Idesia polycarpa Maxim.was the only one type in the world,originated in China.The pulp and seeds could be crushing,and they contained 32.8% to 43.6%,and 22.4% to 31.6% oil respectively.The oil could be used as edible oil after refining.The main fatty acid was linoleic acid of 52.5%~81.4%,then oleic acid,palmitic acid,and stearic acid followed.It could be used as lubricating oil,emulsifier,dryer etc.in industry;it could treat and prevent high blood lipids and atherosclerosis in medicine and was used as the materials of biodiesel.It was known as"the tree oil depot".It was one of the good green and water-soil conservation trees with fast growth,wide adaptability and strong resistance.The botanical and biological characteristics,the suitable conditions and ecological utilization status,the breeding and cultivation techniques of I.polycarpa were discussed.


Reindeer are highly adapted to the extreme climates of northern latitudes and, therefore, when imported to countries such as the UK, are usually expected to live in substantially different conditions to those in which they evolved. This can make them susceptible to a variety of diseases and pathogens, which prospective owners and their vets need to be aware of, especially if reindeer are to share accommodation with other species such as sheep and cattle. The extensive experience and published literature from North America and Scandinavian countries, where reindeer are managed as semidomesticated herds accustomed to seasonal migration, can help to inform the growing knowledge base in the UK. This article discusses some of the common problems affecting reindeer in this country.


Abstract : This dissertation provides detailed analysis, performance evaluation, and modeling of a source localization method that is based on medium calibration. In the past, processing the signals received on an array of sensors in the ocean to locate an acoustic source has been treated by methods which are based on detailed knowledge of the sound speed structure between the source and the receiving array.


Visual inspection and bimanual palpation are the cornerstones of diagnosis of diseases of the oral cavity. Clinical examination, however, could underestimate the deep spread of tumors and thereby the submucosal extent and limiting accurate pretreatment staging of disease. Imaging provides additional staging information such as precise location and local extent of the tumor which help in the selection of most effective treatment option and extent of surgical excision. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers an excellent aid for the evaluation of tumors of the oral cavity due to direct visualization of soft tissue in multiple planes. An interesting case of a 35-year-old male patient with extensive lymph nodal mass involving left side of the neck with limited mouth opening is reported. MRI was very helpful in locating the site of primary neoplastic mass along with providing the exact extent of the tumor and its effect on adjacent vital structures.


Results. In quiescent or serotonin-precontracted arteries, lidocaine, bupivacaine, or mepivacaine.(10~-10~M) evoked no change in vascular tone. However, all local anesthetics (10~M) and bupivacaine (10~-10~M) reduced endothelium-dependent relaxations to bradykinin (10~-10~M), whereas the endothelium-independent relaxations to the nitric oxide-donor 3-morpholino-sydnonimine (SIN-1; 10~-10~M) were unaffected by local anesthetics. The addition of L-arginine (10~M) markedly reduced the inhibitory effects of bupivacaine on endothelial vasodilatation function.


This thesis is dedicated to high power impulse magnetron sputtering. First part is concerned with physical priciples of magnetron sputtering, magnetic field of magnetron, techniques of formation ions of sputtered particles ana spectrums of atoms. In practical part are compared optical emission spectrums of DC discharge and dischage made by high power impulse. There are monitored intensities of selected spectral lines. There is examined impact of flow of argon on discharge made by high power impulse. There is observed progress of discharge current and voltage in time for various arguments of discharge. This thesis deals also with transition between energetic states of atoms and ions of titan.


On the basis of chaotic model,this paper discusses the reasonable identification of relativistic deformation on ground capacity in plate loading test according to the result of the test.


Vertebrates are mostly large, agile creatures that can move rapidly and efficiently despite the significant inertial and interaction forces that are generated when they move. Vertebrates appear in the fossil record in the lower Cambrian, when predation began to apply selection pressure for increased size and, consequently, increased inertia. Agility depends critically upon the cerebellum, a brain structure that appears to have evolved as an elaboration of the vestibular and lateral-line sensory processing regions in brains of aquatic ancestors. There is compelling evidence to suggest that the specific role of the cerebellum in motor control (etc) is state estimation. Analysis of responses of vestibular neurons in bullfrogs shows that these neurons have fractional-order dynamics. Because of this property, the vestibular nerve forms a map of the state space of the animal's head, and individual action potentials can be regarded as assertions about the location of the head in that space. This view of vestibular coding suggests an analogy with particle filters, a new simulation-based method for state estimation. In a particle filter the distribution of possible states consistent with observations is represented by a cloud of "particles" in a map of the state space. By regarding action potentials as particles in neural state estimators, we may develop a realistic model of neural computation in the cerebellum. At the same time—and independently of the biological verisimilitude of such a cerebellar model—we may develop useful new algorithms for state estimation. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 10: 56–65, 2005


Measurements of the backscattering of 4‐kcps sound from the surface of the sea at a grazing angle of 5° and a wind speed ranging from less than 5 ft (knots) to greater than 35 kt were made off Bermuda. It was assumed that surface backscattering is wind‐speed‐dependent; volume backscattering, on the other hand, was assumed not to be wind‐speed‐dependent in order to distinguish between surface reverberation and volume reverberation. It was observed that volume reverberation prevails at the lower wind speeds (smooth sea surface), whereas surface reverberation prevails at the higher wind speeds (moderate to rough sea surface). The surface scattering strength data compared favorably with results previously reported in the literature.


The level of the mathematical ability is related to the settlement of mathematical problem tightly.Thereby it is necessary to discuss the structure and method of this settlement for improving the mathematical ability.


This article proposes a novel back-to-back competitive learning mechanism (BCLM) for a fuzzy logic (FL) supervisory control system of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). This mechanism allows continuous competition between two fuzzy logic controllers during real-world driving. The leading controller will have the regulatory function of the supervisory control system. First, the configuration of the HEV model and its FL-based control system are analyzed. Second, the algorithm of chaos-enhanced accelerated particle swarm optimization (CAPSO) is developed for back-to-back learning of the membership function. Third, based on fuel-prioritized cost functions, the regulation of competitive assessment is designed to select a controller with a better fuel economy. Finally, the competitive performance of using the CAPSO algorithm is contrasted with other swarm-based methods and the BCLM-driven control system is validated by a hardware-in-the-loop test. The results demonstrate that the BCLM control system significantly reduces fuel consumption, at least 9% from charge sustaining and charge depleting based, and at least 7% from conventional FL-based systems.


This thesis is concerned with the development and validation of interactive computer software that aids the design procedures for cam mechanism design, thereby facilitating the optimised design of the mechanism. Attention is focussed on the disc cam-translating roller follower mechanism with respect to which a series of analytical programs have been developed which addresses the design of the complete mechanism. This broad view of the mechanism design as opposed to concentrating on specific features thereof as has hitherto been the case, has been a major objective of the work reported in this thesis. Each analytical program shows the means adopted to satisfy the limiting conditions imposed by kinematic constraints and strength limitations encountered in cam design. The software enables the establishment of the design specification for the manufacture of the cam itself along with as much data on the other features of the mechanism (i.e. the spring, follower, and roller on follower) as project time could permit. A typical run of the software is shown, with the results presented in graphical as well as tabular format. This includes a graphical layout of the cam profile, the roller profile on the cam, and the roller and cutter paths around the cam profile. These results have been checked against independent work with good correlation.


Soil carbon is the balance between carbon input into and loss from the soil.CO2 enrichment may increase new carbon input into the soil,making it a potential carbon pool,and therefore mitigate increasing of the atmospheric CO2 concentration.However,increased carbon input into the soil may lead to more available substrate for microorganisms,increasing microorganismic activity,thereby enhancing soil respiration,hence more soil carbon loss.In this paper,we advance the effect of elevated CO2 on soil carbon input and output,review scholarly debates on the displine and recommend further studies.


In polyester/cotton(T/C) blended fabric dyeing,color staining often occurs to another kind of fiber,which results in lowering of the veracity of color matching.To solve this problem,color matching experiments for two-bath dyeing of T/C fabric with disperse/reactive dyes were carried out based on monochromatic color databases for pure cotton or for pure polyester in consideration of cotton staining.The experiment results show that this method can obtain higher color match veracity when applied to the single or two shade pitching of the samples with the projected amount in the recipe close to the actual dosage and less aberration after shading.However,the color matching veracity is lowered a little bit when this method is applied three shade pitching of samples.The factors affecting the color matching veracity were also analyzed.This color matching method is suitable for computer color matching of polyester/cotton blended fabric.


The details of our method submitted to the task 4 of DCASE challenge 2019 are described in this technical report. This task evaluates systems for the detection of sound events in domestic environments using large-scale weakly labeled data. In particular, an architecture based on the framework of convolutional recurrent neural network (CRNN) is utilized to detect the timestamps of all the events in given audio clips where the training audio files have only clip-level labels. In order to take advantage of the large-scale unlabeled in-domain training data, an audio tagging system using deep residual network (ResNext) is first employed to make predictions for weak labels of the unlabeled data before the sound event detection process. In addition, a self-adaptive searching strategy for best sound-event thresholds is applied in the model testing process, which is believed to have some benefits on the improvement of model performance and generalization capability. Finally, the system achieves 23.79% F1-value in class-wise average metrics for the sound event detection on the provided testing dataset.


Cash in circulation has increased in most countries but has fallen dramatically in Sweden. We explore the drivers behind this development using panel data consisting of 129 countries. In line with the previous literature, we find that GDP, demography, and the interest rate are key explanatory variables. A new finding is that lower corruption is associated with lower demand for cash in developed countries. Our empirical model performs relatively well in explaining the developments in most OECD countries. However, our model cannot explain the divergent Swedish development. We argue that a unique combination of events and policy measures have led to the decline of cash in Sweden.


