Service users' perspectives on music therapy services can play a powerful role in examining and enhancing the impact and quality of music therapy services, securing continued funding for music therapy services, enhancing understanding of music therapy as a healthcare service and formulating recommendations for future research. In this issue, several articles focus on music therapy service evaluation and the importance of gaining experiential knowledge from service users. Giorgos Tsiris, Neta Spiro and Mercédès Pavlicevic (p. 3) discuss how music therapy service evaluations can contribute an important form of evidence to music therapy practice and play an essential role in the development of music therapy research agendas. They report on the analysis of five service evaluations of Nordoff–Robbins Music Therapy services in different neurorehabilitation contexts as perceived by clients, their families, music therapists and staff. Triona McCaffrey reports on an evaluation study of adult service users of music therapy in statutory mental health services in Ireland (p. 28). Through semi-structured interviews, she sought to obtain experiential knowledge from service users in order to enhance understanding of what music therapy services can offer to service users in mental health care contexts. McCaffrey argues that as recovery-oriented services become more prominent in mental healthcare, it is necessary for music therapists to actively engage service users in research endeavors. One way to accomplish this is by conducting service user evaluation studies. Monique van Bruggen-Rufi, Annemieke Vink, Wilco Achterberg and Raymund Roos conducted focus groups with healthcare professionals about their perceptions of music therapy services with people with Huntington's disease (p. 44). The focus groups helped to identify the role music therapy could play in improving the quality of life of people with Huntington's disease. The findings of this qualitative exploratory study were subsequentially used for the development of a largemusic therapy trial to examine the effects of music therapy on quality-of-life outcomes in this patient population. Finally, Bolette Daniels Beck and colleagues reported on a feasibility study of trauma-focused guided imagery and music with adult refugees diagnosed with PTSD in preparation of a large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT) (p. 76). An important aspect of this feasibility study was the evaluation of acceptance of the music therapy intervention by the refugees. Although RCTs are aimed at measuring treatment efficacy and may not (always) incorporate service user perspectives on the intervention, the preparatory work for a high quality RCT typically includes feasibility studies. Such studies often include obtaining user experiences of the intervention to determine if the intervention is perceived as meaningful and acceptable. Feasibility studies may lead to further refinement of the intervention and additional preliminary studies before an RCT is conducted. Increasingly, clinical trials of behavioral interventions use mixed methods research designs so that study participants' experiences of the interventions can be captured, analyzed and integrated with quantitative outcome data (Creswell & Plano Clark, 2018).


A group of 126 endophytic fungi was isolated from dragon fruit plants in Malaysia. Dual culture and disc diffusion test revealed that seven strains could suppress the growth of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides. Of all the potential strains, strain T3.3 exhibited the best antagonistic activity by producing an inhibition zone of 12±1.0 mm in dual culture test. Disc diffusion test using crude extract produced by this fungus could inhibit the growth of C.gloeosporioides by 33.33±2.89%. The diffused non volatile metabolite produced by this strain suppressed the growth of the pathogen by 97% after 7 days of incubation. Based on morphological characteristics and ITS region sequence, strain T3.3 was identified as Penicillium oxalicum. The carbon utilization profile in Biolog FF Microplate analysis revealed that P.oxalicum T3.3 is a versatile microorganism. P.oxalicum T3.3 was found to produce β-glucanase and chitinase with activity of 3.38 U/mL and 1.19 U/mL respectively. In addition, the ethylacetate extract of P.oxalicum T3.3 could suppress the growth of C.gloeosporioides. Scanning electron microscopy study showed that the release of extracellular antifungal metabolites from the endophytic P.oxalicum T3.3 had caused abnormal hyphal growth of C.gloeosporioides. Treatment with the crude extract from this fungus on dragon fruit could control anthracnose disease in this fruit in vivo. Thus, endophytic Penicillium oxalicum T3.3 is considered as a potential biological control agent of anthracnose disease in dragon fruit.


Nepenthaceae are an exceptional family with regard to carnivo ry and the uniformity of characters. This makes it dif- ficult to resolve phylogenetic relationships due to conv ergent evolution of morphological features. Using comparative se- quencing of the chloroplast trnK intron, the monophyly of this complex family and hypoth eses of infrageneric relationships were tested. Sequences from 71 Nepenthes taxa, representing all groups and two taxa of the closely related Ancistrocladaceae and Dioncophyllaceae as outgroup, were determined and ana- lysed using maximum parsimony methods. Results of this analy- sis show that the isolated taxa N. distillatoria (Sri Lanka) and N. pervillei (Seychelles) are the most basal, clearly separated from the Madagascan taxa N. madagascariensis and N. masoalensis which are placed in a distinct subclade. This corresponds with some plesiomorphic character s shared by these taxa. N. khasi- ana (North India) has an intermediate position between these relic Western species and the remaining taxa. The species of the Malay Archipelago can be referred to three distinct lineages which indicate a correlation to biogeography . Thus the recent disjunct distribution of Nepenthes is interpreted as a result of an incisive extinction of progenitors, a process of migration and a subsequent diversification on the islands of Borneo, Sumatra, Sulawesi and New Guinea. Based on our molecular data, two in- terpretations concerning the origin of Nepenthes are possible: i) evolution in the Northern Tethys which is suppor ted by fossil pollen records from the European Focene, or , ii) a Gondwana- land origin at a time when the Indian plate was separated from Madagascar. Molecular data indicate that colonization of SE Asia started from an ancient Indian stock. Subsequently, in the Malay Archipelago a new secondary centre of diversity developed. Ma- dagascar, the Se ychelles and New Caledonia were probably reached by migration via land bridges, starting from widespead common ancestors with subsequent extinction leaving the cur- rent taxa. There is no evidence for long-distance dispersal. Cur- rent infragenic classification of Nepenthes is only partly in accordance with the phylogen y inferred from trnK intron data.


Aim of this work is to detect and segment objects such as license plate or human eyes from images with Markov Random Fields (MRFs). MRF is a region based segmentation method that works iteratively in Bayes framework and simulated annealing was used as optimization method. We focused on modelling the MRF regional observation energies with probabilistic distributions. Although simple segmentation problems such as thresholding can be modelled by simple univariate Gaussian distributions, complex textures regions such as license plate or human eye requires the use of multi-dimensional distributions. We suggest using Eigen-Density distributions and Support Vector Machines (SVM) to model observation energies for complex textured regions. We also demonstrate the performance of MRFs for removing the noise and providing smoothness on segmented results and discrimination and generalization power of the SVMs.


A common request from EMC Society members, through feedback at the annual International Symposium on EMC, for example, is that members want more information on the Society's sponsored standards. This is something the Society is keen to provide. One part of that is to update and evolve the web pages since these are a first port-of-call for most of the members looking for information. This article introduces what is currently there and invites you to take a look around and get back in touch with me, Alistair Duffy (apd@dmu. ac.uk) as Chair of the Standards Development Committee, or Don Heirman (firstname.lastname@example.com) as Vice President for Standards, with any comments or suggestions about what you would like to see there. There are changes afoot in the EMC Society's standards activities and these will be reflected later in the year. The main change is that the Standards Development Committee (SDCom) and the Standards Education and Training Committee (SETCom) are merging. However, the current status is reported here but there will be an update next year in the EMC Society Magazine.


Traditional workflow products have difficulties in supporting the complex features of group activities in business processes. Through extending traditional workflow model in activity modeling method and execution mechanism,a dynamic group-supported workflow management system is designed and implemented. Compared with traditional workflow modeling method,this method has more capabilities in describing group activities and makes modeling simpler. This paper introduces the modeling method for group activity and the key execution mechanism in the workflow management system.


This study aims to examine the impact of green purchasing practices (GPP) on the financial performance (FP) of companies and the mediating role of environmental performance (EP) in the context of Türkiye, a developing country. GPP are represented by their all-related activities, such as green supplier selection (GSS), green supplier development (GSD), green supplier collaboration (GSC), and green supplier evaluation (GSE). Although much attention has been paid to GPP and their impact on FP in recent years, empirical evidence is still needed, particularly for companies in developing countries. For this purpose, this study explores the effect of GPP on FP and the mediating role of EP with survey data obtained from 455 companies in Türkiye. The findings reveal that GPP, in general, make a positive contribution to both the EP and FP of companies in Türkiye. However, the two GPP sub activities, GSD and GSE, do not have a significant effect on EP, contrary to our expectation. In addition, it is found that EP causes a significant increase in FP and plays a partial mediating role in the effect of GPP on FP. The insight gained from this study is that the increase in FP brought directly by GPP and indirectly through the increase in EP may offset the additional cost posed by GPP. In fact, this is an important finding in terms of overcoming the obstacles encountered in the transition to GPP in developing countries.


Until recently, the major unsolved problem in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway has been identification of the important staging areas used during northward migration by the estimated 5,000,000 migratory waders of 60 species in the region. We knew a good deal about the distribution of waders in the non-breeding season and broadly where they breed, but very little about where they stage in large numbers during migration. This issue is particularly acute in our flyway because it contains more than a third of the world's human population living in 24 countries, many of which are among the fastest growing economies in the word, with a seemingly insatiable appetite for land and resources. All this is not good news for wetlands, with the intertidal areas of east Asia being amongst he most threatened globally (Melville 1997). We thought hat a visit during the 1996 northward migration to Chongming Dao, a large island in the Yangtze estuary, might begin providing answers. Many Australian bands had been recovered there and the indications were that the


An extended Modified Equivalent Current Approximation (MECA) is presented for treating the electromagnetic (EM) scattering from pure dielectric or low lossy materials. MECA method only considers the reflected waves, and ignores the refracted waves which are traced inside the dielectric object and then traced outside. The extended MECA method formulates the equivalent electric and magnetic currents induced by the refracted waves, which are supposed to have exponential amplitude variation and linear phase variation on the planar triangular facets. The proposed method is validated by simulation results.


