The article is about the influence of postmodern tradition of being indifferent on journalism and on the understanding of the core of journalism. It is a kind of "thinking out loud" about such oxymoron phrase as "indifferent journalist".


Abciximab is one of the glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor inhibitors, and it is known to be effective for preventing and treating the thrombotic complications of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). On the other hand, there is an increasing risk of hemorrhagic complications when using abciximab, especially in the case of abciximab-induced thrombocytopenia. Acute profound thrombocytopenia is a rare, but life threatening adverse reaction to abciximab, and it can even occur within a few hours of the first exposure. We report here on a case of 56 yearold woman who experienced massive bleeding of her brachial artery access site. This was caused by abciximab-induced acute profound thrombocytopenia after performing PCI concomitant with using abciximab. (Korean Circ J 2007;37:594-598)


This article was retracted on November 22, 2004

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[page 899][2]) genetically disrupted the gene for paramyosin, a major component of invertebrate muscle thick filaments, in


Absolute generalized oscillator strengths ~GOS's! of the 3p6→3p5(4s ,4s8), 3p6→3p5(4p ,4p8), and 3p6→3p5(5s ,5s8,3d ,3d8) valence-shell electronic transitions as well as the 2p3/2→4s inner-shell transition in Ar have been determined as functions of energy loss and momentum transfer ~K! at an impact energy of 2.5 keV. Generally good agreement can be found between the present GOS measurement for the 3p →3p5(4s ,4s8) transitions ~at 11.8 eV! and the previous experimental profiles for K,1 a.u. Calculations based on the first Born approximation appear to be in reasonable agreement with the GOS data only in shape and also for K,1 a.u., while the Yukawa frozen-core calculations based on the Glauber approximation appear to converge to the present data even for K.1 a.u. The experimental and theoretical results all give consistent values for the K positions of the observed minimum and maximum in the GOS profile of the 3p →3p5(4s ,4s8) transitions. The GOS profile for the 3p6→3p5(4p ,4p8) transitions ~at 13.4 eV! in Ar has been determined and found to have a shape characteristic of nondipole excitation with a maximum at K ;0.7 a.u. Like the 3p6→3p5(4s ,4s8) transitions, the GOS profile for the 3p6→3p5(5s ,5s8,3d ,3d8) transitions ~at 14.2 eV! has the characteristic dipole-dominated shape with a strong maximum at K50 but a notably larger width and without any discernible extrema. Finally, the GOS profile for the 2p3/2→4s inner-shell transition ~at 244.4 eV! is dominated by a strong maximum at K50, characteristic of generally dipole-allowed excitations, but with a broad and rather complex shape. The present work illustrates the analytical value of GOS profiles for probing the intricate nature of the valenceand inner-shell electronic excitations.


Electrostatic discharge (ESD) events can severely damage miniature components. Therefore, ESD protection is critical in integrated circuits. In this study, drain-electrode-embedded horizontal Schottky diode contact modulation and Schottky length reduction modulation were performed on a high-voltage 60-V n-channel laterally diffused metal-oxide–semiconductor transistor (nLDMOS) element. The effect of the on-voltage characteristics of cascade Schottky diodes on ESD protection was investigated. By using a transmission-line pulse tester, the trigger voltage, holding voltage, and secondary breakdown current (It2) of the nLDMOS element were determined using the I–V characteristic. As the N+ area was gradually replaced by the parasitic Schottky area at the drain electrode, an equivalent circuit of series Schottky diodes formed, which increased the on-resistance. The larger the Schottky area was the higher the It2 value was. This characteristic can considerably improve the ESD immunity of nLDMOS components (highest improvement of 104%). This is a good strategy for improving ESD reliability without increasing the production steps and fabrication cost.


Based on the data taken from the financial reports of a sample of 721 family businesses in the Autonomous Community of La Rioja, the authors analyze the impact of the size of the enterprise and the industry where it operates, as well as the size-industry ratio, on profitability, indebtedness and debt cost levels for the period 1996-2000. Using a variance analysis, they conclude that the factors main industry and size-industry ratio do not have any impact on dependent variables. Moreover, they prove that the size of the enterprise and its sustained profitability are indirectly linked and that size and debt cost levels are also related.


The soft cultural strength is an important part of a country's comprehensive power.China's effort to enhance the soft cultural strength provides great opportunity for the Wushu educational reform.The focus of the Wushu education transfers from skill learning to cultural conveyance and people is the orientation of the Wushu education.The people orientation helps the enhancement of the soft cultural strength and the scientific and reasonable development of Wushu education.


Protecting big data is a major challenge facing the industries. It becomes challenging as data grows and more accessible by more clients. Large-scale data storage is becoming a necessity for healthcare, business segments, government departments, scientific endeavors and individuals. Security policy is one of these challenge that we need to manage and enforce. Security policy needs to be integrated, flexible, context-aware and customizable. The framework receive data from customer and then analyze data received, extract privacy policy and then identify the sensitive data. In this paper we will present the enforcement of the privacy policy as part of our framework. Index terms privacy, security, big data, policy. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________


Most bridge engineering projects can be accomplished by more than one feasible design alternative. The authors must perform an analysis to determine which one of the mutually exclusive alternatives is preferred. Economic analysis of bridge life-cycle cost is one of factors that decide feasible design alternatives that can be compared. Based on computing-theory of highway construction cost, the authors analyzed bridge life-cycle cost. It was composed by bridge constructing costs, operating costs which occupy a big proportion of bridge life-cycle cost and disposal costs which pay for the society, environment, bridge configuration research and implementation. Bridge constructing costs involves planning, project feasibility study, designing and constructing cost, which has a decreasing influence on the future bridge operating period costs. Bridge life-cycle economic cost model includes a bridge configuration design cost model, constructing a cost model, management, maintenance and a repair cost model, as well as other cost models like projects bring benefits to user, society and environment.


SUMMARY Fatal Venous Air Embolism After Hysteroscopy Hysteroscopy for diagnosis and treatment of intrauterine pathologies such as rapid postoperative recovery and lower morbidity due to provide the "gold standard" is considered as a technical. Although hysteroscopy is a safe and easy method of minimally invasive procedures used during the procedure, particularly operative hysteroscopy brings along many risks that anesthetists should consider about. In this case, we presented venous air embolism developed after the operative hysteroscopy, and aimed to draw attention to the management of these complications.


The article deals with specific methodological practice of semantic approach to study societies and cultures. The contemporary interpretation of the semantic approach is implemented in the context of the methodological paradigm shift resulting in a transition from a paradigm of «to speak on behalf of the Other» to the paradigm of «speaking with the Other». The author identifies two notions of semantic approach: meaning as a method of studying and meaning as an object of studying. The rich experience of semantic approach use can be reduced to two stages. At the first stage a researcher reveals semiotic elements which are the objet of semantic at the second stage. The rage of strategies of the semantic analysis were incorporated into three groups: etymological strategy to identify a semiotic element and history of its use in various social contexts (evolutionary and historical approach), a description of the semantic field and all necessary components of the selected semiotic element with creating a list of its practical application in a specific socio-cultural group (structural, functional and phenomenological approaches), change of a semantic field of other cultures, searching of appropriate semantic equivalents in the other social and cultural experience (comparative approach).


This paper proposes an operational planning strategy for battery energy storage systems (BESS) in medium voltage distribution networks. This strategy determines the optimal location and size for BESS as well as the discharging and charging schedules. The objective of this methodology is to improve reliability and stability by relieving distribution network congestion, such as voltage violations and lines overloading. Particle Swarm, Firefly, Novel Bat, Krill herd and Coyote optimization algorithms have been utilized to find the optimal solutions that improve the network's performance by mitigating network stresses. The strategy is implemented and validated using two networks; a 53-node test feeder located in Northern Ireland and the 33-bus radial distribution network. Actual demand measurements were used and high uptake scenarios for low carbon technologies were investigated.


Several studies in empirical literature have examined the differences between large banks and small banks. In this study, we examine the differences in the day-of-the-week effects of stock prices of large banks as represented by the Keefe, Bruyette and Woods Index (KBW) and small banks as represented by the American Bankers Association NASDAQ Community Bank Index (ABAQ) in three successive economic periods: the pre-recession, recession and the post-recession. We find that the stock return movements of the two indices are similar to each other. Both the indices have very similar weekday effects in all three periods. We conclude that while there is more volatility in the KBW index, it is not reflected in any higher returns for larger bank shareholders. We further provide evidence that the ABAQ index and the KBW index levels are cointegrated which explains why the results on the returns appear so similar to each other.


From an early stage, the JHA research unit of CEPS has closely monitored and critically commented on the development of the Treaty of Prum. On 23 November 2006, the treaty entered into force between Austria, Spain and Germany, providing a good occasion to take yet another look at its content, the most pressing questions and the current state-of-play.


The Business Situation in Texas; Climatology at Work in Texas; Texas Building Construction, January-June 1967; Texas Retail Sales, January-June 1967


Direct-access storage functions, as usually applied to the implementation of arrays, may be useful in many other cases as well. The theory developed here provides a general method for the effective construction of a one-to~one mapping from a given set of keywords onto an interval of contiguous relative add.resses. This mapping is based on a specific erdering of the keywords. A general index formula is derived which represents this mapping. The index formul~ is interpreted by means of the finite-state acceptor which accepts the set of keywords. Several examples show how this theory can be applied to the derivation of direct-access storage formulas.


