There is a firmly rooted presumption among economists that the greater the interdependence, the larger the externalities generated by unilateral policy-making and therefore the greater the potential gains from coordination. The author demonstrates that despite its intuitively obvious connection with the gains from coordination, interdependence is not in itself sufficient to ensure that advantages will stem from a cooperative process. Indeed, it is shown that, even if interdependence is certainly necessary for coordination gains, the actual source of such gains is comparative policy advantage. Copyright 1991 by Royal Economic Society.


Abstract : This briefing describes new applications for ClearSpeed's CS301 device, the first commercially available stream processor. Launched in October 2003, the CS301 is an ultra-high performance next-generation Single-Instruction/ Multiple-Data (SIMD) stream processor, delivering 25 GFLOPS and 12.8 GMACS at 1.8 Watts. The CS301's low-power, Multi-Threaded Array Processor (MTAP) architecture scales to hundreds and ultimately thousands of processing elements, each with both floating point and integer hardware, capable of data parallel processing on image and signal processing applications as well as for compression, encryption, search, and general sensor processing applications. The processor is supported by a flexible development environment, including assembly language and C-based language support, as well as a cycle accurate simulator, with plans to develop industry standard API Libraries such as L3 BLAS and FFTW. This new class of stream processor has been shown to provide tell to one hundred times the overall performance of PowerPC or Pentium-based architectures, especially when performing Image and signal processing functions, such as FFTs or filters. In general, the architecture has been shown to provide significant throughput, size, and power advantages for embedded processing applications.


In manufacturing systems, facility layout design has an importance as it helps to improve the productivity of layout, influences manufacturing costs, WIP and lead times. The current work aims to enhance the productivity of engine cylinder block line and achieving the increased demand by design of mixed product production line. Two production line has been considered for present work. After the detailed analysis of every activity at each workstation, merging of both production line has been done and new workstation sequence and proposed cycle time for each workstation has been evaluated. The Yamazumi chart is used to compare the average proposed cycle time at each workstation and the new takt time for balancing the line. New layout established the possibility of reducing the manpower and number of workstations for new demand. New layout is analyzed by using Witness simulation software which helped to determine the operators and workstations idle and busy time. Simulation results of new layout brought about reduction in manpower and reduction in idle time of operator. The proposed new layout demonstrates an increase in yield and productivity compared to the current layout.


A powder dispensing system has been designed which provides stable flows of pulverised coal over a range of mass flow rates from 1.0 kg/h to 30 kg/h. The dispenser is part of an experimental system in which the combustion behaviour of a wide selection of Australian coals is currently being investigated. The conveying system employs a fluidised bed to mobilise the coal powder, while the pressure within the bed provides the basic control action over the powder discharge rate. The system also incorporates a gas injection nozzle located within the fluid bed and near the entry to the off take tube. In operation the nozzle provides additional control over the powder discharge rate and also improves the flow stability of the coal powder-carrier-gas mixture. Several methods of metering the mass flow of powder from the dispenser have been evaluated experimentally and a method based on a Coriolis force mass flowmeter shows potential for the case of uniform flow. The dispenser design and a range of operating characteristics incorporating the test results of the metering experiments are described in this work. Also, the practical application of the dispenser system to a pulverised coal combustion test facility is briefly discussed.


A near contact atomic force microscope operated at low-temperature is used for vertical and lateral atom manipulations of selected single atoms on semiconductor surface. The precisely controlled short-range chemical force interaction during a soft nanoindentation with the tip apex atom close to the surface leads to the removal and lateral manipulation of a selected surface adatom, and deposition of a single atom on a selected vacancy at the surface. Besides, the precisely controlled short-range chemical force interaction during a near contact raster scan leads to the sequential lateral atom manipulation. These manipulation processes are purely mechanical, since neither bias voltage nor voltage pulse is applied between probe and sample. Using these different two methods, surface atomic structures on the selected regions were successfully modified. [DOI: 10.1380/ejssnt.2006.1]


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Rice is the main food for nearly half of the world's population. Cooking of rice consumes more energy in households as well as in industries which use rice as an input material for preparing certain foods. In order to reduce the energy spent for cooking and to obtain perfectly and uniformly cooked rice, soaking before cooking is traditionally practiced in some countries. This paper depicts a study of soaking rice prior to cooking. The proposed method uses two models which describe the moisture level when soaking at room temperature less than the gelatinization temperature and the moisture transfer model at temperatures above gelatinization and therefore cooking the rice grain. The moisture movements through the rice grain when soaking and when cooking are developed using the non-linear moisture diffusion equation. Both models are solved numerically using a finite element package in an elliptical geometry which is adjustable depends on the type of the rice. The validity of the proposed model is verified by the good fit between the experimental and theoretical curves and it is observed that the non-linear diffusion equation is a better way to describe the moisture transfer model in a rice grain.


This study evaluated the accuracy of the Standardized Field Sobriety Test (SFST) Battery to assist officers in making arrest decisions for DWI at blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) below 0.10 percent. NHTSA's SFST battery was validated at 0.10 percent BAC in 1981. The trend to reduce statutory DWI limits to 0.08 percent BAC prompted this research project. The research was composed of several project tasks, including planning, site-selection, training, data entry, and data analysis, in addition to the actual conduct of a major field study. The City of San Diego, California, was selected as the site. Seven officers of the San Diego Police Department's alcohol enforcement unit were trained in the administration and modified scoring of NHTSA's SFST battery (i.e., Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus-HGN, Walk and Turn, and One Leg Stand). SFST scoring was adjusted: the observation of four HGN clues indicated a BAC ≥0.08 percent (rather than four clues indicating a BAC ≥0.10 percent), and the observation of two HGN clues indicated a BAC ≥0.04 percent. During routine patrols, the participating officers followed study procedures in administering SFSTs and completing a data collection form for each test administered. The officers' final step in each case was the administration of an evidentiary breath alcohol test. Data analysis found the SFSTs to be extremely accurate in discriminating between BACs above and below 0.08 percent. The mean estimated and measured BACs of the 297 motorists tested were 0.117 and 0.122, respectively; the difference between the means (0.005 percent BAC) is very small and operationally irrelevant. Further, analyses found the HGN test to be the most predictive of the three components of the SFST battery (r=0.65), however a higher correlation was obtained when the results of all three tests were combined (r=0.69). Decision analyses found that officers' estimates of whether a motorist's BAC was above or below 0.08 or 0.04 percent were extremely accurate. Estimates at the 0.08 level were accurate in 91 percent of the cases, or as high as 94 percent if explanations for some of the false positives are accepted. Officers' estimates of whether a motorist's BAC was above 0.04 percent but lower than 0.08 percent were accurate in 94 percent of the decisions to arrest and in 80 percent of cases overall. Also, the officers and prosecutors who were interviewed about the SFSTs found the test battery to be acceptable for field use to establish probable cause for DWI arrest. The …


The unique characteristics of hollow core fibers lead to low non-linearity and reduced sensitivity to environmental influences, making them attractive platform for designing inline fiber optic devices. Among these, an inline fiber polarizer would be most desired for applications such as gyroscopes, interferometric sensors and telecommunication. Hollow-core fiber polarizers, demonstrated to date, suffer from high insertion loss (>5 dB) for the pass polarization, and typically require tens of meters long nested antiresonant fiber to achieve a meaningful polarization extinction ratio (PER) >20 dB. We report a novel approach that makes use of intricate modal loss spectrum within a resonant band of single-ring antiresonant fiber to realize the first high-performance, discrete hollow-core fiber polarizer. The compact device comprising only 6 cm long fiber offers a high PER of >25 dB with <1 dB transmission loss for the pass polarization. In the present form, the polarizing action takes place over 14 nm and 7 nm bandwidth in the 2 μm and 1 μm wavelength range, but the simplicity of design principles makes it straightforward to shift the operating wavelengths to practically any wavelength band. The device can be fusion spliced with a standard antiresonant hollow-core fiber and a large mode area solid-core fiber with splice loss of 0.14 dB and 0.45 dB respectively. Complete integration of the proposed device into an all hollow-fiber setup would lead to a total insertion loss of 1.3 dB including both input and output splicing, which is the lowest for a discrete hollow-core fiber polarizer reported so far. The results encourage the development of other hollow-core fiber components by exploiting the unique characteristics cultivated in a resonant band of an antiresonant fiber.


Recent work in describing optimal ordering policies for perishable inventory casts the problem as a multi-dimensional dynamic program, the dimensionality being one less than the useful lifetime of the product, m. As m becomes large the computational problem becomes severe so that developing approximations is a key problem. A bound on the perishing cost is obtained that is a function only of the total inventory on hand. Substituting this bound and an approximate transfer function, optimal policies can be computed myopically for the new problem. When the demand density possesses a monotone likelihood ratio, it is shown the function to be minimized is strictly pseudo-convex. Sample computations for special cases indicate that the approximation results in costs which are generally less than one percent higher than the optimal.


PURPOSE
In this work, we have tested the performance of new respiratory gating solutions for Elekta linacs. These solutions include the Response gating and the C-RAD Catalyst surface mapping system.Verification measurements have been performed for a series of clinical cases. We also examined the beam on latency of the system and its impact on delivery efficiency.

