Aim: To conduct a cross and practices concerning the pathology dengue. Background: headache, ret strategy in the prevention and control of dengue lies in the control of its vector, the Aedes mosquito. Due to the absence of a vaccine or a cure, the only effective dengue is by preventing transmission of the disease by the Aedes mosquito. Materials and Method: Subjects: apps.surveyplanet.com. Questionnaire in English enlisting 15 questions that primarily focussed on the knowledge, awareness and practises regarding dengue. Data management and statistical analysis were performed using Micr Result: treatment and prevention. Under the category of etiology, the average mean of awareness is 74%, under signs and symptoms it is 47%, investigation i 57%.Hence,although ensure control against this epidemic disease. Conclusion: preventive measures. Thereby producing need to reduce this knowledge application gap. Thus, understanding people perception and practices could help in identifying the targets areas to control outbreaks and promote awareness.


Different techniques for linearizing the response of drag dominated structures is in this work inspected in terms of fatigue damage. To establish reference response characteristics, time domain simulations are carried out. Time domain simulations must be considered as state of the art methods for estimating fatigue damage., but do however demand huge computational capabilities. Linear potential theory is used to calculate wave kinematics. To compensate for the deviation to higher order wave kinematics, adjusted drag coefficients are used. The JONSWAP spectrum is used to generate stochastic surface elevation and forces, which is realized using both randomness in phase and amplitude. This insures that a signal is never repeated within a short term sea state. Stress concentration factors are used to generate stress processes from beam reactions. To calculate both cycle ranges, and amount of cycles, the rainflow algorithm is utilized, which result in stress range records that are used as input to SN curves and miner summation. Ground conditions are selected to give a highest natural period of 7.67s, which is within energetic areas of the scatter diagram. Large dynamical amplifications contribute to move most important fatigue damage sea state down to a spectral peak period of 8.5s. The linearization consists of evaluating the response of the structure to different harmonic input components with different frequencies in order to create transfer functions. In this regard, the question is how the wave heights used as input to these harmonic components is selected. Three schemes of selecting these are inspected. The two most promising are achieved by keeping the steepness or the ratio between height and period constant. They overestimate the total accumulated damage during 56 years by 20 % and 100% respectively. The steepness or the constant height-period ratio is calibrated by matching a spectrally calculated wave action with a deterministic calculated wave action. This calibration process is working well, and gives reasonable calibrated values. Both methods tend to be efficient and gives reasonable results. Whether the constant steepness approach is conservative might be questioned especially at higher frequencies. The constant height-period ratio however insures conservatism also at larger frequencies. It might also be possible to switch the drag term to a linear term and replace the drag coefficient by a linear drag coefficient. This might open up for the use of simpler explicit methods to select appropriate calibrated values.


Repeated silica gel chromatography of the dichloromethane extract of air-dried stems of Indigofera longeracemosa followed by reverse-phase HPLC separation yielded a new decahydropyridoquinoline, rel-(3S, 5R, 6S, SR, 8aR, 12aR)-8-acetoxy-6-butyl-3-isothiocyanatodecahydropyrido (2,1) quinoline.


Aim: The aim of the study was to investigate attitudes towards victimisation of women from domestic aggression and controlling behaviours in a Pakistani sample. Method: An electronic questionnaire was completed by 360 respondents, 194 females and 154 males. The mean age for females was 26.7 years (SD = 8.0) and 31.9 (SD = 9.3) for males, the age difference was significant. The questionnaire included four scales. Results: Males scored significantly higher on acceptance of victimisation of women from a husband's aggression and controlling behaviours, the idea that women have themselves to blame for the domestic abuse they undergo, and that women should not divorce. In general, respondents with a low education scored highest on all four scales. For females, age correlated with acceptance of victimisation of women from a husband's aggression, the idea that women have themselves to blame for the domestic abuse they undergo, and that women should not divorce, but not with acceptance of controlling behaviours. For males, age did not correlate with any of the scales in the study. Conclusions: The study shows that Pakistani males accepted victimisation and controlling of women to a higher degree than did the women themselves, and that a low educational level was associated with acceptance of aggression towards women. For females, but not for males, age correlated with acceptance of victimisation of women.


. Many widely divergent accounts of luck have been offered or employed in discussing an equally wide range of philosophical topics. We should, then, expect to find some unified philosophical conception of luck of which moral luck, epistemic luck, and luck egalitarianism are species. One of the attempts to provide such an account is that offered by Duncan Pritchard, which he refers to as the modal account. This view commits us to calling an event lucky when it obtains in this world but fails to obtain in a wide class of nearby possible worlds. In support of this account, Pritchard argues that a theory of luck ought to capture the fact that luck comes in degrees and that luck is closely associated with risk. I argue against this claim by suggesting that an understanding of luck grounded in considerations of probability is better able to satisfy these demands, and that the probability theory better explains exemplary cases of luck like those brought up by Pritchard.


A Paradise of Priests: Singing the Civic and Episcopal Hagiography of Medieval Liege. By Catherine Saucier. (Eastman Studies in Music, vol. 108.) Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2014. [xiv, 299 p. ISBN 9781580464802. $75.] Music examples, figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, index. Catherine Saucier's A Paradise of Priests represents the culmination of more than a decade of careful archival and analytical work about the music and culture of Liege (in modern-day Belgium) between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. This is an important study that fills a lacuna in medieval musicology, complementing other book-length studies about important musical centers in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This research was originally presented in Saucier's 2005 dissertation ("Sacred Music and Musicians at the Cathedral and Collegiate Churches of Liege, 1330-1500" [Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 2005]); this book represents a maturing of her earlier thought and the refreshing of older material into a five-chapter book. In A Paradise of Priests, Saucier demonstrates how music, hagiography, and civic identity were intimately intertwined in Liege during the late Middle Ages. Liege is a city that has a history of establishing the music-, text-, and image-rich Feasts of the Holy Trinity and Corpus Christi, which were founded in the tenth and thirteenth centuries respectively. Saucier demonstrates that the authority and power of Liege as a creator of devotional practice continued into the sixteenth century through Offices for an "episcopal trio" of Saints Theodard, Lambert, and Hubert (p. 94), and through a polyphonic motet by Johannes Brassart in honor of the accomplishments of Bishop Notger, a tenth-century bishop who changed the face of the city through various projects. The evidence presented in these chapters establishes that the nexus of music and civic power in Liege was located partly in the physical space of the cathedral and collegiate churches, where venerations were made. Most of the power, however, resided in the pens of the clerics, who drew on older hagiographic texts to create musical devotions that extol the merits of the saints and the city. Indeed, the success of clerics in Liege leads Saucier to argue boldly "that sacred music was the most persuasive and versatile medium by which the secular clergy of medieval Liege promoted the holy status of their city" (p. 3). This argument is supported throughout the text through a wealth of hagiographic material with explicit connections to Liege's Episcopal history, which is then taken up in musical venerations. The introduction is brief, but does discuss scope and methodology, establishing this study of Liege as an interdisciplinary project that draws on a variety of historical, hagiographic, visual, and liturgical sources. Saucier provides important details that link the ecclesiastical history of Liege and liturgical music to the promotion of the city's prestige. Liege was home to a large number of churches, monasteries, and convents as well as an Episcopal seat. It was a city full of men and women who dedicated their lives to singing the Mass and the Office, but as a cathedral city, its musical practices also reflected the needs of a bishopric seat. Many of the clerics dedicated their lives to disseminating the diocesan liturgy. For their labors, Liege became known as a "Paradise of Priests" (p. 4), rich in scholastic learning and committed to augmenting the calendar of saints with feast days. The work of adding Offices and Masses to the local rite was, as Saucier notes, "a familiar platform from which to voice civic ideals" (p. 7). New Offices, Masses, and later polyphonic works served to retell saints' lives in song that then spread across the diocese and beyond. With this framework established, Saucier concludes with her two-fold objectives for this book: (1) to clarify and share new information about Liege as a musical center, and (2) to begin a discussion about how to define a "civic" space in relation to textual, musical, and artistic media. …


The assessment of performance, cost, and customer satisfaction on Business Process, is facing a problem, that is how to establish and use an effective method and framework to create a specific metric model, for achieving a more efficient method. To solve the problem, the paper discusses BPMM (Business Process Metric Model), which is based on the theory of model-driven and Business Process model, and base this method, we give the simple Meta Model, the model and its implementation. This paper concludes that the metric model can be effectively used in business process execution.


Carbamazepine belongs to the class II biopharmaceutical classification system (BCS) which is characterized by a high per-oral dose, a low aqueous solubility and a high membrane permeability. The bioavailability of such a drug is limited by the dissolution rate. In order to increase the drug dissolution, its solid dispersions were prepared by the cogrinding technique using an insoluble but highly hydrophilic crospovidone and soluble hydroxypropylmethylcellulose (HPMC) as the carriers. The ratios of drug to carrier were 1:1, 1:5 and 1:10. Comparison of the dissolution of the drug from its cogrounds with that of the unground drug, its ground form and the corresponding physical mixtures revealed considerable differences. The percentage of drug dissolved during the first 30 min, (%D 30 ), for the ground and coground drug was 75-95, whereas the %D 30 for unground drug and its physical mixtures ranged from 41-62. FT-IR spectra indicated no intraction between the drug and the carriers in the cogrounds. But reduced crystallinity of the drug in the ground and cogrounds was evident in the x-ray diffraction patterns. The decreased crystallinity together with a reduced particle size, enhanced deaggregation and increased wettability of the drug. This could be accounted for the increased dissolution from the cogrounds. From the dissolution point of view, the physical mixtures of HPMC were inferior to the cogrounds, but were slightly superior to the physical mixtures of crospovidone due to the solubilization effect of HPMC.


