This report is a snapshot of literacy- and numeracy-embedding practices recorded in 32 classroom observations conducted by the LN-embedding team for the period 2015 and 2016. Our purpose was mainly to describe two dimensions typically associated with LN-embedding practices, and prompted by Tertiary Education Commission [TEC] policy guide-lines (TEC, 2009a). The first refers to the educators' skill at accomplishing lessons as interactive events. These interactions, intended to be reciprocal learning conversations, denote educators' skill at creating and managing interactional spaces. Educators mobilize their interactional skills to circumvent barriers when these occur in learning. The second relates to educators' use of literacy and numeracy (LN) strategies and techniques to enhance learning.
Our findings showed how level-1 thematic labels were configured in terms of 14 categories. We found supporting evidence for the two dimensions of LN-embedded practice in the observations and our analysis. These were identified in a cluster analysis (CA) and then cross-validated in a factor-analytic principal components analysis (PCA). We concluded that significant evidence of LN-embedded practice was available for the two dimensions of LN-embedding practice at the institute. Not only were LN strategies integrated into pedagogical plans and practices, they were aligned with outcomes, materials, activities and assessment tasks (Biggs & Tang, 2007), and occurred in dialogically accomplished educator-learner and learner-learner exchanges.


The kinetics and mechanism of Ce(IV) oxidation of D-mannitol and D-glucose in aqueous H 2 SO 4 media in the presence and absence of Ir(III) have been studied and compared under the conditions, [S] T >>[Ce(IV)] T >>[Ir] T , where [S] T gives the total substrate (D-mannitol or D-glucose) concentration and [Ir] T denotes the total concentration of Ir(III) catalyst added. Ir(III) has been found to catalyse the title reactions very efficiently even at trace concentration (ca.10 - 6 to 10 - 7 mol dm - 3 ). Under the kinetic conditions, both the uncatalysed and catalysed reactions take place simultaneously. The overall process shows a first order dependence on [Ce(IV)] and [S] T . The catalytic path is first order in [Ir] T . The catalytic path is suggested to involve the Ir(III)/Ir(IV) catalytic cycle. The process is acid catalysed and inhibited by [HSO 4 -]. From the HSO 4 -dependence, both Ce(SO 4 ) 2 + and Ce(SO 4 ) 2 have been found kinetically active in D-mannitol oxidation while in D-glucose oxidation Ce(SO 4 ) 2 is the main kinetically active species under comparable conditions. The different kinetic parameters for both the Ir(III) catalysed and uncatalysed paths have been estimated.


Public participation,an indispensable asset,has helped with governmental push with the public affairs.However,the influencing factors of the degree of public interest,extent of opening,cost,and governmental trust may confine and change the public participation.The study is of interest for the governmental rule and social harmony.


The Past at Every Corner Delhi: Ancient History edited by Upinder Singh; Social Science Press, New Delhi, Shonaleeka Kaul Delhi: Ancient History, as its introduc- tion tells you, is a


Device for mounting a pedal, in particular a brake pedal, of a motor vehicle, comprising a support on which is mounted the pedal through a main rotational axis, and comprising shearing means (12) connected to a fixed part (19) of the vehicle and allowing shearing radially said main axis (6) when moving said support relative to said fixed portion so as to release the pedal (2) of said support .


Creative nonfiction has become a major growth field in late 20 th /early 21st century writing, as witnessed by the proliferation of outlets in print and online for informed (and otherwise) personal opinion pieces. Nonfiction occupies a significant place in many of the courses taught in the University of South Australia's Professional Writing program. The inclusion of creative nonfiction both as an object of enquiry and as a topos for written practice in an English syllabus is of value in opening up "literature" in ways more in keeping with current thinking about the field, and not least because it re-validates "personal writing" - usually compartmentalised as "composition" - as a legitimate aspect of literary endeavour.


The dominance of the US model of electioneering in many countries worldwide seems less obvious when it comes to e-campaigning and its consequent influence on electoral results. This article details present e-campaign practices in South Korea, probably the most wired (and wireless) country in the world. By examining a case study of the 2007 presidential primaries of the Grand National Party (GNP), the largest opposition party in the South Korean National Assembly, this article explores how the online political climate of the country has evolved since the 16th presidential election held in 2002, the result of which was widely regarded as an 'Internet victory'. Based on the outcomes from webometrics, the study discusses the extent to which the candidates' applications of their campaign websites shape and are shaped by offline political dynamics and their overall campaign strategies.


kidneys ofsalmon caught in ariver whereinfection ofmetacercariae withNeorickettsia helminthoeca hasbeencircumstantially knownfor decades. Clinically, theclassic course ofsalmon poisoning disease developed inallofthedogs. Parasitemia began onday8to11postinfection, whenthedogsdeveloped afebrile peak, andcontinued until euthanasia. At necropsy, characteristic gross andmicroscopic lesions ofthedisease werepresent. ANeorickettsia sp.wasalso isolated fromliver andspleen samples ofthese animals. Theisolates havebeencontinuously propagated and passed inDH82cells formorethan6months. Electron microscopic examination confirmed that therickettsial organisms multiplied inthemembrane-bound compartment ofDH82cells andthattheymorphologically closely resembled rickettsia belonging tothegenusEhrlichia. Anindirect fluorescent antibody test using Neorickettsia organisms cultured inDH82cells showed that alldogsseroconverted 13to15dayspostinfection. Finally, inoculation ofthecell-cultured Neorickettsia organisms into anaive dogreproduced clinically typical salmon poisoning disease whichwasofgreater severity andhadamorerapid timecourse thanthat inthedogs fromwhichtheoriginal isolation wasmade.Onthebasis oftheclinical andpathologic responses ofthedogs inourstudy, webelieve thatvirulent N.helminthoeca wasisolated andcultured inacontinuous cell line.


The fungus Fistulina brassliensis 0. & K. Fidalgo (1958) was found only once in the type locality (Tijuca Forest, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, alt 300 m) since its discovery in March 1957. Last summer, in Sao Paulo city (400 km WSW of Rio de Janeiro, alt 800 m), during an exceptionally good season for collecting higher hymenomycetes, a large collection of F. brasiliensis was found in the woods of the Sao Paulo Botanical Garden (Instituto de Botanica). The first carpophore, a small, juvenile fruiting body, was found in January. Two weeks later more than fifty specimens were found in the same area. Many were carefully followed through the ground until reaching the roots to which they were attached. All the roots originated from a dead trunk of Piptadenia colubrina Benth., commonly known in Sao Paulo state as "angico branco," and elsewhere as "cambui-angico." This may indicate that the fungus is corticicolous, acting as a parasite on the root system of that leguminous tree. This large collection enabled us to better understand the variability of the morphology of the carpophore which is here redescribed: Carpophore always stipitate. Stipe lateral or falsely excentric, 0.5-2.3 cm in diam., 1-15.5 cm long. The length of the stipe depends in part on how deep is the root to which it is attached.


In this paper, the effect of substituting Fe partially by the 4d element Nb on the structural and magnetic properties of Tb0.27Dy0.73Fe2 is reported. Polycrystalline compounds of Tb0.27Dy0.73Fe2-xNbx (x = 0, 0.05, 0.1 and 0.2) were prepared by arc melting the constituent elements (rare earths-99.9 % pure, Fe and Nb -99.95 % pure) in an arc furnace under argon atmosphere. The ingots were annealed in vacuum at 950degC for a week. X-ray diffraction patterns of these compounds were taken using a PANalytical X-ray diffractrometer. Magnetization up to 12 kOe and Curie temperature (Tc) measurements were carried out using a PAR-155 vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM). Magnetostriction measurements at room temperature were carried out employing strain gauge method.


A solid preparation containing compound (I), wherein the definition of compound (I) is as defined in the description, and pioglitazone, which is useful as a therapeutic drug for diabetes and the like and superior in the dissolution property, chemical stability and dissolution stability, is provided. A solid preparation containing the following first and second parts: (1) the first part containing compound (I) or a salt thereof and, as the first excipient, sugar or sugar alcohol; and (2) the second part containing pioglitazone or a salt thereof and, as the second excipient, sugar or sugar alcohol.


Abstract External cause mortality affects disproportionately those at younger ages and, when age at death is taken into account, external causes are of comparable importance to heart disease and cancer. The present paper uses Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL), a measure of mortality which includes age at death, to examine trends in external cause mortality, by social class, in England and Wales. Deaths from external causes have fallen most in the more advantaged social classes, producing wider inequalities. Different categories of external cause have changed in opposite directions; traffic accidents have fallen but suicides have increased. Suicide and traffic accidents remain prime policy targets. A new initiative on traffic accidents is proposed.


sharply reinforced by detailed evidence drawing on a particularly wide range of sources including police and judicial archives (much depleted in Paris due to the destruction of the archives in 1871), supplemented by newspapers, novels, guide books, postcards, and posters. The use of computers for word and phrase analysis subtly reinforces an approach he describes as 'une anthropologie historique', an institutional, and especially a social and cultural, history of public order and of a major effort to secure a 'civilisation' which, to varying degrees, those in power constantly assumed to be threatened by criminality and revolutionary conspiracy.


The pathogenic  Wolbachia strain wMelPop is detected in the central nervous system, muscles, and retina of  Drosophila melanogaster . It reduces the host lifetime twofold. This fact makes it promising for control of insect pests and transmitters of human diseases. Any symbiotic association is exposed to various stress factors: starvation, heat, cold, etc., which affect the symbiont interaction significantly. This study considers the action of cold (16 °C) and heat (29 °C) on the survival and lifetime of  D. melanogaster females infected by the  Wolbachia strain wMelPop. The ultrastructure of brain cells and the bacterium distribution in them were studied. Longer (starting from three days) exposure of imagoes to elevated temperature reduces their lifetime. On day 7 of exposure to heat, electron-dense bodies appear in brain cells of the flies. They look like degrading bacteria. Their amount increases dramatically by day 13 of incubation at 29 °C. On the grounds of populational and EM analysis, we recognized the critical time of heat action: days 7–13 after the start of exposure. After that, the survival of  Drosophila melanogaster decreases abruptly.


