagnosis together with their response to chemotherapy and clinical course. Methods: We reviewed the clinical records of all AGC pts followed at Cremona Oncology Division from November 2004 to January 2013 and included in three consecutive prospective trials (Dalla Chiesa M. 2011; Tomasello G. 2013). We compared pts with BM at diagnosis vs pts without BM. All pts received a first linetherapy with TCF-dd regimen + Pegfilgrastim. Baseline clinical and pathological parameters were evaluated, together with Overall Survival (OS), Response Rate (RR), Time to Progression (TTP), Time From first Progression to Death (TFPTD), and toxicity. Analysis was based on the intention to treat principle. Results: 151 AGC pts were identified: 21 with BM and 130 without BM.The presence of non-bone metastases was balance...


The purpose of this study was to investigate the clothing pursuit benefits of female consumers in twenties, and explain the differences in underwear purchase behaviors among them. For data collection, research questionnaires were responded by 232 female consumers living in Busan. The collected data were analyzed by the frequency factor analysis using SPSS 12.0 for Windows, the factor analysis using Varimax, reliability analysis, cluster analysis, ANOVA, Duncan test, and -test. The results of this study were as follows: First, consumers' clothing pursuit benefit was drawn from six factors: Self-esteem, Individuality, Fashion, Brand, Practicality, and Price pursuit. The results of the factor analysis of clothing benefit were divided into four groups: Brand pursuit group, Fashion pursuit group, Self-esteem pursuit group, and Individuality/rationality pursuit group. Second, the results of analysing underwear purchase behaviors among clothing pursuit benefit groups showed significant differences in purchase motive, source of information, evaluation criteria, and purchase practices. The underwear purchase motives were significantly different in diversity purchase factor between the groups; sources of information used for underwear purchase were significantly different in the window display factor. The underwear evaluation criteria were significantly different among the groups in decoration and practicality factors, while purchase practices were significantly different among the groups only in underwear purchasing places.


In this paper, a new approach of signal processing for breath prediction pattern recogni- tion is proposed and further analyses are presented. In order to extract key values from raw data, a shift from time domain to phase space has been utilized. It helped to achieve clearer peak-to-peak measurements which are crucial for breath prediction pattern recognition. Based on a special software tool for breath prediction pattern recognition several different algorithms have been compared. As a result, a reduction in error rate can be achieved when applying a new signal processing approach in comparison to the previous designs.


Since Context Driven Component model is based on the idea that a context-aware application consists of the components that are context sensitive and the components that do not depend on the context, it divides the context sensitive part into components according to which context information they are related to. The model supports the scalability of context information by building an application through composing Context Driven Components. Furthermore, it solves the embeddedness of context information inside the application logic. To show the contributions of the model, this paper applies it to Call-forwarding application, and analyses how the model supports the scalability and the embeddedness.


The China-Russia Crude Oil Pipeline(CRCOP) route traverses across permafrost regions from Mohe to Wuerqi,441 km in length,where permafrost,forest and swamp are interedependency and influence each other,constituting a permafrost environment.Pipelines are long-distant and linear structures,therefore,their construction and maintenance would have appreciable influence on the permafrost environment.In this paper,the disturbance degrees to the ground surface and land situation,the engineering properties,the features of various permafrost types,the mean annual ground temperature,periglacial phenomena,and their correlations and interactive mechanisms were analyzed.A ground surface stability method for assessing permafrost environments along the CRCOP route was proposed.According to the method,the ground surfaces could be classified into four types: very stable one,stable one,unstable one and very unstable one,corresponding to good quality,fair quality,poor quality and very poor quality of permafrost environment,respectively.This assessing method is simple and characterized by appropriate,objective,comprehensively and high accuracy.


This campaign augmented measurements obtained via deployment of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility's ARM Mobile Facility (AMF) in the Marine ARM GPCI1 Investigation of Clouds (MAGIC) field campaign. The measurements, comprised of shipboard aerosol collections obtained during the five legs of the summer 2013 cruises, were sent for offline processing to measure ice nucleating particle (INP) number concentrations. The forty-three sample periods each represented, nominally, 24-hour segments during outbound and inbound transits of the Horizon Spirit. The samples were collected at locations between Los Angeles and Hawaii. Eight samples have been analyzed for immersion freezing temperature spectra thus far, using funding from other grants. Remaining samples are being frozen until support for further processing is obtained. Future analyses will investigate the inorganic/organic proportions of ice nuclei, in addition to determining the genetic composition of the overall biological community associated with INPs. Resulting correlations will be compared with other archived aerosol quantities, meteorological and ocean data (e.g., temperature, wind speed, sea surface temperature, etc…) and satellite ocean color products. These findings will ultimately aid in parameterizing oceanic (e.g., sea spray) INP emissions in regional and global scale models, when illustrating aerosol connections to cloud phases and properties. Independentmore » future analyses of frozen filter samples, as proposed by collaborating investigators at the time of this report, will include single particle analyses of marine boundary layer aerosol compositions and morphology. The MAGIC-IN data are considered representative of the oligotrophic, low Chlorophyll-a (with the exception of near-shore) ocean regions, which exist along the MAGIC transect. Current analyses suggest that INP numbers in the marine boundary layer over this region are typically low, compared to existing measurements over marine areas and those collected in the laboratory as the result of realistic sea spray particle generation. These findings, along with separate studies, confirm the existence of highly variable emission sources for INP from oceans, (though weaker than land-based emissions at modestly cooled temperatures).« less


Objective: To investigate the abnormal ECG situation of heroin addicts ,and analyze the correlation between ECG aberrant change and duration, dosage and pattern of heroin abuse. Methods: 312 heroin Addicts' ECG was collected from our hospital in a certain period, comparing with normal control group (69 cases). Duration, dosage and pattern abuse factors were examined. Results: The Rate of ECG aberrant change in subjects was up to 75.32%, in which sinus bradycardia (36.17%), sinus arrhythmia (32.77%) and ST-T segment change (13.62%) were the majors. Longer duration, more dose of drug abuse, higher rate of ECG aberrant change. Venous injection was found to be easier to lead to cardiovascular dysfunction. Conclusion: heroin could easily make addicts' ECG aberrant change, which is related to abuse duration, dosage and pattern.


In this paper, an iterative method to model the anisotropic lateral oxidation of circular structures is proposed and validated by confrontation to experimental data. The described model enables the efficient calculation of the temporal bi-dimensional evolution of the oxidation front shape, starting from a circular mesa, and progressing inward as a result of an anisotropic process combining an isotropic diffusion with an anisotropic reaction. The result of the developed model shows that the oxide aperture smoothly deforms from a circle to become more diamond-like, mimicking the experimental situation encountered when fabricating vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) on (100) wafers or, more generally, when oxidizing circular mesas of aluminum-containing III-V semiconductor on similarly oriented substrates.


