Freelance ethnomusicologist Maria Teresa Velez has written a compelling account of the diverse experiences of Afro-Cuban master drummer Felipe Garcia Villamil. Born in 1931, Garcia Villamil is well-versed in the music and religious practices of Cuba's three main African-based religious traditionsSanteria, Palo Monte, and Abakua, Like Francisco Aguabella, in Santeria Garcia Villamil represents the rarely heard Matanzas drumming tradition, rhythmically distinct from the ubiquitous Havana tradition that prevails in both Cuba and the United States. For this fact alone, the book is worth reading. Velez started her work with Garcia Villamil as his student, and initially wanted to write her Ph.D. dissertation on the songs and rhythms of Santeria, using Garcia Villamil as her main source of information. However, as Velez notes, Garcia Villamil did not remain focused on these lessons and did not interview particularly well, preferring instead to talk about his experiences as a musician in Cuba and later in New York. Velez then shifted the core of her dissertation (1996, Wesleyan University) to Garcia Villamil's life story, which became the basis for this book. Velez organizes the text into three parts: Garcia Villamil's formative years in Cuba when he learned much of what was to become his life's trade, his life as a musician during the early years of the Cuban Revolution, and his new life in New York as a diasporic musician after leaving Cuba in 1980. Through Garcia Villamil's stories, Velez offers the reader a wealth of detailed information about the musical and religious practices of Santeria, Palo Monte, and abakud, as well as lesser-known practices, such as iyesa and arara, both of which are now heard mostly in Matanzas province, just east of Havana. Although privileging the life story of the ethnographic subject has honorable roots in both anthropology and ethnomusicology (Behar 1995, Mitchell 1978, Titon 1980), the book suffers from Velez's technique of using apparently unedited excerpts from Garcia Villamil's tales as its organizational lynch-pin. The text is often redundant, and Velez's brief authorial insertions between Garcia Villamil's lively reminiscences do little to construct a logical, accessible narrative. Velez's authorial voice in this work remains strangely muffled and detached, making the transition between the two voices consistently jarring. The book's highlights include several interesting sections on building and playing batd, iyesa, and other drums, as well as sub-sections entitled "The Orichas Behave Different Here" and "Teaching Women to Play Bata." Neither of these sub-sections is developed beyond a page or two, but perhaps Velez will pursue this promising work with future articles on these subjects.


The "Transcendental Deduction" in Kant's Critique ofPure Reason is one of the great mirrors of philosophy. By that I mean that there seems to be no steady and unchanging image to be found in that text; each philosopher who approaches it finds in it a reflection of his or her own deepest concerns.' Jay Rosenberg's new book, Accessing Kant: A Relaxed Introduction to the Critique ofPure Reason is no exception.' Rosenberg lays out a different approach to the central argument of the first Critique from those found in other commentaries. I want to bring outsome of the central features of that approach, some of its history, and, finally, raise some questions about how closely his approach might come to Kant's own intentions.


When facing the persistent conundrum of evangelical missions in Japan, one pervasive, though largely hidden, factor emerges in the resistance of the Japanese to the gospel: the web-like interconnection of worldview assumptions collectively known as Nihonkyo ("Japanism"), as distinct from Japanese culture per se. Developing sociologically in the Edo Period and ideologically in the Meiji Period, the fabrication of Nihonkyo changed attitudes toward cultural elements such that a nation once very open to the gospel has become very closed. Principles of the problem and its discernment are widely applicable.


An approximately analytical propagation formula of plane wave passing through a system with annular diaphragm was derived with the method of expanding the window function of the annular diaphragm into the product of Fourier series and complex Gaussian functions.The beam propagation through the optical system with the annular diaphragm was numerically simulated with the formula.On-axial and transverse intensity distribution is calculated and analyzed.The numerical simulation results show that the intensity distribution is related to the obstruction ratio of the annular diaphragm.


Renewables play an important role in the future energy mix. Therefore, markets have targets to increase the share of renewables in the final energy consumption. Depending on their potential, economic performance and characteristics, countries adopt different roadmaps to reach their target. For example, the European Union has a target of 20% of final energy consumption from renewables in 2020 and 27% in 2030 (European Commission, 2017), with each member state having its own target. However, the latest report shows that while Bulgaria, Finland and Croatia had already reached their 2020 targets by 2015, other countries including the Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom have a long way to go despite using the same or similar support schemes (European Commission, 2017).


ConclusionsA simple computer-based fringe-processing system has been described. It consists of a TV camera, analog/digital converter and a microcomputer. The unit enables differentiation of fringe patterns which have been collected directly from the optical setup by the TV camera. Thus real-time examination of the tested object is possible.


Terisa Turner seeks to explain the instability of the Nigerian state. Stability and instability is not just a matter of vulnerability to forcible changes of regime. A stable state is one in which authorized individuals make, apply and enforce legal imperatives and public policies. To say that the Nigerian state lacks coherence is to say that it has not become separate from, dominant over, or capable of regulating society. Nigeria continues to have a predominantly import‐export economy, but one in which the state itself provides the main market for many commodities, and controls access to the supply of and market for others. Because of the key role of the state, its officials play a central part in Nigeria's commercial system. Foreign firms compete with one another for a share of the lucrative Nigerian market by offering inducements to local middlemen and state officials. Bribes are the basis of competitive advantage. State officials and Nigerian businessmen are compradors because they organize the access ...


A three-judge panel of the Ohio Court of Appeals dismissed the lawsuit of a man who sued a hospital for breach of confidentiality of his positive HIV status. The patient, John Doe, presented at an Ohio State University Hospital with severe pain and vomiting. He was referred back to his regular physician, Dr. [name removed], who ordered a battery of tests. The laboratory inadvertently performed an HIV-antibody test, found that Doe was infected, and sent his name to the Ohio Department of Health. John Doe sued the University, alleging that it had violated a state law which requires informed consent for HIV-antibody testing. The trial judge found in favor of the University. The appeals panel affirmed the lower court's decision, stating that the case was not one of negligence, but rather an allegation concerning the informed consent statute. The Court stated that an individual could only file for compensatory damages if the person or agency knowingly violated the requirement for informed consent.


The issue of security becomes more and more important in the process of information transmission. The paper proposes a novel transmission scheme for text information by hiding it into a carrier image. Firstly, we use ASCII codes to represent the text information and encode these information codes by BCH code before transmitting them. Secondly, we divide the carrier image into 8×8 blocks and transform every block by two-dimensional DCT, calculate JND value of every DCT coefficient and choose the hiding coefficients. Finally, we hide the information codes into the selected coefficients in DCT domain. The process of extracting information codes is the inverse. We do many experiments to prove our scheme to be secure and easy to operate.


Large industrial microwave desulphurization denitrification terminal equipment for harmful gas environmental pollution treatment performs industrial microwave desulphurization denitrification atmosphere environmental pollution treatment on 1000000-20000000 m /h harmful gas discharge on a basis of already-operated or newly-established large-scale engineering by using aerodynamics, mechanical principles, and microwave physical chemical principles, belongs to industrial microwave heavy equipment manufacturing, and belongs to the technical field of 'general physical or chemical method or equipment' of international patent classification B01. In the face of future large-scale or ultra-large scale development of atmosphere environmental pollution discharge treatment for harmful gas, a new subject is generated and new discipline knowledge combination and a brand-new mathematic model concept are established. Digital module combination is used for large-scale supercritical thermal power unit boilers, chemical and metallurgical industries; and atmosphere environmental pollution discharge treatment for harmful gas. With the tolerance level process characteristics for large-flow harmful gas and low-sulfur harmful gas treatment, the invention is an important safety guarantee technical measure for environment-friendly and standard discharge for atmosphere environmental pollution treatment, realizes low carbon times, and reaches the targets of ideal environment-friendly and standard discharge and creative technical change.


The hexagonal ice formation on the surfaces of several substrates which have different crystallographic configuration of oxygen atoms from that on the preferentially crystallized surface of ice was studied by taking rate and direction of cooling into consideration. It was found that the cooling direction is the dominating factor for the preferential orientation of crystal axis of ice formed on a substrate. That is, the hexagonal ice grows preferentially along c-axis for thin layer ice and along c-axis or a-axis for fine columnar ice parallel to the cooling direction, regardless of the degree of epitaxy of oxygen atoms on surfaces between substrate and ice, or of the degree of wettability between substrate and water. But it has been also found that the freezing temperature lowering and the temperature range for single crystal formation of ice in the whole capillary space of glass tubing on substrates were significantly influenced by the epitaxy, i.e. the degree of misfit of interatomic spacing of oxygen on crystallographic surfaces of substrate and ice (00l).