Various metal cables are used in a house: such as Unshielded Twist Pair (UTP) cable for Gigabits Ethernet (GE), High Definition Media Interface (HDMI) for high definition (HD) video contents, and coaxial cable for TV broadcast. To reduce its complexity for consumers, we successfully developed wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) transmission system over Graded-Index Plastic Optical Fiber (GI-POF) pair cable to replace these complex metal cables. This system consists of newly developed E/O-O/E converters for each media signal and multi-wavelength Multiplexer (MUX) and De-Multiplexer (DEMUX). Almost all GI-POF wiring for a local area network in home, campus, hospital, and factory can be achieved. Such WDM-GI-POF wiring in the premises can make simple, smart and safe multimedia network services without increasing the number of cables.


Purpose To investigate the incidence and distribution of cancer in Hangzhou city. Methods The registration data from Hangzhou cancer registry from 2004 to 2005 were reviewed. The crude incidence and Chinese population standardized incidence were analyzed. Results The cancer crude incidence in Hangzhou from 2004 to 2005 was 244.44/105,with 273.68/105 in male and 208.02/105 in female,while Chinese population standardized incidence was 178.52/105,with 194.96/105 in male and 159.32/105 in female. The top 5 cancers were lung cancer,gastric cancer,liver cancer,breast cancer and colorectal cancer. The incidence was 295.12/105 in the urban area while 158.28/105 in the rural area. Conclusion Cancer is a significant factor to threaten of the residents' health in Hanghou. Therefore,preventing and controlling the occurrence of cancer is an important task for the health care work at present.


Digital transformation with university context to create a new performance for educational opportunities for Thais to access new knowledge without restrictions on time – location, digital transformation in the academic sector. It has partnered with all key stakeholders within the institution to make decisions about software and infrastructure and make decisions about changes, transitions, customizations, and upgrades that will drive the best long-term value. High Performance Organization is an organization of excellence. Everyone plays an important role in the drive forward, happening on a personal level. A group or department contributes to achieving the organization's goals. Have a pronounced ability to establish excellent standards of work. For superior competitiveness. The purpose of this research the content divided into two Phases: Phase 1: Synthesize the element of High Performance Digital Entrepreneurial University, Step1) Synthesis from documents, theories, and related research of Digital Transformation Framework, Step 2) Study element of Digital Transformation for High Performance Digital Entrepreneurial University and Step 3) Synthesize the High Performance Organization framework. Phase 2: Develop the conceptual framework of High Performance Digital Entrepreneurial University. The research results as follows; 1. Results Synthesis of Digital Transformation Framework for High Performance Digital Entrepreneurial University, consisting of 1) Strategy, 2) Business Process, 3) Digital Technologies, 4) Organizational, 5) Culture, 6) Stakeholder, and 7) Employee. 2. Results Synthesis of the High Performance Organization framework in The criteria for ranking include 11 areas : 1) Academic reputation, 2) Employer attitude towards graduates, 3) Proportion of teachers/staff per student, 4) International research network, 5) Proportion of research that has been referenced, 6) Proportion of research published, 7) Personnel with Ph.D. qualifications, 8) Proportion of foreign teachers, 9) Proportion of foreign students, 10) Proportion of international students exchanged, and 11) Proportion of foreign students who exchange.


Therapeutic compositions containing non-pathogenic germinating bacterial spores for the prevention, control and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, disorders and conditions and for overall nutritional health are described herein. Will be disclosed. [Selection figure] None


Populism and Radicalism: Social Unrest in Contemporary Europe The growth of nationalism and communitarian egoisms are frequently explained in terms of populism. This diagnosis not only says little about the essence of the problem, but it prevents a rational response to the associated risks. Instead, we propose to describe the current situation in terms of "social unrest", which is expressed both in the reactionary attitudes of the extreme right, as well as in radical left. Unrest also points to the broader phenomenon of social movements, which express and respond to the real problems and confl icts of contemporary Europe. In place of uninformative view of the "spectrum of populism" we offer a complex interpretation, which considers anti-systemic movements as a reaction to the defi ciencies of liberal democracy, turbo-capitalism, the crisis of political life, a response to painful costs of modernization, pathologies of mass culture and the primacy of science oriented culture. We also discuss the manifestations of a separate phenomenon of Manichaeism and political cynicism, which we consider as signifi cant for populism.


Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of the gamification of virtual assembly planning on the user performance, user experience and engagement.

Design/methodology/approach
A multi-touch table was used to manipulate virtual parts and gamification features were integrated into the virtual assembly environment. An experiment was conducted in two conditions: a gamified and a non-gamified virtual environment. Subjects had to assemble a virtual pump. The user performance was evaluated in terms of the number of errors, the feasibility of the generated assembly sequence and the user feedback.

Findings
The gamification reduced the number of errors and increased the score representing the number of right decisions. The results of the subjective and objective analysis showed that the number of errors decreased with engagement in the gamified assembly. The increase in the overall user experience reduced the number of errors. The subjective evaluation showed a significant difference between the gamified and the non-gamified assembly in terms of the level of engagement, the learning usability and the overall experience.

Research limitations/implications
The effective learning retention after training has not been tested, and longitudinal studies are necessary. The effect of the used gamification elements has been evaluated as a whole; further work could isolate the most beneficial features and add other elements that might be more beneficial for learning.

Originality/value
The research reported in this paper provides valuable insights into the gamification of virtual assembly using a low-cost multi-touch interface. The results are promising for training operators to assemble a product at the design stage.


The paper proposes a method for obstacle detection on a runway for autonomous navigation and landing of an aircraft. Detection is done in the presence of extraneous features such as tire marks. Suitable features are extracted from the image and warping using approximately known camera and plane parameters is performed in order to compensate ego-motion as far as possible. Residual disparity after warping is estimated using an optical flow algorithm. Features are tracked from frame to frame so as to obtain more reliable estimates of their motion. Corrections are made to motion parameters with the residual disparities using a robust method, and features having large residual disparities are signalled as obstacles. Sensitivity analysis of the procedure is also studied. A Bayesian framework is used at every stage so that the confidence in the estimates can be determined.


The concepts of basis and uniform Scott open sets of uniform continuous partial order sets are given.The interpolation property of way-below relation is satisfied in uniform continuous partial order sets.Finally some properties of mapping of uniform continuous partial order sets are discussed.


Many materials exhibit a highly nonlinear elastic behavior, such as textiles or finger flesh. An efficient way of enforcing the nonlinearity of these materials is through strain-limiting constraints, which is often the model of choice in computer graphics. Strain-limiting allows to model highly non-linear stiff materials by eliminating degrees of freedom from the computations and by enforcing a set of constraints. However, many nonlinear elastic materials, such as composites, wood or flesh, exhibit anisotropic behaviors, with different material responses depending on the deformation direction. This anisotropic behavior has not been addressed in the past in the context of strain limiting, and naïve approaches, such as applying a different constraint on each component of the principal axes of deformation, produce unrealistic results. In this paper, we enable anisotropic behaviors when using strain-limiting constraints to model nonlinear elastic materials. We compute the limits for each principal axis of deformation through the rotation and hyperbolic projection of the deformation limits defined in the global reference frame. The limits are used to formulate the strain-limiting constraints, which are then seamlessly combined with frictional contact constraints in a standard constrained dynamics solver.


The nonmetallic powder recycled from waste printed circuit boards(PCBs)was used in cement mortar as an admixture.The effect of the particle size of nonmetallic powder on the performance of mortar was investigated.Styrene-butadiene rubber(SBR)dispersion and coupling agent were used to improve the interface between nonmetallic powder and cement paste and thus the performance of mortar prepared with nonmetallic powder.The results show that the compressive strength,flexural strength and tensile bond strength increase as the particle size of nonmetallic powder decreases;and the air content,shrinkage rate and water capillary adsorption decline with the fall of the particle size of nonmetallic powder.The air content and shrinkage rate of mortar can be reduced by the treatment of coupling agent on the nonmetallic powder.Addition of styrene-butadiene rubber dispersion improves the compressive strength and water capillary adsorption of mortar.Both treatment on the nonmetallic powder with coupling agent and addition of styrene-butadiene rubber dispersion can enhance the flexural strength and tensile bond strength of mortar.


When psychologists Shumaker and Heckel wrote their earlier book on Children Who Murder, it became clear to them that society-specifically a significant portion of its young members-is in crisis. Focused on this crisis, these authors found an everyday issue that makes life more challenging for parents who are trying to raise kids of good character. The issue is this: There are extensive differences now in the family, the school environment, the community and even religious institutions, compared to previous generations. For example, familes of today rarely have a coherent extended family. And by far in most regions, dual working parents are common, as are single parents and stepfamilies. Church activities, events and agents are not as evident in the community as they were in the past. Schools under increasing demand for testing and measurement take less time to devote to issues of character. Altogether, the changes are significant, and can leave parents searching for ways to instill character in their kids. Shumaker and Heckel spotlight these historical changes, and also ways parents today are succeeding in creating kids of character nonetheless. When authors Shumaker and Heckel wrote their earlier book on Children Who Murder, it became clear to them that society-specifically a significant portion of its young members-is in crisis. Focused on this crisis, these authors found an everyday issue that makes life more challenging for parents trying to raise kids of character. The challenge is this: there are extensive differences now in the family, the school environment, the community and even religious institutions, compared to previous generations. For example, families of today rarely have a coherent extended family. Dual working parents are common. Church activities, events and agents are not nearly as evident in the community as they were in the past. And schools, under increasing demand for testing and measurement, devote far less time to issues of character than they did in the past. Altogether, the changes are significant and can leave parents at a loss for how to best develop character intheir kids. Shumaker and Heckel show us how some parents are creatively handling this challenge. The authors do not argue that most American kids are out of hand, cruel, or immoral. They are neither cynics nor prophets of doom. What they do see is a disappearance of supports for parents, making the adults'job more demanding. Yet they pinpoint ways some parents are succeeding in this new millennium. This book begins by explaining the basics of moral development in children reviewing recent research findings. If offers parents, teachers, professors, administrators, clergy, and legislators helpful tools to promote character.


