The title of this article signals increasing collaboration across boundaries aimed at understanding and solving complex scientific and societal problems. The article is a reflective analysis of five intersecting keywords in discussions of sustainability and boundary crossing. This genre of discourse studies interprets language use, drawing in this case on a representative sample of authoritative definitions, case studies, and state-of-the-art accounts. The Introduction situates the discussion around the increasing number and size of teams as well as research across both academic disciplines and other sectors, followed by the five keywords that structure the overall argument. Section 2 examines the first of the five keywords, defining interdisciplinarity by marking its alignment with integration, confluence, interdependence, interaction, and balance. Section 3 considers the second keyword—transdisciplinarity—by tracing evolution of a problem-focused connotation, links to sustainability, inclusion of stakeholders, the imperative of critique, and transdisciplinary action research. Section 4 brings together insights on inter- and trans-disciplinarity in a composite "crossdisciplinary" alignment with collaboration, factoring in the nature of teamwork, public engagement, and translation. Section 5 then turns to learning, noting the difference between education and training then emphasizing transformative capacity, double- and triple-loop learning, reflexivity, and a transdisciplinary orientation. Section 6 takes up the final keyword—knowledge—by calling attention to inclusion, indigenous and local perspectives, nomothetic versus idiographic perspectives, the question of fit, and the nature of crossdisciplinary knowledge. The article concludes by identifying future research needs.


Traditional Chinese medicine is profoundly influenced by ancient Chinese culture and ideology during its development,and Lao Tzu philosophy is the most important part.This article compares concepts of Tao Te Ching and those of Huangdi's canon of Medicine,such as Taoism follows nature and to comply with nature,tranquilized mind and to nurse one's emotion,harmony of Yin and Yang and the relative equilibrium of Yin and Yang,peaceful and quiet life and to preserve essence and spirit.Meanwhile,it illustrates the influence of Lao Tzu philosophy on the concept of health preservation of Huangdi's canon of medicine.


This experiments objective to determine the effect of the used of various growth substrates to make stock culture of oyster musroom spawn on the growt of mycelium. The experiments was conducted at the Faculty of Agriculture  Agroekoteknologi Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa Serang Banten Province for the manufacture of pure cultures and Laboratory Pemuda Aktif Sejahtera, Village Sukamekarsari, Kalanganyar, Lebak, for making spawn in May until July 2011. The experiments used Randomized Control Group Design with seven treatments (A: corn , B: green beans, C: grain, D: millet, E: albasiah sawdust, F: mahoni sawdust, G: kecapi sawdust) and five replications. Results obtained from research the use of various growth substrates were significantly different age parameter begins to form mycelium, mycelium growth and percentage growth rete of mycelium.


This paper presents a new space vector pulsewidth modulation (SVPWM) algorithm for reduction of common mode voltage in direct torque controlled induction motor drives. The proposed PWM technique does not use any zero voltage vectors for inverter control; hence it can restrict common mode voltage better than conventional SVPWM algorithm. The main advantage of the proposed algorithm is that the number of switchings required in one sector and from one sector to the next sector remains the same as in conventional SVPWM technique. To validate the proposed method, the simulation results are presented and compared to those obtained with conventional SVPWM based direct torque control algorithm.


In view of the composite structures of different mediums, there are either theoretical meaning or the value in application about the calculating analysis on researching its combined area. In this paper, a numerical method is presented to solve the composite structures of different mediums with virtual boundary element. Comparing with analytic solution and finite element solution, the examples proved the efficiency and reliability of the presented method.


An algorithm of the eye location and the feature detection based on the skin color model by the edge extraction and comparability computation is presented.The purpose of this approach is to detect the facr in a photo with a complicated background,find its region and locate the eyes.The skin color division is used to complete the face region detection.Then the eyes are located fast in the face region by using the geometry characteristics of the human face.The method uses a mean filter to enhance the precision of the face region detection.The experimental results show that the approach is precise,reliable and fast.


Syphilis is a sexually transmissible disease which during pregnancy may have disastrous effects on the fetus. Its occurrence rate is reckoned at 5% by the City Health Secretariat. Knowledge of that rate favors a better approach to both diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Objective: Determine the rate of syphilis occurrence and risk factors in the Maternidade Escola – UFRJ from January 1994 to December 1999. Our study covered 5519 women who went into labor under our care. Every patient who tested positive for VDRL with anytime during pregnancy was considered infected. VDRL-positiveness was cross-referred to neonatal death occurrence mother's age marital status and education as well as to pre-birth assistance. a 2.2% VDRL-positive rate was found among the 5519 pregnant women. A statistically significant correlation between VDRL positiveness and the mother's education level as well as between VDRL positiveness and the number of pre-birth appointment Education levels as well as the quality of pre-birth assistance are risk factors for syphilis infection during pregnancy. (authors)


Body size is an important biotic factor in evolutionary ecology, since it affects all aspects of insect physiology, life history and, consequently, fitness in ectothermic insects and how species adapt with their environment. It has been linked to temperature, with lower temperatures resulting in larger size. In this study, we tested the combined impact of temperature and plant quality on the body size, and development time from egg to adult of Eccritotarsus eichhorniae (Hemiptera: Miridae), an herbivorous insect used as a biological control agent against the invasive aquatic weed, water hyacinth Eichhornia crassipes (Pontederiaceae). We quantified insect size in individuals exposed to three temperatures (20, 25 and 30°C) combined with three qualities of host plant (high, medium and low) by calculating development time and measuring four traits: tibia length, forewing length, dry body mass and lipid content, and we also determined the wing loading index. The development time, dry body mass and lipid content decreased linearly with increasing temperature and decreasing plant quality. The decrease in size was the greatest when high temperature interacted with low plant quality. Smaller individuals had proportionately less lipid content. Wing loading decreased significantly with lower quality of host plant, resulting in individuals likely to have theoretically higher flight ability. The results support the temperature‐size rule (TSR) and that plant quality could influence the relationship between development time and the TSR. Results also provide novel evidence for a possible food quality‐size rule for both sexes.


The midbrain participates in complex neural information processing in the ascending and descending circuits, but their organization remains unclear due to the lack of comprehensive dissection of the characterization of individual neurons. Combining fluorescent micro-optical sectional tomography with sparse labeling, we acquired the whole-brain dataset with high resolution and reconstructed the detailed morphology of the pontine-tegmental cholinergic neurons (PTCNs). As the main cholinergic system of the midbrain, the individual PTCNs own abundant axons with length up to 60 cm and 5000 terminal branches and innervate multiple brain regions from the spinal cord to cortex in both hemispheres. According to various targeting regions in the ascending and descending circuits, individual PTCNs could be grouped into four types and the axonal fibers of cholinergic neurons in the pedunculopontine nucleus present more divergent while neurons in the laterodorsal tegmental nucleus contain richer axonal fibers and dendrites. In the axonal targeting nuclei, such as in the thalamus or cortex, the individual neurons innervate multiple sub-regions with separate pathways. These results provide the detailed organization characterization of the cholinergic neurons to understand the connection logic of the midbrain.


Part One. Americans and Politics. 1. The Media. 2. Interest Groups. 3. Political Parties. 4. Elections, Campaigns, and Voting. Part Two. Competition by Design. 5. The Constitution. 6. Civil Liberties and Civil Rights. Part Three. Institutions and Governing. 7. The Bureaucracy. 8. The Presidency. 9. Congress. 10. The Judiciary.


NaLnF4 (Ln = Y, Gd): Pr3+, Yb3+ nanocrystals were prepared through a facile modified solvothermal method, in which the cubic to hexagonal phase transformation and size evaluation of NaLnF4 nanocrystals could be well controlled by carefully adjusting Gd3+ content. In this system, the infrared emission associated with Yb3+: 2F5/2 → 2F7/2 transition could be obtained under the excitation of Pr3+: 3P0 energy level as a result of efficient energy transfer from Pr3+ to Yb3+. The structural and spectral measurement indicated that the energy transfer efficiency from Pr3+ to Yb3+ firstly increased with the increase of Gd3+ content due to the formation of a higher percentage of hexagonal phase NaLnF4 in the final production, and then decreased with further increase in Gd3+ content due to the expansion of NaLnF4 unit-cell volume. However, a monotonous increase in Yb3+ infrared emission intensity could be observed with the increasing of Gd3+ content until the radiative emission was suppressed by the nonradiative transition originating from the surface defects in smaller NaLnF4 nanocrystals.


zamboanga seems to epitomize "far away places with strange sounding names," and the "monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga" there are no monkeys. The setting of the city on the southwestern-most tip of Mindanao places it close to the exotic island of Borneo. Pirates still ply the adjacent seas, and bandit raids immediately in the interior are commonplace. Colorful Moros walk the streets, and colorful tropical flowers bloom in profusion.


