68 non-palpable und sonographically visible lesions of the mammae were marked preoperatively in 59 patients. The skin over the tumour was colour-marked with the patient in position for operation after sonographic adjustment. The sonographically measured depth of the lesion and its diameter were noted. All the 68 lesions were completely extirpated in 60 operations. In 91.7% of the operations (55160) the suspicious focus was directly identified intraoperatively and excised with an all-around safety margin of 1 to 2 cm. In 8.3% (5/60) of the surgical interventions it was necessary to re-resect the margin of the resectate due to invasive growth. After sonographic localisation, occult intramammary lesions cannot be marked on the skin non-invasively and at an economically favourable cost for subsequent safe surgical removal.


This chapter summarizes the experience collected after years of researching and experiencing on teaching and learning online in the form of an eLearning pattern-architecture. In this architecture, based upon the leading role of the human factor (according to the vision of the eLearning by GRIAL Group), the whole processes occurring within any training activity is represented, from the institutional planning to the evaluation of the whole process, technological decisions, teaching activity, interaction with students, and so forth. This model is briefly presented after the explanation of the notion of pattern (and its application to the pedagogical context), as a prerequisite for understanding the scope of the use of this methodology in the field of online training.


We examined three cases where Kampo medicine had effects on palindromic rheumatism. All the patients are men with arthralgia accompanied by redness, fever, and swelling. All cases are RF negative. Cases 2 and 3 are brothers. Case 1: A 58-year-old patient with recurrent arthralgia on shoulders, hands, and legs for 30 years. Eppi-ka-jutsu-to was administrated for arthralgia. When discomfort of the hypochondrium (Kyokyokuman) was noted, the administration of Sho-Saiko-to reduced the symptom. Case2: A 40-year-old patient with recurrent arthralgia on shoulders, hands and legs for nine years. Eppika-jutsu-to was administrated for arthralgia. When discomfort of the hypochondrium (Kyokyokuman) and contraction of the abdominal muscles (Fukuhikokyu) was noted, the administration of Eppi-ka-jutsu-to-goShigyaku-san-ryo was replaced, which reduced the symptoms. Case3: A 46-year-old patient with recurrent arthralgia on knees and fingers, and pain in hip joints. Eppika jutsu-to was administrated for arthralgia. When discomfort of the hypochondrium (Kyokyokuman) and contraction of the abdominal muscles (Fukuhikokyu) were noted, the administration of Shigyaku-san reduced the symptoms. All cases were typical palindromic rheumatism, and Eppi-ka-jutsu-to was effective to a certain degree. Kampo diagnosis of Saiko (Saiko-sho) was made and additional Saiko-drugs (Saiko-zai) reduced the frequency, the degree, and the length of the period of symptoms. 1) 医, 東 京女 子 医科 大学 附属 東洋 医学研 究所, 東京, 〒163-0804東 京都新 宿 区西新 宿2-4-1 2) 医, 東 京都 多摩 老 人 医療 セ ンター リハ ビ リテ ー シ ョン科, 東 京, 〒189-8511東 京都 東 村 山市 青 葉 町 1-7-1 〔2000年7月17日 受 理〕 742 日本東 洋 医学雑 誌 第51巻 第4号(2001) (220)


Pharmacognosy Network Worldwide (www.phcog.net) has established a blog for researchers interested in Pharmacognosy and medicinal plant research. The Inside Pharmacognosy – A Blog website can be accessed at http:// www.pharmacognosy.in/. The blog combines reviews of new publications related to this expanding field with profiles of international departments and institutes that are engaged in Pharmacognosy research. A recent visit to the website showed 14 reviews of Pharmacognosy related books and texts, 4 profiles of Pharmacognosy research departments and details of an independent pharmacognosy consulting service, for the month of May 2011 alone. The blog began in October 2010 and has been steadily growing since, to reach its current size. Archives of previous posts are also readily available for access by readers of the blog.


A new method for the determination of trace copper was propsed via the coloration reaction between AMBT and Cu2+ , which leads to the formation of 2 : 1 complex compound in the presence of Triton- X100 in Na,CO3 -NaHCO3 buffer at pH of 10. The generated species exhibits a maximum absorption at 560 nm with an apparent molar absorption coefficient of 5. 36 ×104 L/( mol ·cm). The absorption obeys Beer law in the copper concentration range from 0 to 12μg/25 mL. The new method was used to determine the copper level in Ni plating bath which was in agreement with the result of AAS.


We will survey the demographic contours of a world in which population has ceased to increase and examine some of the political economic and social implications that might flow from a global `population implosion a few decades from now. (The new UN `low variant projections will be our backdrop.) Unaccustomed as we may be to thinking about such a world its advent might not be that far off. The UN projections in question imagine an indefinite demographic descent commencing just over 40 years from now--a time at which most of the earths current inhabitants will likely still be alive. (EXCERPT)


Ultrasonic flow measurement technology is an advanced measure method of fluid flow. In this paper,the measure principle of the ultrasonic flowmeter is analyzed,the flux formula calculated. The flow characteristic was simulated on Fluent software,the distributing laws of flow and pressure studied. Simulation results showed that there was a swirl at the ultrasonic receiver and transmission ends; the measure accuracy was obviously affected by the angle between the entry segment centerline and the horizontal pipe centerline. The simulation result was consistent with the practice,and it is helpful for structure optimization of the flowmeter.


Objective To explore the cytotoxic activity of cytotoxicity T lymphocyte(CTL) induced by MAGE-3-sensitized dendritic cells(DCs) on the bladder cancer cell line BIU-87.Methods Proliferation of T cells and cytotoxic activity of CTL were determined by the MTT method.CTL was induced by MAGE-3-sensitized DC cells,and ovalbumin(OVA) peptide and un-sensitized DC served as controls.Results The MAGE-3-sensitized DC could promote proliferation of T cells and cytotoxity activity of the CTL cells on bladder cancer cells as compared with OVA peptide or unsensitized DC.Conclusion DC sensitized by the MAGE-3 antigen peptide can promote multiplication of T cells and can develop a cell immunity function,it also inhibits the growth of tumor and accelerates tumor decline.It can be used as a novel vaccine on bladder cancer therapy.


Immunizations against childhood diseases are required by Mississippi law in order to enter school, Head Start, or day care. Specific vaccinations are also recommended for students entering high school or college. The Mississippi State Department of Health provides all necessary immunizations at low cost. Immunizations are free if you qualify for the Vaccines for Children program. Mississippi School Immunization Requirements http://msdh.ms.gov/msdhsite/_static/resources/2029.pdf Immunizations http://msdh.ms.gov/msdhsite/_static/14,0,71.html Influenza


Depersonalization-derealization syndrome occurs in various diseases. In the international classification of diseases(ICD-10) in the section of neurotic disorders it is identified as a separate nosological form. However, in practice, an isolated form is quite rare. It is assumed that it may be of organic nature. In this connection it is interesting to analyze such a case in practical medicine. A case of depersonalization-derealization syndrome of neurotic origin Sin a 40-year-old man is described in the article.


Abstract Background Immunocompromised patients shed SARS-CoV-2 for extended periods, but to our knowledge person-to-person transmission from late shedding has not been reported. The case We present a case in which a COVID-19 patient infected another over 28 days after the patient's initial symptoms, past current guideline recommendations of 20 days for length of isolation in immunocompromised patients. Whole genome sequencing of their viruses was performed to ascertain the transmission. Discussion Severely immunocompromised patients, whose clearance of the virus is impaired, may remain infectious for extended periods. Caution should be taken particularly in hospital settings where lapses in isolation procedures might pose increased risk, especially to other immunocompromised patients.


Abstract WAXD, SEM, DSC and TGA were used to investigate the crystallinity of polyaniline (PAn). The results show that the crystallization behaviors of undoped PAn depend on its polymerization conditions. The crystallinity of undoped PAn decreases with the increasing acidity from 0.001 to 7N in polymerization solution. Doped PAn crystallizes more easily than undoped one and the crystallinity increases with increasing doping level. Appropriate heat treatment can enhance the crystallization ability of PAn.


The article analyses the content and availability of audio-visual archives of Polish Public Television regarding TV shows devoted to film and cinema productions broadcast between 1989 and 2020. This study allows general conclusions to be formulated that concern the research opportunities that this particular archive generates mostly for film and media scholars. Apart from presenting the results of in-depth analysis of archives, the text inscribes these reflections into the latest studies on archives, as well as into discussions on contemporary TV film criticism.


This paper mainly concentrates on the biotechnology view for the exploitation of marine fungal diversity to represent its physic-chemical properties in marine environment adaptation for the biotechnology applications. These fungal species has the habitats of endophytic or fungi associated marine algae or marine invertebrates especially like corals and sponges found in detritus and extreme marine environment. Fungal species associates in many biological activities such as decomposing plant material, production of bioactive compounds in plants and animals due to the presence of degrading enzymes and also find its application in paper and pulp industries and bioremediation. The deep sea environment adapted fungi is yet to be explore for its sources of biotechnology application, though these environment has high hydrostatic pressure with low temperature or hydrothermal conditions. Understanding the adaptation for fungal species is used to investigate the novel compounds to use in biotechnology application.


Autonomic fault tolerant scheduling is now a mandatory approach for the execution of performance-motivated Cloud applications such as scientific workflows. Since concurrent engineering is strongly associated with scientific workflows, an efficient scheduling for scientific workflows can have major impact on the performance of concurrent systems and engineering applications in Cloud computing. To facilitate the execution of concurrent tasks in scientific workflows, Cloud providers entail efficient scheduling heuristics and fault tolerant approaches. The work presented in this article formulates an effort focusing on this research problem to design an autonomic fault tolerant scheduling approach for scientific workflow applications. First, hybrid heuristic has been proposed to schedule scientific workflows effectively. Second, fault tolerant technique has been implemented using virtual machine migration approach that migrates the virtual machine automatically in case of task failure occurrences due to the overutilization of resources. Furthermore, the proposed approach has been validated through performance evaluation parameters using CloudSim and WorkflowSim toolkits. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach to improve the performance of scientific workflows by appreciably reducing total mean execution time, standard deviation time, and makespan.