Entertainment is one of the most essential tools for a social, physical, mental and emotional development for every child so this center will become an edutainment center for children. Therefore it has become our responsibility to take off the hardship most parents and guardians go through to provide ultra modern recreational facilities for their children. The idea of starting this company was first realised by Esi Ampaih Patricia, who is a mother and upon seeing the difficulties she goes through to give her 5 year old daughter a better recreation consulted her friends to establish the Recreational Center that could provide for this need of parents like her.
The name "KIDS' TIME Recreational Centre" is a registered trade name with a registered logo. The new company is to provide an "edutainment" and "quality play care" in various forms.
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Using enforcements of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, we find that socially responsible firms receive more lenient settlements from prosecutors and have higher resulting market valuations. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is uncorrelated with bribe attributes, which should entirely determine sanctions following Becker (1974). It is also not an explicit factor in sentencing guidelines. Yet, a one standard deviation increase in CSR is associated with 5 million dollars less in fines, or 25% lower than the mean and less costly subsequent monitoring. High CSR firms out-perform low CSR firms by 2.4% in the six months following the announcement of the settlement.


The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicament for treating alcoholic liver. The traditional Chinese medicament is prepared from the following medicinal materials in parts by weight: 20-30 parts of sichuan lovage rhizome, 20-30 parts of dried tangerine peel, 15-25 parts of scorpion, 15-25 parts of feather cockscomb seed, 25-35 parts of rhizoma atractylodis macrocephalae, 15-25 parts of pangolin and 5-10 parts of liquorice. The traditional Chinese medicament has the effects of activating blood circulation to remove meridian obstruction, strengthening spleen and drying dampness, clearing heat and eliminating phlegm.


The past few years have seen an unprecedented interest in proving the technoeconomic viability of CO2 capture technologies from flue gas streams (from power plants). The main challenge here stems from removing concentrations of CO2 (typically between 3.5 vol% to 14 vol%) from large volume gas streams, thus leading to very large column sizes. Another important cost factor is the pressure drop per metre that can be saved inside the absorber. The correct choice of mass transfer technology assumes significance in such applications. Structured packing offers an excellent solution in terms of reducing the column dimensions (CAPEX) as well as providing low pressure drop (OPEX) over the CO2 absorber. This article presents a significant step taken forward to reduce the costs associated with CO2 capture in post-combustion plants. Sulzer Chemtech has developed the next-generation Mellapak structured packings (Sulzer MellapakTMCCTM) for post combustion CO2 Capture, to fit individual process specific requirements; targeting process intensification by means of significantly reduced pressure drop to reduce OPEX, and increased separation performance to reduce CAPEX. For liquid-side controlled applications involving a fast chemical reaction (usually the case in post-combustion applications), two types of MellapakTMCCTM have been developed, viz. MellapakTMCCTM-2 and MellapakTMCCTM-3. These two packing types were developed by optimizing the packing geometry in terms of the material requirement (lower CAPEX), the pressure drop (lower OPEX) and high effective interfacial area (lower CAPEX & OPEX). Here, MellapakTMCCTM is found to have the same efficiency as the equivalent conventional Sulzer Mellapak structured packing, but with significant reduction in pressure drop (upto 35% lower) for typical operating conditions seen in post-combustion applications. To demonstrate the techno-economic impact of MellapakTMCCTM, a case-study (industrial-scale) is presented here for a generic amine-based absorption process. A life-cycle cost analysis for a typical 800MW power plant over a 40-year span, clearly shows how millions of Euros can be saved, by using MellapakTMCCTM in the CO2 Absorber.


According to "The vertification regulation of bitumen needle forcemeter for road"(JJG 067-2006), calibration of bitumen needle forcemeter is resolved by measuring indication device and time controller respectively. But this way of calibration can't solve the problem of starting indication device at the same time touching off time controller. There is still a time controller starts lagging phenomenon in most of the calibrated instruments. Measured time interval is inaccurate and penetration value is not accurate. Using the embedded multichannel integration measurement technique, the calibration device of bitumen needle forcemeter is realized, and the accuracy of the test results is guaranteed. Keywords-mechanical structure; measure; penetration value; asphalt; calibration device


To overcome the high computational complexity of the existing joint tracking and classification (JTC) algorithm, particle filter (PF) is introduced to replace numerical integration in solving JTC, and hence computational load is considerably reduced. Our particle filter based JTC (PF-JTC) algorithm makes use of the target kinematic information provided by the low-resolution radar (LLR) and the target electromagnetic equipment information provided by the electronic support measure (ESM) to improve the performance of tracking and classification simultaneously. Simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed PF-JTC algorithm.


A resonant converter with less voltage rating of power switches and wide voltage operation is investigated in this Letter for medium voltage applications. Four active switches and two split capacitors are adopted on the primary side to reduce the voltage rating on power semiconductors. The resonant converter is adopted in the converter to have a wide soft switching operation range. Two flying capacitors are used in the presented circuit to operate as the resonant capacitor and also to achieve voltage balance of two input split capacitors. The variable winding turns are used on the secondary side to overcome the problem of the limited voltage operation in the conventional resonant converter. If the input voltage is in the low-input voltage range, the low turns-ratio of the power transformer is used to increase the voltage gain of the resonant converter. If the input voltage is in a high-voltage range, then the high turns-ratio of the transformer is adopted to reduce the voltage gain. Thus, the proposed converter can achieve wide input voltage operation. Experimental results with a 0.8 kW prototype are provided to confirm the effectiveness of wide input voltage operation from 260 to 800 V.


The mobile agent paradigm has revolutionised the distributed computing environment. There are different paradigms used in distributed computing, such as - clientserver paradigm, remote procedure paradigm and mobile agent paradigm. The client-server is based upon the concept of a server, which serves the various request of the clients and in remote procedure call approach, a machine can connect to another machine and retrieve the information remotely. The mobile agent technology is built upon the advancement in computing and communication technology over the wired and wireless networks. Mobile agents are the software programs that can migrate from one machine to another machine in a homogeneous as well as heterogeneous environment. It can migrate in connected as well disconnected network. On each machine, the agent interacts with stationary service agents and other resources to accomplish its task. Mobile agents are particularly attractive in distributed information retrieval applications. By moving to the location of an information resource, the agent can search the resource locally, eliminating the transfer of intermediate results across the network, by this property, mobile agent reduce the end-to- end latency. In this paper, we try to point out the benefits and limitations of these paradigms.


The recent discovery that the class VI myosin is minus end-directed (Schliwa, 1999; Wells et al., 1999) allows new mechanisms of actin-based motility to exist in cells. This will prompt reexamination of a broad range of cell movements previously difficult to explain by conventional force generating mechanisms. Myosins are a large family of molecular motor proteins divided into 15 or more classes, and are the only known type of actin-based motor. Intrinsically, an individual myosin converts energy derived from ATP hydrolysis into unidirectional movement towards only one specified end of an actin filament: either the plus (barbed-) or minus (pointed-) end. Minus end directionality in myosin VI is unique: all other myosins tested are plus end-directed actin motors. Myosin VI plays a key role in cell motility and shape change events in many animal species (Table I), and is essential for hearing in mice (Avraham et al., 1995) and fertility in flies (Hicks et al., 1999). This review discusses two plausible basic molecular functions for a minus end-directed actin motor in a cell: transportation of cargo, an expected role for an actin motor; and generation of cell expansion force, a new theory. I then speculate how cargo transport and cell expansion force participate in three distinct shape change events in which myosin VI activity is important.


This paper introduces a novel online malware detection approach in cloud by leveraging one of its unique characteristics—autoscaling. Auto-scaling in cloud allows for maintaining an optimal number of running VMs based on load, by dynamically adding or terminating VMs. Our detection system is online because it detects malicious behavior while the system is running. Malware detection is performed by utilizing process-level performance metrics to model a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). We initially employ a 2d CNN approach which trains on individual samples of each of the VMs in an auto-scaling scenario. That is, there is no correlation between samples from different VMs during the training phase. We enhance the detection accuracy by considering the correlations between multiple VMs through a sample pairing approach. Experiments are performed by injecting malware inside one of the VMs in an auto-scaling scenario. We show that our standard 2d CNN approach reaches an accuracy of 90%. However, our sample pairing approach significantly improves the accuracy to 97%.


A vehicular air conditioning apparatus includes: a case which forms a passage for conditioned air that flows toward a vehicle interior; a partition plate which divides a space inside the case; a sliding door which moves to change the flow of the conditioned air inside the case; a rack gear provided on the sliding door; and a pinion gear which moves the sliding door by rotating while being engaged with the rack gear. In addition, the partition plate has a guide which slidably supports an end portion of the sliding door, the case has a seal member, the sliding door and the seal member are disposed to slidably oppose each other, the guide has a cut-out portion in which the seal member is disposed, and an auxiliary guide is provided in the cut-out portion. Accordingly, in the vehicular air conditioning apparatus in which the slide door is moved by a rack and pinion mechanism along the guide provided in the partition plate that divides the internal space of the case, noise generated by the rack and pinion mechanism may be reduced by suppressing the displacement of the slide door.


TBI was recently defined as: 'An alteration in brain function, or other evidence of brain pathology, caused by an external force'. The Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 showed that there were 27.08 million new cases of traumatic brain injury, and age-standardised incidence rates of 369 per 100,000 population, per year. Tagliaferri et al conducted a systematic review of epidemiology of TBI in Europe and concluded that mortality rate was 15 per lakh population and case fatality rate was 2.7%. There are various factors that determine the pattern and severity of TBI, such as age, socioeconomic factors, geography, level of awareness among the citizens, the implementation of stricter traffic laws. Some studies have shown that falls are the most common cause for TBI, followed by road ABSTRACT


As Moore's Law slows down, there is increasing interest in the use of hardware accelerators, especially for ML / Big Data workloads. Industrial examples include Google's Tensor Processing Units and the recent Inferentia from Amazon. This design is the DLAU (Deep LearningAccelerator Unit) which is a scalable architecture which employs Deep Learning algorithms (Restricted Boltzmann machine). The Deep Learning Accelerator Unit employs three units that employ tiling techniques. The first block is the Tiled Matrix Multiplication Unit (TMMU), Part Sum Accumulation Unit (PSAU) is the second unit and the last unit is the Activation Function Acceleration Unit (AFAU). These individual units work together as a cohesive unit to enhance the acceleration process, thereby improving computation speeds as the final target of this work.