EULAR guidelines stress timely initiation of DMARD-treatment in early arthritis patients also when classification criteria are not yet fulfilled. Consequently, undifferentiated arthritis (UA) patients may be increasingly treated with disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), despite inadequate placebo-controlled evidence for its effectivity. Implementation of this guideline also hampers future placebo-controlled trials in UA. However, historical data, with inclusion period as instrumental variable, can provide insight whether long term outcome is improved with increased DMARD-use, and thus serve to investigate if DMARD-treatment is effective in UA.With 25-years of observational data of newly referred UA-patients, we studied whether enhanced treatment strategies resulted in better long term outcomes for UA.Between 1993 and 2019, 1132 consecutive UA-patients, not fulfilling the 1987/2010 criteria for RA or any other distinct diagnosis, were included in the Leiden Early Arthritis Cohort; patients were divided in 5 inclusion periods (1993-1998, 1999-2005, 2006-2010, 2011-2014, 2015-2019). Frequency of DMARD-initiation after diagnosis was compared. We studied the following outcomes: the course of disease activity scores (DAS28-CRP) and Health assessment questionnaires (HAQ), progression to RA after 1-year (according to the 1987 and/or 2010 criteria) and the frequency of prolonged DMARD-free status within 10-years of follow-up (this was defined as either spontaneous remission or sustained remission after discontinuation of DMARD-treatment).The current population of UA-patients, thus not fulfilling 1987 or 2010 criteria, had rather mild disease: the median SJC was 1, the median TJC 2, 95% was autoantibody-negative and the median HAQ was 0.6. These characteristics were similar in the different inclusion periods. Initiation of DMARD-treatment in UA increased over time: 18%, 35%, 38%, 43% up to 55% in respectively 1993-1998, 1999-2005, 2006-2010, 2011-2014 and 2015-2019, in which methotrexate became more common in the last decade. Frequency of progression to RA after 1-year did not decrease and was 14%, 21%, 26%, 19% and 28% in the respective inclusion periods. Long-term DAS28CRP-scores improved from 2011 onwards (range -0.18, -0.24; p<0.05). However HAQ-score over time did not improve compared to the 1993-1998 period (range -0.00, -0.08; p>0.05). Also the percentages of patients in DMARD-free status after 10-years of follow-up did not significantly improve over time: 57%, 58%, 59% (for 1993-1998, 1999-2005, 2006-2010 respectively, p=0.59).Intensified DMARD-treatment of patients with UA did not result in improved outcomes. These data may indicate overtreatment of UA-patients. Yet, methods to stratify which UA-patients should be treated remains warranted.None declared


After an aqueous solution containing Sr2+ was flowed through a bed packed with particles of activated charcoal for a very long time, the flow was abruptly switched to deionized water. The variation in ionic concentration at the outlet with time was characterized by the power law, Cout ∼ t−α, for sufficiently large t. This fractal-like behavior we reported previously has further been studied theoretically and experimentally. A major concern is to examine dependency of α on experimental conditions. Adsorption sites predominate over dead-end pores or spaces as "trappers" in our case where Sr2+ or Ba2+ is adsorbed on activated charcoal. The experimental results can well be explained by our theoretical model. It has been found, however, that the response curve for Sr2+ deviates from the power law after a very long time. This deviation can be explained by introducing the assumption that there exists a maximum value of the activation energy for the desorption process. The curve for Ba2+, on the other hand, exhibits no such deviation until Cout decreases to the detection limit of the analytical device used.


The U.S. Census Bureau's use of differential privacy has been fiercely debated among interested parties. Accuracy loss has been at the forefront, but conflicting confidentiality notions help explain why common ground is lacking. We propose three ways of understanding confidentiality conflicts and offer suggestions for researchers and organizations adopting formal privacy.


Objective
To investigate the relationship between the expression of Pin1 and Ki67 and the clinicopathologic features of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) .

Methods
40 paraffin-embeded specimens of surgical resected GIST from Jan. 2013 to May. 2015 in Pathology Department of Yuhuangding Hospital Affiliated to Qingdao University were retrieved and expressions of Pin1 and Ki67 were detected by immunohistochemical methods.

Results
The positivity rate of Pin1 and Ki67 in GIST was 80% and 32.5% respectively. The expression of Pin1 was associated with malignancy of GIST, tumor location, tumor size and mitotic counts. The expression of Ki67 is associated with malignancy of GIST, tumor location,tumor size, mitotic counts and tumour necrosis. Pin1 expression was positively related with Ki67 expression.

Conclusion
Pin1 and Ki67 is closely related with malignancy of GIST, which may be potential factors in predicting prognosis of GIST.

Key words:
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors; NIMA-interacting peptidylprolyl isomerase; ki-67 antigen; Immunohistochemistry


. Derivatives of 4-hydroxybenzoic acid with glycine and 4-aminobutanoic acid have been synthesized. To increase the solubility of substances, salts with potassium were poured. It is shown that the synthesized substances have biological activity. Synthesized substances were studied using computer programs Gausview, Passonline, which showed the activity of molecules and biological activity. Experiments will be conducted to confirm the activity.


Supply chain management is set up to increase value at less cost to the supply chain as a whole by improved up-and downstream coordination. When improving upstream seamless fit, manufacturers exert precepts such as objectives, orders, and guidelines related to technology, design, interfaces, and product logics to their suppliers. We refer to formal precepts as upstream directives. Through the definition and contracting of upstream directives manufacturers coordinate each supplier's and sub-supplier's contributions more easily and re-integrate information from downstream supply chains. However, there is a research gap so far on up-stream directives and their performance effects. The results of our empirical study in the IT Industry show that upstream directives are more strongly experienced in environments of high uncertainty. Moreover, the deliberate planning is a performance increasing vehicle in lower uncertainty conditions. Emergent planning only improves performance under high uncertainty but is only slightly influenced by upstream directives.


The determination of the propagation constants and fields for conductors embedded in a lossy half-space is considered. Attention is given to the effects on the propagation constants and fields when the conductor is in close proximity to the interface. V.M. Machado and J.F.B. da Silva (1988) formulated the series impedance of a buried conductor in the presence of the interface under a uniform axial current assumption, thus neglecting displacement currents. To stud this problem, the propagation constants, associated current distributions, and fields for the discrete characteristic modes supported by a bare conductor buried near a lossy planar interface are determined using an integral equation approach. The effect of the lossy interface is incorporated using Sommerfeld-type integrals, these including both conduction and displacement current effects. At the frequencies of interest, the conductor dimensions will be much less than the skin depth in the earth; thus, an axially directed current with an arbitrary azimuthal distribution is assumed in the formulation.<<ETX>>


Long-lived indirect excitons, artificially produced by applying a bias to arsenide double quantum wells (DQWs), are currently the subject of intense investigations. The separation of electron and hole wave functions across the central barrier indeed yields a situation where the recombination time can be made much larger than other relaxation and interaction times between the excitons, to be considered, here, as composite bosonic particles. For example, exciton rings have been observed away from the excitation spot and their formation mechanism and instabilities were described and explained [1]. The current trend of research is the spatial manipulation of such artificial dipolar particles [2], the formation of condensates of them using traps [3] and the study of their coherence properties [4]. Due to the presence of strong internal electric fields, group-III nitride polar single quantum wells naturally induce long-lived excitons. The latter have, in addition, much larger binding energies, smaller Bohr radii and larger total effective masses than their counterparts in arsenide DQWs. Therefore, they appear to be good candidates for the study of dense gases of dipolar exciton, with expected higher temperature of quantum degeneracy. In this context, we present spatially-resolved and time-resolved photoluminescence experiments on GaN/(Al,Ga)N QWs, showing exciton radiative lifetimes of tens of microseconds. We study in detail the dynamics and range of their relaxation/diffusion along the growth plane, as a function of temperature. We discuss the results in terms of the potentiality of these systems for the creation and manipulation of dipolar exciton condensates. [1] L.V. Butov et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 117404 (2004). [2] A.G. Winbow, Phys. Rev Lett. 106, 196806 (2011). [3] A.T. Hammack et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 227402 (2006). [4] A.A. High et al., Nature 483, 584 (2012).


This study aims to determine the effect of knowledge on financial management behavior towards leather companies in Magetan, in influencing financial behavior in the financial management of leather companies in Magetan Regency, and in influencing self-management behavior in leather companies in Magetan Regency. This research method is quantitative. The total population is 195 people. How to collect data using observation and questionnaires. The analysis technique uses Partial Least Squere (PLS). The results showed that, based on calculations using bootstrapping, namely, a) the final test of the estimated coefficient of Financial Knowledge (X1) on Financial Management Behavior (Y) is 0.299 in the t-count value of 5.292 and the standard reduction is 0.056. Then the p value is 0.000 <0.05; b) the final test of the estimated coefficient of Financial Attitude (X2) on Financial Management Behavior (Y) is 0.371, both the t-count value is 4.672 and the standard decrease is 0.079. So the p value is 0.000 <0.05; c) the test results of the estimated coefficient of Personality (X3) on Financial Management Behavior (Y) are as much as 0.310, the t count is 4.978 and the standard decrease is 0.063. So the p value is 0.000 <0.05. In conclusion, knowledge contributes to Magetan skin entrepreneurs to realize the right attitude of financial management. Not only knowledge but personality and financial behavior contribute to financial management attitudes, in this case it is very important because a business actor has financial knowledge, has financial attitudes and a strong personality is able to maintain his business. Everything will be realized if you show the right financial management attitude. Financial management attitudes such as managing the budget, and budget planning in managing finances are needed to be successful in maintaining and developing a business.
Keywords: Personality, Financial Knowledge, Financial Behavior, Management Attitude


In is well known that the fluid cadaveric blood is a characteristic of sudden death.However, a number of cases of sudden death after alcohol drinking have been reported where soft blood clots have been observed.We, also, have observed such a tendency in 240 autopsies of strangulation and 57 autopsies of cerebral crushing.In our present study, we have tested in the effects of ethanol on blood coagulation in vivo and in vitro.No distinct difference was observed after ingestion of whisky by human subjects, but platelet aggregation was inhibited and blood clots were strengthened in vitro by direct addition of ethanol.Animal experiments were also made by oral administration of ethanol to rabbits and mice. (10ml/kg of 40% ethanol)The blood flow in femoral muscule and body temperature in mice significantly decreased about 1 hour after administration of ethanol.Factor XIII of blood in rabbits was reduced 2 hours after administration of ethanol.These results would suggest the formation of soft blood clot in sudden death after alcohol drinking.


An outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 with no definitive source and potential exposure to variants of concern was declared at a childcare center in Ontario, Canada, in March 2021. We developed a robust outbreak management approach to detect, contain, and interrupt this outbreak and limit propagation among children.


Flexile management is a brand-new management concept and is a kind of human-based management in its essence and is helpful to overcoming the defects of rigid pursuit of quantitative profit,which deviates from judgment value of education and which easily induces utilitarianism of education, and is suitable for organization character of the development of colleges and universities and for working character and personal character of the teachers of colleges and universities at present.Thus,this paper mainly discusses how to find the operation paths for flexile management in modern colleges and universities under the situation that rigid management mode still dominates.


