23 In our food-rich environment we must constantly resist appealing food in order to maintain a 24 healthy lifestyle. Previous studies have found that food-specific inhibition training can 25 produce changes in eating behaviour, such as a reduction in snack consumption. However, the 26 mechanisms that drive the effect of inhibition training on eating behaviour remain unknown. 27 Identifying the mechanism underlying food-specific inhibition training could lead to more 28 targeted training interventions increasing the potential efficacy of such interventions. In the 29 current study, we investigated directly whether training-induced effects on inhibitory control 30 might underlie the predicted change in eating behaviour. Healthy individuals who scored high 31 on uncontrolled eating were randomly assigned to receive six online training sessions over six 32 consecutive days of either food-specific response inhibition training (active group; n = 21) or 33 response inhibition training without food stimuli (control group; n = 20). We measured pre- 34 and post-training inhibitory control in the context of food and food cue sensitivity, as well as 35 food consumption in a bogus taste test. As expected, food-specific inhibition training 36 decreased snack consumption in the bogus taste test relative to control training. However, the 37 active training did not improve inhibitory control towards food, nor did it reduce food cue 38 sensitivity above and beyond the control training. Future studies are needed to investigate the 39 potential underlying mechanism of food-specific inhibition training, as it remains unclear 40 what drives the reliable effect on eating behaviour. 41


THE PERFORMANCE OF PROBES IN THE MEASUREMENT OF BLOOD FLOW J. P. Sh;llingford, M.D., F.R.C.P. Professor of Angiocardiology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London DURING THE PAST few years three techniques for the measurement of blood velocity and flow have been applied to probes suitable for inserting into blood vessels in man. These include the thin film, electromagnetic and Doppler techniques. Schultz and his associates have developed a thin-film anemometer which is an adaptation of a technique familiar to fluid dynamicists in which the rate of transfer of heat from a small metallic element is determined electrically and is related to the fluid velocity by calibration. The metallic film is made either by vacuum spluttering or by the use of conducting paints. In operation, the film forms one arm of a self-balancing Wheatstone bridge and is normally maintained at approximately 5° C. above blood temperature. This type of probe measures blood velocity at a point and is most valuable for exploring the behaviour of blood flow within a vessel. The electromagnetic flow probe is based on the well known electromagnetic flowmeter principle in which the blood flow crossing the lines of force produced by an electromagnet produces an electrical potential which may be amplified and recorded. The voltage produced is related to the velocity of blood flow. Previously, the electromagnet encircled the blood vessel: in the case of the flow probe, as developed by Mills, the electromagnet is sited at the tip of the catheter and the recording electrodes placed on the outside of the magnetic coil. The electromagnetic tip is embedded in a teflon catheter and a small tube passes through its centre to enable simultaneous pressure and velocity to be recorded. Blood velocity can be converted into flow by making an angiographic measurement of arterial size and relative changes in flow calculated from changes in velocity. The Doppler principle has, in recent years, been used for the measurement of blood flow. More recently it has been used as a flowmeter on a catheter tip. Two hemidiscs of piezoelectric material resonant at 8 mH;: are cut from a common stock and, separated by an electrostatic shield, are mounted on the tip of a catheter. The beam from the transducer measures; the flow velocity from 0.5 cm. to 4 cm. beyond the tip. This means that the wave forms recorded are not disturbed by the pressure of the catheter in the stream but introduces problems of frequency shift created bv structures other than the flow of blood.


Background. Closed chest trauma is one of the most dangerous and life-threatening critical conditions. Medicosocial topicality of the problem is associated with its high frequency, large number of complications (45.6% - 75%) and high mortality rate (2% - 6.2%). The choice of the optimal tactics of diagnostics and treatment of patients with chest trauma currently continues to be a topical problem in emergency surgery. Purpose. To detail the pattern of occurrence of complications in chest trauma for increasing the effectiveness of investigation and providing adequate qualified medical help in patients with chest trauma. Material and methods. Medical documentation of 259 patients with various complicated chest injuries over the period from 2007 to 2017 was analyzed. Patients in the dynamics underwent a standard x-ray examination of the chest, ultrasound (US) investigation of the pleural cavities, ultrasound investigation of the chest with examination of ribs and sternum, computed tomography of the chest. The developed algorithm of diagnostics and treatment was applied to all patients with closed chest trauma. Results. There were no discrepancies in diagnostics of localization and the number of damaged ribs and intrapleural complications in patients who underwent simultaneous plain chest radiography and chest ultrasound investigation. Surgical interventions were performed in 231 (89.2%) patients. Urgent surgical operations were carried out in 28 (10.8%) cases. All the patients were discharged in satisfactory condition. Conclusions. Rib fractures are the most frequent damage to the chest that causes complications. An intrapleural complication can occur with any number of damaged ribs and at any time of fracture consolidation. Ultrasound examination of the chest organs should be included in the investigation complex. Computed multislice tomography should be performed as a clarifying study. Active diagnostic and treating surgical tactics enable to obtain good results in treatment of complicated chest trauma.


BACKGROUND AND AIMS OF THE STUDY
Ninety-one of 351 patients who received an aortic valve replacement (AVR) with the St. Jude Medical (SJM) valve at the Royal Melbourne Hospital between 1978 and 1990 were 50-year-old or younger. The results of these patients were retrospectively analyzed so that comparison may be made with the long term results of homograft AVR.

MATERIAL AND METHODS
There were 75 males and 16 females. Mean age was 39 years (range 15-50 years). Valve pathologies were, congenital (32), degenerative (30), rheumatic (20), infective endocarditis (7). All patients had warfarin post-operatively.

RESULTS
Follow up was complete with a total of 689 patients years, (range 34 months to 14.75 years, mean 7.6 years). There were two operative deaths (2.2%) and three late deaths (0.5 +/- 0.3%/patient-year) and two have undergone subsequent cardiac transplantation. Seventy-eight of 86 survivors (91%) are in NYHA functional Class I. At 10 years, actuarial survival was 94 +/- 2.9%, freedom from embolism was 96.4 +/- 2.4%, and from anticoagulant (AC) hemorrhage 89.4 +/- 6.5%. There were no structural failures; four cases paravalvular leaks were reported. Freedom from non-structural deterioration at 10 years was 95.3 +/- 2.3%. Freedom from reoperation was 95.6 +/- 3.2% at 10 years. Linearized rates (% per patient-year) were for embolism 0.6 +/- 0.5, AC hemorrhage 0.8 +/- 0.2, non-structural dysfunction 0.8 +/- 0.2 for endocarditis 0.4 +/- 0.5, and for reoperation 0.4 +/- 0.4.

CONCLUSIONS
The SJM valve prosthesis has performed well in the aortic position in this younger group of patients up to 10 years.


The present study analyzed the health situation of the inmates of the Penitentiary and Prison Center of the Municipality of Mocoa where conditions of overcrowding, precariousness in health and death. Objective: To describe the health situation of inmates in the Penitentiary and Jail Center of the Municipality of Mocoa during the period January to December 2013. Method: Observational study, descriptive type of cross section. Through the application of structured surveys to a sample of 103 inmates, an observational guide and the documentary review of the individual records of service provision, the health situation of inmates of the penitentiary center was analyzed. Results: A predominantly male population wasidentified between 20 and 49 years old, where 30.37% correspond to indigenous groups with a low level of schooling, internal, who, as in the rest of the country, survive in overcrowded and unhealthy conditions. There is a limited and inopportune access to health services, where 77.94% of inmates said they became ill after entering the prison. Conclusions: It is concluded that this prison reflects in some way the conditions of Putumayo, taking into account the similarities of  the sociodemographic characteristics of the inmates surveyed. The analysis of morbidity allowed to find differences in the behavior compared to other prisons in the country, given the few reports of sexually transmitted infectionsand chronic diseases.


The waste water and sewage treatment of the carboxyl styrene butadiene latex production process were introduced.The waste water was tested,and then the new latex sewage treatment method was brought forward. Through the experimental study,the best solution of latex waste water is determined as follow:n(CaCl_2): n(CaO) = 2:1,PAM:1.0mg/L,after coagulation treated water pH = 9,COD:330mg/L,BOD:78mg/L,petroleum: 3.50mg/L,SS:72mg/L,Cl~-:785mg/L,up to integrated waste water discharge standard GB8978—96,but also in line with requirements into the sewage treatment plant.


Context: As one of the important changes in the health system, family physician plan, and referral system need to be taken into consideration, so as to make the administrators informed of the best ways of its implementation. Aims: This research has been carried out to study the effect of education on the knowledge level of administrators and service providers. Settings and Design: This study was analytical and interventional and conducted in Isfahan in 2012 with a statistical population of 2851 and a sample size of 118 people. Materials and Methods: This quantitative study was an interventional comparison group applying pre- and post-tests. Random sampling was used to select physicians, administrators and service providers in the family physician plan. A researcher-made questionnaire was filled out by the sample before and after the intervention, and the collected data were analyzed descriptively and inferentially. Statistical Analysis Used: The data were analyzed by using the SPSS 16 software and the mean scores of knowledge level, before and after the intervention, were compared. Demographic variables, also, were described and their relationship with the knowledge level scores was determined. A t-test was used, too. Results: The findings showed that the mean scores of knowledge level were 46.18 ΁ 15.37 before the intervention and 50.14 ΁ 14.46 after the intervention. Moreover, the t-test result, with 95% certainty, was significant (P = 0.043). Conclusion: Considering the meaningfulness of the results of t-test, it can be concluded that education has a high effect on the knowledge level of administrators and service providers. The results, also, showed that for having a more effective education, face to face education and active and practical teaching methods such as workshops and group discussions as well as different informative materials like brochures and media (radio, television and press) can be used. In addition to these factors, the age and work experience of people receiving education should be considered, too.


