Objective To investigate the correlation of apparent diffusion coefficient(ADC)value with the tumor cellularity of lymphoma and the stage of lymphoma progression.Methods Murine lymphoma models were prepared by A20 cells implantation for 30 Balb/c mice.Diffusion weighted imaging(DWI)was performed in mice of different progression stages.The signal intensities of lesions on the DWI were observed,and the ADC value of them were measured.Cellularity of lymphoma was analyzed using Image-J 1.42q software.The difference in ADC value and tumor cellularity among different stages of lymphoma was compared,the relationship of ADC value with tumor cellularity and the stage of lymphoma progression was analyzed.Results The mean ADC(in units of 10-3 mm2/s)value of lymphomas at stage Ⅲ(0.37±0.08)was significantly lower than that of stage Ⅱ(0.47±0.08)and Ⅰ(0.69±0.07)(F=43.13,P0.05).The mean cellularity of lymphomas at stage Ⅲ(48.85±4.04)% was significantly higher than that of stage Ⅱ(42.65±4.48)% and Ⅰ(31.75±4.19)%(F=41.72,P0.05).There was significantly negative correlation between ADC value and tumor cellularity(r=-0.82,P0.01),also between ADC value and the stage of lymphoma progression(r=-0.84,P0.01).Conclusion ADC value can be used to evaluate the progression of lymphoma.Therefore,it is helpful in analyzing the biological property,predicting prognosis,guiding treatment and monitoring the effect of their treatments.


TmB4 is a frustrated system based on the Shastry–Sutherland lattice that exhibits complex magnetic properties. In this contribution the magnetic field B vs. temperature T phase diagram of TmB4 has been studied by ultrasensitive AC calorimetry in the temperature range between 2.9 and 12 K and in magnetic fields up to 8 T. Apart from already known phases our measurements have recognized several new phase transitions suggesting that the phase diagram of TmB4 is even more complex and deserves further studies.


Indonesia has a great potential in fisheries sector, especially aquaculture. With more than 70% ocean covered the whole country and favorable waters condition for various commercially fish, the economical prospect for mariculture in Indonesia is unquestionable. Various species have been successfully cultured in Indonesian Waters using floating net cages gaining a million tonnes of production each year. The main problem of this activity is the excessive cost resulting from the use of expensive commercial feed that contain high amount protein. To tackle this problem, an additional chromium-yeast enriched feed have been explored to increase the feed efficiency of several important marine fish commodities. Here we reviewed several physiological implication of chromium-yeast enriched feed to specific marine fish Silver Pompano (Trachinotus blochii, Lacepede) and Cantang Grouper (Epinephelus fuscoguttatus-lanceolatus) through its survival rate, Daily Growth rate (DGR) and Feed Utilization Efficiency (FUE). Overall the literature reported a beneficial and comparable performance of chromium-yeast enriched feed to the aforementioned fish without giving toxicity effect as the chromium contain in the fish flesh still below several standards. This give hopes to the new cost effective yet efficient feed in mariculture. The first page should be used only for Title/ Keyword/ Abstract section. The main paper will start from second page.


* B. A. Goucher; LL.B. Cornell; Directing Attorney, Cornell Legal Aid Clinic. Appreciation is expressed to Robert E. Lehrer (B.A. Yale; 2d year student, Harvard Law School) for his assistance in the preparation of this comment. B.D.F. UNTIL RECENTLY, THE FEDERAL COURTS REFUSED TO REVIEW CHARGES which arose as a result of state prison disciplinary procedures. The aggrieved prisoners, therefore, could only pursue whatever remedies, if any, were available to them in state courts.' But given the virtually unanimous and marked reluctance of state and federal courts to review


Mainly discusses the software architecture based on SOA,including the concept and character about SOA,the architecture about SOA.Then analyzes the difference between SOA and OO.At last brings forward the enterprise integrated application based on SOA.SOA has code,defining developer role,supporting many kinds of customer type,apt maintain,elasticity kind,usability high characteristic.SOA help person who builds up business system with rapidly,reliable having framework whole business systemming of putting in a position.


The data of experimental and theoretical studies of the mechanisms of structure formation in the crystallization of polymer composites based on polycarbonate filled with carbon nanotubes or microparticles of aluminum are given. The results of the analysis of the experimental data on the crystallization kinetics in accordance with the equations of nucleation and Kolmogorov-Avrami are submitted. The mechanisms of crystallization of considered polymeric micro- and nanocomposites on the initial crystallization step (nucleation step) and the step of crystallization in the volume of material as a whole are established.


The slump test, initially developed to determine the flow properties of fresh concrete, has been adopted as a means of accurately measuring the yield stress of strongly flocculated suspensions. The slump test offers a quick and easy way of measuring yield stress without the need for sophisticated electronic equipment, thereby giving plant operators an effective tool for determining yield stress. The model used to predict the yield stress from the conical slump test was devised by Murata (1984) and corrected by Christensen (1991). In the present case the theory has been adapted for a cylindrical geometry. Yield stress measurements obtained with the vane for numerous mineral suspensions under known surface chemistry conditions are compared to the slump measurements and theoretical prediction. Good agreement is obtained.


The article deals with the development of a computational model of an engine, a transmission and a clutch. These parts of the powertrain were created using blocks from the libraries of the Simulink software while the input parameters for individual components were set on the basis of constructional CAD documentation of the vehicle. The creation of the computational model is described and some of the results of the Simulink simulations are presented. Furthermore, examples of the simulations of gear ratio change and cranktrain torsional vibration analysis are shown at the end of this article.


Process Management Systems (PMSs) are currently more and more used as a supporting tool for cooperative processes in pervasive and highly dynamic situations, such as emergency situations or pervasive health-care. In these scenarios, the environment may change in a way that was not expected so as to prevent processes from being successfully carried out. The frequency and the types of unexpected changes are significantly higher and larger than in classical business domains. Therefore, a manual adaptation is not feasible as well as defining in advance how to manage all possible changes which may occur. This paper illustrates SmartPM, a model and a prototype PMS that features a set of sound and complete techniques to automatically cope with unplanned changes. Specifically, the theoretical foundation and the general framework will be described, as well as the concrete implementation and its validation.


Lithium Iron phosphate (LiFePO4) battery has obtained extensive attention of researchers for its high energy density, little contamination and ready availability. In this paper, different numbers of RC branches in the equivalent Thevenin circuit model are explored by comparing accuracy of curve fitting with in-house experimental data. Besides, battery system with 6 cells of second order equivalent circuit is modeled using Matlab/Simscape. A multirate strong tracking extended filter (MRSTEKF) is proposed by introducing the multirate control strategy and lifting technology into strong tracking extended Kalman filter (STEKF) to improve tracking stability and estimation precision of state of charge (SOC). Root mean square error (RMSE) is exploited to evaluate the performance of the algorithms of extended Kalman filter (EKF), STEKF and MRSTEKF. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed MRSTEKF is faster than EKF and STEKF by 55.34% and 49.51%, and is more precise by 52.66% and 33.88%.


In 1785, the great English poet William Cowper composed the famous lines, "Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour." While Cowper was referring to the physical world, his sentiment also captures the importance of variety and variability in numerous biologic processes.


In recent decades, digital transformation has received growing attention worldwide, that has leveraged the explosion of digitized document data. In this paper, we address the problem of parsing publications, in particular, Vietnamese publications. The Vietnamese publications are well-known with high variant, diverse layouts, and some characters are equivocal in the visual form due to accent symbols and derivative characters that pose many challenges. To this end, we collect the UIT-DODV-Ext dataset: a challenging Vietnamese document image including scientific papers and textbooks with 5,000 fully annotated images. We introduce a general framework to parse Vietnamese publications containing two components: page object detection and caption recognition. We further conduct an extensive benchmark with various state-of-the-art object detection and text recognition methods. Finally, we present a hybrid parser which achieves the top place in the benchmark. Extensive experiments on the UIT-DODV-Ext dataset provide a comprehensive evaluation and insightful analysis.


Lymphoedema is a chronic disease which requires frequent visits to therapist in developed countries. In most developing countries, it is the disease of rural area caused by lymphatic filariasis (LF). The aim is to develop a low cost home-based self-care protocol using the combinations of locally available treatment modalities. The integrated treatment has the elements of therapy from modern dermatology, Ayurveda and yoga, administered by the doctors of respective system of medicine on the basis of pathophysiological understanding in lymphology. The sequence of treatment components that each patient followed is skin wash, soaking the limb in herbal Phanta solution, care of bacterial entry points, a set of yoga exercises, Indian manual lymph drainage and compression bandaging. A total of 1209 limbs in 889 patients were treated using integrated medicine during October 2004–May 2011. All patients received an initial 14 days of supervised treatment and training for self-care and home-based treatment to be cont...


Multiple potent covalent inhibitors for mutant KRAS G12C have been described and some are in clinical trials. These small molecule inhibitors potentially allow for companion imaging probe development, thereby expanding the chemical biology toolkit to investigate mutant KRAS biology. Herein, a series of fluorescent companion imaging drugs for KRAS G12C, using two scaffolds, ARS‐1323 and AMG‐510 is synthesized and tested. Four fluorescent derivatives of each by attaching BODIPY dyes are created. It is found that two fluorescent derivatives (BODIPY FL and BODIPY TMR) of ARS‐1323 bind mutant KRAS and can be used for biochemical binding screens. Unfortunately, these drugs cannot be used as direct imaging agents in cells, likely because of nonspecific membrane labeling. To circumvent this challenge, a two step procedure is then used in cancer cells where an ARS‐1323 alkyne is used for target binding followed by fluorescence imaging after in situ click chemistry with picolyl azide Alexa Fluor 647. It is shown that this approach can be used to image mutant KRAS G12C directly in cells. Given the current lack of mutant KRAS G12C specific antibodies, these reagents can be useful for specific fluorescence imaging.


