ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to investigate the factor structure, convergent validity, and reliability of the Persian version of the Marital Scales. A sample of 627 participants (62.8% female, 37.2% male) were selected to participate from the available population. They completed the Socio-Demographic Characteristics Form and the Marital Scales. Results showed that internal consistency of this scale using Cronbach's alpha was .88 and the split-half coefficient was .86. Also, internal consistency of 3 main subscales (Intent to Marry, General Attitudes Toward Marriage, and Aspects of Marriage) was .80, .84 and .88, respectively, using Cronbach's alpha. The results of the factor analysis revealed that the Marital Scales is a multidimensional instrument with 10 distinct and related factors: intent to marry, positive attitudes, negative attitudes, fears and doubts, romance, respect, trust, finances, meaning, and physical intimacy. In general, the Marital Scales are a reliable and suitable instrument for assessing marital attitudes and expectations in Iran and other Persian-speaking countries.


We study phase structure and critical point of finite-temperature QCD in the heavy-quark region applying the hopping parameter expansion (HPE). We first study finite-size scaling on the critical point on $N_t=4$ lattices with large spatial volumes taking the leading order (LO) and the next-to-leading order (NLO) effects of the HPE, and find that the critical scaling of the Z(2) universality class expected around the critical point of two-flavor QCD is realized when the aspect ratio of the lattice is larger than about 9. This enables us to determine the critical point in the thermodynamic limit with high precisions. By a study of the convergence of the HPE, we confirm that the result of the critical point with the LO (NLO) approximation of the HPE is fairly accurate for $N_t=4$ (6), while we need to incorporate higher order effects for larger $N_t$. To extend the study to large $N_t$ lattices, we then develop a method to take the effects of higher-order terms of the HPE up to a sufficiently high order. We report on the status of our study on $N_t = 6$ lattice adopting the new method.


This synthesis paper analyses all available relevant data to carefully characterise the HIV epidemics in 15 West African countries, to gain an improved understanding of HIV transmission dynamics in this sub-region, assess the extent to which existing responses address these specific transmission dynamics, and recommend ways to improve the effectiveness of West Africa's epidemic response.


Urban biodiversity has received very little importance from environmentalists in comparison to natural and protected ecosystems. Much of our native birds, butterflies and odonates are fast disappearing due to habitat destruction in urban environment and unscientific management of our natural resources and at present, their survival is under threat. The objective of the present review is focussed on the assessment of the diversity of butterflies, birds and odonates with vegetation composition of habitat and conservation priorities in a college campus. A combination of direct search and opportunistic sighting methods were applied to record 49 species of butterflies under 5 families and 36 genera, 45 species of birds belonging to 12 orders and 25 families and 23 different Odonata species (18 dragonflies and 5 damselflies) from the study area during the period 2014-2016. Our observation emphasizes that the institutional campus fulfils an environment favourable for harbouring a rich and diverse fauna. This study aims to focus on creation of a comprehensive biodiversity management program to properly monitor the diverse flora, fauna as well as the habitat in and around the college ground.


Three pigs were examined with a specially calibrated pressure system and an ultrasound reflecting technique yielding the left ventricular wall movement velocity. Pick-ups from both systems were located in the left ventricle close to the dorsal wall 2 cm below the mitral orifice. The changes in ventricular pressure (ΔP) and in ventricular wall displacement (Δs) during each cardiac cycle compared favourably, as did their time derivatives dP/dt and ds/dt (ventricular velocity). The velocity of wall movement is taken as an index of cardiac contractility. Two different ultrasound systems yielded similar curves. Measurement of left ventricular posterior wall movement velocity (echocardiography-differentiation) may provide a harmless method of measuring changes in myocardial contractility, combining objectivity with a short examination time.


In Ulysses, James Joyce draws deeply on his own experiences and those of people he had known. An excellent example is Dr. John J. O'Hare, whose tragically young death resulted from an illness contracted while on duty as a public health officer. Joyce transfers various of O'Hare's traits into two fictional Ulysses medical men, the late Dr. O'Hare and the living Dr. Dixon. By reshaping elements of the real O'Hare into these two fictional doctors, Joyce thematizes major issues inherent in human experience.


We followed a field population of the alpine lizard Iberolacerta cyreni over 2 consecutive breeding seasons and assigned paternity to the offpring using 8 microsatellite markers. Paternity data, combined with observations of the behavior, morphology, and spacing patterns of lizards, allowed us to document the extent of polygamy, the phenotypic correlates of the number of offspring sired, and the correlation between male reproductive success (RS) and probability of recapture the second year of our study. Multiple paternity was observed in nearly 50% of clutches, and the mating system was highly polygynandrous. In the first year of our study, male RS increased with body size, activity, tail length, and color saturation of the dorsum. In the second year, male RS increased with activity and body condition. Overall, increased male activity, a trait that is expected to decrease survivorship, was the explanatory variable that had the greatest effect on RS. However, the residents of our first study year that were recaptured in the second year had longer tails, were more active, and sired more offspring than their conspecifics that were not recaptured. Thus, contrary to expectations, no negative correlation between present reproduction and future survival was found, which suggests that male investment in reproduction is condition dependent and positively correlated with the ability to pay the underlying costs of increased activity. Copyright 2008, Oxford University Press.


Spanish is a "pro-drop" language, meaning subject personal pronoun (SPP) expression may be phonetically null. Due in large part to the well-understood dialectal differences and universal constraints operating on SPP expression, Bayley, Cardenas, Schouten, and Velez Salas (2012) have highlighted it as a "classic" or "showcase" variationist variable. The present study follows the current trend in using SPP expression as a starting point in order to investigate the effects of lexical frequency on morphosyntactic independent variables and furthers discussion by examining its behavior in a comparative study (Bayley, Holland & Ware, 2013; Erker & Guy, 2012). This study compares SPP expression of 6 Mexican immigrants living in the US with that of 6 speakers living in Mexico City (Butragueno & Lastra, 2000; Wilson, 2013). The data are coded for previous realization (perseverance), continuity of reference, tense-mood-aspect, genre, lexical frequency (based on 1% of non-lemmatized verbs from Bayley et al. (2013) and Erker and Guy (2012)), morphological regularity, and verbal semantic content. Lexical frequency is proven to behave non-orthogonally, supporting the conclusions of Erker and Guy (2012).


Twenty-nine lines of subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum), mostly selected for low levels of oestrogenic isoflavones, were inoculated with seven effective strains of Rhizobium trifolii. They were grown at two different root temperatures and their performances compared with those of the subterraneum clover cultivar, Tallarook. Ten criteria were used to assess symbiotic competence. No line was inferior to Tallarook in all ten criteria, but one line was inferior in nine of the ten, three in seven of the ten and fifteen others were poorer than Tallarook in one to six criteria. Of the ten lines whose symbiotic performances were as good as or better than Tallarook, a number also had low isoflavone levels, but there was no evidence to suggest that symbiotic competence was related to isoflavone content. It is concluded that it will be necessary to exercise caution in the agronomic or breeding use of lines Which are not consistently symbiotically competent.


Departamento de Fisica Teorica and IFIC, Centro Mixto Universidad de Valencia-CSIC,Universidad de Valencia, Burjassot 46100 Valencia, Spain(Received 2 May 2014; published 7 August 2014)We show that theories having second-order field equations in the context of higher-dimensionalmodified gravity are not restricted to the family of Lovelock Lagrangians, but can also be obtainedif no a priori assumption on the relation between the metric and affine structures of space-time is made(the Palatini approach). We illustrate this fact by considering the case of Palatini fðRÞ gravities in fivedimensions. Our results provide an alternative avenue to explore new domains of the AdS/CFTcorrespondence without resorting to ad hoc quasitopological constructions.


Lotte Hellinga the publications of Lotte Hellinga revisiting early printed books at Brescia - "Thoma Ferrando auctore" (1471-1474) the "Gnotosolitos" of Arnold Geilhoven published by the Brothers of the Common Life in Brussels in 1476 the illustrated Cologne bibles of 1478 two D's or not two D's - observations on positional variation in early typography author's autograph and printer's copy - Werner Rolewinck's paradisus conscientiae (Cologne - Arnold ther Hoernen, 1475) an alphabet of initials at Nuremberg and Rome dating the Freeska Landriucht (1484-87) on paper evidence and a note of the codex roorda a new incunable and the chronology of the press of Sant'Iacopo di Ripoli Johann Vydenast and a new incunable from Perugia a contemporary panegyrist of the invention of printing - the author of the "Grammatica Rhythmica" Joannes Baptista Verae Crucis the library of Johannes Plumel continental printed books for sale in Oxford, c.1480-83 the Gutenberg Bible in the antiquarian book trade a new list of the bindings of Ludovicus Ravescot, printer of Louvain an 18th-century incunable collector in The Hague bookbinding in Padua in the 15th century Nicolaus Jenson's Breviarium Romanum, Venice 1478 - decoration and distribution the Verdun Missal, Paris 1491 - printing and illustration decorated Caxtons illustrations of Petrarch's "Trionfi" from manuscript to print and from print to manuscript the Savonarola Collection of the Wurttembergische Landesbibliothek problems of provenance - incunabula in the Bodleian Library's Benefactors' register 1600-1602 the history of the incunabula collections of the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid the Bowie Collection in the Harvard College Library.


This chapter explores Kant's conception of the relation of the beautiful and the sublime to freedom and to moral theology. It then turns to Beethoven's conception of the sublime, and illustrates this by an analysis of the slow movement of his early piano sonata Op. 2, No. 2, and an analysis of the first movement of the Eroica. The thesis of the chapter is that a Kantian 'optimistic' account of the sublime fits these pieces better than some other accounts of the sublime that the chapter describes, namely 'the uncanny sublime', 'the authoritarian sublime' and 'the solipsistic sublime'. The chapter ends with a brief remark about the relation between Kantian freedom and the Christian faith.


