34 Petroleum Research, 2018(July-September), Vol. 28, No. 100 Introduction The desulfurization of fuel oil becomes more important because of the environmental concerns about the thoughtful consequences of pollution caused by burning of fossil fuel [1]. Among different desulfurization methods to achieve ultra-low sulfur content liquid fuel, oxidative desulfurization (ODS) can be an acceptable and promise sulfur-removal to remove aromatic sulfur-containing compound such as dibenzothiophene and benzothiophene [2, 3]. ODS can remove aromatic sulfur content by oxidation of them to sulfones and sulfoxides under mild conditions (temperature lower than 100 oC and atmospheric pressure) in the liquid phase by means of strong and environmental friendly oxidant such as H2O2 [4, 5]. Among various catalysts, used together with H2O2, polyoxometalate (POM) has been more drawn attention due to its potential for desulfurization of satirically hindered sulfur compounds [6]. POM is an oxygenated polybasic acid which can be classified in the two significant types: Keggin-type ([XM12O40]pX=P or Si, M=Mo or W) and Dawson-type ([X2M18O62]p-, X=P or Si, M=Mo or W) [7]. The most of previous works on desulfurization are restricted to Keggin-type catalyst, while the Dawson type POM has been studied in desulfurization less [8-10]. Dawsontype POM demonstrates more selectivity and activity in oxidation reaction than Keggin-type POM [10]. One of the most significant sub-groups of POM is the vanadium (V) substituted POMs. The presence of vanadium in POM cage shifts reactivity to redox-dominated, as demonstrated by the oxidation of some organic compounds [8-10]. In order to overcome to phase transfer resistance between aqueous phase and the oil phase, POM catalyst has been modified by using phase transfer agent. It help to achieve POM-based hybrid catalysts with higher catalytic efficiency, recovery and reusability capacity [812]. Although Keggin-type hybrid POMs have progressively become widespread for ODS application [1-12]; few studies paid attention to ODS by Dawson-type POMs. So, in this study, a series of Dawson-type vanadium substituted phosphopolyoxotungstate emulsion catalysts, Q6+xP2W18-xVxO62 (tetra-n-butyl ammonium (TBA) and x= 0, 1, 3, 5) were prepared and characterized. They were used for oxidative desulfurization of model diesel. Methodology All reagents were available commercially and were used without further purification. The model sulfur containing compounds including benzothiophene (BT) and dibenzothiophene (DBT) and all chemical agents such as solvent (iso-octane) and 30 wt. % hydrogen peroxide were obtained from Sigma-Aldrich. The potassium salts, K6[P2W18O62] and K10[P2W17O61], were synthesized using the Randall's method and heteropoly acid, H6+x(P2W18-xVxO62), (x=1, 2, 3) were synthesized using etherate method [10, 11]. To synthesize of Emulsion catalyst TBA6+x(P2W18-xVxO62), (x=1, 2, 3), one of heteropoly acid (0.2-0.22 mole) was dissolved in 15 to 30 mL deionized water. The pH of solution was set between 3 and 4 by means of 4-molar hydrochloric acid. Then, aqueous heteropoly acid solution was added to solution containing 2-2.2 mole of TBA salt slowly. The produced deposition was achieved after two hours. The deposition was separated by using 35 Petroleum Research, 2018(July-September), Vol. 28, No. 100 centrifuge and dried in 70 oC vacuum oven overnight. Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectra were measured using a Shimadzu-8400S FTIR spectrometer using 3 wt. % KBr pellets. Elementary analysis was determined using ECS 4010 CHNS-O elemental analyzer, Costech Analytical Technologies, Inc., Italy and Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectroscopy ICP (ICPS S7000, Shimadzu). UV-vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (UV-vis DRS) was determined on a Shimadzu UV-2101 PC spectrometer equipped with a diffuse-reflectance to distinguish the electronic properties of the center-metal ions. The BaSO4 was used as the internal standard. The scanning patterns were recorded at 190800 nm in a step-scan mode with a step of 2 nm. High-power proton decoupling 31P MAS NMR spectra were performed on a NMR spectrometer BRUKER AVANCE II-9,4 Tesla magnet (400MHz) operating at 162 MHz with a MAS probehead using 4-mm ZrO2 rotors spun at 10 kHz. The recording parameters were 2.0 μs pulse, 2-second repetition time, and 2048 scans. The 31P chemical shift was normalized with 85% H3PO4 aqueous solution. The ODS studies were performed on a model diesel containing representative refractory sulfur compounds in diesel: approximately 500 ppmw DBT and 500 ppmw BT in 2, 2, 4-trimethyl pentane. The solution was heated to 60 oC. The emulsion catalysts (10 g/L) and the oxidant H2O2 (aqueous phase, 30 wt.%, mole ratio of Oxygen (O): Sulfur (S) =4) were added to the above sulfurcontaining solution simultaneously at a magnetic stirring speed of 1000 r/min. The sample was taken after 60 min and put into an ice chamber to stop the reaction. The catalyst in the emulsion sample was separated by centrifugation. The performance of reaction was analyzed by a gas chromatography (Agilent, 7890A) coupled with a FID detector using a capillary column (HP-5, 30m×0.32mm×0.25μm). Discussion and Results The elemental analyses of the emulsion catalysts and the vanadium-substituted heteropoly anion acids illustrated that the experimental values are approximately similar to the calculated values. These data suggest that the emulsion catalysts prepared are similar to expected ones. The FT-IR spectra of TBA6+xP2W18-xVxO62 (x= 0, 1, 2, 3) and TBA10P2W17O61 shows strong evidence for the vanadium substituted Dawson-type emulsion catalyst (W, P). The P=O band between 1080-1090 cm-1 indicates the retention of the basic Dawson-type framework compared with their corresponding potassium salts and heteropoly acids. Moreover, the band at 1468 cm-1 is referred to deformation vibrations of the C-H which belongs to CH3 and CH2. The asymmetric stretching vibrations of C-H are found 2958 cm-1. The symmetric stretching vibrations of C-H are at 2870 cm-1 which result from the CH3 and CH2 in the TBA cations. FTIR results have showed that the quaternary ammonium cations and polytungstophosphate anions effectively combine with each other by electrostatic interactions [12]. The strong and broad FT-IR bands around 3420-3442 cm-1 are for O-H vibrations. It is indicative of the hydrogen bonding networks among polyoxometalate anion and quaternary ammonium counter cation [13]. The UV spectra of catalysts exhibits the absorption bands at 198, 214, 278 and 378 nm, attributed to the Dawson-type structure and in 36 Petroleum Research, 2018(July-September), Vol. 28, No. 100 the solid-state shows the line with resonance at -13.75 ppm was related to Dawson-type anion [P2W18] -6 while the peaks at -6.617 ppm and -14.28 ppm were due to the presence of Dawson-type anion [P2W17] -10. The vanadium substituted Dawson-type heteropoly acids and vanadium substituted emulsion catalysts have showed a peak at -13.5 ppm which is typical of vanadium substituted Dawson-type POM. The peak around -10.42 ppm related to the substitution of tungstate by vanadium was omitted by the increase the number of vanadium in frame of POM. The peak with resonance -13.5 ppm becomes intense by increase the amount of vanadium in frame of POM. Summing up, 31P MAS NMR analysis also indicate that the Dawson structure was reserved in all samples, and indicates the introduction of vanadium in frame of POM [13]. The oxidation of DBT (500 ppmw) and BT (500 ppmw) was performed using hydrogen peroxide (30 wt.%) (Molar ratio Oxygen (O): Sulfur(S) =4) in the presence of Dawson-type vanadium-substituted emulsion catalysts under mild (60 oC and atmospheric pressure) and a two phase (aqueous-octane) reaction conditions, without any additional solvent. Sulfur compounds conversion increases with time and reaches a plateau after 75 minutes of reaction (Figures 1 (a) 4(b)), that corresponds to 90% for DBT and 76% for BT for the studied reaction. Reaction termination can be referred to the competition between the hydrogen peroxide decomposition side reaction and sulfur-containing compounds (DBT, BT) oxidation reaction [8-12]. A comparison of the reaction results shows that oxidation reactivity of the sulfur compounds was different and follow the order DBT> BT, indicating that DBT can be more easily oxidized than BT at the reaction conditions used in this work, in opposition the hydro treatment (HDS) reactivity [812]. The higher reactivity of the DBT compared to BT can be explained by the electron densities on sulfur atoms, (5.758 for DBT and 5.739 for BT) [8-12]. Figure 1 shows that emulsion catalysts (with two kinds of coordination atoms V and W) is higher than that of emulsion catalysts with one coordination atoms W. Their catalytic activity is in the order of V5>V3>V1. It is possible that the Dawson-type heteropoly anion is easily formed by self-assembly when two catalyst precursors are mixed. The catalytic performance corresponds to the reduction potential with respect to vanadium substitution. The substitution of W6+ with V5+ results in the generation of more reactive lattice oxygen associated to the W-O-V species [812]. It can be say that the oxidation-reduction of vanadium substituted Dawson-type mainly depends on V atom, and comes from the change between vanadium-V and vanadium-IV. agreement with the results reported previously [13]. 31P MAS NMR spectra emulsion catalysts in Figure 1. Conversion of BT and DBT vs. Time (60 oC. The emulsion catalysts (10 g/L), the oxidant H2O2 (aqueous phase, 30 wt.%, mole ratio of Oxygen (O): Sulfur (S) =4) 37 Petroleum Research, 2018(July-September), Vol. 28, No. 100 Conclusions In summary, amphiphilic vanadium substituted Dawson-type phosphotungstate emulsion catalysts, TBA6+xP2W18-xVxO62 (x= 0, 1, 3, 5), were successfully synthesized and characterized. The characterization showed that emulsion catalysts retain the Dawson-type stru


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The treatise seeks to assess the development of settlement system of the Doupov mountains region into a military training site, and to indicate problems and possibilities of the future use of the region. The author endeavors to charakterize the specific features and the significance of geographic location of this largest military area in the Czech Republic.