On pure states of n quantum bits, the concurrence entanglement monotone returns the norm of the inner product of a pure state with its spin-flip. The monotone vanishes for n odd, but for n even there is an explicit formula for its value on mixed states, i.e., a closed-form expression computes the minimum over all ensemble decompositions of a given density. For n even a matrix decomposition ν=k1ak2 of the unitary group is explicitly computable and allows for study of the monotone's dynamics. The side factors k1 and k2 of this concurrence canonical decomposition (CCD) are concurrence symmetries, so the dynamics reduce to consideration of the a factor. This unitary a phases a basis of entangled states, and the concurrence dynamics of u are determined by these relative phases. In this work, we provide an explicit numerical algorithm computing ν=k1ak2 for n odd. Further, in the odd case we lift the monotone to a two-argument function. The concurrence capacity of ν according to the double argument lift may be n...


In this work, magnetic graphene oxide (MGO) was prepared by in situ synthesis of magnetite nanoparticles in the presence of graphene oxide (GO). The prepared nanocomposite was characterized by applying scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM). MGO was applied as an efficient nano-sorbent for adsorptive removal of reactive red 195 (RR195). The adsorptive removal process of RR195 was modeled and optimized using the response surface methodology (RSM) based on central composite design (CCD). Important parameters influencing the adsorption of RR195 including pH, contact time, initial concentration of RR195 and adsorbent amount were selected as input variables for RSM. The highest adsorption capacity of MGO sorbent (77.2 mg g-1) was obtained at an initial dye concentration of 325 mg L-1, contact time of 65 min, adsorbent amount of 89.4 mg, and pH of 3.  Moreover, the adsorption isotherms and kinetics studies were performed, indicating that the adsorption process best fitted in pseudo-second-order model and Langmuir isotherm model, in which the maximum adsorption capacity, qm, was calculated to be 80 mg g-1.


This paper offers a preview ofNCHRP study 3-39(2), which deals with the calibration of weigh-in-motion (WIM) systems. The feasibility of two methods is explored, namely the use of a combination of test trucks and vehicle simulation models to account for the effect of axle dynamics, and the use of in-service vehicles equipped with automatic vehicle identification (A VI) systems to compare static and dynamic axle loads. The first method was tested through a field experiment involving three test trucks which were run repeatedly over three different types of W1M systems, namely a pressure-cell, a bending plate and a piezo-based system. Their dynamic behavior was modeled using the computer model VESYM. The models were calibrated through on board acceleration measurements. The second method was tested using the A VI facilities developed for the Heavy Vehicle Electronic License Plate (HELP) project on the 1-5 corridor. The static axle load of A VI-equipped vehicles was obtained from the Oregon DOT for two sites, namely Woodburn south-bound and Ashland north-bound. The WIM load data was obtained from Lockheed !MS for all the WIM systems on the 1':5 corridor. The data was analyzed to sort-out A VI numbers, dates and times of weighing. Time limits for traveling between sites were established to ensure that trucks had no time to stop and load/unload cargo between sites. Errors were calculated as the percent difference between W1M and static loads for individual axles/axle groups. Calibration factors were derived to set the mean axle weight error to zero. Software was written to handle all calculations.


The engineering example was analyzed and discussed from linear control,the group measurement control method was proposed,which resolved a series difficults of three-dimensional controls laying put speed was slow and the calculation process was complex,and obtained high effective goal,therefore accumulated relate experience for construction and measurement personnel.


In a British film culture dominated by social realism, video activism, materialist film and Screen theoryinformed practice, Handsworth Songs by the Black Audio Film Collective had a profound cultural impact when it was released in 1986. It created an aesthetic space from which questions of Afrodiasporic complexity became possible. If its immediate effect was to displace the amnesia endemic to debates around social crisis, its longer-term project was to participate in the reconfiguration of Britishness that characterised much artistic and intellectual activity during the 1980s.


Growing concern that U.S. power has been declining renews long-standing questions about how we should measure national power, which nations have the most, which states are gaining and losing power, and when such shifts might portend conflict. The authors illustrate a quantitative, scenario-based approach for policymakers, assess the impact of shocks on the balance of power, and identify periods when shifts in the balance could portend conflict.


The present invention provides an orally disintegrating tablet of tibolone and its preparation method, the pharmaceutical composition of the present invention comprises a main tibolone and disintegrating agents, fillers, flavoring agents for accessory ingredients. Pharmaceutical preparation of the present invention comprises mixing direct tableting, coating step, etc., tibolone advantage of the orally disintegrating tablet is a type that is able to water without disintegration or dissolution of the tablet in the oral cavity, swallowing with the digested Road, consistent with the in vivo behavior of ordinary tablets. With convenient administration, rapid absorption, high bioavailability characteristics, improved patient compliance, and increased clinical treatment of selected patients physician.


Izaña Atmospheric Research Centre, Joint Research U nit to CSIC 'Studies on Atmospheric Pollution', La Marina 20, planta 6, 38071, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Res earch, (CSIC), Luis Solé i Sabarís, 08028, Barcelon a Spain National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA), tmospheric Research and Instrumentation Branch, Torrejón de Ardoz, 28850, Madrid, Spain


Flooding is the biggest problem that almost every year occur in almost all regions in Malaysia, including Padang Terap District, Kedah. This study aims are to identify how
the role/coordination system of Padang Terap District Office in preparation for floods and to identify any action that has been provided by Padang Terap District Office and other agency in Padang Terap District in the face of the possibility of flooding in 2012's. This study focused on early action/preparedness for the possibility of flooding in Year 2012. This study used the Descriptive Qualitative Method, while the result of study observations made during a following the flood meetings and interviews conducted from a few of respondents. This study uses primary data and secondary data. Results of meetings and interviews from a few of respondents is as primary sources when important documents of the organization, projects documentation, as well as literature-literature library as a secondary source. From this study the result that the role of the Padang Terap District Office in face flood problems are as Coordinator (all aid or action that has been prepared by other agencies should be confirmed or submitted in advance to the Padang Terap District Office), as a Catalyst/
Connector (The Padang Terap District Office then the will manage all of the aid and actions that has been prepared), and as a Distributor (Then The Padang Terap District Office will disburse aid or actions that have been prepared to all the flood victims). To deal with the possibility of flooding, Padang Terap District Office cooperate with other agencies in Padang Terap District has provided a number of actions such as providing evacuation centers, food supplies, food base, providing clean water and a toilet at the time of the flood, boat, volunteers and etc. that are needed by the victims. Some suggestions are also available from this study, so hopefully can overcome or avoid flooding in the country of Malaysia, particularly in the Padang Terap District, Kedah Darul Aman.


The survey on "Administrative Capacity in Public Health Institutions CADSAL97" [Spanish acronym] was designed and executed by the Center for Population and Social Development Studies (CEPAR Spanish acronym) under the framework of the "Analysis and Promotion of Health Policies" Project to support efforts being undertaken in the country to improve: service to users the use of the scarce resources existing in the services and the ability of the health units to manage organize and function. The survey was administered to one hundred fifty-eight health units of the countrys twenty continental provinces. Of the health units studied 47.5% are located in the mountains 43% on the coast and 9.5% in the east. Most (91.1%) belong to the Ministry of Public Health 8.2% to the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute and just one to the Charity Council of Guayaquil. (excerpt)


This essay continues to spread and systematize new data collected in the research conducted between 2006 and 2009 with fundamental and medium term teachers from public schools in the city and state of Sao Paulo. The intent, now, is to question about the tensions that surround the relationship between teacher's professional practice and actual circumstances of the social media field.


This research used the remote sensing phantom data of 1989,2001 and 2007 in the delta oasis of the Weigan and Kuqa Rivers,and analyzed the change of ecosystem service function value and the ecosystem sensitivity in research area during 1989 to 2007.The results showed: In the entire research time,the ecosystem service total value of the research area assumed a declining trend,and the distinction drop was from 1989's 115.49×108 Yuan to 2001's 106.83×108 Yuan and 2007's 94.47×108 Yuan;In the ecosystem's various single item service function value,various single item's service function difference is remarkable,the ecology service function overall assumed a declining trend;For 18 years,the water source self-control function flaw was the most obvious,the service value reduced by 4.64×108 Yuan,but food production function change was the smallest,its value growth was only 0.60×108 Yuan;At the same time,through various single item's service function in each research stage's value change situation,the increased range of food production function ecology service value was obvious,the water source self-control function value dropped obviously,and the entertainment culture function's value change was the smallest;Through the ecosystem sensitivity index analysis,it is discovered that various landscapes' ecosystem sensitivity index is smaller than 1,which suggests that the total ecosystem service value to the ecological value coefficient of the research area is insensitive and lacks elasticity.


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The extra magnetic energy present in the magnetosphere during a magnetic storm is shown to be the same as if the disturbing field existed without the main field of the Earth: that is, the "joint" energy of the two fields is zero. The disturbance field energy is considered for both the first and the main phase of a storm, on the basis of idealized models of the electric currents that cause the disturbance. The currents, actually distributed throughout volumes, are taken to flow only on surfaces. Numerical estimates of the field energy are given, for a weak storm and for a great storm. The magnetic moment of the field of the ring current is also considered; it is inferred that it is only a small fraction of the Earth's dipole moment. The field energy of magnetic storms is found to be less than the kinetic energy associated with the ring current at the peak of the main phase.


