The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of a 10-week combined program of Hatha and Raja yoga on stress-related variables in middle-aged women. Twenty middle-aged women were volunteered to participate in this study as subjects, and they were randomly assigned to either yoga group (YOGA: 10) or control group (CON: 10). The subjects in YOGA undertook the combined program of Hatha and Raja yoga for 60 min/session, three times per week for 10 weeks. The subjects in CON were asked not to change their normal life style during the intervention period. Several variables related to body composition, stress level, and cardiovascular function as well as stress-related blood variables were measured and compared between pre test and post test in two groups. Main results of the study were as follow: 1) There were not any significant changes in body composition-related variables in YOGA. 2) Stress level decreased significantly in YOGA. 3) Resting heart rate, diastolic blood pressure, and mean arterial pressure decreased significantly in YOGA. 4) Cortisol and glucose decreased significantly in YOGA. These finding suggested that 10 weeks of combined program of Hatha and Raja yoga would have positive effect on stress relief. The effect would have possible due to the reduction of cortisol, resting heart rate, and blood pressure as well as enhancement of insulin resistance.


Goodbye Billy does not attempt to "tell" the story ofAmerican involvement in the war, but it has been created as a discovery oriented film putting together sound and image of the period as a document for class discussion. Cross montage and the a-synchronity of film and sound track take the place in this instance of a straight chronological narration. A packet of supplementary-materials is currently being prepared for a two-week segment of a course, which the film will keynote, and which includes a record, documents and interpretative materials on issues raised by the film, and materials on the film which were used in Goodbye Billy.


The invention discloses a heat-resistant seamless lapped aviation cable and a preparation method thereof. The heat-resistant seamless lapped aviation cable comprises a conductive core wire formed by twisting a plurality of insulating core wires, and a sheathing layer wrapping the conductive core wire; each insulating core wire comprises a conductor core and an insulating layer wrapping the conductor core; each insulating layer sequentially comprises a polytetrafluoroethylene modified turning belt, a polyimide film and a polytetrafluoroethylene sealing tape in sequence from the inside out. According to the invention, a seamless lapping and sintering technology is utilized and three-layer combination insulation is adopted, so that the heat-resistant seamless lapped aviation cable can be obtained, and favorable electrical performance and mechanical strength of the cable can be ensured. The heat-resistant seamless lapped aviation cable provided by the invention can resist the temperature ranging from minus 65 DEG C to 280 DEG C and can satisfy the requirement of being used under the high-temperature environment of 280 DEG C for a long time.


We present recent results in unquenched lattice QCD with two degenerate light sea quarks using the truncated determinant approximation (TDA). In the TDA the infrared modes contributing to the quark determinant are computed exactly up to some cutoff in quark off-shellness (typically 2$\Lambda_{QCD}$). This approach allows simulations to be performed at much lighter quark masses than possible with conventional hybrid MonteCarlo techniques. Results for the static energy and topological charge distributions are presented using a large ensemble generated on very coarse (6$^4$) but physically large lattices. Preliminary results are also reported for the static energy and meson spectrum on 10$^3$x20 lattices (lattice scale $a^{-1}$=1.15 GeV) at quark masses corresponding to pions of mass $\leq$ 200 MeV. Using multiboson simulation to compute the ultraviolet part of the quark determinant the TDA approach becomes an exact with essentially no increase in computational effort. Some preliminary results using this fully unquenched algorithm are presented.


The forward hadron calorimeter (FHCal) is one of the sub-detectors of the BM@N experimental setup at JINR, Dubna. It consists of 54 lead-scintillator "sandwich" type modules of two types with the transverse sizes 20 × 20 cm 2 and 15 × 15 cm 2. These two types of modules are subdivided into 10 and 7 individual longitudinal sections, respectively. Each section provides the independent light and amplitude signal readout with one silicon photomultiplier (MPPC). High signal to noise ratio of MPPC allows to detect cosmic rays with low energy depositions in FHCal longitudinal sections. A method for cosmic muon track reconstruction is discussed. A procedure for energy calibration based on muon track length and energy deposition in each section is proposed. Experimental results of FHCal cosmic calibration are presented.


Jesse H. Newlon, superintendent of schools, Denver, Colorado, made the following statements before the National Education Association in 1923: The success of America's great experiment in public education will be determined to a large extent by the attitude of the classroom teacher toward supervision. It ought to be unnecessary at this late day to present arguments in justification of supervision. In an enterprise which expends a billion dollars annually, supervision is necessary to guarantee that this money will be used most effectively in the interests of the boys and girls. In a given school system it is necessary that there be a certain unity of purpose and co-operation. This can be obtained only by supervision . No system of supervision will function unless the attitude of the classroom teacher toward it is one of sympathetic co-operation. The attitude of the teacher will be determined by two factors of equal importance. It will be determined, first of all, by the kind of supervision that is attempted and, second, by the teacher's professional and personal spirit and outlook. In the past, supervision has been chiefly inspectorial, fault-finding, and mechanical in character. If one were to judge by current writing on the subject, supervision is still largely of this type. .... with a shining exception here and there, and in spite of the good intentions of most supervisors, supervision is too arbitrary and misses its great opportunity for constructive leadership. If we are to expect a sympathetic, co-operative attitude toward supervision on the part of the classroom teacher, we must in some way get rid of the old idea that the chief function of the supervisor is to give directions and to hold the teacher responsible for a minute following of these directions. I conceive of the supervisor as a leader charged with the responsibility of organizing a teaching force for the study of its professional problems.'