The magnesium electrolyte such as the MgCl2-LiCl system has been studied for determining the density and electrical conductivity. The electrical conductivity of the present system is found to be more than 2.5 to 2.7 times greater than that of the Dow and I.G. electrolytes. It is possible to reduce the electrolysis temperature of the present system in comparison with the Dow and I. G. electrolytes, and the differences in density between liquid magnesium and electrolytes are about 0.03 to 0.05g/cm2 for 14.3 to 10.5 mol% MgCl2. It is of particular interest that the magnesium is recovered at the bottom of the electrolysis cell in the case of magnesium electrolysis of the MgCl2-LiCl system. (Received July 29, 1968)


Objective:To study the feasibility,safety,success rate and procedure-related complications of the transradial approach for coronary angiography.Methods:The transradial approach coronary angiography was taken in 306 consecutive patients from Jan 2006 to Nov 2008 in our hospital and the relative clinical data of these patients was analyzed.Results:Radial artery access was made in 295 patients,the success rate of radial artery access was 96.8% in male and 96.0% in female,and total success rate was 96.4%.4 patients had local hematoma(1.3%),4 patients had post-procedural occlusion of the radial artery(1.3%)and no other procedure related complications were noted.Conclusion:This investigation demonstrated the safety and feasibility of transradial approach for coronary angiography with less procedure complications and pain for patients.


In this paper, we present the insertion of a simple two-element network at the transmission (TX) of a wireless power transfer (WPT) system for active implantable medical devices (AIMDs). The network parameters are optimized to compensate for the changes of mutual-coupling between the TX and receiving (RX) and make the output voltage constant within a specific range. A theoretical condition is analytically derived, simulations and experiments are conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed system. The variation of the output voltage is kept at about 5% for both rotational and axial misalignments. The specific absorption rate (SAR) of the proposed system is also investigated for safety concerns. The result shows that the proposed system reduces SAR, and it is safe for wireless charging of AIMDs.


To the Editor.—
 The study of Wilson et al1 draws attention to an important epidemiologic issue related to an uncounted minority, extremely premature infants who weigh less than 500 g at birth. The problem of underreporting of vital events of this group has been recognized worldwide. Amazing varieties of criteria are used by various countries to determine viability and to judge the need for reporting.2 For example, note some of the interesting ones: "28 weeks of gestation" (Ireland, Czechoslovakia, France, and other European countries), "601 g birth weight," "if less than 1001 g weight, must live for 24 hours" (Poland), "a length of 30 cms" (Switzerland).


ABSTRACT A3-in. Parshall flume was installed at slopes of 0, + 1.9, +5.8, +7.8, +10.2, -1.2, -5.5, -7.8, — 9.4, and —22.8%. The flume rating, or measured discharge, was compared to the actual discharge for each flume slope with free outfall conditions. The results indicated that the Parshall flume accuracy is slope dependent. The flume rating was in error 32% at slopes of ±10%. A method for aligning the measured discharge with the actual discharge is presented for variable slope conditions.


A neo-traditional popular music, Okpe Disco is practised by the Okpe people in the Okpe and Sapyly Local Government Areas within Nigeria's Delta State. It is a vocal music genre performed in solo/chorus responsorial style with the leader, assisted by the second lead singer, taking the solo while the other members of the group sing the chorus and play an instrumental accompaniment. The texts of the songs are sung either in Okpe or in English, and they focus on current social issues. They include extensive praises for particular affluent members of the society.

Over time Okpe Disco has borrowed from more cosmopolitan types of music found in other parts of Nigeria; these types include highlife, kokoma and gospel music. Western diatonic melodies and harmonies seldom feature in the music, while the harmonica and keyboard are included in few instrumental ensembles. Studio recordings of Okpe Disco are available commercially and are regularly aired during Delta Broadcasting radio and television programmes. South African Journal of Musicology Vol.22 2002: 13-27


A local cut point is a point that disconnects its sufficiently small neighborhood. We show that there exists an upper bound for the degree of a local cut point in a metric measure space satisfying the generalized Bishop‐Gromov inequality. As a corollary, we obtain an upper bound for the number of ends of such a space. We also obtain some obstruction conditions for the existence of a local cut point in a metric measure space satisfying the Bishop‐Gromov inequality or the Poincare inequality. For example, the measured Gromov‐ Hausdorff limits of Riemannian manifolds with a lower Ricci curvature bound satisfy these two inequalities.


Dyeing of leather in leather industries result in dye-containing wastewaters. Removal of dyes from these wastewaters is desired, not only because of their colour but also because of their toxicity, mutagenicity and carcinogenicity. Different physical, chemical and biological techniques can be used to remove dyes from wastewater. Each technique has technical and economic limitations. Most physicochemical dye removal methods have drawbacks because they are too expensive, have limited versatility, are greatly interfered by other wastewater compounds and/or generate waste products that must be handled. Alternatively, biological treatment holds promise as a relatively inexpensive way to remove dyes from wastewater. At least dyes belonging to the largest class of dyes, the azo dyes are prone to bacterial biodegradation. The present study confirms the ability of bacteria to degrade the leather dye Acid Red 131 with degradation efficiency of 99%, thus suggesting its application for degradation of dye bearing of industrial wastewaters. Presence of a Co-substrate (Dextrose & Ammonium formate) is the essential conditions for attaining maximum degradation efficiency. The bacteria isolated from tannery waste water are a facultative anaerobe that shows positive or negative result for some biochemical tests.


Bacterial vaginosis is a frequent disorder of the vaginal flora in reproductive-age women, characterized by the presence of a grey unpleasant smelling secretion, due to the decrease of lactobacilli, the vaginal Ph increase and the presence of anaerobic bacteria. It is estimated that around 30 % of women aged 14-49 years have bacterial vaginosis. It is associated with perinatologic diseases including: premature membrane breaking, premature birth, low-weight newborns and inflammatory pelvic disease. The bacterial vaginosis diagnosis could be made applying clinical criteria (Amsel criteria) or by evaluation of the bacterial morphotypes found in the vaginal secretion gram through microbiological procedures created as an alternative to the clinical diagnosis that gradually replaced it. The firstly described and standardized microbiological methods were the Spiegel's and Nugent's ones. Later, Ison and Hay widened Nugent's evaluation system, including two new categories respectively, emphasizing the dominance of gram positive cocci in the vaginal ecosystem and the absence of bacteria in a smear. The most recent study on the theme is the validation of the study Vaginal Content Balance (VACOBA), showing that Nugent's and Amsel's criteria integration increases the test sensibility and specificity.


Ternary complexes of terbium with ortho (and pam) aminobenzoic acid and 1,10-phenanthroline were introduced into silica gel by the sol-gel method. The luminescence behavior of the solid-state samples was studied during the sol-gel aging process by means of emission. excitation spectra, lifetimes and quantum efficiencies.


This thesis examined the experiences of mature education and health professionals in graduate education programs at a large Canadian university to discover how they learned to write as academics and produce their theses, and to explore their particular challenges. Most of the participants were women, and most studied part-time while continuing their professional work. The research also examined the social organization of the graduate education programs, and the policies and practices that regulated the students' writing and text production. The study revealed which policies had positive results, and which were problematic or lacking. The method of inquiry was informed by institutional ethnography and autoethnography, conducted from the standpoint of graduate students. Participation in and observation of classes, study groups, thesis proposal presentations, conference presentations, mock thesis defenses, interviews and conversations revealed the dynamics between students and supervisors, as well as the value of students presenting their


We randomly assigned beneficiaries of a conditional cash transfer program in Peru to attend a 3 hour training session designed to build their trust in financial institutions. We find that the intervention: (a) significantly increased trust in banks, but had no effect on financial literacy; (b) significantly increased savings over a ten month period, and (c) had no effect of the use of accounts for transactions. The increase in savings is a 1.6 percentage point increase in the savings rate out of the cash transfer depostis, and a 0.5 percentage point increase in the savings rate out of household income.


Computational protein structure prediction remains a challenging task in protein bioinformatics. In the recent years, the importance of template‐based structure prediction is increasing because of the growing number of protein structures solved by the structural genomics projects. To capitalize the significant efforts and investments paid on the structural genomics projects, it is urgent to establish effective ways to use the solved structures as templates by developing methods for exploiting remotely related proteins that cannot be simply identified by homology. In this work, we examine the effect of using suboptimal alignments in template‐based protein structure prediction. We showed that suboptimal alignments are often more accurate than the optimal one, and such accurate suboptimal alignments can occur even at a very low rank of the alignment score. Suboptimal alignments contain a significant number of correct amino acid residue contacts. Moreover, suboptimal alignments can improve template‐based models when used as input to Modeller. Finally, we use suboptimal alignments for handling a contact potential in a probabilistic way in a threading program, SUPRB. The probabilistic contacts strategy outperforms the partly thawed approach, which only uses the optimal alignment in defining residue contacts, and also the re‐ranking strategy, which uses the contact potential in re‐ranking alignments. The comparison with existing methods in the template‐recognition test shows that SUPRB is very competitive and outperforms existing methods. Proteins 2010. © 2010 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


The present study investigated the performance of a Wave Energy Converter (WEC) system using the relative heave motion of a dual-buoy. In order to increase the conversion efficiency of a dual-buoy WEC, a multiple-resonance concept was used, which is generated at the dual-buoy's heave natural frequency and piston-mode natural frequency. The matched eigenfunction expansion method (MEEM) was applied to obtain the analytical solution under the assumption of the linear potential theory. To verify the validity of the analytical solution, systematic model tests were carried out in a 2D wave tank. If the dual-buoy WEC is designed to be tuned at the heave natural frequency and piston-mode natural frequency, it is possible to maintain a reasonably high relative heave motion response within a wide range of wave frequencies. This research will provide the key to the improvement in energy extraction efficiency.