Abstract The analyses of smart and soft power have developed little beyond what their critics would refer to as 'soft theory', and in both cases the theoretical development is less than 'smart'. This article attempts to address these deficiencies in the theoretical development of smart power by: (1) articulating a more rigorous and systematic understanding of the processes of smart power; (2) explaining how changes in world politics have raised the value of smart power relative to hard power; (3) analyzing smart power in the context of recent US foreign policy, and (4) proposing several prescriptions that will encourage decision-makers to value and effectively use smart power strategies in their foreign policies.


Prudential Life Assurance, a branch of Binjai, is a company engaged in insurance. In an effort to increase sales of insurance policies in Binjai City generally use several marketing strategies. The marketing strategy is implemented by the insurance agent/consultant of the company. This type of research is descriptive with a qualitative approach. Data collection used by using interviews, study documentation and observation. The study in this research is to find out "Agent Marketing Strategy in Maintaining Customer Loyalty at PT Prudential Life Assurance Binjai branch with research aspects: insurance products, premium prices, promotions, places, people and physical facilities. The results showed that the branch of PT. Prudential Life Assrance Binjai branch has been able to carry out the marketing strategy created and determined by the company through several patterns, namely mobilizing its agents/consultants to the maximum in the field with adequate knowledge about insurance products and benefits so that they have the ability to explain them to potential customers/prospective consumers and marketing patterns in a comprehensive manner. Online through the company's website which is promoted through various electronic media. The technical marketing of various types of insurance owned by the company is done by moving agents/consultants to visit from house to house (door to door). communities that have been targeted by agents/consuls previously. The second technique is to hold meetings with groups of people both in offices and plantation companies and other economic institutions so that the sale of policies can be done collectively. Thus the branch company PT. Prudential Life Assurance Binjai branch managed to increase sales of insurance policies from the previous year, 2017. The conclusion of the research is that with a marketing strategy by visiting prospective customers from house to door (door to door) conducting marketing to many people at once in various agencies and companies, the company Prudential Life Assurance insurance at the Binjai branch has succeeded in gradually increasing sales of insurance policies from 2015-2021.
Keywords: Strategy, Marketing, Prudential Life Assurance Binjai


Sidewalks are central to an accessible transportation network, as they connect all other transportation modes. The street-side environment, especially the location and connectivity of the sidewalks, has not been widely integrated into information systems used to report accessibility and walkability in wayfinding applications. Typical sidewalk mapping methods rely on surveyor collections, which are non-standardized, laborious, costly, difficult to maintain, and do not scale well. In this work, we introduce a working proof-of-concept system for automated mapping of sidewalk networks on portable computing devices. Our system utilizes efficient neural networks, image sensing, GPS, and compact hardware to perform sidewalk mapping on portable devices. We discuss future opportunities for cities and transportation agencies to advance their knowledge of the transportation network they own and manage in order to improve accessibility for all travelers.


Nonthermal atmospheric pressure plasma (NTP) has been extensively studied for biological and medical applications in recent years. Chemically active species are generated and injected into aqueous media subjected to plasma exposure. They play an important role in the activation and/or inactivation of biomolecules, such as nucleic acids, lipid, and proteins, in aqueous media. To evaluate the effect of NTP on these biomolecules at the molecular level, we have been considering large DNA molecules to be used as a biomarker. The single-molecule-based analysis of strand breakages induced by NTP, namely, the atmospheric pressure plasma jet (APPJ), on large DNA molecules has been performed. We demonstrated the facile estimation of the rate of double-strand breaks induced by the APPJ. Using this analysis, we have evaluated both the intensity of radical reaction and the protective effect on the reaction by adding antioxidant agents.


Each company needs some foundation in order to develop in the future, between the foundation is the quality of human resources that enable them to formulate and implement any strategies and use various technologies to achieve the goal. This research aims to determine the impact of the intelligence quotient, emotional quotient through employee performance on spiritual question as an intervening variable. The sampling technique using probability sampling with simple random sampling approach with a sample of 84 employees. The data obtained has fulfilled the validity test, reliability test and processed using path analysis equation to determine the direct and indirect impact on the independent variables through the dependent variable. The findings of this research show that partially the intellectual intelligence has a significant impact on the variables of spiritual intelligence but it does not directly has impact on the employee performance, emotional intelligence partially has a significant impact on spiritual intelligence variables but it doesn't directly has impact on the employee performance, spiritual intelligence has a significant direct impact on the employee performance and Simultaneously the intellectual intelligence, emotional intelligence or spiritual intelligence have impact on the employee performance and intellectual intelligence, emotional intelligence have a significant impact on the employee performance through the employee spiritual intelligence.


This research aims to determine the effect of alkali treatment (5% NaOH immersion) on composite mechanical properties of banana stalk fiber with polyester resin in its, namely tensile strength. Studied composite materials were polyester resin as a binder and banana stalk fiber as reinforcement. Variation on Alkaline treatment (5% NaOH immersion) was conducted in 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours and without alkaline treatment (5% NaOH immersion). Specimens of composite materials are made by hand lay up method. Composite mechanical properties are recognized by tensile tests based on ASTM D 638-14 standard. Result of this research shows the strength increament on banana stalk fiber polyester in alkali treatment (5% NaOH immersion) at 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours imersing time. The highest tensile strength is at 3 hours imersing time with an average value of 29,76 N/mm2.


Prestack depth migration is widely used as the best tool for imaging and velocity model QC and refinement, but is mostly applied isotropically, even when there is evidence of anisotropy. We outline a methodology of model-buildin g and imaging for use in anisotropic contexts and apply it to a line of data from offshore West Africa dominated by massive shales. The results show that the anisotropy in the shale increases with depth, along with the velocity. The prestack migrated data are sufficiently sensitive to the anisotropy that a thin layer of sand showing little or no anisotropy can be detected, and they must be included in the model to get flat common image gathers everywhere. This suggests that the use of anisotropy as a lithology- discriminating attribute may be feasible on a depth scale of only a few wavelengths. In any case anisotropy determination is important for precise application of other lithoseismic meth- ods such as AVO.


A technique for extending the moment-analysis method for statistical analysis to include linear-correlation effects is presented. This technique has the advantage of being significantly faster than previous methods for treating linear-correlation effects. Included is an example of the effect of linear correlation between load and driver devices on the probability-density function of the output voltage of an m.o.s.t. integrated invertor.


Though the process composed of mechanical alloying, crystallization treatment and nitriding treatment has been used to prepare the Sm2Fe17Nx permanent magnet powders with high coercivity, the crystallization treatment increases the oxygen content in the specimen. In this experiment, we tried to prepare the Sm2Fe17Nx powders by mechanical grinding(MG) and the nitriding treatment at as low temperature as 623K, where two kinds of powders;i.c., hydrogcnetcd Sm2.5Fe17 powder and non-treated Sm2.5Fe17 powder, were used as the starting materials, and MG was carried out in three kinds of atmosphere ; i.c.,in Ar, N2 and NH3 gas. Though the nitriding was promoted by the existence of hydrogen, the oxidation was also promoted. And it was confirmed that too much hydrogen in the specimen impede nitriding. This phenomenon suggests the existence of the most effective concentration of hydrogen for nitriding. In this work, the nitriding was carried out most effectively on the specimen mechanically ground in NH3, where the nitrogen content after nitriding treatment was about 38000ppm.


Culture Theory in Contemporary Ethnohistory William S. Simmons, University of California, Berkeley This paper is about how historians and anthropologists have interpreted the encounters between Europeans and native people. Since classical times these encounters have been driven by expansionist societies that colonized the smaller-scale indigenous people who lived around their peripheries. Attempts by historians and anthropologists to interpret this process have been shaped by and in turn have shaped European bias toward native peo ple. To a considerable extent, this bias is an expression of the widespread ethnocentric idea that one's own society is the norm and what lies outside is a distortion of that norm. In his discussion of the territorial rites of passage, Arnold van Gennep identified the importance of boundary sym bolism to protect the inner from the outer worlds. Van Gennep wrote that the prohibition against entering a given territory is ... intrinsically magi co-religious. It has been expressed with the help of milestones, walls, and statues in the classical world (1960 [1908]: 16-17). The Roman arch of triumph, for example, once separated their society from that of their enemies: The victor was first required to separate himself from the enemy world through a series of rites, in order to be able to return to the Roman world by passing through the arch (ibid.: 21). In this symbolism, center differs from periphery, state differs from tribe, and colonizer dif fers from colonized, as sacred differs from profane. In a sense, the Roman arch also symbolized the boundary between two kinds of person. Marcel Mauss traced the origin of the contemporary western idea of the autono mous conscious person or self to the development of the Roman Republic. According to Mauss, this idea was absent in preclassical and non-Western societies where the person was submerged within received This paper was delivered as the presidential address at the 1987 annual confer ence of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Berkeley, California, Saturday, November 7. Ethnohistory 35: I (Winter 1988). Copyright © by the American Society for Eth nohistory. eee 0014-1801/88/$1.5°.


Cellulose/TiO 2 composite film was prepared for UV shielding applications. Cellulose was extracted from sugarcane bagasse by ball milling process. The cellulose/TiO 2 composite film with different concentrations of cellulose showed a synergic feature of optical transparency and UV-blocking. The crystalline structure of cellulose was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD). The treated cellulose has higher crystallinity than the untreated cellulose. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) analysis shows the evidence of chemical treatment hemicellulose and lignin removal from sugarcane bagasse. The optical properties were measured by UV-Vis spectrometer, the results of TiO 2 and cellulose solution correspond to UV- A and UV- C absorbance regions with high transparent of cellulose composite films. The revealed results are essential for UV protecting materials application.