In recent years, many firms have come to understand that innovation is an important issue in sustainable business management, as it helps improve firm capabilities and competencies. Because of the fiercely competitive environment in the hotel industry, innovation has become a critical factor in the process of hotel differentiation, leading to sustainable business success. However, the literature has not thoroughly examined the role of innovation or the hierarchical structure of the capabilities and competencies in sustainable business management. This study adopts interval-valued triangular fuzzy numbers and grey relational analysis to provide a competitive priority ranking for the aspects and criteria that assist firms in decision-making. The study results indicate that innovation in technology capabilities and networking and social capabilities—in addition to competencies in systemic thinking—are the most important aspects of sustainable business management. In particular, this study indicates that to succeed in building a sustainable business in the hotel industry, firms should upgrade and integrate their business technologies, collaborate with actors inside and outside the firm, build trust as well as a shared vision that includes common agreement, and develop competencies in inventive thinking to support innovation and foster changes in strategy, structure, administrative procedures, and systems when necessary.


An attempt has been made to determine the organization of variable-heavy chain gene locus in cattle, based on 91% assembled Hereford cow genome sequence, where both functional VH and pseudogenes are identified on chromosome 7 and 21. Of a total of 13 VH genes identified unambiguously, 6 VH genes are located on chromosome 21 and 7 VH genes are present on chromosome 7. Interestingly, the functional VH genes are distributed on both chromosome 7 and 21 raising questions about VDJ recombination occurring on two different chromosomes (Hosseini, A. et al. 2004. Int. Immunol.16:843) or via as yet unidentified mechanism that possibly permitted allelic exclusion. The presence of 10 DH-genes in the Hereford genome is confirmed as earlier reported by our laboratory (Koti, M. et al. 2010. Mol Immunol. 47:2119). Come cryptic recombination signal sequences (RSS) seem to exist within the VH encoding region requiring elucidation of their role in VDJ recombination. Nevertheless, V-gene expression in bovine B cells is influenced by the composition of RSSs. These findings, especially the presence of variable heavy chain locus on two chromosomes, raise fundamental questions about the phenomenon and mechanisms of allelic exclusion in bovine B cells.


Geography is one of the lessons that support character education and integrate it into textbooks. An assessment instrument is needed to determine the value of PPK (Strengthening Character Education) in the textbook. This study aims to design an instrument for evaluating PPK values in textbooks with indicators of nationalism and mutual cooperation. This research uses a quantitative descriptive method in the form of a questionnaire and is integrated with natural disaster mitigation materials. The results showed 1 indicator with no PPK values, 11 indicators with no PPK values, and 7 indicators with PPK values. The trials of this instrument need to be broadly developed to obtain perfect instrument validity.


The existing electrical infrastructure facing many problems that require immediate attention towards expansion, use of advanced instruments, real time data acquisition and analysis packages. The electricity distribution companies are facing lack of electrical energy availability. Therefore to overcome for the shortage of electricity, reduction of power losses in the network is primary solution for the load shedding and other quality related issues. In this paper, minimization of power loss and voltage profile improvement issues are addressed by using optimal placement of distributed transformer and distributed generator placement. The analysis is carried out on five bus system. The obtained results are satisfactory in terms of minimization of power loss and improvement of voltage profile without violating any voltage limits.


A case of acute focal bacterial nephritis in a child is presented. Imaging findings for various modalities are discussed (nuclear medicine, ultrasound, computed tomography, and conventional radiology) with a suggestion for optimal imaging strategy in these cases.


The halibut enzyme activity was found to be less affected by temperature change. The energy of activation of the reaction catalyzed by these two enzymes differed by a factor of 2. Both enzymes catalyzed reactions that had a constant energy of activation over the range of 5–35 C.


Those invention is related to the authentication mark applied to the product or product package, the product or product package by the consumer to allow the at least partial determination of whether or not authentic (10). The authentication mark (10) includes a first image to be changed between one th state and the second state (110, 210) by the consumer. The mark (10) also includes a second image only confirmed by using a detection device (24, 124). Image of a first (110, 210) and second (24, 124) is attached to one or more positions of the product or product package, either completely overlap, partially or cross, or the product or product packaging It is located in a specific location of the above.


Studies looking at e-learning adoption from a multi-dimensional perspective have remained below expectation especially in developing countries. This study explores the technological, organizational and environmental (TOE) determinants of e-learning adoption in universities in developing countries, with the 'nature of the course' added to the constructs to underpin the study. Using survey research, e-learning stakeholders in the University of Ghana responded to the questionnaire. The data was analyzed using factor analysis, correlation and multiple regression. The findings established IT infrastructure, Perceived ease of use, Organizational compatibility, Expected benefits, Educational partners, Competitive advantage, Content of the e-learning course and e-learning curriculum as jointly responsible for determining e-learning adoption. Originality of the study lies in the multi-faceted (student, lecturers/tutors and e-learning administrators) and the multi-dimensional approach to the study of e-learning adoption in a developing country. The paper concludes with a discussion of future research directions.


A micropipet aspiration assay was set up to measure the kinetics of selectin binding to carbohydrate ligands. Reaction rates and binding affinity were estimated from the experimental data using a small system probabilistic model. This work can be extended to analyze kinetics of receptor-ligand binding in many physiological and pathological processes, such as rolling of neutrophils on endothelium.


Effectiveness of trans‐splicing‐mediated mRNA reprogramming depends on specificity and efficiency. We have previously developed a new strategy (ARCHAEA‐ExPRESs) that uses a tRNA endonuclease derived from Archaea and its natural substrate, the bulge‐helix‐bulge (BHB) structure. ARCHAEA‐ExPRESs provides increased specificity in functional targeting. In fact, this system is based on a double check, the base pairing and the formation of a BHB structure between the target mRNA and the targeting RNA. In this study, we demonstrate the high specificity of ARCHAEA‐ExPRESs by tagging the endogenous α‐tubulin 4 via trans‐splicing. α‐Tubulin 4 belongs to a gene family sharing high degree of nucleotide sequence homology. The formation of a perfect BHB structure between targeting RNAs and the isotype α‐tubulin 4 enables selective trans‐splicing. Most important, ARCHAEA‐ExPRESs functionality is conserved in vivo following transient expression of archaeal tRNA endonuclease in mouse liver. Production of the recombinant protein is strictly dependent on the expression of the archaeal endonuclease, and the efficiency of the system depends on the relative amount of the target and targeting mRNAs. These data prove the effectiveness of ARCHAEA‐ExPRESs in an endogenous highly demanding context and disclose the possibility to utilize this system in a variety of technological or therapeutic applications.—Deidda, G., Rossi, N., Putti, S., Tocchini‐Valentini, G. P. ARCHAEA‐ExPRESs targeting of α‐tubulin 4 mRNA: a model for high‐specificity trans‐splicing. FASEB J. 24, 2976–2984 (2010). www.fasebj.org


Introduction The antibody-drug conjugate trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) has led to a change in the clinical management of breast cancer. Nausea and vomiting are the most common adverse events of T-DXd, which cannot be completely alleviated by standard prophylactic regimens. Olanzapine is particularly effective in preventing delayed nausea caused by chemotherapy. In this study, we will evaluate the efficacy of olanzapine in managing persistent nausea and vomiting during T-DXd treatment. Methods and analysis The ERICA study is a multicentre, placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised phase II study with the aim to evaluate the antiemetic effects of the prophylactic olanzapine (5 mg orally, on days 1–6) or placebo combined with a 1,5-hydroxytryptamine-3 (5-HT3)–receptor antagonist and dexamethasone in patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive metastatic breast cancer undergoing T-DXd treatment. For a period of 22 days from the day of T-DXd treatment, patients will document their experience in an electronic symptom diary daily during observational periods. The primary endpoint is the complete response rate, defined as no vomiting and no rescue medications during the 'delayed phase' of 24–120 hours post-T-DXd administration. In addition, we define 120–504 hour as the 'persistent phase' and 0–504 hours as the 'overall phase' for secondary endpoint analysis. We have estimated that a total sample size of at least 156 patients is needed to allow a power of 80% at a one-sided significance level of 20% in this study. The target sample size is set to 166 to account for possible case exclusions. Ethics and dissemination The study protocol is approved by the West Japan Oncology Group protocol review committee and the SHOWA University Clinical Research Review Board. The study results will be presented at international conferences and published in a peer-reviewed journal. Trial registration number jRCTs031210410.


In the era of impressive and wide application of medical science, technology, a limelight has been shed more on misconduct and malpractice of unethical clinical reserch with dubious records of human right violations. It was reported that about half of the research protocols were approved by the Committee of Clinical Trial which imposed conditions on revision of patients consent forms. Their human subjects were, accordingly, better informed and protected. A master plan of a national development of clinical research and a guideline for Good Clinical Practice (GCP) were to be developed with considerable emphasis on promotion of internationally acceptable standard practice and qualified personnel. Through a review of relevant document and particularly an assessment of the outcome of the outcome of the Ministry of Public Health Clinical Trial Committee, a draft of the master plan and the GCP guideline were subject to a series of close scrutiny and debates of various interest groups, technicians, researchers, academicians, bureaucrats, medical professional councils from July 1998 to March 1999. It was concluded that the GCP Guideline should endorse competent clinical trial researchers.They should strictly follow rules and regulations in preparation and submission of their protocols to the Clinical Tiarl Committee, dutifully informing their subjects, duly completing required records and facilitating an auditing process. Competent researchers/research institutions can be readily identified by sponsors who impose and update their guidelines, provide insurance, carry out quality assurance and auditing programs. A follow-up should be carried out by an independent committee. Their terms of reference and payment should cover all liabilities particularly on human volunteers. Research protocols should be scientifically and ethically sound and include a review of relevant articles and potential benefits to volunteers, details of products to be tested, methodology, inclusion criteria, evaluation of its effectiveness and safety, reporting, results analytical process and conclusion its risks and benefits as recommended in GCP guidelines. Human subjects should be allowed to inquire and make their own decisions voluntarily, and reserve the right not to participate. Their personal data are to remain confidential. The Clinical Trial Ethic Committee is strictly independent and comprises, not less than, 5 members. Its mandate is to prevent human right violations and assure the safety and well-being of research subjects. A complete review and revision of the protocols, and particularly consent forms of volunteers are required. The national strategies for development of clinical research should underline a well balance between a technical progress and ethics along the line of the new charter. It calls for superb quallty of laboratories and pharmaceutical products and includes rellable audlting, control and quality assurance.Networking is required to further accommodate close co-ordination and collaboration. In order to faclitate a comprehensive role on ethical and technical control and auditing, Independent institutions seem most relevant.