METHODS
To verify the benefits of tighter gating windows, a Quasar Respiratory Motion Platform was used. Its vertical-motion plate acted as a respiration surrogate and was tracked by the Catalyst system to generate gating signals. A MatriXX ion-chamber array was mounted on its longitudinal-moving platform. Clinical plans are delivered to a stationary and moving Matrix array at 100%, 50% and 30% gating windows and gamma scores were calculated comparing moving delivery results to the stationary result. It is important to note that as one moves to tighter gating windows, the delivery efficiency will be impacted by the linac's beam-on latency. Using a specialized software package, we generated beam-on signals of lengths of 1000ms, 600ms, 450ms, 400ms, 350ms and 300ms. As the gating windows get tighter, one can expect to reach a point where the dose rate will fall to nearly zero, indicating that the gating window is close to beam-on latency. A clinically useful gating window needs to be significantly longer than the latency for the linac.

RESULTS
As expected, the use of tighter gating windows improved delivery accuracy. However, a lower limit of the gating window, largely defined by linac beam-on latency, exists at around 300ms.

CONCLUSION
The Response gating kit, combined with the C-RAD Catalyst, provides an effective solution for respiratorygated treatment delivery. Careful patient selection, gating window design, even visual/audio coaching may be necessary to ensure both delivery quality and efficiency. This research project is funded by Elekta.


As for large non-bank financial group in operational management needs,this paper designs a set of financial operations management system,which takes MyEclipse as a development platform and uses B / S mode design to support online SMS as well as mobile client and to browse online operation operational data. This realizes the overall management of the non-bank financial group operating supervision of data quickly and accurately. Meanwhile,it optimizes many aspects of the non-bank financial group operating supervision in data acquisition and sealing bill statistical analysis to improve the operation and management of the entire group level.


To construct a harmonious society and build up the sustainable development is a strategic task for the long-term programming on our national economy and social development.In the paper,the important status and practical significance for environmental education in college on constructing a harmonious society and sustainable development were set forth.And the basic design and effective path for strengthening the environmental education in college was put forward.


The authors have succeeded to prepare dense sintered bodies of perovskite LaNiO3, which shows a metallic conduction, by HIPping without flux such as Na2CO3. The stoichiometric mixture of La2O3 and NiO was precalcined in air at 900°C for 5h. The ground sample was then sintered at 1100° or 1300°C in air for 20h. The sintered bodies were composed of La2NiO4 and NiO, and had the densities of up to 95%. The single phase perovskite LaNiO3 of 95% density was obtained from its presintered body by HIPping under 101MPa (in Ar gas containing 20% oxygen) and 1400°C for 2h. A very low resistivity of 2.2×10-6Ω⋅m was measured for this HIPped body of LaNiO3. The stability region for the perovskite compound LaNiO3 in P-T diagram was discussed.


A graph G = (V(G), E(G)) with q edges is said to be odd graceful if there exists an injection f from V(G) to {0, 1, 2, …, 2q - 1} such that the edge labeling set is {1, 3, 5, …, 2q - 1} with each edge xy assigned the label |f(x) - f(y)|. In this paper, we prove that Pn × Pm (m = 2, 3, 4), generalized crown graphs Cn ⊙ K1,t and gear graphs are odd graceful.


Although they are not conclusive, a number of epidemiologic studies have linked pesticide exposure to reproductive and developmental toxicity in humans. Pastore et al. (1997) showed a clear positive association between occupational exposure to pesticides, especially during early pregnancy, and the risk of still-births in California, and Kristensen et al. (1997), associated central nervous system and limb defects with parental use of pesticide spraying equipment in Norway. In contrast, a case–control study in Holland determined little effect of pesticide exposure on the incidence of central nervous system defects in children of mothers involved in agricultural activities (Blatter et al. 1996); environmental pollution with pesticides, regardless of the occupation of the mother, could have explained the increased risk of spina bifida found in this study. Similarly, Shaw et al. (1999) did not find a clear pattern of association between specific pesticide exposures and risk for birth defects. More recently, Bell et al. (2001) conducted a case–control study in California, where they linked a statewide database of restricted pesticide applications to residence of the mother to estimate daily pesticide exposure status. The data showed that risk of fetal death from congenital anomalies was increased with maternal pesticide exposure occurring during weeks 3–8 of pregnancy. Additionally, they showed that the odds ratio for pesticide exposure causing fetal death increased when the exposure occurred within the same square mile of maternal residence. Wives of Dutch fruit growers exposed to pesticides showed an increase in time to pregnancy , defined as the number of noncontra-ceptive menstrual cycles or months required for a couple to conceive, although no specific pesticide or group of pesticides could be singled out as responsible for the effect (de Cock et al. 1994). Time to pregnancy was also used by Curtis et al. (1999), but they did not find a consistent pattern of association between pesticide exposure and time to pregnancy among Canadian farm couples. However, Curtis et al. did show that some specific pesticides such as organophosphate insecticides and phenoxyacid herbicides were associated with a decrease in fecundity when women engaged in pesticide-related activities. Phenoxyacid and benzoic acid-derived herbicides are currently used in more than 1,500 different commercial formulations, including those that are commonly used at home (Kamrin 1997); thus there is an urgent need to explore in detail the potential reproductive and developmental toxicity of these products. Earlier studies have assessed the ter-atogenic potential of individual compounds at high …


Lung transplantation has revolutionized the treatment of end‐stage pulmonary disease due to cystic fibrosis. However, infection of the transplanted lungs can lead to serious complications, including graft failure and death. Although many of these patients have concurrent sinusitis, it is unclear whether bacteria from the sinuses can infect the allograft.


Identification of influential users in online social networks allows to facilitate efficient information diffusion to a large part of the network and thus benefiting diverse applications including viral marketing, disease control, and news dissemination. Existing methods have mainly relied on the network structure only for the detection of influential users. In this paper, we enrich this approach by proposing a fast, efficient, and unsupervised algorithm <italic>SmartInf</italic> to detect a set of influential users by identifying anchor nodes from a temporal sequence of retweets in Twitter cascades. Such anchor nodes provide important signatures of tweet diffusion across multiple diffusion localities and, hence, act as precursors for detection of influential nodes.<xref ref-type="fn" rid="fn1">1</xref> The set of influential nodes identified by <italic>SmartInf</italic> has the capacity to expose the tweet to a large and diverse population, when targeted as seeds thereby maximizing the influence spread. Experimental evaluation on empirical datasets from Twitter shows the superiority of <italic>SmartInf</italic> over state-of-the-art baselines in terms of infecting larger population; further, our evaluation shows that <italic>SmartInf</italic> is scalable to large-scale networks and is robust to missing data. Finally, we investigate the key factors behind the improved performance of <italic>SmartInf</italic> by testing our algorithm on a synthetic network using synthetic cascades simulated on this network. Our results reveal the effectiveness of <italic>SmartInf</italic> in identifying a diverse set of influential users that facilitate faster diffusion of tweets to a larger population.<fn id="fn1">1
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This thesis practically introduces the deep design of work blueprint,the materials purchasing materials and management concerned in the mode of general contract in the international contract market by examples such as Sheraton Algeria Oran Hotel project and world trade center project.


Applying some results of dynamics such as Stokes wave to the study of random waves, we obtained a new model of probability statistics of waves: f(ζ)=f(ζ 0) d ζ 0 d ζ=12 π |1-δζ| e -δζ e -12ζ 2 e -2δζ The excellence of the model is more notable in the study of nonlinear phenomina. According to the results of the article, the wave steepness is an important parameter not only in dynamics but also in statistics. And the magnitude of the wave steepness is able to show the degree that the distribution of wave surface deviates from the Gaussian distribution and to describe the change of the distribution function as a control parameter. The normal form of the traditional Gaussian distribution keeps the same form in any kind of depth,but the distribution function can describe the degree of the convergence or decentralization. This is another significance of the distribution besides the degree of deflection. We got a function form which is valid in physics by the study of the distribution of wave surface that is influenced by water depth: f(ζ)=12 π 1-μηζ coth [μ(1+ηζ)] sinh [μ(1+ηζ)] e -12ζ 22 sinh 2 [μ(1+ηζ)] We can learn that the wave steepness of shallow water describes the degree of deviation and the parameter of shallow water shows the degree of the convergence or decentralization. These could improve the traditional statistical theory of waves.


Mathematical algorithm and nonlinear theories were used in order to study the establishment and development of traditional settlements since the second half of twentieth century. In order to interrogate vernacular architecture, fractal geometry is one of the most advanced methodologies in this study. Vernacular architecture is an organic architecture, which is formed in response to environmental, cultural, economical factors. There are plenty of variations in topography; climate and geographical issues among the mountainous areas in Iran. Therefor, there are many useful thought, which can be learnt from the existing vernacular architecture. This study is going to investigate fractal pattern of housing in Masouleh village, Iran. By referring to the fractal dimension calculated with box counting method, different type of information will be collected and this attempt will help decision makers, planners, architects and designers, especially in new housing developments.


The present invention provides a method of coating a material surface, (a) a step of applying a tie layer material surface comprising a polymeric ionic substances, (b) difunctional containing ethylenically unsaturated double bonds a step of covalently bonding the compound to the coupling layer, said method comprising the step of graft-polymerizing a hydrophilic monomer compound containing (c) an ethylenically unsaturated double bond. Coated article obtainable by the process of the present invention have adhesion to the substrate, durability, hydrophilicity, wettability, desirable properties with respect to biocompatibility and permeability, therefore, biomedical products, for example, ophthalmic it is useful for making use device.