The invention relates to a device (40) for the production of sodium hypochlorite or hypochlorous acid for: the treatment of drinking water of communities, buildings, general industry, chemical industry, the industries paint and lime, food industry, the glass industry, paper industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the textile industry, synthesis industry, the deposition industry and processing waste, treatment of cooling towers, agriculture, basins, water supplies, swimming pools and water systems in general, directly connected to the pipeline of water to be treated. The device (40) comprising a cylinder (16) that allows to store salt and to insert one or several electrolytic chambers in which are screwed to one or more of bipolar electrolysis cells (42). This cylinder is installed on the incoming water generally installed near to the discharge circuit when there is a swimming pool, a pond or a water reserve. This cylinder (16) tab containing a supply of salt and water to create a water saturated NaCl in order to achieve electrolysis. One or several electrolytic chambers (15) consist of a tube with holes of a diameter of 9 m / m to about 70% of its surface, are inserted into the cylinder (16) to allow to receive one or more electrolytic cells bipolar (42). These bipolar electrolytic cells (42) will allow to carry out electrolysis for the production of sodium hypochlorite or hypochlorous acid from water saturated NaCl contained in the cylinder (16), according to known electrochemical reactions. These bipolar electrolytic cells (42) are composed of one or more plates (28,29) preferably from 2 to 20 units made of titanium coated with metal oxides, on which circulates a continuous electrical current. The invention further relates to a water treatment system in general, comprising the device (40) above, production of sodium hypochlorite or hypochlorous acid from NaCl saturated water. The invention enables a production of sodium hypochlorite or hypochlorous acid from water saturated with NaCl in a cylinder, connected directly to the mains water to be treated without the latter is loaded salt. The invention provides a production of sodium hypochlorite or hypochlorous acid with better performance.


An original p+-n -p+ magnetotransistors for subsequent measurement of three orthogonal magnetic components using a common sensor region is presented. Collector coupling-arrangements are formed for obtaining the information about the full magnetic-field vector. The operation is determined by curvilinear trajectory of holes and Lorentz force deflection on them. The channel outputs are linear and magnetosensitivities reaches Sx≈25µA/T, Sy≈150µA/T and Sz≈345µA/T for device with accelerating field in the base. The cross-talk reaches about 3.0 % at inductionB ≤ 1T.


Bose-Einstein condensation of rotons in helium was considered long ago. It was shown that the relative velocity of the normal motion in this state must be equal to the Landau critical velocity. We argue that the condensation can be attained at a smaller velocity if the temperature is low enough.


The invention relates to a device (1) for fixing a door seal, particularly an inner door seal (2) of a motor vehicle door (3), with a door inner wall (4) on which the peripheral sealing region (5), a holding rail (6) with a C-receiving profile (10) for a sealing strip (17) is attached. Further, the device (1) comprises a door trim (7) as the cowling. According to the invention the holding rail (6) and a door trim edge (11) are arranged so that the holding rail (6) has a lying to the door edge outside C-limb (9) and the door panel edge (11) has a lying to the door edge inside C-limb (12) of the C -Aufnahmeprofils form (10). Thereby, a simple and inexpensive device (1) is provided that covers tolerances and unequal joints images with good optics.


Algal blooming caused by phosphorus (P) losses from agricultural soils to groundand surface water is a major problem as P is typically the limiting factor for eutrophication in freshwater systems. To fine-tune the advice on P fertilisation and increase P-use efficiency, it is important to have up to date information on amounts of phosphate (P2O5) exported by crops. We re-analysed Flemish nitrogen fertilisation experiments on silage maize (Zea mays) and cut grassland (Poaceae) to derive their quantities of exported P2O5. The median P2O5 export by silage maize increased significantly from 78 kg P2O5 ha -1 in the last decade of the 20th century to 94 kg P2O5 ha -1 in recent years (median of 2.1 g P kg-1 dry matter (DM)). This increase is due to the higher crop yields. The median P2O5 export for cut grassland remained at approximately 110 kg P2O5 ha -1 with a median of 4.1 g P kg-1 DM.


Members of the phylum Microspora are a group of unusual, obligate intracellular eukaryotic parasites that infect a wide range of hosts. However, there are a limited number of microsporidial infections reported in avian hosts, and no parasite species has been defined as an avian pathogen. A microsporidian organism was recovered from the droppings of a clinically normal peach-faced lovebird (Agapornis roseicollis) and established in in vitro culture. Intermittent parasite spore shedding was documented over a 2-month period using calcofluor M2R staining of cloacal swabs. The organism was identified as Encephalitozoon hellem based on protein and antigenic profiles and molecular sequencing of the small subunit and internal transcribed spacer regions of the ribosomal RNA gene.


With the support of some versions which take Sophocles' Antigone as a point of departure, this essay reflects on the process of rewriting a classic. In a comparative approach, two European Antigones and three in SouthAmerican drama are examined before a discussion of the methods and purposes which the Irish playwrights used when reworking myth in Antigone and other Greek tragedies.


In this paper, the design and implementation of LNA and down-mixer using 90 nm CMOS process are presented for 60 GHz band WPAN receiver. In order to extract characteristics of the transistor used to design each elements under the optimum bias conditions, the S-parameter of the manufactured cascode topology was measured and the effect of the RF pad was removed. Measured results of 3-stages cascode type LNA the gain of 25 dB and noise figure of 7 dB. Balanced type down-mixer with a balun at LO input port shows the conversion gain of 12.5 dB within IF frequency() and input PldB of -7 dBm. The size and power consumption of LNA and down-mixer are , 43 mW and , 1.2 mW, respectively.


Adin, Brenti, and Roichman introduced the pairs of statistics $(\ndes, \nmaj)$ and $(\fdes, \fmaj)$. They showed that these pairs are equidistributed over the hyperoctahedral group $B_n$, and can be considered "Euler-Mahonian" in that they generalize the Carlitz identity. Further, they asked whether there exists a bijective proof of the equidistribution of their statistics. We give such a bijection, along with a new proof of the generalized Carlitz identity.


The present work deals in the preparation and characterization of mixed ligand complexes of transition metal co*ordination Metal complexes of the type [ML 2Py 2] x ,Where M=Cu(II), Ni(II) and Mn(II) L=2*Amino*4* phenyl*5*chloro oxazole Py=Pyridine and [X=Cl * ,CH 3COO * or NO 3 * ] were prepared and characterized by their elemental analysis, IR, electronic and magnetic studies. These studies confirms the co*ordination of amino, nitrogen and ring oxygen magnetic and electronic spectral study shows that all the complexes are octahedral except chloro and nitrato complexes of CO (II) which are tetrahedral however Cu (II) complexes are square planar. The fungicidal activity shows that legends are more toxic than complexes. However the activity decreases with decrease of concentration.


Development of rural tourism in municipalities in Central Dobrogea is an objective of strategic importance for local and regional policy. Identifying ways of developing this sector is important and necessary given the multitude of problems facing the sector and which prevent its development to its true potential. The territory has a multitude of problems due in particular weaknesses in ensuring effective promotion of the tourist potential and lack of integrated tourism products, promoting rural tourism insufficient areas as tourist destinations, lack of publicity of traditional rural events, poor quality of reception facilities tourists, low interest for local cultural events, unstable institutional framework with responsibilities in the development of rural tourism strategies and policies, lack of cooperation in the sector, insufficient information to tourists, mostly undeveloped infrastructure in terms of transport, communications and services, the low level of occupancy of accommodation.


Partial differential equations (PDEs) are ubiquitous in science and engineering. Prior quantum algorithms for solving the system of linear algebraic equations obtained from discretizing a PDE have a computational complexity that scales at least linearly with the condition number $\kappa$ of the matrices involved in the computation. For many practical applications, $\kappa$ scales polynomially with the size $N$ of the matrices, rendering a polynomial-in-$N$ complexity for these algorithms. Here we present a quantum algorithm with a complexity that is polylogarithmic in $N$ but is independent of $\kappa$ for a large class of PDEs. Our algorithm generates a quantum state that enables extracting features of the solution. Central to our methodology is using a wavelet basis as an auxiliary system of coordinates in which the condition number of associated matrices is independent of $N$ by a simple diagonal preconditioner. We present numerical simulations showing the effect of the wavelet preconditioner for several differential equations. Our work could provide a practical way to boost the performance of quantum-simulation algorithms where standard methods are used for discretization.


Results of the analysis of potential possibilities of an antenna polarimetry of electromagnetic radiations on the microwave oven of a mobile measuring complex are resulted.


We present a novel compact hybrid coupler based on the concept of artificial transmission lines i.e. transmission lines loaded with reactive loads at both ends. A combination of longer and shorter lines are used, in order to balance the reactive loading, effectively allowing for their mutual cancellation. This mechanism is applied to the design of hybrid couplers with different aspect ratios, with respect to the classical square one.


APPARATUS FOR BINOCULAR VISION OF RESIDUAL LIGHT. IT CONTAINS ONE TYPE INTENSIFIER IMAGE WITHOUT INVERSION AND EACH OPTICAL SYSTEM OUTPUT ASSOCIATED EYE EACH SUCH TERM IS DESIGNED SO THAT REVERSAL OF ONE IMAGE IS CARRIED OUT IN EACH COURSE. APPLICATION TO PASSIVE NIGHT TWIN.


Abstract Background  Plantar fasciitis is the most common cause of heel pain and is difficult to treat in most chronic and severe forms. Management of plantar fasciitis includes non-surgical options such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and corticosteroids, physical therapy, orthotics, and surgical management includes plantar fasciotomy. Local injection of platelet-rich plasma as well as local steroids is an emerging concept in treating recalcitrant tendon and ligament pathology, including plantar fasciitis. Objectives  The aim of the study was to evaluate and compare the outcome of patients treated with a single injection of autologous leucocyte-rich platelet-rich plasma with single-injection local steroids triamcinolone in chronic plantar fasciitis. Methodology  The study was conducted for a duration of 24 months. In total, 60 patients with clinically diagnosed chronic plantar fasciitis were selected for study and divided in two groups using the single allocation randomization method as those treated with autologous injection leucocyte-rich platelet-rich plasma and those with injection local steroid triamcinolone and prospectively followed and compared. Results  Both groups were evaluated subjectively and functionally at primary visit and then on follow-up at 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 8 weeks, and 12 weeks by VAS and hind foot AOFAS score. Conclusion  We concluded that both injection platelet-rich plasma-treated and injection local steroid-treated patients provide symptomatic relief in the treatment of chronic plantar fasciitis both subjectively and functionally. The steroid treated group showed early symptomatic improvement at 2 weeks, and results at 12 weeks to further follow-up were suggestive that single-injection leucocyte-rich platelet-rich plasma provided better functional results.