An AVO study was performed to determine the potential of AVO to map the steam chamber, to aid in the enhanced oil reservoir production of the Pikes Peak Thermal Project. The study consisted of three phases: a rock physics study, a modeling study and a template seismic study. The rock physics study helped determine the relationship between the elastic properties of the reservoir and the extrinsic variables: temperature and pressure. This understanding was used along with log control to do a forward modeling study. Synthetic gathers were generated under a variety of reservoir conditions to model the seismic response of the reservoir. The knowledge gained from the modeling study was used to design and interpret the AVO study.


Typical acid soils (Inceptiso/s) mostly from coastal areas in Karnataka were characterised for different forms of sulphur present therein. Significant relationships existed between various fractions with total sulphur. The sulphur retention capacities were high in these soils dominated by kaolinitic clay minerals associated with low pH. While the increase in seed yield of sunflower due to graded doses of sulphur application was not significant, the contents of amino acids, cystine and methionine were significantly increased with 10 and 20 ppm S levels. Sulphur application enhanced the concentration of sulphate and heat soluble forms.


The properties of the piezoelectric composites are the main factor, which can effect its piezoelectric properties. The polarization properties of PbTiO3/epoxy resin composite were studied in this paper. The result shows that the piezoelectric properties of the composite can be improved by increasing the polarization intensity, or increasing the polarization temperature, but when the polarization intensity or temperature excesses a certain value, the constant of piezoelectric strain do not change again.


The lattice period of GaAs was found to increase when irradiated with reator neutrons. The measurements were made using fourth order reflection of Cu Dk, radiation. (AIP)


This thesis examines the registers contained in the motorbike bike community. This study focuses on the word register found in the group WhatsApp motorcycle community Honda Street Fire Community Jombang (HSFCJ). The purpose of this study was to determine the registers used by the motorcycle community and to explain the register functions used by the motorcycle community found in WhatsApp group chats. This is a descriptive qualitative research and data are taken from group whatsapp conversations, observations, and interviews with community members on motorcycle. The study participants were all members of the motorcycle community and five group members interviewed. The study was conducted by researchers for two months, March and April. As a result the researcher found thirty two register words used by HSFCJ members. From the thirty two register data, the researcher found three types of registers used in this motorcycle community. They are fourteen registers in Indonesian, seventeen registers in English, and one register in Java. The researcher obtained the register function used by this motorcycle community. The interview results show that there are four register functions used by group members. They are functions (1) to show intimacy, (2) to show prestige, (3) to increase solidarity, and (4) to show identity. Overall, from the findings of this study, the researcher has proven that registers exist at Honda Street Fire Community Jombang (HSFCJ). This research was able to reveal the word register used in the motorcycle community. Then each word register has meaning and function. The researcher suggests to the next researchers who might conduct research in the field of registers to analyze other elements and use other methods. There are many ways to do research in the register field at different points of view. Subsequent researchers can also combine other theories to find new results. Other communities can also be an interesting new object to study.


Heat shock proteins (HSPs) participate in the regulation of different cell activities in response to stimuli. By applying different strategies, the modulation of heat shock proteins is at the center of attention. Conventional delivery approaches are not fully encouraged due to cytotoxicity and immunogenicity issues. Exosomes are touted as bio‐shuttles for delivery of distinct biomolecules inside the cells. Here, we aimed to HSP27 small interfering RNA (siRNA)‐tagged exosomes for the inhibition of Hsp27 in human neuroblastoma cell line SH‐SY5Y and explored differentiation into neuron‐like cells. Exosomes were isolated, characterized by scanning electron microscope (SEM) and CD63 then enriched with siRNA against Hsp27. Neuroblastoma cells were incubated with exosomes carrying siRNA for 48 hr. Exosome uptake was monitored by immunofluorescence assay. The cell viability and proliferation were analyzed using 3‐(4,5‐dimethylthiazol‐2‐yl)‐2,5‐diphenyltetrazolium bromide and bromodeoxyuridine/5‐bromo‐2′‐deoxyuridine incorporation assays. The ability of cells to form colonies was evaluated by clonogenic assay. The cell potential to express NeuN, a mature neuron factor, was studied by flow cytometry analysis. SEM showed the nano‐sized particles and a high level of CD63 after enrichment. Immunofluorescence imaging revealed an appropriate transfection rate in cell exposed to Hsp27 siRNA tagged exosomes. The cell viability and proliferation were reduced compared to cells received nude exosomes ( p < 0.05). Clonogenic activity of cells was diminished by the inhibition of Hsp27. Flow cytometry analysis revealed that the inhibition of Hsp27 prohibited NeuN content, showing the maturation of SH‐SY5Y cells to mature cells compared to control. These data confirmed that exosomes could be used as appropriate bio‐shuttles for the inhibition of Hsp27‐aborted cell differentiation toward mature neuron.


Objective To observe the curative effect of Nd:YAG laser iridotomy and peripheral iri-dectomy in glaucoma secondary to seclusion of pupil.Methods Sixty-seven eyes of 62 patients with glaucoma and seclusion of pupil secondary to uveitis were treated by Nd:YAG laser iridotomy or peripheral iddectomy ramdomly.We observed the changes in IOP、anterior chamber depth(ACD)、inflammation and incision of the Smooth case of iris pre-and post-operatively.The mean follow up time was(21.5±4.6)months.Results(1) Thirty thr eyes received one-time breakdown in iris after the initial treatment with laser peripheral iridotomy. The ACD deepened from(0.67±0.31)mm to(2.58±0.26)mm, and the IOP dropped from(28.22±7.12) mmHg to(20.06±3.59)mmHg after the operation.The statistical significance was obviously.But iris holes of 26 eyes were closed later.(2)Thirty four eyes formed easy and smooth holes in iris with peripheral iridectomy.The operationlead to lighten the conjunctival congestion and the inflammatory reaction of anterior chamber.The ACD from(0.71±0.48)mm to(2.61±0.33)mm,and the IOP dropped from(27.54±6.69)mmHg to(15.79±3.67)mmHg after the operation.The statistical significance was obviously.The successr rate of surgery was 79.4 per cent.Conclusion The curative effect of Nd:YAG laser iridotomy in glaucoma secondary to seclusion of pupil was not satisfaction.While the peripheral iridectomy not only cured the seclusion of pupil and controlled the IOP,but also controlled the inflammation and shortened the course of treatment.Early implamantion of pre-ventive treatment in those patients are beneficial.

Key words:
Laser iridotomy;  Peripheral iridectomy;  Seclusion of pupil;  Glaucoma


Background Intra-tumor lymphocyte counts can stratify color-ectal cancer (CRC) prognosis and help select patients for and define response to immunotherapy. The internationally validated Immunoscore ™ predicts CRC survival risk by averaging percentile scores of tumor CD3 and CD8 cell densities. However


In this study, Anaerobic supernatant treatment of food wastes was studied for optimization, Electrochemical and biological treatment were employed. Chloride ion could be used for electrolyte during the electrolysis, on the contrary, The generated HOCl during the electrolysis could affect biosolid in biological treatement, In biological batch test of A₂O, The removal efficiency of COD and nitrate showed the possibility of biological treatement. About 200mg/L of HOCl is estimated not to affect biosolid in biological treatement.


Advances in Michael addition reaction of thiols to α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds are briefly reviewed.From the perspectives of catalyst development and regioselectivity addition reaction.


Ningbo is a coastal urban area with a large population and many emergencies,so the research on emergency shelter information system of Ningbo city is very important to emergency command and people evacuation.On the basis of GIS technology,the paper puts forward thegeneral construction and the technique route of emergency shelter information system,explains its principles,and establishes the preliminary frame of Ningbo emergency shelter information system.


Alexander Romanovich Luria (1902-1977), Russian psycho logist and neuropsychologist, is recognized throughout the world as one of the most eminent and influential psychologists of the 20th century, who made advances in many areas, including cognitive psychology, the processes of learning and forgetting, mental retarda tion and neuropsychology. Luria's scientific career was build in "the stages of a journey undertaken" (as the Russian title of Luria's autobiography says): co-working with Lev S. Vygotsky (1896-1934) and the foundation of the cultural-historical school (the 1920s), cross-cultural research, an expedition to Central Asia, and studies on twins (the 1930s), the war and the first works on brain injured patients (the 1940s), research into mentally retarded children, brain injuries and rehabilitation (1950s), the systematic development of neuropsychological research (the 1960s and 70s). The research on the functioning of the brain, touching on learning and forgetting, attention and perception as psychological constructs, was to engage Luria for forty years. Analysis of functional changes resulting from local brain lesions constituted the area of greatest interest. The single-case approach to neurological studies was to be the focus of his last years. In this paper we attempt to show the impact of Luria's approach on the foundations of the microgenetic approach to the diagnosis and rehabili tation of patients with traumatic brain injuries, and espe cially the importance of symptom analysis in single-case studies.


