This work investigates the thermodynamic feasibility of the integration of a cryogenic Air Separation unit (ASU) with a Waste-to-Energy (WtE) power plant in order to enhance the combustion with an oxygen enriched air flow. The main benefit of using oxygen enrichment in an incineration system is represented by the reduction of the sensible heat as the quantity of nitrogen in the flue gas will be decreased. In addition, the possibility to exploit the secondary products of the cryogenic separation as part of Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) system has been considered. To further improve the thermal efficiency and net power output of the waste to energy system, different cycle configurations have been modelled; the thermodynamics and processes of the main units, as well as the waste combustion model, are described in details together with the main assumptions and constraints. The WtE-ASU integrated systems are compared in terms of different performance indices such as thermal efficiency and power output as well as the concentration of pollutant emissions. Moreover, since the benefits of using an oxygen enriched air flow must offset the added cost of oxygen production, the operative and capital cost have been analysed in order to determine whether or not the introduction of ASU is economically advantageous. The results show that, under opportune conditions, the penalty in energy efficiency coming from the integration between the Waste-to-Energy plant and the Air Separation Unit can be compensated, both economically and environmentally, by means of the by-products valorisation.


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The research of liquids composed of two (or more) mutually immiscible components is a new emerging area. These liquids represent new materials, which can be utilized as lubricants, liquid seals or as fluid media in biomechanical devices. The investigation of the problem of immiscible liquids started some years ago and soon it was evident that it will have a great application potential. Recently, there has been an effort to use ferromagnetic or magnetorheological fluids in the construction of dumpers or journal bearings. Their advantage is a significant change in dynamic viscosity depending on magnetic induction. In combination with immiscible liquids, qualitatively new liquids can be developed for future technologies. In our case, immiscible fluids increase the dynamic properties of the journal hydrodynamic bearing. The article focuses on the stability of single-phase and subsequently multiphase flow of liquids in the gap between two concentric cylinders, one of which rotates. The aim of the analysis was to study the effect of viscosity and density on the stability/instability of the flow, which is manifested by Taylor vortices. Methods of experimental and mathematical analysis were used for the analysis in order to verify mathematical models of laminar and turbulent flow of immiscible liquids.


This study discusses about English conversation teaching by pair-work technique for the firts year English majored students. This study uses Classroom Action Research. It can be used to know the improvement of teachers' activity and students' ability after a particular technique applied. The research findings denoted that pair-work technique can attract the students' motivation to take part in language teaching and improve their ability at speaking, It can seen from the improvement of students' activities from cycle one to cycle two  (82,5 % of the students took part in the teaching -learning process or at  level 3,3 ,good category to 91,25% or at the level 3,65, good category in cycle two, and the improvement of their scores  was 7 students (21,9%) got score 70 up in pre cycle, 29 students  (90,6 %) in cycle one and 32 students (100%)  in cycle two. It can be stated that the pair-work technique is appropriate to apply in teaching speaking.


The research on the development of resource declining city is an important issue in the process of new urbanization. With the adjustment of industrial structure and the continuous improvement of people's material needs, there are more and more contradictions in the development of resource declining cities. The lack of endogenous impetus for economic development, the continuous loss of urban population, the disorderly and inefficient expansion of construction land, and the increasingly significant environmental problems have hindered the sustainable development of resource declining cities. In this study, Tongchuan city, Shaanxi province is taken as an example, and combined with multi-source remote sensing data (GF-2 and Landsat-7) in 2010 and 2020 respectively, the urban fringe area was identified. The results show that the urban fringe area of Tongchuan city is mainly composed of industrial and mining storage land, rural residential land and suburban farmland, with significant contradiction between people and land. The governance of the region will become the key to the transformation and development of resource declining cities.


Main problems in the recognition and tracking of water surface targets include the recognition omission or error of small targets, and the bigger tracking error of occluded targets etc., This paper uses an improved YOLO v3 and KCF algorithms to obtain the accurate recognition and real-time tracking of water surface multi-target. Firstly, the water surface targets data set is established and preprocessed; then the improved YOLO v3 network based on Inception module is used to extract and identify the fine feature information of water surface targets. Next, the KCF algorithm is improved by using confidence judgment mechanism to avoid big tracking error for blocked target. Finally, combined with the data association algorithm, improved KCF can complete multi-target tracking. The test results show that the proposed recognition and tracking algorithm can recognize and track multiple targets on water surface and in the air accurately and continuously.


Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a costly disease that impacts millions of lives. Standardized treatment options are essential in this population. A monitoring device which measures the partial pressure of brain tissue oxygenation (PbtO2) has recently been recommended as an adjunct in tailoring therapy. Using a descriptive design, the three aims of this study were to 1) implement new technology; 2a) perform a thorough literature review of PbtO2 to determine physiologic correlates 2b) compare these correlates in a patient data assessment; and 3) develop a treatment algorithm for patients with TBI that included PbtO2 as a variable. Assessment of current protocols at the institution revealed an opportunity to update standards and technology. Findings from the literature review were also relevant when compared with patient data. A treatment algorithm was developed based on the literature and data review for patients with TBI, providing a tool for clinicians treating these patients in the future.


Previous studies on legitimation, multimodality and political discourse by researchers, such as Van Leeuwen, Van Dijk and Mackay, have suggested different but supplementary methods of legitimation analysis by providing a number of analytical frameworks. Multimodal legitimation research, however, seems to be in need of a better conflation of the theoretical backgrounds of disciplines, such as narratology. This article focuses on the multimodal discourse of three political advertisements of the political party New Democracy, filmed for the needs of the Greek legislative election of January 2015. What is investigated is the multimodal means by which New Democracy's president, and Prime Minister at the time, Antonis Samaras attempted to legitimise his candidacy. In this article, I use the six-layer framework proposed by Mackay for multimodal legitimation analyses and I argue that multimodal legitimation research can benefit and get enhanced from the use of narratology and its analytical categories, such as perspective.


With the proliferation of mobile Internet applications, online services become a double-edge sword to our daily life, wherein security and privacy are notable. To ensure data security, service providers may require users to register using real-name data. Thus, verifying the real-name information without privacy leakage is critical. In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving real-name authentication scheme based on a classic blockchain paradigm, named APRNET. By taking advantages of cloud-enabled trusted authorities and bilinear pairing, APRNET verifies users' data in an encrypted form, which guarantees data security and user privacy. Detailed security and performance analysis validate the effectiveness of APRNET.


We use the PLANCK 2018 and the WMAP data to constraint inflation models driven by a scalar field φ in the presence of the non-minimal scalar-curvature mixing term 12 ξRφ 2 . We consider four distinct scalar field potentials φ p e − λφ , (1 − φ p ) e − λφ , (1 − λφ ) p and αφ 2 1+ αφ 2 to study inflation in the non-minimal gravity theory. We calculate the potential slow-roll parameters and predict the scalar spectral index n s and the tensor-to-scalar ratio r , in the parameters ( λ, p, α ) space of the potentials. We have compared our results with the ones existing in the literature, and this indicates the present status of the non-minimal inflation after the release of the PLANCK 2018 data.


In this paper, we propose a novel electronic medical record system (EMR) based on a brand new concept to support doctors' cognition and medical analysis wherever they are. Conventional EMR systems have the advantage of helping doctors easily retrieve and manage mass medical records. On the other hand, medical records have been expected to support doctors' planning. Most conventional EMR systems don't have an appropriate function for such purpose, however. Because of its poor user interface, which is similar to legacy medical records written on paper, they can't help doctors analyze medical data that occurs chronologically. To attain that purpose, the system has to have the ability to visualize medical data that occurs over various time spans. This is because the relationship among the different medical data should be observable when we look at it over various time spans. In addition, doctors aren't always at their desks, so they can't always use EMR systems with a desktop PC. Therefore, in view of these problems, we propose a system that has timeline interface which visualizes medical data that occurs over various time spans and its client application works on a mobile device. In this manner, the system can support doctors' cognition and medical analysis wherever they are. In addition, we are verifying this system in the medical field.


The working principle of hydraulic-servo system,and the hardware and software of measurement and control system for test-bed for compound pump were introduced.By using the devices,such as Transducer,simulation loading device,automatic heating and cooling device in the hydraulic-servo system,the precision of test was improved and the work intension was lessen.The measurement and control system composes of industrial computer and personal computer,it has high measurement precision and can operate conveniently.


Humans have always been curious to learn and explore new things and have achieved great things with that curiosity. "CURIOSITY IS THE WICK IN THE CANDLE OF LEARNING," said William Arthur Ward. With the advancing technologies and advancing human needs, automation has become a leading technology in the IT sector. In the year of 1959, the first ever man-made satellite, which could take pictures was launched for the purpose of observing our planet. This led to the widely used technology in the year 2022, The Satellite images play a very crucial role in the n day-to-day activities of humans. It's because of satellite imagery, the weather forecasting capabilities of humans have improved drastically. People can sleep without worrying about the next upcoming storm as it can be detected with the help of satellite imagery and machine learning algorithms. Thus, precautions for the same can be taken even before the storm is formed. GPS system is another widely used technology used for security and exploration purposes. Satellite imagery with GPS technology gave another revolutionary use for humans, such as live location tracking in a graphical map, detected and captured by satellites. An example of such an application is Google Maps. Google Maps use various type of satellite images and machine learning algorithms to automate the various operations for public use. With the help of these technologies, this article will give an overview that how satellite imagery helps us to detect objects from satellite images and further segment images from satellite images using machine learning algorithms like RCNN with RPN and U-NET.


Restriction‐fragment analysis was used to measure mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variability in 79 individuals of two species of temperate sea urchins. For the purple urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, individuals were collected 1,500 km apart in 1985 and again from the same localities in 1988 (about one urchin generation). Twenty mtDNA genotypes belonging to four clades were found among 38 individuals. All four clades were found in both localities and in both years. Genetic structure was further tested by calculating the degree of interdeme genetic variation (GST) and comparing this value to the GST's from randomly shuffled data. No geographic structure was found.