Olfaction is fundamental to insect survival due to its roles in host location and interspecific communications. Here, we analysed the transcriptomes of odorant binding proteins (OBPs) from the invasive mealybug Phenacoccus solenopsis and its endoparasitoid Aenasius bambawalei through RNA‐Seq. The antennal transcriptomes of P. solenopsis and A. bambawalei were assembled, and gene ontology (GO) annotation indicated that the relative abundance of transcripts associated with specific GO terms was highly similar between the two species. We obtained 12 putative odorant binding proteins (OBPs), four chemosensory proteins (CSPs), four odorant receptors (ORs), one gustatory receptor (GR) and one sensory neuron membrane protein (SNMP) from P. solenopsis. There were 54 putative OBPs, 226 ORs, 41 GRs and three SNMPs in A. bambawalei. PsolOBPs exhibited high expression in the third instar nymph and varied expression in female adults of P. solenopsis. Almost all candidate AbamOBPs were expressed at high levels in the sensory organs (antennae, heads and legs) of adult A. bambawalei of both sexes. Among them, AbamOBP31 exhibited an obvious female antennal‐specific expression pattern. AbamOBP1, AbamOBP23, AbamOBP24 and AbamOBP30 were expressed at high levels in male antenna. This study for the first time identified the chemosensory genes and determined their expression patterns in different tissues of the two species. Our results provide important molecular information for the exploration of chemosensory mechanisms in these two species.


* The overall effectiveness of meetings, because of good preparation, prior communication of draft documents, and firm but sympathetic adherence to the agenda. Is the situation outlined in 1987 in the case study example untypical of the NHS or, more broadly, of organisations from both the private and public sectors? The answer is an emphatic no. Extensive survey work shows that the norm is that uncomfortable team dynamics and ineffective behaviour at the top of the organisation are prevalent not only in Britain but also in most other European countries (box).2 That does not alter the fact that teams are vital. Without effective top teams an organisation cannot function efficiently. Teams are the prime mechanism for both the consideration and implementation of policies and strategies. Senior executives need a forum in which to discuss the fundamental issues that face the organisation and identify and agree to implement approaches that will address current and future concerns and challenges.


One of the most important events in one's life is the period of adolescence and maturity. The factor for recognizing the real maturity in young girls is the first menstruation (monthly period). Against that monthly period is not a deniable happening, it has not been written about its effective factors. The girls don't know enough about adolescence, maturity and related disorders. If they don't have enough knowledge and can not adapt to the situation, the bad effects with the mental problems will appear in their conjugal life as well as the society. Hence, it is necessary to consider this case. The present study is an analytic and descriptive study. The samples included 1536 girls, 14 data collecting tool was a checklist including 2 parts and statistical inferential methods were used for analyzing the data. Results of the study show disorders of monthly period in the girls as Amenorrhea 5.7% Menorrhagia 11.11% , Polymenorrhea 14.6%, Hypermenorrhea 22.9% , Olygomenorrhea 24.6% , Hypomenorrhea 12.9% , Metrorrhagia 11.7%, Dysmenorrhea 75% , in this study, significant statistic relationship was found among menstruation and doing exercise (P=0.047), BMI (P=0.003), Stress (P<0.001), and therefore to satisfy and improve the girls' health, it seems necessary to consider reducing pain during menstruation, nourishment, weight controlling and reducing stress factors as well as planning to do exercises especially at schools.


Members of the public and representatives of local community groups have been hearing more about our approach to working in localities


This letter discusses a new method for calculating active power in the wavelet domain. When the voltage and current waveforms are analyzed using wavelets, the active power can be calculated by simply adding the products of wavelet coefficients without having to reconstruct the signals back to the time domain first and then use the traditional integration.


We are now in a position to begin investigating more complex disturbances in a rotating, stratified environment. Most of the disturbances of interest are manifested in low Rossby number flows, and are thus amenable to analysis using the quasi-geostrophic equations. However, one type of disturbance which occurs in shear under these conditions is not represented in these equations. Under the right circumstances this disturbance is unstable, and is given the name symmetric instability. The rest of the disturbances of interest constitute various types of Rossby waves.


The utility model relates to the technical field of vehicle seat fabrics, in particular to ATY (air textured yarn) elastic fibers for vehicles. The ATY (air textured yarn) elastic fibers are applied in the weaving of vehicle seat fabrics and include PBT (poly butylenes terephthalate) core yarns made of POY (polyester pre-oriented yarn) and PET wrapping yarns made of POY, wherein the PET wrapping yarns are intertwined with one another and arranged outside the PBT core yarns in a surrounding manner. Due to the adoption of the utility model, the style and the elasticity of the fabrics can be controlled and the application of woven fabrics in vehicle fabrics is enhanced; and the utility model has the advantages of simple production technology, low energy consumption, economization and environmental protection, and is easy to realize.


Packet processing offloads are increasingly needed by high-speed networks. This paper proposes a high throughput, low latency, scalable and reconfigurable Match-Action Table (MAT) architecture based on the open source FPGA-based NIC Corundum. The flexibility and capability of this scheme is demonstrated by an example implementation of IP layer forwarding offload. It makes the NIC work as a router that can forward packets for different subnet and virtual local area networks (VLAN). Experiments are performed on a Zynq MPSoC device with two QSFPs and the results show that it can work at line rate of 8 × 25 Gbps (200 Gbps), within a maximum latency of 76 nanoseconds. In addition, a high-performance MAT pipeline with full-featured, resource-efficient TCAM and a compact frame merging deparser are presented.


This paper is survey and analysis of the street image which is
made by buildings' exterior color, through grasp color distribution
of buildings' main color and accent color.
The conclusions of this survey are as follows. At the early days
of planning of Dae Hak No, there was largely red color, and in
 recent building, more various color is used than the past.
Most accent color were consisted of red color and aehromatic color.
Recent years, the state of various color distribution may have a
good effect on image of street environments of Dae Hak No.


Technological improvement has helped pacemakers a great deal, especially with regard to sensors and programmability. Among those changes we have observed the adaptation of frequency of stimulation with the use of a sensor that adjusts the stimulation rate through the measurement of the right ventricle pre-ejection period. Ten patients received this generator, ages from 27 to 92 years-old (mean 51.9). There were six males and the prevailing indication for the implant was Chagas' disease in 5 patients. The aim was to evaluate the pacemaker's rate response during physical and mental stress, in ambulatory as well as in daily activities of the patient. In addition to the threshold evaluations, mental and physical tests were done (mathematical and awareness), monitored by the rate histogram of the pacemaker. The average of the acute thresholds of stimulation were 0.80 + 0.39 and 0.94 + 0.60V, sensibility 2.84 + 2.94mV, and 9.08 + 5.02mV, for atrium and ventricle, respectively. Heart rate increased from 5 to 117.9% during physical activities and from 1.2 to 79.1% during mental activities, with appropriate elevation right at the beginning of the activity. DESCRIPTORS: pacemaker, sensor, rate-responsiveness. Reblampa 78024-291 REFERENCIAS BIBLIOGRAFICAS 1 Gross JN, Moser S, Benedek ZM, Andrews C, Furman S. DDD pacing mode survival in patients with a dual chamber pacemaker. JACC 1992; 19: 1536-41. 2 Vardas PE, Simantirakis EN, Parthenakis FI, Chrysostomakis SI, Skalidis EI, Zunidakis EG. AAIR versus DDDR pacing in patients with impaired sinus node chronotropy: An echocardiographic and cardiopulmonary study. PACE 1997; 20: 1762-8. 3 Andrade JCA. Marcapassos com biosensores. Reblampa 1988; 1: 32-8. 4 Barold SS, Climenty J. The promise of improved exercise performance by dual sensor rate adaptive pacemakers. PACE 1997; 20: 607-9. 5 Schaldach M. O periodo de pre-ejecao como controle para marcapassos com resposta de frequencia. Reblampa 1989; 2: 123-9. 6 Schaldach M. Progressos na estimulacao cardiaca artificial. Socesp 1994; 1: 47-61.


Interaction between designers, software & other tools, mistakes, management of time & space are just some of the dimensions that make up a design trajectory in an atelier of architecture and made it possible. Understanding architectural objects without investigating the process that make them possible, hide us the most part of dynamics that make the realization of the project itself feasible. These dimensions have often been neglected by sociological studies of architecture that, instead, are often focused on fruition of space by users, the training of architects in a sociology of professions perspective, rather than the building, seen in a symbolic way. With my research, starting from an STS perspective, I highlight design practices involved in the creation of a new artefact, trying to connect material elements, actors involved in the heterogeneous network and the technological artefacts that contribute to the achievement of the project. The research focuses on the issue of technological innovation see also as management of new spatial relationship between context and content, materials and architectural theories, software and designers. In order to facilitate the emergence of knowledge, innovation and design practices, the empirical context of the research was investigated through the tools of ethnography. These led me to spent about one year in an important atelier of architecture in north Italy, where I alternated participant observation, in-depth interviews, photographs and analysis of atelier's documents, in order to follow the trajectory of different projects and the non-linear path from the idea's conception to the final drawings. From data analysis, emerge a complex "pluriverse" of interactions between different kind of actors, that work together in a technologically dense environment, in which the project-artifact condenses a relevant number of socio-technical dimensions. With my research I want to made little bit less obscure the understandings of design processes, giving importance to organizational and technoscientific dynamics, with a methodological account that allowed me to understand peculiarities about all different actors that play in the design arena, going "inside architecture".


Johannes Thiele's classical demonstration of 1,4-addition by reductive acetylation of benzil is used to present a number of interesting theoretical points and an opportunity to separate cis- and trans- isomers through chromatography.