The purpose of the article is to reveal a sociological understanding of the notion "interreligious relations" and, based on a number of indicators, to study the level of religiosity of Russians and their attitudes towards representatives of other religions, the level of discrimination and the level of declared religious tolerance. The study was carried out on the basis of the data of the all-Russian survey conducted by WCIOM in November 2019, the sample population was 2,000. An important conclusion is made that in conditions of the high importance of the religious identity of Russians, their assessments record an extremely low (2–3%) level of religious discrimination (understood as the experience of encountering a violation of rights, restricting opportunities, a hostile attitude due to religion affiliation). The study recorded a high level of religious tolerance (lack of hostility towards members of other religions), concludes that the intense religious identity of the main faith groups (Orthodox and Muslims) does not provoke conflict in the sphere of interethnic relations.


Ochlerotatus caspius (Pallas) (Diptera, Culicidae) is the most abundant culicidae during the summer in the Huelva Marshes (SW of Spain). This study proves that the relationship between adult captures, turned to probit indexes, and temperature accumulations or degree-days, conveniently modifi ed by a logarithmic transformation, shows to be signifi cantly linear for each generation of this mosquito throughout the year. Jointly processing all data of the available years also results in a high linear correlation, statistically signifi cant, and, consequently, the proposed equations have predictive value. The reliability of the forecast based on the resulting log-probit have shown to be acceptable in order to be considered as an useful tool to improve the effectiveness of the integrated pest management in the area.


A hepatitis C virus(HCV)cDNA fragment,534bp in length and designated asQ534,was obtained by PCR amplification with self-designed primers.Q534 was cloned in-to Hinc Ⅱ site of pUC18 and the recombinant plasmid pQ534 was then selected from thebacterial transformants.The sequence analysis indicated that Q534 was a cDNA fragmentof HCV core gene,and located in HCV genome from positions 320 to 853 incorrespondence with Chiron's prototype sequence.The homologies between Q534 and theprototype at the levels of nucleotides and amino acids were 90.0% and 97.6%,respectively.The homologies of Q534 with Japanese HCV-J and HCV-BK strains were 96.6% and97.0% at the nucleotide level,and 98.2% and 98.8% at the amino acid level.In terms ofthe sequence,this Chinese HCV isolate should belong to HCV group Ⅱ.


We study the performance limits of turbo equalization when the M -BCJR algorithm is used as the soft-in soft-out equalizer. We show through analysis based on EXIT charts that the M -BCJR equalizer can provide performance very close to that of the BCJR equalizer with considerably reduced complexity. We show that the current practice of using the output of the equalizer directly as a posteriori probabilities is suboptimal and we show how to use the M -BCJR equalizer in a better fashion in an it-


Applying the Tillett-Garner plasma-clot technic 1 with rate of thrombolysis as the quantitative index, Dack, Woolpert and Hoyne 2 found a slight correlation between thrombolytic titer and clinical severity of scarlet fever. At the time of the publication of their paper a similar study of scarlatinal streptococci was in progress in our laboratories We had selected the more delicate isolated fibrinclot technic, however, with serial-dilution methods of determining lytic titer. The 60 strains of S. scarlatinae used in this study were originally isolated in The Connaught Laboratories, University of Toronto. With 43 of these strains Dick-toxin titrations have been made by one of us (F). The fibrinolytic titrations were made in Stanford University (M). Both series of titrations are summarized in Table I. From Table I it is seen that there is a slight correlation between toxin-titer and fibrinolysin-titer with scarlatinal streptococci. The 2 population quadrants composed of strains either simultaneously superior, or simultaneously inferior in both fibrinolysin and toxin production, together contain 32 strains, or 75% of the population. An attempted correlation of toxin-titer and symptomatology is recorded in Table II. From Table II it is seen that there are 13 strains in the left-upper quadrant in which high toxin-titer is associated with "severe" symptoms, and 13 strains in the right-lower quadrant in which low toxin-titer is associated with "mild" or "moderate" symptoms. These 2 quadrants together contain 26 strains or 63% of the population. An attempted correlation of fibrinolysin-titer with symptomatology is recorded in Table III.


This investigation, (the 2004 Dorset-Hampshire survey) a follow-up to Hankinson (1987), (the 1987 Dorset-Hampshire survey) is an examination of price determination in a sample of 56 small engineering firms in the DorsetHampshire region of England during the period 2000-2004. The work is a critical survey of pricing decision making in the sample firms under review, and an assessment of small firms' pricing improvement, if any, over the 17-year period 1987 to 2004.


Banni grasslands in Gujarat are home to migratory pastoralists (Maldharis) for more than 500 years. Maldharis are landless and dependent on livestock for their livelihood. The study was conducted to measure the long-term growth and instability of different livestock species in Banni grasslands from 1977 to 2012. Pastoralists (280) were personally interviewed during 2015 to 2017 to prioritize the factors affecting trends in livestock population using Garrett ranking technique. The Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) in population was highest for Banni buffaloes (5.89%) followed by Kankrej cattle (1.78%) and it was negative for goat (-0.29%) and sheep (–0.28%) population. Cuddy Della Valle Instability Index was very high for goat (89%) and sheep population (78%) whereas it was low for buffaloes (31%) and cattle (23%). The severity and duration of drought significantly affected the decline in population of goat and sheep. However, the shift in population of buffaloes and cattle was affected by complex of technological and policy factors. Decline in demand of Kankrej bullocks for agriculture use, low milk productivity of cows, and detrimental impact of regular feeding on Prosopis juliflora pods (weakening and dislocation of jaws and gradual death of cows) led to significant increase in population of Banni buffaloes when compared to Kankrej cattle. The population growth rate of Banni buffaloes (457%) was six times higher than the Kankrej cows (70%) from 1977 to 2012. This trend is most likely to continue in the following years as the migratory pastoralism is being gradually replaced by semi-migratory and sedentary pastoralism and establishment of organized dairy industry. Establishment of dairy units/Milk Collection Centres and improved road connectivity of villages in Banni have further facilitated in promotion of Banni buffalo based pastoralism as the primary source of livelihood. Composition of different livestock species in 2012 (Buffaloes: 72%, Cattle: 16%, Goat: 7% and Sheep: 6%) indicated the dominance of Banni buffalo both in terms of number and contribution to livelihood of pastoralists and overall economy of Banni grasslands.


We succeeded in determining quantitatively hydroperoxides and peroxiradicals in radiation-oxidized polyvinyl chloride (PVC) by combining the chemical method with electron paramagnetic resonance. PVC oxidized by radiation contains two different kinds of peroxiradicals and one of hydroperoxide. 60% of peroxiradicals decay at 20°C in atmospheric oxygen at a half time T½ ∼ 3 hr. 40% of peroxiradicals are relatively stable at room temperature. They decay at 56°C. in vacuum with T½ ∼ 40 hr. The hydroperoxide R″COOH decays at 50°C. in vacuum with T½ = 650 hr. The activation energy of decay is E = 35 kcal./mole in a temperature range of 50 to 75°C.


This project will run a health programme promoting a healthier confident and motivated community. It will also provide young people and the local community with the necessary skills and coping mechanisms to tackle health concerns more effectively. ...


Following a change in the policy for malaria treatment in Nigeria, artemisinin‐based combination therapies (ACTs) were adopted in 2005 as first‐line therapy instead of chloroquine due to reports of resistance. We assessed the pattern of prescription of antimalarial drugs in a tertiary institution before and after the policy change.


Most fairness assumptions used for verifying liveness properties are criticised for being too strong or unrealistic. On the other hand, justness, arguably the minimal fairness assumption required for the verification of liveness properties, is not preserved by classical semantic equivalences, such as strong bisimilarity. To overcome this deficiency, we introduce a finer alternative to strong bisimilarity, called enabling preserving bisimilarity. We prove that this equivalence is justness-preserving and a congruence for all standard operators, including parallel composition.


Nuremberg a city associated with Nazi excesses, party rallies, and the extreme antiSemitic propaganda published by Hitler ally Julius Streicher has http://www.academia.edu/9118068/Haunted_City_Nuremberg_and_the_Nazi_Past


Abstract Background TB is the most common opportunistic infections (OIs) among patients living with HIV and associated with morbidity and mortality. The objective of the study was to describe epidemiology and characteristics of TB in newly diagnosed HIV patients. Methods Retrospective study was conducted at Nakhonpathom hospital, a 722-bed tertiary care hospital in Thailand during October 2016 and September 2018. The data on demography and outcome were collected. Results There were 369 newly-HIV diagnosed patients. Of these, 182 patients (49.3%) presented with AIDS-defining illnesses. TB was the most common (80 patients), followed by PCP (49 patients), cryptococcal meningitis (13 patients) and invasive salmonellosis (6 patients). Medical records of 29 HIV-TB patients were incomplete and were excluded from the study. Out of 51 HIV-TB patients, the median age was 41 (range 18–63) years and 39 (76.5%) were male. The median CD4 counts was 62.5 (range 7–773) cells/µL. Twenty-six (51.0%) had only pulmonary TB, 13 (25.5%) had only extra-pulmonary TB, and 12 (23.5%) had disseminated TB. Among extra-pulmonary TB, TB lymphadenitis was seen in 13, followed by intraabdominal TB in 8, TB meningitis in 4, and TB pleura in 3 patients. The mortality rate of HIV-TB in our study was 11.8%. Conclusion TB is the most common OIs that occurs among patients with advanced HIV disease. The outcome was unfavorable, with death in 11.8%. Strategies to improve early diagnosis and treatment are warranted. Disclosures All authors: No reported disclosures.


The function of the pecteralis major, serratus anterior and latissimus dorsi muscles were tested electromyographically during driving in a simulator. The pectoralis major muscle seems to stabilize the shoulder during car driving, the clavicular portion being more active than the sternocostal. The serratus anterior muscle works in contralateral rotation of the steering wheel. The latissimus dorsi muscle is active only to a small extent and when activity occurs it is usually in ipsilateral rotation of the steering wheel.