Leveraging the coordination potential of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), we introduce a new algorithm for efficient slot-based motorway on-ramp merging control. The algorithm provides a low-delay and high-throughput solution for merging by allowing on-ramp vehicles to target the earliest available slot on the motorway and eventually join it without any unnecessary interference (e.g., by a traffic light, preceding on-ramp vehicles, or motorway traffic). Since the vehicles on the ramp only target available slots, the vehicles travelling on the motorway (also in slots) do not need to change their trajectories to avoid collisions at the merging point resulting in no motorway capacity drop. The algorithm uses multi-segment constant-acceleration linear motion to solve the velocity harmonization issue arising during the merging process, allowing on-ramp CAVs to precisely follow the planned speed profile and join their target slots. Simulation results show that the proposed approach linearly increases motorway slot usage with increasing on-ramp traffic volume. Compared to two state-of-the-art methods, the proposed approach is 58% and 39% faster with respect to speed convergence respectively.


Soil genesis involving felsic rocks frequently involves understanding the roles of climate and time on the transformations of the primary minerals into secondary products. This study focuses on the weathering of peralkaline felsics in a semiarid climate. Soils and fresh parent materials were collected from different microclimate regimes in the Chisos Mountains of Big Bend National Park, Texas. Soils in the Chisos mountains generally have either a mollic-argillic-rock or a mollic-rock horizon sequence, whereas other sites at lower and drier locations have an ochric-rock horizon sequence. Atmospheric deposition of Ca and Sr and wind deflation of clay are important attributes of soil genesis. Elemental loss rates of Si, Al, K, Na, and other elements are appreciable, suggesting that leaching has been important to the soil formation. Iron oxide formation, which is related to the moisture regime, is greater in soils having wetter microclimates. Solution chemistry suggests that Mg concentrations are appropriate for smectite synthesis and maintenance, potassium concentrations reflect the presence of feldspar, sodium concentrations reflect their loss rates because of leaching, and calcium reflects the presence of calcite. The rare earth elements similarly demonstrate loss rates consistent with chemical weathering. In general, chemical weathering of feldspars, atmospheric deposition of Ca and Sr, and wind deflation are important pedogenic processes.


Internet users have noticed its marketing capabilities right after its creation. First, the traditional methods, well known from the classical media, have been used. Therefore, the main marketing communication channels were - mostly static - advertising banners and different press releases on web pages according to its contents. The true expansion of Internet marketing came into being with interactive websites, where its users are the main creators of its content, they can log in by their names, create their own profiles and altogether create social webs. That is websites described as Web 2.0 As time passed, various marketing tools have appeared to promote different products, to work on good relationship with customers and to offer tailor-made content to each individual. Social software gathers together huge amounts of people that want to share their lives, hobbies, favorite music etc. with the rest of the world. This way, they are a perfect place for market targeting. This work defines Social software as a part of Web 2.0, presents the most usual tools of Internet marketing and in the last part, they are shown on particular examples inside Social software.


This paper reports an implantable 3D imager for time-gated fluorescence imaging in the deep brain. Fluorescence excitation is provided by dual ns-pulsed blue micro-light-emitting diodes (µLED), and fluorescence emission is collected by an 8-by64 single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) array, together packaged to a width of 420 µm to allow deep insertion through a cannula. Each SPAD is masked by a repeating pattern of Talbot gratings that give each pixel a different angular sensitivity, allowing three-dimensional image reconstruction to a resolution of ~20 µm. The integrated imager is able to monitor fluorescent targets across a field of view of 1000 µm by 600 µm by 500 µm at arbitrary tissue depths.


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The title compounds have been synthesized, for the first time, from the corresponding 1,19-dimetyl-, 1-methyl-19-iodo-, and 1,19-di-iodo-biladiene-ac derivatives respectively, by means of methods described earlier. The 1,19-di-iodobiladienes-ac could be cyclized, in the presence of sodium azide, to the corresponding 20-azaporphyrins.


A large Maori pa in the foreground, with wharenui, other houses and a pataka. People seated by a cooking fire on the left and in the entrance to the wharenui. Flax, toetoe, cabbage trees and other bush in an around the pa. In the background is part of Lake Taupo and Mounts Ruapehu and Tongariro, the latter in eruption
Inscriptions: Verso - on stretcher in felt-tip pen: Lake Taupo, Hatepe. Also auctioneers' marks and numbers; Recto - bottom right - JPB in pale green brushpoint
Quantity: 1 oil(s).
Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 251 x 305 mm
Provenance: Previously acquired by Dunbar Sloane from London, Christie's, 27 Sept 2006, as one of a pair, with lot N184, a view of Maori in a canoe. The latter oil was purchased by the Library in 2009, Maori war canoe, Waikato River, G-112-1. The pair was privately owned in England by descendants of Backhouse's


In the paper, the synthesis of phosphorus-nitrogel containing flame retardant, MP,MPP,CN-329 and Melabis were studied, the yield of they were 95 %, 99 %, 60 %, 46.2 %. And they were characterized by FTIR,NMR,HPLC and element analysis. A new synthesis method of MPP was introduced. It was deduced which the application of phosphorus-nitrogel containing flame retardant in China market.


The ecosystem approach to human health offers a theoretical and practical construction on the relations between health and environment based, among other factors, on the lifestyle of specific population groups. This study aimed to analyze how traditional principles and health care practices build territorialities that contribute to environmental conservation in quilombolas communities. Participant observation and interview with traditional healers were carried out in the communities of Mocambo and Sitio Alto, in the state of Sergipe. We identified the territoriality of resistance, the territoriality of care and the territoriality of hope as common features to both communities, in the articulation of knowledge and practices that connect health and environment. We concluded that the principles of the ecosystem approach to health were applied in the quilombolas communities and supported integrative and complex dynamics of relations between health and environment that contributed to the environmental and cultural conservation of these communities.


The invention discloses a portable programmable automatic drug administration device. The portable programmable automatic drug administration device comprises a drive assembly, wherein a rotary shaft of the drive assembly is provided with outer threads; a sleeve is sleeved outside the rotary shaft; the rotary shaft is in threaded fit with the sleeve; the upper end of a guide rod is fixed to an upper fixing block; the lower end of the guide rod is fixed to a lower fixing block; the sleeve is matched with the guide rod; the drive assembly is connected with a drug cylinder through the guide rod; the cross section of the sleeve is matched with an inner cavity in the drug cylinder; the lower end of the sleeve is closed and extends into the inner cavity in the drug cylinder; the other end of the drug cylinder is closed through a sealing cover; and the drug cylinder is connected with a medicament diffusion device through a micro tube. The portable programmable automatic drug administration device is compact in structure, small in volume and more convenient to carry; the portable programmable automatic drug administration device is greatly convenient to use and does not need to be maintained by a user when in use; due to the adoption of a gearbox and threads, the control precision is greatly improved; in addition, the drive mechanical structure has oriented threaded fit, so that the reliability and stability of drug administration are improved.


Bacillus subtilis is the important biocontrol bacteria in plant disease,this article review the mode of Bacillus subtilis in biology control,including competitive force,antagenistic action,induce plant resistance and promote plant growth,discuss the prospect in application and new research direction of Bacillus subtilis.


The integration of copper and new low dielectric constant materials is a fundamental challenge to be met for further miniaturization of high speed integrated circuits. In this preliminary work, core level x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) has been used for the first characterization of the surface composition of Dow Chemical's SiLK* semiconductor dielectric (*trademark of the Dow Chemical Company), its behavior during annealing in vacuo, and its interface formation with thermally evaporated copper in situ. The fully conjugated SiLK* resin shows a C is spectrum with intense shake-up structures, quite similar to those of polystyrene; a small amount of oxygen is detected. Upon annealing in ultrahigh vacuum (7.10(-9) Pa) no significant outgassing is observed; no noticeable change in intensity, width, position of the C 1 s and O 1 s core level peaks or satellite structures is measured. After annealing, the interface formation between SiLK* dielectric and copper has been characterized as a function of incremental coverages from 0.5 to 10 Angstrom of Cu. While the XPS C is spectrum shows only a normal intensity decrease, the Cu 2p(3/2) levels shift from a high binding energy to a purely metallic value: this is interpreted as the formation of small Cu clusters, evolving to a more continuous layer for higher Cu coverage. Annealing in vacuo of the as-prepared Cu(10 Angstrom)-SiLK* interface at 400 degrees C for 1 h does induce an increase of the carbon signal, attributed to further coalescence of copper in metallic clusters. (C) 1999 American Vacuum Society. [S0734-211X(99)05205-1].


Block diagonalization (BD) is a low-complexity linear precoding scheme for multiuser MIMO (MU-MIMO) down-link, which can completely eliminate multi-user interference with perfect channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter. Under the assumption of block fading channels, BD with fixed amount of feedback is interference-limited. In this paper, we first introduce a low-complexity CSI feedback scheme, by exploiting the temporal correlation of practical channels, to improve the efficiency of feedback. Then, a modified BD algorithm is proposed to further utilize the channel correlation in time domain. Combined with the CSI feedback scheme, the modified BD algorithm handles the interference-limiting problem in a wide range of SNR with a fixed, small number of feedback bits.


Abstract This article discusses the theology espoused by Bill Johnson, the senior pastor of Bethel Church in Redding, California. Johnson was an Assemblies of God pastor until 2006 when Bethel Church chose to withdraw from affiliating with the Assemblies of God USA. Johnson is influenced by this traditional Pentecostalism as well as the Third Wave Charismatic leader John Wimber. Johnson's theology is framed by the 'on earth as it is in heaven' motif drawn from Matthew 6:10. This article specifically addresses the Christological, soteriological and eschatological emphases of Bill Johnson's theology.


Acorrding to the highshot of the lab managing of department.We developed an application system by Foxpro,which was involved in the instrument and teaching management of the lab.


