2015, National Health Personnel Licensing Examination Board of the Republic of Korea This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Purpose: The rationale for 'professional education and development' (PED) courses is to support general practitioners, enabling them to access a range of theoretical and practical skills within a supportive schema. It aims to identify whether and how a regional PED course has had a beneficial impact upon participants. Methods: The study comprised a qualitative investigation of participants' assessed coursework portfolios. The content of each portfolio gives individual accounts of the impact of the course on personal and practice development. Permission to access extant portfolios was obtained from 16 recent alumni of the course. The anonymous written material was analysed by the research team for recurring discourses and themes using a thematic framework analysis. Results: Seven major thematic categories were extrapolated from the data: leadership, resilience, quality improvement, change management, development of new services, educational expertise, and patient safety. In each category, we found evidence that the course enabled development of practitioners by enhancing knowledge and skills which had a positive impact upon their self-perceived effectiveness and motivation. Conclusion: Extended specialty training is on the horizon but such courses may still serve a valuable purpose for current trainees and the existing general practitioners workforce which will be responsible for leading the shift towards community-based service delivery.


The effects of the socio-economic changes that developed behind the Syrian migration are important in terms of academic studies In the post-migration period, some legal changes were needed in the Turkish labor market. In this context, a regulation was made that al-lows Syrian workers to work legally. The fact that a limited portion of Syrian workers have work permits differentiates the scope of empirical research. In this context, it was desired to investigate whether there are different effects on the socio-cultural status of Syrian workers in accordance with the relevant Regulation being implemented in order to obtain a work permit. In the study, it was investigated what kind of effects on the social cohesion levels of Syrian workers under temporary protection who reside in Mersin and provide home care services in the health sector, based on the labor market. In this context, qualita-tive research was conducted by conducting in-depth interviews with 6 Syrian workers on the axis of semi-structured questions. As a result of the research, besides the positive effects of work permit in working life, significant findings were found in social cohesion.


The Beijing 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Sailing Competitions (referred to as OPSC hereafter) were held at Qingdao during August 9–23 and September 7–13 2008, respectively. The Qingdao Meteorological Bureau was the official provider of weather support for the OPSC. Three-dimensional real-time information with high spatial-temporal resolution was obtained by the comprehensive observation system during the OPSC, which included weather radars, wind profile radars, buoys, automated weather stations, and other conventional observations. The refined forecasting system based on MM5, WRF, and statistical modules provided point-specific hourly wind forecasts for the five venues, and the severe weather monitoring and forecasting system was used in short-term forecasts and nowcasts for rainstorms, gales, and hailstones. Moreover, latest forecasting products, warnings, and weather information were communicated conveniently and timely through a synthetic, speedy, and digitalized network system to different customers. Daily weather information briefings, notice boards, websites, and community short messages were the main approaches for regatta organizers, athletes, and coaches to receive weather service products at 8:00 PM of each day and whenever new updates were available. During the period of OPSC, almost one hundred people were involved in the weather service with innovative service concept, and the weather support was found to be successful and helpful to the OPSC.


An array of ocean bottom seismometers was deployed for 21 days about the 95.5°W Galapagos propagating rift tip to obtain seismic evidence for the propagating rift hypothesis and to investigate the dynamic effects of rift propagation. Seismicity was fairly constant (10–17 events per day) with no indication of swarm activity. Hypocenters were determined for 304 earthquakes, the largest of which is estimated to be mb = 2.3, with a seismic moment of 2.9 × 1020 dyn cm. The cumulative seismic moment released by all local earthquakes is estimated to be 6.6 × 1020 dyn cm. A b value of 0.77 ± 0.08 was estimated for the region, implying a stress regime dominated by a broad tectonic stress field. The distribution of earthquakes is consistent with the propagating rift hypothesis. Most earthquakes occurred south of the propagating rift within the De Steiguer Deep. Seismicity within the transform zone is clustered in such a way as to suggest that two or three discrete fault segments may be active at the same time. The seismicity observed along the propagating rift is diffuse. Earthquakes were observed at the propagating rift tip, but not in front of it. Almost all earthquakes occur south of the northern pseudofault and its extension west of the rift tip; that is, earthquakes occur almost exclusively in lithosphere that has been or is being overtaken by the propagating rift. Six composite focal mechanisms are consistent with the propagating rift hypothesis. First motions from earthquakes located on the propagating rift indicate extension, whereas motions associated with the failing rift area indicate compression. A compressional regime is also indicated west of the transform zone. Twelve earthquakes from the transform zone produce a poorly constrained focal mechanism consistent with right-lateral strike-slip motion along a fault plane that is roughly parallel to the isochrons of the transferred lithosphere.


Background: The interaction between the fibrinogen (fbg) γ-chain sequence 404-411 and the 'RGD pocket' formed by αIIb and β3 plays a major role in platelet (P) aggregation. It requires activation of αIIbβ3 when fbg is in solution, but not when fbg is immobilized. Less is known about the interaction of Ps with cross-linked fibrin, which presumably is the dominant form of fibrin(ogen) in human thrombi and the form that participates in clot retraction. αIIbβ3 is required for clot retraction since it is decreased or absent in Glanzmann thrombasthenia patients who lack a functional receptor. Paradoxically, clot retraction is essentially normal with fbg lacking γ-408-411 or in the presence EDTA, which eliminates fbg binding to the RGD pocket. We recently studied the interaction of αIIbβ3 with fbg fragments D100 (which has γ-404-411) and 'D98' (which essentially lacks γ-406-411) to identify fbg binding sites on αIIbβ3 other than the RGD pocket. We found that: 1. activated, but not unactivated, Ps adhere well to immobilized 'D98;' 2. cells expressing normal αIIbβ3 could bind to: a) fbg in the absence of EDTA, but not in the presence of EDTA, b) D100 in the absence or presence of EDTA, c) 'D98' in the presence, but not the absence, of EDTA; 3. cells expressing constitutively active αIIbβ3 mutants, but not cells expressing normal αIIbβ3, adhere well to immobilized 'D98.' These data support there being two separate mechanisms of binding, one involving the interaction of γ-404-411 (in fbg and D100) with the αIIbβ3 RGD binding pocket, and another involving a site on D100 and 'D98' (but cryptic in fbg) that interacts with a site on αIIbβ3 exposed by receptor activation or induced by EDTA.
 We have now studied adhesion of αIIbβ3 to the cross-linked fibrin fragment D-dimer (D-d). We predicted it to be similar to the interaction of 'D98' with αIIbβ3 because γ-K406, which is important in the binding of fbg to αIIb, participates in the antiparallel reciprocal factor XIIIa-mediated transglutaminase crosslinks between K406 and Q398 on two different γ-chains, and so is unlikely to be able to interact with the RGD pocket.
 Methods: D-d, purified from cross-linked fibrin after plasmin digestion, was obtained from Haematologic Technologies and found to contain a dominant band with the expected Mr and immunoblot pattern using antibodies to the individual fbg chains. Fibrinogen, 'D98,' and HEK293 cells expressing normal and mutated αIIbβ3 were prepared as we previously described (Zafar et al., Blood Advances 2017), and the adhesion assays were conducted as described in that paper. Clot retraction was performed by adding BSA, 'D98,' or D-d (200 µg/ml) to washed Ps (2 X 108/ml) + thrombin (0.2 U/ml) in a glass aggregometer cuvette.
 Results: αIIbβ3-mediated adhesion to immobilized D-d (10 µg/ml coating concentration) was similar to adhesion to 'D98' in that 1. Unactivated P adhered well to fbg, but poorly to 'D98' and D-d (n=4); 2. Activated Ps (10 µM thrombin receptor activating peptide) adhere ~2-fold better than unactivated Ps to fbg, but ~10-fold better to 'D98' and D-d (p<0.001 for unactivated vs activated Ps with both 'D98' and D-d; n=4); 3. HEK293 cells expressing normal αIIbβ3 (αIIbβ3-HEK) adhere well to fibrinogen, but not 'D98' and D-d; 4. HEK293 cells expressing the constitutively active aIIbF992A/F993Aβ3 receptor [αIIb(FF)β3-HEK] bound well to fbg, 'D98, and D-d (p<0.001 for both 'D98' and D-d compared to normal αIIbβ3; n=5); 5. EDTA treatment of Ps results in loss of adhesion to fbg, but significantly enhanced adhesion to 'D98' and D-d (p<0.05 for each ligand with and without EDTA; n=4); 6. EDTA treatment of αIIbβ3-HEK results in loss of adhesion to fbg, but significantly enhanced adhesion to both 'D98' and D-d (p<0.01 for each ligand with and without EDTA; n=5); 7. Adhesion of αIIb(FF)β3-HEK to D-d is like adhesion to 'D98' in being inhibitable by mAbs 7E3 and 10E5, eptifibatide, tirofiban, and RUC-4 (p<0.01 for all); n=4); 8. Adhesion of αIIb(FF)β3-HEK to D-d is similar to adhesion to 'D98' in being inhibitable by mutating β3 D119 to A in the MIDAS (p<0.01; n=6); 9. EDTA-induced adhesion of HEK-αIIbβ3 to both 'D98' and D-d is not inhibitable by mutating β3 D119 to A. 10. 'D98' and D-d inhibited clot retraction, but BSA did not.
 Conclusion: We conclude that cross-linked fibrin fragment D-dimer, like fibrinogen fragment 'D98', interacts with activated αIIbβ3 via sites other than the γ-404-411 peptide, and that this interaction contributes to clot retraction.