Topicality. Modernization of Ukrainian society is a practical need of competitive entering into the world cultural society. That's why, deep reformation of Youth Physical Education (PE) reformation is one of the main demand for all of the scientists and specialists. Studying the theory and practice in European countries is becoming an actual issue. The purpose of the research is to analyze the content of the both editions of Romanian Encyclopedia of PE & Sports, using the ideas of popularization of PE & Sports among the population. Sources and Methods of the Research. Main sources of the research are the volumes of Encyclopedia. Scientific, historical, chronological and other methods were used in the research paper. The Results of the Research. In the Romanian scientists` opinion, the Encyclopedia of PE & Sports has become the most powerful reference source in Europe. In 2002, Ministry of Youth and Sports of Romania initiated and supported publishing of this research work. First three volumes of Encyclopedia have represented a history of different National Sports Federations, fourth and fifth –regional historical aspects of PE & Sports. The sixth volume contains the greatest sports victories in Romania. One of the most meaningful is a seventh volume, where system of PE & Sports of different periods of history and its genesis have been represented. Conclusions. Nowadays, the science Encyclopedia of PE & Sports is the most powerful reference source in Europe. The most important information about Romanian PE & sports system, social organizations and specific of its activity, process of PE introduction into university and state military programs and also the main research inventions has been collected by the authors of science Encyclopedia.


Nowadays, users are more addicted to the Online Social Networks (OSN's), a network in which many users, group of people, or a particular organization are Connected via network. Use of online Social Networks has exploded and thus, causing a need of studying and understanding user behavior. Several approaches have studied the identification of anomaly detection In this paper, We propose an efficient method for anomaly detection from social networks. The present study aims at detecting the abnormal activities exhibiting different behaviors in social media application using Behavior-based anomaly detection approach. Anomalous users are detected based on their behavioral dissimilarity from others. A rich feature set is proposed for outlier detection. A method for providing visual explanation for the results is also proposed. This analysis is carried out using Facebook dataset.


The invention discloses a high-resolution digital television all-in-one machine and an implementation method thereof. The high-resolution digital television all-in-one machine comprises a digital set top box module, a television module, a digital television signal input interface, a serial interface, a network interface, an external storage interface, an SPDIF output interface, a digital audio and video input interface, a simulated audio and video input interface and an earphone output interface, wherein the digital set top box module and the television module are bidirectionally connected through an HDMI interface. The digital set top box module receives, demodulates, demultiplexes and decodes a digital signal to acquire digital audio and video data and a video format, transmits the digital audio and video data to the television module through the HDMI interface, and transmits the video format to the television module through the HDMI interface; and the television module performs audio and video output according to the received video format and the digital audio and video data.


In this article, micromechanical behavior of metal matrix reinforced with shape memory alloy fibers under combined thermo-mechanical loadings is investigated. A representative volume element consisting of circular/rectangular cross-sectional shape memory alloy fibers surrounded with aluminum matrix is considered to model micromechanical behavior of shape memory alloy composites. In order to simulate main features of shape memory alloy fibers, especially under multi-axial non-proportional loadings, Panico–Brinson constitutive model is employed. This model is able to predict martensite transformation, shape memory effect, pseudo-elasticity, and in particular reorientation of martensite variants which is responsible for non-proportional loadings. Furthermore, the response of aluminum matrix is assumed as a thermo-elastic-plastic material with linear kinematic work hardening. A finite element formulation containing incremental and iterative processes is developed to analyze the representative volume element in the state of generalized plane strain. Convergence, cost, and comparative studies are conducted to examine efficiency and accuracy of the developed solution. Then, a set of parametric study is directed to provide an insight into the influence of fiber volume fraction, fiber cross-sectional shape, pre-strain, and temperature on the micromechanical behavior of shape memory alloy composites subjected to multi-axial loadings. A significant coupling is observed between normal–normal/normal–shear/shear–shear strains during non-proportional multi-axial loadings which confirms the importance of simulation of martensite reorientation.


Minerva was never able to detect ketones on a patient's breath, even when others recognised the characteristic smell from the end of the bed. A small sample of health workers who were tested on their odour discrimination also had trouble with acetone, often mistaking it for alcohol ( Academic Emergency Medicine 2000;7:1168–9). It's equally difficult to distinguish wintergreen from camphor, although probably less clinically important. Participants' poor performance improved slightly on a retest, but only on uncommon smells.

Australian surgeons performed 7887 lower limb amputations in people with diabetes between 1995 and 1998, an average of 13.97 per 100 000 total population ( Medical Journal of Australia 2000;173:352–4). The national diabetes strategy aims to reduce these figures by half by the year 2005, partly by making sure that at least four fifths of people with diabetes get their feet looked at by a doctor once a year.

Raccoons may be cute, but many of them carry raccoon roundworm, an ascarid that can infect children. One 11 month old boy was left severely brain damaged after raccoon roundworm encephalitis (www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/106/4/e56). A close look in his back garden and an adjoining vacant lot revealed 21 raccoon toilet sites, …


We show that two cookie-cutter Cantor sets with the same symbolic coding are differentiably equivalent if and only if their Hausdorff dimensions are equal.


Summary: Age‐associated memory impairment (AAMI) is a diagnostic term applied to healthy persons >50 years of age who have experienced a gradual decline in memory that lies within the boundaries of normality. Although the behavioral deficits associated with AAMI are modest in comparison to those associated with dementing disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, they are quite troublesome to many middle‐aged and elderly adults engaged in intellectually demanding activities. In this article, diagnostic criteria for AAMI will be provided, new psychometric instruments for assessing the behavioral deficits seen in AAMI will be described, and results of large multinational studies with these instruments will be presented. Finally, behavioral and pharmacologic strategies for treating AAMI will be discussed.


The present invention is covered by a cushion cover (38), yet air-conducting cushion layer comprises a (32), a layered cushion structure comprises (36), therein the air via at least one air inlet (40) enter further air, after penetration into the air induction cushion layer, is discharged via at least one air outlet (46) therefrom, it relates to a cushion for a motor vehicle seat. At least one air outlet opening is arranged in the cushion cover (38) in (20) is assigned to at least one air outlet (46).


Financial crisis, rooted in a lack of system resilience and robustness, is a particular type of critical transition that may cause grievous economic and social losses and should be warned against as early as possible. Regarding the financial system as a time-varying network, researchers have identified early warning signals from the changing dynamics of network motifs. In addition, network motifs have many different morphologies that unveil high-order correlation patterns of a financial system, whose synchronous change represents the dramatic shift in the financial system's functionality and may indicate a financial crisis; however, it is less studied. This paper proposes motif transition intensity as a novel method that quantifies the synchronous change of network motifs in detail. Applying this method to stock networks, we developed three early warning indicators. Empirically, we conducted a horse race to predict ten global crises during 1991–2020. The results show evidence that the proposed indicators are more efficient than the VIX and the other 39 network-based indicators. In a detailed analysis, the proposed indicators send sensitive and comprehensible warning signals, especially for the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis and the European sovereign debt crisis. Furthermore, the proposed method provides a new perspective to detect critical signals and may be extended to predict other crisis events in natural and social systems.


In the present article, we draw on social reproduction theories to explain the increase in the use of "shadow education" (SE) in Germany over the last two decades as a status-based, gender-specific investment strategy of families. Thus, we ask whether investing in private tutoring for both girls and boys alike serves to maintain or improve their status position, or whether gender-specific investment strategies exist. Our hypotheses are quantitatively tested by means of logistic regression using data of the 2012 German Life Courses into Early Adulthood (LifE) study. In contrast to prominent beliefs, our results show that SE in Germany does not function as a tool to promote social inequality. Instead, SE is used largely independent of social origin to achieve higher educational credentials. We found that particularly boys from non-academic but high-income families use SE, whereas girls seem unaffected by social origin entirely. Our findings call for further strengthening the gender dimension in existing inequality theories.


There is a unanimous consensus on the key role played by the collective bargaining in the 3/2012 Law. The big amount of Court decisions on the matter have been of great help to establish cri-teria and to limit the goals pursued by the legislator. This paper introduces the main decisions emanated by the Audiencia Nacional and Tribunal Supremo and analyses the jurisprudence established by them in their most conflictive elements.