We propose a rank-test of the null hypothesis of short memory stationarity possibly after linear detrending. For the level-stationarity hypothesis, the test statistic we propose is a modified version of the popular KPSS statistic, in which ranks substitute the original observations. We prove that the rank KPSS statistic shares the same limiting distribution as the standard KPSS statistic under the null and diverges under I(1) alternatives. For the trend-stationarity hypothesis, we apply the same rank KPSS statistic to the residual of a Theil-Sen regression on a linear trend. We derive the asymptotic distribution of the Theil-Sen estimator under short memory errors and prove that the Theil-Sen detrended rank KPSS statistic shares the same weak limit as the least-squares detrended KPSS. We study the asymptotic relative efficiency of our test compared to the KPSS and prove that it may have unbounded efficiency gains under fat-tailed distributions compensated by very moderate efficiency losses under thin-tailed distributions. For this and other reasons discussed in the body of the article our rank KPSS test turns out to be an irresistible competitor of the KPSS for most real-world economic and financial applications. The weak convergence results and asymptotic representations proved in this article may have an interest on their own, as they extend to ranks analogous results widely used in unit-root econometrics.


Evaporation‐induced Benard convection in a thin liquid layer is found to occur in experimentally and theoretically as a separate mechanism from Rayleigh–Benard and Marangon–Benard types of convection. The phenomenon is induced by evaporation at the liquid surface, irrespective of the liquid layer bottom being heated or adiabatic. The mechanism is theoretically investigated by numerically solving the two‐dimensional governing equations through discretization by means of a finite difference technique. Experimentally, cellular flow patterns are disclosed by means of a tracer method, and the temperature–time history is monitored in the liquid layer using thermocouple measurements. It is found that evaporation at the free surface of a thin liquid layer results in a negative temperature gradient in the upper stratum, in which cellular convection occurs irrespective of zero temperature gradient prevailing in the remaining lower stratum. In other words, a thin liquid layer having an evaporating surface forms two strata: heat convection with fluid motion in the upper stratum, and insulation in the lower stationary one. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Reforming the large equipment in key process is one of the economic and effective approaches to minimize loss in enterprise This paper provides the achievements gained in the reform of the special machine for the machining line of cylinders of both four and six cylinder diesel engine, which saves 268 thousand Yuan RMB for the company


Describes an experience-based, i.e., human-operator-like, methodology for regulation of plant state. It includes mental image pattern formation and conceptualization of phenomena. This fact makes it easy to construct a control system.<<ETX>>


The Tucannon Model Watershed 1997 habitat projects were designed to address critical limiting factors identified through the watershed assessment and Plan development. Construction elements were composed of bioengineering techniques designed to increase salmonid habitat complexity, insure stream bank and geomorphic stability, and reduce stream temperature and sediments in spawning gravels. Cooperation and agreement between landowners and resource agencies for restoring resource conditions has grown due to project success and is expected to continue for the benefit of all.


Finding epileptogenic zone is the most important step for the successful epilepsy surgery. F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) can be used in the localization of epileptogenic foci. In medial temporal lobe epilepsy, the diagnostic sensitivity of FDG-PET and ictal SPECT is excellent. However, detection of hippocampal sclerosis by MRI is so certain that use of FDG-PET and ictal SPECT in medial temporal lobe epilepsy is limited for some occasions. In neocortical epilepsy, the sensitivities of FDG-PET or ictal SPECT are fair. However, FDG-PET and ictal SPECT can have a crucial role in the localization of epileptogenic foci for non-lesional neocortical epilepsy. Interpretation of FDG-PET has been recently advanced by voxel-based analysis and automatic volume of interest analysis based on a population template. Both analytical methods can aid the objective diagnosis of epileptogenic foci. Ictal SPECT was analyzed using subtraction methods and voxel-based analysis. Rapidity of injection of tracers, ictal EEG findings during injection of tracer, and repeated ictal SPECT were important technical issues of ictal SPECT. SPECT can also be used in the evaluation of validity of Wada test.


In the article peculiarities of H. Khotkevych's language as a basis of poet's language creation under different angles are under study. It is noted that most of works where linguistic achievements of H. Khotkevych are studied aimed at functional and stylistic interpretation of linguistic phenomena that are typical of the writer's artistic thinking and form the core of his stylistic creativity. Linguistic approach to study of the writer's work is determined and current state of the problem is presented.


In web projects it is often necessary to mix XML notation and program notation in a single document or program. In mono-lingual situations, the XML notation is either subsumed in the program or the program notation is subsumed in the XML document. As an introduction we analyze XML notation and programming notation in relation to each other. As the main contribution of the paper we describe a number of general issues to consider when subsuming XML in a given programming language.


An executive spends years focusing his attention on his company's business only to be told one day with no notice that his job is gone and his services no longer needed. When one CPA faced this depressingly familiar scenario, he was forced to reexamine and reconsider his management of his own professional life. As a result, he has found a dynamic new position and revitalized his approach to his career. LESSONS FROM A CRISIS Mark Roth began a job as the corporate controller for a large New Jersey-based food broker in 1990. When he was hired, it appeared likely that he would ultimately succeed the chief financial officer. Over the years, however, it became increasingly apparent that the CFO was not planning to retire. But Roth did receive regular increases in responsibility, as well as raises and favorable performance reviews. Then, Roth remembers, "quite suddenly at 2 o'clock on a Friday afternoon in April 1996, I was called into the office of my boss, the CFO, and told the company had decided to restructure and my position was to be eliminated." He was given two hours to gather his belongings and leave. Roth embarked on a short but highly educational job search; within eight weeks, he was working as vice-president of finance and CFO at New York Cruise Lines, which provides pleasure boat excursions in the waters around New York City. Despite the stress of his abrupt job loss, he sees only the positive side. "In hindsight, I can say that in terms of my career it was the greatest thing that ever happened to me. For all those years, I was entirely dedicated to my company, which was proper. But I was paying no attention to my own career or to the outside world." Roth's experience offers clues for other professionals on how to keep their sights on the world outside their own offices. Here are some of the things he learned. * Maintain professional momentum. By conducting a diligent search, Roth managed to arrange an interview with New York Cruise Lines within three weeks of losing his previous job. One extremely valuable resource to him at that point was the New Jersey Society of CPAs. Roth, a trustee of the society and former chairman of its members in management, business and industry committee, was given an office at the society and use of the phone and fax. "I have three young children and it would have been impossible to conduct a job search from home." He recommends having a workplace to get dressed for and go to each day. * Don't be afraid to try to renegotiate your severance package. Roth received no outplacement or counseling and he believed at first that if he asked for more than the two months' severance he'd been given, the company would rescind the package. On the advice of a friend, however, he asked his former employer for one year's salary, arguing it might require that amount of time to find a job at his level. The company finally gave him five months' pay. Although he found a job quickly, the knowledge that he had those added resources during the first stressful weeks "gave me a chance to breathe," Roth says. * Consider everyone a possible job source. Roth heard about his current position from a friend whose brother had been a vice-president at the cruise line. "You never know where a lead will come from," the CPA says. He also advises professionals to keep an open mind about the kinds of jobs or companies in which their skills might be needed. * Emphasize unique aspects of your experience. Roth secured his new job by mentioning an effort that isn't even included on his resume. Right after college, he started a real estate development business with his father while holding down a full-time job in public accounting. "New York Cruise Lines is a very entrepreneurial company and I just happened to mention this business." He was later told that it had clinched the position for him. "No matter how tempting it may be, never denigrate your former or current employer. …


Background: Chronic disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is a wellrecognized lifethreatening haemostatic complication that occurs frequently in patients suffering from Cancer. Aim of the study: Evaluation of the diagnosis of chronic DIC, according to the International Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis (ISTH) score system. Methods: From July, 2006 to April, 2007, 72 pre-operative and pre-treatment patients with hematological and solid tumor malignancies, presenting to the Hewa Hospital for Oncology in Sulaimani, and 16 healthy volunteers served as controls were included in this study for the diagnosis of chronic DIC according to the ISTH score system. Results: Among screened patients, a total of 30 (42%) were diagnosed with chronic DIC, which were solid tumors and hematological malignancies. Conclusions: There is a high frequency of chronic DIC among pretreatment and preoperative cancer patients. This study is the first that used ISTH score system for the diagnosis of chronic DIC in cancer patients.


An investigation on using eco-friendly natural materials like coconut pith, rubber, and charcoal powder for developing radio wave absorbers has been reported in this paper. Two absorbers named CoR (Combination of Coconut pith powder and natural Rubber latex) and CoRC (Combination of Coconut pith powder, natural Rubber latex, and Charcoal powder) are made through proper mixing and drying. The absorptivity of these two absorbers (CoR and CoRC) is compared with the industrial standard polyurethane based absorber. The waveguide method is employed to measure the absorptivity of these absorbers in 3 different frequency bands. Band 1 (1.7–2.6 GHz) includes the mobile communication frequencies of 1.8 GHz and 2.4 GHz. Band 2 (4.9–7.05 GHz) is intended for sub 6 GHz band of 5G as well as WLAN frequencies while band 3 (8.2–12 GHz) is for higher frequencies of radar operation. The exact values of lower and upper frequencies of bands are determined by the physical dimensions of waveguides used. The absorption capability of the absorbers is found to increase as the frequency of operation increases. The CoR absorber has almost 63% average absorptivity in band 3, 56% in band 2, and 21% in band 1. The CoRC absorber has an average of 74% absorptivity in band 3, 63% in band 2, and 24% in band 1.


The Coulomb-Hole-Hartree-Fock method introduced by E. Clementi in the early 1960s and reparametrized more recently by S. Chakraworty and E, Clementi to compute the correlated electronic energy in atomic systems, is here extended to compute molecules. The new parametrization is obtained empirically by fitting first and second atomic ionization potentials from He to Ca and a few diatomic molecules. The present formulation makes use of either one or more determinants in order to ensure proper dissociation products, following the early proposal of G.C. Lie and E.Clementi in the context of density functional computations for molecular systems. The new formulation is tested against the dissociation energies of a large number of molecules and it is found satisfactory. 22 refs., 5 figs., 7 tabs.