Multiwall carbon nanotubes/epoxy and graphite nanoplatelets/epoxy composite materials (2-5 wt %) as well as the composite materials with barium hexaferrite as secondary filler (27 wt %) were prepared. Alignment of barium hexaferrite nanoparticles was performed by magnetic field action during polymerization process. Morphology, the electrical conductivity and shielding efficiency of the composite materials in the frequency range of 36-55.5 GHz were investigated. Optical and electron microscopy, standard 2- and 4-probe methods of electrical conductivity measurement and network analyzer were used for that purpose. The arguments about secondary filler addition and its alignment on electrodynamic properties of the obtained composite materials are given.


Comprehensive assessment provides the foundation for enhancing the quality of life of a seriously ill patient, forms the basis of care, and helps in the coordination of care across disciplines. A whole-person assessment in palliative care extends beyond basic patient evaluation by recognizing the unique needs of patients who face serious illness and the needs of their family members. It provides additional information on symptoms and physical and psychological concerns often present in advanced disease and assists in the evaluation of social factors such as family caregiver needs and the assessment of spirituality, which is recognized as an important aspect of patient and family support in serious illness.


If B is a compact space and B\{pt} is Lindelof then B^k\{pt} is star-Linedlof for every cardinality k. If B\{pt} is compact then B^k\{pt} is discretely star-Lindelof. In particular, this gives new examples of Tychonoff discretely star-Lindelof spaces with unlimited extent.


The invention discloses a differential-mode component extraction method of optical signal, wherein the optical signal comprises a first optical signal and a second optical signal, and the method includes the following steps: obtaining the voltage signals of the first signal and the second signal; then obtaining the first voltage signal and the second voltage signal; obtaining the dispersion of the first voltage signal and the second voltage signal; adjusting the first voltage signal and the second voltage signal according to the dispersion; and obtaining the differential-mode component of thefirst voltage signal and the second voltage signal. The common-mode component of the voltage signal in the two photoelectric paths is extracted firstly; and the micro-controller compares the common-mode component and uses the digital potentiometer to adjust the voltage signal according to the differential value. The differential-mode component of the voltage signal is then obtained according to the differential amplification circuit. Intelligent adjustment can be carried out for the voltage signal on the photoelectric path, and the differential-mode signal is more accurately extracted.


Currently, sustainability is being widely evaluated as a way to ensure the development of society, meeting the needs of the current generation, without compromising the ability to meet the needs of future generations. Another very evident aspect is accessibility, which aims to implement measures to remove barriers, to promote broad and unrestricted access, with safety and autonomy, for people with disabilities or reduced mobility. Therefore, educational actions related to these aspects are valid, in the sense of making society aware of the importance of taking care of oneself, others and the environment that surrounds them. With the objective of contributing to the professional training of the Production Engineer, as well as to the construction of a more correct and fair society, in the themes of sustainability and accessibility, this paper aims to describe and discuss the results of the application of the Project Based Learning (PBL) approach in a Production Engineering course. For this, it was necessary to: carry out a bibliographic review of the content; collect data from projects developed by students; analyze the collected data; and present the results. The theme was the development of sustainable and affordable container house projects. In this sense, the teams worked to highlight the potential of this form of construction as a viable alternative to the conventional method, according to the specificity of each client, indicating its potential and limitations in the face of obtaining sustainable and accessible spaces. As a result, it was possible to verify the students' knowledge about the themes; the development of technical and transversal skills; in addition to consolidating PBL as the methodology adopted in the discipline. Finally, the project reached the proposed aim, thus contributing to the construction of an environmentally correct, economically viable and socially just society.


Performance of sensor-based telemonitoring and home support systems depends, among other characteristics, on the reliability of the adopted sensors. Although binary sensors are quite used in the literature and also in commercial solutions to identify user's activities, they are prone to noise and errors. In this paper, we present a hierarchical approach, based on machine learning techniques, aimed at reducing error from the sensors. The proposed approach is aimed at improving the classification accuracy in detecting if a user is at home, away, alone or with some visits. It has been integrated in a sensor-based telemonitoring and home support system. Results show an overall improvement of 15% in accuracy with respect to a rule-based approach. The system is part of the BackHome project and is currently running in 2-healthy-users' home in Barcelona and in 3-end-users' home in Belfast.


We consider the single lepton decay mode of heavy quarks as a signature of heavy quark pair production at the SSC. We find that events with multijets (n/sub jet/ greater than or equal to 3) and a single high p/sub T/ lepton are a good signal for heavy quark production.


Effective data management requires low-cost storage and high-speed data transfer, data-intensive grid is proposed inthe navigation system. Traditional data grid access model is made improvements. Thereby the response time of the vehicle nodequery is reduced. The performance of data storage and transmission of large number dispersed sources is guaranteed. It has important theoretical and practical significance.


First-order model counting emerged recently as a novel reasoning task, at the core of efficient algorithms for probabilistic logics such as MLNs. For certain subsets of first-order logic, lifted model counters were shown to run in time polynomial in the number of objects in the domain of discourse, where propositional model counters require exponential time. However, these guarantees apply only to Skolem normal form theories (i.e., no existential quantifiers). Since textbook Skolemization is not sound for model counting, these restrictions precluded efficient model counting for directed models, such as probabilistic logic programs, which rely on existential quantification. Recently, we presented a novel Skolemization algorithm for model counting problems that eliminates existential quantifiers from a first-order logic theory without changing its weighted model count. Our Skolemization procedure extends the applicability of first-order model counters to probabilistic logic programming. For the first time, this enables lifted inference with these representations.


The article ''Polemic with Nietzsche`s idea of Supermen in Jack London`s novel "A Little Lady of Big House" deals with the originality of the writer's reception and interpretation of some Nietzsche's philosophic ideas. Аpprehending Nietzsche's ideas, D. London criticized and revised them that was most fully implemented in the image of the main character of the novel. One of the most crucial questions in Londons literary output is the development of the problem of a strong and extraordinary man in the world of common people. Perhaps the major problem of the writers works is whether there is a Superman in real life or if it is just a vague ideal not possible in reality. In his works The Greek State and The Future of our Educational Institutions F. Nietzche puts forward the idea of the necessity of organizing all state systems and educational institutions in the way that makes it possible to grow and bring up a superman by means of a continual evolution and selection. London believes that the white race might produce a few examples of extraordinary personalities, almost exceptional people. In his work the writer suggests situations in which such people come in contact with each other and, moreover, they have some relations. In the novel A Little Lady of Big House the author actually tries to solve the problem of a strong personality being extraordinarily lonely. The Superman is no more a alone person, but he has a wife and a friend. The latter makes the inner conflict of the main characters sharper and the mere idea of the existence of a universal man in the world of human, too human relations still more problematic. The main character of the book may be understood as the embodiment Nietzches theory of a Superman. A Superman has a strong will; he is physically and morally powerful, competent in many spheres of human life. The personal values proper to a Superman are best revealed in the image of Dick Forrest, the master of Big House. Dick Forrest is a truly universal personality, strong and welleducated, but his weak point is that he is too sure of his own power. Indeed, he is capable to overcome problems and difficulties of the outer world, but Forrest proves totally helpless in solving inner troubles. Having lost his assurance in himself, he views his life as something pointless and not stable, something so much illusionary. In the long run, the character has to go through a continual regress, through a digression from a Superman to a common man, from strength to weakness, from being sure to the state of doubt and uncertainty.


The citizen ethics,originating from the democracy in the ancient Greece and having developed into the subjectivity of human beings and the right orientation of the civil society,is the product in the Western culture context.The nature of independence and equality in citizen ethics has determined the fact that the right and subjectivity are the essential value orientation of right ethics and a kind of public moral for a modern political nation.While the civil society is being constructed and the citizen ethics is being cultivated in China,citizens' right subjectivity and moral subjectivity should also be developed.The role positioning and value identity of citizen as a public subjectivity in the civil education should be enlightened with the right orientation.


Splenectomy was performed on six patients with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura as soon as the diagnosis was established. This procedure was followed by therapy with corticosteroids and dextran 70. Five of six patients are alive four months to four years after diagnosis. Since other means of therapy have resulted, at best, in 31 long-term survivors in more than 300 patients, we believe splenectomy, concomitant therapy with dextran 70 for two weeks, and corticosteroids in gradually decreasing doses for several months show great promise.


Periodic structures self-formed on the surface of several metals by femtosecond laser pulses are investigated. The laser fluence dependence can be explained by the induction of a surface plasma wave through parametric decay of laser.


Let X be a normally distributed p-dimensional column vector with mean μ and positive definite covariance matrix σ. and let Xα, α = 1,…, N, be a random sample of size N from this distribution. Partition X as (X1, X(2)', X'(3))', where X1 is one-dimension, X(2) is p2- dimensional, and so 1 + p1 + p2 = p. Let ρ1 and ρ be the multiple correlation coefficients of X1 with X(2) and with (X'(2), X'(3))', respectively. Write ρ2/2 = ρ2 - ρ2/1. We shall cosider the following two problems

Soit X un vecteur aleatoire a p dimensions ayant une distribution normale avec moyenne μ et matrice de variances-covariances positive definie σ. Le vecteur X est divise en (X1, X'(2), X'(3))' ou X1. est univarie, X(2) est a p1 dimensions et X(3) est a p2 dimensions. Soient ρ1 et ρ les coefficients de correlation multiple entre X1 et X(2), X1 et (X'(2), X'(3))', respectivement. On montre que le test du rapport de vraisemblance pour tester ℋ10: ρ2 = 0 contre les alternatives ℋ1λ: ρ2 = ρ12 = λ (λ donne) est locallement minimax quand λ 0. Pour tester ℋ20: ρ2 = 0 contre ℋ2λ: ρ12 = 0, ρ2 = λ on ontre que le test le plus puissant locallement est locallement minimax quand λ 0.