As a common transmission line, the microstrip line plays an important role in high-speed circuits. The purpose of this paper was to investigate the effects of the circuit design of microstrip lines on the signal integrity (SI). In addition, the influence of the type and thickness of the solder resist ink on SI was analyzed to provide guidance for the related producing process design of printed circuit boards (PCBs).,Microstrip line properties consisting of shape, line-width/line-space ratio, reference layer design and as-covered solder resist ink were designed to measure the insertion loss (S21) in high-speed PCB.,The study showed that the insertion loss (S21) of straight, meander, snake-shaped and wavy microstrip lines was approximately consistent. A microstrip line with width/space ratio less than 0.96 is necessary, as the differential line closing produces a mutual interference. Reference layer including the discontinuous area should be repaired by adjusting the microstrip line parameters. With regard to the solder resist ink, the insertion loss of novel solder resist ink decreased by 0.163 dB/in at 12.9 GHz and 0.164 dB/in at 14 GHz, compared with traditional solder resist ink. Accordingly, the insertion loss effectively improved at a lower thickness of solder resist.,This paper demonstrated that the common designing factors of line shape, line/space ratio, reference layer and solder resist influence microstrip line SI in the significant reference of designer-making PCB layout.


To help RD department of gear enterprise to preserve timely and look up technical knowledge and empirical data on study of gear quickly,this paper puts forward a management mode combining dynamic with static by analyzing the characteristics of document and the needs of management of RD department of gear enterprise,and conducts research of functions analysis,structure design and implementation of the programme of the document management system,and finishes architecture design of RD department of gear enterprise to prepare for subsequent establishment of the system.


By using a complex(optional) reaction detector,the paper has done a series of on-spot testing over the reaction characteristics of the professional drivers while they were driving on the Talimakan Desert Roads,including their reaction time and number of missing reactions,in hoping to find the features of their reaction characteristics in the special desert condition.To be exact,what we have done in this study is to find the likely particular characteristics of the drivers' driving performance on the desert roads,such as the reaction time and number of missing reactions,so as to determine the main driving influential factors,such as the their age difference,their driving experience,driving duration,and the desert temperature changes,on the their driving performance,and then to find if there exist any inherent correlations of such characteristics with their desert driving based on our analysis of the 1 004 random sampling results.The results of our on-spot testing and analysis indicate that,under the influence of the impatient mentality on the desert roads,they prefer to drive faster than on the regular roads with the greater number of spontaneous missing reactions.The average reaction time and the number of missing reactions are 0.74 s and 2.71 s,respectively,which belong to Level B national standard.On the other hand,the grey incidence analysis also indicates that there likely exists significant relationship between the reaction time and the number of missing reaction with the influential factors,including the drivers' age,years of driving, the lasting driving time for the particular case,as well as the particular desert air temperature pre-and post-the driving testing.Compared with other factors,it is shown that the drivers' reaction time is more significantly affected by the air temperature,with the influence of the number of miss reactions followed by their continuously lasting driving time.Thus,it can be concluded that the reaction characteristics of the drivers are more affected by the long-lasting driving fatigue.


Political Uncertainty and Crime in Transition Economies Two stylized facts are often used to characterize the economies in transition: an increase in the crime level and frequent government changes, where the party in power is replaced by another party with a different, and often opposite, ideologicalorientation. We investigate the impact on agents honesty when agents perceive thefuture form of government as uncertain, and also know that their own collective decisions will effect the government s choice of type. Furthermore, we assume that the form that the government will take depends, in part, on the collective behavior of the agents. By endogenizing the joint decisions made by the agents, as well as the government, we derive the social consequences of these choices, the induced level of crime. Using the level of crime permits us to investigate comparative statics for possible policy implications. We show that the complex interactions between the government and the agents leads to some non-intuitive results.


Diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) derivatives containing sulfonamide (Sulfonamide‐DPP), pyridyl (Dipyridyl‐DPP) and N‐methylpyridyl (MePyridyl‐DPP) substituents were assessed as antibacterial photosensitizers. Non‐charged DPPs showed an intense absorption band centered at about 480 nm and green fluorescence emission (ΦF ~ 0.7) in acetonitrile. The absorption of MePyridyl‐DPP was bathochromically shifted at 510 nm, with decreased fluorescence emission. Sulfonamide‐DPP and Dipyridyl‐DPP photosensitized the formation of O2(1Δg) (ΦΔ ~ 0.15–0.17), while the production induced by MePyridyl‐DPP was at least 10 times lower. Furthermore, these DPPs produced a photoreduction of NBT similar to that of the control. Photodynamic inactivation induced by DPPs was first investigated at the single‐bacterium level of Staphylococcus aureus attached to a surface. After 30 min irradiation, MePyridyl‐DPP produced a complete eradication of the bacteria. In bacterial cell suspensions, dicationic DPP induced more than 7 log10 decrease in S. aureus cell survival after 30 min irradiation. Potentiation with iodide anions allowed a complete elimination of bacteria after 15 min therapy. This compound was also effective to eliminate S. aureus cells on biofilms. The results show that MePyridyl‐DPP bearing two positive groups provides an amphiphilic character to the structure that improves the interaction with the cell envelop. This effect enhances the photocytotoxic activity of MePyridyl‐DPP against bacteria.


In recent years, we have got seen a different era of short vary wireless technologies like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth [7], ZigBee [6], rising before individuals. The project aims at building a system which can be used on universally at any scale to observe the parameters in each setting. Raspberry-pi and sensors collects all the amount of data from setting and now period data is fetched by the net server and shows it. User can access this data from anywhere through internet. Raspberry Pi works as a base station that connects the number of distributed detector nodes via zigbee protocol. Wireless detector Networks (WSN) has been accustomed gather data relating to phenomenon in varied applications like environment observation. Cyber space of Things (IoTs) area unit typically depicted as connecting everyday objects like smart-phones, net TVs, sensors and actuators to cyberspace where the devices area unit intelligently connected on facultative new styles of communication between things and folk, and between things themselves. In wireless detector network system, the detector node sense determination the information from the detector that data collects the highest tags, end tags send its data to the router and router to organizer and supply multi-clients services moreover as data show, the complete data area unit detain base station and thus the keep data will send to the cloud (Ethernet) and thus the patron can visit rock bottom station remotely via (website) computer network. Such detectors are unit temperature, vibration, pressure, moisture, light-weight and pollution.


Study at South Tarawa carried out within a joint initiative of UNESCO-IHP and the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Council (SOPAC), highlighting traditions and conflicts in groundwater use and management. Published as IHP-V Technical Documents in Hydrology No. 25.


Due to its importance in process improvement, the issue of determining exactly when faults occur has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Most related studies have focused on the use of the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) method to determine the fault in univariate processes, in which the underlying process distribution should be known in advance. In addition, most studies have been devoted to identifying the faults of process mean shifts. Different from most of the current research, the present study proposes an effective approach to identify the faults of variance shifts in a multivariate process. The proposed mechanism comprises the analysis of variance (ANOVA) approach, a neural network (NN) classifier, and an identification strategy. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach, a series of simulated experiments is conducted, and the best results from our proposed approach are addressed.


The functional capability of the deep femoral artery (DFA) as a collateral channel is an important feature in patients suffering peripheral arterial occlusive disease (PAOD). A noninvasive method of indirect quantification of the DFA blood flow volume is presented. In normal lower limbs, it was found that the common femoral artery (CFA) mean blood flow volume was maintained at 59% of its resting value when the superficial femoral artery (SFA) was occluded by a pneumatic cuff placed around the thigh. The reduction of the mean flow volume is mainly due to an increase of the diastolic backward flow, while the maximum systolic flow remains constant. In a few patients with various degrees of stenosis of the DFA, we observed a much greater drop in mean CFA blood flow volume than in normal subjects. On the basis of this preliminary study, we conclude that: —When the normal SFA is occluded, pulsatile flow through the CFA is maintained. —Occlusion flow reflects the runoff and the compliance of the DFA bed. —Occlusion flow is diminished in patients with DFA stenosis. It is suggested that this non-invasive test might help the physician to assess the involvement of the DFA in PAOD. Further investigation is needed to establish the correlation between quantitative occlusion blood flow volume and the degree of DFA stenosis.


A common strategy for visual encoding of multidimensional data for visual analyses is to use dimensionality reduction. Each multidimensional data point is projected to a 2D point using a certain strategy for the 2D layout. Many layout strategies have been proposed addressing different objectives and targeted at distinct domains and applications. The resulting projected information is typically displayed in form of 2D scatterplots. The user's perspective such as the role of visual attention and guidance of attention for a respective layout and task has not been addressed much. It is the goal of this work to investigate, how characteristics in the layout affect the cognitive process during task completion. Eye trackers are an effective means to capture visual attention over time. We use eye tracking in a user study, where we ask users to perform typical analysis tasks for projected multidimensional data such as relation seeking, behavior comparison, and pattern identification. Those tasks often involve detecting and correlating clusters. To understand the role of point density within clusters, cluster sizes, and cluster shapes, we first conducted a study with synthetic 2D scatterplots, where we can set the respective properties manually. We evaluate how changing various parameters affect the visual attention pattern and correlate it to the correctness of the answer. In a second step, we conducted a study where the users were asked to complete tasks on real-world data with different characteristics (image collection and document collection) that are visualized using a selection of different dimensionality reduction algorithms. We transfer the insight obtained from synthetic data to investigate the decision making with real-world data. Gestalt laws can be applied to the layout structure. We examine how certain layout techniques produce certain characteristics that change the visual attention pattern. We draw some conclusions on how different projection methods support or hinder decision making leading to respective guidelines.