This paper summarizes the research on electromagnetic shielding for wood composites both in China and abroad.It also analyzes the future development and potential applications of electromagnetic shielding of wood composites.


The effects of ausforming in an Fe30Mn10Cr10Co high-entropy alloy on the microstructure, hardness, and plastic anisotropy were investigated. The alloy showed a dual-phase microstructure consisting of face-centered cubic (FCC) austenite and hexagonal close-packed (HCP) martensite in the as-solution-treated condition, and the finish temperature for the reverse transformation was below 200 °C. Therefore, low-temperature ausforming at 200 °C was achieved, which resulted in microstructure refinement and significantly increased the hardness. Furthermore, plasticity anisotropy, a common problem in HCP structures, was suppressed by the ausforming treatment. This, in turn, reduced the scatter of the hardness.


On the peripheral regions of Daqing there are 20 low permeable or discrete low grade oil fields now. These reservoirs are easily damageable and the damages once created are difficult to be removed. The petrographical characteristics and sensitivities of reservoir cores are determined experimentally for two peripheral oil fields of relatively higher reserves as typial examples. Reservoir formations Gaotaizi of Longxi oil fields are mainly shaly siltstone with shale content 7.2-38.7%; clay minerals are complex in composition with illite being main constituent(65-85%); the maximal pore radium 4.74 μm and the median pore radii 0.004- 0.295 μm display large differences in sizes of pore and throat; reservoir permeability is extra-low, accounting 0.013×10 -3-13×10 -3 μm 2 to the formation water; the degrees and indexes of sensitivities are as follows: weak to flow rate and I v=0.04-0.35; medium(-) to strong to water and I w=0.31-0.78, medium to salts, I s=0.39-0.60, and critical TSD=2 250 mg/L; medium to acids and I a=0.41-0.47. Reservoir formations Putaohua of Putaohua oil fields are mainly siltstone with shale content 10-15%; clay content is different in different depth and its composition is complex which shows possibility of formation fine transfer; the maximal pore radium 13.7 μm, the median pore radii 1.9-5.2 μm and loose layer of ~8 m thickness encountered; permeability to the formation water 21×10 -3-293×10 -3 μm 2; the degrees and indexes of sensitivities are as follows: weak to flow rate and I v= 0.06-0.27; medium(-) to medium(+) to water and I w=0.31-0.78; weak to medium to salts, I s=9.59-57.06, and critical TSD=6 071 mg/L; medium to acids and I a=0.31-0.39. The two reservoirs are susceptible to the damages connected with water and acids sensitivities.


THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the opening of communist bloc archives1 have stimulated fresh interpretations of this first major anti-Soviet uprising in Eastern Europe. One cannot fully understand the origins of this crisis without taking into account the Yugoslav connection. Rapprochement with Tito's Yugoslavia was a key component of Khrushchev's foreign policy of destalinisation. Matyas Rakosi, the Hungarian dictator, was finally dismissed in July 1956 because of the key role he had played in the anti-Titoist campaign in the late 1940s. The former Hungarian interior minister, Laszlo Rajk, who had been sentenced to death on trumped-up charges in October 1949, was reinterred on 6 October 1956 in Budapest in front of a crowd of several hundred thousand people-an event often described as the 'dress rehearsal of the revolution'. In 1955-56 officials from the


Polypyrrole/NiFe2O4 (PPy/NiFe2O4) composites were prepared by ultrasonic oxidative polymerization in the presence of NiFe2O4 nanoparticles (NPs). The nanostructure of PPy/NiFe2O4 was confirmed by the X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), transmission electron microscope (TEM), and vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) examinations. The adsorption of Cr(VI) onto the PPy/NiFe2O4 composite was lowly pH dependent and the adsorption kinetics followed the Pseudo-second-order model. The Langmuir isothermal model well described the adsorption isotherm data and the maximum adsorption capacity increased with the increase of temperature. The maximum adsorption capacity of the PPy/NiFe2O4 for Cr(VI) ions was up to 50 mg/g at pH 2.0. The excellent adsorption characteristic of PPy/NiFe2O4 composite will render it a highly efficient and economically viable adsorbent for Cr(VI) ions removal. POLYM. COMPOS., 2015. © 2015 Society of Plastics Engineers


In this paper a novel use of the heterodyne radiometer in JET is presented. The operation of the diagnostic has been extended to allow measuring simultaneously the pedestal temperature profile at the inboard and outboard midplane with high spatial and temporal resolution. The radiometer in JET consists of 96 closely spaced channels distributed in 4 bands that can be set up to measure either first harmonic ordinary mode or second harmonic extraordinary mode electron cyclotron emission. Access to the inboard midplane region is obtained by measuring the O-mode polarization (no harmonic overlap) using an antenna located on the low field side of the torus. To assess the potential of the ECE temperature measurements in the inboard pedestal region, a detailed analysis of ECE spectrum will be discussed. The measured electron temperature profile are presented along with the method employed to calibrate the fundamental O-mode emission, including a discussion of the main uncertainties in the analysis. The comparison of inboard and outboard temperature pedestal profiles in a variety of H-mode plasmas shows a reasonable agreement in both shape and magnitude. Plans for the further exploitation of this new experimental data are also discussed.


High blood pressure is the leading risk factor to development of cardiovascular disease worldwide. Diuretic and angiotensin‐converting enzyme blockers treatment is widely used for its efficiency in reducing blood pressure (BP). Combined physical training (aerobic + resistance) is recommended for hypertensive patients; however, it is not yet clear whether the combination of antihypertensive treatment with this training modality results in additional benefits. Therefore, the aim of this study was to compare the effects of combined training with different drug treatments on systolic BP (SBP) and baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). Twenty‐eight males SHR rats were divided into four groups (n=7/group): HS (sedentary hydrochlorothiazide), HT (trained hydrochlorothiazide), ES (sedentary enalapril) and ET (trained enalapril). Drugs were administered in drinking water (enalapril 3 mg/kg/day and hydrochlorothiazide 30 mg/kg/day). All groups underwent exercise testing before and after 2 months. The trained groups performed combined training 3 times a week, being aerobic and resistance at same session, moderate intensity. The SBP was analyzed by caudal plethysmography before starting the drugs and 24h after the last training session. BRS was analyzed by response to phenylephrine and sodium nitroprusside. Both trained groups increased maximal aerobic exercise test (p<0.0001) and resistance exercise test (HT vs. HS, p=0.02; ET vs. ES, p<0.0001) versus the sedentary groups at the end of the protocol. There was no difference in the initial SBP between the groups (HS 176 ± 4.3, HT 175 ± 3, ES 173 ± 1.4 and ET 183 ± 3 mmHg). There were reductions in SBP in the HT (161 ± 1.3 mmHg), ES (159 ± 4.4 mmHg) and ET groups (147 ± 3.3 mmHg) at the end of the protocol. In addition, the trained group associated with enalapril treatment further reduced SBP when compared to the trained hydrochlorothiazide group (ET vs. HT, p = 0.02). Regarding BRS, there was no difference in tachycardic response between groups; however, ET group (‐2.8 ± 0.5 bpm/mmHg) showed increased bradycardic responses comparing with ES group (‐1.8 ± 0.1 bpm/mmHg). Therefore, the data support that the association of combined exercise training with enalapril treatment and is more effective in reducing SBP and improving BRS than the combination with hydrochlorothiazide treatment. It is noteworthy that the training proposed in this study was performed only three times a week, getting closer to clinical recommendations, and being enough for induce additional benefits to classical drug therapies in functional capacity and blood pressure control in an experimental model of hypertension.


In this article, I intend to reframe and qualify Kant's moral philosophy for the understanding human dignity. Some Kant's formulas seem to grant to the human being an inherent and absolute worthiness, when they are read (often) in a very decontextualized way. To achieve this objective, I identify the basic characteristics we commonly attribute to the contemporary model of human dignity. This model has some expressions in the axiological field (inherent and absolute worth), and, at the same time , in the legal-political field (cornerstone of human rights and guiding principle of the Rule of law). I intend to see if we can find some of these latter characteristics in the mentioned usages that Kant gives to the term "dignity" and of formulas supposedly connected ("end in itself", "autonomy", "humanity"). When contextualizing these expressions, either in the motivations or in the results of Kant's philosophy, I arrived to the conclusion that Kant was less concerned with the intrinsic worthiness of the human beings, than with establishing the authority of morality. Keywords : Categorical imperative. Human dignity. Humanity. Kant. Rights.