Within the framework of a very simple model of vibronic origin, we investigate the temperature-dependent concentration of charge carriers in the conduction band of a low-dimensional metallic system...


Medicine has evolved substantially since Hippocrates. This change may be largely perceived throughout the availability of technical advances, but it also expresses a paradigm shift triggered not only by better comprehension of the diseases but also the perception we have of its impact. A case in point is breast cancer, the most common cancer both in developed and developing regions, which treatment techniques result in several impairments, and, consequently, contribute to a decreased quality of life. While the assessment of the oncological outcome of the treatment can be easily objectively quantified, the same does not withstand for functional aspects closely related to quality of life. Though some methods for monitoring and assessing do exist, an integrated approach able to achieve early detection, promote risk-reduction and self-management, while engaging the patient in an appropriate follow-up strategy, is still missing. The objective of this work is to identify potential contributions in need for the development of future breast cancer survivors (BCS) surveillance programs, trying to expound on the aspect of digitally enabled healthcare resources as engagement tools while seeking to contribute to the development of an effective personalized, prospective medicine program.


ABSTRACT This paper studies the effects of the 1763 Komárom earthquake (Hungarian Kingdom) by analysing historical building archetypes using both Nonlinear Static Analysis (NSA)—the EC8 N2-method—and Incremental Dynamic Analysis (IDA). Hungary is located in the Carpathian Basin, a region with a regular low-to-moderate seismicity and a relatively small occurrence rate of high-intensity events. A method for the estimation of the magnitude of historical seismic events exists and uses IDA to produce fragility functions. The Bayesian framework of the method allows the incorporation of physical and epistemic uncertainties in the final magnitude estimates. Thus, in order to obtain reliable magnitude estimates it is important to reduce the uncertainty in both structural resistance and demand. While this requires different investigation levels on the building typologies, the materials, the collapse mechanisms, the ground motion (GM) patterns of the affected region, and the incorporation of uncertainties in the structural models is computationally costly. While NSA is conducted in Tremuri, an OpenSEES Pinching4 hysteretic material model is calibrated in order to carry out the IDA. The resulting fragilities show a relatively high damage probability at low acceleration levels. An application of the magnitude estimation method is illustrated.


ABSTRACT The essential oils isolated by hydrodistillation of the fresh fruits of Litsea glutinosa (Lour.) C.B. Rob. have been analyzed for the first time. The oils of green (unripe) and black (ripe) fruits of this species contained more than 40 and 30 compounds, of which 28 (90%) and 22 (98%) constituents could be identified respectively by GC/MS. Both the oils were characterized by a high proportion of (E)-β-ocimene (70.8% and 84.1%, respectively). Predominant minor constituents of these oils were caryophyllene oxide (5.0% and 0.9%), β-caryophyllene (3.4% and 4.3%) and (Z)-β-ocimene (1.8% and 2.1%).


The KU-KIEP-SBS EU Centre, an education & research consortium sponsored by the European Commission, was established on May 2014 by three partners: Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP), Korea University, and Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS), The KU-KIEP-SBS EU Centre is dedicated to make contribution to enhancing interest in Europe and to expanding research base in EU area studies.
Therefore, the KU-KIEP-SBS EU Centre hosted "The 2nd KU-KIEP-SBS EU Centre Research Paper Competition on EU Studies" and this book includes two best papers from the competitions. The KU-KIEP-SBS EU Centre will contribute to analyzing issues on European integration, the economic and political dynamics in EU and promoting cooperation between Korea and EU through this research competition.


The invention relates to a method for artificially culturing fuscous dictyostelium boletes in mushroom houses, greenhouses, field and nursery. The method is characterized in that firstly bolete rods are cultured, then (1) the bolete rods are earthed up to culture mushroom in mushroom houses and greenhouses, fuscous dictyostelium boletes substance can be grown and developed to mature after 10-15 days of earthing; (2) the bolete rods are debagged and earthed up to culture mushroom in mushroom houses and greenhouses, and fuscous dictyostelium boletes substance can be grown and developed to mature after 20-25 days of earthing; (3) solid bolete strains are inoculated at the roots of tropical cash crops and flower plants planted in fields to culture mushroom, and fuscous dictyostelium boletes substance can be grown and developed to mature after 30-60 days of inoculation; artificial culture of fuscous dictyostelium boletes and the industrialization production of the fuscous dictyostelium boletes can be fast realized. The culture method is simple and convenient, the culture period is short and the fruiting is regular and the yield is high.


Tablet dosage forms remain popular because of the advantages to the patient like accuracy of dosage, compactness, portability, blandness of taste, and ease of administration. Film-coated tablets are compressed tablets that are covered with a thin layer or film of a water-soluble material. Ciprofloxacin, an antibacterial agent, a flouroquinolones derivative was used for this study. In this study, work was done to evaluate the ciprofloxacin film coated tablets prepared by different granulation techniques, wet granulation and dry granulation. Dry granulation was conducted on a press using a chilsonator, which offers a wide range of pressure and roll types to attain proper densification. In wet granulation method, solutions of the binding agent were added to the mixed powders before compression. Tablets prepared by both granulation methods were film coated and evaluated for tablet thickness, tablet weight, friability testing, hardness testing, disintegration and dissolution. Though both the formulations passed all tests for evaluation, tablets prepared by wet granulation method showed better results in hardness test, friability test, disintegration test and dissolution test than the tablets prepared by dry granulation method. Accelarated stability studies, conducted for a period of three months, proved that the tablets prepared by wet granulation method showed better stability than the tablets prepared by dry granulation method.


According to the present invention, an allocated scope information storage unit 228 stores priority scope information relating to an endoscope that is preferentially allocated to a doctor. On the basis of the priority scope information stored in the allocated scope information storage unit 228 and information relating to doctors for endoscopic examinations, said information being managed by an examination schedule management unit 110, a scope allocation unit 126 determines an endoscope to be allocated to an endoscopic examination. A history recording unit 232 records usage history information for an endoscope used in an endoscopic examination having been carried out, and a display processing unit 150 displays the usage history information of a plurality of endoscopes in a comparable format.


Using the geometric concept of an unobservability subspace, a solution is given to the problem of detecting and identifying control system component failures in linear, time-invariant systems. Conditions are developed for the existence of a causal, linear, time-invariant processor that can detect and uniquely identify a component failure, first for the case where components can fail simultaneously, and then for the case where they fail only one at a time. Explicit design algorithms are provided when these conditions are satisfied. In addition to time-domain solvability conditions, frequency-domain interpretations of the results are given, and connections are drawn with results already available in the literature. >


Turbulent jet flames have been under intense investigation for many years. These investigations covered classical topics such as jet spread and decay, flame volume, emission and radiation. More effort was also dedicated to understand the interaction between the turbulence and the chemical kinetics, its impact on flame structure, stability and emission of pollutants. Over the last decade, interest has shifted to jet flames propagating in different coflow environments which are found in practical combustion systems. The temperature, composition and oxygen levels of these coflows have a major impact on the global and local features of these flames. This paper reports a comparison of the difference in fuel mixing rates emerging from a round jet propagating into a hot medium. Such flows include jet in a hot coflow, piloted jet flames, and bluff body flames. The key differences between these and standard flames are reviewed, and the mixing rates are presented and discussed.


In this study, a modeling framework for heat and mass transport is investigated for a unit cell of the monolith type SOFC, with emphasis on quantifying the radiation heat transfer effects. The Schuster-Schwartzchild two-flux approximation is used for treating thermal radiation transport in the optically thin YSZ electrolyte, and the Rosseland radiative thermal conductivity is used to account for radiation effects in the optically thick Ni-YSZ and LSM electrodes. The thermal radiation heat transfer is coupled to the overall energy conservation equations through the divergence of the local radiative flux. A commercially available CFD software was used as a platform for the global thermal-fluid modeling of the SOFC and the radiation models were implemented through the user-defined functions. Results from sample calculations show significant changes in the operating temperatures and parameters of the SOFC with the inclusion of radiation effects.Copyright © 2003 by ASME


Urinary calculi is a clinical common disease with complex mechanisms and many incentives. The main clinical manifestations of the disease are as follows: dysuria, thinning or intermittency of urinary stream and so on; those with infection even have urinary frequency, urgency and so forth, which affect the quality of life. At present, there is no ideal treatment method for the disease. And the conventional treatment method is mainly minimally invasive surgical treatment, however, the patient has many risk factors during the surgery, and some patients are prone to adverse reactions or complications, which in turn affect the treatment and prognosis. This paper analyzes the nursing risk factors of minimally invasive surgery for urinary calculi, and puts forward corresponding countermeasures so as to improve the success rate of surgery and the quality of life of the patients.


From the Publisher:
"This introductory book, which grew out of lectures given at the Mathematics Institute of Wurzburg University, proposes a combination of coding theory and number theory. Chapter I gives a standard course of linear codes. The next two chapters treat a link between coding theory and number theory. Chapter 4 is a systematic study of algebraic geometric codes and in Chapter 5 a connection between binary linear codes and theta functions is discussed." The book is designed to teach undergraduates and graduates the basic ideas and techniques of coding theory and number theory.