A weak gamma ray has been found in the decay of ${\mathrm{Ar}}^{41}$ to ${\mathrm{K}}^{41}$. The energy of the gamma ray is 1.664\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.007 MeV; and its intensity, relative to that of the strong 1.293-MeV gamma ray, is (5\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}2)\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}${10}^{\ensuremath{-}4}$. It is concluded from the results of conincidence measurements that this gamma ray is the result of a beta-ray branch from ${\mathrm{Ar}}^{41}$ leading to an excited state in ${\mathrm{K}}^{41}$ at 1.664 MeV. The associated $log\mathrm{ft}$ value is found to be 7.7\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.3. The spin and parity of the 1.664-MeV state in ${\mathrm{K}}^{41}$ are most probably ${\frac{5}{2}}^{+}$ or ${\frac{7}{2}}^{+}$.


[1] Ocean-Sea-Ice Model : 3-D ocean general circulation model (MITgcm) based on primitive equations. The model is eddy-resolving (~20 Km of horizontal resolution) and has 50 vertical levels. It is forced by re-analyzed forcing fields (NCEP) such as wind stress, solar heat and freshwater fluxes for present climate and it is coupled to a thermodynamical and dynamical sea-ice model. This regional Arctic ocean model has been developed in the framework of the ECCO2 project (visit ecco2.org for further details).


Abstract To resolve the technical issue that very hard particle is difficult to be refined, the mesoscopic numerical simulation of discrete medium flows based on Particle Flow Code was established. Four combinations of frequency and amplitude were set to simulate the medium flow, and the images of velocity gradation and velocity vector field have been obtained. Results show that the energy in medium flow was transmitted faster, and the effect of impact and shear forces among medium was stronger in the mode with mid-frequency and large amplitude. To verify the simulation results, the diamond ultrafine grinding is done in both normal and new vibration mills with the same basic parameters. Through size detecting in MS 2000 laser particle sizer and recording by high-speed photographic Mikrotron Gmbh, the results are basically consistent with the simulation analysis of velocity vector. Compared with other modes, the kinetic and strain energy of medium flow in the mode of mid-frequency with large amplitude is increased up to 0.3–5 times, and energy-lacking area is reduced by 8–20%; the effect of particle refinement and narrowing distribution is obvious. It becomes a positive technical progress in the field of very hard particle vibration grinding and micronano refinement.


As a School of Social and Political sciences, we have found that developing and embedding the 'student as producer' ethos has been a valuable way of critically engaging with current challenges within Higher Education. By enhancing and building upon the 'student as producer' agenda with students engaging both as researchers and contributors to the curriculum, within a number of current projects, this has served to challenge the student as passive consumer. Being partners in the producers of knowledge creates a more active student role through their application of skills to real live projects. Such pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning further identifies the importance of research informed teaching and directly impacts on 'excellence', employability and transferable skills, peer learning, student engagement opportunities and the wider experiences of students. In addition to this, it has an integral place in recognising students as creative resources, which generates a multi disciplinary culture of engagement and innovativeness towards learning. This paper will address some of our reflections from a number of student engagement projects and explore the potential of such pedagogical approaches to understand the 'student voice'. It is very much about 're defining' some of the conceptual aspects of the role of students in research engaged opportunities and initiatives, and identifies with their reflections on what being 'engaged', or 'not engaged', offers them. Engaging with the 'student voice' and understanding their values and recognition of skills within such research participation, illustrates moving beyond the employability agenda towards active participation and partnerships within and beyond the curriculum.


an outburst of vitality and goodness could result from falsehood or error. We try to understand the thoughts, feelings and activity of the first Christians and sense something of the reality of their faith. We meet with Christ in prayer, and while we are ready to admit that the experience may be delusion and that even if there is genuine spiritual contact with the divine this cannot prove any past historical fact, yet it fits in with our study of the New Testament and the whole makes sense. We hear of a drop-out who finds a purpose in life, a marriage that had grown stale becoming renewed, an embittered widow who discovers that an occasion of offering help to those in need restored her happiness, and while we would hesitate to call these 'resurrection' they are the kind of things we should expect to happen if Jesus did indeed rise from the dead. In the end we may have to admit to ourselves that


ASA is used in both internal and surface sizing. But, compared with AKD, it presents two major problems: ○ The instability of ASA in emulsions and ○ The sticky behaviour of hydrolyzed ASA calcium salt formed from ASA during the white water circulation. This feature compares the performance of ASA with four AO-SA compounds in aqueous emulsions - in terms of Sizing performance and stability. It shows that i) the EO-SA compound has the potential for internal and surface sizing, partly in place of the conventional ASA or AK, and ii) the use of EO-SA in place of ASA may release papermakers from the sticky problem often observed in ASA sizing. The sizing efficiency of the EO-SA compound was a little lower than that of ASA in the handsheets prepared without PCC filler, whereas it became similar to or somewhat higher than that of ASA in the handsheets made from pulp slurries containing 10% PCC filler. EO-SA had a higher stability in the aqueous emulsion than ASA, and, in handsheets, the sizing degree was mostly unchanged when the EO-SA emulsion was added to pulp slurries after one day of storage. In contrast, the Sizing degree of the ASA handsheets dropped to nearly zero after storing the ASA emulsion for one day from its preparation.


We present an approach to improve the audio-to-audio alignment performance of causal alignment systems in the presence of either note-level or sectional performance differences. We explore the use of particle filter based models tailored specifically for online audio-to-audio alignment with a focus on handling missing sections in the audio to be aligned. The proposed approach relaxes the local continuity assumption that most alignment methods presume, by way of introducing two different transition models, one of which is intended to track the local position in the audio, and the other, is used to handle missing notes and missing sections spanning multiple measures in the audio. Results of a comparative evaluation are presented to demonstrate the improvement in tracking and alignment performance.


By the assistance of microwave and ultrasonic,the effects of ethanol concentration,mass ratio of Selfheal and ethanol,extraction temperature,extraction time on the extraction of ursolic acid from Selfheal were studied.The optimum extraction conditions for extraction efficiency of ursolic acid were found to be: ethanol concentration of 95%(volume),mass ratio of ethanol and Selfheal of 12∶1,extraction temperature of 70℃,extraction time of 240s respectively and extraction efficiency of 98.84% was obtained.


This article presents the content of a statistical research instrument (survey) which was used in a statistical survey focused on the religious phenomena and the (inter)connections generated within social and economic processes. We considered a descriptive operational fashion for each item (item) included in the survey. Due to the limited space of this article, we haven't presented all sections of the survey.


The polypropylene fibers have been used in bed coalescers for separation of micro-sized oil droplets from water for a long time. Possibilities of applying different forms of polypropylene as filter beds are still being in the focus of many researches. The possibility of applying waste polypropylene bags used for packing vegetables (PPDJ) was investigated in this paper. The results are compared with results obtained by applying waste polypropylene fibers from carpet production (PP). It is well known that there are difficulties to separate the oils of low viscosity by polymer fiber beds. Due to the above mentioned, the presented research refers to separation of low viscosity mineral oil from water. The obtained experimental results confirm that the material PPDJ could be efficiently used as a bed material for coalescers. The critical velocity of 50 m h-1 could be reached at using both polypropylene forms that is from bags PPDJ and from the carpet industry PP, when the adequate bulk density of materials is used.


ABSTRACT In the Roche Amplicor HIV-1 Monitor Test, the ratio of the optical density used to estimate the RNA concentration and the optical density of the preceding or the following dilution can be used to identify specimens with inaccurate results which should be retested. We present an algorithm for the identification of such results.


Aiming at the problem of mass estimation for commercial vehicle, a two-layer structure mass estimation algorithm was proposed. The first layer was the grade estimation algorithm based on recursive least squares method and the second layer was a mass estimation algorithm using the extended Kalman filter. The estimated grade was introduced as the observation quantity of the second layer. The influence of the suspension deformation on grade estimation was considered in the first layer algorithm, which was corrected in real time according to the mass and road grade estimated by the second layer algorithm. The proposed estimation algorithm was validated via a co-simulation platform involving TruckSim and MATLAB/Simulink. Finally, a road test was carried out, and the evaluation method using the root mean square error was proposed. According to the test, the average value of the root mean square error reduces from 871.65 to 772.52, grade estimation is more accurate, and the convergence speed of mass estimation is faster, compared with estimation results of the extended Kalman filter method.


In the first chapter of Buffalo Bill, the King of the Border Men; or, The Wildest and Truest Tale I've Ever Told, the white-haired father of the title character perishes as he leads family devotions at his Kansas farmstead from a pistol shot fired by Jake M'Kandlas [sic]. Before the three-page opening chapter of this dime novel concludes, not only is Mr. Cody dead, but M'Kandlas and his band of thirty ruffians have made their escape and the victim's son has vowed vengeance. For the remainder of the novel, whose every chapter is as action-filled as the first, �uffalo Bill pursues his father's killer accompanied by his sidekick, Wild Bill Hitchcock [sic], and others who share his sense of justice. Their quest takes them not only into Indian country, where they confront savage Sioux, but also into southern Missouri, where during the novel's time setting at the onset of the Civil War, they must deal with the Confederate sympathizers, including Texas Ranger Ben McCulloch [sic again], among whom M'Kandlas has sought refuge.