James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1939), 628 pages long, contains roughly 168,000 words. The present paper very modestly limits itself to only two of these words, the first two, the title, thus generously leaving roughly 167,998 words for others to wrestle with. Despite the modest scope of the undertaking, however, it is very obvious that those first two words are particularly important, for every literary title, including of course every translated literary title, implies and in principle encourages a particular attitude on a reader's part to the text as a whole. To speak of translations in the case of Finnegans Wake, of course, is essentially just a metaphor, for there is a very obvious sense in which Joyce's final text cannot be translated at all, but can only be rewritten. The metaphor is a practically useful one, however, and it is convenient to speak of Finnegans Wake translations as if such a thing were indeed possible in the first place.


This paper deals with modeling and performance analysis of dis- tributed applications, service compositions and workflow systems. From the functional perspective, the distributed application is modeled as an activity in- volving several roles, where behavior is defined in terms of compositions from several sub-activities using the standard sequencing operators found in UML Activity Diagrams. Each activity is characterized by a certain number of input and output events, and the performance of the activity is defined by the mini- mum delays that apply for a given output event in respect to each input event. We use a partial order to model these events, whose delays can be measured through testing. We also provide general formulas to calculate the performance of a composite activity from the performance of its constituent sub-activities and the control structure specifying the order of execution. Proofs of correct- ness for these formulas, along with a simple example are also given.


Disclosed herein is a method of imparting wettability to the fabric, the method is characterized by a combination of a solution and a solution of the Group 4 metal salt of an alkyl polyglucoside (APG). The present invention also relates to a method of maintaining the low-temperature drying wettability imparted to the fabric, the method comprising the steps of treating the fabric in combination with a solution of the solution and the Group 4 metal salt of an alkyl polyglucoside, and a fabric cold, ie comprising the step of drying at less than 100 ° C..


Structural design of airplane flutter models with both structural and elastic similarity is concerned.It is a reverse problem for proper natural frequencies as well as structural similarity.A new method for designing fuselage flutter model based on topology optimization is presented.This method is developed to form several sets of finite elements with regular geometrical shape,therefore the structural characteristics of the fuselage are properly described.Above these sets,the "sections" of the grid are regarded as basic unites of structure modification,which are independent from the meshed finite elements.Then a finite element model of reinforced skin with regular grid bars is established,thus this constructed model is built similarly to the original structure of aircraft.By using adjacent sensitivity redistribution method combined with bi-directional evolutionary structural optimization method.This structural topology optimization is developed as follows: the frequency is used as a target,the volume is considered as a constraint.Finally this topology optimization method is applied to a cylindrical fuselage flutter model.Results show that the proposed approach is feasible to achieve structure similarity and given natural frequencies,so it provides a useful reference for the design of airplane flutter models.


How do you define diversity in the departmental or team environment? This question was posed to attendees of a pharmacy practice department heads roundtable session at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) 2007 Annual Meeting. Most of the responses fit into 1 of 3 categories: * "Usually based on ethnicity/race. Also considers gender." * "Valuable differences in members of the team contributed by culture and experiences." * "Multicultural/racial/gender." What is most striking about the proffered definitions is that they tend to suggest emphasis on one dimension of diversity: demographics (eg, race, gender). Demographic diversity is, without question, critically important to academia, and much has been written about its significance in the health professions. According to the Institute of Medicine, increased demographic diversity among health professionals is related to greater access to health care in minority patient populations, improved patient options and satisfaction, better communication between health care professionals and patients, and more effective educational experiences for students of health science programs. (1) Recognizing the significance of demographic diversity in the academic pharmacy setting, AACP set forth an Issue Brief addressing diversity as it relates to pharmacy education, (2) and the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education has incorporated mandates related to diversity in its accreditation standards for academic pharmacy programs including demonstrated commitment (such as a values statement) on the part of the program to encourage faculty and student diversity. (3) Yet, demographic diversity is only one piece of the larger diversity puzzle in academic pharmacy practice. In fact, this Viewpoint defines diversity in a more encompassing manner, similar to the definition of the Magazine Publishers of America (MPA): "the act of recognizing, appreciating, valuing, and utilizing the unique talents and contributions of all individuals regardless of differences or similarities relating to age, color, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, language, national origin, physical appearance, disability, marital, parental or family status, communication or management style, educational level or background, [and] speed of learning or comprehension. (4) I further expanded the MPA's definition to include experiential diversity, which is integral to academic pharmacy. Experiential diversity in a department of pharmacy practice can be defined as intellectual "depth" developed from a faculty with diverse disciplines/fields and professional and research experiences. Elements of experiential diversity include discipline/field of interest, practice, academic rank/appointment, and work experience. Promoting diversity in academic pharmacy practice is an attempt to reach a critical mass in order to have an intellectually stimulating environment to benefit students, faculty members, and society. Thus, this Viewpoints will address the challenges and benefits of integrating a culture of diversity into academic pharmacy practice departments and set forth recommendations to diversify the team. There are several challenges to building diversity within academic pharmacy practice. In order to have diversification, we must have a viable pipeline for recruitment. Foremost among the challenges of recruiting faculty members include questionable or lack of interest in academia as a career, lower salary, and increased training requirements. The demand for pharmacy practice faculty candidates is high for several reasons including the 30% increase in the number of colleges/schools of pharmacy in the past 20 years, as well as increased class enrollment among established colleges/schools of pharmacy. (5) Further restricting the pool of potential candidates is competition from the private sector, which offers salaries generally well above those found in academia (with sign-on and other bonuses frequently available). …


The regulation of the Glucocorticoid Receptor (GR) transcript was investigated in the gills of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) during the parr-smolt transformation. Sampling of parr and smolt fish was performed between December and July and in particular during the smoltification period occurring in spring. Quantification of GR transcripts revealed differences between the two groups in March and at the beginning of April. During these dates, the amounts of GR mRNA in parr gills were respectively three and two fold lower than those measured in smolts. In order to determine which factors are responsible for these differences, we studied the long-term effects of prolactin and Cortisol treatments on GR transcript in the gills of presmolt fish. The plasma levels of these two hormones respectively drop and rise during smoltification. Contrary to Cortisol long-term treatment which did not modify the amount of gill GR transcript, short-term treatment induced a significant decrease within 12 hours. Prolactin long-term treatment caused a significant increase of GR transcript abundance after 13 days of implant treatment. This result is unexpected with regard to those obtained in the smoltification analysis but is in agreement with previous studies performed in mammary gland revealing a positive control of PRL on GR in epithelial cells. Our data suggest that the regulation of the GR transcript during the parr-smolt transformation probably involves several hormonal factors.


'If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am not for myself, what am I and if not now, when?'-Ethics of the Fathers, Chapter 1, verse 14


Objectives  The Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis recommends albendazole in combination with other antifilarial drugs. This systematic review examines albendazole in treatment and control of lymphatic filariasis.


It is important to be familiar with the different treatment options for biliary tract disorders, especially considering interventional radiology procedures, such as the percutaneous transhepatic insertion of biliary prosthesis, which is a simple procedure from a technical point of view, being minimally invasive, with high success rates and low complication rates when compared to other techniques described. Its use has expanded the variety of treatments for biliary disorders.


A study was conducted to collect the data of mammal diversity in the Eastern forests of the Wandashan Mountains in Heilongjiang Province,China,between 2008 and 2009.Based on field survey,the main results by statistical analysis were shown that mammal diversity of five eleven and twenty five species were collected.The result,compared with it of 1989 field survey,shown that mammal diversity has declined in this region.This field survey founded that the diversity of mammal,in the coniferous forests,coniferous/broadleaf forests and mixed broadleaf forests,are higher than farmland and shrub landscape.Moreover,the factors declined diversity of mammal included deforests,extending farmland and building roads.So we need to decline negative impact from human disturbance on survival of mammal and do a lot of conservation works for habitats including the coniferous forests,coniferous/broadleaf forests and mixed broadleaf forests.


This letter analyzes a class of information freshness metrics for large IoT systems in which terminals employ slotted ALOHA to access a common channel. Considering a Gilbert-Elliot channel model, information freshness is evaluated through a penalty function that follows a power law of the time elapsed since the last received update, in contrast with the linear growth of age of information. By means of a signal flow graph analysis of Markov processes, we provide exact closed form expressions for the average penalty and for the peak penalty violation probability.


Thermal pollution of marine water adversely affects the local environment and ecosystems due to consequent rise in water temperature. Industrial activity, particularly cooling process, is the main reason of marine pollution. The current study is focusing on thermal coastal water pollution in Jeddah city (west KSA). It is aimed to estimate water temperature using satellite data, particularly thermal bands. Temporal and spatial variation, of sea surface temperature (SST) are followed using Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) scenes, and Landsat7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM), acquired in (September 1990), (October 2000) and (November 2013). Thermal infrared (TIR) remote sensing data were used to calculate Sea Surface Temperature (SST). It was found that the highest SST value, recorded within the period 1990-2000, was (29°C), whereas the highest (SST) in the year 2013 jumped to be 33°C. The lowest (SST) found within year 1990-2000 is (26°C), while (29°C) was found in year 2013. The increase of SST, during 1990-2013, is an evidence of thermal pollution occurring along Jeddah city coastal area. It is expected that such pollution has its impact on local aquatic organisms status and activates (i.e. metabolic rates, reduction of cell wall permeability, osmotic pressure, enzyme systems ... etc.).