Market demands to improve the paper quality and production efficiency, however, off line supercalender is available for highly compressed paper applications, i.e. A 1, A 2 coated paper and/or SC paper, etc. The supercalenders are becoming bottleneck. Voith Paper developed the Janus calender focusing on-line installation in 1996, it is now improved as Janus" MK 2" with state of the art. Following provides an introduction of the Janus MK 2. The technical and technological possibilities of this Janus "second generation" to be installed online are presented.


This is a broad review (140 literature citations) of the possible effects of oral contraceptives on the liver. The oral contraceptives considered consist of combined preparations of estrogens and progestogens although the so-called "minipills" contain only a progestogen. The effects are divided into 1) decrease in excretory liver function; 2) influence on bile acid formation, including cholesterol metabolism; 3) increased synthesis of various transport proteins (ceruloplasmin, transferrin, thyroxine-binding protein, and cortisol-binding protein); 4) the effects of increased tissue circulation caused by sexual hormones and anabolic steroids as a cause for more frequent cavernous angiomas and peliosis hepatis; 5) interference with the metabolism of other drugs by the competitive action of the hepatic metabolites of steroid hormones. This includes the increased formation of delta amino levulinic-acid synthetase, the key enzyme for porphyrin synthesis. The gestagen component of oral contraceptives is responsible for enzyme induction in the smooth endoplasmic reticulum. Morphological liver changes caused by oral contraceptives include parenchyma changes, hepatosis, reactive hepatitis, hepatitis resembling viral hepatitis, vascular changes, sinusoid ectasia, Budd-Chiari syndrome, hyperplasias and neoplasias, focal nodular hyperplasia, adenoma and liver cell carcinoma.


Objectives: To assess the diagnostic accuracy of transvaginal ultrasound, aspiration cytology and estradiol content alone and in triad in the discrimination between functional and nonfunctional unilocular ovarian cysts in premenopausal women. Methods: Premenopausal women (n;;; 18) with unilocular ovarian cysts undergoing laparoscopy were recruited. Intracystic fluid was obtained by needle aspiration and subjected to cytology and estradiol content. The cyst wall that was removed during laparoscopy/laparotomy was subjected to histopathology as a gold standard. Cysts were classified into functional or non-functional according to the results of transvaginal ultrasonography, cytology and estradiol content. Results: The diagnostic accuracy of transvaginal sonography was 61 %, cytology 72 %.and estradiol content 83 % in differentiating unilocular ovarian cysts into functional and non-functional. When the triad was used in combination, the. diagnostic accuracy was increased to 94 %. Conclusion: Aspiration of unilocular ovarian cysts based on assessment by transvaginal ultrasound alone may not be sufficient. The addition of cytology and estradiol content increased the diagnostic accuracy. This triad can reduce the number of unnecessary laparotomies especially in young subfertile women.


Mean cosmic-ray intensities have been measured with much precision both at Pasadena, California (latitude 34) and at Churchill, Manitoba (latitude 59), the latter a distance of 730 miles from the North magnetic pole.

(1) The observed equality in these intensities indicates that these rays enter the earth's atmosphere as photons rather than as streams of electrons.

(2) Evidence is presented that the incoming rays are of a uniform intensity in all directions and in all latitudes, the small and apparently erratic fluctuations found by many observers at different stations arising simply from eruptions, waves, or ripples which change the thickness of the atmospheric blanket interposed between the source and the observer.

(3) The cosmic-ray electroscope thus acquires significance as a meteorological instrument.

(4) The influence of these rays in the maintenance of the earth's charge is considered.


The first intelligence test, the Binet-Simon Intelligence Test, was published in 1905 by Alfred Binet with the primary goal of identifying students who needed special help in school. As early as 1911, professionals in the field of psychology began to evaluate the validity of intelligence testing for people who had speech and language impairments or did not speak English. During this time in history, a wave of immigrants came into the United States through Ellis Island. As part of the immigration processing procedure, a form of intelligence quotient (IQ) testing was used to screen people for mental and physical disorders. However, the validity of these test measures became painfully obvious; tests were only administered in English, a profound disadvantage for the many who did not speak English. In 1911, Drs. William Healy and Grace Fernald observed that the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale "helps very little where the language factor is a barrier" (Boake, 2002).


In this paper, we consider the problem of automatically assessing sofware quality. We show that we can look at this problem, called Software Quality Assessment (SQA), as a multicriteria decision-making problem. Indeed, just like software is assessed along different criteria, Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) is about decisions that are based on several criteria that are usually conflicting and non-homogenously satisfied. Nonadditive (fuzzy) measures along with the Choquet integral can be used to model and aggregate the levels of satisfaction of these criteria by considering their relationships. However, in practice, fuzzy measures are difficult to identify. An automated process is necessary and possible when sample data is available. Several optimization approaches have been proposed to extract fuzzy measures from sample data; e.g., genetic algorithms, gradient descent algorithms, and the Bees algorithm, all local search techniques. In this article, we propose a hybrid approach, combining the Bees algorithm and an interval constraint solver, resulting in a focused search expected to be less prone to falling into local results. Our approach, when tested on SQA decision data, shows promise and compares well to previous approaches to SQA that were using machine learning techniques.


This paper presents a joint design method for wireless networked control system (WNCS) to balance both the demands of network service and the control performance. Since the problems of power consumption, communication reliability, and system stability exist simultaneously and interdependently in WNCS, most of the achieved results in the wireless network and wired networked control system cannot be used directly. To coordinate the three problems, sampling period is found to be the linking bridge. An adaptive sampling power efficiency algorithm is proposed to manage the power consumption such that it can meet the demands of network life span. The sampling period is designed to update periodically on the constraints of network schedulability and system stability. The convergence of the power efficiency algorithm is further proved. The sampling period is no longer a fixed value, however; thus, increasing the difficulty in modeling and controlling such a complicated time-varying system remains. In this work, a switched control system scheme is applied to model such a WNCS, and the effect of network-induced delay is considered. Switched feedback controllers are introduced to stabilize the WNCS, and some considerations on stability condition and the bounds of the update circle for renewing sampling period are discussed. A numerical example shows the effectiveness of the proposed method.


This research was underlined based on observations from the research location showed the presence of a variety of problems, including the lack of students' vocabulary skill to learn English. It cause students tend to be passive and face some difficulties in learning English. One of the reasons is the startegies used in teaching learning English at the school is not effective and boring. Therefore, it needs an alternative teaching learning technique to improve students' vocabulary.
 This research is mainly to know the effectiveness of Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM) to improve students' English vocabulary mastery. Thus, the hypothesis used in this research is there is significant difference between students' vocabulary who are taught by applying Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM) and those who are taught without applying it, which used memorizing technique. On other hand, Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM) is more effective to improve students' English vocabulary mastery
 The research used quantitative method.it is an experimental study. The technique to collect data is vocabulary test. This research was done at seventh grade of SMP Muslimin Panyawungan Kabupaten Bandung. And the samples of this research was two classes,7B as the control class and 7A as the experimental class. In this research, pre-test,treatment and post-test were conducted to experimental and control classes. Beside that, the calculation used statistical method with t-test.
 The result of computing data showed that tcount = 5.09. According to t distribution table on level of significant 5%, it was gained ttable =1.664. If tcount = 5.09 and ttable =1.664, then tcount> ttable. In other words, the null hypohesis is rejected. Conversely, alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. Based on the average score of post-test, vocabulary skill in both experimental and control class is significantly different (experimental class = 67.4 and control class = 51.57)
 From the explanation above, it can be concluded that teaching vocabulary using Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM) can improve students' vocabulary mastery at seventh grade of SMP Muslimin Panyawungan Kabupaten Bandung. It means Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM) can be used as one of English teaching models to improve students' vocabulary.


All too often, we who are the practitioners in the field of industrial and labor relations become so engrossed in the comparatively petty day-to-day problems, that we fail to grasp their significance and impact on the long range objective of seeking to obtain social justice for all who comprise our society. It is indeed refreshing to be granted the op? portunity to step back occasionally and to appraise objectively our prob? lems in the framework of where we have been, where we are, and where we should be in the light of the teachings of the Church as expounded in Rerum Novarum, Quadragesimo Anno, Pacem in Ferris and Mater et Magistra. This afternoon I would like to explore with you a few aspects of the condition of the American Worker in 1971 in relation to the principles enunciated in these encyclicals. In Rerum Novarum, Leo made clear that the right of the workman to join an association for the purpose of bettering his conditions was not a right which sprang from a legislative mandate but flowed from his very nature. It was a natural right, not a man-made one. In the words of the Pontiff:


There is a tension in our political tradition between liberty and democracy, between the values of protecting the liberty of the individual and respecting the will of the majority. Individual liberty is very precious, we think, but we also hold that the law ought to express the will of the people, recognizing that this may be to limit the liberty of the individual. How, then, are liberty and democracy to be reconciled? One approach to reconciliation is offered by the contractualist idea that political power in a society ought only to be exercised in accordance with a system of principles that everyone in that society could accept-another idea with deep roots in our political tradition. No system of principles could be accepted by everyone, it seems, unless it recognizes and protects certain basic liberties-freedom of opinion, the rights giving effect to the rule of law, and the liberties of political participation. The contractualist principle thus requires that the exercise of political power respect both the freedom of the individual and the freedom of the people to make law. Having a common moral basis, liberty and democracy are therefore compatible, for the people can exercise their power to make law while respecting the basic liberties that protect the individual. Tension between liberty and democracy lingers, however, for not all liberties are basic liberties, and the majority may want to limit nonbasic liberties that individuals have reason to value. The liberty to hunt whales and the liberty to smoke marijuana are not typically regarded as basic, for example; but individuals may still have reason to value these liberties while the majority may want to limit them. We may wonder, then, which takes moral priority on a contractualist view, the claims of the individual or the claims of the majority.