Each home has a family, a hierarchy, a way of living, some norms and more that they continue to carry on for ages, so do the Business Organizationsor Health Sector. The questions that arise are: what is an Organization, what are the different types of Cultures followed in them? What are the disparities between Organizational Structure and design? Is it necessary to understand this particularly with respect to Health Sector?


In any case it is likely to be some considerable time before Irish obstetricians will be found who are willing to carry out abortion procedures. Whatever the outcome of these uncertainties, there is no immediate prospect of Irish psychiatrists finding themselves embroiled in the assessment of women seeking abortion except in selected cases before the courts: and as long as the option of seeking abortion abroad, presently utilised by at least 4,000 women annually, continues to be available. Editorial note. The author recently concluded a ten year spell of membership of the Irish Medical Council. Sir: Thanks to the College for organising this inter-sectional conference which enabled participants to gain a broader appreciation of this multifaceted topic. Despite time being allocated equally to the four College sections, the main focus of discussion tended to be children and sexual abuse at the expense of acknowledging the tremendous impact of emotional, physical and financial abuse on vulnerable adults. This possibly mirrors media, public interest and awareness. Child psychiatrists have pioneered the way of enabling children's evidence to be heard, but it appears that now they wonder if the disadvantages outweigh the benefits. Concern was expressed that legal requirements took precedence over treatment needs, and that the legal process further traumatised victims. This, together with the tensions experienced in balancing duties towards both victims and perpetrators, led to some calls for 'decriminalisation' of abuse. While understanding the reasons behind these views, I feel they represent a denial of the facts and a betrayal of the right of children and vulnerable adults to the same legal protection as anyone else. It would be preferable to identify specific problems in the legal process, and to seek solutions to these enabling the system more adequately to function, thus benefiting both perpetrators, victims and their families. The British legal system has a long conservative tradition and modifications are not easily incorporated, but as Spencer (1988) said, "Tradition can be good or bad and if a tradition blocks a sensible, humane and necessary reform it is the tradition which should be reconsidered, not the proposed reform". Community care requires that all community facilities are accessible, including the law. There are signs that we are not alone in our concern. The Home Office have commissioned research into witnesses with learning disabilities, and the Bar Council has proposals for a network of barristers experienced with the learning disabled. In her …


Planetary Nebulae (PNe) formation is a consequence of stellar evolution and in the process of PNe shaping several processes play their role: stellar mass, rotation, magnetic fields, and the presence of companions. By computing stellar models with rotation we have rule out single main sequence stars to achieve the needed physical conditions to cause asymmetrical mass-loss. We have quantified under which circumstances the presence of companions can induce sufficient tidal spin-up to form bipolar PNe. Finally, by computing models of starplanet interactions we have explored the role that substellar companions have in the overall stellar evolution and thus how they might influence PNe properties.


Jeff Mulzon, where are you now? 26 years ago, Jeff transferred into the sophomore class of Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School from "public high." One really had to wonder what he was doing at a Christian school. Jeff used profanity freely. He railed mercilessly on "the nerds." He had vulgar things to say about the girls. He managed to stay on the "bad side" of the teachers and spent more than a few sessions in the principal's office. It was incredible that he made it through an entire school year at Kettle Moraine, and surprised no one that he wasn't back for his junior year. "Good riddance!" "What was a kid like that doing at our Lutheran high school?" Those were certainly the sentiments expressed about Jeff. But God had a purpose for him to be there. God loved Jeff. God sent his Son to die for Jeff and redeem him. God wanted him to be confronted with his wickedness and the divine punishment it was bringing on him. God more than anything wanted to welcome back a penitent Jeff as his son (prayerfully he has). Such is our just and gracious Lord. Such is the message that rings out clearly from the 21 verses of Obadiah, the Bible's shortest book. In it, the Lord beckons us to consider where the "Jeff Mulzons" are today: the troublemaker you grew up with, the young adult friend who was always pushing and exceeding the limits; the irreligious family member or acquaintance who isn't shy about making cynical remarks about the church; many right around you so caught up in this material world that they're oblivious to their heading for hell. What might still be said to them? What might still be worked in them to escape God's punishment? In Obadiah, the Holy Spirit also has us look at ourselves. He bids us to take another painful look into our own hearts for the rebelliousness that God so terribly condemns, so that he might also graciously purify. His purpose, as always, is to sanctify us along with all the elect for "the day of the Lord."


A nickel-titanium file root canal preparation instrument, comprising a nickel-titanium preparation system and a water flushing system. The nickel-titanium preparation system comprises a nickel-titanium file (1), a handheld device head (2), a handheld device body (3), an electric motor (4), and a power controller (5); the water flushing system comprises a conduit (6), a conduit fixing device (7), a liquid pump (8), and a liquid pump controller (9). The existing theory and study regarding root canal preparation has misled people about the root canal preparation method, and this leads to the result that the existing nickel-titanium root canal preparation is implemented in a dry-drilling manner. By providing a water flow to perform flushing during the root canal preparation of the nickel-titanium file root canal preparation instrument, the service life of the nickel-titanium file is prolonged.


A system and method for storing multiple canisters containing high level waste below grade that afford adequate ventilation of the spent fuel storage cavity. In one aspect, the invention is a system comprising: an air-intake shell forming a substantially vertical air- intake cavity; a plurality of storage shells, each storage shell forming a substantially vertical storage cavity; a hermetically sealed canister for holding high level waste positioned in one or more of the storage cavities so that a gap exists between the storage shell and the canister, the horizontal cross-section of each of the storage cavities accommodating no more than one canister; a removable lid positioned atop each of the storage shells so as to form a lid-to-shell interface, each lid containing an outlet vent forming passageways between an ambient environment and the storage cavity; and a network of pipes forming a passageway between a bottom portion of the intake cavity and a bottom portion of each of the storage cavities.


Ciletuh Geopark, located in Sukabumi regency, is one of the promising tourist destinations in West Java. This research aims to explore the effect of tourist characteristics and resources on the image of Ciletuh Geopark. This research is quantitative, employing a time horizon of cross-sectional. The analysis unit of this research is visitors at the geodiversity area of Ciletuh, while the observation unit is the visitors or tourists visiting this area at the end of 2019. The sample of this study is 100 visitors. The partial least square (PLS) is used for analyzing the causal relationship between variables. The research results show that tourist characteristics and resources affect the image.  Resources have a more substantial effect than the tourist characteristics do. This study implies that the management of Ciletuh Geopark needs to pay more attention to developing and managing the resources, primarily the natural resources, cultural resources, and human resources. Besides, this effort needs to be supported by the understanding of tourist characteristics. Hence, the image of the destination will be enhanced.


The high costs of seismic exploration leaves no room for mistakes. Seismic planning (i.e. acquisition and dedicated processing strategies) must be optimized for the Exploration and Production needs and for Geophysical requirements.


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troduetions and notes to make them intelligible." They discuss sU'ch que~ions as "Miracles," "the CreatiDn,"" the Story of the ThIl," "the FloOO," "the Call of ;A!bram," "Dreams," "Manna," and all the other subjects that naturally oome up in the progress t'hrough the Bihle. The standpoint is thoroughly modern. The authors seem to have a high regard for the Brble and its messa:ge 'but they insist upon the modernistic platform. It is a beautiful book and might prove useful to a wise teacher or pastor but it cannot be recommended for young people. KYLE M. YA'IlEa.


OBJECTIVE:To determine the awareness among medical and paramedical adolescent students regarding various aspects like nutrition, health and psychosocial, and to educate them on those issues. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is a cross sectional descriptive study. We used pre-tested, structured, self-administered questionnaire regarding various aspects of adolescence like nutrition, health, education, development, and psychosocial factors. The questionnaire was developed after review of literature and pilot tested. Study subjects included 400 adolescent college going students between the age group of 16-19 years, studying in medical, pharmacology and nursing colleges. RESULTS: Of the 400 adolescent students, 47.3% were aware of daily nutritional needs, 43.8% were aware of usage of fats and oils, 49% were aware about the health care during pregnancy, 35.5% of them use helmet and 20.5% of them had suicidal tendencies. CONCLUSION: The knowledge regarding nutrition and development were good where as in some like health and psycho social aspects, the knowledge and attitude were similar to nonmedical / paramedical students of same age group in various other similar studies and thus there is a need for special adolescent education in medical and paramedical students.


Computation of loss factors for one-bit RF MEMS switch over Ku, K and Ka-band for two different insulating substrates.

Numerical investigation of return loss, insertion loss, isolation loss are computed under both actuated
and unactuated states for two different insulating substrates of the 1-bit RF MEMS switch, and
corresponding up and down-capacitances are obtained.

The unique characteristics of a 1-bit RF MEMS switch of providing higher return loss under both
actuated and unactuated states and also of isolation loss with negligible insertion loss makes it as a
prime candidate for phase shifter application. This is presented in this manuscript with a keen focus
on improvement capability by changing transmission line width, and also of overlap area; where
dielectric constant of the substrate also plays a vital role.

The present work exhibits very low down-capacitance over the spectrum whereas considerable
amount of up-capacitance. Also when overall performance in terms of all loss parameters are
considered, switch provides very low insertion loss, good return loss under actuated state and standard
isolation loss.

 Reduction of transmission line width of about 33% improved the performance of the
switch by increasing isolation loss. Isolation loss of -40 dB is obtained at actuated condition in higher
microwave spectra for SiO2 at higher overlap area. Down capacitance of ~ 1dB is obtained which is
novel as compared with other published literature. Moreover, a better combination of both return loss,
isolation loss and insertion loss are reported in this present work compared with all other published data
so far.