Records on 196 Jersey and 265 Jersey crossbred cows maintained at Dairy farm, Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya, Palampur for 25 years (1984-2008) and 29 years (1981-2008) were analyzed for the effects of non-genetic factors viz., season of calving, period of calving, age group of cows and parity of cows on pre-calving, postcalving and production traits. Heritability and genetic and phenotypic correlation coefficients were also estimated for these traits. The overall least squares means estimated in this study for pre-calving traits were 40.54±0.67 months and 20.43±0.20 kg for age at first calving and birth weight, post-calving traits were 182.05±8.17 days, 462.33±8.18 days and 86.91±4.94 days for service period, calving interval and dry period and for 305day milk yield, lactation milk yield, lactation length, peak yield, average milk yield per day of lactation length and average milk yield per day of calving interval were 2089.81±29.46 kg, 2539.57±48.37 kg, 376.49±7.24 days, 12.08±0.16 kg, 6.52±0.10 kg and 5.65±0.09 kg respectively in Jersey cows and corresponding estimates were 40.61±0.53 months, 23.01±0.21 kg for pre-calving traits, 144.95±6.45 days, 427.87±6.51 days and 87.64±4.18 days for post-calving traits and 2104.14±38.79 kg, 2354.41±49.62 kg, 340.99±5.91 days, 11.25±0.19 kg, 7.14±0.12 kg, and 5.63±0.11 kg for production traits in Jersey crossbred cows. Pre-calving and post calving traits were significantly


9 figs. Bloomington–Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 2008. $29.95. 978 0 253 34930 9 JEH (60) 2009; doi :10.1017/S0022046908005654 Michael Phayer, Professor Emeritus at Marquette University in Milwaukee, has published widely on the Catholic response to the Holocaust including The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930–1965 which appeared in 2000. In his latest book he elaborates uponmany themes previously explored, especially the role and rationale of the policies of Pius XII (1939–58) during the Nazi genocide. The introduction indicates that the new study differs from its predecessor in two regards : the availability and use of new sources ; and the coverage of the Cold War, which was not included in his earlier volume ( p. xi). I see a third difference for the present work demonstrates somewhat less bias vis à vis the Holy See's policies than earlier displayed, with Phayer now acknowledging that he has been 'more critical than indulgent ' in studying Pius XII ( p. 43). Recourse to a wide variety of additional sources, including newly available documents from the US National Archives, as well as a number of secondary works, has led Phayer to jettison the charge of papal silence during the genocide, launched first by Rolf Hochhuth in his play 'The Deputy ' (1963), and later by Carlo Falconi in The silence of Pius XII (1970). While Phayer had initially discounted the impact of the pope's Christmas message of December 1942, which decried that 'hundreds of thousands of persons who, without any fault on their part, sometimes only because of their nationality or race, have been consigned to death or a slow decline', he now acknowledges that in it 'Pius unmistakably denounced genocide' ( p. 53), leading him to conclude that 'Pius XII did not keep silent ' ( p. 64). Unfortunately, Phayer has not delved into the partially opened papers of Pius XI in the Vatican Archives (1930–9) ; had he done so, he would not have characterised that pope's policy as having 'flip flopped spinelessly ', or asserted that he was morally responsible for his successor's failure to condemn the German invasion of Poland ( p. 5) or that he welcomed the accession of Hitler ( p. 139). Despite such inaccurate generalisations, Phayer must be credited for having abandoned his contention that individual Catholics and clergy acted on their own initiative in rescuing Jews, without Vatican input.Whereas Phayer earlier questioned the papal role during the roundup of Jews in Rome, he now indicates that the Holy See, collaborating with the German ambassador, secured extra-territorial certificates for numerous Vatican properties so that they could function as safe havens. This plan failed, Phayer claims, because Rome's Jews, oblivious to the danger, refused to relocate ( pp. 72–3). Here, and elsewhere, he recognises positive papal intervention ( pp. 45, 93), catalogued by a number of writers including the Israeli diplomat Pinchas Lapide, author of Three popes and the Jews (1967), curiously missing from the bibliographies of both of Phayer's books. Finally, Phayer contends that this pope should have said and done more during the genocide, attributing his restraint to his overriding fear of Communism, determination to protect the institutional Church and to preserve Rome. Although Phayer's chapters on the Cold War provide no startling revelations or revisions, they bolster his contention that Pius XII's diplomatic policies and cautious approach during the Holocaust largely flowed from his obsession with the Communist threat.


An economic model for vendor selection is presented. There are two decision factors to be considered in the model: price and material quality. In developing the model, material quality is expressed in terms of monetary units, then combined with price to..


According to the construction of cable-stayed bridges and construction control,this article brings forward the second stretching method as the tensioning force-controlled method. First, the construction will be simulated with a computer in the light of the FEM method,then, the initial construction tensioning force will be calculated,and the maths model about the initial construction tensioning force and the internal force of the girder will be built. Finally, the tensioning force will be optimised in the light of the leash least-squares method.


To the Editor:— I should like to file a dissent to the opinions given by Dr. John G. Gruhn regarding embalming prior to autopsy (Questions and Answers, JAMA 189 :173 [July 13] 1964). With regard to trocaring, I will be more vigorous than Dr. Gruhn and state that no one in his right mind who has ever done an autopsy on a trocared body would permit another one to be so treated. This is not what the undertaker wants, however. He is quite content to do the vascular perfusion only and pack the body cavities with embalming compound after the autopsy has been done. Perfusing the body converts the autopsy from a semiemergency procedure to one that may be fitted into the day's schedule. This is of practical advantage in smaller communities where batteries of residents are not available to perform the autopsies, and it may be nearly imperative in


Review of The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier. By Benno Weiner. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. pp 312. $45.00.


|The performance of the Capon beamforming sharply decreases against strong directional and large deviation interference. In order to reduce the impact of the abnormal interference, this paper proposes a large degree of freedom null broadening beamforming for non-circular signals. The signal vector is (cid:12)rst extended by a uniform linear conjugate array. The covariance matrix of the array is then reconstructed by projection transformation and diagonal loading technique. Finally, the beamforming is constrained by the characteristic subspace of the guide vector matrix, and the analytic expression of the optimal weights of the method is derived. The numerical simulations demonstrate that the proposed null broadening method has the advantages of high degrees of freedom and strong parameter selection robustness.


This study presents empirical insight into organic and conventional cash crop farmers' perceptions of risk and risk management strategies, and identifies socio-economic variables linked to these perceptions. The data originate from a questionnaire survey of farmers in Norway. The results indicate that organic farmers perceived themselves to be less risk averse than conventional farmers. For both groups, crop prices and yield variability were the two top rated sources of risk, followed by institutional risks. The two groups evaluated risk management strategies quite similarly; favoured strategies were good liquidity and to prevent and reduce crop diseases and pests. The farmers' evaluation of sources of risk and choice of risk strategies depended on various socio-economic variables. The importance of institutional risks implies that policy makers should be cautious about changing policy capriciously and they should consider strategic policy initiatives that give farmers more long-term reliability.


This study aims to explore which position, which word order, which verb, or which tense writers have a tendency to choose in writing reporting clauses. Two registers were used here: news (newsmagazines and newspapers), and fiction. With regard to position and word order of reporting clauses in news and fiction, there is some mention of them in Biber et al. (1999:921-26). Intriguing and instructive as their argument is, still it leaves some doubt. And as to which verb or which tense writers have a tendency to choose in reporting clauses there seems to be no coherent study including Biber et al. With regard to position of reporting clauses, writers seem to have a tendency to put them in the following order: final position, medial position, and initial position. In final position in newsmagazines writers seem to prefer verb-subject order more frequently, while in newspapers they seem to prefer subject-verb order. In final position in fiction writers have a tendency to use subject-verb order rather than inversion. With respect to reporting verbs, writers tend to use say premoninantly. In respect to tenses in newsmagazines writers tend to choose the present tense more often, whereas in the newspapers they tend to choose the past tense more frequently. In fiction writers prefer to use the past tense overwhelmingly. Bull. Sch. Allied Med. Sci., Nagasaki Univ. 13: 27 33 1999


Objective To determine the affinities of 10 monoclonal antibodies specific for recombinant human tumor necrosis factor α and 5 monoclonal antibodies recognizing antigenic epitopes of TNF α. Methods By using biosensor the affinities were measured by means of kinetic analysis, and the antigenic epitopes were determined subsequently. Results It was shown that the affinity constants of the antibodies ranged from 10 5 to 10 7M 1 and the antigenic epitopes could be categorized into 3 groups. Conclusion The biosensor is a ideal and powerful tool to facilitate the kinetic analysis of interaction between antigen and antibody and for prediction of conformational distribution of antigenic epitopes.


The term croup refer to a group of conditions involving insammation of the upper airway that leads to a cough that sounds like a bark, difficulty breathing, and a grunting noise or inspiratory stridor during breathing. The most common characteristics of these ailments are upper airway obstruction. The obstruction level determines the degree of respiratory distress and rarely causes respiratory failure as well. Except for croup the other causes of acute upper airway obstruction in children are inhalated foreign bodies, retropharyngeal abscess, bacterial tracheitis and epiglottitis. Two cases presented to the emergency department with the diagnosis of croup syndrome. A 9 month old girl had an incremental stridor which was lasting for two months. She underwent rigid bronchoscopy with removal of an undefined foreign body organized at vocal cord level. The other case, a 19 month old boy, was admitted with cardiac arrest. On observation after a choking episode he ejected a piece of peanut spontaneously.


The aim of the study is to present an analytical model to predict the temperature profiles in thermal stratified environment. Thermal stratification is encountered in many situations. The flow of contaminants and hydrocarbons in environment often get stratified. The prediction of temperature profiles and flow characteristics are essential for HVAC applications, environment and energy management. The temperature profiles in the stratified region are successfully obtained, in terms of flow-operating functions. The analytical model agrees well with the published experimental data as well as the related closed-form solutions, which is helpful for HVAC applications. The model will be further developed and incorporated within a numerical model in order to investigate the flow field characteristics and establish correlations for a wide range of parameters.


Preface Introduction 1. From unicellular to multicellular organisation: the development of the social amoebae Dicyostelium discoideum C. Weijer 2. Selection and self-organisation of collective decision in social insects: trail, network and migration J. L. Deneubourg 3. The interplay of intracolonial genotype variance and self-organisation of dominance hierarchies in honeybees Crewe Moritz 4. Traffic rules of fish schools: a review of agent-based approaches J. K. Parrish and S. V. Viscido 5. A process-orientated approach to the social behaviour of primates C. K. Hemelrijk 6. Order and noise in primate societies B. Thierry 7. Self-organisation in language B. de Boer 8. Minority opinion spreading in democratic random debate S. Galam 9. Natural selection and complex systems: a complex interaction D. S. Wilson 10. Interlocking of self-organisation and evolution P. Hogeweg.


