The present project was the result of the common ambition of the two principal contractors to build a sonar for shelf edge deployment. For IOSDL it was to serve scientific interests, which can extend over the full range of ocean environments, and for Ultra it was the desire to exploit the trend to take offshore operations into deeper waters and the opportunities offered by cable and pipeline surveys. Ultra also wished to extend the application of their ASSET technology, developed on a different program. IOSDL have responsibility for the towfish, the sidescan arrays, the profiler and the auxiliary instrumentation. Ultra are providing the sonar electronics, the data acquisition and telemetry, the data recording and the analysis and display, using their ASSET technology and the TESSA workstation for display, processing and control.


Gas accident has become the main contradiction which constrains the safety production of coal mine. It is one of the import issues in the field of coal mine safety to identify and analyze the dangerous factors that lead gas accidents, and establish an effective early-warming support system of gas in coal mine at present. In view of the characteristics of coal mine gas disaster, a high efficient gas disaster feature extraction algorithm based on rough set is proposed, which includes two phases: The algorithm refine the gas disaster information matrix using dimensionality reduction, then uses the entropy and maximum entropy to establish data mining model of gas disaster prediction. The effectiveness and practicality of rough set theory in the prediction of gas disaster and feature extraction was confirmed through practical application.


In developed countries midwives are numerous and well-educated and provide safe care through all stages of pregnancy and birth. They have some influence on the direction of services and have also formed strong professional associations. In contrast in high-fertility countries such as sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia where perinatal maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity rates are high there are far fewer midwives. Midwives are educated from the low number of women who have received both primary and secondary education. Some midwifery schools are private and often midwives are hampered by sex discrimination. In poorer countries there are shortages of gloves and other protective clothing for midwives against HIV infection nor is sterilization always assured. Poorly equipped and overcrowded units serve high-risk women who have prolonged labor hemorrhage are unconscious with eclampsia and those who have travelled from remote parts. Midwives in rural communities face other disadvantages: cash flow problems force them also to engage in agriculture. They have little money for continuing education or for becoming members in national associations. Midwives are not automatically included in the development of safe motherhood national plans of action. Midwives have the potential to provide safe effective and low-cost care to women and help achieve reduced maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity. Every community needs midwives who are capable of sustaining themselves financially. Financing village-based midwifery services in community birth centers through low-interest bank loans could give poor women access to midwifery skills and an established referral system.


We report that methane, CH4, can be used as an efficient F-state quenching gas for trapped ytterbium ions. The quenching rate coefficient is measured to be (2.8 ± 0.3) × 106 s−1 Torr−1. For applications that use microwave hyperfine transitions of the ground-state 171Y b ions, the CH4 induced frequency shift coefficient and the decoherence rate coefficient are measured as δν/ν = (−3.6 ± 0.1) × 10−6 Torr−1 and 1/T2 = (1.5 ± 0.2) × 105 s−1 Torr−1. In our buffer-gas cooled 171Y b+ microwave clock system, we find that only ≤10−8 Torr of CH4 is required under normal operating conditions to efficiently clear the F-state and maintain ≥85% of trapped ions in the ground state with insignificant pressure shift and collisional decoherence of the clock resonance.


ABSTRACT This article analyses the factors that motivate local energy production and transition and opposing lock-ins, within the context of urban municipal energy managment, in France. A new conceptual framework, local and domestic geopolitics, is mobilized to shed light on the conflictuality of this process, the political resources activated by local authorities in front of national operators, the links between energy control and power at the local level, ultimately refocusing questions of energy justice. We present an in-depth case study of the border city of Metz, which inherited a municipal energy company founded during the German annexation. It revealed the reasons and the means by which, since the beginning of the twentieth century, energy became a local resource and its production was expanded, in spite of a centralized energy system. Local energy was found to be a political construction, serving to reinforce local authority. In the context of energy transition, it is becoming a new energy resource, local actors intending it to progressively take the place of centralized energies, a focal point of a new geopolitics of energy. Within this geopolitical landscape, the power and benefits conferred by the control of energy production is found to be a central dimension of energy justice. In Metz, this power and benefits has not been better shared than at the national level, whether in procedural, distributive, or recognition terms, serving the career of a mayor and the local finances, rather than democratization of energy choices.


The spectrum of Clostridium perfringens infections ranges from food toxino-sis to myonecrosis. In the current study, whole cell protein and toxin gene types were profiled in 12 randomly selected C. perfringens veterinary stock cultures from the University of Wisconsin, Madison to determine epidemio-logical similarity, or diversity amongst strains of animal origin. Whole cell protein analysis was done by SDS-PAGE while toxin gene typing was achieved by extracting DNA by boiling, DNA concentration and purity was determined by spectrophotometer and nanodrop while separation was carried out by checking it on gel electrophoresis. Multiplex PCR was used to identify the toxigenic gene-type. C. perfringens B and C. perfringens EE with established profiles were used as control strains. Isolates typed included strains cp 296, 309, 12872 (from dogs) and 304, 305, 306, 341, 342, 10754, 12218-2, 12218-3, 12473 (from calves). All 12 strains possess the cpa gene, 4 strains have cpb2, 3 strains etx, 2 strains positive for cpe and 1 for cpb. None of the strains carries the itx gene. Two strains have only cpa gene however no strains has more than two toxin gene types, with cpa-cpb2 combination be-ing more frequent. C. perfringens 305 (etx and cpa) and 342 (cpe and cpa) shared the same protein profile but belong to different toxinotype. It is evi-dent that the cpa gene is a marker for all C. perfringens strains, and similarity in protein profile is not sine qua non for toxin gene type.


Michel Delon : Global knowledge and discrete form. ; This article analyses in conjunction a crisis of knowledge and a crisis of form at the end of the 18th C. Delisle de Sales's De la philosophie de la Nature and Retif de la Bretonne's La philosophie de M. Nicolas exhibit similar tensions. The ambition to provide an encyclopaedic inventory of the universe conflicts with a desire to sum up experience in a single formula ; on the one hand, an itemised catalogue and on the other, the condensed maxim. In other words, relativity as against absolute truth. This contradiction was that of a period which saw the clash between materialism and a spiritual revival, and the separation between scientific and literary activity.


Abstract : Central Asia has become the forefront of US and Chinese foreign policy since its independence in 1991. The US foreign policy toward Central Asia focuses on security, economics and energy and has not changed since its development in the mid 1990's. China's foreign/regional policy toward Central Asia has developed over the past decade focusing on security of its western border to energy development and economic investment. Both countries strive for a strategic advantage in the region in order to obtain energy resources. The purpose of this monograph is to examine US and China policies toward Central Asia and provide a comparative analysis of these policies using the national instruments of power. This monograph will show that China has surpassed US influence in the region with the development and implementation of its 'grand strategy' that encompasses bilateral and multilateral relations. In order to close this apparentstrategic gap on China, the US should consider a review of it policy priorities and maximize existing relations within multilateral organization such as NATO and regional powers within Central Asia.


According to the conception of credit of construction company and analyzing the index system for assessing the credit of construction company based on the practical of construction company,a new qualitative and quantitative solution method which information entropy and the credible identification are introduced,is produced to research the assessment of the credit of construction company.Finally an actual example is given,the result shows that this method is impossiable.


We briefly review the main aspects of leptogenesis, pointing out the main reasons that draw attention to the so-called N2-dominated scenario. We consider the conditions that arise when the final asymmetry is required to be fully independent of the initial conditions. We show that in this scenario, called strong thermal leptogenesis, when barring special cancellations in the seesaw formula and in the flavoured decay parameters, a lightest neutrino mass m1 & 10 meV for normal ordering and m1 & 3 meV for inverted ordering are favoured. We shortly comment on the inclusion of corrective effects such as flavour coupling. We then focus on the SO(10)-inspired leptogenesis models that naturally realise N2-dominated leptogenesis. We show that in this scenario, and even more in combination with the strong thermal leptogenesis conditions, important predictions on the neutrino parameters are obtained. We finally point out that these predictions will be in the reach of forthcoming experiments, thus enabling us to test SO(10)-inspired and strong thermal SO(10)-inspired leptogenesis.


Alcohols are a unit gaining attention everywhere in the world has an alternate to gasolene. Among alcoholic alternative combustible fuels such as Biogas, Hydrogen, Methanol, Biodiesel and Ethanol, Ethanol is the best-listed alternative renewable and neat fuel for Spark Ignition (SI) engines as blends in various fractions boosts the oxygen content, leads to promising minimum emissions as compared to non-blended fossil fuels. Non-oxygenated gasoline-ethanol blends were prepared, with 5% to 35 % ethanol to boost the Octane rating. Iso-octane is also added in to the blends as an additive (3% to 5%). The results from the engine test for the prepared blends at constant loading conditions are analyzed and optimized by RSM and DoE. It was found that at E30 blend with 5% Iso-octane additive found minimum BSFC and higher BTE. The emission characteristics like CO, CO2, HC, and NO2 are quite low for the given maximum constant loading conditions (9kg) with setted Compression Ratio (9) and at rated speed. The perceptions produced using the test that E30 blends and 5% of additive Iso-Octane have come about better engine performance' and least 'emitants' when contrasted with other tested blends.


Question Answering (QA) is the method of automatically answering a question asked by human in natural language using either a pre-structured database or a collection of documents. It is a rising new information service following the popularization of search engines. In this paper we introduce a graph-based QA system for reading comprehension tests that pick out the sentence in the passage that best answers a given question by extracting the relations. In order to improve the accuracy of the system, we do a gender analysis, morphological analysis and synonyms check along with coreference resolution. We tested our system with 60 comprehension passages each having five questions thereby a total of 300 questions and attained an accuracy of 79.67%. We achieved best results in terms of accuracy compared to the existing system having only 40%.