In the 1960s, Cheongju City began to the modern urbanization process with the population passing by 10 million than any other region of Chungbuk provinces. Early in the 1970s, it began to the urban concentration of population and development, the opening of the Gyeongbu Expressway and the improvement of rural community structure in rural areas, the housing improvement projects had become active. From the 1990s, the Building ordinance of the city and municipal assembly was enacted, the high-rise apartment buildings were constructed a residential section at the outskirts of downtown. After ninety nineties, because of non self-regulating quantitative growth of Chungbuk provinces without the concern of local identity and the information on the currentness went on, so it is true that there are no buildings of represented contemporary architectures of the region. In this background, this study investigates and analyzes the contemporary architectures of the Chungbuk region since 1990s, and has a purpose of examinations of the universal characteristics and the regional characteristics in the Chungbuk architectures. For the architectural case study, the target buildings of analysis are selected at published works of the famous monthly magazine of Korean architecture and architectural awarded works of Korea Institute of Registered Architects and as well as they are in Chungbuk region. These works were visited for taking photos and collecting architectural informations. The results of this study are as follows. First, since the 1960s, the universal characteristics of contemporary architecture were the continuation of functional Modernism Architectures and Post Modernism Architectures, High-Tech Architectures of Machine aesthetics and Deconstructivism as Neo Modernism. These are influenced many aspects in the development and advance of Korean contemporary architecture. Second, since the 1990s, the universal characteristics of contemporary architecture began to appear the Minimalism Architectures as Neo Modernism, the New Media Architectures applied the information and communications technology, the Sustainable Architectures as Eco-friendly and green architecture. Third, this pluralistic tendencies of Korean contemporary architecture are classified into five categories like as function oriented tendency, post-modern tendency, neo-modern tendency, technic expressive tendency and tendency of seeking Korean characteristics. The tendency of seeking Korean characteristics is based on the Korean traditional architecture this falls into four sections like as the outspoken restoration of Korean traditional architecture, the historical compromise, the abstract representation of tradition, the critical localism. Lastly, the results of 33 examples Investigation Cases of the Chungbuk contemporary architectures appeared as follow. As the universal characteristics of the Chungbuk contemporary architecture, the function oriented tendency showed 12 greatest trends, and as the tendency of seeking Korean characteristics, there are four examples of the critical localism.


An accurate estimation of the potential fertility of family planning acceptors in the furture should be made in order to measure the usefulness of dissemination of information and services in curtailing the birth rate. Such an estimation of future fertility is difficult because 1) family planning acceptors are not a random group of women of reproductive age; 2) they are aligned as to phase in their reproductive cycle; and 3) they are more likely to limit their fertility even without a family planning program. One crude way of doing the projection is to take the fertility rate of the population and consider this the fertility rate of acceptors in the future. This method can be refined by various methods such as the one Potter used by taking the preacceptance age-specific pattern of the fertility of acceptors over the 3 past years and using this as the basis for estimating the future potential fertility. Another method of estimating future fertility may be matching acceptors with nonpregnant nonacceptors by age parity education and interval from the last birth. The general conclusion the author reaches is that there is yet not a single really satisfactory method of future fertility estimation that takes into account sterility and other important factors.


YI, LIN., M.S., August 2007. Biological Sciences BUNDLE HEIGHTS VARIATION IN THE ANTERIOR AND POSTERIOR TRANSECTS OF TURTLE UTRICLE (71 pp.) Director of Thesis: Michael H. Rowe As one of the three otolith organs in turtle inner ear, the utricle plays an important role in sensing translational and horizontal movements of the head. Hair bundle heights vary according to hair cell type and as a function of spatial location on the surface of the utricle. This spatialand type-specific variation of hair bundle heights contributes to the parallel differences in bundle mechanics, neurotransmitter release, and afferent diversity. Xue and Peterson (2006) reported a specific pattern of afferent innervation for hair cells in a central transect of the utricle, i.e., a line representing one particular direction of movement. I made comparable measurements along anterior and posterior transects of the utricle in order to determine if this pattern is unique to central regions the utricle. I found that although the same basic pattern is present in anterior and posterior transects, there are a number of differences that may be related to differences in encoding for different directions of movement. I also investigated the relationship between calretinin staining properties of type I hair cell subtypes and innervation by calyceal and dimorphic afferents. Approved: Michael H. Rowe Professor of Biological Sciences


Objective
To investigate the effects of hydrogen-rich saline on acute kidney injury after orthotopic liver transplantation(OLT)in rats and the role of autophagy.

Methods
Fifty-six healthy adult male Sprague-Dawley rats, weighing 220–250 g, served as donors and recipients.Thirty-two recipient rats were randomly assigned into 4 groups using a random number table: sham operation group(group S), OLT group, hydrogen-rich saline group(group HS), and autophagy inhibitor chloroquine group(group CQ). In group S, laparotomy was performed, and the related blood vessels were isolated.The model of OLT was established in OLT, HS and CQ groups.In OLT and HS groups, normal saline and hydrogen-rich saline 6 ml/kg were injected, respectively, through the inferior vena cava at 5 min before anhepatic phase.In group CQ, chloroquine 60 mg/kg was injected intraperitoneally at 1 h before establishment of the model, and the other treatments were similar to those previously described in group HS.Blood samples were obtained at 6 h of neohepatic phase for determination of serum blood urea nitrogen(BUN)and creatinine(Cr)concentrations.After the end of blood sampling, the left kidneys were removed for determination of malondialdehyde(MDA)content(using thiobarbituric acid method), superoxide dismutase(SOD)activity(xanthine oxidase method), and cell apoptosis(using TUNEL), and for examination of the pathological changes of renal tissues.The damage to the renal tubules was scored.Apoptosis index(AI)was calculated.The expression of phosphorylated p53(p-p53), activated caspase-3, cytochrome c(Cyt c), microtubule-associated protein light chain 3Ⅱ(LC3Ⅱ), and Beclin-1 was detected by Western blot analysis.

Results
Compared with group S, the levels of BUN, Cr, and MDA, AI, and renal tubular damage score were significantly increased, the SOD activity was decreased, and the expression of activated caspase-3, Cyt c and LC3Ⅱ was up-regulated(P 0.05). Compared with group OLT, the levels of BUN, Cr, and MDA, AI, and renal tubular damage score were significantly decreased, the SOD activity was increased, the expression of activated caspase-3, Cyt c was down-regulated, and the expression of LC3Ⅱ, Beclin-1 and p-p53 was up-regulated in group HS(P 0.05).

Conclusion
Hydrogen-rich saline can attenuate acute kidney injury after OLT, and the mechanism is associated with activation of p53, enhancement of autophagy and inhibition of cell apoptosis in rats.

Key words:
Hydrogen; Liver transplantation; Kidney injury; Autophagy; Apoptosis


When ethyl alcohol is acted upon by the methane-producing organism, Methanobacterium omelianskii, acetic acid is the sole oxidation product (Barker (1939-40, 1941)). But with alcoholcontaining enrichment cultures for the same organism it often happens that acetic acid is formed in only relatively small amounts, while most of the alcohol is converted into caproic and butyric acids (Barker (1937)). In some cultures as much as 75 per cent by weight of the volatile acid is caproic. Microscopic examination has shown that such caproic-acidproducing enrichment cultures always differ from those forming only acetic acid by containing, besides M. omelianskii, considerable numbers of a large, motile, spore-forming bacterium. The conclusion seemed justified that this latter organism either itself produces or at least helps to produce the caproic acid. However, direct proof of the participation of the spore-forming bacterium in caproic acid formation can be obtained only by studying the organism in pure culture. This communication describes the isolation, the general morphological and physiological characteristics and certain growtlh requirements of this bacterium. Also, evidence is presented which demonstrates that it is responsible for the conversion of ethyl alcohol to caproic acid. Enrichment and isolation. To obtain the caproic acid-producing organism, Clostridium kluyverii,1 the following enrichment medium (no. 1) made with tap water is used: C2H5OH 1 vol. per cent; K2HPO4 0.5 per cent; MgSO4 7H20 0.01 per cent; (NH4)2 SO4 0.03 per cent; FeSO4 .77H20 0.002 per cent; yeast autolysate 0.5


Synthesis and characterization of polymeric derivatives of the folic acid antagonist, Methotrexate, N-[4-(N-methyl-2,4-diamino-6-pteridinylmethylamino)benzoyl] glutamic acid (1a), a widely used antitumor agent, are described. Derivatives of poly(L-lysine), poly(iminoethylene), poly(vinyl alcohol), and carboxymethylcellulose with various contents (3–15 mole-%) of substituted repeating units were prepared by polymer-analogous amidation and transesterification of the dimethyl ester of 1a and with N-[2-(N-methylmorpholinio)ethyl]carbodiimide p-toluenesulfonate as coupling reagent. By nucleophilic addition reactions of the pteridinyl amino groups under mild conditions, 1a was bound without cross-linking to divinyl ether-maleic anhydride (DIVEMA) copolymers of various molecular weights. This copolymer appeared to be of particular interest as carrier because of its established antitumor and immune-stimulating activity.—With the exception of the poly(vinyl alcohol) derivative, all polymers containing the 1a residue are water soluble at the physiological pH range. Besides the dimethyl ester of 1a used as convenient starting material for polymer-analogous reactions, further dialkyl esters of 1a were synthesized as low molecular weight model compounds for the study of the pharmacodynamic properties of polymers, substituted with 1a. The polymeric derivatives of 1a were purified by membrane filtration, solvent extraction, and reprecipitation; the polymers and the dialkylesters 1b–d were characterized by thin-layer chromatography, IR, NMR, UV and mass spectra, and elemental analysis. Preliminary results of the pharmacological studies with the DIVEMA derivatives of 1a are also reported.


Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was performed on 3 patients after cryothalamotomy, one of whom had bilateral cryothalamotomies. The time between surgery and MRI ranged from 23 days to 6.5 months. Images made 3 to 4 weeks after surgery showed a lesion of high signal intensity on both T1‐weighted and T2‐weighted images, and an additional central area of low signal intensity on T1‐weighted images. Images obtained at 2, 4, and 6.5 months after surgery showed smaller lesions with low signal intensity on T1‐weighted and T2‐weighted images, a pattern consistent with resolving hematoma after cryothalamotomy.


Implants are poised to revolutionize personalized healthcare by monitoring and actuating physiological functions. Such implants operate under challenging constraints of limited battery energy, heterogeneous tissue-dependent channel conditions and human-safety regulations. To address these issues, we propose a new cross-layer protocol for galvanic coupled implants wherein weak electrical currents are used in place of classical radio frequency (RF) links. As the first step, we devise a method that allows multiple implants to communicate individual sensed data to each other through CDMA code assignments, but delegates the computational burden of decoding only to the on-body surface relays. Then, we devise a distributed beamforming approach that allows coordinated transmissions from the implants to the relays by considering the specific tissue path chosen and tissue heating-related safety constraints. Our contributions are two fold: First, we devise a collision-free protocol that prevents undue interference at neighboring implants, especially for multiple deployments. Second, this is the first application of near-field distributed beamforming in human tissue. Results reveal significant improvement in the network lifetime for implants of up to 79% compared to the galvanic coupled links without beamforming.


The results of the investigation are based on a sample of 479 Mexican and Portuguese students of both genders, between the ages of 15 and 19. Its aim was to identify and analyze their systems of representation with regards to disability from a perspective of comparison. The results suggest that there is not a closed system of representation for disability amongst Mexican and Portuguese students but rather a complex system made up of central representations and peripheries. It further shows that many common denominators exist in the two systems of representation that reveal attitudes and images that tend to a negative view of disability. Points of Interest: the application of the theory of social representations in the understanding of the social systems of representation for disability; the identification of the dimensions and elements that make up the representation systems adopted by young Mexican and Portuguese students.


Of the parameters that may be adjusted to give the helicopter freedom from ground resonance, that which is ignored most frequently is Λ3 (ratio of effective rotor mass to effective fuselage mass). This is because it is usually impractical to change it on an existing helicopter. However, if it is considered sufficiently early in the design of the fuselage, the ground resonance problem can be greatly reduced or even eliminated by the consideration of this parameter alone. The paper investigates the effects of fuselage dynamic properties on Λ3 and also gives results for the effect of Λ3 on the stability boundaries for some simple helicopter configurations.


The twenty seven wrap-up vegetables (13 Compositae, 14 Brassicaceae) and seven herbs (6 Labiatae, 1 Umbelliftrae) were cultivated with a deep flow technique (DFT) hydroponic beds and treated with 3 levels of nutrient solution concentrations of 1.2, 2.4, and 3.6 dSㆍm?¹ in summer and autumn season. The pH and electrical conductivity (EC) change of nutrient solution, fresh weight, and mineral contents of plants were investigated. The pH was maintained lower in high electrical conductivity (EC) treatment and in summer than autumn. EC of nutrient solution in EC 3.6 dSㆍm?¹ treatment increased up to 4.8 dSㆍm?¹m during the growing period in summer season. The growth of tested plants showed high variations by plant species and nutrient solution concentrations. The coefficient variation (CV) of the shoot fresh weight of plants was higher in summer than autumn. The growth of Compositae and herbs was better at EC 1.2 dSㆍm?¹, and 14 Brassicaceae was better at EC 2.4 dSㆍm?¹ in summer. In autumn, the growth was better at EC 2.4 dSㆍm?¹, in all plants except kale 'TBC F1' and red rape 'honchaetae'. In mineral contents, total nitrogen and potassium were higher in autumn than summer. Total nitrogen, potassium, calcium, magnesium were higher in Brassicaceae than others. Iron and manganese, however, were higher in Compositae. As the results, this study suggests that mixed planting of 27 wrap-up vegetables and 7 herbs in DFT hydroponics in two seasons was possible and EC 1.2 dSㆍm?¹ in summer and EC 2.4 dSㆍm?¹ in autumn be recommended as for the nutrient solution concentration to produce them safely year round.


Hip fractures are a major health problem among the elderly, and 90% of fractures are caused by falls. Wearable hip protectors (Parker et al., 2006) represent a promising strategy for attenuating and redistributing the force applied to the hip region, and thereby reducing the risk for hip fracture during a fall. However, the protective effect of hip protectors should depend on the direction of the fall, and the amount of baseline soft tissue padding over the hip. In the current study, we tested these hypotheses through safe falling experiments in young adults.


A critical notice of Terence Irwin, The Development of Ethics, A Historical and Critical Study, Vol. I: From Socrates to the Reformation


THE PAST DECADE has seen tremendous growth in the practice of nuclear medicine. Although radioisotopes of iodine were used in the 1930s as tracers to study thyroid function, in-vivo imaging of radioisotope distribution only became practicable with the development of the rectilinear scanner in the early 1950s. This was well suited to the detection of radioiodine, 1311, and other high energy photon emitters, such as gold, 198Au, and indium, 11 3mln.


Omega-3 is an essential fatty acid necessary for human health. It has anti-inflammatory properties, reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease, and is needed for brain development. The three main omega-3 fatty acids are alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). Penja fish is a typical marine biota of Polewali Mandar, West Sulawesi, which is believed to be rich in omega-3. The research aimed to determine the omega-3 content in penja fish (Awaous sp.) from Polewali Mandar, West Sulawesi Province. Penja fish was extracted using the Soxhlet method, and then the fatty acid content was analyzed by GC-MS. The results of this study show that penja fish extract (Awaous sp.) contains omega-3 consisting of 2.64% linolenic acid, 0.94% eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), and 1.17% docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). The total omega-3 content in penja fish (Awaous sp.) is 4.75%.


The inclusion complexation of pyrene with the macrobicyclic cyclophane host 1 has been described in previous experimental studies and showed a strong solvent dependence. Upon changing from apolar to dipolar aprotic, to polar protic solvents, and to water, the association strength of complex 2 increases steadily. Following a detailed conformational analysis of this system, we then performed Gibbs free energy calculations using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations in the liquid phase. The purpose of this work was to test the reproducibility of the experimental results with computer simulation techniques and obtain more details at the molecular level on the origin of these strong solvent effects. Gibbs free energy calculations of cyclophane−pyrene complex 2 in water and in chloroform were carried out by performing a deletion of the pyrene molecule in the pure solvent and inside the cyclophane cavity, following the double annihilation technique. The procedure allowed the free energy of complexation in both sol...


Objective To establish human renal cell carcinoma (RCC) cell lines, and to investigate the cell phenotypes and molecular characteristics of human RCC cell lines and their corresponding tumour tissues.


The correlation‐function method is used to describe the dielectric relaxation behavior of liquids and directionally isotropic crystalline phases.The physical model used is that of a regular mixture of dipole molecules and vacancies on a lattice, i.e., the equivalent of the Bragg—Williams approximation.To calculate the cooperative transition probabilities, which govern the relaxation correlation function, the effect of vacancies in the neighborhood of the representative dipole is taken into account. The effect of vacancy diffusion is neglected.The result is a discrete distribution of relaxation times corresponding to cooperative regions with none, one, two, etc., vacancies.This relaxation spectrum is shown to be narrow in the case of liquids and broad in the case of molecular crystals.Upon application of the theory to measurements of the dielectric relaxation of crystalline hydrogen and deuterium halides and of liquid bromoalkanes, the fraction of vacancies and an interaction parameter for these substances...


This experience report discusses the work with an autistic student and his career in early literacy. It also relates the challenges, practices developed and some aspects of the progress of their inclusion in the school with the issues we had, the difficulties encountered and the strategies of work created. In this context, it is significant to report the learning process not only the student but also of the characters involved - parents, teacher, school - which reveal moments of restlessness, mutual reflection and construction of new knowledge. This paper highlights the experience of listening as something transformative, for all characters involved in the process through which it is possible to get close, create, become someone else to build a new way of thinking and acting. Thus, the account of this experience is important precisely because they indicate the construction of some ways in this work in inclusive school.


On one hand,a great deal of pesticide and fertilizer is used in the countryside,which brings serious pollution to the surface water;on the other hand,the rural economy is very poor and the equipment of drinking water is very simple,which makes it difficult for the villagers to gain access to drinking water,the distributing simple tap-water is adopted to solve the problem of drinking water.The structure and the design of distributing simple tap-water system is also presented in this article.


Vector inversion generators or spiral generators are compact, high voltage pulse generators consisting of a pair of conducting foils wound in a spiral and a switch. We developed an improved analytical model predicting the time evolution of the output voltage of such spiral generators. Our model (i) takes into account that the current in the switch results from the current on active and passive waveguides and (ii) takes into account the losses of the conductor in equations describing the propagation of voltage and current pulses in both waveguides. The model is compared to experimental results involving different input switches and at different temperatures to investigate the influence of resistive losses on the output voltage. The model is further developed to obtain the time evolution of the current in the switch. Our model is then used to predict the amplitude of the first two peaks of the oscillatory response of spiral generators as a function of a set of dimensionless parameters.