Here we report a computer study of mode conversion in thin‐film optical waveguides using gyrotropic YIG or anisotropic LiNbO3 as the substrate material. The computational results confirm that complete mode conversion from TE to TM or vice versa can be achieved if the mode converter is operated degenerately for both the TE and TM modes. Further, the length of the optical waveguide and the tolerances on the incident angle and film thickness indicate that the device is feasible.


Objective To learn about the epidemic status and the distribution of pathogenic dynamic changes of handfood-mouth disease in Hohhot City,find the epidemic characters of hand-food-mouth disease and the prevention and control program,in order to improve monitoring program.Methods 560 patients with hand-food-mouth disease were selected from 2011 to 2012 in Hohhot City,RNA of these patients were extracted and genotype were measured by Real-time PCR.Results The results showed that hand-food-mouth disease happened in all seasons,and the main genotypes of hand-food-mouth disease were EV71 and CA16.Hand-food-mouth disease happened mostly from April to July and most in children under 5 year old,especially from 2 to 5 years old.The incidence of male children was little higher than that of female children.The main genotype of hand-food-mouth disease in severe cases was EV71.Conclusion Hand-food-mouth disease happens with different incidence in different seasons.The main genotypes of handfood-mouth disease are EV71 and CA16.High-incidence season of hand-food-mouth disease is summer.The prevention and control program of hand-food-mouth disease should be made in all preschools of the city,and the EV71 genotype of hand-food-mouth disease should be carefully monitored and intensively protected.


The reduction of energy consumption is one of major challenges of the present MRAM development. The recording mechanisms of the Spin Torque (ST) MRAM and the Spin-Orbit Torque (SOT) MRAM are based on the spin injection between the "pin" to "free" layer of a MRAM cell. A possible reduction of the MRAM recording power is limited by a minimum amount of the injected spin-polarized electrons, which is necessary to create a sufficient ST or SOT torque in order to reverse the magnetization of the "free" layer. This fundamental limitation is difficult to avoid. The reduction of the volume of the "free" layer is only a feasible method for the reduction of the MRAM recorded power.


The dynamic stability behavior of a typical pilot-operated relief valve has been investigated both numerically and experimentally. The valve piston equation of motion has been solved in connection with the conservation equations of the oscillating flow in the attached riser. The boundary condition at the riser tip is of a choked flow type and had to be given special attention in oscillatory flows. Pertinent quasi-steady flow equations have been formulated to describe the different phases of relief along the piston lift. A model describing the process of pressure relief is described briefly, followed by a parametric study of the effects of various factors on the oscillation levels and characters. Field measurements were taken on an NPS 8 pilot-operated dual-outlet relief valve mounted on a riser assembly of L/D = 15 in a natural gas compressor station.


A suitability assessment instrument for software developers was created using a psychometric criteria that identify the impact of behavior on the performance of software engineers. The instrument uses a questionnaire to help both individuals and IT recruiters to identify the psychological factors that affect the working performance of software engineers. Our study identifies the relationship between the behavioral drivers and the programming abilities of the subjects. In order to evaluate the instrument, a total of 100 respondents were compared on the basis of their programming skills and nine behavioral drivers. It was concluded that there is a direct relationship between certain human qualities, such as "Attention to Detail," and the programming style of the students, while the "Locus of Control" factor was observed to have a negative correlation with performance in programming.


Objective To evaluate the running status of the measles surveillance system( MSS) of China( excluding Hong Kong special administrative region,Macao special administrative region,and Taiwan region) during 2012-2014. Methods Case based measles surveillance data were reported by 31 provinces( municipalities,autonomous regions) through MSS during 2012-2014; we analyzed performance indicators of MSS. Results In 2012,a total of 37,635 suspected measles cases were reported through MSS,of which6,183 were classified as measles cases( 98. 5% of these were laboratory confirmed),and 31,452 were discarded. A total of 78,387 suspected measles cases were reported in 2013; 27,646 were classified as measles cases( 96. 3% laboratory confirmed),and 50,741 were discarded. In 2014,127,522 suspected measles cases were reported,of which 52,628 were classified as measles cases( 91. 8% laboratory confirmed),and 74,894 were discarded. The reported incidence of discarded measles case was 2. 34 per 100,000 population in 2012,3. 74 per 100,000 population in 2013,and 4. 34 per 100,000 population in 2014( 24 provinces exceeded 2. 0 per 100,000 population). The percentages of suspected measles cases investigated within 48 hours of being reported were 98. 3%,98. 5%,and 98. 3% during 2012 through 2014,respectively,and all provinces exceeded 80% in2014. The percentages of serum specimens with laboratory results reported within 7 days of collectionwere 97. 1%,97. 5%,and 95. 3%( 29 provinces exceeded 80% in 2014). Percentages of suspected measles cases with adequate serum specimens were 97. 3%,97. 5%,and 96. 5% during 2012 through 2014,and 30 provinces exceeded 80% in 2014. The percentage of outbreaks that were laboratory-confirmed was maintained 90%,and the percentage of outbreaks with specimens collected for virus detection increased from 36. 4% to 78. 3%. Conclusions Measles surveillance data showed that MSS is performing well in China. All performance indicators havebeen increasing since 2009,meeting the criteria of national measles surveillance guideline. However,additional efforts are needed in some provinces to enhance quality of their MSS and maintain all performance indicators at levels to meet the requirements of measles elimination.


The importance of competitive priorities and competitive
advantage has been emphasized in the strategic management
literature. Furthermore, the literature review suggests
relationships exist between competitive priorities and competitive advantage in business organizations.However, the review of past studies indicate that limited research attempts have been made to investigate the relationships between competitive priorities and competitive advantage among business organizations, particularly among real estate firms.This study attempted to address this research issue by examining competitive priorities and competitive advantage among real estate firms in Dubai.The data for the study was collected by using structured questionnaires mailed to 30 managers who worked in six real estate firms in Dubai.The results of the analyses of the data collected in the study indicated that the firms in the study emphasized competitive priorities that included flexibility, cost, quality and delivery.In addition, the results of the study showed that quality, cost and delivery are positively related to competitive advantage.


Diallenylboranes as Starting Molecules for Boron Heterocycles

The reaction of allenyllithium with chloro(dialkylamino)bornanes leads to the diallenylboranes 1, 2a, 3a, b, and 4 in 58–80% yield. Attempts to obtain the B-tert-butyl derivative 2b resulted in the formation of the unusual bicyclo compound 9. Heating of 1 in toluene gives the intermediate borole derivative 5, which dimerises to the Diels-Alder product 5′. Reaction of 1 with (C5H5)Co(C2H4)2 leads to the cobalt-borole complex 6. No 1,5-H shift occurs on heating 2a and 3, respectively. Heating of 4 in mesitylene yields the dibora tricyclus 7, which undergoes a photochemical 1,5-H shift to 8. Single crystal X-ray structure determinations of 7, 8, and the complex 6 confirm their constitutions.


The country's premier sports prognosticator delivers all the information any fantasy- or rotisserie-league player needs for Draft Day. Along with performance forecasts, Sheridan includes comprehensive 1993 year-end stats for all the players on all 28 teams in both leagues and examines each club.


Mechanism for smoothing the outer surface of structure with the sliding door comprises a sliding door body which has an opening at a position corresponding to a doorway of the structure when the doorway is closed by the sliding door. An outer wall member which has an outer surface of a size and shape nearly equal to those of the doorway, and is retractably fitted to the opening of the sliding door body. An outer wall member has moving device which is mounted on sliding door body and which so works that the outer wall member is protruded until it comes in flush with the surface of the structure or that the outer wall member is retracted into the sliding door body. The sliding door is comprised of a sliding door body, an outer wall member, and an outer wall member device which is mounted on the sliding door body such that the outer wall member is protruded or retracted relative to the sliding door body. When the sliding door is closed, the outer.


The utility model discloses an internal dust exhaust device of a jaw crusher. An feeding hole of the jaw crusher is sealed by a soft curtain, a movable cover plate is arranged at the upper part of the jaw crusher, a discharge hole chute of the jaw crusher is sealed by a soft curtain, and a dust collection point is positioned at a breaking dust production point of the jaw crusher and is formed in a manner that a dust exhaust cover is arranged between the discharge hole chute and the soft curtain and is connected with a dedusting system through a dust gas pipe. A dust exhaust method of the jaw crusher provided by the utility model can be used for exhausting dust efficiently, is high in airtightness, requires a small amount of negative pressure and small air volume, and facilitates maintenance and operation of the crusher. The device for implementing the internal dust exhaust method is simple in structure and reliable in performance.


According to the analysis of common faults in DEH system,causes and usual methods to solve them are proposed.DEH system in XingnengGeneration Co.,Ltd is taken as an example to put forward the treatment methods to help the repairer use and maintain DEH system exactly.


Linear and nonlinear low-frequency modes in a magnetized electron plasma are studied, taking into account a proper description of the equilibrium plasma state that is inhomogeneous. Assuming a homogeneous magnetic field and sheared plasma flows, flute-like perturbations are studied in the presence of density and potential gradients. Linear analysis reveals the presence of a streaming instability and depicts conditions for global linear spiral mode. In the nonlinear domain, a tripolar vortex, which is driven and carried by the flow, is found. Also investigated are the consequences of a magnetic shear as well as nonuniformities along the magnetic field lines, which are shown to be responsible for the possible annulment of the magnetic shear effects. Streaming along the lines of the sheared magnetic field is also studied. A variety of nonlinear structures (viz. global multipolar vortices, local vortex chains, and tripolar vortices) is shown to be the consequence of the simultaneous action of the parallel and perpendicular flows.