Coal during the present time is one of the dig materials commodity which have giving many contribution in acceptance of state's stock exchange and also have role in national economy wheel. One of the most important area which produce coal is Kalimantan East province. In sub-province region of East Kutai in west part, one part region of Kalimantan East province, representing one area owning interesting coal sediment potency. Geologically this area is including into Hollow of Kutai structured upstate by Tertiary sediment rock series start Eosen till Mio-Pliosen. This research concentration is conducted in district of Muara Wahau, East Kutai. This research aim to know type of litologi in research area, pattern spreading of coal in research area and its quality.
 Research method in this research is descriptive method and analysis method
covering interpretation of logging, profile making, correlation between drilling result, and also cartography of pattern spreading of coal and coal isoquality maps. Primary data has been used are Log Bore data, E-Log data and quality analysis data of coal and some secondary data which consist form of regional geology map and various literature study. Coal exist in research region represent coal which consist of many coat (multiseam) and have typical characteristic intensively splitting at some general
especial seam. Pursuant to kinds of coal coat form, hence coal in research area represent coal with fold form. Coal at research area represent the part of Wahau Formation. Pursuant to result of coal classification and calculation by using A.S.T.M standart in bases of dmmf, hence coal as general as 1 research area have rank of sub of bituminous C coal, with ash content 3,32%; total sulphur 0,16%; TM 46,38%; IM 17,89% and calorific value 5212,75 cal / gr. While in seam 2, ash content 5,91%; total sulphur 0,17%; TM 43,89%; IM 15,48% and calorific value 5249,8 cal/gr with sub of bituminous C coal rank.


OBJECTIVE
We aimed to test whether region-specific factors, including spatial expression patterns of the tau-encoding gene MAPT and regional levels of amyloid-PET, enhance connectivity-based modeling of the spatial variability in tau-PET deposition in the Alzheimer's disease (AD) spectrum.

METHODS
We included 685 participants (395 amyloid-positive participants within AD spectrum and 290 amyloid-negative controls) with tau-PET and amyloid-PET from three studies (ADNI, 18 F-AV-1451-A05, and BioFINDER-1). Resting-state fMRI was obtained in healthy controls (N=1000) from the Human Connectome Project, and MAPT gene expression from the Allen Human Brain Atlas. Based on a brain-parcellation atlas superimposed onto all modalities, we obtained ROI-to-ROI functional connectivity, ROI-level PET values, and MAPT gene expression. In stepwise regression analyses, we tested connectivity, MAPT gene expression, and amyloid-PET as predictors of group-averaged and individual tau-PET ROI values in amyloid-positive participants.

RESULTS
Connectivity alone explained 21.8-39.2% (range across three studies) of the variance in tau-PET ROI values averaged across amyloid-positive participants. Stepwise addition of MAPT gene expression and amyloid-PET increased the proportion of explained variance to 30.2-46.0% and 45.0-49.9%, respectively. Similarly, for the prediction of patient-level tau-PET ROI values, combining all three predictors significantly improved the variability explained (mean adjusted R2 range across studies=0.118-0.148, 0.156-0.196, 0.251-0.333 for connectivity alone, connectivity plus MAPT expression, and all three modalities combined, respectively).

INTERPRETATION
Across three study samples, combining the functional connectome and molecular properties substantially enhanced the explanatory power compared to single modalities, providing a valuable tool to explain regional susceptibility to tau deposition in AD. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.


Clothing materials coated with semi-permeable membranes were analysed as products protecting the organism against heat loss as well as ensuring the drainage of sweat. Both physical and mathematical models of the coupled heat and water vapour transfer within the multilayer structures were discussed. Material parameters should be determined for different numbers of layers, compositions of the raw material and thicknesses of the laminate with a membrane. The heat transfer resistance and resistance of the water vapour transfer were determined, which helped to design material for clothing that fulfils the user's expectations and ensures thermal comfort.


The surface tension of binary mixture refrigerants propane (R-290) (1) + 1,1-difluoroethane (R-152a) (2) at three mass fractions of w1 = 0.2008, 0.3497, and 0.4922 was measured at temperatures from (248 to 328) K with a differential capillary rise method. The uncertainties of measurements for the temperature and surface tension were estimated to be within ± 10 mK and ± 0.2 mN·m−1, respectively. A correlation for the binary mixture refrigerant R-290 + R-152a was developed as a function of mass fraction.


A standard equipment of highway speed measurement system using GPS technology introduced in this paper. Through the GPS receiver module, using Doppler frequency shift transform the rate measurement method, Digital pulse-frequency signals proportion to the number of vehicle speed can be output directly. By filtering, amplifing and adjusting,then into the microcontroller processing, to achieve the vehicle speed and mileage measurement. The standard equipment applied to test and calibration of all kinds of automatic devices with overspeed and camera monitoring functions.


The objective of this research is to assess aerodynamic noise sources and the wind velocity conversion of the similarity law in an increasing wind velocity. We measured the aerodynamic noise that radiates from cylinders with and without periodic holes and a pantograph model with and without a sound insulating plate in a low-noise high-speed wind tunnel. The noise level of the cylinders was in proportion to the sixth power of wind velocity because the cylinders acted as a dipole sound source. The effect of noise reduction caused by the change in flow structure, that is, the periodic holes, also continued. However, the second peak noise radiating from the cylinder was in proportion to the sum of the sixth power and the eighth power of wind velocity and was underestimated by wind velocity conversion based on a dipole sound source. The noise level of the pantograph model with the sound insulating plate was in proportion to lower than the sixth power of wind velocity in contrast to the pantograph model itself. This is because the noise reduction effect of the sound insulating plate had a frequency characteristic. In this research, when increasing the wind velocity, the dominant pantograph noise frequency region shifted to a higher level, and the dominant noise level began to be affected by the noise reduction of the sound insulating plate. This caused the reduction effect of the sound insulating plate to be underestimated by 2.5 dB due to the noise level conversion of wind velocity. To solve this problem, the plate's theoretical reduced noise level, which was calculated by using the Fresnel number, was subtracted from the estimated noise level of the pantograph itself. This lead to pantograph noise with the sound insulating plate being estimated within a 0.8-dB difference.


Much climate change research aims to inform decision making in one way or another. A common vision of how science and ethics work together in this decision making has science spelling out the (probable) consequences of different policy options, while ethical judgments determine which option's consequences are most desirable. For example, climate projections and impact studies may suggest the likely consequences of different mitigation pathways, but ethical judgments are required to evaluate how good or bad those consequences are and how preferrable one possible future is over another.


our vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM) fungi (Glomus spp.) isolates namely VAM-O, VAM-B, VAM-S and VAM-M were isolated from onion, broad bean, swiss cheese and maize roots, respectively, used to produce in vitro inocula which were evaluated under field conditions. The VAM isolates were grown in vitro on barely modified (BM) cultures to produce their applicable inocula. The in vitro inocula were used at low (2.5/g ridge), medium (5.0/g ridge) and high levels (10.0/g ridge) equivalent to 10, 15 and 20 kg/feddan, respectively. Two field experiments were carried out during 2002 and 2003 growing seasons to evaluate the effect of VAM inoculation treatments compared to P-fertilizer and VAM inoculation + N-fertilization compared to N-fertilizer alone on the seed germination, percentage of smutted and stunted plants, fresh and dry weight/plant, ear weight, grain yield/plant and weight of 100-kernels. Response of maize to VAM inoculation was greatly varied depending on the VAM isolate, inoculum level and growing season. The aforementioned maize growth parameters were significantly enhanced by VAM inoculation than P-fertilization, whereas most VAM treatments + N-fertilization showed similar response when compared with the N-fertilizer alone.


In this letter, we study the outage achievable rate region of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), which is defined as the achievable rate region when all users are required to satisfy their outage probability constraints. First, we formally define the outage achievable rate region of NOMA assuming a slow fading channel model. Then, we introduce a successive interference cancelation (SIC) order under the assumption of statistical channel information. Under this assumption, we find that the outage capacity region of broadcast channel (BC) is also  ${\epsilon }$ -achievable by NOMA, which requires the use of SIC, though the definition of outage in NOMA is different from that in BC. Combining the converse result, we get a full characterization of the outage achievable rate region of NOMA, which also shows the optimality of the SIC order used here. Then, we give some discussions about power allocation and the practical insights derived from the characterization. Finally, numerical simulations are provided.


INTRODUCTION: Having observed an apparent smaller cervical diameter on clinical examination in patients presenting for cerclage because of a history of cervical insufficiency in all prior pregnancies (congenital cervical insufficiency [CCI]), an observational study of upper cervical anteroposterior diameter (APD) was undertaken of this measurement in the second trimester of CCI patients (n=86, 28.4%), utilizing APD in a comparison group of patients from a general obstetric practice (normal, n=217, 71.6%) with prior obstetric histories devoid of preterm deliveries. METHODS: APD (expressed in millimeters) was measured in each group on images taken for clinical use in both groups between 14 completed weeks and 23+6 weeks gestation. Patients with cerclage in place, cervical surgical treatment or damage and multifetal pregnancies were excluded. Analysis of central tendency and variation were undertaken in each group. RESULTS: The APD (mean ± standard deviation) was 32.0±4.3 mm in the CCI group and 40.6±5.2 mm in the normal group. The gestational age of the measurement taken at the ultrasound was included as a covariate in a generalized linear model. There was a statistically significant difference in the size of the APD between the normal group and the CCI group (t=7.08, P<.001). CONCLUSION: This preliminary, exploratory study suggests that upper cervical diameter may be a marker to distinguish patients seen in their first pregnancy who are at risk for clinical manifestation of cervical insufficiency. A much larger prospective study of primigravid patients will be necessary to verify this relationship.