(−)-4a,5-Dihydrostreptazolin has been synthesized in nine steps from D-glyceraldehyde acetonide. Key steps include a diastereoselective addition of a vinylic Grignard reagent to an imine derived from D-glyceraldehyde acetonide, a ring-closing metathesis, and a stereoselective radical-mediated enyne cyclization.


Polychronicity is the natural tendency or preference for structuring time that has an influence on people's behaviors. Highly polychronic individuals are involved in everything, doing many things at once because they value human relationships and interactions over arbitrary schedules and appointments. In contrast, highly monochronic individuals focus on one thing at a time, perceive other events as interruptions, and stress a high degree of scheduling, and promptness in meeting obligations and attending appointments. Although time is an important variable in educational contexts, and in particular in online learning, there is a lack of studies on polychronicity in educational research. This article reviews, summarizes, and extends the literature on polychronicity conceptualization and assessment; it discusses the limitations of the results and offers a multidimensional proposal for a polychronicity construct. Finally, the implications of students' time differences and their impact on instructional situations are discussed.


Data comparators are key arithmetic units used in digital systems to know whether two numbers are equal, or one number is less than or greater than other number. In this work a novel Area and power efficient multiplexer based Data comparator is proposed. The proposed method uses multiplexer to implement borrow equation in a full subtractor .which acts as a elementary processing element of a Data Comparator. The proposed designs are implemented in Dsch tool for gate level designs of AND gate ,OR gate, Multiplexer, Barrow generation unit and high and low value output units and verilog file is generated . Microwind tool is used to get layouts for different Models of Mosfet and different technologies. The moderations in the existing borrow equation of a full subtractor using multiplexer only resulted in reduced number of transistors with lower power. It was found that a 8 bit data comparator will require only 110 transistors and dissipates 17.25uw of power for 90nm technology Index Terms – Area efficient, Data comparator, Full subtractor, Half subtractor, Multiplexer, Power efficient


Studies were made on cold tolerance differences of main pomelo varieties in the northern part of Hunan province by testing the characteristics of leaf cell membrane permeability,the contents of soluble protein,soluble sugar and free proline,tissue bound water and free water.The results indicated that the local sour pomelo was the stronger,followed by Jinxiang pomelo.Shatian pomelo showed the lowest cold tolerance and seriously damaged by lower temperature occurred periodically 10 years,which should be avoided the year within its early stage of growth.


In this paper, the function classes SPp(σ,ν) and UCSP(σ,ν) are investigated for the normalized Wright functions. More precisely, several sufficient and necessary conditions are provided so that the aforementioned functions are in these classes. Furthermore, several corollaries will follow from our results.


The effects of equi‐anaesthetic concentrations of halothane (HAL) and isoflurane (ISO) on myocardial performance, perfusion, oxygenation and lactate release were studied before, during and after a low‐flow, global ischaemic insult in isolated, paced rat left heart preparations. An antegrade perfusion technique was used, where left atrial pressure (LAP) and mean aortic pressure (MAP) could be altered independently of each other. Aortic flow, coronary flow (CF) and PO2 in venous coronary effluent were continuously recorded and stroke volume, myocardial oxygen consumption (MVO2) and myocardial oxygen extraction as well as lactate release were calculated. The hearts were exposed for at least ten minutes to the perfusate without (control, n=10) or with HAL (n=10) or ISO (n= 10) at a MAP of 80 mmHg (10.4 kPa) and a LAP of 7.5 mmHg (1.0 kPa). After baseline measurements, MAP was reduced to 25 mmHg (3,2 kPa) for a total of nine minutes. Thereafter MAP was increased to 80 mmHg (10.4 kPa) for another nine minute period. During the whole experimental procedure, LAP was maintained at 7.5 mmHg (1.0 kPa) and heart rate at 325 beats per minute. In the pre‐ischaemic control period, MVO2 was lower with HAL compared to ISO (P<0.05) and control (P<0.05). Stroke volume was also lower with HAL compared to control (P<0.05). During hypoperfusion, lactate release was twice as high in the control group (P<0.0I) and with ISO (P<0.01) compared to HAL. This was accompanied by a lower oxygen extraction with HAL compared to control (P<0.05) and ISO (P<0.05). In the post‐ischaemic periods, MVO2 and stroke volume were lower with HAL compared to ISO and control. There were no significant differences in CF between the groups. We conclude that HAL, but not ISO, exerts a direct protective effect against a glycon'c anaerobic metabolism during low‐flow global myocardial ischaemia.


angela Merkel's first hundred days in two articles in Le Monde.
two different readings of temporality
This article uses textual analysis, with particular attention to temporal
markers, to compare two articles about Angela Merkel taken from Le
Monde. It explores the way the relationship with time is articulated in a
daily newspaper.
Using a series of shifts from female-centred to temporally-articulated
political-centred discourse, the first Le Monde article sketches out a new
approach to politics which Angela Merkel is said to embody. In the
second piece, where Merkel's action is framed by an opposition between
the discursive registers of '˜sport' and '˜expectation', journalistic prose is
used to create temporality in a way strongly redolent of fiction, projecting
forwards to an anticipation of the future.
By picking out individual cases of substitution in the areas under
study ('˜politics', '˜women', '˜time', '˜sport'), the analysis demonstrates an
intertextuality linking each of these texts - which occupy the same area
on the page of the newspaper - to the other.


The rapid and easy flow injection chemiluminescence method was established to measure the content of gallic acid in the chinese herbal medicines. It was based on the enhanceed chemiluminescent emitted during the oxidation of gallic acid by producing of hydroxy free radical with chemical reaction between Fe3+ and H2O2 solution in HCl medium condition in the presence of rhodmine 6G as energy transfer in chemiluminescence system,in which various factors influenced the chemiluminescence system were investigated carefully. The possible mechanism of the proposed method was also studied preliminarily. The results showed that 0.18 mol/L hydrochloric acid solution,ferric chloride concentration of 0.04 mol/L,hydrogen peroxide 1.0 mol/L,and 1.0×10-4 mol/L rhodamine 6G solution was the chemical composition of the optimal chemiluminescence system. The detection limit is 3×10-6 g/L (3σ),the linear range of determination was from 1.0×10-5-1×10-2 g/L and 0.01-1.0 g/L,r=0.9984 and 0.9947,the relative standard deviation was 3.8%(1×10-4 g/L,n=11). This method is proved to be of high sensitivity,low detection limit,simple operation and inexpensive devices. The recommended method has been successfully used for the analysis of gallic acid in chinese herbal medicine of gallnut and medicine terminalia fruit.


"ECJ upholds Commission decision in Dutch building materials case CVK"* On 18 December 2007, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) dismissed an appeal lodged by the Dutch firm Cementbouw against…


We have developed a model of a shock system with a resilient member under periodic force action including impacts about hard barriers. In order to model the shock system we have developed a program providing a computational solution for differential equations of a subject motion taking into account conditions of periodicity and collision, graphical and numerical reproduction of motion parameters in the simulation process. We have performed simulation of modes of the shock system. In the process of computational experiments parameters of the system response have been estimated and corrected upon the results.


INTRODUCTION In the history of the Kharkiv musical culture despite the collective and research activities there is a number of well known and dedicated scientists and music regional ethnographers of different times: T. Bakhmet, V. Berlin, spouses V. Bogdanov and L. Bogdanova, O. Chepalov, O. Kononova, V. Kravets, M. Linnik, Yu. Loshkov, L. Lysenko, I. Miklashevsky, V. Osadcha, O. Pinchuk, I. Polska, I. Polsky, A. Rumyantseva, Yu. Shcherbinin, G. Tyumeneva, Yu. Vahranev, Z. Yuferova, N. Zymohlyad, and others, so far, many "white spots" still exist. A number of names of the musicians of the past, who made an invaluable contribution to the formation of the professional music education and performance, were either half-forgotten or unknown not only to the wide musical and cultural community of the Slobojanshchina capital, but also to many specialists in this field. In the recent decades a whole layer of some deep scientific researches appear, that are devoted to the presentation of the creative portraits (and sometimes of the reconstruction of life and the creative paths) of many famous musicians of the past, whose activities were closely connected with Kharkiv. However, a lot of more names of bright and outstanding personalities of the past – forgotten or half-forgotten, are waiting for the return to the tablets of the Slobojanshchina history. Despite the existence of a number of scientific publications on the problem of the creative application of their professional abilities on the territory of Sloboda by the foreign, in particular by the Czech musicians 1, 2, 3 , up to these days this perhaps the most significant component of the history of the city musical culture requires some more careful study. During the last quarter of the XIX – the first half of the XX century, the Czech surname Marechek was well known to the Kharkiv musical


The invention relates to a battery simulation method and a battery simulator. The simulation method comprises the following steps: obtaining a direct-current voltage reference value Vref of a simulator based on a direct-current voltage and the state of charge; and carrying out closed-loop feedback control through taking the Vref as a given value and the direct-current voltage as a feedback quantity, so that the actual direct-current voltage tracks the Vref, thereby dynamically simulating the external characteristics of a battery. The battery simulator comprises a three-phase and three-level voltage-type source PWM (pulse-width modulation) converter, a drive circuit, a controller, a measurement/protection circuit and a human-computer interface. According to the invention, the operating characteristics of a real battery can be simulated dynamically and accurately; and the simulator is simple in structure, easy to use, adjustable in parameters, and good in practicability.


BACKGROUND
Endodontic-periodontal lesions may need surgical approach and the application of guided tissue regeneration (GTR) to be treated by a combined approach.

