Network virtualization provides an efficient way to share physical network infrastructure so that multiple virtual slices can run concurrently. OpenFlow is a promising and successful future networking technology which enables network innovation efficiently. However, the existing network virtualization methods in OpenFlow network usually have limitations such as introducing a proxy, flow entry conflicts, lacking of extensibility. In this paper, we present VNMC, a Virtual Network Management Component for rapidly creating, configuring and managing virtual networks in OpenFlow network. It has the following features: VNMC is implemented in a single controller without a middle layer. VNMC provides bandwidth guarantee, topology isolation, flow isolation and control isolation. It resolves flow entry conflicts from different controllers using the multiple flow tables mechanism defined in the latest OpenFlow standard. It manages the virtual networks in a modular way, which brings great extensibility to add new functionalities to virtual networks.


Academic programs in all disciplines must show evidence of progressive student learning to ensure students are prepared for careers in their respective fields. Many times administrators and faculty members identify and validate core competencies in the profession and collect stakeholder feedback on student competency performance, but do not systemically use the information to enhance the program's curriculum or to drive student advising. This study will propose a conceptual, multi-step model that allows hospitality and tourism faculty members to continually track evidence of student learning to ensure career preparation.


Philosophy has been known by many in the general public. However, many of the peopledo not know more about philosophy. Daffin Davanka has a purpose with this book can introducephilosophy to the general public and early enthusiasts who are interested in entering the world ofdevelopment and philosophical thinking further


The design of Li Gou on how to understand,train,select,use and administer tatent is demonstrated in this paper to show the rich substance?the era significance and the social value of LiGou′s theory on the talent. Although LiGou′s theory on the talent is unoverall?unsystemtic and ideal, yet it is valuable that Li Gou pointed out the cruxes in the early stage of Northern Song Dynasty and put forward his view. It not only has distinct significance in that period, but also has social value today because we can draw lessons from it to perfect the system on talent.


Studies were conducted at the Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI), Nyankpala to evaluate high Beta-carotene sweet potato varieties. Beta-carotene-rich (orange-fleshed) sweet potato is one of a few new crops, which is an excellent source of energy and important nutritive substances that can contribute to improve the nutrient status of communities. The crop is being promoted in the developing world as a source of provitamin-A towards alleviating vitamin-A deficiency (VAD). Most of the varieties available to farmers in the Guinea Savannah of Ghana are white and creamy fleshed with high dry matter content and low levels of vitamin A which is very important in promoting human health. Orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) varieties are known to performing very well in respect to high beta carotene content which is a food-based cheap source of beta-carotene, a precursor of Vitamin A. The aim of this work is to select high yielding beta-carotene sweet potato to meet farmers' food security and nutritional needs in the guinea savannah region. Twelve (12) varieties of sweetpotato were evaluated in a randomized complete block design experiment with three (3) replications during the 2010 and 2011 rain seasons. Treatments were the 12 different varieties of sweet potatoes. After 4 months of growth period, the plants were harvested and yield results indicated significant differences (P<0.05) among the varieties in root tuber number, marketable roots weight, vine weight, dry matter and total root yield. Apomuden, which is an orange-flesh sweetpotato produced the highest root tuber yield of 19.81 t/ha and the highest marketable roots tuber number of 32, significantly higher than the local check Nasamu Red Vine, a cream flesh type. The orange-flesh variety produced higher root tuber yield but indicated the lowest dry matter yield of roots. The findings shows high root yield potential of orange-flesh varieties than the cream and the white types.


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Twenty-one alcoholics participated in a double blind study to elicit information of the clinical effect of implanted disulfiram. They were randomized to either of two groups, 11 patients to the placebo group and 10 patients to the disulfiram group. Each patient was subjected to seven sessions of intravenous ethanol challenge, once before and six times during the first 20 weeks after implantation. The acute ethanol challenge did not result in any differences between the groups with respect to blood ethanol and acetaldehyde concentrations. No patient showed any clinical signs of disulfiram-ethanol reaction. After a study period of 20 weeks no significant differences were found between the groups with regard to the reduction in average ethanol consumption, days from implantation to the first drink and number of abstinent weeks. Our results do not support the idea that a 1 g disulfiram implant has any pharmacological or clinical action.


Modern consumers are engaged in online communities where interaction with paying and non-paying customers impacts their knowledge and perceptions of marketing strategies such as dynamic pricing practice. Given the increased transparency of pricing strategies due to information sharing via online platforms, service providers need to understand the extent to which online communities influence consumer perceptions of price fairness. Drawing from social information processing and social identity theories, we argue that online community engagement is positively related to consumers' perceptions of the fairness of dynamic pricing strategies, and this relationship is fully mediated by community norms and rule familiarity. We further find the positive effect of community norms on perceived price fairness is stronger among consumers with a higher degree of online savviness.


Study investigated the relationship between vocational interest and career aspiration of senior secondary school students in Rivers State. One research The question and four hypotheses tested at .05 level of significance. The population of the study comprised senior public secondary school students in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. The sample of the study consisted of 200 senior public secondary school students drawn through stratified sampling technique. Two standardized instruments – motivation for occupational preference scale (MOPS) and vocational interest inventory (VII) were used in gathering data for the study. Pearson product moment correlation method was used in analyzing the research question and hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The results showed that there was significant relationship between students' interest and their career aspiration. Based on the findings of the study, recommendations were made and conclusions were drawn.


The numerical method and the analytic method for calculating the first vertical bending frequency of a fully equipped high-speed railway vehicle were proposed respectively,and the influencing mechanism of suspended equipment on car body modal frequencies was studied.The principles of modal matching between suspended equipment and car body were presented according to the analytic method and the vibration isolation theory,and the suspended parameters of equipment were designed and also verified by in-situ experiments.Results show as follows:The numerical method has higher computational accuracy but is not convenient for engineering application whereas the analytic method can obtain high computational accuracy and also can be directly used in design of suspended equipment;compared with fixed equipment,the first vertical bending frequency of the fully equipped car body can be observably promoted with suspended equipment;reasonable matching of modal frequencies between suspended equipment and car body can effectively avoid occurring of resonant vibrations between them;referring to the research object of high-speed railway vehicles,when the natural frequency of the independent suspended equipment is designed at 6.5Hz,the modal frequency of the equipment can be effectively separated from the first vertical bending frequency of car body,and in the entire running speed range,the vehicle can obtain good ride quality and the suspended equipment vibrations are not severe.


A positive relationship between growth rate and ribonucleic acid concentration is shown for 24 species, mostly arthropods and microorganisms. It is suggested that such a relationship might exist also for mammals.


From the problems due to the shortcomings of the concrete structure durability,the durability plays a decisive role in concrete structure engineering,and it is beneficial to the peoples livelihood, such as the emergence of a large number of engineering accident and a huge amount of repair costs,so that it seriously affects national economy development and peoples life.Factors that affect the durability of concrete structures are very complex,and are greatly uncertain.From the external and internal aspects of the concrete structure,namely the environment and the concrete material,the causes of concrete durability and mechanism of action were studied.Some suggestions were the surface protection layer of structure,prevention of corrosion of steel bar,the change of the structure and other measures.


ii Declaration I declare that the work described in this dissertation is, except otherwise where stated, entirely my own and has not been submitted as an exercise for a degree at this or any other university. Acknowledgements I would like to thank my supervisor, Mr. Declan O'Sullivan, for his guidance and help throughout the year. His wealth of knowledge and ideas were of enormous contribution to the completion of this project. Thanks to Karolina for her motivation and support throughout the last year. Last but certainly not least, thanks to my parents, Denis and Julie, for their support and encouragement throughout all of my college years.


Over the last few decades, many countries around the world have adopted urban regeneration to solve social problems, simulate local economy, create better environmental and cultural conditions, and enhance the city's competitiveness. A holistic and critical review of the themes of these research, research methods, evaluation criteria of sustainable urban regeneration projects is needed for current and future research. Based on the journal and conference papers about sustainable urban regeneration in the SCI, EI and A&HCI database between 1989 and 2019, this paper presents a critical review of recent studies on sustainable urban regeneration. This review focuses on the methods universally or locally employed to evaluate the sustainability of urban regeneration projects in different contexts. The key terms concerning urban regeneration, sustainability of urban regeneration, brownfield redevelopment and urban rehabilitation are clarified. The behaviours of core stakeholders and their relationship are also explored in this review. Finally, this paper discusses the future research trends for researchers to explore the field of sustainable urban regeneration.


The first record of an Atlantic origin species, the Roche's snake blenny Ophidion rochei Müller, 1845, in the Black Sea is provided from the south-east Sea of Azov. Its appearance in the Sea of Azov can be explained by the increase in water salinity of the sea in recent years.


Psychology as a discipline can be used, to help us understand the reasons why a large number of newly infected persons with HIVj AIDS is in the adolescence stage. This is because, this stage is marked by a time of rapid physical development, that gives the adolescent the capacity for reproduction, and also increased genital sensitivity that ensures their interest in sexuality. This factor puts the adolescents at risk of HIVj AIDS infection. More significantly there can be little doubt that the current interest in adolescents stem from the fact that young people in our society are facing the danger of HIVj AIDS scourge. The purpose of this dissertation was therefore to find out the adolescents knowledge on HIVj AIDS. A sample of 160 respondents was purposively selected from different school in Rangwe Division, Homa-Bay District. Questionnaire was the primary tool used in this s~,4dy. The analysis of data was both quantitative and qualitative. The study reports reveals that majority of the adolescents have knowledge on HIVj AIDS as was measured by mode of transmission, prevention and perception of risk. The study also revealed that despite this high level of awareness the adolescents still do not know what the abbreviations HIV and AIDS stands for. The study also found out that there was no significant relationship between age and knowledge' of HIVjAIDS. :::~ -'. :~.~\"'l .l ~'~ .'