The countries in the Southeast Asia have recently made great progress in the development of industrial entities,the improvement of service,scientific researches,training talented persons,information resources protection,etc..There is much in their methods and experiences that we can use for reference.


Abstract The Richmond Asylum (St Brendan's Hospital) in Grangegorman, Dublin was established in 1815 to help address the unmet needs of the mentally ill in 19th century Ireland. This paper examines the Richmond Asylum Joint Committee Minutes from 1907 in order to explore specific aspects of management and clinical activity at the Richmond Asylum, including: (a) patient populations in the asylums; (b) staffing and management issues; (c) challenges presented by workhouse populations in the early 20th century; and (d) the clinical 'segregation' of patients performed by the Medical Superintendent, Dr Conolly Norman, in 1907.


This is a new method on the real-time measurement, compensation and control of Ball Scroll by using of Visual Basic serial communication. The circuit diagram of the hardware, the communication protocol and software flow charts are given.


Chapter-9: Additional System-Properties Of The Mortgage-Alternative, Retirement/Savings And Insurance Products And Public-Goods That Were Introduced In Chapter-__ Of This Book And In Nwogugu (2012). This Chapter explains the key additional characteristics and Reasoning/Logic of some MortgageAlternatives Products, Retirement/Savings products and Insurance Products and Public-Goods that were introduced in Chapter-__ in this book; and also applies to financial instruments introduced in Nwogugu (2012) (collectively, the "Products"). I had previously written and emailed to a few people, an informal "Addendum" that explains the details and "Network Features" of the Products that I introduced in Nwogugu (2012). The Products and Public-Goods developed in Chapter-__ in this book and in Nwogugu (2012) are hybrids and are different from the traditional definitions of "alternative mortgages", savings accounts and retirement products. Note that unlike most other financial products, the Products and their properties create Public-Goods including but not limited to the following: improved public health; consumer knowledge; reduced mass-anxiety; stabilized economy; reduced waste and environmental pollution; reduced fossil-based energy consumption; national defense; etc.. The Products automatically create and function within ecosystems and systems-of-ecosystems. The Products were developed by using Set Theory, Boundary-value Conditions, Artificial Intelligence and some elements of both Game Theory and Mechanism Design ie. the structure of each Product and Public-Good is a set of specific characteristics (many of which have boundary-values) within "Product-Characteristics Spaces". This is in contrast to most empirical and theoretical studies of Complex Systems and optimal design of financial contracts. Some of the main IPE (International Political Economy) risks that households, ordinary companies and financial services companies face are as follows: i) Currency Risk; ii) Interest rate risk; iii) Inflation/Deflation; iv) Political Risk and Economic Sanctions; v) Changes in government subsidies: subsidies/aid grated to households and companies; vi) Trade Wars; vii) Labor problems; viii) Commodities Risk; ix) Real Estate Risk; x) Tax policy; xi) Epidemics; xii) Economic/Financial Crisis; xiii) Spill-overs of financial/economic/health/political crisis across national borders.


With the information age expending at such an unprecedented rate over the last decade, the distribution of news and images across numerous media sources has also increased to meet the public's insatiable demand for more and more news. Indeed, the amount of words and images flooding across the globe has generated an anxiety which has caused many to wonder if what they are reading or viewing is real or contrived. The fact is, most of the world cannot define for themselves what appears in the media is factual or not. Due to the power and easy accessibility of software programs designed for the creation and correction of images, anyone with a modicum of training can generate a picture which can be hurled around the world in only moments of time and viewed by anyone with access to the internet, television, or a newspaper. The dilemma of having too much available to us to read or see has been seized upon by numerous news sources and exploited to their full advantage for their profits or political agendas.


Dear Editors, We cannot thank Professor Atsushi Nanashima enough for the thoughtful comments and suggestions about our study. We strongly agree that the critical factor that affects blood loss during hepatectomy was intrahepatic venous pressure, which was interestingly affected by the morphology of the inferior vena cava (IVC), the relationship between the right atrium and the IVC, or even the angle of hepatic vein and IVC, as described in both studies.1,2 In our opinion, the concept of low central venous pressure (CVP) in liver surgery is now questionable because the CVP may not always have a linear correlation with hepatic venous pressure. For example, patients who have "V up"1 type morphology of IVC may have low CVP but high intrahepatic venous pressure. In our study,3 the level of CVP was not associated with operative and transection blood loss. Both IVC clamping and nonclamping groups had significantly reduced CVP, mean arterial pressure, and heart rate after IVC was clamped or anesthesiological technique was applied. However, more reduction of blood loss was observed in the IVC clamping group. The only parameter that was missed from our study was intrahepatic venous pressure. We hypothesized that IVC clamping might be associated more with reduced intrahepatic venous pressure than the anesthesiological technique. As you suggested, a future randomized study that focuses on liver hemodynamics should be conducted to confirm this hypothesis. We mentioned in our study that IVC clamping was safe and effective to perform, especially in complex liver resection.3 The IVC test clamp was initially performed to test whether the patient could tolerate a significant reduction of venous return from the body and lower extremities. In the research setting, the vasopressor may be used for stabilizing hemodynamics later on if the patient had unstable hemodynamic status during hepatectomy, which seem to be unnecessary if they did not undergo IVC clamping. To avoid "doing harm" to the patient, we propose that IVC clamping should be performed if the patient passes the IVC clamping test (MAP more than 60 mm Hg). Moreover, the CVP during IVC clamping must not be kept too low (<2 mm Hg) to avoid lethal hypotension during hepatectomy. If the patient cannot pass the clamping test, other techniques such as hanging maneuverer or Trendelenburg position might help reduce hepatic venous pressure. Moreover, studying the combination of these techniques is needed to clarify effectiveness and safety. In our study,3 we used the reverse Trendelenburg position because the protocol in our study intended to maintain low CVP4 in both arms for demonstrating the efficacy of IVC clamping. We agree with you that the Trendelenburg position should be in the appropriate position to reduce intrahepatic venous pressure by improving drainage of venous blood to the right atrium. The correlation of intrahepatic vein pressure and patient position should be evaluated in future studies, especially when concomitant procedures such as hanging maneuver or IVC clamping are combined. Again, thank you so much for providing a novel finding of the relationship between the morphology of IVChepatic vein and operative bleeding.1 We believed that there are a lot of opportunities to research hemodynamic status in liver surgery, which will improve the outcome of patients.


Summary Phenylglyoxal (PG), which reacts specifically and exclusively with arginine moieties in protein and does not enter the cell, inhibits HeLa cell growth, as demonstrated both by colony-growth and cell-accumulation experiments. Exposure of synchronized cells to PG shows that this inhibition is confined to the S, G 2 , and M phases of the cell cycle, since, in the presence of PG, G 1 -phase cells are able to enter S phase, whereas DNA synthesis is depressed in S-phase cells, G 2 -phase cells do not enter mitosis, and mitotic cells do not progress through the mitotic cycle. Therefore, PG appears to inhibit growth by masking arginine moieties in a protein exposed at the cell surface.


Directed self-assembly of block copolymers has shown to be an effective bottom-up approach to creating periodic nanoscale surface patterns. This work offers a computational study of sphere-forming ...


his paper looks at the democratic elections that took place in the SADC region in 2002. Two SADC countries, Zimbabwe and Lesotho, organised multiparty elections in 2002. Zambia is also included because its 2001 election results were announced at the beginning of 2002. President Levy Mwanawasa was sworn in on 2 January 2002. All three elections attracted international interest and publicity. In the case of Zambia, attention was focused on President Chiluba's attempt to secure a third term in office despite resistance from the citizens. In Zimbabwe, international coverage was linked to the agrarian reforms taking place to address land inequality, which for years had been skewed in favour of the white minority,2 and the real possibility that for the first time Zanu–PF might lose its control of government to a relatively new opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). In Lesotho, everybody was interested to see if the changes introduced to the electoral system would bring peace to a country which has a history of contested elections. In all three countries the people expressed a strong inclination for, and belief in, multiparty democracy. What is now needed is a leadership that embraces multiparty co-operation and the participation of civil society in building a foundation to improve governance. The elections in SADC countries are organised according to the law of each country. The constitution and the electoral act of each stipulates how the election should be held and who should organise it, from the delimitation of constituencies and the registration of voters to the actual supervision of elections. All SADC Electoral Commissions are members of the SADC Electoral Commissions Forum (ECF), which has its own Norms and Standards for conducting elections. Yet it appears that the SADC governments have not tried to harmonise SADC Norms and Standards with their national laws.


A CV is a sales document that should be designed to help you get a job interview, and not placed with the others that didn't catch the boss's eye, says Adi Nell, who heads up the SPVS CV reading service


PPV derivatives with various alkoxy branch chains,including PMOBOPV,PMOCOPV,iso-PMOCOPV and PMODOPV,were synthesized via dehydrochlorination route,and characterized by Fourier transform infrared(FTIR) spectroscopy,proton nuclear magnetic resonance(~1HNMR) spectroscopy,differential scanning calorimetry(DSC), thermogravimetric analysis(TGA),UV-Visible and fluorescence spectroscopy.Suitable reaction conditions,such as the ratio of catalyst/reactant and the amount of potassium tertbutoxide,were determined by experimental data analysis.The result proves that as-prepared polymers were of remarkable thermal stability and solubility in common solvents with the maximum UV absorption peak at about 492nm and light emission at about 555nm.