To analyze the basic premise of government existing and the social policy reform tendency,discuss the current situation and objective requirement of the government cognition, government function, health policy in the health area . It pointed out that the adjustment in the management ethics, management mechanism and the management sense will be the key influencing factors during the process of the public service government's rational health policy making and executing.


Three wood-inhabiting fungal species, Xylodon gossypinus, X. macrosporus, and X. sinensis spp. nov. were collected from southern China, with the similar function to decompose rotten wood, which are here proposed as new taxa based on a combination of morphological features and molecular evidence. Xylodon gossypinus is characterized by the resupinate basidiomata with cotton hymenophore, and ellipsoid basidiospores; X.macrosporus is characterized by the resupinate basidiomata having the cracking hymenophore with pale yellowish hymenial surface, and larger basidiospores 8–10.5 × 7.5–9 µm; and X. sinensis differs by its grandinioid hymenial surface and subglobose basidiospores measuring as 3–5 × 2.5–4 µm. Sequences of ITS and nLSU rRNA markers of the studied samples were generated, and phylogenetic analyses were performed with maximum likelihood, maximum parsimony, and Bayesian inference methods. The ITS+nLSU analysis in Hymenochaetales revealed that the three new species clustered into the Schizoporaceae family, located in genus Xylodon; based on the ITS dataset, X. gossypinus was a sister to X. ussuriensis; X. macrosporus closely grouped with X.follis with a high support; and X.sinensis was retrieved as two sisters to X. attenuatus and X. yarraensis with a lower support.


Camel meat is an ethnic food consumed across the arid regions. For these medicinal and nutritional benefits, it can be a great option for sustainable meat worldwide supply. Consumers can be benefit from the subtle taste of camel meat, flavored with aromatic and medicinal herbs from the arid regions. Research on the camel meat from both an economic and technological aspects is quite recent, which explains the limited information available on this area. Nevertheless, developing new preservation techniques as well the development of various products from camel meat through optimum processing constitute an axis of fu-ture scientific research in order to valorize this product. The camel meat as an alternative source to red meats is also discussed as well as the challenges of its acceptance by consumers. In light of the enthusiasm for this meat, to which many beneficial health effects are attributed, it seemed interesting to conduct this review.


Keywords: Philosophie ; Sciences affectives - Emotions ; Sections UNIL, Psycho, Media Reference EPFL-STUDENT-164100 Record created on 2011-03-06, modified on 2017-05-12


Coal Seam Gas (CSG) development activity is typically identified by low cost, vertical wells using low technology, simple solutions. This approach is frequently driven by small com panies with minimal financial capabilities to embark upon more sophisticated well designs and completions. The n et r sult has been a relative lack of inte rest from oilfield service providers used to operating within the economics o f mainstream hydrocarbon activity and a lack of technical innovation employed in the CBM market. The underbalanced, horizontal CSG pilot program performed in Australia di scussed in this paper marks a significant departure from the norm. This development was driven in part by the des ir to maximize production from individual wells, but also by the need to perfect technology which may subsequen tly b used to penetrate coal seams ext ending beneath surface restricted areas within the license block s. The three-well pilot CSG program was drilled and introduced a combination of horizontal, un derbalanced drilling using recyclable foam and electromagnetic MWD (EM -MWD). A single-trip window milling system was used to kick-off the lateral from the main bore, which remained as a sump for installation of the de watering system. This paper is a case history of the three -w ll campaign that describes the details of and lessons to be dr awn f om the application of this technology. The program had an experimental aspect to it because this technique had not been app lied to CSG previously and it delivered many valuable, but often painful, lessons in the process. Background The license block s discussed in this paper a e located in southern central Queensland , Australia with a number of different drilling environments. Project economics did not allow the drilling of several wells in similar areas to perfect the drilling technique and three distinctly different environments were tackled during this pilot program. These were as follows: Well No. 1 – Low permeability coal of 6m 8m thickness at 1,200m TVD, where fracturing and cavitation had previously delivered no commercially viable quantities of gas. Formation pressure estimated in the region of 1,050 – 1,200psi, but pressure could take a week to develop at surface . Well No. 2 – High permeability coal of 4m thickness at 714m TVD where offset wells were productive in the range of up to 0.5MMcf/day and produced very little or no water, but the lateral had the potential to drill into a wet area. Well No. 3 – High permeability coal of 4m – 6m thickness at 650m TVD, where previous wells were also productive in the range of 0.5MMcf/day, but produced high volumes of water of up to 4,000bbls/day. The same basic well design was employed for all three wells, with a 14" conductor set at 17m, 9 -5/8" casing set at 200-250m and an 8-1/2" hole drilled vertically to kick -off point. Moderate build rates were used to reach a high


In this paper we present a novel RSA–like cryptosystem. Specifically, we define a novel product that arises from a cubic field connected to the cubic Pell equation. We discuss some interesting properties and remarks about this product that can also be evaluated through a generalization of the Rédei rational functions. We then exploit these results to construct a novel RSA–like scheme that is more secure than RSA in broadcast applications. Moreover, our scheme is robust against the Wiener attack and against other kind of attacks that exploit the knowledge of a linear relation occurring between two plaintexts.


Study optimization of network traffic prediction.Because of the traditional traffic forecasting model accuracy not high defects,a new algorithm was proposed based on fuzzy comprehensive evaluation of network traffic forecasting model.Related needs for network traffic were analysed based on space reconstruction of raw data.An improved multi-AHP mathematical optimization model was used to establish Fuzzy comprehensive evaluation for network intrusion detection evaluation multi-index optimization model.The final distribution of the predicted results was obtained.The actual network traffic was predicted to verify this method.The results show that the algorithm has higher prediction accuracy than the traditional network traffic prediction algorithm.


Diatom algae are single-celled, photosynthetic organisms with a cell wall called a frustule—a periodically patterned nano-structure made of silica. Throughout the last decade, diatom frustules have been studied for their potential uses as photonic crystals and biomimetic templates for artificially developed metamaterials. A MATLAB program characterizing their pore structure as a function of angle was developed, potentially giving insight into how their geometric characteristics determine their optical properties.


A dentist and a psychologist seek a solution to the immense problem of dental fears. Desensitization therapy, an approach developed in psychology, offers definite help for people whose fears prevent them from seeking necessary dental care.


however, he argues that this instrument 'enables a very transparent communication of all the sounds and sound levels, something that is not possible to achieve to such an extent on a contemporary piano' (p. 7, my emphasis). I am left wondering about the apparent contradiction between these two claims. Rutkowski's new disk thus seems to sonically exemplify Jonathan Bellman's observation (made in a different context) that both the historically informed performer and the musicologist work among echoes of the past – 'fragments and imitations of Chopin's pianism are all that remains'.


The utility model relates to a box type movable and composite house produced industrially. The utility model is composed of fixed piles, a framework and box type inner walls. The utility model can be produced industrially, building cycle is shortened, and the box type movable and composite house is convenient to be dismantled, moved away, reinstalled and combined.


Nordlingen-Ries impact structure (Germany, Bavaria) is one of the best known terrestrial impact structures. Steinheim meteorite crater (often called Steinheim-basin) is located ~40 km from Ries, in the southwestern direction. Diameter of Ries is about 24 km, Steinheim is about 3.8 km. Their age is the same: 15.1 million years [1,2], which is a key-point for these two impact forms: it is strongly suggested not only the occurrence of simultaneous (or nearly simultaneous) impact, but also some kind of relationship between parental meteorites of these two craters (because chance of simultaneous impact of two meteorites in such a small area, without any linking or relationship between them, is very low). Simultaneous, double-impact origin for these two craters is accepted since the early 1960's [1].


Indonesian government has committed to reduce and eliminate mercury. Hence, the intensity of monitoring activities of mercury levels in various matrices would be increased and supported by qualified analytical data. Key characteristic performances, i.e., the limit of detection, linear range, precision, trueness, have been successfully carried out, and the method was shown to fit the purpose. The limit detection, LoD and LoQ, were found to be 0.26 and 0.86 µg/L, respectively, which were adequate to reach the tightest regulatory limit of mercury in surface water (1 µg/L). The examined linearity range of 1-20 µg/L has been found sufficient for its application since a high mercury concentration in the typical sample is seldomly expected. Precision and trueness aspects of the method were shown to have satisfaction performance, with CV of 1,24% and recovery of 104.54%. All the possible uncertainty sources have been identified in this study. Since no reference material was available, the uncertainty of bias was evaluated through the recovery of the spiked sample. Compliance assessment to six measurement results has been performed; one result was below LoQ, four were clearly below regulatory limit, and one was questionable. Hence a decision rule was applied.


Turkey ABSTRACT This research is conducted with the purpose of identifying the effect of gender roles and sexual quality of life on menopausal complaints. Sample of this cross-sectional research consisted of 306 women in menopausal period.The data was collected using "Personal Information Form","Gender Roles Attitude Scale","The Sexual Quality of Life-Female (SQOL-F)" and "Menopause Symptoms Rating Scale (MSRS)".While the average age of women is 53.03±4.91 years, their average age of menopause is 48.58±3.31 years.The total average score that women get from GRAS is 47.61±8.04, total average score they get from SQOL-F is 49.12±11.87 and total average score they get from MSRS is 18.15±9.14. Total average scores they get from Somatic Complaints, Psychological Complaints and Urogenital Complaints sub-dimension of MSRS are 6.64±3.15, 7.15±4.27 and 4.35±3.00, respectively.It was determined that total and all sub-dimension score averages of MSRS increased significantly as the GRAS average score increases in women in menopausal period (p<0.05).In addition, it was also determined that average score from MSRS Urogenital Complaints sub-dimension decreased significantly as SQOL-F average score increases (p<0.05).It was determined that as equalitarian attitude level in terms of gender roles increases, complaints regarding menopausal symptoms increase and urogenital complaints experienced during menopause caused decrease in sexual quality of


Aim: Coronary artery ectasia (CAE) is commonly defined as local or generalized dilatation of a coronary vessel up to 1,5 times the diameter of an adjacent vessel. Tp-Te interval and Tp-Te/QT ratio have emerged as a novel electrocardiographic (ECG) markers of increased dispersion of ventricular repolarization. The aim of this study was to evaluate ventricular repolarization by using Tp-Te interval and Tp-Te/QT ratio in patients with CAE.