In e-business, knowledge can be extracted from the recorded information by intelligent data analysis and then utilised in the business transaction. E-knowledge is a foundation for e-business. E-business can be supported by an intelligent information system that provides intelligent business process support and advanced support of the e-knowledge management cycle. Knowledge is stored as knowledge models that can be updated in the e-knowledge management cycle. As illustrated in examples, the e-knowledge cycle aids in the business decision taking, production management, and costs management.


An intelligent robot cleaner that based on integration of ultrasonic and infrared reflection sensors is intro-duced in this paper.The robot cleaner can acquire the length and width of the room in an unknown environment,then to achieve full or partial coverage of it.At the same time the robot has wireless remote control and voice broad-cast function,and the system's performance is stable,reliable and high-coverage,it can work in autonomous or controlled mode.


Part I. Biological Perspectives: 1. The evolution of the sexual arena Jack Cohen 2. The role of sperm competition in reproduction Tim Birkhead 3. Sperm production and delivery in mammals, including man Hector Dott and Tom Glover 4. The local control of spermatogenesis Kate Lakoski Loveland and David de Kretser 5. Some misconceptions of the human epididymis Roy Jones 6. Transport of spermatozoa to the egg and fertilisation success Jackson Brown, Steve Publicover and Chris Barratt 7. Changes in human male reproductive health Stewart Irvine Part II. Implications of the New Technologies: 8. ICSI: the revolution and the portents Herman Tournaye 9. The genetic basis of male fertility Pasquale Patrizio and Diana Broomfield 10. The treatment of azoospermia with surgery and ICSI Sherman Silber 11. The challenge of asthenozoospermia Chris Ford 12. Molecular techniques for the diagnosis of inherited disorders and male reproductive malfunction Ian Findlay and Justin St John 13. Gazing into the crystal ball: future diagnosis and management in andrology Jim Cummins and Anne Jequier Index.


The peasants link the presence of earthworms to the most productive lands in their properties. The aim of the study was to verify the peasants perceptions in different production systems and levels of agroecological transition about the role of the earthworms in agroecosystems. Three peasants were selected, one in agroecological transition, other in a consolidated agroecological system for several years, and another in conventional system of irrigated rice production. They presented differents perceptions about the ecological role of the earthworms but with some similarities in what concerns the physical action on the soil. The presented perceptions were not opposite, but additional, and they should to be contemplated in the incentive strategies to practices of soil management that promote the reproduction and conservation of earthworms in the agroecosystems.


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Modeling the relation between payments criterion and the supply of additional ecosystem services is critical in ecological compensation.The existing payments in Zhouqu County are static and the payments criterion is relatively low.It is far from achieving the purpose of improving ecological environment.Based on the minimum-data approach,the ecosystem services are measured by the difference of conservation of water and soil between two kinds of land-use farmland and forest.The supply curve of forest service of conservation of water and soil in Zhouqu County can be derived from the spatial distribution of opportunity cost in providing those services.So the compensation criterion can be linked to the supply of additional conservation of water and soil.The proportion of conversion of farmland to forest,the total payments for ecological compensation and the additional conservation of water and soil are compared under three different compensation criteria.The results show that it is theoretically possible to enhance the capabililij of conservation of water and soil by implementing ecological compensation in Zhouqu County.With the elevation of payments criterion,the additional conservation of water and soil also increases.When the payments criterion equals to 250 yuan/mu,518.63 yuan/mu and 995.65 yuan/mu respectively,the proportion of conversion of farmland to forest rises from 8.26 percent to 49.54 percent and to 98.79 percent,the total payments for ecological compensation equal to 1 930.03 million yuan,23 184.26 million yuan and 87 340.95 million yuan respectively,and the additional conservation of water and soil amount to 4.69×104 ton,2.83×105 ton and 5.65×105ton respectively.


The field of mental health has evolved a lot since 20 years, with the emergence of the ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) and in the context of cyberculture. Telepsychology is defined by APA (2013) as the provision of psychological services using telecommunication technologies. It includes many types of remote communication like written exchanges (tchat, emails, SMS), voice exchange (phone, VOIP) or videoconference. Technologies may augment traditional in-person services, or be used as standalone services (e.g., therapy or leadership development provided over videoconferencing). Different technologies may be used in various combinations and for different purposes during the provision of telepsychology services.


Electromagnetic wave computerized tomography (CT) technology has been successfully applied to detection of hidden defects in dykes and dams.The methods for application of this technology are classified as simultaneous observation and fixed-point observation.During trenching in the auxiliary dam of Wangbizhuang reservoir,serious grout leak occurred,resulting in collapse of the trench,CT detection was conducted at No.3 collapse pit to detect the geologic structure of the embankment at the collapse pit and the abnormal distribution of interference in the collapse pit area,and to determine the reasons for collapse and grout leak.CT sectional images fully reflected the collapse scope,revealed the reasons for grout leak and provided a technical guarantee for strengthening and treating the embankment.The electromagnetic wave CT technology has been proved to be an effective tool for detecting hidden defects in dykes and dams.


181 ISSN 2045-1393 10.2217/IJH.13.21 © 2013 Future Medicine Ltd Int. J. Hematol. Oncol. (2013) 2(3), 181–183 Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is widely regarded as one of the major success stories in oncology, and rightly so. Over the last century, it has been transformed from a virtual death sentence, to one of the most curable malignancies, with overall survival rates of ≥90% at 5 years in early-stage disease [1]. Although treatment failures persist, increasing awareness of the long-term side effects of chemoradiotherapy has shifted our focus from blind cure to the prudent application of treatment, designed to optimize outcomes and minimize toxicity based on risk-stratification and, increasingly, tumor biology. The successful impact of therapeutic radiation in those early days has been well-documented. Moreover, combined chemoradiation is still the treatment of choice in the USA and Europe for favorable disease, although chemotherapy alone is now another option [2–4]. In addition, the imaging modalities of computed tomography (CT) and PET have increased in use as accessibility and affordability has improved. Even though the use of CT and PET for diagnostic work-up has become standard, their role in prognostication, as well as interim evaluation, remains to be fully defined. While formal guidelines exist for the use of CT in surveillance, particularly in the USA [2], there are legitimate concerns about its sensitivity/specificity for identifying relapse and the emergence of false negatives, in addition to the potential long-term effects of latent DNA damage secondary to radiation exposure. Interim or early post-therapy imaging can be justified to manage refractory disease or early relapse with salvage therapy, but practically and prognostically, patients with early stage, nonbulky, favorable HL who have achieved a complete PET-negative response to standard treatment appear to derive little benefit from extended CT surveillance. Arguably, a patient's outcome can already be predicted by the evidence base supporting initial risk stratification, and imaging during and post-therapy. So, why carry out surveillance? What are we trying to achieve? First and foremost, we are trying to identify relapse. However, relapse rates in early-stage, nonbulky HL