The establishment and survival of the population of species in their breeding ground can be attributed to the species' reproductive characteristic and capacity. The Monopterus albus species is an introduced fish in the Philippines. It is a protogynous hermaphrodite which has a natural ability for sex reversal. This study describes the histomorphology of the different stages of gonadal maturation and determines the concentration levels of the steroid hormones 17ß-estradiol (E2) and testosterone (T) in the blood plasma. These aim to a further understanding on the gonadal development and sex differentiation of the rice paddy eel as a hermaphroditic fish. Fish samples were collected randomly from farm ponds located in three provinces within the island of Luzon, Philippines. The sexual identity of the fish was categorized based on the presence or absence of ovarian and testicular tissues. Histological analysis of the gonad showed that immature, maturing-matured female gonad exhibited ovarian tissues of varying stages. The intersex gonad showed the existence of both ovarian and testicular tissues. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to determine the concentration levels of gonadal steroid hormones. Differences in the concentration levels of the two hormones were evident across all the stages of gonad maturation. The functional role of these hormones in vitellogenesis and spermatogenesis leads to the development of this sex-changing gonads. This reproductive characteristic contributes to our understanding of the reproductive success of hermaphroditic fish.


In this talk, the research advances in millimeter wave and THz antennas with MEMS process in the State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves (SKLMMW), Southeast University, are reviewed, including multibeam antennas, reflectarray antennas and lenses etc.


Public speech is an art.It presents the features of formal written language while exhibiting characteristics of the spoken.Barack Obama,an excellent speaker,addressed his victory speech on NOV 5,2008 in Chicago.This speech,which is very convincing,is considered a classic.This paper analyses the speech from four aspects:content,grammatical features,lexical features and semantic features.


The evaluation of characteristic numbers for trees has been done either by drawing the graph trees or by setting up a "primitive node-pair connection matrix." In this paper a new algorithm called the foldant is proposed. This is an algebraic method equivalent to the drawing of the graph trees. When a node, say node n , is superposed upon another node, say node 1, any branch ni , where i is any third node, is now parallel to the branch li . This geometrical transformation can be described by the algorithm of the foldant. As a direct application, Maxwell's rule of the driving point admittance which is described in the Appendix of his classic book. can be rewritten in terms of the foldant. Thus, as far as the computation of driving point admittance is concerned, it is no longer necessary to write down a set of node or loop equations nor to remember the lengthy statement of Maxwell's original rule. In this paper, pertinent theorems are given, together with proofs. Examples are given to clarify the method of computation.


The S-matrix for a spin 1/2 particle in the presence of a potential which is the sum of the Coulomb potential Vc = −A1/r and a Lorentz scalar potential Vs = −A2/r is calculated. PACS numbers:03.65.Pm,11.80.-m ⋆ e-mail:firstname.lastname@example.com


The Asian part of Russia, including the territories of Siberia and the Far East, is a macro region with great potential for international affairs development, especially with APEC member countries. Natural resources, industrial, scientific, and educational potential forms the base for trade and economic cooperation between Russia and APEC. The geographic location of the Asian section of Russia creates a natural transport bridge between Europe and the Asian-Pacific region, which requires the development of modern transport infrastructure. This paper analyzes some projects for developing a railway network directed toward APEC, which give the transport basis for integrating Russian and APEC markets, and shows the possibility of its economic development and growth.


Objective To observe the activity of heat shock protein 27 antibody in blood serum in an experimental rat midel of high intraocular pressure and analyze the relation between intraocular pressure and heat shock protein 27 antibody in blood serum. Methods 51 Wistar rats were randomly divided into high intraocular pressure group(n=34),Sham control group(n=17).Intraocular pressure(IOP)was elevated by electrocoagulation of three episcleral and limbal veins in the right eye of rats.1 W,2W,4W,6W,8W after operation,the rats were sacrificed in batches after the intraocular pressure of two eyes of each rat was measured and 1 ml blood serum was gathered for ELISA to determine the level of heat shock protein 27 antibody in blood serum.Results The right eye of high intraocular pressure group showed obviously elevated intraocular pressure.The intraocular pressure was 15.00±2.498(mmHg) before operation,27.44±2.776(mmHg)3 days later,33.96±2.603(mmHg) 2W later,and 35.50±2.390(mmHg) after 8W.The difference was significant between the right eye of high intraocular pressure group and between the two eyes of sham control group(P0.05),so was the diflerence between high intraocular pressure group and sham control group(P0.05 ).Conclusions Along with high intraocular pressure and duration of elevated IOP,levels of hsp27 antibody in blood serum increase gradually.


In the past decade a number of fixed sampling methods have been developed for selecting the "best" or at least a "good" subset of vaiable in regression analysis. We are interested in deriving a sequential selection procedure to select a subset of a random size including equations. Tables for an example are given at the end of this paper


Translational spline shaft is an aircraft part which is required to have light weight and great load-carrying ability.The optimal design of the shaft is carried out,the stress and deformation of the shaft in every optimal iteration is calculated by means of a finit element method.and the lightest structrue of the spline shaft that meets the requirement of the given strength and stiffness is presented in the papor.


The large, ancient ape population of the Miocene reached across Eurasia and down into Africa. From this genetically diverse group, the chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and humans evolved from populations of successively reduced size. Using the findings of genomics, population genetics, cognitive science, neuroscience, and archaeology, the authors construct a theoretical framework of evolutionary innovations without which religious capacity could not have emerged as it did. They begin with primate sociality and strength from a basic ape model, and then explore how the human line came to be the most adaptive and flexible of all, while coming from populations with reduced genetic variability. Their analysis then delves into the importance of neurological plasticity and a lengthening developmental trajectory, and points to their following article and the last building block: the expansion of the parietal areas, which allowed visuospatial reckoning, and imagined spaces and beings essential to human theologies. Approximate times for the major cognitive building blocks of religious capacity are given.


We are happy for reading the article published in your journal which is about the possible effect of stroke type on lower urinary tract dysfunction in stroke patients as we are interested in this topic and also have a previous report on. Although identical definitions which we first described in our study such as persistent bladder dysfunction (inability to initiate spontaneous voiding, presence of persistent incontinence or urinary frequency at 30 days or more after the stroke), urine storage dysfunction (bladder capacity <300ml), and urine emptying dysfunction (post-void residual urine >50ml) and nearly identical methodology are used in this new study without citing our report in the materials and methods section, the authors had reported that their results contradicted to ours. In the discussion section of their paper they had mistakenly written that we had had reported detrusor overactivity (DO) in 73.3% and 63.3% and detrusor underactivity (DU) in 13.3% and 51.5% in hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke subgroups, respectively. These percentages are frequencies for storage and emptying disorders, respectively, but not the frequencies of DO and DU. By this classification two basic functions of lower urinary tract can be determined globally. As DO is only one of the factors that may cause storage dysfunction besides underactive sphincters and abnormal sensation, and DU is again only one of the factors that may cause emptying dysfunction besides overactive-incoordinated sphincters and any disturbance that may cause outlet obstruction, comparison of our percentages those were given for storage and emptying disorders is not appropriate with their percentages those are determined for DO and DU. They attributed the difference among the percentages in two studies which is a result of this inappropriate comparison to exclusion of patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) cystopathy, BPH, previous pelvic surgery, spinal cord injury, and other neurological etiology. We had also excluded patients with previous pelvic surgery, spinal cord injury and other neurologic etiology of lower urinary tract dysfunction and we also excluded the patients with a history of urinary incontinence before stroke which may include severe DM cystopathy patients. However, we did not exclude patients with DM and BPH. We feel that if we had excluded patients with DM, the included patients would not be a real sample for ischemic stroke patients as many of ischemic stroke patients had DM as etiological factor. As the ischemic and hemorrhagic groups are not statistically different with respect to age and gender in our study BPH frequencies in groups should not differ dramatically. A critical point to mention is that although Han et al. used the same definitions for storage and emptying disorders those we had used in our study in the methodology section of their study they did not present the frequencies of these disorders in the results section. Bladder dysfunction is common in stroke patients but its frequency changes according to the time passed after stroke as cerebral shock, recovery, and hypertonicity (spasticity) occurs. In acute stroke, urinary incontinence has been reported in 47% of the patients and urinary retention has been reported in 47% of them. Urinary incontinence frequency has been reported as 19% in the sixth month of the stroke. Resolution of urinary retention in about 95% of the patients in several months following the stroke has also been reported. Similarly the frequencies of detrusor areflexia were reported as 85% in hemorrhagic and 10% in ischemic stroke patients who were evaluated within 72 hr of the cerebrovascular accident which reflected early post-stroke period. However, in our study which included stroke patients with persistent bladder dysfunction and a post-stroke interval of 159 days (mean; median: 103, range: 39–1389 days; late post-stroke period) the frequencies of DO were 73.3% and 54.5% in hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke patients, respectively. Therefore storage and emptying dysfunction and DU, DO frequencies may change dramatically in studies with patient populations of different post-stroke intervals as we reported in our study previously. When we focused on the post-stroke interval of the stroke population in the study of Han et al. which might explain the differences between DO frequencies, we were deeply surprised as the median and minimum–maximum values were identical digit-to-digit to our study group (median: 103, range: 39–1389 days). In conclusion, it seems possible to say that knowing the type of stroke (hemorrhagic or ischemic) in subacute and chronic stroke patients with persistent bladder dysfunction may be helpful in determination of the type of urinary dysfunction (storage and emptying) and in choosing the appropriate bladder management strategy in daily practice but post-stroke interval of the patient should be taken into account as frequencies may change in the different stages of post-stroke recovery and sequele period. In the cases with severe lower urinary tract dysfunction unresponsive to simple clinical approaches urodynamic studies should be carried out.


The Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) is the most commonly used self‐report instrument to measure sexual functioning among women cancer survivors. Despite this, the validity and reliability of the FSFI for use in cancer populations has not been established.


Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are battery-powered ad-hoc networks in which sensor nodes are scattered over a region. These networks have high node density but highly resourceconstraint in terms of size, power and bandwidth. Most of the existing sensor networks focus on homogeneous sensor networks, but these networks have poor performance in terms of energy consumption and network life time. So it is required to analyse the heterogeneous sensor network (HSN) model for better performance. Adjusting the transmission power of each node instead of using same power level to all nodes is the method used in HSN to reduce energy consumption. HSN with adaptive transmission power control (ATPC) of low-end sensors are analysed in terms of energy consumption and network life time and compared it with HSN without power control. But ununiform load distribution has been taken place. In this paper, Load balancing is also applied over HSN with ATPC and it is compared with HSN with ATPC. Simulation results prove that heterogeneous sensor networks with ATPC and Load balancing outperform the heterogeneous sensor networks with ATPC alone in terms of energy consumption and network life time.


Reaction of Δ1, 10-hexahydroquinolizine (I) with methyl iodide in various solvents were carried out. The reaction in the presence of methanol or ethanol proceeded at low temperature to give 10-methoxy-5-methyloctahydroquinclizinium iodide (IIIa) or the corresponding 10-ethoxy methiodide (IIIb), respectively, besides the methiodide (II). Using 70% aqueous methanol as a solvent, the reaction gave 1-methyl-6-decahydroazecinone (IV) accompanied with IIIa and II. The reaction in 70% aqueous tetrahydrofuran or aqueous acetone led to the formation of V besides II. Methiodides, IIIa and IIIb, were respectively converted into IV by heating with hydrobromic acid.


The invention discloses a regulation and control method for reducing heat damage to rice, especially a method for increasing the rice pollen viability and pollen germination rate under high temperature, and thereby increasing the rice seed setting rate under high temperature. Rice seeds are sown in seedling field for seedling culture at the end of March. Seedlings are transplanted into pots at the end of April, wherein the soil in the pots contains: 23.2g*kg of organic matter, 95.2mg*kg of available nitrogen, 22.5mg*kg of rapid available phosphorus and 82.6mg*kg of rapid available potassium. Each pot contains 3 seedlings. Before transplanting, 2g of urea and 0.5g of monopotassium phosphate are applied to each pot as base fertilizer. After 7 days of transplanting, 0.5g of urea is applied to each pot. 0.6g of urea is applied to each pot in the panicle initiation stage. Under the condition of high temperature, at the beginning of the rice breach stage, a regulating agent containing 10g/L of ABA, 1.5mmol/L of salicylic acid, and 10g/L of 6-BA is sprayed for continuous 3 days. The regulating agent is required to be evenly sprayed on rice plants, wherein it is required that each plant is totally wetted by the regulating agent. By use of the regulation and control method, the rice pollen viability and pollen germination rate under high temperature are greatly increased, and thereby the rice seed setting rate is greatly increased; damage to rice caused by high temperature is reduced.


This study demonstrates the clinical utility of a targeted gene sequencing panel "the Lymphopanel," which enables the detection of actionable mutations and subtype-enriched gene alterations in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma that will pave the way to precision therapy era for patients with this form of aggressive lymphoma. Clin Cancer Res; 22(12); 2829–31. ©2016 AACR. See related article by Dubois et al., p. 2919


One of the core issues of mergers acquisitions(MA) of Chinese automobile industry is how to promote sustainable innovation capability effectively.This paper combines system dynamics with the strategic map,builds system dynamics model,and simulates and analyzes main variable.It shows that reasonable post-merger integration model can enhance sustainable innovation capability,perfect mechanism of cooperative efforts of industry and university and research institute is the key to raise the level of cooperative efforts,share of self-owned brands and sustainable innovation capability can promote each other,and market concentration can not directly enhance sustainable innovation capability.Only the mutual coordination and integration of the main factors can enhance the sustainable innovation capability effectively.


We demonstrate that videofeedback augmented with one or two mirrors can produce stationary fractal patterns obtained by an iterated function system (IFS) with two transformations (one with a reflection, one without), and with four transformations (two with reflections, one without, one with a 180° rotation). Camera placement yielding only a partial image in one or both mirrors can be achieved using IFS with memory. The IFS rules are obtained from the images of three non-collinear points in each of the principal pieces of the image.


A method first employed for face recognition has been employed to analyse a set of chest x-ray images. After marking certain common features on the images, they are registered by means of an affine transformation. The differences between each registered image and the mean of all images in the set are computed and the first K principal components are found, where K is less than or equal to the number of images in the set. These form eigenimages (we have coined the term 'eigenchests') from which an approximation to any one of the original images can be reconstructed. Since the method effectively treats each pixel as a dimension in a hyperspace, the matrices concerned are huge; we employ the method developed by Turk and Pentland for face recognition to make the computations tractable. The K coefficients for the eigenimages encode the variation between images and form the basis for discriminating normal from abnormal. Preliminary results have been obtained for a set of eigenimages formed from a set of normal chests and tested on separate sets of normals and patients with pneumonia. The distributions of coefficients have been observed to be different for the two test sets and work is continuing to determine the most sensitive method for detecting the differences.


To analyze the diagnostic utility of lung ultrasound (US) to detect interstitial lung disease (ILD) in Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients comparing with high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT).Study design: We performed a cross-sectional, observational study in patients with RA-ILD (cases) controlled with a gruop of RA patients without ILD (controls) paired by sex, age and time of disease evolution.Protocol: Patients were selected between May and September 2019. Patients were interwied by two rheumathologist for the protocolized collection of clinical data. The patients were assessed using HRCT, Pulmonary Function Test (PFT) and lung US.. The rheumatology who performed the lung US were blinded to patients clinical data. Variables: (1) B-lines number; (2) evaluation of the lung- ultrasound score already described: L. Gargani, Gutiérrez comprehensivo, Gutiérrez reducido and Mohhammadi;(3)pleural irregularities; (4) A pattern US lost;(5). Other variables included demographic, clinical-analytical, therapeutic and ILD-type description. Statistical analysis: descriptive, bivariant analysis. We applied Pearson's correlation coefficient between B-lines, PFT and clinical variable.Furthermore, to establish the cut-off point of the US B-lines number for detecting the presence of significant AR-ILD in relation to HRCT, we used the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis. A logistic regression analysis was performed to identify the intercostal spaces (IV: B-lines number in each space) wich wereindependently associated with ILD (DV: ILD in HRCT).71 patients were included, 37 (52,1%) with ILD-RA and 34 (47,95) RA controls. The main characteristics are shown in Table 1. RA-ILD presented more B-lines number than control without ILD (median ICR] 91.0 [31.0-149.0] vs 6.5 [1.5-30.5]; p=<0.001) and more pleural irregularities (PI) [PI-median(ICR) 41.0 (5.0-57.5) vs 2.5 (0.0-7.2); p<0,001]. Furthermore, RA-ILD showed a negative correlation between B-lines and DLCO(r =-0.337, p=0.048)and positive with DAS28 (r =0.347, p=0.035). Regarding US score, we found that the detection of 32.5 B-lines in 72 intercostal spaces, had aSensitivity of 75.7%, Specifity=79.4%, PPV= 80% and NPV=75%,whilst in reduced score of 10 intercostal spaces, the detection of 5.5 B-lines had a sensivity= 62.2%,Specifity= 91.3%, PPV=88.4%, NPV=69.5%. In multivariate analysis, the intercostal spaces which showed independent association with ILD were 3rdright anterior axillary space(OR [IC 95%] 19.0 [1.3-27.5]), 8thright posterior axillary space (OR [IC 95%] 0.04 [0.0-0.6]), 8thright subescapular space (OR [IC 95%] 16.5 [1.8-45.5]),9thright paravertebral space (OR [IC 95%] 7.11 [1.0-37.1]) and 2ndleft clavicular middle space(OR [IC 95%] 21.9 [1,26-37.8]).Lung Ultrasoud could be a useful tool for interstitial lung disease diagnosis associated with Rheumatoid Artrithis. A 10 space reduced score showed a similar total predictive capacity than 72-space scoreNone declared


Visual emulation Technology is one of the important parts of VR systems. It takes charge of Vision issue in VR systems, and is the most important fact to affect the immersive of the system. To deal with the difficulties of one type artillery radar, such as limited training field, serious radar loss and expensive training outlay, a training simulator system is realized based on scene simulation technologies. Composition structure, function module and key technologies of the system are discussed first. This system is then developed with tools of Multigen-Creator, Vega, VC++6.0, and a living virtual battlefield environment is created. The emulation pictures are listed, the results show that the emulation system simulates operation process of artillery radar livingly and can meet the requirements of real time emulation.


Due to the fact that theoretical analysis and instrument construction for antenna array of synthetic aperture imaging radiometer (SAIR) are both complicated, and designers usually hope to predict the imaging effect and analysis the influence of the parameters of SAIR before the system design. The simulation is a very useful method in the system design of SAIR. This paper is devoted to establishing an accurate imaging model of near-field millimeter wave SAIR for simulating the imaging process that include target radiating electromagnetic wave, antenna collecting target radiation and transforming them into RF signal, and antenna array collecting the visibility function. By using the equivalent complex baseband signals to represent the practical target radiation and RF signals in time domain, the efficiency of this simulation model is improved significantly. Some characteristics of near-filed millimeter wave SAIR are verified by a series of simulation experiments, and the effectiveness of this imaging model is tested by these simulation experiments. Results of the imaging simulation experiment show that this model is an efficient, feasible imaging model for near-field millimeter wave SAIR.