A non-contact apparatus which eliminate the translational energy of the first magnet assembly (so that movement slowing down) passes through the magnetic field of the second magnet in the first magnet assembly moves. The first magnet assembly comprises a rotatable magnet, such as a cylindrical cavity located radially magnetized cylindrical magnet. A first predetermined resistance against the rotation of the magnet. The apparatus also forms a predetermined relative position of holding a non-contact magnetic coupling. The device can be used as a door latch, so that the door movement is slowed down, stopped and the door at a predetermined point.


The control technology of greenhouse is important to research the modern agricultural technology.To achieve workload with high reduction and cultivation with high yield and efficiency,the aim is realized by controlling actuator through monitoring the environment of internal and external of greenhouse.Some excellent performance components are used in the control system,which include the 32 bits ARM microcontroller unit of LPC2132、temperature and humidity sensor、optical sensor and CO2 sensor.The real time multitask operating system is applied for software design which guarantee real-time and reliability.The system with low cost is convenient to use and easy to build.


The lack of energy is not a problem. Renewable energy
sources can provide our planet's energy consumption
up to 15.000 times. When we choose to fully harness
these energy sources new possibilities will rise.
This Master Thesis asks: How can we create architecture
that is built by energy and what are the advantages?
Due to a wave power plant, the project offers facilities
for wave surfers in the sand dunes of Kasa, Varberg. It
is designed by premises of the wind, materialized by
sand and powered by the waves. Since the surf season
in Sweden is limited the facilities only exist during fall
& winter. When spring arrives, the power is turned off
and the structure cease to exist.
That is why my project is called See You in
September!


Objective:To study the experiences of prevention and treatment in stress ulcer with bleeding in postoperation of total joint replacement.Methods:From Sep.1997 to Sep,2001,589 paitents underwent total joint replacement.Among them,stress ulcer with bleeding occured in 2 patients after operation.Their clinical informations and related documents were retrospectively reviewed.Res ults: The patients suffered hypertension,and treated with non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs(NSAIDs)and corticosteroids to relieve the pain of joints in a long term.One case with anti coagulants therapy during the perioperative period.The rate of stress ulcer with bleeding in the postoperation of total joint replacement was 0.34%.There were tarry stool,hematemesis,hypovolemic shock and anemia among them.Conclusions:Stress ulcer with bleeding was a severe complications in postoperation of total joint replacement.The treatment of stress ulcer with bleeding should be controlled actively bleeding,support the stability of blood pressure,and prevent progressive organ failure.The surgical intervention should be performed after the failure of conservative treatment.Acid suppressants should be used to the patients who have taken drugs for a long time which ease damage gastric mucosa during perioperative period.


The present study considers a fuzzy color system in which two membership functions are constructed on the tone triangle. This system can process a fuzzy input (as the membership values of subjects) to a tone system and output to an RGB system. Three membership functions (anti-blackness, whiteness, and lightness) are applied to the tone triangle relationship. By treating the input parameters of chromaticness, whiteness, and blackness on the tone triangle, a target color can be easily obtained as the center of gravity of the output fuzzy set. In the present paper, the differences between fuzzy input and inference output are described, and the relationship between inference outputs for crisp inputs and inference outputs for fuzzy inputs on the RGB triangular system are shown in the present paper.


In this paper, silicon carbide materials bonded with superfine SiO2 powder were produced using silicon powder, superfine SiO2 powder and different grain grade silicon carbide as raw materials. At the condition of the same content of silicon powder, the effect of the superfine SiO2 powder content on properties of silicon carbide materials after sintered at 1450°C for 3 h in air atmosphere was studied by means of SEM and other analysis methods. The results showed that silicon powder contributes to both sintering by liquid state and plastic phase combination to improve the strength of samples. When the superfine SiO2 powder content is lower than 3.5%, the density and strength of samples increase and porosity decrease with increasing superfine SiO2 powder content. However when the superfine SiO2 powder content is higher than 3.5%, the density and strength of samples decrease and porosity increase with increasing superfine SiO2 powder content. At the same time, sample with 3.5% superfine SiO2 powder has the best oxidation resistance property at 1100°C.


= Abstract =To evaluate the feasibility of the creation of an Isolated Jejunal Segment (IJS) which is devoided of its anatomical blood supply and nourished by the omentum, the experimental loop was created in rats and its viability was examined microscopi cally. The procedure of creating IJS is: Llliqation of the mesenteric vessels and the ar cade vessels of a jejunal segment, 2)fixation of the omentum to the serosa of the seg mentiabout 3 em ), 3) 6 weeks after, isolation of the segment by division of both ends. At the same time bowel continuity was restored, and the IJS was left in the peritoneal cavity freely. For evaluation of viability the experimental segment was harvested 2 weeks after creation and examined microscopically after hematoxylin and eosin stain ing. All 13 IJSs were viable, 10 showed normal architecture and 3 showed atrophy of the mucosa and muscle layer and dilatation of the lumen filled with mucus . In con clusion an isolated bowel segment can be created using omentopexy technique.


Today, appraisers in many markets are finding inadequate comparable sales data due to low sales volume. What can an appraiser do to supplement the inadequate sales comparison data? There are a number of other options available to appraisers. This article will discuss how to find and use other techniques that provide clues to market value.