Edible film is one of the environmentally friendly packaging materials and not harmful to health because it is made up of natural ingredients such as proteins, lipids, and polysaccharides. In addition to environmentally friendly, the development of edible film on food packaging can provide better product quality, as it is made from natural ingredients that contain various natural chemical compounds that are beneficial and can be directly consumed. In this study prepared edible film derived from durian seed starch with the addition of soursop leaf extract. This research aimed at knowing the physical and chemical characteristics, and antioxidant activity of  the edible film. The type of research used is experiment methods. The results showed that the best research findings of the edible film were on the addition of 2 g soursop leaf extract and the physical characteristic was transmission of water vapor that was 1.70 g/m2. 24 hours, the chemical characteristics were water content that was 17.33% and activity of antioxidant that was 1.5875 mg/mL.


Ecological agricultu re belongs to the industry of the morning sun being growing,it certainly becomes the pi llar industry of future world economy.We st areas should judge the hour and siz e up the situation,in the adjustment of economic structure,comprehend the implications and theory guiding system of eco logical agricultrue,analyse the re lations between e-cological agriculture and continuousable development o f west China,po int the developing thinking out of ecological agri-culture wit h regional characteristic in west areas and take it as support to promote the de velopment of local economy.


Maternal immune recognition of the fetal semiallograft appears to be necessary and beneficial for fetal survival and growth. Interleukin-1 J3 and human leukocyte antigen HLA-DR are important for foreign antigen recognition by the immune system. whereas transforming growth factor-13 inhibits many of the immunostimulatory properties of interleukin-113. In this study we found that first-trim aster decidua and term placental membranes expressed significantly higher levels of interleukin-1l3, interleukin-113 messenger ribonucleic acid. and human leukocyte antigen HLA-DRa messenger ribonucleic acid than prOliferative and secretory endometrium. Fetal placenta had little, if any, interleukin-1J3, interleukin-113 messenger ribonucleic acid, or human leukocyte antigen HLA-DRa messenger ribonucleic acid expression. All tissues found at the maternal-fetal interface, including first-trimester decidua, placenta. and placental membranes, contained transforming growth factor-/3 and expressed transforming growth factor-J3, messenger ribonucleic acid. On the basis of these findings, we suggest that the increase in decidual interleukin-1 J3 and human leukocyte antigen HLA-DRa during pregnancy may be involved in maternal recognition of the fetal semiallograft and that transforming growth factor-/3 production may regulate the local maternal immune response and prevent rejection of the fetus. (AM J OsSTET GYNECOL 1990;163:1430-7.)


A materials balance model by Turner, Pearce & Bateman (1994 :15-17) portrays the interactions between the economy and environment basing on the laws of thermodynamics. The model represents the economy as a materials processing and product transformation system pulling in materials and energy from the environment and changing them into useful product output for consumption. Eventually after a time lag, the non-product output of the system can be partially recycled with the residual 'useless' materials (wastes) retumed to the environment Too much wastes generated by the system and released beyond the absorptive capacity of the


Heart failure (HF) is one of the leading causes of mortality and health-care expenditure, with 5.7 million patients currently carrying this diagnosis, and 900,000 new cases diagnosed every year. It is projected that the number of HF patients in the United States will exceed 8 million by the year 2030 [1]. The search for pharmacotherapeutic agents to treat systolic HF in the late twentieth century and the early years of the twentyfirst century has been remarkably successful; it has led to the development of many agents that changed our way of managing HF and offers significant survival and quality-of-life benefits to this patient population. Nevertheless, the majority of the agents that were introduced to clinical trials in the last 15 years have failed to show any added benefits to the available treatment regimens [2]. Some authors suggest that the current standard-of-care therapies, including the adrenergic beta-receptor blockers and the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system inhibitors, are capable of achieving the maximum possible peripheral benefit and that any further neurohormonal modulation could potentially cause more harm than good in these patients [3]. In this short review, we will discuss a number of agents that are currently in the final stages of clinical trials, including omecamtiv mecarbil, empagliflozin, serelaxin, and SERCA2 gene therapy. These agents use novel pathways, some of which aim at modifying the underlying disease process and some are meant to improve outcomes in certain subgroups of HF patients that have poor prognosis. All of the phamacotherapeutic agents included in this review had successful early phases of clinical trials.


The model of dynamic capture proposed by Bailey based on the elliptic restricted three-body problem is examined in the light of eccentricity variations in the orbits of the primaries. It is found that good agreement between theory and observations for the case of the outer satellites of Jupiter is obtained when the current orbital eccentricity of Jupiter is used, but this agreement does not follow from most past conditions. The current orbits do fall within the predicted limits. The implication for a purely capture origin for these satellites is discussed.


Mantle convection and long-term lithosphere dynamics in the Earth and other planets can be treated as the slow deformation of a highly viscous fluid, and as such can be described using the compressible Navier–Stokes equations. Since on Earth-sized planets the influence of compressibility is not a dominant effect, density deviations from a reference profile are at most on the order of a few percent and using the full governing equations poses numerical challenges, most modelling studies have simplified the governing equations. Common approximations assume a temporally constant, but depth-dependent reference profile for the density (the anelastic liquid approximation), or drop compressibility altogether and use a constant reference density (the Boussinesq approximation). In most previous studies of mantle convection and crustal dynamics, one can assume that the error introduced by these approximations was small compared to the errors that resulted from poorly constrained material behaviour and limited numerical accuracy. However, as model parametrizations have become more realistic, and model resolution has improved, this may no longer be the case and the error due to using simplified conservation equations might no longer be negligible: while such approximations may be reasonable for models of mantle plumes or slabs traversing the whole mantle, they may be unsatisfactory for layered materials experiencing phase transitions or materials undergoing significant heating or cooling. For example, at boundary layers or close to dynamically changing density gradients, the error arising from the use of the aforementioned compressibility approximations can be the dominant error source, and common approximations may fail to capture the physical behaviour of interest. In this paper, we discuss new formulations of the continuity equation that include dynamic density variations due to temperature, pressure and composition without using a reference profile for the density. We quantify the improvement in accuracy relative to existing formulations in a number of benchmark models and evaluate for which practical applications these effects are important. Finally, we consider numerical aspects of the new formulations. We implement and test these formulations in the freely available community software aspect, and use this code for our numerical experiments.


Every cell in our body contains an aqueous cytosol enwrapped by the hydrophobic plasma membrane perforated by the specific permeability pathways for water (water channels) and different inorganic and organic ions (ion channels, transporters and pumps). The clockwork regulation of these transport pathways is one of the fundamental principles of life as it underlies such basic cellular functions as excitability, contractility and metabolism. However, high permeability of cellular plasma membrane to water in combination with restricted permeability to ions creates certain thermodynamic difficulties for maintaining an osmotic equilibrium and cell volume. Thus, when extracellular osmolarity exceeds an intracellular one, water exits the cells leading to cell shrinkage; equally, when extracellular osmolarity falls below the intracellular level, water enters the cells causing cell swelling. Thus, without proper mechanisms for adjusting intracellular osmolarity cells would not be able to maintain their integrity. In very general terms, these mechanisms are known as regularly volume increase (RVI) and regulatory volume decrease (RVD). When a cell is subjected to a hypoosmotic condition it takes up water and swells, and thus the RVD is activated; generally it requires extrusion of cellular ions (e.g. by activation of K+ and/or anion channels; Lang, 2007) to reduce intracellular osmolarity. In contrast, when a cell is surrounded by a hyperosmotic milieu, it shrinks, which triggers RVI, which aims to increase intracellular osmolarity by the accumulation of ions (e.g. by the activation of Na+ channels, inhibition of K+ channels and also by concerted action of several transporters and exchangers (reviewed in Lang, 2007). Obviously, there has got to be mechanisms, linking cellular osmolarity to the activity of ion transport proteins involved in RVI and RVD. Indeed a number of such mechanisms have been identified including a direct regulation of channel activity by the membrane tension or cytoskeleton, osmodependent changes in channel abundance, or regulation by osmodependent second messengers (reviewed in Piron et al. 2010).

In a recent issue of The Journal of Physiology, an interesting new mechanism which may prove to be one of the general principles of ion channel (or any plasma membrane protein) osmosensitivity was put forward by Piron et al. (2010). The authors studied osmosensitivity of the cardiac potassium current IKs conducted by the heteromeric Kv7.1(KCNQ1)/KCNE1 channels. They noted that Kv7.1–KCNE1 concatemers overexpressed in COS-7 cells were activated by hypoosmotic treatment and inhibited by hyperosmotic treatment. Intriguingly, the features of this osmotic reactivity closely resembled the regulation of IKs by the availability of plasma membrane phosphoinositide, phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2). Particularly, hypoosmotic activation of Kv7.1–KCNE1 was accompanied by a negative shift of channel voltage dependence and by slowing of channel deactivation; a similar effects were seen in response to the increase in membrane PIP2 (Loussouarn et al. 2003; Piron et al. 2010). Conversely, hyperosmotic inhibition of Kv7.1–KCNE1 was accompanied by inverted changes in channel activity and kinetics – quite similarly to the effects produced by the PIP2 depletion (Loussouarn et al. 2003; Piron et al. 2010). The authors hypothesized that the true mechanism underlying the IKs osmosensitivity lies in the changes in the apparent PIP2 availability induced by the osmotic challenges (Fig. 1). Kv7.1, like other members of the Kv7 channel family (Gamper & Shapiro, 2007), requires PIP2 to support channel opening (Loussouarn et al. 2003). Under the basal conditions some of the membrane PIP2 is bound to the intracellular divalent and polyvalent cations such as Mg2+ and polyamines making a pool of 'chelated' PIP2 which is not available for interaction with the IKs channels. Osmotic cell swelling is mediated by the cellular water uptake, which dilutes intracellular cations and thus 'frees' some of the bound PIP2 leading to the channel activation. On the opposite side, osmotic cell shrinkage is brought about by the loss of cellular water and results in the increased concentration of intracellular cations which, in turn, bind more PIP2 competing it off the IKs channels and causing channel inhibition. This hypothesis is supported by the following observations: (1) saturation of membrane PIP2 by the dialysis of the water-soluble analogue diC8-PIP2 prevented IKs osmosensitivity; (2) Chelation of Mg2+ and polyamines by EDTA prevented IKs osmosensitivity; (3) isoosmotic changes in intracellular concentrations of Mg2+ and polyamines (spermine and spermidine) mimicking these produced by hypo- or hyperosmotic conditions fully reproduced osmotic regulation of IKs amplitude and kinetics. What makes the proposed mechanism for osmosensitivity particularly attractive is the fact that many membrane ion channels, transporters and pumps are regulated by PIP2 (Gamper & Shapiro, 2007), and thus, this mechanism can provide a much needed general principle for the complex and precise ion flux regulation in response to a sudden change in the extracellular osmolarity.

