In this project, a cost saving CAPTCHA authentication application is designed to address recent online banking threats, and is focused on enabling safe online banking authentication for a security unconscious user. The prime challenges of a secure online banking system are to enable safe online banking on a compromised host, and to solve the general ignorance of security warning. There are costly hardware solutions proposed, however most of them may not be practical for home users. Extended CAPTCHA Input System (ECIS) (Leung, 2009a) which offers a low cost software solution is proposed in this paper. Building on previous works (Leung, 2009b,a), the ECIS firstly extended the CAPTCHA idea to defend against Real-Time Man-In-The-Middle (RT-MITM) attack (Schneier, 2005). The trick is to employ a moving CAPTCHA for the input of One Time Password (OTP) with a time restriction, which can depress MITM auto-relaying of information as well as human assisted MITM attack. As ECIS and its session secret are designed to be generated per login session, therefore network and software attack to ECIS are not feasible. The ECIS solution reuses the large scale shipped OTP token device which can save a huge amount of money. ECIS can also be applied to Second Authentication system in SMS and Dual- Password scenarios as a fully software based solution. The objectives of this project were to develop 1) Prototype of ECIS; 2) ECIS Derivatives on combinable authentication techniques; 3) Security Model to evaluate an authentication system. All the objectives were matched.


In this paper, DFGenTool, a dataflow graph (DFG) generation tool, is presented, which converts loops in a sequential program given in a high-level language such as C, into a DFG. DFGenTool adapts DFGs for mapping to Coarse Grain Reconfigurable Architectures (CGRA) to enable a variety of CGRA implementations and compilers to be benchmarked against a standard set of DFGs. Several kernels have been converted and are presented in this paper as case studies. The output of DFGenTool is in DOT, a popular graph description standard which could be used with a variety of CGRA compilers. Furthermore, DFGenTool has been released as open-source.


The Local Government Safe System Project was established in May 2009 by the Western Australian Local Government Association (WALGA). The first phase of the project focused on raising awareness and understanding of the safe system approach within Local Government; clarifying the current level of capacity of Local Governments to adopt a safe system approach; and identifying the barriers and opportunities for Local Governments to move towards this approach. The second phase has focused on the development of resources to assist Local Governments to adopt and embed the safe system approach into Local Government strategies and operations. It builds on the comprehensive work undertaken in the first phase, which found the Local Government sector understands the importance of road safety and their role in preventing crashes. The three key resources developed to assist Local Governments in the implementation of a safe system are: The Safe System Guiding Principles for Local Government, the Local Government Safe System Improvement Program and the Safe System Toolkit for Local Government. This paper will consider the progress towards the road safety goal and targets set for the second phase of the Local Government Safe System Project, including an overview of the key resources developed so far.


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We have trained an artificial neural network to predict the sequence of the human TP53 tumor suppressor gene based on a p53 GeneChip. The trained neural network uses as input the fluorescence intensities of DNA hybridized to oligonucleotides on the surface of the chip and makes between zero and four errors in the predicted 1300 bp sequence when tested on wild-type TP53 sequence.

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Regional policy with the aim of influencing economic processes in rural and peripheral regions plays an important role in states facing the challenge of rural depopulation and changes in economic structures. In order to better react to these challenges, Switzerland adopted a New Regional Policy (NRP) in 2006 a policy disbursing funds to innovative regional projects and implemented by the subnational entities (cantons). This paper examines the implementation of the policy regarding the varying success of the cantons in addressing private actors as target group by applying the implementation framework by Sabatier and Mazmanian (1980). We estimate a logistic multi-level model for 977 projects in 22 cantons including factors on the projectand cantonal-level. The results show that the variables of the implementation framework such as the tractability of the problems in a canton and their ability to structure the implementation process prove very helpful in explaining the success in addressing private actors even though the framework needs to be adapted to the characteristics of non-regulatory policies disbursing funds when studying regional policy. ∗KPM Center for Public Management, Bern, firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com.


The aim of this thesis is to increase understanding of the Lean philosophy and emphasize the consequences of implementation of Lean. In addition different Lean methods and tools that can be used to implement Lean are presented. The Lean concept is a philosophy, which strives to maximize value creating, flexibility and efficiency by systematically removing all non-value adding activities from different process flows with the customer in mind. The competition in most industries is constantly becoming more intense, which puts more pressure on organizations to maintain resource-efficient and effective processes while still meeting the customer demand and maximizing its profit. To achieve this the Lean philosophy has become a popular concept. This thesis is a qualitative research. The theoretical part is based on secondary data from books and scientific articles, the most important literature references are The Machine that Changed the World by J.P. Womack and D.T. Jones, This is Lean – Resolving the efficiency paradox by Modig and Åhlström and also Lean – Turn Deviations into Success! by Per Petersson et al. The empirical part is based on qualitative semi-structured interviews conducted with people who have experience of implementing Lean. The idea behind the interviews is to gain a better understanding of what happens when implementing the Lean philosophy and what changes, benefits and challenges enterprises encounter during their Lean journey. The Lean philosophy is a very complex and multifaceted management concept. The implementation fails easily when Lean Thinking is forgotten and only various Lean tools are implemented. Successful implementation requires that everyone involved are dedicated and understand what Lean is. Lean turns the entire organization upside down and renews the corporate culture; the Lean philosophy simplifies while it increases quality and profitability. Implementation of Lean does not mean the application of a tool tray with a clear goal, but the transition to systems thinking with standardization and flow-efficiency as the basis for continuous improvement.


Stroke units have a serious shortage of specialist nurses and need to boost their quotas three-fold, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has found.


Aim: To analyze the patient safety culture regarding communication in view of hospital multidisciplinary team. Method: cross-sectional, descriptive, quantitative research. After employment eligibility. Seventy one professionals of multiple functions / formations from a public teaching hospital of Parana participated. They responded to the questionnaire "Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture". Descriptive statistical analysis proceeded on the items that best depict the patient safety culture regarding communication. Results: there was a good perception of teamwork and internal communication within the unit of work. However, with greater expressiveness, there was unfavorable safety culture regarding communications and activities with external teams to the labor sector as well as weaknesses in passing duty. Conclusions: there is need to increase the communication between different units in the hospital organization, in addition to measures that result in improvements in sectors shift sections


In this paper, the authors report on the transition to young adulthood (18‐25) in the highest functioning 18 individuals in our cohort (GAF 90) from a prospective longitudinal study of 76 lives followed from birth. These 18 individuals provide as clear a view as possible into the inner lives of people least distorted by psychopathology. This gives us a more crystalline photograph of psychic structure: the precipitant of family, society and psyche itself. Using a standard DSM IV criterion, Global Assessment Functioning (GAF), provides phenomenological homogeneity, but leaves us with heterogeneity of inner life. The 18 individuals had relatively rare drug or alcohol use and less sexual partners. Vocational functioning exceeded intimacy. Four had tumultuous pathways into adulthood. Nine were crossover cases, coming from sub‐optimal mothering, with significant variation in gender distribution and intrapsychic structure. The paper discusses factors facilitating and inhibiting development and the nature of memories.


In order to describe the strain-softening behavior after peak stress of brittle rock masses, a brittle-damage variable under uniaxial compression status is introduced in analytical solutions. On this basis, the damage variable for brittle rock mass nearby circular tunnel is derived in this paper, when the tunnel is subjected to a hydrostatic stress field. Considering the influence of seepage, analytical solutions of elastoplastic stresses and plastic radii for circular hydraulic tunnel are proposed. Moreover, the direction of first principal stress for surrounding rock nearby circular tunnel is taken into account in the derivation process. The calculation results of example show that after considering brittle damage, the plastic radius will increase to a certain extent compared with elastic-perfectly plastic model; besides, plastic radius will also rise along with growth of brittle extent for rock masses. With consideration of seepage influence, the plastic radius will expand, and elastoplastic stresses are also influenced by a series of seepage parameters. Consequently, it is non-ignorable to consider impacts of brittle characteristic for rock masses and seepage in structural stability analysis of hydraulic tunnel.


SUMMARY Objective:Weevaluatedboththeefficacyandsafetyofanakinraindailyroutinerheumatoidarthritisclinicalpractice. Methods:Westudied60cases,includingpatientswithpreviousanti-TNF αexposure,treatedwithanakinra(100mg/dai lys.c.)incombinationwithmethotrexate(7.5-10mg/weeki.m.)orleflunomide(20mg/die)inatwoyearobservational study. Efficacy measures were assessed using the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) response criteria. Safe tywasevaluatedaccordingtoamodifiedWorldHealthOrganizationadversereactiontermdictionary. Results: At week 14, ACR 20% response criteria have been fulfilled by 53 (91.3%) out of 58 patients, 51 (87.9%) of themachievingalsoanACR50%and15(25.8%)anACR70%response.Thirteenpatientstouched102weeksoftreat ment: ACR 20% response was achieved in 92.3%, while ACR 50% and ACR 70% were respectively found in 84.6% and38.4%ofthecases.ThemeandecreaseinHAQscorewas0.38,p<0.001.Ofthe16patientswhowereprevious lytreatedwithanti-TNF αblockers,81.2%respondedtoanakinra.TherewasnosignificantdifferenceintheACRre sponsebetweengroupswithandwithoutpreviousanti-TNF αexposure.Seventeenpatients(28.3%)stoppedanakinra because of side-effects (5%) or failure to respond (23.3%). Only 4 cases of pulmonitis, of which 2 have been hospi talised,and1casewithtuberculosis(previouslytreatedwithinfliximab)wereobserved. Conclusions:Ourclinicalexperienceconfirmsthatanakinraiseffectiveandsafeinthetreatmentofrheumatoidarthri tis.Anakinraseemsalsousefulinpatientswithpreviousanti-TNF αblockersfailures.Eventhoughmajoradverseevents wererare,cliniciansshouldbeawareofsuchapossibility.