On 17 September 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Free Trade Association States (the "EFTA Court") handed down its judgment in Nye Kystlink AS v Color Group AS and Color Line, Case…


Based on the original five-dimensional drift kinetic equation, a three-dimensional reduced drift kinetic equation has been obtained to describe the neoclassical transport of helical plasmas in the ultralow collisionality regime, where the collision frequency is much lower than the poloidal bounce frequency of the superbanana particles. The reduced drift kinetic equation describes the evolution of the distribution function in terms of three constants of motion as independent variables. This reduced drift kinetic equation is suitable for studying the collisional transport of fast ions in helical magnetic confinement systems, since it includes the effects of finite superbanana width and finite aspect ratio, and it includes the collisional slowing-down and energy-scattering terms in addition to the pitch-angle-scattering term.


90,960 primary THAs were reported to the NAR for the period 1987-2004. Of these, 6,743 (7.5%) were performed because of sequelae after DDH, 806 (0.9%) because of DDH with dislocation, and 64,339 (71.3%) because of primary osteoarthritis (OA). Prosthesis survival at 14 years was calculated by the Kaplan-Meier method and relative risks for revision in a Cox model with adjustments for age, gender, type of systemic antibiotic, operation time, type of operating theatre and brand of prosthesis.


Longitudinal
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  study
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  repeated
  observations
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  the
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  variables
  are recorded
  for
  the
  same
  individuals
  over
  a
  period
  of
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  type
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  research
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  many
  names
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  time
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  analysis
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  repeated
  measures
  design),
  each of
  which
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  overview
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  data
  analysis
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  practitioners,
  administrators,
  and
  other consumers
  of
  educational
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  focusing
  on:
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  longitudinal
  data analysis
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  trajectories. A Primer on Longitudinal Data Analysis in Education Longitudinal data analysis in education is the study of student growth over time. A longitudinal study is one in which repeated observations of the same variable(s) are recorded for the same individuals over a period of time. This type of research is known by many names (e.g., time series analysis or repeated measures design), each of which can imply subtle differences in the data or analysis, but generally follows the same definition. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of longitudinal data analysis in education for practitioners, administrators, and other consumers of educational research, focusing on: the purposes of longitudinal data analysis in education, some of its benefits and limitations, and the various analyses used to model student growth trajectories. 1. Purposes Longitudinal data analysis, also known as growth modeling and growth curve analysis, has as its primary purpose the measurement of change, or trajectories. Growth trajectories refer to both the intercept (initial or starting point) and the slope (growth, or change over time). There are two general objectives that are addressed by longitudinal data analysis: (a) how the outcome variable changes over time, and (b) predicting or explaining differences in these changes (Singer & Willett, 2003). The first purpose is more narrow, and looks at the description of the functional form of growth; that is, is growth linear, or non-linear. It is important to note here that growth can increase and/or decrease, accelerate and/or decelerate, and that an important part of longitudinal data analysis is modeling the correct functional form of growth. The second purpose is much broader than the first, and addresses the relation between the trajectory and independent variables of interest (e.g., instructional program, public vs. private schooling, absences, socioeconomic status). In the coming sections, examples of these two purposes are provided, and different analyses that help answer questions related to these purposes are illustrated. Specific longitudinal educational data, described next, is used to help elucidate these purposes. 1.1 Description of Data The following longitudinal data are used to help illustrate examples about growth and analyses throughout this paper. These data come from a larger study conducted in 2009-2010 to develop a comprehensive reading and mathematics assessment system. The sample includes 186 students in grade 4 who were administered eight oral reading fluency (ORF) measures over one academic year. Measures were administered in October, November, December, January, February, March, April, and May. Students with ORF results from at least four testing occasions were included in the sample. For the ORF administration, students were shown a narrative passage (approximately 250 words) and were given 60 seconds to "do their best oral reading." The assessor followed along as the student read, indicating on the test protocol each word the student read incorrectly (producing the wrong word or omitting a word). If a student hesitated for more than three seconds, the assessor provided the correct word, prompted the student to continue, and marked the word as read incorrectly. Student self-corrections were marked as correct responses. After one minute, 1


Energy Efficient protocol for Resource Discovery is one of the most important issues in wireless ad hoc networks. Contact-based is one of efficient protocol for resource discovery in wireless ad-hoc networks. In this protocol, the requests are forwarded to only a small number of selected nodes out of the zone, called contacts. Contact selection methods aim to reduce zone-overlap and to elect useful contacts. This paper provides an overview of Edge Method (EM) and Probabilistic Edge Method (PEM) and proposes a new method to contact selection. PEM is proposed for energy efficient contact selection by reducing randomly the request size. I propose a new method based on PEM to contact selection, called Weighted Edge Method (WEM). In this method, each border node has a weight and request size reduction act is based on weight of nodes instead of random reduction. I studied the rate of energy consumption and zone-overlap on the new method and previous methods. My simulation and modeling results on different network size shows that the WEM is more effective than previous methods.


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AFRICAN SAFE COMMUNITIES
CONFERENCE, 8-10 OCTOBER 2003,
MAURITIUS
Rashid Ahmed
Psychology Department, University of the Western Cape
William Mukasa Senyonjo
Occupational Safety and Health Department, Uganda
The Indian Ocean and Sub-Saharan African countries suffer an increasing burden of violence and
injuries and so are challenged to respond creatively with scarce resources. Recognising this
challenge, the first Indian Ocean and third African Safe Communities Conference, held in Mauritius,
represented a regional attempt to develop safe community networks. Within the confines of this short
report, we focus on some of the main themes and issues that were discussed at the conference and
relate to the emergence and development ..


The authors of the paper "Electric fields guide migration of epidermal stem cells and promote skin wound healing" published in Wound Repair and Regeneration (Volume 20, Issue 6, November–December 2012, Pages 840–851) have requested that the following be noted: Prof. Min Zhao and Prof. Jianxin Jiang contributed equally to the paper as coresponding authors (Prof. Jianxin Jiang, State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns and Combined Injury, Institute of Surgery Research, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400042, China. Tel: +86 23 68706323; Fax: +86 23 68706323; Email: hellojjx@ 126.com).