Clinical characteristics Following dietary exposure to fructose, sucrose, or sorbitol, untreated hereditary fructose intolerance (HFI) is characterized by metabolic disturbances (hypoglycemia, lactic acidemia, hypophosphatemia, hyperuricemia, hypermagnesemia, hyperalaninemia) and clinical findings (nausea, vomiting, and abdominal distress; chronic growth restriction/failure to thrive). Untreated HFI typically first manifests when fructose- and sucrose-containing foods are introduced in the course of weaning young infants from breast milk. If large quantities of fructose are ingested, the infant may acutely develop lethargy, seizures, and/or progressive coma. Untreated HFI may result in renal and hepatic failure. If identified and treated before permanent organ injury occurs, individuals with HFI can experience a normal quality of life and life expectancy. Diagnosis/testing The diagnosis of HFI is established in a proband (with suggestive metabolic disturbances and clinical findings following dietary exposure to fructose, sucrose, or sorbitol) who has demonstrated either biallelic pathogenic variants in ALDOB on molecular genetic testing or deficient hepatic fructose 1-phosphate aldolase (aldolase B) activity on liver biopsy. Management Treatment of manifestations: Acute manifestations (e.g., lethargy, seizures, or progressive coma and/or renal and hepatic failure) should be managed symptomatically in a hospital setting, including intravenous glucose (dextrose) administration, supportive treatment of hepatic insufficiency, and treatment of metabolic acidosis, if present. Prevention of primary manifestations: Dietary restriction of fructose, sucrose, and sorbitol is the cornerstone of HFI treatment. Specific agents to be avoided include fructose, high-fructose corn syrup, honey, agave syrup, inverted sugar, maple-flavored syrup, molasses, palm or coconut sugar, and sorghum. In addition, medicines and formulas in which fructose/sucrose may not be listed as a primary component need to be avoided; examples include syrups, enema solutions, some immunoglobulin solutions, and many infant and pediatric nutritional drinks. During hospitalizations special caution is advised to avoid use of fructose-containing intravenous fluids. Prevention of secondary complications: Given that reduced fruit and vegetable intake is a dietary requirement, daily supplementation with a "sugar-free" multivitamin is recommended to prevent micronutrient deficiencies, specifically water-soluble vitamins. Surveillance: No formal guidelines for surveillance exist. Once the diagnosis of HFI has been made, periodic evaluation of liver function, renal function, and growth is reasonable, particularly if compliance with the fructose/sucrose/sorbitol-restricted diet is not absolute. Agents/circumstances to avoid: Evaluation of relatives at risk: Presymptomatic diagnosis and treatment is warranted for sibs at risk in order to avoid life-threatening complications by restriction of fructose intake as soon as possible. Genetic counseling HFI is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. At conception, each sib of an affected individual has a 25% chance of being affected, a 50% chance of being a carrier, and a 25% chance of being unaffected and not a carrier. Carrier testing for at-risk relatives and prenatal testing for pregnancies at increased risk are possible if both ALDOB pathogenic variants have been identified in an affected family member.


1Associate Professor, Department of Operative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Center of Excellence in Medical Education Technology, Mashad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 2Professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashad, Iran (firstname.lastname@example.com) 3Associate Professor, Department of Prosthodontic, School of Dentistry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran


We isolated a strain of Pseudomonas sp. from soil to utilize furfuryl alcohol as a carton source by enrichment culture. Alcohol dehydrogenase from this bacteria was purified 700-fold by Sephadex G-200 and affinity column chromatography to be homogeneous by electrophoresis and analytical centrifugation. This enzyme had a molecular weight of 120,000 and was composed of four subunits consisting of 266 amino acid residues. The optimal pH of the enzyme was pH 8.5 to 9, and the optimal temperature was, 45. This enzyme was stable at 55, but lost 80% of its activity in 10min at 6.


In this paper we would like to attract an attention to some frequently encountered problems arising when trying to forecast the distribution of reservoir properties based on seismic data. In recent years such a procedure has become very popular and has been commonly applied as a final stage of any seismic data interpretation workflow. Impressive results having been presented by numerous experts (including the authors of this paper) seem to convince geophysical service companies and their clients that seismic-based properties prediction techniques appear to be accurate, reliable and, most of all, universal method of description of complex structure of the geological medium. Thus, the results of this prediction procedure can be directly implemented for reserves estimation as well as for other purposes during the planning phase of development of a hydrocarbon field. However, our personal experience of dealing with various geological objects in order to derive property volumes from seismic data allows us to point out some significant constraints of this approach. In what follows we discuss one of such counter-examples.


Stem cross-sectional sapwood area was linearly related to leaf area in loblolly pine. A better relationship was obtained using cross-sectional sapwood area taken at crown base than at breast height. The relationship was affected by time of sampling, with time of maximum needle biomass giving the best correlation. Specific leaf area (area in square centimetres per gram dry weight) was variable, but the mean of 95.32 cm2/g is comparable to reported values for other species. The leaf area – sapwood area ratio at breast height varies only slightly among individual trees so that a mean ratio of 0.29 can be utilized to accurately predict leaf area. The ratio between curent-year or previous-year sapwood production and leaf area (grams per square metre of foliage) was used as an indicator of tree vigor. Tree vigor values varied greatly (21 – 180 g/m2), but were normally distributed within this range.


Moreover, a new generation of activists had been raised in Cold War America. The Fifties were an unusually patriotic era in which teachers had baby boomers begin the school day with the Pledge of Allegiance, "with liberty and justice for all," and then students memorized the words of the Constitution, "We the People," and the Declaration of Independence, "All Men Are Created Equal." Yet when some of those students later marched in the South, they quickly realized that such words rang hollow. "The whole country was trapped in a lie," said Casey Hayden. "We were told about equality but we discovered it didn't exist." Congress of Racial Equality march in memory of those killed in Birmingham bomb ings. Photograph by Thomas J. O'Halloran, September 22, 1963. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division [reproduction number, LC-U9-10515-6A].


The conception of "God" is universal albeit categorized in different expressions because of the uniqueness of every culture. This paper focuses on the conception of God in African Philosophy and in the cultural-religious worldview of African Traditional Religion. The paper makes a philosophical attempt to bring out the necessary richness in the African view of God. At the same time, it attempts to harmonize the African view with the Western conception of divinity. The beauty that lies in the way the African lives and relates to "God," and the beauty that lies in the Greco-Roman conception of God ignites the need to operate a respect for cultures, highlighting the principle of intercultural exchange. God remains for all times: Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent, Love, Merciful etc. and an African worthy of the name can ascent to these categories through the worldview of African traditional religion, except when influenced negatively from the west.


IN THE LAST twenty years re search dealing with language has been primarily concerned with an swering theoretical questions rather than with solving practical problems. Thus Miller (1962) looked at pos sible relationships existing among several transformational forms to as certain whether one form was "more fundamental" than another. This emphasis on theoretical issues in lan guage research has been especially noticeable in language development. Here research has been primarily of two types: attempts to describe the child's language productions, and at tempts to test the child's ability to understand linguistic forms. These two research topics somewhat mirror the dichotomy in current linguistic theory between competence and per formance. While not universally accepted, this distinction does have some util ity. Broadly defined, competence re fers to potential language ability? what the child can understand or produce?while performance refers only to the child's actual speech pro ductions. What this means is that studies which describe a child's utter ances are more likely describing the lower bounds of a child's abilities. Given this dichotomy between competence and performance, cur ricular changes based on studies of this sort are accepting a very con servative baseline. That is, while lan guage-oriented studies can be used as guidelines for our expectations about the kinds of responses a child can make, they clearly represent an un derestimate of what the child can un derstand. Unfortunately, educators who have attempted to use recent lin guistic findings in improving the de sign and content of readers have not completely recognized this con


Government has stated that new road infrastructure can be paid for by tolling. Professor David Bailey from Coventry University Business School believes on current evidence this will not work.


Probiotic drinks are drinks that contain a number of probiotic bacteria in the drink. Probiotic drinks have a good taste, fresh and safe to consume and have a distinctive aroma according to the ingredients used. This research was conducted to determine the effect of the addition of sucrose on the characteristics of a probiotic drink made from pineapple peel extract supplemented with the probiotic Lactobacillus casei. This study used different concentrations of sucrose, the concentrations used were 0%; 40%; 60%; and 120% of the volume of the medium. The results of this study showed that sucrose increased the total lactic acid bacteria and pH, but decreased the score of preference for taste, color, and overall acceptance, but had no effect on the aroma of probiotic drinks from pineapple peel extract. The concentration of lactic acid fermented pineapple peel using Lactobacillus casei has the potential as a probiotic drink because of its ability to inhibit pathogenic bacteria.


The water sample was taken from Dianchi Lake.After filtered,it was inoculated in MDM in glasshouse,and the chlorophyll of algae was abstracted.The absorbance values of chlorophyll a were measured at various wavelength,so algae growth could be measured by the content of chlorophyll a which could be calculated based on chlorophyll a formula.The experiment results showed that absorbance values were strong in the wavelength scope of 400~(460 nm) and 640~(660 nm).The results were good by spectrophotometry measurement of effects of Zn~(2+)on algae growth in Dianchi Lake under the condition of wavelength 645 nm.


Linear and affine (Ax+B) models are commonly used to model equipment throughput in semiconductor wafer fabricator simulations. We endeavor to assess the quality of such models for the prohibitively expensive clustered photolithography scanner. The simulations demonstrate that such models are of varying quality. They can exhibit significant deviation from the system behavior when the simulation parameters, such as product mix and wafers per lot, change from those used to create the models. The error in throughput can range from about 4% to 60% as the number of wafers per lot varies from 24 to 1. These errors are of particular relevance for studies that consider a change to small lot sizes and high mix, as is predicted in the 450 mm era.


This text is part of a research project developed through the Observatory Education Program, which focuses on practices for the teaching of mathematics and teacher education. The project's team is composed of six public-school literacy teachers, four post-graduate students, and four professors. The group activities consist of studies, selection of tasks for the classroom, recording of practices, and production of narratives shared in monthly group meetings. Relying on the historical-cultural perspective, we had considered the narrative of a teacher and what she shared in the group, analyzing ways of producing knowledge in practices of the teaching of mathematics and learning. The results point to evidence of teacher learning in this movement between collective and singular; the teacher appropriates mathematical concepts and (re)signifies them, constructing new ways of teaching and recording her experiences in the classroom. Keywords: collaborative practices, teacher education, mathematics' literacy.


Background:  Morphine consumption after a given surgical procedure can vary considerably. Studies show that single nucleotide polymorphism involving the nucleotide position 118 at exon 1 of the μ‐opioid receptor gene (OPRM1) may play a role in mediating the effects of opioids. This study was performed to correlate the A118G polymorphism at OPRM1 with morphine consumption in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty.


This abstract describes experimental results of a Shack-Hartmann based neural network (ISNet) for turbulent wavefront reconstruction. After transfer learning ISNet from simulated data to experimental data, results show improved wavefront reconstruction compared to Shack-Hartmann reconstruction.