This study investigated the construct validity of the dimensions of Multidimensional-Multiattributional Causality Scale (MMCS) based on Winner's attribution model in both achievement and affiliation goal domains, using confirmatory factor analysis. Participants were 172 students enrolled in B.Ed and in Diploma Education courses at the University of Auckland. The results indicated that in the affiliation domain, all but stability models exhibited adequate fit, whereas in the achievement domain, only externality, stability, and controllability models showed good fit. This provides partial evidence that the MMCS can be used as a goal-specific measure rather than a general measure.


OBJECTIVE
To study whether progestogen antagonist mifepristone could reverse multidrug resistance of K562/A02 cells and its mechanisms.

METHODS
MTT was used to study the proliferation of K562/A02 cells and sensitivity of K562/A02 cells to ADM after 72 hours treatment with mifepristone. Flow cytometry was used to assay the expression of P-glycoprotein and the mean fluorescent intensity of intracellular daunorubicin. The expressions of apoptosis related proteins (bcl-2, Bax and caspase-3) were assayed by immunohistochemistry and the glucosylceramide synthase mRNA expression by RT-PCR before and after mifepristone treatment.

RESULTS
MTT assay revealed that 2.5, 5.0 and 10 micromol/L mifepristone did not affect the proliferation of K562/A02 cells, but enhanced the sensitivity of K562/A02 cells to ADM, by 1. 68-, 4.17- and 10.71- fold increase, respectively. Expression of P-gp in K562/A02 cells was (49.03 +/- 5.32)%, and was decreased to (28.60 +/- 2.13)% (P < 0.01) after 10 micromol/L mifepristone treatment for 72 hours. and intracellular DNR accumulation in K562/A02 was (61.07 +/- 8.61)%, and was increased to (92.72 +/- 3.48)% (P < 0.01). After 10 micromol/L mifepristone treatment, the expression of bcl-2 protein was decreased from (56 +/- 9)% to (37 +/- 6)% (P < 0.05), Bax and caspase-3 proteins was increased from (40 +/- 5)% to (87 +/- 10)% (P < 0.01), and from (36 +/- 7)% to (89 +/- 6)% (P < 0.01) respectively. RT-PCR analysis revealed that expression of glucosylceramide synthase mRNA was higher in K562/A02 than in K562 cells, whereas 10 micromol/L mifepristone significantly down-regulated its expression in K562/A02 cells.

CONCLUSION
Mifepristone at 10 micromol/L could dose-dependently reverse the multidrug resistance of K562/A02 cells. The possible mechanisms are related with decreasing the expression of P-gp, regulating the expression of apoptosis related proteins and decreasing the expression of glucosylceramide synthase.


The characteristics of PEM fuel cell were introduced briefly. The main progress in developing PEM fuel cell for electric vehicle was described.The main problems and solutions to developing PEM fuel cell for electric vehicle were given.


The "Carina Flare" supershell, GSH 287+04-17, is a molecular supershell originally discovered in 12CO(J=1-0) with the NANTEN 4m telescope. We present the first study of the shell's atomic ISM, using HI 21 cm line data from the Parkes 64m telescope Southern Galactic Plane Survey. The data reveal a gently expanding, ~ 230 x 360 pc HI supershell that shows strong evidence of Galactic Plane blowout, with a break in its main body at z ~ 280 pc and a capped high-latitude extension reaching z ~ 450 pc. The molecular clouds form co-moving parts of the atomic shell, and the morphology of the two phases reflects the supershell's influence on the structure of the ISM. We also report the first discovery of an ionised component of the supershell, in the form of delicate, streamer-like filaments aligned with the proposed direction of blowout. The distance estimate to the shell is re-examined, and we find strong evidence to support the original suggestion that it is located in the Carina Arm at a distance of 2.6 0.4 kpc. Associated HI and H2 masses are estimated as M(HI) ~ 7 3 x 10 5 Msol and M(H2) ~ 2.0 0.6 x 10 5 Msol, and the kinetic energy of the expanding shell as E ~ 1 x 10 51 erg. We examine the results of analytical and numerical models to estimate a required formation energy of several 10 51 to ~ 10 52 erg, and an age of ~ 10 7 yr. This age is compatible with molecular cloud formation time-scales, and we briefly consider the viability of a supershell-triggered origin for the molecular component.


s:Objective To preparate povidoned iodine solution. Methods To determine the best prescription by selecting pH- buffer, stabilizing agent and designing formula. Results Quality of preparation is stable and accordes with desiging demand.Conclusion the preparation is suitable for industrial production and has value inthe clinical


This position paper deals with privacy for deep neural networks, more precisely with robustness to membership inference attacks. The current state-of-the-art methods, such as the ones based on differential privacy and training loss regularization, mainly propose approaches that try to improve the compromise between privacy guarantees and decrease in model accuracy. We propose a new research direction that challenges this view, and that is based on novel approximations of the training objective of deep learning models. The resulting loss offers several important advantages with respect to both privacy and model accuracy: it may exploit unlabeled corpora, it both regularizes the model and improves its generalization properties, and it encodes corpora into a latent low-dimensional parametric representation that complies with Federated Learning architectures. Arguments are detailed in the paper to support the proposed approach and its potential beneficial impact with regard to preserving both privacy and quality of deep learning.


This study shows that spatial characterization can address the challenge of finding efficient biomarkers, revealing that localization of macrophages and T cells in melanoma predicts patient response to ICI.