Aim: This experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of macro and micronutrients on nutrient uptake of groundnut in coastal sandy soils.
Materials and Methods: A field experiment was conducted at Agricultural College Farm, Bapatla during rabi, 2021-22 to assess the response of macro and micronutrients on nutrient uptake of groundnut in coastal sandy soil.
Results: The results of the experiment clearly indicated that the nutrient uptake of macro, secondary and micronutrients was significantly influenced by the application of macro and micronutrients. The treatment T5 (125% RDF + Soil application of ZnSO4 @ 50 kg ha-1 and Borax @ 10 kg ha-1) recorded significantly higher uptake of N, P, K, S, Fe, Zn, Cu, Mn and B at peg penetration stage. At pod development stage except iron, the highest values of N, P, K, S, Zn, Cu, Mn and B uptake were recorded in the treatment T5 and it was on par with the treatment T7. The treatment T7 which received 125% RDF + Foliar application of ZnSO4 @ 2 g L-1, FeSO4 @ 5 g L-1 and Borax @ 1.5 g L-1 at 45 and 65 DAS registered the highest uptake of N, P, K, S, Zn, Cu, Mn and B but on par with T5 at harvest stage.
Conclusion: For iron uptake at pod development and harvest stage, the treatment T7 obtained significantly higher values and it was significantly superior over all other treatments.


The purpose of this paper is to describe the issues and design for the new Parking Committee for London Adjudication Service, and to show how it adds value to the new parking system. An important advantage of the new system is that the Local Authority will be both enforcing and collecting the penalty charges, making the system locally accountable. The Adjudication Service will relay back to individual Boroughs the results of its cases, and act as a monitor for consistency across London. The service is intended to provide fair and impartial decisions, be readily accessible to the public, swift in operation, easy to understand, free from unnecessary formality, efficient and cost-effective. A training program for adjudicators is being devised; personal hearings will be informal, largely based on the inquisitorial method, and available 8am to 8pm as well as Saturday mornings. An electronic management information system is planned. The penalty charge notice will form the prima facie case for the Local Authority. This decriminalisation of parking offences is seen to add value to both the parking and the justice systems. For the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD 863556.


Many students enter the postsecondary classroom with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) , but do not disclose their disability for fear of stigma from t he school and the instructors they must face. For the past 7 years, this author has noticed that, when instructional designs incorporate practices that me et the needs and learning processes of the student when it is difficult for them to meet t hegoal of mastery, the subject matter to be learned can be successfully achieved. The purpo se of this study was to examine the instructional design practices of postsecondary edu cation, how those practices were developed, established , and implemented. The focus was to compare and con trast whether the established instructional designs could incorpo rate new instructional designs with the needs of the student with PTSD. New instr uctional designs were found that can be implemented within the classroom, and attitudes toward instructional design were surveyed to find the attitudes of instructors' appr oach to helping students within the classroom. The outcome of the survey findings found in this paper that was distri buted to a select group of universities supported his author's assumption that, in general, university instructors care deeply about their stud ents' learning the subject material presented in class. However, many of those instruc to s do not have a formal pedagological base of knowledge in instructional de sign upon which they can draw.


The present invention relates to a mixing sauce composition containing black beans. More specifically, a mixing sauce composition containing black beans is composed of an anchovy stock, a first raw ingredient, a second raw ingredient, and black beans, and a manufacturing method thereof comprises the steps of making the anchovy stock, after removing internal organs of the anchovy, adding water, and boiling the water and anchovy; mixing a first seasoning sauce and a second seasoning sauce with the anchovy stock before boiling the same; and crushing the boiled black beans before mixing the same. Provided is a mixing sauce composition containing black beans in the present invention, which has good taste and nutritious and is good for health.


Objective To study the formation of the infected biofilm around the prosthesis and therole in prosthesis-related infection in animal experiment. Methods After implanting prosthesis in the jointofthe SD rats, SL - 76 or G2 group Staphylococcus was inoculated into the joints. Then, infected or non-infectedbiofilm around the prosthesis according to bacterial culturing was examined by HE, Gram's, Alcine-blue andtoluidine blue stainings. Results infected biofilm was formed by leukocyte, fibroblast, Staphylococcus andfibrin. However, the amounts of alcine-blue positive extracellular slime substance(ESS) existing in the biofilmwas the main difference between SL - 76 group and G2 group. Conclusion ESS may be the main substanceimpeling the prosthesis-related infection.[


In this paper,Capacitance and inductance per unit length are extracted for coupled striplines with finite thickness in homogeneous dielectric media via the moment method(MoM).The algorithmic program based on the moment method theory is written,and several representative types of coupled striplines are computed and analyzed,including vertical plate broadside-coupled striplines,level broadside-coupled striplines,asymmetrical edge-coupled striplines,and so on.Comparison with the existing computing results in the literature indicates a good agreement,the average error is less than 2%,and the capacitance vlaue for inner conductor strips with other thickness is also given.The research results indicate that the algorithmic program is very applicable and accurate,and this provides a reference data for the design and analysis of similar coupling circuits.


Three slow-release preparations of grandlure, the synthetic pheromone of Antonomus grandis Boheman, were evaluated in the field at 3 locations in Texas and Mississippi, to compare their relative attractancy to adult weevils during the period of fall dispersal. All 3 formulations, at both low (3 mg per unit) and high (12 mg per unit) doses of grandlure, were more attractive throughout 14-day test periods than were caged males or fast-release formulations that were both replaced at 2-day intervals. The combined results of field tests at all locations, and of laboratory analyses of weathered samples, suggested that a physical-barrier system might yield more consistent results, but no single formulation was decidedly superior to the others. Tests demonstrated also that slow-release formulations could be used effectively in the different types of boll weevil traps currently in use.


Conventional methods in writer identification mostly rely on hand-crafted features to represent the characteristics of different handwritten scripts. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end model for online text-independent writer identification on Persian/Arabic online handwritten scripts by using Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) neural networks. The method does not require any specific knowledge for handwriting data analysis. Because of the exclusive ability of deep neural networks, we just represented our data by Random Strokes (RS) representations, which are differential horizontal and vertical coordinates extracted from different handwritings with a predefined length. This representation is a context independent representation. Therefore, this writer identification at RS level is more general than character level or word level in identification systems, which require character or word segmentation. The RS representation is then fed to a GRU neural network to represent the sequence for final classification. All RS features of a writer are then classified independently, and in the final stage, the posterior probabilities are averaged to make the final decision. Experiments on KHATT database, which consists of online handwritings of Arabic writers, gave us 100% accuracy on 10 writers and 76% accuracy on 50 writers, which is much better than previous works on online Persian/Arabic writer identification.


According to the analysis of characteristic, trend of professional soccer and demand to athletes' physical quality of professional competition of soccer, the actualities of physical quality of professional players in China is found out. At the same time, we have also learnt the coach's guiding idea for the physical quality training of professional players and their techniques, means etc. As the result of analysis and study, we put forward the idea that the physical quality training of professional soccer players should be combined with the training of skill and tactics, which can gain a satisfying performance.


Recycled Posthuman Furniture – What has furniture become is a project that aims to explore the relationship between humans and furniture from the post-humanist perspective. Post-humanism is underst ...


Concern localization refers to the process of locating code units that match a particular textual description. It takes as input textual documents such as bug reports and feature requests and outputs a list of candidate code units that are relevant to the bug reports or feature requests. Many information retrieval (IR) based concern localization techniques have been proposed in the literature. These techniques typically represent code units and textual descriptions as a bag of tokens at one level of abstraction, e.g., each token is a word, or each token is a topic. In this work, we propose a multi-abstraction concern localization technique named MULAB. MULAB represents a code unit and a textual description at multiple abstraction levels. Similarity of a textual description and a code unit is now made by considering all these abstraction levels. We combine a vector space model and multiple topic models to compute the similarity and apply a genetic algorithm to infer semi-optimal topic model configurations. We have evaluated our solution on 136 concerns from 8 open source Java software systems. The experimental results show that MULAB outperforms the state-of-art baseline PR, which is proposed by Scanniello et al. in terms of effectiveness and rank.


PurposeDespite increasing attention to employee development, past research has mostly studied performance management systems (PMSs) in relation to task-related behaviors compared to proactive behaviors. Accordingly, this study addresses the relation between PMSs and innovative work behavior (IWB).Design/methodology/approachBuilding on signaling theory and human resource management (HRM) system strength research, the authors designed a factorial survey experiment (n = 444) to examine whether PMSs stimulate IWB under different configurations of distinctiveness, consistency and consensus, as well as in the presence of transformational leadership.FindingsResults show that only strong PMSs foster IWB (high distinctiveness, high consistency and high consensus [HHH]). Additional analyses reveal that the individual meta-features of PMS consistency and consensus can also stimulate innovation. Transformational leadership reinforced the relationship between PMS consensus and IWB relationship, but not the relationships of the other meta-features.Practical implicationsThe study's findings suggest that organizations wishing to unlock employees' innovative potential should design PMSs that are visible, comprehensible and relevant. To further reap the innovative gains of employees, organizations could also invest in the coherent and fair application of planning, feedback and evaluation throughout the organization and ensure organizational stakeholders agree on the approach to PMSs.Originality/valueThe study's findings show that PMS can also inspire proactivity in employees, in the form of IWB and suggest that particular leadership behaviors can complement certain PMS meta-features, and simultaneously also compete with PMS strength, suggesting the whole (i.e. PMS strength) is more than the sum of the parts (i.e. PMS meta-features).


At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, households with children experienced an increase in rates of food insecurity despite the broader population staying at the same rates found in 2019. If households with children are not seeing the same gains in food security as other households, are current food support programs robust enough to aid in times of increased hardship? We explore the role of the largest non-food support safety net program, Medicaid, on multiple measures of food hardship among households with children. Using data from the 2001-2019 waves of the December Current Population Survey, we identify the effect of having a Medicaid eligible child on food hardship by exploiting between-state, over-time, and between household income eligibility criteria. We find that having an eligible child reduces rates of food insecurity by 16-23%. The effects are stronger for Black and Hispanic households as well as households that have children under 6 years old.