Vegetables are important for human health because of their vitamins, minerals, phytochemical compounds, and dietary fiber content. Especially antioxidant vitamins (vitamins A, vitamins C, and vitamins E) and dietary fiber content have important roles in human health. Adequate vegetable consumption can be protective of some chronic diseases such as diabetes, cancer, obesity, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular diseases, as well as improve risk factors related to these diseases. Fruits and vegetables are universally promoted as healthy. Fruits and vegetables include a diverse group of plant foods that vary greatly in the content of energy and nutrients. Fruits and vegetables also supply vitamins and minerals to the diet and are sources of phytochemicals that function as antioxidants, phytoestrogens, and antiinflammatory agents and through other protective mechanisms. Multivitamins may slightly reduce the risk of cancer but don't prevent heart disease. There is a wealth of data available within the health care system. Advanced data mining techniques can help medial situations. The Harvard-Led Physicians Health Study II (PHS II) recently found that taking a multivitamin slightly lowers the risk of being diagnosed with cancer. Fruits and vegetables contain many biologically active ingredients that may help to prevent cancer in ways that vitamins and minerals alone do not. The PHS II was the first study to test a standard multivitamin for the prevention of chronic disease. The cardiovascular disease portion of the study focused on whether taking a multivitamin reduced the risk of heart attacks, strokes, and death from cardiovascular disease. It's important not to overplay the benefit that PHS II found for preventing cancer. What you eat and don't eat can have a powerful effect on your health, including your risk for cancer. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to clarify these associations.


In this paper, a new network structure called generalized Hierarchical Completely-Connected networks (HCCs) is proposed, and its properties and features are evaluated. Simple routing strategies for HCCs are also developed for shortest-paths routing algorithms. A set of HCCs constructed by the proposed method includes some conventional hierarchical networks, then it is called generalized one. The construction of an HCC starts from a basic block (a level-1 block) which consists of n nodes of constant degree. Then a level-h block for h ≥ 2 is constructed recursively by interconnecting any pair of macro nodes (n level-(h−1) blocks) completely. An HCC has a constant node-degree regardless of an increase in its size (the number of nodes). Furthermore, since an HCC has a hierarchically structured topology and the feature of uniformity, a wide variety of inter-cluster connections is possible. Evaluation results show that an HCC is suitable for very large computer systems. key words: interconnection networks, generalized network, hierarchical network, completely-connected network, routing strategy


A method of the fractal signal processing in the orthogonal wavelet is applied to the B spline wavelet and biorthogonal wavelet. The author estimates the 1/f type fractal signal embedded in additional white Gaussian noise. The computer simulation testifies its effectiveness and viability .


Summary form only given. Recent theoretical work to model the final longitudinal and radial compression of a HIF beam is summarized in this paper. The three-dimensional electrostatic particle-in-cell (PIC) code WARP3d is used to study beam transport in the drift-compression section, while transport in the fusion chamber is modeled in using the electromagnetic PIC code LSP. Possible low-energy near-term experiments are investigated, as well as full-scale fusion drivers, and for each accelerator category, we examine how transport and error sensitivity scale with the major beam and lattice parameters.


After the successful conclusion of the Korea-Chile Free Trade agreements in 2003, Korea began to negotiate and conclude Free Trade Agreements(FTA) with the U.S., ASEAN, Singapore, EFTA and very recently the EU. It is expected that Korea's volume of trade pursuant to these regional trade agreements will constitute more than 84% of its total trading volume in the next ten years. In this regard, the preferential rules of origin (ROO) in the FTA are the key issue with respect to eligibility for trade benefits. Without clear description of the FTA/ROO criteria, ROO can be used as discriminatory measures, i.e. non-tariff barriers. Looser ROO criteria encourage trade between the FTA countries by reducing unnecessary transaction costs. This paper describes the international rules regarding the ROO pursuant to the WTO agreements, World Customs Organization(WCO), and the UN. Furthermore, it presents a variety of transaction techniques for Korean trading companies to leverage these preferential ROO to qualify for preferential treatment.


This article treats the selectivity issue in the analysis of cooperative R&D and also presents some new results, e.g. that a firm's organization, vertical relationships and innovation strategy are important drivers of a decision to engage in R&D both independently and with external partners.


Satellite orbit calculation,as well as analysis model of blast-off platform's time and space characteristic,was established.Analysis method of time and space qualification for blast-off platform,which was used for space-earth integration task,and selection method of time and position for implementing the task,was proposed.Finally,taking the unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV) as blast-off platform,simulation system about space-earth integration task was realized.And the usability of orbit calculation data was demonstrated,and the UAV's flight path data was compared and analyzed.


The present ecological crisis resulted from anthropocentrism. So, human is also faced with a crisis situation. The immediate cause of this crisis is human. Then, novel took a profound interest in the ecological crisis and the way of living of human existence. Kim, In-Suk uses the way of living of human existence in the ecological crisis for The sea and butterfly. So, all the characters in the novel are facing a crisis situation. The human life is facing a crisis over ecological crisis. However, the characters in The sea and butterfly came up with nomadic grounds and anarchism grounds in an unfamiliar foreign land. As a result the characters in The sea and butterfly were conscientized ecological human. Thus, the characters communicated with each other, and formed harmonious relationships. The character`s ecological grounds`s space is an unfamiliar foreign land in the novel. An unfamiliar foreign land works the root of ecological grounds. This way, The sea and butterfly maximized human beings`s crisis situation and showed modem people`s repressive reality. At the same time, the novel says that now human beings need to change the way we understand things and human beings must recognize ecological crisis`s cause.


In the first of two reports, Dr Irene Siso-Fuertes and Dr Clare O'Donnell review days one and two of the ESCRS 2020 virtual conference


* This research was made possible with support from the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus. The project also received outstanding hospitality and support from the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography in Yerevan. Of the various colleagues and friends who helped with the research and writing of this piece, we must thank especially: Astghik Babajanyan, for work in the field and at the pottery table; Levon Aghikyan for assistance with drawings and logistics; Hannah Chazin for editing and revisions; and Josh Cannon for sharing spatial data from Anatolia. We would also like to thank our excavation crew, and our hosts and friends from Arai-Bazarjuł. Introduction: By the Side of the Road and at the Edge of the Paradigm


Cambridge History of China Vol. 14 believes that Mao Zedong adopted a pro-Soviet line in order to consolidate his leadership of the Party,and the problem of Gao Gang may has to some degree influenced his "lean to one side" decision as well. However,in this paper the author points out that the above viewpoint is doubtable,in fact the national interests played the most important role when the Chinese leaders decided to lean to the Soviet side.


Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is the most common cyanotic congenital heart disease. Surgical repair with ventricular septal defect (VSD) patch and right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) reconstruction is the only curative therapy. The population of adults with repaired Tetralogy of Fallot (rTOF) is growing due to the improvement of surgical technique. As a consequence, the increase burden of age-dependent ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) in patients with rTOF becomes an important reason for late morbidity and mortality. Notably, the vast majority of VAs in patients with rTOF are monomorphic ventricular tachycardias (VTs).1 Given the better understanding of the potential 4 anatomic isthmuses for VT circuits,2 catheter ablation has been implemented to be an effective and curative strategy to manage VTs in patients with rTOF, while clinical approaches are frequently achieved using femoral vein. However, clinical hurdle persisted once if patients with rTOF had limited vascular access. Here, we reported a challenging case with difficult vascular access owing to multiple occluded thrombosis and successful ablation of multiple monomorphic VT was performed using superior approach guided by merged intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) and reconstructed cardiac computed tomography (CT) image reconstruction in a case of rTOF.


A comprehensive CCD survey of the optical emission from Fermi pulsars is currently being performed using the WHT, TNG and INT telescopes. Candidate targets have been identified for follow‐up time‐resolved observations with instruments such as GASP, ULTRACAM and OPTIMA.


In common automotive radar tracking systems, simple linear models are used to track targets separately in longitudinal and angular direction relative to the own vehicle (or sensor) position. Under the special condition that the observed targets are straight ahead and moving nearly in the same direction as the observing vehicle, like in adaptive cruise control (ACC) systems, those models work well. In more general scenarios, where movements of other vehicles have to be tracked in all possible directions and all around the vehicle (e.g. in inner-city or intersection situations), the modeling is insufficient. In this paper we review the drawbacks of the commonly used models and present a more general motion model for automotive tracking systems. All necessary expressions for an implementation using an extended or unscented Kalman filter are given. Even if designed for radar systems, the state model is not limited to a special type of sensor. It can be used for ultrasonic or laser scanner systems as well as for vision-based systems with a different measurement model.


A composition free-flowing gelatin, comprising an aqueous liquid, gel particles gelatin dispersed therein and / or gelatin hydrolyzate dissolved therein and one or more sugar components, wherein the sum of the contents of gelatin, gelatin hydrolyzate and (the) component (s) is selected sugar (n) such that the water activity (aw value) of the composition is less than or equal to 0.97.


Chapter 1 Introduction: Catching up to Runaway Productions Part 2 Part I: Contemporary Televisual Production: Markets and Studios Chapter 3 1 Divide and Conquer: Regional Competition in a Concentrated Media Industry Chapter 4 2 The Policy Environment of the Contemporary Film Studio Part 5 Part II: Digital Displacement: Animating Post-Production Chapter 6 3 OffShore Pot o'Gold: The Political Economy of the Australian Film Industry Chapter 7 4 Hollywood's Effects, Bollywood FX Part 8 Part III: International Cities, Spaces, and Audiences Chapter 9 5 Projecting Placelessness: Industrial Television and the "Authentic" Canadian City Chapter 10 6 The Ice Storm: Ang Lee, Cosmopolitanism, and the Global Audience Chapter 11 7 World-Class Budgets and Big-Name Casts: The Miniseries and International Coproductions


Technical writing is a functional type of prose. A technical writer must outline and define the subject matter for his reader. In addition, he should be aware of the reader's intelligence, and he must be able to adapt the written material. Furthermore, a reader must not be over-burdened with wordy sentences, vague words, or technical jargon. The information should be organized and presented clearly. If the article is written to an audience of homeowners, its contents should be easily understood, and the principles presented must be defined. Simple and concise language should always prevail. Sometimes a writer can communicate his concepts with the use of visual aids. These aids may be composed of charts or graphs that can be easily comprehended. However, when a reader is a person with experience or has advance knowledge of the subject matter, a more direct approach to writing can be used. The writer can deal with facts and anticipated questions. An author of technical writing must have a flexible style as well as knowledge of who his audience is. If he presents what the reader desires, he is assured of retaining their interest.