Acoustic waves initiated by a large temperature gradient along a tube are defined as thermal acoustic oscillations (TAOs). These oscillations have been damped by introducing such sound absorbing techniques as acoustic filters, resonators, etc.. These devices serve as an acoustic sink that is used to absorb or dissipate the acoustic energy thereby eliminating or damping such oscillations. Several empirical damping techniques, such as attaching a resonator as a side branch or inserting a wire in the tube, have been developed in the past and have provided reasonable success. However, the effect of connecting tube radius, length, and resonator volume on the damping of thermal acoustic oscillations has not been evaluated quantitatively. Further, these methods have not been effective when the oscillating tube radius was relatively large. Detailed theoretical analyses of these techniques including a newly developed method for damping oscillations in a tube of relatively large radius are provided in this presentation.


ABSTRACT Globalisation, migration, socio-political shifts, and access to the internet are increasing the religious and belief diversity of Irish society. This flux presents challenges for young people who are endeavouring to establish a secure identity. The focus of this research was to understand how the identity development of post-primary students of minority faith or worldview, is impacted by attending a school with a Catholic ethos. The research methodology was qualitative. To provide an opportunity for students to voice their experiences, 18 post-primary students of minority faith or worldview were interviewed. Thematic analysis was used to identify the findings. Reflecting on an interpretivist paradigm, the epistemology which underpinned this research was constructivism. While theories of adolescent moral and identity development alongside theories of othering, conformity, and agency supported the research study. The findings report some students struggled to find a secure identity due to conflicting societal, school, peer, and family beliefs. Perceived negative stereotyping of their beliefs created feelings of otherness with implications for students' self-esteem. Students' sense of belonging and well-being was impacted on by Catholic-centric school practices combined with current provision to 'opt-out' from Religious Education classes. However, the research also found human agency resulted in a kaleidoscope of student responses to the inherent challenges of adolescent identity development.


Marie Bergeron, Olivier Dauwalder, Manolo Gouy, Anne-Marie Freydiere, Michèle Bes, et al.. Species identification of staphylococci by amplification and sequencing of the tuf gene compared to the gap gene and by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry.. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Springer Verlag, 2011, 30 (3), pp.343-54. .


The poetry of John Donne is replete with elaborate metaphors. As the products of an age of nascent imperialism and colonization, the metaphors he uses to describe the concept of love demonstrate his deep preoccupation with the question of imperial domain. These metaphors have mostly been studied in the light of his political and religious tendencies. However, according to cognitive poetics as a recent literary discipline, these metaphors are windows across the way the poet understands different concepts. Lakoff and Johnson argue that the metaphor is not merely a linguistic matter, but our very conceptual system is fundamentally metaphorical, and we understand the world metaphorically. A cognitive poetic approach will help us reveal This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Ovaj rad dostupan je za upotrebu pod licencom Creative Commons Imenovanje 4.0 međunarodna. UDK 821.111-1.09 Donne, J.=111


The main thrust of this paper is to sociologically analyze the significant role of women portrayed in the Progressive Telugu Literature related to Telangana Peasant Movement. The present study seeks to overcome this dissociation between the cultural/literary and the social/political spheres, by looking at these phenomena within the perspective developed in sociology of literature. Women played a crucial part in the heroic Telangana Movement and made innumerable sacrifices and showed enormous courage and determination which were depicted in Progressive Telugu Literature. Literature in this respect, is Sui genesis, represents a resource of society, which can perform its social function, through its own 'truth'. It is possible, by doing so, to propose a reading of Progressive Telugu Literature which will simultaneously yield an understanding of the role of women partici- pants in the Telangana Peasant Movement. The main thrust of this paper is to sociologically analyse the sig- nificant role of women portrayed in the Progressive Telugu Lit- erature (PTL) related to Telangana Peasant Movement (TPM) of 1940's and 1950's. The PTL as well as the TPM attracted schol- arly, ideological, partisan and popular attention during the peri- od of cultural and socio/political movements. But, mostly these two developments have been handed in dissociation from each other. The present paper seeks to overcome this dissociation between the cultural-literary and the socio-political spheres, by examining these phenomena within the perspective developed in sociology of literature. It is possible, by doing so, to propose a reading of PTL, which will simultaneously yield an understand- ing of the role of women in the TPM. Before venturing into the sociological analysis of different forms of PTL in order to focus on the role played by women in TPM, it is important to give a brief description of the Telangana Peasant Movement and related literary movement and the methodology adopted for the analysis.


H istory has not often dealt generously with the artist who, convinced of his own greatness, has inflexibly opposed all who failed to follow his precepts and scorned, almost on principle, all innovations of style or technique. The objective judgments of later generations have generally found such men to be of only modest talent-except in winning friends and enemies. Although Ingres was such a man, opinionated, intolerant and touchy, time has not decreased his stature, for in at least one important opinion he was right: he was an artist of genius, truly touched by the divine fire, and the rules he followed were right-for him. His foibles and quarrels are all but forgotten. His work speaks authoritatively for itself. A number of recent monographs and compilations offer ample evidence of an increasing and ever-widening rather than diminishing interest in it. 1 Yet, although it has been re-studied and re-estimated from a variety of points of view, surprisingly little that is new has altered earlier judgments. The opinions of his perceptive contemporaries, both those of his party and those in opposition to him, and his own estimate of his own worth stand as unusually accurate and just. Two aspects of Ingres' auvre, the narrow limits of its stylistic changes, and the constant repetition of certain subjects, combine to make him a unique figure in French painting. Is there any other artist of Ingres' strength, power and originality, who, painting during a comparable span of years (at least seventy), changed so little in point of view and handling, or returned so often to the same subject-matter, repeating compositions not afresh but each time nearly identically or simply in reverse? Delecluze, the famous critic and lifelong friend of Ingres, was surely aware that this changelessness had its limitations as well as its excellences when, more than fifty years later, he looked back to their youthful days in David's studio: ". .. Ingres n'a chang6 ni de physionomie ni de maniere depuis son adolescence. ... Ce qui est vrai de sa personne ne l'est pas moins de son caractere, qui a conserv6 un fond d'honnetet6 rude qui ne transige jamais avec rien d'injuste et de mal, et de son esprit, qui s'est toujours maintenu dans la meme region. C'est un de ces hommes qui ont 6t6 mis au monde comme on coule une statue de bronze. . . . Tout ce qui caract6rise aujourd'hui le talent de cet artiste, la finesse de contour, le sentiment vrai et profond de la forme et un model6 d'une justesse et d'une fermet6 extraordinaires, toutes ces qualites se faisaient deji remarquer dans ses premiers essais."2 The bronze seems to have been poured even before the young artist arrived in Paris in 1797. A number of factors had shaped its mould. Probably it was at Toulouse that its design took on the distinguishing and contrasting characteristics of amplitude and restriction. Ingres' earliest surviving drawing 1 J. Alazard, J. D. Ingres '1780-1867; quatorze dessins, Paris, Musees Nationaux, I942. R. C. E. Longa, Ingres inconnu, Paris, Librairie Rombaldi, 1942. M. Malingue, Ingres, Monaco (Les documents d'art), 1943. J. Mathey, Ingres, Paris (lditions Olivier Lesourd), I945. P. Courthion, Ingres: Pensies et icrits du Peintre (Les Grands Artistes), VisenazGeneve (Pierre Cailler editeur), 1947; J. Cassou, Ingres, Bruxelles, 1947 (ltditions de la Connaissance, S.A.) ; Ingres: JPcrits sur l'Art.


This paper reviews the OA history of china,introduces the development process of OA technology and compares the popular OA technology.


PURPOSE: A positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery is provided to have high power property due to an excellent conductivity. CONSTITUTION: A positive electrode active material(100) for a lithium secondary battery comprises microporous carbon-based material(13), an assembly of lithium composite compounds(10), and carbon layer(15) formed on the surface of the assembly. The microporous carbon-based material is an activated carbon, a carbide-derived carbon, a carbon nanotube, a carbon nanofiber, an expansion carbon, an expansion graphite or a combination thereof. The mean size of the microporous carbon-based material is 100nm-10micron. The specific surface area of the microporous carbon-based material is 50-3000m/g. The mean size of the lithium complex compound is 100nm-10micron.


The increasing level of violence in our society is spilling over into our schools. A survey by the The Commission on Youth Protection one in 4...


Context: Potentially hazardous asteroids (PHA) in Earth-crossing orbits pose a constant threat to life on Earth. Several mitigation methods have been proposed, and the most feasible technique appears to be the disintegration of the impactor and the generation of a fragment cloud by explosive penetrators at interception. However, mitigation analyses tend to neglect the effect of orbital dynamics on the trajectory of fragments. Aims: We aim to study the effect of orbital dynamics of the impactor's cloud on the number of fragments that hit the Earth, assuming different interception dates. We investigate the effect of self-gravitational cohesion and the axial rotation of the impactor. Methods: We computed the orbits of 10^5 fragments with a high-precision direct N-body integrator of the eighth order, running on GPUs. We considered orbital perturbations from all large bodies in the Solar System and the self-gravity of the cloud fragments. Results: Using a series of numerical experiments, we show that orbital shear causes the fragment cloud to adopt the shape of a triaxial ellipsoid. The shape and alignment of the triaxial ellipsoid are strongly modulated by the cloud's orbital trajectory and, hence, the impact cross-section of the cloud with respect to the Earth. Therefore, the number of fragments hitting the Earth is strongly influenced by the orbit of the impactor and the time of interception. A minimum number of impacts occur for a well-defined orientation of the impactor rotational axis, depending on the date of interception. Conclusions: To minimise the lethal consequences of an PHA's impact, a well-constrained interception timing is necessary. A too-early interception may not be ideal for PHAs in the Apollo or Aten groups. Thus, we find that the best time to intercept PHA is when it is at the pericentre of its orbit.