A marketable production characterized by stem weight, leaf area and leaf/stem ratio were measured in five cultivar s of Chinese broccoli. From the results can be concluded the cultivar Hon Tsai Tai as si gnificantly worst performing (stem weight 15,5 g, leaf/stem ratio 29 cm 2 .g 1- ) and cultivar Happy Rich as significantly best (stem weight 55 g, leaf/stem ratio 18,6 cm 2 .g 1- ). Other cultivars such as Summer Jean, Suiho and Green Lance were in between in this evaluation. Cultivar Happy Rich can be consequently recommended for summer production under organic growing conditions in the Czech Republic.


The regionwise compound growth rates were estimated for the time periods i.e. pre-WTO period (1960-61 to 1994-95), post-WTO period (1995-96 to 2012-13) and overall period (1960-61 to 2012- 13). During the pre-WTO period the rates of compound growth in consumption of N, P and K at the overall level of Maharashtra were 6.06, 7.11 and 5.87 per cent per annum, respectively. The highest consumption of nitrogenous fertilizers was observed in Marathwada region (10.38 %) while highest consumption of phosphatic (10.38 %) and potassic (9.92 %) fertilizers were observed in western Maharashtra. During post-WTO period the consumption of nitrogenous, phosphatic and potassic fertilizers was lowest in Konkan region with the rate of growth of 0.99 per cent, 1.67 per cent and 2.02 per cent per annum, respectively. For the overall period (1960-61 to 2012-13), the consumption pattern of total fertilizers exhibits variation among all the regions in Maharashtra. The annual compound growth rates in phosphorus and nitrogenous consumption were substantially higher during pre-WTO period as compared to overall period and post-WTO period in Maharashtra State. Wide variations in NPK consumption in various regions was observed may due to variations in soil type, nature of cropping pattern, availability of irrigation, rainfed nature of crops and varied stages of agro-economic development.


Synthesis 2003, No. 6, Print: 29 04 2003. Art Id.1437-210X,E;2003,0,06,0803,0819,ftx,en;E07902SS.pdf. © Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York ISSN 0039-7881 Abstract: Radical annulation sequences have proven to be versatile and expedient routes towards highly complex cyclic frameworks. The radical annulation reaction allows for the formation of multiple carbon-carbon bonds in a single operation with regioand stereocontrol. This review covers annulation reactions that have been carried out by four different pathways.


The conference began with a presentation by Frederique Istace, Scientific Officer at EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) concerning the first update of the EFSA Open Guidance in 2014, initiated by an EC Mandate in 2017 and adopted on 30 November 2021. Changes included Inclusion of
 GH scenarios Update of mixing/loading data Rounding of coefficients in formulas Optional calculation of air concentration Inclusion of soil-borne residue approach Pro-rata calculation of dermal absorption Inclusion of safe re-entry period calculation Combined exposure for different active
 substances in one product.


This paper presents the results of nonlinear aeroelastic analysis of a representative large-aspect-ratio wing. The efiects of steady-state lift and drag are characterized and quantifled. Certain simpliflcations for obtaining nonlinear results are given and a way of avoiding deleterious nonlinear efiects is presented.


【Our plywood manufacturing industries which entertained prosperous stage in late 1970's have come to be in face of the problems of conceedingly obtaining good quality logs and yield up-grading, which is considered by future-replaceable forest resources. In view of this point, manufacturing characteristic on softwood plywood using Japanese larch, pitch pine as domestic plantation species, and western hemlock as foreign species was studied. In this study, veneer- and plywood manufacturing yields were discussed in relation to log properties and veneer defects (knots). The summarized conclusions were as follows: 1. The majority of sample logs belonged to second grade on the standard. And, eccentricity of larch was the highest 11%, about 2 times those of pitch pine, hemlock. 2. Knot frequency of occurrence of larch reached 19% within log height 8m, and pitch pine 13% within 4m. Correspondingly, the log height of larch available for plywood manufacture was higher by about 2 times that of pitch pine. 3. In the knot types, most of knots of larch appeared dead, whereas those of pitch pine and hemlock appeared live. In size of knots, larch and hemlock showed relatively small 1-2cm dia. by 70% or more and pitch pine did the larger 24cm by 65%. Generally the more knot emerged in the inner side of veneer than the outer. 4. Plywood manufacturing yields by peeling with spindle revolution lathe were 37% in larch > 32% in hemlock> 26% in pitch pine. S. Jointed core veneer yields by peeling with outer perimeter back-up lathe were 55% in hemlock> 53% in larch> and 48% in pitch pine.】


The Central Logic and Control (CLC) unit is the digital computer that controls SAFEGUARD. Its development represents the first reduction to practice of large-scale multiprocessing in a computer system. This paper describes the CLC and explains some of the decisions behind its design.


Abstract Many residents of Assisted Living (AL) confront serious illness and therefore might benefit from greater access to Palliative Care Services to improve quality of life. We surveyed resident records and AL nursing staff to identify patients in need of Palliative Care. Preliminary findings showed that nurses predicted 23% would not be alive and 49% would no longer live in AL. A majority of residents were over the age of 90, yet 30% did not have a reported code status. These findings suggest that a substantial portion of AL residents may have unmet needs with respect to palliative care. Future interventions are needed to support advance care planning conversations and make palliative care more accessible to this population.


A digital beam monitoring system (BELIMOS) consisting of high spatial and time resolution multiwire proportional chambers and associated amplifier circuitry, and a CAMAC data acquisition system has been used to provide readout and display of beam profile and position information of the NAL secondary beam lines.


Objective To discuss the nursing methods and measures of treating glioma with transcarotid chemotheray with teniposide(VM-26).Method Thirty-five cases of glioma were injected VM-26(100mg) via carotid artery once a week and three times for one course.Results Most patients had not obvious chemo-reaction.Three patients had temporary dizziness,two cases of temporary blurring of vision happened in three minutes,all of the patients had not complications of cerebral infarction and ect.Conclusion Transcarotid chemotherapy with VM-26 treating glioma and nursing is convenient,inexpensive,feasibility and security.


In this paper, we propose a general iterative algorithm for numerical solution of high dimension optimization problems. The specificity of the problems considered is that the number of variables involved in linear constraints dominate over those involved in nonlinear constraints.


The ossification of stapedial tendon is a rare disorder of middle ear that results in conductive hearing loss. It might be easily misdiagnosed as otosclerosis, and only exploratory tympanotomy can indicate cases where the mobility of stapes is not fixed or has increased. Cutting of the tendon results in nearly normal ossicular mobility and hearing improvement. A 41-year-old patient visited our clinic with slowly progressive hearing loss. Hearing evaluation revealed that he had a conductive hearing loss with intact tympanic membrane. The mobility of stapes was enhanced by cutting of the tendon through exploratory tympanotomy; hearing was improved thereafter. (Korean J Otorhinolaryngol-Head Neck Surg 2009;52:449-52)


We present some new critical point theorems for nonlinear dynamical systems which are generalizations of Dancš-Hegedüs-Medvegyev's principle in uniform spaces and metric spaces by applying an abstract maximal element principle established by Lin and Du. We establish some generalizations of Ekeland's variational principle, Caristi's common fixed point theorem for multivalued maps, Takahashi's nonconvex minimization theorem, and common fuzzy fixed point theorem for -functions. Some applications to the existence theorems of nonconvex versions of variational inclusion and disclusion problems in metric spaces are also given.


Erratum to: J Breast Cancer (http://dx.doi.org/10.4048/jbc.2012.15.3.344)

This article was initially published on Journal of Breast Cancer with misspelled title of Table 2.

The title should be corrected as the following:

from "Univariate/crude OR (95% CI) on ultra sonographi features of benign and malignant nodules"

to "Univariate/crude OR (95% CI) on ultrasonograhic features of benign and malignant nodules"


In this paper, we propose a Pyramid VQ(PVQ) to quantize the transform coefficients of TCX module for the music improvement of AMR-WB+ codec. The proposed PVQ is compared to the RE8 Lattice VQ used in the AMR-WB+ standard codec, demonstrating improvement 4% and 5.7%, respectively, in Mean Squared Error(MSE) and 3.3% and 4.7%, respectively, in Perceptual Evaluation of Audio Quality(PEAQ) by 8-dimensional and 16-dimensional Pyramid VQ.


The Perturbing is something supposed to be kept secret and hidden, which instead came out: that sort of scary feeling which belongs to what we have been knowing for a long time, to what we are familiar with. Freud named this feeling Das Unheimlich and nowadays, 90 years later, in times that have witnessed all sorts of global events, these words are echoing and describing once more something that we feel deep inside ourselves and that describes us in an ambiguous, at times disturbing, language which creeps up in our conscious living experience. From these disturbances the unconscious, which we face everyday, breaks in. Even though unheimlich is a Freudian-derived word, the phenomenon gives the name to what will be analysed by looking for an image that can offer a mythical background to the question and by trying to identify its mytheme. A possible direction to read Jung's inheritance can be indicated, looking at his biography and trying to find in his tales the traces of that "perturbing" that seems to be absent - at least formally - in the corpus of his work.


Hedysarum furxicosum Pall.var.Leave (Maxim) H.C.Fu is a major strub to fix the sand in Maowusu sandland. It is damaged by Oberea herzi Gangllauer, a wood\|boring insect. It takes two years to complete a generation, overwintering as larva inside host\|plant roots. The peak of emergence is the middle of May. Through spraying Methamidophos upon the plants, the controlling effect may reach as high as 87 4%. The harm can be effectively controlled by cutting the plant part up the ground.


October 20, 1972 Trade union — Expulsion — Construction of rules — Member employed by non‐union firm — Liability under rules to expulsion — Whether discretion to impose penalty less than expulsion — No notice of charge — Member not told of right to appeal to executive council — Validity of expulsion — National Graphical Association Rules, 1961, rr.37(10), 38(1).


In this work some proofs of Thomson's theorem are discussed. Attention is focused on some points which seem to be disregarded by some authors. In this way a more thorough comprehension of the physical situation involved is gained.