Abstract In this paper, we apply a numerical scheme for solving fractional differential equations. Our approach is based on an operational matrix of fractional Riemann-Liouville integration with Legendre basis and zeros of Chebyshev polynomials. In this framework the fractional Burgers equation, modified fractional Korteweg-de Vries equation and fractional wave equation are considered as prototype examples. The results reveal that the present method is very effective and accurate.


The design of Gran Teatro Nacional in Lima, Peru, started in 2009 as very special task. Peru needed a venue with world-class standards to host local and international events of opera, concerts, and ballet. The theater has a built area of about 26 000 m2 with 1500 seats capacity. It has a fully equipped fly tower with motorized winches, an 11 m tall acoustical shell, 4 double deck stage lifts, 2 orchestra lifts, and a pit for 100 players. The equipment complies with the most restrictive European standards. The acoustics oriented the design, from room shaping to its volume, from materiality to seats selection. The acoustical consultants assumed modified horseshoe plan to improved intimacy and three tier levels. The hall has two reverberation chambers and several acoustical banners to provide variability in the acoustical response of the hall. Computer modeling and physical model supported the design. Since the Gala Opening in 2012 the theater has been getting remarkable reviews from conductors, internationa...


By analyzing the trace elements in cortex magnoliae officinalis from different areas, this paper makes a comprehensive evaluation about Fe, Cu, Zn, Mn, Ca, Mg and other trace elements through the principal component analysis and factor analysis. It provides guidance with planting and utilization of Chinese herbal medicine and strong scientific basis for large-scale Chinese herbal medicine resources.


Treatment of silylbis(triflates), RMeSi(OTf)2 (R = p-anisyl, allyl, NMe2) with 1,4-bis(bromomagnesium)benzene and 2,5-dilithiothiophene, respectively, give poly[(silylene)-1,4-phenylenes] and poly[(silylene)-2,5-thienylenes] in high yields. The RSi bonds could be cleaved selectively by triflic acid leading to triflate substituted derivatives. Conversions of these compounds with nucleophiles gave novel functionalized polymers. Pt-catalyzed hydrosilylation reactions between silicon-vinyl and silicon-hydrogen derivatives result in polymer networks which may serve as interesting preceramic materials. The structures of the polymers were proven by NMR spectroscopy (29Si, 13C, 1H). Results of thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), ultraviolet (UV) and conductivity measurements are given. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Present paper deals with study of physical factors like water temperature (Temp), pH, transparency, turbidity, Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), and conductivity (EC) of Jakekur project (Reservoir).


Objective To investigate the curative effects of curcumin(CUR)or dexamethasone (DXM)on ischemia-reperfusion injury(IRI)of rat lung grafts.Methods Male SD rats were randomly divided 4 groups:CUR group(CUR was administered intraperitoneally to both donors and recipients at 3 h prior to operation);DXM group(DXM was administered intraperitoneally at 30 min prior to operation);vehicle group(Animals were injected with the DMSO to both donors and recipients at 3 h prior to operation);sham group(Time-matched control animals underwent the same surgery,except that no graft was implanted).Six animals were sacrificed at different reperfusion periods of 2 h and 24 h,respectively.Oxygenation indexes(PO_2/FiO_2),lung injury scores,wet/dry ratio(W/D)and myeloperoxidase(MPO)activity in the transplanted lung were measured.Malondialdehyde(MDA), total anti-oxidative capacity(TAOC),tumor necrosis factor(TNF)-αand interleukin(IL)-6 in the transplanted lung and serum were determined.Results The levels of LPV PO_2/FiO_2 were significant- ly higher in the CUR and DXM groups than in the vehicle groups both 2 and 24 h after reperfusion,re- spectively(P0.01).The extent of pulmonary edema and the total scores in CUR and DXM groups were significantly decreased at 2 and 24 h after reperfusion as compared with those in vehicle group, respectively(P0.017).Pretreatment with CUR or DXM significantly decreased W/D of grafts at 24 h after reperfusion,as compared to vehicles(P0.01).Pretreatment with DXM and CUR signifi- cantly inhibited the increase of MDA levels in tissue and serum at 2 h(P0.05).After 24 h reperfu- sion,MDA levels in serum could be decreased by CUR(P0.05),while MDA levels in tissue could be decreased by DXM(P0.05).CUR could inhibited the decrease of TAOC levels in serum and tis- sue at 2 and 24 h after reperfusion,respectively (P0.05,P0.01);TAOC levels in tissues at 2 h after reperfusion and those in serum at 24 h after reperfusion were significantly higher in the DXM group than in the vehicle group,respectively(P0.115).Levels of TNF-αand IL-6 in grafts of CUR and DXM groups were decreased as compared with those in vehicle group at 2 and 24 h after reperfu- sion,respectively.Conclusion Administration of CUR or DXM attenuated ischemia-reperfusion injury of lung grafts by inhibiting oxidation and inflammation.


The corporate world must take advantage of the trillions of dollars worth of intangible assets (in the form of knowledge) it possesses. Specialized Knowledge Management Systems (KMSs) are being developed to leverage these assets, and a critical issue is finding the most effective way for users to retrieve needed information from organizational knowledge stores. Research has detailed the problems inherent in using keyword searches, as well as the use of visual knowledge hierarchies to overcome some of these problems. This paper describes an experiment that will extend that research by addressing whether it is easier to find information in a large knowledge artifact store through a "browseable" dimensional document store or by performing a full-text search.


It is with great regret that we have had to tell you that Her Royal Highness, Princess Alexandra, is unable to be with us today to perforni the opening ceremony of our Congress. A few days ago Princess Alexandra's mother, Princess Marina, died rather suddenly and Her Royal Highness has cancelled all her immediate engagements. Princess Alexandra is very distressed at having to make this decision. Sir Geoffrey Organe, your President, has sent a message of sympathy to Princess Alexandra on behalf of the World Federation, as also have I from this Congress. On behalf of the Council and Members of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland I extend to you all a most cordial welcome to this country. We are delighted to see such a large gathering of anaesthesiologists from so many parts of the world and we are specially happy to see so many of your wives and families who have come with you. In 1964 we returned from Sao Paulo with the invitation from the World Federation to our Association to organise the next World Congress. We accepted this honour with enthusiasm. When I cast my mind back to that time, today (9 September 1968) seemed a very long time ahead. Those of you who have been concerned with the organisation of these gatherings will know how the years between one congress and another pass as the twinkling of an eye. It is, of course, essential to hand over the details of organisation to a small group of people, and although I shall have an opportunity later in the week publicly to thank, both individually and collectively the members of our Organising Committees, I do want at this very beginning of the week to say how grateful we are to them for having got us to the starting post. We realise the challenge of the high standards set at Scheveningen, Toronto and Sao Paulo, as well as at the various Continental Congresses. We hope we shall not fail to meet this challenge.


ABSTRACT This paper presents a multi-index transportation problem. Here the fuzzy constrains are used. An efficient new solution procedure is developed to obtain the optimal distribution of commodities according to demand at the respective destinations. The solution procedure is illustrated with a numerical example. KEY WORD: Multi-index transportation problem, Goal programming, Priority, Membership function.


The CMOS image sensor using a PMOS transistor, is disclosed. The CMOS image sensor is a photodiode; The floating diffusion node that receives a charge generated by the photodiode via the first switch; A first second switch connecting between the power supply voltage and the floating diffusion node and resetting the floating diffusion node in response to a reset signal to the first power supply voltage; A first third switch connected between the node and the second node being based on the charge source to follow the first node to the voltage of the second node stored in the floating diffusion node; A fourth switch which connects the system to the first node and the output node in response to a selection signal output a voltage at the first node to the output node; And the second node and is connected to the output node including a current mirror portion for output through the current mirror output node, the mirrored current by mirroring the current flowing to the output node, the first power supply voltage level of the floating diffusion node until there is an effect that it is possible to fully reset and to prevent the 1 / f noise. A CMOS image sensor, a PMOS transistor


the this year ̂ , or about 18,990,000 . , . . st imate on nar tment based it F s. ,n practically alii improved cornbin the states On the morning of Thursday, September IO, Coach E. . " Doc" Stewart will open his fall football training camp on i n JUR c # 10,000 the University of Texas cam9 l N J U K t , c IM r l 0 pus, and all male students of the University who think that they have any football ability are invited to attend this camp. Coaches .Tames, Littlefield, and Alderson will be on hand at this tim e to assist in the training. All men are requested to report on the afternoon of the 9th and receive equipment and be on thA2 PA R D O N S ISSUED Carl A. Rehm Joins University School of Business A d ministration Faculty


In the paper we focus on the target group - students with specific needs. These are students with disabilities. We describe individual disabilities, the creation of a Support Centre for Students with Special Needs. We focus on its activity, mission. We describe what support services are provided to students with specific needs. The need for support services for students with special needs is mapped by faculty coordinators, who work closely with the university coordinator. What support services are provided to students with special needs is regulated by legislation, the Higher Education Act. We present the number of students with special needs for the last five years: from 2016/2017 to 2020/2021. In this paper we present a picture of good practice focused on the intervention of students with special needs at the University of St. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava with emphasis on the Faculty of Social Sciences University of St. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava. What is the intervention we obtain on the basis of interviews with the Vice-Rector for Education, the head of the Support Centre for Students with Special Needs and the selected students with special needs of the Faculty of Social Sciences University of St. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava. Our findings from the testimonies of participants, students with specific needs we will then be implemented in practice.