According to several years' construction experiences,the reasons caused the fine cracks produced in cast-in-place concrete floor of masonry-concrete building are analyzed,at the same time combined with practical situations corresponding preventive measures are proposed from three aspects: material selection,design and construction,in order to control and avoid the production of fine cracks in cast-in-place concrete floor.


The application of an integrated program for aerospace-vehicle design (IPAD) to the design of a tactical missile is examined. The feasibility of modifying a proposed IPAD system for aircraft design work for use in missile design is evaluated. The tasks, cost, and schedule for the modification are presented. The basic engineering design process is described, explaining how missile design is achieved through iteration of six logical problem solving functions throughout the system studies, preliminary design, and detailed design phases of a new product. Existing computer codes used in various engineering disciplines are evaluated for their applicability to IPAD in missile design.


The link between oxidation and increased proteolysis in raw milk was studied. To accelerate oxidation, H2O2 (1 mM) was added to raw milk, resulting in enhanced proteolysis by up to 11·2% after 24 h incubation at 5 °C. Addition of Cu2+ (10 μM) to milk or exposure of milk to light (60 min) likewise increased proteolysis. To explain the mechanism responsible for increased proteolysis as a result of oxidation, the effect of lipid oxidation products on plasmin-induced proteolysis was tested. Addition of malondialdehyde to skim milk increased the formation of γ-caseins, a proteolysis product from plasmin hydrolysis of β-casein. The same observation was made in a model system containing 4·5 g β-casein/l sodium tetraborate buffer at pH 8 and plasmin. Addition of a plasmin inhibitor blocked the formation of γ-casein. The results indicate that aldehydes accumulated from lipid oxidation can modify β-casein and thereby increase susceptibility of the proteins to proteolysis. Furthermore, the data suggest that proteolysis in raw milk may be connected to oxidative processes.


A new method of extrapolating load growth for distribution planning is described. The method combines two previously used methods of extrapolation in a manner in which each reinforces the other. Tests reveal the new method to be more accurate and dependable than other extrapolation procedures. The technique is described, including a flowchart for computer implementation.


Gilbert Welch and colleagues have written an interesting essay contrasting continuous and categorical approaches to modelling the relation between exposure and health effects.[1][1] They suggest that assuming a continuous relation between exposure and outcome may produce misleading results and state


Introduced a car interior part of buckled shapes door side gate's cup hot runner mould structure,mould adopts the front mould inclined top launch and side parting with oblique slippery pieces of ejector institutions,design is complex.Gating system and cooling system structure design is reasonable,high production efficiency;Plastic product after stripping without strain,little deformation,quality to meet the design requirements.


EDITOR,—In their editorial B N C Pritchard and colleagues concluded that fish oils have beneficial effects on lipids and the haemostatic system, but they pressed for more studies in diseases related to atherosclerosis.1 We wish to reinforce this …


The appendix contains the following supplementary material to Creal and Wu (2020): Appendix A discusses the stochastic discount factor, Appendix B lays out the dynamics of the state vector, Appendix C discusses the solution for models with recursive preferences, and Appendix D computes bond prices analytically. Appendix E cointains proofs of the propositions in the paper, while Appendix F provides numerical illustrations for the feasible parameter regions. Appendix G provides more details in terms of estimating the time series component of the model, and Appendix H provides details for Sharpe ratios.


Fournier's gangrene (FG) is a urological emergency characterised by a destructive inflammation of the genital and perineal area typically forming necrotising fasciitis that affects the external genitalia and the perineum resulting in the gangrene of infected tissues as well as generalised systemic deterioration in its severest form. Although FG is typically polymicrobial, we found it can very rarely be mono-microbial and caused by Porphyromonas asaccharolytica, an obligate anaerobic gram-negative rod.

 We present a case of a 44-year-old man seen in the emergency department with bilateral scrotal swelling, redness, and pain. A diagnosis of acute epididymo-orchitis (on a background of chronic severe phimosis) was made. Ultrasound imaging of the testes was consistent with features suggestive of epididymo-orchitis and reactive hydrocoele. The patient also tested positive for the SARS-Cov-2 virus but had no respiratory symptoms.
 Empirical treatment, as per Trust antimicrobial policy, was initiated with intravenous Flucloxacillin which was changed, following the results of blood culture growth of Porphyromonas asaccharolytica, to Meropenem, Vancomycin and Clindamycin.
 On day 3 of admission, an ulcer was noticed at the base of the scrotum which progressed rapidly into a fulminant Fournier's gangrene. He was treated radically with urgent debridement and direct closure of the wounds and was discharged after 2 weeks on admission.

 We report a case of Fournier's gangrene caused by a rare gram-negative organism in an asymptomatic unvaccinated COVID-19 patient. Clinicians need to have a high index of suspicion that this organism can also be a cause of Fournier's gangrene.


The value and importance of the concept of natural fertility have been widely debated since Henry's work in the late 1950s. Whereas Henry regarded natural fertility largely as a useful concept for model building, Coale-Trussell demonstrated that this concept could also be used to analyze patterns of age-specific fertility. The set of age-specific marital fertility schedules assembled by Henry and then used by Coale and Trussell involved largely small populations drawn from disparate sources. Nonetheless, from this diverse and fragmentary data, Henry was able to construct a standard of natural fertility which, in the operational form developed by Coale-Trussell, has proved remarkably general in its application and utility. This in turn suggests that the physiological forces shaping fertility are exceedingly strong, especially the incidence of physiological sterility. There appears to be no single universal pattern of natural fertility. Rather, there is a set of closely related age profiles, the exact shape of which is determined by specific behavioral and social factors that influence childbearing. The increase in physiological sterility with age serves to give an upper limit to fertility at each age, while other factors determine how close a given population comes to that maximum. Although no society has ever demonstrated Henry's ideal notion of a purely physiological fertility pattern, the effect of the intervening factors is often weak. In terms of the Coale-Trussell model, maximum likelihood estimation offers the most informative method of implementation and a time series for 1 population is more readily interpretable than a cross-section comparing several populations.


Background Overdose is a common problem often seen in emergency departments in South Africa. A subjective evaluation by doctors and nurses at Paarl Hospital indicated that there was a high incidence of patients who had overdosed presenting at this hospital. They found this distressing and felt that there should be an enquiry into the phenomenon. The aim of this study was to determine the profile of the overdose patient presenting at Paarl Hospital, the number of cases per day of the week and per month of the year, which drugs were used most commonly, as well as the seriousness of the incident. The study also looked at whether the hospital's policy regarding psychiatric evaluation protocol was being followed. Finally, some recommendations were made concerning possible intervention efforts. A review was done of cases involving all patients with overdoses presenting at Paarl Hospital during the period 1 July to 31 December 2005. Data was collected from 196 medical records using a data collection form. only admitted attending regarding psychiatric


The particular circumstances of French history explain why that nation has adopted an unusually severe policy in attempting to suppress the wearing in schools of the Muslim headscarf. The long struggle to create French identity and then to resolve the bitter conflicts between traditional supporters of the Catholic Church and those of the secular Republic resulted in a distinctive connotation being acquired by a number of commonly used words, of which most English translations are misleadingly inadequate. The events leading from the exclusion of three Muslim girls from a school in 1998 to the passing of the new law of 2004 are analyzed.


Patients with Alzheimer's and dementia are suffering from a reduction in cognitive abilities and would not be able to function safely without help. The demand for help in taking care of elderly people suffering from Alzheimer's disease and dementia is increasing rapidly. It is essential to use technology to enhance these patients' daily lives as independent as possible especially with food-intake since they lose the ability to know the significance of eating even when hungry. A successful system will reduce the cost of individual caregiving or ease the situation of loved ones caring for their elders, and also allow the patients to be independent-living individuals, at least for feeding themselves. In this paper, we present a real-time system to monitor food-intake based on hand tracking of the patients during meal time. We developed a porotype vision-based device using Raspberry Pi 3, a 7" display to detect regions of the hands and the face based on HSV color space. We used Haar-Cascade classifier to segment the hands and distinguish them from the face in the frame sequence. The results of testing the system in real-time using real persons show the accuracy of food-intake detected is around 89% with about 3.9 frames per second speed.


Surgery is a strong practical science, as well a s one of the clinical practical subjects. The chief problem is how to teach this subject and culture qualified professionals with good operative skills. The pro blems of clinical practice in surgery were analyzed, at the same time, and some countermeasures were suggested in this article.


This article is a review of studies of the drug problem in the 1980s. In the 1980s, Korea methamphetamine problem was a serious social problem. Korea and Japan in the 1980s was interrupted by a joint drug trafficking. Therefore, the methamphetamine produced in Korea in the 1980s, has never been exported to Japan. And the methamphetamine produced in Korea were brought back to Korea. Meth addicts in the 1980s, Korea has increased every year. Methamphetamine has been introduced according to Seoul from Busan Gyeongnam and Gyeongbuk. Korea"s economy has grown significantly in the 1980s. Korea has hosted the Olympic Games in the Asian Games, in 1986 and 1988. Korea in the Asian Games and Olympics was recognized as a national event. And Korea has grown significantly entertainment industry in the 1980s. Methamphetamine addicts, Korea was increasing in the 1980s. It was because increasing the income and consumption of the people. The government has pointed to problems with methamphetamine 'social evils". And the government tried to eradicate methamphetamine. The government has strengthened enforcement and penalties for drug users. But methamphetamine addicts has increased. Looking at the Methamphetamine problem and government policy in the 1980s can be found inconsistencies. It is a methamphetamine problem has been developed in a different direction and intention of the government at the time. Thus, the drug problem has been highlighted as the most important social issue in Korea in the 1980s. This article also examined the government"s recognition and response to the drug problem. The government has used the drug for social control in 1980s. Korea has continued to strengthen the enforcement and penalties for drugs. However, treatment and rehabilitation institutions for drug addiction had shortage. Therefore, the government was promoting a drug called 'social evils" to the people. Drug addicts in Korea have been promoting the community as a "criminal" rather than "patients".