The thermal conductivity and stability of any nanofluid are essential thermophysical properties. These properties are affected by many parameters, such as the nanoparticles, the base fluid, the surfactant, and the sonication time used for mixing. In this study, multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were selected as additive particles, and the remaining variables were tested to reach the most suitable nanofluid that can be used to cool photovoltaic/thermal (PVT) systems operating in the harsh summer conditions of the city of Baghdad. Among the tested base fluids, water was chosen, although ethylene glycol (EG), propylene glycol (PG), and heat transfer oil (HTO) were available. The novelty of the current study contains the optimization of nanofluid preparation time to improve MWCNTs' PVT performance with different surfactants (CTAB, SDS, and SDBS) and base fluids (water, EG, PG, and oil). When 1% MWCNT mass fraction was added, the thermal conductivity (TC) of all tested fluids increased, and the water + nano-MWCNT advanced all TC (EG, PG, and oil) by 119.5%, 308%, and 210%, respectively. The aqueous nanofluids' stability also exceeded the EG, PG, and oil at the mass fraction of 0.5% MWCNTs by 11.6%, 20.3%, and 16.66%, respectively. A nanofluid consisting of 0.5% MWCNTs, water (base fluid), and CTAB (surfactant) was selected with a sonication time of three and quarter hours, considering that these preparation conditions were practically the best. This fluid was circulated in an installed outdoor, weather-exposed PVT system. Experiments were carried out in the harsh weather conditions of Baghdad, Iraq, to test the effectiveness of the PVT system and the nanofluid. The nanofluid-cooled system achieved an electrical efficiency increase of 88.85% and 44% compared to standalone PV and water-cooled PVT systems, respectively. Additionally, its thermal efficiency was about 20% higher than that of a water-cooled PVT system. With the effect of the high temperature of the PV panel (at noon), the electrical efficiency of the systems was decreased, and the least affected was the nanofluid-cooled PVT system. The thermal efficiency of the nanofluid-cooled PVT system was also increased under these conditions. This success confirms that the prepared nanofluid cooling of the PVT system approach can be used in the severe weather of the city of Baghdad.


Cast ingot pulling speed is significantly affecting the nature of the resulting structure and the quality of the outer surface of the ingot. By introducing a variable algorithm for extraction of the ingot we may to some extent control the shape and location of the solid / liquid interface and temperature field in the cross-section of the ingot. The shape of the crystallization front, as well as its position relative to mold plays an important role in the process of continuous casting ingots of grey iron and affects the structure of the casting. In order to verify the impact of an algorithm on the shape and the location of solid / liquid interface, a number of simulations in ANSYS Fluent 12 were made, for determining the shape of crystallization front and temperature distribution on the cross-section of the ingot.


The assessment of petroleum resources,including predicted and estimated resource,is more than 47.21×108t in Pan-Hexi Corridor basins,but the different exploration degree and low resource proved ratio is existed.Thus,the Pan-Hexi Corridor basins are selective strategic domains and abundant resources of petroleum.In the Pan-Hexi Corridor basins,distribution of basins is comparatively intensive,with large area for most of basins.If petroleum exploration would make a breakthrough,a large scale petroleum resource would be found.The exploration targets focus on the potential source rocks in Carboniferous-Permian,Jurassic and Cretaceous.There are effective multiply layers for petroleum accumulation in the Pan-Hexi Corridor basins.In the whole exploration,it should be paid more attention to predominant strategy,effective forecasting,foundational research basic and risk target.The strategic is to focus on the great replaced exploration domain,the forecasting is to restore of advancing resource and technologies,the foundational is to engage in geologic theory and key techniques and the risk is to eye on target selection for discovery of large scale petroleum field.


: The accumulation of nutrients (eutrophication) in water bodies generally produces increased concentrations of organic matter that eventually are deposited in sediment, and partially mineralized, generating greenhouse carbon gases (GHCG). The application of eutrophication control methods in-cludes the application of phosphate adsorbing materials such as Phoslock (PHOS), and hypolimnetic oxygenation systems (HOS). We evaluated the generation of GHCG in sediment subject to these eutrophication control methods. Combined water and sediment samples from the Valle de Bravo reservoir in Mexico, were incubated in reactors, where the following eutrophication control methods were applied: HOS, PHOS, HOS + PHOS, and compared to a reactor without treatment (CONTROL). Redox potential (Eh), pH, redox-sensitive ions, and GHCG emissions were monitored, observing the following rates: CONTROL (15.6 mmol m − 2 d − 1 ) > HOS (12.8) > HOS + PHOS (11.0) > PHOS (9.7 mmol m − 2 d − 1 ), with the CONTROL rate within values determined from published sediment core data. The GHCG emissions increased with time as Eh decreased, and sulfate reduction increased. Application of eutrophication control methods in the Valle de Bravo reservoir, would most probably result in lower GHCG generation and emission rates. This is due to the repression of sulfate-reduction in water-sediment systems where HOS and PHOS were applied both individually and combined.


Objective To observe the changes of concentration of blood sugar in separation gel vacuum collective tube.Method1)The samples of blood collected with iner separation gel vacuum tube were measured by glucose oxidase method.The66samples were divided into three groups according to the concentrations of blood sugar: 8mmol/L;8 ~ 11mmol/L and 11mmol/L.2)At initial time and after72hours,The sugar concentrations of31samples were respectively mea sured by same method above.The data were analysed with variance.Results The concentrations of blood sugar collected and preserved in separation gel vacuum tube didn ' t change significantly within6h and72h.Conclusions These results showed blood sugar ' s stability is fine in separation gel vacuum tube within3d,This method may be used to separate and preserve blood sugar.


Heart rate variability (HRV) monitoring using millimeter-wave radar has been exploited as a promising research direction for daily health monitoring and supervision of patients with skin diseases. A critical issue with these solutions includes that good monitoring performance could only be achieved with unmixed heartbeat signal, while random body movements (RBM) and interference from respiration harmonics severely hinder the separation of heartbeat signal. In this paper, we propose a millimeter-wave radar-based HRV monitoring system to mitigate interference and significantly improve HRV detection accuracy. With careful noise filtering, the system is able to minimize the interference caused by RBM. To address the respiration harmonics issue, we design a heartbeat signal separator based on a variational problem model to extract the precise heartbeat signal. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that the system can achieve a median interbeat intervals (IBI) estimation error of 24 ms in different distances and different angles.


THE LANDMARK case of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc. ,1 raised and decided, at least as a matter of the law of the United States, the question of the arbitrability of antitrust claims. In the judgment of the European Court of Justice in the Eco Swiss case, appropriately named, one can hear an echo of Mitsubishi : 'Anticompetitive conduct is subject to arbitration'.

This article does not attempt to present any detailed analysis of the proceedings in the European Court of Justice or in the Dutch courts where the arbitral award was challenged. These matters are ably discussed by Professor Allan Philip in the paper referred to below.2 The purpose of this article is rather to discuss the lessons that are found in the Eco Swiss judgment and the Mitsubishi case for the conduct of international commercial arbitrations in respect to which anticompetitive or antitrust laws are implicated.

Mitsubishi Motors v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc. , was decided in 1985 by a five to three vote of the Justices of the Supreme Court. In 1986 the Brooklyn Law School held a Symposium on 'The Future of Private International Arbitration: Beyond Mitsubishi Motors v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc.' (hereinafter 'The Future of Private International Arbitration'). At that Symposium, I presented a discussion 'From Vynior Case to Mitsubishi: The Future of Arbitration and Public Law'.3

The decision of the Supreme Court was a watershed in international commercial arbitration. For the first time, our highest court conferred upon a private system of dispute resolution — international commercial arbitration — not only the power but the duty to adjudicate civil antitrust disputes. In my presentation to the Brooklyn Law School Symposium, I summarized the Court's decision:

> The Court rebutted the argument that the public interest involved in the private enforcement of …


ABSTRACT In many disciplines of engineering, the professional engineering license is an important credential for career advancement. To attain an engineering license, one must pass the Principle and Practice of Engineering (PE) exam after a set amount of time in practice (defined by the state granting the license). While the national pass rate for the exam is available to the public, pass rates based on gender is not collected as most states do not track this demographic. The purpose of this study is to determine the PE exam pass rates for men and women. Pass rate information by gender was requested from each state's licensing board. When gender information was not available, a list of all individuals who sat for the exam and their results were requested. From this list, gender was assigned based on individual names and a pass rate by gender was determined. These data enable a conclusion to be drawn as to whether women are passing the PE exam at a similar rate as men.


We extend the variational method based on the Gibbs-Bogolioubov inequality to the case of fluids against a wall. We investigate the influence of the softness of the wall on the free energy of the system. For small packing fraction we consider a density expansion. The variational results are compared with the exact ones which are given by a direct expansion of the free energy. A comparison between variational and perturbation methods has been done for small packing fraction and also for a case corresponding to the liquid state. The accuracy of the present extension of the variational method to a surface phenomena is found as good as in the bulk fluid. A very simple expression is given for the change on surface tension when we go from the perfect hard wall to soft repulsive wall.


A30 Objects: Thymosin β4 promotes cell migration and is important in angiogenesis, wound healing, and tumor metastasis. Annexins are involved in signal transduction, tissue growth and differentiation, and inflammation. This study investigated that the thymosin β4 affects the expression of annexin with its signal pathway in cervical cancer cells with clinical significance.Methods: Microarray with thymosin β4 virus infected SiHa cells was done. The mRNA expression of thymosin β4 and annexin A1was analyzed with Quantative Competitive Polymerase Chain Reaction in 11 normal cervix, 10 cervical intraepithelial neoplasia of cervix, and 34 invasive cervical carcinoma. The clinicopathologic factors were obtained from the review of patients9 charts. RT-PCR was done with thymosin β4 treated SiHa cells. Western blotting by Annexin A1, cyclin D1, and ERK1/2 antibody were done with those cells.Results: The mRNA expression of thymosin β4 in invasive cervical carcinoma was higher than that of normal cervix and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (p


This paper began with the latest increase of interest rate, discussed the "lever" function and the essence of interest rate, thereby put forward conditions ,the influence on management of commercial banks and the ultimate goal of interest rate liberalization.