Introduction
The utility of genetic risk information relies on the assumption that individuals will use the information to change behavior to reduce risk of developing health problems. Educational interventions designed to target elements of the Health Belief Model have shown to be effective in promoting behaviors for positive outcomes.

Methods
A randomized controlled trial (RCT) was conducted in 325 college students to assess whether a brief, online educational intervention altered elements of the Health Belief Model that are known to be associated with motivations and intentions to change behavior. The RCT included a control condition, an intervention condition that received information about alcohol use disorder (AUD), and an intervention condition that received information about polygenic risk scores and AUD. We used t tests and ANOVA methods to compare differences in beliefs related to the Health Belief Model across study conditions and demographic characteristics.

Results
Providing educational information did not impact worry about developing AUD, perceived susceptibility and severity of developing alcohol problems, or perceived benefits and barriers of risk-reducing actions. Individuals in the condition that received educational information about polygenic risk scores and AUD reported higher perceived chance of developing AUD than individuals in the control condition (adj. p < 0.01). Sex, race/ethnicity, family history, and drinking status were associated with several components of the Health Belief Model.

Conclusion
Findings from this study demonstrate the need to better design and refine the educational information intended to accompany the return of genetic feedback for AUD to better promote risk-reducing behaviors.


Objective To evaluate the Magnetic Resonance Cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) combined with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI source images in the management of patients with relative indication of common bile duct exploration (CBDE).Methods One hundred and four consecutive patients with relative indication of CBDE were explored by MRCP+MRI source images.All the findings were interpreted by two experienced radiologists.The definitive diagnosis was established by intraoperative CBDE,clinical follow-up and other investigations of imaging examination.Results The unnecessary intraoperative CBDE was avoided in 59 patients (56.7%),among them 5 cases (4.8%) were diagnosed as having other diseases.Basing on the results of MRCP+MRI source images,the patients who got appropriate management accounted for 84.6% (88/104).The sensitivity,specificity and positive and negative predictive values of MRCP+MRI source images for the diagnosis of common bile duct stones were 96.7%,98.5%,96.7%,98.5% respectively,with an excellent inter-observer agreement (kappa=0.9).Conclusion MRCP+MRI source images can be used to efficiently screen patients who may need further invasive exploration of the common bile duct and decrease the negative rate of intraoperative CBDE.


great privilege of being invited to deliver this centenary Bradshaw lecture. William Wood Augustus Fitz-Milton Bradshaw died 100 years ago last August. Dr. Bradshaw, a member of this College, was clearly a man of intelligence, culture, and charm, but not a great deal seems to be known about his work beyond the conduct of a busy practice in Reading. In life, so far as I am aware, he had no outstanding professional claim to fame; in death his name has become well known to medicine in this country. His widow bequeathed £1,000 to the College in her will dated 6 September 1875 to found this annual lecture in honour of her husband. He is thus chiefly remembered here each year because he inspired his wife with pride and with affection. Men have been commemorated for lesser achievements. Many more would be famous if their work received the acknowledgement which their wives thought to be its due. Mrs. Bradshaw wrote on her husband's tombstone: " Such as he will never fade." Each time we remember him on this occasion we make her faith a little more secure. In the same year that William Bradshaw died, at the age of 66, another more famous doctor ended his life at 68, for this year is also the hundredth anniversary of the death of Thomas Hodgkin. Such a concurrence of centenaries encouraged me to select Hodgkin's disease as the subject for this Bradshaw lecture. Thomas Hodgkin was a man of parts: he could have addressed you in Greek, Latin, French, German, or Italian. As a young


Waiting for service is a common thing in-hospital services. The more patients are waiting, the service delay increases, so waiting time in the queue gets longer. In health care in a hospital, a patient will queue several times in more than one queue in a hospital outpatient installation. The case study in this research is the queue system in the hospital's outpatient treatment, implementing an open Jackson queueing network to minimize waiting time. The workstations examined in this study were the registration, pre-consultation, and cardiology poly consultation, and pharmacy. The data is carried out for six days, counting the number of arrivals and departures with each point at intervals of 5 minutes. Applying the Jackson open queue network model, a recommendation was obtained for the hospital to increase employees' numbers. The registration workstation must have four servers; a poly cardiology workstation had three nurses and four doctors, while for pharmacy, had seven employees. With this personnel's addition, patients' total waiting time in the queuing system is approximately 12 minutes/patient. So, it can reduce waiting times in the queueing system that was initially 108 minutes/patient.


To satisfy the technological and control requirement of gas pressure regulating station(GPRS) in a gas-fired power plant,a configuration design has been conducted with Siemens software WinCC Flexible 2007 for the MP277 touchscreen,the panel display suiting the monitoring requirement of GPRS is thus created,which makes the control more convenient.


Concrete bricks made up of cement, sand, coarse aggregate(CA) and Reused EPS were prepared with Cement : Sand : (EPS and CA) ratio of 1:1.5:3. To determine the effect of EPS/CA ratio on cost perbrick, 100/0, 90/10, 80/20, 70/30 and 0/100 mix proportion by volume were used. The bricks were prepared by hand mixing and hand compaction. Cost per brick for each composition was calculated including material, labour and wastage cost.


Internet of Things (IoT) software should provide good support for IoT devices as IoT devices are growing in quantity and complexity. Communication between IoT devices is largely realized in a concurrent way. How to ensure the correctness of concurrent access becomes a big challenge to IoT software development. This paper proposes a general refactoring framework for fine-grained read–write locking and implements an automatic refactoring tool to help developers convert built-in monitors into fine-grained ReentrantReadWriteLocks. Several program analysis techniques, such as visitor pattern analysis, alias analysis, and side-effect analysis, are used to assist with refactoring. Our tool is tested by several real-world applications including HSQLDB, Cassandra, JGroups, Freedomotic, and MINA. A total of 1072 built-in monitors are refactored into ReentrantReadWriteLocks. The experiments revealed that our tool can help developers with refactoring for ReentrantReadWriteLocks and save their time and energy.


Orthogonal Least Square (OLS) based Radial Basis Function (RBF) network is developed for a batch distillation process to estimate the product compositions from temperature measurements. The dynamics of the batch distillation was generated by varying the initial feed composition and boilup rate from batch to batch and within each batch reflux ratio was also randomly changed. The results show the potential of the method for developing a soft sensor for chemical processes.


An organic light emitting transistor includes: a first electrode positioned on a substrate; a gate electrode positioned on the first electrode and including an opening formed at a center region; a first auxiliary layer positioned within the opening; an organic emission layer positioned on the first auxiliary layer and the gate electrode; a second auxiliary layer positioned on the organic emission layer; and a second electrode positioned on the second auxiliary layer.


An effective doctor-patient relationship serves as a major element in reducing malpractice suits. Here are additional reminders that may be helpful.


Radioactive zinc (/sup 65/Zn) uptake in the mouse fetus was studied as a function of time after administration. The fetal uptake of /sup 65/Zn increased markedly with time after administration to the pregnant mice of gestation period Day 17, i.e., from 0.28 percent of the dose 30 min after administration to 2.25 percent of the dose 24 hr after administration. The similar increasing tendency of /sup 65/Zn uptake was also observed in the fetal membranes, whereas the placental uptake decreased with time. The pregnant mice of Days 12, 15, 17, and 18 of gestation received a single dose of /sup 65/Zn, and the fetal uptake was observed daily until parturition. The fetal uptake of /sup 65/Zn increased with progression of gestation period after administration, and the /sup 65/Zn concentrations in the fetus exceeded those in the maternal blood. From these observations, it was assumed that there was no placental barrier against /sup 65/Zn transfer from dam to fetus in mice.


A matrix code and color Image based information hiding algorithm is proposed in this paper,and the experi-ment results indicate that this algorithm can effectively reduce the modification of source image and have comparatively good PSNR and invisibility.


: Offshore platforms have complex structures, high construction costs and harsh operating environments. To prevent serious and fatal accidents, regular/irregular inspections and safety assessments of outdoor platform systems are required during work. Especially for external platforms in the middle and late stages of operation and platforms that are not running, it is more important to perform effective health detection. The purpose of this paper is to study the identification of structural parameters of offshore platforms based on the reality and virtual technology. This paper summarizes the feedback-based linear structure parameter identification methods at home and abroad in recent years, and makes a comprehensive analysis of its application origin, research importance, research status at home and abroad, existing research methods and existing problems. This paper points out that the main problem in the application of output response-based modal parameter identification technology in the field of water engineering is to eliminate the noise and null conditions of measurement signals and signal keys. Denoising and removing spurious noise is a logical model command. Experiments have shown that the recognition results are very close to the real values, and the recognition accuracy will decrease in the presence of noisy signals, and the use of virtual reality technology can improve the accuracy by about 10%.