Caching video objects closer to the users in delivery of on-demand video services in IPTV networks reduces the load on the network and improves the latency in video delivery. Partial caching of the video objects is attractive due to the space constraints of the cache and also due to the fact that some parts of the video might be more popular than the others. However, fixed segment-based caching of videos does not take into account the changing popularity of the segments and the changes in the viewing patterns of the users. In this work, we propose a partial caching strategy that considers the changes in the popularity of the segments over time and the access patterns of the users to compute the utility of the objects in the cache. We also propose to partition the cache to avoid the eviction of the popular objects (those not accessed frequently) by the unpopular ones which are accessed with higher frequency. We measured the popularity distribution and ageing of popularity from two online datasets and use the parameters in simulations. Our simulation results show that the proposed caching scheme improves the byte hit ratio when compared to the LRU caching scheme both for static and dynamic object pools and ageing of popularity.


C36H5iLaN60i5, triclinic, PI (No. 2), a = 11.455(2) Â, b = 13.859(3) À, c = 14.101(4)Â, α = 98.50(2)°, β = 98.87(1)°, γ = 92.52(2)°, V = 2182.4 Á, Ζ =2, Rgl(F) = 0.035, wRtef(F) = 0.082, T = 289 Κ. Source of material The synthesis of the complex is described in [1], Suitable crystals were obtained by crystallisation from a 1:1 dichloromethanehexane mixture. Experimental details Hydrogen atoms were refined in the riding mode with a fixed isotropic temperature factor 1.2 or 1.5 times Ueq of the parent atom. Discussion The liquid-crystalline behaviour of complexes of the type [Ln(LH)3(NC>3)3], where Ln is a trivalent rare-earth ion and LH is the Schiffs base 4-alkoxy-A'alkyl-2-hydroxybenzaldimine, has been described in detail [1-3]. Crystal structures of [Nd(LH)3(N03)3] and [Dy(LH)3(NC>3)3], where LH is the short-chain Schiffs base 4-methoxy-N-butyl-2-hydroxybenzaldimine have been reported in [1]. Both structures are isostructural, as is the structure of complex [Eu(LH)3(NÜ3)3] with the same ligand, which has been described in [4]. In this report we describe the crystal structure of the analogous La(III) complex [La(LH)3(NC>3)3]. The La atom has coordination number 9, which corresponds in this case to a distorted monocapped square an t ipr i smat ic environment. Three ligands LH coordinate to the La atom, as well * Correspondence author (e-mail: email@example.com) as three nitrate ions. The nitrate ions coordinate in a bidentate fashion, but the ligands LH do not. The ligands are present in a zwitterionic form, resulting from the migration of the phenol proton towards the imine nitrogen, which thus has a positive charge. As a result, the Schiff s base ligands coordinate in a monodentate way to the La ion, through the phenol oxygen only. An intramolecular hydrogen bond between the protonated imine nitrogen atom and the deprotonated phenol oxygen atom is formed. Table 1. Data collection and handling. transparent block, size 0 . 1 0 x 0 . 1 0 x 0 . 4 0 mm Mo Ka radiation (0.71073 Â) 10.49 cm" Siemens P4-PC. ω 44.36° 6405, 5408 /obs > 2 crf/obs), 4579 538 SHELXS-97 [5], SHELXL-97 [6], PLATON [7] Table 2. Atomic coordinates and displacement parameters (in Â). Atom Site X y ζ í/iso H(2) 2 ! 0.7528 0.1955 0.5341 0.064 H(4) 2 i 0.8773 -0.0579 0.4345 0.091 H(5) 2 i 0.7459 -0.1411 0.5013 0.083 H(9A) li 0.8468 0.2446 0.4155 0.149 H(9B) 2 i 0.9826 0.2412 0.4115 0.149 H(9C) li 0.9376 0.2507 0.5118 0.149 H(10) 2i 0.5941 -0.1471 0.5949 0.066 H ( l l ) li 0.5181 0.0121 0.6641 0.071 H(12A) li 0.4442 -0.1693 0.6856 0.080 H(12B) li 0.3633 -0.0815 0.6992 0.080 H(13A) li 0.4952 -0.0129 0.8411 0.081 H(13B) li 0.4332 -0.1129 0.8509 0.081 H(14A) li 0.6677 -0.0878 0.8189 0.098 H(14B) li 0.6060 -0.1898 0.8230 0.098 H(15A) li 0.6598 -0.0375 0.9820 0.179 H(15B) li 0.7230 -0.1357 0.9712 0.179 H(15C) li 0.5905 -0.1362 0.9872 0.179 H(17) li 0.3881 0.4619 0.6502 0.061 H(19) li 0.2792 0.7152 0.7686 0.069 H(20) lì 0.4145 0.7154 0.9063 0.064 H(24A) li 0.3031 0.5181 0.5089 0.120 H(24B) lì 0.1691 0.5381 0.4837 0.120 H(24C) li 0.2072 0.4609 0.5512 0.120 H(25) li 0.5707 0.6456 0.9972 0.063 H(26) li 0.6400 0.4800 0.9230 0.067 Crystal: Wavelength: μ: Diffractometer, scan mode: 20max: N(/lW)measured, N(hkl)unique: Criterion for /0bs, N(hkl)gt: N(param) refined: Programs: La(Ci2Hi7N02)3(N03)3 489


Several series of one-dimensional tests were used to investigate the nature of transient heat and moisture movements in a clay buffer under different imposed temperature gradients. The measured temperature and moisture profiles were used to calculate the diffusion parameters governing heat and moisture movement in the buffer material. The diffusion parameters are shown to depend on the moisture content, temperature and moisture equilibrium time.


The azimuthally rippled cavity for a large-orbit, coharmonic gyro-multiplier, designed to operate at the second and fourth harmonics, at frequencies of 37.5 and 75 GHz, respectively, has been numerically and experimentally confirmed to be insensitive to the polarization of quadrupole, <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\text{TE}}_{2,n}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-like modes, including the second-harmonic operating mode of the multiplier, a cylindrical TE2,2-like waveguide mode. To test the cavity with this mode required the design, construction, and measurement of ripple wall mode converters, converting the cylindrical TE2,1 mode into the TE2,2 mode. These were designed to operate at a central frequency of ~37.9 GHz, with predicted mode purity of better than 85%, and 3-dB bandwidth of 161 MHz. The constructed converter had a central operating frequency of 37.7 GHz, with <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$S$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-parameter measurements used to infer suitable mode purity and an operational 3-dB bandwidth of 50 MHz. This has allowed far-field phase measurements of the corrugated cavity to be conducted, where the orientation of the geometry to the polarization of both the TE2,1 and TE2,2 modes was shown to have no effect on the dispersion.


Stripe handling is the key of micro displacement measure,the ways of eliminating noise,frequency conversion and differentiating direction are introduced,the problem of system is solved,the precision of system is improved.At the same time,the precision of system is analysed deeply.


A method for applying the metallizing layers to ceramics by a sputtering technique is described. The ceramic to metal seals produced using this method, which can be used on any grade or type of ceramic, are strong and vacuum tight.


First, this article will explain the Master of Applied Indigenous Knowledge (MAIK) programme at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. Second, it will describe COVID-19. Third, this paper will explain the impacts of COVID-19 on tertiary education. Fourth, this article will describe the impacts of COVID-19 for MAIK and explain our developing process for moving to online teaching and learning.


Beam - induced movement (BIM) is long recognized as a significant problem in cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and oftentimes limits achievable resolution. BIM is likely originated from pre-existing mechanical stress frozen into the sample that is released upon electron irradiation. Russo et al. proposed that BIM is caused by the buckling effect and subsequent deformati on of the suspended ice layer during sample vitrification. The magnitude of BIM during the burst phase of sample movement depends on the shape and size of the ice layer set by the supporting foil of grids. HexAuFoil grids, a new recently developed sample support technology, seems promising to eliminate buckling of ice layer to reduce BIM to sub-angstrom. Conversely, this long-awaited gold grids might raise the following concerns to general users in the cryo - EM field, a) affordability, b) feasibility for vitrification with hole size as small as 200 - nm, c) suitability for tilt image acquisition with 200 -nm holes, and d) availability due to supply chain shortage. Here, we propose an alternative strategy to minimize BIM in cryo-EM using traditional Quantifoil grid through unique image acquisition scheme. We hypothesize that the global buckling effect occurred during vitrification could be partially released through pre-exposures at the site adjacent to the region of interest. Therefore, we quantify the BIM among the multi-shots within the same hole in a square. Quantifoil grids with various spacing were adopted to investigate the correlation between BIM pattern and the order of image acquisition within the same hole. The fi nding of this study could enhance our understanding towards the underlying mechanism of BIM, thus providing alternative means to reach near movement - free imaging in cryo - EM.


The results of systematic (2003–2017) measurements of the total content and the volume mixing ratio of CO at Novolazarevskaya station with a spectrometer with a resolution of 0.2 cm– 1 are presented. The inverse problem of determining the total CO content, as well as interfering gases (H2O and N2O), was solved using the SFIT4 software package. Data analysis showed that over the measurement period the average total CO content at Novolazarevskaya amounted to (8 ± 2) 1017 molec/cm2, and the average volume mixing ratio amounted to (37 ± 8) ppb. The obtained data are compared with variations in the total content of CO in Arrival-Heights station, with MOPITT satellite data, as well as with surface values of CO concentration at Syova station. The maximum values of CO are observed in September, the minimum — in January–February. For all the considered series, the trends are insignificant, while there are periods of increased CO content (2010). In recent years (2014–2017) there is a tendency towards an increase in the minimum values of CO. For  Novolazarevskaya and  Arrival-Heights satellite data are characterized by the excess of over ground data, amounting to 19% and 14%, respectively, while there is a seasonal dependence of the deviation with the minimum in December–January. Surface measurements of the total CO content are in fairly good agreement at Novolazarevskaya and Arrival-Heights, and since 2010 the average deviation is 2.4%. The average value of the concentration of CO on Syova 51 ppb is higher than the average volume mixing ratio at Novolazarevskaya. According to the spectral, wavelet and composite analyzes, in all the considered series there are oscillations in the range of 6–45 months with closely coinciding periods and phases.