Ngawi City is one of the areas that still keep the activities and efforts to preserve art activities, which will continue to grow. because it is always held annual activities as a form of art conservation activities as well as a means of tourism to attract domestic and international tourists. so it takes place to adapt and support the arts activities, considering the activities that are always implemented, but the City of Ngawi itself has not had a special building of art. With the building of this special arts building, artists will be more readily available at the training ground and have a place to perform.
Keywords: Art activities center, preserve, art, Ngawi City,


www.nursingmanagement.com distinguishing characteristic of professional nurses is their passion for their work. As one expert notes, "If you've been in nursing for some time, I can assure you that your passion is not money, a fantastic work schedule, short work weeks, or because your mother told you to become a nurse. People who enter the nursing profession for these reasons are quickly weeded out."1 The primary motivations for many nurses are compassion and caring for individuals, a need to make a difference, respect, pride, or self-actualization.2 Passion in the workplace is often gauged by the level of employee engagement and is associated with successful organizations. Passion manifests when there's a strong commitment to work-related activities and members are willing to devote considerable time and energy at work.3 Nurses tend to personally identify with their work and have a high level of specialization; therefore, the nursing profession is often associated with work passion.4 Professional nurses and


Solar shadow positioning technology is a method through analyzing the changes of the solar shadow in the video to determine where and when the video was captured shoot. We can obtain the expression of the solar shadow over time. Set the unknown as a parameter, and perform a quadratic fitting to get the value of the unknown coefficient. Introduction The change of the solar shadow is caused by the rotation and revolution of the earth. The length of the shadow changes with the change of the solar position within one day, and the change of the shadow length is closely related to the position of the object. By observing the change of the shadow length of an object with time, we can determine where the object is located. And it has certain scientific significance and application value. Using the relationship between the actual length of the object and the length of the shadow, you can determine the current position and date, which is the principle of the solar shadow positioning technology. This article through mathematical modeling, solve the following problems: (1) We establish a mathematical model about the change of the length of the shadow, and analyze the variation of shadow length on each parameter. (2) According to the vertex coordinate data of the pole's solar shadow in the horizontal ground, establish a mathematical model to determine the location of the pole. The Change of Sun Shadow Problem Analysis. Because the sun shadows of objects on earth are affected by the earth's rotation and revolution, the relative movement of the earth and the sun is transformed into the movement of the sun around the earth. The shadow length is related to the solar elevation angle, and it is related to the solar declination, the geographic latitude and the hour angle. The relationship between the shadow length and the various factors as follows: Fig. 1 The relationship between shadow length and the various factors Modeling Process. The study shows that the change of the shadow length is related to the solar declination, the geographic latitude and the hour angle, and when these three quantities are obtained, the solar elevation angle can be obtained, thereby getting the shadow length. 5th International Conference on Machinery, Materials and Computing Technology (ICMMCT 2017) Copyright © 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Advances in Engineering, volume 126


The utility model discloses a leakage finding sampler. The utility model aims at designing a leakage finding sampler with reasonable structure and convenient use. The leakage finding sampler comprises a barrel, a valve and a discharge pipe, wherein a water/steam inlet and a discharge port are arranged on the upper portion of the barrel, a condenser pipe is connected on the lower portion of the water/steam inlet, a water seal is arranged in the middle of the barrel, water is arranged in the barrel, a water line is arranged to be level to the water seal, the discharge pipe is arranged on the bottom portion of the barrel, the valve is arranged on the discharge pipe, and a gas sample analysis device is arranged on the discharge port. The leakage finding sampler is reasonable in structure and convenient to use, and can rapidly and accurately sample and analyse gas in a steam system (a circulating water system and a condensed fluid system and the like).


A technology assessment is conducted for battery electric and conventional fossil-fueled passenger vehicles for three Australian scenarios and seven Australian states and territories. This study uses a probabilistic life-cycle assessment (pLCA) to explicitly quantify uncertainty in the LCA inputs and results. Parametric input distributions are developed using statistical techniques. For the 2018 Australian electricity mix, which is still largely fossil fuels based, the weight of evidence suggests that electric vehicles will reduce GHG emission rates by 29% to 41%. For the 'fossil fuels only' marginal electricity scenario, electric vehicles are still expected to significantly reduce emission rates by between 10% and 32%. Large reductions between 74% and 80% are observed for the more renewables scenario. For the Australian jurisdictions, the average LCA GHG emission factors vary substantially for conventional vehicles (364–390 g CO2-e/km), but particularly for electric vehicles (98–287 g CO2-e/km), which reflects the differences in fuel mix for electricity generation in the different states and territories. Electrification of the Tasmanian on-road fleet has the largest predicted fleet average reduction in LCA greenhouse gas emissions of 243–300 g CO2-e/km. A sensitivity analysis with alternative input distributions suggests that the outcomes from this study are robust.


We recently described the binding of 1-β-phosphonomethylene-1-deoxy-d-glucopyranose, (S)-1-β-phosphonofluoromethylene-1-deoxy-D-glucopyranose (βG1CFSP), and (R)-1-β-phosphonofluoromethylene-1-deoxy-d-glucopyranose (βG1CFRP) to the enzyme β-phosphoglucomutase as transition state analogues of phosphoryl transfer through formation of stable MgF3− and AlF4− complexes (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2014, 111, 12384). Herein, we describe in detail the five-fold difference in acidity (pKa2) for the (S)- and (R)-configured diastereomeric fluorophosphonates through a series of NMR spectroscopy experiments. The differences in acidity were corroborated using computational quantum mechanical calculations to determine structures of lowest energy conformers and provide insight into why the (S) isomer is substantially more acidic.


In this article we consider boundary value problems for some linear and nonlinear differential equations with partial derivatives of the sixth, fifth, fourth and third orders. We write out conditions on equation coefficients for which existence and uniqueness of solutions from Sobolev's space occur. If these conditions on equation coefficients are not valid, then there are given examples when solution is not unique, or is not unstable, or does not belong to Sobolev's space from existence and uniqueness theorem even for analytical coefficients and analytical right side of differential equation. After S.P. Novikov's fundamental study in 1974 the interest to the nonlinear Korteweg–de Vries equation, Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation and other nonlinear equations significantly grew. In this study of such equations we used methods of algebraic geometry integration and expansion method. In these studies exact solutions of special nonlinear equations series in partial derivatives play a big role. Solvability of similar equations was also studied in articles of A.I. Kozhanov, N.A. Larkin and other authors. The aim of this article is to find some exact solutions for special series partial differential equations. Solution graphs of such problems for linear equations and for the Korteweg– de Vries, Burgers-Korteweg-deVries, and Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equations are constructed.


The aim of this paper is to study the spatial patterns in the Spanish local tax system. The three most relevant taxes are analyzed: the property tax, the motor vehicle tax and the building activities tax, which jointly represent 80% of the tax revenue at local level in Spain. Using spatial econometrics procedures, three alternative weight specifications to define competitors are explored: contiguity, distance and a combination of economic and geographical characteristics. After carrying out an exploratory spatial analysis, the results of the estimation of spatial lag and spatial error models confirm positive spatialautocorrelation for the property tax and the building activities tax, with an order of magnitude between 0.3 and 0.5. On the contrary, the motor vehicle tax does not exhibit a significant spatial pattern.


Computer networks have penetrated into various fields including education for the learning process which is used as a medium for delivering scientific concepts to be more attractive and easily accepted. The Muhammadiyah University of Palembang currently has very high mobility, both used for browsing information, downloading data and using other facilities. For the need for bandwidth management to manage each passing data so that the distribution of bandwidth becomes evenly distributed by using the queue tree method that is applied to the proxy. To evaluate internet bandwidth analyze QoS (Quality of Service) using typhoid standardization in terms of measurement of throughput, delay, and packet loss. The results of this study show that the quality of the network with the hierarchical token bucket method is more optimal, this is because the bandwidth will be divided according to the rules applied to bandwidth management and does not cause clients to fight over bandwidth


The reverse logistics system is considered as a Markov process with absorbable status. The following characters have been forecasted and analyzed:the probability of returned materials reach certain node after several steps of transfer from the original status; the probability of materials in certain node to be absorbed by the system; the average time that materials stop at certain node and the time that materials are absorbed by the system.


After a short introduction by writer and professor of literature, Qadam-'Alī Sarāmī (pp. 6-8), Zahrā Fatḥī presents in Part I (pp. 9-20) a cursory overview of the life of 'Ayn al-Qoḍāt (d. 1131), his works, and his Sufi affiliations, drawing upon primary sources and citing a few modern studies in Persian. However, the meat of the book, as the title suggests, deals with 'Ayn al-Qoḍāt's mystical theosophy ('erfān), and in particular his views about the "school of love" (maḏhab-e 'esq). Short se...