Recent achievements on CNN (convolutional neural networks) and DNN (deep neural networks) researches provide a lot of practical applications on computer vision area. However, these approaches require construction of huge size of training data for learning process. This paper tries to find a way for continual learning which does not require prior high-cost training data construction by imitating a biological memory model. We employ SDR (sparse distributed representation) for information processing and semantic memory model, which is known as a representation model of firing patterns on neurons in neocortex area. This paper proposes a novel memory model to reflect remembrance of morphological semantics of visual input stimuli. The proposed memory model considers both memory process and recall process separately. First, memory process converts input visual stimuli to sparse distributed representation, and in this process, morphological semantic of input visual stimuli can be preserved. Next, recall process can be considered by comparing sparse distributed representation of new input visual stimulus and remembered sparse distributed representations. Superposition of sparse distributed representation is used to measure similarities. Experimental results using 10,000 images in MNIST (Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology) and Fashion-MNIST data sets show that the sparse distributed representation of the proposed model efficiently keeps morphological semantic of the input visual stimuli.


We previously reported the formation of thin (200--50,000 /angstrom/) carbon films by the pyrolytic decomposition of spin-cast or solvent cast films of poly(acrylonitrile) (PAN). In this report, we describe studies which have been undertaken to gain a greater degree of control over the final properties and morphology of these films. We also describe a few of the potential applications for these films now being investigated. 4 refs., 3 figs.


After the strength of the samples has been tested, the micro structure and the content of the metallic carbonides at the diamond interface are observed and analyzed under the high power electron microscope and spectrometer. The strength order of the metallic carbonides generated in diamonds of different concentrations and sizes with different additives are calculated; hence the difference of the physical and mechanical properties of different metallic carbonides are determined, which provides the theoretical basis for the production and development of diamond products.


Incidence of wounding and Echinodontiumtinctorium E. & E. infection in advanced white fir (Abiesconcolor (Gord. & Glend.) Lindl. ex Hildebr.) regeneration were determined by a systematic survey of ...


The nucleotide sequence of Neurospora crassa 5.8 S rDNA and adjacent regions has been determined. The deduced 5.8 S rRNA sequence of Neurospora differs from the 5.8 S rRNA sequence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae at 13 of 158 residues. Nine of these differences are clustered in a segment capable of forming a short hairpin secondary structure thought to be involved in the 28 S - 5.8 S rRNA complex. These differences occur in pairs such that the potential secondary structure is preserved.


Aim of Study:  To analyze over a period of 6 months, the demographics such as age & sex distribution, occupation, the site of involvement, symptomatology and management of the most frequent benign lesions of larynx.  Materials and Methods:  Ten patients presenting with hoarseness of voice and diagnosed with benign lesion of larynx in ENT OPD of GGH, Guntur were included in the study after taking their consent and the study was carried out for a period of 6 months between January 2019 to June 2019. Results : In this study, it was noted that males were predominantly involved, maximum incidence between 31-40 years. Agricultural labourers among males and housewives among females were commonly involved. Vocal cord polyp was the most common benign lesion of larynx , others included bilateral vocal cord nodules and cysts. Most important predisposing factor was being vocal abuse in all the cases. Treatment given included MLS, voice rest and speech therapy according to the diagnosis and patients were followed up for six months. Conclusion : It was observed that vocal abuse was the most common predisposing factor for benign lesions of larynx and a multi modality treatment is necessary including medical, surgical and speech therapy to prevent recurrence.


The translation of foreign poems plays a great role in the formation and development of Chinese modern poetry,but its side effect is that the original metres are overlooked,which leads to the mis under standing that foreign poems are all free verses.However,some poem translators have kept the original metre in poetry translation since 1980s which is termed by BIAN Zhilin as "the maturity of poetry translation".The combination of the reservation of the original metric forms of foreign poems and the theories and composition of Chinese modern metric poems helps to establish and promote Chinese modern metric poems in a healthy manner.


Despite Pfizer's high-profile drug failure, boosting HDL still a key heart-disease strategy. Several drugs in development use various mechanisms to raise levels of "good cholesterol." Meanwhile, physicians can do plenty right now to raise patients' HDL levels.


We report nonlinear terahertz effects in monolayer graphene using intense few-cycle THz pulses. We observe enhancement in the THz transmission through graphene when we increase the THz electric field. Following photo-excitation, we observed reduction in the THz transmission. This photo-induced reduction in the THz transmission is found to decrease when we increase the THz electric field.


Spectral images (SI) can be represented as 3D arrays of spatial information across a multitude of wavelengths, plus some noise intrinsic to the capturing process. This must be removed to improve SI's processing and analysis. Basis pursuit allows to remove the noise by finding a noise-free sparse representation of the original image. State-of-the-art analysis basis, like the one proposed by Arce et. al., allow to sparsely represent SIs. In the other hand, synthesis dictionaries, like Wohlberg's CBPDN allow to represent independently each spectral band, missing the spectral correlation. This work proposes to sparsely represent an SI using a synthesis dictionary, composed by a collection of 3D convolutional filters, within a basis pursuit scheme for noise removal. The simulation results show that the proposed synthesis dictionaries can outperform the analysis basis at recovering spectral images at different levels of noise, using both full-frequencies and high-frequencies SIs.


The new workplace is a key arena for learning in today's society. The spiraling demand for knowledge in the workplace has increased interest in learning, especially team learning. Team learning can be viewed from multiple perspectives, making it difficult for career and technical educators (CTEs) to know how to prepare students for a team-based work environment, especially one that includes virtual teams. In addition, emerging technology adds to the confusion about how to provide effective learning experiences that mirror what is occurring in the workplace. To prepare the workforce of tomorrow, CTE instructors can become facilitators of team learning by providing ample opportunity for learners to practice team skills in a low-risk learning environment. By providing the exposure and practice to team learning skills and technology tools, CTEs may help equip students with added skills in entering a global workplace.


Nb-doped TiO2 powders with different concentrations of Nb have been synthesized by a sol-gel method and characterized by a series of technologies including X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and UV-vis spectroscopy. The photocatalytic activity of Nb-doped TiO2 is evaluated by degradation efficiency of methyl orange in aqueous solution. The results indicate that the photocatalytic activity of Nb-doped TiO2 synthesized with a Nb/Ti molar ratio of 5% is higher than that of TiO2 under the visible light.


P241 Some Views on Chebychev Polynomials and Their Use in Seismic Interpretation T. Ottesen* (DONG E&P AS) SUMMARY For a limited seismic time window Chebychev polynomials provide a very good approximation to the seismic trace described by a unique set of seismic volume attributes. The polynomials are orthogonal making these attributes independent of each other and particularly suitable for cross-plotting and neural network analysis. In the orthogonal space defined by the Chebychev polynomials seismic traces can be regarded as points or vectors and a measurement of distance can be defined. Therefore by analogy to Euclidean geometry unbiased measures of the


This volume contains the post-proceedings of the Sixteenth Logical and Semantic Frameworks with Applications (LSFA 2021). The meeting was held online on July 23-24, 2021, organised by the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. LSFA aims to bring researchers and students interested in theoretical and practical aspects of logical and semantic frameworks and their applications. The covered topics include proof theory, type theory and rewriting theory, specification and deduction languages, and formal semantics of languages and systems.


An important issue examined in this article is that the chain model (which solves for the optimal sitting problem of regional wastewater treatment plants) cannot be implemented if the dischargers do not have fair cost sharing. The article finds that the total treatment cost of the optimal regional treatment plant is fairly assigned to each discharger by the N-cooperative game-MCRS approach. Therefore, the economies of scale are implemented by cooperative game in the chain model case.


infection is caused by an intracellular bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). The disease is among the most important infectious diseases, which has dedicated most cases of morbidity and mortality to itself worldwide. The global report of Health Organization in shows that from 10.7 million infected people in 2018, 1.6 million died. Although the BCG vaccine has been used for about a hundred years, it is only effective in children, but is not able to produce a protective and reliable immunity against adult pulmonary TB. Hence, using an alternative vaccine with high more efficacy than BCG seems to be urgent. The IL-33/ST2 axis forms of IL-33 and ST2, and both of them are the members of IL-1 family. IL-33 is secreted as an alarm in response to cellular stress, and ST2 causes stimulation of MyD88/NF-κB signaling pathway, which is needed for the proper response of infected cells to Mtb and other intracellular pathogens. In Th2 cells, NF-κB enters into the nucleus, and acts as a transcription factor. Finally, cytokines such as effective in the