Introduction: The clonal hematopoiesis with somatic mutations is age-related phenomenon with a frequency around 10% for population older than 65 years in contrast to population younger than 50 years with frequency of 1%. Mutations in genes involved in epigenetic modification and RNA splicing, which are recurrently mutated in myeloid neoplasms and associated with increased risk of hematologic cancer, seem to represent a premalignant condition. Generally, ASXL1 mutations are frequently found in myeloid malignancies. Patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) diagnosed at the age of 15 to 39 years, also called adolescent and young adults (AYAs), have a worse prognosis and response to tyrosine kinase inhbitors (TKIs) compared to elderly patients. Little is known about the molecular background differing AYA from the common group of CML patients.
 Objectives: To determine, whether the worse prognosis and response to therapy of CML AYAs is associated with the clonal hematopoiesis with somatic mutations.
 Methods: Samples from 22 AYAs were retrospectively analyzed at the time of diagnosis (aged 18-37; Table 1). Of them, 20 patients failed on TKI or relapsed after allo-HSCT (allogeneic hematopoietic stem cells transplantation). In 6/20 AYAs, mutations in the kinase domain of BCR-ABL1 were detected at the time of TKI failure (M244V, T315I, E255K/V + Q252H, F317L + M351T, V379I, L284S). Two responders were included for comparison. Sequencing of custom myeloid panel (Roche), partly or fully covering 36 genes frequently mutated in myeloid malignancies, was performed on MiSeq (Illumina). Data was analyzed in NextGENe software (Softgenetics). The detected variants were characterized by open-source databases (VarSome, Ensembl, COSMIC, NCBI - dbSNP) and confirmed by Sanger sequencing and/or ASO-ddPCR.
 Results: At the time of diagnosis, somatic mutations were identified in ASXL1 (n=4), CSF3R (n=1), TET2 (n=1), PCDHA12 (n=1), SETD2 (n=1), ATRX (n=1), and SIRT1 (n=1) in 10/20 AYAs, who subsequently failed on treatment (Table 1). Overall, 6 missense, 3 frameshift mutations and one nonsense mutation were detected. In patients #21 and #22 with optimal response to TKIs, no mutations were detected at diagnosis. In patient #10, ASXL1 mutation E773X was confirmed at the time of TKI failure and also at the allo-HSCT relapse. In patient #6, G645delinsGWfs was found at the diagnosis and on the 3rd line nilotinib treatment. Another ASXL1 mutation, S795delinsCLfs, was found in a patient #1 only at diagnosis. In patient #19, ASXL1 mutation T1372delinsTCfs found at diagnosis will be followed during the TKI treatment. In patient #3, the CSF3R mutation A593V was found at diagnosis and confirmed 14 months after the imatinib initiation. In patient #8, who relapsed after 2nd allo-HSCT, the RUNX1 D198N was found in the same clone bearing BCR-ABL1 T315I, both confirmed by ASO-ddPCR also before 1st allo-HSCT. This clone was, in the follow-up treatment, responsible for the relapse to CNS and also the relapse even after 3rd allo-HSCT and patient died.
 Conclusions:
 The preliminary data of this work outlined that somatic mutations in the myeloid genes are frequently found in CML AYAs, who failed on the TKI or relapsed after allo-HSCT, alone or together with mutated BCR-ABL1. The most frequently mutated gene was ASXL1, which is in line with the work by Ernst et al. (2018) even though on younger patients including children. Despite the clonal hematopoiesis with somatic mutations is considered as age-related phenomenon, in AYA CML patients, it may represent a critical problem in achieving sustained molecular response on solo TKI therapy, or even worse, it may result in higher risk of therapy failure and disease progression.
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Many of today's technological and scientific developments are breaking the boundaries between nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive sciences. This chapter discusses the scope and impact of this change and how the many different data challenges that are emerging suggest the need for a new informatics era. It analyses the governance issues and considers possibilities for international action to help further the use of converging technologies for a new data-driven, smarter health future. LinkToContentAt: http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264202863-12-en Knowledge Type: Thematic report [1] Other Tag: technology platforms [2] funding agencies [3] health sector [4] copyright [5] health care [6] licensing [7] open access [8] nanotechnology [9] open-source [10] engineering [11] patent applications [12] Parent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264202863-en [13]


While models of mixed oligopoly have been analyzed within a rapidly growing literature, little is known about the mechanism of efficiency improvement relating to partial privatization. In this paper, we endogenize efficiency improvement in relation to the level of privatization. We show that in the short run, an improvement in efficiency associated with a state-owned firm reduces the output substitution among firms, and that the reduction in output substitution effect is proportional to the strength of the improvement in efficiency. Specifically, if the effect of efficiency improvement is sufficiently small, the magnitude of the improvement of social welfare is reduced. In the literature, the optimal policy in the long run is full nationalization. However, we argue that the optimal policy for a state-owned firm is partial privatization. Moreover, efficiency improvement provides the impetus for indirect entry regulation of private entrants.


This research presents a reading of the aspects of religious transidentalism in presenting the narrative of environmental preservation. Certainly in that context, the author tries to illustrate with teo-ecology construction based on quranic insights. Therefore, man as a subject, occupies a wide space in realizing the idea of godliness and humanistics in managing the nature and environment that God has given. Result of this study provides a major argument against the meaning of the Quran as the basis of environmental Teo-Ecology which contributes the deepest contribution, so that environmental preservation is always encouraged. In addition, in environmental preservation is necessary also the construction of ecological ethics humanizes the environment itself, so that a balance arises there. Lastly, it is no less important to elicit an attitude of transcendentalism in man that as god's representative on Earth must have mentally managed the environment well.


Author(s): Chien, Jun Chau | Advisor(s): Niknejad, Ali M. | Abstract: Precision measurements play crucial roles in science, biology, and engineering. Inparticular, current trends in high-frequency circuit and system designs put extraordinarydemands on accurate device characterization and modeling. On the other hand, the needfor better point-of-care requires substantial innovation in developing miniaturized sensorsand medical devices that ease the biological analysis without sacrificing the accuracy.This research presents two advanced measurement techniques for electrical andbiological characterization applications.In the first part, a novel single-element on-wafer VNA calibration algorithm ispresented dedicated for device characterization at mm-Waves. Conventional calibrationapproaches such as thru-reflect-line (TRL) require at least three precisely-machined andwell-characterized standards. The necessity of probe re-positioning leads to significantmeasurement errors due to mechanical uncertainty as the measurement frequencyapproaches sub-THz. By exploiting on-chip impedance modulation, such an electroniccalibration (E-Cal) algorithm can work with single element without any prior knowledgeof the impedance behavior. This CMOS-based approach opens a new direction in thefield of VNA calibration.In the second part, the implementation of a dielectric spectroscopy biosensor aimingfor single-cell analysis is presented. Most present day clinical flow cytometers usefluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS), which requires bulky optical detection systemas well as complex sample-labeling process, limiting the assay time and the wide-spreadadoption in the point-of-care (POC) setting. To address these issues, this researchpresents the design and the implementation of a sensor-on-CMOS spectrometer thatmeasures the microwave signature of single cell as a potentially label-free analytic tool.The sensor covers four frequency bands across 6.5 – 30 GHz, offering sub-aF noisesensitivity at 100-kHz bandwidth. Such performance is enabled with injection-lockedoscillator sensors in interferometry architecture. With microfluidic integration,experiments on flow cytometry and molecular sensing are demonstrated.


Concentration phenomena concern the ICT market. Though the regulatory action has been active mainly in the telecom network operators industry, even more significant worldwide concentration phenomena affect other industries. The market of mobile operating systems is analysed through two concentration indices to get a quantitative picture of the current situation and its evolution over time: the Hirschman Herfindahl Index (HHI) and the Four-Firm Concentration Ratio (CR4). A strongly imbalanced oligopoly is shown to exist, where the four major operating systems take over 99% of the market, but the dominant operating system Android alone is installed on over 80% of the new devices.


The film that its mass thickness was measured by α-particle energy loss(method) was regarded as constitute of many layers.Each layer thickness was calculated.The total film thickness was obtained by summing thickness of every layer.It is shown that this dividing layer computing method can increase the measurement accuracy by 30% for α-particles from ~(241)Am.It is also seen that the sensitivity of thickness measurement with α-particle can be improved by lowering appropriately the energy of α-particle.


The following article aims to analyze the emblematic figure of the amici curiae in the United States of America and in Brazil. To do so, initially, there will be a historical study of the third party, in order to contextualize it in today's law, elaborating a concept of the figure. Next, empirical and statistical studies in the United States will be examined. On the other hand, in Brazil, it will be explored the historical origins of the appearance of amicus curiae in the judicial review proceedings before the Supreme Court. Also, it will be studied the sui generis cases of the third party appearances in Brazilian legal system. Finally, attempts will be made to answer the question that baptizes the present paper, that is, does the amicus curiae legitimate private interests or is it a democratizing element of the constitutional process?