This is a folio of compositions that interferes with composition and improvisation in
practice and in theory. A resistance to theme and content is countered by proposing a
very broad conception of form that brings into play anthropological and philosophical
examples as well as a questioning of traditional musical forms. The pieces in general
propose ways of composing and playing otherwise. The scores are interspersed with
texts which engender relationships and patterns of thought pertinent to the workings
of the pieces such that a critical position is articulated without resorting to longwinded
argument. Audio recordings of the pieces are included at the rear of the
document.


Worthington, Minnesota, has provided employment for Karen refugees from Burma since 2007 due to the availability of positions where English language was not a prerequisite for employment. Many of the refugees were assisted in resettlement by non-profit refugee employment service agencies located in the Twin Cities metropolitan area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. In 2010, Karen refugees were interviewed to determine their satisfaction with the move to Worthington. As the refugees in Worthington become more settled, other rural communities are being examined for the possibility of available employment. Through interviews with community leaders this study investigates the factors in Worthington that led to the overall success of the relocation.


In order to model the emergency facility location-allocation problem with uncertain parameters, an uncertain multi-objective model is developed within the framework of uncertainty theory. The proposed model minimizes time penalty cost, distribution cost and carbon dioxide emissions. The equivalents of the model are discussed via operational laws of uncertainty distribution. By employing the goal attainment technique, a series of Pareto-optimal solutions are generated that can be used for decision-making. Finally, several numerical experiments are presented to verify the validity of the proposed model and to illustrate decision-making strategy.


Reviews of Internet appliances that use computer display technology The following is a summary of a review of Compaq's iPAQ, Netpliance's I-Opener, and MSN's MSN Companion, three portable devices for accessing the Internet. The full article, by Mark M. Uslan and Kevin Dusling, appears in the May 2001 issue of AccessWorld, an assistive technology periodical available from the American Foundation for the Blind. For more information, see <www.afb.org/ accessworld.asp>. The I-Opener and iPAC are simple, streamlined, and very attractive. The components are only a flat panel LCD display and a QWERTY keyboard. The displays on both devices can be folded down like a laptop computer. Both LCD displays are small, but contrast and resolution are reasonably good in both, more so for the email features than for the web features. However, text size for web pages and e-mail does not meet the reviewer's criteria for 22point font, even when enlarged to its maximum size. The LCD displays also show an annoying ghosting effect when the user is typing, moving the mouse, or scrolling. The two devices have a mouse that is built into the keyboard in the form of a circular navigation pad, which is frustrating to use. The navigation pad is the only way to control the mouse because they are no keyboard alternatives. The MSN Companion is a cut above the others. The device is simply a textbook-size box into which the mouse and keyboard are plugged. The monitor must be purchased separately. E-


In this paper, we present an automated support environment to reduce the time and efforts required to produce and maintain a reusable specification document. Our proposed model has two operation modes: the first one is the forward mode in which our model automatically converts English natural language requirements into UML class diagram models. While the second one is the backward mode in which our model automatically reverses UML class diagram models into English natural language requirements. We compared our model with previous models and the results are promising.


Objective To approach th e effect of basic nursin g combined with mental nursing in hump nose operation.Methods Four hundreds cases with hump nose operation were randomly divided into expermient group and control group.The control group were treate d with tra itiona l basic nursing,and the expermient group by basic nursing combined with mental nursing.When two groups paient reviewed,their satisfaction with postoperton nursing were surveyed and the comlications were observed.Results The selfprotection knowledge among nursing,patient satisfaction in nursing and complication incidence were compared.There was statistical significance(P0.05).Conclusion The basic nursing combined with effective mental nursing is effective protection for operation safe and successful.


Hypocellular acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is defined as AML with bone marrow cellularity <20%. Hypocellular AML is an infrequent entity. Its frequency ranges between 5% and 12% of all cases of AML. Hypocellular variants of acute leukemia almost always have a myeloid phenotype and usually develop secondary to radiation or chemotherapy. We report a rare case of Hypocellular AML-M4 occurring in a 60-year-old woman who was incidentally found to be positive for HIV.


This work investigates the interface resistivity of several heterostructures. Theoretical simulations suggest that, apart from the doping impact, the band offset and the difference in density of states (DOS) increase significantly the heterostructure interface resistivity. This conclusion corresponds well to our experiments that 1) high interface resistances are observed between (high-Ge content) p-SiGe/p-Si, n-InAs/n-Si, and n-InAs/n-Ge; and that 2) a TiSix/12nm Si:P/n-Ge contact with favorable band alignment between Si:P/n-Ge approaches low effective contact resistivity of 1.4×10−8 Ω cm2, close to a record-low value for n-Ge contacts.


Thai folk stories and Thai folk customs are closely related because of their shared history and mutual influence on each other.Thus,the study of Thai folk stories should rely on the study of Thai folk customs or vice versa.


One of the emerging trends in the field of public participation is gamification. Participatory processes increasingly apply strategies and dynamics borrowed from games to promote a more diverse demographic of engagement and to incentivize desirable behaviour by the participants. While many scholars and practitioners highlight the practical benefits of gamification, other warn us of the potential risks of the ludification of public participation, especially if applied in a learning context. Under which conditions would game-like dynamics enhance public participation? What are the democratic risks of gamification in an educational context? This study explores the advantages and disadvantages of gamification applied to public participation in context of education, using a large multi-site simulation based on the Empaville platform. The activities involved around 200 students from the ages of 10 to 18, in five different Portuguese schools. The role play-game simulated a gamified participatory budgeting process integrating in-person deliberation with digital voting. Using a mixed method approach that combines the analysis of the game patterns, surveys and participant observation, the paper explores under what conditions gamification can activate a "virtuous circle" that promotes participants' autonomy and empowerment from a school age. Key terms: Gamification, democratic innovations, e-democracy, participatory democracy, participatory budgeting.  firstname.lastname@example.com email@example.com Introduction The term gamification has roots in the digital media industry, particularly in the context of video games. Deterding (2014) defined it as the use of game design elements in non-game contexts. This dynamic entails gameful elements such as: rules, competition, outcomes and conflict executed by the users towards an end goal. This allows users to be rewarded, paving the way for a revival in "playful desire behaviours and mindsets" (Deterding et al. 2011, pp. 9-15). Consequently, gamification aims to create a common space for an enjoyable user experience, expanding into something more than solely for entertainment purposes. This paper furthermore aims to highlight some perceptions reviewed in gaming literature. In particular, how gamification can foster and strengthen the common good and overall political participation. In this sense, Pateman (2012) argued that in the modernisation of politics citizens should not only be consumers, contrasting the Schumpeterian (1942) notion of democracy that saw "citizens as merely consumers in another guise". Gee (2003) transferred this concept by attaching the user in the role of developer instead of consumer, i.e. a co-creator of the gaming world that would also participate within it. This paper will analyse gamification in the decision-making process of citizen participation, questioning if and how games can foster the direct interaction of citizens with governmental agencies alongside promoting community collaboration and direct action. The paper begins with the overall explanation of gamification, followed by a more specific section focusing on the relation between gamification and democracy. The third section frames gamification in the context of learning. The fourth examines the features of the role-playing game Empaville for School and it includes two sub-sections dedicated to the gamification elements and objectives of the simulation. The fifth analyses the activities carried out by the survey and participant observation. Finally, the conclusion highlights opportunities and challenges for future developments. 1. Explaining gamification To better understand the concept of gamification, an analysis of the terminology in literature is fundamental. Caillois (2001) conceptualized gamification through two distinguishable fields: ludus (gaming) and paidia (playing), which entails the creation of a playing-space, which is more creative, open, probing and free. Despite this general definition, this paper aims to go beyond the intersecting and blurred conceptualization of gamification. The reflection of gamification as complement of playfulness (Deterding et al. 2011) paved the way to depict a space for a societal approach rather than a technical one. Under this perspective, gamification in terms of the context and demographic of users, should not be scrutinised as a "one size fits all" model. The authors of this paper envisage gamification as a process that increases users' motivation and fun while encouraging them to come back to the game. Deterding (2011), Mahnic (2014) and Thiel (2016) defined this dynamic as engaging experience. This can be perceived through interface design patterns such as badges, levels, or leaderboards, that paly a valuable role towards community recognition, which may also include non-game contexts. Along these previous elements, Thiel (2016) also pointed out the role of the status that users can acquire by reaching certain levels of the game. Each achievement is recognized within the community, turning their engagement into social reward. Other game elements are included in gamification, such as feedback, challenges and competition among the leader boards, challenged by time constraints. All these elements drive the user to a more enjoyable and engaging experience. The success of gamification is intertwined with how much the users' interaction can be more appealing and rewarded, i.e. how they can be more motivated to maintain their engagement. In conclusion, it is possible to recognize two sides of the behavioral motivation in the experience: one intrinsic and one extrinsic. Some authors such as Manhic (2014), Sanchez-Franco (2009), Thiel (2016) and Hassan (2017) pointed out that intrinsic motivations are consequently rooted around pleasure and amusement on performing the activity. The extrinsic motivations are translated by the mechanisms/elements that are rooted in the game design through a reward-based approach. Therefore, gamification will be successfully achieved if the emotional responses and its intrinsic positive effects can be balanced with the utilitarian extrinsic way of being motivated. 2. Gamification and democracy This paper investigates to what extent public participation can be more enjoyable and how gamification can have a positive impact toward democracy. Some authors, such as, Pateman (2012) and Lerner (2014) pointed out the decrease of political participation and its risks. In particular, Lerner affirmed that the democracy "turning what once were social processes into individualized tasks with little human interaction" (p. 8). The possibility of participation has been diminished, transforming the decision-making process into becoming alienated from citizens, ruled and owned by elites. Taking this into consideration, gamification can be seen as a process to enhance democracy by promoting participation. In this perspective, as argued by Lerner (2014), games are inherently democratic as they invite the people to participate, implying deliberation and influencing the decision-making. Through deliberation it is possible to provide the concept of a gamified democracy, as they are intertwined concepts, starting from citizen discussion on civic matters. This is the first step to allow discussion and deliberation among citizens and democratic institutions. Thiel (2016) categorized and analysed some e-participation platforms in order to examine to what extent deliberation can be promoted by a gamified democracy. The results reflected a very limited and narrow deliberation of the participatory projects. Indeed, the majority of these projects present a typology of participation rooted on citizen-sourcing and public deliberation. The same author (2016) noticed a passive way of citizen engagement generally through deliberation limited to prescriptive agendas, already established. Even in public deliberation processes, citizen interaction among different parts was almost inexistent, despite being able put forward the topics that they were interested in. In that study it was identified that none of the processes analysed had developed a good channel of engagement and interaction. Although partial, this evaluation underlined some widespread limitations within this kind of platform. Firstly, administrators of the institutions and stakeholders tend to not be committed to giving feedback and interacting in the process. Secondly, generally only a small part of the citizens actively take part in the deliberation and decision-making process on the platforms. As it has been mentioned above, it is important to redefine gamification as a concept that largely should contribute to the common good. What are the advantages and challenges of integrating gamification in democracy? Gaming promote the interaction between citizens and institution and enhance community building. Participants can experiment in real or simulated public decision-making processes and learn from them. Learning how to participate, citizens can overcome the perception of exclusion, gaining more confidence, while seeking to improve the public decisions' quality. Thus, citizens can have a more active role within democratic institutions. This will contribute to the empowerment of both the community and the individual, as well as for the overall public education. Moreover, gamification could also reduce costs of public engagement initiatives. Gamification can also decrease citizen alienation from politics and society in general. Mahnic (2014) argued that through crowdsourcing, individuals could better perceive their role within the community, "outsourcing a job to the crowd", for the common good. Wikipedia is an illustrative example of how working for the community can provide effective involvement. Giving their contribution according to their own knowledge and skills, citizens take part in a broader policy-making life cycle. Macintosh (2004) described this cycle through five main stages. The first b