A 15 month old girl presented to the accident and emergency department with a three day history of increasing dyspnoea and cough. On examination, her pulse rate was 120 beats/min, respiratory rate 50 breaths/min, temperature 37.4°C, and oxygen saturation 96% in room air. Chest radiography was performed (fig 1⇓). Pregnancy had been unremarkable and she was born at term by normal vaginal delivery. There were no concerns during the neonatal period, and she had been generally healthy before this episode. Her height and weight were on the 50th centile and her developmental age was appropriate.

Fig 1 Chest radiograph (anteroposterior view)

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Fig 2 Chest radiograph showing a gas filled structure (G) above the right hemidiaphragm and midline, along with opacification and atelectasis in the right lower zone


Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with increased risk of colon cancer in epidemiologic and prospective clinical studies. In vitro and in vivo studies demonstrated that 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol [1,25(OH) 2 D 3 ] and its analogs inhibit colon cancer cell proliferation. Few studies have evaluated the effect of vitamin D deficiency on the development and growth of colon cancer. To assess the antiproliferative effects of 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] and 1,25(OH) 2 D 3 in vitro, we cultured MC-26 (a colon cancer cell line) in the presence of 25(OH)D 3 and 1,25(OH) 2 D 3 and performed [ 3 H]thymidine incorporation. The proliferation of MC-26 was signif-icantly inhibited by both 25(OH)D 3 and 1,25(OH) 2 D 3 . To determine the effect of vitamin D deficiency on colon cancer proliferation, Balb/c mice were rendered vitamin D deficient by feeding them a vitamin D–deficient diet for 3 mo. A group of vitamin D–sufficient mice was given the same diet with supplemental vitamin D. The mice were injected with MC-26 colon cancer cells and the tumors were measured daily for 20 d. Vitamin D–sufficient mice had 40% smaller tumors than vitamin D–deficient mice. The tumors were evaluated for mRNA expression of the vitamin D receptor (VDR) and 25-hydroxvitamin D-1 (cid:1) -hydroxylase (1 (cid:1) -OHase) by quantitative RT-PCR. The expression of the mRNA for the VDR and the 1 (cid:1) -OHase was 37- and 6-fold higher, respectively, in the vitamin D–sufficient mice compared with the vitamin D–deficient mice. We conclude that vitamin D deficiency enhances the growth of colon cancer in mice. The tumor expression of VDR and 1 (cid:1) -OHase indicates possible autocrine/paracrine cell growth regulation by vitamin D. J. Nutr. 135: 2350–2354, 2005.


Several topics concerning the processing and interpretation of data obtained with very-long-baseline (VLB) interferometers--i.e., tape-recorder interferometers--from spectral-line radio sources are discussed. The instrumental phase shifts are traced through the interferometer. The spectral resolution and normalization of the visiblity spectrum are discussed. Expressions for estimating fringe amplitude, and the associated signal-to-noise ratio, are derived for the case when the integration time exceeds the coherence time of the interferometer. Procedures are presented for measuring the relative spatial distribution of a widely separated collection of point sources utilizing fringe-phase data and rate of change of fringe-phase data.


In this paper, diallel crosses block designs for control versus test comparisons among the lines are proposed. These block designs are constructed by using partially balanced incomplete block designs with C-properties. Also, the efficiencies of the diallel crosses block designs obtained through this method are tabulated for number of lines 22 or less.


A term, small-for–gestational age (3rd percentile) Southeast Asian female infant is born at 39 1/7 weeks via uncomplicated, spontaneous vaginal delivery to a 36-year-old gravida 5, para 5 mother. The pregnancy is complicated by gestational hypothyroidism, which is treated with levothyroxine. Prenatal ultrasonography showed normal fetal anatomy at 20 weeks. At birth, her Apgar scores are 9 and 10 at 1 and 5 minutes, respectively. Examination reveals a healthy-appearing, small-for–gestational age female infant in no cardiopulmonary distress with the following facial deformities: 1) a 1-cm subcutaneous deep blue cystic soft tissue mass just medial to the medial canthus of the left eye; 2) soft tissue swelling of the nasal bridge; 3) mild right-sided deviation of the superior aspect of the nose with an anterior bony void between the nasal bone and nasal cartilage on palpation; and 4) bilateral upslanting palpebral fissures and hypertelorism (Fig 1). A well-lubricated 5-Fr feeding tube is easily passed through the left nare. The initial diagnosis is a large dacrocystocele with potential nasal bone fracture from birth trauma. No imaging is undertaken because the infant is in stable condition. She is discharged from the hospital with her mother on day 2 after birth.

Figure 1.
Left-sided nasal mass at birth.

Around 2 weeks of age, she is evaluated by an otolaryngologist for an enlarging of the mass. Magnetic resonance imaging …


Chapter I: Polar Bears: Today's Canaries in the Coal Mine? Summary: Lomborg sets the foundation for the major argument of his book with the example of polar bears. Popular media is telling the public polar bears are severely threatened by global warming, but Lomborg contends that the evidence suggests otherwise. The argument that Lomborg adopts for book is as follows: 1. Global warming is real and man-made. 2. Strong, ominous, and immediate consequences of global warming are often wildly exaggerated. 3. We need simpler, smarter, and more efficient solutions for global warming. 4. Many other issues are much more important than global warming. * "We need to remind ourselves that our ultimate goal is not to reduce greenhouse gases or global warming per se but to improve the quality of life and the environment" (9).


A local heavy rainfall along with hail and strong wind occurred in Bandung basin on March 17th, 2017. This event was documented using an X-band Doppler radar and supported by rain scanner, and C-band radar. Based on three types of radar, it was concluded that this was a local heavy rainfall, started at 10.50 LT. The location of the first reflectivity was detected from 25 km northward (107.6°W, 6.92°S) of X-band Doppler radar location. Reflectivity pattern showed a V-shaped with duration of about 30 minutes and reached its peak at about 11.30 local time (LT). Maximum horizontal wind speeds from Automatic Weather Station (AWS) took place during those periods. Based on vertically integrated liquid (VIL), the potential of hail was located at the right flank of the V-shaped. Three vertical cores with maximum reflectivity were also looked at in the right flank at altitude of 2-6 km with echo top reached up to 9 km above ground surface.


Colloidal gold is undoubtedly one of the most extensively studied nanomaterials, with thousands of different protocols currently available to synthesise novel gold nanoparticles. While methods for the synthesis of gold nanoparticles have progressed rapidl


In [1] a vector perturbation scheme is used in order to minimize the instantaneous power of the transmitted signal, without taking into account the peak to average power ratio problem. In this paper we present a modified vector perturbation scheme, where the perturbation vector is chosen in order to take into account the peak power of the transmitted signal. This is obtained by minimizing the p-norm of the transmitted signal, for p ≥ 2. For this reason, the scheme is referred to as the p-sphere encoder. We show that the proposed algorithm significantly reduces the tail of the PAPR distribution with very small degradation in terms of BER with respect to [1].


The teat cup liner compounds with improved physical property were developed using tri-polymer blend of natural rubber(NR), ethylene propylene diene monomer rubber(EPDM) and butyl rubber, and the changes of the physical properties of compounds were measured under various conditions such as standard, ...


asting, preventing of taking food and drink from the breaking of dawn to the setting of sun, is a specific religious practice that is obligatory to Muslims based on their actual physical capabilities. Old people, sick people, travelers in certain conditions, pregnant and nursing women when either their own or their fetus/neonate's health is in danger are exempted from fasting, but must make it up as they are able.1 It has been observed that fasting during pregnancy has no harmful effect on the mother and her fetus, but still some pregnant women prevent from fasting because of the fear of probable harmful effects, while some others insist on fasting even in risky cases due to religious fanaticism. In taking any decision during pregnancy, the health of both mother and her fetus should be considered. In previous studies the effects of fasting on breast feeding and neonate birth weight,2 premature labor,3 metabolic changes and clinical symptoms before breakfast (Iftar)4 have been investigated and no harmful effect has been observed in these cases. The aim of this case-control study was to investigate the effects of fasting on intrauterine growth by comparing 2 groups of fasting and non-fasting pregnant women (20-31 weeks) and also comparing the rate of growth in Ramadan with that in the preceding and following months. One of the basic and reliable criterions for the evaluation of intrauterine growth is the serial measuring of fundal height at the monthly prenatal check-up.5 According to some researchers, fundal height in centimeters is equal to the weeks of gestation until the 34th week.5 In other words, up to the 34th week, fundal height increase obeys an arithmetical progression that is a 4 cm increase monthly. This case-control study was carried out on 101 pregnant women at the gestational age of 18th-28th weeks referred to Kerman private prenatal care clinics in 2001. Two groups were selected and matched for age, socio-economic status and previous delivery complications. The case group consisted of 51 pregnant women who fasted at least 20 days during Ramadan and control group consisted of 50 non-fasting pregnant women. All subjects had 5 serial examinations every 4 weeks. Examinations were performed one month before Ramadan, at the beginning of Ramadan, at the end of Ramadan, one and 2 months after Ramadan. The Brief Communication


e14627 Background: Pts with mCRC receiving a first-line (1L) OX-t exhibit a PFS that extends beyond their treatment duration. However, the perception is that neurotoxicity limits OX-t treatment dur...