U From Labov's award winning The Study of Nonstandard English (1969) to the Center for Applied Linguistics' series on Dialects and Educational Equity (Wolfram and Christian 1979), much research in the last 15 years has served to validate the existence of systematic, rulegoverned varieties of nonstandard English. However, with some noteworthy exceptions (see Geuder 1972, Sternglass 1975, Duffin, Kroll, and Winkworth 1977, Scott 1981), there have been too few empirical studies identifying effective methods by which speakers of nonstandard English can acquire Standard English skills. The purpose of this pilot study was to implement a pretest/post-test, single-group design to see if contrastive instruction produced an educationally significant difference in the Standard English proofreading skills of dialect different students. Contrastive instruction was defined as instruction which contrasts linguistic features of Standard and nonstandard English. Proofreading was defined as the final stage of the writing process, in which the writer examines what has been written with reference to the grammatical rules of Standard English. Standard English was loosely defined as the variety of English customarily used by the prestige group, required by the professions, and promoted by educational institutions. Dialect different students were defined as those students whose form of English is characteristic of a specific race, social class, and/or ethnic background and differs from Standard English in such features as inflection, tense system, pronoun usage, use of the verb to be, and vowel succession. The subjects in this inquiry were 20 ethnic students (13 Blacks, 4 Hispanics, 3 Asians) enrolled in Student Academic Services (SAS) at California Polytechnic State University. (SAS provides academic support for students who are underrepresented in the California State University by virtue of race, ethnicity, and/or socioeconomic status-the same groups who are identified as dialect different.) These 20 subjects were also enrolled in English 106, an applied linguistics course designed to assist


In this report the new analytical Kravchenko wavelet based on atomic functions [1–7] for spectral estimation of UWB are proposed. The constructed wavelets have a compact support and they are infinitely differentiable. It is shown that the proposed wavelets significantly improves the quality of UWB signal spectral estimations.


In the north of Zunhua,plentiful structural lenses of basic and ultra-basic rocks including metamorphosed diabases (amphibolites),layer gabbros,ultramafic cumulates and mantle peridotites,are scattered in the strongly sheared Neoarchaean gneiss.The basic and ultra-basic rocks are comparable to a modern ophiolite suite and make up of an ophiolitic melange in the strongly deformed gneiss.The podiform chromite associated with these structural lenses is only reported in ophiolites.Therefore,it is a convincing evidence for the existence of a Neoarchaean ophiolite in China.The Zunhua Neoarchaean ophiolitic melange proves the operation of plate tectonics in North China 2?500?Ma ago.


Validation of antiviral activity of Stephania hernandifolia against HSV-2.

Ethnomedicinal plant Stephania hernandifolia, traditionally used for the management of skin, digestive and nerve ailments demonstrated significant anti-HSV-1 activity; similar to Stephania cepharantha having neuroinflammatory and anti-HSV activities.

Thus, the present study was aimed to validate the potential of the most active fraction-2 (F-2) of S. hernandifolia against HSV-2 in vitro, along with the underlying mode or mechanism of action.

The standardized F-2 was characterized by GC-MS, 1H-NMR, Mass and FTIR spectroscopy. Cytotoxicity (CC50) and antiviral activity (EC50) was evaluated by MTT and Plaque reduction assay. To determine the mode of action, we have used time-of-addition, virus inactivation, and entry (attachment and penetration) assays, followed by semiquantitative PCR. Furthermore, the protein expression levels of immediate early (IE) and early (E) gene products of drug-treated virions were measured by Western blot.

The results showed that HSV-2G and ICMR/VU-2012/20, the clinical isolate of HSV-2, were inhibited by F-2 at EC50 of 20.0 and 20.43 µg/ml respectively, with Selectivity Index (SI) of 12. Time-of-addition assay showed that F-2 significantly inhibited HSV-2 infection in Vero cells at 4-8 h post-treatment. The infectivity of the virion was lost within 1h of exposure to F-2 (EC50 and EC99). Furthermore, semi-Q-PCR, and Western blot studies demonstrated significant downregulation of IE and E gene products. The characterization revealed that 2-chloroethyl linoleate is the lead compound in the F-2 fraction.

Thus, our results showed that the bioactive fraction F-2, inhibits both IE and E transcription of HSV-2.


Due to the increasing amount of information being stored and accessible through the Web, Automatic Document Classification (ADC) has become an important research topic. ADC usually employs a supervised learning strategy, where we first build a classification model using pre-classified documents and then use it to classify unseen documents. One major challenge in building classifiers is dealing with the temporal evolution of the characteristics of the documents and the classes to which they belong. However, most of the current techniques for ADC do not consider this evolution while building and using the models. Previous results show that the performance of classifiers may be affected by three different temporal effects (class distribution, term distribution and class similarity). Further, it is shown that using just portions of the pre-classified documents, which we call contexts, for building the classifiers, result in better performance, as a consequence of the minimization of the aforementioned effects.
 In this paper we define the concept of temporal contexts as being the portions of documents that minimize those effects. We then propose a general algorithm for determining such contexts, discuss its implementation-related issues, and propose a heuristic that is able to determine temporal contexts efficiently. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of our strategy, we evaluated it using two distinct collections: ACM-DL and MedLine. We initially evaluated the reduction in terms of both the effort to build a classifier and the entropy associated with each context. Further, we evaluated whether these observed reductions translate into better classification performance by employing a very simple classifier, majority voting. The results show that we achieved precision gains of up to 30% compared to a version that is not temporally contextualized, and the same accuracy of a state-of-the-art classifier (SVM), while presenting an execution time up to hundreds of times faster.