Do equityholders of a financially distressed firm have an incentive to buy back debt to achieve a more sustainable leverage ratio and avoid costly bankruptcy? I develop a dynamic structural model incorporating a dynamic game to determine conditions under which a firm would voluntarily do so. It allows me to assess the impact of debt-overhang and asset substitution on the restructuring decision and the holdout problem. I find that as long as the total firm value increases through the debt repurchase, equityholders benefit from it, as well. In a dynamic setting, the debt overhang problem takes the form of too early restructuring. Taxes on cancellation of debt income and government subsidies to debtholders can destroy equityholders' incentives; so does low liquidity in the market for the firm's assets; an asset purchase program fosters them. Finally, via threatening not to tender, debtholders can appropriate a large share of the firm's restructuring gains. However, they cannot stop equityholders from gambling for resurrection, which in turn gives equityholders bargaining power to prevent debtholders from holding out. JEL classification: G21, G28, G32, G33, G38, H81 firstname.lastname@example.com. I would like to thank Engelbert Dockner, Dirk Hackbarth, Gyoengyi Lóránth, Neal Stoughton, Youchang Wu, and Josef Zechner for helpful discussions and comments.


Nowadays, computers became essential communication between human and
equipments. All communications now are using computers. Much computer-oriented
equipment is invented. Each of the equipment has their own communication protocol
such as Parallel Port, Serial Port, USB and wireless. Each of the communication
protocol has their advantages and disadvantages. So, Parallel Port-Based Data
Acquisition System is created as final year project in order to examine the ability of
the communication protocol can be widely used. The objective of this project is to
realize communication between hardware and software by using parallel port.
Besides that, it helps student to gain knowledge about parallel port protocol deeply
so that the protocol could be upgraded. Lot of reviews and researches has been done
to realize it. A lot of simple experiments have been done as reference. Scope of the
project covered useful of PIC as controller and vb2005 as programming language to
develop data acquisition system.


Dust exists universally in space. Especially, it plays an important role in discussing the evolutions of solid bodies. For instance, it is considered that dusts exist on the surfaces of and around the asteroids, and the existence reflects the surface evolution. Although it is considered that dusts on the asteroid surfaces are horizontally transported by the electric fields formed with electrification by the sunlight, and a similar transport mechanism may also occur on the lunar surface, details are unclear. The hypervelocity dust particles can be detected with conventional dust monitors utilizing the phenomenon like the impact ionization, while levitating dusts are hardly detected with the original place observation. Hence, we are studying a lidar for the observation of levitating dusts that have low velocities. Normally, pulse laser for light transmission source are used, however, we consider using light emitting diode (LED) for it. The benefit of LED is easy handling, for instance, it is strong against serge, and the driver's composition is simple. Hence, the entire lidar instrument can be miniaturized by using LED, LED mini lidar. Lidar was a part of the meteorological observation station onboard to Mars lander Phoenix. LED mini lidar can be utilized for such a mission. Moreover, because LED light has a lot of diversities of the wavelength of luminescence, for instance, it is relatively easy to probe a certain particular atmospheric constituent by using as difference absorption lidar. In this paper, we describe our study on LED mini lidar for planetary exploration.


This thesis outlines a design and implementation of a prototype of a Common Criteria Design Assistant.
 Designing secure systems becomes more and more challenging. Using the Common Criteria approach for designing secure systems, it's possible to guarantee a certain level of security from the start of the design process. The CC approach fits very well with the iterative nature of software engineering, providing more abstract views (Protection Profiles), through more concrete designs (Security Targets) to an Implementation Representation.
 Until now, however, there have been no tools supporting this form of design.


7–13 May 2012, Poppi, Italy ICOMOS International Scientifi c Committee on Fortifi cations and Military Heritage (ICOFORT) Between east and west: transposition of cultural systems and military technology of fortifi ed landscapes This international conference is organized in order to compare results and update on current research into cultural routes and fortifi ed landscapes. The programme will pay particular attention to the theme of Cultural Tourism, review of World Heritage Site nominations, terminology, the evaluation on fortifi cations and military landscapes, the relations between conservation and climate change, and the dissemination of web information. The research projects will be organized in three thematic areas: fortifi cations of the medieval and late medieval periods; Renaissance and late Renaissance fortifi cations; and modern and contemporary fortifi ed systems. There is a pre-conference training workshop: 7–8 May, on the 'Technologies for historical fortifi cations survey and documentation'.


Heat supply is the industry which forms the comfortable living environment in many respects. It is especially felt in those regions, where climatic conditions demand maintenance of the comfortable thermal mode during the cold winter period. On the one hand, the efficiency of the heat- supplying enterprises activity determines the level of the population comfort, including temperature condition in rooms, uninterrupted heat supply, on the other hand, it influences the tariff level for heat supply services. The article presents the results of the research, which purpose was to reveal the indicators of the heat-supplying enterprises activity, allowing to estimate their efficiency in the most complete way from the position of various stakeholders. The system of indicators, created as a result of the conducted research, can be used by both management of the enterprise, and external stakeholders for the efficiency evaluation of the heat-supplying enterprise in statics and in dynamics.


Abstract Boveinine (1), a minor pyrrolizidine alkaloid, was isolated from the aerial parts of Heliotropium bovei and its structure was determined to be 1-[(2′-hydroxy-2′ -(1-hydroxy-1-methylethyl)-3′-methoxybutanoyl-oxymethyl]-5, 6-dihydropyrrolizidine-7-one.


Epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs) are endogenous chemical mediators derived from arachidonic acid. These EETs show anti‐inflammatory, antihypertensive, analgesic, angiogenic, and antiatherosclerotic effects.1 Soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) converts EETs to their corresponding dihydroxyeicosatrienoic acids, whereby the biological effects of EETs are diminished, eliminated, or altered. It has been proposed that inhibition of sEH may have therapeutic effects in various inflammatory diseases. Potent, orally bioavailable sEH inhibitors (sEHI) have been developed, several of them featuring an adamantane scaffold, including AR9281 that proved to be safe in human clinical trials.2


Capital punishment remains a controversial issue in the United States. While several states do not have the death penalty, most still do


The present invention is an apparatus and method for collecting human fetal blood from the umbilical cord and placenta after the birth. Embodiment of the present invention is an open device and method which allows a greater amount of cord blood collected, while the risk of contamination is reduced to less than the current levels associated with the level of the closed loop system. Other embodiments of closure system is a program for a method and apparatus that increases the amount of blood collected and also reduce the amount of contaminants in the closed system is currently used.


Modeling and simulation of packed bed systems operating non-isothermally require sufficiently accurate knowledge of thermal transport properties.Effective thermal conductivity (k) of packed bed of molecular sieves is rarely reported. In this paper, dependence of k on temperature for a packed bed of 13X molecular sieves has been determined. An electrical heater embedded coaxially in the bed was used to heat it, and the radical temperature profiles thus obtained under transient conditions were utilized for estimation. The estimated relationship is k = 8.17635 {times} 10{sup {minus}5} + 10.915427 {times} 10{sup {minus}7}(T {minus} T{sub 0}). Statistical analysis of the estimated parameters has also been carried out. The deviations between experimental and predicted temperatures are less than 5%.