The association between body mass index (BMI) and mortality continues to defy easy characterization. In this issue, Sauvaget and colleagues1 report elevated BMI to be unrelated to mortality risk in a rural Indian population. In fact, their results could be interpreted to suggest that overweight Asian-Indians have reduced mortality. At the same time, underweight (BMI <18.5 kg/m2) was associated with increased risk. Given the attention paid to excess weight as a public health problem worldwide, the lack of association between elevated BMI and mortality may seem surprising. Studies in both Asia and the West have been mixed regarding the relation between mildly excessive BMI and mortality2–4. Little data exist regarding the body mass–mortality relationship in India, although BMI was reported to be unrelated to mortality in an urban cohort,5 similar to the findings in this issue.

India is undergoing an epidemiologic transition in which chronic conditions replace communicable disease as major causes of morbidity and death.6 In Kerala, the state in which this study took place, life expectancy approaches that of many Western industrialized nations (for example, in 2000, life expectancy at birth is 74.6 years in Kerala,7 compared with 77 years in the US).8 Indeed, data on the patterns of deaths in Kerala increasingly mirror those in the US.9

Is the emerging concern regarding overweight and obesity in India overstated? To the contrary, evidence indicates that adiposity is increasing in India, that it is associated with cardio-metabolic risk factors, diabetes and cardiovascular disease,10,11 and that mortality from these conditions is increasing.12 Diabetes is a particular concern, both as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and for the high human and economic cost of micro-vascular disease complications. While this study is important in highlighting the continued risk of low BMI on mortality, in this comment we argue that one needs to be cautious in interpreting this study to suggest that excess weight is benign or possibly even protective.

Although studies such as this appear to pose a simple question, the BMI–mortality relation is complicated. Study populations are usually composed of subjects varying substantially in age and health status, with deaths concentrated in the older or sicker members. Disease is often accompanied by weight loss; in mortality studies this leads to a flattened dose–response.13 This observation is borne out by the weak or null associations often reported in populations of subjects who are older or have chronic health conditions.14–16 Morbidity is reported to be prevalent in many Asian-Indian populations, making this relevant. Most studies evaluate BMI collected at a single point in time, and consequently are unable to consider the pattern of body mass over the lifespan. They answer the question, 'How is body mass late in life related to mortality risk?' Although important, the answer may differ depending on disease status. For purposes of setting weight guidelines the more relevant questions might be framed as: 'To maximize longevity, what BMI should a young adult maintain over a lifetime?' or 'What constitutes a healthy pattern of BMI over the course of adulthood?'

Although the current study takes a step in the right direction by examining short-term weight change, methods are not described completely, and baseline BMI does not appear to have been taken into account, making these analyses difficult to interpret. That said, what are factors that could explain the lack of association between elevated BMI and mortality in this study?

First, participants having low to normal BMI were men, tended to have lower socioeconomic status (SES) and education and were smokers—all characteristics associated with increased risk. Conversely, those having high BMI were women, tended to have high SES and education and were never smokers—characteristics associated with lower risk. The authors did employ both statistical adjustment and stratification, but BMI was imbalanced across multiple characteristics: it may be that the survival advantages of being a woman, never smoker and having a high SES more than offset the disadvantage of high BMI; i.e. that the results may be influenced by residual confounding.

Second, body mass was moderate in this population; the highest category is defined by BMI ≥27.5 kg/m2 in the primary analysis (Table 2) and ≥25 kg/m2 in secondary analyses. Fewer than 3% were obese by western criteria. Based on studies in the West, strong associations would not be expected. These moderate BMIs suggest that overweight in this population may be a relatively recent phenomenon; i.e. for most individuals excess weight has not been a long-term burden. The consequences of excess weight may be more pronounced where intermediate risk factors have exerted their pathological effects over many decades.17

Third, the ability of BMI, a general measure of relative weight, to optimally capture the health consequences of adiposity in Asians is frequently questioned. Abdominal obesity is common, characterized by a high proportion of visceral fat and reduced muscle mass. Evidence suggests that abdominal adiposity more strongly predicts chronic disease than does BMI: Waist–hip ratio was strongly related to all-cause mortality in urban Chinese women18 and to acute myocardial infarction10 in urban Asian Indians, whereas BMI was not. Use of BMI may misclassify subjects with respect to the metabolic obesity.

Fourth and most interesting, is the possibility that subjects were protected by some aspect of lifestyle. Although Kerala has become a developed, urbanized state, the majority of participants (80%) in the parent study were described as manual workers19 and so are likely to have higher energy expenditure than other populations: effect modification of the body mass–mortality association by physical activity would be consistent with the attenuated association observed in this study. Similarly, although the Asian-Indian diet is high in fat, it also includes spices, nuts and legumes that confer some degree of protection.

The study appears to be appropriately designed and analysed, although some apparent inconsistencies (e.g. a large number of 'newly eligible subjects' described in appendix but not in the methods, apparent error in summing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular deaths in Table 4) preclude full confidence in these results. Nevertheless, the study is thought provoking. Relatively, few cohort studies have reported on the relation between body mass and mortality in Asia, fewer yet from India and to our knowledge these are first cohort results from a rural Indian population.

The relationship between body mass and mortality is complex, and these uncertainties are compounded by differences in environmental and genetic factors present in India, as well as the rapid transition to industrialization and the accompanying westernization of lifestyle. The complete picture is not yet clear, but there are ample reasons for continued concern about obesity in India.


Russia, Women and Expression… On the Strategies of Removing the Stranger from Translation of Leonid Andreev's Short Story: Žiznʹ Vasiliâ Fivejskogo
The article presents a comparative analysis of two Polish translations of Leonid Andreev's short story Жизнь Василия Фивейского, made by: Stanislawa Kruszewska (Żywot Bazylego Fiwejskiego) and Henryk and Jan Zbierzchowski (Życie o. Wasyla / Ojciec Wasyl z Teb). The aim of the comparison is to describe numerous types of manipulation strategies used by Zbierzchowski brothers in order to adjust the story to the norms of target culture. The changes in their translation are related to cultural, aesthetic and gender "strangeness", which has been removed from the text. In the Author's opinion, most of the assimilating strategies used by translators should be analyzed in the context of Henryk Zbierzchowski's literary works.


Momentum transfer from shock waves (SWs) of various intensity (from 0.05 to 0.5 MPa in amplitude) to water containing air bubbles 2.5 mm of mean diameter is studied both experimentally and by means of numerical simulation. The experiments are performed in a vertical shock tube of a 50 × 100 mm rectangular cross section consisting of a 495-millimeter long high-pressure section (HPS), 495-millimeter long low-pressure section (LPS), and 990-millimeter long test section (TS) equipped with an air bubbler and ¦lled with water. The experiments have shown that as the gas volume fraction in water increases from 0 to 0.3, the momentum imparted in bubbly water by shock waves increases monotonically, gradually leveling o ̈ at an air volume fraction of about 0.20€0.25. The experimental data are con¦rmed by twodimensional (2D) simulation of SW propagation in bubbly water both


Soil and groundwater salinity associated with limited rainfall are the challenges for checking salinity build‐up in semi‐arid regions. This field experiment was conducted to test the impact of deficit saline irrigation (DSI) (in winter) with mulching and tillage on salinity build‐up, yield and nutritive value of rainfed‐forage sorghum. Tillage (reduced, conventional and zero), saline water (8.0 dS m−1) irrigation (100%, 80% and 60% of water requirement [WR] in wheat) and mulch were allocated following split factorial layout. DSI with mulching produced at par wheat and sorghum yield compared with 100WR irrigation with harvested rainwater. Mulching improved wheat grain yield and the soil water content by ~13% throughout the cropping season. Forage sorghum yield was increased by DSI and mulching in the previous season compared with irrigation with 100WR saline water. Reduced tillage declined the neutral detergent fibre (NDF), acid detergent fibre (ADF) and acid detergent lignin (ADL) with an increase in cell soluble constituents. DSI and mulching also increased the digestible nutrient, crude protein (CP), ash and reduced ADF of sorghum. Soil salinity showed a negative correlation with CP, positive correlation with ADF, ADL and cellulose. Therefore, it is recommended that DSI and reduced tillage with mulching can be a reliable option for productive use of saline soils and water by cropping system intensification. These results also showed the potential for achieving 2030 agenda for sustainable development goals as well as targets of land degradation neutrality in salt‐affected soils by savings irrigation, doubling cropping intensity and preventing salinity build‐up.


We examine the Amplitude-Encoding (AE) case of the Double Random Phase Encoding (DRPE) technique. A cost function is the function we use to evaluate an attempted decryption with our original input image. For systems with a relatively small key-space we can evaluate the output of every key to get an overall idea of the spread of these keys in key-space. However for larger systems this is not practical. Based on a normalised root mean squared cost function we wish to identify expressions for the mean and variance of the output (decrypted) intensity for a sample set of keys in a large system (256x256 pixels).


Abstract : The equilibrium partial pressures of the gaseous species in halide activated cementation packs have been determined with the computer program SOLGASMIX. The effects of the activator and the composition of the masteralloy on the coating process have been investigated. The activities of aluminum and chromium have been incorporated into the calculations and sodium chloride the results indicate that codeposition of Al and Cr is possible using sodium chloride, aluminum chloride or ammonium chloride as activators and Al-Cr masteralloys with compositions between 90 w/o and 95 w/o Cr. In contrasting the coating of nickel or iron substrates, the partial pressures of Ni halides are considerably lower than those of the Fe halides, indicating that displacement reactions occur when Fe substrates are coated. The upper limits for the surface composition of the coating have been predicted for different masteralloy compositions. Pack cementation is a modified chemical vapor deposition process carried out in a closed container at elevated temperatures (usually 1000 C). Aluminide, silicide and chromium coatings for hot corrosion and oxidation resistance are applied using this technique especially for aircraft turbine components.