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Objective To prepare polyclonal antibody against coxsackievirus B3(CVB3).Methods Specific primers which based on VP1 gene of CVB3 were designed,VP1 gene amplified by RT-PCR was cloned into pGEX-6p-1.High titer polyclonal antiserum was obtained by immunizing New Zealand rabbits with GST-VP1 fusion protein which was induced by IPTG.Then titer of the polyclonal antibody was determined by ELISA and specificity of it was tested by Western blot and indirect immunofluorescence assay.Results The titer of antiserum against CVB3 was above 1∶ 64 000,Western blot and indirect immunofluorescence analysis showed that the polyclonal antibody could bind to the CVB3 protein specifically.Conclusion High specific polyclonal antibody against CVB3 was prepared,which might be used for detection of CVB3 protein in commercial products.


Plyometric Training: This article presents a theoretical basis for plyometric training. It is thought of as missing link between weight training (strength) and athletic performance (power), with particular emphasis on the speed of activity. During this training eccentric contraction is followed by concentric contraction known as stretch shortening cycle. The initial part of paper presents introduction; historical background; neurophysiology and biomechanics; benefits of plyometric training. Final part of paper presents detail about application and progression of plyometric training and evidence for use of plyometric training. The author hopes to encourage physiotherapists to enhance their skills with elements of plyometric training.


JOAN PUTRA SUSILO. Blood Profile of Local Calf which given addition feed (Calf Starter) Based of Indigofera Supplemented by Black Soldier Fly Maggot. (Supervised by LANGGENG PRIYANTO and ARFAN ABRAR).

 Calf starter is a feed specially formulated for pedet which have high protein and less fiber. Provision of calf starter aims to accelerate weaning on calf. The purpose of this research is to study blood profile local calf which is given addition feed (calf starter) based of indigofera supplemented by black soldier fly maggot. Two local calf with the ages of 3 month fed with addition feed (calf starter) for 1 month at the individual cages. This research was conducted in November to Desember 2019 at Livestock Experiment Center, Departement of Animal Husbandry and Tecnology, Animal Husbandry Program, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Sriwijaya. This research was conducted using experimental methods with a comparison before and after treatment. The treatment consists of P0: cow's milk, P1: cow's milk + calf starter. The variables of this research are concentration of blood's erythrocyte, leukocyte and hemoglobin before and after the treatment. The result showed that there was no significant difference (P>0.05) on blood's erythrocyte, leukocyte and hemoglobin concentration. The result indicate that provision of calf starter does not show any physiological disorders or toxic on local calf

Keywords : Blood profile, Calf starter, Indigofera, Maggot BSF, Local calf


Nanofibres can be obtained in the electrospinning process, which consists in polymer stream forming, stream thinning and fibre collecting on the grounded collector. Electrospinning is a technique in which polymer solution or molten polymer, in the majority is pumped through electrode holes with diameters in the order of about 1 millimetre [1]. On applying the power supply voltage, electrical induction occurs and the solution becomes charged [2]. Consequently, the solution in its entire capacity is given a single fixed potential. Under the influence of the active electrostatic field and Coulomb forces present, the semispherical drop surface at the nozzle mouth of the capillary tube is strained into a conical shape (known as a Taylor cone) with an angle of 49.3° [3, 4], and then it is stretched into a stream and significantly thinned. The polymer is collected on the grounded collecting element – the collector [5]. The time of the mechanism forming the polymer stream is approximately 0.0125 ms. The uninominal charges that gather on the polymer stream surface, in combination with the stream surface tension, cause the stream to bend, the effect of which is that the distance covered by the polymer becomes extended. As a consequence of the active electrostatic field, fibres thus manufactured have diameters that vary from ten to several hundred nanometres. Such significant fibre thinning causes the product to be substantially extended and its properties to change. The first studies related to electrostatic field effects were carried out by J. Zeleny [6], and then by G.I. Taylor [7] and by S.A. Theron, A.L. Yarin, E. Zussman, E. Kroll [8].


PS-InSAR interferometry is a well-established technique to estimate linear and non-linear ground displacements as well as the atmospheric phase screen (APS) in an InSAR data. It achieves the highest accuracy in measuring deformation. To reach this accuracy a high density of high quality points (PS) is required for model fitting. In rural regions, where the availability of PS points is limited, the density of high quality points is often too low to guarantee accurate results. To mitigate this, a common technique is to exploit distributed scatterers (DS) that have enough phase quality for it to be used in the PS-InSAR analysis. To increase the phase quality of DS and preserve PS points in the image scene, adaptive filtering of interferograms should be implemented prior to PS and DS candidate selection and PS-InSAR implementation. This paper addresses the scattering property based adaptive filtering of dual polarized Sentinel-1 interferograms for application to permanent scatterer interferometry in a rural region. We first demonstrate the derivation of scattering mechanisms from 14 dual polarized Sentinel-1 data acquired between August 2015 and August 2016. We implemented an adaptive filtering procedure to estimate the complex coherences for different interferogram pairs to preserve PS and filter DS located in the image scene. We further implemented phase quality optimization to achieve high accuracy in differential phases for both PS and DS candidates. Finally, the selected candidates are processed jointly in a PS-InSAR processing work-flow to estimate ground deformation . Preliminary results indicated that PS points were well preserved and that the signal to noise ratio of DS was increased by applying scattering property based adaptive filtering. Adaptive filtering and polarimetric optimization increased the number of pixels available for PS-InSAR analysis. A robust model fitting and a more reliable PS-InSAR analysis result is anticipated from the proposed filtering.


Nonadiabatic holonomic quantum computation provides the means to perform fast and robust quantum gates by utilizing the resilience of non-Abelian geometric phases to fluctuations of the path in sta ...


Stochastic resonance (SR) method can be applied to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a system output using the unavoidable environmental noise. However, the robustness of SR and the corresponding parameters selection are not agreeable. This paper develops a two-step approach to detect faults in bearings. The first step is done by applying the Duffing oscillator to reveal the weak periodic signals and hence the judgment of existence of faults in mechanical systems. SR is then employed in the second step using Duffing equation as the bistable system. Two barrier parameters in the Duffing equation based bistable system in the second step are obtained using an artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm. The comparison study between the present two-step method and traditional SR is performed by a numerical simulation signal of cosine function with colored noise. The fault detection results show that the presented method is favored to detect and diagnose rolling bearing fault from a strong noise environment.


Article history: Background: The purpose of this study was the comparison of emotional intelligence in athletes and non athletes. Methods: The methodology in this study was casual- comparative. The populations in this study were all the athletes and non athletes in region 10 in Tehran. The population in this study was made 105 participants (52 athletes and 53 non athletes). The instruments for data collection included demographics questionnaire, Bar-On (2006) emotional intelligence Questionnaire. From non parametric- Mann - whitney U Test was used to the comparison of emotional intelligence in athletes and non athletes. Results: The results show that ranking mean of problem solving and sympathy dimensions in athletes were lower significantly ratio to non athletes, but ranking mean of Realism and responsibility dimensions in athletes were higher significantly ratio to non athletes. But other variables significantly different was not shown between athletes and non athletes. Conclusion: Considering the findings of this study show that apparently Realism and responsibility dimensions in athletes were higher, but to generalize the results more research is needed. Methods: The methodology in this study was casual-comparative. The populations in this study were all the athletes and non athletes in region 10 in Tehran. The population in this study (105 participants) was made of 52 athletes (21 men and 31 women) which were chosen with intentional method (karate-3, Taekwondo-2, swimming=1, bodybuilding and wrestling 2 of each, soccer=10, basketball=5, handball=3), average age of which was 26.69± 6.32 and 53 non athletes, average age of which was 29.84± 9.07. To analyze the data descriptive statistics and central indexes (mean, median, index), dispersion index (standard deviation, maximum, and minimum), percentage, and number were used and charts were used to


Energy proportionality is the key design goal followed by architects of modern multicore CPUs. One of its implications is that optimization of an application for performance will also optimize it for energy. In this work, we show that energy proportionality does not hold true for multicore CPUs. This finding creates the opportunity for bi-objective optimization of applications for performance and energy. We propose and study the first application-level method for bi-objective optimization of multithreaded data-parallel applications for performance and energy. The method uses two decision variables, the number of identical multithreaded kernels (threadgroups) executing the application and the number of threads in each threadgroup, with the workload always partitioned equally between the threadgroups. We experimentally demonstrate the efficiency of the method using four highly optimized multithreaded data-parallel applications, 2D fast Fourier transform based on FFTW and Intel MKL, and dense matrix-matrix multiplication using OpenBLAS and Intel MKL. Four modern multicore CPUs are used in the experiments. The experiments show that optimization for performance alone results in the increase in dynamic energy consumption by up to 89% and optimization for dynamic energy alone degrades the performance by up to 49%. By solving the bi-objective optimization problem, the method determines up to 11 globally Pareto-optimal solutions. Finally, we propose a qualitative dynamic energy model employing performance monitoring counters as parameters, which we use to explain the discovered energy nonproportionality and the Pareto-optimal solutions determined by our method. The model shows that the energy nonproportionality in our case is due to the activity of the data translation lookaside buffer (dTLB), which is disproportionately energy expensive.


Effective predictors of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Mortality have the potential to identify high-risk patients earlier, improve ICU resource allocation, and create more accurate population-level risk models. Machine learning practitioners typically make choices about how to represent features in a particular model, but these choices are seldom evaluated quantitatively. This study compares the performance of different representations of clinical event counts from the MIMIC III database in a logistic regression model to predict post-36-hour ICU mortality. The most common representations are linear (normalized counts) and binary (yes/no). These, along with a logarithmic representation and a new representation termed Hill, are compared using L2 regularization. Results indicate that the introduced Hill representation gives a higher area under the reciever operating curve (AUC) for the mortality prediction task than the log, binary and linear representations. The Hill representation thus has the potential to improve existing models of ICU mortality.