OBJECTIVES
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of GTR on the success (clinical and radiological healing) of teeth with endodontic-periodontal lesions treated by modern surgical endodontic treatment, by means of a systematic review of the literature.

METHODS
An exhaustive electronic (Medline, Embase and Scopus searched from inception to August 2020) and manual literature search combined with strict inclusion and exclusion criteria was undertaken to identify any clinical (prospective case series or comparative trials) studies that assessed the added benefit of GTR in modern surgical endodontic treatment of teeth with endodontic-periodontal lesions. The success of the treatment was assessed based on radiographic healing and clinical evaluations. The risk of bias of the identified studies was evaluated using the Cochrane's collaboration RoB 2.0 tool and the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) critical appraisal tools.

RESULTS
A systematic literature search for eligible reports retrieved three randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and one prospective single arm study with a total of 125 teeth in 125 subjects. One of the RCTs has a low risk of bias, while the other two raised some concerns, using the RoB 2.0 tool. Due to the heterogeneity of the results, it was not possible to perform a comparative meta-analysis and the results are presented in a narrative manner and by calculating pooled outcomes. Pooling together the data from all the included studies, the reported outcome was of complete healing in 58.4% of all cases, of scar tissue formation / incomplete healing in 24% of cases, of uncertain healing in 12.8% of cases, and of failure in 4.8% of all analyzed teeth, with a follow-up ranging from 12 to 60 months.

CONCLUSIONS
The scientific evidence about the use of GTR in modern surgical endodontic treatment of endodontic-periodontal lesion is sparse, and the available results are derived from very heterogeneous studies, thus not permitting to clarify which is the most effective treatment option in these cases, also due to the absence of studies comparing GTR versus no GTR.


Olive crushing system and physico-chemical characteristics of virgin olive oils. In order to evidence the influence of olive crushing system on the quality characteristics of virgin olive oil, the present study compared olive oils extracted from a stone mill and a metal hammer crusher (grids with holes of 5 and 7 mm). The olive paste was processed by a Rapanelli System. The quality of resulting oils was evaluated by determining acidity, peroxid value, UV absorvances, fatty acid composition, oxidative stability, K 225 , chlorophyll pigments, colour (L*a*b*) and total phenols. The data indicate that, in general, the crushing method does not influence the qualitative parameters of oils. In fact, the values of some parameters were depending mainly on the cultivars. The results showed that virgin olive oils obtained with a hammer crusher had


One of the most common endocrine disorder in females during reproductive age which leads to infertility, metabolic derangements, and also psychological impairments is polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). This syndrome has been known to increases the risk of type 2 diabetes, obesity, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, lipid disorders, and also autoimmune thyroiditis. Impending complication list includes malignancies like breast and endometrial cancer. The actual cause of this syndrome is unknown, and perhaps, it could be due to a combination of various unmodifiable genetic factors and modifiable environmental factors. Several research studies have been carried out on management of PCOS, and many medicinal plants have been used as an alternative therapy for oligo/amenorrhoea, hyperandrogenism, and PCOS in women. The chapter gives an insight on PCOS, its management, and elucidates the effects of medicinal plants on PCOS.


A procedure for testing a multiplexer is proposed, It uses 1-out-of-k code and its inverse (2k - 1) modulo residue. The concept is further extended to the 1-bit cell model of a bit-slice processor described by Sridhar and Hayes in 1981. It is shown that the proposed method results in a smaller overall test size than that reported by Sridhar and Hayes.


In the simply-typed λ-calculus we can recover the full range of expressiveness of the untyped λ-calculus solely by adding a single recursive type U = U → U . In contrast, in the session-typed π-calculus, recursion alone is insufficient to recover the untyped π-calculus, primarily due to linearity: each channel just has two unique endpoints. In this paper, we show that shared channels with a corresponding sharing semantics (based on the language SILLS developed in prior work) are enough to embed the untyped asynchronous π-calculus via a universal shared session type US. We show that our encoding of the asynchronous π-calculus satisfies operational correspondence and preserves observable actions (i.e., processes are weakly bisimilar to their encoding). Moreover, we clarify the expressiveness of SILLS by developing an operationally correct encoding of SILLS in the asynchronous π-calculus. 2012 ACM Subject Classification Theory of computation → Process calculi, Theory of computation → Linear logic


BACKGROUND
We established the first prospective cohort to understand how infection with dengue virus is influenced by vector-specific determinants like humoral immunity to Aedes aegypti salivary proteins.

METHODS
Children aged two to nine years old enrolled in the PAGODAS (Pediatric Assessment Group of Dengue and Aedes Saliva) cohort with informed consent by their guardians. Children were followed semi-annually for antibodies to dengue and to proteins in Ae. aegypti salivary gland homogenate using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays and dengue-specific neutralization titers. Children presented with fever at any time for dengue testing.

RESULTS
From July 13 to August 30, 2018, we enrolled 771 children. At baseline, 22% (173/770) had evidence of neutralizing antibodies to one or more dengue serotypes. By April 2020, 51 children had symptomatic dengue while 148 dengue-naïve children had inapparent dengue defined by neutralization assays. In a multivariate model, individuals with higher antibodies to Ae. aegypti salivary proteins were 1.5x more likely to have dengue infection (HR 1.47 95% CI 1.05-2.06; p=0.02), particularly individuals with inapparent dengue (HR 1.64 95% CI 1.12-2.41; p=0.01).

CONCLUSIONS
High levels of seropositivity to Ae. aegypti salivary proteins are associated with future development of dengue infection, primarily inapparent, in dengue-naïve Cambodian children.


This issue of the Annals contains a number of articles that look inside the doctor-patient relationship from the patient's, as well as the physician's, point of view.

One of my teachers once reminded me to always take into account the power of countertransference. The article by Street and


There are two forms of questionnaire items: a behavior-centred and a person-centred item format. Dependent on the item format, the correlations between psychodiagnostic scales of either positive or negative valencs are either around zero, if behavior -centred, or substantially negative, if person-centred. Empirical evidence is given and the theoretical implications of a item format paradigm are discussed.


In this paper, we report on the introduction of test suites partially generated automatically for the reasoning core of a logic-based diagnosis system implemented in Java. We discuss why certain testing techniques like model-based testing can hardly be used for the application. We introduce the testing requirements comprising functional testing but also performance testing for identifying memory leaks. Furthermore, we discuss open challenges and needs for automating not only test suite execution but test suite generation.


............................................................................................................................iii CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................... 1 CHAPTER 2: SEXUAL POLITICS BEFORE 2000 ............................................................ 9 2.1. Revisiting "Civil Society" as Opposition to the State .................................................... 9 2.2. Legal Changes and the Importance of Networking in Yugoslavia ............................. 22 2.3. Gay and Lesbian Activism in Social Movements ......................................................... 35 2.4. Feminist Roots: Subverting within the Socialist System ............................................. 47 CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY........................................................................................ 55 3.1. Critical Approaches to Discourse .................................................................................. 55 3.2. Materialist Feminist Politics of Discourse and the Subject ......................................... 68 3.3. Data .................................................................................................................................. 75 CHAPTER 4: DISCOURSES OF HUMAN RIGHTS, IDENTITY, AND SEXUAL CITIZENSHIP ....................................................................................................................... 81 4.1. Investing in Human Rights in Post-Cold War Europe ................................................ 81 4.2. Advanced Neo-liberal Capitalism and the Limits of "Human Rights" Discourses .. 87 4.3. Anti-Discrimination Laws as Neo-liberal Human Rights ........................................... 96 4.4. Sexual Citizenship ......................................................................................................... 112 CHAPTER 5: PROFESSIONALIZATION OF SEXUAL POLITICS IN THE 2000s IN CROATIA ............................................................................................................................. 123 5.1. Shift from Movements to NGOs .................................................................................. 123 5.2. The Division of Labor in the LGBT NGO Scene ....................................................... 130 5.3. The Role of International Organizations and Donors ............................................... 147 5.4. Government Shaping Civil Society.............................................................................. 163 5.5. Community and Solidarity ........................................................................................... 174 C E U eT D C ol le ct io n v CHAPTER 6: EUROPEANIZATION AND SEXUAL RIGHTS ................................... 185 6.1. European Union Accession........................................................................................... 188 6.2. Croatia and Europe: Contesting the "Balkans" ........................................................ 195 6.3. Transnational Activism: Advocacy and Lobbying .................................................... 205 6.4. Homophobia and European Identity in the Discourses of Transnational Activists and European Institutions ................................................................................................... 217 CHAPTER 7: CONCLUSION............................................................................................ 234 WORKS CITED................................................................................................................... 241 INTERVIEWS/MEETINGS ............................................................................................... 259 CROATIAN LAWS ............................................................................................................. 261


Summary Embryonic rat bones labeled with 45CaCl2 are stimulated in vitro by parathyroid extract to release 45Ca. Mithramycin prevents this active release over a broad range of dose levels that are nonlethal to the bones, as evidenced by their subsequent responsiveness to additional parathyroid extract. The similarity of dose levels used to concentrations (based on calculated dilution) after clinical administration supports the interpretation that clinical effects of mithramycin in hypercalcemic patients are due to a direct effect on bone.


CoScripter (formerly Koala [1]) is a system for recording, automating, and sharing procedural tasks performed in a web browser. This paper describes a user study that investigated proceduresharing practices to understand the degree to which CoScripter can support them. We found a common desire for better sharing of 'how-to' knowledge, yet existing practices are informal and uneven. After trying CoScripter, users found it useful to capture their procedures and seek procedural knowledge recorded by other employees.


To recover the three dimensional (3D) volumetric matter distribution in an object, the object is imaged from multiple directions and locations. Using these images, tomographic computations seek the distribution. When scattering is significant and under constrained irradiance, tomography must explicitly account for off-axis scattering. Furthermore, tomographic recovery must function when imaging is done in-situ, as occurs in medical imaging and ground-based atmospheric sensing. We formulate tomography that handles arbitrary orders of scattering, using a Monte-Carlo model. The model is highly parallelizable in our formulation. This can enable large scale rendering and recovery of volumetric scenes having a large number of variables. We solve stability and conditioning problems that stem from radiative transfer modeling in-situ.