This article examines the impact of the Brexit referendum on the risk structure of financial asset prices. Co-movements are analysed using daily price returns of major stock and bond indices as well as commodities and exchange rates from June 2014 to June 2018. We employ a multivariate GARCH model to study the dynamics of the conditional correlation matrix of asset returns. We find that the conditional variances and correlations of assets spike on and after the Brexit referendum and then quickly revert to normal levels, suggesting that the effect of the referendum was transient rather than structural. Our findings are of interest to investors as co-movements of financial assets can significantly impact financial portfolios and hedging strategies.


The use of manganese(III) acetate in combination with copper(II) triflate allows the synthesis of [3.3.0]-bicyclic gamma-lactones from 4-pentenylmalonates in excellent yields.


Fixed networks of computers constitute the lowest cost as well as the most available parallel computer, however the proliferation of wireless devices allows to expand the parallel virtual machine. These clusters are composite by resources with different performances and also are connected by communication links with different bandwidth, such as Fast-Ethernet, Standard Ethernet and Standard IEEE 802.11. Execution of a parallel application in these environments without keeping in mind the above considerations can imply that some nodes with least performance can be overhead, while other can be in an idle state. Therefore, in order to avoid this situation, it is necessary to apply some scheme of load balancing. In this paper we present a new dynamic load balancing strategy for LAN-WLAN clusters.


The most common method of analysis for "in vivo laser tissue experiments" is the probit regression. The data gathered at these experiments are specific in that there are very few repetitions of the exact stimulus exposure; thus the response frequencies for most stimulus are either '0' or '1'. Though such type of data is acceptable in probit, it seems that such data might not produce robust estimates of the ED50 and the slope. The accuracy of the probit's estimation was investigated by the use of Monte-Carlo simulation. Preliminary results suggest that the accuracy of the probit's estimations is conditional and might be biased in a way that raise doubts about the validity of the conclusions based on probit's estimations.


There are mass data that contain important defect texts in the power grid enterprise, and they contain important reliability information. And the efficiency is very low to mine the exact information about the texts especially when the texts are in Chinese. Thus, the defect text mining technique based on the modified semantic framework is proposed. All texts are translated into English and use the text mining model based on the modified semantic framework, the defect texts are divided into a fixed pattern and the digital information can be extracted accurately. Take the transformer as an example, the first step is to establish the ontology dictionary and to separate the sentence and extract the texts' features. Then, the modified power semantic framework and the semantic slots are defined, and the slots filling method and the semantic framework construction process are discussed, which can automatically perfect the ontology dictionary by merging the word series. Finally, the researches of defect text mining results of statistical reliability are studied, and the results show that the proposed model and method is feasible and effective when applied to automatic classification and statistics of grid defect.


Due to the difficulty associated with experimental investigation under ultrasonic atomization conditions, 2D and 3D CFD models were utilized to provide graphical representation of wave development and droplet production. In the 2D case 20 wave-lengths were modelled with cyclic boundary conditions, but due to computational time constraints one wave cell was modelled for the 3D case. The free surface given by the model reflected the free surface behaviour as observed in experiments, and retained an orthogonal wave pattern without li quid disintegration for low amplitude of excitation. At higher amplitude the model predicated an irregular free surface after the onset of atomization. Nomenclature


The Structure ofHebrews: A Text-Linguistic Analysis, by George H. Guthrie. London: E. J. Brill, 1994. 161 pp. $54.50. ISBN 90-04-09866-6. The Abortion Controversy: A Reader, ed. by Louis P. Pojrnan and Francis J. Beckwith. Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 1994. 461 pp. $27.50. ISBN 086720-956-9. Cities withoutSuburbs, by David Rusk. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1993. 146 pp. $13.95. ISBN 0-943875-50-1. Ministry in an Oral Culture: Livingwith Will Rogers, Uncle Remus, & Minnie Pearl, by Tex Sample. Louisville: WestmmsterlJohn Knox, 1994. 100 pp. $11.99. ISBN 0-664-25506-X. Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: The Power ofDialogue in Educating Adults, by Jane Vella. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass,1994. 202 pp. $26.95. ISBN 1-55542630-1. All is Forgiven: The Secular Message in American Protestantism, by Marsha G. Witten. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. 175 pp. $19.95. ISBN 0-69103280-7.


Islamic banking is attracting the attention of the economic and finance people alike. This paper analyses micro models, micro and macro models of Islamic banking profitability in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) during 2011-2014. The results show that overheads divided by total assets (OVRHD) negatively affect profitability whether at micro level model or micro and macro level model. In addition, annual growth rate of real gross domestic product per capita (GDPPC) positively affect profitability represented by ROA at the micro and macro model. While the ratio of non-interest earning assets divided by total asset (NIEATA) negatively affect profitability represented by ROE at the micro and macro model. Finally, there is no effect of the other variables on the profitability in the four models. As a continuation of this study, further research should be carried out using other Islamic demographic determinants as the adjusted R-square in our model is low.


The morphological changes in Ehrlich ascites carcinoma cells were followed by serial biopsy. The number of large injured cells was found to increase with time until a critical percentage (30 per cent) was reached. Thereafter there were a few large injured tumour cells while the rest were pyknotic. Large injured tumour cells reappeared in later biopsies but were of different morphology from those preceding pyknosis. It seems likely that the injury in the latter cells is due to immunological damage while that in the former may well be the result of anoxia.