The rediscovery in 2008 of 'The Selden Map of China' at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, has greatly expanded knowledge of early seventeenth-century sea trade in East Asia [1], and generated a new collaboration between conservators at the Bodleian, British Museum, and British Library, with the aim of assessing the map's condition and its long-term preservation. The collaboration was instrumental in establishing a conservation treatment bringing together traditional Far Eastern painting conservation and Western paper conservation techniques to stabilise the map and allow it to be fully appreciated in the context of a Western collection. The map, measuring 1.6 × 1 m, painted with carbon ink and watercolours on Chinese paper, is a unique example of Chinese merchant cartography, depicting a network of shipping routes, starting from the port of Quanzhou, Fujian province, and reaching Japan and Indonesia. These unusual shipping routes are accompanied by a rich depiction of the landscape with rivers, mountains, and plants, making this map a beautiful visual artefact. The map, thought to date from the 1620s, arrived at the Bodleian in 1659, following the bequest of the London jurist and Orientalist John Selden, enriching one of the earliest collections of Chinese material in England at the time. The map's Mandarin text was annotated in Latin in 1687 by Thomas Hyde, the 2008年,R東西洋航海圖S在英國牛津大學的博多利


In this paper, an advanced discrete generalized-neurodynamic (A-DGND) model is proposed to solve discrete time-variant augmented Sylvester equation (DTV-ASME) with perturbation suppression. Firstly, we present the discrete time-variant augmented Sylvester matrix equation that can be transformed into a simple matrix-vector problem. Secondly, in the continuous-time environment, for solving the continuous time-variant augmented Sylvester matrix equation (CTV-ASME), an advanced continuous generalized-neurodynamic (A-CGND) model is obtained. Then, based on the four-step discretization formula, an A-DGND model is proposed by discretizing the A-CGND model for solving DTV-ASME with perturbation suppression. Finally, according to the numerical experiment results, the effectiveness and robustness of A-DGND model for solving DTVASME are verified.


Different from the traditional wireless communication network, wireless sensor networks(WSNs) have no infrastructure similar to the cellular network, and nodes can only communicate in the way of "flooding", which is easy to cause the problem of broadcast storm. The energy of wireless sensor nodes is actually very limited, which seriously affects the lifecycle of the whole network. Therefore, the research direction of constructing virtual backbone network in WSN arises at the right moment. In this paper, a minimum connected dominating set(CDS) construction algorithm based on multiple dominating tree is proposed. The algorithm firstly takes the node at the core position in each local area of the network as the root node, and constructs several dominating subtrees in the network. Then, some connector is selected to connect the two subtrees that are not connected to each other. Finally, the redundant dominator is cut off to obtain the final virtual backbone.


In this article I analyze the narrative structure of the discourse of individuals who have converted to the Pentecostal Methodist Church of Chile. I use Grounded Theory to analyze 11 conversion narratives, which were collected through a narrative-biographical interview, and with support from the graphical tool called Story-Line. The results identify two types of conversion narrative structure. The first one is understood as a personal salvation narrative, the second one is described as a spiritual renewal narrative. This allowed the construction of a conceptual model illustrating the way in which the conversion narrative of the convert is structured. The discussion is centered on comparing the findings of this study with other similar investigations; debating the similarities and differences found in conversion narratives and their differing philosophies.
URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1001210


The present invention is a novel and improved method and system that prevents RLP3E from generating unnecessary NAKs, thus preventing unnecessary data frame retransmissions. The present invention is efficient, neither delaying the delivery of data frames to the higher data services layer nor delaying the delivery of necessary NAKs to the multiplex sublayer. Additionally, the present invention can be implemented with minimal changes to an existing RLP3E implementation. The present invention is applicable to systems such as cdma2000, W-CDMA, and EDGE, wherein data is transferred using an ARQ (automatic request for retransmission) mechanism, and wherein data packets are sometimes received in an order different from that in which they were transmitted.


This research aims to produce instrument for measuring chemical literacy assessment in basic chemistry courses with solubility topic. The construction of this measuring instrument is adapted to the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) problem's characteristics and the Syllaby of Basic Chemistry in KKNI-IndonesianNational Qualification Framework. The PISA is a cross-country study conducted periodically to monitor the outcomes of learners' achievement in each participating country. So far, studies conducted by PISA include reading literacy, mathematic literacy and scientific literacy. Refered to the scientific competence of the PISA study on science literacy, an assessment designed to measure the chemical literacy of the chemistry department's students in UNP. The research model used is MER (Model of Educational Reconstruction). The validity and reliability values of discourse questions is measured using the software ANATES. Based on the acquisition of these values is obtained a valid and reliable chemical literacy questions.There are seven question items limited response on the topic of solubility with valid category, the acquisition value of test reliability is 0,86, and has a difficulty index and distinguishing good


Objective To investigate the current situation of leprosy- related knowledge and iatrogenic discrimination among general practitioners in a district of Shenzhen City, and explore the effective training methods for eliminating iatrogenic discrimination towards leprosy. Methods An anonymous questionnaire survey was carried out among 178 general practitioners worked in 55 community health service centers in a district of Shenzhen City. Results Among 178 general practitioners,55.62% received training in recent five years. Most of general practitioners were lack of the knowledge of diagnosis criteria and suspected symptoms of leprosy. The common discrimination behaviors in the general practitioners of the community health service centers were as follows: special disinfection after service(73.60%), remaining distance between patients(72.47%), and isolating patients or treating patients with special manners(62.36%). The situation of unreasonably transferring patients to others was rare, accounting for 15.73%. The leprosy- related knowledge and discrimination of general practitioners were not correlated with age and professional title(P 0.01), but the leprosy- related training could reduce the fear of leprosy. Conclusions The general practitioners of the community health service centers are deficient in the expertise, and iatrogenic discrimination towards leprosy is still remained. It is necessary to establish an effective and long- term training mechanism for early diagnosis of leprosy and elimination of iatrogenic discrimination.


The masticatory muscles and their related structures of the skull were observed in the Indian gavial (Gavialis gangeticus), the false gavial (Tomistoma schlegelii), and the African slender‐snouted crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus) to detail some morphological differences in comparison with the other crocodile species, and to compare and elucidate the functional strategy of themasticatory apparatus in these long‐snouted species. The Musculus pterygoideus posterior was relatively smaller in the three species compared with many short‐snouted crocodiles. It suggests that the masticatory power in fish‐eating long‐snouted species is not so high as in the short‐snouted crocodiles, while the masticatory muscles were morphologically different among the three long‐snouted species as follows. The M. pterygoideus posterior of the false gavial was extended in the lateral side of the lower jaw unlike the Indian gavial. The M. pseudotemporalis and the Fenestra supratemporalis were largely developed in the Indian gavial, however we suggest that the other two species possess the weak bundles in this muscle. The false gavial and the African slender‐snouted crocodile have the pterygoid bone well‐developed extending dorso‐ventrally and it is suggested that the M. adductor mandibulae posterior attached to the pterygoid bone may be much larger than the Indian gavial. These data morphologically clarify the masticatory mechanism in the long‐snouted crocodiles different from the short‐snouted species, and demonstrate that the evolutional strategy to share the functional role in the masticatory muscles have been differently established between the Indian gavial and the other two species. We also obtained the morphological data in the fossil skull of the Machikane crocodile (Toyotamaphymeia machikanense) and concluded from the fossil characters that the considerable developments of the M.pterygoideus posterior and the M.pseudotemporalis in this species had not morphologically been consistent with both the Indian and false gavials.


The paper summarizes - from the point of view of management sciences - institutional factors that matter for conducting the policy of support for business succession by member states in the European Union. Describing challenges for family business in Europe is the entering point for the discussion. The main part focuses on the chronological analysis of the EU documents in favour of ownership transfer and succession of enterprises.


Open-set recognition (OSR), the identification of novel categories, can be a critical component when deploying classification models in real-world applications. Recent work has shown that familiarity-based scoring rules such as the Maximum Softmax Probability (MSP) or the Maximum Logit Score (MLS) are strong baselines when the closed-set accuracy is high. However, one of the potential weaknesses of familiarity-based OSR are adversarial attacks. Here, we present gradient-based adversarial attacks on familiarity scores for both types of attacks, False Familiarity and False Novelty attacks, and evaluate their effectiveness in informed and uninformed settings on TinyImageNet.


Recent scholarship across a range of disciplines has begun to unpick the relationship between body, mind and material world (Ingold 2011; Malafouris 2013) Building on the success of last year's "Walking the Archaeological Walk" session, this session hopes to continue the conversation considering the relationship between archaeological thought and movement. However, the proposed session broadens the scope of the previous session and calls for a consideration of any movements that might be deemed distinctively archaeological, from walking a site, to the act of excavation, from the movement of archaeological objects to the reorganisation of archaeological archives. How does an embodied engagement with the material culture that surrounds us as we practice archaeology affect the way we think about the past? Do the tools and finds of archaeology afford us specific ways of moving? The session aims to explore how we might approach archaeology as an embodied way of living in the world, and how this recognition of the body might feed into movements between the frontiers of archaeological theory and practice.


Five new homodinuclear lanthanide complexes with the general formula [(acac)4Ln2(L)] (Ln3+ = Dy3+ (1), Tb3+ (2), Ho3+ (3), Er3+ (4), and Gd (5)) were synthesized by one-pot [2 + 2] condensation of 2,6-diformyl-4-methylphenol and 1,3-diaminopropane in the presence of various lanthanide acetylacetonates. The eight-coordinate Ln(iii) centre adopts a slightly distorted square antiprism geometry with D4d symmetry. Theoretical analysis and magnetic measurements reveal that the corresponding Dy complex 1 exhibits slow magnetic relaxation behavior, characteristic of a typical SMM with the intramolecular ferromagnetic Dy3+Dy3+ interaction.


A precision determination of the displacement parameter of zone-refined bismuth containing less than 0·3 parts per million of spectroscopically detectable impurity has been carried out as a function of temperature. Procedures were used that minimize uncertainties in integrated intensities due to extinction, absorption, temperature factor, dispersion and f-curve errors, and statistical errors. The parameter bId, where d is the spacing of the (Ill) rhombohedral planes of one sub-lattice and b is the displacement of the other sub-lattice (111) planes from these, is 0·40437±0·00008 at 4·2 oK, 0·40403±0·00008 at 78 oK, and 0·4041:1:0·0005 at 296±2 oK; the rhombohedral. parameter, u, corresponding to these values is, respectively, 0·23406, 0·23400, and. 0·23401. The small but presumably significant dependence on temperature at low temperatures is in disagreement with predictions of a theory of Blount and Cohen and. may signify a lessening of resistance to the atom displacement from simple cubic, due to thermal expansion of the structure. Powder patterns yielded 57.314, 57·28., and 57·23. ° for the rhombohedral angle at 4·2, 78, and 304 oK respectively.