Objective: To observe and explore the expressions of p16 and cyclin D1 in primary lung cancer and the relationship between the expressions and the pathobiological behavior of primary lung cancer.Mothods: The expressions of p16 and cyclin D1 were determined in 68 cases of primary lung cancer by using immunohistochemical techniques(S-P).Results: The positive expression rate of p16 in primary lung carcer was significantly lower than that in the peritumor normal tissues(P0.05), and that of cyclin D1 was significantly higher(P0.05).Expressions of p16 and cyclin D1 proteins were associated with tumor size,lymph node metastasis,pathological grades,and tumor stage(P0.05).There was a significantly negative correlation between the expression of p16 and cyclin D1(P0.05).Conclusion: Expression of protein encoded by tumor suppressor gene p16 is down-regulated and that encoded by oncogene cyclin D1 is up-regulated in tumorigenesis of lung cancer.The expressions are tightly associated with the progression of lung cancer,which suggests that p16 and cyclin D1 may play important roles in the progression of primary lung cancer by regulating cell cycle.


In 2010, agriculture share in GDP was 8.6% and 19.7% of the total labour force was employed in agriculture. About 39% of the total population is urban. This exploratory study aims at providing an overview of urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) in BiH especially in terms of legal, legislative and regulatory framework, governance and actors as well as the role of extension and advisory services. The paper is based on an extended literature review and on primary information collected by semi-structured interviews, carried out in summer-autumn 2011, with 30 urban gardeners, extension agents, representatives of NGOs and officers in the municipal Departments for Urban Planning and Economy in Sarajevo region. The paper (1) analyses references to UPA in the main agricultural development policies in Bosnia; (2) screens international projects dealing with UPA during the post-war period in Sarajevo region, and promoting and implementing organisations, (3) assesses focus on UPA by extension agents; (4) analyses urban planning and zoning regulations in Trnovo, Istocna Ilidza (IsI), Istocno Novo Sarajevo (INS), Pale, Sokolac, Vlasenica and Milici municipalities; (5) analyses budget dedicated to agriculture in the urban municipalities of IsI and INS; and (6) provides some recommendations for UPA development. Semi-structured interviews focused also on economic, environmental, aesthetical and social (gender, inter-ethnic conciliation and cross-cultural cooperation) benefits of UPA in the post-war Sarajevo and East Sarajevo. UPA can bring about sustainable social, economic and environmental benefits therefore, for insuring its long-term development, legal, legislative and regulatory framework as well as governance should be improved. UPA can not be developed without conducive and enabling land use policies and regulations and frameworks facilitating access to and securing use of urban spaces for agricultural purposes. Governance can be upgraded by designing and implementing strategies and 1585 Journal of Central European Agriculture, 2013, 14(4), p.1585-1597 DOI: 10.5513/JCEA01/14.4.1401


The invention provides a display panel manufacturing method, a display panel and a display device. The display panel manufacturing method includes the first step of forming alignment films, namely, forming the alignment film on the whole surface of a first mother board, forming a plurality of pixel units on a second mother board, and forming the alignment film on the whole surface of the second mother board provided with the plurality of pixel units, wherein each pixel unit comprises at least one switch element; the second step of enabling frame sealing adhesives to coat the first mother board or the second mother board; the third step of enabling the first mother board and the second mother board to be oppositely bound together to form a display panel mother board; the fourth step of cutting the display panel mother board to form the display panel. According to the display panel manufacturing method, the display panel and the display device, the influences of edge ring areas of the alignment films can be effectively eliminated, the frame sealing adhesive area of the display device can be effectively narrowed, the development of the display device with a narrow frame and the development of the displace device with an extremely narrow frame can be better facilitated.


Polymerization of Monomeric Reactants (PMR) monomer solutions and carbon cloth prepregs of PMR II-50 and VCAP-75 were prepared using both the traditional limited shelf life methanol based PMR approach and a novel extended shelf life isopropanol based PMR approach. The methyl ester and isopropyl ester based PMR monomer solutions and PMR prepregs were aged for up to four years at freezer and room temperatures. The aging products formed were monitored using high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC). The composite processing flow characteristics and volatile contents of the aged prepregs were also correlated versus room temperature storage time. Composite processing cycles were developed and six ply cloth laminates were fabricated with prepregs after various extended room temperature storage times. The composites were then evaluated for glass transition temperature (Tg), thermal decomposition temperature (Td), initial flexural strength (FS) and modulus (FM), long term (1000 hours at 316 C) thermal oxidative stability (TOS), and retention of FS and FM after 1000 hours aging at 316 C. The results for each ester system were comparable. Freezer storage was found to prevent the formation of aging products for both ester systems. Room temperature storage of the novel isopropyl ester system increased PMR monomer solution and PMR prepreg shelf life by at least an order of magnitude while maintaining composite properties.


This thesis is divided in two with a theoretical research question as well as a practical research question. The theoretical question I sought answered was: Can architects support democracy? The question was sought answered through a literature study from which I concluded that especially two out of the many prerequisites for democracy relates to architectural practice: A need for a sense of "we" and the need for the performance of democratic roles. Ways of supporting these two prerequisites as an architect I have found to be fourfold: Ensuring democratic processes, creating democratic symbolism, designing stages for enacting democratic roles and designing stages for social exchange. Focusing the rest of the project towards the latter way of support, I went forward with the research question: How can social exchange between local residents be enhanced through the detail design of future metro station plazas of Copenhagen? This question was answered through a combination of space analyses, reference analyses, the literature study and an imaginary design at a soon to open metro station plaza in Copenhagen. The second phase suggests that social exchange can be enhanced through three key factors; design elements that affords multiple use; programs and facilities of great variation, juxtaposition and around the clock spreading and elements suitable for being momentarily appropriated as secure territories. (Less)


Objective To investigate characteristics of anesthesia management for radioactive seed implantation in treatment of oral and maxillofacial malignant tumor. Methods 76 patients with oral and maxillofacial malignant tumor receiving treatment of radioactive seed implantation were given three types of anesthesia according to indications: Local anesthesia plus intravenous sedation(group LA), general anesthesia with endotracheal intubation(group TT) and general anesthesia with laryngeal mask airway(group LMA). Changes of patients' blood pressure(BP), heart rate(HR) and saturation of pulse oxygen(SpO2) during operation were recorded. Characteristics of anesthesia induction and maintenance and perioperative complications were observed. Results Among the 76 patients, 12 patients were enrolled into group LA, 24 patients were enrolled into group TT and 40 patients were enrolled into group LMA. Perioperative cardiovascular response in group LA was more intense than that in group TT and group LMA(P0.05). The lowest SpO2 during operation of group LA was lower than preoperative value and than that of group TT and group LMA(P0.05). Patients in group LA had more body movements and more pain than that in group TT and group LMA(P0.05). One patient of group LA had hypoxemia during operation. In group TT, 9 patients had difficult intubation and the successful rate of first insertion was 62.5%. One patient of group TT received emergency tracheotomy because of postoperative airway obstruction. The successful rate of first insertion in group LMA was 90%. There was no difference between group TT and group LMA with respect to cardiovascular change and lowest SpO2. 9 patients of group LMA showed leakage during operation but no hypoxemia occurred. Conclusion In maxillofacial radioactive seed implantation surgery, different anesthesia methods should be chosen according to indications. Local anesthesia plus intravenous sedation is not likely to produce perfect analgesia, while general anesthesia with endotracheal intubation may have difficult intubation. Laryngeal airway mask is easy to insert and can be used under safety and feasibility in such operations.


Agriculture is a special industry that needs to be protected. To strengthen the government's supportive dynamics on agriculture is necessary to the establishment of self-surpassing and self-supportive industry or a market competitive industry of agriculture. The competitive strength of agriculture in the markets home and abroad, in a certain degree, connect with the managing scale of agricultural production. In order to combine the internal economy and external economy of agriculture's scale management organically, bring the entirety effect and scale effect into full play, and promote the transformation of traditional agriculture into modern agriculture, stepping onto the path of agricultural industrialization is indispensable.


Practice errors in medicine are among the situations that disrupt patient-physician communication, reduce work efficiency, and eventually lead to the formation of an atmosphere of distrust. Various aspects of the subject have been examined in the symposiums we have held with Prof Dr. Ethem Geçim for 14 years. We shared our information at medikolegalduzlem.com. Big Data analysis is important in system audits. It is inevitable to reach erroneous results if the data belonging to these are made carelessly and negligently. The main problems encountered in big data analysis are:
1. Dependency: Computer dependency is at the forefront of algorithm and process monitoring.
2. Chaotic situation: The problem of systematic change is observed in the supervised learning machine. In the unsupervised learning machine, the definition of the identity of grouping is problematic. In the learning machine system of the reward-punishment system, there is a case study based on random data, not systematic. It is very difficult to reach an inductive conclusion from this situation. There is absolutely a need to organize a constant, standard data flow.
3. Loss of control: Steps that need to be checked are skipped in big data monitoring. Injustice occurs.
4. Waiver of rights: The expert is content with the data given by the machine as a dependent. There is a problem with the development of innovative processes.

In that case, it is useful to pay attention to the following points in the regulation on data ethics:
1. Identity: In the big data analysis of the expert, it is important to classify and group the personal data and to accept it in court. In this respect, it is necessary to control whether the expert is legitimate, sufficient, and effective.
2. Confidentiality: The problem of privacy of the person being examined is important. The approach of the telemedicine application, which we call image-based analysis, to this problem is subject to legal and ethical evaluation.
3. Ownership: There are inadequacies in the regulation of the infrastructure applied in the field of health. The purchase of each tool and its accessible application also needs regulation.
4. Reputation: Audit problematic of non-standard practices of practitioners is evident. As a result, there is a need to evaluate error definition, error measurement, error effect, and error tolerability in big data analysis.