There was a marked sex difference in the mode of growth of the tumour in that pyknosis occurred earlier in the females. This supports the author's previous findings (Hartveit 1962a and 1963a) that female mice have greater natural immunity to Ehrlich's ascites carcinoma than males.


Social robots have great potential for the therapy of children with autism spectrum disorder, but the practical use of them is challenging. In this article, we presented a social robot YANG, which can interact with children with autism in their daily training. We propose a therapist‐robot interactive (TRI) model, which integrates with the practice of discrete trial training (DTT), a basic method utilized in autism training. To evaluate the TRI model, we implemented the model in YANG and conducted a single‐subject experiment in a rehabilitation training center. Data were collected on three children (ages 3–4) and their three therapists as they interacted with YANG in training sessions. Results showed that the children's learning ability significantly improved. YANG formed natural and friendly relationships with the children and delivered substantial support to therapists. Our research brings insight into using social robots for children with autism.


To investigate the effect of cyclin-dependent kinase(cdk-5) overrexpression ontua phosphorylation in cultured cells. Mice neuroblastoma N2a cells were transfected with cdk-5cDNA. The activity of cdk-5 in the transfected N2a cells was decetced by immunoprecipetain activity assay. Tau phosphorylation was determined by immunofluoresence and western blot. The overexpression of cdk-5 cused by the transfection resulted in a 3.5-fold increase in cdk-5 activity in N2a cells, which led to a reduced staining with antibody tau-1 and an enhanced staining with antibody PHF-1. These reults indicated that in vitrol overexpression of cdk-5 led to cdk-5 overactivation and tau hyperphosphorylation at Ser 199/202 and Ser396/404 sites, which might be the underlining mmechanism of Alzheimer disearse.


Purpose – The purpose of this study is to analyse the influence of three selected physical components of the urban environment – physical design, space layout and functionality, and store external appearance – on consumers' perceptions of service quality and behavioural intentions (desire to stay and repatronage intentions).Design/methodology/approach – The research framework is based on the atmospherics, servicescape and service quality literatures. The proposed model is tested with a survey conducted in an inner‐city shopping street in Benevento (Italy).Findings – Results show that physical space functionality and store appearance provide cues upon which customers base their perception of service quality provided in the shopping street and that service quality inferences, in turn, are able to affect desire to stay and repatronage intentions.Practical implications – Findings are able to provide policy makers and retailers with suggestions in developing appropriate strategies for managing the urban settin...


We study the existence of solutions for a class of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations involving a magnetic field with mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions. We use Lyusternik-Shnirelman category and the Morse theory to estimate the number of nontrivial solutions in terms of the topology of the part of the boundary where the Neumann condition is prescribed.


In hyperspectral remote sensing, the clustering technique is an important issue of concern. Affinity propagation is a widely used clustering algorithm. However, the complex structure of the hyperspectral image (HSI) dataset presents challenge for the application of affinity propagation. In this paper, an improved version of affinity propagation based on complex wavelet structural similarity index and local outlier factor is proposed specifically for the HSI dataset. In the proposed algorithm, the complex wavelet structural similarity index is used to calculate the spatial similarity of HSI pixels. Meanwhile, the calculation strategy of the spatial similarity is simplified to reduce the computational complexity. The spatial similarity and the traditional spectral similarity of the HSI pixels jointly constitute the similarity matrix of affinity propagation. Furthermore, the local outlier factors are applied as weights to revise the original exemplar preferences of the affinity propagation. Finally, the modified similarity matrix and exemplar preferences are applied, and the clustering index is obtained by the traditional affinity propagation. Extensive experiments were conducted on three HSI datasets, and the results demonstrate that the proposed method can improve the performance of the traditional affinity propagation and provide competitive clustering results among the competitors.


In 1954, Joseph Schumpeter declared that debates over the employment effects of technological change were "dead and buried" (1954,684). Despite this declaration, many social scientists continued to investigate the manner in which technology affects the work process. Typically, these inquiries have resulted in one of three hypotheses: de-skilling (Braverman 1974), upgrading (Blauner 1964; Gallie 1978), or polarization (Jones 1982; Spenner 1995). Thus some, following Adam Smith ([1776] 1937), Karl Marx (1867), and David Ricardo ([ 1821] 1970), have viewed technological innovation as the means through which workers are deprived of substantial knowledge about the work process; some have seen it as a catalyst for workplace democracy; and others have viewed it as merely having altered control of the labor process. Geoffrey Hodgson (1999) recently took the polarization thesis a step further, arguing that technological change has increased the amount of tacit knowledge held by certain workers, thereby fundamentally altering the labor contract that defines capitalist employment relations. In his view, the very existence of capitalism, as we know it, may be threatened by these changes.


Objective: Postoperative pain management requires a well-directed pain therapy. Generally, the assessment of pain intensity depends on a self-evaluated numeric rating scale (NRS, 0 to 10). Recently, a pain monitor using a socalled "ANI" (analgesia nociception index; 100 to 0) was introduced. The higher the ANI, the lower the pain intensity is considered. The aim of this study was to investigate if the use of ANI improves acute pain therapy in the post anesthesia care unit (PACU) by means of the experienced pain intensity (mean NRS) as the primary outcome parameter.Methods: After admission to PACU, patients were randomly assigned to the "supported by technique" (TC) or the control group (CO). In both groups, self-assessment of pain intensity was requested every 15 minutes and pain therapy was provided according to internal clinical standards when the self-reported NRS by the patient exceeded 4. In the TC group, NRS pain score was additionally assessed when ANI fell below 50.Results: Out of 91 collectively included patients, 46 were assigned to the TC group. The mean NRS did not differ between the groups (p=0.192) at discharge. However, suitability of the ANI monitor was strongly dependent from the individual patient. In some patients, a strong negative correlation was obtained, in other patients no correlation or, curiously, a strong positive correlation was observed.Conclusion: Although objective pain intensity assessment would be beneficial for postoperative care, its measurement remains challenging.