Realistic modeling of 3D fragmentation procedures with minimal incorporation of restrictions to the crack path is still a challenge in modern computational engineering simulations. The presented approach is used to model failure and cracking in concrete structures, applying an explicit finite element integration scheme. Within this model the Strong Discontinuity Approach (SDA) is used to handle the failure process until the material is fully damaged. At stage an adaptive refinement technique is incorporated in ordner to introduce real cracks which are suitable for DEM / FEM coupling or contact formulations. (© 2006 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


A series of high surface area nanocrystalline copper manganese oxide catalysts have been prepared by supercritical anti-solvent (SAS) precipitation using CO2 and tested for the ambient temperature oxidation of CO. The catalysts were prepared by precipitation from an ethanol/metal acetate solution and the addition of small quantities of water was found to result in a mixed acetate precursor with surface areas >200 m2 g−1, considerably higher than those prepared by conventional precipitation methods. The surface area of the final calcined mixed oxide was found to be dependent upon the initial water concentration. XRD and FT-IR analysis indicated that the addition of water promoted the formation of carbonate species in the amorphous acetate precursor, with high resolution TEM and STEM showing the material to consist of spherical agglomerations of fibrous strings of ca. 30 nm length. This is in contrast to the material prepared in the absence of water, using the same SAS methodology, which typically yields quasi-spherical particles of 100 nm size.


The advent of a knowledge based society, in which knowledge, 'work skills' and 'life skills', are getting obsolete ever faster, has changed society's view on learning. Learning is no longer perceived as a process that is critical at the beginning of life, necessary to acquire some general initial knowledge to be applied later on in life and work. In an ever changing 'knowledge society' learning is perceived as a life-long process required to adapt to new circumstances and thus ensuring personal economic and social success. Life-long learning presupposes that people have 'learned to learn'. Consequently, providing students with the knowledge and skills enabling them to self-regulate their study process efficiently and effectively has become a central goal of higher education (Mclellan & Soden, 2006). .


The relationship between football passing and catching and reaction time was studied by using the methods of literature and mathematical statistics. It was pointed out that the speed of reaction time had different effects on the stability of football players passing and catching, and the reaction speed of some students in the college of physical education was analyzed and compared.


Despite the positive effects of industrial development, there is a significant impact and adverse impact on the environment. Destruction of ecosystems, pollution of the atmosphere, waters and soils is only a small part of the impacts of development. Thus, environmental sciences and monitoring systems focus on normalizing impacts and harmonizing human evolution by preserving the environment.
The aim of this dissertation is to analyse samples of dry pond sediment in which liquid waste was discharged from factories in the Ipsonas industrial area. Subsequently, the current study will aim to present an interpretation of the results as well as proposals for restoration of the polluted area.
Empirical investigation have taken place regarding methods of decontamination and have looked specifically at chemical- mechanical and biological methods. These studies have examined closely the origin and risk factors associated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and heavy metals were examined.
Physico-chemical analysis of sediments, detection of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons as well as detection and quantification of heavy metals were performed. For PAH, extraction and detection was performed on GC, while for heavy metals the ISO11466 standard procedure was followed.
The organic load, the granulometric composition of the sediment and its water capacity were then characterized. The results of PAHs and heavy metals were analysed and their risk assessed according to Dutch Environmental Standards.
The results of the whole work, according to the analyses carried out and the comparison with the Dutch Environmental Standards, were particularly satisfactory. Pollution does not exceed the limits, rendering any intervention unnecessary. Finally, ideas for future research were proposed.


Three sorts of superplasticizers based on sulfonated phenol\|formaldehyde resins are prepared. The superplasticizers can reduce remarkably the water contents and improve workability and mechanical strength of concretes. The results show that compressive strength of concretes increases remarkably with increasing the amount of the superplasticizers in a suitable range and then increases slowly or drops down. The testing results also show that bending, tensile, shear, and adhesion strength of concretes are more higher than those of the vacant sample. The ultra\|high\|strength concretes with the excellent workability and more than 100MPa of compressive strength are prepared by using the superplasticizers, silica fume and slag.


After qualifying, completing house jobs, and doing a short service commission in the Royal Navy, Frank Martin Hull, always known as Robin, entered rural general practice in Wellesbourne, Warwickshire in 1960.

In 1973 he took a sabbatical from the practice as visiting professor in general practice at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.

On returning to the practice, alongside his clinical work, …


Multidimensional harmonic oscillator matrix elements of arbitrary products of exponentials for operators containing only linear and quadratic terms in the creation and annihilation operators are obtained. A simple and straightforward method is presented that leads to recurrence relations and generating functions for such matrix elements. Results are shown to be general enough to cover the cases of Franck–Condon overlaps, transition probabilities for time‐dependent harmonic oscillators, and correlation functions for electronic spectra.


The patients coming to Dental Hospital Jember University are those brought by dental students and those coming by their own will.  Most patients come to the Dental Hospital because they are asked by the students to fulfill their academic requirements. The purpose of this study is to figure out the influence of physical and fee administration aspects of the Dental Hospital Jember University between the patients brought by the students and those who come by their own will. This study used a descriptive and analytic method with cross-sectional approach. The samples were taken from the patients visiting Dental Hospital Jember University. The result of this study  was analyzed using Mann Whitney U Test . It was showed that there was a significant difference on the physical of Dental Hospital, while on there was no significant difference in the aspect of administrative fee both in common patients and those brought by the students. Keywords : The factors affecting the visit, patients brought by students, common patients


Medical evacuation is one of the most important modules in the emergency plans activated during disaster situations. It aims at evacuating victims to the most appropriate health-care facilities. Evacuation plans were for a long time performed approximatively and passively rather than optimally and proactively between the disposal site and the targeted hospital and they often lacked visibility on the evolution of the events that may change data and leading to a revision of the plans. However, thanks to the proliferation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in all aspects of life, the evacuation operations in disaster situations had known a great enhancement. In fact, critical operations such as real-time monitoring of the state of resources used during the evacuation process, detecting the occurring changes and reflecting them on the global process to provide dynamic and optimal evacuation plans become possible. In this paper, we propose a framework for dynamic evacuation operations in disaster situations. We design a system that takes into consideration the above challenges such as detecting changes and using them in an intelligent way to enable dynamic, optimal and up-to-date evacuation plans. The provided prototype is called DEvacuS (Dynamic Evacuation System).


Precipitation is an important parameter in water resource management, urban flood warning systems, and hydrological analyses. Precipitation forecasting can provide a decision-making basis for relevant organizations, such as those in the agricultural sector and water conservancy departments. In this paper, a modified grey self-memory model (MGSM) was constructed by combining a self-memory function and grey theory. To verify the precision of the model in cases in which measured data are not available in the forecasting stage, a self-test method based on the scale effect in the precipitation forecasting stage was proposed. Ultimately, the model was verified based on three precipitation scales—the annual scale, the crop growth period, and the monthly scale—in the crop growth period from 1961 to 2018 in the Songnen Plain area, Heilongjiang Province. The results showed that the MGSM yielded higher fitting accuracy than the original GM(1,1) and grey self-memory models. Furthermore, the precipitation in the study area was predicted with the MSGM at the three different scales above from 2019 to 2023. The accuracy of forecasting meets the relevant requirements, and the model can be used to forecast precipitation trends at different time scales in the future. The results provide a reference for formulating scientific and rational agricultural water use strategies and guiding agricultural production practices.


Applying Analytic Hierarchy Process,the paper constructs a comprehensive evaluation index system containing five secondery-level indexes including agricultural production and rural economic development,rural society development,resources-saving,resources recycling and environment security.The paper makes an empirical analysis on the development degree and the main obstacles of two-oriented agricultural around Dongting Lake region from 2005 to 2009,the analysis assumes the year of 2000 as a starting point and the year 2020 as a terminal point.The research results show that the basic trend of two-oriented agricultural around Dongting Lake region has proved fruitful,but the development among different indicators is unbalance.The main obstacles which restrict agricultural development around the lake are resources-saving,resources recycling and environment security,the most serious phenomenon is chemical inputs abused,including fertilizer,pesticide and agricultural plastic.Finally,the paper puts forward some proposals,including perfecting the laws and regulations system,training modern farmers,speeding up agricultural infrastructure construction,stimulating farmers to conserve resources and protect environment by different kinds of financial means,increasing scientific and technological funds,etc.


The imaging performance of the lunar-based synthetic aperture radar (LBSAR) is susceptible to the orbital perturbation effects. In particular, the perturbations of orbital inclination and right ascension of ascending node (RAAN) could give rise to the temporally varying orbit drift of LBSAR and further lead to Doppler errors in the radio signal. As a result, the LBSAR image performance might be influenced by such effects. This study comprehensively probes into the phase error induced by perturbations of orbital inclination and RAAN, and its effects on the LBSAR imaging performance are further explored. It is found that the LBSAR imaging performance in terms of focusing quality and geometric fidelity is affected by the perturbations of orbital inclination and RAAN, wherein the deterioration of focusing quality is closely associated with the synthetic aperture time. In this regard, the azimuth resolution on a decameter level is optimum for Earth observation of LBSAR with satisfactory image quality. Regarding the geometric fidelity, the accuracy requirement for the orbit determination of the LBSAR under perturbations of the orbital inclination and RAAN is proposed. The analysis results show that the LBSAR orbit determination in terms of the position and velocity determinations is most strenuous in the z-direction. Finally, point target responses are simulated to illustrate the preceding analysis.