Variable generator output levels from renewable energies is an important technical obstacle to the transition from fossil fuels to renewable resources. Super grids and smart grids are among the most effective solutions to mitigate generation variability. In a super grid, electric utilities within an interconnected system can share generation and reserve units so that they can produce electricity at a lower overall cost. Smart grids, in particular demand response programs, enable flexible loads such as plug-in electric vehicles and HVAC systems to consume electricity preferntially in a grid-friendly way that assists the grid operator to maintain the power balance. These solutions, in conjunction with energy storage systems, can facilitate renewable integration. This study aims to provide an understanding of the achievable benefits from integrating demand response into wholesale and retail electricity markets, in particular in the presence of significant amounts of variable generation. Among the options for control methods for demand response, market-based approaches provide a relatively efficient use of load flexibility, without restricting consumers' autonomy or invading their privacy. In this regard, a model of demand response integration into bulk electric grids is presented to study the interaction between variable renewables and demand response in the double auction environment, on an hourly basis. The cost benefit


The complex internal atomic structure involved in radiative transitions has an effect on the spectrum of fluctuations (noise) of the transmitted light. A degenerate transition has different properties in this respect than a pure two-level transition. We investigate these variations by studying a certain transition between two degenerate atomic levels for different choices of the polarization state of the driving laser. For circular polarization, corresponding to the textbook two-level atom case, the optical spectrum shows the characteristic Mollow triplet for strong laser drive, while the corresponding noise spectrum exhibits squeezing in some frequency ranges. For a linearly polarized drive, corresponding to the case of a multilevel system, additional features appear in both optical and noise spectra. These differences are more pronounced in the regime of a weakly driven transition: whereas the two-level case essentially exhibits elastic scattering, the multilevel case has extra noise terms related to spontaneous Raman transitions. We also discuss the possibility to experimentally observe these predicted differences for the commonly encountered case where the laser drive has excess noise in its phase quadrature.


This article shows that since 1949 the extractive industry has undergone a strong process of restructuring when enterprises were nationalized and a strict control over all components of the economy was established. The new leadership of the country had the intention of developing the industrial sector as well, basically laying the foundations of the new Romanian economy where the industrial sector economy would bring considerable income. This program will lead to the development of the energy sector in Romania also, thus contributing to a great extent to the development and consolidation of coal and gas extraction. Despite of all the economic and social development achieved during the period 1950-1989, at the end of it, Romania ranked a marginal position in the European countries hierarchy since between its level of development and the market economy developed countries large gaps in respect to the main economic and social indicators occurred.


This study documents the resources U.S. colleges and universities offer to address student food and housing insecurity and explores differences across community colleges, four-year public schools, and four-year private schools. Using a stratified random sample (n = 448) of U.S. postsecondary institutions, a systematic web search for evidence of 18 resources was conducted. A framework for classifying resources was developed. Logistic regression was used to explore differences by institution type. Eighty-eight percent of the schools in the sample offered at least one resource. On average, schools offered four resources. Food pantries were the most frequently offered resource, while providing information about low-cost campus dining options was the least frequently offered. Four-year private schools offered fewer resources than four-year public schools and community colleges.


Molecular characterization of three common olive (Olea europaea L.) cultivars in Palestine, using simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers Ramiz Obaid, Hassan Abu-Qaoud* and Rami Arafeh Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture, Olive Department, Qalqilia District, Palestine; Department of Plant Production and Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine; Biotechnology Research Center, Palestine Polytechnic University, Hebron, Palestine


This study sought to find student perceptions of a class that has shifted its focus from traditional arts and crafts creative activities for technology education teachers to a more engineering design focused course. A total of 12 students participated in this qualitative study. The four questions asked were about course expectation, outstanding experiences, definition of engineering process, and relevance of the course to future career plans. Six themes were drawn from student responses.


This paper deals with the identity problems of fictional objects, focusing on Anthony Everett's and Stuart Brock's leading criticisms against fictional creationism, the view that fictional objects are abstract objects created by our acts involving literary practices. My primary aim is to argue that creationism based on referentialism has enough resources to individuate fictional objects and hence can address the alleged identity problems: every alleged problematic case regarding the identity of fictional objects is well explained in terms of the notions of authorial intention, gappy proposition, inadvertent creation, and reference shift.


This paper makes a fundamental judgment of Shanghai's labor market on the basis of raising the standards for measuring the development of labor markets. In addition, the paper puts forward the goal to be attained for labor market construction in Shanghai, analyses a series of problems that exist at present, and presents suggestions for further expansion of the labor market.


This paper describes how reliable driverless operation requires specific features implemented at system and subsystem levels of the train control system. Communications-Based Train Control (CBTC) is now proven as the best choice for driverless systems because of the inherent high levels of safety and reliability with a low life cycle cost. This paper proposes a systematic approach that may be used to determine the most efficient way to fulfill the requirements specific to each customer faced with driverless operation (green field or re-signaling). It also defines "must have" requirements (functionality) to obtain the desired performance and cost. The paper also addresses issues related to the operability, maintainability, and availability of different types of driverless CBTC systems implementations, and the advantages and disadvantages of each solution.


: This article will focus on the structural process, focusing on the prospective and dialogical aspect. Although it is possible to apply the structuring model to individuals, the analysis will only focus on demands involving Public Administration, as a means of intervening and monitoring Public Policies. Considering that Brazil does not have specific and systematized rules regarding collective procedural law, nor regarding the structural process, the research hypothesis focuses on the feasibility of using the lege lata structural process. As specific objectives, we intend to demonstrate the relevance of the structural process, making considerations about the insufficiency of the traditional process model for the treatment of complex disputes, with radiated effects. Furthermore, the aim is to assess the relevance of the prospective aspect of the litigation, in which the action of the Judiciary will not be restricted to the consequences of the problem, seeking, in an inductive and procedural management nature, to guide and monitor the manager in adapting established irregularities or the implementation of public policies. As the theme is innovative, it starts with exploratory research, with qualitative analysis, through the use of secondary sources. The study adopts the work of Edilson Vitorelli as a theoretical reference. In the end, we reach the conclusion that the structural process leads to the feasibility of harmonizing conflicting constitutional principles, ensuring greater effectiveness of judicial provision. As a counterpoint, the imperative of strategic training of the Judiciary to meet complex demands is identified.


The subject of the study is the socio-economic relations that develop in society, when assessing the friendliness of the city in relation to the family and children. The aim of the study is to study the level of comfort, safety and development of the younger generation in the urban environment of the Republic of Bashkortostan in the modern socio-demographic context. Theoretical methods of research were methods-operations as analysis and empirical methods — a survey. The results of the study were presented to the Government of the Republic of Bashkortostan for the development of measures to increase the level of city friendliness to families and children.


Given an image, our proposed model can extract its dominant high-level semantics information through low-level feature extraction and image classification. It contains 3 main parts: image segmentation, feature extraction and classification. To our knowledge, this is the first model that applies Color and Edge Directivity Descriptor (CEDD), a multiple feature extraction algorithm, into the high-level semantics extraction field. Further, we also introduce a new padding strategy for region representation, which is especially suitable for widely-used non-arbitrary over-segmentation. Finally, our experiment shows that CEDD performs equally or better than traditional texture-based Gabor method. Meanwhile, new padding strategy outperforms other relevant methods.


A detailed study of wireline logs from 11 wells in the Salton Sea and Westmorland geothermal systems was undertaken in order to determine the effects of hydrothermal alteration on the response of electrical and gamma-gamma density well logs. For the Salton Sea geothermal field, definite correspondence between log responses and hydrothermal mineralogy is evident, which in turn is related to the physical properties of the rocks. Three hydrothermal and one unaltered zone can be identified from log data on shales. These are: (1) the unaltered montmorillonite zone ( 290/sup 0/ to 300/sup 0/C). The characteristic responses on well logs by which these zones are identified result primarily from changes in clay mineralogy of the shales and increases in density with progressive hydrothermal metamorphism. In the Westmorland geothermal field, differentiating mineral zones from log responses was only partially successful. However, analyses of both well log and petrologic data for wells Landers 1 and Kalin Farms 1 suggest that the former is heatingmore » up and the latter is cooling.« less