The involvement of host plant chemicals in host selection by female banded sunflower moth, Cochylis hospes, was reinvestigated. Pentane, dichloromethane, and methanol extracts of R3 (pre-bloom) Helianthus annuus (sunflower) heads, as well as a pentane extract of sunflower leaves, all elicited oviposition by females. Rotary evaporation of a pentane extract of R3 sunflower heads resulted in decreased, but still significant, activity in the extract, suggesting that both volatile and nonvolatile chemicals are involved in host selection Behavioral observations supported this, with females landing more frequently, and staying longer, on models treated with extract. The basis of female preference for pre-bloom over post-bloom sunflower heads was investigated. In contrast to a previous report, sunflower pollen had little or no effect on the ovipositional responses of females on a substrate treated with a stimulatory pentane sunflower head extract. Females laid significantly more eggs on isolated involucral bracts from pre-bloom heads than from post-bloom heads. However, dichloromethane extracts of the bracts from the heads of the two growth stages were equally stimulatory to females when tested in a binary choice test. Together these results suggest that temporal changes in bract morphology, may he responsible for the preference of females for pre- over post-bloom heads Silica fractionation of the pentane and dichloromethane extracts gave 3 and 5 active fractions, respectively. These studies provide the basis for future studies aimed at isolating the chemicals involved in host selection by female C. hospes.


Abstract—The paper aims to show that VLSI efficient im-plementations of Boolean functions (BFs) using threshold gates(TGs) are possible. First we detail depth-size tradeoffs for COM-PARISON when implemented by TGs of variable fan-in (∆); aclass of polynomially bounded TG circuits having O ( lgn ⁄ lg∆ )depth and O ( n ⁄ ∆ ) size for any 3 ≤ ∆ ≤ clgn, improves on the pre-vious known size O (n). We then proceed to show how fan-in in-fluences the range of weights and of thresholds, and extend theseresults to F n,m , the class of functions of n variables having mgroups of ones. We conclude that the fan-in could be used by VLSIdesigners for tuning the area-time performances of neural chips.Index terms—neural networks, threshold circuits, Booleanfunctions, F n,m , fan-in, area-time complexity, VLSI. I. I NTRODUCTION I N this paper we shall consider neural networks (NNs) madeof linear threshold gates (TGs), each one computing aBoolean function (BF) f : {0,1} n ➞ {0,1}. If the input vectoris Z = (z


First of all, my deep gratitude to Professor Michaeline Crichlow for her initiative to do this special review section on Territories of Difference, and to both Paige West and Eric Thomas for engaging seriously with the book. Readers acquainted with the book will recall that it is organized around six concepts (place, capital, nature, development, identity, and networks), with a chapter devoted to each. These concepts, I argued then, are central to political ecology. Broadly speaking, they are also central to the kinds of social problems and social theory issues dealt with by Cultural Dynamics. I thus hope their thoughtful texts, and my response that follows, will be of interest to journal readers. Let me start with what I consider the most relevant question raised by Paige West. Territories came out in 2008; most of it had been written, however, by 2004. As Paige says, "the already complicated concepts" the book dealt with "have become even more complicated." This is a beginning point. While it would be ludicrous to attempt even a cursory glance at what has changed in the analysis of the six concepts over the past decade, I would like to highlight a few major trends that were somewhat anticipated, but insufficiently treated, in the book and that have become more prominent to today's social theory debates since then. These trends are related to debates on ontology, politics and the pluriverse. Before I do that, however, I would like to discuss briefly some aspects of Paige's and Eric's responses that I found particularly insightful. The first is Paige's engaging comments about place. As she argues, place continues to be as central today as it was during the previous two decades. I can add that while the spatial turn in social theory displaced place's centrality from the geographical, sociological, and anthropological imagination for some time (1990s–2000s), particularly in discussions of globalization, the reiteration of the salience of place in vogue since the middle of the past decade continues to be important. Paige's question, "how do we narrate the now" now, in place, "in a way that might help us all move beyond what is killing our world" seems to be a particularly powerful and constructive articulation. Despite their brevity, her ethnographic descriptions of Maimafu, narrating its intersecting pasts and presents, its locations and dislocations, are a very nice example of what she means by new ways to narrate place at present. In a recent work (Escobar, 2014), I re-narrate some of the places and processes analyzed in Territories, foregrounding or rearticulating certain features, such as their being "ontologically occupied" by large-scale extractive operations. (I do not expect readers to have read or even know about this work, since I am very much aware that what is not written in English does not exist for the 740460 CDY0010.1177/0921374017740460Cultural DynamicsBook Forum research-article2017


In this article we draw the attention to an important variational principle in dynamics: the Maupertuis-Jacobi Least Action Principle (MJLAP). This principle compares varied paths with the same energy h. We give two new proofs of the MJLAP (Sections 3 and 8) as well as a new unified variational principle which contains both Hamilton's Principle (HP) and the MJLAP as particular cases (Sections 4 and 9). The article also shows several new methods for the construction of a Lagrangian for a conservative dynamical system. As an example, we illustrate the theory with the classical Harmonic Oscillator Problem (Section 10). Our method is based on the theory of changes of independent variables in a dynamical system. It indirectly shows how a change of independent variable affects the self-adjointness of a dynamical system (Sections 5, 6, 7). Our new Lagrangians contain an arbitrary constant ..cap alpha.., whose meaning needs to be studied, eventually in relation to the concepts of quantification or gauge transformations. The two important values of the constant ..cap alpha.. are 1 (Hamilton's principle) and 1/2 (Maupertuis-Jacobi Least Action Principle).


The Cyprinus carpio(6 months old) were exposed to water bodies with different concentration of Cr~(6+) ranged from 0,0.12,0.67,1.22,3.66,10.97 and 32.91 mg·L~(-1),respectively.An increase in growth rate(AGR and ALR) was observed in T_(0.12) to T_(3.66) Cr~(6+)-treated groups.The results showed that Cr~(6+) also affected serum osmolarity and serum electrolytes.The serum osmolality and Na~+ and Ca~(2+) concentration were significantly higher in the Cr~(6+)-treated groups than in the controls.Increase of serum K~+ was also observed,but it was only significant in T_(10.97) group.The concentrations of serum Mg~(2+) from a few Cr~(6+)-treated groups were decreased.No obvious serum Cl~-concentration changes were observed.Cr~(6+) affected serum hormonal responses.The T_3 content in T_(3.66) group and T_4 content in T_(10.93) group,and the cortisol levels from all the groups treated with Cr_(6+) concentration 0.67 and higher were significantly increased.The nutritional contents(crude protein and crude fat) in fish from most of the Cr_(6+)-treated groups were lower than the control.The concentration of Cr in a fish body treated with Cr~(6+) had a distribution pattern: musclegillliverintestines.The Cr concentration in fish muscle from group T_(32.91)(3.00 mg·kg~(-1)) and the Cr concentration in intestines from group T_(0.67)(2.24 mg·kg~(-1)) and from all the groups treated with higher Cr~(6+) exceeded the national maximum limit for food safety.


We prove the existence of universal taylor series in the case of a specific non simply connected domain. We also prove the existence of a dense vector subspace.


This paper describes a survey technique which has been used for the measurement of public transport ticket usage rates. The objective of the survey was to provide information to assist in the allocation of fare-box revenue to operators within a privatised public transport framework. The method has been shown to work successfully and to provide credible estimates of ticket usage. A principle methodological aspect of the survey was the need to recognise, in advance, that the sampling method was not truly representative, and that extensive weighting would need to take place in order to obtain unbiased population estimates. In order to do this, specific information needed to be recorded before and during the survey, rather than waiting for the analysis phase before realising the need for weighting data. Similarly, the use of multiple survey methods (ticket usage questionnaire and observational survey) was necessary in order to obtain an estimate of the effects of non-response bias. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see IRRD abstract no. E200069.


Citrus and palm trees' extracts, commercially formulated as ProAlexin PNSTM and AgrisprayTM, were studied against the pistachio psyllid, Agonoscena pistaciae, in field conditions. Generally, foliage spraying application against the pistachio psyllid may cause severe reduction on the honeybee forager population, which visits infested trees to collect honeydew. ProAlexinTM products have the same formulation with Provigoro 14 WA Bee Care®, a natural water acidifier, which not only has negative action on the honeybees, but also shows disinfectant action against Nosema spp. The scope of the present study was to determine any effect of ProAlexin products on the reduction of the population of the pistachio psyllid, Agonoscena pistaciae. Experiments were performed at the orchard of the A.U.A., with two mixtures sprayed on psyllid infested pistachio trees, the first with ProAlexin PNSTM and AgrisprayTM and the second only with AgrisprayTM. They were both applied with the addition of APG25TM non-ionic surfactant. Results showed that mortality on the trees treated with ProAlexin PNSTM + AgrisprayTM mixture and AgrisprayTM was significantly higher compared with the control. This could be explained due to the phytoalexins that these products elicit, which are part of the plant mechanism against insect herbivores. These products are potentially promising methods to be used in sustainable agriculture approaches against the pistachio psyllid and they should be tested for their effects on the biological control agents of this pest. Beyond this, the results of this study encourage to test their effects on other pests of pistachio and other tree species.


Abstract Biotite‐hornblende‐augite microdiorite within the Puketeraki Range and Lees Valley of inland North Canterbury forms small stocks and dikes intruding Rakaia Terrane rocks and is here named the Pember Diorite. Geochemically the Pember Diorite has medium to high‐K tholeiitic characteristics. Ar‐Ar dating of amphibole gives a crystallisation age of 185.6±3.3 Ma (2σ) (Early Jurassic), somec. 25 m.y. younger than the Late Triassic Rakaia Terrane rocks it intrudes. The Pember Diorite has undergone prehnite‐pumpellyite facies metamorphism, indicating that at least some of the regional low‐grade metamorphism in the Rakaia Terrane is younger than c. 186 Ma.