Notch brushing machine is a kind of automatic equipment that is used to brush and burr for the outer cylinder notch of mechanical gearing rotor.The core of equipment electric-control system is Siemens PLC control technique.Program design adopts the combined structure of sequence control and stepping control,at the same time,the homing of feed worktable has been solved.The interaction between operators and applied program as well as show of alarm messages are completed through text display TD400C.This equipment has been put into production.The operation results show that electric-control system satisfies the needs of part machining,running is stable and work efficiency is high.The design of this paper makes contributions to other special equipments.


A real estate is usually composed of land and one or several buildings. The appraisal's result of such a property by means of the income approach represents a value which includes both the land value and the buildings value. Also, the transaction price of real estate includes both the land contribution and the buildings' contribution. Most frequently, it is necessary to allocate the value of the real estate according to its components in order to register it in the financial statements and not only. The results of the study we present in this paper shows the fact that a third element should be taken into consideration when allocating the real estate value, namely an intangible asset determined by external factors that have an impact on the evolution of the real estate prices, as well as on the general evolution of the real estate market. We named this element real estate goodwill (FCI), and this study aims at identifying its existence within a commercial real estate and testing the influence of the market factors, as well as the impact of the evolution of real estate market upon the value of this intangible asset. The empirical testing was performed through a multi-variable regression model and its goal was to identify the extent to which the explanatory variables of the model impact the real estate goodwill. The dependent variable of the model is the real estate goodwill estimated for the commercial real estate subject, and the explanatory variables are represented by: new real estate loans granted, number of construction permits granted and number of real estate transactions performed through notary offices. The results obtained following the empirical testing confirm the hypothesis according to which the factors that influence real estate goodwill are external factors with consequence upon the evolution of the real estate prices, as well as upon the general evolution of the real estate market.


Abstract Lithium/fluorinated carbon (Li/CF x ) primary battery is a promising energy supply device with high energy density. However, poor electrochemical capabilities such as the initial voltage delay phenomenon and the large polarization have obstructed their applications. The electrochemical performance of CF x primarily depends on the feature of the carbon source and the corresponding fluorination technique. Herein, we developed a high energy density Li/CF x battery by employing helical carbon nanotubes (HCNTs) as the carbon source. In detail, the precise control of the fluorination temperature was designed at the range of 250–400°C to tune the F/C ratio of CF x . Furthermore, the high F/C ratio of fluorinated HCNTs (F-HCNTs) reaches about 1.43, which surpasses the highest theoretical value in fluorinated crystalline carbon materials. Due to the active rich fluorination sites provided by the periodical insertion of the carbon pentacyclic (C5) and heptacyclic (C7) rings, HCNTs exhibited a defect-rich feature and F-HCNTs have a nodular shape. These features favor to enhance the transport of lithium ions and allow more C–F bonds to react with lithium ions, leading to a high energy density of 2133.13 W h/kg. This novel material offers an alternative approach for lithium primary battery being great potential in actual applications.


Jo-1 antisynthetase syndrome (AS) is commonly associated with arthropathy, although joint erosions occur in the minority of patients. Arthritis mutilans, commonly associated with psoriatic arthritis, may rarely be seen in AS.


Mental errors caused by anxiety, attitude, fear, stress, personality, or emotional state can cause accidents. To prevent workplace accidents, understanding the workers' personality that reflect the pattern of psychological characteristics, thought, emotion and behavior is important. Personality is a basic human characteristic that is influenced by the social and cultural environment called socio-cognitive. A safety culture approach to the reducing accidents emphasizes the role of social forces in organizations regarding safety. This study aims to determine the relationship of personality, social cognitive, and safety culture to workplace accidents in the chemical company. The data was collected by distributing questionnaires to 73 workers, including the production area and the field workers in a chemical factory. The data is statistically tested by using PLS-SEM. The PLS-SEM used to determine the relationship between personality traits and safety culture (H1), the relationship between social cognitive and safety culture (H2), and the relationship between social cognitive and personality traits (H3) in chemical company. The test results show that the three hypotheses were accepted. This lead to the conclusions that personality traits have a positive relation to the safety culture; social cognitive have a positive relation to safety culture; and social cognitive have a positive relation to personality traits. In conclusion, personality traits, social cognitive, and safety culture are interrelated.


Building early warning system of unemployment can provide reliable references for the government to effectively control the unemployment ratio and macro-control the labor market. Early warning system includes method and quota of early warning, system arrangement and management information system, etc. In order to control the unemployment ratio, the government should intensify the prediction over unemployment, regard employment ration control as its main target and build full-time unemployment risk monitoring organizations. The government should also improve its statistical approaches to unemployment and employment, and intensify employment statistics.


.Despite recommendations from national and international guidelines that a diag-nosis of IBS should be made on clinical grounds in individuals who meet diag-nostic criteria for the condition, without the need for recourse to invasive investiga-tions, this leaves both the patient and the physician with whom they are consulting for their symptoms with a certain degree of uncertainty as to whether the diagnosis of IBS is correct. In addition, some stud-ies have suggested that the prevalence of other organic gastrointestinal conditions, including celiac disease


To meet with requirement for actuators that are fully nonmagnetic and compatible to ultrahigh vacuum (UHV), the authors have been developing an ultrasonic motor and researching on various phenomena relating to its operation in UHV. This motor is a cylindrical type or mode rotation type ultrasonic motor, on the stator of which is excited two standing waves. The modes are bending modes and sharing the same wavelength but have the perpendicular vibrating directions. At one the shared nodal position, a stainless steeled membrane is fixed to divide the transducer into two sections. The membrane is supporting the transducer and, at the same time, sealing UHV from atmospheric condition completely; one section of the transducer stays inside the chamber and the other stays outside. Owing to this special structure, contamination by gas emission from piezoelectric elements as vibration source and wiring supplying electricity to the elements is completely eliminated. In this paper, operation of the motor keeping UHV in the order of 10-8 Pa and durability improvement by modifying material and geometry of rotor-stator interface is described. As rotor material, phosphor bronze, copper beryllium and aluminum alloy were tested. Reducing gas emission at the contacting surfaces between stator and rotor, use of these metallic materials decreased gas pressure during motor operation by a factor of 10% to 3 times 10-8 Pa at the minimum. In terms of durability, total life time of operation without replacing friction parts was improved by a factor of 290 reaching 390 hours while the longest operation keeping UHV had been only 80 minutes in the previous report. In addition, modification of rotor geometry was considered. Trenches were curved on rotor surface in order to enhance debris removal between rotor and stator. Resultantly, significant extension of operation time was observed


Some words about partially regressive character of the reform of the widows pension in the Spanish Social Security System (article 174 General Law on Social Security) by the Law 40/2007. The special treatment granted now in the law to divorced or separated widows and widowers.


Natural killer (NK) cell-based adoptive immunotherapy is an attractive adjuvant treatment option for patients with acute myeloid leukemia. Recently, we reported a clinical-grade, cytokine-based culture method for the generation of NK cells from umbilical cord blood (UCB) CD34 hematopoietic progenitor cells with high yield, purity and in vitro functionality. The present study was designed to evaluate the in vivo anti-leukemic potential of UCB-NK cells generated with our GMPcompliant culture system in terms of biodistribution, survival and cytolytic activity following adoptive transfer in immunodeficient NOD/SCID/IL2Rg mice. Using single photon emission computed tomography, we first demonstrated active migration of UCB-NK cells to bone marrow, spleen and liver within 24 h after infusion. Analysis of the chemokine receptor expression profile of UCB-NK cells matched in vivo findings. Particularly, a firm proportion of UCB-NK cells functionally expressed CXCR4, what could trigger BM homing in response to its ligand CXCL12. In addition, high expression of CXCR3 and CCR6 supported the capacity of UCB-NK cells to migrate to inflamed tissues via the CXCR3/CXCL10-11 and CCR6/CCL20 axis. Thereafter, we showed that low dose IL-15 mediates efficient survival, expansion and maturation of UCBNK cells in vivo. Most importantly, we demonstrate that a single UCB-NK cell infusion combined with supportive IL-15 administration efficiently inhibited growth of human leukemia cells implanted in the femur of mice, resulting in significant prolongation of mice survival. These preclinical studies strongly support the therapeutic potential of ex vivo-generated UCBNK cells in the treatment of myeloid leukemia after immunosuppressive chemotherapy. Citation: Cany J, van der Waart AB, Tordoir M, Franssen GM, Hangalapura BN, et al. (2013) Natural Killer Cells Generated from Cord Blood Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells Efficiently Target Bone Marrow-Residing Human Leukemia Cells in NOD/SCID/IL2Rg Mice. PLoS ONE 8(6): e64384. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0064384 Editor: Jacques Zimmer, Centre de Recherche Public de la Santé (CRP-Santé), Luxembourg Received February 15, 2013; Accepted April 13, 2013; Published June 5, 2013 Copyright: 2013 Cany et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: This work was supported by ZonMW (40-41400-98-9018) and the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Competing Interests: Regarding conflict of interest, the work has been performed in collaboration with Glycostem Therapeutics, a small SME in the Netherlands. The authors Jan Spanholtz and Marleen Tordoir are employees of Glycostem that work in author Harry Dolstra's laboratory, and Harry Dolstra acts as scientific consultant. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. * E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


The present administrative society is a pyramidal building, on distinct levels given by the property form. Within each level two new operators have been identified, the administrative fusion and administrative division. The crossing from an inferior level to the superior one is made according to the new operator, Administrative Reunion. There is an order relation between levels: Administrative Inclusion. In order to built an informatic system of the democratic society it must be taken into cosideration the fixed elements invariable within the space-time dimension, in comparison with the scale of society development of a minimal complexity[1]. Today, the human society, considerated of the administrative point of vue[2], has divided the vital space – The Earth – in administrative maps. An administrative map, briefly map, is a geographical space limited by imaginary lines settled by a laws set and belongs to a definited number of people[1]. It is not the object of this paper to give the definition into political, social and human terms for administrative entities (locality, region, state, state union); therefore, I will resume to think the map as a link between the territory and its owners. New elements: 1.Administrative setting in a pyramidal form 2. Introduction of operators which built the pyramide: a) Administrative Reunion b) Administrative Fusion c) Administrative Division 3. Introduction of the order relation :Administrative The main characteristic of these operators is: Through the operation, the operators are modified Inclusion Definition : It is named plot an area physically or administratively limited which has no other area administratively limited. Building the administrative society, the plot which can be a field, house, appartment or any other space with administrative settlement, is considered the minimal element for the whole administrative building. Definition: The plot is a relation P_ID (Co_x, Co_y, Co_z), where Co_i represents the attributes of geo-space co-ordinates for the outline points. We say a point P (x, y, z) ∈ P_ID only and if only its projection belongs to the co-ordinates system ({(Xm, XM), (Ym, YM), (Zm, ZM)}, where Xi, Yi, Zi ∈ (Co_x, Co_y, Co_z). Theorem: The plot being the minimal element, then for any Pi_ID and Pj_ID, two plots Pi_ID ∩ Pj_ID = ∅. This theorem must not be proved. Today, any field area or any thing which is part of a map, is claimed by one or several owners[3]. We understand by this the international territories (Antarctica, international waters), which, by extension, belong to all people. If we consider People and H the administrative map of Earth, then between People and H is a relation "several for several". For people ∈ People, there are several plots (spaces) and a space (plot) can belongs to several people[1].