The structure and performance of vertex chamber of BESII are described. It covers 95 % x 4 pi of solid angle with the spatial resolution of sigma (phi) approximate to 100 mum and sigma (z) approximate to 2mm respectively.


The article considers the changes in the understanding of the notion « a goal of education» since the period of antiquity till nowadays, regarding in more details contemporary approaches to this notion. Especially, the author observes problem education and its logical continuation context education, as well as the discussions of the question of stating the notion «goal» and real goals and their corrections with the help of political means.


Objective To examine the thyroid function and the occurrence of thyroid diseases in people living in of Xinhui area. Methods Between April 2005 and Sept 2006, random check of the thyroid function was performed in people living in Huicheng town, Yamen town, Luokang town and Duruan town. The results were compared with the information obtained from in-patients in this hospital. A total of 12 036 subjects were examined. Several parameters, such as incidence of thyroid diseases, sex, and age, were also included in the analysis. Results The percentage of subjects with abnormal indices are 8.5% (T3 ), 8.5% (T4), 7.6% (FT3), 7.6% (FT4), and 21.5% (TSH) in Group A, and 19% (T3), 18.4% (T4), 16.8% (FT3), 16% (FT4), and 30.8% (TSH) in Group B. The incidence of thyroid disease in these 4 towns is in the order of Yamen town Luokang town Huicheng town Duruan town. The total number of incidence in these 4 towns was 21.5%, and the value was lower than the in-patients (29.8%). The incidence is high in the population with the age of 31~40. The total number of thyroid diseases in these 2 groups are 782 (male) and 2 199 (female). The ratio of occurrence the thyroid disease between male and female was 1∶2.8, and the occurrence of hyperthyroidism between male and female was 1∶4. Conclusion The incidence of hyperthyroidism in people living in Xinhui area is high. Consumption of foods with high iodine content may be a risk factor.


This is the final research report within the framework of the Dutch Bicycle Master Plan's 'Education' project. The report shows per age group: (1) which educational goals have to be carried out; (2) which activities are necessary to realize the educational goals; and (3) which persons are therefore required. Based on this target group analysis, the report gives nine concrete recommendations for new educational programmes. These recommendations are mainly aimed at enhancing both the safety and use of bicycles. The report also contains an evaluation of existing traffic education programmes. It appears that these programmes are characterized by inadequacies. An example of this is the absence of education programmes for cyclists with little cycling experience.


Many natural materials have the ability to rotate the polarization level of linearly polarized laser beam and pass through it. This phenomenon is called optical activity. In the event that a light beam (linearly polarized) passes through an optically active material, such as a quartz crystal, and projected vertically on the optical axis, the output beam will be polarized equatorially, and the vibration level will rotate at a certain angle [1], [2], [3]. A number of crystals, liquids, solutions, and vapors rotate the electric field of linearly polarized light that passes through them [4], [5], [6], [7]. Many different physical effects are applied to optical isotropic and transparent materials that cause them to behave as optical active materials, where they are able to rotate the polarization level of the polarized light linearly and pass through it [8], [9], [10]. These effects include mechanical strength, electric field, and magnetic field. By placing one of these effects on an optically transparent medium, it changes the behavior of the light travelling through it [11].


Objective To investigate a new method of space based on Treatment Goal(SABTG). Comprehensive Crowding Index (CCI) could be achieved from the measurements performed on the scanned model image and the result could be applied to assist clinical treatment planning.Method Thirty-five well treated cases were chosen.According to the pre-treatment arch form,individual arch form was established and a stainless steel arch wire was made to be used as the standard curve for measurement.Such arch wire was fixed on the model according to correction value of lower incisor protrusion obtained from large-sample analysis.Measurements were performed on scanning images and CCI were achieved respectively.The results were compared with the routine space analysis results and the clinical treatment results.Result Correction value of lower incisor protrusion used in SABTG was closer to the true change value compared with the routine method(P0.001).It indicated that SABTG could provide more accurate information to anchorage design.Consistency with the clinical treatment results for SABTG in lower dentition was 94.3 %, while that for the routine method was only 77.1% (P0.05) indicating that statistically significant difference existed between these two methods.Conclusion Space Analysis Based on Treatment Goal (SABTG) was a reliable and practical method to do space analysis.It could be used to assist clinical treatment planning.


It introduced a variety of anti-wrinkle effictive evaluation principles and applications, and the advantages and disadvantages were briefly analyzed. It provided reference for the selection and use of the method of effective evaluation.


The distribution of the convex hull of a random sample of d-dimensional variables is described by embedding the collection of convex sets into the space of continuous functions on the unit sphere. Weak convergence of the normalized convex hull of a circular Gaussian sample to a process with extreme-value marginal distributions is demonstrated. The proof shows that an underlying sequence of point processes converges to a Poisson point process and then applies the continuous mapping theorem. Several properties of the limit process are determined.


It is undeniable that the past ten years have produced an impressive list of impor tant results in the field of High Energy and Particle Physics. From the pioneering Stanford Experi ments (1967) on the deep structure of the proton to the recent confirmations of the unifying theory of electromagnetic and weak interactions (the electroweak theory of Glashow, Salam and Weinberg), our knowledge of this fascinating area of scien tific endeavour has registered considerable advances. Let me briefly review some of the most striking and unchallenged achievements of Particle Physics in the past decade.


With the continuous development of computer technology and microelectronics technology, image processing technology is constantly being improved, especially real-time image processing technology has been studied by a large number of scholars. This article aims to achieve the purpose of FPGA-based fast image processing through the research of FPGA's fast image processing algorithm. Based on the advantages of FPGA high-speed hardware computing and parallel computing, this paper proposes a design based on FPGA parallel dual template strategy, and designs a comparative experiment to verify. Obtain objective evaluation indexes of image processing results through experiments, and analyze the data results. The experimental results show that: the implementation of the mean filter algorithm based on FPGA parallel dual templates, the time required is about half that of the mean filter algorithm based on FPGA single templates. Relative to the reference Matlab software programming method to achieve 678 times performance improvement. It shows that the realization method of the mean filter algorithm based on FPGA parallel dual template is feasible. Give full play to the advantages of FPGA parallel processing data, improve the processing speed of the image algorithm module.


Objective The aim of this study was to determine whether expressions of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) ,excision repair cross-complementing (ERCC1) ,epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and gene amplification of EGFR could predict clinical outcome in patients with advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) treated with platinum-based chemotherapy. Methods The study population consisted of 57 advanced ESCC. Patients were treated with platinum-based chemotherapy. The expressions of HER2,ERCC1 and EGFR and gene amplification of EGFR in primary tumors were examined by immunehistochemistry and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) ,respectively. Results The positive rates of HER2,ERCC1 and EGFR were 15. 8% ,47. 4% and 55. 3% ,respectively. Among EGFR expression (++ ) and (+++ ) patients(n = 24) ,the rate of EGFR gene amplification was 16. 7% . HER2,ERCC1 and EGFR expression were not related to objective response rate(ORR) 、 time to tumor progression(TTP) and overall survival(OS) . There was a trend that the median OS was shorter in patients with EGFR gene amplification(P = 0. 226) . Conclusions Immunohistochemical studies for HER2、ERCC1 and EGFR may not be useful in prediction of the clinical outcome in advanced ESCC patients treated with platinum-based chemotherapy. New predictive biomarkers were required.


Introduction 1. The Importance of the Middle East 2. Military and Non-Military Actors 3. The Requisites of Military Policy 4. Oil and Force 5. The Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula 6. The Crises of Conservatism in the Eastern Mediterranean 7. Entangling Commitment: The Soviet Union and the Arab-Israeli Conflict 8. Israeli Security: The American Dilemma 9. The Risks of Superpower Confrontation 10. The Costs of Military Policy 11. Conclusions and Implications Bibliography Index.


We use high-resolution N-body numerical simulations to study the number of predicted large-separation multiply imaged systems produced by clusters of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometric and spectroscopic quasar samples. We incorporate the condensation of baryons at the centre of clusters by (artificially) adding a brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) as a truncated isothermal sphere. We make predictions in two flat cosmological models: a Lambda cold dark matter (Lambda CDM) model with a matter density Omega(m,0) = 0.3, sigma(8) = 0.9 (Lambda CDM 0) and a model favoured by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) three-year data with Omega(m,0) = 0.238 and sigma(8)= 0.74 (WMAP3). We found that the predicted multiply imaged quasars with separation > 10 arcsec is about 6.2 and 2.6 for the SDSS photometric (with an effective area of 8000 deg(2)) and spectroscopic (with an effective area of 5000 deg(2)) quasar samples, respectively, in the Lambda CDM0 model; the predicted numbers of large-separation lensed quasars agree well with the observations. These numbers are reduced by a factor of 7 or more in the WMAP3 model, and are consistent with the data at less than or similar to 8 per cent level. The predicted cluster lens redshift peaks around redshift 0.5, and 90 per cent are between 0.2 and 1. The ratio of systems with at least four image systems (N-img >= 4) and those with N-img >= 2 is about 1/3.5 for both the Lambda CDM0 and the WMAP3 models, and for both the photometric and the spectroscopic quasar samples. We find that the BCG creates a central circular region, comparable to the Einstein ring of the BCG, where the central image disappears in the usual three- and five-image configurations. If we include four image systems as an extreme case of five-image systems (with an infinitely demagnified central image), we find that 68 per cent of the central images are fainter by a factor of 100 than the brightest image and about 80 per cent are within 1.5 arcsec of the BCG.