Materials and methods: Patient records were retrospectively analyzed. ECG of 28 patients, who were diagnosed as CAE were obtained and scanned.Tp-Te, QT and corrected QT intervals and some other ECG intervals were measured. ECGs of age and sex matched 22 healthy control individuals were also analyzed for comparison.

Results: Baseline characteristics and QT, QTc intervals were similar in both group. Tp-Te (97,71±8,7 vs 85,23±7,1; p<0,001) and Tp-Te/QT (0,22±0,0 vs 0,20±0,0; p<0,001) were significantly worse in CAE group.

Conclusions: :Tp-Te is a measure of transmural dispersion of repolarization in the left ventricle and accepted as a surrogate for increased ventricular arrhythmogenesis risk. Tp-Te and Tp-Te/QT are relatively new markers which also indicate repolarization defects. Our results show that CAE patients significantly higher values of Tp-Te and Tp-Te/QT than controls. These measurements may indicate increased arrhythmogenesis risk for individuals with CAE.

| Parameters | Patients | Controls | p value |
|:------------ | --------- | --------- | ------- |
| LVEDD (mm) | 45±8 | 43±10 | 0.59 |
| LVESD (mm) | 28±5 | 26±6 | 0.48 |
| LVEF (%) | 62.9±4.4 | 65.9±5.1 | 0.03 |
| QT max | 383.43±30 | 375.91±23 | 0.35 |
| QTc max | 421.32±26 | 409.95±18 | 0.09 |
| TPe | 97.71±8.7 | 85.23±7.1 | <0.001 |
| TPe/QT ratio | 0.22±0.0 | 0.20±0.0 | <0.001 |
| QT disp | 26.89±9.9 | 24.41±6.5 | 0.31 |

* Echocardiographic and electrocardiographic parameters between the patient group with the control group.


How to define a documentary book? Journalism or Literature? Not just one, neither only the other. A hybrid genre - after all, it adds up elements of literature and journalism - but, especially, independent. In order to reflect a little longer on this other discourse that is the livro-reportagem, I propose, in this article, to think about its particularities starting from the mise-en-scene of the reported discourse. Therefore, my aim is to analyse the forms and the functions of the direct speech and indirect speech in Rota 66 - a historia da policia que mata, by the writer-journalist Caco Barcellos. On dealing with the reported discourse it is impossible not to take into consideration the textual and typo markers which go with the quoted discourses. Moreover, I judge necessary to reflect, in the selected corpus, on the verbs which introduce the other's discourse. This study demonstrated that the reported discourse, in Rota 66, is used to make explicit and/or contrast the positions of both the writer-journalist and the Policia Militar.


Introduction Crust which develops at the surface of foods during grilling and roasting leads to Maillard and oxidation reactions which affect food color, flavor and safety[1][2]. An Experimental Study have been conducted recently to study the mechanisms of crust development at the surface of whole beef meat cylinders subjected to hot air jet [3]. Temperatures, structure (Figure 1) and water content profiles were measured within the crust. A heat-mass transfer model is presented in this paper to predict crust development.


The advent of green technology has flourished biomolecule applications in medical,
pharmaceutical and food products. Unlike synthetic materials, gelatin-polysaccharide matrixes
are generally recognized as safe (GRAS). Gelatin-polysaccharide complexes are currently
being utilized for the development of nano- and micro-particles, hydrogel, aerogel and films.
Gelatin-polysaccharide based materials have offered improved characteristics depending on the
type and concentration of polysaccharide and crosslinking agent. Gelatin-polysaccharide based
materials function as bioactive compounds entrapment and encapsulation and anti-bacteria.
This review provides concise information on the theory and technological applications of
gelatin-polysaccharides based materials.


With rising transshipment volumes, new challenges arise for vehicle transshipment compounds: They have to facilitate the complex logistics processes of intermodal transports of vehicles on their compounds with ever shorter loading and unloading times of ships and trains in order to satisfy external stake holders. In addition, customised services for vehicles offered by the compound operator cause inter-terminal transport (ITT). All transports of vehicles have to be carried out by human workers who drive the vehicles from one location to the next. Usually, the drivers are transported across the compound by shuttles and therefore grouped together in teams. Accordingly, the drivers are modelled in cohorts but not individually. In this paper, we set up a model with a control algorithm that handles each driver individually. New orders are assigned to each driver based on their current location. By doing so, we allow for the possibility to individually assign orders that are within walking distance so that shuttle rides and associated waiting times can be avoided. Shuttles are still available for longer distances. We state the problem as an assignment problem to find the time-minimising combination of drivers, shuttles and orders. The proposed control algorithm includes the actual states of drivers, shuttles and available orders as a feedback control. It is carried out in a rolling planning horizon manner to periodically obtain a new solution based on the actual state of the compound. We verify the proposed control algorithm and conduct simulations with two variants of the algorithm which differ in terms of shuttle routing. The results show that the proposed model and control algorithm are suitable to simulate order assignments in a real-case vehicle compound scenario. Moreover, including the possibility to reach orders by walking offers large potential for the productivity on vehicle compounds.


Some problems appeared during the process of implementing the national standard of intrinsic viscosity of PET chip were stated.The intrinsic viscosity analysis error mainly caused by the test instrument,reagent and filter instrument etc.were discussed.The solving methods were put forward.


3061 Background: BI 6727 is a highly potent and selective inhibitor of the serine-threonine Polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1), a key regulator of cell cycle progression. BI 6727 is a second generation dihydropteridinone derivative with distinct pharmacokinetic (PK) properties. Here, final safety and efficacy data are presented. Methods: Sequential cohorts of three to six patients with progressive advanced or metastatic solid tumors received a single 1 hour infusion of BI 6727 every three weeks, following a toxicity guided dose escalation design. A total of 65 patients were treated at doses from 12 to 450 mg including a cohort of 29 patients at the recommended phase II dose of 300 mg for a thorough characterization of safety. Results: Reversible hematotoxicity was the main side effect with thrombocytopenia, neutropenia and febrile neutropenia constituting the dose limiting toxicities. Anemia in 22% (grade 3: 8%), neutropenia in 15% (grade 3/4: 14%), thrombocytopenia in 14% (grade 3/4: 14%) and fatigue in 15% (all ...


ABSTRACT The values of magnetic susceptibility and Cu, Zn, Ni, Pb, Cr, Cd concentrations of 70 topsoil samples were analyzed and assessed for soil contamination in the Linfen basin of China. The contamination factor (CF) and pollution load index (PLI) were used to assess the degree of heavy metal pollution. All heavy metal concentrations in the soil were greater than the background values of Shanxi agricultural soils. PLI values ranged from 1.27 to 2.18 indicating significant soil contamination. Principal component analyses and correlation analyses were adopted for data treatment to identify heavy metal sources. Cu, Zn, Ni, and Pb were responsible for 31.2% of the total variance suggesting that these elements mainly originated from agrochemistry and atmospheric deposition. A positive correlation of magnetic susceptibility with Cu and PLI were observed in cultivated soils. This study shows that magnetic susceptibility measurements can be used as a technique in which different types of soil pollution can be distinguished and can also be used to rapidly monitor anomalies in areas that might require expensive and time consuming detailed chemical analyses.


HYPOTHESIS
Patients and their clinicians hold varying preferences for surgical and adjuvant treatment therapies for rectal cancer.

DESIGN
Preferences were determined using the Prospective Measure of Preference.

SETTING
Royal Prince Alfred and St Vincent's hospitals in Sydney, Australia.

PARTICIPANTS
Patients with colorectal cancer were interviewed during their postoperative hospital stay, and physicians were asked to complete a mailed survey.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES
The Prospective Measure of Preference method produces 2 outcome measures of preference: willingness to trade and prospective measure of preference time trade-off.

RESULTS
Patients' strongest preference was to avoid a stoma: more than 60% would give up a mean of 34% of their life expectancy to avoid this surgical option. This was followed by treatment options involving chemoradiotherapy, where more than 50% would give up a mean of almost 25% of their life to avoid treatment. Surgeons held stronger preferences against all adjuvant options compared with oncologists (P </= .01).

CONCLUSIONS
Patients had strong preferences against all treatment options, and these preferences frequently differed from those of physicians. These results highlight the importance of determining patients' own preferences in the clinical encounter. Furthermore, the diversity of preferences of clinical subspecialists emphasizes the need for multidisciplinary treatment planning to ensure a balanced approach to treatment decision making for patients with rectal cancer.


This talk discusses the use of a particular theorem prover, ACL2, on formal verification projects, particularly in industrial settings. In addition to describing briefly some existing and ongoing applications of ACL2, I'll discuss features relevant to formal verification projects.


From an interpretive, post-structuralist perspective, this paper analyzes the discursive constructions of fluid migrant identities through the lens of narrative practice. I describe the presentations of the Self /the Other which get inscribed in a series of truncated stories mobilized by three unsheltered Ghanaians who lived on a bench in a Catalan town. I explore their self-attributed /other-ascribed social categories and argue that these multifaceted identity acts are a lens into how heterogeneous migrant networks apprehend social exclusion in their host societies. I show that a narrative approach to the interactional processes of migrant identity construction may be revealing of these populations' social structuration practices, which are 'internally' regulated in off-the-radar economies of meaning. I problematize hegemonic conceptions that present migrants as agency-less, decapitalized storied Selves, and suggest that stagnated populations may also be active tellers who act upon companions and rivals, when fighting for transnational survival in contexts of precariousness.