The current study was conducted to examine how young and older women in the Peshawar city perceive their body image which influences their clothing choices. The selected sample of women whose age ranged between 20-50 years were evaluated by using the Stunkard body image measure. The correlation between actual body mass index (BMI) and perceived body image was significant indicated by 39% of female population having a favorable impression of their bodies. Women with a poor body image often use clothing to camouflage their protruding body parts. Positive body image leads to a preference for fitting clothing, while negative body image favors loose-fitting clothing. The study also examined the impact of patterns on women's body image, finding that women enjoyed all types of prints in their attire. The study would be distinctive in the field of fashion industry which enable a woman in identifying real body image (BMI) and perceived body image, hence help in designing attires to camouflage minor flaws.


Purpose : Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is an emerging threat to human beings. However, there is little data on the current status of MDR-TB in Korea. This study investigated the current status of MDR-TB in Korea using a survey of all the data from drug susceptibility tests (DST) performed across the country over the last three years. Method : The DST results between Jan. 2000 and Dec. 2002 from 7 laboratories, which were in charge of all antituberculous DSTs across the country as of March 2002, were collected and analyzed to determine the actual number of drug-resistant or MDR-TB patients, annual trend, degree and pattern of resistance against anti-TB drugs, etc. Results : Six laboratories used the absolute concentration method for DST and one used the proportional method. 59, 940 tests had been performed over the 3 year study period. The number of DST performed annually was 18,071, 19,950, and 21,919 in 2000-2002, respectively. The number of resistant tuberculosis patients (resistant against at least one anti-TB drug) had increased by 16.9% from 6,338 in 2000 to 7,409 in 2002. The rate of resistant tuberculosis among all DST results was 35.1% in 2000, 34.5% in 2001, and 33.8% in 2002. The number of MDR-TB patients (resistant against at least both isoniazid and rifampin) showed an increasing trend (14.5%) from 3,708 in 2000 to 4,245 in 2002. Conclusion : Approximately 4,000 MDR-TB cases are newly identified by DST annually and the number is showing an increasing trend. This study suggests that in order to cope with the current MDR-TB situation, the DST methods will need to be standardized and more aggressive measures will be required.


Although collage has been used occasionally in psychotherapy, Collage Therapy, as such, is a Japanese development. Clinical and research studies on many forms of Collage Therapy have been published in the Japanese Journal of Clinical Psychology, however, no research studies have been published from a Client-centered/ Focusing-oriented perspective. This paper presents the method and vignettes of a Focusing-oriented approach to collage work termed Experiential Collage Work (ECW). A hermeneutic inquiry of how the meaning of the collage is created by the client together with the therapist is discussed. The discussion utilizes Eugene Gendlin's theory of experiencing and its relations to concepts and symbols. The implicit and explicit dimensions of experience, crossing and dipping, the function of symbols and metaphors, modes of being-in-the-world or the 'situatedness' of experience, are discussed. Finally, the role of the therapist is discussed in terms of the reflexivity of experience and the crossing that occur between the therapist and client.


Nowadays, the youth population has become a fundamental pillar for the development of the global society. Such is the importance of this group of people, that among other areas, they have managed to change the global market, and because of them, companies are looking for new ways to impact and draw the attention of this group. For many years, several experts have talked about the importance of young people in different aspects of society, and one of those aspects, politics...


experiences Americans continue to share. Because of this, we face an increasing need to produce drivers who are well informed and sophisticated in relation to modern driving requirements. A basic requirement for driving sophistication is that all drivers understand the roadway messages that alert them to information necessary for survival or, at the very least, for making the experience more comfortable. These messages, usually in written form, presuppose a level of reading ability which is not only unrealistic in terms of some drivers'


A heavy-ion track in aqueous media consists of a core of high density of energy deposition surrounded by a penumbra traversed by secondary electrons. Initial energy deposited in the electronic form is redistributed by ionized electron and is delocalized within the size of a water molecule. At the end of physical stage the core size may be defined at the radius where the energy transported by secondary electrons exceed that directly produced by the main particle. At the chemical stage, for diffusion kinetic purposes, the core diameter cannot be less than that of a typical spur, taken to be 5 nm. Using Bohr's adiabatic criterion this occurs at 5 MeV/amu above which that criterion gives greater core radius. Track structure depends on the medium; in liquid argon even low-LET electrons produce continuous cylindrical tracks due to extraordinarily large thermalization length.


Offline clinical guidelines are typically designed to integrate a clinical knowledge base, patient data and an inference engine to generate case specific advice. In this regard, offline clinical guidelines are still popular among the healthcare professionals for updating and support of clinical guidelines. Although their current format and development process have several limitations, these could be improved with artificial intelligence approaches such as expert systems/decision support systems. This paper first, presents up to date critical review of existing clinical expert systems namely AAPHelpm, MYCIN, EMYCIN, PIP, GLIF and PROforma. Additionally, an analysis is performed to evaluate all these fundamental clinical expert systems. Finally, this paper presents the proposed research and development of a clinical expert system to help healthcare professionals for treatment. (Saba T, Al-Zaharani S, Rehman A. Expert System for Offline Clinical Guidelines and Treatment Life Sci J 2012;9(4):2639-2658) (ISSN:1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite.com 393.


Significance One-third of the mammalian genome encodes proteins that are transported by the secretory pathway. Coat protein complexes such as COPII generate carrier vesicles and recruit cargos, orchestrated by cognate small GTPases as "molecular switches." How coat complexes select specific cargos remains incompletely understood. Here we applied proximity-dependent biotinylation, fusing the promiscuous biotin ligase BirA* with the SAR1B GTPase, to track the dynamics of COPII-mediated export from the endoplasmic reticulum. LMAN1, a cargo receptor for COPII, is transiently enriched and released by the coat complex. The enrichment requires a dimeric sorting signal, formed by two copies of LMAN1. Hence, the COPII coat undergoes a dynamic engaging–disengaging cycle to select unique sets of secretory cargos. The flow of cargo vesicles along the secretory pathway requires concerted action among various regulators. The COPII complex, assembled by the activated SAR1 GTPases on the surface of the endoplasmic reticulum, orchestrates protein interactions to package cargos and generate transport vesicles en route to the Golgi. The dynamic nature of COPII, however, hinders analysis with conventional biochemical assays. Here we apply proximity-dependent biotinylation labeling to capture the dynamics of COPII transport in cells. When SAR1B was fused with a promiscuous biotin ligase, BirA*, the fusion protein SAR1B-BirA* biotinylates and thus enables the capture of COPII machinery and cargos in a GTP-dependent manner. Biochemical and pulse–chase imaging experiments demonstrate that the COPII coat undergoes a dynamic cycle of engagement–disengagement with the transmembrane cargo receptor LMAN1/ERGIC53. LMAN1 undergoes a process of concentrative sorting by the COPII coat, via a dimeric sorting code generated by oligomerization of the cargo receptor. Similar oligomerization events have been observed with other COPII sorting signals, suggesting that dimeric/multimeric sorting codes may serve as a general mechanism to generate selectivity of cargo sorting.