Abstract Children with pediatric gliomas harboring BRAF V600E mutation have a poor outcome with current chemoradiation strategies. Our aim was to study the role of targeted BRAF inhibition in these tumors. We collected clinical, imaging, molecular and outcome information from BRAF V600E glioma patients treated with BRAFi across 29 centers from multiple countries. Sixty-seven patients were treated with BRAFi (56 pediatric low grade gliomas, PLGG and 11 pediatric high grade gliomas, PHGG) for up to 5.6 years. Objective responses were observed in 80% of PLGGs compared to 28% with conventional chemotherapy (p<0.001). These responses were rapid (median, 4 months), and sustained in 86% of tumors up to 5 years while on therapy. PLGG which discontinued BRAFi, 76.5% (13/17) progressed rapidly after discontinuation (median 2.3 months). However, upon re-challenge with BRAFi therapy, 90% achieved an objective response. Poor prognostic factors to conventional therapies, such as concomitant homozygous deletion of CDKN2A, were not associated with a lack of response to BRAFi. In contrast, only 36% of PHGG responded to BRAFi with all but one tumor progressing within 18 months. In PLGG, responses translated to 3-year progression-free survival of 49.6% (95%CI, 35.3% to 69.5%) vs 29.8% (95% CI, 20% to 44.4%) for BRAFi vs chemotherapy respectively (p=0.02). The use of BRAFi results in robust and durable responses while on therapy in BRAF V600E PLGG. Prospective studies are required to determine long-term survival and functional outcomes with BRAFi therapy in childhood gliomas.


568 Background: AEN is a malignancy including both indolent well-differentiated and highly aggressive signet ring carcinoma. Optimal therapy is believed to be cytoreductive surgery (CRS) followed by heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC). Yet, some patients (pts) will recur, are suboptimal for surgery, and are considered for systemic chemotherapy (SC). The purpose of this study is to compare SC regimens in treatment-naïve surgically unresectable AEN pts. Currently, no standard exists.

METHODS
A retrospective review of AEN pts who were registered in our tumor registries between Jan. 2005 to Dec. 2009 was completed. Electronic medical records were reviewed for CRS, HIPEC, histology, stage, SC received, CEA, CA-125, and/or CA 19-9, response (R), and progression-free survival (PFS). All patients were required to be restaged at their respective institution with R defined as clinical or radiographic benefit. K-M method, Log-Rank, and Cox proportional hazard regression models were used for statistical analysis.

RESULTS
Of 659 pts with AEN diagnosis, 134 pts were evaluable for PFS and R. Forty-eight (36%) pts were poorly-differentiated; 29 (22%) signet ring; and 22 (16%) had both features. Thirty-four (25%) were well-differentiated. After a median follow-up of 35M, adjusting PFS for prior CRS, HIPEC, histology, ascites, and biologic therapy, pts who received 5-FU alone fared worse vs. FOLFOX [HR: 2.39; 95% CI: 1.2-4.6; p-value = 0.01]. FOLFIRI trended in favor of improved PFS, but was underpowered. No statistical difference in R was noted (Table).

CONCLUSIONS
In the treatment of surgically unresectable AEN, combination chemotherapy resulted in improved PFS vs. single agent 5-FU. Quality of life analysis will be reported at a later date. Randomized prospective analysis should be considered. [Table: see text].


Using spin projection operator methods, generating functions are developed for nuclear spin species. These operators also generate elegantly the irreducible respresentations spanned by a1b1 a2b2⋅⋅⋅atbt nuclear spin functions, where ai is the number of possible spin states of the bi nuclei of the same kind in the molecule. From these generating functions the statistical weights of the rovibronic levels of any polyatomic molecule can be obtained easily. The method is illustrated with 33SF6, 13C‐triphenylene, and triphenylene with protons replaced by D. For 13C‐triphenylene there are 1 073 741 824 nuclear spin functions from which we determined the statistical weights of the rovibronic levels A′1, A′2, E′, A″1, A″2, and E″ to be 178 940 928, 178 973 696, 357 913 600, 178 940 928, 178 973 696, and 357 913 600, respectively.


The wrong load is one in errors of the structural design.The wrong structural design will change the structural reliability.The result is the resistance will not match the expectations.By the introduction of resistance correction factors to analyze the reliability of the wrong design structure,the relations of the failure probability of wrong and correct design is derived.The formulas of structural reliability were deduced considering load errors from the two points of structural member and structural system.We showed the sensitivity analysis drawings affected by human errors.From the drawings,the trends affected by the factors can be read directly.The examples considering load errors as studied and the decrement of structural reliability of the examples was worked out.This research has good engineering value.


My thesis mostly focusses on the systems of porphyrin molecules adsorbed on single-crystalline metallic surfaces. Cyclic tetrapyrrole porphyrins play key roles in many important chemical and biological processes, such as oxygen transport in heme (iron porphyrin), electron transfer and oxidation reactions in photosynthetic chlorophyll (magnesium porphyrin). Comprehensive understanding of the magnetic and conformational properties of single porphyrin molecules adsorbed on metallic substrates attracts intensive research interest. In my thesis, I have studied the structural and electronics properties of porphyrin molecules by Low-temperature scanning tunneling spectroscopy (LT-STM) and scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) and theoretical methods. Owing to the high resolution of LT-STM, both geometric and electronic properties at the atomic level were probed. Moreover, the experimental results were understood by comprehensive theoretical methods, i.e. density functional theory, molecular dynamics, tight-binding and plane-wave expansion calculations.


Like the genre of the essay film itself, the last film of Francophone Belgian film-maker Chantal  Akerman ,  No Home Movie  (2015) eludes being contained by its name.  With its very title,  Akerman's  film seemingly positions itself as a film possessed of a thesis – or even two (the effect of a pun only available in English). The film's English title not only signals a kinship with  Akerman's  earlier  News from Home  (1976), but also introduces a double thesis on the film itself: this will not be a 'home movie'; this will be a film about (having) 'no home'. The definition of the 'essay film' is contested, but a film that advances a thesis seems suited to this category ( Rascaroli , 2009: 10). Yet what if that thesis is incompatible with its own confident expression? For other scholars, indeterminacy is precisely what defines the essayistic mode of film-making, where 'neither […] subject nor […] object anchors discourse', which is only provisionally fixed ( Renov  2004: 70). Essay films become identifiable through the presence of an 'essayistic subjectivity' (Corrigan, 2011: 30), itself decentred and faltering. This paper will offer a reading of  No Home Movie , arguing that indeterminacy and faltering subjectivity lie at its very core. A film about fragility (physical and mental) and finitude,  No Home Movie  is, despite appearances, less concerned with recording the film-maker's domestic life with her mother for posterity (as a 'home movie' might) than with exploring experiences of  Akerman's  own belonging and not belonging, often using the body as a channel for these. Representations of the embodied film-maker and a frequently geometrically over-determined  mise - en -scene  of the body of her mother recur, drawing out paradoxes of distance and proximity (including those generated by Skype). The instabilities of  Akerman's  subjectivity themselves preclude their own articulation otherwise than provisionally, through the body.


Micro-mobility services have gained popularity in the last years, becoming a relevant part of the transportation network in a plethora of cities. This has given rise to a fruitful research area, covering from the impact and relationships of these transportation modes with preexisting ones to the different ways for estimating the demand of such services in order to guarantee the quality of service. Within this domain, docked bike sharing systems constitute an interesting surrogate for understanding the mobility of the whole city, as origin-destination matrices can be obtained straightforward from the information available at the docking stations. This work elaborates on the characterization of such origin-destination matrices, providing an essential set of insights on how to estimate their behavior in the long-term. To do so, the main non-mobility features that affect mobility are studied and used to train different machine learning algorithms to produce viable mobility patterns. The case study performed over real data captured by the bike sharing system of Bilbao (Spain) reveals that, by virtue of a properly selected set of features and the adoption of specialized modeling algorithms, reliable long-term estimations of such origin-destination matrices can be effectively achieved.


Angiokeratomas of the vulva are rare, benign tumors that present mostly on the labia majora. This is the first case report presenting a patient with this type of neoplasia, after radical hysterectomy and radiotherapy. Possible mechanisms for its pathogenesis could be increased venous pressure resulting from a hysterectomy or the loss of elastic tissue around the vessels from radiation, resulting in the formation of telangiectasias. Angiokeratomas should be included in the differential diagnosis of vulvar tumors in all women who have been treated for a lower genital tract malignancy.


In order to study relation between mast cells and eosinophils we observed the two types of cells in small intestine of rats of differentages under TEM. The result shows that the two types of cells exist isolatedly in the age group of before 20 days. The two types of cells come closely in pairs sometimes their processes contact in the age group of 8 weeks. In the groups six month or more than one year the two types of cells become closely. the condition is that the phenomenon that mast cells and eosinophils exist in pairs with age in small intestine of rats. And relation bwtween the two types of cells becomes closer.


Anionic water-borne polyurethane(WPU) was prepared by pre-polymer dispersion method based on poly propylene glycol(PPG),toluene diisocyanate(TDI),2,2-dimethylolpropionic acid(DMPA) as main raw materials.Effects of such factors of the adding amount and methods of acetone,the methods of adding water and adding raw materials,R,the adding content and methods of DMPA etc.on properties and preparation of WPU were investigated.The results showed:the reaction time can be shortened to 5 h by many times adding the acetone to 30 mL;a success rate of the preparation reached 100 % and the emulsion performance was excellent;the stability of the experiment by two-step method is high;experimental result was the best with water slowly added twice in 30s;R,the adding content and methods of DMPA have affects on performance of the emulsion.


The Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is the administrative home of a nationally recognized educational outreach program in the health sciences for K–12 teachers (includes school nurses, counselors, etc.) and students. This program is called the Partners in Health Sciences (PIHS) program. It began in the summer of 1991 and is based on an annual needs assessment of the state's teachers. PIHS is a program available to all teachers and students in the state. It has several different components: (1) a cafeteria of 21 days of mini‐courses offered in the summer to meet the professional development needs of K–12 biology/health teachers and other school personnel; (2) weekly, interactive telecommunication broadcasts for students during the academic year; (3) intensive, 5‐day workshops that train five selected teachers at a time (10 per year) to use an authoring software program to develop grade‐appropriate interactive, computer‐assisted, instructional (CAI) modules for Internet (http://k14education.uams.edu) use by teachers and students; (4) a monthly science night for students and their parents at a local science magnet high school; (5) field trips to the UAMS campus for teachers and their students; (6) community‐requested presentations by program faculty; and (7) availability of earning undergraduate and graduate credit for science education majors in the College of Education, University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The data presented in this report span the period from 1991 through 2001. For all program activities, 14,084 different participants have consumed a total of 50,029 hours of education. Anat Rec (New Anat) 269:181–193, 2002. © 2002 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


The properties of the curved vortex lattice near an uniaxial anisotropic superconducting planar surface are studied. The distributions of the fields inside and outside the sample as well as the current density are calculated. Using the current density, the forces on the vortex segments are completely determined. Moreover, the Gibbs free energy of the system is calculated. In the isotropic limit an agreement with the previous results is found.


single motorunit recordings were usedtostudy theaxonal refractoryperiod of28accessorynerve innervated motorunits inyoung normalsubjects and10 reinnervated motorunits inelderly subjects. Therefractory period was measured after a conditioning antidromic propagated nerve impulse andafter a conditioning electrical nerve stimulus delivered through thesame electrode astheteststimulus. Therefractory period after a propagatedimpulse was 1-83+ 0*26ms whenteststimulus strength was 10% abovetheaxonal threshold atrestand0-88+ 0-26ms whenteststimulus strength was 100%abovethreshold. Corresponding dataafter an electrical stimulus were 2.38+ 0O32 ms and1*28+ 0-22ms.The difference betweenthemethods was partially duetotheeffect ofstimulus spread whenthe refractory period was measured after an antidromic propagated nerve impulse. Different properties ofthenervefibre membraneandthesurrounding tissues after a propagated nerveimpulse andafter an electrical stimulus might also contribute. Forfurther studies ofmotorunit pathology bothmethods seem equally reliable whenproper normal data areavailable. Inanimal experiments therefractory period ofa single nervefibre ismeasured bydelivering aconditioning andatesting electrical stimulus through the sameelectrode tothenervefibre anddetermining theexcitability changes after thefirst, conditioning, stimulus.' Inmanthis technique hasbeenapplied to wholenervetrunkscontaining different fibre types.2 I Tomeasure therefractory period ofmotor nervefibres, electromyographic recordings are required anda blocking impulse isnecessary to avoidtheoverlapping oftherecorded, compound muscle action potentials, asdescribed byKimura.4 Inaprevious study ofsingle alpha motoraxonsin man theaxonal refractory period wasdetermined after anantidromic propagated nerveimpulse.5 The aimofthatstudy wastodetermine howtocorrect fortherefractory period whenantidromic propagated nerveimpulses areusedtomeasure theconduction velocity spectrumofperipheral motor nerves inmanasdescribed byHopf.' Inthepresent study theaxonal refractory period wasdetermined forsingle short toeextensor motor units bothafter aconditioning antidromic propagatedimpulse andafter a conditioning electrical


Abstract The influence of solvents and catalysts on the formation of soluble and insoluble polymer during cationic polymerization of 2,5-dimethyl-l,5-hexadiene was studied. In nonpolar medium (n-heptane or without solvent) the amount of the insoluble part is dependent on the catalyst used and increases as follows: BF3 ≪ AlBr3 < TiCl4. Especially soluble polymers are obtained in a solution of methylene chloride or in a mixture of methylene chloride-nitrobenzene. The temperature range studied, -30° to -78°, did not show any important influence on the polymer composition. It was found that the bulky anion of the initiator and the polarity of the medium considerably influenced cyclization during intra-intermolecular propagation of the polymer chain.


Inasmuch as between 70 to 75 per cent of malignant lesions of the colon occur in the rectum and rectosigmoid, within reach of the finger, it is important that one who treats these lesions should be familiar with various technical procedures of a surgical nature. From the surgical standpoint, there are many methods and it is important to the patient that the proper one be selected for each individual case. Each patient presents indications which aid in the selection of the method. It is usually not one single factor but the group picture made up by a number of controlling factors that governs the final selection. Aside from the local condition of the growth, such as extension and fixation, it is not one factor alone, such as age or obesity, but the general condition of the patient which will determine the best individual procedure.


The log-law for the turbulent flow in a smooth pipe is written as: With uT determined from the pressure drop along the pipe, the measured velocity distribution can readily be used to determine values of K and B. Alternatively, the power-law variation is written as: involving again two constants, to be similarly determined.


Gender-bias exists in proteolipid protein (PLP) 139-151-induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) in that both male and female SJL mice develop disease but only females show chronic relapses and their underlying mechanisms are unknown. It has been shown that the reactive oxygen species (ROS) play a role in the mediation of autoimmune diseases, but the recent evidence suggests that ROS can suppress autoimmune responses. We hypothesize that T cell-derived ROS are critical to the maintenance of self-tolerance and favor developing resistance to autoimmunity in male mice. To address this hypothesis, we used PLP 139-151-specific T cell receptor (5B6) transgenic (tg) mice and measured ROS production in activated 5B6 T cells by flow cytometry using CM-H2DCFDA as an ROS indicator. Unexpectedly, we found that T cells from female mice produced two fold more ROS when compared to males. We verified these differences by evaluating mRNA expression of oxidative and anti-oxidative defense genes in 5B6 tg T cells and PLP 139-151-specific T cells sorted from immunized wild type (wt) SJL mice by using PLP 139-151 tetramers. TaqMan PCR analysis revealed that interleukin-22 mRNA, a cytokine implicated in ROS metabolism and EAE pathogenesis was increased by three fold in T cells obtained from tg or wt female mice. The data suggests that sex steroids and T cell-derived cytokines have a role in the maintenance of redox homeostasis in autoreactive T cells and T cell tolerance.


In his Preface to Arthur Hallam's Remains, Henry Hallam sums up in a single sentence the 'Essay on the Philosophical Writings of Cicero' that his son wrote in 1831: 'This essay is perhaps too excursive from the prescribed subject' (Hallam, 1834, xviii). This is the sort of tactful but pointed criticism that typifies Hallam senior's assessments of his son's writing, and, in this case, it would be hard to disagree with him. One of Arthur's many excursions in the essay involves the 'metaphysical analysis' which his friend James Spedding, in the same Preface, claims to have been 'his chief pleasure and strength' (Hallam, 1834, xxii). He comments:


Driver gene selection is crucial to understand the heterogeneous system of cancer. To identity cancer driver genes, various statistical strategies have been proposed, especially the L1-type regularization methods have drawn a large amount of attention. However, the statistical approaches have been developed purely from algorithmic and statistical point, and the existing studies have applied the statistical approaches to genomic data analysis without consideration of biological knowledge. We consider a statistical strategy incorporating biological knowledge to identify cancer driver gene. The alterations of copy number have been considered to driver cancer pathogenesis processes, and the region of strong interaction of copy number alterations and expression levels was known as a tumorrelated symptom. We incorporate the influence of copy number alterations on expression levels to Human Genome Center


The dependence of a variation of physico-chemical properties of aquahydroxo complexes on a number of metal atoms and the opportunity of a participation of such cluster groups in the reaction of polycondensation and heteroepitaxial synthesis are discussed.


Objective A field study was carried out in a restaurant in the south of China to investigate the blood sources affected Japanese encephalitis(JE)vectors Culex tritaeniorhynchus and Cx.pipiens quinquefasciatus indoor abundance. Methods Vector density was investigated by human-leg capture technique. Results In the dinning room adjacent to deer blood resource, Cx.tritaeniorhynchus was the dominant specie(74.80% of total number)and the minor vector was Cx.pipiens quinquefasciatus (21.14%). However, in the restroom where the mosquitoes could only access to human blood, Cx.pipiens quinquefasciatus accounted for 60.28% and that of Cx.tritaeniorhynchus was 36.62%(n=845). The density of Cx.tritaeniorhynchus in restroom was higher than that in the dinning room(df=1, χ2=5.32,P0.05, n=676). However, the density of Cx.pipiens quinquefasciatus in the dinning room was higher than that in the restroom(df=1, χ2=268.45,P0.001, n=611). Conclusion The results showed that the blood resources influenced the JE vector spatial abundance. The abundance of Cx.tritaeniorhynchus or Cx.pipiens quinquefasciatus was affected by the animal blood or the human blood.