The invention discloses a character input method for a touch screen based on a rectangular lattice. The method comprises the following steps that: 1, a virtual rectangular lattice which is called a stroke lattice is established in advance on the touch screen; 2, in a writing process on the touch screen, an inputer selects corresponding lattice points from the stroke lattice according to character stroke writing habits, and connects the lattice points to form a connecting line of lines similar to strokes, wherein the connecting line is called a stroke connecting line; 3, a computer detects a motion trail formed by touch operations of the inputer on the touch screen, and identifies the stroke connecting line; 4, the computer converts the identified stroke connecting line into the corresponding strokes; and 5, the computer matches an input stroke sequence consisting of one to a plurality of strokes with characters to obtain all matched characters for input. The input method is consistent with the writing habits of the inputer; the inputer is only required to write on the stroke lattice by imitating the strokes of the characters; and writing operations of the inputer on the stroke lattice are constrained.


ITO (tin doped indium oxide) coatings with a sheet resistance of 2 to 3 kΩ(square) were produced by gravure printing process on PET and PEN foil. The printing paste consisted of ITO nanoparticles which were dispersed in a solvent by using a surfactant. The dispersion was mixed with a binder and a photo initiator before printing. The printed films were hardened under UV-irradiation at low temperatures (< 130°C). The sheet resistance could be decreased by heat treatment at 120°C under forming gas atmosphere (N2/H2) to 1.5 kΩ(square). The transmission of the ITO coated PET and PEN foils is more than 80 % in the visible range. The ITO films were directly used as the bottom electrode in an organic photodiode (OPD). The setup of the OPD originates from the well known Tang photodiode, consisting of a stacked layer of copper phthalocyanine (p-type material) and perylene tetracarboxylic bisbenzimidazole (n-type material). The photodiodes are characterised via current-voltage (I-V) characteristics. The performance of the photodiodes with printed ITO on plastic substrates could be improved by the deposition of a PEDOT/PSS layer (Baytron(R) P) on the ITO coated foils and was then comparable to the performance of photodiodes with semi-transparent gold as anode on PET substrates. These results demonstrate the suitability of the printed ITO layers as anode for organic photodiodes.


IN the treatment of fractures and dislocations it has long been recognized that restoration of the normal anatomical structure is of primary importance. This principle, however, in cases of injuries to the spinal column has only been applied in recent years, and the reason for this neglect may be attributed largely to excessive fear of causing injury to the cord by attempts at manipulation. Within the past few years it has been realized that this apprehension is groundless, because it has been found that extensive deformities can be corrected without injuring the sub-dural structures. Further, when the cord or cauda equina has been damaged by the initial injury the above-mentioned procedure may result in striking improvement or complete cure. Numerous valuable papers have been written dealing with various phases of the subject, and in this presentation I have drawn freely from these sources of information. The only original contribution to the subject is a description of skeletal traction which I have utilized in the treatment of certain cervical injuries. This method of treatment was suggested to me by Doctor Janes at a time when we were each having trouble with a patient in maintaining satisfactory extension by the halter method. Our experience with this first case, and more recently with two others, has convinced us that skeletal traction is a satisfactory method of maintaining a prolonged forcible pull on the


Solubilisation in micell r systems offers an attractive way of formulating poorly water soluble drugs. For conventional polyoxyethylated non-ionic surfactants maximal solubilisation occurs at a hydrocarbon chain length of 16 C atoms. The reason why further increase of chain length dbes not result in an increase of soluhilisation may be explained in t e r m s of changes in the oxyethylene mantle close to the micelle core/mantle interface. when the alkyl chain length exceeds C16, the chain is no longer liquid at 298 K, and some of the polyoxyethylene glycol intrudes into the core in order to depress its melting pint and maintain a liquid micellar core (Elworthy and mtel 1982). This intrusion has the effect of destroying the ethylene oxide rich area next to the core which appears to be the main locus of solubilisation for the \


This paper describes the behavior of concrete bridge decks reinforced with newly developed high-perfonnance (HPJ steel that is charac terized by its high stren gth mId en hanced corrosion-resistance in comparison with conventionaL ASTM A6JS-06 Grade 60 steel. The study presented herein included testing of three full-scale bridge decks with a span-depth ratio of 12.5. The first and second decks were constructed with the same reinforcement ratio using HP and Grade 60 steel, respectively. The third deck was reinforced with HP steel using 33% less reinforcement in an attempt to use its high strength. A nonlinear finite elemen t model was used to predict the mode offailure alldfailure loads. Test results demollstrate that the use of HP steel at a reduced reinforcement ratio is viable as flexural reinforcemellt in concrete bridge decks. The paper also presents the test results of specially-designed specimens to study the effect of bending of HP steel bars on their tensile strength.


There is provided an electric charging system in which an electric charger and an electric vehicle are connected by a charging cable. The electric charger calculates a voltage drop amount in the charging cable on the basis of a supplied current at the electric charger side and an electric resistance of the charging cable. The electric charger also compares a determination voltage with a supplied voltage at the electric charger side and determines that a battery has been charged to a fully charged state when the supplied voltage reaches the determination voltage. The determination voltage used for such full charge determination is updated by adding the voltage drop amount to a basic determination voltage that is set in advance.


Abstract The effect of pressure on the radiation-induced cross-linking of synthetic rubbers, cis-l,4-polybutadiene, cis-l,4-polyisoprene, poly(TFE-propylene), poly(styrene-butadiene), poly(ethylene-propylene), and trans-l,4-polybutadiene were studied. A remarkable acceleration of cross-linking by compression for unsaturated polymers is attributed to an acceleration of the propagation reaction of cross-linking, which does not require long-range migration of radicals, by reduction of the distance between polymer chains at high pressure while the termination reaction, which requires long-range migration of radicals to recombine with each other, is reduced by the decrease in mole-cular mobility at high pressure. The presence of an optimum pressure was observed for radiation-induced cross-linking of cis-l,4-polyisoprene and TFE-propylene copolymer. This is explained by a significant change in molecular motion occurring due to the glass transition or crystallization at high pressure.


Vannevar Bush's "The Inscrutable Past" is a whimsical essay originally published in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Technology Review in January, 1933. It was reprinted in 1946, with other essays by Dr. Bush. By implication this document purported to represent the views of a much younger author, writing in a generous yet patronizing style, presumably late in this century, but looking back toward the early 1930 ' s. He noted (with implied amazement) that in the thirties driving an automobile with a clutch pedal and a then-conventional manually-operated stick shift required fourteen separate yet carefully coordinated motions of the user's hands and feet to steer the car while getting it under way from stop to full speed. A single false motion would spoil the whole affair, so the driver practically had to start the process anew! Even so, millions of normal people of all degrees and ages (literally from teenagers to grandparents) learned to perform this complex ritual so smoothly, so carefully timed, and so subconsciously, that they could drive cars of that quaint period. Indeed, they could carry on a conversation with a passenger simultaneously. Those necessarily rapid, coordinated, and sometimes relatively forceful motions, though, posed severe problems (if not total barriers) for patients with major impairments of force, motion, coordination, or sensory feedback — paralysis, weakness, amputation, or arthritic joints. Fortunately there has been great progress since then in the development of automotive adaptive equipment. Often an improvement has been developed originally as a convenience (or even as a luxury) for masses of normal individuals, but (usually incidentally) it has proven a necessity for those people with impairments who, in-a Dr. Murphy is the Editor of the Bulletin of Prosthetics Research


Maguey weevil Scyphophorus interstitialis is one of the biological factors that affect maguey production in the state of Oaxaca. The yield looses caused by this insect vary between 3 and 26% depending on environmental factors and production management practices. This paper reports the results on the insect's population dynamics that shows a significant and positive correlation with rainfall and in areas where this insect is present in high amounts, this factor accounts for the 72.4% of its presence. Elevation is another important factor because the maguey weevil is more abundant in areas located below 1 000 meters over sea level (m.o.s.l) but its population decreases considerably in areas above 1 500 m.o.s.l. Considering yearly cumulated heat units, the number of the insect's generations varies between 1.4 and 2.6. Based on the above results, areas where this insect could represent a low, medium and high risk to the crop where defined in the Oaxaca mezcal region.


Abstract This paper discusses issues and strategies in implementing a Balanced Scorecard approach to facilitate strategic planning in a small private university library. Bond University has been using the Balanced Scorecard to measure and manage its performance. One of the challenges in implementing the Balanced Scorecard is selecting appropriate performance measures for the four areas of the Balanced Scorecard. Specifically this paper will discuss how use of the Balanced Scorecard in a university library can facilitate linking the strategic plan of the Library with that of the University, explore cause-effect relationships between performance measures and mapping of the Balanced Scorecard to the activities of the Library. Introduction The challenge of implementing performance management systems has assumed a higher profile in Australian university libraries in recent years. Libraries in common with many other organisations have been developing performance management systems that not only measure the "right" things, but also enable effective communication to external and internal stakeholders. Performance measurement activities have been carried out in all Australian university libraries for sometime. Wilson and Pitman surveyed Australian university libraries to find out how they used performance indicators for their


A monostable multivibrator circuit using a tunnel diode makes it possible for the MSMV to exceed the performance of present multivibrators in two respects. The rise time of the output voltage is faster and the duty cycle is raised to approximately 95 percent.


This research aimed to compare the heterosis effect of Larasati Tilapia from F5 generation the growth variable weight, length, thickness, survival rate and food convertion ratio, for ♂ Larasati F5, ♂ Pandu F5, ♂ Kunti F5; and ♀ Larasati F5, ♀ Pandu F5, ♀ Kunti F5 at the age of 5 month. This research was conducted in Freshwater Hatchery and Aquaculture Unit Janti, Klaten. Larasati Tilapia F5 generation, Pandu Tilapia F5 generation, and Kunti Tilapia F5 generation at the age of 4 months. This research were used 3 treatments and 3 replications for each sex. The treatment used was Larasati Tilapia F5, Pandu Tilapia F5, and Kunti Tilapia F5 generation. The result show that growth of Tilapia Larasati F5 generation was better than the parent generation Tilapia Pandu F5 generations and Tilapia Kunti F5 generations. Heterosis value of Larasati Tilapia F5 generation at the age of 5 months were, weight of (♂) 31.45% and (♀) 26.94% . Length of (♂) 22.90% and (♀) 19.96%. Thick of (♂) 22.84% and (♀) 19.88%. Survival rate of (♂) 1.33% and (♀) 1.48%. Food convertion ratio of (♂) -0.76% and (♀) -0.68%.