Support and Housing in Europe: Tackling Social Exclusion in the European Union, Bill Edgar, Joe Doherty and Amy Mina-Coull, Bristol, The Policy Press, University of Bristol, 2000, 229 pp., £14.99 Shelter is not Enough: Transforming Multi- Storey Housing, Graham Towers, Bristol, The Policy Press, University of Bristol, 2000, 259 pp., £19.99 These are two books on related but dieuro erent themes. Graham Towers, an architect and town planner, had adapted his PhD dissertation for publication. It concerns the problems posed by multi-storey housing, primarily in the UK, and possible solutions. Bill Edgar and Joe Doherty, Directors of the Joint Centre for Scottish Housing Research at the University of Dundee and the University of St Andrews, and Amy Mina-Coull, a Research Associate at the Centre, have published the 1999 annual report of the European Observatory on Homelessness (EOH) of the European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless (FEANTSA), based on a network of correspondents in the 15 EU countries. Their report deals with the provision of supported housing in the EU. Both books address issues of social housing, housing design and amenities, and the needs of those occupying social housing. The central question of Shelter is Not Enough is whether problematic multi-storey estates can be modernised to provide good housing or whether the only solution is demolition. His answer is that they can be successfully transformed: They do not need to continue to deteriorate physically and socially. They do not need to be cleared away at great expense and replaced with new buildings of uncertain prospects. Given appropriate policies they can be regenerated as good quality housing. They can be reconnected to the urban fabric helping to generate physical diversity and social equity. (p. 222) Towers details the background and history of the development of multi-storey estates, which include five basic types. His narrative provides a fascinating history of how 1.85 million multi-storey flats came to be built in the UK, concentrated in five metropolitan regions. Certainly, the desire to eliminate urban slums, the need to rebuild after the devastation of the Second World War bombing, and the introduction of industrialised building systems to increase efficiency and reduce costs in and of themselves were both idealistic and utilitarian goals. However, lowered quality, reduced amenities and the social isolation attributed in part to the introduction of 'streets in the sky' (connectors) all contributed to increasing problems. The 1968 Ronan Point explosion and collapse was seen as the beginning of the demise of the tower block. The Thatcher policies of a right to buy in the estates, reduced support but with a variety of estate regeneration programmes, and more centralised governmental control are seen as leading to the further isolation of more deteriorated estates and poorer residents. Towers reviews these programmes and also reviews three alternative approaches-providing more security and surveillance based upon the views of Oscar Newman and Alice Coleman, modernising estates through major repairs (for example, the 'overcladding' process) and demolition. Towers cites an estimate that 30,000-50,000 multi-storey flats have been demolished to date. Towers rejects demolition as a wasteful and unnecessary solution. In addition to the physical improvements cited above, he points to a mixing of housing types and the adaptation of these buildings for special needs/social service housing (such as the elderly and five other groups which are identified). Towers provides a model regeneration framework and analyses five case studies. In making his argument, Towers says that the following six key issues have emerged: (1) many of the problems of multi-storey estates derive from economies made when they were built; (2) many attempted solutions have been partial or governed by single-minded preconception; (3) to achieve successful regeneration a holistic approach is required; (4) all types of multi-storey housing have the potential for successful transformation; (5) a successful strategy might not concentrate directly on the worst estates; and (6) there is a need for a diversifed approach which reintegrates estates into the wider community. …


This paper describes the development, reliability, and validity of the Schedule of Sexist Events (SSE), a measure of lifetime and recent (past year) sexist discrimination in women's lives. A culturally diverse standardization sample of 631 women completed the 20-item SSE. Factor analyses revealed that the SSE-Lifetime and SSE-Recent have four factors: Sexist Degradation, Sexism in Distant Relationships, Sexism in Close Relationships, and Sexist Discrimination in the Workplace. The SSE-Lifetime and SSE-Recent scales had high internal-consistency (.92, .90) and split-half (.87, .83) reliability, and the factors were similarly reliable. Validity was established by demonstrating that scores on the SSE-Lifetime and SSE-Recent correlate as well with two other measures of stressful events (the Hassles Frequency and the PERI—Life Events scales [PERI-LES]) as those measures correlate with each other. Sexist discrimination (events) can be understood as gender-specific, negative life events (stressors). Descriptive data indicated that sexist discrimination is rampant in women's lives. Additional analyses revealed significant status differences in experiencing sexist discrimination, with women of color reporting more sexism in their lives than White women.


The experimental work consisted primarily in selecting specimens from hollow tile from seventeen sources and saturating them for the absorption determination by (1) immersion in water at room temperature for various periods ranging from fifteen minutes to nine days, (2) boiling for various periods ranging from 1 hour to 5 hours and then cooling in water at room temperature for at least one hour, and (3) repeated vacuum treatments. The true porosity for some of the specimens was then obtained from the specific gravity and the per cent saturation reached by the various methods was calculated.

The results show that the five-hour boiling treatment gives results 1.2 greater than 72 hours immersion in cold water for the shale tile, 1.35 greater for the fire clay tile, 1.20 greater for the surface clay tile, 1.25 greater for the mixed clay tile and 1.28 greater for an average of all tile. They also show that the cold water immersion treatment gives 73.5 per cent saturation, the boiling treatment 92.7 per cent saturation, and the vacuum treatment 97.0 per cent saturation.

In general the paper shows that the most consistent and practical way of determining the absorption of hollow tile is by boiling for five hours and then cooling for at least one hour before the saturated weight is taken.


Public transport companies are the backbone of urban transport networks and provide important mobility services for the general public. As these services are of particular importance to a vast majority of people, municipal, provincial and state governments take responsibility for financing infrastructure networks and – at least in part – also the maintenance of the services. However, the use of public transport services is usually not free of charge for passengers. Although tariffs are frequently subsidised, revenues generated by ticket sales are an important source of income for the transport companies in order to keep the system financially balanced. The problem of free riding (= fare evasion, fare dodging or toll fraud; i.e. people using a transport service without paying for it) and ticket fraud (= ticket forgery, ticket falsification; i.e. the production of an illegal ticket facsimile) is, of course, not new to transport industries. Due to technological changes (on the suppliers" as well as on the passengers" side) the problem seems to change. Different approaches to ticket control, electronic ticketing, a rise in propensity to violence, broadening of poverty or better copying machines are but a few impact factors to take into consideration rendering the problem more and more serious. Thus, transport companies need to react to recent developments if they want to avoid substantial loss of income at present and in the future. This article gives an actual overview on experts" perspectives in the German-speaking part of Europe (Germany, Austria and the German-speaking part of Switzerland) and discusses different aspects of both free riding and ticket fraud. It is organised as follows: At the beginning free-riding and ticket-fraud are discussed in the actual context. Then the method employed to analyse the phenomena are explained. The subsequent chapter depicts the results in detail before the paper eventually concludes by presenting some implications with practical relevance as well as an outlook on further steps in research.


The aim of this work was to study the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) as a tool of quality control of bovine sera and cellular cultures used in the biotechnological industry. A total of 46 samples of bovine sera derived from two slaughterhouses and 33 samples of BHK21 cells derived from two biotechnological industries were evaluated using the primers GPO-3 (sense) and MGSO (antisense). The PCR technique sensibility analysis showed that 280 bp were amplified for the quantities of 50 ng to 0.006 ng of Micoplasma DNA. The primers specificity was confirmed in the test using Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis and Candida albicans; except by the positive control, none of the samples showed amplification. The presence of Mycoplasma in bovine sera and in the cultures of BHK21 cells showed that 56.5 and 15.2%, respectively, were contaminated. Thus, it was possible to conclude that PCR was a fast and confident technique to detect mycoplasma and that it could be used to control the quality of immunobiological products and inputs, such as sera and cultures of BHK21 cells.


The objective of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of a galactose‐based ultrasonographic contrast agent, Levovist (Schering AG, Berlin, Germany), in differentiating benign from malignant thyroid nodules by analysis of the time‐intensity curves correlating the variation of the intensity signal value during the contrast transit time. Fifty‐four patients scheduled for surgical removal of a nodule or the thyroid gland or both after cytologic examination were enrolled in this study; all of the nodules underwent a baseline color and power Doppler evaluation and then to a color Doppler examination after an intravenous bolus injection of Levovist. The time‐intensity curves were analyzed with respect to the histologic results. Carcinomas showed a significantly earlier arrival time of Levovist than nodular hyperplastic benign nodules and adenomas (8.1 +/‐ 1.41 versus 19.6 +/‐ 2.2 and 16.1 +/‐ 2.8 seconds; P < .0001), although no significant difference occurred between hyperplastic benign nodules and adenomas; carcinomas and adenomas showed an earlier time to peak than hyperplastic benign nodules (14.6 +/‐ 1.2 and 23.1 +/‐ 3.8 versus 33.0 +/‐ 3.0 seconds; P < .0001). No significant difference was found in baseline, peak, final intensity signal, and percent variation of intensity signal among hyperplastic benign nodules, adenomas, and carcinomas. Although cytologic examination still remains the standard of reference for the presurgical diagnosis of thyroid nodules, the preliminary data of this pilot study demonstrate that the analysis of time‐intensity curves after Levovist injection might provide useful, complementary, and quantitative information to differentiate benign from malignant thyroid nodules.


Action calculi have been introduced by Milner as a framework for representing models of interactive behaviour. Two natural extensions of action calculi have been proposed: the higher-order action calculi, which add higher-order features to the basic setting, and the re exive action calculi, which allow circular bindings of processes and gives recursion in the presense of higher-order features. In this paper, we present simple type theories for action calculi, higher-order action calculi and re exive action calculi. We also give the categorical models of the extensions, by enriching Power's models of action calculi. As applications, we give a semantic proof of the conservativity of higher-order action calculi over action calculi, and a precise connection with Moggi's computational lambda calculus and notions of computation. We also relate the models of higher-order re exive action calculi to models of recursive computation, by following the observation that the trace operator of Joyal, Street and Verity can be used to model recursion. List of Symbols K signature P set of primes K set of control operators AC(K ) the action calculus HAC(K ) the higher-order action calculus ACr(K ) the re exive action calculus T(K ) ( rst-order) type theory HT(K ) higher-order type theory Tr(K ) re exive type theory translation from action calculi to type theory translation from type theory to action calculi AMod(K ) the category of small action models HAMod(K ) the category of small higher-order action models AModr(K ) the category of small re exive action models [[ ]] semantic interpretations in models