AUTHOR Falagrady, Teresa; Gossard, Linda; Ingram, Pam; Snapp, Mary TITLE Conversations in the Workplace: An ESL Activity Guide. INSTITUTION Denver Public Schools, CO. SPONS AGENCY Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. National Workplace Literacy Program. PUB DATE 1995-03-00 NOTE 98p.; A publication of the Workplace Education Project Emily Griffith Opportunity School. PUB TYPE Guides Classroom Teacher (052) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC04 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Adult Basic Education; Adult Students; *Competence; Curriculum; Job Skills; Learning Activities; Learning Modules; On the Job Training; *Second Language Instruction; Teaching Methods; Vocabulary Skills; *Vocational English (Second Language); *Workplace Literacy IDENTIFIERS *Conversation


The author discusses the issue of preserving and relocating / reassembling a monumental work of art, included in the list of national heritage values – the mosaic panel "Art (Attributes of Art)", made by the artist Mihai Burea (1972) on the facade of the former Palace of Culture of Trade Unions, Rascani sector in Chisinau, dismantled in 2018, following the demolition of the block. The importance of the mosaic panel is enhanced by the status of the image, as a product of an interaction between the sender and receiver and, at the same time, as a place of transition to the mentality that generated it, as an object of representation and as an object-means of transmission/communication of a written message/implicit to the genre.


The unifying theme of this thesis is that of light scattering by particles, using computational approaches. This contributions here are separated into two main areas. The first consists of examining the behaviour of the extended boundary-condition method and T-matrix method, and providing a modified set of equations to use to calculate the relevant integrals. From this, some linear relations between integrals were found, which hint at the possibility of a more efficient means of performing these calculations. As well as this, the severe numerical problems associated with this method were investigated, and the primary source of these problems was identified in the case of two commonly-used shapes, spheroids and offset spheres. The cause of these numerical problems is that dominant, leading terms in the power series expansion of the integrands integrate identically to zero, but in practice, numerical calculations have insufficient precision to compute this exactly, and the overwhelming errors from this lead to drastically incorrect results. Following this identification, a new formulation of the integrals for spheroids is presented, which allows the much easier treatment of spheroids, approaching the level of ease of calculations for spheres in Mie theory. This formulation replaces some terms in the integrands with modified terms, that do not contain the parts of the power series that cause problems. As these should integrate to zero, we are able to remove them from the integrand without affecting the correct result. The second area of this thesis is concerned with calculations of the near-field for systems of interest in plasmonics, and specifically in surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. Here, the enhancement of the electric field in the vicinity of a metallic surface has a large effect on measured signals. The contribution of this thesis is to study the geometric parameters that influence the distribution of the field enhancement at the particle's resonance, specifically focusing on different effects caused by the overall shape of the particle, as opposed to those effects due to the local shape of the particle in regions of high enhancement. It is shown that the overall shape determines the location of the resonance, while the local shape determines how strongly the enhancement is localised. Understanding the factors that influence the enhancement localisation will help in guiding the design of suitable plasmonic substrates.


Abstract: Treatment of perchloro-7 H -cyclopropano[ a ]acenaphthylene 1 with hydrazine hydrate in DMF at ca. 80 o C gives the new 3,4,5,6,7,8,9-heptachlorophenaleno[1,9- bc ]pyrazole 2 in 69% yield. This compound is the first example of a phenalene fused pyrazole. Keywords: phenalene; pyrazole; cyclopropane Phenalene fused heteroles are rare. To date only phenaleno[1,9- bc ]furan [1] and phenaleno[1,9- bc ]thiophenes [2–4] have been reported. During a study on the chemistry of perchloro-7 H -cyclopropano[ a ]acenaphthylene 1 a new phenalene fused heterole 2 was formed. Perchloro-7 H -cyclopropano[ a ]acenaphthylene 1 , which can be prepared from perchloroacenaphthylene and dichlorocarbene [5], was a valuable intermediate for the preparation of the stable perchlorophenalenyl radical [6]. The chemistry of cyclopropano[ a ]acenaphthylene 1 has been little explored; on treatment with mild Lewis acids halogen abstraction led to the formation of perchlorophenalenium cation [5,6]. During these studies traces of the perchlorophenalenone were observed. Interestingly, non substituted cyclopropano[


In this work, we present a complete design implementation and characterization of an analog silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) with integrated time-to-digital converter (TDC). The combination of a photodetector together with on-chip readout circuitry in close proximity enables system-level advantages such as internal parasitic reduction for better single-photon timing resolution (SPTR), but also overall simplicity and compactness. The system comprises a C-Series analog SiPM developed by SensL, a TDC, and a comparator. The design was implemented in 0.35µm CMOS technology. The proposed analog SiPM features 48% photon detection efficiency (PDE) at 420nm wavelength and +6.0V excess bias. Thanks to the small size of the electronics, the overall sensor fill factor is 75% and its sensitive area is 3×3mm2. The SiPM fast output, which is a specialized terminal for fast timing output signals, has a parasitic capacitance of about 12pF. The TDC is a multi-path-gated ring oscillator with a 6-bit coarse counter and 9-bit phase detector. Post-layout simulation results indicate a 65ps LSB in typical corner with differential non-linearity (DNL) and integral non-linearity (INL) of ±0.55LSB and ±1LSB, respectively. The comparator is composed of two preamplifier stages followed by a complementary self-biased differential amplifier stage (CSDA), directly coupled to the fast output through a capacitor. Post-layout simulation indicates 48V/ns slew rate and a preamplifier stage bandwidth of ~1GHz. The comparator power consumption without the additional preamplifier stage is 198µW.


The informationization construction of management in university is an important means to improve the work efficiency and lower school—running cost,but also the main way to improve the decision-making ability and gain a competitive advantage. The informationization construction of management in university has made great achievements,but there are still many problems. It is necessary to analyze the existing problems of ideas,system and mechanism,personnel and other aspects in the informationization construction of management in university and propose the pointed improving measures.


In the post genomic era, the study of molecular biology has expanded into the study of interactions between genes and molecules. Genomic regulatory networks concerns the transcription factors as well as signal transduction components and the interaction between them, those interaction forms a networks like architecture which explain fully the detail mechanism underlying the embryogenesis. The gene regulatory networks for early development have become so important in recent study; the GRN has been published for endomesoderm in sea urchin, mesoderm in Xenopus and dorsal-ventral specification in Drosophila.
Gbx class transcriptional factors regulate the cell fate of cephalic primordium to cause neuromeres segmentation in zebrafish hindbrain. Previous study had demonstrated midbrain-hindbrain boundary (MHB) as well as isthmus organizer is controlled by the interaction between Gbx2 and Otx2. Recently, Gbx1 had been proved to act on the upstream genes of Gbx2 and might play a crucial role in establishment of MHB. However, it is still unclear about how the hindbrain patterns and what signals activate Gbx family to promote brain regionalization. To gain a detail understanding about the mechanism, we apply gene regulatory network (GRN) to broadly constitute the relationship between transcriptional factors and signal transduction component, those interaction forms a sub-network which explain the detail mechanism about how brain develop into several segments. We search the downstream outputs of Gbx family by systematically screening the Gbx morphants coupling with RT-QPCR. At the same time, we also knock down several endomesoderm genes to screen if they act on Gbx family. Our data coupling with literature search can provide many outputs of Gbx family and some inputs acting on them.
To further analyze the Gbx1 and Gbx2 regulatory region, we compare the evolutionary conserved elements from seven different species ranged from fugu, tetraodon, xenopus, opossum, and mouse to human, and find several important cis-regulatory modules on zebrafish Gbx1 and Gbx2 genome. In the conserved regions, there are predicted binding sites of Pbx2, Sox 17 and Otx2, which are known to regulate Gbx2 and Gbx1 transcription. We are now performing in vivo reporter assay to find real cis-regulatory modules and direct transcription factor binding sites on Gbx1 and Gbx2 locus. This study of the regulatory elements on Gbx1 and Gbx2 will allow us to identify the important transcription factor binding sites involved in the regulation of Gbx1 and Gbx2, and further enable us to link the gene regulatory networks on the cis-regulatory elements. This information could be useful for establish the underlying mechanisms of how the Gbx1 and Gbx2 are regulated by other transcription factors and how they regulate other transcription factors in order to determine the brain fate.


This article examines the meaning of outreach for academic and public libraries. Using common marketing techniques, such as the four Ps (Price, Product, Place, and Promotion), this article presents the reader with a step-by-step guide to successful marketing of "merchandise," to "consumers," through the use of diverse, "windows".  Through the five step process the reader is able to evaluate, target, and market their services appropriately.  With the importance of library services ever growing in today's changing world, outreach has moved to the forefront of concerns for libraries.


A data and voice digital communication network installation and networking method, including a plurality of packet communication networking hubs, logically configured in a hierarchy of at least two tiers, a transmission backbone network linking said hubs, including at least one light transmitting fibre with means to extract signals from and apply signals to the fibre which are at least a proportion of end to end signals being carried by the fibre, said signals being extracted to and received from the packet communications networking hubs, at a plurality of selected locations, including at least one which is not located at a primary hub, wherein the logical configuration of a given hub is substantially independent of its physical connectivity to the transmission backbone network.


We reduce the dominant term in Lehman's theorem. This improved estimate allows us to refine the main theorem of Bays & Hudson. Entering 2,000,000 Riemann zeros, we prove that there exists x in the interval [1.39792101 \times 10^316, 1.39847603 \times 10^316] for which \pi(x) > \li(x). This interval is strictly a sub-interval of the interval in Bays & Hudson [1], and is narrower by a factor of about 10.