THE present volume completes the edition of the Opera mmora of Arethas of Caesarea of which the first volume appeared in 1968 (cf. C.R. lxxxiv [1970], 331-3). It comprises the seventeen pieces in cod. Ven. Marc. gr. 524, s. xiv, first published by R. J. H. Jenkins, B. Laourdas, and G. Mango, and by Jenkins and Laourdas; the five pieces edited by Papadopoulos—Kerameus from the now vanished cod. Cosinitsae chart. 1, anno 1686 ;* the three poems attributed to Arethas in the Palatine Anthology; and Lipomanus' Latin translation of Arethas' funeral oration on Euthymius, of which the Greek text is now lost. By way of appendix are added the letter of a protothronus to the Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus, first published independently by Diekamp and Lambros, and five letters of Nicetas Paphlagon addressed to or connected with Arethas. The oration on the peace treaty with Bulgaria of 927 published by F. Uspenskij and attributed by Shangin to Arethas is not included since Westerink, with Darrouzes and Jenkins, rejects the attribution. There are thus no editiones principes in this volume, such as there were in volume i. However there was plenty left for the editor to do. He has prefaced each text by a clear Latin summary, giving the date of the work if it can be determined. He has provided an apparatus of forties. And above all he has included about 110 conjectures of his own. As in the previous volume, most of these are corrections of obvious errors; yet they were not obvious to the distinguished scholars who first edited these texts. Others show Westerink at his best, with sure palaeographical insight and profound acquaintance with Arethas' difficult Greek. Thus at p. 5. 22 he reads oKcu&rtfra for hiKawrtfra (cf. p. 162. 25 ov(inooid£cw for ovfiiroStdletv for the same palaeographical connJrion in a different manuscript); p. 90. 15 eB« for Iget; p. 118. 8 ris for KCU; p. 143. 31 oxAos for 6 Xipos (palaeographically ingenious and better than Lambros'so iopds); p. 166.4-5 dvOpdmovs for avrovs (misunderstanding of the contraction wovs). In some passages other conjectures would be equally acceptable. In a few the transmitted text seems to call for no conjecture, Cg. p. 172. 22 ov yap TO irpooKpoveiv els TOV h> oipavois Kal iravrwv ayaO&v meripa (irp6s TO^ rot; KOTO. adpKa x<xpl£,eo6ai Bi


Due to the presence of metallic implants, the imaging quality of computed tomography (CT) would be heavily degraded. With the rapid development of deep learning, several neural network models have been proposed for metal artifact reduction (MAR). Since the dual-domain MAR methods can leverage the hybrid information from both sinogram and image domains, they have significantly improved the performance compared to single domain methods. However, current dual-domain methods usually operate on both domains in a specific order, which implicitly imposes a certain priority prior into MAR and may ignore the latent information interaction between both domains. To address this problem, in this article, we propose a novel interactive dual-domain parallel network for CT MAR, dubbed as IDOL-Net. Specifically, different from existing dual-domain methods, the proposed IDOL-Net is composed of two modules. First, to obtain high-quality prior sinogram and image to guide following MAR, we propose a novel artifact disentanglement network that disentangles the noise and artifacts in sinogram and image domain, respectively. The follow-up refinement module consists of two parallel and interactive branches that simultaneously operate on image and sinogram, fully exploiting the latent information interaction between both domains. Extensive experiments on simulated and clinical artifacts data demonstrate that the proposed IDOL-Net outperforms several state-of-the-art models in both qualitative and quantitative aspects.


In any "deep learning" situation, and in communicating in particular, understanding will be enhanced by using techniques that more closely fit the nonlinear structure of our thinking processes. This idea is particularly relevant to systems engineering, which deals with so many interrelated concepts—concepts whose parts are often handled by separate organizations with different "languages" and foci, presenting additional barriers and confusions in understanding. In the figures in this paper, we have tried to show a variety of patterns that concept mapping can be cast in, for flexibility and interest. Our experience in Boeing is that such an approach simplifies, deepens, and clarifies communications, while providing the opportunity to find ways to develop more complete and better integrated concepts.


This paper describes the result of a research project which was initiated to develop an object-oriented
airport terminal simulation model. The simulation model comprises a set of simple submodels and nodes
which can be explored and modified to fit any airport terminal. The terminal operator would be able to
interactively run the model and collect the desired statistics about predefined performance measures.
The model has also a good animation capability and a built-in graphics to display the statistics. The
object-oriented simulation model is user friendly and it may be used as an operations tool for the airport
manager or operating staff to help them to maintain a reasonable level of service throughout the
terminal.


We discuss the three dimensional, multiple object tracking capabilities of the "Augmented Laboratory", a custom hardware and software setup we created for this purpose. Overall it proves to be a powerful and useful educational tool, not only allowing to use tracking in many more experiments with respect to traditional video tracking, but also creating 3D visualizations of the experiments themselves and of the tracking results. The setup was also tested with a group of aspiring teachers and their comments were here discussed.


Immunological species specificity of sperm‐binding protein from eggs of the 4 sea urchin species, Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus, Pseudocentrotus depressus, Anthocidaris crassispina and Temnopleurus toreumaticus, was examined by means of double immuno‐diffusion technique in agar. Ca‐soluble fraction of sperm‐binding protein which is considered to be responsible for initial sperm‐egg bonding at fertilization, has species‐specific antigenic component. Correlations in antigenic constituents among the 4 species are described.


The best system for takeing off -COCH 3 to 81 % was determined from experiments. At the same time, the controlling factors were as follows: the lowest caustic soda dosage 5 mL and temperature higher than 140 ℃; And by modified the process for preparing chitosan, the dosage was decreased by 51 %, the production period also was shortened by 70 % and the production cost was near lowered by 50 %; on the others. The treatment of the wastewater in production and the recovering of the Ca 2+ and protein in the liquid increased the economic profit and decreased the pollutions of the environment.


: Hemostatic treatment of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) due to aortic aneurysm involves numerous difficulties. An 89-year-old man with aplastic anemia and chronic DIC developed periodontitis and loose teeth requiring extraction, after which hemostasis was difficult. Platelet concentrates and fresh-frozen plasma transfusions were ineffective, and there was a risk of hemorrhage; therefore, administration of anticoagulant agents for DIC was inappropriate. A decrease in factor XIII (FXIII) was discovered, and FXIII concentrate was administered, resulting in hemostasis together with wound healing. No complications were seen, but the following coagulation markers were found to decrease: fibrin degradation products, D-dimer, thrombin-antithrombin complex, and plasmin-α2 plasmin inhibitor complex. By 1 month after FXIII administration, FXIII had returned to the preadministration level, thus, the FXIII decrease was deduced to be have been due to DIC. These findings suggest that FXIII concentrate is useful for treating hemorrhage associated with DIC due to aortic aneurysm.


ABSI'KACI' Coastal ocean waters tend to have very different patterns of phytoplankton biomass variability from the open ocean, and the connections between physical variability and phytoplankton bloom dynamics are less well established for these shallow systems. Predictions of biological responses to physical variability in these environments is inherently difficult because the recurrent seasonal patterns of mixing are complicatcd by aperiodic fluctuations in river discharge and the high-frequency components of tidal variability. We might expect, then, less predictable and more complex bloom dynamics in these shallow coastal systems compared with the open ocean. Given this complex and dynamic physical enviro~ment , can we develop a quantitative framework to define the physical regimes necessary for bloom inception, and can we identify the importani mechanisms of physical-biological coupling that lead to the initiation and termination of blooms in estuaries and shallow coastal waters? Numerical modeling provides one approach to address thesc questions. Here we present results of simulation experiments with a refined version of Cloern's (1991) model in which mixing processes are treated morc realistically to reflect the dynamic nature of turbulence generation in estuaries. We investigated several simple models for the turbulent mixing coeflicient. We found that the addition of diurnal tidal variation to Cloern's model greatly reduces biomass growth indicating that variations of mixing on the time scale of hours are crucial. Furthermore, we found that for conditions representative of South San Francisco Bay. numerical simulations only allowed for bloom development when the water column was stratified and when minimal mixing was prescribed in the upper layer. Stratification, however, itself is not suficient to ensure that a bloom will develop: minimal wind stirring is a further prerequisite to bloom development in shallow turbid estuaries with abundant populations of benthic suspension feeders.


Based on pay compensation system contingent theory,the study discussed compensation system and organizational culture a- lignment,and analyzed how compensation system and organizational culture jointly affect compensation satisfaction and turnover inten- tion.Compensation system referred in this study involves three aspects:whether competency determines basic pay,proportion between incentive pay and fixed pay,whether there exist long-term incentives.Quinn's organizational culture was adopted in this research.The main results are shown as the following:(1)Those firms which implement competency-based pay have stronger differentiation flexibil- ity,predictability integration,decentralization spontaneity,and order centralization.(2)The proportion between incentive pay and fixed pay has negative relation with order centralization.(3)Compared with those firms,which do not adopt long-term incentives, these firms that use long-term incentives have stronger predictability integration.(4)If compensation systems associate with organiza- tional cultures,they can significantly affect compensation satisfaction.Predictability integration,decentralization spontaneity and com- pensation satisfaction have mutual effect on turnover intention.


An electromechanical monitoring device (12) is proposed for detecting an undesired travel of an elevator cab (3) from a standstill. The electromechanical monitoring device (12) for detecting an undesired travel of a elevator cab (3) from a standstill comprises a follower wheel (13), which, if required, is pressed against a running path (14, 8, 25) of the elevator cab, preferably against a running diameter (25) of the speed limiter. A sensor (15) detects a rotation of the follower wheel (13) and actuates a brake device (9, 10, 11) when a rotary angle of the follower wheel (13) exceeds a predetermined value. This electromechanical monitoring device (12) is suitable for being fitted to or installed in a speed limiter (24) and is suitable for retrofitting on elevator installations.


In this paper we present the design and implementation of an RNA structural motif database, called RmotifDB. The structural motifs stored in RmotifDB come from three sources: collected manually from the biomedical literature; submitted by scientists around the world; discovered by a wide variety of motif mining methods. We present here a motif mining method in detail. We also describe the interface and search mechanisms provided by RmotifDB and report its current status. The RmotifDB system is fully operational and accessible on the web at http://datalab.njit.edu/bioinfo/.