Children today, at least in countries like the United States, are growing up in a new kind of environment, one in which the formative influences on the child's consciousness, attitudes, beliefs and behaviour are not only their parents or siblings but also the varied and complex input from the television set. Our recent research has been directed at examining the role that parental attitudes and behaviour play in filtering the complexity of the world into manageable forms for children. To what extent do parents also treat the television set as a source of input for children which requires adult mediation? An emergent orientation towards child development pioneered by the Israeli psychologist, Reuven Feurestein, has suggested that children's capacities to develop learning skills and self-directed effective use of their naturally-developing cognitive capacities depend upon the extent to which their parents have intervened early and continuously in mediating and shaping the complex environment stimuli that su...


Urban drainage systems have developed way beyond the traditional piped combined or separate sewer systems. Many 'new' systems are being introduced, ranging from stormwater infiltration facilities to green roofs. However, the widely advocated blue-green infrastructures are typically overlooked by asset managers, which will very likely have detrimental effects on their performance, service life, and wider adoption. In this paper, the working group on Urban Drainage Asset Management (UDAM – https://udam.home.blog/) of the IWA and IAHR Joint Committee on Urban Drainage discusses whether the state-of-the-art knowledge based on conventional sewer asset management is sufficient to develop asset management for blue-green infrastructures (BGIs). The discussion is structured around the five preconditions for effective control and asset management. Results show that asset management for BGIs is still underdeveloped due to a lack of monitoring techniques covering the broad range of BGI benefits and performance indicators, inspection techniques covering relevant failure mechanisms and models describing these mechanisms, maintenance and rehabilitation options, and sufficient support tools to aid inhabitants in the operation and maintenance of their individual BGIs such as green roofs or vegetated swales.


A cross-linked microporous organic copolymer, termed KFUPM-2, was synthesized through a Friedel–Crafts alkylation polymerization of phenothiazine, pyrrole, and p-formaldehyde in the presence of iron(III) chloride catalyst. KFUPM-2 was demonstrated to have intrinsic permanent microporosity with a Brunauer–Emmett–Teller surface area of 352 m2 g–1 and a high capacity (39.1 cm3 g–1 at 273 K and 760 Torr) and affinity (Qst = 34 kJ mol–1 and CO2/N2 selectivity of 51) toward CO2 as a result of its nitrogen-rich structure. To demonstrate its practical applicability, breakthrough measurements were performed using a gas mixture that mimicked the composition of an industrial flue gas stream (CO2/N2 = 20/80% v/v with 91% relative humidity). Accordingly, KFUPM-2 was shown to have an ultrahigh CO2 dynamic capacity (32 cm3 g–1 at 298 K) in the presence of water and was demonstrated recyclable over at least 10 cycles with mild regeneration conditions needed between each cycle.


In Mongolia coal fired thermal power stations are producing over 90% of the country's electricity. The 4th thermal power station uses Baganuur and Shivee-ovoo coals for firing and annually disposes over 300 thousand tonnes of coal firing by-products such as fly ash. However, in Mongolia utilisation rate of the coal firing by product is negligible and seems to be caused little knowledge of the mineralogical and physical-chemical properties. Granulometric characterization of the Baganuur and Shivee ovoo fly ashes have been performed. Specific surface area of both fly ashes varied from 1.04 to 2.75m2/g. The >74 μm fraction of Shivee ovoo fly ash comprised around 17% of the total weight while for Baganuur fly ash it was equal to 7%. The crystalline part of the >74 μm fraction of Baganuur fly ash was mostly quartz while in Shivee ovoo fly ash it was a mixture of quartz, diopside and akermanite. Raw and fine fractions of the Baganuur and Shivee ovoo fly ashes have been used for preparation of a geopolymer type binder. Raw and fine fractions of both fly ashes have been activated with 10 M NaON solution and cured at 70°C for 24h. Geopolymer type pastes based on Shivee ovoo and Baganuur fly ashes exhibited compressive strengths of over 20 and 30 MPa, respectively. Compressive strength of the geopolymer pastes based on fine fraction showed negligible change. Comprehensive characterizations of Baganuur and Shivee ovoo fly ashes and geopolymer pastes were performed using XRD, XRF, SEM, BET methods..


Using five case studies from the hybrid course initiative at Guttman Community College, City University of New York, this paper explores a focus on students as active participants in the learning process, ways to foster inquiry in the out-of-classroom space and how to maintain the dynamic nature of producing knowledge through innovative and engaging assignments in the teaching and learning process. It relates the experiences of faculty members, who were inaugural participants in an interdisciplinary hybrid learning circle, in designing and teaching hybrid courses (50% in class and 50% online/out of class) to increase student engagement and the student creation of products beyond written assignments for the online space, using multiple technologies as tools.  It relates the specific benefits and challenges of discussing and developing hybrid courses in community with a focus on the simultaneous co-development and integration of pedagogical strategies and technological components to promote inquiry, connection, active learning and, ultimately, social justice through the collaborative co-production of knowledge with both colleagues and students.


A design method of SAW dispersive delay lines suitable for a FDM-TDM transform processor with small time-band-width product is described. Experimental results of a constructed processor show a -25 dB interference level, which is close to the designed value. In comparison to established digital fast Fourier transform (FFT) processors, the analog SAW processor demonstrated here offers wideband (60 MHz), real time operation and vastly reduced power consumption (20 W) at the expense of limited accuracy and dynamic range.


For over thirty years Maud Basham was a New Zealand food writer and media personality who, under the name of 'Aunt Daisy', exerted an immense and unparalleled influence over domestic behaviour, household spending and pantry stocks. So prominent was she, that she was named a 'Goodwill' ambassador for New Zealand and made several visits to the USA during and after WWII where she was described as 'The Dynamo from Down Under'. Best known in popular memory as a radio personality, Aunt Daisy wrote regular magazine columns, also fifteen cookery books and books of handy hints, which combined nonfiction and fictional components, and included tips for recycling products as well as readings, quotations and sayings which she found inspiring. By focusing on these innovative texts, this paper will look at how the voice, personality and attitudes of the 'first lady of New Zealand radio' are embodied in nonfiction prose to create texts that are still popular, in print, and on sale in the twenty-first century.


The b-chromatic number $b(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the maximum $k$ for which $G$ has a proper vertex coloring using $k$ colors such that each color class contains at least one vertex adjacent to a vertex of every other color class. In this paper, we mainly investigate on one of the open problems given in [P. Francis, S. Francis Raj, On b-coloring of powers of hypercubes, Discrete Appl. Math. 225 (2017) 74-86.]. As a consequence, we have obtained an upper bound for the b-chromatic number of some powers of hypercubes. This turns out to be an improvement of the already existing bound in [P. Francis, S. Francis Raj, On b-coloring of powers of hypercubes, Discrete Appl. Math. 225 (2017) 74-86.]. Further, we have determined a lower bound for the b-chromatic number of some powers of the Hamming graph, a generalization of the hypercube.


The present invention is enclosed over at least in part, take-up force in the radial direction by a helical spring, and a spiral spring coupled with the common axis of rotation the center rotatably coupled to the base part of, the base part and the seal part with the seal part Im is It relates to the automatic belt tensioner including a wrapped bush. To ensure according to the invention, so that the belt tension groups provide a case, if possible, during the whole service life, good damping and good spring characteristics can be used universally, has a simple structure, the material of the wrapping bush comprises a metal-plastic . The tensile part, wrapped bush, a helical spring, the base part,


Variations of deep levels in Si‐doped molecular‐beam epitaxy (MBE) n‐GaAs layers by rapid thermal processing (RTP) were investigated by deep‐level transient spectroscopy. RTP was performed at 850, 910, and 1000 °C with SiOx encapsulation. Native deep levels M1 (Ec − 0.18 eV), M3 (Ec − 0.33 eV), and M4 (Ec − 0.51 eV) are annealed out by RTP at a higher temperature (1000 °C) compared with the case of capless RTP. Three electron traps NC1 (Ec − 0.36 eV), NC2 (Ec − 0.48 eV), and EL2 (Ec − 0.81 eV) are produced by RTP. After RTP at 850 and 910 °C, the concentrations of the EL2 decrease with depth from the surface and show no peculiar lateral distribution across the wafer, which is different from that of capless RTP reported previously. The formation of the EL2 is enhanced by the stoichiometry change due to the Ga outdiffusion into the SiOx film during RTP. After RTP at 1000 °C, the outdiffusion of the EL2 is observed near the surface. This result seems to be ascribed to the As loss, since it can no longer prev...


The purpose of this study was to analyze secondary school English teachers' perception of English digital textbooks and to suggest better ways to develop and use them. The study aimed to answer the following research questions: (1) How much information do the teachers have on the introduction of English digital textbooks to secondary schools?; (2) How do the teachers perceive on the need of English digital textbooks?; (3) What are the positive effects of English digital textbooks?; (4) What are the negative effects of English digital textbooks? A survey was conducted of 80 secondary English teachers in Busan and Gyeongnam. In-depth interviews were also conducted with 10 teachers. The results showed that most teachers haven't used a digital textbook although they were well aware of it. Many teachers also responded that it would be necessary to develop a English digital textbook. Further, they perceived these textbooks would positively affect students' learning motivation, attitude and academic achievement. However, the teachers also felt that digital textbooks would impose burdens on them for preparing classes, and managing computer equipments as well as make it difficult for students to focus on class. The pedagogical implications were also discussed.