Applying the rheological data of polymer melts for their processing through extrusion
The industrial processing of thermoplasts through extrusion or injection moulding are
made through moderner and moderner computer controlled systems.
Extruders or injection moulding machines for the industrial processing of thermoplasts
are equipped with moderner and moderner computer controlled systems.
In addition to the machine conditions the knowing of melting data of polymers and of
the output characteristics of the machine-tool system are needed.
Through determining the· viscosity -shear rate-, temperature - density-, pressure-density
functions and the relation between the output and screw-speed two controlling algorithms had
been set up.


The article is devoted to the description of a heat supply system in Tyumen and problem areas located outside the radius of effective operation of existing heating plants. The heat supply system using heat pumps is proposed (the main pipeline for transferring low potential heat is supposed to be laid from a thermal power station as a turbine cooling system which dumps waste into the river Tura at present), and indicators of its economic efficiency have been calculated. The proposed solution was compared with other variants of heat supply in the areas in question (preservation of existing CHP zones, reconstruction of heating systems and laying new pipelines and pumping stations; the construction of a third source - a gas turbine thermal power plant in the north-western part of the city; construction of the western thermal complex in the circuit of a thermal power plant).


The reason why the CPC takes the representation of the maximum people's basic interest as the fundamental question is that it embodies the Party's fundamental purpose and the fundamental experience for the founding of the Party; reveals the basic lesson of the disintegration of the Ex-USSR and warns our Party to pay much attention to solving the basic question in the present life. Only the Party overall and correctly understands the scientific content and the basic spirit of 'representation of the maximum people's interest' and has acted holding political power for the people and strengthening the Party's self-establishment can it realize the lofty goal of the representation of the maximum people's fundamental interest.


Forty male patients with nodular/cystic acne were randomly allocated to receive either 100mg dapsone daily, or 40 mg 13‐cis retinoic acid, daily for a period of 16 weeks. The following parameters were assessed during Treatment and for a follow‐up period of 20 weeks: lesion counts (pustules, nodules and cysts), photographic evaluation, patient visual analogue scale, sebum excretion rate and skin surface microflora. Seventeen patients from each group completed the study. Only marginal clinical benefit was observed with dapsone, which produced no significant effect either on sebum excretion rate, or on skin surface microflora. By contrast, patients on 13‐cis retinoic acid showed significant reductions in sebum excretion rate and skin surface microflora, which were maximal at 16 weeks (P < 0.001 and P < 0.01, respectively), and significant improvements in all clinical parameters which were maintained at follow‐up 5 months later. We conclude that dapsone is clearly inferior to 13‐cis retinoic acid in the treatment of nodular cystic acne.


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Although the exact underlying mechanism of BD is still unknown, recent findings have focused on the role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced by activated neutrophils and other inflammatory cells during inflammation (4,5). Recently, it has been also shown that nitrite and nitrate concentrations, used as indirect markers of nitric oxide (NO) production are increased in BD patients and associated with disease activity (6,7,8). NO produced by endothelial cells may be an important mediator in the development of BD.


Acute abdomen means the patient complains of acute abdominal symptoms that suggest a disease, which definitely or possibly threatens life and may or may not demand immediate operative interference. Although most children with acute abdominal pain have self limited condition the pain may herald a surgical or medical emergency. The most difficult challenge is making a timely diagnosis so that treatment can be initiated and morbidity preserved. The majority of cases of acute abdomen arise from the conditions of the gastrointestinal tract. As different conditions of the gastrointestinal tract present with similar clinical features, accurate diagnosis by clinical methods is often a very challenging task. This study endeavors to study the acute abdomen of atraumatic origin in children in the age group of 1- 15 years.


Accepting that such reports really go back to the Prophet is an act of faith; orientalists tend to date the bulk of them roughly a century after his death or later. The Arabic word for antichrist is al-dajjāl, which goes back to the Syriac New Testament, mshı̄h. ē daggālē, "false messiahs" (Matthew 24:24). This collocation is, in the singular, also frequent in the Tradition literature: al-ması̄h. al-dajjāl, as an alternative for simply al-dajjāl. Further on we will use the word dajjāl. The Islamic dajjāl will establish a tyrannical rule on earth during 40 days (or 40 years). He is fat, has a reddish face and fuzzy hair, and is blind on his right eye that looks like a swollen grape. On his forehead is written KFR, "unbeliever". He misguides the people with false prophecies and miracles ; sinners, hypocrites and Jews will follow him. His rule is not absolute: he cannot enter Mecca and Medina, the towns of the Prophet. When his time is up, Jesus will fight and defeat him. David Cook distinguishes various types of dajjāl. One of them is a person named Ibn S.ayyād, who was a little boy during the lifetime of the Prophet


In the latest of his periodic 'overflights' of the Blair style of government since 1997, Peter Hennessy examines the significance of the 2004 Butler Report (on intelligence and weapons of mass destruction prior to the Iraq War) for Tony Blair both as war premier and also as an indicator of his governing practices in general. He concludes that the Cabinet's overall performance on the road to war was seriously inadequate, and is especially critical of its failure to test out fully the Attorney General's opinion in the legality of the war.


We argue that the critical behaviour near the point of ``gradient catastrophe" of the solution to the Cauchy problem for the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation $ i\epsilon \psi_t +\frac{\epsilon^2}2\psi_{xx}+ |\psi|^2 \psi =0$ with analytic initial data of the form $\psi(x,0;\epsilon) =A(x) e^{\frac{i}{\epsilon} S(x)}$ is approximately described by a particular solution to the Painlev\'e-I equation.


The utility model discloses an automatic sewage-suction gun, which comprises a housing, as well as a support frame, a pneumatic control drain valve, a pneumatic control button, a vacuum hose, a quick connector base, a quick connector, a rotary connector base, a rotary connector, a check valve and a water retaining device arranged in the housing, wherein, the pneumatic control drain valve is fixed on the support frame, the front end of the pneumatic control drain valve is connected in sequence with the quick connector base and the quick connector, the rear end of the pneumatic control drain valve is connected in sequence with the rotary connector base and the rotary connector, the rear part of the rotary connector is divided into two paths, one path is connected in sequence with the water retaining device, the check valve and the pneumatic control button, the other path is connected with the vacuum hose, and the upper end of the pneumatic control drain valve is connected with the pneumatic button through the hose. The utility model has the benefits of aesthetic appearance, simple and compact structure, small size, light weight, flexible and convenient operation, reduced labor intensity of workers, optimized operation procedure of sewage discharge from trains, and improved work efficiency.


This paper presents an overview of a quantum programming language NDQJava-2.NDQJava-2 is an extension of NDQJava with additional quantum components such as quantum conditional statement,quantum loop statement,quantum subprogram,quantum module,and quantum exception handling mechanism.The added commponents make NDQJava-2 a structured quantum programming language.Experience in writing quantum programs indicates that compared with NDQJava,NDQJava-2 is a more practical,more readable and more suitable(components setting) quantum programming language.


Background Sleep influences moods and mood disorders. Existing methods for tracking the quality of people's sleep are laborious and obtrusive. If a method were available that would allow effortless and unobtrusive tracking of sleep quality, it would mark a significant step toward obtaining sleep data for research and clinical applications. Objective Our goal was to evaluate the potential of mobile sensing data to obtain information about a person's sleep quality. For this purpose, we investigated to what extent various automatically gathered mobile sensing features are capable of predicting (1) subjective sleep quality (SSQ), (2) negative affect (NA), and (3) depression; these variables are associated with objective sleep quality. Through a multiverse analysis, we examined how the predictive quality varied as a function of the selected sensor, the extracted feature, various preprocessing options, and the statistical prediction model. Methods We used data from a 2-week trial where we collected mobile sensing and experience sampling data from an initial sample of 60 participants. After data cleaning and removing participants with poor compliance, we retained 50 participants. Mobile sensing data involved the accelerometer, charging status, light sensor, physical activity, screen activity, and Wi-Fi status. Instructions were given to participants to keep their smartphone charged and connected to Wi-Fi at night. We constructed 1 model for every combination of multiverse parameters to evaluate their effects on each of the outcome variables. We evaluated the statistical models by applying them to training, validation, and test sets to prevent overfitting. Results Most models (on either of the outcome variables) were not informative on the validation set (ie, predicted R2≤0). However, our best models achieved R2 values of 0.658, 0.779, and 0.074 for SSQ, NA, and depression, respectively on the training set and R2 values of 0.348, 0.103, and 0.025, respectively on the test set. Conclusions The approach demonstrated in this paper has shown that different choices (eg, preprocessing choices, various statistical models, different features) lead to vastly different results that are bad and relatively good as well. Nevertheless, there were some promising results, particularly for SSQ, which warrant further research on this topic.


A new species of centipede, Scolopocryptops piauhyensis sp. n., is described from Piauí State, northeastern Brazil. It is the only species in this genus known to occur in the 'caatinga' biome. The new species is related to S. inversus (Chamberlin, 1921) and S. ferrugineus (Linné, 1762) but differs primarily in the short, high dental plates of the coxosternum, the wider ultimate sternite, and the smaller pore field on the coxopleuron of the ultimate segment.


Objective To explore the relationship between dopamine D 2 receptor gene TaqI polymorphism and primary hypertension in Chinese population in Hubei province.Methods The distribution of A 1A 1,A 1A 2,A 2A 2 genotypes of TaqI polymorphism between primary hypertensive patients and control group were identified by using polymerase chain reaction based restriction fragment length polymorphism.Results The allelic frequencies were 0.34 for the A 1 allele and 0.66 for the A 2 allele in primary hypertension patients, 0.43 for the A 1 allele and 0.57 for the A 2 allele in control group. The allelic frequencies were in Hardy Weinberg equilibrium. Significant differences in the genotype distribution( P 0.05) and allelic frequencies( P 0.025) between hypertensive and control group were seen,and the diastolic blood pressure for A 2 allele was higher significantly than that for A 1 allele in primary hypertensive subjects( P 0.05).Conclusions The TaqI polymorphism of human dopamine D 2 receptor relates significantly with primary hypertension in Chinese population in Hubei province.