Studies conducted in fast reactors at 420--600{degrees}C show that simple Fe-Ni and Fe-Ni-Cr alloys in the Invar compositional range decompose in a spinodal-like manner. Irradiations with 5 MeV Ni{sup +} ions at much higher displacement rates indicate that separation occurs at least as high as 725{degrees}C. The decomposition is characterized by compositional micro-oscillations between {approximately}25 and {approximately}50% Ni with temperature-dependent wavelengths on the order of hundreds of nanometers to microns with a crystalline regularity consistent with that produced by spinodal decomposition. Chromium appears to play no role other than as a substitute for iron. Depending on the alloy composition and irradiation conditions there are a variety of consequences associated with the decomposition, including lattice parameter changes, cellular martensite formation, spinodal-like hardening and highly selective electropolishing behavior. 20 refs., 18 figs.


Attention is directed toward the difference between induction‐coercive force and magnetization‐coercive force. Although the former is used more commonly the latter appears to have a more fundamental significance, so that a consideration of its meaning has led to a rapid, direct method for determining coercive force. An apparatus is described with which this method is used to determine rapidly the coercive force of solid and granular samples. Advantages of this method and apparatus are discussed.


A:''Older adults'' typically refers to anyone age 65 years or older, but it is important to realize that this age group includes a wide range of fitness and health. Unfortunately, age-related physiological changes result in declines in functional capacity that can impact activities of daily living (5) (see examples of physiological changes in Box 1). In addition, physical activity levels, both aerobic and muscular, decline across the life span (Fig. 1) (4). Thus, the aging process includes factors related to the passage of time (primary aging) and effects caused by lifestyle behaviors and chronic disease (secondary aging) (5). Genetic influences are another potential factor, with potential interactions with both ageassociated declines and secondary aging (5). One of the goals related to exercise throughout the life span is ''healthy aging,'' which means minimizing the impact of chronic conditions (e.g., heart disease, stroke, diabetes mellitus) on dayto-day life. Individuals with higher fitness during midlife often experience a delayed onset of chronic conditions. Specifically, higher midlife fitness was related to a lower burden of chronic diseases within the last 5 years of life (11). Strength and aerobic-based training can improve functional fitness (8). Thus, a complete exercise program is important throughout the life span (1). Support for a comprehensive exercise program for older adults can be found in the 2007 American Heart Association and American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) recommendations (9) as Wouldn't You Like to Know


Background. The history of theater criticism in Ukraine is a poorly understood science area. The process of formation and development of Theater Studies education is even less learned page of our theatrical process. Currently we have mainly short background history descriptions of the single theatrical departments than the reproduction of the whole process. Kharkiv Theater Institute (now the Kharkiv National University of Arts named after I. P. Kotlyarevsky) is highlighted in several publications that date back to the jubilee dates of the educational institution (the articles by N. Logvinova (1992 [17]), H. Botunova (2007 [9]), H. Botunova in collaboration with I. Lobanova (2017 [8]) and with I. Lobanova and Yu. Kovalenko (2012 [6]). Taking into account the reference and informational nature of these writings, the question of the methodology of teaching specialized disciplines, in particular, theatrical criticism, practically is not considered. The aim of this study is to analyze the process of formation of theater studies education within the boundaries of Kharkiv theatrical school, to determine the main methodological principles of theater criticism teaching in the context of the theatrical process development in general and the theatrical critical thought in particular, and also to consider the objective and subjective factors that were influenced on the schooling process in theatrical criticism area. Results. The development of theatrical criticism is directly related to the development of theatrical art. The active theatrical movement of the 1920's has produced a great wave of theatrical criticism that was unprecedented in Ukrainian journalism. Among the factors that influenced the formation of the institute of theater criticism is the development of theater education in Kharkiv of the same period. And the most important thing is that authoritative theorists and practitioners have been involved in the organization and functioning of these educational institutions, teaching historical and theoretical disciplines: I. Turkeltaub, A. Bielecki, Ya. Mamontov, I. Shevchenko, M. Voronyi. It would seem that the logic of the theatrical process and theater education and the level of theatrical-critical thought should one way or another lead to the creation of the theatrical faculty (department) in one of Kharkiv's higher educational institutions. However, the devastating defeat of the Ukrainian theater during the theatrical disputes of the late 1920's and the further physical elimination of both theatrical artists and the chroniclers of their work, did not leave a trace of the rise and diversity of critical thought. The repressive processes also did not walked past and the sphere of theater education. In 1934, the Musical-Theater Institute in Kharkiv was closed. The rapid stage of development of all areas of theatrical art, which could lead to the establishment of a vocational school, was artificially torn and slowed down the process of establishing Theater Studies education on a certain time. A new stage in the history of Kharkiv's theatrical criticism, which ultimately led to the establishment of vocational education, began after the liberation of the city in 1944, when the faculty of Theater Studies was opened at the Kharkiv Theater Institute due to initiative of S. Ignatov and A. Pletniov. Historical and theoretical disciplines were dominated in the theatre theorist' education. Also there were a few subjects provides skills and ability to analyze drama, performance, directing and acting, the modern theatrical process: "Introduction to Theater Studies", "Theatrical Criticism Workshop", "Theory of Literature and Drama". However, their teaching was extremely unsystematic. In search of the "Criticism" teacher the institute appealed to one of the most experienced theatrical reviewers V. Morsky, who had more than 20 years of experience in journalism at that time. This discipline did not have a clear developed program, work plan, methodological development, there was not even a well-known name, and it appears as "Reviewer Practicum", "Theater Criticism", "Theatrical Criticism Workshop". V. Morsky was an active journalist and his method of teaching was based primarily on personal experience and everyday practice. The most important thing that was instilled to students is the need to write and publish. At the classes, students discussed and analyzed Kharkiv theaters' performances, write reviews and read them directly in class. If there were not enough theatrical events, the lector chose music concerts and new movies to analyze. Active and gifted students were attracted to the review work in the newspaper "Krasnoye Znamya", where he headed the Department of Culture, and they were beginning be published from a student's times. He taught his students to analyze first the aesthetic and artistic qualities of artistic works, and not ideological and sociological components. An equally important factor in the young critics' formation was the newspaper theatrical journalism, which was at a high professional level in Kharkiv in the late 1940's. The theater life in the city was regularly covered in newspapers by V. Morsky, G. Gelfandbein, L. Zhadanov (L. Livshits) and B. Milyavsky. The prime of theatrical and generally artistic life, the rise of local journalism did not last long. The new repressive campaign in the USSR in 1946–1949 held in the field of science, literature, culture and the art. During these campaigns, a pleiad of highly talented teachers was fired from the institute or they quitted. It destroyed major of Kharkiv journalism in the 1940's, including the first teacher of theatrical critique V. Morsky that was arrested and soon died in exile. Theatrical criticism as a profession for many years has lost its position of influence on the artistic process and disappeared from the Institute schedule in the function of classroom discipline for some time. Significantly decreased the amount of wishing to restock the ranks of "rootless cosmopolitans" (so they were reviled by official propaganda); the competition for Theater Studies department was virtually non-existent. Conclusions. Formation of the Theater Studies Department, developing teaching methods of one of the core subjects – theater criticism – at the Kharkiv Theater Institute took place against a background of difficult conditions of historical reality saturated ideological and political repression. This fact has not contributed to the development of theater criticism. National Theater Studies must go a long way to recreate an objective picture of the development of Ukrainian theatrical criticism, to define its stages and trends, fill in the lacunae in the biographies of scientists and formulate the originality of the methodology each of them.


Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) is an immune-mediated disease that manifests in susceptible individu-als after exposure to a provoking inhalation factor. The literature review describes etiological factors of the disease, its epidemiology and pathogenesis, as well as clinical features of various disease courses. A new clinical and morphological classification of HP is also presented. We analyzed changes in functional tests (external respiration function), CT images, cellular components of bronchoalveolar lavages, and modern approaches to the disease treatment. The review includes detailed morphological criteria according to the new classification, which will facilitate the diagnosis by pathologists. Since the diagnosis of the condition presents significant challenges, there are histological criteria for differential diagnosis of the fibrotic HP and usual interstitial pneumonia (idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis), sarcoidosis, lymphoid interstitial pneumonia, and pulmonary manifestations of connective tissue diseases. Keywords: hypersensitivity pneumonitis, interstitial lung diseases


INTRODUCTION The changes to the Japanese long-term care insurance system that came into force in April 2000, such as the switch from measures and plans to actual contracts, the guarantee of selection and rights, and the offering of unified health, medical and welfare services, marked a major turning point in the history of nursing care for the elderly in Japan. Also, the first review of the insurance fees and premiums as well as revision of the compensation paid to caregivers was conducted in April 2003. The system itself is being reviewed 5 years after its implementation, and in March 2003, the 'Elderly Care Study Group' was established in response to a request from the Health and Welfare Bureau for the Elderly of the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare to identify problems and issues concerning care of the elderly under the long-term care insurance system and to study how these issues of care for the elderly may be dealt with from now on and the social systems needed to provide the care. To put this in more concrete terms, the objective of the Elderly Care Study Group is to put forth proposals concerning the direction of a new plan to succeed the Golden Plan 21, which ended in 2004, as well as proposals concerning issues related to the midand long-term care system, and how nursing care for the elderly should proceed. The study group has met and held hearings with experts a total of 10 times, and issued a report dealing with nursing care for the elderly in 2015. This report was compiled while keeping in mind that this plan should be implemented by 2015, the year in which the tail end of the post-war Japanese baby-boomer generation will reach 65 years of age, which is an event of significance for Japan. The report states that even if elderly people are in a condition that requires nursing care, it is possible for them to live as they wish, and that an aim of elderly care is the realization of care that maintains the dignity of the elderly. The report also discusses making the nursing care system a sustainable entity.