The article is dedicated to the analysis of literature on people who left the USSR during World War II. Until recent years, the subject was extremely unpopular among Russian historians. This, to no small degree, is due to the fact that both on the level of official ideology and on one's subconscious level the entire second emigration has been affiliated with hostile forces: first with Nazi Germany and then with "Western imperialists". In consequence, we know little about the second wave of emigration. The author examines literature on the make-up of the second post-October wave and its numbers, the legal basis of the repatriation of Soviet citizens (the Yalta agreements, etc.), its course, the causes behind the "non-return" and fate of those who stayed in the West and their contribution to the continuation of the spiritual life of the Russian Abroad.


Alterations inglomerular function andstructure were studied inprotein-overload nephrosis intheratinducedbyintraperitoneal administration ofbovine serumalbumin (BSA). Fractional clearance (C/GFR) studies usinginulin andtracer proteins ofdifferent molecular size andcharge revealed inproteinuric rats 1)unchanged glomerular filtration rateandrenal plasma flow; 2)a34-fold increase inC/GFRofrat serumalbumin, reaching values similar toBSA;3)a 2-fold increase inC/GFRforanionic horse radish peroxidase (HRP), butnormal values forneutral andcationic HRP,and4)an11-and3-fold increase forheterTHEGLOMERULARcapillary wall (GCW)constitutes asemipermeable, size- andcharge-selective filter between theglomerular capillary lumenandtheurinaryspace." 2Undernormal conditions, theultrafiltrate isvirtually devoid ofproteins. Increased permeability toplasma proteins maybecaused byanumber ofimmunopathologic, toxic, orhemodynamic events leading todamage oftheendothelial and/or epithelial cells anddisruption oftheglomerular basement membrane(GBM).3'4 Increased passage ofproteins fromthecapillary lumentotheurinary space hasalso beenobserved inmanandinlaboratory animals after parenteral administration ofhighamounts ofproteins.5-26 Studies onexperimental models ofproteinoverload proteinuria haveshownthat increased transcapillary movementofproteins causes degenerative changes ofglomerular epithelial cells characterized by swelling, vacuolization, increased reabsorption droplets, loss offoot processes, andlifting fromtheunderlying GBM.' 1"220 Recent studies havereported on functional andstructural glomerular alterations inrat modelsofprotein-overload proteinuria, providing conflicting evidence withregard tochanges insizeandcharge-selective properties oftheGCW.InBSAinduced proteinuria sieving curves ofneutral dextrans werefound tobenormal, suggestive ofanintact sieving filter.23 Incontrast, inthesamemodelinFromthe Departments ofPathology andNephrology, State University ofLeiden, Leiden, TheNetherlands ologous IgG and IgM,respectively. Glomerular epithelial cells showeddegenerative changes, butthe distribution ofanionic sites intheglomerular basementmembrane wasfoundtobeunaltered, asdeterminedbypolyethyleneimine binding studies. Insummary,anelevation ofserumalbumin concentration resulted inanincreased transcapillary albumin transport. Thiswasfoundtolead todegenerative changes of glomerular epithelial cells withdevelopment oflarge poredefects, whichwerecompletely reversible. (AmJ Pathol 1987,129:64-73)


This article deals with the arts used in the work "Majma'u-l-masoil" created by Afzali, who lived and worked in Central Asia in the XVIII, the article also analyzes for the first time the verbal arts used in this work, such as tajnis, tavze', tarse' and ishtiqoq, and the spiritual arts such as iltifot, ta'did, jam and taqsim, tanosub, mutobaqa and quote.


This essay uses the constellation writing of Ovid and Aratus to gain comparative perspective upon Dante's constellation writing in Paradiso 13. Though Dante did not know the Greek poetry of Aratus, the two authors share the goal of bringing the heavens into human view. For Aratus, the constellations are tools for enabling celestial observation. The constellations give form to the firmament. They enable observers to distinguish between stars and therefore to perceive and track celestial structure and motion. But the constellations do not leave a mark upon the sky. Rather, as Ovid's poetry also helps show, they must continually be rediscovered and reformed through guided observation. The essay explores how these aspects of constellations help Dante to imagine unique forms of literary creativity in Paradiso 13. For Dante, the heavens need to be divided up by fictions in order to be described by poetry. But Dante's constellation writing suggests how such fictions might not be etched onto the world once and for all. Instead, like constellations, they emerge in the moment of being perceived. In this sense, constellations help Dante to imagine creativity without impact; that is, human art that does not mark or change a preexisting environment. Dante's constellations gain a sense of immediacy from their ephemerality and their reliance upon a perceiving viewer or reader. Constellation writing helps Dante to bridge the gap between human and divine art by turning human perception into a mirror of divine creation.


Recently there has been a claim on the complete irrelevance of quantum modeling for plasmas. We address this subject from basic principles. Physical situations where quantum effects play a decisive role are identified.


In Austria research in HTA has been conducted since the 1990s. In the beginning, the Institute of Technology Assessment at the Austrian Academy of Sciences had a leadership role. Since the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for HTA was established in 2006, importance of HTA research has increased considerably. Research in HTA aims at supporting an adequate and efficient use of health care resources. Its objectives are providing independent information for decision makers, supporting the health care system in improving its structures, processes and outcomes as well as improving population health in Austria. For legitimizing further research resources and for prioritizing future HTA research and guaranteeing value of future research, HTA research needs itself to undergo evaluation. The first part of this project aims at identifying adequate methods for measuring the impact of HTA in Austria. On the basis of the existing literature both a definition of the term impact as well as appropriate indicators and instruments for measuring impact are presented. A systematic literature research identified 19 relevant articles to update an existing review. For further research of HTA-impact in Austria a tool kit with appropriate instruments and an evaluation design was developed. The design considers different categories of impact such as: awareness, acceptance, policy process, policy decision, practice, final outcomes and "enlightenment ". In a first step both target groups on different levels (micro-, meso-, macrolevel) and the expected impact should be identified. Qualitative and quantitative research methods which were identified in the literature will be combined to evaluate the impact from HTA empirically. This should, at the same time guarantee validity.


Residual stress causes visible distortion and reduces corrosion resistance of desired cups. It is the aim of every manufacturing industry to attain quality and maximize profit, thus the cost associated with heat treatment and other residual stress relieving processes should be minimized. The 3004 aluminum alloy is widely used in the container, packaging and automobile industry. This paper presents a 3D explicit deep drawing finite element analysis (FEA) executed with explicit dynamics module in ANSYSR15 workbench. The effect of die-shoulder radius, punch-nose radius, radial clearance, lubrication and punch velocity on the mean residual stress was investigated. A blank of 100mm diameter and 3mm thickness was used in the model. The mean residual stress was determined from the geometric mean of the maximum von-mises and maximum principal stress results for better accuracy. The results showed increasing the die-shoulder radius up to five-time sheet thickness, increasing the punch-nose radius up to four times sheet thickness, setting the punch velocity to 1mm/s, additional radial clearance/sheet thickness between 15-20% and effective lubrication between the tools and blank helps minimize residual stresses.


The ability to manage technology, and technological innovation in particular, is becoming increasingly important, both operationally and strategically — not only on the company level, but also on the national level. In order to produce engineers who have a wealth creating mindset, it is necessary that engineering students be exposed to the principles of innovation management in addition to entrepreneurship issues. However, the traditional engineering curricula are not conducive to this approach, because they rely too heavily on the perception of a linear relationship between science and technology — the "linear curriculum paradigm". It is proposed that a parallel stream be instated in the undergraduate engineering curricula in order to expose students to topics that have no natural science base, such as the management of technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. Introduction As the new millennium approaches, universities and other institutions of higher learning which train engineers should realize that, in addition to the traditional demands that will be made upon engineers, the engineers of the future — those that are being trained now — will also face new types of challenges. Creating a sustainable environment and better quality of life are issues of growing prominence. It has become abundantly clear that rejuvenating the economy and job creation are issues of high national priority in almost all nations. One of the major trends that have to be accounted for is the escalating global economic battle. As the dust settles in the aftermath of the Cold War, the major military and political East-West tensions are subsiding, but at the same time the existence of a fierce global economic battle is becoming increasingly evident. Lester Thurow, renowned world economist and previous dean of MIT's Sloan School of Management, summarizes the position as follows, "Today's rules for the international economic game [GATT and the Bretton-Woods agreements] ... were written after WWII and built upon realities that existed then [dominance of the world 133 C.W.I. Pistorius and G.P. Hancke, "The perils of the linear curriculum", presented at the 1995 World Conference on Engineering Education, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, 15-20


A set of fully numerical algorithms for evaluating the 4-D singular integrals arising from Galerkin surface integral equation methods over conforming quadrilateral meshes is presented. This paper is an extension of DIRECTFN, which was recently developed for the case of triangular patches, utilizing in the same fashion a series of coordinate transformations together with appropriate integration reorderings, and is applicable to coincident, edge adjacent, or vertex adjacent elements. The resulting formulas consist of sufficiently smooth kernels and exhibit several favorable characteristics when compared with the vast majority of the methods currently available. More specifically, they can be applied—without modifications—to the following challenging cases: 1) weakly and strongly singular kernels; 2) basis and testing functions of arbitrary order; 3) planar and curvilinear patches; 4) problem-specific Green functions (e.g., expressed in spectral integral form); and 5) spectral convergence to machine precision. Finally, we show that the overall performance of the fully numerical schemes can be further improved by a judicious choice of the integration order for each dimension.