The celebrated Ito formula for the n-dimensional Brownian motion Xt and for u ∈ C2(Rn ) runs as follows: (0.1) In § 6 of this paper we extend this to the case where u is any element of the Sobolev space H1R(n ) and accordingly Δu is a tempered distribution which is not even a signed measure in general. As a consequence the second term of the right hand side of (0.1) may not be of bounded variation in t.


Polymer blend electrolyte films, based on polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyethylene oxide (PEO) as a host polymer complexed with lithium perchlorate (LiClO4) as salt were prepared using solution – casting technique. Tetrahydrofuran (THF) was used as a solvent. The complexations of these films were examined by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. The increase in amorphicity with increase in PVC content was observed through XRD studies. The ionic conductivities of the prepared samples were measured using AC impedance analyser in the frequency range of 1Hz – 10MHz. Among the three blend ratios studied, PVC (37.5%) – PEO (37.5%) – LiClO4 (25%) exhibited a maximum ionic conductivity as 6.5 x 10 -6 Scm -1 at room temperature. This was supported through XRD, FTIR and SEM studies.


Treatment of chronic osteomyelitis is difficult in the field of orthopaedic trauma surgery, with long therapy course, poor clinical results and high amputation rate. In recent years, limb salvage has gradually become a research hotspot. In this paper, present situation and progress in limb salvage therapy for chronic osteomyelitis were reviewed, involving the aspects of debridement, treatment of bone defect, soft tissue coverage,stabilization of affected bone, antibiotic treatment and adjuvant therapy.


This article challenges the conventional wisdom that health programs have been largely insulated from welfare state retrenchment. Health care entitlements have in fact been transformed and diminished, albeit in more subtle ways. Employing rhetorical discursive constructions about the nature of social rights, and capitalizing on passive policy drift, reformists have succeeded in altering the right to health care away from a set of collective obligations and toward the competing claims of individuals. As a result, public health insurance programs are abandoning universalistic principles in favor of a narrower conception of rights that is consistent with and supportive of increased privatization of health care financing. Discursive constructions aimed at persuading target audiences to change their ideas aid and abet systemic and institutional factors, making policy changes seem both necessary and inevitable. Using the case of Canada, I contend that such changes are a form of retrenchment.


Field experiments were conducted at 15 site-years with barley and 10 site-years with oat over five years to determine the relative nitrogen (N) fertilizer requirements of forage versus grain for barley and oat on Black Chernozem (Typic Agricryoll – 6 site-years on barley and 3 site-years on oat) and Gray Luvisol (Typic Haplocryalf – 9 site-years on barley and 7 site-years on oat) soils in central and north-central Alberta, Canada. Barley harvested for forage responded to higher level of applied N than when it was harvested for grain at most site-years. On average for barley, the amount of N fertilizer required to achieve maximum yield of forage was 58 kg N ha−1 greater than that of grain, and also was somewhat greater on Black Chernozem soils than on Gray Luvisol soils. The results for oat were inconclusive, with almost equal numbers of site-years showed higher N requirements for grain as for forage.


Within the field of object oriented type theory, much attention has been devoted to the notion of self and Self-types. In contrast, relatively little attention has been paid to this topic in studies on object oriented specification language semantics. In the context of language semantics, the notion of self poses two problems. Firstly, it involves an awareness by an object of its own identity, and hence a capacity for self referential method invocations. Secondly, the usual reference model for object identity maps object identities to object values. This means that an object's identity is not normally considered to be a part of its value. And so a value for self is not normally in scope. The way that a semantics resolves the scope problem can affect one's ability to use the semantics to reason about an object independently of its environment. The paper motivates the inclusion of a concept of self in object oriented formal specification languages, and shows how this concept can be accommodated within the semantics of Object-Z. We show that a useful consequence of making objects 'self'-aware is that messages between objects can be 'tagged' with the identity of the sender object; this facilitates the task of reasoning about object interaction.


When the multiplicities of particles produced in heavy-ion collisions are fitted to the hadron-resonance-gas model, excluded-volume effects play a significant role. In this work, we study the impact of such effects onto the equation of state of pure Yang-Mills theory at low temperatures, comparing the predictions of the statistical model with lattice results. In particular, we present a detailed analysis of the SU(2) and SU(3) Yang-Mills theories: we find that, for both of them, the best fits to the equilibrium thermodynamic quantities are obtained when one assumes that the volume of different glueball states is inversely proportional to their mass. The implications of these findings for QCD are discussed.


Abstract Simulation has played an increasing role in surgical training in recent years, this follows from various reports such as the Chief Medical Officer annual report and Sir John Temple's 'Time for Training' and also from other factors such as increasing focus on efficiency and transparency within the healthcare system. Evidence has shown that simulation can develop and improve technical, clinical, communication and management skills. With technological advances, the quality of simulation has also improved with more realistic models and environment. We have undertaken a review of recent drivers for simulation training in the UK, current techniques and have focused on the application of simulation training within the current UK Neurosurgical curriculum for newly appointed trainees.