The present invention relates to a photoresist stripper composition, and to an integrated photoresist stripper that can be used for all TFT-LCD processes. More specifically, (a) 1 to 20% by weight of primary alkanol amine; (b) 10-60 weight percent alcohol; (c) 0.1-50% by weight of water; (d) 5-50% by weight of a polar organic solvent; And (e) 0.01 to 3% by weight of a corrosion inhibitor. The stripper composition according to the present invention is excellent in the ability to remove the modified photoresist in progress, can be applied simultaneously to aluminum and copper wiring, can be introduced into organic film and COA process, and has a boiling point of 150 ℃ or higher alcohols and water and When used in combination, it can improve corrosion protection and increase the use time.


Medical accident crime should be determined comprehensively by the subject, the subjective and objective aspects of the crime. Meanwhile, liability accidents should be distinguished from technical accidents. Although the identification conclusions of medical accidents play an important role in the determination of this crime, the aspects about procedure, regulation and staff of medical identification should be reformed.


This report was produced to quantify performance indicators for selected enforced driver behaviours (drink driving, drug driving, speeding and restraint use) in South Australia for the calendar year 2009. The level of random breath testing (RBT) in South Australia in 2009 increased to the highest level of the five year period. The proportion of tests conducted using mobile RBT remained stable. The detection rate, based on evidentiary testing, decreased slightly in 2009 and was lower than in most other Australian jurisdictions. The level of drug testing increased by 70 per cent in 2009. Testing rates per head of population continued to be the highest in Australia. The drug detection rate rose slightly in 2009, as did the level of drug driving among fatally injured drivers. THC (the active component of cannabis) was the most commonly detected drug. The number of hours spent on speed enforcement decreased in 2009. The number of speeding detections decreased for all types of detection devices. Detections per thousand vehicles passing a speed camera decreased, most likely due to driver adaptation to the lowering of the speed limit tolerance in late 2007. Systematic speed surveys found no change in mean travelling speeds but the percentage of vehicles speeding by more than 5 km/h reduced on Adelaide arterial roads. Restraint offences increased by 10 per cent in 2009. Restraint use in serious and fatal crashes remained lower in rural regions than in the metropolitan area. Males were more likely to be charged with a restraint offence and less likely to be wearing a restraint in a fatal or serious injury crash. An observational restraint use survey undertaken during 2009 revealed seat belt usage was at a high level (98 per cent), although males were found to have slightly lower usage rates than females.


Sage Publications New Delhi/Thousand Oaks/London DOI: 10.1177/097168580601200201 Turbulence, uncertainty and plurality of cultures characterize the current business scenario in which modern organizations face the challenge to navigate and grow in a global setting. Management of uncertainty and ambiguity, and judicious handling of often irreconcilable differences have thus become extremely important in the organizational learning process for effective discharge of the leadership role. The art of managing people from diverse constituencies is not just a set of skills and formulae that one can learn in copybook fashion. Awakening and unleashing our creative potential, in its deepest and widest sense, assume critical significance in this regard. In order to enliven this creative process in our organizations, it may be useful to tap newer and non-conventional sources of wisdom and methods of learning beyond the boundaries of available principles and practices of management. The great Indian epic Mahabharata constitutes a veritable goldmine of insights into the drama of life and complexity of human relationships that are relevant to global managers even today. It may be useful to take a look into the nature of the creative process for harnessing our innate potential as revealed in this monumental epic. Editorial


Some kinds of utterances within a conversation can be interpreted as responses to utterances which precede them. Question/Answer, which may come in "pair parts", is one typical pattern of such kind of conversational structure. Question/Answer are dependent upon one another for coherence. There are not only complicated semantic coherence between Questions and Answers, but also pragmatic coherence between Questions and Answers.


Cardiovascular disease remains the most likely cause of death in developed countries, accounting for approximately 870,000 deaths in the United States alone in 2004. Virtually every form of cardiovascular disease involves modifications in tissue stiffness. Acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging shows great promise in the regional characterization of tissue stiffness in a variety of clinical applications. Cardiovascular tissues present unique challenges to ARFI imaging because of their dynamic changes in stiffness, high-amplitude physiological motion, and elevated stiffness levels compared to other tissues.


In this paper a powerful tool called sensitivity analysis in the context of knowledge engineering is discussed. Subtleties related to the popular certainty factor calculus employed by most shells are highlighted. With reference to practical examples, we also show how sensitivity analyses can help validate a knowledge base.


The Fourteenth Amendment created not one, but two citizens under the Constitution of the United States (of America): "Consequently, one who is created a citizen of the United States, is certainly not made a citizen of any particular State. It follows, that as it is only the citizens of the State who are entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens of the several States, then a distinction both in name and privileges is made to exist between citizens of the United States, ex vi termini, and citizens of the respective (several) States." Ex parte Frank Knowles: 5 Cal. 300, at page 304 (1855). This article shows the legal reasoning to this conclusion.


Abstract Two photoactive TiO2-supported materials are considered for toluene degradation in the gas phase. A kinetic study is performed over these two catalysts. The mechanisms involved are well represented by the Langmuir-Hinshelwood (L-H) relation at initial time. The kinetic rates and adsorption constants are then calculated to compare the catalysts. Particular attention focuses on the role of the humidity on the photocatalytic activity. Conversion rates of the toluene into carbon dioxide are measured and reveal a singular difference between the catalysts. Benzaldehyde and benzoïc acid are identified as major by-products in the gas phase. The production of stable intermediates is also shown. It is concluded that not only the presence of water vapor but also the characteristics of the titanium materials have to be taken into account to explain the kinetic behavior of photocatalytic oxidation.


Previous findings show that there is a misconception of the counseling profession and a lack of awareness of their role in interprofessional collaboration; which may lead to underutilization of counselors for team based care. As an example, in 2009 six professional health related associations developed core competencies for interprofessional collaborative practice and counseling associations were not involved in the development. This manuscript introduces the profession of counseling to others in medical health professions in hopes that similarities will bridge the gap between knowledge and future collaborative practice. The manuscript shows how the profession aligns with the core competencies for interprofessional collaborative practice (CCIPC), ethical codes, accreditation bodies, and existing counseling literature. It concludes with implications for practice, system level support, and policy.


Fish presence in experimentally simulated temperature conditions (limno-towers) led to diel vertical migration and resulted in a decrease of ephippia production in Daphnia pulicaria. Diel fluctuation of food, temperature and day length similar to those experienced by migrating Daphnia were tested in laboratory experiments with flow-through-systems. Daphnids were kept under these conditions for 15 days and the proportions of females producing an ephippium were determined. In addition, maturation time, survival to maturation, size of the first clutch and female dry weight (without eggs) on day 15 were traced. The most important factor affecting ephippia production in migrating Daphnia was photoperiod change, and when mother and embryo are exposed to alternating light conditions, these are thought to have the effect on the mother of acting as a signal to stop ephippia production. Such effects might be explained by the different sensitiveness to light intensity in females carrying an embryo and an embryo itself in broods. Fish presence forced Daphnia to stay in low-light conditions during daytime hours, to avoid attacks by fish. The Daphnia were able to check light intensity constantly by short vertical jumps above a light-threshold that was confirmed experimentally in limno-towers. The dim conditions were possibly light enough for adults to check day length, but were too dark for embryos shaded by the mother's body. Food conditions played a relatively small role in the process, and no effects of temperature on ephippia production were found. As expected, food affected the size of the first clutch, and temperature controlled the time to maturation. Photoperiod had a marginally significant influence on the time to maturation in Daphnia. A hypothesis on the role of photoperiod as the key factor for Daphnia life cyclic recurrence and other seasonal adaptations is proposed.


Gas holdup and circulation velocity in a rectangular, pilot-scale air-lift reactor were studied as a function of superficial gas velocity. As the gas velocity increases, the gas holdup in the riser and downcomer increase, although the gas distribution in the downcomer remains quite inhomogeneous even at the highest gas velocity studied. Also, as the superficial velocity increases, the distribution of gas in the reactor becomes more homogeneous, with the difference in holdup between the riser and downcomer approaching an asymptotic value. Liquid circulation velocity was estimated by fitting batch tracer data to an N tanks-in-series recirculation model. Liquid circulation velocity increases with the superficial gas velocity and approaches a constant value, which corresponds to an asymptotic difference in holdup between the riser and downcomer. Measured liquid circulation velocity compared favorably with a model of Chisti et al. (Chem. Eng. Sci. 1988, 43 (3), 451−457).


Hyperdoping with gallium (Ga) has been established as a route to observe superconductivity in silicon (Si). The relatively large critical temperatures (T$_{\rm c}$) and magnetic fields (B$_{\rm c}$) make this phase attractive for cryogenic circuit applications, particularly for scalable hybrid superconductor--semiconductor platforms. However, the robustness of Si:Ga superconductivity at millikelvin temperatures is yet to be evaluated. Here, we report the presence of a reentrant resistive transition below T$_{\rm c}$ for Si:Ga whose strength strongly depends on the distribution of the Ga clusters that precipitate in the implanted Si after annealing. By monitoring the reentrant resistance over a wide parameter space of implantation energies and fluences, we determine conditions that significantly improve the coherent coupling of Ga clusters, therefore, eliminating the reentrant transition even at temperatures as low as 20~mK.