Objective: To estimate the lifetime prevalence of psychological violence (PV) against women by an intimate partner in Peru from 2004 to 2007, and the associated demographic and socioeconomic factors. Methods: Cross-sectional study. We used the database of the National Health Survey conducted by the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics between 2004 and 2007. The design was stratified, multistage and independent for each region. The target population was women aged 15 to 49 who have or have had intimate partners. We analyzed the background and domestic violence sections from the questionnaire. We performed a descriptive analysis and calculated OR and 95% confidence intervals for potential risk factors by bivariate analysis. Results: The sample consisted of a total 13 724 women with a mean age of 33.7±8.2 years. 46.9% were living with a partner without marriage; 38.5% had only attended elementary school, 34.6% finished high school and 5.5% were illiterate. The lifetime prevalence of PV was 74.1%. Compared with married women, those separated or divorced had four times the risk of having suffered PV (OR 4.08; 95% CI 3.41-4.88). Those with only high school education had 29% higher risk of PV compared with those of higher education. Alcohol abuse by the male partner was associated with PV, increasing the risk by 66%. The central highlands region had a higher prevalence of PV. Conclusions: Peru has one of the highest life prevalences for PV against women by an intimate partner. The significant risk factors were educational level, marital status, alcohol abuse by the partner and history of a psychological violence between the parents of the victim.


Objective. To analyze distinctions in multidisciplinary approaches with respect to the timing of patients returning to daily physical activity after uncomplicated lumbar microdisectomy and to the readiness of doctors of various specialties to work according consensus guidelines.Material and Methods. A written questionnaire survey of 60 specialists (20 neurosurgeons, 28 neurologists and 12 rehabilitologists) involved in the management of patients during the first six months after uncomplicated lumbar microdisectomy was conducted. The questionnaire included 12 questions with several answer options on the timing of returning to daily physical activity, and on the need to provide patients with written recommendations on limitations in motion regimen, physical work, sexual activity, and bracing.Results. Significant dissonance both between doctors of the same specialty and of different specialties was demonstrated in the tactics of postoperative management of patients regarding the recommended terms for returning to daily activity. All respondents found it useful to create unified written recommendations on the motion regime, 90 % of specialists are ready to use the proposed recommendations after some modification. There was a slight increase in the recommended timing for return to daily physical activity compared with the recommendations of doctors in other countries.Conclusion. The demonstrated interdisciplinary differences in the treatment, rehabilitation and timing of physical activity restriction for patients after lumbar microdisectomy require unification of the tactics of postoperative management.


Not only economic stagnation but also unemployment has been continued in the world, and men are forced to work until 80 to 90 years old at longer...


Method for providing objective overt refraction of the patient's eye includes the steps of obtaining at least fourth order Zernike wavefront aberration information, fitting a polynomial of second order only at least four primary data, and using this information and a step of predicting overt refraction of the patient with the correct approach to subjective manifest refraction of the patient. This method is also described to define an accurate vision correction based on objective manifest refraction. Display according to the present invention comprises high order wavefront aberrations, low order wavefront aberration, it predicted manifest refraction of numerical indicia, and the image of the quantitative evaluation of the patient's vision characteristics. Device for obtaining an objective manifest refraction is described. .FIELD 1


The invention relates to a flow divider device, and a supply device with at least one pressure supply port (P) and at least two service connections (HA, VA) and at least the respective working ports (HA, VA) controllable control piston (36) after a predeterminable ratio to above the pressure supply connection (P) deliverable volume flow between the utility ports HA, VA) divides regulating in the manner of a pressure compensator. Characterized in that in case of failure, concerning at least one service terminal (HA) by means of a safety device (68) using the control piston (36) for the respectively remaining service terminal (VA) one pressure relief or pressure shut-off is provided, it is ensured that even in case of blockade of a Nutzanschlusses can be no increase in pressure or pressure peaks such unwanted, that there may be a failure of hydraulic components.


Line drawing is a widely used style in non-photorealistic rendering because it generates expressive descriptions of object shapes with a set of strokes. Although various techniques for line drawing of 3D objects have been developed, line drawing of 2D images has attracted little attention despite interesting applications, such as image stylization. This paper presents a robust and effective technique for generating line drawings from 2D images. The algorithm consists of three parts; filtering, linking, and stylization. In the filtering process, it constructs a likelihood function that estimates possible positions of lines in an image. In the linking process, line strokes are extracted from the likelihood function using clustering and graph search algorithms. In the stylization process, it generates various kinds of line drawings by applying curve fitting and texture mapping to the extracted line strokes. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed technique can be applied to the various kinds of line drawings from 2D images with detail control.


In "Distributed quantum sensing with mode-entangled spin-squeezed atomic states" Nature (2022) [1], Malia et. al. claim to improve the precision of a network of clocks by using entanglement. In particular, by entangling a clock network with up to four nodes, a precision 11.6 dB better than the quantum projection noise limit (i.e. precision without any entanglement) is reported. These claims are incorrect, Malia et. al. do not achieve an improved precision with entanglement. Here we show their demonstration is more than two orders of magnitude worse than the quantum projection noise limit.


The thermal decomposition of poly(n-butyl methacrylate)(Pn-BMA) was studied using a dynamic and isothermal thermogravimetry in nitrogen gas with 50ml/min at several heating rates from 1 to , and at several heating temperature from 320 to . The mathematical techniques used for calculation of activation energy were Kissinger, Anderson, Chatterjee-Conrad, Friedman, Fuoss, Ozawa and isolthermal method. The range of activation energies obtained using the several techniques was between 43 and 51Kcal/mol except Chatterjee-Conrad and this range agreed with each other very well. The thermal degradation of Pn-BMA was considered to be carried out by main chain scission.


MORPHEUS II is a 96-condition initial crystallization screen formulated de novo. The screen incorporates reagents selected from the Protein Data Bank to yield crystals that are not observed in traditional conditions. In addition, the formulation facilitates the optimization and cryoprotection of crystals.


Lead poisoning of an estimated 925 Canada geese (Branta canadensis) was studied at a 10-ha pond surrounded by agricultural fields containing shooting pits. Incidence of atrophied muscle tissue, excess pericardial fluid, staining of the digestive tract, impacted proventriculi and lead fragments in the gizzard were recorded. Eighty-five percent of the lead victims could have been identified using impaction or lead fragments in the gizzard for documentation. Victims contained an average of 102, 125, 41, and 6 ppm (dry wt.) lead in liver, kidney, ulna and breast muscle tissue, respectively. Geese chemically diagnosed as lead victims contained >30 ppm (dry wt.) lead in either liver or kidney. Lead fragments found in gizzards indicated large pellets were ingested at a greater rate than available in surrounding fields. Only 1 lead fragment was found in 98 percent of the gizzards containing pellets.


Contour detection is an important step in contour based object analysis in 2D images. We present a novel method for contour detection optimized for contour traversal tasks in 2D images. The method is based on morphological operations and detects a one-pixel wide contour around objects in binary images. Performance of the method is evaluated on ground truth images from our dataset created by manually tracing the contour in images. Proposed method achieves high DICE coefficient overlap to ground truth images and superior detection compared to other state-of-the-art methods.


ABSTRACT An analytical modelling of the subthreshold surface potential, threshold voltage (VT) and subthreshold swing (SS) for a triple material gate (TMG) FinFET is presented. The basis of the 3D solution is two separate 2D solutions. The FinFET is separated into two 2D structures: asymmetric triple material double gate (TMDG) and symmetric TMDG MOSFETs. Their potential distributions are obtained by solving the corresponding 2D Poisson's equations. The potential distribution in TMG FinFET is obtained by a parameter-weighted sum of the two 2D solutions. Utilising the concept of minimum source barrier as the leakiest channel path, the minimum value of the surface potential is developed from the potential model. This leads to the derivations for the threshold voltage and SS. Furthermore, the effects of variation in gate work function and gate length are investigated for analytically developed SS and VT models. Our models are validated against TCAD Sentaurus-simulated results and found to be quite accurate.


Objective
To evaluate the effects of endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) combined with cyst fluid analysis, cytology, histopathology based on endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) on pancreatic cystic lesions (PCLs).

Methods
Clinical data of 45 patients were analyzed retrospectively from January 2006 to April 2015 including MRI, EUS-FNA, MRCP. The results of conventional imaging and EUS-FNA were compared based on postoperative pathology.

Results
There were 8 cases of non tumor pancreatic cystic lesions, 4 cases of serous cystadenoma (SCN), 11 cases of mucinouscystadenoma (MCN), 8 cases of intraductal papillary mucinous tumor (IPMN), 5 cases of solid pseudopapillary papilloma (SPN), 9 cases of non pancreatic cystic lesions (nPCLs). The diagnostic accuracy rate of traditional imaging tests(B-ultrasound, CT, MRI, MRCP)and EUS-FNA were 42.2% (19/45) and 77.8% (35/45) (P<0.05). The diagnostic value of EUS-FNA of PCLs was higher than that of traditional imaging tests, with specificity, sensitivity, positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) of 58.3% (7/12), 97.0% (32/33), 86.5%(32/37), 87.5% (7/8) and 41.7% (5/12), 87.9% (29/33), 80.6% (29/36), 55.6% (5/9), respectively.

Conclusion
EUS-FNA is more valuable than traditional imaging tests for the diagnosis of PCLs.