Municipal solid waste source separation at the household level has been endorsed as the way forward by all stakeholders in the waste management sector in Ghana. The study using waste stream analyses and laboratory investigations assesses the feasibility of this intervention in the Accra Metropolitan Area which has been divided into three income zones. The mean waste percentage composition was dominated by 75% organic and 8% plastic waste. Mean values for total carbon, available carbon, nitrogen, C/N and moisture values were 90.2, 45.1, 1.83, 27.6 and 51.7% respectively. The low income high density zone recorded higher separation levels followed by high income low density and middle income low density zones. The study recommends that the policies to guide its successful implementation should be supported by public education and the right infrastructure.


An estimated 52 million Americans will have osteoporosis and low bone mass by next year, according to the National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF), constituting what the Surgeon General 5 years ago termed "a major public health threat" with "epidemic" proportions. For 25 years, the NOF has been dedicated to preventing osteoporosis and related fractures, promoting lifelong bone health, improving the lives of those affected by the condition and—through programs of awareness, advocacy, public and health professional education, and research—finding a cure. This year, the NOF is marking its 25th anniversary by providing sets of 25 osteoporosis and bone health educational materials for patients and their physicians.


BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE
Periodontitis is a severe chronic inflammatory disease and one of the most prevalent non-communicable chronic diseases that affects the majority of the world's adult population. While great efforts have been devoted toward understanding the pathogenesis of periodontitis, there remains a pressing need for developing potent therapeutic strategies for targeting this dreadful disease. In this study, we utilized adeno-associated virus (AAV) expressing cathepsin K (Ctsk) small hairpin (sh)RNA (AAV-sh-Ctsk) to silence Ctsk in vivo and subsequently evaluated its impact in periodontitis as a potential therapeutic strategy for this disease.

MATERIAL AND METHODS
We used a known mouse model of periodontitis, in which wild-type BALB/cJ mice were infected with Porphyromonas gingivalis W50 in the maxillary and mandibular periodontium to induce the disease. AAV-sh-Ctsk was then administrated locally into the periodontal tissues in vivo, followed by analyses to assess progression of the disease.

RESULTS
AAV-mediated Ctsk silencing drastically protected mice (> 80%) from P. gingivalis-induced bone resorption by osteoclasts. In addition, AAV-sh-Ctsk administration drastically reduced inflammation by impacting the expression of many inflammatory cytokines as well as T-cell and dendritic cell numbers in periodontal lesions.

CONCLUSION
AAV-mediated Ctsk silencing can simultaneously target both the inflammation and bone resorption associated with periodontitis through its inhibitory effect on immune cells and osteoclast function. Thereby, AAV-sh-Ctsk administration can efficiently protect against periodontal tissue damage and alveolar bone loss, establishing this AAV-mediated local silencing of Ctsk as an important therapeutic strategy for effectively treating periodontal disease.


In the world, microorganisms are the main cause of eye illnesses. Common bacterial infections of the eye, if untreated, can damage the eye's structures and lead to blindness and other visual impairments. The eye may get infected from the outside or as a result of bloodstream-borne germs invading the eye. Infectious bacteria can cause eye infections. Blepharitis, conjunctivitis, Listeriosis, keratitis, dacryocystitis, etc. are some of the frequent eye illnesses brought on by bacterial and fungal pathogens. The information on the variety of ocular surface microorganisms has been significantly increased by the series of genome-based methods through 16S rRNA gene-based identification.
According to this research, a sufficient number of bacteria have a substantial part in the pathophysiology of eye illnesses, even though certain bacteria contribute to normal ocular processes. As a result, those with good vision can shed light on the intricacy of the ocular microflora and learn more about some visual requirements in addition to their vital contribution to the regular operation of the eye. Under these conditions, it is crucial to establish a quick, dependable, and affordable procedure that will eventually become a standard diagnostic process. In this literature review, many databases have searched, and the review has been methodically conducted to produce specific results for the hard eye infection disorders.


The main aim of this study was to assess influence of mother tongue on English Language during group discussion. The informants of the study were in students and teachers at Bachira secondary school. The researcher selected 25 students who were randomly selected and two English language teachers who were selected purposively. The researcher used questionnaire and interview in order to collect relevant data from the respondents. The researcher used statistic and thematic analysis of data in order to analyze the collected data from the respondents. The result of the study indicated that the lack of confident and lack of knowledge of the target language where the most influential factors for student to use their mother tongue in group discussion at Bachira secondary school. Thus, to minimize these problems it is recommended that teachers should strive to improve students' confidence in group discussion.


A method of increasing the efficiency of various robotic and mechatronic systems based on the method of analysis and optimization synthesis is presented. The proposed method is implemented by the example of improving the efficiency of the functioning of individual components that are part of various mechatronic systems. In particular, the article presents the results of modeling the magnetic field of an electric motor using the finite element analysis program FEMM. Maintaining a high efficiency of the electric motor in an extended range of rotation speeds is ensured by turning the rotor magnets and introducing an angle of advance of the current supply to the stator windings.


The creative thinking is an evident characteristic of Mao Zedong thought.Subject of revolution and war built his historical basis,and Chinese revolution and practice built his pull basis. Independent thinking built his thought basis. Splendid and great philosophy of Marxism built his philosophy basis.


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This paper aims to examine the relationship between social reproduction and the production of space and, more specifically, the role of unpaid reproductive work in the unequal production of urban space. Although many studies have addressed the social dimension of space in cities, there nevertheless remains a lack of theory relating to the production of space through the oppression and privilege associated, with or caused by, the relations of social reproduction. With the aim of helping to fill this gap, the spatiality of unpaid reproductive work was studied through intersectional analysis. This was done by exploring the spatial practice of the temporary load of unpaid reproductive work as an element responsible for inequality and by relating this to the dimensions of: 1) space and time, and 2) class, sex and age. This intersectional approach allowed us to analyse inequalities in social reproduction and identify spaces of privilege and spaces of oppression in terms of unpaid reproductive work. The study focused on the Balearic Islands and used the latest Time Use Survey (TUS) available in Spain. It is a dialogue between critical urban geography, urban sociology and feminist theory, which makes it possible to visualise the power relations and urban inequality that have derived from the sexual division of labour within the logic of historical capitalism.


Throughout the twentieth century, the intellectual's duty was the "ethics of conviction" while that of a politician was, after the manner of Weber, the "ethics of responsibility". Today, as never before, the tragic sense of crisis demands that men of culture take the responsibility of getting their hands dirty. Therein lies the value cited by Piero Bertolini in the last issue of our review and therein lies the necessity to look again at the relationship between paedogogy and politics as one of the crucial elements in the historical development of western culture in order to show that the crisis in politics and the crisis in paedogogy are two sides of the same coin. And since this coin has turned politics into a mere means of rationalizing existence, the only task of paedogogy is to ail the wheels of social machinery. The crisis in democracy - i.e. in politics - has also become a crisis in paedogogy, given that now everything which counts lies in the criterion of "speed", this being the ultimate means of absolute domination over the world. The author believes that simply taking time to be reflective and perhaps even adopting slowness as the means with which to question meaning may be able to snatch Man back from the negativity in education and politics to which he has been exposed at the end of the twentieth century.


Real-world networks are typically described in terms of nodes, links, and communities, having signal values often associated with them. The aim of this letter is to introduce a novel Compound Markov random field model (Compound MRF, or CMRF) for signals defined over graphs, encompassing jointly signal values at nodes, edge weights, and community labels. The proposed CMRF generalizes Markovian models previously proposed in the literature, since it accounts for different kinds of interactions between communities and signal smoothness constraints. Finally, the proposed approach is applied to (joint) graph learning and signal recovery. Numerical results on synthetic and real data illustrate the competitive performance of our method with respect to other state-of-the-art approaches.


Innovative guidelines and tools for vulnerable road users safety in India and Brazil. D4.3 Evaluation of the best practice recommendations and guidelines based on the road safety audit at the two pilot studies [applicability of guidelines to pilot roads]


The literature warns of the problematic nature of predictions of dangerousness. This article discusses two studies investigating the role of personal characteristics-notably race, social class, and criminal history-in evaluations for dangerousness. In the first study, 100 mental health professionals rated altered case history profiles. Analysis of variance revealed that social class and criminal history significantly influenced the raters' evaluations. In the second study, descriptive and discriminant analysis revealed that social power variables distinguished best between 30 forensic hospital patients judged dangerous and 30 others judged nondangerous. Social power variables and a history of violent criminal behavior were found to be of importance in the assessment of dangerousness.