This paper presents an overview of our project for measuring the ROM (range of motion) for upper limb in case of post stroke rehabilitation, that uses a simple and accessible method for any rehabilitation laboratory. The system is comprised of a wheelchair with an artificial upper limb that has a laser light source that is projected on a plexiglass special design table. The table has a modular position thanks to the artificial limb. A small orthotic device with the light source is attached to the extremities of the upper limb. The laser light may be projected on the table, in horizontal or vertical plane, and the position of the light spot may be continuously recorded on a computer. The table helps as a reference system for the ROM assessment and also for computing some special measures (e.g., the value of the maximum movement amplitude). The design of the table is also useful for different exercises necessary for shoulder and upper limb rehabilitation. Using the digital recording and a dedicated image analysis software of the light spot it is possible to compute the capability of movement but also to assess the rehabilitation degree by comparing in time the positive evolution of the rehabilitation program. The device is distinguished by its low price of production, the simplicity but also the precision of the method and the capacity to include a computer rehab user interface.


In Indonesia, philanthropy is identical to Zakat. Zakat belongs to a specific domain because it has its characteristics of knowledge. This research studied knowledge graph in the Zakat domain called KGZ which is conducted in Indonesia. This area is still rarely performed, thus it becomes the first knowledge graph for Zakat in Indonesia. It is designed to provide basic knowledge on Zakat and managing the Zakat in Indonesia. There are some issues with building KGZ, firstly, the existing Indonesian named entity recognition (NER) is non-restricted and general-purpose based which data is obtained from a general source like news. Second, there is no dataset for NER in the Zakat domain. We define four steps to build KGZ, involving data acquisition, extracting entities and their relationship, mapping to ontology, and deploying knowledge graphs and visualizations. This research contributed a knowledge graph for Zakat (KGZ) and a building NER model for Zakat, called KGZ-NER. We defined 17 new named entity classes related to Zakat with 272 entities, 169 relationships and provided labelled datasets for KGZ-NER that are publicly accessible. We applied the Indonesian-Open Domain Information Extractor framework to process identifying entities' relationships. Then designed modeling of information using resources description framework (RDF) to build the knowledge base for KGZ and store it to GraphDB, a product from Ontotext. This NER model has a precision 0.7641, recall 0.4544, and F1-score 0.5655. The increasing data size of KGZ is required to discover all of the knowledge of Zakat and managing Zakat in Indonesia. Moreover, sufficient resources are required in future works.


This paper presents the implementation of digital chaotic signal generator "twisted map" based on reconfigurable LFSRs. The robust digital implementation eliminates the variation tolerance and electronic noise problems common in analog chaotic circuit. In this paper an improved piece-wise linear one-dimensional iterative map such as "twisted map" with reconfigurable LFSRs is used to generate the chaotic signal for all users. The initial conditions of the sequence generators can be randomly selected to produce reconfigurable chaotic sequence with good correlation properties. The main advantages of this paper are to increase security of the transmission and to ease the generation of a great number of distinct sequences. In practice, the following simulation results on MATLAB software platform and DSP builder show that the effectiveness of the model described which has very low cross-correlation (approximately 0.002 for this architecture). For the proposal system, the bandwidth is extended from approximately 50 Hz to 50 MHz. The period length and the cross- correlation properties of the resulted sequence are compared to m-sequence, gold-sequence and other chaotic sequences generators such as tent map.


Objective To evaluate the therapeutic effect of periodontal pack and minocycline hydrochloride on periodontitis in animal experiment.Methods Forty-eight rabbits were randomly divided into four groups,including control group(C group),minocycline hydrochloride group(M group),periodontal pack group(P group),minocycline hydrochloride combined periodontal pack group(MP group).Clinical parameters including probing depth(PD) and sulcus bleeding index(SBI) and periodontal tissue samples were compared after one week,two weeks and four weeks.ResultsThere were significant differences between MP group and other groups in clinical parameters(P0.05).Reduction of PD and SBI could be observed in M group and there is significant difference between M group and C group after 1 and2 weeks(P0.05).Conclusion Combination use of minocycline hydrochloride and periodontal pack could improve the clinical parameters(PD,SBI) in rabbits' experimental periodontitis.


The ability to regulate emotions in adolescents is very important to be able to manage negative emotions into positive emotions, and be able to reduce negative / deviant behavior in adolescents. However, in reality the ability to regulate emotions in adolescents is still relatively low, this is marked by various problems that occur such as truant behavior, bullying, aggressiveness, and so on. One of the factors that influence emotional regulation is parent-child attachment. The purpose of this study was to determine the positive relationship between parent-child attachment and emotional regulation. The samples taken were 54 students. The sampling technique uses cluster random sampling. The instruments used were emotional regulation scale and parent-child attachment. The results of data analysis using product moment correlation is obtained (r) of 0.237 with a significance of 0.042 (p˂0.05). This study shows that 54 students (100%) have moderate attachments, then 31 students (57.4%) have moderate emotional regulation and 23 students (42.6%) belong to the high category. The results showed a positive relationship between parent-child attachment and emotion regulation, which means that the higher parent-child attachment, the higher the regulation of emotions in adolescents.
Keywords : Parent-child attachment, adolescence, emotional regulation


Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) has been advocated as a promising solution for the hardware security of the Internet of Things (IoT). Nevertheless, the development of the IoT constrained devices is limited due to an important factor which is power. By leveraging the reversible logic paradigm, PUF can mitigate the power limitation. Integrating reversible logic into PUF alleviates the security and power challenges that limit the advancement in IoT and hardware security. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first to design a cost-efficient reversible-based reconfigurable ring oscillator PUF (denoted as R3 OPUF) for IoT and hardware security. The proposed design leverages the reversible logic paradigm and achieves better performance with significantly less hardware resources requirement compared to other conventional ring oscillator (RO)PUF, configurable RO (CRO), and reconfigurable (RRO) PUF designs. Quantum and comparative analysis for the R3 O PUF is discussed in this paper. The proposed R3 O PUF is able to generate more Challenge Response Pairs (CRPs) compared with state-of the-art RO PUFs with using an equal number of configurable logic blocks (CLBs) of an FPGA. R3 O PUF requires only 50% and 25% of hardware resources to generate 1-bit PUF response compared to other CRO PUFs and RRO PUFs, respectively. R3 O PUF's results show that the proposed model is suitable for enhancing a lightweight hardware security system especially for root of trust (RoT), authentication and key generation applications and eliminating the need for trading the security with power reduction.


ABSTRACT A weaver, seamstress, laundress and artist, in this essay I shall spin a yarn, tangle a web, and construct a text(ile) of the inter-weave of narrative and identity that I define as my intellectual, textual, somatic and material/visual practice obsessions. My work explores 'the places in-between' in the entanglements of Irish and Northern Irish gender and identity, and in the abject fabrics of death and of desire. As an Irish feminist, sense-making of the complexities, conundrums, challenges and contradictions of my land, my cloth, my body and my culture owes much to Irish women before me who fought for female suffrage, and Irish women now – north and south of the border that divides the island of Ireland – who still struggle for equality of citizenship, social justice, human rights, and full reproductive autonomy. My contention is that when we accept that Ireland herself is a many-layered cloth, a stained and bloodied cloth, a cloth marked irreversibly by history, conflict, denial and abuse, stained by its own repression, marked through denial of all its people's rights and needs, and bloodied by its greatest export, the haemorrhage of its people, then – polemical, didactic or reflective, with more compassion, empathy, humility and heart – we just might make peace with our past.


Potential energy curves for the a 3Σ+u, A 1Σ+u, c 3Σ+g, and C 1Σ+g states of He2 are calculated using the MCSCF method. Comparison of the calculated dissociation energies and spectroscopic constants with the experimental values indicates that these are the most accurate theoretical curves reported to date for these states. The resulting curves are utilized to calculate the vibrational and rotational energy levels and to carry out He*(2 1S)+He(1 1S) and He*(2 3S)+He(1 1S) scattering calculations.


Cosmetic iris implants were first developed in Panama, where more than 700 people received bilateral implants between 2006 and 2010, said Tal Raviv, MD, speaking here at Cornea Day at ASCRS 2016.


In an investigation of the socialisation of trust, 72 parents and their 50 elementary schoolchildren completed trust belief scales and played a Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) game with each other and with a stranger. In addition, parents described incidents designed to reveal their promise fulfilment to their children. The study yielded positive correlations between: (1) mothers' promise fulfilment to their children and their children's trust beliefs in mothers, fathers, and teachers; and (2) mothers' trust beliefs and their children's trust beliefs in teachers. Additionally, fathers' promised co-operation in the PD game was correlated with their children's promised co-operation in the PD game in interactions with fathers, mothers, and strangers. The findings of this study suggest that mothers shape their children's trust beliefs whereas fathers shape their children's trusting behaviour in a play context.


This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 2013, 23 (3), pp. 241-254 (© Taylor & Francis), available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17457289.2013.809351.