The microwave-assist extraction of pectin from potato starch residue was studied in this paper.The effect of the ratio of liquid to material,pH values,microwave heating time,microwave power and the dosage of aluminum sulfate on the pectin extraction were investigated.The optimized extraction conditions were obtained as follows,the ratio of liquid to material of 15∶1,pH 2,microwave heating time of 5min,microwave power of 0.4kW,and the dosage of aluminum sulfate of 7mL.The extraction rate of pectin was 1.8537% under the optimal conditions.The microwave-assist extraction showed many advantages over the traditional method in shortening time,saving solvent and the high yield.


Aside from possible income effects, measures of the maximum amounts people will pay to avoid a loss and the minimum compensation necessary for them to accept it are generally assumed to be equivalent. Unexpectedly wide variations between these sums, however, have been noted in survey responses to hypothetical options. This paper reports the results of a series of experiments that confronted people with actual money payments and cash compensations. The results indicate that the compensation measure of value seems to exceed significantly the willingness to pay measure, which would appear to call into some question various rules of entitlement, damage assessments, and interpretations of indifference curves.


The international relations study has experienced a lot of movement in the dinamic, looking at patterns in an increasingly of the dynamic of dipomacy, then it is considered to give the influence into the development of the science of international relations. This paper deals with how the theory or concept of Polilateral Gastrodiplomacy describes the movement patterns of diploamcy. The authors trying to see the interactions between actors in diplomacy, especially in an effort to develop Indonesia's culinary business in Los Angeles. Interactions between these actors and then encourage the presence of a development that can be mutually beneficial but depending on the aspect of what being a concentration. The authors also assume that the interaction that is formed into a new style in running the diplomatic mission of Indonesia.


Objective To investigate the clinical effect and advantage of laparoscopy on treatment of tubal pregnancy. Methods in 139 pateents with tubal pregnancy, laparoscopic operations were performed in 93 patients, and laparotomiesin 46 the clinical effect in two groups were comparised. Results There was no significant difference in operation time and hcg descent between two groups (P0.05).but the bleeding, rehahilitation time, fever cases, the days of hospitalzation after operation in laparoscopic group were significantly less than those in laparotomy group (P0.01). Conclusions The clinical effect of laparoscopy to treat tubal pregnancy is superior than laparotomy.


This is an abstract for a 5000 word paper. It is framed by theories of social practices with an innovative focus on the part of identity in the dynamics of dressing practices. This focus positions this paper within the culture agenda for this conference, and aligns it most strongly with the theme of Fashion's social practices. Fashion contributes significantly to overconsumption of global resources and as such the social practices of dressing sustainably warrants examination. While consumer and fashion scholarship understands identity as an important part of dressing there is little examination of identity in social practice theory. This paper examines how identity is instituted by, and adds to, the context of dressing sustainably. In particular, I explore how understandings specific to this practice about style and taste define rightness of the dressed body. I do this by undertaking a digitally-based ethnographic study detailing the performance of routine and daily dressing. I argue that dressing sustainably is a negotiation of embodied knowledge of dressedness, being dressed for purpose and comfort, and desire and pleasure in looking right. Furthermore, I find that other practices such as laundering, heating and cooling, and mobility mediate the performance of this practice and that identity is part of these inter-practice relations. This offers a new insight that identity is a part of social practices by defining relations between both material and conceptual entities to form and carry the practice. My analysis shows that the identity associated with dressing sustainably results in a performance that is a negotiation between other practices and the elements that make up the practice of dressing sustainably. Importantly, for the sustainable fashion industry, this is more than the materiality of sustainably produced garments. Facilitating a greater uptake of sustainable dressing practices requires better inclusion of identity in growing the development of sustainable dressing.


The rule of law was very important for the expansion of markets and economic growth in Classical and Hellenistic Greece. The Greek city-state enforced regulations about weights and measures, ensured peace and order, built infrastructure (agoras, roads and ports), granted foreigners access to courts, gave honours, privileges and protection from seizure (asylia), and concluded treaties with other communities. The state also protected the property rights of individuals and created records to ensure title and to resolve disputes about ownership. Finally, the state created third-party enforcement of contracts, such as lease, sale, lending and borrowing and the accessory contracts of personal security and real security. This allowed economic transactions to expand beyond the narrow confines of family, friends, and neighbours and to expand markets.


A great amount of effort has gone into making measurements of the orbital debris environment using a variety of methods and instruments. The aggregate of measurements provides a good overall characterization of the environment. However, each instrument or technique has inherent limitations. In situ measurements using returned surfaces, such as LDEF, are limited by finite surface area and discrete altitudes and time on orbit. Statistical measurements using radars and telescopes are limited by sensitivity and geographical location. The U.S. Space Surveillance Network catalog is incomplete since it also relies on radar and optical measurements as well. Understanding the limitations with each technique can provide insight into the limitations in the broad characterization of the debris environment. This paper will explore the major limitations of individual measurement techniques and their implications for understanding the overall orbital debris environment.


The over-representation of Indigenous children in the child protection system was identified by the Report of the Special Commission of Inquiry into Child Protection Services in New South Wales, Australia (2008). The appointment of Indigenous guardians at litem in care and protection proceedings in the Children's Court is one concrete step that can be taken now to make a positive contribution to the future of Indigenous children within our community.


We examine the consensus problem for a group of agents that communicate via a network whose topology switches randomly. The presence of a communication link between a pair of agents is random. In order to account for general information ∞ow, communication among agents is directed, and each link possess a possibly difierent non-negative weight. At random instants, the communication network topology switches randomly between a flnite set of topologies. Su‐cient conditions for asymptotic almost sure consensus are presented.


Porous ceramics is basically categorized as brittle material. However, it shows a little nonlinear stress-strain behavior and has damage tolerance. To evaluate the extent of damage tolerance of porous ceramic, we have proposed the distributed-micro-crack model and applied it to nonlinear stress-strain behavior analysis of porous ceramics. In the previous studies, the distribution of initial crack sizes was not considered in the model. Though the model without initial crack size distribution can predict the initial stage of deformation (i.e. quasi linear stress-strain region) of porous ceramics, it can't evaluate the final stage of deformation near fracture. It can be considered that this discrepancy is due to the localized damage mechanism that can't be estimated by the model without initial crack size distribution. Therefore, initial crack size distribution is introduced into the model in present studies. In this paper, results from analyses by the modified distributed-micro-crack model with initial crack size distribution are presented. Weibull distribution is employed as the initial crack size distribution profile. It is concluded that this modification can simulate localized damage and not only initial stage of stress-strain relationship but also near fracture stage of it obtained by the model shows good agreement with experimental data.


In 2003, the fisheries with an increasing importance for the provision of human food realized a global production as 146.3 million tons, 91.5 million of which is from fishing and 54.8 million tons from rearing. The production of 89.6 million tons in 1989 started to decrease until 1991. In 2002, this amount has increased to 96.7 million tons and then decreased again to a level of 91.5 million tons in 2003. Briefly, the global production within 15-20 years is around 90 million tons and is foreseen to be within these limits. This increase in the fisheries over the years is emanating from the culturing activities. In fact, despite that the amount of products gained from fishing has not significantly changed over the last 15 years; culturing activities have realized considerable increases.


Recent research at Areta in the northern side of Chalki Island (Dodecanese) has revealed an enormous quantity of lithics of the Mesolithic period. It is the first time that such an old settlement is located in the area of the Dodecanese, thus extending to the southeast of the Aegean the already known Mesolithic network of sites and creating a sea route from Cyclades to Dodecanese. Apart from the Melian obsidian, there is great abundance of obsidian from Yali of Nissiros used for making tools despite its poor quality. The last few years' surveys of the Aegean University discovered an extensive Mesolithic site at the southern part of Naxos that follows the usual model of Mesolithic occupation with the selection of sites very close to the sea. The types of tools in both sites exhibit a number of analogies with the sites of the Aegean Mesolithic such as Maroulas in Kythnos and Kerame 1 in Ikaria. Dissimilarities between the above-mentioned inventories result first of all from the fact that different raw materials were exploited. Despite of the missing absolute dates, the regularity and increase of geometrical tools, and the presence of other microlithic forms may suggest that the lithic industry of both sites represents a later phase of the Aegean Mesolithic. The lithic industry of the Upper Mesolithic resembles with the lithic repertory of the aceramic level X of Knossos showing an origin from the Aegean and not from the East.


The 3-D analysis is useful for the optimum design of high frequency coupling t"fcn"-s which have complex structures. It is difficult to predict the current distributions taking into account eddy currents in sheet coils. In this paper, the current density vector analysis and the magnetic field analysis taking into account eddy currents in the spiral sheet coils are coupled. The exciting current Characteristics and load characteristics can be accurately calculated by comparing with measurements. The copper loss distributions taking into account eddy currents in the coils are also shown quantitatively. The effects of the gap length on the exciting current are clarified, and it is shown that the load characteristics of the transformer can be calculated accurately by comparing with The copper loss distributions taking into account eddy currents in the spiral sheet coils are also clarified quantitatively. Our method makes it possible to Optimum design Of copper loss are calculated by our method. It is shown that the predict any characteristics, and it be used for transformers.


We have experimentally investigated the behavior of an electron cloud confined in a Penning trap at weak superimposed magnetic fields. Exciting the motional frequencies of the electrons by an external drive field we found the axial mode split into two components which were identified as center-of-mass and individual electron oscillations. When the trapping potential was varied, rapid electron loss appeared at numerous values of the applied voltage. They are determined by the relation nzωz+nmωm=ωc. ωz,ωm,ωc are the axial, magnetron, and cyclotron frequency of the trapped electrons, respectively. The reason for this loss is attributed to higher order contributions to the ideal quadrupole trapping potential.