The device includes control circuits of cashing machine with tax control is composed of CPU, program storage, data storage, RS232 and/or RS485, tax control card, display etc. CPU is connected to RS232 and/or RS485, and digit collector and interface are connected to RS-232, and there is GPRS (MP818) terminal. The invention changes wired data exchange into wireless data exchange. That is to say current GSM/GPRS/CDMA or satellite communication platform in latter day will be used instead of tangible media such as optical fiber, telephone line, card, disk or tape. Thus, taxation dept. can monitor taxation condition at any time.


R cforms in the nation's healthcare system are raising the pressure on managed care plans to capitate payments to physicians and hospitals, said David N . Schopp at the seminar " U n d e r s t a n d i n g Capitation and Risk Sharing," held following the Catholic Health Assembly (pp. 33-59). Insurance reforms, Schopp explained, will prevent a plan from using experience rating—that is, raising premiums when an employers' healthcare costs go up. Capitation shifts service and financial risks to the providers and aligns incentives of all parties in a health plan. Also, as health maintenance organizations (HMOs) get into Medicare risk contracting (and many are exploring this), they will often capitate the providers , said Schopp, who is the executive director of the Catholic Managed Care Consortium (CMCC), St. Louis, which cosponsored the seminar with the Catholic Health Association.


Cumulative plastic deformation characteristics of rail tracks under moving wheel loads are complex problems. Globally the rail industry is challenged by effective maintenance strategies to ensure safety of the rail track structures. Influence of particle size distributions (PSDs) on the cyclic cumulative plastic deformation of coarse materials in the rail track substructure layers under moving wheel load is not well understood. Conventional test approaches, namely the direct shear test, the cyclic single point load test, and the California bearing ratio test, cannot replicate the actual stress-strain state of coarse materials under moving wheel loads. The multi-ring shear apparatus, an improved torsional simple shear apparatus to replicate moving train wheel loading conditions, was used in this study. The PSDs of coarse materials were experimentally simulated through modifications to the mass portions of different glass beads. The moving wheel loads introduce higher plastic deformation and lower resilient modulus irrespective of the PSDs compared to cyclic single point load tests. Further study with three natural coarse materials (Toyoura sand and two ballast types) indicates that the cumulative plastic deformation has nonlinear relationships between the principal stress axis rotation and PSDs of the materials.


Consider a symmetric differentiated duopoly model in which firms have private market data about the uncertain demand. We analyze two types of duopoly information equilibrium, Cournot and Bertrand, which emerge, respectively, from quantity and price competition, and show that the incentives for information sharing and its welfare consequences depend crucially on the type of competition, the nature of the goods (substitutes or complements), and the degree of product differentation. The demand structure is linear and symmetric, and allows the goods to be substitutes, independent or complements. There is uncertainty only about the


This paper presents a fuzzy inference-based control approach for the adjustment and maintenance, according to users' preferences, of air quality, thermal and visual comfort for buildings' occupants while minimizing energy consumption. First, the control objectives and criteria are described and their models are provided. Then, the designed fuzzy controller along with the criteria models are simulated using MatLab/Simulink. The simulation results are depicted for each control criterion and the efficiency of the presented approach is verified. It is shown that this approach is capable of responding to fixed and variable users' preferences and eliminating overshoots and oscillations without the need for any adaptive procedure.


In a previous paper' an outline was given of the general problem of the origin of the solar system. An effort will now be made to understand how the protoplanets could first have formed and thereupon nearly completely dissolved-with only the present planets surviving. Since the identification of the responsible processes is based in part on the elimination of alternatives, the sequence of steps which has led to the final picture has been retained in this article. The dissolution of the protoplanets involves a decrease of the mass, M, of the total rotational momentum A, of the radius, R, and a change in the energy content, E. It will further be accompanied by changes in the distribution of internal temperature, T, and density, p; and by condensation and sedimentation processes. The latter will depend on T, p and the effective gravity, g; while these three parameters, in turn, will depend on M, R and A. The discussion should therefore begin with the dynamical history of the protoplanets. Dynamical Relations.-Since the ejection mechanism is still to be determined, it will be necessary to keep the equations describing the changes of M, R and A quite general. The present M, R, A values are known, and the initial values may be obtained with some degree of accuracy also. The first step will consist of making certain inferences concerning the ejection mechanism from the equations and the boundary conditions. Since the parameters used will be in the nature of averages, their interpretation will be facilitated if changes in them are held to a minimum during the interval considered. The composition of the Earth's atmosphere suggests a method of approach. The present deficiency in atmosphere-building compounds may be estimated with the aid of a table of cosmic abundances and the terrestrial abundances of Si and Fe. The deficiencies so found for the noble gases are of particular interest since these gases have at no time been bound


Most P, Remppis A, Pleger ST, Katus HA, Koch WJ. S100A1: a novel inotropic regulator of cardiac performance. Transition from molecular physiology to pathophysiological relevance. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 293: R568–R577,2007.FirstpublishedApril25,2007;doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00075.2007.— Here we review the considerable body of evidence that has accumulated to support the notion of S100A1, a cardiac-specific Ca -sensor protein of the EF-hand type, as a physiological regulator of excitation-contraction coupling and inotropic reserve mechanisms in the mammalian heart. In particular, molecular mechanisms will be discussed conveying the Ca -dependent inotropic actions of S100A1 protein in cardiomyocytes occurring independently of -adrenergic signaling. Moreover, we will shed light on the molecular structure-function relationship of S100A1 with its cardiac target proteins at the sarcoplasmic reticulum, the sarcomere, and the mitochondria. Furthermore, pathophysiological consequences of disturbed S100A1 protein expression on altered Ca handling and intertwined systems in failing myocardium will be highlighted. Subsequently, therapeutic options by means of genetic manipulation of cardiac S100A1 expression will be discussed, aiming to complete our current understanding of the role of S100A1 in diseased myocardium.


TPU transparent hydrophobic component of the reaction is provided by the following: (a) a hydrophobic polyol prepared from dimerized fatty acid, (b) a mixture of linear chain extender diol chain extenders and branching diol chain extender, and (c) a diisocyanate. Preferred polyols are dimer fatty acid C is reacted with 1,6-hexanediol. Preferred chain extender is a mixture of 1,12-dodecanediol and 2-butyl-propanediol 75:25 weight ratio mixture. TU is the preferred method of preparing a batch process at 60 deg.] C to about 70 deg.] C beginning of the reaction.


In order to forecast the corporate finance performance,we must choose the appropriate forecast method.The forecast model used widely lacks generalization ability.In this paper,we propose a modified version of support vector machines(called AdaBoost support vector machine) to forecast financial performance of Chinese listed companies.In the choice of kernel function of support vector machine,forecast results are measured for each kernel function and its associated parameters with a view of identifying the most appropriate forecasting model.The experiment results show that our AdaBoost-support vector machine model with rbf kernel function compares favorably to probabilistic neural network and decision tree model.We also construct sub-industry financial performance prediction model for different industry.We find that the test accuracy of different industry varies and estimating separate models for each industry do not result in models with a higher predictive accuracy than the global model.


This paper considers the hermeneutic position, recently gaining some traction in the secondary literature (e.g. Pasnau), that Scholastics in the years 1330-1350 were not primarily interested in theology. Rather, their increasing engagement with "English subtleties" – a set of "logico-mathematical" techniques we now associate with scientific inquiry – was driven by their new, distinctively secular, natural-philosophy interests. In this, they become proto-moderns and philosophers in our contemporary sense. Consideration is given to whether this "pretext" reading of the Scholastics is coherent and plausible, and whether the logico-mathematical techniques were the province of natural philosophy at the time, or actually instead discipline-neutral, being employable in both theology and natural theology. The paper then assesses the rather meagre evidence offered for this reading (from the case of Peter Ceffons) and its unfortunate historiographical implications. It ends by advocating an existing and far more promising alternative hermeneutic for the Scholastics engaged in English subtleties, reading them in context as theologians pursuing theological knowledge rather than as philosophers. The Scholastics were not pursuing the pleasures of natural philosophy in their Sentences commentaries, but the beatitude of theology.


Abstract The occurrence of drought is related to complicated interactions between many factors, such as precipitation, temperature, evapotranspiration and vegetation. In this study, the relationships between drought and precipitation, temperature, vegetation and evapotranspiration were investigated with a random forest (RF), and a new combined drought monitoring index (CDMI) was constructed. The effectiveness of the CDMI in monitoring drought in Shaanxi Province was verified by the in situ 1 ∼ 12-month standardized precipitation index (SPI); relative soil moisture (RSM) and four other commonly used remote sensing drought monitoring indices. The results show that CDMI is more correlated with the SPI and RSM than the four indices. Moreover, the spatial distributions of drought for the CDMI and RSM are similar. Therefore, the CDMI can be used to monitor droughts in Shaanxi Province, and machine learning can explore the relationships between various factors and establish a drought index without knowledge of the causal mechanisms of these factors.


Thermal pyrolysis kinetics of silicon-containing arylacetylene resin(PSA) was investigated by using thermogravimetry analysis(TGA,DTG) method,and decomposition reaction activation energy was evaluated by Kissinger and Ozawa methods,which were 149kJ/mol and 153kJ/mol respectively.Thermal pyrolysis gas products were studied by pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry(Py-GC-MS),and CH4,H2,C2H6,C2H4 and H2O were formed in pyrolytic process.The structure of thermal pyrolytic residue was researched with Raman spectrum and X-ray diffraction(XRD) method.Amorphous carbon,graphite,SiC were the mainly ingredients in char residue.


Many things are necessary to a man: prudence, eloquence, expert skill in governing the Republic, talent, memory, ability and diligence in leading one's life, justice, liberality, magnanimity and other qualities which would take too long to recount. If any of these are lacking, he should not be reproached since he has some of them. But in a woman one does not look for profound eloquence or subtle intelligence, or exquisite prudence or talent for living or administration of the Republic or justice or anything else except chastity. If this is not found in her it would be as if all the above-mentioned virtues