Abstract Implicit bias results from living in a society structured by race. Tamar Gendler has drawn attention to several epistemic costs of implicit bias and concludes that paying some costs is unavoidable. In this paper, we reconstruct Gendler's argument and argue that the epistemic costs she highlights can be avoided. Though epistemic agents encode discriminatory information from the environment, not all encoded information is activated. Agents can construct local epistemic environments that do not activate biasing representations, effectively avoiding the consequences of activation. We conclude that changing our local environments provides a way to avoid paying implicit bias's epistemic costs.


We conducted an objective comparison between the present performance and durability of AEMFCs with mature PEMFC technology. This review explains the pathway for AEMFCs by categorizing the materials, MEA designs, and various phenomena.


Thulke HH, Eisinger D, Frohlich A, Globig A, Grimm V, Muller T, Selhorst T, Staubach C, Zips S. 2009. Situation-based surveillance: adapting schemes to actual epidemic situations. J Wildl Dis. Oct;45(4):1089-103. http://www.jwildlifedis.org/content/45/4/1089.long SITUATION-BASED SURVEILLANCE: ADAPTING INVESTIGATIONS TO ACTUAL EPIDEMIC SITUATIONS EFSA 2011 http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/scdocs/scdoc/67e.htm Development of harmonised schemes for monitoring and reporting of rabies in (...)


I read the recent publication on endovenous laser ablation of great saphenous veins with great interest. Pannier et al. concluded that 'EVLA of GSV with a radially emitting laser fibre by using a 1470 nm diode laser is a safe and efficient treatment option'. I have some comments on this work. First, there is a recent study by Pannier et al. published in VASA, in which the complication of the procedure (pain and ecchymoses) is reported. I question whether there is no harm for the proposed technique in the present work. Second, according to the present work, the bias in subject selection cannot be avoided. The nonrandomized technique was used. This might be another reason for the favourable outcome in this work. Finally, I would be interested to hear further data on the cost and cost-effectiveness of this new technique.


EDITOR—Branthwaite makes it all sound simple.1 For the assisted dying lobby, autonomy is the ruling principle in medical ethics. It trumps all other principles. But there is a deep irony here: death abolishes autonomy. Dead men cannot choose. So if you really respect autonomy, you have to be very careful about giving autonomy its head.

Of course if people are simply asked: "Would …


The effects of a single bout of resistance exercise (RE) in conjunction with peri-exercise branched chain amino acid (BCAA) and carbohydrate (CHO) ingestion on skeletal muscle signaling markers indicative of muscle protein synthesis (MPS) were determined. It was hypothesized that CHO + BCAA would elicit a more pro- found effect on these signaling markers compared to CHO. Twenty-seven males were randomly assigned to CHO, CHO + BCAA, or placebo (PLC) groups. Four sets of leg presses and leg extensions were performed at 80% 1RM. Supplements were ingested 30 min and immediately prior to and after RE. Venous blood and muscle biopsy samples were obtained immediately prior to supplement ingestion and 0.5 hr, 2 hr, and 6 hr after RE. Serum insulin and glu- cose and phosphorylated levels of muscle insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS1), protein kinase B (Akt), mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), p70S6 kinase (p70S6K), and 4E binding protein 1 (4E-BP1) were assessed. Data were analyzed by two-way repeated measures ANOVA. Significant group x time interactions were observed for glucose and insulin (p < 0.05) showing that CHO and CHO + BCAA were significantly greater than PLC. Significant time main effects were observed for IRS1 (p = 0.001), Akt (p = 0.031), mTOR (p = 0.003), and p70S6K (p = 0.001). CHO and CHO + BCAA supplementation significantly increased IRS-1 compared to PLC (p = 0.002). However, pe- ri-exercise co-ingestion of CHO and BCAA did not augment RE-induced increases in skeletal muscle signaling markers indicative of MPS when compared to CHO.


"Artists are cheap," claims a robber baron in Old Money, "all you have to give them is a little recognition." His self-assured statement reflects one of the central themes of Wendy Wasserstein's Old Money. the uneasy symbiosis between Money and Art. The play suggests that the two are more inextricably bound and mutually dependent than partisans of either camp would care to admit, and brings to mind something Jerzy Grotowski once stated, that "poor theatre always costs a lot of money."* Expense is relative, and through the course of the play we see art-in this case, architecture and visual artsbeing commissioned, saved, restored and protected by the very wealthy. But the reasons for this munificence are portrayed as less than altruistic. Art is shown as a means by which new money, which causes in its new possessor some degree of guilt or unease, can achieve legitimacy and be transformed into solid, staid, respectable, comfortable, old money. And as the first quote indicates, Grotowski notwithstanding, it is by and large an extremely costeffective method of transformation.


1. A process for preparing a partial or complete substitute for gum arabic or expanded composition for use in the coating of confectionery, in glazing and bonding, said method comprising the steps of: selection of durable film former of natural and / or modified polysaccharides that are approximately 0, 1-10% of the total composition, or used in the final application of a level equivalent to about 0.1-10% of the amount of gum arabic, which would normally be used regardless of whether gum arabic is used in this case. ! 2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of administering a low viscosity cracking agent to create a gum arabic replacement, wherein the low viscosity cracking agent is contained in an amount of from about 0% to 99.9% of the total composition, or used at the final application equivalent to about 0 to 99.9% of the amount of gum arabic, which would normally be used regardless of whether gum arabic is used in this case, and wherein the composition has a viscosity at a concentration of about 35 ° - 40 ° Brix of about 10 2000 cps at 25 ° C, and the film thickness of 5-10 parts inserted on mils flakes during drying, which are exposed to those materials that can generate continuous films and materials that crystallize and do not form any film. ! 3. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of administering tackiness modifier, wherein the tackiness modifier comprises from about 0% to 10% of the total composition, or used at the final application, the equivalence


The invention relates to a line temperature identification method for dynamic capacity expansion of a power transmission line. The method includes: obtaining on-line monitoring data of the power transmission line, converting the data to monitoring data in a CIM/E format that follow the IEC61970 standard, and storing the monitoring data in an internal storage, wherein the monitoring data in the CIM/E format include control parameters and monitoring information; preprocessing the monitoring data in the CIM/E format; building a wire temperature identification model, and identifying the preprocessed monitoring data in the CIM/E format; thereby improving credibility of the monitoring information of the power transmission line, and improving the transmission capacity of the power transmission line on the premise of ensuring stable operation of a system and equipment safety.


Massive virtual online conferences have been encountering technical challenges and limitations, such as huge data volume, slow network transmission and low rendering frame rate. To tackle these limitations, in this paper we propose a Lightweight Online Virtual conferencE (LOVE) framework. A pseudo instantiation technique is first applied to reduce the weight of massive dynamic scenarios. LOVE realizes a progressive transmission of pseudo instanced objects, that speeds up the network loading speed of dynamic scenarios. Moreover, an intelligent UV mapping module for rendering pseudo instanced objects is developed to improve the diversity of dynamic crowd. Our experiments on several scenes of large crowd have demonstrated that LOVE is able to keep high FPS when the size of crowd increases.


Dr Jane Tracy is a general practitioner who has been with the Centre for Developmental Disability Health (CDDH) Victoria since its inception in 1998. Prior to the Centre's formation she worked in the Monash Developmental Disability Unit and the Developmental Disability Clinic and Spina Bifida Clinics at Monash Medical Centre. She has an adult son with developmental disabilities and so has both a professional and personal understanding of and commitment to the field. Dr Tracy is Educational Director of the Centre and has worked with her colleagues to develop an undergraduate curriculum in Developmental Disability Medicine and teaching resources for both undergraduate and postgraduate students. During her time at the Centre she has completed a postgraduate degree in higher education to enhance her teaching knowledge and skills. In 2005 Dr Tracy and her colleague Dr Mary Burbidge produced the Centre's new teaching resource, Healthcare Scenarios in Developmental Disability Medicine. More recently, Jane was selected by Monash University as one of only 10 staff members representing the University in the national selection process for the Carrick Awards for Australian University Teaching under the category 'Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.'


The present status and future prospects of the production and application of lanthanum oxide are reviewed with their sales on both the domestic and foreign markets pointed out.Some suggestive opinions and measures regarding some existing problems are proposed.


The stability of rat hepatic trihydroxycoprostanoyl‐CoA syntethase was studied in its native membrane environment and after solubilisation by Triton X‐100, and compared to that of choloyl‐CoA synthetase. The lability of both delipidated enzymes could be suppressed by high concentrations of polyols such as sucrose and glucose. Addition of phospholipids to the assay mixtures was necessary to restore the activity of the stabilized enzymes. For further chromatographic separations, the addition of the hydrotrope Triton H‐66 to the glucose‐stabilized Triton X‐100 solubilised synthetases improved their recovery on different matrices. Gel filtration revealed a native molecular mass of the Triton X‐100/Triton H‐66/protein micelles of 212 and 207 kDa for choloyl‐CoA synthetase and trihydroxycoprostanoyl‐CoA synthetase respectively.


Abstract : At the request of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Washington, D.C.. the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX-CMAC), located at the St. Louis District, conducted a survey of archaeological collections and associated documentation generated from archaeological investigations conducted within the boundaries of Indian reservations located in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. Site visits were conducted during 1995 to assess the archaeological collections. In the aforementioned states, BIA is responsible for administering 47 reservations. Of these reservations, MCX-CMAC staff identified collections for 13, totaling over 458 cubic feet of artifacts and approximately 6 linear feet of associated documentation. All collections require at least partial rehabilitation to comply with federal regulation 36 CFR Part 79, Curation of Federally-Owned and Administered Archeological Collections.