During a study of cutaneous leishmaniasis, 33 patients from different districts in Kuwait were interviewed. Their lesions were examined clinically and microscopically. Most patients had multiple lesions (up to 60 per person), mainly distributed on the upper and lower limbs, and less frequently on the face, neck and trunk. Both sexes and all ages were affected. The incidence of the disease was recorded in most inhabited areas in Kuwait. The peak of incidence occurred in February.The data showed that cutaneous leishmaniasis is endemic in Kuwait. This is attributed to several factors including the central location of Kuwait in an area of the Middle East where cutaneous leishmaniasis is endemic (Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia), the rapid increase in economic activities, the number of travellers and immigrants, and the change in ecological conditions and nature of the habitat for the sandfly vectors following the rapid urbanization of certain districts.


The process studied is  Na (3S)+ K (4S)+nhν→ Na (3P J)+ K (4S)+(n-1)hν, where the laser frequency ν is tuned in the wings of the Na resonance transition. The branching ratio is defined as I(D 1)/I(D 2) where I(D 1) and I(D 2) are measured intensities of the atomic Na D 1 and D 2 lines, respectively. The branching is determined in the K density range of 2~8×10 20 m -3 . The ratio is measured for detuning ranging from about 300 cm -1 in the blue wing to 100 cm -1 in the red wing of the Na3P multiplet. The ratio of dissociation rates and the fine structure changing cross section are obtained. The branching is found to be strongly detuning dependent in the vicinity of the NaK near wing satellites. Fine structure changing cross section has also been measured for resonant excitation of Na3P J state. The results are discussed.


Leigh syndromeor sub-acute necrotizing encephalomyelopathy (SNE) is a rare progressive neurodegenerative, mitochondrial disorder of childhood . It was first reported in 1951 by Denis Leigh in, a British neuropathologist,in a 7 months old infant that progressed rapidly and resulted in death over 6-week period estimated prevalence is 1 in per 40,000 births . Our patient 18months male child 3 issue of 2 degree consanguineous marriage with uneventful perinatal history presented to our hospital with multiple convulsions,respiratory distress,delayed developmental milestones and regression of achieved milestones and malnutrition. On initial examination child was drowsy(Glasgow coma scale:10) and febrile. On examination table, child had generalized tonic clonic type of convulsion which were treated by Diazepam(i.v.0.3 mg/kg stat)and Phenytoin (i.v.20 mg/kg stat followed by 5 mg/kg 12hourly). Laboratory analysis showed metabolic acidosis.His pulse rate was 160/min;respiratory rate 50/min.CNS examination showed increased tone in the lower limb, deep tendon reflexes were exaggerated with bilateral Babinski sign. Pupils were mid dilated with sluggishly reacting to light.Fundus examination and visual evoked potential were normal.His weigh was 8 kg and height 94 cms. The above clinical findings were highly suggestive of a neurodegenerative disorder and the patient was further investigated. Our experience suggested that bilateral symmetric T2 prolongation involving multiple brain stem nuclei/ structures associated with basal ganglia abnormalities in a child with neurological problem should prompt the clinician to consider Leigh syndrome and conduct further investigations such as measurement of blood and/or CSF lactate, and respiratory chain enzymes activities. Background: Leigh syndromeor sub-acute necrotizing encephalomyelopathy (SNE) is a rare progressive neurodegenerative, mitochondrial disorder of childhood 1 . It was first reported in 1951 by Denis Leigh in, a British neuropathologist,in a 7 months old infant that progressed rapidly and resulted in death over 6-week period estimated prevalence is 1 in per 40,000 births 2 .The onset is usually early in infancy and patient manifest a heterogeneous set of symptoms, such as regression or psychomotor delay, weakness, hypotonia, brainstem sign, ataxia, pyramidal sign, respiratory insufficiency, lactate acidosis in the blood, cerebrospinal fluid, urine and acute deterioration following common infection. The prognosis is poor and, in most cases patient die before age of 5 years. In most cases, dysfunction of respiratory chain enzyme is responsible for the disease. It may be due to defects in genes for the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, cytochrome-c oxidase, ATP synthase subunit 6 or subunits of mitochondrial complex 1. Patterns of inheritance include X-linked recessive, autosomal recessive and mitochondrial 3 . However the genetic cause of number of cases of Leigh syndrome remains unknown, despite the presence of specific biochemical defect in International J. of Healthcare and Biomedical Research, Volume: 05, Issue: 01, October 2016 8-12 9 www.ijhbr.com ISSN: 2319-7072 many of them. Despite its considerable clinical genetical and biochemistry heterogeneity, the basic neuropathological features in children affected are almost affected identical;which are focal, bilateral and symmetrical necrotic lesions associated with demyelination, vascular proliferation and gliosis in the brainstem, diencephalon, basal ganglia, and cerebellum 4 . It is possible to come to diagnosis of probable SNE during life of on the basis of clinical signs and symptoms, mode of inheritance, metabolic abnormalities, and neuroimaging findings 5 . We report a rare case which presented clinically as neurodegenerative disorders and diagnosed as Leigh syndrome on MRI. Case Presentation Our patient 18months male child 3 rd issue of 2 nd degree consanguineous marriage with uneventful perinatal history presented to our hospital with multiple convulsions,respiratory distress,delayed developmental milestones and regression of achieved milestones and malnutrition. On initial examination child was drowsy(Glasgow coma scale:10) and febrile. On examination table, child had generalized tonic clonic type of convulsion which were treated by Diazepam(i.v.0.3 mg/kg stat)and Phenytoin (i.v.20 mg/kg stat followed by 5 mg/kg 12hourly). Laboratory analysis showed metabolic acidosis.His pulse rate was 160/min;respiratory rate 50/min.CNS examination showed increased tone in the lower limb, deep tendon reflexes were exaggerated with bilateral Babinski sign. Pupils were mid dilated with sluggishly reacting to light.Fundus examination and visual evoked potential were normal.His weigh was 8 kg and height 94 cms. The above clinical findings were highly suggestive of a neurodegenerative disorder and the patient was further investigated. Routine haemogram revealedhaemoglobin 9.1gm%, packed cell volumes 30%,total leucocytes counts 20,000 cell per mm3 with marked neutrophilia (85%)and lymphocytes counts 10%. Cerebrospinal examination showed 2 cells,all lymphocytes and normal sugar and protein levels.CSF lactate was significantly raised (9.4mmol/L).Gram and ZN staining of the CSF showed no organism and pus cells. Serum Lactate (7.2mmol/L) and creatinine kinase levels were raised. Liver function and renal function were within normal limit. Blood and urine culture were negative. Magnetic Resonance Imaging was done which showed bilateral symmetric area of altered signal intensities noted involving basal ganglion (putamen, caudate nucleus, globus pallid) , brain stem, substantianigra andperi-aqueductal white matter appearing hyperintenseon T2W and FLAIR images(Image 1-3). There were prominent extracerebral CSF spaces in the fronto-temporoparietal region on both the sides. Atrophy with myelination normal for age was noticed. MR SPECTROSCOPY: single voxel spectroscopy of the lesion shows elevated choline peak and NNA peak and elevated choline/creatine (1.55) and choline/NNA (1.54) ratios. Multi-voxel spectroscopy shows elevated lactate values (Image 4). The above radiological findings on MRI BRAIN WITH MR SPECROSCOPY established the clinical diagnosis of a neurodegenerative disorder as Leigh syndrome. Supportive therapy for Leigh disease was begun with intravenous Thiamine infusion,Carnitine, oral coenzyme Q10 (Ubiquinone) and alkali supplementation. Over the next 4 days, he improved clinically.He was discharged home after 11 th day. Enzymology, histology and functional fibroblast ATP synthesis rate, molecular studies were not performed due to the paucity of facilities and financial constraints. International J. of Healthcare and Biomedical Research, Volume: 05, Issue: 01, October 2016 8-12 10 www.ijhbr.com ISSN: 2319-7072 Discussion Leigh disease or SNE is a rare progressive neurological disorder of the childhood. The estimated prevalence of Leigh syndrome in infancy (1: 40,000) 6 . Age of onset of symptoms is usually less than 2 years (infantile form), but others may present in childhood (juvenile form) and unusually in adulthood. These defects may occurs sporadically or be inherited by autosomal recessive transmission, as in the case of COX deficiency; by X-linked transmission, as in the case of pyruvate dehydrogenase E1α deficiency 7 . Approximately 30% of cases are caused by mutation in mtDNA. The clinical diagnosis of the disease becomes difficult because of the variability of the symptoms and lack of specific biochemical investigations. It usually presents early in life withabnormal muscle tone, weakness, dystonia, brainstem or cerebellar dysfunction (ataxia), missed milestones or regression of achieved milestones, tachypnea, and seizures. Affected children usually become symptomatic within a few years of life with feeding difficulties, vomiting, and failure to thrive or malnutrition 1 . Symptoms are made worse by intercurrent infection or ingestion of heavy carbohydrate meal. Elevations in serum lactate are characteristic. Death usually occurs within few years after onset of symptoms. There are four diagnostic criteria's : (1) Progressive neurological disease with motor and intellectual development delay; (2) Sign and symptoms of brain stem and/or basal ganglia disease: (3) Raised lactate levels in blood and/or CSF; (4) Characteristic symmetric necrotic lesions in the basal ganglia and or brainstem Neuroimaging plays important role in diagnosis of patient with Leigh syndrome 8-12 . MRI appears to be superior to CT in identifying lesions of Leigh syndrome. The most characteristic neuro-radiological findings are bilateral, symmetric focal hyperintensitiesin the basal ganglia, thalamus, substantianigra, and brainstem nuclei at various levels on T2-weighted MRI. These high T2 signals on MRI reflect the spongiform changes and vacuolation in the affected brain structures. In the basal ganglia, the putamen is particularly involved. Low attenuation in the putamina on CT is considered to be characteristic of the disease. There is no cure for Leigh syndrome. Specific therapy for mitochondrial disorders in children is not available. Treatment generally involve variation of vitamin and supplement therapies, often in "cocktail" combination, and are only partially effective. The aim of symptomatic treatment is to improve the ATP production and to lower the lactate levels. Thiamine, a cofactor of pyruvate dehydrogenase has been reported to be improvingthe neurological status in some patients 13 . Marked improvement was observed with riboflavin, which nearly normalized the ATP. Coenzyme Q and carnitine have also been found to be effective. Conclusion Our experience suggested that bilateral symmetric T2 prolongation involving multiple brain stem nuclei/ structures associated with basal ganglia abnormalities in a child with neurological problem should prompt the clinician to consider Leigh syndrome and conduct further investigations such as measurement o