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Osmosensitivity of membrane ion channel (cylinders) can be mediated by changes in PIP2 (green shapes labelled '–') avilability brought about by the concentration/dilution of cytosolic polycations (blue shapes labelled '++', ...

The challenge ahead is twofold. First, the hypothesis will need to be tested against the other PIP2-sensitive ion channels and transporters; thus far it is not clear if it stands true even for the Kv7 channels all of which are PIP2 sensitive: while Kv7.4 seems to 'obey' the principle (Hougaard et al. 2004), the native current conducted by neuronal Kv7 channels ('IM') in CA1 pyramidal neurons does not seem to (Caspi et al. 2009). Second, some ion transport proteins that need PIP2 for their activity are expected to be regulated reciprocally upon osmotic challenges (e.g. K+ channels and Na+/H+ exchanger; Gamper & Shapiro, 2007; Lang, 2007), and thus, their osmosensitivity cannot be straightforwardly deduced from their PIP2 sensitivity. Future research should rigorously address these questions before the hypothesis of 'osmosensitivity through the PIP2 availability' can be accepted as a general principle of cellular osmoregulation.


This integrative review aimed to synthesize studies that investigated the effects of acupressure on sleep quality, depression, anxiety, and agitation in older people, and to describe the acupressure procedures and techniques applied in the included studies.


Nowadays textbooks are still one of the basic tools of the teaching methodology. In this paper the author, after briefly tracing the development of the primary school textbooks, analyses the last generation of textbooks published after the Law 53/2003, the D.L. 59/2004 and the associated Syllabus. The significant innovations that characterise them (modularity, completeness, analyticity, crucial role of illustrations, etc) don't invalidate the deductive nature of the methodology they use. Consequently, the author outlines a hypothesis which aims at a better articulation of the textbook as a tool. It's important to consider the autonomy in the educational system as well as the need to focus the basic knowledge in curricula without limiting the chances of individual growth.


Several large tumor genome sequencing projects are ongoing or have been completed in recent years (e.g. the Cancer Genome Project by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) to get an overview of entire genome variations that occur in a tumor cell and to elucidate novel cancer genes and potential therapeutic targets [7]. An unpredicted discovery resulting from these projects was that along with the small number of original cancer-causing "driver mutations" that enforce tumor progression, numerous so-called "passenger mutations", which seem to be mostly insignificant for tumorigenesis, are coselected and carried by the tumor cell [8]. Nevertheless, as the role these passenger mutations is currently unexplored they should not be underrated with regard to potential future findings and and it has been proposed that driver mutations engage in a tug-of-war with damaging passengers [9,10].


This paper presents a Networked system of Multiple Smartphones trying to augment information residing over Server, based on current Camera Environment of the Smartphone. A Feasible solution for simulating Augmented Reality over Distributed System with Accuracy high performance has to be presented. The environment has to be accurately determined by using efficient feature matching techniques of the current camera scene and database. Smartphones have high bandwidth camera and have limited computational Compatibilities. To achieve this, real-time camera frames of smartphones are processed to extract their own set of compact and efficient feature descriptors along with location data, which are sent to the server over Wi-Fi. Computationally Heavy Feature Matching algorithms are run on the server to match the data sent from Smartphone with the Database of different Environments.


Reviews the history of the early development of the accountancy profession in the UK and the USA and describes the organization of professional accountancy bodies in both countries, concentrating particularly on events in the post‐formation period. Identifies the persistent struggle of UK and US accountants with the conflicting phenomena of economic self‐interest and public duty. Shows how professional accountancy in the UK and the USA evolved from internalized disputes to externalized defences of the professional mission. This evolution caused the actions of UK and US accountants to be scrutinized increasingly in public. Researched evidence of recent institutional reaction to such scrutiny is consistent with earlier behaviour associated with formation events. The economic self‐interest of accounting professionals appears continuously to have motivated their actions to protect the public interest.


The paper presents an experimental study on three-dimensional turbulence characteristics of curved channel flow by Doppler meter .Measured the time-average velocity and fluctuating intensity and so on. Analysised turbulence characteristics of curved channel flow by the experimental data,and also compared the flow distribution of vertical、horizontal fluctuating intensity,get the conclusion.


Suspended sediment concentrations and fluxes in meltwater rivers draining from mountain glacierised basins vary considerably at a range of temporal scales, from hour to hour, day to day, month to month during the annual cycle of runoff, and from year to year. These variations are influenced both by changing hydrometeorological and climatic conditions, and by interactions between evolving characteristics of the subglacial drainage network and the glacier bed. Irregularity of sediment flux through time results from residual winter flow through remaining small pathways having inadequate velocity to entrain even fine sediment. Rising discharge in spring and early summer transports disproportionately large quantities of sediment by comparison with higher flows later in the ablation season (e.g. Østrem 1975, Collins 1990). This seasonal pattern of sediment flux is punctuated, particularly in the earlier part of the season, by pulses lasting for hours through several days, as rising discharge, initial increased water pressure in subglacial hydrological pathways and concomitant glacier motion develop subglacial drainage pathways. Evolution of the drainage network beneath a glacier each year follows the timing, quantity and seasonal pattern of discharge, which in turn reflect climatic conditions. Winter snow accumulation interacts with summer energy conditions for melt to generate the seasonal discharge cycle. Measurements of sediment content of meltwaters, together with discharge, have to be sufficiently closely spaced in time to capture pulses which provide glaciologically-relevant information about sudden changes in, and seasonal development and evolution of the subglacial drainage network, as well as indicating seasonal and year-to-year variations in suspended sediment flux associated with climatic variation at the scale of tens of years.


The present study aims at the development and validation of the Center Adaptation Questionnaire (CAC) by statistical homogeneity analysis, factor analysis and both internal and external validity. The questionnaire was admi- nistered to 318 children and adolescents aged between 4 and 17, from different child/youth care centers in Melilla (Spain). Statistical analyzes indicate that the questionnaire has a structure formed by two factors and 8 additional items with a Cronbach Alpha suitable for both the overall rate of the scale (0.790) and their different dimensions. These data and the correlation between total scores and external adaptation measure allow us to conclude that the Center Adaptation Questionnaire (CAC) is a reliable and valid instrument.


Fibrillar conductive polyaniline/TiO_2(PANI/TiO_2) nanocomposites with different TiO_2 amount are synthesized by template-free in-situ polymerization method,and they are characterized by TEM,XRD,FT-IR spectra and conductivity measurement.Morphology of the composite PANI/TiO_2(23.8%) is relatively uniform nanofibers with the diameters and lengths in the range of 20~40 nm and 390~420 nm,respectively.The TiO_2 nanoparticles in the composite are rutile crystalline form and PANI have also some degree of crystallinity.The spectra analyses indicate that a strong interaction existes between PANI and TiO_2 nanoparticles,and has a beneficial effect on the thermal stability of nanofibers in air.The conductivity of PANI/TiO_2 composites increases with the increase of TiO_2 amount,and has an optimum value 2.86 S/cm when the TiO_2 content is about 11.1 %.


The purpose of the paper was to analyse changes of labor costs and labor efficiency over time in Poland and how they impact emigration and imigration from Poland to the Western countries.


Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common disease that lead to endocrine disorders and infertility in women of child-bearing age. A large number of studies have shown that the pathogenesis of PCOS is related to insulin resistance (IR), hyperandrogenism and high body mass index. At present, remarkable progress has been made in the study of conception methods and the reduction of multiple pregnancies in PCOS patients. However, there is relatively little research on the adverse pregnancy outcomes after conception. Therefore, this study will use evidence-based medicine to make a review of complications in maternal. For instance, pregnancy-induced hypertension syndrome (PIH), gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), miscarriage, premature delivery and so on. This study provides an overall basis for early prevention and intervention in clinical work through discussing the pathophysiology of PCOS, the risk factors of its occurrence and development, and the management strategies of pre-pregnancy and gestation period.

Key words:
Polycystic ovary syndrome; Pregnancy complications; Pregnancy outcome; Review


Copyright © 2019 by author(s) and International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development Journal. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4. ABSTRACT UREMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY is an acute or sub-acute organic brain syndrome that occurs in patients with advanced renal failure and is frequently associated with GFR less than 10ml/min/1.73m2. Under conditions of renal failure where the blood level of urea is high. The common symptoms include sluggishness, fatigue, day time drowsiness, insomnia, slurring of speech, anorexia, myoclonus, asterixis, aphasic episode, coma and convulsion. In this case a 69-year-old male patient with history of ESRD, was presented with certain neurological symptoms associated with uremic encephalopathy. This case report adds to the prevalence of uremic encephalopathy associated with end stage renal disease and the importance of hemodialysis to resolve the clinical manifestations.