Sex education is a major source of learning about sexual health related issueswhich are not extensively explained in the average science classes. However, it isa sensitive subject for most Meranaos because of the conservative culture of mostMuslim societies. In the absence of sex education and due to their immaturity,adolescents may have divergent sexual attitudes and commit irresponsiblepractices. This quantitative descriptive-correlational study was conducted todiscover the sexual attitudes and practices of Muslim adolescents towards theseveral aspects of sexual relationships: courtship, heterosexual relationship,dating, and pre-marital relationship before and after the implementation of thesex education program in different high schools in Lanao del Sur First District.Paired t-test analysis was used to test if there is a significant relationship betweenthe sexual attitudes and practices before and after the implementation of thesex education program. The findings reveal that the implementation of the sexeducation program resulted in the general decline of activities that could leadto sexual relations, as well as a significant decrease in the participants' sexualattitudes and practices. This research concludes that there is a significantdifference in the sexual attitudes and practices of the respondents before andafter the implementation of the sex education program. Keywords: Education, sex education, sexual attitudes, sexual practices, sources ofinformation, level of knowledge, adolescents, descriptive-correlational design,Philippines


This paper reports the isolation of eleven compounds from the roots of Ostericum grosseserratum, of which nine compounds were elucidated as myristic acid, palmitic acid, stearic acid, octacosanoic acid, succinic acid, beta-sitosterol, sitosterol-beta-D-glucoside, isoscopletin and sucrose. The results are helpful in the study of plant taxonomy.


: Background: Congenital heart diseases (CHD) are associated with an increased risk for the development of pulmonary vascular disease. Severe and irreversible pulmonary hypertension may then ensue and, eventually, leads to reversal of the shunt. Oral sildenafil is used for preoperative and postoperative treatment of pulmonary hypertension. Methods: A total of 30 patients, who underwent surgical closure of congenital anomaly i.e. ASD and VSD with High Pulmonary Pressure were included in the study. Patients were initially selected by echocardiogram showing pulmonary arterial systolic pressure (PASP) more than 40 mm of Hg. The Group A (sildenafil group) consisted of 15 patients and had received sildenafil during and after operation was given to these patients initially through nasogastric tube and later via the oral route 6 hourly for 44 hours. Results: Reduction in the PA pressure in sildenafil group was found statistically significant (p=.044). ICU stay and total hospital stay were shorter in the intervention group than the control but not statistically significant possibly due to smaller sample size. Conclusion: We conclude that oral sildenafil treatment is a safe, simple and effective alternate for persistent pulmonary hypertension early after congenital cardiac surgery.


Desert Hospital Outpatient Pharmacy is an independent pharmacy inside Desert Regional Medical Center, a 387-bed tertiary acute care hospital located in Palm Springs, California. Desert Regional Medical Center, which has attained the Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval for its congestive heart failure program, has reduced readmission rates by 17% among congestive heart failure (CHF) patients through a close partnership with Desert Hospital Outpatient Pharmacy.


A dielectric thin-film material for microwave applications, including use as a capacitor, the thin-film comprising a composition of barium strontium calcium and titanium of perovskite type (Ba.sub.x Sr.sub.y Ca.sub.1-x-y)TiO.sub.3. Also provided is a method for making a dielectric thin film of that formula over a wide compositional range through a single deposition process.


The purpose of this study was to examine which is more powerful to determine procrastination, a mastery goal or an avoidance goal. A preliminary model and a competitive model were explored by collecting 307 college students' survey results and employing structural equation modeling. The result of this study showed that procrastination is positively related to mastery avoidance and performance avoidance goal orientations whereas, as predicted, it is negatively related to mastery approach goal orientation. We also found that an avoidance goal is more powerful in determining students' procrastination than is a mastery goal. Implications of the study are discussed.


The utility model discloses a cyclic utilization device is stored up to rainwater, including rainwater cistern, storage water tank and circuit control case, the rainwater cistern be connected with the water inlet of storage water tank through first rainwater conveyer pipe, first rainwater conveyer pipe on be equipped with the water pump, the delivery port of storage water tank pass through second rainwater conveyer pipe and be connected with the air conditioner cooling tower, second rainwater conveyer pipe on be equipped with Y shape pipe -line filter, booster pump and second grade pipe -line filter in proper order, the drain pipe of air conditioner cooling tower on be equipped with water discharging electromagnetic valve, the opening or closing according to predetermined procedure automatic control water pump, booster pump and water discharging electromagnetic valve of circuit control case. Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility model are that: not only improve work efficiency, still had simple structure, the simple operation, advantage such as safe in utilization is worth promoting.


. Introduction Hydatidosis is a severe zoonosis, human contamination occurring by the ingestion of foods contaminated by dog faeces containing Echinococcus granulosus (E. granulosus) eggs. Peritoneal hydatidosis is one of the serious complications of the disease, often associated with another visceral location, it affects all ages and all segments of the peritoneal cavity. Materials and methods: We present the case of a 34 years old male, admitted in Saint Spiridon Emergengy Hospital, Surgery Clinic I, Iași, România with severe disseminated hydatidosis. Result: Our patient presented diffuse pain in the superior abdomen, without any other complains. The biochemical tests were normal, except the eosinophils. The ultrasound and the computer tomography revealed the presence of multiple cystic tumors in the liver, peritoneum and in the spleen, with imagistic appearance specific for hydatid cyst. A surgery team was formed to extract the multiple cysts, by laparotomy. The histopathological examination confirmed the diagnosis of multiple hydatid cysts. Conclusion: Peritoneal hydatidosis is a rare but serious complication of hydatid disease. The positive diagnosis is based on epidemiological, clinical, and paraclinical arguments represented essentially by CT scan. Early diagnosis and treatment of primary sites as well as optimal surgical management of peritoneal hydatidosis determine the prognosis.


Database between 2010 and 2015. The impact of the treatment regimens on overall survival was assessed. Results: Total 20693 patients with advanced NSCLC were identified, 15,346 (74.16%) of which were adenocarcinoma. Approximately 50.6% of the patients was administered with cytotoxic chemotherapy as the first line treatment, whereas 49.4% was administered with target therapy as the first line treatment. Among all chemotherapies, pemetrexed with platinum (31.2%) was the most common. The second common regimen is docetaxel with platinum (9.2%), whereas the third common regimen is gemcitabine with platinum (6.3%). On the other hand, among patients administered with target therapy as first line treatment, the most common regiment is pemetrexed with platinum (60%). Among patients with adenocarcinoma histology, pemetrexed with platinum regimen demonstrates longer OS than other chemotherapy regimens. Conclusion: We found that the most commonly-prescribed initial chemotherapy for NSCLC was pemetrexed/ platinum regimen. In patients with adenocarcinoma histology, the overall survival for patients with pemetrexed and platinum was significantly higher than those with other platinum-based chemotherapy.


Measurements of both 53Cr/52Cr and 54Cr/52Cr ratios with a precision of 10−4 in Allende inclusions display widespread chromium isotopic anomalies which are in the range of 5• 10−4. Instrumental mass fractionation precludes specific identification of the affected isotopes, but there are strong arguments favoring excesses in 54Cr and a hint of a very small deficit in 53Cr (≃ 10−4). These samples also display excesses in 50Ti and no significant effect in nickel isotopes.


Several image processing applications rely on a sparse set of correspondence points between stereo images to discern a sparse but robust depth structure of the scene. There exist several methods to extract and match correspondences, but they are all computationally extensive and require significant memory bandwidths. In this paper, we describe an efficient ASIC core that is able to detect up to 25 k interest points in real time on a 720p video stream using the recently proposed Semantic Kernels Binarized (SKB) algorithm. To keep the memory bandwidth low, an optimized method to calculate the filter responses in the interest point detection stage has been devised. Instead of the 2D integral image we use a local 1D integral image combined with an incremental updating scheme to calculate the box filters. The ASIC core is manufactured in 180 nm technology and has a complexity of 254 kGE. It runs at 100 MHz, has a power dissipation of 184 mW and is the central processing block for a larger FPGA based stereo vision system that calculates a sparse depth map by locating corresponding interest points between left and right images in real time.


This paper describes recent work on electronic CDMA encoding and decoding with particular application to optical access networks. Simple and flexible generation of CDMA codes using low-cost transversal filters is shown to allow Gb/s data rates for each user in a passive optical network. The benefits of single-wavelength operation, bidirectional transmission and reconfigurability are possible with a data rate of 1.25 Gb/s per user. This is achieved using 18 Gchip/s encoding and decoding, which represents an order of magnitude improvement relative to earlier demonstrations.


Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) is currently developing fast and its potential as driver of innovative solutions is increasing, pushed by technologies, networks, communication, and computing power, and has the potential to drive the development of technological ecosystems, such as innovation clusters. Innovation clusters are agglomeration of enterprises and research organizations, which cooperate, interact and compete, generating innovation and driving the growth of ecosystems. The narrative around innovation clusters has been developing since many years and policy-makers seek to use such clusters as a policy instrument to support the growth of technology on the one hand and regional and sectoral development on the other hand. This policy paper expands an empirical study on IoT innovation clusters in Europe and places it within the current debate around clusters and innovation clusters to provide evidence-based advice to policy-makers on what may and may not work as public policy measures. The paper highlights the findings of the interaction with several hundred European IoT innovation clusters and points out their points of view on their own creation factors, operational characteristics, and success stories, as well as their expectations in respect to policy interventions for IoT and for clusters. Suggestions for IoT policy-making are provided. The paper has also undertaken an extensive review of up-to date research on innovation cluster creation and performance, thoroughly analyzing the real possibility to define causal relationships between clusters, productivity and economic growth, and business performance, and providing suggestions for policy-makers on the approach to cluster policy.