Amongst the numerous Italianisms entering French in the sixteenth century, the items whose corresponding form in standard Italian contained the initial consonant sequence s + consonant are of special interest. In French, such words typically emerged with the addition of a 'prosthetic' vowel, as in 'estramacon' but standard Italian 'stramazzone'. However, somewhat unexpectedly, in the two Dialogues of Henri Estienne (I578) where Italianizing manners and speech are satirized, the great majority of the Italianisms of this type that are used by the author do not contain a prosthetic vowel. It is proposed that the general non-use of prosthetic forms by Estienne is due to the nature of the particular type of Italian that he uses as a source for the Italianisms figuring in this work. This was the standard literary Italian language that had become established by the second half of the sixteenth century. In this variety of Italian, vowel prosthesis was of very limited occurrence. The few cases where Estienne does cite Italianisms containing a prosthetic vowel are demonstrated to be technical rather than literary words that had entered French usage by more popular channels of transmission.


Among the many subjects the store-house of nature, nothing, perhaps, is more entertaining, nor merits more the attention of the learned and curious, than the family of vegetable seeds; and it is indeed surprising, that, till now, they have not been made an express subject for the consideration of some curious naturalist, since plants and flowers have been treated of by so great a number of authors from the earliest times.


According to an UNESCO survey, Italy accounts for more than half of the Cultural Heritage of the entire world. Italy's Cultural Heritage therefore represents an enormous wealth not only for the country itself but also for the entire world and this asset should be preserved and documented for future generations and possibly used as source of revenues. Within the relevant methods of the Information Technology which can be applied to Cultural Heritage, that of accurate and realistic 3D "shape capture" of art works has been challenging the scientific community since a long time because an extremely high degree of realism is required. Thereby the virtual reconstruction of cultural heritage sites is becoming a significant field of application in the 3D modeling area. This paper proposes an integrated approach based upon a seamless combination of different 3D measurement techniques for the virtual reconstruction of complex architectures. Depending on the required spatial resolutions, different techniques can be used and at the end all the acquired data have to be integrated into a single 3D model. As example the model of a castle located in Trentino (Italy) was done using surveying, 3D laser scanner, close-range and aerial photogrammetry.


The ocular components which influence refractive error have been investigated in an ongoing fashion for the last 50 years. The classic notions of normal distribution of the ocular components (except axial length and refractive error), the skewed, leptokurtic distribution of refractive error with its disproportionate number of emmetropes, the correlation between refractive error and axial length, and the concept of refractive error as a result of mismatched association among the ocular components in a given eye have all resulted from studies measuring human eyes in vivo . However, we believe that there is a common misconception that the growth of the eye in childhood and the development of myopia are well understood.


Signboard name is the cultural product which forms,inherits and develops in the soil of national culture,and is the carrier of rich national culture.The signboard name has a close relationship with the cultural connotation of national history,thought and psychology.From the perspective of the signboard name,we can see the historical and cultural connotation reflected by historical events,figures,ancient records,social background and systematic culture,and also see the ideology and concept of ethics,morals,patriotism,collective consciousness of Chinese nation,as well as the pray for happiness and luck,meditation on the past,return to nature,seek for novelty.Therefore the signboard name is the mirror of the national culture.


Heterotopic pancreas is defined as the presence of pancreatic tissue outside its normal location in the pancreas and lacking vascular and anatomical continuity with the pancreas. Most commonly it is found along foregut derivatives, such as the stomach, duodenum and jejunum. Less often it is found in Meckel's diverticulum and the bile duct or in even rarer locations. It is frequently encountered incidentally in asymptomatic patients during laparotomy, and is found in approximately 0.5–14% of autopsy studies.1 Symptomatic patients are rare and do not exhibit any specific set of clinical indicators for this disease. Accordingly, heterotopic pancreas is difficult to diagnose before operation.2 In our case, a 15-year-old girl presentedwith a short history of vomiting, weight loss, lackof appetite and upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Laparotomy revealed heterotopic pancreas at the duodenum with signs of inflammation and mucosal ulceration.


As multichannel rail switches have the advantage of low inductance,less erosion of electrodes and high capacity for power transmission,etc.,theyoften play an important part in power transmission.In this paper,a multichannel rail switch,which has three electrodes,was developed.The length of the gap between the two main electrodes and the position of the trigger electrode with sharp edge can be adjusted.The distribution along the rail gapwere revised on the basis of digital calculation.In addition,the rail switchwas investigated experimentally.Expirimental results indicate that,whenthe gradient of the trigger pulses reaches more than 4.1 kV/ns,the rail-gapcan be broken down in multichannels,but the number of the channels is notas great as expected.Only when does the gradient get to 10 kV/ns,manychannels are created simultaneously along the DC charged rail switch.Therail gap can be operated in a wide range,it may be triggered down to 12percent of its self-breakdown voltage.


Why self-organization matters to planning. Spatial planning and self-organization is perhaps a somewhat unexpected combination, with planning as a collective manifestation of 'intent' while self-organization being a 'spontaneous' phenomenon. Nevertheless this combination is recently getting serious attention by the planning community. There are a few empirical incentives such as the global housing, mortgage and financial crisis challenging civil societies to develop alternative planning practices. The repeating failures of large planning projects are another trigger. Such projects cannot be treated as isolated activities, and confronts the planner with a highly interconnected world which evolves through unprecedented non-linear chains of causes and effects. The theoretical incentive would come from a growing awareness of a world beyond the planners' control, evolving in various autonomous ways, which is being explained by emerging theories addressing complexity, non-linearity, adaptability, co-evolution, transition and self-organization.


Iris segmentation is the most determining factor in iris biometrics,
which has traditionally assumed rigid constrained environments. In this work, a
novel method that covers the localization of the pupillaty and limbic iris bound-
aries is proposed. The algorithm consists of an energy minimization procedure
posed as a multilabel one-directional graph and the use of physiological priors,
achieving accurate segmentations even in the presence of clutter, lenses, glasses,
motion blur, and variable illumination. The contributions of this paper are a fast
and reliable method for the accurate localization of the iris boundaries in low-
constrained conditions, which has been evaluated over two public databases, and
a new database for iris segmentation incorporating challenging iris images, which
has been publicly released to the research community


ABSTRACT A considerable amount of effort in software development is dedicated to the user interaction layer. Given the complex-ity inherent to the development of this layer, it is important to be able to analyse the concepts and ideas being used in the development of a given user interface. This analysis should be performed as early as possible. Model-based user interface development provides a solution to this problem by providing developers with tools that enable both model-ing, and reasoning about, user interfaces at different levels of abstraction. Of particular interest here, is the possibility of animating the models to generate actual user interfaces. This paper describes FlexiXML, a tool that performs the rendering and animation of user interfaces described in the UsiXML modeling language. Keywords Tool Support, User Interface Description Languages (UIDLs), UsiXML General Terms Design, Human Factors, Theory Categories and Subject Descriptors D.2.2 [ Software Engineering


Flood is one of the most common and expensive natural disaster. Rapid and efficient procedure to accurately detect the flood-inundated area irrespective of weather conditions will help the monitoring and rescuing during the seasonal flooding period. In this paper, a procedure is proposed to obtain the flood mapping using multi-temporal TerraSAR-X data. And a comparative experiment is design to test the effect of the proposed procedure. The result shows that it can extract the flooding area effectively.


A Chronicle of the Pandemic: Hugh Gibson's Notes on the "Spanish Flu" of 1918

Hugh Gibson (1883–1954) was a young American diplomat who had a knack for landing in the thick of the action. During the pandemic of 1918, he found himself in Paris tasked with advising General John Pershing on diplomatic matters, straightening out the morass of American propaganda in Europe, and collaborating with military intelligence. To this was added the role of official US liaison to the Polish and Czech national committees. His multiple tasks were carried out against the backdrop of the dramatic last six months of the Great War. The Armistice of November 1918 arrived on the heels of the deadly second wave of the "Spanish Flu". Gibson then turned his attention from military matters to humanitarian aid for all of Europe as diplomatic adviser to Herbert Hoover's American Relief Administration. Throughout the tumultuous year from spring 1918 to spring 1919, Gibson experienced the Spanish Flu from multiple angles: military, diplomatic, international, refugee, care-giver, and a personal bout with the flu. Using excerpts from An American in Europe at War and Peace: Hugh Gibson's Chronicles, 1918–1919 (edited by Vivian Reed and Jochen Böhler, DeGruyter Oldenbourg, Fall 2020), this article traces Gibson's fascinating journey through a historic pandemic.


Using a new fixed point theorem for linear operators which act on function spaces, we give an iterative method for proving the generalized stability in three essential cases and the hyperstability for polynomial equation ∆ y f (x) = 0 on commutative monoids.The proposed iterative fixed point method leads to final concrete unitary estimates, and also improves and complements the known stability results for generalized polynomials.


In this paper, we present our hardware accelerator for inference computations on Markov Random Fields (MRFs), which wins the "adjusted run time" category of MEMOCODE 2013 design contest. The contest problem is to accelerate the popular Belief Propagation (BP) algorithm for MRF stereo matching, but BP often suffers from non-convergence in its MRF inference. To overcome the drawbacks of BP, we show how a superior method-Sequential Tree-Reweighted message passing (TRW-S)-can be rendered in hardware. TRW-S has reliable convergence, guaranteed by its so-called "sequential" computation. We show how to implement TRW-S in FPGA hardware so that it exploits significant parallelism and memory bandwidth. Our FPGA implementation demonstrates superior MRF inference performance and comparable quality of stereo matching results on the provided stereo matching tasks comYXB3-02195-A021pared to the reference BP software.