Teaching and learning activities take place both in either a classroom with a lecturer or outside of classroom such as at home and library to achieving educational goals. In the process of teaching and learning in the campus lecturers are required to perform optimally the curriculum that has been set in the form of syllabus. One of the components contained in the syllabus is teaching methods as well as the means and resources of the lessons that will be given to the students, who have an important role in implementing the learning process to achieve the set goals. Library has an important role in supporting the learning materials required by students and support the smooth teaching and learning process so that the goals set can be achieved. The attainment of this goal for the personal development of students educates themselves on an ongoing basis to solve problems and enhance social attitudes. The existence of UPT Library at the University of Muhammadiyah Bengkulu is very important because teaching and learning activities are generally limited and incomplete and often is a new supporter for the development of student lessons. So clearly the essence of UPT UMB library is the center of learning resources and information sources. From the observation, many students of Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu were still very rarely visit the library, and they had lack of interest in reading. Based on these problems, the writer was interested in raising the title "Intensity of Library Exposure to Students Learning Outcomes (Case Study of Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu). The formulation of the problem was how the Intensity Relationship Utilization UPT Library University of Muhammadiyah Bengkulu and how the results of student learning University of Muhammadiyah Bengkulu. The purpose of this study to determine the relationship of Intensity Utilization of UPT Library University of Muhammadiyah Bengkulu and to know the results of student learning University of Muhammadiyah Bengkulu


This article focuses on the analysis of possibilities of currently unused class F airspace in the Czech Republic for a small uncontrolled airport. This airspace class will allow the introduction of IFR operations at those airports. Additionally, this article includes the necessary adjustments to the legislation and indicates possible obstacles in practical realization.


Retirement Farm is located on the east side of Route 13 approximately 1.8 miles south of its intersection with route 2. The nominated parcel includes a five acre rectangle beginning at the end of the lane approximately 500 yards east of route 13, extending east to the back of the farm yard, south to the headwaters of Augustine Creek, and north to the edge of the yard defined by its transition to cultivated fields. All structures within this area, except for the modern machine shed and cattle shed, are included in the
nomination.


In recent years,the commercial bribery has been spreading in some profession and field in China,directly harmed health development of the economic society and the socialist market economy order,harmed people's vital interest.The commercial bribery governance has become the focus to which entire society pays attention.This article discusses the countermeasures against the governance commercial bribery from legislation,culture,system reform and so on,in order to provide some basic theories to govern the commercial bribery.


Equine dermatological cases can be investigated and managed using a logical diagnostic approach. In the first instance, a carefully taken history, together with a physical and dermatological inspection, form the backbone of investigations. Once an initial history has been taken, the clinician can allocate a skin case to one of seven different groups of clinical presentation: pruritus, alopecia, nodules, crusting and scaling, pigmentary abnormalities, ulcerations and erosions, or pedal or pastern dermatitis. This in turn allows the clinician to formulate a list of differential diagnoses based on the presenting signs and to undertake specific diagnostic tests. This article describes in detail these initial techniques and advises which should be employed for each clinical presentation, together with more advanced investigations where necessary.


Let G be a finitely generated Fuchsian group of the second kind without any
 parabolic element and f be a univalent analytic function in the unit
 diskDcompatible withG. In this paper, westudy the higher order Schwarzian
 derivatives: ?n+1( f ) = ?? n( f )?(n?1) f?? f???n( f ), n ? 3, where ?3(f) stands for the Schwarzian derivatives of f, and Sn(f) = (f?) n?1/2
 Dn( f ?)? n?1/2 , n ? 2. For p > 0, we show that if |?n(f)(z)|p(1?|z|2)p(n?1)?1dxdy (resp. |Sn( f )(z)|p(1 ? |z|2)pn?1dxdy) satisfies
 the Carleson condition on the infinite boundary of the Dirichlet fundamental
 domainF ofG, then |?n( f )(z)|p(1?|z|2)p(n?1)?1dxdy (resp. |Sn( f
 )(z)|p(1?|z|2)pn?1dxdy) is a Carleson measure in D. Similarly, for p > 0 and
 a bounded analytic function f in the unit disk D compatible with G, we prove
 that if | f ?(z)|p(1 ? |z|2)p?1dxdy satisfies the Carleson condition on the
 infinite boundary of the Dirichlet fundamental domain F of G, then |f?(z)|p(1 ? |z|2)p?1dxdy is a Carleson measure in D.


Water soluble palladium(II) complexes of the type PdCl2(phosphine)2 with sulfonated phosphines as ligands catalyse the reductive dehalogenation of allyl or benzyl halogenides by means of formates in a biphasic water/heptane system. This reaction can be promoted by addition of polyethers of different types as phase transfer catalysts. Enhancement of reaction rate and control of selectivity are investigated in the reductive conversion of (E)-Ph-CH CHCH2Cl leading to (E)-Ph-CH CH-CH3 and Ph-CH2-CH CH2.


Gustatory receptor cells are taste receptor cells that form clusters in the taste buds located on the tongue. Taste buds have pores that enable the taste molecules and ions to be transferred into the gustatory receptors. Researchers discovered that there are about 50 to 100 taste receptor cells in a single taste bud. These taste receptors cells represent all of the five primary taste sensations.This means to say that the textbook diagrams showing that there are 4-5 separate taste areas on the tongue are incorrect.


IT iS interesting to trace the recognition of the nasal and buccal areas as points of incidence of infection. From 1885 to 1890, in the early days of bacteriology, many varieties of unclassed and unnamed bacteria were demonstrated in sections of decayed teeth and by needle culture from teeth cavities. Later came Hunter,.with his researches on pernicious anaemia, which he attributed to absorption . from drain infection, septic teetlh, or septic mucous membranes connected witlh teetlh, producing a subacute or cllronic systemic -bacterial infection. Later it was accepted tliat frequently after an attack of acute tonsillitis there followed in about fourteen days a more or less subacute rheumatism. This pointed to the tonsillar pharyngeal mucous membrane as an area of infective incidence. Then came tlle recognition of pyorrhoea with its strepto-bacillus and its importance as a possible cause of many diseases, prominently rlleumnatic diseases. We know of cases of acute streptococcal poisoning from Ludovic angina types, also from septic tonsillar abscesses, sometimes associated with infectious diseases, frequently not; also of cases of septicaemia following tonsillar or turbinal manipulations. We have accessory-sinus suppurations due to streptococcal infection, and cases of rheumatic fever sometimes following excision or enucleation of the tonsils too soon after rheumatic tonsillitis. Again, in association witll .influenza epidemics, at odd times and places we meet with cases of streptococcal pneumonia, primary and secondary, with a high mortality; and, most important of all, a definite recognition and classification lhas been given within the last few years to the infective endocardial conditions. The question I wish first to discuss is the path of infection of these various systemic conditions and tlhe prominent part played by the nose, nasopharynx and throat, and the lymphatics and veins associated with these organs.


(57) Abstract: provides related methods improved liposomes, and extracellular agent using the liposomes in order to facilitate to reach the cytoplasm of the target cell. Improved liposome contains a phagosome membrane permeation enhancer such as hemolysin.


To date, high-precision time synchronisation has been applied in many fields, such as high-precision indoor positioning, multistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and etc. This study focuses on the use of only global positioning system (GPS) L1 civilian signals to achieve regional nanosecond time synchronisation. GPS errors are analysed in this study to determine their effect on GPS timing. This study also examines the specific features of the error in fixed-position timing technology and related error reduction techniques to illustrate the feasibility of nanosecond high-precision time synchronisation with GPS L1 signals in a fixed-position timing mode. Then, the results of a specific GPS timing receiver working in a fixed-position mode and using GPS L1 signals are shown to indicate that the use of GPS L1 signals to achieve nanosecond-accuracy time synchronisation in a local area is feasible. Finally, this study also analyses the impacts of the imprecise position in a fixed-position timing mode.


This paper is oriented to the all-media vision to run the database mechanism in a multidimensional interactive teaching system for environmental art and design majors to maximize the possibility of predicting the probability distribution of the next course. Installing the database on the server enables data interaction within the system. Use a wavelet neural network for training to achieve the balance of communication channels. The results show that the mean square error of the system designed in this paper is under 0.1, the minimum average response time is 120.6ms, and the score of the important factor of student course evaluation is 75. The all-media vision can provide teaching design ideas for the teaching process of environmental art design majors and nurture applied design talents, as demonstrated.


granted indults of exemption from tithes (no. 86), from attending local synods and church courts (no. 259), and from ordinary ecclesiastical summonses requiring more than two days' journey (no. 297). Vacant benefices and prebends were filled by direct papal provision (nos. 21, 434, 777, 988). During the thirteenth century the papacy also dispatched legates (Guala, Pandulf, Otto, and Ottobuono) to England to exercise its jurisdiction, often in times of political conflict (nos. 63, 74, 229, 708). King John was compelled by Innocent III to submit the realm to papal feudal suzerainty (no. 47). Payment of an annual tribute by his son Henry III and grandson Edward I provided the subject for numerous papal letters (nos. 213, 794, 829, 910, 1028). The calendar's reader can track in many entries the sad "business of Sicily" whereby Henry bankrupted his government and courted revolt by attempting to secure an Italian crown for his second son Edmund (nos. 449-52, 566, 606). But the popes also supported John, Henry, and Edward against rebellious English barons (nos. 52, 722), quashed Magna Carta in 1215 (no. 58) and the Provisions of Oxford in 1264 (no. 697), and promoted politically useful marriages for members of the royal family through dispensations from the impediment of consanguinity (nos. 781, 894, 930,1042). Many letters attest to the sincere efforts of the papacy to prevent hostilities between Edward I and Philip rV of France (nos. 979, 983, 1004-5). Popes likewise indefatigably promoted crusades (nos. 90, 421), granted crusader indulgences and privileges (nos. 270, 285), and levied for succor of the Holy Land tenths of ecclesiastical revenues in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales (nos. 416, 546-47, 797, 848, 951, 1021). The list of concerns goes on and on.