As emperor and a famous poet,Yang Guang had a great impact on the literary world of Sui Dynasty. He had many identities such as emperor,man of letters,and believer of Buddhism and Taoism,which were also represented in his poems. This paper also analyses the close relation between his works and the image of water.


The study examined the extent to which e-marketing usage increases the sales volume of consumer goods in the covid-19 era. Since it was impossible to reach all the online buyers in Ado-Ekiti, the study adopted Multi-Stage Cluster to select a total of one hundred and ninety (190) respondents from Ado metropolis. The survey research design was adopted with a questionnaire serving as the research instrument. Regression analysis and ANOVA were used for the analysis of the data. The research findings revealed that the adoption of E-marketing by firms and individuals boost sales volume. It was thus recommended among other things that an increase in the size of internet usage influences growth in the sales volume


Nul1-steering is demonstrated using a metaspiral antenna, which has two feed points and an extremely low-profile structure on the order of 1/100 wavelength. The metaspiral antenna radiates a left-handed circularly polarized (CP) wave at a low design frequency and a right-handed CP wave at a high design frequency. A null-field point is created within the CP radiation pattern at these two frequencies. For this, the excitation amplitude and phase at one feed point are changed, while those at the other feed point are fixed. It is found that the intensity of the radiation field at the null-field point is less than −25dB.


This thesis analyses the negative impacts of the Chinese traditional educational concepts,the grammar-translation teaching approach and the Chinese teaching pattern on the development of English communicative competence.The communicative teaching approach is better than the grammar-translation teaching approach in promoting the communicative competence.Taking non-English PhD students as an example,their communicative competence can be improved by innovating educational concepts,curriculum system,learning strategies and teaching methods.


METHODICAL ASPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT OF WORKS IN THE FORM OF TESTS
AND IMPLEMENTATION IN THE PRACTICE OF TRAINING DISCIPLINE
«PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY»
E. MOLOTOK, P. GALUSHKOV


CONCLUSION: The face consists of six major aesthetic units. Cheek is one of them and it is comprised of medial, zygomatic, lateral and buccal subunits. In our study, we mostly reconstructed the medial subunit of the cheek and we believe that V-Y advancement results in more aesthetically appealing scar by reconstructing the subunit with alike tissue. Especially for larger defects of medial cheek or combined defects of cheek and other regions (such as nasal sidewall, lower eyelid, etc), V-Y closure should be preferred over propeller flap. Free style facial perforator flaps are highly reliable flaps with wide range of motion. 5 In addition, they provide single stage closure with aesthetic subunit reconstruction. With the current knowledge of reconstruction and skills of microsurgery, they can be easily the first choice for the closure of mid-facial defects.


From the microeconomic views, research on merger & acquisition is the basis on which entrepreneurs and supervisors set down plan with market for corporate control, which plays an important role in improving corporate governance of Chinese listed companies in theory. This dissertation devoted to a more sound interpretation to abnormal market response to the merger & acquisition based on special Chinese institution and legal system.


Equal weights of the various protein fractions in plasma affect the plasma specific gravity equally, whereas weight for weight the fractions exert differing influences on the plasma viscosity. Thus fibrinogen has a greater effect on the plasma viscosity than does globulin, which, in turn, has a greater effect than albumin (Bircher, 1921 ; Naegeli, 1931; Oberst, 1939; Cowan and Harkness, 1947). Working with mixtures of albumin and globulin, Naegeli (1931) and Nugent and Towle (1935) have shown that at a constant total protein content the viscosity of the mixture falls as the ratio of albumin to globulin rises, and vice versa. It was considered that perhaps, given the total protein content and the viscosity of a serum, it might be possible to calculate the albumin: globulin ratio. Thus, using the copper sulphate specific gravity method for estimation of the total serum protein level (Harrison, 1947) and a modified Ostwald viscometer for the estimation of the serum viscosity (Lawrence, 1950), the estimation might be completed in under 15 minutes per serum, a much more rapid test than either the Kjeldahl or the Biuret methods. The specific gravity of a seruim can be estimated to ± 0.0005 (± 0.18 g. %), and the serum viscosity ratio is accurate to ±0.2% (Lawrence, 1950). In fact, the estimation of the albumin:globulin ratio by this proposed method was not achieved.


This performance-based research delivers a program which features the fusion of musical styles and a challenge to the traditional content of a classical string quartet presentation. It also contributes directly and meaningfully to the string quartet repertoire by featuring two world premieres. The performance is designed as a musical narrative of love, loss and compassion and fuses the singing/songwriting skills of popular artist Lior with traditional contributions from the string quartet repertoire. The program features a new song cycle commissioned by Tinalley String Quartet and written jointly by Composer Ade Vincent and Lior which was awarded the Melbourne Recital Centre Award for contemporary performance in 2016. The program concludes with another world premiere and TSQ commission by Nigel Westlake which is a reimagining of the first movement of his song cycle for voice and orchestra. The MRC performance was recorded for broadcast on ABC Classic FM.


Background and Objectives: A. baumannii is a cause of various infections with significant morbidity and mortality in the world. The aim of this study was to determine infection rate and antimicrobial susceptibility of A. baumannii in an Iranian tertiary care Hospital. Materials and Methods: This study was performed on 166 positive blood cultures for A. baumannii, received from different wards of Imam Hospitals complex in Tehran, during two years. Disk diffusion method was used to survey several antibiotics resistance. Data were analyzed by spss software, chi square test. Results: A. baumannii was resistant to imipenem (26.9%), gentamicine (32.2%), carbenicillin (36.4%), cephotaxime(41.7%), ampicillin (66.7%), amikacine (69.4%), ciprofloxacin (74.3%), cotrimoxazol (86.3%),piperacillin (91%), Ceftriaxone (92.5%), cefixime (99.2%), amoxiclave (100%), cefepime(100%), ceftazidime (100%). ICUs (50.6%) and Pediatrics Wards (2.4%) were the most and the least frequent wards in which A. baumannii were isolated. Conclusions: Due to antibiotic resistance pattern change among A. baumannii and its consequences, it is recommended to control infection associated risk factors as well as further researches aiming identification of different of patterns in resistance and sensitivity to antibiotic.


outcomes across a number of different pathways. ICC has been innovative in its use of PTR over the years, and the 2014/2015 PTR project was no different. The ICC team worked to identify parallels between PTR and their institutional program review process in order to create a more effective program review process. Through these processes ICC identified disparities within and between pathways by race/ethnicity and gender.


Among the recent attempts to use Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) techniques traditionally employed in agriculture and other terrestrial resource systems is in the evaluation of the coastal and marine fisheries environments. One of these approaches is called Rapid Appraisal of Fisheries Management Systems (RAFMS). which was developed at the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM). The RAFMS is a diagnostic tool designed to quickly document and evaluate the operating fisheries management systems, both formally and informally, at the community level. As a critical first step in diagnosing the existing types of community‐level fisheries management systems, the RAFMS shall provide general information on their essential features, operations, and impacts. Given limited funds, time, and research personnel, it is not always possible to conduct in‐depth studies of community based fisheries resource management systems at a specific site or across a country. While the RAFMS is no substitute ...


Commercial preparation of furan proceeds by way of the aldehyde, furfural, which in turn is generated from pentose containing raw materials like corncobs, as shown in the uppermost equation below. Similar preparations of pyrrole and thiophene are depicted in the second row equations. Equation 1 in the third row illustrates a general preparation of substituted furans, pyrroles and thiophenes from 1,4-dicarbonyl compounds, known as the Paal-Knorr synthesis. Many other procedures leading to substituted heterocycles of this kind have been devised. Two of these are shown in reactions 2 and 3. Furan is reduced to tetrahydrofuran by palladium-catalyzed hydrogenation. This cyclic ether is not only a valuable solvent, but it is readily converted to 1,4-dihalobutanes or 4-haloalkylsulfonates, which may be used to prepare pyrrolidine and thiolane. Dipolar cycloaddition reactions often lead to more complex five-membered heterocycles.