The aim of this study was to analyze the major influence factors of culture medium on the expression level of β-1,3-1,4-glucanase, and to further develop an optimized process for the extracellular production of β-glucanase at a bioreactor scale (7 L) with a genetically engineered Escherichia coli (E. coli) JM109-pLF3. In this study, batch cultivation and fed-batch cultivation including the constant rate feeding strategy and the DO-stat (DO: Dissolved Oxygen) feeding strategy were conducted. At a 7 L bioreactor scale for batch cultivation, biomass reached 3.14 g/L and the maximum β-glucanase activity was 506.94 U/mL. Compared with batch cultivation, the addition of glycerol, complex nitrogen and complete medium during fed-batch cultivation increased the production of biomass and β-1,3-1,4-glucanase. The maximum biomass and β-glucanase activity, which were 7.67 g/L and 1680 U/mL, respectively, that is, 2.45 and 3.31 times higher than those obtained with batch cultivation, were obtained by feeding a complex nitrogen source at a constant rate of 1.11 mL/min. Therefore, these nutritional supplements and strategies can be used as a reference to enhance the production of other bioproducts from E. coli.


With the improvement of living standards of urban, old residential facilities have been behind the times, the people's desire to enjoy a better life is more intense. Remediation of the old urban residence is the requirement to create a civilized city and ecological city, is the requirement to build a moderately prosperous society. Article discusses the problems of the old urban residence and the necessity of the transformation, gives the recommendations and measures, has some significance for the transformation of the old urban residence.


A study has been made of factor VIII levels in plasma after storage at minus 30 C. Transfusion units of fresh frozen plasma (150 to 300 ml) and small aliquots (1 to 2 ml) were studied. After a mean storage time of 20 months, factor VIII in transfusion units averaged 73 per cent of normal. After 17 months' storage, no appreciable factor VIII loss had occurred in the small aliquots. Possible factors affecting factor VIII survival are discussed.


In this paper we use the technique of premeasures, introduced by Korenblum in the 1970's, to give a characterization of cyclic functions in the Korenblum type spaces $\mathscr{A}_{\Lambda}^{-\infty}$. In particular, we give a positive answer to a conjecture by Deninger [7, Conjecture 42].


To develop a methodology for probing lipid droplet sizes with a clinical system based on a diffusion‐weighted stimulated echo–prepared turbo spin‐echo sequence and to validate the methodology in water–fat emulsions and show its applicability in ex vivo adipose‐tissue samples.


Abstract Fluorinated nucleotides are invaluable for 19F NMR studies of nucleic acid structure and function. Here, we synthesized 4′‐SCF3‐thymidine (T4'-SCF3 ) and incorporated it into DNA by means of solid‐phase DNA synthesis. NMR studies showed that the 4′‐SCF3 group exhibited a flexible orientation in the minor groove of DNA duplexes and was well accommodated by various higher order DNA structures. The three magnetically equivalent fluorine atoms in 4′‐SCF3‐DNA constitute an isolated spin system, offering high 19F NMR sensitivity and excellent resolution of the positioning of T4'-SCF3 within various secondary and tertiary DNA structures. The high structural adaptability and high sensitivity of T4'-SCF3 make it a valuable 19F NMR probe for quantitatively distinguishing diverse DNA structures with single‐nucleotide resolution and for monitoring the dynamics of interactions in the minor groove of double‐stranded DNA.


The accurate segmentation for microscopic cell image of the urinary sediment is very important as a key part of automatic recognition,Canny operator has the disadvantage during the edge detection of urine sediment image,which can not obtain the dithreshold adaptively and make the detected edges not closed.To improve that,the candidate edge obtained after non-maxima suppression are dilated by using a small structure element for getting closed edges later,and a method of getting dithreshold is improved that the high threshold is determined according to the greatest gradient value of the image and the low threshold is determined according to the local gradient value,which is adaptive.Experimental results show that the improved Canny operator can automatically segment the urine sediment image with high accuracy and strong robustness to the noise.


Each year many incarcerated mothers are released from prison and must endure the difficult process of prisoner reentry. The rate of recidivism remains significantly high among this transitioning population, which negatively affects many children. The traditional parole system has not adequately addressed the complexities of a mother-prisoner's reentry and reunification with her child. This Note proposes that states should expand or adopt the use of problem solving parole courts, or "Reentry Courts" to support a mother and her child through the transition from prison to home. Reentry Courts provide a multi-agency coordinated solution, which utilizes judicial authority for women seeking to transform their lives and reunify with their children upon their release from prison.


Food production and agriculture have a great impact on the physical environment and land use. Worldwide, biodiversity is disappearing at fast pace to make space for monoculture, this is affecting all humans. Nature and natural ecosystems are crucial for our existence and quality of life. A food production system determines how human use and treat the earth. In addition, transportation of goods takes up a large deal in the total CO2 emission, for that reason local production is key. Ideally, a food production system should combine nature and agriculture, to foster the biodiversity and let symbioses between species take place. Also, a circular production system of interrelated processes is able to increase the productivity and limit the waste generation. Traditional processes form the inspiration due the relation with the surroundings, technical innovations provide optimization for a higher efficiency. Besides, natural food production environments have the potential to be recreational and to enable visitors to reconnect with nature and their food. South Limburg is the ideal place to experiment with a new sustainable industry due to its exceptional natural qualities and the need for economic and social opportunities.


Present study was taken up to find out the factors associated with Knowledge levels of the Agrarian women in the adopted villages of Maheshwaram mandal, RR district, Hyderabad with regard to Reproductive health issues. 300 women at different phases of life formed the sample for the present study. Significant positive correlation was observed between the personal demographic variables, Psychological wellbeing of the sample and Reproductive health Knowledge levels. Regression showed significant effect of personal demographic variables on Reproductive health Knowledge levels, except for the phase of women.


The new approach to decays of heavy quarkonia, based on factorization and expansions in powers of the relative velocity of the valence quarks is reviewed.


The T Tauri star PTFO 8-8695 exhibits periodic fading events that have been interpreted as the transits of a giant planet on a precessing orbit. Here we present three tests of the planet hypothesis. First, we sought evidence for the secular changes in light-curve morphology that are predicted to be a consequence of orbital precession. We observed 28 fading events spread over several years, and did not see the expected changes. Instead we found that the fading events are not strictly periodic. Second, we attempted to detect the planet's radiation, based on infrared observations spanning the predicted times of occultations. We ruled out a signal of the expected amplitude. Third, we attempted to detect the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect by performing highresolution spectroscopy throughout a fading event. No effect was seen at the expected level, ruling out most (but not all) possible orientations for the hypothetical planetary orbit. Our spectroscopy also revealed strong, time-variable, high-velocity Hα and Ca H & K emission features. All these observations cast doubt on the planetary hypothesis, and suggest instead that the fading events represent starspots, eclipses by circumstellar dust, or occultations of an accretion hotspot. Subject headings: planetary systems – stars: individual (PTFO 8-8695) – stars: pre-main sequence


Experimental study for damage detection of a steel truss model is the central part in this paper.Cracking depth is different and the location is changeless.It is classified according to four cases.The process involves the observation of featured parameter that can reliably provide the states of the damaged degree,the method to efficiently assess the health state.It comes to some efficient conclusions through the time-history method,FFT spectrum analysis and the analysis of transfer function.


Three successive propositions are put forward: (1) A particular type of argumentation in political communication may be described as "peripheral"; (2) One of the main concerns of peripheral argumentation is the person of the politician; (3) Consequently, the ad hominem argument is central in political communication. Three types of ad hominen argument (logical, circumstantial and personal) are identified and also specific ad hominem arguments in political communication.


SYNOPSIS: This "State-of-the-Art" paper focuses primarily on aspects of dynamic centrifuge modeling related to simulation of earthquake effects. New shaker mechanisms and model containers are described and soil-container-shaker interaction is discussed. Progress in dealing with scale effects such as particle size, rate dependent material properties and conflicts in dissipation and generation time scale factors is also described. Issues related to repeatability and value of model testing are also discussed.


The article deals with the problems of innovative education. Objective: To develop students' thinking, their involvement in the solution of problems, the expansion and deepening of knowledge, and the simultaneous development of practical skills and abilities to reflect, to make sense of their actions. Application forms and methods are directed to the collaborative students not only with the teacher, but, and that is perhaps the most important and active interaction between the students themselves, which leads to a useful debate, reasoned arguments, proposals unusual interpretations of both the teacher and with the students.


As an alternative to downloading content from a cellular access network, mobile devices could be used to store data files and distribute them through device-to-device (D2D) communication. We consider a D2D-based storage community that is comprised of mobile users. Assuming that transmitting data from a base station to a mobile user consumes more energy than transmitting data between two mobile users, we show that it can be beneficial to use redundant storage to ensure that data files stay available to the community even if some of the storing users leave the network. We derive a tractable closed-form equation stating when redundancy should be used in order to minimize the expected energy consumption of data retrieval. We find that replication is the preferred method of adding redundancy as opposed to regenerating codes. Our findings are verified by computer simulations.


Polyamidoamine dendrimers(PAMAM) of 1~2 generations(1.0G~2.0G PAMAM) were synthesized via the divergent procedure,we synthesized and the dendritic PAMAMMMAZO liquid crystal polymer was synthesized by Michael addition at room temperature under normal pressure.LC,IR,and ~(1)H NMR(revealed) that the target polymers were succesfully prepared.The liquid-crystalline behavior of the synthesized copolymers was evidenced from POM and DSC observation.The yield of the products was 45% with a purity(over) 90%.The copolymers exhibit different liquid crystalline behavior compared to MMAZO.