In rotary ultrasonic machining (RUM), the yutilization of contactless energy transfer (CET) theory addresses the limitations imposed by traditional contact power supply systems on rotational speed, however, it also introduces the challenge of inadequate transmission performance. Specifically, impedance variations of oscillator pose challenges for the CET system (CETS). These challenges include maintaining high transmission efficiency and desirable impedance characteristics, which can impact the performance of system and the quality of workpiece. To address the issue, this article proposes the implementation of a bilateral compensation network using an LC–CL structure to against the low output power and poor anti-interference capabilities of series–series (SS) topology. Additionally, a variable loads parameter optimization (VLPO) model, based on the fluctuations of equivalent dynamic component parameters during actual machining, is proposed. This model integrates an efficiency evaluation function aimed at achieving higher transmission efficiency and reducing fluctuations, as well as evaluation functions for the quality factor, admittance circle radius, and bandwidth to enhance impedance characteristics. Through the implementation of VLPO, the system impedance characteristics of LC–CL are significantly improved in comparison to SS and carrying capacity is effectively enhanced. The effectiveness of this scheme is validated through the construction of CETS experimental platform.


A convenient protocol has been developed to fabricate one-dimensional nanostructures of a photochromic molecule cis-l,2-dicyano-l,2-bis(2,4,5-trimethyl-3-thieny1)ethene (CMTE). Light-induced self-assembled nanorods and nanowires of the colored form were obtained in situ under UV light irradiation in aqueous dispersion and redissolved under green light. Reversible and fatigue-resistant optical switching in the nanoparticle state was demonstrated.


This paper focuses on investigating the nonlinear behavior of steel frame structures in practical engineering applications. Utilizing finite element analysis, the study simulates the response of structures under extreme loads such as strong earthquakes. By incorporating nonlinear material properties and contact effects, the numerical simulation and analysis explore phenomena such as plastic deformation, yield, and instability in frame structures. The research outcomes contribute to a deeper understanding of the energy dissipation and safety performance of these structures.


Usage of wireless network is growing day by day, so it is very necessary to increase the quality of data delivery. The wireless networks like WLAN, WiMAX and UMTS has its own advantages. By integrating these wireless networks into heterogeneous network architecture, it is possible to improve the Quality of Service. In this paper, WLAN with WiMAX and WLAN with UMTS are integrated and the performances are analyzed by transmitting the voice packets using Voice over Internet Protocol based on parameters such as jitter, delay and Mean Opinion Score value.


Tortures and executions have been publicly displayed to deter crime, but their staging has also been characterized as spectacle. Public spectacle, and associated technologies, were foundational to the aggregated graphic depiction of Damiens the regicide sentenced to death by torture. Pain was not considered as the sole purpose, but rather to inflict trauma and cause shame. We see that the sovereign holds power over the body, often considered a vessel to be regulated and managed. In this article, the author explores the events surrounding the walk of atonement conducted by Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones. This article analyzes how power structures use brutality to cause trauma. The queen is confined to a prison cell where she is psychologically and spiritually tortured by religious fanatics using technologies of private disciplinary power. She is then forced to walk naked through the streets of King's Landing. As she progresses, her body is pelted with fruit, manure, and bodily fluids, and she endures jeers and curses from the public. A septa (nun) follows her, repeating the word shame eighty-eight times. Her body becomes degraded and objectified. The author's argument is grounded in a unique reading of disciplinary power, which he has conceptualized as traumapower, defined as the use of public (spectacle) and private (confinement) disciplinary power to inflict physical, psychological, and spiritual harm. In Cersei's confinement and walk, we see the manifestation of traumapower. This article explores how external power structures are operationalized to assert body control through trauma, thus rendering it docile.


Reactions of 4-amino-3, 6-dichloropyridazine (I) with caustic alkali in methanol and of 4-amino-3, 6-dimethoxypyridazine (III) with acetylsulfanilchloride in pyridine were studied. In the former reaction, the reaction sequence to the formation of (III), 4-amino-6-chloro-(IV) and 4-amino-6-methoxy-3(2H) pyridazinone (V) was clarified. In the latter condensation reaction, it was found by thin-layer chromatography that 2-p-acetylaminobenzenesulfonyl-5-amino-6-methoxy-3(2H) pyridazinone (XI), two demethylated compounds (IX and X) of N1-(3, 6-dimethoxy-4-pyridazinyl)-N4-acetylsulfanilamide (VIII) as well as the main product (VIII) were produced and their structures were proved. The demethylation reactions of VIII and its deacetylated compound (XII) with pyridine hydrochloride were examined.


For Europe, World War I functioned as a socio-cultural fault line signaling the beginning of a new era as the collapse of old regimes, the development of industry, and a new lifestyle spurred the emergence of a new society and perception of life, wonderfully described in Stefan Zweig's The World of Yesterday (Zweig, 1964). Positioned between the old, exhausted world and the new, emerging one, the young possessed a 'consciousness of explosion' that manifested itself through different 'isms' in cultural life (Dadaism, Surrealism, and so on), and that also signaled a consciousness at once of finality and of a new beginning. As a result, a large 'generational literature' emerged in response to a compulsive need to explain this phenomenon; starting from this corpus of texts, historians and literary critics analyzed these new developments and contextualized them in socio-political and historical terms, while the self-consciousness of a new Weltanschauung and


Objective To explore the curative effect of radiosensitization by CMNa through clinical prospective study on lung squamous carcinoma treated by radiotherapy. Methods A total of 402 patients with lung squamous carcinoma were divided into a radiosensitization group (CMNa+radiotherapy) and a control group (radiotherapy only) randomly by double blind method according to the ratio of 2∶1.Patients of the radiosensitization group was given CMNa 1200 mg/m +2 iv drip in 60 minutes before radiotherapy and those of the control group was given NS two times per week.The curative effects of these two groups were observed,in which the same foundational factors and treatment conditions in the course of radiotherapy were applied. Results There were significant differences in primary lesions on the rate of CR and CR+PR between these two groups.For CR of primary lesion,the radiation dose of radiosensitizition group was significantly lower than that of the control group.There were no statistical significances between these two groups on the kinds,severity and the rate of side-effect by laboratory test of blood routine,liver and kidney functions and clinical symptoms during and at the end of treatment. Conclusion The significant difference in curative effect between these two groups indicates the CR and the total effective rate can be increased and the irradiation dose can be reduced by using CMNa.No obviously side-effects are found in the digestive tract and nervous system under the recommended clinical dose. ;


" System." Its twenty one chapters are the work of sixteen different contributors; twelve are Americans, three English, and one is a Canadian. Professor L. F. Barker leads off with an excellent introduction to diseases of the nervous system, going very thoroughly into the pathological disturbances of sensation, perception, mental processes, and motor system generally. The diseases of the motor tracts are described by Professor W. G. Spiller, the primary myopathies being included in this chapter. Dr. C. K. Russel contributes a brief account of the combined system-diseases of the spinal cord; Dr. Edwin Bramwell writes on the scleroses of the brain, in which are included disseminated sclerosis, pseudo sclerosis, diffuse, tuberose, and miliary sclerosis; he also gives an account of the diseases of the meninges, and of lumbar puncture. The diffuse and focal diseases of the spinal cord, including tumour. syringomyelia, myelitis, Landry's paralysis, and several other affections, are well described by Dr. E. F. Buzzard; admirable illustrations of the microscopical appearances presented by the cord in anterior poliomyelitis are given. Professor J. Collins contributes chapters on the topical diagnosis of diseases of the brain and on aphasia; apraxia is considered under the Arst of these headings. An excellent account of the diseases of the cerebral blood vessels is from the pen of Professor H. M. Thomas; and equally well-written chapters on tumours of the brain and meninges and on hydrocephalus are contributed by Professor Harvey Cushing, whose brief account of the surgery of these conditions will be read with peculiar interest. Diseases of the peripheral nerves are detailed by Dr. G. M. Holmes those of the cerebral nerves by Dr. E. W. Taylor in


We propose an analytical study of relativistic tunneling through opaque barriers. We obtain a closed formula for the phase time. This formula is in excellent agreement with the numerical simulations and corrects the standard formula obtained by the stationary phase method. An important result is found when the upper limit of the incoming energy distribution coincides with the upper limit of the tunneling zone. In this case, the phase time is proportional to the barrier width. I.INTRODUCTION The question of how long it takes a particle to tunnel through a barrier potential has been the issue of intriguing discussions in the last decades. Since the first studies regarding the tunneling process [1,2], several tunneling time definitions have been proposed [3–5]. However, there is no general agreement about a satisfactory definition. Considering a time-dependent description in terms of wave packets, Hartman [6] used the stationary phase method (SPM), previously applied to scattering problems [7,8], to estimate the instant in which the transmitted peak appears in the free region after the barrier. This time definition is known as phase time. One can also introduce a time integration over the probability of finding the particle inside the barrier. This average time spent in the potential region, regardless whether transmission or reflection occurs, is known as dwell time [9, 10]. Phase and dwell times have a well established mutual relation [3,11]. The important point to be noted here is that, in the opaque limit, both predict the independence of tunneling times on the barrier width, the so-called Hartman effect [6]. It is also possible to investigate transit times by describing kinematical paths in the potential region [12–14] or introducing a new degree of freedom, like the Larmor clock [9] and time-oscillating barriers [15]. Recently, a time operator has been considered [16–18], which is canonically conjugated to the energy operator. From this time operator it is obtained a tunneling time that is equal to the average over momentum components of the phase time. Although the majority of the discussions about tunneling times have been based on the nonrelativistic Schrödinger equation, some recent works have attended to particular features of relativistic tunneling particles, such as superluminality [19–22] and existence of the Hartman effect for relativistic potentials [23–26]. The solutions of the Dirac equation are oscillatory in the diffusion, E > V0 +m [27,28], and Klein, E < V0 −m [29], energy zones, where V0 is the barrier height and m is the particle mass. The phenomenon of multiple peaks occurs in the diffusion zone [30]. The Klein region, in its turn, involves pair production and dynamical localized states [31]. The tunneling energy zone, max{m,V0−m} < E < V0+m, is characterized by evanescent solutions [26]. In this paper, we aim to present an analytic and numerical study of the phase time for one-dimensional relativistic tunneling in the opaque barrier limit. We choose an incoming spectrum and vary the barrier height in such a way that the momentum distribution remains at evanescent zone with above potential energies, i.e. max{m,V0} < E < V0 +m , (1) whence we observe that energy components with E < V0 correspond to below potential states whose interpretation is still subject to discussions [26, 27, 31]. Department of Applied Mathematics, State University of Campinas, Brazil [firstname.lastname@example.com] Department of Applied Mathematics, State University of Campinas, Brazil