In the field of zheng music, many pieces do correlate with the content of "Ba-Ban." This thesis thus takes zheng pieces based on Hakka Dadiao as the main research object to analyze the form and characteristics of "Ba-Ban" in Hakka zheng music. The thesis compared four selected Hakka Dadiao with the score of "Ba-Ban" to investigate their relevance, and further discussed the form and characteristics of "Ba- Ban" that present in these pieces from the aspects of rhythmic pattern, melodic feature, variation method, and performing techniques. The research result revealed that Hakka Dadiao take "Ba-Ban" as the foundation of the melodic structure, merging different performing techniques and diverse musical elements during the developing process, and forms a unique Hakka zheng music style.


i ABSTRACT Three-dimensional (3D) inductors with square, hexagonal and octagonal geometries have been designed and simulated in ANSYS HFSS. The inductors have been designed on Silicon substrate with through-hole via with different width, spacing and thickness. Spice modeling has been done in Agilent ADS and comparison has been made with results of custom excel based calculator and HFSS simulation results. Single ended quality factor was measured as 12.97 and differential ended quality factor was measured as 15.96 at a maximum operational frequency of 3.65GHz. The single ended and differential inductance was measured as 2.98nH and 2.88nH respectively at this frequency. Based on results a symmetric octagonal inductor design has been recommended to be used for application in RF biosensing. A system design has been proposed based on use of this inductor and principle of inductive sensing using magnetic labeling. ii Dedicated to my family and friends iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS It has been a great honor and privilege to complete my Masters of Science Kiaei and Dr. Michael Goryll who have provided me with quality instruction, guidance, and motivation to complete this project. They have been a significant source of education and encouragement throughout my graduate college. I would also like to thank them for thoroughly reviewing the research work and thesis. I also thank Dr. Ali Meaamar who has provided me with countless hours of quality instruction and technical guidance. It was a great learning experience working with him on other project assignments like PLL system level simulation, PFD design and layout and CML buffer layout and simulations. Finally I would like to thank all my friends and my family for their unfettered support throughout my course-work at Arizona State University.


Cirrhotic patients with portal hypertension are often found to have changes in their colonic mucosa. Such mucosal changes are termed portal hypertensive olopathy. Most patients with portal hypertension remained asymptomatic but some may show massive bleeding. The mainstay of treatment for portal hypertensive gastropathy include non-surgical methods such as octreotide injection, ndoscopic hemostasis, and interventional methods such as TIPS. However, treatment for portal hypertensive colopathy remained unresolved. The authors here report a case of a 41year old male with liver cirrhosis admitted for fever and abdominal pain, who reported an episode of hematochezia in the course of admisssion period. Subsequent colonoscopy revealed angiodysplasia-like lesions throughout the entire colon. We observed that such lesions were the source of hematochezia and that direct clipping with octreotide injection was successful in controlling the bleeding.


The teacher is the most important dimension of the education process. Schools must carry out good management of teachers by providing services to realize teacher job satisfaction in schools. In this study using a qualitative approach approach with data sources in this study consisting of primary data and secondary data. Data collection techniques used are interviews, observation and documentation. To analyze the data using the theory of Milles and Humberman. From the results of the study, it can be found that the job satisfaction of teachers at SMK Negeri 1 Tulung Selapan, Ogan Komering Ilir Regency in terms of job satisfaction factors with work, imbalances, supervisory supervisors, coworkers, and appropriate promotions. This means that every point on teacher job satisfaction is not a negative reason for teachers not to carry out optimally. Although at the point of work, there are a small number of teachers who teach not according to their educational qualifications, but personally the individual is not a problem for the teacher. With the artist, the teacher is still comfortable in teaching even though the subjects he teaches are not in accordance with his educational qualifications.


The reader will experience first-hand the personality, characteristics, and sometimes remote environment of each of these healers, visionaries, storytellers, and spiritualists through Dianne Meili's faithful re-telling of the interviews she conducted with each during the two years she spent travelling throughout Alberta.


In a research undertaken in the early 2000s, we observed a change in existing regulations in the European Union (specifically, the appearance of Eurep Gap norms and mandatory traceability) faced by small and medium off-season fruit exporting companies from Uruguay and Argentina. For producers to be able to make the necessary investments, some of their main clients –we will refer in this paper to the prototypical case of the French supermarket Carrefour– changed the type of contract they used to sign with them (common in captive value chains) and adopted a type of contract more frequent in relational chains. The new contracts were based in a cahier de charges agreed with the producers regarding the changes to be implemented, offering a price stability guarantee as a counterpart for the period necessary to implement them. Did this mean that producers abandoned their traditional products and production modes? By means of a historical analysis of their exporting trajectories, the study of the chains –made from the point of view of the producers– revealed, on the contrary, that their resilience (understood as their ability to face difficult situations, remaining competitive) depended in the long term from a prudent combination of offensive strategies –as the one mentioned in the beginning– and defensive ones, based on maintaining old and local productions and distribution channels (not always), less profitable than exporting.


This paper studies the dynamics of the U.S. external position for the past 35 years, and examines alternative paths for future external adjustment. We develop a new present value expression for the external position that embeds the restrictions of international solvency and can be easily empirically evaluated with time series methods. Our empirical model accounts for almost all the variations in the U.S. external position between 1973 and 2008. We estimate that most of the quarter-by-quarter changes in the U.S. external position over this period are due to news about future returns and trade ows, but over long horizons the changes re ect prior expectations about how the U.S. would meet its international nancial obligations. Importantly, we identify the expectations embedded in the current U.S. external position that contain relevant information about the future adjustment paths. These expectations indicate that the half-lives for future adjustment paths towards U.S. external balance are at least 13 years and involve a signicant real depreciation of the dollar.


Teaching, assessment and feedback skills are documented globally as required graduate attributes for medical students. By integrating teacher training into curricula, the importance of teaching and educational scholarship is highlighted. In this study, we used self‐determination theory (SDT) to consider medical students' motivation to voluntarily participate in a short teacher training programme.


This research aims to study the reforming performance of CPOx (Catalytic Partial Oxidation) in the specific engine condition (2500rpm, 4bar) using 1wt% Rh/CeO₂-ZrO₂ catalyst and to find the optimal conditions which can be applied to the aftertreatment system of an on-board vehicle. In this study, Partial flow from the engine exhaust and injected fuel were passed through the catalyst according to SV(space velocity) and C/O ratios. As a result, it showed that hydrogen concentrations change as functions of SV and C/O ratios. The maximum H₂ concentration was 13% at SV 50,000h?¹ and C/O ratio 1.0.


The radiation chemical yields of hydrogen peroxide formed in the γ-radiolysis of water with scavengers for oxidizing and/or reducing radicals were measured to examine initial water decomposition pathways to oxidizing species. Hydrogen peroxide yields were found to decrease toward zero with increasing concentration of OH radical scavenger in all solutions, suggesting that the OH radical is the sole precursor to hydrogen peroxide. The yields of hydrogen peroxide in nitrate and selenate solutions are closely associated with the scavenging capacity of the precursor to the hydrated electron, suggesting that its reactions have a significant role in hydrogen peroxide formation. Observed hydrogen peroxide yields at high nitrate concentrations coupled with model calculations show that the molecular cation of water, H2O+, is the dominant precursor of the oxidizing species leading to hydrogen peroxide. Proton-transfer reactions of the water molecular cation give 79% of the oxidizing species, whereas other reactions ...


15513 Background: E7389 is a synthetic macrocyclic ketone derivative of the marine sponge product halichondrin B. A unique tubulin depolymerizer, E7389 induces nonproductive tubulin aggregates and ...


This paper presents a dynamic LM adaptation based on the topic that has been identified on a speech segment. We use LSA and the given topic labels in the training dataset to obtain and use the topic models. We propose a dynamic language model adaptation to improve the recognition performance in "a two stages" AST system. The final stage makes use of the topic identification with two variants: the first on uses just the most probable topic and the other one depends on the relative distances of the topics that have been identified. We perform the adaptation of the LM as a linear interpolation between a background model and topic-based LM. The interpolation weight id dynamically adapted according to different parameters. The proposed method is evaluated on the Spanish partition of the EPPS speech database. We achieved a relative reduction in WER of 11.13% over the baseline system which uses a single blackground LM.


In a time when economic crises relieving one another, it is especially interesting to study how companies choose to finance their operations. Since there is a lack of studies that include banks, an ...


This paper introduces a generalized limit states (GLS) method for evaluating long-term performance of building envelopes. The limit states method was originally developed for the design of structures to satisfy performance require ments for safety and serviceability. However, it may be generalized to address durabi lity of building envelopes. The approach used in this paper involves selecting a re quired period of service (design life) for the component of the building envelope, and then to evaluate the envelope for durability by applying the GLS method.


The gender of a speaker, which is the most distinctive characteristics of a speech, can easily be recognized by a person who hears it. Automatic identification of gender information from speech signal is substantially important for many applications. With the identification of gender, gender-dependent systems are defined and accuracy and robustness of systems can be increased. In this study, a system identifying the gender of a speaker independent from a text is developed. The proposed system is based on the classification of MFCC coefficients obtained from speech signals with GMM. In the study, the effect of Gaussian mixture number and MFCC coefficients to the system success is investigated. In the experiments by using TIMIT database, for the 760 sentences of 76 speakers 100 percent success, and for the 6100 sentences of 610 speakers 97.76 percent success is achieved.