Using general analysis software ANSYS establish non-isolated and isolation steel villa structure model, selecting a reasonable seismic wave and obtaining this via seismic excitation time-history analysis: sliding isolated structures can reduce seismic upload, slip shift seismic isolation layer absorbs most of the energy, can reduce seismic response of 23.1%~78.8% compared with ordinary anti-seismic structure. the level of isolation effect is remarkable.


Methods for making and compositions comprising hollow silica particle are disclosed, said particles made from a composition comprising a silicon-containing compound selected from the group consisting of tetraalkoxysilanes, trialkyloxysilanes and derivatives thereof, dialkoxysilanes and derivatives thereof, alkoxysilanes and derivatives thereof, silicone oligomers, oligomeric silsesquioxanes and silicone polymers distributed over a polymer template core that is eliminated from the particle. The particles of the present invention have a substantially uniform particle size and exhibit low permeability to liquids.


This paper presents an auto-white balancing algorithm named scoring. The spectral distributions of the Macbeth reference colors together with the spectral distributions of various color temperature light sources are used to obtain a number of reference color points in the CbCr color space. A number of representative color points are also obtained from a captured image by using a previously developed multi-scale clustering algorithm. A match is then established between the set of reference colors and the set of representative colors. The matching scheme generates the most likely light source candidate under which the image is taken. Furthermore, this paper presents an auto-exposure algorithm using a mapping from the luminance histograms of five sub- areas in the image to an exposure value. A neural network is designed to perform the mapping. The histogram in each sub- area is used to determine the mean, variance, minimum, and maximum luminance for that sub-area. The same spatial information is computed for previous frames to incorporate temporal changes in luminance into the network.


Magnetic reconnection is often invoked as a source of high-energy particles, and in relativistic astrophysical systems it is regarded as a prime candidate for powering fast and bright flares. We present a novel analytical model—supported and benchmarked with large-scale three-dimensional kinetic particle-in-cell simulations in electron–positron plasmas—that elucidates the physics governing the generation of power-law energy spectra in relativistic reconnection. Particles with Lorentz factor γ ≳ 3σ (here, σ is the magnetization) gain most of their energy in the inflow region, while meandering between the two sides of the reconnection layer. Their acceleration time is tacc∼γηrec−1ωc−1≃20γωc−1 , where η rec ≃ 0.06 is the inflow speed in units of the speed of light and ω c = eB 0/mc is the gyrofrequency in the upstream magnetic field. They leave the region of active energization after t esc, when they get captured by one of the outflowing flux ropes of reconnected plasma. We directly measure t esc in our simulations and find that t esc ∼ t acc for σ ≳ few. This leads to a universal (i.e., σ-independent) power-law spectrum dNfree/dγ∝γ−1 for the particles undergoing active acceleration, and dN/dγ∝γ−2 for the overall particle population. Our results help to shed light on the ubiquitous presence of power-law particle and photon spectra in astrophysical nonthermal sources.


In recent years, CRISPR has evolved from "the curious sequence of unknown biological function" into a functional genome editing tool. The CRISPR/Cas9 technology is now delivering novel genetic models for fundamental research, drug screening, therapy development, rapid diagnostics and transcriptional modulation. Despite the apparent simplicity of the CRISPR/Cas9 system, the outcome of a genome editing experiment can be substantially impacted by technical parameters as well as biological considerations. Here, we present guidelines and tools to optimize CRISPR/Cas9 genome targeting efficiency and specificity. The nature of the target locus, the design of the single guide RNA and the choice of the delivery method should all be carefully considered prior to a genome editing experiment. Different methods can also be used to detect off-target cleavages and decrease the risk of unwanted mutations. Together, these optimized tools and proper controls are essential to the assessment of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing experiments.


The main goal of the present study was to assess the influence of collection time on growth and vegetative behaviour of seedlings from certain species of Tilia order to established the proper tim with high adaptability and flexibility to environmental condition. The experiment carried out with three species of Tilia T. cordata Mill., T. platyphyllos Scop., T. tomentosa Moench., and the seeds were collected in five terms -15.07.; 1.08.; 15.08.; 1.09.; 15.09. The number of leaves, leaf area, volume of root system, length of root system, number of roots, fresh and dry weight of leaves and roots were determinated. The fastest growing plants of the three species lime derived from collected seeds in August. It was found that with the highest stem in the end of the first growing season plants were obtained from the collection of 15.08 and 1.09 seeds 3.7; 4.7 and 4.3 respectively for T. platyphyllos, T. cordata, T. tomentosa. Effects on the stem diameter was not observed.


This Master's thesis describes the developed prototype application HoloPair that uses the Microsoft's Augmented Reality system HoloLens. HoloPair solves a problem on how to achieve usable and secure pairing on two Augmented Reality devices. It is necessary to perform an investigation of the HoloLens capabilities and performance, as well as describe the main principles in which the device is able to generate holograms and present them to the user. This thesis gives an overview of the Microsoft HoloLens development platform and the standard pipeline for the development of AR applications.


The advancement in digital photogrammetry has made photogrammetric technique become simpler, faster and lower cost. Currently, this method is quite popular in covering small and large area. This study examines the use of digital camera of high resolution in capturing aerial photograph based on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as the airborne platform. The study area covered is the area of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia main campus and its surrounding area. Canon Pentax W90 is utilized as non-metric camera for the earth information acquisition. Secondary data of ground control points and check points established using rapid static technique of GPS were used. All the aerial photographs were processed using digital photogrammetric software and the output in the form of contour line and orthophoto were produced. The research output is then evaluated for planimetry and vertical accuracy using root mean square error (RMSE). Based on the analysis, sub-meter accuracy is obtained. As conclusion, UAV system has potential use for large scale mapping or other diversified applications especially for small area which has limited time and less man power. The map or the orthophoto produced from this system can be used as base map in Geographical Information System (GIS) and various fields such as geomatic, engineering, construction industry, planning etc.


Phage predation is an important factor for controlling the bacterial biomass. At face value, dense microbial habitats are expected to be vulnerable to phage epidemics due to the abundance of fresh hosts immediately next to any infected bacteria. Despite this, the bacterial microcolony is a common habitat for bacteria in nature. Here we experimentally quantify the fate of microcolonies of Escherichia coli exposed to virulent phage T4. It has been proposed that the outer bacterial layers of the colony will shield the inner layers from the phage invasion and thereby constrain the phage to the colony's surface. We develop a dynamical model that incorporates this shielding mechanism and fits the results with experimental measurements to extract important phage-bacteria interaction parameters. The analysis suggests that, while the shielding mechanism delays phage attack,T4 phage are able to diffuse so deep into the dense bacterial environment that colony level survival of the bacterial community is challenged. Significance The shielding mechanism of bacterial microcolonies against phage invasion has been experimentally quantified, and the result was analyzed by using a mathematical model. The analysis suggests that while forming a dense colony delays phage attack by limiting the infection closer to the colony surface,T4 phage can diffuse so deep into the dense bacterial environment that colony-level survival of the bacterial community is challenged. This finding highlights the importance of the interplay between the phage infection dynamics and the physical structure of bacterial colonies in controlling the microbial population.


The main objective of this paper is to examine the Tax Reform promoted by the Federal Constitution of 1988 and its implications in the first half of the 1990s. Despite the critical approach, which seeks to analyze the conflicts and contradictions related to the social process, it was focused on the government analysis, with less emphasis for the social movements' struggles. The Union was responsible for most of the taxes collection, and it was favored the rise of legal transfers among the federal entities. The municipal governments, after strong growth, were the primary beneficiaries by increasing their revenues due to the transfers instead of fiscal effort increase. As a result, it was structured a regressive tax where the workers eventually contributed more than the elites in the consumption of goods, in a system considered as of low quality.


The post‐translational modification of proteins by O‐GlcNAcylation (O‐GlcNAc) is highly dynamic and modulates cell‐signaling processes. Acute increases in O‐GlcNAc levels reduce migration of inflammatory cells and the release of pro‐inflammatory mediators, important events in sepsis caused by bacterial infection or multiple non‐infectious causes. This study tested the hypothesis that acute increases of O‐GlcNAc levels reduce mortality and inflammatory processes in experimental models of sepsis. C57/BL6 mice were used in experimental sepsis protocols cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS)‐induced severe and mild sepsis. Glucosamine treatment (300mg/Kg, i.v. 30 min. before the sepsis induction) acutely increased vascular and spleen O‐GlcNAc levels and increased survival of mice with LPS‐induced sepsis (50%) and CLP sepsis (40%). In mice with LPS‐induced sepsis, glucosamine also reduced neutrophil migration to the peritoneal cavity (severe LPS sepsis, p<0.05; mild LPS sepsis, p<0.01), myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity of lung neutrophils (severe LPS sepsis, p<0.01; mild LPS sepsis, p<0.001) and aortic IL‐1beta mRNA expression (mild LPS sepsis, p<0.01). In the CLP model, glucosamine reduced MPO activity of lung neutrophils (p<0.05). These results show that glucosamine‐induced acute increases of O‐GlcNAc levels increase survival in the CLP and LPS experimental models of sepsis. This study suggests that the O‐GlcNAc pathway represents a potential target in sepsis‐related systemic inflammatory responses.


I)~termining stress intensity factors is important in fracture mechanics. The extended finite element method (XFEM) provides a robust and accurate to determine factors. This paper describes some results from the analysis of cracked plates using XFEM. Extended finite elements a llow the entire crack to be represented independently of the meshing. The elements employ discontinuous functions and the facture mechanics two dimensional asymptotic crack tip displacement fields. The Fortran source code of Cast3M applies these elements to a set of examples. The obtained stress and deformation fields are used to compute stress intensity factors via interaction integrals. The results are compared with these obtained from conventional FEM to demonstrate the advantages of the employing the new elements.