Growing human populations and economic activity have a negative impact to marine ecosystem, such as marine pollutions, overexploitations, extinction of species and following shrink of biodiversity. Small cetaceans, which belong to suborder Odontoceti, are one of the important mammals that include likely-to-be-extinct species because of human activities in the last decade. More than half of small cetacean species are listed as "Endangered" or "Data Deficient" in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List. For effective conservation, the knowledge of their basic ecology is necessary. In the present study, I focused on the population observed in the Istanbul Strait. Three species are observed in this area; harbor porpoise Phocoena phocoena, bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus and short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis. All of them are threatened subspecies but their ecology based on long-term constant observation has not well documented. I applied passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) with new species discrimination and animal density estimation method to fit on the situation of the Istanbul Strait and obtained the ecological information. The PAM is now widely used for study on small cetaceans, but the species discrimination based on acoustic information is still challenging. I proposed the discrimination method between harbor porpoise and delphinids and evaluated the accuracy by model. Also, I proposed the animal density estimation method which combine the line transect distance sampling approach with point transect estimations in consideration of the misclassification rate of species. Two-year continuous PAM was conducted by fixed acoustic tag (A-tag) in the middle of the strait in 2010–2011. I revealed that harbor porpoise were detected most in spring (March–May), and there are almost no detections in winter (December– February). On the other hands, delphinids were observed throughout the year during nighttime. The porpoises distinctively showed short inter-click intervals that imply the feeding behavior in spring, suggesting that they were foraging the migrating pelagic fish in spring. It was supported by the previously reported stomach contents of the stranded porpoises which were found in the Marmara Sea and the Turkish coast of the Black Sea. The animal density and distribution in whole strait were estimated by towed PAM in 2013. Animal density and distribution are one of the most fundamental information for conservation. In the Istanbul Strait, only the distribution of bottlenose dolphin has been available so far. I applied proposed density estimation method which can cover wider range of area by line transect approach based on acoustic cue based point transect distance sampling estimation. Also, I considered misclassification rate of species in estimator. The density was estimated as average of all seasons, it was 0.013 individuals km -2 (CV = 0.612) for harbor porpoise and 0.033 individuals km -2 (CV = 0.823) for delphinids, respectively. The distribution of harbor porpoise tended to be dispersed in the strait, but that of delphinids tended to be localized in north entrance to the Black Sea. The 50% kernel core area did not overlap between harbor porpoise and delphinids, suggesting the core habitat separation. I developed the PAM methodology that is suitable for the small cetacean species appeared in the Istanbul Strait, and obtained the ecological information in present study. The results revealed the difference of seasonal behavior, distribution and animal density between harbor porpoise and delphinids within the strait. It implies the effectiveness of PAM also in the multi-species-observed noisy area, and the importance to consider the interspecific difference of ecology for effective conservation management. Studies on the ecology of small cetaceans in the Istanbul Strait using acoustical information


In aerospace application, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is recognized as a cost effective design tool. UPACS, a package for CFD is convenient for users, which has various solvers to support large scale of complexity. The problem is its computation speed which is hard to be enhanced by using clusters due to its complex memory access patterns. As an economical solution, accelerators using FPGAs are hopeful candidates. However, the total scale of UPACS is too large to be implemented on small numbers of FPGAs. For cost efficient implementation, partial reconfiguration which can dynamically reconfigure only required functions is proposed in this paper. MUSCL scheme, a main function used frequently in UPACS is selected as a target. Partial reconfiguration is applied to the flux limiter functions in MUSCL. Two reconfigurable partitions are created for Turbulence MUSCL and Convection MUSCL. All limiter functions are developed independently and synthesized separately from the top MUSCL module. Required limiter functions for both MUSCLs are loaded dynamically without interfering each other operation. This implementation has successfully reduced the resource utilization by 60%. Total power consumption is also reduced by 29%. Configuration speed is improved by 15-times faster as compared to fully reconfiguration method. All implemented functions achieved at least 17 times speed-up compared with the software implementation.


The Italian Association of Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology (AIAC), with approximately 1,000 active members and 400 hospital centers, has been active for many years in organizing and running multicentric trials or registries dealing with new and emerging aspects of cardiac pacing or electrophysiology. Huge amounts of data from the clinical practices of the many Italian centers are being continuously collected and examined to address unresolved issues. Our work and the attainment of our goals are supported by device manufacturers, particularly Medtronic Italy with its very well-organized team specifically dedicated to scientific data collection and analysis. The Board of AIAC believes that the vast experience of the Italian Group, published in this special PACE supplement, provides important and timely scientific data about a number of subjects which are of interest to the scientific community at large.


Summary.  Background: The role of D‐dimer in excluding deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in pregnancy is currently uncertain. We hypothesized that the specificity of sensitive D‐dimer assays could be improved without compromising sensitivity by using higher D‐dimer cut‐off values. Objective: To determine the test characteristics of two rapid enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assays and three latex agglutination assays in pregnancy. Method: We recruited consecutive pregnant women who presented to participating centers with suspected DVT for the study. Symptomatic women were investigated with compression ultrasonography, and received 3 months of clinical follow‐up to assess for the presence of venous thrombosis. Plasma samples for D‐dimer were collected and frozen at the time of presentation. The median and mean D‐dimer values for respective trimesters of pregnancy in patients with and without DVT were calculated. Receiver operating curves (ROCs) were plotted for respective assays to establish the best cut‐points. The test characteristics corresponding to standard cut‐points and these 'pregnancy' cut‐points are presented. Results: The prevalence of DVT in our cohort was 6.6% (95% confidence interval 4.0–10.6%). The mean and median D‐dimer values were significantly increased throughout pregnancy. Overall, women with confirmed DVT had higher D‐dimer levels than women without DVT (P < 0.0001). Improved specificities (62–79%) were observed with the use of higher cut‐points obtained from ROCs for all five assays, and high sensitivities were manintained (80–100%) for DVT diagnosis. Conclusion: Using higher cut‐points than those used in non‐pregnant patients, the specificity of D‐dimer assays for the diagnosis of DVT in pregnancy can be improved without compromising sensitivity. Validation in prospective management studies is needed.


The monitoring system is research for the prevention of fire,explosion and poisoning accidents caused by CO gas leakage based on gas production process of one chemical plant,the working principle and the circuit chart of this system is also analyzed,which can provide important references for the research of CO monitoring technology and gas sensor.


Modelling the electrical response of multi-level quantum systems at finite frequency has been typically performed in the context of two incomplete paradigms: (i) Input-output theory, which is valid at any frequency but neglects dynamic losses, and (ii) semiclassical theory, which captures well dynamic dissipation effects but is only accurate at low frequencies. Here, we develop a unifying theory, valid for arbitrary frequencies, that captures the non-unitary effects introduced by finite relaxation and dephasing. The theory allows a multi-level system to be described by a universal small-signal equivalent circuit model, a resonant RLC circuit, whose topology only depends on the number of energy levels, which we apply here to the case of a charge qubit in a double quantum dot. Our model will facilitate the design of hybrid quantum-classical circuits and the simulation of qubit control and quantum state readout.


A set of multivariate "Q-techniques" are described which can help avoid some of the pitfalls and increase the power of the more popular R methods and bivariate approaches. Techniques such as cluster analysis, inverse factor analysis, hierarchical clustering, and multidimensional scaling are discussed along with a related set of measurement and hypothesis testing options.


In order to bring the discussion quickly into focus and provide a readily identifiable target for analysis and criticism, at the outset the staff of the Conference supplied each participant with a statement of propositions believed basic to the problems to be discussed. These propositions received surprisingly few challenges. Comments were directed principally to their clarification and amplification, although a few participants did raise objections of a fundamental nature. I have redrafted the propositions in light of this criticism, and present them here in the belief that they are helpful to any further discussion. They serve both to identify the nature of the problems with which we are here concerned and to suggest the area of possible solutions.


The present invention relates to a method for producing the gate and the gate. With respect to the gate comprises first and second sets of straight line extending in a first direction at an acute angle to the MD oriented strand, from the viewpoint of a second MD direction TD direction at right angles to the first, the two sets of alternate angled strands lines substantially equal and opposite angles to the first direction MD form an angle; additional straight oriented strand extending along a second direction TD; and junction, the junction of each connection oriented strand four and two further orientation strand, and there is continuous orientation between each pair of bifurcated to surround the strand adjacent to the bifurcation, whereby from one end of the strand, around the strand to the adjacent forked end portion orientation. By setting plastics sheet starting material has a size and shape substantially the same as a hexagonal array of apertures is stretched and biaxially oriented to between adjacent sides of hexagonal bore extending pull strand formed oriented strand region and is formed by that region, the gate of manufacture.


Background Ultrasound (US) guided supraclavicular approach of brachiocephalic vein (BCV) cannulation was recently described in children. Aim The primary outcome was to evaluate which is better, US-guided BCV cannulation or internal jugular vein (IJV) cannulation. The secondary outcome was to examine possible complications. Patients and methods According to the site of central line cannulation, 80 children undergoing open cardiac surgery were classified into group I (US-guided supraclavicular BCV cannulation) and group II (US-guided IJV cannulation). The cannulation time (min), first-attempt success rate, overall success rate, number of cannulation attempt, and possible complications (such as artery puncture, difficulty of threading the wire, catheter malposition, multiple puncture, and pneumothorax) were recorded. Results The cannulation time (min) was significantly shorter in group I than group II, and first-attempt success rate was significantly higher in group I than group II. The number of cannulation attempt was significantly higher in group II than group I, and the overall success rate was slightly higher in group I than group II, with no significant difference. There were no significant differences between the two groups regarding complications. Conclusion US-guided supraclavicular BCV cannulation was easier with higher success rate and shorter cannulation time with slightly less complications compared with IJV cannulation.


The utility model discloses a terminal structure of an electric connector. The terminal structure comprises a pedestal, multiple contact terminals extended in an upwardly-inclined manner and disposed on the two side rims of the pedestal, and multiple soldering terminals extended in a downwardly-inclined manner and disposed on the two end rims of the pedestal, wherein each contact terminal comprises an intermediate plate body, connection portions disposed on the two sides of the intermediate plate body, and a head end portion disposed on one end of the connection portion and abutted against an end face of the intermediate plate body. In such way, the terminal structure can be used as a terminal of the electric connector. When an empty card holder of an electronic card is ejected, moderate downward displacement is formed by the cooperation of the intermediate plate body, the connection portions, and the head end portion in order that the card holder may pass. Therefore, the terminals are prevented from deforming; the service life of the electric connector is prolonged; and the electric connector has a good electric connection effect.