An EPR data acquisition and control system for in vivo tooth dosimetry was developed.Based on the graphical programming language,LabVIEW and using the ART USB2812data acquisition card as the controller card,the system can perform the basic functions of EPR:controlling the power of the scanning field,displaying the microwave mode signal,adjusting the microwave power,and acquiring EPR signals.The data processing program developed has basic spectrum processing functions:data query,spectral baseline correction and integration.


Excerpt The role of bacteria in the pathogenesis of liver disease is uncertain. In ascending cholangitis, bacteria frequently invade the liver; however, in other types of liver disease, bacterial i...


Described here is a 21-year-old man, who had several episodes of generalized muscle weakness, blepharoptosis and a diffuse goiter. The results of thyroid function tests and histological findings of specimen obtained by thyroid biopsy was compatible with mild Graves' disease. Blepharoptosis was moderately improved immediately after edrophonium injection, thus established the diagnosis of occular type of myasthenia gravis. In addition, the patient had markedly diminished serum potassium level, in association with markedly elevated plasma renin activity (PRA). Plasma aldosterone concentration (PAC) and urinary aldosterone excretion (UAE) were also moderately increased. The insensitivity to pressor effect of infused synthetic angiotensin II and hyperplasia of the juxtaglomerular apparatus of the kidney in histological examination substantiated the diagnosis of Bartter's syndrome complicated with Graves' disease and myasthenia gravis.In order to investigate the effect of indomethacin, an inhibitor of prostaglandin biosynthesis, on the biochemical abnormalities of Bartter's syndrome, indomethacin (75mg/day) was given with spironolactone and potassium treatment. However, the biochemical abnormalities were not corrected and, moreover, muscle weakness and further decrease in potassium level were observed during the treatment with indomethacin alone. The findings suggest that the abnormalities observed in this patient could not be explained by the overproduction of renal prostaglandin.The present case with Bartter's syndrome was characterized by complicating of Graves' disease and myasthenia gravis, both of which have been regarded as autoimmune diseases. Immunological studies, including subpopulation of lymphocyte determined by surface immunoglobulin bearing cells, rosette formation and blastoid formation, revealed the suppression of B lymphocyte population in the present case. Although these immunological abnormalities were corrected after administration of azathioprine, an immunosuppressive agent, serum potassium level was not ameliorated. The result suggest that immunological mechanism is not related to the etiology of Bartter's syndrome in the present case.


Queer bonds conceptualize inventive and resistant modes of belonging, sociability, and relation that push at, through, and outside normative relational systems and their normative commitments. The essay juxtaposes contemporary gay suicide discourse, specifically the "It Gets Better" campaign and 2009's Prayers for Bobby with the 1985 Molly Ringwald made-for-TV film Surviving: A Family in Crisis, examining how normative familial bonds in discourses of heterosexual suicide produce a resistant and relational discourse of brutal selfishness. Contrary to a rhetoric of selfishness, mediated representation of gay youth suicide reproduces a discursive link between gay identity and suicide that constructs gay suicide as problematically logical, sensible, and intelligible. Conceptualizing a queered rhetoric of selfishness, resisting gay suicidal logics, the essay looks to queer bonds forged in John Hughes's 'Brat Pack" films of otherness as maps of relational resistance and inventive articulations of non-normative modes of queer selfishness and belonging.


We demonstrate a breach in smartphone location privacy through the accelerometer and magnetometer's footprints. The merits or otherwise of explicitly permissioned location sensors are not the point of this paper. Instead, our proposition is that other non-location-sensitive sensors can track users accurately when the users are in motion, as in travelling on public transport, such as trains, buses, and taxis. Through field trials, we provide evidence that high accuracy location tracking can be achieved even via non-location-sensitive sensors for which no access authorisation is required from users on a smartphone.


In this work, we report on the integration of 30nm gate length CMOS devices fabricated using laser spike annealing (LSA). Considerably improved short channel effects and drive current (+10% Ion at constant Ioff for NMOS) are demonstrated on samples using LSA. Excellent IonIoff characteristics (Ion  = 940 muA/mum Ioff = 200 muA/mum for NMOS and Ion = 390muA/mum Ioff = 50 nA/mum for PMOS at Vdd = 1 V) are measured that are at the leading edge of the state of the art. Moreover, an enhanced dynamic behavior (-6% in ring oscillator delay) and improved characteristics of high density SRAM bit-cells (+24% Icell for the same 1sb) are reported. These results demonstrate the potential of LSA in the perspective of 30 nm device integration of a 45 nm bulk CMOS platform


Tins Roost Is AS i•rrra•ss•vE AS IT IS •_•SSrVE. Professor Goodwin sets out to study the evolution of economic thought in Australia up to about 1929 and he emphasizes the adaptations, modifications, and developments which major European and American theories underwent at the hands of Australian politicians, publicists, popularizers, and professors. It is astonishing, tothis reviewer at least, that anyone could have found out so much about Australian economic history after only six months' residence in the country. He is one onlooker who has seen, and shown to those who care to read, most of the game. Resident experts in the field will learn much from him.


The invention provides a substituted heterocyclic compound as a kinase inhibitor and its preparation method and use. The substituted heterocyclic compound is a compound shown in the formula I or its medicinal salt, hydrate, solvate or prodrug, wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are defined in the specification. The substituted heterocyclic compound can be used as a kinase inhibitor and can be used for preparation of a drug for treating cancers.


The paper describes the development of unsteady pulse pressurisation techniques for measuring the leakage of buildings. The original version of the technique (the UP technique) has been investigated experimentally and theoretically in a single cell test space. The initial results are very promising, with a good degree of repeatability and similar sensitivity to changes in leakage levels as the conventional steady (DC) technique. An interesting outcome of these early tests was the observation that quasi-steady flow could be established in a short time. This has led to a second version of the technique (the QP technique) and evidence is provided which indicates that this version could offer greater accuracy than the UP and DC techniques.


The influence of red, blue, green and white light on growth, excretion and photosynthetic rates and carbon metabolism of the freshwater algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Dangeard was examined. Relative growth constants were 0.28, 0.32, 0.40 and 0.41 in green, white, blue and red light respectively. Photosynthetic rates were higher in white, blue or red than in green light of the same intensity. More than 60% of the 14c0 assimilated by cells grown under blue or 2 green light was incorporated into the ethanol-insoluble fraction compared with about 50% in cells grown under white or red light. Within the ethanolinsoluble fraction the percentage of sugars was significantly higher in cells grown under green or red light than in cells cultured in white or blue light. The percentage in the insoluble protein f$action was greatest in blue light. The percentage release of dissolved organic carbon into the medium was highest in white light and lowest in blue or red light. The nature and quantity of excreted material varied but not in a predictable manner.


Dysequilibrium of aging in humans has been speculated to arise from progressive deterioration within anatomical components of the vestibular system. An integral part of this system is vestibular ganglions, which are bipolar neurons that relay peripheral vestibular information to the central nervous system. To assess the effect of aging on the number of human vestibular ganglion neurons, assumption‐free stereology in the form of the optical fractionator was used on 20 serially sectioned archival human temporal bone specimens. Donors had no history of vestibular pathology and ranged in age from 2 to 88 years. An average of 25,812 (coefficient of variation = 0.13) vestibular ganglion neurons was found throughout this age range, a significant departure from the results of past studies. Logistics‐based regression analysis pointed to a nonlinear pattern of decline in the neuronal population: the number of cells remained roughly constant at about 28,952 cells in youth and then declined gradually between 30 and 60 years of age before leveling off at approximately 23,349 cells in older individuals. This study confirmed the existence of an age‐related decline in the primary neurons of the human vestibular system, thus providing one anatomical basis for the increased incidence of imbalance seen with age. J. Comp. Neurol. 431:437–443, 2001. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


In this paper, we employ graph embeddings for classification tasks. To do this, we explore the relationship between kernel matrices, spaces of inner products and statistical inference by viewing the embedding vectors for the nodes in the graph as a field on a Riemannian manifold. This leads to a setting where the inference process may be cast as a Maximum a Posteriori (MAP) estimation over a Gibbs field whereby the graph Laplacian can be related to a Gram matrix of scalar products. This not only allows for a better understanding of graph spectral techniques, but also provides a means for classifying nodes in the graph without the need to compute the embedding explicitly by using a Mercer kernel. We illustrate how the developments presented here can be used for purposes of classification, where we use the graph Laplacian as a kernel matrix. We present classification results on synthetic data and four UCI datasets. We also apply our method to real-world image labelling and compare our results to those yielded by alternatives elsewhere in the literature.


This study describes the development and installation of an automatic microscope photometer for the measurement of the optical anisotropy factor OPTAF on the pyrocarbon coatings of fuel particles. After a short representation of the physical basis of this procedure the new microscope photometer is introduced. First measurements for the adaptation of the new instrument of the so far used microscope photometer are discussed. By these measurements the influence of the instrument on the value of OPTAF in the case of some special ways of measuring are explained and the appearance of an apparent anisotropy is interpreted. (auth)


The coagulation-flocculation and sedimentation beaker test is carried out to deal with the hydraulic ash of the recirculating water in the shell coal gasification process.The results show that the complex formulation of PAC and PAM is better in treating the hydraulic ash.