We consider measuring machines (MMs), which use one ore more 2-D laser sensors (2DLSs) for automated dimensional inspection. In order to transform several measurements from their sensor coordinate frame (CF) into a world or object CF, we need a parameterized model of these transformations. We present a method, which allows for very different MMs to set up a model, to construct a calibration object and to estimate the model parameter from measurements on the calibration object. State of the Art There exists a wide choice of commercially available sensors, which generate 2-D profile measurements observing a laser stripe projection on the surface of an object, see Fig. 1. As there is no unified terminology (laser stripe, light section, line structured-light, laser triangulation, etc.) let us call them 2-D laser sensors. Most frequently they are used for inspection tasks, which are restricted to relative measurements on a single profile like e.g. in weld seam, adhesive beading or gap inspection. Fig. 1: Measurement principle of 2-DLSs (left) and example inspection task illustrating the need of calibrating the transformations between the CFs of sensors and axis (right) 1 Automation Technology, Keyence, MEL, Micro-Epsilon, Omron, SmartRay and others provide 2-DLS for industrial automation. DATAPIXEL, Nikon, Perceptron, Zeiss and others have 2-DLS for CMMs in their portfolio. ∅279 ±0,1 ∅357 ±0,2 rotatory axis exterior sensor interior sensor A 0,2 A 10th IMEKO TC14 Symposium on Laser Metrology for Precision Measurement and Inspection in Industry Braunschweig, GERMANY, 2011, September 12-14


The oil and gas industry is a high risk business. It has many potential impacts on the Environment, Health & Safety (EHS). Unlike many other industries, the oil and gas industry has a broad range of high technology related work - hence, the risks and the impacts are wide ranging. Each activity has its own risks and types of imp act. Like every other industry in Indonesia, oil and gas industry activities must be safe, reliable, and environmentally compatible. As a consequence, EHS issues must have priority in all activities in the operation and management of the oil and gas industry. These issues need to be more clearly understood when related to the nationallinternational regulations on one hand and to public awareness on the other. Entering a global market, industrial competition becomes tighter and every product has to meet international quality standards (IS0 9000). Therefore, consumers may choose products which incorporate more stringent EHS standards in the production process as well as in the product itself. Therefore, EHS can become an important issue in business strategy. P.T. ELNUSA, a subsidiary of PERTAMINA, with more than 25 years experience in advanced technology, supplies and services to the oil and gas industry, inform ation systems, telecommunication, chemical, energy and other supporting services, has extended its services to the EHS sector. The EHS Division offers consultancy and services which include :


Dr. Mullen is a Consultant to the Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health at the Office of Health Promotion. Reprint requests should be addressed to her at Office of Health Promotion, Room 721B, Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, S. W., Washington, D. C. 20201. The origins of the Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health are in legislation enacted by the Congress nearly two years ago, providing that a broadly representative group of citizens be appointed by the Secretary of HEW to develop &dquo;a comprehensive plan to promote the health of children and pregnant women in the United States ... and to recommend such administrative, legislative, and other actions it deems appropriate to implement this plan.&dquo; Although the Panel is still in the process of hammering our their recommendations, I can give you an idea of the terrain and the points of major emphasis the report will cover. The report entitled Better Health for Our Children: A National Strategy is to be presented to Congress and to the Secretary of Health and Human Services on December second. In addition to a full volume of discussion and policy recommendations, there will be coverage of


The features of the organization of the artistic world of a fantastic work are considered. The material was the works of O. Gromyko, written in the genre of fantasy. The main parameters of the organization of the artistic world are analyzed: artistic space, artistic time and the picture of the heroes' world, understood as a system of their value attitudes and rules. The relevance of the study is due not only to the wide popularity of works of science fiction, but also to the ability to analyze the linguistic means of creating a "secondary world" using this material. The scientific novelty of this work is seen in the fact that linguistic nominative means of forming the main categories of the artistic world: space, time and the picture of the world are investigated. It is shown that the understanding of a fantastic work as a special "otherness of reality" is associated in literary science with the problem of artistic convention. Attention is paid to the description of the main scientific approaches to understanding the primary and secondary artistic conventions. It is noted that the idea of creating a special artistic world in fiction correlates with secondary conventions and fiction, which are interpreted as essential features of any work of art. The author concludes that the exceptional plausibility of the universe under consideration is due to the conceptuality, associativity and duality of the created narrative.


This paper investigates the issue of gender diversity on corporate boards in New Zealand companies. Despite the increased interest in diversity on corporate boards, most previous studies have focused on women's representation in the management positions within companies, rather than women's representation at the corporate board level. This benchmark study contributes to the literature on corporate governance by analysing the presence of women on corporate boards in New Zealand. The research results indicate that women are severely underrepresented. The situation becomes more dangerous when we observe that only 35% of New Zealand corporate boards have only one female director, 11% have two women directors and only 1% have three or more directors. The figures depicting female board members as a proportion of total board member spotlight the need for New Zealand government and companies to develop effective strategies to increase the representation of women on corporate boards.


Background: A preliminary review of St Albert's Mission Hospital data showed 15% of HIV positive pregnant and breastfeeding women (PPBW) missed drug pick-up appointments and 10% were lost to follow up. This affects Zimbabwe reaching 90% viral suppression target among those on antiretroviral therapy and increases HIV transmission risk to unborn fetus or breastfeeding infant. We determined factors associated with treatment adherence and retention in care among PPBW. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional analytic study among PPBW receiving care at the hospital. Women were sampled consecutively on presenting for antenatal or postnatal care. We used interviewer administered questionnaire to elicit information from consenting PPBW. We obtained ethical approval and written informed consent from PPBW. Results: We interviewed 120 PPBW. The majority were breastfeeding women (60.0%). Over 95% PPBW disclosed their HIV status. The majority used this hospital because the health workers treated them with respect (66.7%), maintained client confidentiality (75.0%) and had good relations with their clients (70.8%). Skipping medication because of travel (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.06 (0.005-0.79 and having an unpleasant experience while seeking care AOR (95% CI) 0.05 (0.002-0.93) were independently associated with lower medication adherence. Disclosure to avoid hiding taking medication AOR (95% CI) 22.07 (1.64-297.66 and attending this hospital because the health workers maintain confidentiality AOR (95% CI) 22.07 (1.64-297.66) were independently associated with higher retention in care. Conclusion: Health system factors play an important role in adherence and retention of pregnant and breastfeeding women attending care at this facility. 249 words


[Objective] To examine the frequency distribution of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase(MTHFR)C677T polymorphisms in Huaian Han population and to evaluate the application of Direct Amplification Protocol for detecting genetic polymorphisms in population. [Methods] Polymorphisms of MTHFR C677T in 205 Huaian Han healthy volunteers was detected with Direct Amplification Protocol and RFLP technique,respectively. The frequency of MTHFR C677T gene types was compared with other Han population data from different areas in China. [Results] There was high consistency of MTHFR C677T polymorphisms between the method with blood sample and with genomic DNA(Kappa=0.946,95%CI 0.906~0.985). The frequencies of the C/C,C/T and T/T genotypes in the subjects were 32.68%、46.83% and 20.49% respectively,and the allele frequencies of 677C and 677T were 56.10% and 43.90% respectively. The analysis of MTHFR 677T allele frequency with Han population in other nine different areas in China showed the distribution of MTHFR 677T was decreased with geographical latitude (P=0.001). [Conclusion] The frequency of the genetic polymorphisms of MTHFR C677T in Chinese Han populations from different areas depends on geographical latitude. The MTHFR C677T distribution of Huaian Han population group is consistent with the model of population groups with the latitude range between N30° and N35°. Direct Amplification Protocol in peripheral blood samples is a good system of direct PCR amplification with blood sample for rapid identification of genetic polymorphisms.


In order to complete the semi auto-segmentation of dual-source CT image of heart and extract the structure of heart accurately, propose a novel segmentation method of CT images based on graph cuts based active contour and anisotropies spreads algorithms. The method combines image characteristics with high-level segmentation model, Due to effectively used heart anatomical structure, the noise and fuzzy boundary have less effect on the segmentation results. It is used to quickly and accurately segment ventricle, atria and coronary artery. After the pre-segmentation of the DSCT images, the ventricular and atrium are fast and accurately segmented through minimize the energy function. The segmentation method can effectively process cardiac medical image of DSCT. It provides new methods for clinical doctors to get more information of cardiac images.


This study describes the adaptation and transformation of postreform golkar in WestSumatera. Whether the Golkar made a change ? And Whether these post reformchange affect the existence of the Golkar Party in West Sumater a. The Purpose of thisreseach are : 1). Explaining How the Golkar Party doing Adaptation andTransformastion in West Sumatera for Reformation Era. 1). Expalaining the step ofThe Golkar Party still Exist in West Sumatera from 1998 2014. This reseach follo wingthe rules of Historical reseach that arrange on four stages, Including Heuristich,Source Critism, Interpretation, and Hsitoriograpy. Based on the result of the reseachit could be counlude that The Golkar Party of West Sumatera was overhouled theorg anization structure and turned in to Golkar Party, Consolidated, Sosialized,Registering the best people for every election period. From and stengthen AMPG andKPPG, Establish good relation with the society, give some programs that needed forpeople, carry out the Karakterdes( Kader Penggerak Desa ) and Karsinal ( KaderPenggerak Fungsional ). Evan so, in 2014 period The Golkar Party was not maximalon doing party regeneration and The Golkar Party was not Worked.


A case of malignant myoepithelioma of the breast, associated with in situ and invasive carcinoma NOS is described. Myoepithelial differentiation was demonstrated with immunohistochemistry and electron microscopy. The tumour affected the left breast of a 72 year old lady. The patient had been treated with quadrantectomy with axillary dissection, followed by radiotherapy. At the time of diagnosis no local or distant metastases were found. Bone, pulmonary and cerebral metastases appeared 28 months after treatment. Malignant myoepitheliomas share histological and immunohistochemical features with monophasic sarcomatoid carcinomas. Comparison and and possible relationship with monophasic sarcomatoid carcinomas is discussed.