: Introduction : Neglected diseases (NTDs) are a diverse group of preventable and treatable infectious and endemic diseases that affect 1.5 million people in 149 countries. African, Asian and Latin American populations are the most affected, taking into account the conditions of poverty experienced by them, the lack of access to basic sanitation and the close contact they maintain with different vectors, domestic animals, and livestock cultures, being that 40% live in Africa. Together, these diseases cause between 500,000 and 1 million deaths annually. Among other neglected diseases in Angola, the main ones mapped and considered endemic are: onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis and trypanosomiasis. Objective: To analyze the reality of neglected diseases in Angola. Methodology: This is a narrative literature review study, essentially focused on resolutions and decrees, which address the related theme, published by the Angolan government and partners. Partial results: The country has been presenting progress in the coverage of people with needs for mass NTD treatment, based on percentage rates ranging from 1 to 50%. Conclusion: In Angola, the scope of coverage for the reduction of schistosomiasis is due to the implementation of preventive chemotherapy. The country still has the challenge of continuing to work to simultaneously improve the rates of lymphatic filariasis and soil-transmitted helminths, starting treatment with albendazole in areas recognized as endemic, requiring financial allocation as one of the assumptions for the materialization of the policy disease reduction. eliminate the vector and diseases in the population to avoid the chain of transmission.


The purpose of this study is to investigate the perception of Korean primary school students on the vocabulary of their English textbook. It also...


The paper analyzes the necessity of case teaching in political class from the connotation of case teaching and it puts forward the rules that case teaching should follow in the teaching of politics.


: Improving Work Engagement Through Compensatory Satisfaction and Psychological Well-Being. Objecticves: This study aims to identify the effect of compensation and psychological well-being on work engagement for private elementary school teachers during the pandemic. Methods: This study employed a quantitative approach with multiple linear regression analysis. The data retrieval technique used a Instrument developed from the utrech work engagement scale, a ryff psychological well-being scale and a compensation scale. Sample selection was done by using purposive cluster sampling technique. Research sampel is 408 teachers of private elementary schools in Karawang Regency. Findings: The results of this study confirm that: (1) Compensation had a significant effect on teachers work engagement, (2) Psychological well-being had a significant effect on teachers work engagement, and (3) Compensation and psychological well-being simultaneously affected teachers work engagement by 50.6%. Conclusions: It is concluded that work engagement is influenced by compensation and psychological well-being. Therefore, these two variables need to be considered in increasing teacher


We have developed the compact IGBT model HiSIM-IGBT, based on a complete solution for the potential distribution, which connects the surface-potential of the MOS-FET part to the bipolar part by an iterative procedure in a self-consistent way. Here we report the self-heating extension of HiSIM-IGBT, a compact model for power diode including the reverse recovery effect and the model application to accurate prediction of experimental switching characteristics.


In this study, the most widely accepted threat modeling process, that has been proposed by Microsoft, is used to identify all possible threats to telehealth systems. Security threats to a telehealth trial system at the Center for eHealth and Healthcare Technology, University of Agder, are analyzed and discussed. Moreover, a list of countermeasures is suggested to better design and implement system protection solutions against telehealth insider threats.


This chapter examines "suspect saints," who emerged when either the pope or papal agents publicly suspected a local holy person of heresy. The individual was the focus of a cult that popes undoubtedly preferred to discontinue, but a lack of evidence meant inquisitors could not condemn their veneration. Just as communities questioned the efficacy of using the inquisitio to judge the worth of candidates to sainthood, so too did they challenge its usefulness to determine heretics. Examples such as Peter Crisci of Foligno, Tommasuccio of Nocera, Meco del Sacco (d. circa 1346), and Armanno Pungilupo demonstrate how the construction of sanctity became contested after inquisitors took on the role of papal disciplinarians, due in part to diverging standards regarding how and by whom heresy, no less than holiness, should be judged. The result was competing ideas regarding the spiritual worth of these saints. Inquisitors questioned Peter Crisci, incarcerated Tommasuccio, and condemned Meco and Armanno, both of whom went through an appeal process. Inquisitors failed to secure lasting condemnations for all of these saints, except Armanno Pungilupo. The problems inherent in the system of discerning heresy allowed the continued existence of their cults.


The immobilization of trypsin onto various commercial silica gels was studied. Silica gels were used directly and characterized by mercuric porosimetry. Agitation rates (100–740 rpm) and particles size (35–75 to 250–500 μm) of silica gels did not affect the trypsin immobilization capacity. The pore size (3 to 15 nm) is a limiting factor of the trypsin adsorption onto the mesopores structure of silica gels. The adsorption of trypsin was determined as a function of their initial concentration and multilayer formed at high trypsin concentration.


This paper develops an optimal control method to regulate the grid current of a grid-connected inverter with an LCL filter. The developed method follows linear output regulation theory which is able to achieve asymptotic tracking and disturbance rejection. Both state-feedback and dynamic output-feedback trackers are designed. The suboptimality of the system in closed-loop with the designed controller is rigorously analyzed. Finally, simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.


Rhopilema hispidum offal was selected to prepare angiotens in converting enzyme inhibitors by enzymatic hydrolysis.And the ACE inhibitory activity analysis method was improved,the combined effects on ACE inhibitory activity production were studied using response surface methodology in this paper.The parameters were enzyme dosage,liquid-solid ratio and reaction time.The following regression equation was obtained:Y=65.404-2.486X3+1.7X2X3-7.657X21-4.577X22-1.785X23.The optimal parameters were enzyme dosage 0.92%,liquid-solid ratio 1.95:1,reaction time 0.95h.Under the optimized conditions,the ACE inhibitory activity of the enzymatic hydrolyzate was 66.8%


A pictorial review traces the development of the dental drill and handpiece. Included are hand-crank devices, foot-powered dental engines, and battery-operated drills.


A dual‐band single‐layer circularly polarized reflectarray composed by elements with variable rotation angles is presented in this article. Orthogonal dipole elements etched on the substrate are designed to operate at 10 and 13.5 GHz, respectively. By introduction of element rotation technique, the proposed reflectarray has a good isolation between the two operating bands and obtains excellent performance of circular polarization compared with the conventional design. All the simulated and measured results demonstrate the advantages of the proposed reflectarray. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE 25:39–47, 2015.


The required complexity of coherent technology has always been a show-stopper in optical access networks. Here, the recent compelling research activities in low-complexity coherent PONs are reviewed, and their feasibility for 50 Gb/s/λ is investigated.


Starting from the idea that in Spanish the distribution of the accusative a is determined by syntactic and semantic factors, in this paper we will assign this functional element a structural position and we will propose that a direct object can lack a only when it is not [+animate] or when it receives partitive Case. We will show that the reason why some [+animate] direct objects must, other s can and still others cannot be preceded by a is not determined by specificity, äs has been assumed, but rather by the twofollowing assumptions: (a) an empty D° is subject to the Empty Category Principle; and (b) in Spanish, existential direct objects, äs opposed to non-existential ones, can receive either accusative or partitive Case: partitive Case, in contrast to accusative Case, is only compatible with existential nominal expressions. Previous versions of this paper were presented at the First Workshop on Spanish Grammar (University of Venice, May 1993), at the XX° Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (University of Padua, February 1994) and at the Cuarto Coloquio de Gramatica Generativa (University of Tarragona, March 1994). We are indebted to the audience of these Conferences for their helpful and constructive comments, and in particular to Guglielmo Cinque, Violeta Demonte, Giuseppe Longobardi and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta. We are also grateful to the anonymous reviewer of Probus, Anna Cardinaletti, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, M. Victoria Escandell, Manuel Leonetti, Luis Lopez, Ljiljana Progovac and especially to Luis Garcia, Giuliana Giusti, Roberto Dolci and Alberto Zamboni, who provided us with relevant pieces of bibliographical material of historical and typological interest. Finally, special thanks to Ignacio Bosque and Luis Säez for the patience and the valid suggestions they made during B rüge's stay in Madrid. However, responsibility for any errors or misunderstandings is ours and ours alone. Probus 8 (1996), l -51 0921 -4471/96/008001 © Walter de Gruyter 2 L. Bruge and G. Brugger


Objective To discuss the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of spinal hemangioblastoma. Methods One large conus medullaris hemangioblastoma was reported, and the related literature was reviewed. Results Spinal Hemangioblastomas are rare vascular tumors, which can occur as sporadic or as component tumor of yon Hippel - Lindau disease. MRI and DSA can help to diagnose the spinal Hemangioblastoma that can be totally resected by micro - neurosurgery. Conclusion The total microsurgical resection of the tumor is the best treatment and can attain good prognosis.

Key words:
Spinal;  Conus Medullaris;  Hemangioblastoma;  Treatment


Two novel compounds, K2Cu3(SO4)4 and KNaCu(SO4)2, were synthesized. The crystal structure of K2Cu3(SO4)4 is based on a [Cu3(SO4)4]2− framework with relatively simple bond topology, but with four different CuO
 n
 polyhedron geometries. The K+ cations reside in the pores of the framework. The [Cu(SO4)2]2− framework in KNaCu(SO4)2 encloses large elliptical channels running along [001]. Larger channels are occupied by K+, whereas smaller ones are filled by Na+. The bond-valence energy landscape (BVEL) approach has been demonstrated to be a useful method for the prediction of the mobility of alkali metal ions in various structures. By means of this approach, the threshold energies at which isosurfaces begin to percolate as well as the directions of possible ion migration in the structures were determined. The modelling of ion migration maps by the analysis of the procrystal electron-density distribution was used to rapidly identify ion migration pathways and limiting barriers between particular crystallographic sites in the structures under consideration. Its consistency and complementarity with the BVEL method have been demonstrated. Both approaches revealed a relatively low ion threshold percolation and migration barriers in the cryptochalcite-type structures [cryptochalcite: K2Cu5O(SO4)5]. Hence, one may assume that its 3D framework type is suited for ion transport applications. The review of all known members of the groups of anhydrous copper sulfates did not reveal a correlation between the porosity of the framework structures and a manifestation of ion conduction properties.