This study aims to analyze the current status and actual conditions of the academic operation and management of general graduate schools. Graduate school in South Korea has grown rapidly in terms of numbers but the quality level is yet insufficient to meet the growing demands of society. This study analyzes how well graduate schools operate academic affairs and management, in order to improve the quality of graduate schools. The analysis was conducted on 106 (57.3%) graduate schools out of a total of 185 graduate schools. The results of the study are as follows. The proportion of freshmen students in master's programs who completed their bachelors degree from the same university was 43.2%, and the proportion of students who held bachelor degrees from a different university was 56.8%. The required credits to complete a graduate program are approximately 24 to 26 credits for the master's program, 34 to 40 credits for the doctoral program, and 54 to 60 credits for the integrated master's and doctoral program. Approximately 94% of master's programs are operated in 4 semesters, and similarly 64% of the doctoral programs operate in 4 semesters (2 years), while about 24% of the integrated master's doctoral programs operate in 6 semesters (3 years). Overall, the minimum attendance requirement for granting credits is either above two-thirds or three-quarters of the program, and these standards are mostly established by the graduate schools.


By investigating the dissolved oxygen,ammonia nitrogen,nitrate nitrogen concentrations along two modified vertical subsurface-flow constructed wetlands,the nitrogen removal routes in both wetlands were analyzed from the viewpoint of pH.It is found that the effluent concentrations of ammonia nitrogen in both wetlands meet the first level A criteria specified in the Discharge Standard of Pollutants for Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant(GB 18918-2002).However,the nitrogen removal capacity in the modified cyclic batch subsurface wetland(MCBW) is higher than that in the cyclic batch subsurface wetland(CBW).Through theory analysis and material balance calculation,the main nitrogen removal route in the CBW is found to be traditional nitrification and denitrification,while the nitrogen removal route in MCBW is found to be simultaneous nitrification and denitrification.


K.H. van Dalen-Oskam, K.A.C. Depuydt, W.J.J. Pijnenburg and T.H.
Schoonheim (Editors). Dictionaries of Medieval Germanic Languages: A Survey of Current Lexicographical Projects. Selected Proceedings of the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 4-7 July 1994, 1997, viii + 197 pp. ISBN 2-503-50601-1. Turnhout: Brepols. E-mail: publishers@ brepols.com. Price: Belgian ƒ1613.


face reality of a place can touch us deeply," (p.113) he writes, arguing against a simple denigration of the nonlocal's relation to place in contrast with those deemed to be indigenous. The trauma of landscape change—a tree felled, a lane widened, old stone steps to a cove concreted over—he argues is not only felt by those long resident. Despite the familiar idea of the once rich intimacy of local knowledge now lost with modernity that is evoked in the book in part through the figure of Seamus Heaney, McGarth's own local homemaking, and his turn to the work of Tim Robinson, point to other models of local belonging: achieved rather than inherited. These are vital in relation to old and new questions of local and national inclusion and for the model of collective commitment to landscape heritage he espouses. Accompanying the anticolonial rejection of landscape conversation as an alien affectation, is the implicit idea that those deemed to also be "alien" arrivals, whether in the distant or recent past, have no natural rights to belong in a place or to love its landscape. McGarth draws on arguments about a deeply collective lack of Irish belonging in the landscape as a product of shared historical trauma, and there are problems with this figuring of a collective psychic wound. However, divisive ideas of differently distributed degrees of belonging in Ireland are both more easily identified and more vital to address. This book suggests ways to pursue entangled questions of shared belonging and shared care for landscape. This is one effect of the reflexive autobiographical strand that is another highlight of this book. Its brief autobiographical passages suggest a sense of a deep and sustained engagement with the issues, not just professionally, but personally. There is a sense, too, in the book that the author wants to understand rather than just criticise the actions of those who individually or officially replace those dry-stone walls with standardised concrete post fencing or much worse. McGrath eschews a didactic tone, or more acerbic critique, in favour of enlisting more public engagement through his thoughtful approach, convincing diagnosis of the problems, and proposal for a possible way forward. I hope that this book will be widely read and prompt the shifts in approaches that the author advocates, to both repay his efforts and for the sake of landscape in Ireland.—CATHERINE NASH, Queen Mary University of London


Fast fashion is a global problem which generate seriously impact for environment, even associated with garment industry worker protection in entire world. The study which using Systematic Literature Review method aims to compare the environment protection, sustainable production, and occupational health and safety through garment industry labor between in Bangladesh and Indonesia. From the results of the discussion, it is known that green logistic management, green human capital, and sustainable production take positive effect to circular economy practices. In side of occupational health and safety, protection for worker can done by occupational health and safety training, provision of personal protective equipment, medical check up, provision of labor social security, establishment of a occupational health and safety steering committee, and occupational health and safety application in work environment.


The invention belongs to the technical field of radars and discloses a moving target detection method of an airborne external radiation source radar. The method comprises the following steps: signals received by an airborne external radiation source radar are obtained; two echo signals are subjected to fitting filtering and phase compensation according to a reference signal, and two echo signals subjected to phase compensation are obtained; the two echo signals subjected to phase compensation are subjected to channel registration, and one of the two echo signals subjected to channel registration is deducted from the other, so that an echo signal subjected to clutter suppression is obtained; the echo signal subjected to clutter suppression is then subjected to Doppler migration correction, and a target echo signal subjected to Doppler migration correction is obtained; and the target echo signal subjected to Doppler migration correction is then subjected to distance migration correction, so that a target echo signal subjected to distance migration correction is obtained. The method solves the problem in the prior art that the target detection performance is poor when target migration is not compensated.


A new kinetic fluorimetric method has been proposed for the determination of trace arsenic(Ⅲ) in the presence of As(Ⅴ) based on its inhibition effect on the reaction between potassium bromate and hydrochloric acid.The quenching of fluorimetric intensity of butyl-rhodamine B by the reaction products was used to indicate the reaction.Under the optimum conditions the detection limit for the determination of arsenic(Ⅲ) was found to be 2.9 ng/mL.The linear range is 7.7~153.8 ng/mL.The relative standard deviation for the determination of different concentrations is lower than 1.3%.The influence of common ions and organic compounds on the determination was investigated.The method could be applied to determine trace arsenic(Ⅲ) in environmental samples.The recoveies are from 98% to 105%.The probable reaction methanism has been proposed in the work.


Combined with findings of the investigation of current bridge's operation condition,this paper analyze the main faults existed in current bridge concrete structure as crack,tarnishing,chlorine infraction,design and construction deficiency,and proposes relevant preventive measures,in order to gain better strengthening result and make bridge's operation normal and safe.


Vocal music education has a rich history in both China and Russia, with both countries boasting a variety of educational institutions and programs designed to train aspiring musicians. However, there are also noticeable differences in their teaching methods and techniques. Against the background of the "One Belt, One Road" initiative aimed at expanding cooperation and exchanges between countries along the historical Silk Road, this article aims to conduct a comparative analysis of professional vocal and musical education in China and Russia. In particular, we will look at the history of vocal and music education in both countries, study the main institutions and programs of vocal and music education, as well as analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the respective approaches to learning.


Introduction: Methotrexate-associated lymphopro-liferative disorder (MTX-LPD) is one of the adverse effects of methotrexate (MTX). We report a case of MTX-LPD that caused osteonecrosis and massive bleeding without regression following MTX withdrawal.
Case Report: A 61-year-old woman was referred to our hospital because of delayed socket healing after dental extraction. She had been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and received MTX treatment for six years. At the first visit, a 15 mm × 15 mm bone exposure and swelling of the surrounding gingiva in the right upper molar region were observed. We performed an incisional biopsy of the necrotic bone and surrounding mucosal tissue. The histopathological diagnosis was diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Therefore, we referred the patient to the Department of Hematology in our hospital. She was diagnosed with MTX-LPD based on the history of MTX therapy for RA, and MTX was discontinued immediately. However, the lesion progressed and caused bleeding that required blood transfusion and hemostasis by microfibrous collagen and tie-over even after the withdrawal of MTX. Subsequently, rituximab, cyclophosphamide, vincristine, and prednisolone (R-COP) chemotherapy was initiated. After 3 courses of chemotherapy, sequestrectomy was performed under local anesthesia. She achieved complete remission after 8 courses of chemotherapy, and there was no recurrence of necrotic bone exposure or gingival swelling.
Conclusion: Approximately 80% of MTX-LPD cases occurring in the oral region show regression after MTX discontinuation, but we experienced a case in which bleeding occurred with progression of the lesion after discontinuation. Careful follow-up is required during the MTX discontinuation period.


Microstructure change in high-purity irons was investigated at various cooling rates after single pass hot-rolling. Large columnar grains, which are named mono-layer honeycomb grains, developed through the thickness when high-purity iron (C:1.5 mass ppm, N:0.8 mass ppm, S:1.5 mass ppm, Si + Mn + P < 1.0 mass ppm) was hot-rolled at 1273 K and cooled in a furnace with the average cooling rate of about 8.5 × 10 -3 K/s. Mono-layer honeycomb grains developed in neither high-purity iron water-quenched after hot-rolling, nor middle-purity (C: 1.5 mass ppm, N: 9 mass ppm, S: 10 mass ppm, Si+Mn+P: 42 mass ppm) and low-purity (C: 20 mass ppm, N: 8 mass ppm, S: 10 mass ppm. Si +Mn+ P: 270 mass ppm) irons. The crystal orientation of mono-layer honeycomb grains was determined by electron back scattering pattern method. The crystal orientation of mono-layer honeycomb grains does not have any specific α-texture. Grain growth behavior was investigated by using the cold-rolled and annealed irons. The grains in the high-purity iron grew faster and larger than those in middle-purity and low-purity irons. It is considered that the hot-rolled γ-grains in the high-purity iron recrystallize and coarsen in cooling, and then the γ-grains transform into α-grains. The α-grains grow larger due to the effect of purification. Consequently, mono-layer honeycomb grains are developed in high-purity iron.