Gender shapes the we communicate. Using legal theory, case studies and intercultural analysis, this paper explores the way women's self-identity interacts with negotiation processes and outcomes. Part I examines social, psychological, cultural and political factors shaping women's identity, voice and participation in negotiations. Part II explores the way women's view of themselves impacts their participation in negotiations. Lastly, Part III studies the impact of formal training on gender-based differences in negotiations. Through investigating gender's impact on negotiations, this paper finds that gender and context interact with negotiation process and outcomes. Through gaining more insight on gender's context-specific impact, to their negotiation processes


The solution properties of N-(2-hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide copolymers containing photochromic azohenzene side chains were studied by light-scattering methods. While copolymers containing 4.4 and 8.3 mol % azohenzene were water soluble, copolymers with ≥9.3 mol % azobenzene were soluble in water only in the pseudomicellar form. It was found that metastable aggregates prepared by a stepwise increase in copolymer concentration in aqueous solutions readily diisociated in response to UV irradiation


The chemical shifts of the ester alkyl groups of alkyl N-[(arylsulfonyl)methyl]-carbamates are displayed as doublets of unequal intensity at temperatures where rotation around the nitrogen to carbonyl bond is slow on the NMR time scale.

Comparison with NMR data of simple alkyl N-substituted carbamates indicates that the ester alkyl absorption of at least one of the rotamers shows an appreciable upfield shift. These upfield shifts are dependent on the ring current in the aromatic nucleus of the molecule. An explanation for these observations is presented in terms of preferred conformations (with minimized lone pair-lone pair repulsion) in which the ester alkyl group is situated above (or below) the plane of the aromatic ring. Minor structural changes in the molecule eliminate the shielding effect which supports the proposed shielding mechanism. Further evidence for intramolecular shielding was obtained from the observed solvent and temperature dependence of the chemical shifts of the ester alkyl protons. No evidence could be obtained for inter- or intramolecular association between the aromatic ring and the ester function.

Chemical shift data for alkyl N-[(arylsulfonyl)methyl]thiolcarbamates, -thionocarbamates and -dithiocarbamates also indicate intramolecular shielding of the ester alkyl protons.


Objective To investigate the clinical application of Cystatin C as a biological marker for monitoring hepatic pathological change in patients with virus hepatitis.Methods Two hundred and seven patients infected with hepatitis B or C virus(HBV, HCV)were divided into cirrhosis group(group A),chronic HBV group(group B),chronic HCV group(group C),and liver cancer group(group D). 32 healthy controls(group H) were recruited . The serum TIMP-1,TIMP-2,and Cystatin C as well as some traditional markers for monitoring liver function and renal function including creatinine, creatinine clearance rate, alanine transaminase, and aspartate transaminase were determined.Results In these groups, serum Cystatin C(F=28.334, P0.01), TIMP-1(F=128.091, P0.01) and TIMP-2(F=196.549, P0.01) concentrations were of significant difference. The change of Cystatin C levels was similar to that of TIMPs,the levels were higher in patients than that in controls,and A or D group levels were significantly higher than that of B or C group, but there was neither significant difference between A and D groups, nor between B and C groups. A positive correlation was found between Cystatin C and TIMP-1.Conclusion This study has suggested that Cystatin C may be a useful monitoring marker for estimating the hepatic pathological change in virus hepatitis patients.


Objective:To investigate the reasons of redetachment in rhegmatogenous retinal detachment and possible factors of proliferative vitreoretinopathy(PVR).Methods:We retrospectively analysised the size,number and position of retinal breaks,surgical methods,the continuous time of redetachment in 96 cases(96 eyes).Results:The ratio of break size had significant difference between primary and second surgery(chi-squre test X 2=14 104, P 0 005).The ratio of breaks less 1PD was increased compared with primary surgery,while breaks of 1-3PD reduced by mutiple comparison(X 2=13 672, P 0 001,X 2=10 630, P 0 001).Statistics showed that PVR in second operation was significantly severe than that in primary surgery(paired rank sun test T=6 7885, P 0 001).No significant difference was identified between PVR and size?number and position of breaks in analysis of Spearman rank correlation(rs A=0 069, P A=0 605,rs B=0 137, P B=0 302),whereas PVR and the continuous time of redetachment had significant difference before second surgery(rs=0 446, P =0 000).Conclusion:The reasons of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment are new breaks formation,primary breaks reopening,breaks omission,PVR formation or development and inadequate surgery.


During 2003, Dr R A Said published essentially duplicate versions of a paper in two archival journals: Nanotechnology and the Journal of The Electrochemical Society. The papers in question were: `Microfabrication by localized electrochemical deposition: experimental investigation and theoretical modelling' (2003 Nanotechnology 14 523) and `Shape formation of microstructures fabricated by localized electrochemical deposition' (2003 J. Electrochem. Soc. 150 C549). The two papers were submitted, revised, and published at essentially the same time. The papers used the same figures and neither paper referenced the other. Nanotechnology requires a signed copyright-transfer form assigning copyright in articles published to Institute of Physics Publishing, and the Journal of The Electrochemical Society requires the same for The Electrochemical Society. It is a tradition of long standing, stated in the information for contributors, that submission implies that the work has not been submitted, copyrighted, or accepted for publication elsewhere. Hence, duplicate publication not only raises legal questions and represents a serious breach of scientific ethics, but also leads to an unnecessary imposition on readers', referees', and editors' time. We regard this infraction as a serious matter. An apology from the author for this grave error is printed below. Author's apology I have mistakenly published similar results in two manuscripts in Nanotechnology and in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society, as stated above. I am responsible for this error. I agree with the Editors that such a practice should not have occurred, and I would like to sincerely apologize to Nanotechnology and the Journal of The Electrochemical Society, their publishers, and their readers for this matter. I will take actions in the future to prevent the occurrence of similar incidents. R A Said


The question of the right body weight evidently continues to occupy people. Especially in the media and fashion world, an ideal weight has been propagated for years—for women, a weight well below a body mass index (BMI) of 18—that has nothing to do with the medical assessment of body weight and really ought to be regarded as life-shortening. An esthetic mode of perception, manipulated by the media, and commercial interests have given rise to a false ideal image of the human body. From the physician's point of view, recommendations about optimal body weight can only be based on health-related arguments. This rather rational way of looking at and assessing body weight does not raise much enthusiasm among our fellow citizens, however, and is not much attended to. But the distorted representation of the issue in the media also makes many doctors start to doubt where the truth lies.

Against this background, the article by Matthias Lenz and co-authors contributes to a more objective, matter-of-fact assessment of overweight and obesity (1). With great care, the authors have evaluated 27 international meta-analyses and 15 German cohort studies with respect to the relationship between BMI—as a measure of body fat—and morbidity and mortality risk. This specific approach is interesting because German cohort studies are often not included in international meta-analyses, but they are particularly relevant to the German population—although it must be said that there are only a few high-quality German studies on this subject.


With conventional water sources in short and decreasing availability, new technologies for water supply have a crucial role to play in addressing the world's clean water needs in the 21st century. In this thesis, we examine how nanometer-scale pores in single-layer freestanding graphene can effectively filter NaCl salt from water. Using classical molecular dynamics, we report the desalination performance of such membranes as a function of pore size, chemical functionalization, and applied pressure. Our results indicate that the membrane's ability to prevent the salt passage depends critically on pore diameter, with pores in the 0.7-0.9 nm range allowing for water flow while blocking ions. Further, an investigation into the role of chemical functional groups bonded to the edges of graphene pores suggests that commonly occurring hydroxyl groups can roughly double the water flux thanks to their hydrophilic character. The increase in water flux comes at the expense of less consistent salt rejection performance, which we attribute to the ability of hydroxyl functional groups to substitute for water molecules in the hydration shell of the ions. Overall, our results indicate that the water permeability of this material is several orders of magnitude higher than conventional reverse osmosis membranes, and that nanoporous graphene may have a valuable role to play for water purification. Thesis Supervisor: Professor Jeffrey C. Grossman Title: Carl Richard Soderberg Professor Associate Professor of Power Engineering


During Tang and Song dynasties,livestock husbandry in Shayuan area has developed on the basis of full use of local natural resources.It provided the governments with enough livestock products and large quantity of horses for wars.Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty set up supervisory offices there to strengthen management of livestock husbandry.With the development of livestock husbandry there,some animal farms were brought under cultivation into fertile farmland.


WINTER 1989 ..... It is there [in the nurseryschool], while at play, that children will learn what it will be too late to teach them when they get to primary school ..." With these words, Zoltan Kodaly pr0fessedhis belief in the need for guided musical experiences at an early age. Likewise, he underscored the importance of learning through play and of playing with music as a means of internalizing it Singing games and the traditional and newly-invented childsongs of children's own playground activities constitutemusical play at its best They are integral to the Hungarian approach to music education and are found,occasionally, in modelearly childhoodprogramsscatteredthroughout the UnitedStates. More often than not, school policy and bureaucratic standards allow for few opportunities for learningthrough play. Indeed, formalschoolingappears to be somewhat the antithesisof play. Schoolsare run by administJ'at(n and teachers who crossed the threshold to adulthood long ago, and it is sometimesdifficultfor them to imagine life as a child. Theexplomtions that ttansformedtheir own understanding of the world may be veiled in a vague grayness of memory, so that the value of play as an heuristic mode of learning is overlooked. Work-not play-has become synonymous with learning, even in music classes at the preschool and primarygrade levels. Contrary to the word's connotation, play can be seriousbusinessfor young children. It is a legitimate activity for them, a means by which they address life's realities and fantasies, and an important part of their acculturation into the mainstream of society. Play is a process by which children imitate adultbehaviorand the vehiclethrough which they learn adult roles and values (Malinowski 1944; Schwartzman 1979). The various schools of child psychology and the classic figures from those fields have supportedplay as a naturalprocessand a part of child development. G. Stanley Hall, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Erik Erickson, and MelanieKlein were in agreement that young childrenare in training for adulthood through the games they play. Music teachers wc:xidng with young children prepare well-ordered and highly-structured lessons and often hold specific expectations as to desired responses. In an attempt to complete a curricular program within a designated time period, music teaching often proceeds didactically through question/answer formats, drills, and activities that entail sttmg verbal skills and abstract thinking at an earlyage. For youngchildren, from preschool through the primary grades, the absence of musical play can not only block learning for those who are not yet in possession of these skills and leamingmodesbut also aeate unfavorable attitudes toward music that are not easilyamenable to change. Musical play deserves a prominent place in the music education of preschool, kindergarten, and primary-


The carbamate group is found to be superior over esters and ketone groups in terms of directing ability in the hydroxylation reactions providing catechol and pyrogallol derivatives with excellent regioselectivity.