The presented policy-based management system supports autonomous control and adaptation of a distributed system according to changing conditions and requirements by means of event-condition-action (ECA) rules. Furthermore, it supports policy-aware application programming. Application components can request evaluations of policy expressions and decisions in order to govern their behavior depending on global system state and environment conditions. That rich functionality has to be provided very efficiently since the distributed system consists of resource-constrained devices. The model-based management (MBM) approach is applied separating comfortable tool-assisted policy definition and refinement at design time from lightweight runtime policy enforcement. New enhancements of MBM extend the policy refinement to the derivation of ECA rules. The new backend functions generate executable Java byte code for policy expressions and decisions as well as for policy rules. The code is appropriately partitioned and allocated to the devices. A simplified healthcare scenario demonstrates the approach and its application.


A crackdown on the coup staged by Ne Win's relatives is good news to many people, but does little for democracy. Ne Win's relatives told the interrogators they made their plans because they had lost money due to the government's economic policy, and because they no longer enjoyed special privileges. Few believe those arrested were actually mounting a coup. The most likely motive is that the junta itself has been preparing for a post-Ne Win era. It is a very clever move to try to break up Ne Win's family. They don't want another force to appear.


8 ASUBTITLE: THEY CAN'T EXPECT TO GROW AS FAST AS THEY ONCE DID, BUT TOYOTA, HONDA, AND OTHER AUTO FIRMS SHOULD EMERGE STRONGER FROM THE CURRENT RECESSION.


transformed in this way. Uwe-Karsten Plisch, 'Zostrianus, der philosophisch orientierte Sethianismus und das Gebet des Seth' (pp. –), discusses the reception of Zostrianos in Plotinus and its relationship to the Prayer of Seth (P. Berol. ), along with Sethian prayers also documented in Zostrianos, Allogenes and the Three steles of Seth. Overall, this is an excellent collection of essays by numerous preeminent scholars, which provide insightful conclusions about specific texts and topics. One primary concern throughout the volume is to question, critique and reformulate genre-based categorisations of these works. This is extremely useful; the Nag Hammadi codices cannot be forced into traditional canonical genres, but rather the definitions of particular genres must also incorporate the Nag Hammadi codices (and other apocryphal texts) in order to understand how these texts functioned as literature and influenced theological developments in early Christianity.


We reviewed our department's collections dealing with the Ordovician System, stored at the National Museum of Natural History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NMNH NAS). The first investigation of the Ordovician palaeontology of Ukraine was published by the Romanian researcher T. Vascâuţsanu before the Second World War. The study of the Ordovician sections during the 1960s was related to geological prospecting. Most outcrops along the Dniester River in the middle of the valley were available for study before the construction of the dam of the Novodniestrovski Hydropower Station, which raised the level of the reservoir near the dam to 60 m. The reservoir is 198 km long and has covered outcrops ranging from the Ediacaran to the Pridoli. Ordovician fossils are represented by diverse remains of brachiopods, molluscs, corals, bryozoans, graptolites, echinoderms, conodonts, and others.


The drag on a fragment moving through the air at supersonic velocity tends to be proportional to the projected area of the fragment perpendicular to the line of flight and to be independent of the Reynolds number, depending only on the Mach number. Also the minimum velocity at which the fragment perforates a target is a function of the projected area at the moment of strike. Hence the probability that a fragment, with a given initial velocity, perforates the target at a given distance, depends on the mode of rotation and the distribution of projected areas of the fragment. It is customary to assume that the fragment rotates randomly so that we require to know the distribution of the projected areas when all orientations are equally likely. The distributions for fragments in the form of cylinders and rectangular parallelepipeds are derived in this paper.


Workers' behavior and attitudes toward safety are crucial factors affecting construction accidents; approximately 80 to 90% of accidents are directly or indirectly related to persons' unsafe acts or to their unsafe behavior (Heinrich et al. 1980; Helen and Rowlinson 2005). Therefore, to measure a safety climate implicating workers' behavior and attitudes, surveys have been taken or field observations conducted at a site. Certain characteristics of the construction industry, however, create practical limitations for periodically applying such traditional methods at a site, namely, (1) how actively workers will participate in a survey each time; (2) how efficiently an observer or surveyor can measure workers' behavior and attitudes; and (3) who will analyze the measurement at a site. In this respect, any efficient and practical methodology for monitoring and analyzing workers' behavior would play an important role in improving safety management.


A five-term involvement scale is developed and tested using data from a sample of Saudi women. Unlike previous efforts, this scale is designed to measure purchasing involvement in reference to a specific product or service. This easy-to-administer scale captures the core aspects of involvement construct and emerges as a unidimensional measure with sound psychometric properties. Potential uses of scale are discussed.


Metis is a multi-wavelength coronagraph onboard the European Space Agency (ESA) Solar Orbiter mission. The instrument features an innovative instrument design conceived for simultaneously imaging the Sun's corona in the visible and ultraviolet range. The Metis visible channel employs broad-band, polarized imaging of the visible K-corona, while the UV one uses narrow-band imaging at the HI Ly 􀄮, i.e. 121.6 nm. During the commissioning different acquisitions and activities, performed with both the Metis channels, have been carried out with the aim to check the functioning and the performance of the instrument. In particular, specific observations of stars have been devised to assess the optical alignment of the telescope and to derive the instrument optical parameters such as focal length, PSF and possibly check the optical distortion and the vignetting function. In this paper, the preliminary results obtained for the PSF of both channels and the determination of the scale for the visible channel will be described and discussed. The in-flight obtained data will be compared to those obtained on-ground during the calibration campaign.


The purpose of this article is to discuss contemporary demands of a system of higher education which involves all the dimensions which are part of the mission of universities and other higher education institutions vis-a-vis the commitments with social demands as regarded from the perspective of the definitions of evaluation and their ideological and paradigmatic concepts. The text points out some of the paths followed by the special commission in charge of proposing a new system of evaluation of higher education, trying to incorporate theoretical and methodological notions about the university, its ethical commitment and social responsibility in the process of change aimed at reducing social inequality. In this sense, the text discussed the meaning of the new university of this millennium.


Ionic-liquid gated multi-layer MoS2 field-effect transistors were fabricated and their electrical properties related to maximum depletion depth, bulk neutral and surface accumulation conduction were investigated in detail. A negative back-gate bias resulted in a depletion of the bulk neutral channel at the bottom interface, which significantly enhanced transistor performance in terms of the on-current to off-current (Ion/Ioff) ratio and the off-state current level. The experimental results were verified by numerical simulations and analytical equations. These findings are critical for the optimization of the Ion/Ioff ratio of multi-layer MoS2 transistors for energy efficient electronics and low power applications.


The overall objective of the site characterisation component of the EU FP7 project MUSTANG is to gather and combine available data from the different test sites included in the project, the South Scania (Sweden), Horstberg (Germany), Valcele (Romania), Heletz (Israel) and Hontomin (Spain) sites, in terms of the modeling needs of the site-specific simulation models. The subsequent modeling will address the characteristics of these sites for their suitability for CO2 geological storage with a two-fold objective: Firstly, to get an understanding of the behaviour of these particular sites and second, to get an overview of what type of data and characteristics can be encountered in general. Each site has its own specific geological setting, and the quantity and character of the data available is greatly varying. When analyzed parallel and in a systematic way, the sites provide a broad understanding of the characteristics and possible problems and challenges involved in the geological characterisation of potential CO2 sites.


Modelling of total and stomatal ozone (O3) fluxes is new method for estimation of phytotoxicity of O3 pollution to forest vegetation. Stomatal flux-based critical levels for effects of O3 on growth take into account the varying influences of meteorological parameters, soil characteristics, O3 concentration and phenology. This work focuses on the sensitivity of Norway spruce to O3 air pollution to different weather and soil water conditions at research plot Stará Lesná in the High Tatras during growing season 2014. Data of stomatal O3 fluxes and soil water potential (SWP) calculated by model DO3SE (Deposition of Ozone for Stomatal Exchange) are used for evaluation both dry (June) and wet (July) events in 2014. Model estimations are compared to field measurements of SWP. Comparison of modelled and measured values of soil water characteristics may contribute to improving of parametrization of DO3SE model inputs. In addition, model estimation of Phytotoxic Ozone Dose (POD1.6) under drought and water stress conditions for selected field sites are also presented.


With the introduction of the original Radeon the general rendering performance landscape changed significantly due to the revolutionary technology that is HyperZ. Today this technology has been upgraded, fine-tuned and improved in several generations and is now a general commodity that everyone expects to have. Yet it is sometimes not well understood or taken proper advantage of. Developing 3D applications with HyperZ in mind will often produce a significant performance increase. This paper aims to give developers a better understanding of how HyperZ operates under the hood.


Order acceptance decision with limited capacity and finite output buffers in MTO manufacturing environment is considered in this paper.An integer programming model is proposed to cooperate with the order acceptance,due date and production scheduling,and the objective is to maximize the manufacturer's profit.Through numerical example,the impacts of demand distribution and output buffer on system profit are examined.The system profit gained by using the proposed model is much higher than using the old FCFS method.The results are helpful for managers to make order acceptance decisions.


A new optimized laboratory synthesis of tetraalkyl thiuram disulfides,
 starting from dialkyl amines and carbon disulfide in presence of three
 oxidants (hydrogen peroxide, potassium peroxodisulfate and sodium
 hypochlorite) and appropriate reaction medium: two mixtures of isopropyl
 alcohol - water used in two consecutive syntheses, was presented in this
 work. First synthesis was performed in a recycled azeotropic mixture of
 isopropyl alcohol - water 87.7% - 12.3%, and second in a filtrate obtained
 after first synthesis, which was a mixture of isopropyl alcohol - water 70.4%
 - 29.6%. After the second synthesis and filtration, recycled azeotropic
 mixture isopropyl alcohol - water 87.7% - 12.3% was regenerated from the
 filtrate by rectification. Considering this, the technology for beneficial
 use of recycling isopropyl alcohol - water mixture as reaction medium for
 tetraalkyl thiuram disulfides synthesis was developed. Such concept
 contributes to extraordinary economical benefit of implemented optimal
 laboratory synthesis at semi-industrial level. High yields of tetraalkyl
 thiuram disulfides syntheses were obtained at both laboratory and
 semiindustrial level. Structure and purity of synthesized compounds were
 confirmed by elemental analysis, as well as FTIR, 1H and 13C NMR, and MS
 spectral data.