The meaning and potential results of a decision can be better understood if there is an in-depth examination of the decision making process. That this thesis is relevant to library education will be demonstrated by the explication of a specific decision making process in three accredited library schools. The literature of decision making theory provides a framework for exploring and comparing the cases here presented.


i . Introduction. 2. Experimental part. 3. Results and discussion. 3oLLPeak®ratio of a double peak. 3 e 2 ®Comparison of the 1 37Csmpeak counting rate in single-peak and double-peak conditions for different l ° CmAg/ l37 Cs peak ratios. 33 .Comparison an of the '1°mAg®peak counting rate in single-peak 1~~ 11 and double-peak conditions for different ' `Cs/ Qn Ag peak ratios. 4 Conclusions. 5 . Acknowledgements


The central thesis advanced in this study is that firms' knowledge-building strategies can be usefully explained by the variations in their national institutional contexts. Using an inductive approach, a study of fuel cell innovation across the U.S., France, Japan and Norway demonstrates how countries' sociopolitical institutions – characterized by their levels of statism and corporatism – contribute to variations vailable online 3 July 2009


This article examines the concept of conflict presented by different authors on the basis of the sociology of power, while ignoring the elements that do not fit in with this theoretical proposal, and suggesting a more suitable definition. Likewise, it is understood that a large social system is made up of numerous actors that have multiple conflicts between them. This is why, in the case of international conflicts, we are not talking about one single conflict, but of a conflictual complex that requires a different kind of analytical approach to the one offered by classical theories on conflict analysis. The result is a proposal which, unlike some conflict resolution theories, pays particular attention to the structure in which the actors are immersed, and explains better both the conduct of the actual actors and the results of the conflictual complex itself, all of which are vital elements for obtaining good results in any attempt at resolution.


Anxiety is one of manifestation that can occur to surgery patients. This research aims to find out the level of anxiety pre and post surgery in Kenanga's ward of Prof. Dr. Margono Soekarjo Hospital. The method of this research is a quasi experimental with one group pre post test design approach. The samples of this research are all of the surgery patients in Kenanga's ward during October 1st to 5th, 2012, by 42 participants. The data analythics used univariate and bivariate paired simple T test. The results showed there is a difference between anxiety level pre and post surgery (p < 0,05).


Data deduplication is a technology that eliminates redundant data to save storage space. Most previous studies on data deduplication target backup storage, where the deduplication ratio and throughput are important. However, data deduplication on primary storage has recently been receiving attention; in this case, I/O latency should be considered equally with the deduplication ratio. Unfortunately, data deduplication causes high sequential-read-latency problems. When a file is created, the file system allocates physically contiguous blocks to support low sequential-read latency. However, the data deduplication process rearranges the block mapping information to eliminate duplicate blocks. Because of this rearrangement, the physical sequentiality of blocks in a file is broken. This makes a sequentialread request slower because it operates like a random-read operation. In this paper, we propose a selective data deduplication scheme for primary storage systems. A selective scheme can achieve a high deduplication ratio and a low I/O latency by applying different data-chunking methods to the files, according to their file access characteristics. In the proposed system, file accesses are characterized by recent access time and the access frequency of each file. No chunking is applied to update-intensive files since they are meaningless in terms of data deduplication. For sequential-readintensive files, we apply big chunking to preserve their sequentiality on the media. For random-read-intensive files, small chunking is used to increase the deduplication ratio. Experimental evaluation showed that the proposed method achieves a maximum of 86% of an ideal deduplication ratio and 97% of the sequential-read performance of a native file system. key words: data deduplication, selective deduplication, rank based deduplication


When a society's overall deprivation or living standard is assessed in a multi-attribute framework, the following procedure is often used. First, for each attribute, a summary index is constructed to reflect a society's performance in relation to this attribute. Then, an indicator of the overall performance of the society in terms of all the attributes together is constructed. This paper discusses a difficulty associated with this procedure. We show that the difficulty lies in its inability to reconcile two highly attractive ethical principles - the first reflecting a requirement of treating individuals symmetrically and the second reflecting a requirement for equity-sensitivity. This problem implies that this widely-used procedure must lead to possibly untenable conclusions, and that it is necessary to adopt alternative procedures. The alternative procedure must permit describing a society's overall deprivation or living standard as an aggregate of the comprehensive deprivations or living standards experienced by the individuals in the society.


Low-energy scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) is applied to image and quantify thickness and composition of irradiation-sensitive polymer films for solar cell applications. The experiments were carried out with a dual-beam FEI Strata400S state of art microscope. A standard semiconductor STEM detector with several ringlike segments was used which is positioned below the polymer samples. High-angle annular dark-field (HAADF) images originating from electrons transmitted in a hollow cone between 0.2-0.7 rad show composition-sensitive contrast [1] which is more pronounced at low energies. Low electron energies are also preferable for the investigation of materials sensitive to knock-on damage. research on the morphology of the which contains a blend of the acid methyl and The degree of decomposition of two materials important for separation


To child neurologists, William M. Landau is probably best known for his eponymic Landau-Kleffner syndrome described in 1957 as a ''syndrome of acquired aphasia with convulsive disorder in children'' in collaboration with Frank R. Kleffner. To clinical neurophysiologists, Landau is known for his meticulous description of the nerve and muscle activation mediating the plantar reflexes that are evaluated daily by clinicians to assess the status of corticospinal tract functioning. Landau served for many years as the Chairman of the Department of Neurology at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, which over the years trained many prominent neurologists (including numerous child neurologists mentored by the iconic Philip Dodge). As the quintessential skeptic, Landau took up the task of confronting ''conventional wisdom'' in a series of ''Neuromythology'' articles published in Neurology (the official organ of the American Academy of Neurology), which were then reprinted in book form. The Journal of Child Neurology has also often championed controversial issues, such as the valuation of published materials, peer review, ethics in publishing, and professional witness testimony, with some of these articles even being penned by Landau. Thus, it seemed appropriate to publish this provocative critique by Landau in the same issue as an article providing an analysis of the peer review process in neurology. Presumably, correspondence from readers will challenge both of these articles. Roger A. Brumback, MD Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Child Neurology


Turbulent characteristics of turbulent pulsating flows were studied experimentally in a square duct. Velocity waveforms, velocity profiles, and turbulent intensity of turbulent pulsating flow were investigated by using a hot-wire anemometer with data acquisition and a processing system in a square duct with a ratio of 1 (40㎜ × 40㎜) to 4,000㎜ long. Turbulent components were shown to be larger in decelerating than in accelerating regions and also larger for a large phase of velocity and U'rms distribution of turbulent flow. The effect of velocity amplitude ratio does not exist for specified time [θ(z')], amplitude ratio (│U'_(rms.os.1)│/│U_(m.os.1)│), and phase difference (∠U'_(rms.os.1) - ∠U_(m.os.1)) in either turbulent oscillating or cross-sectional mean velocity components. The effect of dimensionless angular frequency for specified time [θ(z')] can be disregarded because the dimensionless angular frequency does not affect the specified time. The velocity distributions of turbulent pulsating flows for various time-averaged Reynolds numbers are in approximate agreement with the velocity distributions for equivalent Reynolds numbers and 1/7th power law of steady flow.