The teaching of vocal music has close relation with consciousness.Noticing this enables the singers' psychological processes such as perception,memory,imagination,thinking and feeling,etc.to have strong directive function.Correctly using the nerve system of human body to guide the singing behavior and control the singing consciousness has important directive significance in reducing blindness and unreasonable phenomenon in teaching.


Despite of the differences, eastern and western management ideas are essentially consistent, which is an important basis for the integration of eastern and western management ideas. In the process of integration, we not only should learn from each other's advanced management ideas, but also should be rooted in our own national conditions and the history of cultural values. At the same time, we should fully consider the market environment, economic development stage and characteristics of our own. Only in this way, the integrated management ideas can be applied in practice. In different environment and different times, the mode of integration will be different. There is no universal management idea and mode. As long as it is suitable for the national conditions, such management theory and mode is


Using artificial neural networks (ANN) to model an observed process is state of the art in engineering and is receiving more and more attention in social or marketing research. As shown in previous publications static data analytics, like an ANN based dependency matrix (DM), creates a better understanding of the relationship between dependant and independent variables of the observed system. To gain a better understanding of the behaviour and dynamics of an observed system a further step has been taken. . This is accomplished by transforming the ANN-DM into its open form equivalent. This is represented by several ANN models, one for each observed model parameter. An algorithm, which was published by the author, can be used for this transformation. The final result makes it possible to study the dynamic relationships between all parameters, including simulation and conclusions on its inverted model behaviour. The author will show based on an example from tourism marketing, how this inverse modelling approach can be applied and what new knowledge can be extracted from the achieved simulation results. The conclusion is that ANN based algorithms makes it possible to model an observed system in a static but also in a dynamic way. Inverting the model generates a deeper insight view and additional knowledge about an observed system. The resulting applications range from supporting strategic decisions to predictive control or model based simulation.


We noted, in the immature ankle, a discrepancy between the alignment of the distal tibial physis, the distal tibial articular surface and the talar dome in the coronal plane. This led to variability in the orientation of wires and half pins used for limb reconstruction depending on which landmark was used. We aimed to investigate the variability in normal ankle joints to determine which is the most reliable landmark to use for correct wire or pin insertion. Radiographs of the ankle of 98 children were analysed. A variety of angular measurements were made with respect to the axis of the tibia and classified according to methods described by Shapiro & Mulhotra. We investigated the inter- and intra-observer variation in these measurements and classifications. Using the Bland-Altman method we found that the talar plafond angle (TPA) showed less variation than the lateral distal tibial angle (LDTA) with narrower limits of agreement and coefficients of repeatability. This was the same across the age and gender groups studied. The Shapiro classification of distal tibial epiphyseal shape did not appear to correlate with age or gender, but showed more inter- and intra-rater variation using weighted Kappa analysis. This study suggests that when measuring the orientation of the ankle joint from plain radiographs that the TPA is a more reliable measurement than the LDTA and this should be taken into consideration during decision making and pre-operative planning of lower limb deformity correction.


Based on the summary of predecessors' achievement, this paper advances the concept of new-economic growth point and its evaluated criteria-system to explore a more rational method of combining quantitative and qualitative variables to determine new-economic growth points,including: re-understanding and re-defining new-economic growth point, selecting the indicators of new-economic growth point and constructing its assessing system as well. Finally, this paper examines the practicalities, advantages and disadvantages of this method with concrete industrial conditions in Shenzhen and proposes some suggestions for improvement of this method's practical application.


To handle multiple objects in several classes in clutter with distortions present, we use a hierarchical inference optical correlator using sets of new filters [1]. We first employ morphological processing operations and wavelet filters to reduce clutter. The morphological operations are nonlinear image processing functions. The wavelet filters use multiresolution methods. Figure la shows an input scene with 6 targets in severe clutter. The morphological operations used [2] (closure minus opening) remove large area clutter regions of different intensity and convert the polarity of all targets to bright (Figure lb). The wavelet processing [2] locates regions of clutter particles smaller than the targets (Figure 1c). Removing these from the morphological result in Figure lb yields an input with greatly reduced clutter (Figure 1d). This completes our first level of filters for clutter reduction.


Frequently, when recorded test lists are used in intelligibility testing of communication equipment, only a very few speakers are used to provide the source material, in contrast with the relatively large number of listeners employed. Our studies have shown that such a small number of speakers as two or three is not sufficient to provide a fair evaluation in all cases. Particularly, in evaluating "speaker‐sensitive" equipment, some extraordinary differences among speakers have been found. Thus, it is easy to see how such equipment might be unfairly biased by the use of a small number of speakers, all of whom happened to be not well suited to it. One cannot, how, use large numbers of speakers speaking all test lists since the amount of source material would be prohibitive. A solution is to rotate a large number of speakers within each test list so that each list provides a sampling of all the the speakers used.


Working memory may be conceived in terms of storing systems or by means of models of dynamic processes. We adapted a working memory assessment procedure based on a process model for use in Brazil. The model conceives working memory as three interrelated aspects: processing speed or efficiency, temporary storage and coordinative capacity. Results with 832 participants of several ages and educational levels indicate that the procedure is adequate to be used in our cultural environment, preserving the original characteristics and displaying acceptable reliability and validity characteristics. Working memory performance correlated with measures of executive function and fluid intelligence but not with measures of associative episodic memory. This research program will be pursued further examining the clinical neuropsychological usefulness of the BAMT-UFMG.


Topically applied hyaluronic acid sodium salt 0.2 percent appears useful in combating skin irritation and inflammation caused by treatments such as intense pulsed light, plasma skin resurfacing and medium-depth peels, plus topical retinoids, tazarotene and 5-FU, an expert says


As urbanization moves towards globalization in the next century, the evolution of smart city technologies has also brought new approaches to traditional public wellbeing problems such as food accessibility at both global and local scales. Technology implemented using the Internet of Things and data analytics offers unique advantages and challenges to address issues related to food access. In addition, interdisciplinary efforts are necessary to effectively utilize emerging technologies to address the issue of food insecurity while considering the underlying complex social, economic, and environmental dimensions. In this paper, we discuss the multi-dimensional nature of the food accessibility problem in U.S. metropolitan regions and explore the connection between the fields of engineering, social science, agriculture, education, and life sciences, with respect to their collective impact on addressing the food accessibility problem. We also present our team's ongoing efforts to identify and address food insecurity problems in Richmond, Virginia through interdisciplinary research.


This article focuses on a series of experimental publishing works, emerging from the field of art and design, that react to the augmented possibilities that editorial platforms in a broad sense (e.g. Amazon and Apple) have to control reception, limit access and track use. Furthermore, the projects in the discussion question the modifications of ownership around digital artefacts. These projects can be understood as "conversation pieces" that aim to provoke a debate around the issues they want to address. They have a strong communicative value, and as such highlight aspects of digital publishing rarely addressed by designers and publishers.


Abstract Information about phosphorus (P) sorption and desorption indices in soils is useful for environmental evaluations. The objective of this study was to develop P sorption and desorption indices for soils in the Beaurivage River watershed, Quebec, Canada. Thirty samples from the A, B, and C horizons of soils of the five main soil series were taken from sites under forest, dairy farms, and farms with a known surplus of manure. The maximum P sorption capacity (M) was estimated by a 48 h contact with 0.005M CaCl2 solutions of increasing P concentration while P desorption was measured in water (Pw). The P sorption index (Psi) was measured by contact of 1.5 g P/kg soil for 40 h in 0.01M KCl at a soil to solution ratio of 1:40. Regression analysis was used to generate equations predicting M, Psi, and Pw from readily available data on soil chemical and physical properties. The maximum P sorption capacity (M) was very closely related to the Psi (r>0.97**) in all horizons. The M and Psi sorption parameters w...


The surface temperature of a divertor plate during discharges in the Doublet III tokamak is measured by an infrared scanning camera with a time resolution of 60 ms. The maximum rise in surface temperature during a discharge is around 120°C in a discharge with a mean electron density of 1.5 X 1013 cm-3 and a plasma current of 360 kA. The e-folding width of the temperature rise profile is ~ 4 cm. By increasing the electron density of the main plasma, the temperature rise of the divertor plate is decreased and the vertical temperature rise profile is broadened. The radiation loss in the divertor region plays an important role in the decrease in power transferred to the divertor plate.


High-resolution remote sensing images with rich land surface structure can provide data support for accurately understanding more detailed change information of land cover and land use (LCLU) at different times. In this study, we present a novel scene change understanding framework for remote sensing which includes scene classification and change detection. To enhance the feature representation of images in scene classification, a robust label semantic relation learning (LSRL) network based on EfficientNet is presented for scene classification. It consists of a semantic relation learning module based on graph convolutional networks and a joint expression learning framework based on similarity. Since the bi-temporal remote sensing image pairs include spectral information in both temporal and spatial dimensions, land cover and land use change monitoring can be improved by using the relationship between different spatial and temporal locations. Therefore, a change detection method based on swin transformer blocks (STB-CD) is presented to obtain contextual relationships between targets. The experimental results on the LEVIR-CD, NWPU-RESISC45, and AID datasets demonstrate the superiority of LSRL and STB-CD over other state-of-the-art methods.


The new antenna with microstrip ring-resonators is presented. This device integrates a planar monopole antenna with microstrip ring-resonator band-stop filters. This new device is suitable for creating wideband antenna with narrowband interferer rejection characteristics.