Anxiety disorder is a psychological disorder and associated with stress, tension, fear and threat about future. The pathophysiology of anxiety disorder is not fully understood and hence improper diagnosis leads to increase morbidity and mortality rates. The drugs used for the treatment of anxiety having certain limitation in their use because of their side effects such as sedation, drug dependence, habituation, central complexity and drug withdrawal symptoms. Hence the interest in searching alternative remedies for treatment of anxiety is greatly increased. The interest in area of modification of a drug increases so as to reduce side effects of the drug. Another interesting area is the natural source to find out medicinal plant having anxiolytic activity.


Laurel wilt disease, resulting from the invasive species of ambrosia beetle Xyleborus glabratus and its fungal partner Raffaelea lauricola, has resulted in the death of 300-500 million laurel trees since its arrival to the USA in 2002. First detected in Savannah, Georgia, the beetle species was routinely found associated with wild redbay trees afflicted by a systemic wilt disease, thus the beetle was given the common name, the redbay ambrosia beetle. Since then the beetle has spread throughout the state of Florida and the disease can infect all species in the family Lauraceae. One such tree is the commercially important avocado tree, the second largest tree crop in Florida other than citrus. This disease has been devastating the industry locally and larger avocado industries in Mexico and California have taken notice. The major problem with this disease is the rate at which it kills trees and the lack of viable treatments to save them. Trees succumb to the disease in as little as four weeks. Once symptoms are visually detected, is too late to treat or save that tree and the phytopathogen has already spread to adjacent trees via root grafting. Currently there is no viable, cost effective method of early diagnosis and treatment. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the use of


The Galerkin Finite-Element Method using bilinear basis functions (in two dimensions) offers many advantages in the numerical treatment of flow through porous media. A significant disadvantage of this approach, however, is the lack of an explicit discrete requirement of conservation of mass on mesh cells. While this shortcoming is a concern in the case of single-phase flows, it is critical in the case of multi-phase flows, where lack of conservation may lead to inaccurate or non-physical simulations. Here, we extend the approach of Cordes and Kinzelbach [1992] for computing continuous velocity fields based on finite-element solution data to the important cases of heterogeneous media, non-zero recharge, and non-homogeneous boundary conditions. We introduce a new technique, which solves a problem similar to that in Cordes and Kinzelbach [1992], but using a local mixed finite element basis. Finally, we compare the two approaches and give numerical results that demonstrate the usefulness of the improved velocity fields.


SUMMARY Inappropriate expression ofHLA Class II(D/DR)molecules hasbeendetected inthe target cells ofmostautoimmune diseases including TypeI(insulin-dependent) diabetes. Thepossibility that this phenomenon isduetotheaction oflymphocytes orsomeoftheir products hasbeeninvestigated byanalysing invitro themodulation ofHLAproducts in Betacells. Monolayer cultures from25humanpancreatic glands weresupplemented with a-interferon (IFN), fl-IFN ory-IFN, interleukin 2(IL-2) andsupernatants fromactivated lymphocytes. Inaddition, lectins andavariety ofother hormones, biological products and chemicals weretested. Majorhistocompatibility complex (MHC)expression wasassessed bydouble immunofluorescence technique using monoclonal antibodies tonon-polymorphic determinants ofClass IandClass IImolecules andthepancreatic cells wereidentified byantibodies toislet hormones andother cytoplasmic antigens. y-IFNandlectins produced aparallel enhancement ofHLA-A,B,C expression inislet, exocrine/ductal cells andfibroblasts. HLA-D/DRwasinducible inallpancreatic cell types, except endocrine islet cells whichdidnotproduce Class IImolecules inresponse toanyofthestimuli including supernatants fromactivated lymphocytes. Exocrine/ductal cells fromglands of patients withchronic pancreatitis spontaneously expressed Class IIproducts, butislet cells weredevoid ofanydetectable D/DR.Thesedataareconsistent withrecent observations whichhaveindicated that inthe'diabetic' pancreas inappropriate Class II expression intheBetacells occursindependently ofthepresence oflymphocytes infiltrating theislets, andmakeitnecessary topostulate that other factors areresponsible fortheClass IIinduction inBetacells inhumanTypeIdiabetes.


Snow cover in a mountain area is a physical parameter that induces quite rapid changes in the landscape, from a geomorphological point of view. In particular, snowmelt plays a crucial role in the assessment of avalanche risk, so it is essential to know the days when snowmelt is expected, in order to prepare operational alert levels. Moreover, melting of the snow cover has a direct effect on the recharge of the water table, as well as on the regulation of the vegetative cycle of mountain plants. Therefore, a study on snowmelt, its persistence on the ground, and the height of the snow cover in the Umbria-Marche Apennines in central Italy is of great interest, since this is an area that is extremely poorly sampled and analysed. This study was conducted on the basis of four mountain weather stations equipped with a recently installed sonar-based snow depth gauge, so that a relatively short period, 2010–2020, was evaluated. A trend analysis revealed non-significant decreases in snow cover height and snow persistence time, in contrast to the significant increasing trend of mean temperature, while parameters such as relative humidity and wind speed did not appear to have a dominant trend. Further analysis showed relationships between snowmelt and the climatic parameters considered, leading to the definition of a mathematical model developed using the binary logistic regression technique, and having a predictive power of 82.6% in the case of days with snowmelt on the ground. The aim of this study was to be a first step towards models aimed at preventing avalanche risk, hydrological risk, and plant species adaptation, as well as providing a more complete definition of the climate of the study area.


The study presented in this research is an attempt to investigate the concept attainment in mathematics ofsenior secondary students in relation to gender, locality, extra coaching, type of schools, siblings'education and working parents. A sample was selected of 200 students of 12th class from seven schools ofMeerut district. Simple random sampling technique was used for the selection of schools. Results showedthat senior secondary students had an average level of concept attainment in mathematics. Also, it hasbeen observed that there was significant difference exist in mathematical concept attainment of seniorsecondary students in relation to the locality, extra coaching, type of schools and working parents whilein respect of gender and siblings' education there was no significant difference on their mathematicalconcept attainment. Rural students scored higher than urban students on mathematical conceptattainment. Students of government schools have high concept attainment as compare to the students ofprivate schools.


Based on the sentiment analysis of commodity evaluation text, a self-updating iterative algorithm is proposed to solve the problem of the mismatch between commodity evaluation and scoring, and the experiment proves that the algorithm is simple and efficient, and the accuracy of commodity evaluation can reach more than 99.17%.


As a result of the expansive information set size of highresolution image data, most desktop workstations do not have sufficient configurable scheduling to perform image processing assignments in a convenient manner due to which the image processing tasks are meant to be divided into straight forward assignments. The processing power of any regular computing machine in this way becomes a severe bottleneck with respect to high execution time and low throughput. Many image processing tasks exhibit a high level of information region and parallelism and map quite readily to a parallel computing system. This paper shows an alternative to sequential image processing by introducing MapReduce technique to segment multiple images with the help of Hadoop framework. The evaluation of the proposed scheduling algorithm is done by implementing parallel image segmentation algorithm to detect lung tumor for up to 1 GB size of CT image dataset. The results have shown improved performance with parallel image segmentation when compared to sequential image segmentation method particularly when data capacity reaches a particular threshold. This is because the process of parallel image processing has been able to exploit the multi-cores thread level parallelism which ultimately gave the CPU usage with octacores up to 96%, hence reducing the task execution time up to approximately 1.6 times compared with the sequential style of image segmentation using Map-Reduce algorithm implemented with FIFO scheduler. The proposed parallel image segmentation design has shown to be useful for researchers at performing bulk image segmentation in parallel, which can save tremendous execution time. Keywords— Hadoop, Execution Time, Task parallelism, Parallel Image Segmentation, Map, Reduce.


Borates are well-known candidates for optical materials and, here, we are particularly interested in Ba6Bi9B79O138 (BBBO), which has an interesting layered-type structure and Bi3+-containing characteristics that has prompt us to explore its host-sensitized photoluminescence (PL). Solid solutions of BBBO:xTb3+ (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) were prepared and its host-sensitized photoluminescence was confirmed, which is a result of the efficient Bi3+-to-Tb3+ energy transfer. Furthermore, an evolution of the coordination environments of the Bi3+/Tb3+ sites was observed when increasing x. This evolution was found to correlate to the variation of the PL spectra. In particular, the value of the ratio of cyan/green [defined as I(5D47F6)/I(5D47F5) of Tb3+] was about 0.28 when x < 0.4, and it increased to 0.71 at x = 0.9 and thereafter remained almost constant. Ba6(RE0.3–yBiyTb0.7)9B79O138 (RE = La or Y, 0 ≤ y ≤ 0.3) were also prepared for better understanding of the host-sensitization effect and in both series, Ba6(RE0.1Bi0.2Tb0.7)9B79O138 show the highest emission.


The use of the compressional hydromagnetic (fast wave) mode is examined with respect to heating a minority helium-3 species in a fully catalyzed deuterium tokamak. In this paper we develop a rapid solution to analyze the two dimensional, steady state Fokker-Planck equation, with quasilinear ICRF heating terms. This finite element solution for the minority helium-3 distribution function develops a high, anisotropic in the perpendicular velocity direction, energy tail as a result of ICRH. The rapidity of this method of solution makes it possible to conduct parametric studies which are not possible with other codes.