The engineering tasks 5-steps driven teaching method that develops engineering tasks and the relative teaching methods are elaborated in this paper.This method is innovated in the courses teaching of Hydraulic Fluid and Pneumatic Technology.


The study is based on unpublished documents of the National Archives in London and deals with the perception of the so-called Machnik's Decree from the point of view of the British Legation in Prague and the Foreign Office. The so-called Machnik's Decree means the appeals of the Czechoslovak Ministry of National Defence from January 1936, addressed to various enterprises who were interested in state contracts. These contracts required the trustworthy persons only. Both British Legation and the Foreign Office found such activities inappropriate and understood them to be useless. The whole affair, which was discussed on the field of League of Nations, helped the Sudeten German Party to gain publicity on the international groun


This paper presents a second-generation mostly-digital background-calibrated oversampling ADC based on voltage- controlled ring oscillators (VCROs). Its performance is in line with the best ΔΣ modulator ADCs published to date, but it occupies much less circuit area, is reconfigurable, and consists mainly of digital circuitry. Enhancements relative to the first-generation version include digitally background-calibrated open-loop V / I conversion in the VCRO to increase ADC bandwidth and enable operation from a single low-voltage power supply, quadrature coupled ring oscillators to reduce quantization noise, digital over-range correction to improve dynamic range and enable graceful overload behavior, and various circuit-level improvements. The ADC occupies 0.075 mm2 in a 65 nm CMOS process and operates from a single 0.9-1.2 V supply. Its sample-rate is tunable from 1.3 to 2.4 GHz over which the SNDR spans 70-75 dB, the bandwidth spans 5-37.5 MHz, and the minimum SNDR+ 10log(bandwidth/power dissipation) figure of merit (FOM) is 160 dB.


Lucy Robertsher boocke which was giuenmee by my most deare and Louinghusbande and was his good Mothers1631 the 6 daye of mayeLRobertsLucy Roberts1John Robartes gave his young wife Lucy a 1562 Geneva Bible on 6 May 1631. It had belonged to his mother, the puritan matriarch Frances Hender. They had married a year earlier in April 1630 when Lucy was fifteen, and had possibly just arrived at the Robartes's seat of Lanhydrock in Cornwall.2 Their union sealed a strong puritan alliance. John (1606-1685), later the first earl of Radnor, was the eldest son and heir of Richard Robartes, first Baron of Truro, and his wife, Frances Hender, and Lucy (c.1615-c.1645/6) was the second daughter of Robert Rich, second earl of Warwick, and his wife Frances Hatton. Factional divisions on chiefly religious grounds amongst the Cornish gentry had emerged by this time, and it is in relation to the debate of Sabbatarianism that Lucy Robartes made a rare literary incursion. Her brief discourse, which she entitled 'A meditation uppon the Lords day', is scripted on one of several blank pages at the back of this Geneva Bible, composed sometime after 1633, in three instalments, and it is this which enables us to examine her use of an individual Bible as a tool to express her own theological and political opinions.3Though it is admittedly only a short text, when studied in the light of the Geneva Bible's annotations and the 1618 edition of James I's 'Book of Sports' held in the Lanhydrock library, Lucy Robartes's 'Meditation' sheds fascinating light on the way in which an early modern woman writer was able to interact with a key contemporary controversy of political and theological importance. Moreover, she presents it as having significant spiritual implications for both herself and the generations to follow. Acknowledgement of the heritage and future of an intergenerational text such as this family Bible demonstrates that she was aware of a wide potential readership for her writing. The hand that wrote and signed the introductory inscription at the front of the Bible, 'Lucy Roberts her boocke. . .' and signed 'LRoberts, Lucy Roberts', is the same hand that wrote the meditation at the back of the Bible. Three different pens are used, and the paleographical style is uniform, though it appears to mature. Contextual evidence suggests that it was probably begun around 1633 or 1634, since it is situated between two other meditations, both signed 'LRoberts' and dated 1632 and 1634 respectively. It was presumably added to in two additional phases during her use of the Bible, and represents an accumulative reading programme on the Sabbatarian debate. It cannot be said for certain that she did not complete it even as late as the early 1640s.This study endeavours to demonstrate how the particular books within a remarkable private library can be better appreciated for what they offer literary history. Such libraries are often undervalued in the histories of country houses, as the National Trust's Libraries Curator, Mark Purcell, noted in Library History: 'Generally speaking, people who have taken a serious interest in the history of books - as opposed to those who have had a serious interest in collecting them - have not paid a great deal of attention to libraries in country houses. And historians of country houses have returned the compliment by taking very little account of books.'4 Even in the fact of their acquisition, each of these books can tell a fascinating story beyond the mere contents of its pages. For too long, such books have served as aesthetically pleasing wallpaper, and even the National Trust admits to only having adopted a properly 'curatorial approach' for their 'unsung treasures' as late as the 1990s.5 The 1562 Geneva Bible that was the property of the Robartes family at Lanhydrock (now belonging to the National Trust) is one example of how the examination of just one book can illuminate both family and county history for the benefit of literary and historical scholarship. …


The assessment of total hemoglobin mass (tHb‐mass) with the optimized carbon monoxide‐rebreathing procedure (oCOR) is discussed as a promising method to detect blood doping. The method requires repeated measurements of the carboxyhemoglobin fraction (%HbCO) using spectrophotometers (CO oximeters). In order to determine whether %HbCO measurements with different spectrophotometers yield similar tHb‐masses, the results of 57 tHb‐mass calculations from simultaneous %HbCO measurements with two different spectrophotometers (RapidLab, OSM3) were analyzed. For the comparison of longitudinal tHb‐mass alterations (ΔtHb‐mass), 3 tHb‐mass measurements were obtained at 6‐month intervals (33–37 subjects). Because of significant differences in %HbCO measurements, the limits of agreement for tHb‐massOSM3 and tHb‐massRapidLab were 11.2% (95% reference range −6.8 to +15.6%) and the correlation of ΔtHb‐masses as determined with the two spectrophotometers over two time intervals was weak (r: 0.28–0.66). In only about 70% of all ΔtHb‐mass estimations did ΔtHb‐massOSM3 and ΔtHb‐massRapidLab show the same direction of change. Apparently, the analytical variation in tHb‐mass determination with oCOR increases considerably with the use of different spectrophotometers. Therefore, agreement on the use of one spectrophotometer that accurately measures low %HbCO values is needed if oCOR should be used in an anti‐doping setting.