In this communication, a short summary is given of results obtained by our research group in the fields of surface science and nanoscience, thus visualizing a path from surface science to nanoscience. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


A screening device of a screen is cleaned by blowing a pressure medium, at least at intervals, through the screening device in a direction opposite to the direction of a fine material passing through the screening device. The particle size of the material is at least smaller than the size of the openings of the screening device. Cleaning of a screening device (2), of a screen, comprising openings for the separation of particles of different sizes into fine material and coarse material; an actuator for moving the screening device; a first conveyor (4) for guiding the material to be screened to the screening device; a second conveyor (8) for moving the fine material that has passed through the screening device; and a mechanism (9) for guiding the separated coarse material away from the screen, comprises blowing pressure medium, at least at intervals, through the screening device in a direction opposite to the direction of the fine material passing through the screening device. The particle size of the material is at least smaller than the size of the openings of the screening device. An Independent claim is included for an arrangement for cleaning the screening device of a screen, comprising the screening device above; and a blower.


We consider a problem of the definition of no free lunch (NFL) condition in the family of models describing the market by means of cash flows, see [3], [4], [7]. Each investment strategy is represented by cashflows that it generates. The market is given as a positive convex cone of such investment strategies. We use a generalization of Kreps-Yan theorem given in [4] to obtain an equivalent characterization of NFL: existence of a discount for the market such that the expected discounted payoff of all investments is non-positive. We give an example of a pair of normed spaces in natural duality that satisfy assumptions of Kreps-Yan theorem ‐ the norm topology is easier to work with (eg. topological closure and sequential closure are identical). The topology chosen for the space of all investment strategies plays a crucial role in the definition of NFL, i.e. decides of the quality of the model. We characterize minimal requirements for "good models" and provide examples that satisfy these requirements and assumptions of Kreps-Yan theorem.


1,2,3,4,5 Final year civil engineering students, CCET Valanchery, Kerala, India, 6Assistant Professor, Dept. of civil engineering, CCET Valanchery, Kerala, India. ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract – Red mud generated out of Bayer's process for alumina production from Bauxite is a high volume solid waste. Red mud does not affect the cement properties and improves the cement quality. The aim of this paper is to investigate the possibility of partially replacing cement with red mud and also to find the compressive strength. From the test result the compressive strength of red mud is found to be greater than conventional concrete up to 10%. But beyond 10% the value starts decreasing. Use of this waste material in concrete is cost effective and environment friendly way to disposal of waste.


Software Engineering is a branch of computer Science which is used for delivering an efficient and reliable product based on the customer's requirements. Software testing is one of the strategies for identifying the correctness of a program. The conflict arises when a bug is found even after completion of testing. This approach is known as Oracle Problem. A Metamorphic testing (MT) is one of the methods proposed by Chen in 1998 for making the Oracle problem less severe. This MT creates follow-up test cases and compares the output with the original output. If there is no error between the outputs then the test case is correct. If any fault exists between the outputs then a bug is identified and it shows that there is a fault in the given test case. This paper presents survey on metamorphic testing which is applied on various domains in computer science, related applications, and research challenges. Keywords— Software testing, Metamorphic Testing, Software Engineering, Oracle problem


Acoustic rainbow trapping (ART) metamaterials offer spatial-spectral modulation and intensive trapping of broadband sound, with strong acoustic dispersion that is absent in naturally occurring materials. However, thermal and viscous losses stemming from the acoustic boundary layers within narrow resonance regions of ART metamaterials has not been thoroughly studied and effectively utilized. Here, we would like to propose a lossy model of ART metamaterials. By taking advantage of the thermal and viscous losses, such lossy metamaterials can effectively work as a broadband sound absorber. A rigid surface perforated with very narrow subwavelength holes that can provide boundary-layer losses and have gradient depth along the propagation direction is constructed to mimic the lossy ART model. Full wave numerical simulation results indicate that the system's thermal and viscous losses are governed by the geometry of the resonance unit cells. Together with the intrinsic trapping effect, this lossy ART metamaterial...


A polyhedral mesh fulfills the Delaunay condition if the vertices of each polyhedron are co-spherical and each polyhedron circumsphere is point-free. If Delaunay tessellations are used together with the finite volume method, it is not necessary to partition each polyhedron into tetrahedra; co-spherical elements can be used as final elements. This paper presents a mixed-element mesh generator based on the modified octree approach that has been adapted to generate polyhedral Delaunay meshes. The main difference with its predecessor is to include a new algorithm to compute Delaunay tessellations for each 1-irregular cuboids (cuboids with at most one Steiner point on their edges) that minimize the number of mesh elements. In particular, we show that when Steiner points are located at edge midpoints, 24 different co-spherical elements can appear while tessellating 1-irregular cubes. By inserting internal faces and edges to these new elements, this number can be reduced to 13. When 1-irregular cuboids with aspect ratio equal to √ 2 are tessellated, 10 co-spherical elements are required. If 1-irregular cuboids have aspect ratio between 1 and √ 2, all the tessellations are adequate for the finite volume method. The proposed algorithm can be applied to any point set to compute the Delaunay tessellation inside the convex hull of the point set. Simple polyhedral Delaunay meshes generated by using the adapted mesh generator are shown. c © 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Peer-review under responsibility of organizing committee of the 23rd International Meshing Roundtable (IMR23).


In the twenty-five years since the Civil Rights Act was passed, the laws outlawing discrimination and promoting affirmative action have been extended and strengthened, the educational gap between blacks and whites has narrowed sharply, overt bigotry has ceased to be politically or personally acceptable, and spending on social programs has increased dramatically. Yet the poverty rate among black families has remained consistently more than triple that of white families, so that by 1987, five years into the Reagan expansion, nearly one-third of all black families and nearly one-half of all black children lived below the poverty line. Why? The answer currently in vogue is that demographic changes-particularly the rise in black female-headed households-have offset the overall positive trends in American race relations that would lead one to expect a convergence in the economic experiences of blacks and whites. Reynolds Farley, for example, states that the rise in femaleheaded households "kept the poverty rate high in the 1970s and helps explain why, in a time of racial progress, the income of black families did not catch up with that of whites" [Farley 1984, p. 169]. Indeed, median black family income was 56.1 percent of white family income in


The usage of serious games with AI and immersive technologies in education is considered in the paper. We discussed the development of serious educational games with adaptability and personalization based on recognition of the images, human emotions, speech, and intelligent agents usage for the simulation of "being there" effect of a human opponent, and control of the complexity of game levels and game contents. We investigated some tools for teachers and students to allow the creation of the educational games based on AI and immersive technologies without programming skills existence: Aurora Neverwinter Nights toolset, eCraft2Learn tool with visual programming on Snap!, Scratch with AI abilities, Metaverse Studio for AR applications development with computer vision models using Google AI, CoSpaces Edu and EV Toolbox constructors for immersive apps.


NASA's overall sensing, data acquisition, and instrumentation programs are reviewed. The review shows that the trends in advanced sensor technology involve increased use of solid-state sensors, multiapplication sensors, standardized instrumentation, and miniaturized detectors. Examples are given of several new technologies, showing how improvements in sensor operational capability (such as enhanced sensitivity and spectral range) derived from these advances have resulted in relaxed spacecraft stability requirements, mission time savings, and savings in weight, size, and power. The introduction of multiapplication sensors and standardized instrumentation will result in measurement cost reduction and improved compatibility with standardized spacecraft.


OBJECTIVE: The aims of the present study were to (i) determine the presence and concentration of albumin fractions (α1, α2, β, γ), immunoglobulins (IgA, IgG, IgM) and cytokines [interleukin (IL)‐6, IL‐8, granulocyte‐macrophage colony‐stimulating factor (GM‐CSF)] in periovulatory ovarian follicular fluid (FF) of in vitro fertilization (IVF) patients, (ii) examine the relationship between these parameters and the etiology of infertility as well as the IVF outcome and (iii) find out if these parameters in FF could be used as a predictive factor of IVF outcome.


Foreword - D E Orem Health Care Service Organization Trends as We Move Toward the 21st Century The Domain of Nursing Models for Nursing Administration Describing Populations for Purposes of Providing Nursing Services The Processes of Administration Design as a Function of the Nursing Professional The Clinical Communication System Quality Control Patient Outcomes Quality Control Nursing Standards Fiscal Management and Delivery of Safe, Effective Nursing Utilization of Nursing Personnel Strategies for Theory-Based Nursing Ensuring the Provision of Nursing in the Future A Summation


Summary Pollination treatments were carried out on highly inbred lines of winter beans over a period of four years. Tripping produced an inferior seed-set compared with all treatments involving emasculation and hand pollination with either cross or self-pollen. It is suggested that with highly inbred lines the stigmatic surface requires some form of scarification to improve the seed-set. Most lines showed no preference for cross or self-pollen, and there was no evidence of self-incompatibility. Bud and mature flower pollination gave an improved seed-set over tripping in all lines. One inbred line gave a high seed-set in all pollination treatments. Results from another line were consistent with a short period of ovule receptiveness. Using data obtained from three experiments, two self-pollination treatments were used to screen breeding lines for their suitability as components of synthetic varieties. Significant differences in seed-set were found between the lines.


Since 2011, the National Ministry of Education, in conjunction with their strategically partner: Corporacion RENATA (the national research network), a group of experts in educational resources and the Higher Education Institutions, was be coming forward a set of efforts that are joined into the national strategy raised from the book: Recursos Educativos Digitales Abiertos - Colombia (Digital - Open Educational Resources – Colombia). This article will address the issues related to the national commitment and foresight of the main challenges, actions and prospects for the development of the following on this subject. The challenges that demands the unified understandings of the Basic Concepts, the consolidation of an active national community of REDA, the understanding of the metadata issues and this constitutive role in the production, management and use of REDA. Other stages are related with the correlation between the Copyright, the licensing systems and models, and at same time, the Open Access to the knowledge and likewise the understanding of the different variables that turns around the different themes related with the REDA. Especially those that aim to improve the quality semantic, thematic content, which are visible in the REDA lifecycle and are likewise expressed in the established mechanism for assessing the Digital - Open Educational Resource (REDA) by part of the institutional communities and the educational users of the national communities in Colombia.