Received December 1, 2010 Revised February 9, 2011 Accepted February 9, 2011 Address for correspondence Jae Yong Lee, MD, PhD Department of OtorhinolaryngologyHead and Neck Surgery, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, 1174 Jung-dong, Wonmi-gu, Bucheon 420-779, Korea Tel +82-32-621-5448 Fax +82-32-621-5016 E-mail firstname.lastname@example.com Brown tumors are focal bone lesions caused by increased osteoclastic activity and fibroblastic proliferation encountered in primary, or more rarely, secondary hyperparathyroidism. Ninety-two percent of the patients who undergo dialysis develop secondary hyperparathyroidism. Of these, approximately 1.5% develops brown tumors. We recently experienced a case of brown tumor of the left maxilla that occurred in association with secondary hyperparathyroidism in a 56-year-old female. We present the clinical characteristics, radiological and pathological findings, and treatment of this rare disease entity with a literature review. Korean J Otorhinolaryngol-Head Neck Surg 2011;54:304-7 Key WordsZZBrown tumor ᆞMaxilla ᆞSecondary hyperparathyroidism.


A combined transect and quadrats measure was adopted to study on the frequency, density and biomass of legume forages in Leymus chinensis grassland, the concentration of N 2 fixing plant-Lathyrus quinquenervius and nonfixing control plant-L.chinensis were measured by micro-Kjeldahl method, and the 15 N isotope dilution method was used to study the percentage of by legumes of that grassland is 1.5kgN/hm 2.


Taking the cross-sectional area of a gravity retaining wall as the objective function,and regarding the stability of gravity retaining wall and the bearing capacity of groundwork as restraint conditions,and then the problem of best cross-section selection of gravity retaining wall can be transformed to a question to solve a nonlinear optimal design under some specifical restrictions;and then to solve it by the PHR method.Base on the theory interpreted above,a corresponding program is compiled to solve the question;and the relationship between soil parameters and the optimum cross-sectional area is analyzed.At last,an example is given;it is shown that the optimum design is better than the original one.


Editor-in-Chief Revista Materia E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com An electrochemical device such as the solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) may possess configurations that will make it suitable to different applications, as a function of the important variety of materials developed for its fabrication [1]. The main objective for SOFC utilization is the electrochemical conversion of energy contained in a fuel, usually hydrogen, into electricity, generating water vapor as byproduct. The SOFC evolution in the last decades began with fuel cells supported by the electrolyte, on top of which the anode is deposited on one side and the cathode on the other side. The conventional electrolyte is usually made of yttria stabilized zirconia, YSZ, to guarantee structural stability without phase changes until the elevated operating temperatures that are used, in the range of 850 to 1000oC. The conventional anode is made of a mixture of YSZ and nickel oxide, which is reduced to metallic nickel under the anode's reducing atmosphere to act as an electrocatalyst of the electrochemical reaction of interest. The conventional cathode is composed of lanthanum manganite, frequently doped with other chemical elements to improve electronic and ionic conductivities and to control its coefficient of thermal expansion. Electrolyte supported SOFCs possess thick electrolytes, with thicknesses usually greater than 150 μm. This causes important ohmic losses related to the conduction of O


Novel chiral Zn(II) complexes were synthesized and these complexes showed fluorescence behaviour. These chiral Zn(II) complexes were tested in the asymmetric Friedel–Crafts alkylation reaction of indole derivatives with nitroalkenes. In all the cases, the desired product was obtained with high yield (up to 93%) and good enantioselectivity (up to 78% ee) under the optimized reaction conditions. The effects of solvent, metallic salt and piperidine ratio on the fluorescence intensity of the catalyst and on the enantioselectivity of the desired products were discussed.


Lignin properties were improved by electrochemical :hydrogenation. Various technological factors, such as cathode materials, temperature and concentrations of water, solvent, substrate, on the electrochemical hydrogenation of lignin in divided electrolytic cell were,studied. The results showed that the hydrogen, content (H %) and ratio of hydrogen to carbon (H/C) of hydrogenated lignin (HL) increased by 1.7 % and 0.04, respectively, and the softening point (SR) decreased by 24degreesC in comparison with lignin raw material. It was feasible for lignin to be electrochemically hydrogenated.


Significance To achieve the mission of personalized medicine, centering on delivering the right drug to the right patient at the right dose, therapeutic drug monitoring solutions are necessary. By devising a surface engineering strategy, we created a voltammetric sensing interface, featuring an "undistorted potential window," within which the target electroactive drug's voltammetric response is dominant and interference is eliminated, rendering reliable target quantification in noninvasively retrievable biofluids (sweat and saliva). Leveraging this sensing interface, a fully integrated, wearable solution was constructed to seamlessly render drug readouts with minute-level temporal resolution. To inform its clinical utility, the solution was utilized to demonstrate noninvasive pharmacokinetic monitoring of a pharmaceutical (here, acetaminophen, a widely used analgesic and antipyretic) in a wearable format. To achieve the mission of personalized medicine, centering on delivering the right drug to the right patient at the right dose, therapeutic drug monitoring solutions are necessary. In that regard, wearable biosensing technologies, capable of tracking drug pharmacokinetics in noninvasively retrievable biofluids (e.g., sweat), play a critical role, because they can be deployed at a large scale to monitor the individuals' drug transcourse profiles (semi)continuously and longitudinally. To this end, voltammetry-based sensing modalities are suitable, as in principle they can detect and quantify electroactive drugs on the basis of the target's redox signature. However, the target's redox signature in complex biofluid matrices can be confounded by the immediate biofouling effects and distorted/buried by the interfering voltammetric responses of endogenous electroactive species. Here, we devise a wearable voltammetric sensor development strategy—centering on engineering the molecule–surface interactions—to simultaneously mitigate biofouling and create an "undistorted potential window" within which the target drug's voltammetric response is dominant and interference is eliminated. To inform its clinical utility, our strategy was adopted to track the temporal profile of circulating acetaminophen (a widely used analgesic and antipyretic) in saliva and sweat, using a surface-modified boron-doped diamond sensing interface (cross-validated with laboratory-based assays, R2 ∼ 0.94). Through integration of the engineered sensing interface within a custom-developed smartwatch, and augmentation with a dedicated analytical framework (for redox peak extraction), we realized a wearable solution to seamlessly render drug readouts with minute-level temporal resolution. Leveraging this solution, we demonstrated the pharmacokinetic correlation and significance of sweat readings.


This paper proposes an N-phase, AC fed, switched reluctance drive for aerospace applications. The proposed converter is capable of direct AC conversion and eliminates the unreliable DC link capacitor present in conventional DC supply converters. It is shown that, by space vector modulation of output current, control of active and reactive power can be achieved whilst three sinusoidal AC input phase-currents with the required power factor can be synthesized. A comparison between numerically simulated and analytically predicted DC output current ripple is also presented


Summary Tangaroellus porosus, gen. nov., sp. nov., is described from three coastal localities in New Zealand. Its affinities with the family Rhodacaridae are discussed.


Current satellite sensor systems have two major technical limitations: (1) the incoming radiation energy to the sensor, and (2) the data volume collected by the sensor [1]. These lead to the dilemma that improving a satellite sensor's spatial resolution may only be achieved at the cost of losing some other advantages of satellite instruments, such as spectral resolution, temporal resolution, and radiometric resolution. Consider the Landsat 7 ETM+ sensor and the MODIS (Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) sensor as an example. The ETM+ data possess high spatial resolution (30 meters), low temporal resolution (16-day revisit cycle), and low spectral resolution (bandwidth of approximately 70-200 nm in visible and infrared (VIR) bands). By contrast, the MODIS data possess low spatial resolution (250/500/1000 meters), high temporal resolution (daily revisit cycle), and high spectral resolution (bandwidth of approximately 10-50 nm in VNIR bands). However, the remote sensing data that are available to researchers may not be the data they actually need [2]. One possible solution to this problem is data fusion. Since the 1980s, numerous spatio-spectral fusion methods have combined multispectral (MS) bands with a panchromatic (PAN) band image to produce MS images with the spatial resolution of PAN. Reviews of these pan-sharpening methods can be found in [5]-[9]. These methods have also been extended to merge hyperspectral images with a PAN band [10]. Similarly, to obtain images with both high spatial and temporal resolution, many spatio-temporal fusion methods applied to different


It is no longer in style to develop typologies of political regimes based on their party systems. Systematic studies today are interested in parties only in terms of their role in the functioning of the political system as a whole. No doubt it is an insoluble problem to determine whether parties and the party system are variables which are independent or dependent in relation to the political system. Besides, without being able to rule out a relationship of interdependence, the two terms display a certain degree of independence and are not in a relationship of co-variance. Thus it is that the political system is shaped to a certain extent by the opposition of the parties to the system, the parties in turn having been conditioned by three other kinds of forces. The problem of specifying the functions of parties remains a central one, even though there is much confusion in the use of the language of functionalism. It is therefore important to clarify the notion of the functions of political parties. If one defines the political system as a set of processes and mechanisms which bring about the convergence or neutralization of irresistible social pluralisms without exploding the balance of these pluralist forces, then one can distinguish three functional requirements: (1) the legitimation-stabilization function; (2) the tribunician function (integration or neutralization of centrifugal forces); (3) the function of providing governmental alternatives. Where there is interaction between parties and the political system, one can discern an aspect of non-dependence between the two terms. In the first place, the parties (and not only the anti-system or revolutionary parties) do not develop solely in accordance with their relationship to the political system. Secondly, the system too has a certain degree of self-determination, even when confronted with anti-system parties.