Modeling and analysis of low frequency noise in circuit simulators with time-varying bias conditions is a long-standing open problem. In this paper, we offer a definite solution for this problem and present a model for low-frequency noise that captures the internal, stochastic dynamics of the individual noise sources via dedicated internal pseudo nodes that are coupled with the rest of the circuit. Our method correctly incorporates the inherent nonstationarity of low-frequency noise into the device model and the circuit simulator. It is based on a probabilistic description of oxide traps in nano-scale devices that individually cause the so-called random telegraph signal (RTS) noise, and, en masse, are believed to be the culprits of other low-frequency noise phenomena, such as 1/f and burst noise. Our model captures the dependence of noise characteristics on the state variables of the circuit. Its simple yet precise mathematical formulation allows the utilization of well-established, non Monte Carlo techniques for nonstationary noise analysis. In one embodiment that we present in this paper, the proposed noise model is used to perform frequency-domain, non Monte Carlo, semi-analytical noise evaluation for circuits under periodic large-signal excitations. For this case, we verify that the computed noise spectral densities match the ones obtained via spectral estimation from timedomain Monte Carlo noise simulation data.


This paper introduces a method for the recognition planar objects under projective geometry. Our method is based on a similarity measure invariant to projective transform. The proposed similarity measure utilizes the distribution of the projective relations between the conic section pairs, which are estimated from the object¿s shape. We conjecture that given two objects of the same type, which are viewed from different viewpoints generate similar histograms, such that their difference is smaller than the histograms generated from other object types. The proposed measure has shown promising performance on the Brown shape database.


Syrian Arab Republic is located on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea with an area of 18.517.071 ha and a population of about 20.376 million (Anon 2009). Dry land in Syria accounts for about 10 million ha, about 55% of the entire country, with annual rainfall of <200 mm per year for the last 20 years (Wardeh 2005). Desertification is threatening large areas in Syria mainly due to salinity, which has expanded to the irrigated areas in the Eastern part of the country (Harba 2006). Therefore, it is crucial to prevent salinity and desertification in any way possible. One way to rehabilitate and reclaim these soils is by planting salt-tolerant forage species. Among these species is the genus Atriplex, which has recently raised interest where some 100.000 ha have been planted in the Mediterranean basin, Species of the genus Atriplex are known for their high tolerance to aridity and salinity (Le Houerou 1992). Using halophytes to produce forage in saline lands is the best economic solution (Khan and Duke 2001). Halophytes can play a role in soil reclamation in degraded lands (Le Houerou 1992). Atriplex are the dominant plants in arid and semi-arid lands of the world, especially when soil is combined with salinity (Ortíz et al. 2005). Atriplex halimus L. is a member of the Chenopodiaceae and one of the major species used in combating desertification due to its salt tolerance, which is defined as a plant's ability to grow under saline stress (Munns 2002). A. halimus is an important Mediterranean xerohalophyte salt bush species highly resistant to drought (Le Houerou 2000), salinity (Bajji et al. 1998) and heavy metal stress (Lutts et al. 2004). Therefore, this study was carried out to develp an efficient micropropagation system for large-scale rapid clonal multiplication and spreading its cultivation to contribute in alleviating desertification impact on the environment and Humans. Another objective was the selection of in vitro of highly salt-tolerant clones by increasing concentrations of NaCl on in vitro grown plantlets.


Recently, a tremendous amount of excitement and interest has been generated by the rapid succession of discoveries in the human fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) field. In less than a year, mutations in three FGFRs (FGFR1-FGFR3) have been associated with three skeletal dysplasias and four craniosynostotic syndromes. FGFRs are members of the receptor tyrosine kinase family that bind fibroblast growth factors (FGFs). The FGF family consists of structurally related polypeptides that play a key role in numerous aspects of embryogenesis, growth, and homeostasis. FGFs have a potent growth stimulatory and/or differentiation-inducing effect on cells such as those derived from the early-embryonic mesoderm or ectoderm. In addition to mitogenesis and differentiation, FGFs also stimulate chemotaxis, cell survival, and angiogenesis. FGFs mediate cellular responses on binding to and activation of FGFRs. 45 refs., 2 figs., 1 tab.


The reaction of LnI2(thf)2 with benzyl potassium affords the homoleptic benzyl complexes [Ln(CH2Ph)2]n of samarium, europium, and ytterbium. In the cases of Eu and Yb, the treatment of [Ln(CH2Ph)2]n with one equivalent of 2,6-diisopropylaniline gives access to tetrameric organoimide complexes [(thf)Ln(μ3-NDipp)]4, representing the first examples of homometallic Ln(ii) imides. This study revealed that the Yb(ii) organoimide chemistry is significantly different from that of calcium.


The setting of the term frequency normalization hyper-parameter suffers from the query dependence and collection dependence problems, which remarkably hurt the robustness of the retrieval performance. Our study in this article investigates three term frequency normalization methods, namely normalization 2, BM25's normalization and the Dirichlet Priors normalization. We tackle the query dependence problem by modifying the query term weight using a Divergence From Randomness term weighting model, and tackle the collection dependence problem by measuring the correlation of the normalized term frequency with the document length. Our research hypotheses for the two problems, as well as an automatic hyper-parameter setting methodology, are extensively validated and evaluated on four Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) collections.


An almost complete sequence of Upper Jurassic-lowermost Cretaceous shales and sandstones occurs in Jameson Land. In latest Volgian or earliest Ryazanian time the succession was folded into a shallow syncline. The synclinal trough was transgressed by the sea from the south in Ryazanian time and filled with clastic sediments. Successively younger rocks rest with tectonic overstep on the gently folded sequence. Ammonites characteristic of the Chetaites chetae Zone (uppermost Volgian) occur 200 metres below the unconformity, whereas the oldest fossils found in the filling of the synclinal trough are characteristic of the Surites spasskensis Zone (Middle Ryazanian). Presumably the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary is situated in the upper part of the folded sequence and not at the unconformity.


Internet operation is migrating from IPv4-only operation to IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack operation. From the viewpoint of the operation cost, it is best if the operation can be done only with a single protocol, either IPv4 or IPv6. However, it is mandatory for service providers to accept all three types of users, 1) IPv4-only users who will remain in the Internet for long time, 2) IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack users who will be a dominant users in near future, and 3) IPv6-only users who will appear in the future as IPv6 deployment progresses. In this paper, we propose a recommended operation model designed for the IaaS system operated with IPv6-only network with a wide area L2 network and IPv4-IPv6 translation software for backward compatibility. With our proposal, we can reduce the use of IPv4 addresses in the cloud backend network, and provide high-performance, scalable, and redundant address translation software suitable for the IPv6-only IaaS system that can be one of the reference operation models of future datacenters.


3090 Background: VXM01 is an orally available, bacterially transmitted DNA vaccine targeting VEGFR-2. Pre-clinically, VXM01 showed anti-tumor activity in multiple tumor types. This first-in-human s...


Martensitic stainless steels are widely used in industrial applications due to their ability to be heat treated to different strength levels, coupled with good corrosion and oxidation resistance. AISI 431 is one of the most potentially attractive steels in this class used extensively for parts requiring a combination of high tensile strength, good toughness and corrosion resistance. However, high alloy content of these steels causes the transformation to be so sluggish, and the hardenability to be so high, that maximum hardness is produced by air cooling. By applying suitable heat treatment procedures, the properties of martensitic stainless steels are greatly modified. This paper reviews the various heat treatment methods applied to AISI 431 martensitic stainless steels and their influence on the microstructure and mechanical properties.


Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays Edited by Phillip Sipiora Introduction by Jonathan Lethem New York: Random House Release date: October 15, 2013 632 pp. Cloth $40.00 Mind of an outlaw is a collection of essays by Norman mailer from 19482006, ending just before his death in the fall of 2007. The essay form gets us closest to Mailer's thought processes across six decades, closer even than his fiction or nonfiction books, his films, or his public performances. Editor Phillip Sipiora, who is also the founding editor of The Mailer Review, ultimately decided against a thematic or topical organization in favor of a chronological. That was an auspicious editorial decision because the book's publication date will roughly coincide with the publication of J. Michael Lennon's big, authorized biography of Mailer, Norman Mailer: A Double Life. Sipiora's chronological structure, clearly divided into decades, especially makes his book an illuminating companion volume to Lennon's biography. Readers of the biography now have an opportunity in Mind of an Outlaw to look into Mailer's mind, into his developing thought processes, even as they trace Lennon's narrative of Mailer's long, unconventional life. In the essays collected here the subject is, of course, at times Mailer himself, but more often the true subject is Mailer's reaction to the American scene from the Cold War through the "War on Terror." And what an unusual, original reaction Mailer's so often is. Yes, he could at times be our public (or holy) fool; yes, he is eminently capable of contradicting himself over a course of months or years; and yes, as he himself admits, he has been wrong about one thing or another. But we see also that Mailer is often prescient; that he calls into question some of our most sacred cows, our contemporary prejudices and pieties; that he is capable of admitting his own folly; and that he probes events of political, social, economic, and popular culture with a vision unlike any other. A year ago in the pages of this Review, I said something that might begin to ring true to readers of these carefully selected essays. As a self-confessed "Left-Conservative" and like left-conservatives before him (think Thoreau, Ruskin, and Orwell--and even John Adams if you go back far enough--or a contemporary like Edward Abbey or Christopher Hitchens), Mailer offers insights on topics of the moment that seem often, if oddly, both timely and timeless. That is, they carry both popular and historical interest; they have the potential to stand the test of time that other more commonly acceptable insights expressed in our mass media by commentators inhaling heavily off the zeitgeist do not. As left-conservative Mailer suggests in "Fighting the Mind That Is Inside the Brain": "[T]his variety of conservative--decent not bigoted, open to discussion rather than given over, body and soul, to talk radio--is also aghast at the uneasy but real possibility that George W. Bush might be the worst and most unqualified president America has ever had.... Yes, such conservatives ... are in the same state of inanition and ideological impotence as all those Democrats who cannot believe where the country is going. Let us as Democrats consider the possibility that such conservatives can also be part of a future in which Democrats draw their political sustenance from the best ideas of Left and Right" (p. 571). Reading Mind of an Outlaw, I recalled reading aloud to my first fiction workshop at the Mailer Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, salient portions of Mailer's "By Heaven Inspired," collected here, about the 1992 Republican Convention in Houston, Texas. I introduced my reading as an amusing exercise in voice, but when I had finished the students seemed stunned. None of them had seen Mailer's essay before. It was not only the vigorous left-conservative voice that caught their attention; it was the cascade of percipient detail and surprising yet apt metaphor, the sheer, humorous energy of the piece. …


The Araripe manakin is a critically endangered species of bird endemic to northeastern Brazil. The species' habitat has suffered intense fragmentation and degradation in recent years, resulting in a decline in population numbers and a probable loss of viability. The present study evaluated the genetic diversity and structure of this population through the analysis of Hypervariable Domain I of the mitochondrial Control Region and two nuclear introns (I7BF and G3PDH). The results, based primarily on mitochondrial data, revealed an absence of any population substructuring and a marked tendency for population decline during the demographic history of the species, which began during the late Pleistocene, approximately 40,000 years ago. The evidence indicates that the effective size of the population of the Araripe manakin has declined gradually over time, a process that may be intensifying as a result of the recent anthropogenic impacts on the species' habitat.