Polyether urethane elastomers based on polytetramethylene,diisocyanate and aromatic diamine was synthesized,and to further reinforce polyurethane,nano-TiO2 wae prepared successfully.The surface modification of nano-TiO2 and the introducing of ultrasonic trenting promoted the dispersion of nano-TiO2.The disquisition also concerns the effect of temperature on the synthesized prepolymer,the content of-NCO and TiO2 in the materials,and the impact of ultrasound on the properties of the composition.The results of SEM show that nanoparticles are not better dispersed but reunite in this system.


An X-ray mine imaging system (XMIS) that uses a new form of backscatter x-ray radiography developed at the University of Florida was successfully field-tested at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia in October, 2001. The XMIS obtained high quality images of both AP and AT mines on several of the Fort A.P. Hill test lanes. For high resolution imaging at a power level of 750 watts, total time for scanning and for processed image acquisition was about 60 s for a 0.5 x 0.5 m area. The very good imaging results obtained from the initial field tests at Fort Hill with the XMIS demonstrate the excellent capabilities of this system as a confirmation sensor for land mine detection. These initial field tests showed that some fairly simple modifications could significantly improve the performance of the XMIS. The total cost of components for an XMIS field demonstration system that includes these modifications is about $60 K and includes about $24 K for the x-ray generator and about $16 K for the specially-made detector assemblies. Further field-testing of the XMIS needs to be performed, but this should be done following implementation of the indicated modifications. With the modifications, high resolution scanning of a 0.5 m x 0.5 m area can be done in 20 to 30 seconds at a power level of 300 watts to 400 watts.


Using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), we have observed monolayer steps for the first time on (001)GaAs vicinal surfaces grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). The surface was passivated with As to protect it from air during the transfer from the MOCVD to the STM. We found that the monolayer step edges on the surface misoriented in the [110] direction undulate with about 2 times larger amplitude than the surface misoriented in the [110] direction.


Background: Neuroendocrine tumors (NET) is a heterogeneous group of neoplasms characterized by hypersecretion of biologically active sub- stances that manifests by specific syndromes and determines the clinical course of the disease. The most common NET types are those of gastrointestinal tract. The obligatory biochemical marker used in the examination of NET patients is chromogranin A (CgA). Aim: Evaluation of the CgA value for diagnostics and monitoring of gastrointestinal NETs. Materials and methods: A comparative study of plasma CgA levels was performed in 146 patients with gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tu- mors and 66 healthy individuals using the enzyme immunoassay "Chromogranin A ELISA kit" (Dako A/S, Denmark). Results: CgA levels were significantly higher in patients with NETs of all localizations, such as pancreas, stomach, gut, small and large bowel, than in the healthy subjects (р < 0.000001). In NET patients, CgA secretion was highly variable, with the highest value in the group of patients with gastric NETs (102000 U/l). The highest CgA medians were detected in patients with small intestinal (183.9 U/l), colon (148.4 U/l) and pancreatic (135.9 U/l) NETs. There was an association between CgA secretion and extension or activity of NETs, with the highest median values in patients with hepatic metastases (395 U/l) and those with carcinoid syndrome (352 U/l). The clinical significance of CgA as a NET marker was assessed using the cut-off value of 33 U/l, calculated according to the results in the control group. Overall diagnostic sensitivity of CgA in NET patients was high (85.8%) with a specificity of 98.5%. Conclusion: The results obtained confirm a high sensitivity of CgA as a NET marker whose determination helps to improve accuracy of diagnostics and to assess NET prevalence.


Objectives Patients with atopic dermatitis (AD), also known as eczema, may be at an increased risk for malignancies compared with patients without AD; however, incidence rates (IRs) of malignancies in patients with moderate to severe AD are largely unknown. The objective of this study was to evaluate and compare IRs of malignancies in adults with moderate to severe AD (aged ≥18 years). Design Retrospective cohort study using data from a Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) cohort. AD severity classification was adjudicated with medical chart review. Covariates and stratification variables included age, sex and smoking status. Setting Data were obtained from the KPNC healthcare delivery system in northern California, USA. Cases of AD were defined by outpatient dermatologist-rendered codes and prescriptions of topical therapy or phototherapy (moderate) or systemic treatment (severe). Participants KPNC health plan members with moderate or severe AD (2007–2018). Primary and secondary outcome measures Malignancy IRs and 95% CIs per 1000 person-years were calculated. Results 7050 KPNC health plan members with moderate and severe AD met eligibility criteria for inclusion. IRs (95% CI) were highest for non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) in patients with moderate and severe AD (4.6 (95% CI 3.9 to 5.5) and 5.9 (95% CI 3.8 to 9.2), respectively) and breast cancer (2.2 (95% CI 1.6 to 3.0) and 0.5 (95% CI 0.1 to 3.9), respectively). Except for breast cancer, which was only evaluated in women, malignancies were higher (with non-overlapping CIs) in patients with moderate and moderate to severe AD in men versus women for basal cell carcinoma and NMSC and in former versus never smokers for NMSC and squamous cell carcinoma. Conclusions This study estimated IRs of malignancies in patients with moderate and severe AD and provides valuable information for dermatology clinicians and ongoing clinical trials in these populations.


Switching and control of efficient red, green, and blue active matrix organic light‐emitting devices (AMOLEDs) by printed organic thin‐film electrochemical transistors (OETs) are demonstrated. These all‐organic pixels are characterized by high luminance at low operating voltages and by extremely small transistor dimensions with respect to the OLED active area. A maximum brightness of ≈900 cd m−2 is achieved at diode supply voltages near 4 V and pixel selector (gate) voltages below 1 V. The ratio of OLED to OET area is greater than 100:1 and the pixels may be switched at rates up to 100 Hz. Essential to this demonstration are the use of a high capacitance electrolyte as the gate dielectric layer in the OETs, which affords extremely large transistor transconductances, and novel graded emissive layer (G‐EML) OLED architectures that exhibit low turn‐on voltages and high luminescence efficiency. Collectively, these results suggest that printed OETs, combined with efficient, low voltage OLEDs, could be employed in the fabrication of flexible full‐color AMOLED displays.


The @Bogoreatry Instagram account utilizes social media to disseminate information in the culinary field, which already has many followers. Information distribution on Instagram social media has its targets and methods that need to be studied to present information effectively. This study aimed to discover how the Instagram account @Bogoreatry disseminated culinary information at the sharing, optimization, management, and engagement stages. In this case, the researcher would make the @Bogoreatry Instagram account the research object. The research method used case studies with a qualitative approach. Based on the study results, the @Bogoreatry account created the sharing stage by creating informative content. The optimize stage was carried out by analyzing the time of information dissemination, the managed stage was by creating teams that have their respective duties, and the engage stage was performed by collaborating with other accounts. The analysis result showed that the users of the @Bogoreatry Instagram account got information and benefited from the @Bogoreatry account. Then the account also managed very well information on culinary tourism in Bogor city. The presence of the Instagram account @Bogoreatry can positively impact various parties, namely between culinary business owners who are assisted in carrying out promotions and likewise with information seekers or tourists visiting Bogor city.


The subject innovation is the rear relates to a mobile device provided with a touch pad, in particular a user interface, and the cursor moves to the user command input on the content menu and the execution command accordingly provided through the front panel display screen, a touch pad on the back of the mobile device, It relates to a mobile device designed to enter through. According to the present invention do not have to be provided with a keypad input means of a complex mechanical structure, by employing an input means of the touch pad method, by placing the touch pad on the back of the mobile device that the finger is naturally located when the squeeze of the mobile device by hand there is an effect that it is possible to control the mobile device via the contact surface. In addition, the back because the touch is made through the touch pad does not il covers the front screen of a mobile device with a finger occurs, the wrong position can be more delicately control the position of the cursor relative to the touch-screen to touch directly on the screen to be able to avoid errors that will be provided to the touch, especially when browsing full Web services approach has a favorable effect. The touch pad, a mouse, a mobile device, touch screen,


The performing process is the creative process of reproducing musical material. The performer not only "deciphers" the meaning of the work laid down by the composer, but also creates new images in real time. In order to understand the composer's intention, the performer pianist should turn to the works of painting, literature, etc. The first place among related art forms that create a number of interdisciplinary analogues is rightfully given to literature: in literature, as well as in speech in general (colloquial speech, in this case, we consider as a material, "raw material" of literature), one of the leading expressive elements is intonation (remember the relevant research by B. Asafiev). Thanks to the synthesis of music, literature, painting, the performer assimilates an artistic image, which makes it possible to combine disparately fixed means of expression into a single emotional message. It is the integral emotional message that is the subject of the transfer of the artistic message from the addressee - the author of the music - to the addressee (listener). Therefore, on the part of the pianist called to convey this message, it is of great importance to pay attention to the components of this message, among which the most significant are: musical melody, as in the human language, consists of phrases and sentences. Some basic types of melody are distinguished: horizontal movement, upward movement, downward movement, wavy melody, melody with leaps. Harmony is an important element of the musical language. Along with painting, literature, music also cannot exist without a harmonic foundation. She gives variety and color, is responsible for the semantic and emotional load of the entire work. Rhythm is important. The existence of a piece of music is impossible without rhythm. We can find rhythm in literature in the form of proportionality of lines. It is impossible to imagine a piece of music without tempo. The tempo affects the character of the piece. If the tempo distorts the character of the music, then a mismatch of the musical image occurs. The tempo in speech can be different. It depends on the content of the statement. Dynamics play an important role in music. With its help, the form of the composition is built. Dynamics is able to divide the work into structural parts, as well as contribute to the development of thematic material. The dynamism of the plot is also found in literary works, where there is a constant change in the situation and states of the heroes. So, all the elements of the musical language are combined in the pianist's work. It should be noted the special role of interdisciplinary analogies: music does not exist by itself, analogs of many phenomena of musical speech can be seen both in colloquial speech and in its literary refraction. The presence of such analogs significantly expands the "field" of the pianist's creative activity from mono-timbral art to a complex interdisciplinary approach.