Multicomponent mesoporous metal oxides show promise in the area of heterogeneous catalysis due to the synergetic interactions between the framework components and the high internal surface area. In this study, we present the synthesis of ordered mesoporous tungsten(VI) oxide–vanadium oxide (V2O5) nanocomposite frameworks via a two-step wet chemical deposition and nanocasting process and demonstrate that they exhibit high catalytic activity and stability for the oxidation of aryl alcohols, using tert-butyl hydroperoxide (t-BuOOH) as oxidant. X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy and nitrogen porosimetry results indicate that the template-free materials possess a 3D mesoscopic structure of discernible domains of parallel-arranged nanorods and have an internal pore surface with narrow mesopores. The chemical composition and molecular structure of the mesoporous matrix were determined with elemental X-ray microanalysis (EDS), diffuse reflectance ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis) and Raman spectroscopy. Our catalytic results indicate that a small addition of V2O5 into the lattice of WO3 has a beneficial effect on the catalytic performance. Thus, the 4% V2O5-loaded WO3 catalyst shows a large improvement in the oxidation of various para-substituted aryl alcohols with respect to the pure mesoporous WO3, giving good-to-high yields (ca. 80–100%) of the target products within 1–4 h reaction time.


Objective To explore the best method of bandaging and hemostasis for puncture point after coronary intervention by radial artery path. Methods 92 such patients were divided into evidence-based group (n=48 ) and control group (n=44) according to the operation time. For the evidence-based group, the method of bandaging and hemostasis was based on the evidence-based nursing principle: 15 ml of gas was injected with radial artery tourniquet and then timed decompression was adopted. The puncture point kept bandaged with low pressure for 8~12 hours. For the control group, the conventional method of bandaging was adopted. Then a comparison was made of the incidence of hand swelling, numbness, cyanosis, oozing of blood in the puncture point, hematoma, obstruction in radial artery, vasovagal reflex between the two groups. Results The rate of hand swelling, numbness, cyanosis and vasovagal reflex in the evidence-based group was significantly lower than that of the control group, the difference being statistically significant(P 0.01 or P0.05). However, there was no statistically significant difference in local oozing of blood, hematoma, and obstruction in radial artery (P0.05). Conclusion The evidence-based method of bandaging the puncture point in the radial artery can lower the incidence rate of vascular complications in patients, and thus to improve nursing quality.


More than 50 years have passed since the discovery of large oil fields in the Volga region and Western Siberia. Since then, all of them have entered the final stage of development, characterized by a decrease in oil production, an increase in water cut in wells and an increase in the share of hard-to-recover reserves. In such conditions, the achievement of economic efficiency of implemented projects largely depends on the productivity of the business process management system at the enterprise. In the last decade, the improvement of the management system at the enterprises of the oil-producing complex was associated with the withdrawal of non-core assets from the structure, the basis of which was oilfield services. However, due to insufficiently effective competition in this market segment, the price for the provision of oilfield services is overstated. This work is devoted to the management of service production processes in the system of an oil production enterprise. According to statistics, service production is a major source of cost formation for an enterprise. For example, it accounts for 30-50% of all operating costs. Due to the fact that most of the large oil fields in Russia are at the final stage of development (over 70%), the largest share of operating costs is well workover services. Accordingly, the purpose of the study is to substantiate the theoretical provisions for the implementation of reengineering of business processes and develop practical recommendations for improving the efficiency of management in this segment of services. 2357-1330 © 2021 Published by European Publisher.


An automated continuous-flow procedure has been developed for measuring C'3 in human serum, by reaction with specific antiserum. The procedure is standardized with pooled human serum, appropriate dilutions of which had previously been measured for C'3 by a reference method. C'3 values obtained by this new automated procedure correlate with values obtained by radial immunodiffusion. The precision (CV) of this method is 1.65%.


Psychoanalysis and ECT figured prominently in my psychiatric residency training program. Both forms of treatment can be very useful tools in their respective settings, and there is no a priori reason why they should create antagonistic camps. Still, their stark contrast in technique can invite competitive musings. One of my contemporaries in training was a fierce protagonist for psychoanalysis, and liked to poke at ECT with disparaging comments such as "a monkey could push the button on the ECT machine," implying that ECT was an anti-intellectual treatment. True, ECT is usually identified as a medical procedure with all the trappings of electrical physics, physiological monitoring, anesthesia, etc. Yet the procedural part of ECT is in many respects the least interesting. First and foremost, ECT is a cognitive science like the rest of modern psychiatry and our cousin disciplines of internal medicine. ECT is a body of knowledge. This body is as wide as it is deep, spanning multiple disciplines across all time points in the ECT process. Perhaps the most critical demand made upon the ECT practitioner is the decision of whether to offer ECT to a given patient. The ECT practitioner is assumed to have excellent diagnostic skills. This is especially important given that the ECT consultant may be providing ECT services for other psychiatrists' patients, and will not have an extended time with a patient before some opinion regarding ECT is expected. While relying heavily on the opinion of the referring psychiatrist, the ECT consultant must come quickly to an accurate second opinion. This opinion will include a diagnosis, a prognosis should ECT be rejected, an assessment of reasonable alternatives (if any) to ECT, an estimation of the medical risk during the procedure and advice on ways to reduce the risk, gauging whether medical/surgical consultation or additional laboratory tests are required, and considering whether the patient has the capacity to understand the risks and benefits of the proposed treatment plan. The ECT provider must have a working knowledge of prevailing local laws pertaining to obtaining valid consent. The ECT provider must also be knowledgeable in basic psychotherapeutic principles, such as providing therapeutic optimism without guarantees, identifying and confronting the occasional fantasy of some patients of being "rescued" by ECT, and understanding family dynamics when shame-driven impulses work to deny the patient access to treatment. During the ECT course the ECT provider needs expert knowledge in all aspects of pharmacology, including the impact of various medications on the therapeutic action of ECT, the influence of medications on ECT-related hemodynamics, and the bearing of medications on ECT's cognitive effects. A thorough knowledge of anesthetics is a requirement, in order to best advocate for the patient in the treatment room. The ECT practitioner must understand the effect of ECT on brain physiology, in order to assist others in the timing and proper interpretation of dynamic brain studies such as EEG, SPECT and PET if these procedures are performed proximal to ECT. The ECT physician will understand when the course of treatment is progressing as expected, when the therapeutic response is sluggish and demands an alteration in technique, when cognitive side effects are disproportionate to what was expected, and at what point to consider withdrawing treatment in the non-responsive patient. Throughout all of this, the ECT provider must exhibit compassion and encouragement if treatment response is sluggish and continually provide re-education to patients and families as to the expected outcomes.


Background/Objectives: The purpose of present study is to verify the size prediction accuracy of pattern drafting formulas through the trend line drawing for anthropometric data and ease allowances calculation. Methods: Pattern drafting formulas were investigated from 6 men's jacket textbooks. A scatter plot with the y-axis as the predictor variable and the x-axis as the input variable in each formula was created using Size Korea data. A trend line was drawn on the scatter plot to observe the change in ease allowance, and to determine the formula that showed the most accurate slope. Correlation analysis and regression analysis were conducted to derive the pattern drafting formulas supplementing problems of analyzed formulas. Results: For 'armscye depth', method A was confirmed to be most suitable, and a drafting formula using both chest circumference and height was recommended. For 'waist back length', method E showed the best results, and the explanatory power was the highest when the total length was used. For 'side waist to hip length', it was recommended to use direct measurements. For 'back neck width/2', it was found that using the neck circumference was appropriate. The ease allowance on 'armscye width' was excessively reduced according to the increase of chest circumference since the flatness of the human body was not reflected in the drafting formulas. To remedy this problem, it was recommended to use both bi-shoulder length and back neck to ground length for 'front width', and use only bi-shoulder length for 'back width'. Conclusion/Implications: Since the analyzed men's jacket pattern drafting textbooks did not reflect the actual change of Korean men's body size, a correction of drafting formulas using Size Korea data is needed.


In this paper, a new adaptive PAPR reduction scheme is proposed by which the PAPR of the OFDM signal can be reduced to keep the value lower than a predefined threshold level. A conventional companding is used as a technique to reduce the PAPR of the OFDM signal. If the PAPR of the OFDM signal is higher than any predefined level, one or more times companding operations are performed until the PAPR becomes lower than that level. On top of that, no companding is applied if the signal's PAPR is lower than the predefined level. However, there is a trade-off between the improvement of the PAPR and BER which may be optimized based on any specific application requirements