ABSTRACTThis paper investigates the contribution of Mrisho Mpoto's songs in developing oral literature. It does so by examining the role of oral literature and evaluating the extent to which his so...


Poetry translation is an important part of literary translation.People have different opinions about the standard for poetry translation.This paper makes a detailed comparison of the three English versions of Chun Xiao from the aspects of form transplantation,rhyme transplantation and ideorealm transplantation.The author tries to find out what gets reproduced and what gets lost in their translation with the hope that it can offer some enlightenment in the development of poetry translation.


The large accumulation of P in manure from animal feeding operations in localized areas has increased the potential for P export following land application. Impairment of freshwater quality by accelerated eutrophication has focused attention on manure management and the potential for P loss in runoff. Thus, we investigated the amounts and relative solubilities of P in manures and their composts using a modified Hedley fractionation and release of P during simulated rainfall (70 mm h -1 for 30 min) in laboratory columns (15-cm diameter). Twenty-four samples each of dairy manure, dairy manure compost, poultry manure, poultry manure compost, poultry litter, and swine manure were collected over 2 yr. Total P concentration ranged from 2600 to 40000 mg kg -1 , mostly as inorganic P (63 to 92%). The distribution of inorganic and organic P fractions depended on manure and compost type. Most of the inorganic P, 80%, was water extractable (2030 mg kg -1 ), while 55% was hydroxide extractable in swine slurry (16 620 mg kg -1 ) and 38% acid extractable in poultry manure (9320 mg kg -1 ). The dissolved inorganic P concentration in leachate from manure and compost (10 Mg ha -1 manure application rate) during a 30-min rainfall ranged from 34 (poultry litter) to 75 mg L -1 (poultry manure). The amount of P leached by five simulated rainfall events was significantly correlated to respective water extractable inorganic (r 2 = 0.98) or organic P (r 2 = 0.99) of each material. This suggests that water extractable P may be used to estimate the potential for land-applied manures or composts to enrich leachate and surface runoff P.


Aims To evaluate the provision of services to patients with challenging behaviour in East Lothian Community Learning Disability population with and without specialist behaviour support team. Background Behaviour that proves to be a challenge to manage (Challenging behaviour) is not uncommon in adults with intellectual disability and has a reported prevalence of 10–15%.1,2 Positive behaviour support (PBS) is recommended as evidence-based intervention for adults with intellectual disability who have challenging behaviour. East Lothian community learning disability team (CLDT) underwent a change in service model for people with challenging behaviour. This change followed a Health and Social care partnership agreement that behaviour support and management could be provided by multidisciplinary CLDT rather than region-wide specialist team. Method Data collection was split into two cycles. First cycle looked retrospectively at six months prior to exit of Specialist Positive Behaviour Support Team (SPBST). Second cycle looked prospectively at 6 months after exit of SPBST. In first cycle, data were collected doing retrospective review of cases known and referred to SPBST. This included calculating time spent on each individual case by SPBST and by CLDT. SPBST provided information in the form of hours spent on each individual case for patients identified by them. For CLDT, electronic medical records system (TRAK) was used by looking at appointment entries on TRAK. For second cycle, newly developed Complex Behaviour pathway was used to identify the patients. Data were collected by using TRAK system as in the first cycle for CLDT. Data collected in both cycles was compared at the end of second cycle. Result In first cycle, 5 patients were managed jointly by SPBST and CLDT in 96.4 hours over six months and average clinical time spent on each patient was 19 hours. SPBST spent a total of 59 hours and CLDT spent 40 clinical hours. In second cycle, 12 patients were managed by CLDT alone in 130 hours over six months and average clinical time spent on each patient was nearly 11 hours. Conclusion Results of this evaluation suggest that SPBST had been providing significant contribution to East Lothian CLDT not only with their expertise but also with clinical time. More than 50 % of total clinical time spent on the patients with challenging behaviour in first cycle, was provided by SPBST. This is also evidenced in second cycle where there is an increase in clinical time of some professions when SPBST was withdrawn.


Flight operation zone in airport have specification and standard dimension include the vertical and horizontal space where their standard must to monitoring for the saving flight in periodic time. All the object in the vertical space in the horizontal area like the building, trees, electric pole or telecommunication tower must have the high minimum of 2% slope(obstacle) from the run way elevation. Furthermore, the data and information the obstacle object (position, high, species and property) need to collect by survey terrestris and remote sensing method. The spasial data with the attribute data collect together and organize using the Geographic Information System (GIS). In the GIS are supplies with the spasial analysis tool and query. The result analysis spasial in GIS can use for base to take decision for arrange and management the saving flight operation in airport


The utility model discloses a small-volume 1P+N electric-leakage circuit breaker. The small-volume 1P+N electric-leakage circuit breaker comprises a shell, an operating mechanism, a short-circuit/electric-leakage trip, an electronic circuit board and an arc-extinguishing cover, wherein the short-circuit/electric-leakage trip is formed by combination of a short-circuit trip and an electric-leakage protection trip which share a pushing rod, a movable iron core, an iron core spring, a fixed iron core and a coil shell. The small-volume 1P+N electric-leakage circuit breaker disclosed by the utility model has the advantages that a mechanism is simple, the action is reliable and flexible, the performance is stable, and the breaking capacity is high and can be up to 6KA; and the volume is small, the width is only 18mm, the occupied space for installation is relatvley small, and the cost is saved.


We all knew that dengue was a public health problem in Brazil! Some of us even knew that dengue was a serious public health problem! However, we all need to know that now it will be more complicated! Dengue has been circulating in our country since the 1980s. It has been the focus of dozens of national research funding notices during this period. However, approximately two years ago two problems "emerged": the possibility of the circulation of both the Chikungunya and Zika viruses. This possibility has become a reality and in recent months several municipalities have already reported outbreaks of these three diseases.


The main purpose of the research is to examine the interaction of electronic library sites as an elements of the information resource management system based on local and foreign experience. It consists of defining the location of electronic sites of libraries and information centers as an element of information resource management, interpreting information resources as a system, analyzing their logistics capabilities.
In the digital environment, place  of library sites is in the management of information resources. The article examines the characteristics of electronic sites, which form the main interface structure of library systems. Predicated on the experience of specific libraries, the requirements for the use of the electronic resource database are highlighted. Information resources published on domestic and foreign electronic library sites used by academic users and general reader groups were analyzed and their relevant search capabilities were explicated. The article also examines the interaction of the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy-ADA Library and The US Library of Congress website with the electronic library and electronic catalog interface as an example of domestic and foreign electronic library experience.


In order to meet the Tarim Oil Field' s demand for high toughness drill pipes, Baosteel has trial-produced ultra-low sulfur and phosphorus steel for drill pipes. Test results show that such steel can be mass produced with technology of a large converter plus the secondary refining, which can insure drill pipes for the transverse impact toughness.


This paper is an attempt to answer the questions of how the great Tarim basin ends in the east and how it separates from the Tianshan Range. It is shown that the Tarim basin ends at E91° longitude and no longer extends toward east. There found two important lithospheric deep faults: the Central Tarim Latitudinal (N40°) and Luobuzhuang-Weiya. This paper proposes a new variant of geotectonic divisions in this region, based upon areal aeromagnetic and geologic data newly acquired.


The purpose of the study was to analyze the application of emotional intelligence in project management, examine the skills a manager should have, as well as the way the level of emotional competence affects his activity. The paper scientifically substantiates the existence of emotional intelligence, describes its theoretical aspects, and gives specific examples of how emotional intelligence is used by managers in project management. Furthermore, the problem of primary study and mastering the skills of emotional intelligence is touched upon, and the differences in the use of emotional intelligence in inter-and peer-to-peer interaction between project participants are explained. Finally, the fac-tors influencing the possibility of using emotional intelligence in project management, such as corporate culture, project duration and team size, are identified.


The aim of this study is to analyse the changes in blood lactate and heart rate levels of indoor sports athletes as a response to various loads in cycle ergometer.  The participants of the study are 28 male volunteer athletes of indoor sports active in basketball, volleyball, handball league. Age: 21.00 ±1.56 years, height: 181.54 ± 7.67 cm, weight: 83.04 ± 10.69 kg. Heart rate and lactate measurements of the subjects were taken from their fingertips at rest and following every load increase. With the initial load of 1 kg, the subjects were exposed to 0.5 kg load increase every three minutes. Since only 3 subjects completed with the final load of 4.5 kg, the values of this load was excluded. Pearson multiplications Moment Correlation was used to determine the relation between the load increase of the groups and their heart rate and between the load increase of the groups and their blood lactate values. The test results revealed a significant relation between the load means applied on the subjects and their heart rate at the rate of -0.99; between the applied load means and blood lactate at the rate of 0.97.


Mammary epithelial cells with lactational function can be a valuable cellular model for research of the development and regulation of the mammary gland.This paper describes some aspects of function of an epithelial cell line from the mammary gland of the dairy goat.SDS-PAGE,triglyceride and lactose content of cultured cells were used to assess synthetic function of cells and the effects of exposure to insulin and prolactin.Results show that goat mammary epithelial cells can synthesize fat,proteins and lactose when they were cultured in DMEM-F12 medium with added EGF,IGF-1,ITS and FBS.There were no obvious changes after 48h treatment with additional insulin.Prolactin added to the basal medium significantly increased synthesis of proteins and lactose.A mammary gland epithelial cell line from goats which has lactational function has been established.This outcome provides a valuable and convenient model system.