This article presents the results from a qualitative study that explored how legislation in British Columbia, intended to protect vulnerable adults from harm, is implemented in practice. The legislation contains guiding principles that require the least restrictive and minimally intrusive form of support or intervention be used and that the adult's wishes be respected. Sixteen professionals who work as elder abuse responders in British Columba participated in this study through interviews and a focus group. Fifteen of the study participants were social workers. Grounded theory method was used, and themes were identified. The first theme reveals that responders prefer to obtain older adult consent to service provider involvement, rather than forcing compliance by using statutory authority. The second theme reveals that responders may not be able to intervene in a minimally intrusive manner because of resource shortages and organizational structural issues. These findings have human rights and social justice implications.


The invention discloses a check ring press mounting device used for holes, comprising a press mounting cylinder, a bracket combination, a feeding combination, a positioning plate combination, a support frame combination and a control system. The check ring press mounting device is characterized in that the positioning plate and a central shaft form a check ring positioning cavity; under the control of the control device, a feeding cylinder drives a push plate to push the check ring used by holes into the check ring positioning cavity; the press mounting cylinder pushes a workpiece to drive the positioning plate combination to move downwards; when the check ring used by holes is put into the workpiece check ring slot, the press mounting cylinder and the feeding cylinder return; and the workpiece returns under the action of a compression spring to finish the press mounting process. In the check ring press mounting device, the check ring can be used for automatically feeding and press mounting to replace a laggard assembling mode of manually supporting tongs to install the check ring, the check ring press mounting device has the advantages of high efficiency and low labor intensity, and the requirement on large-scale production can be satisfied.


Now the e-commerce has been the heart discussion as the Internet plus is come into being. As an emerging field, the development direction of the fresh food e-commerce is unclear, so we still need to explore its development tendency. The paper analyzed the barriers facing fresh food e-commerce in China through the introduction of current development situation. According to the experiences of fresh food e-commerce development in developed countries,we provided the corresponding countermeasures combined with China's specific national conditions.


Considerable discussion has occurred concerning the diagnostic label chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Many patient groups argue that using this term trivializes the seriousness of the syndrome. A federal government organization, the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Coordinating Committee, appointed a Name Change Workgroup to attempt to develop different terminology for this disorder. This group distributed a poll to patients and health-care providers to obtain information about its recommendation to use an umbrella term, chronic neuroendocrineimmune dysfunction syndrome, and subtypes under it. In addition, the CFIDS Association, a national self-help advocacy organization, distributed a questionnaire to a group of health-care providers concerning these recommendations. The findings of both polls are presented. Overall findings indicated that the majority of patients want the name changed and that the term chronic neuroendocrineimmune dysfunction syndrome was acceptable to the majority of this group.


had previously authored the first full-length analysis of these issues in his The Resurgence of Central Asia: Islam or Nationalism? (London and New York: Zed Press, 1994), and has subsequently continued with Taliban: Islam, Oil and the new Great Game in Central Asia (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000). As U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan I participated in some of these events, and disagree with Rashid on details-he overrates the oiland-gas factor in U.S. policy, for instance-but his only grave defect is to misspell my name. In this essay we find Rashid at the top of his form, weaving a rich and varied picture of the strands of history, religion, and politics that have gone into creating the current Afghanistan imbroglio; apportioning praise and blame (more or less) fairly; wisely assessing where the main dangers lie. His conclusion-that the main danger is to Pakistan itself, but that Central Asian governments can also be destabilized, and especially by their own mistakes-will be hard to rebut. The stakes are of some importance, since the outcome of whatever Great Game is now underway in Central Asia is likely to be determined by the degree to which these five new countries can develop into viable nation-states, subjects rather than just objects in the international system. That viability in tum will depend on the emergence of new national identities in these largely Muslim populations. Until recently Islam could scarcely show its face or speak its name here, yet Islam will necessarily be part of those new identities. The struggle that is now engaged is over which face and which name it should and will have. And that is a great game too. This little book helps us delineate the playing field and the players as they are today.


Using the method of vector sequence space, the geometric properties of Cesaro function space, including conjugate space, Schauder bases, weak sequential completeness, approximation property, Hproperty, Radon Nikodym property, reflexivity, Asplund property and convexity, etc., are studied in this paper.


Context: Diabetes care in the Netherlands is acknowledged to be outstanding and ranked second in the latest Euro Diabetes Index. Type 2 diabetic patients are treated predominantly in the primary care groups. Patients with more complex co-morbidities and type 1 diabetic patients are treated in secondary care. Systematic and nationwide care quality assessment is rather well developed in primary care, but not in secondary care. Due to such lack of information, overall care assessment and further improvement is not possible. Pilot: In 2014, eight hospitals collaborated with Achmea the largest Dutch healthcare insurance company and the diabetes centre Zwolle to perform a first formal survey on diabetes core set data in secondary care in the Netherlands. This was an observational pilot study to test the feasibility of standardised data collection in secondary care comparable to the methods used in primary care in the Netherlands. An e-diabetes core dataset was already developed within the National Program Diabetes (NAD). This data set contains items as also described in national guidelines, related to measurements to be performed and treatment goals to be attained. The items in this core data set are used to formulate quality indicators and are acknowledged both in primary and secondary care in the Netherlands. In this poster we present the results of a first survey on a survey of medical data in secondary care. Much attention was focused on the reliability of data, the set validity, the possible extra registration burden, and the possible usefulness of this core data set as a basis for quality assessment of total diabetes care. Pilot in steps: 1: assessment of (im)possibilities to register and extract the core data set within the electronic patient record system used in the various hospitals 2: analysis of the information gained and reordering of the available information into reports comparable to those provide to primary care organisations 3: interpreting the then available information for each separate hospital and comparing data between hospitals to assess whether the first result would allow any conclusions regarding quality or causes of differences in results Results: Data were obtained retrospectively from electronic patient records and hospital records on approximately 13,000 patients with diabetes type 1 and type 2 over the year 2013. Results were presented in process and intermediate outcome indicators. At this stage, results were 15th International Conference on Integrated Care, Edinburgh, UK, March 25-27, 2015 1 International Journal of Integrated Care – Volume 15, 27 May – URN:NBN:NL:UI:10-1-117097– http://www.ijic.org/ compared between hospitals and with the information of InEen, the Dutch primary care organisation focusing on improving primary care initiatives. The plenary discussion of the benchmarked results led to insight in potential areas of improvement on outcomes and stimulated discussions among and between the eight hospitals. Lessons learnt: This project has shown the importance of building strong coalitions between different organisations (e.g. diabetes care chains, health care insurer, researchers, diabetes care societies). For solving the identified ICT issues which bother data extraction needed for quality assessment a strong coalition is necessary. It requires highly motivated people, patience and trust to realise a national registry.


An aerospace division studied works with many sophisticated and complex aerospace projects where requirements management is a necessity. This paper represents the results of a trade study into possible software tools for requirements management across the various division programs. The study began with a survey to program leadership and systems engineers about their handlings of requirements and their use of specific requirements tools. This survey allowed for the formulation of criteria within an analytical hierarchy process (AHP) of various commercial requirements software platforms. Through the pairwise comparisons of AHP, five software tools were selected and evaluated for feasible implementation across the various division program sizes. With data from the survey and results from the AHP, this trade study suggests that Jama will most appropriately fulfill the specific needs of the division. This is based on Jama's strong performance in aspects such as security, Excel integration, and file linking.


ethods: From 1981 to 1985, 478 patients received pericardial prostheses during remarket approval; from 1987 to 2000, 744 patients received cryopreserved allorafts. Mean age of patients receiving allografts was 49 12 years, and that of those eceiving pericardial prostheses was 65 11 years; pericardial valves were used in 38 patients younger than age 60. Mean follow-up was 15 5.1 years for ericardial valves (4674 patient-years of follow-up) and 5.6 3.1 years for llografts (3892 patient years of follow-up). Multivariable hazard function methodlogy, age-group stratification, and propensity matching were used to compare ge-specific explantation for structural valve deterioration.


The silk fibers were treated with fabric hydrophilic agents,then the influence of the concentration,soaking temperature and soaking time on the hydrophilic effect were analyzed.At last,the best process was obtained.


The role of a NH4Cl layer grown between GaN and a sapphire substrate for self-separation of GaN films was investigated in detail. Microstructural analysis of the NH4Cl layer reveals that self-separation of a GaN film was effectively assisted by the sub-micrometer-sized voids formed due to etching of GaN by evaporated NH4Cl. An areal fraction of nonetched GaN in contact with sapphire substrate was found to be linearly dependent on the thickness of NH4Cl layer and to have two different proportionality constants below and above an NH4Cl thickness at which GaN begins to be self-separated. This intriguing behavior was well explained by a simple model that takes account of void merging.


With the rapid development of science and technology, and the interaction of multi-branches the biotechnology arose at the historic moment and developed continuously in depth at various fields. The application of protoplast generation, protoplast-induced mutation, protoplast fusion and protoplast monokaryon technique in genetic breeding of edible was summarized in this paper.