Alone is strong? : A study of the parliamentary foreign policy and defence debates in Sweden and Finland following the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014


. Raman Laser Spectrometer (RLS) is the Pasteur Payload instrument of the ExoMars mission that will perform Raman spectroscopy for the first time in a planetary Space mission. [1] RLS main Units are: SPU (SPectrometer Unit), iOH (internal Optical Head), and ICEU (Instrument Control and Excitation Unit), that includes the laser for samples excitation purposes. iOH focuses the excitation laser on the crushed samples (located at the ALD, Analytical Laboratory Drawer, carrousel) through the excitation path, and collects the Raman emission from the sample (collection path). Its original design presented a high laser trace reaching to the SPU detector, and although a certain level was required for instrument calibration, the found level was expected to be capable of degrading the acquired spectra confounding some Raman peaks. So, iOH optical and opto-mechanical designs were needed to be updated from the BB to the engineering and qualification model (iOH EQM), in order to fix the desired amount of laser trace, and after the fabrication and the commitment of the commercial elements,


This Thematic Issue on "Situation-aware Intelligent Environments" of JAISE consists of five selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Environments 2018, which was held in Rome (Italy) during June 25–28, 2018. Intelligent Environments is one of the main components of the concept of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) and covers some key areas of research including, but not limited to, human activity recognition, humanenvironment interaction, and various machine learning and data mining techniques for applications such as smart home, healthcare, and smart cities. The emerging integration of objects able to sense, reason and communicate is enabling a new generation of services that assist the user in everyday tasks. For being effective, these services must be aware of the current situation, which includes not only location, but also current activity, mood, and social context, just to name a few. Objects in intelligent environments provide extensive low-level data that can be mined for capturing a fine-grained picture of the user's situation. Integrating and mining those data for situation-awareness is a challenging topic, which involves artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, big data analysis, security, trust, and privacy issues. The five papers appearing in this Thematic Issue cover a wide range of important topics for situationaware intelligent environments. In smart manufacturing environments, wearable technologies and sensors bring the opportunity to use the recorded data to deliver timely assistance to the operator and to optimize work processes. However, the continuous acquisition of workers' sensor data determines relevant trust and privacy issues. The paper "A trust and privacy framework for smart manufacturing environments" by Mannhardt, Peterson, and Oliveira, proposes a framework to address trust and privacy challenges in complex smart manufacturing systems. The rise of self-driving cars is paving the way to novel naturalistic interaction modalities, including feet gesture interaction. The paper "Enabling driver feet gestures using capacitive proximity sensing" by Frank and Kuijper, proposes and evaluates a technique to distinguish among four feet gestures; the technique does not cause privacy issues and has no visible interior design impact. Heart disease and strokes are among the leading causes of death. Currently, electrocardiography monitoring is the only tool that helps physicians diagnose hearth issues. In the work "Utilising fog computing for developing a person-centric heart monitoring system" by Akrivopoulos, Amaxilatis, Mavrommati, and Chatzigiannakis, a novel system is proposed, which combines wearable embedded devices, mobile edge devices, and cloud services to provide reliable and accurate heart monitoring. Today's low cost robots can perform their specific tasks, but they cannot cooperate to execute complex cooperative tasks. The paper "Tidy up my room: Multi-agent cooperation for service tasks in smart environments" by Rasch, Sprute, Pörtner, Battermann, and König, presents a system supported by cameras and lights to detect pointing gestures from a user and locating objects. The system in-


Modern living and working conditions offer ideal conditions for rapid re-entry of microorganisms. Rapid proliferation and spreading microorganisms in crowded environment causes the formation of stains and odors on textile surfaces, deterioration of products, diseases and infections in human body, and allergic reactions are increased. For this reason, the hygiene of the beds where our body is in contact for a long time is very important. The aim of the study is to produce a natural spray and antibacterial film to reduce the various diseases that can be transmitted to people from the beds and to make hygienic beds that can not be changed in a short time.
In the study, extracts from dianthus, lavender, soap, marshmallow and sour alfalfa plants were obtained by using Soxhlet and Clevenger devices. Experimental groups were formed by combining extracts one by one. Microorganism samples of the experimental groups from the bed and the effects on the enriched mesophilic aerobic bacteria culture were examined using Disc-Diffusion and bacterial counting methods. The results were evaluated by statistical analysis with variance analysis and Duncan test.
As a result of the study, it was determined that the microorganisms from the bed and the dianthus and lavender + all extracts on MAB have the maximum inhibitory effect. Antibacterial film has been produced which can provide long-term hygiene in bed using dianthus oil, xanthan gum, propylene glycol, tween-20 and distilled water. The resulting gel was made lyophilized to use. With the development of the obtained product, it is possible to reduce the damage caused by these chemicals to human and environmental health, to make the perennial beds healthy to prevent the diseases caused by the beds by about 2 million people (residing in hospitals and residences ...), to spend money on chemicals used for hygiene, practical and natural hygiene can be achieved.


The paper discusses the benefits of symbiotic self-relocating massage robot Octahedral dodecapod (OD) for unassisted massaging cosmonauts' upper and lower extremities irrespective of body spatial orientation. The declared capabilities were demonstrated with a full-sized kinematic model.


Objective:To discuss the effect of quality care implementation in a medical clinic.Methods:The United states through active voice service with a smile and carry out ceremonial service training,development of contingency plans pre triage,and strengthen nursing safety,psychological care,and more specialist nurses to improve patient care and medical knowledge,the establishment of shift logs,do epidemiological investigations carried out convenience benefitspublic services,family services and health education,comprehensive treatment services and other measures to carry out an appointment to effectively practice high-quality care.Results:Emergency rescue success rate,the patient and family′s satisfaction,social satisfaction and has obvious effect.Conclusion:High quality nursing service in medical clinic run complied with the general office of the stata council 2011 public hospital reform the arrangement of work requirements,set up the good hospital clinical nursing service image window.


This paper reports on the design of planar dual‐band filters for multifunctional RF systems. Three topologies are presented with their associated design techniques. The first one consists of retaining the two harmonics of a classical filter. The second one investigates a concept of a dual‐matching network. The third one is based on a double constructive recombination. Their comparison highlights their key features. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 46: 355–360, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.20986


The adsorption of trimethylammonium glycol chitosan iodide (TGCI) on Dowex CCR-2 resin was investigated at different pH values and resin weights. The concentration of Na+ or Ca2+ ions, released by the ion exchange reaction with TGCI, was measured by inductively coupled plasma spectroscopy. It was found that the amount of the released ions is comparable to that of the absorbed TGCI. This indicates that the salt-linkage formation of carboxylate ions of the exchanger with ⊕N(CH3)3-groups in TGCI follows a stoichiometric relationship. This result is discussed in connection with the form of the polymer layer adsorbed on the solid surface.