The cattle market has outperformed expectations this fall. Prices for choice finished steers dropped to the high $70s in July and August as Canadian live cattle were allowed to move south. There was a general concern that these added supplies would result in weak fall prices. That has not occurred as cattle prices have moved to the higher $80s and futures markets remain optimistic that prices they will push into the low $90s this winter. So far this year, finished steer prices have averaged near $86, about $1.50 higher than for the same period last year. Prices for 500-550 pound steers on the Plains have averaged a record $1.32 per pound, compared to $1.21 per pound during the same period last year. While finished cattle prices are about 2 percent higher than last year, calf prices are 9 percent higher, reflecting the lower feed costs. Beef supplies so far this year have been slightly below the same period in 2004. Modestly lower supplies with somewhat higher prices suggest that beef demand continues to remain about as strong as it was last year. There remain several foggy issues for the cattle market in coming months. The first is the still growing imports of Canadian cattle. In September, the number of live cattle imported from Canada was about 3 percent of slaughter. However, the October numbers are closer to 4 percent of slaughter. In the last year before the restrictions beginning in May 2003, the U.S. imported nearly 5 percent of its slaughter as Canadian live animals. A second point is that the feeder animals that have been imported since mid-July have not come to slaughter yet. These feeder animals have represented 45 percent of the total Canadian live imports so far. Clearly, feeder animals from Canada are just beginning to show up in feedlot numbers. The latest USDA on-feed inventory showed that 10.5 million head of cattle were in feedlots, virtually unchanged from a year-ago, but more than expectations prior to the report. The number of heifers that were on-feed, which were down 11 percent, continues to reveal a preference for retaining females for breeding herd replacements. The number of steers, on the other hand, was up 6 percent. Placements at 99 percent were at the high end of expectations, and marketings were also somewhat lower than expected.


We read with interest the report of Zerjavic et al. [1] that describes associations of the myeloproliferative disorder (MPD)-associated JAK2 V617F mutation with both peripheral venous thrombosis and stroke. The authors of this report concur with previous reports where the incidence of the JAK2 V617F is present at a frequency of approximately 1–2% in peripheral venous thrombosis and ! 3% in cerebral venous thrombosis [2] . The JAK2 V617F mutation is also identified in at least one third of Received: July 29, 2010 Accepted: July 31, 2010 Published online: October 13, 2010


Protection of artefacts belonging to our treasure of Cultural Heritage is high on the agenda, both in Europe and other parts of the world. Due to this growing interest, there is a more interdisciplinary approach using natural sciences (physics, chemistry, biology, geology, etc.) and its applications and analytical tools; archaeometry has become an independent discipline. Inquiries by experts of humanities and arts (museologists, archaeologists, conservators, curators, etc.) usually concern dating, provenance, manufacturing identification, as well as fake identification or preservation of objects. A very specific feature of these investigations is that they must be non-destructive and non-invasive, because of the inestimably high and prestigious value of these objects of study.


The aim of the article is to study the specifics of the acoustic impact on the environment arising during the drilling and blasting operations in the quarry of mineral resources. An experimental study was conducted on the Sokolsko-Sitovskoye fluxing limestone deposit, geographically located in the Lipetsk region. Method. Analysis of the results of field noise level measurements and geo-ecological zoning based on them. Results. The result of the work is geo-ecological zoning, based on the author's field research, statistical analysis and graphic modeling. Conclusion. Features of environmental management in this area create the need for organizing and conducting integrated earth acoustic studies that contribute to the development and implementation of environmental protection measures. The article is for the specialists in the field of environmental protection.


This study aimed at examine dietary attitude, eating behavior and food preferences of children in child care center. The children involved in this study were 153 boys and 134 girls, aged 3 to 6 years old. The eating frequency of breakfast and the number of meal times a day were significant difference according to sex(P


Variable-stiffness panels have previously shown enhanced buckling performance compared to constant-stiffness panels, due to the beneficial load and stiffness redistribution. Two semianalytical models based on the Galerkin method and the Ritz method have been developed in order to solve the buckling problem of variable-stiffness composite panels (plates and shallow cylindrical shells). The laminates considered are assumed to be symmetric, which results in zero extensionbending couplings. However, the bending-twisting couplings, D16 and D26, are retained in the model due to their dramatic influence on the convergence of the predicted buckling loads. In the first model the governing equations for composite plates and shallow cylindrical shells with variable stiffness are derived and then solved using the Galerkin method. The variable stiffness in this model is approximated using two-dimensional Fourier series, which, however, appears to be less accurate and less efficient as compared to the Ritz method. The Ritz method avoids using Fourier series to approximate the stiffness. Instead, the stiffness is exactly expressed in the integral of the energy functional. The detailed derivations of the energy functional which were rarely shown in literature have been presented. The buckling analysis of this model comprises two main steps. First, the in-plane loads are calculated by applying the principle of minimum complementary energy in pre-buckling state. Second, the critical buckling loads are determined from the stability equations which are obtained from the total energy functional through applying either adjacent equilibrium criterion or the principle of minimum potential energy. The total energy functional for stability analysis in this model is expressed in terms of out-of-plane displacement and the Airy stress function, which appears to be a combination of negative membrane complementary energy, bending strain energy and external work. In order to ensure fast convergence, several shape functions used in Ritz method were investigated. The in-plane loads were approximated either using the beam characteristic function or polynomial function that were orthogonalized by the Gram-Schmidt process. In addition, the predictions of in-plane loads using sine and cosine function that do not satisfy the boundary conditions of in-plane loads were significantly improved by using Lagrange multiplier method. The out-of-plane displacement was approximated using either sine function or orthogonalized polynomials. The influence of the shape functions on the convergence of the predicted buckling load was analysed and discussed for different examples. These examples included plates and shells with either constant-stiffness or variable stiffness, within which D16 and D26 were either zero or non-zero. The boundary conditions considered for these examples were four-edge simply-supported in current thesis. However, the developed model can be easily extended to consider other boundary conditions. The model can solve the buckling problem of variable-stiffness panels under prescribed inplane loads (¯Nx, ¯Ny, ¯Nxy) or prescribed in-plane displacements (¯u, ¯v). In the current thesis, only the prescribed loads ¯Nx, ¯Nxy and the prescribed end-shortenings ¯u have been investigated and compared to Abaqus model; all the results satisfactorily match the results of Abaqus models. In addition, the model have been proved to be able to predict the buckling loads of shallow cylindrical shells with variable curvatures.


A method for preparing 2-hydroxy-5-phenylalkylaminobenzoic acid derivatives useful for treating diseases in the central nervous system is provided to enable mass product of the target compound through a simple process including a simple purification step. A method for preparing a 2-hydroxy-5-phenylalkylaminobenzoic acid derivative represented by the following formula 4 comprises a step of reacting phenylalkyl methanesulfonate represented by the following formula 1 with an alkyl 5-aminosalicylate represented by the following formula 2 to form an alkyl 2-hydroxy-5-phenylalkylaminobenzoate represented by the following formula 3. In the formulae, n is an integer of 1-4; each of R1-R5 is H, halogen, C1-C4 haloalkyl, nitro, hydroxy, C1-C4 alkyl, C1-C4 alkoxy or amine; A is H or a C1-C3 alkyl; and B is H or acetyl.


This article deals in depth with perhaps the most troubling education issue of the day—funding and proper distribution of educational resources. How is the money raised and how is its allocation decided? Can the ideals of both justice and equality be served? Is "extra" spending on behalf of children with special needs justified? Stephen Nathanson raises the central questions and, approaching them from a moral-philosophical standpoint, presents and evaluates the arguments of those who defend extra spending for children with disabilities and those who believe that "unequal" spending violates the principle of justice. Nathanson treats various theories of distributive justice—entitlement, utilitarianism, the "difference principle," and the "decent level" idea. In focusing on the latter, he contends that social consensus developed around "decent level" may be the touchstone, more helpful than any rationale (or rhetoric) in satisfying the claims of justice and equality.