Knowledge and wisdom is the foundation as well the chief lookouts in any branch of study. In Ayurveda, four types of Pramana accomplish to ascertain known and unknown phenomena in both human and universe. Of them, methodology of inference viz. Anumana-Pramana is fundamental to diagnosis and research owing to its comprehensive design involving observations, analysis, rationale and consideration of established facts.
Drawing references from Bruhat-Trayi and Laghu-Trayi, the paper discusses significance of Anumana-Pramana in interpreting subtle phenomenon like functioning of Tridosha in health and disease, role of unseen karmic effects on disease-occurence and palliation, concept of rebirth etc to applied concepts like physiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, prognosis and selection of treatment. In this regard the paper also discusses extension of this methodology in the diagnosis and treatment of unknown diseases.
An extended scope of its application in scientific research is also explored by designing a research tool with Anumana Pramana as a methodology, Karya-Karana Siddhanta as an analytical tool and features of Dashavidha-Parikshya-Bhavaas a research protocol. The tool can serve to reconstitute research ideologies through the technique and technicalities of Ayurveda hence expanding the sphere of operation of the methodology's current frame.


In this well-received address, Sabin reflects on the changing mission of medical schools, and argues that they should train
 not only practicing physicians, but professional workers in experimental medicine.


Having studied the feature of architecture enterprise material management and MRP system,and analyzed the possibility and necessity of adopting MRP management in architecture enterprise,we suggest a architecture enterprise material management model based on MRP model,and implement it with Visual Basic 6.0 and SQL Server 7.0 in Client/Server mode.


338Background: Postgastrectomy vitamin B12 deficiency is common metabolic sequel and worsens the quality of life of gastric cancer survivors. Recently, oral vitamin B12 replacement is reported. The...


An analytic solution of a plane electromagnetic wave scattering by coated and impedance prolate spheroidal bodies is obtained, for axial incidence, by expanding the incident and scattered fields in terms of prolate spheroidal vector wave functions. The unknown expansion coefficients are determined by a doubly infinite system of equations derived using the impedance boundary condition, which relates the tangential components of the electric field to those of the magnetic field through an effective surface impedance of the coating. To solve for the unknown coefficients, the system of equations is truncated by retaining only the first N equations in N unknowns, where N depends on the size of the body and the desired accuracy. Numerical results for the scattering cross section are presented to show the effect of different coatings on the magnitude of the scattered field.


To investigate the feasibility of image colour information in predicting the moisture content of dried Hami jujube, the images were obtained under different colour space models, and the colour model component mean and chromaticity frequency sequences of R, G, B, H, S, V, L*, a* and b* were extracted through image analysis. After optimising the colour model component mean and chromaticity frequency sequence, the model was established and compared. The results showed that the GA-ELM (genetic algorithm - extreme learning machine) model established by CARS (competitive adaptive reweighted sampling) method to optimise 12 chromaticity features of S chromaticity frequency sequence had the best prediction effect, with Rc of 0.917, Rp of 0.934 and residual predictive deviation (RPD) of 2.507. Therefore, the colour image information can accurately predict the moisture content of dried Hami jujube.


Abstract : This paper provides a descriptive account of combat casualties among Navy enlisted personnel in Vietnam between 1965 and 1972. The Enlisted Medical History File was searched for all hospital admissions which were identified as a battle-related wound or injury. The records of 2,636 sailors who were wounded or injured in Vietnam were identified. These individuals accounted for 7,419 battle-related first hospitalizations with one ore more diagnoses of accidents, poisonings, and violence. Most of the wounded sailors were young (under the age of 25), and almost one half were medical corpsmen. Rockets and bombs, mortars and bazookas, shell fragments, mines and booby traps, and bullets accounted for over 80% of the wounds and injuries. Most casualties were treated at a Naval hospital, hospital ship, or the Naval Support Activity at Da Nang. More than half of these admissions were direct from the battlefield while the remainder were transfers from other medical facilities. The mortality rate of wounded patients was much lower than has been reported for Army and Marine Corps casualties in Vietnam or casualties in previous conflicts.


To improve the performance of the sonar system mounted on the underwater unmanned platform, the beam control method of the compact underwater acoustic transmitting transducer array is studied. For a transmitting array composed of close-packed transducers, many factors can affect the control of the transmitting directivity, such as the position deviation and performance difference of each array element, acoustic scattering, occlusion effect, the mutual coupling among array elements, and so on. To solve this problem, we derive the transmitting steering vector, propose the global optimization method to design the transmitting beam patterns of the compact array, and solve it via second-order cone programming. Then we investigate, by finite-element modeling, the beam control method of a compact linear array. Finally, we manufacture a linear array of eight close-packed ring transducers, use the global optimization method to design the driving-voltage weighting vector, and carry out the experimental verification in an anechoic water tank. The experimental results show that compared with the conventional delay-and-sum (DAS) beamforming method, the proposed method can control the transmitting directivity effectively, suppress the sidelobe significantly, and thus optimize the transmitting beam patterns.


D-glucaric acid is an important bio-based building block of polymers and is a high value-added chemical that can be used in a variety of applications. In the present study, the Udh target genes from Pseudomonas putida and Pseudomonas syringae were used together to construct the expression vector pETDuet-2 × Udh. The transformants of BL21 (DE3) with vector pETDuet-2 × Udh were applied to produce glucaric acid from glucuronic acid. After optimizing the induction conditions, the highest Udh expression was achieved when 0.4 mmol·L−1 isopropyl-β-d–thiogalactoside (IPTG) was added to the cell cultures at an OD600 value of 0.6 followed by culturing at 26 °C for 6 h. The production of glucaric acid substantially reached 5.24 ± 0.015 g·L−1 in fed-batch cultures in a 30 L tank. In the present study, a new system for glucaric acid production was established, which was more economic and friendly to the environment.


We investigate the class of models of a general dependent theory. We continue math.LO/0702292 in particular investigating so called "decomposition of types"; thesis is that what holds for stable theory and for Th(Q, 2^{|T|} then is indiscernible for some stationary S subseteq kappa. Third, for stable T,a model is kappa-saturated iff it is aleph_epsilon-saturated and every infinite indiscernible set (of elements) of cardinality < kappa can be increased. We prove here an analog. Fourth, for p in S(M), the number of ultrafilters on the outside definable subsets of M extending p has an absolute bound 2^{|T|} . Restricting ourselves to one phi(x, y), the number is finite, with an absolute found (well depending on T and phi).


Cross-plied unidirectional Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene( UHMWPE) sheets is the main material for the production of soft body armor. At first,the tensile behavior,in-plane shear behavior and punchshear behavior of UHMWPE sheets under quasi-static loading were studied using experimental method. The experimental show a sudden brittle fracture occurred in the quasi-static tension process,the tensile strength is about 641MPa. A highly non-linear behavior of force-displacement curve was observed during in-plane shear process, plastic hardening occurred in the direction of the tension force and matrix shear failure is the main failure mode. After failure,the angel between fibers in adjacent plies has reduced from 90° to 74°. The through-thickness shear strength is about 168MPa,which was obtained using a set of special clamp. Then shell elements were adopted to establish the finite element model for studying the tensile experiment and punch-shear experiment process numerically. The numerical results are in good agreement with the tensile experiment results in maximum tensile force,tensile strength and failure strain,and the stress contours in the UHMWPE sheets were also obtained; The stress history of elements in the shear failure area were captured using numerical method.


Monohalogen benzenes, when fed, are excreted in the urine of adult dogs, 1 cats, 2 rats, 3 and rabbits, 4 partly as ethereal sulfates, partly as mercapturic acids. Hele, 5 in an attempt to compare the synthesis of mercapturic acid in dogs and pigs, has come to the conclusion that the pig does not synthesize mercapturic acid readily. Hele 5 used young growing pigs as experimental animals in comparing the metabolism of bromobenzene in pigs to that in the adult dog. Inasmuch as Abderhalden 6 believes that the synthesis of mercapturic acid is limited in the animal body by the need of that animal for sulfur for reactions more essential than the detoxication of bromobenzene, it seemed probable that the limitation of synthesis of mercapturic acid in the pig as found by Hele 5 was due to the fact that he employed young growing pigs instead of the adult animal. White and Jackson 7 have adduced evidence which seems to indicate that bromobenzene, when fed to growing rats, affects the utilization by the animals of cystine necessary for normal growth. These workers have not, however, demonstrated that mercapturic acid was actually synthesized by the growing rat. As far as we know, the metabolism of bromobenzene in the growing dog or growing white mouse has not been studied previously. Pending the development of the method for the estimation of mercapturic acids in the urine, now in progress, we used the changes in the partition of urinary sulfur produced by bromobenzene feeding to animals, and the isolation of mercapturic acid from the urine as the criterion of the synthesis of mercapturic acid by the growing dog and mouse, while maintained on adequate diets. 8


The effect of use and mineral supply on the botanical composition and yield of per manent grassland was studied for more than 20 years. The experiment consisted of heavily fertilized hay plots (0, P, K, PK, NPK, Ca) and poorly fertilized pasture plots (0, PK, NPK, Ca). Dry matter production was estimated yearly, and at regular intervals the botanical composition and soil fertility were analysed. The unmanured pasture plots changed the least. On some plots great changes have occurred, which are interesting with a view to ecological indicator values and population dynamics. Moreover, some data are discussed on the uptake of minerals by the crop in dif ferent treatments.


Objective:To study clinical value of Laparoscopic treatment of chronic salpingitis.Methods:In 68 patients with chronic salpingitis and with requirement of fertility were divided into 32 cases of mild lesions,20 cases of moderate lesions,16 cases of severe lesions.Use of laparoscopic surgery,combined with clinical observation of prognosis,assessed the effectiveness of treatment.Results:The situation of abdominal pain was relieved: mild,moderate lesion group were better than severe lesion group,the difference was significant;the situation of pregnancy after surgery: mild lesion group was better than moderate,severe lesion group,P0.05,the difference was significant.Moderate and severe lesions had not normal pregnancy.Conclusion:Laparoscopic surgery can effectively relieve pain symptoms,however,functional recovery was below the mark,in particular the extent of tubal disease heavier patients.