Baltic prawn, Palaemon adspersus population from the Parila lagoon (SE Adriatic Sea, Croatia) was studied between 2010-2011. Specimens were collected monthly in order to determine population structure, growth, mortality and reproduction of this important decapods species. The von Bertalanffy growth function parameters were found L∞=58.98 mm, K=0.975 year−1 and to=-0.0046 years for males and L∞=72.45 mm, K=1.058 year−1 and to=-0.0005 years for females. Growth performance (Φ') for females was higher (3.229) than that of males (3.121). Maximum calculated age was 3.07 and 2.83 years for males and females, respectively, while total mortality was estimated as 3.72 per year for males and 3.79 per year for females. The females carried on average 2157 eyed eggs per 1g of total body weight, but exhibited a high variability of fecundity. The results show overexploitation of the resource and therefore management rules based on the precautionary approach are proposed. These rules are based on the limitation of the fishing effort and the establishment of 'no-take' periods during the year as well as the proposal of two biological reference points based on a minimum landing size related to the size at- maturity and the fishing mortality at Maximum Sustainable Yield.


Two NASA sounding rockets successfully flew over the Norwegian Sea early in the morning December 8 carrying an experiment to study the electrodynamics of the polar cusp.


This study aims to obtain empirical evidence of the factors that influence efforts to prevent fraud in the procurement of goods and services in the public sector. Institutional theory and Agency theory are used as the theoretical basis. This study examines the effect of the implementation of accountability, effectiveness, internal control system and the application of e-procurement on the prevention of fraud in the procurement of goods and services. This research was conducted in the work units of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) spread throughout Indonesia. The sampling technique used a systematic random sampling method with a total sample of 258 from 517 populations. The mailed survey was conducted using google forms and obtained as many as 236 responses from the total sample. This quantitative study uses the Structural Equation Modeling-Partial Least Square (SEM-PLS) analysis method. Data processing using Smart PLS 3.2.9 program. The results of the analysis show that the implementation of accountability, effectiveness, internal control system and the implementation of e-procurement has a positive and significant impact on the prevention of fraud in the procurement of goods and services.


The invention discloses a wrinkle-removing and anti-wrinkle Chinese medicinal composition, which is mainly prepared from the following raw material medicaments in part by weight: 10 to 20 parts of astragalus, 10 to 30 parts of dwarf lilyturf tuber, 10 to 25 parts of heterophylly falsestarwort root, 10 to 20 parts of root of red-rooted salvia and 5 to 20 parts of liquoric root. Selected raw materials are natural soothing components, have low skin irritation, permeate into skin basal layer in various ways, recover skin vigor, clear free radicals and play a fundamental role in resisting and removing wrinkles. Experiments prove that the wrinkle-removing and anti-wrinkle Chinese medicinal composition has a remarkable wrinkle-removing effect, can remarkably improve skin texture after being used for 30 days, makes skin texture clear, can enhance skin glossiness and make the skin look fine, mellow and white. The wrinkle-removing and anti-wrinkle Chinese medicinal composition is prepared from readily-available raw materials by a convenient preparation method, has low cost, a very good effect and very good application prospect and market prospect, and can be easily accepted by customers.


This study investigates postgraduate students' attitudes toward a gamified classroom approach. Sixteen Malaysian postgraduate students were involved in this study. A case study research design with quantitative and qualitative data was adopted through questionnaires, focus group interviews, and data log to explore students' motivation, engagement, enjoyment, and learning achievement, as well as their scoring and engagement profiling via the Schoology platform. The findings indicate that most of the students have a positive attitude toward the gamified classroom. Game mechanics, such as Challenges, Team , and Leaderboard helped to promote the success of the gamified classroom. Students enjoyed completing Challenges and agreed that the gamified classroom approach had improved their learning and perceptions of gamification. Gamified classroom was more enjoyable than the traditional classroom and had influenced students to be highly motivated and engaged in learning. Several suggestions to enhance students' attitude and engagement toward gamified classroom as well as its relation in the information technology perspectives are also described.


Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a self-care educational package on patients suffering from hypertension in Khatamolanbia Hospital of Iranshahr. Self-care includes a set of healthy behaviors as well as the choice of correct lifestyle, which will prevent from disease and result in effective treatment in case of disease through proper knowledge. Since hypertension is one of the most important modifiable factors by self-care, prevention and treatment of this disease should be considered by the authorities. Method: A self-care educational package was used within six months to assess its impact on hypertensive patients using a researcher-made questionnaire. The target population included 50 mainly female hypertensive patients admitted to Khatamolanbia Hospital of Iranshahr in 2015 who were studied in pre-test post-test groups. The data were analyzed using the SPSS software (version 16). Findings: It was indicated that the self-care education program had a significant impact on the participants' knowledge, attitudes, health behaviors and blood pressure control (p<0.05) so that effective reduction in mean blood pressure from 150.90 to 130.80 was observed. Conclusion: The results of this study showed that the self-care program could be used as an effective approach to practically reduce and control blood pressure.


The invention discloses an adjustable air supply device of a pneumatic conveying pipeline. The adjustable air supply device comprises a main air supply pipe and an air inlet pipe (9). The main air supply pipe is a metallurgy composite two-layer metal pipe, and the hardness of the inner layer of the main air supply pipe is larger than that of the outer layer of the main air supply pipe. The adjustable air supply device is provided with an air supply adjusting device. The air supply adjusting device is structurally characterized in that an air supply adjusting base (7) and an air flow adjusting bolt (8) are arranged on the air inlet pipe (9), and the air flow adjusting bolt (8) is installed on the air supply adjusting base (7) through a threaded connecting structure. By the adoption of the technical scheme, the adjustable air supply device is simple in structure, convenient to install, construct and use, good in wear resistance and impact resistance, long in service life and low in actual-use fault rate. Due to the arrangement of the air supply air flow adjusting device, waste of supplied air is avoided, the functions of energy conservation and environmental protection are achieved, the requirement for safely, efficiently, stably and remotely conveying high-hardness materials such as fly ash and foundry sand of a sintering machine can be met, and the adjustable air supply device gradually replaces pneumatic conveying air supply devices manufactured in modes in the prior art.


The dystrophy is of the nodular or granular type (Duke-Elder, 1938; Francheschetti, Klein, Form.i, and Babel, 1951; Franceschetti, 1954). The cases would appear to fall into the classification of heredo-familial degenerations under the heading of parenchymatous degenerations-a dominant form of granular degeneration. The youngest patient reported by Francheschetti was 5 years old, but in the lattice-like type of degeneration puberty appears to be the more usual age of onset. In the family here reported two girls (IV, 20 and IV, 21 in the family tree) were seen at the ages of 7 and 8 years respectively. They have a type of corneal erosion which lasted for a few days only and cleared, leaving little corneal damage. This has recurred perhaps once or twice a year, but was usually quiescent again when the children were examined. Corneal grafting was considered for II, 7, who has since died, and his brother II, 8, still has 6/24 vision in each eye and grafting has not been considered advisable. As a consequence no such biopsy of the cornea has been possible as-was done in the case reported by Stocker and Holt (1955). There appears to be no association with skin lesions as occurred in the family described by Savin (1956), in which four male members suffering from corneal dystrophy of the stroma and endothelium of the cornea also had ichthyosis simplex and allergic manifestations. McGee and Falls (1953) were unable to trace the family history further because of geographic scattering, but suggested the possibility of a recessive gene in their second case, the child of a consanguineous marriage. The inheritance in the family reported here would appear to be fully dominant with transmission over five generations without sex predilection; it follows the same pattern as the family with the lattice-type of corneal dystrophy described by Ramsay (1957).