An educated workforce armed with sustainability-savvy worldviews, competencies and actions to counter our industry's waste output and resource use are assets for future businesses poised to respond to the sustainability call. The newcomer workforce released into industry every year offer hope, and a space to intervene and inject change. This article reports findings on a study designed to acquire the knowledge needed to inspire sustainability consciousness in staff and students at a hospitality and tourism tertiary education facility. It was encouraging to discover that the people who chose to participate in the study possessed promising skills valuable in the move towards sustainability.
This article reports on Phase 1 of a three-phase study with the final goal of imbedding sustainability practice and consciousness into the tertiary education research site. The study responds to the industry's lack of sustainability education and the workplace demand for this knowledge [1]. Frameworks to help progress sustainable change require settings in which to test and refine their design and worth; places of education have been recommended [2].
Phase 1 responds to research recommendations (e.g. [3]) and considers an individual's sustainability-focused worldview, competency level and self-reported actions. As such, a questionnaire was tailored to identify a snapshot of the research participants' ideas and actions around sustainability. The findings provide information to help prepare the design of Phase 2 and to plan for change.
The findings detail four themes that divide the respondents into four groups according to the traits they exhibited. The range of skill sets now identified can be tapped into, enhanced, encouraged and stimulated in the next two phases.
Theme 1 participants are value-laden and action-orientated collaborators who envision the future based on a reasonable knowledge base. They subscribe to intergenerational equity, understand cause and effect and will act in accord with an internal locus of control. These individuals have the capacity to reflect, process ideas and offer solutions. They offer promise as leaders and knowledge sharers.
Theme 2 individuals want to be involved, find solutions, and aspire to be part of a progressive sustainability group. Although they showcase unexpected and at times undeveloped thought processing in the face of sustainability-related issues, they are eager, outside-the-box thinkers. Armed with accurate knowledge, Theme 2's people will generate buy-in amongst peers with their enthusiasm.
The people that make up Theme 3 respond to influence and stimulus; they can be led and will likely follow. Given the right information, tools and inspiration they represent a good-sized group that may buy-in to positive change. The findings indicate they can make the transition towards sustainability thinking if supported with some well-formed narratives and resources.
Theme 4 is represented by people who appear disinterested in sustainability. They exhibit an external locus of control and do not contribute beyond the bare minimum. The follow-up research project (Phase 2) will be created to ignite buy-in among this group, and to inspire and educate them, in order to foster them as better informed and active individuals.
The research team now have a reference point from which to move to Phase 2. The focus groups in Phase 2 will include the participants from Phase 1. The purpose will be to engage the people involved, inform them of Phase 1 findings, and encourage them to offer ideas for crafting a pathway towards sustainability uptake at the research site. Previous research tells us that engaging people to inspire buy-in and providing a space where they become the key players in crafting a new way forward are key factors in a move towards a sustainability-centric future [4]. Critically, the student participants will then enter the hospitality and tourism workforce armed with a sustainability consciousness that can instigate positive change.
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References
(1) Sloan, P.; Legrand, W.; Chen, J. Sustainability in the Hospitality Industry: Principles of Sustainable Operations, 2nd ed.; Routledge: London, 2013.
(2) Wiek, A.; Withycombe, L.; Redman, C. L. Key Competencies in Sustainability: A Reference Framework for Academic Program Development. Sustainability Science 2011, 6 (2), 203–218. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-011-0132-6
(3) Dunlap, R. E.; Van Liere, K. D. The 'New Environmental Paradigm'. The Journal of Environmental Education 1978, 9 (4), 10–19.
(4) Shephard, K. Researching Higher Education for Sustainable Development: Plan A, Plan B and Moving Beyond Thought-Limiting Cliches. In Sustainable Development Research in the Asia-Pacific Region: Education, Cities, Infrastructure and Buildings; Leal Filho, W., Rogers, J., Iyer-Raniga, U., Eds.; Springer International: Cham, Switzerland, 2018, pp 17–30. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73293-0


Islam provides fundamental sources for human development, including ukhuwah Islamiyah, ashabiah and rahmatan lil 'alamin. These concepts are strategic in developing the economy of the state. The current article aims to analyze the economic development in Medina carried out by the Prophet Muhammad. The authors employed a qualitative method through narrative reviews of the extant literature. The study shows that before the hijrah of the Prophet, Medina was already a multicultural and heterogeneous society with many prolonged conflicts.. The Prophet devised a strategic approach to build the Medina economy and society. Ukhuwah Islamiyah was used to unify differing, often conflicting cultures, beliefs, and ethnicities to form a strong brotherhood. Ashabiah was applied to tighten the glue among society members, creating high social solidarity. Upon the perfection of Medina, the apostolate of rahmatan lil 'alamin leads to a universal, inclusive, and sustainable economic development.


Many countries are affected by population growth issues, as a result of the low birth rate elderly age, people are increasing day by day. They need more attention from the family side to take care of them. So for this issue a well-equipped automatic reminder to consume pills at right time, for this introduced smart pillbox which considerably reduce family responsibilities. Over on this peak of technology, this smart pill is prepared by using GSM interfaces with Arduino and also implemented IOT through Blynk app receive notifications. The major responsibility of making people to consuming pills is resolved by using this smart pill setup. The main working principle of this box is remainder to consume pills at right time and also give remainder if the pills are going to finish. Sensors are arranged in the setup to identify the room temperature and humidity and all the information is can view through the Blynk app from anywhere.


ABSTRACT In this paper we propose a multivariate approach for forecasting pairwise mortality rates of related populations. The need for joint modelling of mortality rates is analysed using a causality test. We show that for the datasets considered, the inclusion of national mortality information enhances predictions on its subpopulations. The investigated approach links national population mortality to that of a subset population, using an econometric model that captures a long-term relationship between the two mortality dynamics. This model does not focus on the correlation between the mortality rates of the two populations, but rather their long-term behaviour, which suggests that the two times series cannot wander off in opposite directions for long before mean reverting, which is consistent with biological reasoning. The model can additionally capture short-term adjustments in the mortality dynamics of the two populations. An empirical comparison of the forecast of one-year death probabilities for policyholders is performed using both a classical factor-based model and the proposed approach. The robustness of the model is tested on mortality rate data for England and Wales, alongside the Continuous Mortality Investigation assured lives dataset, representing the subpopulation.


OBJECTIVE To study the clinical significance of blood stasis in malignant blood diseases. METHODS In 112 patients with malignant blood diseases, the symptoms and signs of blood stasis were observed and the contents of platelet α-granule membrane protein in plasma (GMP140) and Ddimer (DD) were detected. RESULTS 69.64% of the patients showed blood stasis. Those showing blood stasis had higher levels of GMP140 and DD than those who did not show blood stasis (P0.01). CONCLUSION In the patients with blood stasis of malignant blood diseases, more platelets are activated and consumed, and there exists secondary fibrinolysis. The levels of plasma GMP140 and DD are closely related to the manifestations of blood stasis.


Educators in Taiwan began to shift their attention from mainstreaming to inclusion education for children with disabilities for decades. The striking focal point of this shift emphasizes that children with disabilities, regardless of minor or significant degree of disability, all have "zero reject" status and are able to enter ordinary classes allowing full integration placement in education. Consequently, designing an adequate curriculum, capable of being conducted in an inclusive classroom for children with special needs to develop their social skills, remains an urgent issue for educators in Taiwan. The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of social play activities in using peer mediated pivotal response training (PRT) on a 7to 8year-old highfunctioning autistic child's social skills development which includes maintained interactions, initiated conversations, and initiated play. The participant of this study wasan autistic childin an inclusive setting in Taiwan. The foundation of the social play activities was the basic peerimplemented pivotal response training (PRT) for children with autism. The expected result is that autistic child's social behaviorsbecome manifestly improved after the intervention instituted when the autistic child interact with others. Keyword: PRT, high-functioning autism, inclusion education.


As of Wednesday morning, THE PAPER has not been banned from the campus. _ Whether it will be, we don't know. Whether the Board of Student Publications intended it to be when it revoked our authorization last Friday, we can only guess. Our guess is that it intended EXACTLY that. That's the major reason we've been so upset. There are plenty of minor reasons. For example, a prominent university official has privately characterized the current controversy as a battle between those who want "decency" and those who want "filth." Guess where WE wound up. Our press clippings are getting really impressive. The State News this morning referred to our printing of "flagrant vulgar and inappropriate language," 'condemned our " sensationalized and lewd material," and wound up calling either THE PAPER or some unspecified part of our last issue " t rash ." On the same page was a letter from Mrs. Anne Garrison, a member of the pub board, calling us "prurient" and apparently accusing us of a "violation of a deep human need for social decency." The abuse heaped upon us probably ^^eh^^otft^*$0&&M «?trac ^ tmax. when ^JLittle old lady (nobody noticed if she wCs'wfeafing sneakers) walked past one of our salesmen, stared at him, and simply hissed. What can we say? We are frankly astonished by the uproar. At our staff meeting Sunday night, someone suggested we treat the whole affair as an in-joke between us and the pub board. Black humor, you know. Before we take up the question of, God help us, "obscenity," we should tell you a little more about the pub board's procedures, which even the State News managed to find "inexcusable." Everybody knows that we had no warning, no opportunity to defend ourselves. What everybody doesn't know is that Frank Senger, chairman of the pub board, told us to stdy away from the meeting because it was almost certain no action would be taken. He said that President Hannah personally agreed that hasty action was inadvisable. f What everybody doesn't know is that the pub board's requirements for authorization deal only with non-editorial (i.e., business and personnel) standards of procedure, and that many members of the pub board, including the chairman, have frequently said that the board was not concerned with the content of the publication. Their less than two pages of vague rules indicate no guidelines for or interest in content, so that an authorized publication is vulnerable literally to the whims of the individual members, who are protected in their opinions by an elastic clause in the rules dealing with conduct "prejudicial to the best interests" of MSU. The ASMSU Resolution


Abstract : The previously reported evaluation of the health of civilians residing or working near the Wisconsin Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) Test Facility has been continued at the Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory in Pensacola, Florida, in 1974 and 1975. The content of the previous report is reviewed and discussed, especially with respect to the reporting format and results obtained. Seven civilian subjects, five male and two female, five of whom are part of the original group of 24, participated in the continuing surveillance program. One new employee was added to the group in 1974, and one declined to participate in 1975. Since none of the 24 matched control group volunteers were available after 1972, the format adopted for the original program was revised. Additional tests were added to further study lipid and carbohydrate metabolism to reflect the current interest in these parameters. Throughout the entire period of medical surveillance from 1971 to 1975, there was no evidence of any particular disease induction, physiochemical parameter alteration, nor aberration of psychological tests attributable to ELF electromagnetic field exposure. (Author)