This paper presents the results of research into practical uses for many of the by-products of various re-refining processes. By turning problematic by-products into saleable products, the used-oil recycling industry could begin a resurgence and the valuable resource represented by lube oil base-stocks could be conserved. The study included sampling of the by-product streams from five re-refineries representing three processes; subsequent chemical and physical characterization of the samples; development of possible by-product steam utilization options; feasibility testing of the promising options; and general economic analyses of the technically feasible options. The by-product streams sampled and analyzed were grouped into two categories based upon primary characteristics: (1) hydrocarbon/sludge/clay samples and (2) water samples. During engineering-tests phase of the study, technically viable utilization options were found for each by-product stream with the possible exception of process waters. Various options included fuel oil, carbon black feedstock, internal combustion fuel, asphalt component, soil stabilization, lube recovery, grease component, and AFB fuel. There are genuine opportunities for improved economics within re-refining by turning many of the by-products generated now as wastes into useful products. 4 tables. (DP)


To date, dental implantation is the most common routine way to restore the continuity of dentition. Additional bone augmentation surgery is required in 50-80% of patients. In order to improve the results and reduce the risks of osseointegration, denudation and rejection of bone autografts, various ways of correcting the deficiency of soft tissues of the alveolar ridge are proposed, which include the use of free soft-woven autografts, the low efficiency of which is due to a high shrinkage coefficient.The purpose of the study: to test an experimental model of a vascularized muco-periosteal flap to eliminate the volume deficit of the soft tissues of the alveolar ridge.Material and methods. On the basis of the vivarium of the Stavropol State Agrarian University (StSAU), 15 biological mannequins (heads of female dwarf pigs) were subjected to a pilot experimental study. The study was conducted in accordance with the decision of the local Ethics Committee of the StSAU, as well as the provision of the World Convention on the Protection of Animals and the Procedure for the Treatment of Experimental Animals adopted by the Helsinki Council in 2002.Results. In the course of the study, the technical stages of the tested intervention were clarified, the metric parameters of the elimination of defects of the alveolar ridge were determined.Conclusion. The results obtained will make it possible to eliminate extended soft tissue defects of the alveolar ridge by increasing the possibility of tissue sampling in the donor bed in a volume not less than 3 times greater than the intake of free palatine flaps.


Abstract The vinyl group terminated water-borne polyurethanes (WPU) with different DMPA content were prepared. Subsequently the core-shell polyurethane/polyacrylate (PUA) composite emulsions were synthesized by soap-free emulsion copolymerization. The WPU as sole surfactant was used in copolymerization, and the lowest surface tension could be achieved to 38.8 mN m−1. Furthermore, the final conversion of acrylic monomer was reached to 98% in the case of WPU reactive seed. The FTIR-ATR indirectly confirmed the core-shell structure of PUA, simultaneously combined with DSC results found that the compatibility of WPU and PA was enhanced by growing grafting efficiency. The TEM results further indicated that the amount of DMPA in WPU had a great significant role in polymerization and final morphology structure. The PUA composite particles changed from scattered structure, core-shell structure to multi-core structure with increasing DMPA content. Correspondingly, the reinforcing and toughening effects were also found in PUA films with the increase content of DMPA by tensile testing.


In the beginning of the modern age, new astronomical and physical concepts fostered ideas related to other worlds and extraterrestrial life, so that they provided an unprecedented territory for the scientific and literary imagination, namely, the new world on the Moon. In view of this, we choose Somnium, by Johannes Kepler, as a trace and evidence, in order to examine the connection between science and literature at the beginning of modernity. We seek to highlight how ideas related to the plurality and habitability of the worlds and the possibility of lunar and cosmic travel are explored in this intimate contact between science and literature. Our goal is to identify the persistence and metamorphosis of the remains in Kepler's work and, with this, to outline the primeval lines of a new literary genre, that is, science fiction. By proposing an exercise in historical hermeneutics on Somnium, we intend to take into account, at least in part, the transmissions and receptions of the theme as the trajectory of an idea in time.


"In recent years, students have been paying more to attend college and earning less upon graduation—trends that have led many observers to question whether a college education remains a good investment," the report states. The authors analyzed the earnings since the 1970s of workers with bachelor's degrees, workers with associate's degrees, and workers with high school diplomas to determine that college remains a good investment.


Coronary arteriovenous fistula (CAF) is most common form of hemodynamically significant coronary anomaly. CAF combined with atrial septal defect (ASD), however, constitutes an uncommon subgroup of CAF. We present a case of congenital CAF combined with secondum ASD, which are manifested by congestive heart failure. These anomalies were identified by transthoracic echocardiography and coronary angiography respectively. These ASD and CAF were closed by operation successfully without any complication. (Korean Circulation J 2000;30(6):767-771)


Digital cameras have been around for many years, but a new breed of consumer market cameras is hitting the main stream. By using these devices, system designers and integrators will be well posited to take advantage of technological advances developed to support multimedia and imaging applications on the PC platform. Having these new cameras on the consumer market means lower cost, but it does not necessarily guarantee ease of integration. There are many issues that need to be accounted for like image quality, maintainable frame rates, image size and resolution, supported operating system, and ease of software integration. This paper will describe briefly a couple of the consumer digital standards, and then discuss some of the advantages and pitfalls of integrating both USB and Firewire cameras into computer/machine vision applications.


Conclusions Whereas the destruction of endothelium is responsible for the development of sterile thrombi following injection of cclerosing substances, the extent of the destruction does not necessarily indicate the degree of thrombosis. In spite of extensive destruction of endothelium, coagulation occurs relatively infrequently, hut usually between the fourth and sixth days a regeneration of the endothelium occurs so that the vessel again becomes lined with a normal endothelium. This and the fact that canalization invariably occurs in the artificially produced thrombi possibly account for recurrences following the injection treatment of varicose veins.


In the mineral regrinding process of hematite beneficiation,the sump level(SL) fluctuates frequently due to some large disturbances.The pump speed inevitably changes in a wide range by adopting the existing setpoint control method for sump level,and the oscillations of hydrocyclone pressure(HP) can hardly be restricted in its desired range consequently.Hence,the classification efficiency of hydrocyclone is reduced remarkablely.In this paper,a two-layer hierarchical control structure based on fuzzy switching control method is proposed,which includes a switching controller of SL interval and a feedback controller of HP.By switching between a retainer of HP setpoint and a fuzzy compensator for HP setpoint,the controller of SL interval can guarantee the variations of HP setpoint within its desired range.In addition,the PI controller of HP can track its setpoint.Therefore,the sump level and the oscillations of HP can be limited in their target ranges respectively.The proposed method has been successfully applied to a large-scale domestic hematite beneficiation plant.The application results demonstrated that the fluctuations of SL and HP were significantly reduced.As a result,the safety operation of the regrinding process has been realized,and the improved classification efficiency of hydrocyclone has been achieved.


With an increasing penetration level of solar power in the southern Nevada system, the impact of solar on system operations needs to be carefully studied from various perspectives. Qualitatively, it is expected that the balancing requirements to compensate for solar power variability will be larger in magnitude; meanwhile, generators providing load following and regulation services will be moved up or down more frequently. One of the most important tasks is to quantitatively evaluate the cycling and movements of conventional generators with solar power at different penetration levels. This study is focused on developing effective methodologies for this goal and providing a basis for evaluating the wear and tear of the conventional generators


and resistance, environmental pollution and infrastructure degradation have prompted the search for environmentally-friendly, safe and non-toxic applications in pest management. To understand the processes influencing insect ecology and behavior, Poseidon embarked on a project that began in 1990 to identify a wide variety of natural biochemicals with the objective of selecting compounds that may be useful in practical situations. Analogues of natural compounds that showed promising results were evaluated for improved efficacy under laboratory conditions. The selection of these compounds took into account their potential for further development, their impact on the environment, and their safety for human use.


Summary Purified myelin was prepared in high yield by a single centrifugation in the L-4 zonal centrifuge. A whole rabbit brain (8 g) homogenate in 7% sucrose was layered over a 10–35% sucrose gradient in the B-IV rotor and sedimented for 2 hr at 40,000 rpm. The gradient was removed by pumping 50% sucrose into the rotor with the recovery of 120 fractions of 13 ml each. Every fifth to tenth fraction was examined under the electron microscope and was assayed for RNA, DNA, sialic acids, and 10 enzymes. The latter included cytochrome oxidase (CyOx) to monitor for mitochondria, K-activated ATPase (K∗ATP) and acetylcholinesterase (AChE) for synaptic membranes, leucylglycinase for soluble and microsomes, acid phosphatase for lysosomes, and glucose-yields in fractions 90–110, in keeping with the presence of all subcellular constituents in these fractions. We gratefully acknowledge the support of this project through NIH, Grant NB 08278.


As a fundamental task of natural language processing, text classification has been widely used in various applications such as sentiment analysis and spam detection. In recent years, the continuous-valued word embedding learned by neural network attaches extensive attentions. Although word embedding achieves impressive results in capturing similarities and regularities between words, it fails to highlight important words for identifying text category. Such deficiency could be attenuated by word weight, which conveys word contribution in text categorization. Toward this end, we propose an effective text classification scheme by incorporating word weight into word embedding in this paper. Specifically, in order to enrich word representation, the bidirectional gated recurrent units (Bi-GRU) is first employed to grasp context information of words. Then the word weights yielded by term frequency (TF) are used to modulate the word representation of Bi-GRU for constructing text representation. Extensive experimental results on several large text datasets verify that the accuracy of our proposed text classification scheme outperforms the state-of-the-art ones.