A globally convergent and fully coupled magnetomechanical model for 3D magnetostrictive systems is presented. In magnetostrictive actuators, magnetic field and stress inputs generate magnetic flux density and strain. We refer to models that follow this scheme as direct models (no relation to the direct magnetomechanical effect). In certain design and control situations, inverse models are necessary in which the magnetic field and stress are found from specified magnetic flux density and strains. This inversion typically involves an iterative procedure, which may be prone to convergence issues. An inverse model approach is proposed for arbitrary magnetostrictive materials. The inversion requirement is a continuous and second order differentiable direct model for any chosen magnetostrictive material. The approach is globally convergent, which makes it ideal for use in finite element frameworks. The premise of the proposed iterative system model is to constitute a recursive correction formula based on second order approximations of a novel scalar error function which allows to achieve a faster convergence rate. A continuation approach is then used to achieve global convergence for arbitrary input parameters. To illustrate, Galfenol is chosen as the magnetostrictive material, and analytical derivations of the Jacobian and Hessian matrices are presented. Finally, the computational efficiency of the proposed approach is shown to compare favorably against existing models.Copyright © 2014 by ASME


The paper addresses the synthesis of fuzzy controllers for computerized control system of the waste heat energy (WHE) utilization plants that operate with the thermoacoustic engine (TAE). Based on the analysis of existing systems, the authors present the main tasks of the synthesized control system, describe its structure and main components. Created system is then tested on the experimental thermoacoustic installation. Using the data obtained authors synthesize the mathematical model of thermoacoustic plant and describe the methodology of its control by the adjustments in resonator length of thermoacoustic device. Using the suggested approach authors design a number of conventional discrete and fuzzy controllers and provide the comparative analysis of quality indicators of the designed control systems transient responses.


JAK2 exon 12 mutations are seen in about 2-5% of JAK2V617F-negative cases of polycythemia vera (PV). Nowadays about 40 different JAK2 exon 12 mutations associated with PV have been identified and classified. To identify all possible variants, it is necessary to use sequencing. However, due to the high cost of sequencing, developing a two-stage algorithm for detect mutations in JAK2 exon 12 using inexpensive screening is of immediate practically necessity. We have previously proposed a two-stage algorithm for detect mutations in JAK2 exon 12 using inexpensive screening test by heteroduplex analysis (Subbotina T et al, Haematologica 2017). The aim of this study was to demonstrate the feasibility of HRM analysis using the CFX96 thermocycler and the Precision Melt Analysis software (Bio-Rad, USA) as the preliminary screening test for detection of JAK2 exon 12 study. The identification of the exon 12 mutation types and allele burden measurement was carried out by All 5 patients have different mutation variant in the 12 exon of the JAK2 and different levels of


HVAC air exchange with exposed ductwork; The Natural Science Building holds lab classrooms, a planetarium and faculty offices. The building consolidates all the department laboratories for the campus, including biology, chemistry, specialized instrumentation, anatomy, physics, geology and astronomy. An impressive collection of Arizona native plants found throughout the landscape not only enhance the outdoors, but are also are used in coursework. The multicolored anodized aluminum cladding is meant to reference a basket weaving pattern of the local Indian community. A series of lab pavilions are organized around a series of interconnecting courtyards. Each of the internal courts and the four corners of the building are active demonstration areas, including exemplars of geographic formations, flora and fauna and use of water relative to each of the distinct biomes in the Sonoran southwest. Shaded exterior walks thread through the sequence of courtyards. Source: Richard + Bauer Architecture [firm website]; http://www.richard-bauer.com/ (accessed 8/14/2015)


Accepted widely by psychologists and educators and applied in a variety of ways in educational fields, the theory of multiple intelligences proposes a different understanding of intelligence. Howard Gardner has defined intelligence as the capacity to solve problems or to fashion products that are valued in one or more cultural settings. Based on his definition of intelligence, Gardner has described various intelligences through which individuals learn and teach information. The theory of multiple intelligences has strong implications for Christian education. This paper has attempted to provide a brief review of multiple intelligences connected with Gardner's theory and its implications for Christian teaching and the learning process.


Byline: Savita. Malhotra Dr. Reddy, President IPS and Chairman of this session, all my friends and colleagues in the IPS, ladies and gentlemen, it is indeed a great privilege and pleasure for me to be chosen for the DLN Murthy Rao Oration Award for 2007. I am highly thankful to the IPS for this honour which is also its highest award. The topic for the oration "Acute and Transient Psychosis: A Paradigmatic Approach" has been selected for two reasons. First, this has been the subject of my research since the 1980s and second, because the subject poses a major challenge to psychiatrists in India and the developing world for insights, as the acute and transient psychosis (ATP), being more common in these countries, lends the best opportunity to them for further research. Research on ATP in India has made a significant contribution and this is one area where Indian research has made a mark at the international level. ATPs provide a paradigm for study of psychoses that are neither schizophrenic nor affective, thus opening newer vistas in the nature and classification of major psychotic disorders known in clinical practice. Acute and transient psychosis as a descriptive entity was recognized only recently with the advent of ICD-10[sup] [1] in 1992, where it is included under psychotic disorder (F23) as a three-digit code. The key features that characterize the disorder are an acute (within 2 weeks) onset in all the cases; presence of typical syndromes which are described as rapidly changing, variable, polymorphic states and typical schizophrenic symptoms; evidence for associated acute stress in a substantial number of cases and complete recovery in most cases within 2-3 months. Apart from these diagnostic criteria, ICD-10[sup] [1] also provides diagnostic guidelines which include: *Not meeting the criteria for manic or depressive episodes although affective symptoms may be prominent. *Absence of organic causation although perplexity, confusion and inattention may be present. *Absence of obvious intoxication by drugs or alcohol. It is evident that the ICD-10[sup] [1] intends to clearly differentiate the concept of ATP from those of affective psychoses, organic psychoses and drug-induced psychoses. It is also mentioned, however, that the "nomenclature of these acute disorders is as uncertain as their nosological status.. "Psychotic disorder" is used as a term of convenience." The fact remains that systematic clinical information that would guide the classification of acute psychotic states is not yet available" (ICD-10). Nevertheless, four subtypes are described in ICD-10, which are represented on the fourth digit, i.e., F 23.0 Acute polymorphic psychotic disorder without symptoms of schizophrenia. F 23.1 Acute polymorphic psychotic disorder with symptoms of schizophrenia. F 23.2 Acute schizophrenia-like psychotic disorder. F 23.3 Acute predominantly delusional psychotic disorders. In the end, there are Other (F 23.8) and Unspecified categories (F 23.9) of acute psychoses. There is provision for coding the presence or absence of stress on the fifth digit. Time limits and transitions from one disorder to another have been included to make ad hoc or post hoc diagnosis of ATP as the duration criterion is an important factor. Overall, duration of the total episode should not exceed 3 months and that for schizophrenic symptoms should not exceed 1 month. There is provision for change of diagnosis to schizophrenia in case the duration of symptoms exceeds these limits. ATP: A Nosological Challenge ATP is a new entrant to psychiatric nosology and ICD-10 concept of ATP has limited validity. While knowledge is the basis of nosology and classification, nosology facilitates research and further generation of knowledge. Classification is the process by which complexity of phenomena is reduced by arranging them into categories according to some established criteria for one or more purposes. …


Abstract How has the Great Recession changed what we know about dependent market economies (DME) in Eastern Europe? To answer that question this paper looks at the case of Romania's version of the DME and captures both understudied forms of dependence and emerging interdependence dynamics that the existing literature on dependence has hitherto neglected. Specifically, the literature does not analyse the role of transnational banks in forging a politicised public–private form of sovereign debt crisis governance. Second, the inattention of the literature to the supply side of the labour market leads to the neglect of migration as a critical factor shaping state, multinational corporation and corporate strategies. Third, the analysis highlights the centrality of industrial policy in a Janus-faced process in which neoliberal competition state has to cohabit with an incipient, wobbly but nevertheless real neo-developmentalist entrepreneurial state.


In a multiple testing context, we consider a semiparametric mixture model with two components. One component is assumed to be known and corresponds to the distribution of p-values under the null hypothesis with prior probability p. The other component f is nonparametric and stands for the distribution under the alternative hypothesis. The problem of estimating the parameters p and f of the model appears from the false discovery rate control procedures. In the first part of this dissertation, we study the estimation of the proportion p. We discuss asymptotic efficiency results and establish that two different cases occur whether f vanishes on a non-empty interval or not. In the first case, we exhibit estimators converging at parametric rate, compute the optimal asymptotic variance and conjecture that no estimator is asymptotically efficient (i.e. attains the optimal asymptotic variance). In the second case, we prove that the quadratic risk of any estimator does not converge at parametric rate. In the second part of the dissertation, we focus on the estimation of the nonparametric unknown component f in the mixture, relying on a preliminary estimator of p. We propose and study the asymptotic properties of two different estimators for this unknown component. The first estimator is a randomly weighted kernel estimator. We establish an upper bound for its pointwise quadratic risk, exhibiting the classical nonparametric rate of convergence over a class of Holder densities. The second estimator is a maximum smoothed likelihood estimator. It is computed through an iterative algorithm, for which we establish a descent property. In addition, these estimators are used in a multiple testing procedure in order to estimate the local false discovery rate.