Key words:
Pancreatic neoplasms, cystic; Endoscopy; Ultrasonography; Biopsy, fine-needle; Diagnosis, differential


To my advisors: Cameron, for taking my unarticulated interest in sustainability and showing me a new way of understanding behavior and design; and Kristin, for guiding me through the daunting process of doing social design in the real world. To my wife, Kristina, for her untiring (or perhaps tiring, but only recently) support over the last four years. It was a long haul, but I couldn't have done it without you. Let's finally watch Breaking Bad. To the three generations of grad students I've had the pleasure of talking and working with. in particular — you guys made me feel like a full-timer. Last but not least to Lou Fineberg, for helping transform my project into something much larger and more interesting. A special thanks to Robert Marshall and Kim Amey at the Carnegie Science Center, for graciously letting me try new ideas in your organization and making sure it was the best experience possible; the Commuter Science participants for fearlessly disrupting their commutes; the Commute Buddy participants for riding with me; Dan Yablonsky and Adam Hovne for early support; and Naomi, Kevin, and Robert for your insights, inspiration, and good looks. This project was also made possible by Carnegie Mellon GuSH and kynamatrix " innovation through collaboration " grants. Acknowledgements Over time, our lifestyles accrete habits and become more rigid. Major life events tend to provide opportunities for reflection and change, but are infrequent. When looking at a problem like commuting — the health, environmental, and economic effects of the majority of commuters driving alone — we tend to see big yet difficult solutions: changes in infrastructure and policy (like more convenient bus routes, more separate bike paths, and more expensive gas), it is often argued, will convince us to try something else. But other ways of enabling lifestyle change are possible. This thesis is an exploration of the potential for small-scale, design-enabled experimentation in daily life to lead to change — not only in incremental behaviors but in more significant practices (recognizable, routinized patterns of behavior, embodied in the things we do and say — ways of commuting, for instance). By drawing on social practice theory, recent work on practice-oriented design, and service design, I explored how trialling different ways of commuting can enable practice transition — from driving alone to biking, walking, carpooling, or taking public transit. The output of this work was two complementary service offerings, …


For radio telescope array applications, the precise time and frequency reference predominantly determines the quality of the observation. In this paper, we demonstrate an integrated dissemination system which can achieve ultra-stable frequency dissemination, time synchronization and data transfer simultaneously over a single optical fiber link. The test of this integrated system was carried out on the 48-km fiber link, which consisted of 28-km buried fibers, and 20-km fiber spool in laboratory. It has been experimentally demonstrated that the frequency transfer stability is <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$2.6 \times {10^{ - 14}}/s$</tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$3.0 \times {10^{ - 16}}/{10^4}s$</tex-math></inline-formula>. The time synchronization with 100-ps accuracy and the error bit ratio of data transfer at the level of 10<sup>-8</sup> are also demonstrated.


Objective
To investigate the relationship between amnestic mild cognitive impairment and functional genes associated with hyperphosphorylated tau protein.

Methods
One hundred and sixteen amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) patients and 93 normal controls were recruited for the study. Multi-dimension neuropsychologic tests were used to assess the cognitive function extensively. MassARRAY and iPlex systems were used to measure candidate SNP polymorphisms, analyze genotypic, allelic or haplotypic distributions and their interaction with ApoE e4 and the correlation with the cognitive function in the subjects.

Results
(1) The scores of neuropsychologic tests in memory domain (Auditory Verbal Learning Test (AVLT)-first immediate recall, AVLT-second immediate recall, AVLT-second immediate recall, AVLT-5 minute delayed recall, AVLT-20 minute delayed recall, AVLT-recognition, Rey-Osterrich Complex Test-delay) in aMCI patients (3.0(0—7.0), 5.0(1.0—10.0), 6.0(1.0—11.0), 4.0(0—11.0), 3.0(0—10.0), 20.0(8.0—24.0), 11.2±8.3) were significantly lower than those in the normal controls(4.0(0—9.0), 7.0(2.0—11.0), 9.0(3.0—12.0), 8.0(0—12.0), 8.0(0—12.0), 22.0(10.0—24.0), 16.1±8.0) (Z=-3.592, -6.802,-6.408,-8.173, -8.533, -5.647 and t=4.216 respectively, all P<0.01); (2) Genotypic distributions of rs242562 GG in aMCI (7.826%) were significantly lower than those in normal controls (20.65%,OR=0.3525, 95% CI 0.1411—0.8807, P=0.024 98), however there were no differences in the genotypic, allelic or haplotypic distributions between aMCI patients and controls of glycogen synthase kinase-3β, cyclin dependent protein kinase-5, calcium and calmodulin-dependent protein kinase-Ⅱ, cell division cycle 2, dual-specificity tyrosine-phosphorylation regulated kinase 1A and low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 6; (3) MAPT/STH rs242562 genotype was correlated with AVLT-immediate recall, AVLT-delayed recall, Rey-Osterrieth Complex Test, Rey-Osterrieth Complex Test-delayed recall and Clock Drawing Test (H=9.763, 12.258, 10.508, 9.624, 10.767, F=3.700, 3.123 and H=6.591 respectively, all P<0.05); (4) There were no differences in the distributions of MAPT/STH rs242562 GG genotype and ApoE e4 haplotype between aMCI patients and normal controls.

Conclusions
MAPT/STH rs242562 GG genotype decreases the genetic risk of aMCI, which might have important role in memory function in aMCI. The interaction between rs242562 GG and ApoE e4 doesn't affect the susceptibility to aMCI.

Key words:
Amnesia; Cognition disorders; Tau Proteins; Polymorphism; genetic


The three-dimensional ordered macroporous( 3DOM) materials have the characteristics of the high surface area,high porosity,orderly 3D structure characteristics and so on,and the micro morphology of polyaniline( PANI) directly affects its performance,how to control microstructures of PANI,how to have the properties of both conducting polymer and nano material and expand the scope of PANI application,many researchers have entered a deep research. The main preparation methods and structures of 3DOM polymer materials were introduced,and the research and application of 3DOM polymer materials were briefly summarized.


This paper presents an experimental study on the thermal buckling behavior of sandwich panels with truss cores. The ultimate goal is to find the critical buckling temperature and examine postbuckling behavior of this newly developed sandwich panel experimentally. A specifically designed fixture, which can introduce in-plane loads to the sandwich panel through thermal expansion mismatch between the specimen and the load frame, is applied in the experiment. High-temperature strain gauges are attached at the center of the sandwich panel face sheets to measure the local in-plane response, and the critical buckling temperature of panels deformed in symmetric mode is determined by using the Southwell method. To obtain the full-field postbuckling mode as well as critical buckling temperature of the sandwich panel deformed in asymmetric mode in high-temperature environments, a noncontact measurement system based on the three-dimensional digital image correlation technique is also developed. The accuracy of the present noncontact measurement technique is validated by the coordinate measurement machine technique, a conventional contact measurement method. It is found that the critical buckling temperature obtained from experiments is lower than that predicted by theoretical and numerical models, due to defects and imperfections of the truss core and sandwich panel during fabrication. Full-field measurement also indicates that local yielding together with overall buckling is the typical deformation mode in the tested specimen.


Abstract Cosmic string interactions often result in the formation of cosmic string loops that detach from the long string network and radiate their energy in the form of gravitational waves. Loop production occurs copiously throughout the cosmological evolution of a cosmic string network and the superimposition of their emissions gives rise to a stochastic gravitational In this essay, we briefly review our recent work on the stochastic gravitational wave background generated by cosmic string networks and introduce a set of numerical and analytical tools for the computation of this background.


PSYCHIATRIC ANNALS • Vol. 45, No. 9, 2015 445 This issue of Psychiatric Annals, guest edited by Andrew Farah, MD, summarizes the role of homocysteine and its related chemistry in disease and in psychiatric disorders in particular. Why are we publishing an issue focusing on inflammation and homocysteine metabolism? Have any medications in this area been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of psychiatric disorders? No. So why bother covering these topics? Well, landmark studies, such as the Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression study (STAR*D),1 has forced us to look critically at the proportion of patients with depression who have achieved recovery through alternative therapy. Given the STAR*D longer term relapse rates, a 2014 article published by Hollon et al,2 suggests that a lack of relapse of major depressive disorder for 6 months would be a better standard treatment outcome than short-term remission. Furthermore, in STAR*D, about 2,500 patients were treated with citalopram, resulting in approxi-


The number of Micro Small Industries in Denpasar City has now increased. This causes increasingly fierce competition in the food industry sector in Denpasar City. Facing intense competition, entrepreneurs are required to always innovate in their products and support the entrepreneurial character in order to improve their marketing performance. The purpose of this research is to study conversation motivation and innovation towards marketing products.
This research was conducted in the city of Denpasar on the owners or managers of the food micro-small industry. The number of samples taken was 100 food business owners, using a non probability sampling method, specifically purposive sampling. Data collection was carried out through a questionnaire. The analysis technique used is path analysis.
Based on the results of the analysis of this study it was found that the variables that encourage entrepreneurship fully positively influence marketing performance. Improving communication skills can be done so it can improve marketing performance. Official partial product innovation has a significant positive effect on marketing performance. The more often entrepreneurs do product promotion, the more they will increase. Variables talk about entrepreneurship and innovation that are supported simultaneously and significantly to marketing performance. This shows that the better it is to increase entrepreneurship and to increasingly improve products that will increase the level of marketing in a company.


Industrial and welfare catering services in Britain are a major employer of labour, as well as being a large market for food, and include within their scope significant social institutions. This is the subject matter of Chapter 2, which follows the introductory chapter on the methodology adopted in the study, and a critique of the major sources used. A sectoral approach in establishing the structure and in forecasting the growth of the Industry to 1980 forms the main body of the study. Chapters 3 to 6 are concerned with employee catering; a historical resume of its development and of employers' motives in providing catering facilities; the structure and organisation of the sector; costs of employee catering; an investigation of the determinants of demand, leading to the forecast of turnover and costs. Chapter 1 is devoted to catering contractors and includes a detailed analysis of the major firms. Catering in state and private schools is covered in Chapter 8, while Chapter 9 examines catering in Further and Higher Education. Hospital catering is investigated in Chapter 10 while the scope of Chapter 11 is catering in homes for children, the elderly and disabled and meal services for old people. The sectoral treatment of the industry is completed in Chapter 12 on catering in the Armed Forces and in penal institutions. Chapters 13 to 15 deal with aspects of the industry which call for an intersectoral approach. Chapter 13 examines food purchasing arrangements in the industry, including trends in this field. Convenience catering, i.e. convenience foods and automatic vending, is the subject matter of Chapter 14 and Chapter 15 views the industry as an employer. The study is completed in Chapter 16 with a broad survey of some of the conclusions and implications of the findings.