New insulin analogues with a longer duration of action and a 'peakless' pharmacokinetic profile have been developed to improve efficacy, safety and convenience for patients with diabetes. During non‐clinical development, according to regulatory guidelines, these analogues are tested in healthy euglycaemic rats rendering them persistently hypoglycaemic. Little is known about the effect of persistent (24 hr/day) insulin‐induced hypoglycaemia (IIH) in rats, complicating interpretation of results in pre‐clinical studies with new longer‐acting insulin analogues. In this study, we investigated the effects of persistent IIH and their reversibility in euglycaemic rats. Histopathological changes in insulin‐infused animals included partly reversible axonal and reversible myofibre degeneration in peripheral nerve and skeletal muscle tissue, respectively, as well as reversible pancreatic islet atrophy and partly reversible increase in unilocular adipocytes in brown adipose tissue. Additionally, results suggested increased gluconeogenesis. The observed hyperphagia, the pancreatic, peripheral nerve and skeletal muscle changes were considered related to the hypoglycaemia. Cessation of insulin infusion resulted in transient hyperglycaemia, decreased food consumption and body‐weight loss before returning to control levels. The implications for the interpretation of non‐clinical studies with long‐acting insulin analogues are discussed.


Mortar is one of the important components of concrete. At the time of fire in structure, the mor tar faces the major problem and finally becomes debonded or spalled. At the time of fire different techniques were applied to control it. Applying of water jet is one of the techniques. The performance of mortar subjected to high temperature was examined in this work. Six series o f cubical 5cm × 5cm × 5cm mortar specimens were cast from OPC with partial replacement (10, 15, 20, 25 & 30%) of OPC by Rice Husk Ash (RHA). ASTM graded sand was used as fine aggregate. After 90 days curing in lab oratory condition these specimens were heated in electric f urnace to 200, 300, 400, 500 and 700 C for 30 minutes. After burning the specimens were removed from the furnace and kept in normal environment and quenched with wa ter for 10 seconds and then kept in ambient temperature to loose the heat. After one day from heating samples were then tested. In this work it was observed that the strength was higher than the controlled sample up to 20% replacement levels under elevated temperature.


The first reported field data on the morphology and ecology and confirmatory cytological data are presented forHymenocallis henryae. Its taxonomic status and possible relationship toH. palmeri are discussed.


Silicon carbide (SiC) power devices have advantages, such as excellent breakdown field strength, heat dissipation characteristics, and electron saturation velocity. Thus, the SiC-based power semiconductors can operate at higher switching frequencies with higher voltages and better stability than conventional silicon (Si) devices resulting in a high-power density. However, the high switching slew rate of SiC devices can cause EMI noise problems. Conventional gate drivers cannot effectively control such EMI noise issues, including passive and active gate driver techniques under various system environments. Therefore, this paper proposes an integrated multi-level active gate driver (AGD) to solve the EMI noise issues effectively and flexibly. The proposed AGD controls the turn-on switching slew rate through controllable AGD voltages in real-time. The leg controller generates multi-level drive voltages according to the system variables that can significantly affect switching characteristics, such as the DC BUS voltage, output current, and device temperature. The proposed AGD enables switching devices to accurately control the turn-on switching slew rates under various system operational conditions. The proposed AGD method has been verified through experimental results.


to what historians know oftravel in the period. It was hazardous, from threat of terrain or thief. It was arduous and uncomfortable, demanding persistence and a strong constitution. It demanded initiative and sangfroid. It was, within regional variations, expensive: 'Europe on Twenty Groats' would not have sold many copies. It was engaged in predominantly by those who had a need to travel,diplomats and churchmen, or those who sought the completion of their education or to indulge a fancy. Fortunately for the historian, several of them penned letters or wrote up their experiences. The author arranges his book, not unreasonably, around specific themes: inns, the cost of travel; dangers; hygiene. This enables him to classifyhis research materials and deploy them accordingly. Each chapter presents a theme and a lot of detail related to it. Perhaps this is inevitable, but it does not make for a flowing text or an easy read. The detail, invariably interesting and often amusing, is not easy to assimilate and leads to a sense of fragmentation in the book as a whole. The unifying theme is travel and travellers,which is not quite enough to sustain interest across the chapters. Only in the final chapter does the author explicitly draw out some general conclusions. The first relates to another travel aphorism, that travel broadens the mind. The author finds this a difficult question to address. Most writers barely reflect on it. Exceptions were de Tocqueville stretching the period somewhat, no doubt because he was the most positive exemplar available who, as a direct result ofvisiting England in 1833, was forced to abandon his prior conviction that the country was on the verge of a French-style revolution, and Montaigne, who reflected extensively on his travels, from which he drew the primary conclusion of 'the role of experience in understanding people'. Other travellers reflected on national character traits harmony or disharmony of community? and objects or persons seen or visited, the modern-day tour without the package and/or the camera. In other words, 177


Disaster Emergency Management and public safety requires an effective disaster alert system to mitigate the seriousness of disaster. The existing disaster alert system was static so it delays in locating the disaster place and there was no way to take immediate rescue process to save the people. In this paper the social network is used as an emergency network and it is used by the users to post their tweets, the tweets that are posted in social network site through system and mobile users about disasters and they are integrated through easy interface for effective communication. Mobile Ad-hoc network (MANET) is used for the effective communication in place of disasters which is infrastructure independent. The tweets are analysed and if it reaches the threshold value an emergency alert is sent as SMS and E-mail to the registered tweets as well as to the nearest rescue team by analysing Disaster related


A study of 48 patients with metastatic carcinoma in the neck from an unknown primary site has revealed several facts. Among patients with squamous cell carcinoma, the three‐year survival rate was 40%. Whether treated with surgery (radical neck dissection) or with radical irradiation alone, the response of these tumors was similar in smaller N1 nodes; when treated with a combined therapeutic approach, they responded well in larger (N2 and N3) cervical nodes. Whether or not the primary tumor was found did not affect survival rates; the stage of the presenting nodal metastases did not appear to correlate with survival.


Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) offers a promising solution for emerging high-data-rate services. Moreover, physical layer security was proposed as an alternative way to provide information security in wireless communications. In this work, we focus on improving physical layer security in OFDM systems. Our approach perturbs the effective channels observed at eavesdroppers by nonlinear distortion, while maintaining the same effective channel experienced at the intended receiver. At the transmitter, the perturbation on eavesdropper's effective channel is random and can be changed on a symbol-by-symbol basis based on the known original channel state information (CSI). At the intended receiver, no additional information or information exchange with the transmitter is required for data detection. We derive the results of the proposed scheme for the multiple-input single-output single-antenna-eavesdropper (MISOSE) wiretap channel. According to simulations, the proposed scheme can severely degrade the receiving performance at eavesdroppers and outperform the artificial-noise-based approaches in the performance measure of BER.


In this paper, we investigate the use of a FEC-based error control mechanism for loss protection in wireless MO video systems. The Multi-Object video coding schemes enhances the traditional concept of video sequence and proposes a synchronized set of video objects (VO) organized in a flexible way. According to this new paradigm, wireless MO video delivery becomes one of the greatest challenges in the near future. Unfortunately, wireless networks are characterized by large number of packet losses because of fading communication channels. Thus, loss recovery mechanisms must be added to prevent video degradation. In this paper, we propose a video object-based unequal error protection mechanism, which allocate an optimal FEC redundancy ratio to each object. This FEC allocation is done according to video objects relevance, and the wireless network packet loss rate. This wireless packet loss rate is modeled using a Gilbert-Elliot model. Our results demonstrate that video quality degradation can be significantly reduced.


Influence factors of seismic performance of multi-masonry structure were analyzed from three aspects including design,construction and management.The importance of the concept design was emphasized on seismic performance of multi-storey masonry structure and had more detailed analysis based on the masonry structure checking and structural measures.At the same time,the operation and management of the construction phase were emphasized and the necessity of the daily management was described in the use phase.


Trafficking in human beings is a serious problem, which affects vulnerable groups disproportionately. Eastern European countries are among the most affected due to a variety of risk factors. Yet this problem often remains invisible to the mass public. The attempts to bring it into the public consciousness rely strongly on different rhetorical strategies. I argue that the way of social issue framing largely determines its public perceptions and reactions to it. This material examines human trafficking as phenomenon, its definitions and root causes, and then focuses on the framing of trafficking as modern slavery. This framing is made possible by the use of multimodality in media outlets and in prevention campaigns. I will apply the method of content analysis of images used in the Bulgarian digital press or for campaign purposes. The combination of text and imagery is a powerful tool to create the association of slavery, detention, and captivity. These associations are emotionally contagious and can generate pathos; they also convey the idea of a powerless innocent victim in need of rescue, which is a limiting view. The paper argues that this approach has both its positive and negative aspects, the latter being the risks of reductiveness and barriers to the deeper understanding of the problem, its underlying causes, and possible solutions. The alternative framing of this phenomenon as a human rights violation implies the necessity of not just "rescue and salvation" of individuals, but also structural changes in society.


Objective To explore the relevant factors of diabetic retinopathy(DR).Methods 400 patients with type 2 diabetes were selected,and the relevant factors with DR of type 2 diabetes were analyzed.Results The incidence of DR in type 2 diabetes was 49.0%.In type 2 diabetes when diabetes duration>15 years,the incidence of DR was 84.7%,duration<5-year incidence rate was 30.0% respectively,there were significant differences(P<0.05).Incidence rate in lower blood glucose group and poor glycemic control group were 38.1% and 68.5% respectively,and there was statistically difference(P<0.05),and in normal blood pressure and well control group,the incidence rates were 44.1% and 41.2%,which were significantly better than 80.0% of poorly controlled hypertension group.Conclusion Duration of diabetes,glycemic control level,blood pressure,exercise,and regular schedule were related factors of DR.The most important thing of DR treatment and prevention was to control blood glucose.

Key words:
Diabetes; Diabetic retinopathy; Related factors


There has been an astonishing increase in the worldwide use of plastic. Because of poor waste management practices, the environmental burden from the use of plastic has continued to grow. Have you realised what are contained in the personal care products you use daily, and how they impact the environment at large?