The technical parameters and the overall arrangement of the special car for transport of automobiles, which are reformed from the J_(5) and J_(6) livestock cars, are described. The contents of improvement, inspection and repair are expounded. The static strength and dynamics indexes are analyzed.


Human comfort and healthy environments lie at the core of every debate about outdoor spaces nowadays. Thermal comfort is a vital concern for planners and designers in order to produce a healthy and thermally comfortable environment, since the influence of different climates and user groups has been found to greatly alter the range of responses for thermal comfort calculations. This requires Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) with an integration of the appropriate outdoor thermal comfort (OTC) index. This paper presents the results of a detailed assessment for the OTC in hot arid zone (HAZ) using the most suitable thermal index. A case study was selected from Effat Campus, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to represent the HAZ. Subjective assessment employed the physiological equivalent temperature (PET) and the predictive mean vote (PMV) thermal indices in analysing the results of online and self-directed questionnaires while objective assessment employed a hand-held anemometer that was used to measure wind speed, whereas the wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT) SD Card Logger with a black globe thermometer 75 mm in diameter and emissivity of 0.95 was used to measure the globe temperature. The physical measurements were later used to calculate the mean radiant temperature (MRT) and consequently the PET index using RayMan Software. The results confirmed the significance of the shading strategy on OTC. The study revealed that there is no percentage as shading is permitting people to use the space; otherwise, in hot arid zone, the space would be completely unusable under the sun while the PET is more suitable than the PMV index.


We describe the ucpop partial order planning algorithm which handles a subset of Pednault's ADL action representation. In particular, ucpop operates with actions that have conditional e(cid:11)ects, universally quan-ti(cid:12)ed preconditions and e(cid:11)ects, and with universally quanti(cid:12)ed goals. We prove ucpop is both sound and complete for this representation and describe a practical implementation that succeeds on all of Pednault's and McDermott's examples, including the infa-mous \Yale Stacking Problem" [McDermott 1991].


Nearly 20 years ago it became clear that analysis of hemostasis function in blood was affected by sample shear rate and anticoagulation (1). Yet, present technologies still perform hemostasis analysis on anticoagulated samples under static conditions. In 1984, Gorog and Ahmed developed a test system that analyzed hemostasis function of untreated whole blood under physiological flow (2), a technology potentially useful for assessing patients with bleeding disorders (2)(3). This approach has been automated in a user-friendly benchtop instrument, the Clot Signature Analyzer (CSA®; Xylum Corp.). From a single venipuncture, the CSA provides information on platelet adhesion induced by high shear, platelet aggregation, and coagulation attributable to humoral factors (4). Measurements are performed on untreated nonanticoagulated whole blood under the physiological conditions of nonrecirculating flow at 37 °C.

The single-use, disposable CSA cassette consists of two perfusion channels, the "punch" and "collagen" channels. In each channel, blood is perfused in tubing under conditions simulating vascular flow. Blood is drawn into two 3-mL syringes, which are attached to luer fittings on the cassette. When the cassette is loaded onto the instrument, low-density oil is delivered into the syringes from a reservoir on the instrument. The imiscible oil rises in the syringes and displaces the blood, which then flows into perfusion lines maintained at 37 °C. The luminal pressure exerted by the flowing blood is measured continuously in both channels by sensors on the instrument. In the punch channel, vascular injury is simulated by piercing the …


Revenue management has been widely used in hotel management. However, researches do not take customer satisfaction into account. In this paper, utility function is construct based on consumer behavior theory. A consumer discrete choice model is established after that. Variable precision rough set then is employed to reduce the factors that influence consumer choice and to calculate the weights. A model of hotel allocation is established thereafter. Finally, the model is validated by an example, the results show validity of the model.


VIRAL HEPATITIS in humans has a long past but a short history. Illnesses resembling those produced by hepatitis A and B infections were described in antiquity; clearer references are found in the medical literature of the past two hundred years. Landmark epidemiological and transmission studies, showing beyond doubt the existence of at least two forms ("infectious" and "serum") of hepatitis, were not carried out until the middle of this century.' Even then, simple, reliable tests suitable for screening and follow-up of patients at risk did not become available until 1965, when Blumberg, Alter, and Visnich published their seminal-albeit serendipitousobservations of a new antigen.2 They identified the


Abstract Occupational exposure to biogenic amorphous silica fibers was found during all phases of rice farming. Exposure during field preparation was the highest, followed by harvest and then rice stubble burning. The highest personal exposure was 1.9 fibers/cc for fibers >5 μm in length in the respirable dust fraction. The highest level seen in area samples was 9.9 fibers/cc for fibers >5 μm in length in the respirable dust fraction. The median fiber length was 2.8 μm, with a range from 0.5 to 20 μm. (Fibers <d0.5 μm were not counted.) Ninety percent of fibers were <9 μm in length. The median fiber width was 0.9 μm, with a range from 0.2 to 7 μm. Ninety percent of fibers were <2.5 μm in width. Samples for airborne amorphous silica fibers were collected with personal sampling pumps and polycarbonate filters. Samples were analyzed using X-ray fluorescence to identify composition and electron diffraction to determine the crystalline state of fibers. Fiber counting methodology was adapted from standard asbes...


John Marshall may not have been Shakespeare, but he remains our closest judicial equivalent. Two hundred years after his rise to Chief Justice, no American jurist remains so studied, interpreted, reinterpreted, debated, and invoked. (2) Even debates about the twists and inevitability of Marshall's reputation have Shakespearean counterparts. (3) In one further parallel, the work of each writer furnishes a wealth of quotations that are so entrenched in their respective cultures that it is often forgotten that each writer provided the sources in the first place--at least, that is, until they are reencountered at symposia such as this. As with Shakespeare's "major" plays, this last phenomenon is especially true of Marshall's "great" cases such as Marbury v. Madison (4) and McCulloch v. Maryland, (5) several passages from which have literally been carved in stone as reminders at the justices' version of "poet's corner" in the crypt-like basement of the Supreme Court. One passage from McCulloch, too long to carve, famously raises an issue that is not logically necessary to any part of the opinion, but which nonetheless poses perhaps the most basic question of constitutional law: In discussing this question [concerning the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States], the counsel for the state of Maryland have deemed it of some importance, in the construction of the constitution, to consider that instrument, not as emanating from the people, but as the act of sovereign and independent states. (6) Employing the type of understatement that reflects utter certainty, Marshall had no doubt about the answer: It would be difficult to sustain this proposition.... From these conventions [held in the states], the constitution derives its whole authority. The government proceeds directly from the people; is "ordained and established," in the name of the people; and is declared to be ordained, "in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and to their posterity." The assent of the states, in their sovereign capacity, is implied, in calling a convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it; and their act was final. It required not the affirmance, and could not be negatived, by the state governments. The constitution, when thus adopted, was of complete obligation, and bound the state sovereignties. (7) Within the legal world, Marshall's ostensibly nationalistic analysis has been taken to mean pretty much what it appears to say. As one commentator puts it, "To Marshall, the sovereign was hardly the states--it was `We the People.' It was `We the People' who ordained and established the Constitution, not `We the States.'" (8) This view by definition denies that the Constitution resulted from an agreement or compact among the states. The usual--and critical--corollary that follows holds that the national populace erred on the side of according power to the national government at the expense of the states, as McCulloch appears to indicate. At the very least, the idea of a unitary founding people has given rise to a presumption that federal rather than state claims should prevail in areas of modern constitutional controversy. (9) These nationalistic readings of Marshall in turn corresponded with a nationalistic interpretation of the Founding itself. Never, in fact, had Marshall's apparent views appeared more solid than in light of historical scholarship of the past few generations, including pathbreaking work by Bernard Bailyn, Lance Banning, Forrest McDonald, Edmund S. Morgan, Jack Rakove, John Phillip Reid, and Gordon Wood, to name a few. (10) This work in particular has done much to recapture the Founding's understandings--indeed, reinvention--of popular sovereignty and the national government. …


The water-flooding curve is one of the important methods to calculate recoverable reserve.The value of limited water-cut and the adaptability of every style curves are two important problems which are discussed and be given more attention.By lager mumble,it is obvious that during the declining period;WOR is linear with the yield in semi logarithmic system.We can select the advisable water-flooding curve to demarcate recoverable reserve in base of the curve water-cut cumulating.It has special effect in the application.


In newly acquired marine material from Java (Indonesia) li ving specimens of a species of the genus Neocyprideis APOSTOLESCU were recovered for the first time. The male and female appendages are described and figured . Comparison of the morphology of the copulatory appendage, with other members of the subfamily, shows that the genus Neocyprideis takes a somewhat unexpected position in the Cytherideidinae. The affi nities with other genera and the taxonomic uncertainties in the subfamily are discussed. Key-words: Ostracoda, taxonomy, Indonesia.