The literature data of the mass concentrations of TSP, PM 10 , and PM 2.5 , and chemical composition of PM 2.5 (sulfate, nitrate, ammonium, OC, and EC) from 1985 and 2013 at Seoul were collected and the temporal trends were discussed in relation with the policy directions. Generally, the mass concentrations of TSP, PM 10 , and PM 2.5 at Seoul have showed decreasing trends. However, it is not clear what might be the major reason(s) for the trends. The concentrations of ionic component in PM 2.5 showed different trends, sulfate being reduced during the 1990s but no trend during the 2000s. The concentrations of nitrate and ammonium were increasing during the 2000s. The concentrations of OC show no apparent trend while that of EC decreased. Further policy directions are suggested based on the temporal trends of the chemical composition in PM 2.5 .


Thessaloniki, second city of Greece with one million inhabitants, owes its present form to an extraordinary sequence of events -fire and warwhich restructured the city. The fire of 1917 burnt the central area and precipitated a vast reconstruction effort. While rebuilding was underway Thessaloniki was inundated by refugees of the Asia Minor war in 1922. This article presents the governmental policies employed to confront these twin dilemmas, and illustrates how through these from a basically preindustrial city with an oriental appearance and a cosmopolitan character, Thessaloniki was transformed into a modern regional metropolis. The new European plan superimposed over the old traditional city helped to foster the image of greater homogeneity while actually causing greater class stratification; physical remodelling of the city can produce serious social changes while occurring in a specific historical juncture; and even when a plan is in existence, catastrophes sometimes force the adoption of ad hoc solutions. These ad hoc working solutions can become exemplars for planning, and that is what happened to Thessaloniki [1]. Thessaloniki was founded around 315 BC by Cassander, king of Macedonia, who brought together twenty six pre-existing small settlements in a single joint town. Built upon the major routes which linked Europe with the Orient, and the Northern Balkans with the maritime routes of Eastern Mediterranean, the city became an important commercial, administrative and cultural centre. During the twenty three centuries of its existence it had passed successively through Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman periods which marked its space with their specific architecture and urbanism. At the end of the fifteenth century, a large community of Spanish Jews was established in Thessaloniki fostering its cosmopolitan character [2]. Received March 11, 1998 V. HASTAOGLOU-MARTINIDIS 494 The turn of the twentieth century found Thessaloniki both oriental and occidental. It was a multiethnic city with a population of 150,000 inhabitants, Christians, Jews and Muslims living into separate ethnic-religious quarters. Turks lived in the upper parts of the city; Jews in the lower district near the sea walls and the harbour; Christians were in the east, along the Egnatia street and in small pockets around the cathedral, the Vlatades monastery etc. In the western part were located the commercial sector and the European quarter. The medieval framework of the city with the dense and irregular street network, the urban clusters and the introverted neighbourhoods survived together with its specific socio-economic features [3]. Yet, from 1870 onwards, in the course of the Ottoman Empire's reform, the city had been undergoing a gradual modernisation: it was a hive of economic activity, and the municipality was intensifying its efforts to remodel the urban space [4]. The sea walls had been pulled down permitting the city to expand beyond its traditional limits. The construction of a modern quay offered the city its new Westernised front to the sea; a rail link with Europe and Constantinople was secured by the end of the century, and port facilities had been organised; a modern central business sector (banks, offices, factories, modern shops, hotels etc.) had been developed. New patterns of social stratification surfaced with regards to new residential areas created since the 1890s outside the traditional nucleus: from the low-income housings constructed for poor Jewish emigrants from Russia, to the fashionable bourgeois suburb inhabited by wealthy Jews, Christians and Muslims at the south-eastern shore, the prevalence of socio-economic criteria was by far evident. This mixture of cultures, typical of the East-Mediterranean multiethnic cities, continued until the first decades of the twentieth century, when drastic changes would intervene. At that time, with the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, and the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 which altered the political map of the region, Thessaloniki was incorporated in the Neohellenic state in 1912 and a new era dawned in the city's history. With the outbreak of the World War I, Thessaloniki became an important centre for the Entente Powers in their campaigns in support of Serbia. The presence of 200,000 Allied troops was a prime factor in the city's economic life, for the enormous demand for goods boosted imports considerably. Within ten years of its liberation, Thessaloniki experienced two consecutive disasters which transformed this cosmopolitan Balkan city into a modern regional metropolis. -the destruction of its historic centre by the great fire of 1917. -the arrival of 117,000 refugees after 1922, following the population exchange between Turkey and Greece at the end of the Asia Minor campaign. These major events occurred at an exceptional historical juncture, which saw various formative events come to pass: the territorial expansion of Greece during the 1910s, with the incorporation of the regions of Epirus, Macedonia, Thrace, Crete, and the northeastern Aegean islands; the stabilisation of national frontiers after the First World War; the attempts at a wider institutional and social modernisation undertaken by the Liberal governments. It is certain that under these circumstances Thessaloniki would have undergone socioeconomic and spatial changes anyway. The incorporation of the city in the Greek state coincided with the active state policy in an attempt to reinforce Greek sovereignty within the new territories and to promote the social and economic development of the country; A Mediterranean City in Transitions: Thessaloniki between the two World Wars 495 similar policies were adopted by the neighbouring states during the same period [5]. However, the magnitude of the catastrophes, and their violent and abrupt nature left no room for a smooth transition. The two rebuilding operations which were immediately undertaken, although they followed a distinct course, resulted in the profound transformation of the city's social, ethnic, and demographic composition, its economic activity, and the size and form of the urban space. Furthermore, they proved that physical planning, under these conditions, would effect serious social and economic changes. 1. REBUILDING AFTER FIRE: THE RATIONAL CITY The fire which broke out on 18 August 1917 destroyed 128 hectares of the historic centre, including the commercial sector, and left 70,000 people homeless. It was Jewish community which was hardest hit, for the fire destroyed three quarters of the Jewish neighbourhoods, 45 synagogues, communal institutions, schools, shops and workshops, businesses and clubs, and left ca 50,000 Jews to the street [6]. Of equally crucial repercussion for the city's future was the Liberal government's decision to disregard the inherited urban structure, and to rebuild Thessaloniki along new European lines. Within the new political and economic context, prevalent planning methods, embodying the ideas of progress and industrial development, offered the means necessary for conferring on Thessaloniki a modern national identity with a metropolitan radiance. The whole operation was put under the control of the central government, and foreign experts were called in. The replanning of Thessaloniki stands out as a singular example of deliberate state intervention in re-arranging land occupation patterns in modern Greek planning history [7]. No sooner had the fire been extinguished than the Minister for Communications (the governmental department responsible for town planning) set in motion the process of replanning and rebuilding the city. The homeless were moved to temporary shelter outside the walls, and new building was absolutely prohibited in the devastated zone. An International Commission for the New Plan of Thessaloniki was set up, headed by the French architect Ernest Hébrard who happened to be in the city as director of the archaeological service in the Armée de l'Orient. In 1918, the first plan was ready. It drew on classical Beaux Arts urban layouts, with axial perspectives and formal geometry. It proposed the radical reshaping of the intramuros city, and provided a detailed scheme for the whole urban area including future extensions, for a predicted population of 350,000 (as compared to the existing 170,000), confining a surface area of 2,400 hectares (Fig.1). The western extension, where transport facilities had started to be developed since 1870, was allocated for industrial installations, the wholesale trade, additional transport facilities (the new railway station and the port extension), and workers' residential districts. The eastern extension, where the bourgeois suburb of the 1890s, was reserved for residential and recreational uses; middle-class housing quarters, with business and shopping facilities, were provided. The entire area was surrounded by a green belt, while a large park where the university campus was to be developed separated the eastern section from the central city. V. HASTAOGLOU-MARTINIDIS 496 Fig. 1. The plan for Thessaloniki by E. Hébrard, 1918 For the central city, the plan adopted a classical layout. The new orthogonal street network intended to echo the rigorous grid pattern of the Hellenistic Thessaloniki, A Mediterranean City in Transitions: Thessaloniki between the two World Wars 497 completed with diagonal breakthroughs to accommodate modern traffic imperatives.[8] Functional hierarchy was secured by allotting space for housing, administrative functions, commercial areas, etc., and specifying coverage of lots and volumes of structures. Regular building blocks, as generating components of the new urban fabric, replaced the introverted urban insulae; the apartment block was adopted as predominant dwelling type, and the use of reinforced concrete was introduced together with the free-hold land system [9]. As locus of modern civic life, a monumental boulevard running through the central


Abstract:Joshua 10 reveals narrative dissonance between two stories: the great Gibeon battle (vv. 10-14) and the story of five kings at the cave at Makkedah (vv. 16-27). I propose that the Gibeon battle preserves an independent, freestanding tradition, upon which the story of the five kings at the cave of Makkedah builds and which eventually expands into a broader vision of conquest in the Book of Joshua. The goal is to understand the logic behind the combination of such distinct narratives in the description of a southern conquest.


The review analyses the available literature on the main principles of breastfeeding support in cases of confirmed/suspected novel coronavirus infection in breastfeeding mothers Various approaches to management of mother and baby in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic have been studied that found reflection in the protocols of the World Health Organization, Chinese, American and European medical communities The evolution of Russian recommendations is analysed A rationale is offered for the current guidelines on temporary mother-child separation in the healthcare settings when maternal COVID-19 is suspected/confirmed and on the organization of infant feeding with expressed maternal milk The literature on the nutritional and biological value and the safety of expressed breast milk stored in various conditions is reviewed Practical advice is given on organization of an individual breast milk bank at home © 2020, Dynasty Publishing House All rights reserved


Heavy medium coal processing technology has been widely used in coal preparation industries in the world since it is the most accurate and efficient coal preparation process to obtain clean coal with a highest possible yield. Separation of coal and impurities using this technology is based on density differences. Tests were carried out on a 100mm dia heavy medium cyclone test rig treating coal in the size range -6 + 0.5mm. A total of twenty seven experiments were carried out by varying the parameters like vortex finder diameter, spigot diameter and inlet feed pressure for each cyclone dia. The results indicate that for 100mm dia H.M. cyclone it is possible to achieve about 24% clean coal at an ash content of 17.3% from feed ash of 35% at a feed pressure of 0.35 kg/cm2, vortex diameter of 42.5mm and spigot diameter of 28mm.