Because of the growing importance of decimal floating-point (DFP) arithmetic, specifications for it are included in the IEEE Draft Standard for Floating-point Arithmetic (IEEE P754). In this paper, we present a novel algorithm and hardware design for a DFP adder. The adder performs addition and subtraction on 64-bit operands that use the IEEE P754 binary encoding of DFP numbers, widely known as the binary integer decimal (BID) encoding. The BID adder uses a novel hardware component for decimal digit counting and an enhanced version of a previously published BID rounding unit. By adding more sophisticated control, operations are performed with variable latency to optimize for common cases. We show that a BID-based DFP adder design can be achieved with a modest area increase compared to a single 2-stage pipelined 64-bit fixed-point multiplier. Over 70% of the BID adderpsilas area is due the 64-bit fixed-point multiplier, which can be shared with a binary floating-point multiplier and hardware for other DFP operations. To our knowledge, this is the first hardware design for adding and subtracting IEEE P754 BID-encoded DFP numbers.


Present investigations were carried out in the year 2015-2016 & 2016-17. During the experimentation foliar application of different concentrations of Borax, Planofix, Bayleton, Calcium Nimbicidine and control were made. Fresh aonla fruits of cultivar chakaiya from all sampling dates were stored under ambient conditions to check changes in physico-chemical properties of the fruits at weekly intervals. It was observed that the first full bloom was recorded on 1st April in Cv. Chakaiya. The days from full bloom to harvest for the sampling durations of fruits in the cultivar ranged between 228 to 288 days. The average fruit length and diameter increased gradually with the advancement in maturity but became static at later stages of development. There was increases in fruit length and diameter up to the 4th sampling date (272 DFFB). Fruit size, length and diameter increased appreciably till the 3rd sampling date (259 CFFB). Fruit weight, specific gravity, Pulp:stone ratio increased in the cultivars upto the 3rd sampling date. Moisture content exhibited a non-significant decrease with a progressive increase from the first to the last sampling date in the cultivar. The juice yield increased significantly with maturity of fruits. Total soluble solids (TSS) contents increased throughout the sampling period. The increase was rapid and significant till the 3rd sampling date in the cvs. Chakaiya (12.0°B). A substantial increase in titratable acid (T A) content was observed upto the 3rd picking dates (1.65%). Delay in harvesting of fruits beyond these periods caused a reduction in the reducing sugar content of fruits. Ascorbic acid content increased significantly till the 4th sampling date. significant increases in tannin content occurred in the cultivar under study with a progressive increase in storage duration from 7 to 28 days. The trends of increase in tannin contents during storage were also not affected by harvest dates as highest and lowest tannin contents were recorded in fruits from the first and last harvests, respectively in the cultivars at the time of harvest and after storage. Fruit spoilage increased significantly with the advancement of storage duration of 28 days. The lowest fruit spoilage after storage was recorded (20.43%) harvested on the 3rd sampling date. In general the average scores for overall acceptability decreased significantly during the entire 28 day storage period. The decrease was observed 8.05 to 2.53 in the stored aonla fruits. The maximum mean scores after storage were recorded in fruits of Chakaiya, recording a mean rating of 6.28, when they were harvested on the 3rd sampling date.


The Plant Fair has evolved into an annual event that is much more than a shopping opportunity. The core attraction of the plants on sale has generated a whole range of 'added value items'. These include talks and exhibits, expert advisors, environmental literature, entertainment and education. This year's theme was 'Gardening for Climate Change'. We all know the implications of climate change, but are often unsure if we can do anything practical to make a difference. The fair provided a wealth of information that every visitor could take away and apply in some way.


A new deducing method of Bjerrum's Half- method used in stability constants determination of coordination compound was presented.A new use condition for Bjerrum's Half- method was also provided as: lgKi-1-lgKi1.70(i=2,…,m),which was lower than references' value.


The infrared and resonance Raman spectra of the two long-lived forms of triphenylformazan and several of its derivatives have been examined. The spectra of unsymmetrically 15N-labelled derivatives suggest that two tautomers exist for each of the two forms. This observation is confirmed by the spectra of 1-(p-halophenyl)-3,5-diphenylformazans. The spectra of the non-chelate forms of these latter compounds demonstrate that the position of the tautomeric equilibrium is influenced by the electron-attracting ability of the para-halo-substituent. A comparison of the resonance Raman spectra of the two forms leads to the conclusion that excited state proton transfer is the initial photoevent in the photochromism of the triphenylformazans.


A new model which is based on the following four assumptions is proposed. 1. There are spontaneous releases of packets of chemical transmitter from the hair cell. The releases follow Poisson's law. 2. The average rate of the releases is propotional to the exponential function of depolarization potential of the hair cell menbrane. 3. The depolarization is propotional to the cochlear microphonics. 4. Chemical transmitter causes the post synaptic potential (PSP) in the nerve endings, and when the PSP reaches a threshold value, a spike is generated. The response of the model to sinusoidal inputs is investigated. Pbase-locked histograms and pulse interval histograms are obtained, and are compared with tbose of biological neurons. Considerable discrepancy is observed between the pulse interval histograms of the model and those of biological neurons. A probable explanation of this discrepancy is suggested. present a working hypothesis about a (i) All units examined by them displayed possible mechanism of spike generation in SOMe SPOntaneous activity. (ii) The average rates for different units varied from less Although the primary auditory neurons. two of interval These curves are seconds, the number for one bar of the used later with the results histogram is obtained. The gate pulses of measurements. measurements are switched to the next position and the carried out various combinations of the same procedures are repeated until the


The IBM™ S/390™ architecture is a complex architecture, which has grown over a long period of time. Typical implementations use microcode to cope with the more complex instructions and facilities of S/390. Current IBM S/390 processors even contain two levels of microcode.We report on an experimental S/390 processor based on a RISC processor kernel employing superscalar, out of order execution of instructions. S/390 instructions have to be translated into internal sequences of RISC instructions. Actually two closely coupled internal sequences - one for register based execution and one for storage based execution are generated. The translation is a straight-forward mapping in most cases with some flexibility for special instructions.The paper introduces the hardware mechanisms used for mapping S/390 instructions to internal sequences. The facilities, which provide a greater degree of flexibility are discussed. The interactions of the low-level mapping scheme with the microcode levels is examined. Finally we discuss our experiences with this type of implementation of a CISC architecture on a RISC processor kernel.