Consider the problem of constructing a polar code of block length N for the transmission over a given channel W. Typically this requires to compute the reliability of all the N synthetic channels and then to include those that are sufficiently reliable. However, we know from [1], [2] that there is a partial order among the synthetic channels. Hence, it is natural to ask whether we can exploit it to reduce the computational burden of the construction problem. We show that, if we take advantage of the partial order [1], [2], we can construct a polar code by computing the reliability of roughly N/ log3/2 N synthetic channels. Such a set of synthetic channels is universal, in the sense that it allows one to construct polar codes for any W, and it can be identified by solving a maximum matching problem on a bipartite graph. Our proof technique consists in reducing the construction problem to the problem of computing the maximum cardinality of an antichain for a suitable partially ordered set. As such, this method is general and it can be used to further improve the complexity of the construction problem in case a new partial order on the synthetic channels of polar codes is discovered.


ON PREPARE A BIODEGRADABLE COMPOSITION CONTAINING A CONTROLLED RELEASE ABOUT 20 TO AROUND 80 BY WEIGHT FENBENDAZOLE CLOSELY IN SCATTERED COPOLYMER CONTAINING APPROXIMATELY 60 TO AROUND 95 BY WEIGHT LACTIC ACID AND ABOUT 40 TO ABOUT 5 WEIGHT ACID GLYCOLIC . THE COPOLYMER VISCOSITY INTRINSIC APPROXIMATELY 0.08 APPROXIMATELY 0.30 MEASURED IN CHLOROFORM AND MOLECULAR WEIGHT AVERAGE WEIGHT OF APPROXIMATELY 6000 TO AROUND 35000. SAME TREATMENT AND ALLOWS THERAPEUTIC PROPHYLACTIC OF PETS VIS-A-VIS PESTS.


Along with computer graphics technology become more practical,it need to construct 3D complex scene more reality and refined.At the same time,the need of multi-screen and high resolution display increases steadily.Due to very large scale data and real-time interaction reguirzmelots,designing a multi-task parallel graphics rendering system for large scale complex scene is necessary.This paper describes the architecture of a multi-screen and multi-task parallel graphics rendering system.It supports parallel processing of multi-task and multi-screen display.This system separates tasks of geometry computing from graphics rendering,and parallelizes them.It distributes tasks for the type of rendering object on computing node,and parallel composes parts of the result on each rendering node.Experiments show that it has better parallel efficiency and scalability,can take full advantage of its own resources,and has wonderful rendering effect.


Chinese travel agencies are undergoing a complicated and changeable environment, which leads to a serious depreciation of the value of travel agency's genes. This essay defines travel agency's genes and the value of travel agency's genes, then makes an analysis on the necessity of Chinese travel agencies genes reengineering, on the basis of which the author proposes some valuable approaches.


Suizhou city is an important production base of edible fungus in China,where the production of shiitake mushroom,Auricularia auricular and so on plays a vital role in the mushroom industry of Hubei,and the annual production of dried shiitake mushroom has ranked the first place for years in our country.Then,based on field investigations in Sanligang,a major mushroom production town of Suizhou,we objectively assessed the status of mushroom industry in Suizhou in this paper.The results showed that,many practical measures were helpful for the healthy development of mushroom industry,such as cultivating forest resources,strengthening science and technology promotion based on enterprise,implementing standardized cultivation,constructing leading enterprises and markets,strengthening the brand construction.Meanwhile,there existed several major constraints restricting the expansion and further development of the local mushroom industry,including increasingly prominent contradiction between mushroom and forest,various qualities of edible fungus products and imperfect technical service system and so on.Therefore,corresponding measures should be taken as scientific response to the current problems to continuously push forward a healthy and ordered development of mushroom industry in Suizhou.


Multi-Robot Systems (MRSs) show significant advantages to deal with complex tasks efficiently. However, the system complexity inevitably enlarges the attack surface and adds difficulty in guaranteeing the security and safety of MRSs. In this paper, we present an in-depth investigation about the Byzantine threats in MRSs, where some robot is untrusted. We design a practical methodology to identify potential Byzantine risks in a given MRS workload built from the Robot Operating System (ROS). It consists of three novel steps (requirement specification using signal temporal logic, attack surface determination via data-flow analysis, attack identification using requirement-driven fuzzing) to thoroughly assess MRS workloads. We use this fuzzing method to inspect five typical MRS workloads from past works and the ROS platform, and identify three novel kinds of attacks that can be launched with five attack strategies. We conduct comprehensive experiments in the Gazebo simulator and a real-world MRS with three TurtlBot3 robots to validate these attacks, which can remarkably decrease the system's performance, or even cause task failures.


Based on recent documents, this survey discusses and analyzes the definition and distribution and pathogeny of athletic sudden death, summarizes the character of epidermiology and etiology, and discusses the prevention of athletic sudden death.


Baseball's origins in Japan date back to the 1870s, and by the 1890s, it was a popular sport at the elite preparatory schools. Baseball was propelled into national consciousness by a series of games played by the most prestigious of those schools, First Higher School in Tokyo, against a team of Americans from the port of Yokohama. Their surprising success against the experienced American adults at a moment of patriotic fervor and a revival of a samurai warrior ethics as a national template popularized these boys, this sport, and this samurai imagery as a Japanese style of playing baseball. The game then spread rapidly through a national public education system, and it was promoted by newspapers and urban transport companies. Baseball, even its schoolboy origins, was not just education but edu-tainment, a contentious hybrid of moral pedagogy and profitable entertainment. Baseball, this chapter demonstrates, played a central role in the new metropolitan modernity of early twentieth-century Japan, and this provided a complex foundation for the professional sport that was Japan's central entertainment in the post–World War II decades.


Coordinate equation of cam's swept surface for gear indexing cam mechanism have been educed by means of relative movement between roller and cam during engagement and the theory of isometrics curve.Parametric entity modeling of the cam and kinematics simulation of cam mechanism has been done based on the design platform of Pro/E.


Nursing students enter a highly competitive job market upon graduation. So, t o obtain and maintain employment it has become more important than ever to ensure that nursing students are academically successful. Aim : The present study aims to examine the effect of faculty support, nursing students' general self efficacy, affective commitment, and barriers to Success on their achievements at Faculty of Nursing - Mansoura University. Methods: The study was conducted at t he Faculty of Nursing at Mansoura University . The total sample 365 of all academic year s nursing . F our tools were employed in this study, Perceived Faculty Support Scale, General Self Efficacy Scale, Affective Commitment Scale, and, the forth Tool divided into parts: Barrier to Success Scale and Student Achievement . Results: The major findings of this study indicated that there was a statistical significant positive correlation between faculty support, self efficacy, affective commitment on student achievem ent and there was a statistical significant negative correlation between barrier to success and their achievement. Also , statistical significant difference for the four years nursing students perception regarding all the variables. Recommendation : Faculty staff should assess levels of support that nursing students experience during each semester and should know the general self - efficacy during their course work. Faculty staff should engage their students in such differential teaching pedagogies as cooperati ve learning assignments, pre and post assessments for segments of courses, and frequent options for direct one to one consultations. ( El - Tahra Elsayed Abo Habieb, Ahlam Mahmoud El - Shaer , Wafaa Ismail Shrief and Neamat Mohamed Elsayed . Effect of Faculty Sup port, and Nursing Students' Self Efficacy, and Affective Commitment on Their Academic Achievements . Life Sci J 2013;10 ( 3 ): 2707 - 2716 ). (ISSN: 1545 - 1003). http://www.lifesciencesite.org . 390


Time reversal symmetry of exact differential scattering amplitudes for atom–diatom collisions is considered in detail. New stronger symmetries are derived for the amplitude in which the quantization axes for the initial and final rotor states are arbitrary. The general time reversal symmetry relation is then specialized to treat the initial–initial, final–final, ? and ?‐helicities and Basel convention amplitudes. A new exact selection rule for Basel amplitudes is obtained. Our results are of importance for a general understanding of magnetic transitions in atom–diatom collisions and also for understanding the CS and IOS approximations for magnetic transitions.


Ureteral endometriosis is a serious localization of disease that can lead to urinary tract obstruction, hydroureteronephrosis and potential kidney loss. We describe three cases of ureteral endometriosis where there was documented renal function loss with subsequent workup and surgical intervention. Clinical suspicion and preoperative assessment may help with diagnosis and allows for a multidisciplinary pre-consultation. Surgical technique to treatment varies, but the goal is to salvage renal function and decrease disease burden. Laparoscopic surgical approach can be carried out successfully in the hands of an experienced laparoscopic surgeon. These cases illustrate varying surgical approaches tailored to management of ureteral endometriosis. Women in reproductive age presenting with pelvic pain diagnosed to have hydronephrosis must be adequately evaluated for ureteral endometriosis.


Abstract Dynamic properties of hydraulic fluids have to be taken into account in ever increasing fluid power applications. The main reasons are increasing accuracy demands in control and modelling, as well as increasing operating pressure and temperature ranges. Moreover, the already wide spectrum of different hydraulic fluids is also expanding all the time. However, information on dynamic hydraulic fluid behavior is still very difficult to be obtained. On the other hand, existing fluid models tend to be either too inaccurate, or at least highly non-generic for most practical applications. This article introduces simple, yet accurate approaches for measuring and predicting the most important dynamic fluid parameters: bulk modulus, density and speed of sound in fluid. The methods are basically applicable to any standard hydraulic fluid, without any extra system-related constraints, at least at the presented conditions. The studied pressure range reaches 1500 bar, and the temperatures cover a normal operating range of industrial applications. Examples of both measured and predicted results for selected commercial hydraulic fluids are given. The results have also been found to be in excellent agreement with existing reference data.