By 2050, 1 in 6 people will be 65 or older. As the aging population grows so too does the importance of understanding how injuries in this age group lead to a greater incidence of neurological complications and mortality. Neurological complications may be driven by elevated pro-inflammatory cytokines and astrocyte activation within the hippocampus (HPC), which reduces levels of phosphorylated cyclic-AMP response binding element (pCREB), leading to cognitive decline and memory impairment. To examine the effects of injury on neuroinflammation in advanced age, young and aged mice were anesthetized and subjected to a 15% total body surface area scald or sham injury. As an index of neuroinflammation, we observed an 85-fold (p<0.05) increase in ccl2 and a 35-fold (p=0.05) elevation in tnfa 24 hours post injury in the brains of aged mice compared to young groups and aged sham mice. We also saw a 13-fold (p<0.05) increase in ccl2 within isolated hippocampus of aged injured mice, when compared to aged shams. Interestingly, when investigating specific HPC regions, immunofluorescence staining showed a 20% rise (p<0.05) in glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) positive astrocytes within the cornu ammonis 3 (CA3) of aged injured mice when compared to sham groups. GFAP+ astrocytes are associated with neurotoxicity and cognitive decline. Finally, there was a 20% decrease (p<0.05) in pCREB staining by immunohistochemistry in the dentate gyrus of aged mice compared to young regardless of injury. These data suggest that remote injury in aged, but not young mice, causes neuroinflammation and astrocyte activation, which paired with an age related reduction in pCREB, could contribute to cognitive decline.
 Supported in part by NIH R01 AG018859 (EJK), R35 GM131831 (EJK), T32 AG000279 (KLM), and K08 134185 (JPI)


The invention relates to a displaying and operating device (1) comprising a display unit (2) and at least one proximity sensor (3), wherein, by means of the proximity sensor (3), a penetration of an object (15) into at least one monitoring space (14) can be detected, wherein at least one representation on the display unit (2) is changed as a function of a penetrating object (15). The displaying and operating device (1) comprises a unit (4) which is designed such that a chronological sequence of receive signals (P) from the proximity sensor (3) is evaluated by the unit (4), wherein a constant receive signal (P) is detected and stored within a predetermined time interval (tg) and, for subsequent operating, is ignored as a static receive signal (Ps) of the display unit (2), and a change in the representation is carried out only if a subsequent receive signal (P) exceeds the static receive signal (Ps) by a predetermined value. The invention further relates to a method for operating such a displaying and operating device (1).


Background: Melanoblastoma-bearing Libechov Minipigs (MeLiM) present spontaneous tumors at birth or at early ages that share many clinical and histopathological features with human cutaneous melanoma (1). Remarkably, in swine, as in humans and contrary to mice, the melanocytes are located in the basal cell layer of the epidermis. Thus, MeLiM pigs stand as an exceptional model for human hereditary melanoma and we use them to study the genes involved in oncogenesis. Objectives: To our knowledge, in humans, all gene expression studies on melanocytes have been performed by using cultured cells, in which the transcript levels could be dramatically modified by the culture conditions. To overcome this limitation, the objectives of this study were to develop and optimize a protocol for single-cell laser capture microdissection (LCM) of skin melanocytes from tissue sections by using an Arcturus Veritas LCM system. Methods: To identify genes that may regulate the malignant transformation of melanocytes, the expression profiles of swine microdissected melanocytes and melanoma cells were compared between healthy and affected MeLiM-derived pigs by using high-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-seq). Results-Discussion: Given that the amplification step in the LCM protocol creates a 3 prime bias, we have adapted current bioinformatic analyses to better estimate the expression levels of genes. Our protocol uses a window of 250 bases from the 3 prime end of the transcript. Additionally, expressed single nucleotide variants have been identified. The results obtained will help to understand the melanoma predisposition not only in MeLiM pigs but also in humans.


This article proposes an extended Petri net model based on EEPC, for the purpose of achieving the correctness and validity of qualitative and quantitative business process analysis, as warranted by the literature. The proposed model then is applied to a clinic process at a comprehensive hospital and the findings are reported.


Darwin's analysis of the geomorphology of worms is the first documented account of fauna influencing the landscape and established the foundation upon which many current studies in ecosystem engineering, zoogeomorphology, soil science, and biogeomorphology are more broadly predicated. The focus of this assessment is to analyze the long-lasting and broad application of his 1881 work, The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits. In particular, this assessment identifies and elaborates on underlying lessons for today's geomorphologists. The underlying lessons presented here are three-fold: (1) be multidisciplinary, (2) assess the trivial, and (3) be impactful. First, we review the context of geomorphology in his essay on worms. Then, we address each of the three underlying lessons. We discuss how geomorphologists have adopted these lessons, and what geomorphology can continue to learn from Darwin (1881). In doing so, we analyze the wide influence Darwin's Worms has had on the scientific community, with an emphasis on geomorphic implications. Our analysis shows that over 900 publications refer to Darwin (1881). In addition, these publications were derived from a variety of disciplines including, but not limited to, anthropology, biogeography, botany, geology, paleontology, philosophy, psychology, scientific travel writing, taxonomy, and zoology. At first glance, it may appear trivial to assess the amount of earth moved by worms, yet this is how Darwin spent his final years. His efforts were not in vain, but rather found that worms play an essential role in soil health, and his work continues to gain recognition and inspire geomorphologists.


To evaluate the susceptibility at chloride stress corrosion cracking of Incoloy-800 used to manufacture the steam generator tubes for CANDU nuclear power plant few electrochemical corrosion tests were conducted in NaCl solution (0.033g/L and 0.33g/L NaCl). The solution concentration ranges were selected starting from the maximum Clconcentration accepted in the cooling water in the case of CANDU reactors and allowing the concentrated factors that may appear in areas with restricted flow, by boiling. The C-ring method was used to stress the samples. In order to create the spots of mechanical stress, the mechanical pre-cracks with a depth of 100μm or 250μm were inserted in the samples. The increase of the concentration of chlorine together with the local deformation will lead to a higher susceptibility to stress corrosion cracking. In the solution of 0.33g/L NaCl the cracks are always associated with pits. On the other hand, for the samples tested in 0.033g/L NaCl solution it was often observed that cracks did not start from a pit. In both situations, the cracks propagation is transgranular, while the initiation mode differs: when the crack starts from a pit the initiation is transgranular; in the absence of a pit, the initiation of cracks is intergranular. The threshold value of stress intensity factor that has been evaluated in the paper is KImax=4.58 MPa·m -1/2.


Alkylpolyglycoside are especially suited to realise new formulation concepts for cosmetics and for chemical-technical fields of application with very good ecological, toxicological, dermatological and applicational properties. The development within time of the two always growing raw material sources, fatty alcohol and sugar, for the synthesis of alkylpolyglycoside is shown. Alkylpolyglycosides, the surfactants of nineties, are the consequence of a sixty year old history of development of fatty alcohols and their derivatives at DEHYDAG and Henkel as well as a nearly two decades lasting history of development of these surfactants from sugar. The production of alkylpolyglycosides is effected exclusively on the base of growing vegetal raw materials. With classical surfactants they have synergistic effects. Their high biological degradability results in a very low pollution of the environment


A 40 year old woman presented to the emergency department with acute on chronic abdominal pain in her right iliac fossa. On history her pain had been present for over 6 months and had previously been investigated with ultrasound, CT and a diagnostic laparoscopy several months prior to presentation. Her pain had acutely worsened over the preceding two weeks. This was associated with two days of diarrhoea but nil other systemic symptoms. Her medical history was signi icant for immunosuppression with tacrolimus, azathioprine and prednisone post renal transplant for IgA nephropathy [1]. Her abdominal examination was unremarkable other than tenderness in her right iliac fossa and a palpable non-tender renal transplant. Her in lammatory markers, electrolytes and urine microscopy were unremarkable. She was further investigated with an ultrasound which demonstrated nil complications with her transplant and a non-contrast CT (due to contrast allergy). Her CT demonstrated a faecolith within the appendiceal lumen but no signs of acute appendicitis (Figure 1). Due to ongoing pain and CT inding of faecolith she was taken for a diagnostic laparoscopy with appendicectomy.


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Both germination and survival time of spores of a pigmented strain of Cercospora beticola were directly correlated with relative humidity. Pigmented cultures, under conditions of low water availability (15%) survived 242 days' continuous exposure to light (110 lx). The ability of various strains of the fungus to survive in soil was found to be influenced by pigmentation, rate of growth, inoculum ratio in the soil and the physiological state of the organism before exposure to the soil environment.


Batch verification can reduce large computational cost when multiple signatures are verified together. In 2001, Shao proposed an efficient algorithm for batch verifying DSA-type multiple signatures. He also provided mathematic proof to show that his scheme has the same security as the underlying DSA-type signature. In this paper, we first point out that Shao's algorithm is insecure, and further explain why his proof does not guarantee the expected security. Then, to show the insecurity of his Schnorr-based batch verifying scheme directly, we demonstrate concrete attacks that allow a dishonest signer with a high success probability to cheat a verifier to accept invalid signatures.


The article is devoted to the review of vectors of small and medium business development in Ukraine in the context of harmonization of legal requirements regarding tax regimes. The main components of the revenue part of the State budget in terms of individual taxes are identified. To solve the tasks in the work it is proposed to apply a systematic approach, generalization and comparison. The purpose of the article is to assess the current state of development of small and medium-sized businesses, research and substantiation of the peculiarities of taxation of small and medium enterprises in the context of integration change. It is established that the simplified taxation system is an important lever for managing the distribution of financial resources between individuals and the state. In the historical aspect, the formation of a simplified taxation system in Ukraine is analyzed. Dynamic changes of taxation in the process of formation of fiscal policy in Ukraine, transition from differentiated to universal approaches in determining rates are revealed. Peculiarities of tax regimes for small and medium business in Ukraine are considered. Differentiation of large, medium, small and micro enterprises has been carried out in order to determine single tax payers. The analysis of fiscal efficiency of the system of taxation of small and medium business in Ukraine is carried out and on this basis its role in formation of financial resources of the state is found out. The receipts of the single tax are analyzed and its share in the budget of Ukraine in dynamics is determined. It is determined that the system of simplified taxation promotes the development of small business by simplifying tax accounting. Based on the analysis, ways to improve the calculation and payment of a single tax through the introduction of a progressive scale of rates of the analyzed tax payment, Recommendations for improving the mechanisms of taxation of small and medium businesses in Ukraine, which would meet the generally accepted principles of European countries, simplify tax administration and improve business and private initiative development in Ukraine.


IT project engineering skills aren't taught in college; they're developed through on-the-job training with seasoned mentors. Begin honing your project management skills by firmly grasping the fundamentals presented in this article.