The proposed antenna design is a modified E- shape patch antenna truncated at the edges, yielding circular polarization. The antenna operates at multiple frequencies: 2.82 GHz, 3.9 GHz, 4.75 GHz and 6.2 GHz suitable for WLAN and WiMAX applications. The antenna is constructed using a single layer glass epoxy substrate, having dielectric constant er = 4.3 and loss tangent tan δ =0.001. A co-axial feed is used and the antenna is simulated using IE3D software from Zeland based on method of moments.


According to the development situations of living environment in city,from design approach,landscape design,outdoor environment design and other aspects the problems encountered in residential district construction are analyzed.At the same time corresponding resolving measures are proposed.In the end some experiences in landscape design are summarized.


In the modern environment, characterised by inconsistency and instability, there is a deep crisis in the socioeconomic, political and constitutional-legal spheres, and the phenomenon of populism has become widespread in our society. The current political situation and the development trend in the US, Europe and many developing countries can generally be described as a "crisis of leaders". This phenomenon brings great uncertainty both in domestic and international politics. Modern liberal democracies are not able to provide citizens with full access to participation in political life: that is why the grey electoral zone is growing every year, and populist movements and leaders come to power in a number of countries. This article is devoted to the phenomenon of contemporary populism. Attempts at its conceptualisation give rise to a contradiction: populism is often described as a phenomenon which is completely ineradicable, but marginal, receding when the situation is normalised; and at the same time, in discourses that interpret modernity in the categories of post-politics, postmodernism, post-democracy, post-ideology, etc., populism appears as a system-forming element of the modern political field. Recent situations in Turkey, Russia and Myanmar were taken as a case for the paper. The aim of this article is to find answers to the following questions: What does this concept mean and why does populism act as an impeding factor in the development of democracy? What measures exist to minimise these political means that are dangerous for


In his recent writings on the subject of marriage and kinship, Malinowski has repeatedly emphasized what he terms the 'principle legitimacy'. By this he means the rule, found in all human societies, that a woman has to be married before she is allowed legitimately to conceive. 'Roughly speaking, an unmarried mother is under a ban, a fatherless child is a bastard. This is by no means only a European or Christian prejudice; it is the attitude found amongst most barbarous and savage peoples as well.' Where prenuptial intercourse is regarded as illicit and immoral, marriage is obviously the essential prelude to the birth of legitimate children, i.e. children having full social status in the community. But even where prenuptial intercourse is tolerated, this tolerance does not extend to liberty of conception. The unmarried boys and girls may indulge freely in sex, but there must be no issue. An unmarried mother will be subjected to punishment and become the object of scorn, her child possibly killed or aborted, while often the putative father is also penalized unless he marries the girl. Almost universally, a child born out of wedlock has a different status from the legitimate offspring, usually very much to his disadvantage. Facts such as these show that the group of mother and child is considered incomplete in the eyes of the community, and that the sociological position of husband and father is everywhere felt to be indispensable.


In recent years, many new deep learning approaches for solving optical flow estimation have been showing impressive results. But as model sizes have been becoming larger, executing them became a task that requires expensive, high end, hardware. Because most of these models use full colour RGB image pairs as an input, we test several image preprocessing methods with the goal of finding techniques that could alleviate some of these inefficiencies. We conducted these experiments using the state of the art GMA (Global Motion Aggregation) network architecture. Our results, first of all, show that optical flow can be estimated equally well with single channel greyscale images, this finding could be used to lower model sizes in general. We also find that calculating the derivative of an image in the direction of one of its axes leads to improvements in accuracy, but only in the case of less difficult optical flow data sets such as FlyingChairs and SIntel-clean.


The North Arm Volcanics in southeast Queensland contain two large zones of hydrothermal alteration imposed on rhyolitic and dacitic rocks. At the North Arm prospect, alteration encloses epithermal vein‐ and breccia‐hosted Ag‐Au mineralization and has characteristics of the adularia‐sericite type. The other zone, at Mt Ninderry, is of acid sulphate type. Both zones are considered to be temporally related on geological, alteration and stable isotopic criteria. A K‐Ar age of 217 ±2 Ma for an alunite‐bearing whole‐rock at Mt Ninderry is consistent with the Late Triassic age of the felsic phase of the North Arm Volcanics, as determined by published radiometric and palaeobotanical methods. However, at North Arm prospect, K‐Ar and Rb‐Sr data for sericite (‐K feldspar)‐altered whole‐rocks yield apparent ages in the range 182–186 Ma (Middle Jurassic) and for separated sericite, ages in the range 152–166 Ma (Late Jurassic). The probability of hydrothermal episodes occurring within the Middle Jurassic, and within th...


Abstract Since E.A. Nida's translation theory was introduced into China in 1981, it has undergone dramatic ups and downs in China's translation studies circles. First welcomed but later questioned, criticized or even denied, it is nonetheless the most popular among the imported translation theories in China. The article argues that, in addition to the appropriate time of migration and theoretical glamour, Nida's popularity in China should ultimately be attributed to the fact that his theory has much in common with traditional Chinese translation theory and it caters to the traditional Chinese emphasis on pragmatism and practicality. Moreover, the similarities between Nida's translation theory and traditional Chinese translation theory have been emphasized by Chinese scholars in their reception of Nida's theory.


The present study aimed to evaluate the ingestive behavior of horses under native grassland. The experiment was conducted in Santana do Livramento/RS, in the physiography region of biome Pampa, conducted during the period of March-April 2013 in the Cabanha Yvituhatã. The experiment was conducted in three paddocks of native grassland, with measurement of the variables of the pasture at the beginning, middle and end of the experiment in area inhabited by sheep, cattle and horses. Three paddocks were utilized, where the animals were observed in herd, out of reproduction time, during 12 hours daily, with two replicates for each animal and each paddock, being these animals composed of three stallions, three mares with foal of a month and three other mares with foal of three months. Two observers did the collect that simulates the animals bite in each paddock observed, measuring the pasture with stick and making registers of the animal behavior every 5 minutes. The daily time of animal grazing in low, médium and high extract was analyzed. It was also observed the animals steps, idling time, time in the trough of salt and the water consumption. There were no significant differences in the grazing time between the distinct categories of animals. The animals had preference for pasture of better nutritional quality. The foals, of 1 month and 3 months, suckled with the same intensity. No differences between animal categories were observed when the rate of bites per minute was compared.


Nonrecursive, finite impulse response (FIR) digital filters are known to require a reduced rate of arithmetic operations relative to recursive infinite impulse response filters (IIR) in many applications where the sample rate is to be diminished. FIR symmetry and the absence of state variables contribute to the efficiency. A significant further economy in both arithmetic and memory space can be achieved by realizing the desired filter as a cascade of FIR stages, with interstage decimation of sample rate. In this paper, an approach to optimally allocate (i.e., factor) the composite decimation among filter stages (and hence determine the filter state characteristics) is described.


The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a wrought alloy product of aluminum composition, in wt%, Mg: 3.8-4.2; Mn: 0,3 - 0,8, preferably 0.5-0.7; Sc: 0.1-0.3; Zn: 0.1-0.4; Ti: 0.01 to 0.05; Zr: from 0.07 to 0.15; Cr: <0.01; Fe <0.15, Si <0.1; wherein the homogenization is carried out at a temperature between 370 ° C and 450 ° C, for a period of between 2 and 50 hours such that the equivalent time at 400 ° C is between 5 and 100 hours, and the strain hot is carried out with an initial temperature between 350 ° C and 450 ° C. The invention also relates to wrought products obtained by the process according to the invention, including the sheets having a thickness less than 12 mm. The products according to the invention are advantageous because they have improved a compromise in terms of mechanical strength, toughness and ability to hot forming.


At the New York University College of Dentistry (NYU Dentistry), we are faced with the challenge of teaching Head and Neck Anatomy to a class of approximately 380 first‐year students. We have developed an innovative anatomy curriculum that has proven effective in facilitating students' learning and long‐term retention of the material and has the added benefit of being time‐ and cost‐efficient. We believe that the main factors in the success of our course are the frequent low‐stakes quizzes, the small group setting, and the use of plastinated specimens in place of wet cadavers.


It is shown that, starting with the Fermilab Main Injector, a likely maximum energy for the RLHC is 100 TeV in the center of mass, with a single intermediate highenergy booster (HEB) of 3 TeV. The Tevatron is not used in the injector sequence. The implications for the HEB of some different magnet technologies is discussed.


AIM To evaluate the safety of patients who had received treatment of implanted pacemaker and selected coronary angiography.METHODS Fifty-eight hospitalized patients who had received treatment of implanted pacemaker in our hospital from January 2006 to March 2007 were retrospectively analyzed.The subjects were divided into two groups: Group A of 22 patients who were treated with implanted pacemaker and selected coronary angiography and group B of 36 patients who were treated with only implanted pacemaker and coronary angiography.The proportion of coronary heart disease in patients with bradyarrythmia and pacemaker pocket bleeding was observed.RESULTS Among the 22 patients in group A,16 had coronary heart disease,accounting for 73%: Four cases(18%) in group A suffered from pocket bleeding after pacemaker implantation and 6 cases(17%) in group B.CONCLUSION The treatment of implanted pacemaker and selected coronary angiography will not increase pocket bleeding.Pacemaker implantation after coronary arteriography is safe.


In the past, symbolic trajectory evaluation (STE) was shown to be effective for verifying individual array blocks. However, when applying STE to verify multiple array blocks together as a single system, the run-time OBDD sizes would often blow up. In this paper, we propose using a "dual-rail" symbolic simulation scheme to facilitate the application of STE proof methodology for verifying array systems. The proposed scheme implicitly partitions a given design into control domain and datapath domain, and symbolic simulation is carried out on both domains. With this scheme, the run-time OBDD sizes during the symbolic simulation for each domain can be limited. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by verifying the memory management unit (MMU) in Motorola high-performance microprocessors. The verification of MMU as a whole was not possible before because of the OBDD size blow-up problem when an ordinary symbolic simulator was used in the STE proof process.