This paper is focused on the network of shared embassies and consulates between Spain and several European or Ibero-American States, as well as cases between Spain and EU delegations. The 1961 Convention and the 1963 Convention set the key international legal framework, and yet it can be stated that there is a progressive development of the law. Two Laws have recently been approved in Spain on foreign action and on treaties and other international agreements that can develop new forms of diplomacy, such as co-location. This practice has not yet been made public, although it has been declared of strategic interest by the Spanish Administration. In conclusion, it has been demonstrated the need to show and order this practice made up of international agreements.


This chapter addresses the existence and nature of fictional entities. It identifies two distinct conditions sufficient for the existence of fictional entities, each of which is grounded by a reference-fixing rule of fiction institutions. One of these rules describes conditions sufficient for the existence of fictional entities that are not constituted by anything, while the other describes conditions sufficient for the existence of fictional entities that are constituted by other things. It identifies the metaphysical dependence base for the existence of fictional entities and argues that this does not include anything metaphysically mysterious. It then describes the nature of fictional entities and their identity and individuation conditions. Finally, it compares the account fictional entities provided with that of Amie Thomasson and argues that, despite obvious similarities, there are fundamental differences between the accounts.


Transport route optimization of dangerous goods makes lower transportation risk and cost of the enterprise,meanwhile it provides basis reference for the government decision.On the basis of urban master planning,the characteristics of transport of dangerous goods was analyzed,and then the index system on transport of dangerous goods was established.In order to implement this research and quantify the indicators,road characteristics and nature of land along the section has been used to evaluate the risk,simultaneously,the emergency response capacity was considered as the correction factor to improve the risk model,and the BPR impedance function was applied to calculate the transportation costs,then the calculation process of transportation risk and costs was given with an example of Pingxiang,Jiangxi.On this basis,a bi-objective optimization model was created with the target of risk and cost,and method of solving the model was discussed.This model provides a theoretical basis for the transport network of dangerous goods planning and design for its simplicity,practicality and operability.


Detecting realistic fake images and videos is an increasingly important and urgent problem because they can be maliciously used. In this work, we propose FakeTalkerDetect, which is based on siamese networks to detect the recently proposed realistic talking head with few-shot learning. Unlike conventional methods, we propose to use pre-trained models with only a few real images for fine-tuning in siamese networks to effectively detect the fake images in a highly unbalanced data setting. Our FakeTalkerDetect achieves the overall accuracy 98.81% accuracy in detecting fake images generated from the latest neural talking head models. In particular, our preliminary work also demonstrates the effectiveness for the highly unbalanced dataset.


THE METHOD IS PRESENTED OF PAVEMENT DESIGN PRESENTLY USED BY THE SASKATCHEWAN DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS AND TRANSPORTATION. IT IS BASICALLY THE SHELL INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM COMPANY DESIGN WITH SOME MODIFICATION OF BOUNDARIES FOR VARIOUS QUALITIES OF GRANULAR BASE AND SUBBASE COURSE. THE PAPER DESCRIBES THE METHODS OF SAMPLING, TESTING AND EVALUATING SUBGRADS. THE PRINCIPLES ON WHICH THE DESIGN CHARTS ARE BASED IS ALSO BRIEFLY DESCRIBED. APPLICATIONS OF THE USE OF THE DESIGN CHARTS FOR MATERIALS OTHER THAN SUBGRADE COURSE, BASE COURSE AND ASPHALTIC CONCRETE ARE ALSO OUTLINED, TOGETHER WITH AN EXAMPLE. /CGRA/


Chinese classical garden is a wonderful flower in the treasure house of Chinese traditional culture, and it has an important position in the history of world art. It interacts with and interacts with landscape paintings, poetry, and ancient Chinese aesthetics. Through the use of space combination, proportion, scale, color and other techniques, a distinctive artistic feature is formed, emphasizing the harmonious relationship between man and nature, and between man and man. Based on artificial intelligence algorithms, this paper conducts feature extraction and feature modeling of aesthetic and artistic elements in garden landscape design, and studies the relationship between intelligent analysis modeling and garden landscape design.


During the strategic deployment of bridging the gap between eastern and western regions in computing resources, the data center is evolving from high-speed to highquality development. An extremely significant part is to reduce energy consumption during operation and improve energy efficiency. As a gist for evaluating energy efficiency and a means of implementing energy-saving supervision, energy measurement is a powerful support and guarantee for achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals (Zhao et al., 2021) and promoting the development of green energy (Wan, 2022). Fluid energy accounts for a large proportion in the energy structure, such as natural gas, steam, and crude oil. Among them, the proportion of natural gas in the primary energy structure continues to rise (Chang, 2019) in recent years. According to the "Statistical Review ofWorld Energy", in 2021, the natural gas demand exceeds four trillion m in the whole world, with a growth rate per annum of 4.8% and an average annual growth rate of 2.2% in the past decade (BP Group, 2022). Especially, Chinese natural gas supply and demand gap reached 167.3 billion m, and its foreign dependence reached 44.9%. It is a challenge to ensure the accuracy of natural gas measurement and the smooth progress of the natural gas trade. The gas turbine flowmeter has obtained a broad development space and economic benefits in the international natural gas trading market (Xiang and Ceng, 2020) because of its high precision, good repeatability, high range ratio, and convenient maintenance. But researchers still found that there are some questions in the development of the gas turbine flowmeter. First, the flow parameters of natural gas are dynamic and diverse (Zhang et al., 2021), which increases the difficulty of tracing the flow measurement value. Second, the complex structure of gas turbine flowmeter's performance is difficult to optimize. Furthermore, how to improve the measurement accuracy of small flow has always been a research difficulty. Finally, people often misunderstand the internal flow field because the numerical simulation flow–structure interaction of the gas turbine flowmeter is not accurate enough. This studymainly clarifies the aforementioned problems and puts forward some perspectives on the research of gas turbine flowmeters. OPEN ACCESS


Based on the database of Chilo suppressalis occurrence in Nanchang County of Jiangxi Province from 1980 to 2009,Markov chains transition matrix and period extrapolation were applied to predict the occurrence area of Chilo supperssalis in the County.The results showed that the occurrence degree for the insect would be grade two(occurring moderately to slightly) in 2010,namely occurring area will be between 2.98 hm2 and 3.54 hm2.Actually,the occurrence degree did be grade two in this county,which was the same as the prediction.The moth's occurrence degrees would be grade 3(occurring moderately) in 2011,i.e.,occurring area will be between 3.55 hm2 and 4.10 hm2.


While the trait of absorption has received a considerable amount of scientific study, states of absorption have been comparatively understudied and even less scholarly or scientific attention has been paid to those that are cultivated within the contemplative traditions of Islam and Judaism. This paper explores canonical descriptions of states of contemplative absorption in Islamic and Jewish traditions, specifically highlighting how they are often cultivated using sensory deprivation and sensory withdrawal, can be distressing and entail functional impairment considered normative in some contexts, and how some are set apart as the goal of specific meditative paths. The import of this survey goes beyond just historical significance, since these traditions assume, and recent research suggests it is plausible, that such states may be hyper-plastic and pivotal in both adaptive and maladaptive directions.


The endotoxicosis induced by intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from Coxiella burnetii (Nine Mile strain, phase I) into guinea pigs coincidentally stimulates phosphorylation of hepatic ribosomal protein S6' and the synthesis of certain hepatic and plasma proteins. As components of the overall picture of hepatic regulation in the host pathobiochemistry of Q fever, the roles of protein kinases (PKs) and phosphoprotein phosphatases (PPases) in the phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of ribosomal protein S6 were studied. The hepatoma cell line HepG2 was used to extend the pathobiochemical information available from guinea pig liver. The role of insulin in this model was also examined, because hyperinsulinemia is an early response to endotoxicosis to other systems.*


College teachers and students' interactions directly affect the teaching effect. Applying the instrument of NSSE - China (namely"Chinese college students survey of student engagement"), this study conducted a norm analysis of the interactions between teachers and students of Guizhou University. Besides, it compares the student-teacher interaction norms of Guizhou university with the "985" and"211" universities. It indicates the problems and proposes corresponding suggestions in the teaching-student interactions of Guizhou University.


Since for each t ∈ [1, N/2], we have W t+N/2 = −W , one can also represent component (1) at the point (p, s) by the corresponding N/2-dimensional vector F̄ ′ p,s = (f ′ p,s,1, f ′ p,s,2, ..., f ′ p,s,N/2), whose components are calculated from the components of the corresponding initial vector F̄p,s by formula f ′ p,s,t = fp,s,t − fp,s,t+N/2, t = 1 ÷ N/2. (5) We call such representation of each component Fp,s of the spectrum in the form of the corresponding N/2-dimensional vector F̄ ′ p,s the paired vector representation, to distinct it from the original vector representation F̄p,s, and the constructed tensor of the 3rd order (f ′ p,s,t; p, s, = 1 ÷ N, t = 1 ÷ N/2 to be the paired tensor of the Fourier-spectrum. As for the original tensor representation of the spectrum of the signal, when for any p, s and k the following formula was valid [1]


In the reports of pernicious malaria I would direct attention to the following facts: The comparative rarity in this climate of the pernicious type of malaria. The somewhat unusual complication in an adult of convulsions (Case 1). The occurrence in the child of convulsions oft repeated and resembling the petit mal of epilepsy and yielding only to quinin. The ready explanation of the cerebral symptoms, afforded by recent pathologic studies. The illustration of the necessity of blood examination as an aid to diagnosis. The course of the temperature in Case 1 characteristic of the pernicious tertian fever, prolonged stage of fever, precritical rise, etc. The relapse (Case 1) with change of type to the quotidian. The lesson that even yet needs an occasional enforcement of the specific effect of quinin. COMA; FACIAL PARESIS; CONVULSIONS; RELAPSE; RECOVERY. Case 1. —Nov. 9, 1895, there was admitted to the County Hospital to the