The purpose of this lecture is for us to develop the real number system. This might seem like a very strange thing for us to be doing. It must seem to you that you have been studying real numbers most of your life. However, some introspection is likely to reveal that not everything you have been told about the real numbers is entirely believable. (As an example, a recent 7th grade textbook explains that to add and multiply rational numbers, you should follow a set of rules you have been given. To add and multiply reals, you should plug them into your calculator.) Because the real numbers will be the central focus of inquiry in this course, we will take this moment to specify exactly what they are. The central tenet of mathematics is that one must always tell the truth, and one can't be sure that one is doing this about real numbers, unless one is sure exactly what they are. There is more than one possible approach to doing this. Most mathematicians' treatment of this (see Apostol's book, or Dinakar Ramakrishnan's notes) focus on what one expects to do with real numbers. One is given a set of axioms to cover this. It should be possible to perform basic arithmetic on the reals (the field axioms), there should be a way of comparing the size of two real numbers (the total ordering axiom) and a lot of limits should exist (the least upper bound property). After one has written down these axioms, one is a good position to start proving theorems about the real numbers. But one might be quite confused about what is going on? Are these really the same real numbers I've always heard about? Are the real numbers the only set of numbers satisfying these axioms? What are individual real numbers like? It is possible with some work to proceed from these axioms to answer that question, but the work is non-trivial. We will take a slightly different approach. We will describe the real numbers in much the way they were described to you in grade school, as decimal expansions. (Mathematicians tend not to like this because there are arbitrary choices like the choice of the base ten.) Then because we'd like to use the real numbers, we will check that they satisfy the axioms allowing us to order them, take limits, and do arithmetic. …


A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This issue focuses on: 1. Agnes Okoh. 2. Self-Sacrificial Christian Pioneers of Uganda. 3. Apolo Kivebulaya. 4. Njangalia. 5. Spetume Florence. 6. Luwum. 7. Janani Jakaliya. 8. Anglican Church in Uganda. 9. Lamin Sanneh.


This book reports on the findings of a three-year research project carried out in New Zealand. It documents the teacher development process for a group of science teachers that took part in the `Learning in Science project'. A main focus of this project was to make teachers use new teaching activities to take into account students' thinking, constructivist views of learning and alternative conceptions. The model of teacher development described in the book consists of an interrelated process of social, personal and professional development. It is based on a (mainly) social constructivist view of learning as teacher development. This choice is extensively discussed. Two research findings that informed the model as well as the view of learning are presented as `feeling better about myself as a teacher' and as `better learning'. Both are factors that helped teacher development to take place, the first meaning that teachers reported that they were `more like the teachers they would like to be' and that `they felt better about themselves as teachers' as a result of changing their teaching activities. The second factor means that, in their opinion, `better learning' occurred during their lessons. Feedback, support and reflection are reported as important mechanisms to let development occur. One aspect of the personal development that is part of teacher development is the managing of feelings associated with changing classroom activities and beliefs about science education. Data from the research project related to this aspect are reported. A particular activity that turned out to be effective for teacher development was the use of anecdotes. Finally, teacher development is discussed within a broader contemporary theoretical context. This book reports, without doubt, about an interesting and important project: how to change science classrooms so that better learning may take place. If this problem has a solution, science teachers are certainly at the heart of it, as well as the question of how to enable them to do so. So, the question of science teacher development certainly needs careful consideration and this book reports many relevant insights. Having said this, I also felt some disappointment after having read it. The book describes a rather general model of teacher development, related to rather general theoretical considerations about constructivist views of learning and, in my opinion, to a typically British piece of intellectual policy-context discussion that does not really fit in with the project description. This may make the book interesting reading for researchers in education, but the science educator and science teacher trainer, let alone the science teacher, would have been better served, I think, by a more detailed description of what has been done in the project itself: which science teaching activities and science teacher development activities lead to which better science learning and to which science teacher development and why. By not reporting the practice on which the theory is built, at least not in this book, the putting into practice of that theory by others becomes an unnecessarily difficult task. The more so as it is not at all self-evident what practices may be implied by too frequently used terms like `(re)constructing' and `constructivism'.


Objective:To investigate the transfection efficiency and cell cytotoxicity of hydrophobically modified cationic polymer SP-Chol which is systhesized by using spermine as monomer,ethylenebis(chloroformate) as coupling agent and cholesterol chlorofor-mate as hydrophobic coupling agent.Methods:Luciferase plasmid was used as the reporter gene to investigate transfection efficiency on COS-7 cells.Cytotoxicity was detected by MTT method.Results:COS-7 cells transfection and cytotoxicity results suggested that SP-Chol was less cytotoxic than PEI 25kDa,and had a high transfection efficiency.Conclusion:SP-Chol is a highly efficient and less tox-ic non-viral gene delivery vector which has potential application in gene therapy.


An important part of the work carried out in the present thesis is based on the developement and application of the scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM). By means of this technique, surfaces coated with different electroactive materials developed by our research group, were analyzed. The electroactive materials are synthesized on different substrates in order to get working electrodes for the electrochemical treatment of wastewater polluted with azo dyes from dyeing processes in textile industries. Among the modified surfaces with electroactive materials are included:


Two crops of rice can be cultured each year in Taiwan. The yield of the second rice crop is, on average, 25% lower than that of the first crop. Climatic constraints such as extreme temperatures, lower solar radiation, monsoons, and heavy rainfall, are the main factors causing the yield loss. Chilling injury at the seedling nursery stage and prolonged mei-yu at the reproductive stage frequently impair the growth and development of the first rice crop and hence influence yield performance. For the second rice crop, high temperatures during the early growth phase of the rice plants shortens the vegetative growth duration and consequently results in lower tiller numbers and biomass production. The occurrence of typhoons and the associated heavy rainfall can also cause significant damage to the crop. In addition, low temperature and low solar radiation after heading adversely affect the performance of seed-settling and 1, 000-grain weight, especially in the central and northern parts of Taiwan. For improvement, it is suggested new cultivars suitable for growth under the stress conditions be developed, and the cultural practices be improved to overcome the impacts caused by unfavorable climatic constraints.


Cholera is an acute, diarrheal disease caused by Vibrio cholerae O1 or 139 that is associated with a high global burden. While it is accepted that natural immunity against cholera infection exists, no clear correlate of protection has been identified. In this review, we identify the estimated duration of immunity following cholera infection with and without clinical symptoms from available published studies. We searched Pubmed and Web of Science for studies examining the long-term infection-acquired immunity against cholera infection. We identified 22 eligible studies that included individuals residing primarily in Bangladesh and North America. % We observed the duration of immunity is estimated to last the longest in observational studies than in challenge studies, with serologic evidence of various potential correlates of protection becoming undetectable by one year. Although with small sample sizes, three studies found that most participants with a subclinical infection from an initial challenge with cholera had a symptomatic infection when rechallenged with a homologous biotype, suggesting that a subclinical cholera infection may confer lower protection than a clinical one. We identified the longest duration of immunity recorded by observational and challenge studies to be three years, but all the serological studies showed that various potential correlates of protection became undetectable by one year.


A direct adaptive control theory to control the onshore wind turbine in partial loading operation and offshore wind turbine in full loading operation is presented in this paper. Adaptive controllers are designed based on the proposed theory and then implemented to 5 MW FAST wind turbine models.


Subarachnoid hemorrhage secondary to aneurysm rupture is still nowadays a devastating disease, in spite of advences of medical science. Mortality remains about 50% in the initial event, and less than 30% of survivor recover to their previous level. Aneurysms that had not bled, or gade "0", represent a challenge to neurosurgeons. The authors present a series of 26 patients with grade "0" aneurysms operated on in a six years period, with no mortality and a very low morbidity. An analisys of the cases and a bibliographic revision is made, concluding that these aneurysms must be treated, for the surgical risks are lower than the disease itself, and also lower than those of the endovascular therapy. It is believed that the advances en the diagnosis and treatment of these vascular malformations, will reduce the high morbimortality they present after the bleeding.


It has been several years since the Annual Survey of Virginia Law published a comprehensive Health Care Law update. 1 In that time, health care reform has taken center stage on the national level with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and related federal legislation. Here in the Commonwealth, we have seen incremental change in the health care law landscape, both in case decisions from the Supreme Court of Virginia impacting medical malpractice jurisprudence, and in a host of reform measures and legislative changes from the General Assembly. It is beyond the scope of this article to detail every change in this complex and fast-changing area of law, but noteworthy developments are highlighted here in an effort to inform the health law practitioner.