Light and transmission electron microscopic observations indicate that bacteria in the epidermis of Aiptasia pallida are rod-shaped, possess a thin, undulant cell wall, and occur as a single morphotype in a colony. The absence of visible tissue damage suggests a symbiotic relationship between the bacteria and the anemone. Reports of symbiotes in Cnidaria are few, other than those on the muchstudied photosynthetic dinoflagellates or zooxanthellae; e.g., Zooxanthella microadriatica (see Blank & Trench, 1986). Cheng & Wong (1974) described trematode metacercaria in the scleractinian corals Porites compressa and P. lobata. Trematode metacercaria also were found in P. astreoides from Belize (Peters, unpublished observations). Riggs (1982) reported finding numerous "multinucleate parasites" surrounded by a thin cuticle in the mesoglea of the mesenteries and pharynx of several specimens of Aiptasia tagetes. Riggs (1982) also discovered an "identical parasite" in the gastrodermis of a tentacle of A. tagetes. These parasites ranged in size from 24 x 40 ,m to 60 x 86 .m. Carlgren (1943) described a similar "parasite" that ranged from 31 x 40 Atm to 149 x 187 ,tm in the coelenteron of Aiptasia pulchella. In one specimen of Aiptasia pallida, Riggs (1982) found several round "pinkstaining bodies," consisting of two or three concentric rings, in the column epidermis. The largest was determined to be 40 ,m in diameter. Riggs (1982) also reported finding "pink bodies" in the column epidermis of A. pallida, but they did not have the abundant nuclei that were present in the parasites of A. pulchella and A. tagetes. Carlgren & Hedgepeth (1952) noted the presence of numerous round or oval bodies, which they believed were "probably gregarines," in the epidermis of the tentacles of a specimen of A. pallida. Protozoan parasites also were found in the scleractinian corals. Gemmocystis cylindrus (Apicomplexa: Agamoccidiorida) occurred in the gastrodermal cells of the lobes of the mesenterial filaments of Agaricia agaricites, Dendrogyra cylindrus, Diploria strigosa, Meandrina meandrites, Montastraea cavernosa, Porites astreoides, P. porites, and Porites sp. (see Peters, 1984; Upton & Peters, 1 We thank Andrea S. Blake for technical assistance. 2 Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, U.S.A. TRANS. AM. MICROSC. SOC., 108(3): 239-244. 1989. ? Copyright, 1989, by the American Microscopical Society, Inc. This content downloaded from 188.8.131.52 on Mon, 08 Aug 2016 06:05:09 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms TRANS. AM. MICROSC. SOC. 1986). Peters (1984) discovered a sporozoon, tentatively identified as Nematopsis sp., in the calicoblast epithelium of P. porites. Peters (1984) further reported the presence of an unidentified amoeba in the calicoblastic epithelium of specimens of Siderastrea sp. Lauckner (1980) stated that there had been no studies of viral or bacterial diseases among cnidarians. However, colonies of bacteria in cnidarians other than Aiptasia have been reported (Peters, 1984; Peters et al., 1983; Peters in manuscript). Various bacterial morphotypes appear in a single and in different cnidarian species. Peters et al. (1983) noted that tissues of specimens of Acropora palmata and A. cervicornis showing symptoms of "white band disease" harbored gram-negative bacteria. Similar bacteria were found in diseased and healthy specimens of A. agaricites and healthy specimens of Stephanocoenia michelinii and P. astreoides (see Peters, 1984). Ducklow & Mitchell (1979) and Peters (1984) also found spiral and rod-shaped bacteria, as well as ciliates and cyanobacterial filaments, within the disease line of specimens of Colpophyllia natans, D. strigosa, and Montastraea annularis exhibiting "black line disease." The cyanobacterium responsible for "black line (=black band) disease" has been identified as Phormidium corallyticum (see Riitzler & Santavy, 1983), but little is known about other bacterial populations associated with cnidarians (e.g., Paul et al., 1986). We report here the occurrence of bacteria in tissues of Aiptasia pallida, discovered during a study of morphological changes resulting from fish predation of the anemone's tentacles. MATERIALS AND METHODS Specimens of Aiptasia pallida (Verrill, 1864) were collected from the Coral Reef Exhibit in the Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. and maintained in the aquaria of the Coral Reef Microcosm of the Department of Biology, Georgetown University. One anemone was removed from an aquarium and subjected to predation by a four-eyed butterflyfish, Chaetodon capistratus. The fish bit off the tips of several tentacles of the sea anemone. This anemone was returned to the approximate position in the aquarium from which it had been removed. Twenty-four hours later, a visibly normal tentacle and a tentacle undergoing recovery after having been bitten off by the fish were detached with fine pointed forceps and placed in separate vials containing a primary fixative solution consisting of 2.5% glutaraldehyde buffered at a pH of 7.8 with a mixture of Instant Ocean? and distilled water (specific density, 1.0250). Primary fixation was for 1.5 h at 20?C. Three consecutive 15-min primary washes with buffer were followed by a 1.5-h post-fixation using 2% Os04 in the same buffer at 20?C. Three consecutive 15-min secondary washes with buffer were followed by passage, at 15-min intervals, through an ethanol series (25%, 50%, 70%, 85%, 95%, 100%, 100%), followed by two 15-min changes in propylene oxide. Overnight infiltration was accomplished in a 1:1 mixture of propylene oxide and Epon LX-112 (Luft, 1961). A 1:3 mixture of propylene oxide and Epon was allowed to infiltrate the specimens for 8 h. Specimens were embedded in 240 This content downloaded from 126.96.36.199 on Mon, 08 Aug 2016 06:05:09 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms VOL. 108, NO. 3, JULY 1989 241


Equipment and tooling maintenance has a great impact on modern enterprises,and is becoming increasingly complex.This paper gives a summary of the equipment and tooling maintenance modes in China,and analysis their pros and cons.Modern Enterprises in China should adopt the appropriate modes according to their characteristics,and should try to adopt the lastest modes.


Sex‐specific vascular adaptations to hypertension and ageing were examined in young (16wk) and adult (30wk), male (M) and female (F), normotensive Wistar‐Kyoto (WKY) and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). Endothelium‐dependent relaxation to sub‐maximal acetylcholine (ACh) was greater in 16wk SHR vs. WKY. Maximal ACh caused contraction in 16wk and 30wk M, but not F. Age‐related decrements occurred most notably in F‐SHR, but not F‐WKY. Indomethacin (COX inhibitor) restored relaxation to maximal ACh in 16wk M‐SHR, and in 30wk M‐WKY and M‐SHR. Contraction to KCl was reduced in 16wk F‐WKY and greater in 30wk M‐SHR. Greater contractions to phenylephrine (PE) occurred in M vs. F (EC50, max. contraction). While 16wk rats were more sensitive (EC50), 30wk rats had greater maximal PE responses. 16wk rats had elevated aortic protein levels of the prooxidant subunits gp91phox (in SHR vs. WKY) and p67phox (in F‐SHR), but not p22phox. In contrast, similar enzyme levels occurred in all groups of 30wk rats. These data support hypertension‐ and male sex‐related decrements in endothelial function in 16wk rats that are exacerbated with age. In addition, female sex‐related preservation of endothelial function is lost by 30 weeks of age in this model of hypertension.


This paper describes a development of a sofware solution for disabled users on symbol (pictogram) - text interface level. The solution is extended by a gesture recognition, which works with a sign-language. A symbol (pictogram) represents an idea encapsulated into a simple drawing. Its purpose is to better understand given situation. When teaching children to read, it is required that the text used is not impersonal. The purpose of the text is not only to give information; it should also "touch" the child and provide understanding. The paper offers a description of the sofware solution implementation. It also provides selected examples of the solution utilization and its evaluation.


Provision of complete basic immunization is useful to provide comprehensive protection against dangerous diseases Provision of complete basic immunization is useful to provide comprehensive protection against dangerous diseases. By providing complete basic immunizations according to schedule, the baby's body is stimulated to have immunity so that his body is able to defend against dangerous diseases. This study aims to determine "maternal factors related to the implementation of complete basic immunization in infants aged 1 year in environment III of the teak village of northern binjai in 2020". This research is correlated by using the chi square test and primary data through questionnaires. In this study the study population was mothers who had a 1 year old baby living in environment III of the teak village of northern binjai as many as 54 people, the sample used was total sampling. In a study conducted on 54 people showed that from 54 people based on maternal education that there is a relationship between the implementation of immunization with a significant value of 0.01 0.05. Based on family support that there is a relationship with the implementation of immunization with a significant value of 0.03 <0.05. Based on the age of the mother that there is a relationship between the implementation of immunization with a significant value of 0.03 <0.05. Based on the mother's knowledge that there is a relationship between the implementation of the immunization checklist with a significant value of 0.01 <0.05. Based on the provision of immunization that there is a correlation between the implementation of immunization with a significant value of 0.04 <0.05. It is expected that mothers who have a 1-year-old baby listen to counseling more often and come to the posyandu to seek information about complete basic immunization.


AC sensitivities guide most analogue automatic test pattern generator (AATPG) while determining the optimal frequencies of a sinusoidal test stimulus. The optimal frequencies thus determined, normally lie in the close vicinity of the operating frequency of the circuit. Although these frequencies are justifiable by the principles of the circuit, these test frequencies do not bring any added value to the ultimate goal of cheap alternatives (low frequency test signal and cheaper measurement equipment) for the analogue and RF tests. In this paper, we propose to re-configure the circuit blocks, in such a way that the operating frequencies of the respective sub-block are shifted to lower testable frequencies. We have validated our proposal on a sub-block of a satellite receiver circuit that resulted in lowering the test frequencies of the corresponding sub-blocks from 12 GHz to 4MHz, while attaining the same level of defect coverage


where l(t) is the local time of X(t) at O, i.e., 1 :1--....)(X,)ds 2--(For the original version of this theorem, see p. 48 of [4] or [1], [7].) The aim of his article is o prove a central limit theorem; Theorem. D-valued processes 1//-[.(d.(t)-l(t)) converge in law to B(l(t)) as O, where B(.) is a Brownian motion independent of (B0=0). This is a natural assertion because d,(1-(t)) is Poisson. distributed with mean t(see D. Williams [7]). However, the diculy is ha the independence of B and does no seem o be trivial from his kind of argument. Therefore we will use another approach based on he following lemma due to D. Stroock*). Lemma 1. Let O;= 1.....)(t) sgn (Xt)l(....)(Xt), then,


The invention relates to a device (1) for determining a dielectric property of a capacitor arrangement (21), said device comprising an alternating signal generator (3) for applying an electrical alternating signal to the capacitor arrangement (21). Said device also comprises an evaluation circuit (6) for evaluating at least one electrical measuring variable of an electrical signal tapped on the capacitor arrangement (21). The device further comprises balancing means (4) that are arranged in an electrical path between the alternating signal generator (3) and the capacitor arrangement (21) and are used to modify a parameter of the electrical alternating signal in such a way that an output signal of the evaluation circuit (6) takes on a defined value, preferably nil, under defined constant conditions. The device comprises control means for emitting an electrical control signal to the balancing means, by which means the modification of the at least one parameter can be controlled. In this way, the device (1) can be balanced in a simple, rapid, cost-effective and especially automatic manner.


Rapid growth of information technology development as well as increasing level of competition make every company need to establish an information system to support its business process. Research & Technology Transfer Directorate of Binus University is aware of this matter and makes a goal to improve the existing business process and develop a web-based information system that is able to support the existing business process to be more effective and efficient. This study aims to conduct an analysis and a design of information system for Research & Technology Transfer Directorate Binus University that can enhance the existing business process. Research used two methods, firstly data gathering done by conducting field studies and literature reviews, secondly the analysis and design of the system with object-oriented method. The result achieved from this research is a web-based information system that can support Research & Technology Transfer Directorate business process. The conclusion of this research is a new integrated web-based information system that can support and enhance current business process by connecting all parts of the system with the result to make all process more effective and efficient.