The success of tensor-based subspace learning depends heavily on reducing correlations along the column vectors of the mode-k flattened matrix. In this work, we study the problem of rearranging elements within a tensor in order to maximize these correlations, so that information redundancy in tensor data can be more extensively removed by existing tensor-based dimensionality reduction algorithms. An efficient iterative algorithm is proposed to tackle this essentially integer optimization problem. In each step, the tensor structure is refined with a spatially-constrained Earth Mover's Distance procedure that incrementally rearranges tensors to become more similar to their low rank approximations, which have high correlation among features along certain tensor dimensions. Monotonic convergence of the algorithm is proven using an auxiliary function analogous to that used for proving convergence of the Expectation-Maximization algorithm. In addition, we present an extension of the algorithm for conducting supervised subspace learning with tensor data. Experiments in both unsupervised and supervised subspace learning demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed algorithms in improving data compression performance and classification accuracy.


The monkeypox (Mpox) virus is a closely related orthopoxvirus to the virus called variola responsible for smallpox. In 1958, the first case of monkeypox emerged among captive primates used for research, so it was dubbed monkeypox. 1971 marked the first human victim of monkeypox in the Congo Republic.1Like variola (VARV), cowpox (CPX) and vaccinia (VACV), MPXV is a member of the family of DNA that is double-stranded viruses known as the genus Orthopoxvirus2.


Background. Leukocytes are associated with myocardial injury during reperfusion after ischemia. Short periods of leukocyte depletion during reperfusion result in persistent attenuation of postischemic myocardial dysfunction. Methods. Leukocyte depIetion was examined in a canine model of regional myocardial ischemia and reperfusion. The extracorporeal circuit and cardioplegia circuits underwent leukocyte depletion by mechanical filtration. Animals were instrumented for baseline global function before 90-minute occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery. Global function during ischemia and at 5, 30, 60, and 90 minutes after a 60-minute cardioplegic arrest using continuous blood cardioplegia was assessed in leukocyte-depleted (n = 9) and control (n = 10) groups.


Background subtraction is a key technique for video analysis applications. However, the existing algorithms do not work well in cluttered environments. In this work, we manage to model the oscillating background by using multi-channel background model, which is constructed by Gaussian filters with different variances. By employing a boosting-like updating rule for channel selection, a evidence-driving Adaptive Background Modelling (ABM) framework is proposed to eliminate false foreground responses. The effectiveness of ABM in tree and water regions is proven by experiments.


A solid phase synthesis of a number of monoamino and diamino derivatives as potential dual binding site AChE inhibitors was developed. Our synthetic protocol was characterized by a series of three consecutive Mitsunobu reactions. The loading of the first building block, a dimethylaminophenol, onto the brominated Wang resin was efficiently carried out with DIAD and PPh3 in THF, whereas the two subsequent Mitsunobu reactions, allowing the introduction of an aliphatic spacer linked to a second phenolic moiety, resulted in higher yields when performed with ADDP and PBu3 in CH2Cl2. The scheme adopted in this synthesis could allow an easy and straightforward entry to libraries of amines of the general formulae A and B.


—The manufacture of plastic parts requires a rigor- ous visual examination of its production to avoid the shipment of some that would be defective to its customers. In an attempt to ease the detection of scratches on plastic parts, the prototype of a computer-assisted visual inspection system was developed. The aim of this paper is to introduce how we explored ways to design a semi-automatic system comprising of a lamp whose orientations and intensities help in revealing irregularities on subjects that would have been missed with a unique light configuration. This process was qualified as "hardware data augmentation". The pictures collected by our system were then used to train several convolutional neural networks (YOLOv4 algorithm/architecture). Finally, the performances of their models were confronted to evaluate the effects of the different light settings, and deduce which parameters are favourable to capture datasets leading to robust defect detection systems.


Concerning general image operations and attack method,the paper proposed a new semi-fragile watermarking algorithm.In this algorithm,the recovery bits generated from the compressed original image were embedded into the Least Significant Bits(LSB) of the watermarked image,then the switch coefficients coded by Turbo code after second generation Bandelet transform were embedded in midfrequency blocked regions after slant transform.Authentication could be realized and tampers could be located through comparison between error codes generated by Turbo code and coefficients of Bandelet transform.The experimental results show that the algorithm has enough robustness to general image operations,and can detect and locate the place being maliciously tampered accurately,and has good ability to recover the lost image content.


We study the nonperturbative gluon and ghost propagators in d = 3 Yang‐Mills, using the Schwinger‐Dyson equations of the pinch technique. The use of the Schwinger mechanism leads to the dynamical generation of a gluon mass, which, in turn, gives rise to an infrared finite gluon propagator and ghost dressing function. The propagators obtained are in very good agreement with the results of SU(2) lattice simulations.


Taking 39 20-year-old P.tabuleaformis Carr.trees as testing materials,this paper conducted a progeny test on their seven traits through the analyses of genetic variation,genetic correlation,genetic path and indirect selection with correlation heritability.The superior families were selected with the method of index selection.The study demonstrates that the family effect was highly significant for all the traits.The genetic correlations were closely related to the growth traits of families.Quantity of cones and their adaptability were highly correlated with the traits of growth.The correlation heritability of height,volume and crown with DBH were bigger than their trait heritability.The path analysis of seven traits shows that the direct contribution of height to the variations of tree volume was biggest and the indirect contribution of DBH by height to the variations of tree volume was bigger than the others.8 superior families with fast growth,wide adaptability and moderate quantity of cones were selected.The superior families increased 12.8%~37.5% in DBH,7.5%~24% in height and 31.5%~98.3% in volume respectively.Compared with the contrast,the quantity of cones and their adaptability both increased to some degrees.


Objective To evaluate the efficacy of epidural block combined with general anesthesia for elderly upper abdominal surgery Methods Thirty-four elderly patients ,scheduled for elective upper abdominal surgery, ASA grade Ⅰ-Ⅱ, were divided randomly into study group (groupⅠ) and control group (group Ⅱ) In both groups anesthesia was induced with introvenous diazepam 0 1mg·kg -1, fentanyl 5μg·kg -1, etomidate 3mg·kg -1, atracurium 0 2 mg·kg -1 and succinylcholine 2 mg·kg -1, and was maintained with intravenous infusion of propofol 4-10ml/h and/or inhalation of 1% isoflurane and intermittent bolus of atracurium In groupⅠ epidural block was performed before induction Hemodynamics was measured with impendence cardiography and electroencephagram were monitored and intraoperative awareness, postoperative restlessness and anesthetic dosage were recorded, also the concentrations of plasma vasopressin and blood glucose were determined at pre-operation, incision and the end of surgery Results In group Ⅰ MAP,CO,HR incresed slightly during intubation, incision and extubation, and systemic vascular resistance (SVR) decreased during operation , but SVR was increased abruptly after extubation in group Ⅱ There were unsignificant changes in thoracic fluid index(TFI), stroke volume(SV), ejection volume index(EVI), EVI/TFI ratio in both groups during whole procedures SEF was recovered more earlier in group Ⅰthan that of in group Ⅱ after extubation The vasopressin and glucose levels increased significantly after-extubation compared with those before operation in group Ⅱ Conclusions The epidural block combined with general anesthesia can be more effectvely and safely applied to elderly upper abdominal surgery


An audio encoder comprises a common preprocessing stage, an information sink based encoding branch such as spectral domain encoding branch, a information source based encoding branch such as an LPC-domain encoding branch and a switch for switching between these branches at inputs into these branches or outputs of these branches controlled by a decision stage. An audio decoder comprises a spectral domain decoding branch, an LPC-domain decoding branch, one or more switches for switching between the branches and a common post-processing stage for post-processing a time-domain audio signal for obtaining a post-processed audio signal.


Boron tribromide has been assessed as a catalyst for rapid tritium labeling of organic compounds using tritiated water under mild conditions. Alkyl and halogen substituted aromatics labeled rapidly, the labeling being most pronounced in the ortho and para positions. Compounds containing electrophilic deactivating groups were found to be difficult to label. Very little byproduct formation was observed.


Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signal type classification based on machine learning is an effective way to improve urban positioning performance. However, GNSS signal type features extracted are unrelated, and the number of features is limited, referred to as nonlocal- and few-feature issues, which limits the classification performance. This article presents a new data denoising theory to boost the classification performance based on concepts of Hadamard matrix transformation and Rayleigh quotient maximization. Hadamard matrix transformation increases the distance between different classes, i.e., interclass distance, by projecting the data into a new space, thereby increasing the classification performance. To improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of features, we maximize the Rayleigh quotient of the interclass distance. The proposed denoising approach is, in particular, effective for nonlocal- and few-feature signals. We applied the proposed data denoising theory to the GNSS signal type classification problem. Results indicate that GNSS signal type classification performance (microaveraging recall, i.e., $\textrm {Recall}_{\mu }$ ) can be improved by about 5% ~ 10% in a static test. For the dynamic test, about 1.5% ~ 3.5% improvement is achieved.


In this work, we report on the emergence of a photonic Hall effect (PHE) system within a narrow filtered background of a one-dimensional defective optical dielectric structure with graphene under the static QHE regime. It is observed that at low temperature and relatively strong applied magnetic fields, electromagnetic defective transmission spectra corresponding to the two decoupled right- and left-handed polarized modes possess a step-like transmission feature which are referred to as "quantum Hall defect modes" (QHD modes or QHDs) in this paper. Tunable growing transitional transmission steps for QHDs with increasing the magnetic field intensity was shown to be possible. Observation of sensitive magneto-transmission oscillations to the thermal excitations in the last plateaus with slow ascending toward unity is another special feature noted in this work. The results of this study which is carried out based on a rapid standard calculations for transfer matrix approach is supplied with commercial simulations marking the first PHE system promise an proper candidate for new photonic applications, especially new tunable magneto-based lenses and photonic magneto-thermal sensors.