CSR is perceived as an activity undertaken by the company's donations (corporate philanthropy), while widely CSR is essentially a mechanism for integrating social issues and environmental issues into company operations and then communicate with stakeholders (stakeholders). In that sense, CSR is regarded as a new strategic framework to enhance competitiveness and achieve sustainable business. CSR Audit gives an overview of the audit framework for CSR programs. Aspects in the tables were developed based on the definition of CSR that have been formulated, as a: Concerns that companies set aside some of the profits (profit) for the benefit of human development (people) and environmental (planet) in a sustainable manner based on the procedure (procedure) an appropriate and professional. For this reason, in order to improve its CSR activities in accordance with the spirit of the meaning of an effort to fulfill its corporate social responsibility, the disclosure and auditing of CSR activities are very important. For this reason this paper with all its drawbacks tried to explain how the disclosure of CSR in which the related audit report also describes CSR CSR in order to improve the effectiveness of CSR activities. Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR Disclosure and Audit


Information technology is rapidly developing and applied in any field of interest. It can be used as simple to the complex computation. It can also use greatly assisting human performance in managing inventory items. This paper discusses a website-based item inventory system applied in a very remote village in Desa Kusik Batu, West Kalimantan. The research goal is to facilitate the performance of village officials in managing data items, where overall data input is still done manually. The method of this research is using interviews, documentation, and literature studies. The implementation of the system resulted from this research is the following features: user data, all goods data having by the village, incoming goods data, outgoing goods data, avoid physical calculations, asset mutation reports, and goods reports, as well as making goods inventory reports can be easily done. With the existence of a web-based inventory information system website, at the village office of Kusik Batu Lapu, West Kalimantan, can improve the performance of village officials to manage goods data.


The ability to work with 3D images and determine depth information from them is potentially useful across many fields of endeavour. For example, it would be of significant help to surgeons to have endoscopes that gave them a 3D view of the section of the body they were working on. The analysis of surfaces and other structures under a microscope would similarly benefit from knowledge of all three physical dimensions of the sample being examined. 3D also has a significant role to play in navigating flying objects such as drones and in Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality applications, both for serious work or for leisure.


Thyroid dysfunction has been reported in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals including children. Some studies have reported that thyroid dysfunction may be a marker of severity or progression of HIV. HIV infection is associated with multiple organ involvement including the endocrine system. In autopsy studies, adrenal gland is the most commonly involved endocrine gland in the body, but clinical adrenal dysfunction is uncommon, likewise clinical thyroid disorder is rare but altered Thyroid function is common. A high prevalance of abnormalities in thyroid function tests among HIV infected adults has been noted in previous cross sectional studies. In addition, this thyroid dysfunction correlated with advancement of the infection in conjunction with lowering CD4 cell counts. Subtle alterations in thyroid function tests are more common in HIV infection and at times detectable in the early phase of disease and as well as in late phases The thyroid function changes are HIV specific and are consistent with an abnormal response to acute illness. However there is paucity of Indian studies that are needed to evaluate the thyroid dysfunction in HIV infected patients and their clinical correlation. Hence this study is undertaken to study the thyroid dysfunction in HIV seropositive patients and correlate with the clinical features --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date of Submission: 06-05-2019 Date of acceptance: 20-05-2019 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


According to some features and limitations of the old system,and combining the application of Ethernet technology in substation automation system,the plan of how to upgrade the old substation automation system.is proposed Taking the actual upgrading and reconstruction project as an example,this paper introduces the implementation of SE5116 type serial communication server of Atop company which is adopted by the Old SAS.


Objective To investigate the mental health status and personality character of patients with pectus excavatum,to supply important basis of comprehensive treatment scheme of Biopsychosocial.Methods The data extracted from 195 voluntary patients by sixteen personality factor questionnaire(16PF) effectively in department of thoracic surgery of our hospital between 2009 to 2011,and it was compared with Chinese norm for adults.Results There were significant differences in average raw score of dominance,abstractedness,vigilance,rule-consciousness,liveliness,openness to change between male patients and Chinese norm(P 0.05 or P 0.01),and in warmth,abstractedness,vigilance,rule-Consciousness,liveliness,openness to change between female ones and norm(P 0.05 or P 0.01).Conclusion The level of psychosomatic health of patients with pectus excavatum is worse than those of healthy people,and their personality character is obvious.So it is important for the patients making psychological test before and after the operation to develop a reasonable treatment.


SMEs' difficulties in financing have always been an important factor limiting their development in China,and "credit guarantee difficulty" is one of the most important reasons that lead to the difficulties of financing. At this stage,an in-depth understanding of our credit guarantee situation of SMEs and its existing problems, as well as the appropriate policy support,has become one of the government's top priorities.This paper uses the data based on the questionnaires from SMEs in Zaozhuang(Shandong Province),and studies their financing situations with standard statistical methods,and proposes relevant policy suggestions.The conclusion could help promote the development of China's credit guarantee industry,and help our government to make polices that support SMEs and solve their financing problems.


This paper employs transcript coding research of lesson structure. This coding system was modified by the Japan researcher Shimizu based on the earlier coding edition of TIMSS. It divides lesson structure into 13 sub-codes, which are: 1.reviewing the previous lesson, 2.checking homework, 3.presenting the topic, 4.formulating the problem for the day, 5.presenting the problems for the day, 6.working on sub-problem, 7.working on the problem individually or in groups, 8.presentation by students, 9.discussing solution methods, 10.practicing, 11.highlighting and summarizing the main point, 12.assigning homework and 13.announcement of the next topic. According to coding analysis, the basic parts of Chinese mathematics lesson structure are: 1. "PP→DS", 2. "PP→WP", 3. "PP→PS", 4. "PP→WS→DS→WS→DS".


[Para. 1 of Summary] How to make brain imaging more cost-effective and convenient? In the Department of Physics, Ryerson researchers, under the supervision of Dr. Vladislav Toronov, have undertaken a series of experiments to test a groundbreaking technological alternative to the traditional MRI.


Fire following the April 24, 1984, Morgan Hill earthquake (M 6.2) was a primary cause of damage in the cities of Morgan Hill and San Jose, California. Delays in telephone dial tones, perceived as telephone outages, resulted in delayed reports of structural fires to fire departments. A fire at a shopping center in San Jose was the largest single loss in the earthquake, totaling approximately $1 million. Multiple non-fire specific incidents which fire departments were called upon to respond to, such as gas investigations, structural damage checks, downed power wires and medical aid, placed additional heavy demand on limited resources.


Transfer pricing of intermediate products is not only a problem of accounting, but also a rather complicated management problem. The author probes into the following aspects of practical problems: Transfer pricing of intermediate products is acted as the enterprises' strategical management instrument; and all the departments have to make out the optimal tranfer pricing for their maximum overall profits based on their own strategy. The author also explores some transfer pricing methods in different situations.


Plastic litter had become world major concerned since 2015 and Indonesia had been placed as the second contributor after China. Around 200,000 metric tons of plastic wastes discharged from Indonesia rivers mainly from Java and Sumatra Islands every year. This surge of waste then become a serious threat to ocean and coastal ecosystem, as well as marine biota conservation in Indonesia. Therefore, it is very important to study the seasonal pattern of marine debris and monitor the dispersion within Indonesian water in near real time. By year 2020, an initiative action has been taken by The Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries of Indonesia. More than 20 drifters were released on 3 selected rivers' mouth in Indonesia namely Cisadane, Bengawan Solo and Musi. Results indicated that marine debris are drifted away, influenced by wind and current from time to time. The simulation will forecast the time and location where the marine debris expected to traverse and stranded in each season. This information will be ve ry important to provide the baseline information of marine debris movement, locally and even beyond of Indonesian. Also, it will improve the mitigation, better coordinative action plan and encouraging further marine debris research in Indonesia.


This paper deals with the measurements of ultrasonic absorption and velocity in diphenyl pentachloride in the liquid‐glass transition region at frequency from 7.5 to 52.5 Mc. Earlier measurements at higher temperatures have shown this liquid to behave as a typical associated liquid with a value of αobs/αshear equal to 3.3. At temperatures below 10°C (viscosities exceeding 107 poise) the normal shear and compressional viscous effects have relaxed and have given rise to a constant term, K1, in the absorption coefficient per cm. In addition this absorption coefficient has a term which varies linearly with frequency. This type of loss has been noted by Mason et al, in highly viscous polymers and is attributed to a hysteresis effect. In this glassy state, therefore, the absorption coefficient per cm(α) can be represented by the following expression, α = K1 + K2f. The frequency independent term K1 decreases exponentially with decreasing temperature. Tentative results indicate that K2, the hysteresis constant al...


: The published literature on the development and investigations into water quality modelling has primarily focused on making better predictions. Few studies have actively reported on model user needs and the implications of these needs on designing and selecting models that are fit-for-purpose. This paper describes the results of a Water Quality Model Needs survey that targeted persons developing or using models for catchment-scale Australian applications (Figure 1). Some 106 survey responses were received and analysed. Suspended sediment, total phosphorus and total nitrogen were highlighted by respondents as the most important constituents for catchment water quality models. The top five important drivers or management options were land use change, flow management, riparian management, climate change and point source control. Tool functionalities such as easy to include additional processes, output reporting, sensitivity analysis, and easy to access, use and learn were consistently identified as the most important features for catchment water quality models.


Emergency nurse practitioners are more accurate than A&E senior house officers in history taking, recording visual acuity, describing ocular anatomy and making provisional diagnoses in people with eye problems.


In order to acquire the temperature distribution of an object with rib-like inner construction, the geometric model of the object is separated from its physical model, which results in an easly and fast modification of the object's geometric model. By introducing a relatively-quoting-defined name, the lengthy formula problem is avoided during the iteratively resolving the linear equations of a complex system. Computations and comparison of the temperature fields are made with the different object constructions. An approximate method is obtained in certain cases.