Abstract Common basil is well known for its aromatic and medicinal properties. This study was aimed to investigate effects of light spectrum on essential oil composition, antiradical activity and total phenolic and anthocyanin contents of green and purple varieties of Ocimum basilicum. Plants were placed under different spectral light compositions including red (R), blue (B), white (W), 50 % red+50 % blue (50:50 % R:B) and 70 % red+30 % blue (70:30 % R:B) provided by LED modules with same light intensity for a duration of 30 days. Antiradical activity, total phenolic and anthocyanin contents and essential oil composition were measured using the DPPH radical scavenging assay, Folin-Ciocalteu reagent, spectrophotometric and GC-MS methods, respectively. Growing both basil varieties under 70:30 % R:B light resulted in higher antiradical activity than that of other light spectra. Highest amount of total phenolic and anthocyanin contents were observed in leaves of plants grown under 70:30 % R:B light in green and purple varieties, respectively. GC-MS analysis showed that essential oil compounds in both basil varieties were influenced by spectral light composition. In green basil, chemical composition of essential oil was improved by growing them under 70:30 % R:B light, while in purple variety R light induced production of limonene, α-pinene and β-myrcene. Close correlations were found between some essential oil compounds in plants grown under different light spectra. The effects of light spectra on bioactive compounds were depended on variety and type of compound. Therefore, through exposure to specific light spectrum it is possible to alter bioactive compound composition in basil plants.


Texture is an important index of yogurt,which is affect by many factors.The topic of this review was to synthesize the factors that affect the texture(firmness,consistency,viscosity) of yogurt,such as starter,milk base and heat treatment etc.


In 1974, the National Documentation Centre for Family Planning was founded at India's National Institute of Health and Family Welfare with funds from the government and the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) to provide reliable population information to policy makers, planners, administrators for program development as well as to academics, researchers, students, and social workers engaged in population issues. Data collected from states and districts by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare are disseminated through publications. The Centre receives documents from other Indian research entities and from foreign bodies. The existing collection consists of 40,000 books and monographs, 10,000 periodicals and journals, 450 current journals, 2000 institutional publications, 1000 annual reports, and 5000 fugitive material items. A data base containing this collected material has the purpose of generating various publications, and full copies of originals are provided at request. WHO designated the Centre a resource center for primary health care information. It is a linchpin of the Asia-Pacific POPIN network. Requests are frequent for information on family welfare program management. Dissemination includes information packages, annotated bibliographies, synthesized information, case studies, and field experience reports. The staff includes subject specialists, communication experts, and software and management specialists. 54 health and family welfare training centers have been involved in information activities since 1985. Exchange of information with population research centers has started by means of computer networking. Local area networks are developed with science libraries of major cities. DELNET (Delhi Library Network) launched a resource-sharing effort of health and family planning libraries. The creation of a National Population Information Database is also planned by the establishment of POPIN-India.


Approved unanimously by the 25 members of the EU, compensatory aid for 2004 has been set at EUR 281 per tonne. The complement awarded to producers in Martinique and Guadeloupe is EUR 78.20 and EUR 81.80 per tonne. In spite of the complement, the differences in incomes between European production regions remain very substantial. Spanish producers' incomes peak at EUR 718 per tonne whereas that of growers in Guadeloupe is EUR 613 per tonne. A reform of the support system is still on the agenda. (Resume d'auteur)


According to the IBEF, India is a global production plant, and SMEs account for about 90% of its industrial facilities. The Indian government's "Make in India" campaign will promote the launch of GST. this paper based on the survey based on the effect of the implementation of GST on the SMEs in which the problems associated with the GST will be primaries and it was concluded that a lot of people were still unable to understand the working of GST and they have to make understand their customer also, most of the youngster believe that with time all the problems were automatically solved and the fair face of GST will always profitable to everyone.

Keywords: GST, Tax and services, SMEs, CGST, IGST, VAT and Service Charges


Treatment of [Os6(CO)16(NCR)2] (R = Me or Et) with 7-azaindole resulted in the formation of [Os6(CO)14(µ-CO)(µ-H)(µ-η1∶η2-C8H5N3)(R)] involving coupling of the alkyl cyanide and 7-azaindole.


The figure of merit ZT of thermoelectric materials has been evaluated by the Harman method in the temperature region below room temperature. In this method only resistance measurements by both dc and ac methods are required to obtain the ZT values. ZT is given by ZT=(Rdc/Rac-1)/x, where Rdc, Rac and x are the resistance value by the ac and dc methods and the rate of the heat to the heat bath, respectively. The heat effect is experimentally confirmed to be negligibly small and we can use x=1 which corresponds to a sufficient adiabatic condition. Because an ambiguity due to experimental errors such as the length between the measurement terminals in the resistivity and the thermal conductivity measurements is removed, ZT can be determined very simply and precisely by the Harman method.


Small fluorescent π-conjugated indolyl-based molecules 4–6, 23 are prepared through direct Fischer synthesis or/and Stille cross-coupling method in appreciable yields. Our synthetic results have shown the benefits using Stille approach when Fischer double cyclisation method to access the bisindole dyads 4–6, 23 is not efficient. The synthetic routes to these materials have been designed to investigate the substrate requirements for the respective cyclisation and CC-coupling reactions and to evaluate their wider synthetic applicability. Comparative analysis of the different substituents and the different π-bridging units e. g. pyridine, thiophene and thiazole on the electronic and photophysical properties of the final compounds 4–6, 23 has been carried out. The structure−property relationship of the final bisindole dyads has been investigated via photophysical characterisation, and computational modelling. The obtained compounds absorb near-UV and visible (blue) light, with the spectral range dependent on the nature of the π-bridging units, and are capable of bright blue emission.


R-parity violation and extensions of the Standard Model gauge structure offer two non-minimal realizations of supersymmetry at low energies that can lead to similar new physics signatures at existing and future colliders. We discuss techniques that can be employed at the NLC below direct production threshold to distinguish these two new physics scenarios.


Papers including the topic "Networks, Relationships, Graphs" have comprised roughly 10% of submissions to ADHO's annual conference for the past 4 years a sizable portion, to be sure, but one that has remained roughly consistent in that time (Weingart, 2015). "Networks" are, in the abstract, familiar to humanities scholars devoted to studying complex relationships. This potential is alluring, but advanced network analytical techniques are challenging to implement and interpret. And overly complex visualizations have attracted derogation from some scholars, deriding visually-impressive but uninterpretable graphs as "hairballs." This roundtable will take up crucial questions: What kinds of data, questions and interpretive techniques are appropriate for network analysis? How does the disciplinary skillset of the humanist researcher determine, enable or limit effective network analysis? To what extent does the use of data visualization serve to surface, or submerge, essential knowledge about the data? How should scholars in the digital humanities navigate the intense methodological demands of network science? How should such scholarship be evaluated, peer-reviewed, taught, and studied? In the face of these many challenges, what are the futures of networks in DH?


The militarism song during colonial era has been ranked as a downside in the history of Korean popularsong. It was made for the purpose of propaganda for Japanese invasion and inseparable from record industry because it had been produced and sold as commercial popularsong. The record industry in Korea during colonial era was controlled by Japanese record company. It had both faces, subordination and self determination, but the latter was occasionally checked by colonial power, for example record censorship. After Japanese invasion upon China at 1937 war structure was established in Korea, and then the first Korean militarism song came out. But early militarism songs were neglected by the public and record companies stopped production of them for a while. Of course pressure of colonial power to record companies and Korean popularsong was continuously strengthened especially by cultural organization and musician's license. From 1942 Korean militarism song came out again and was churned out. Most of famous Korean musicians could not help joining in production of militarism song. Militarism songs in those days are classified in some types and the most outright one among them has about sixty ascertainable examples.


Many organizations implement Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) as the first line of defense for their security systems. Up to now, the researchers have developed IDS in many computer environments. Having detected the signs of intrusions, IDS trigger alerts to report them. These alerts are presented to human analyst to be evaluated and initiates adequate responses. But, manually analyzing those alerts are tedious, time-consuming and error-prone. The reasons for this: the number of alerts is enormous, and (2) most of them are false alerts. A promising method to automate the alert analysis is finding the correlation between alerts, and such system is known as Alert Correlation System (ACS). One of the major applications of alert correlation (AC) is attack diagnosis. Interestingly, researchers have different kind of views to define the concept of AC. Furthermore, a various types of techniques have been proposed in AC: to reduce the false alerts, and (2) to find causality relationship between alerts to extract the strategies of attacker. This paper discussed the challenges of ACS and the most importantly presents a review of techniques and solutions proposed in the course of the last ten years, while comparing their advantages and limitations. The survey is followed by the presentation of potential future research directions in this area.


Aim/Purpose Due to uncertain changes in buyer environmental requirements, it is necessary to investigate how and to what extent supplier firms adopt these environmental requirements. This research aims to conceptualise 'stringent buyer environmental requirements' and investigating its impact on organization's environmental performance. Design/methodology/approach: Transaction cost economics theory is employed to explore and understand the concept of stringent buyer environmental requirements and dynamic capability framework is used to explain the role of capability. Although the quantitative survey is the prominent method used in this study, a qualitative pre-test has also been conducted to discuss and confirm the items or dimensions of the constructs. Using data from Bangladesh Ready-made garment (RMG) industry and employing structural equation modelling (SEM) technique this study investigates how the stringent environmental requirements from customers around the world impact the environmental performance of suppliers. Findings: Results demonstrate that stringent customer environmental requirements positively influence suppliers to develop their capability while that capability facilitates the translation of stringent customer environmental requirements into desired environmental performance. Furthermore, buyer-supplier relationship quality positively impacts supplier's environmental capability development while it also influences the strength of the relationship between stringent buyer environmental requirements and capability development. Originality/ Value: This research establishes the evidence for relatively new concept of stringent customer environmental requirements and develops a unique theoretical framework which demonstrates the relationships among the critical determinants around it. Results could be of interest to the future researchers in sustainable supply chains and managers to understand the dynamics of environmental requirements and gain vital insi