: The kinetic studies on the reduction of Ponceau-4R and Ponceau-S by sodium sulphite was studied in the absence and presence of micelle forming surfactants, cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CT AB) and sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS). T~e kinetic studies on the reduction of the dyes in a buffer medium of pH 7.0 revealed that the reaction is first order with respect to the dye and sulphite ion concentrations. Significant rate constant bas been derived. A suitable mechanism consistent with the experimental findings has been proposed. CT AB showed inhibitory effect on the reduction of both the dyes and SDS showed no effect. This may be due to dye in the aqueous bulk phase and sulphite ions in the micellar core.


religion as deeply rooted in Russia (the Khambo lama) and missionaries who bring a more transnational version of the same faith (the Tibetans) will sound very familiar to scholars of Islam and Christianity in Russia, as would the encounter with the Amway-dealing cleric in chapter 6. The idea of saintly people's incorruptible bodies is also current among Christian and Muslim populations of Russia and Central Asia, creating comparable ways of reaching across space and time even without a teaching of reincarnation. Such comparisons might have complicated the thesis of a particularly Buddhist constellation of religious body politics and instead opened up questions about Russia as a multireligious space that is not only externally porous but also internally diverse. Perhaps because of the exclusive focus on revivalist forms of Buddhism, the picture of post-Soviet Buriatiia remains vague, and some hints at specifically post-Soviet developments among Buriats are underdeveloped. For example, there are tantalizing suggestions that practitioners of the spirit-feeding chod ritual try to posthumously teach atheist ancestors about the dharma, but this is not backed up by ethnographic examples. The originality of Religious Bodies Politic lies in the fact that, though dealing with people whose lives are based in Russia, it does not position itself primarily as a work of Russian studies. This sometimes leaves the Russianist reader frustrated, but it creates a point of entry for a wider audience with other regional and theoretical interests. This imaginative contribution is one of the few books that could be read equally well in a class on modern Buddhism and in Russian or postsocialist studies.


Background: Hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN) is caused by erythrocyte allo‑antibodies present in the maternal plasma dur‑ing pregnancy, which cross the placental barrier and enter the fetal bloodstream, bind to fetal erythrocyte antigens and cause destruction of fetal erytrhocytes. Hemolysis leads to fetal anemia, which can cause fetal death if not treated.
Case report: We report a case of HDFN in a multiparous female with multiple erythrocyte alloantibodies of anti‑C+G, anti‑E, anti‑Kp(a) and anti‑Kn(a) specificity. In her third preg‑nancy we found erythrocyte alloantibodies of anti‑C+G and anti‑Kp(a) specificity for the first time. Erythrocyte alloantibodies titers were low and fetal hemolysis was not expected. However, in the 30th week of pregnancy obstetricians observed rapid development of fetal anemia, which was due to hemolysis. The pregnancy was ter‑minated. Despite an exchange transfusion, the newborn died a few days after birth because of HDFN. In the following pregnancy, titers of al‑ready known erythrocyte alloantibodies were high and very severe hemolysis was predicted. In the 22nd week obstetricians found fetal hydrops. Despite intrauterine transfusion (IUT), the preg‑nancy ended with intrauterine fetal death. The fifth pregnancy ended with miscarriage in the 11th week of pregnancy. In the last pregnancy, titers of known erythrocyte alloantibody were high and again very severe hemolysis was predicted. In the 17th and 20th week of pregnancy, erythrocyte alloantibody titers increased. In the 22nd week of pregnancy, obstetricians observed fetal anemia and decided to perform an IUT. The fetus received seven IUTs. After the second IUT, additional erythrocyte alloantibodies of anti‑E and anti‑Kn(a) specificity were found in the ma‑ternal plasma. In the 34th week of pregnancy, ob‑stetricians terminated the pregnancy with elec‑tive caesarean section. The child was born with no signs of hemolytic anemia.
Conclusion: HDFN is still considered an unpredictable disease. By the help of modern pro‑cedures for monitoring of immunised pregnant women also those pregnant women with mulip‑le, clinically significant erythrocyte alloantibod‑ies can be successfully managed in the course of pregnancy.


Virtual oscillator control (VOC) has been proposed for Microgrids, since compared to the droop control method, VOC has a faster transient response. However, the output voltage of the conventional VOC always contains the third-harmonic. Thus, in the grid-connected mode, the third-harmonic voltage causes the generation of significant third-harmonic current which is injected into the power grid. In this paper, by analyzing the nonlinear oscillator and simplifying the nonlinear current source in the oscillator, a novel VOC for three-phase DC/AC inverter is proposed, where the third-harmonic of the oscillator output voltage can be successfully eliminated, whether in the islanded or grid-connected mode of operation. In addition, compared with the traditional VOC, the dynamic response of the proposed VOC-based inverter can be significantly improved, especially in the islanded mode. Experimental device designed on the DSPACE DS1202 is developed to verify the feasibility of the proposed strategy.


OBJECTIVE:The genes encoding tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase (TIMP) 4 and TIMP2 span chromosomes 3p24.2-p26 and 17q25, respectively, which are the locations of familial moyamoya disease (FMMD) genes. We investigated single nucleotide polymorphisms of the TIMP2 and TIMP4 genes in FMMD patients to determine genetic predispositions. METHODS:Eleven blood samples from FMMD patients were recruited. Controls included 50 blood samples from patients with nonfamilial moyamoya disease (MMD) and another 50 blood samples from non-MMD persons. We evaluated the promoter regions, exon-intron junctions, and the exons of the TIMP2 and TIMP4 genes by direct sequencing, and compared single nucleotide polymorphisms frequencies among the study groups. RESULTS:A significantly higher frequency of a heterozygous genotype was found in the TIMP2 promoter region at position −418 in FMMD; that is, the G/C heterozygous genotype at position −418 was observed in nine of 11 patients with FMMD, in 16 out of 50 nonfamilial MMD control participants, and in 14 out of 50 non-MMD control participants (FMMD versus nonfamilial MMD: odds ratio, 9.56; 95% confidence interval, 1.85–49.48; P = 0.005; and FMMD versus non-MMD: odds ratio, 10.50; 95% confidence interval, 2.02–54.55; P = 0.001). This base at position −418 corresponds to the third base of the GAGGCTGGG sequence, an Sp1 binding site. Thus, changes in this position may influence Sp1 binding and subsequent transcription of the gene. CONCLUSION:Our findings suggest that the presence of a G/C heterozygous genotype at position −418 in TIMP2 promoter could be a genetic predisposing factor for FMMD.


This volume contains fourteen studies providing new perspectives on and material concerning the Iron Age in temperate Europe. Contributors include: P S Wells (The La Tene Period in Germany); T Hjorungdal (The Early Iron Age in western Norway); E Hamilton (Was there ever a Roman Conquest?); J Hill (A contextual study of Iron Age societies and hillforts in southern Britain); C Cumberpatch (Production and society in the Later Iron Age of Bohemia anmd Moravia); H Parzinger (The begining of La Tene culture in central Europe); R Gebhard (The Celtic' oppidum of Manching and its exchange system); P Brun (Oppida and social compexification' in France); G Ferrell (New perspectives on the Iron Age of north-east England); P van den Broeke (Iron Age sea salt trade in the Lower Rhine area); M Kohler (Hillfort settlement in Hallstatt Thuringia); J Webster (Interpretation and the Celtic gods); R Hingley (The Iron Age in Atlantic Scotland) .


The extraordinary discoveries of planets around nearby stars in recent years have opened up an exciting new field of research — the search for extrasolar planets. Studies of these planets are revealing new information about the star and planet forming processes, and have brightened the likelihood of the detection of Earth-like planets in our galaxy. Current extrasolar planet finding research is carried out mostly at optical wavelengths. Planet finders use various techniques such as direct detection, where the faint light reflected by the orbiting planetary body is detected by nulling of the central bright star, or indirect detection, where the orbital variations or the wobbling of the central bright star is measured to identify the unseen companion. However, there are major limitations to both these techniques. In the first case, the brightness ratio between the star and the planet is in the range of 90 to 120 dB for our solar system not including Pluto, making nulling very difficult even for relatively bright planets at short orbital radii, not to mention planets at large separation distances where the reflected light is extremely weak. In the second case, due to sensitivity and time limits, only massive planets orbiting close to the star can be detected.


Small vessels in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images usually have weak scattering intensity and occupy only a few numbers of image pixels, resulting in a high miss detection rate during the detection process. Regarding the problem, two solutions were presented in this paper. Firstly, dual-polarimetric SAR data were used and dual-polarimetric features were adaptively fused. Comparing to single-polarization and conventional non-adaptive fusion method, it optimally enhanced the characteristics of small vessels. Secondly, the conventional feature pyramid network (FPN) was enhanced by reducing the downsampling factor, adding spatial attention, and channel attention. The added spatial attention enhanced the significant features of small vessels on the large-scale feature map; the added channel attention filtered out the spliced features maps that were benefiting small vessel detection and reduced feature redundancy. Experimental results on the small vessel data set of Sentinel-1 verified that it not only reduced the miss detection rate but also improved calculation efficiency.


This paper focuses on LTC (load tap changer) transformer control practices, which may cause tapchanger hunting and therefore excessive tapchange operations. Applications of paralleling methods and the determination and confirmation of optimum settings, which may contribute to excessive or untimely tap change operations, are discussed. The transformer applications considered in this paper will include transmission tie transformers as well as transmission-distribution interface transformers. Attention will be drawn to common paralleling commissioning practices in the field that can create conditions for tapchanger "hunting." In many applications, a control function will result in different actions depending on the system configuration and parameters. These changing system conditions are continuously affected by automatic operations on the transmission and distribution systems, such as protective relay operations or load management techniques. Some of these system conditions will also be discussed.


Systems for processing large scale analytical workloads are increasingly moving from on-premise setups to on-demand configurations deployed on scalable cloud infrastructures. To reduce the cost of such infrastructures, existing research focuses on developing novel methods for workload and server consolidation. In this paper, we combine analytical modeling and non-linear optimization to help cloud providers increase the energy-efficiency of in-memory database clusters in cloud environments. We model this scenario as a multi-dimensional bin-packing problem and propose a new approach based on a hybrid genetic algorithm that efficiently handles resource allocation and server assignment for a given set of in-memory databases. Our trace-driven evaluation is based on measurements from an SAP HANA in-memory system and indicates improvements between 6% and 32% over the popular best-fit decreasing heuristic.