Introduction : To evaluate the effectiveness of pneumatic retinopexy (PR) for repair of primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) with respect to single operation success (SOS) and best corrected visual acuity (BCVA).
Method : This retrospective review comprised 8 eyes with primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment with superior break that undergone pneumatic retinopexy as the initial procedure between 2009-2014 at Jakarta Eye Center, Indonesia.
Result : The mean age of subjects was 49 ± 14.35 years. Four subjects (50%) had Single operation had only done success after 6 months of observation. The eyes that failed single procedure underwent vitrectomy and silicon oil tamponade.  Subjects that only done single procedure had better BCVA (0.01 ± 1,3 logMAR) compare to subjects that done secondary procedure (0.3 ± 0.42 logMAR) after 6 months of observation.
Conclusion : Pneumatic retinopexy is still an effective procedure for primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment with superior breaks although in our study the single operation success was 50%.


A broad-based geothermal resource reconnaissance study covering Bernalillo, Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Taos, Torrance, and Valencia counties in north central New Mexico was conducted from June 15, 1981, through September 30, 1983. Specific activities included the compilation of actual temperature, bottom-hole temperature gradient, and geotemperature data; tabulation of water chemistry data; field collection of temperature-depth data from existing wells; and drilling of temperature gradient holes in the Ojo Caliente, San Ysidro, Rio Puerco, and Polvadera areas. The data collected were used to perform: (1) a regional analysis of the geothermal energy potential of north central New Mexico; (2) two site-specific studies of the potential relationship between groundwater constrictions and geothermal resources; (3) an evaluation of the geothermal energy potential at Santa Ana Pueblo; (4) a general analysis of the geothermal energy resources of the Rio Grande Rift, including specific data on the Valles Caldera; and (5) an evaluation of the use of geothermometers on New Mexico groundwaters. Separate abstracts were prepared for individual chapters.


The general purposes of this research is how to give some recommendation to the Instructor about how to make comfortable situation in the learning process. Hopefully the result of this research give the big contribution to the development of learning method expecially in e-learning design process, which is should to give more attention in the gender case.The result shows that there is a relation betwen psychological aspect in the case of e-learning design. Women interest with e-learning media which is built by women designer. Men interest with e-learning which is built by men designer. Women interest with soft colour and complex word in her designer area. Men interest with dark colour and simple design contains a lot of animation, simple picture and word.


In order to solve problems of power shortage and energy sources lack,suggestion on DSM(demand side management) is proposed.Status quo on power demand of power network and the necessary of carrying out DSM are described.According to the existing problems of power network,the suggestion on DSM of power network of Chengdu is put forward.


The study was aimed at evaluating the antioxidant activity of the ethanolic extract of Hibiscus rosa sinensis flowers at varying concentration in vitro. The extract was found to contain large amounts of phenolic compounds and flavonoids. Additionally, the reducing power (capacity to reduce Fe3+ to Fe2+), the capacity to scavenge hydrogen peroxide, superoxide radicals and nitric oxide were evaluated. The extract exhibited a concentration dependent scavenging activity. The GC-MS study carried out showed the presence of phytochemicals like hexadecanoinc acid (RT: 26.02) hexanedioic acid (RT: 33.57) and squalene (RT: 41.55).


The renal transplant is a notoriously difficult organ to assess for pathology. Radionuclide imaging can help, but, although sensitive, the evaluation is not very specific. For this reason, a different approach was used to examine renal images and results were correlated with histology. The transplant score is determined from images of perfusion and function on certain criteria such as time of appearance of the kidney after tracer injection, intensity of background, size and homogeneity of tracer uptake by the kidney. Although small, the pilot study could distinguish between hyperacute rejection, acute rejection, chronic rejection and cyclosporin toxicity.


In this paper,the author use the system analysis method,first establish the double-cycle model of energy interest groups,summarize the interactions of the three interest groups.Second establish the double-cycle model of geopolitical groups,summarize the interactions of different geopolitical groups under three levels.Finally superpose one upon the other,then we get the double-loop interactive model of energy and geopolitics.Conclusion as follows:the exporting countries influence the geopolitical system through the provision of international public goods;importing countries influence the geopolitical system through the means to access energy;transit countries role in the geopolitical system by the degree of controlled;multinational companies change the energy system by trade and investment;governments use diplomatic initiatives to influence energy system;international organizations change the energy system through the realization of the right words.All the above form the two-way interaction of energy and geopolitics.


The authors have developed a polymer thermo-optic wavelength tunable filter with a pair of triangular phase shifters on an arrayed-waveguide grating, which provides a fast response and wideband tunability. This filter operated with a response time of 2-60 ms and a tunability of >20 nm.


The purpose of this research is to discover the influence of service quality and which variable that has major influence towards customer satisfaction of BPD Kaltim's customer service. The principle theory of this research is marketing management. Based on teoritic, hypothesis of this research that service quality variabels don't influence significantly toward customer satisfaction of BPD Kaltim's customer service. Multiple regression analysis is used F test and t test at probability = 0,05. Result of the research showed that five variables of service quality don't influence significantly toward customer satisfaction of BPD Kaltim's customer service. The calculation result showed that responsiveness variable has negative influence towards customer satisfaction.


This work is part of the contract 2290328 of DLR with the Airbus Deutschland GmbH. It contains the calculation of the aerodynamics of an air intake and the duct system to the air conditioning pack of a A330 real aircraft configuration. All calculations have been done with the release 2007.1.0-p1 of DLR TAU code.
The objective of the investigations is to determine differences in the pressure and velocity field of the flow within the intake ducts depending on the width of the intake.


textabstractGanesh Natrajan was born on the 14th of April, 1973 in Alleppey, Kerala,
India. In 1988, he completed his secondary schooling at the St. Anthony's
High School in Hyderabad, India. Upon completing his Master's degree in
Physics in 1996 at the University of Hyderabad, India, he enrolled at the
Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore as a Research Scholar. In 1999, he
moved to The Netherlands to begin his PhD in the laboratory of Prof Titia K
Sixma at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam. His research has
been primarily concerned with the use of X ray crystallographic structure
determination, coupled with other biochemical assays, to study the
Escherichia coli DNA mismatch repair enzyme MutS. Following the
submission of this thesis, he will be working as a Post Doctoral Fellow in
the lab of Dr Laurent Terradot-Piot in the Macromolecular Crystallography
Group, at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France.
The research presented in this thesis was carried out between December
1999 and December 2005.