Providing health monitoring devices with machine intelligence is important for enabling automatic mobile healthcare applications. However, this brings additional challenges due to the resource scarcity of these devices. This work introduces a neural contextual bandits based dynamic sensor selection methodology for high-performance and resource-efficient body-area networks to realize next generation mobile health monitoring devices. The methodology utilizes contextual bandits to select the most informative sensor combinations during runtime and ignore redundant data for decreasing transmission and computing power in a body area network (BAN). The proposed method has been validated using one of the most common health monitoring applications: cardiac activity monitoring. Solutions from our proposed method are compared against those from related works in terms of classification performance and energy while considering the communication energy consumption. Our final solutions could reach 78.8% AU-PRC on the PTB-XL ECG dataset for cardiac abnormality detection while decreasing the overall energy consumption and computational energy by 3.7 × and 4.3 ×, respectively.


This paper has proposed a MEMS planar zigzag slot for fuze to discriminate between drop impact acceleration and smooth start acceleration. It can fulfill the requirements that fuze power should be activated reliably in smooth start environment and kept off in service handling environment. The planar zigzag slot is used in medium and large caliber ammunition. At first, a structure consists of a spring, a mass with an anchor, a fixed zigzag slot and two baffles has been proposed. Then, the working principle of the structure and motion of anchor after colliding to zigzag slot has been analyzed. At last, key parameters of the structure on the performance of acceleration recognition is studied by dynamic simulation.


As the population of the world ages there is increasing need for an assessment of the marketing strategies that are used to target the elderly. The literature relating to the marketing of foreign languages to the elderly is sparse. Although academicians are divided on the specific age at which a customer transcends to the mature market many agree that this market can begin with members 50years and over. Neilson and Curry (1997) and Moschis (2003) have written in depth expositions on the strategies that ought to be used in respect to members of the mature audience. Using the Moschis Framework, this research explored the marketing techniques used by private English conversation schools in Japan (called eikaiwas) and South Korea (referred to as hogwans) to attract members of the mature audience. A qualitative approach was used to garner the data needed using in depth interviews and archival research. Twelve participants were interviewed. These participants were School Presidents, Administrators and Marketing Officers from Japan and South Korea. The results showed that Japan and South Korea enacted very different marketing strategies in respect to members of the mature audience. Japanese marketers are more prone to appeal to the younger self referent ages of the elderly through their use of younger looking models, brighter col-ored pamphlets and creative settings for advertisements. Koreans are more conservative in their approach and are inclined to appeal to the nationalistic tendencies of older Koreans. However, both groups use similar segmentation techniques with age being the dominant variable. It is recommended that further research incorporates other segment of the mature audience like the very old and be expanded to look at the marketing strategies that could be effective in marketing online English courses to Asian customers 50 years and over.


The aim of this work is to investigate the hydrogen generation from water using H2S as a reducer in hydrothermal reactions. The effects of reaction temperature, reaction time and initial pH values of reaction solution on the production of hydrogen from water were studied. The experimental results showed that hydrogen could be produced from water only when the reaction temperature was beyond 200 C. Moreover, the hydrogen production strongly depended on the initial pH values of the solution. Under strong alkaline conditions the hydrogen production from water was much higher than that under acidity or weak alkaline conditions. The possible mechanism of hydrogen production was discussed.


With the development of metropolitan, through operation between urban rail transit and suburban r ailway is the development trend in the future. In this study, the general concepts in the TCRP Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual were adopted, followed by the development of a set of comprehensive through station capacity models with consideration of a complete set of possible movements at through station. These models were implemented and validated by a through station in Tokyo rail transit system. The case study shows that the results calculated from the proposed model are very close to the actual values. The proposed capacity models can help rail transit operators with similar operational environments to monitor their systems' performance and identify critical bottlenecks.


The banks have an important role in economy. There is any bank without a risky activity. The goal of this paper is to show that the external auditors have an important role to play in monitoring banks' risks, and that they are in compliance with supervisory practice. Also, the risk of bank audit is presented.


The Morant Bay Rebellion, otherwise known as the 'Native Baptist War' represents an important watershed in Jamaican history. Traditional historiography has often represented the actions of Paul Bogle hero/villan Baptist Deacon and his followers when they marched on the Morant Bay court house in 1865 as being motivated by mere murderous intent. Thoroughly researched and drawing on original documents attributed to Bogle and other Native Baptists, The Cross and the Machete provides and alternative interpretation of Bogle's actions and introduces a new paradigm for understanding the struggle for equality, justice and liberation.


Little is known about fatty acid (FA) distribution among triacylglyceride (TG), cholesterol ester (CE) and phospholipid (PL) plasma lipid fractions in lactating women, and the relationships between these fractions and the FA profile of the milk that mothers produce. Milk fat and serum lipid FA compositions in lactating women were compared to investigate which serum lipids are the source of FA in milk fat. A TLC methodology was used to fractionate serum lipids including PL subclasses, i.e. phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), phosphatidylcholine (PC) and sphingomyelin (SM). Plasma lipids consisted of CE (36.4%), TG (19.1%), PE (1.40%), PC (39.80%) and SM (3.29%). With regard to PL fractions, PE was characterized by the highest levels of 18:0, 20:4 n-6, 22:6 n-3 and alkenyl ethers. PC revealed 16:0 as the predominant FA, followed by 18:2 n-6, 18:0, cis-9 18:1 and 20:4 n-6, whereas saturated FA from 16:0 to 24:0 were characteristic of SM. Although n-6 and n-3 polyunsaturated FA were mostly found in PE and PC, strong correlations were found for 18:2 n-6 and 18:3 n-3 between plasma TG and milk lipids. This study also shows that trans 18:1 isomers may be selectively incorporated into milk fat from specific serum fractions.

Practical applications: An easy-to-use and inexpensive two-stage TLC methodology to fractionate plasma lipids requiring only 1 mL of blood serum has been developed. Moreover, this study provides valuable information on the composition of serum lipids in lactating women, particularly with regard to PL, and their influence on the milk fat FA profile.


An algorithm for producing a triangular mesh in a convex polygon is presented. It is used in a method for the finite element triangulation of a complex polygonal region of the plane in which the region is decomposed into convex polygons. The interior vertices of the mesh are chosen to be on a quasi-uniform grid, different mesh spacings are specified for the edges of the polygon, and the mesh is a Delaunay triangulation. The correctness of the algorithm is proved and the expected time complexity is shown to be linear in the number of triangles in the mesh.


The Goddard-IRAM Superconducting 2 Millimeter Observer (GISMO) is an 8x16 Transition Edge Sensor (TES) array of bolometers built as a pathfinder for TES detector development efforts at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. GISMO has been used annually at the Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM) 30 meter telescope since 2007 under engineering time and was opened in the spring of 2012 to the general astronomical community. The spring deployment provided an opportunity to modify elements of the room temperature optics before moving the instrument to its new permanent position in the telescope receiver cabin. This allowed for the possibility to extend the cryostat, introduce improved cold baffling and thus further optimize the stray light performance for final astronomical use of the instrument, which has been completed and validated. We will demonstrate and discuss several of the methods used to quantify and limit the influence of stray light in the GISMO camera.


Owning to the high corrosion‐resistance, stable structure, unique surface properties and sustainability, the carbon‐base catalysts have attracted increasing interest in heterogeneous catalysis. Herein, we report a facile combining strategy to fabricate a novel three‐dimensional (3D) interconnected porous nitrogen‐doped carbon hybrid foam featuring with the interconnected nitrogen‐doped carbon foam coated by porous nitrogen‐doped carbon (NCMS@NCGlu‐NH4Cl) by annealing the freeze‐dried NH4Cl‐glucose containing aqueous solution soaked melamine sponge (MS@Glu/NH4Cl). The as‐prepared NCMS@NCGlu‐NH4Cl hybrid foam shows 1.6 times high steady‐state styrene rate (4.77 mmol g−1 h−1) with 96.4 % of selectivity for direct dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene to styrene as compared to the well‐established nanodiamond. This work not only generates an excellent carbon catalyst to replace the established nanodiamond for direct dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene, but also opens up a potential avenue for designing novel carbon materials towards the adsorption and supercapacitor besides acting as a promising catalyst for diverse transformations.


Objectives: To ascertain the prevalence of cognitive impairment in the low income, urban geriatric population, and, to assess the prevalence of treatable mental health problems that could contribute to cognitive impairment. Methods: Geriatric patients (age 65+, N=79) were recruited when they presented for scheduled medical care at an academic primary care clinic in a low-income neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Participants answered questions regarding their demography, psychiatric history, and substance use history. The General Practitioner Assessment of Cognition (GPCOG) was used as the screening instrument, and the following standardized tools were also administered: Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-5), Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI-SF), and the Charlson Comorbidity Index. A urine specimen was tested for drugs of abuse. Results: Based on the GPCOG screen, the prevalence of cognitive impairment was 78%. Severe cognitive impairment, consistent with a diagnosis of dementia, was observed in 19% of the study population. All subjects with positive urine drug screens were in the impaired group and most drugs detected were prescribed by physicians. Conclusions: The majority of elderly patients receiving primary care in a low-income urban setting have some degree of cognitive impairment, some consistent with frank dementia. All subjects with a positive urine drug screen were cognitively impaired. Detecting cognitive impairment should prompt consideration of the effects of prescribed medication on cognition. In addition substance use disorders should be considered. Screening for cognitive impairment in older adults can detect reversible causes of impairment and prompt discussion about the effects of medication and substance use on cognition.


Load sequence effects on composite material fatigue behavior are due to the difference in residual strength when fatigue occurs, or the 'boundary effect', and the 'material money effect' due to previous loads. The present model, which allows the isolation of the effects of memory from those of boundary, has been investigated through a test program for the case of /+, -35/2s graphite/epoxy laminates under high-low and low-high load sequences which generated statistical residual strength data. As predicted by the model, the memory effect is present and a good correlation is obtained between test results and the theoretical predictions for both median residual strength and the expected percentage of fatigue failures under dual loading. It is noted, however, that the statistical dispersion of the residual strength test results is much smaller than that of the static ultimate strength.