Abstract : This report summarizes the progress made during the second year of AFOSR contract support in growing single crystals and producing ceramic samples of aluminum nitride for use as electronic heat sinks and surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices. An improved aluminum pellet-drop technique for making 70-g quantities of ALN starting material has been developed. By subliming and recondensing this material in sealed tungsten crucibles at temperatures between 2100 C and 2350 C, crystals up to 1.2 cm in length and 0.4 cm in diameter have been grown. The problem of pinhole attack of tungsten by ALN has been studied in detail, and a technique for producing long-lived crucibles using W foil has been developed.


Effects of air and saline inflation on the stress relaxation of ther lungs in developing piglets. Joseph A. La Rocca, 1992. It is known that, as the mammalian lungs develop, their viscoelastic properties become less prominent. In some species like the rat, the decrease in viscoelasticity appears to reflect the explosive changes that occur after birth in both lung structural composition and alveolar architecture. In the pig, a non-altricial mammal with a slower pattern of growth, the structural composition of the lungs changes little, and thus it is conceivable that changes in viscoelastic behavior will only reflect variations in the geometry of the gas-liquid interface. To test this hypothesis, we compared the stress relaxation (a major manifestation of viscoelasticity) of the lungs of six newborn and six 8-wk old piglets by performing airway occlusions while the lungs were inflated in situ first with air and then with normal saline. The amplitude and time course of stress relaxation were measured from the monoexponential decay in transpulmonary pressure that follows each occlusion once all frictional losses are dissipated. We found that the amplitude of stress relaxation was volume history-dependent and linearly related to the elastic recoil of the lungs at the occlusion point. The slope of this relationship was greater in the newborn than in the 8-w'k old piglets during gas inflation (0.28±0.02 vs ().2()±0.02 at a flow = 3.5 and 0.35±0.04 vs 0.2610.05 at a flow = 7 ml s-l kg-l), but was not different during liquid inflation (0.2410.06 vs 0.2310.03 and 0.1710.04 vs 0.2010.03, at analogous flow rates). Both the intercept of the relationship and the time constant describing the course of stress relaxation were unaffected by age, flow, or whether the lungs were inflated with air or saline. From the observed differences between gas and liquid inflation, w'e conclude that, in the pig, the postnatal decrease in the amplitude of stress relaxation of the lungs is caused exclusively by developmental changes in the gas-liquid interface. In this regard, viscoelastic detemhnations may offer a sensitive way to assess nomial lung development and detect subtle anomalies of alveolar geometry. J.A. La Rocca:M.D. Thesis 1


In this paper we consider a class of nonlinear systems in which a set of constant parameters is unknown and some state variables are not available for measurement. For such systems we provide a constructive procedure for the solution of the global adaptive tracking problem with dynamic partial state feedback. We illustrate an application of the control strategy to the adaptive nonlinear friction compensation of a DC motor servomechanism. We improve previous results in two directions: we allow for a subset of the unmeasurable states to enter in the system nonlinearly; we consider systems which are linearly parametrized with respect to a set of unknown constant parameters.


The development of low-carbon economy is a long-term strategy to adapt to the climate change and maintain the harmonious coexistence of mankind and the Earth. As a new economic model,low-carbon economy and eco-industry play important role in accomplishing the Ecological Civilization and sustainable development. In addition,as an important part of eco-industries,the development of electronic information industry means to develop low-carbon economy and some measures were put forward accordingly.


In this paper, we have made comprehensive study for the performance evaluation of mmWave massive MIMO FBMC wireless communication system. The 16×256 large MIMO antenna configured simulated system under investigation incorporates three modern channel coding (Turbo, LDPC and (3, 2) SPC, higher order digital modulation (256-QAM)) and various signal detection (Q-Less QR, Lattice Reduction(LR) based Zero-forcing(ZF), Lattice Reduction (LR) based ZF-SIC and Complex-valued LLL(CLLL) algorithm implemented ZF-SIC) schemes. An audio to image conversion aided chaos-based physical layer security scheme has also been implemented in such study. On considering transmission of encrypted audio signal in a hostile fading channel, it is noticeable from MATLAB based simulation study that the LDPC Channel encoded system is very much robust and effective in retrieving color image under utilization of Lattice Reduction(LR) based ZF-SIC signal detection and 16QAM digital modulation techniques.


This issue of Journal of Global Ethics contains a collection of accepted articles from among our refereed submissions and a special section focused on a matter of continuing concern, the COVID-19 global emergency. We open with the refereed articles of three authors, two of whom focus on governance in the context of the business management paradigm that is called corporate social responsibility (CSR). CSR has been proposed as a model for self-regulation by the businesses themselves. It has been under some form of consideration since before Milton Friedman presented the familiar claim that 'the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits... to make as much money as possible while conforming to the basic rules of the society, both those embodied in law and those embodied in ethical custom.' CSR extends the claim on management's responsibilities far beyond that limit, and it similarly makes a more expansive claim than a third familiar model, stakeholder theory, which requires management to consider those who are especially affected by a management decision. So, CSR is different in kind than both of these: it is intended to include as part of the corporate objective a regard for social purposes and social problems that businesses may alleviate through their activity. Businesses might be called upon to weigh the opportunity to reduce the opportunities for government corruption that would arise if they were to implement more costly accounting systems, for example. As different concerns have come under discussion, the specific responsibilities that are appropriate to consideration under a CSR approach have been a changing subject that extends into consideration of environmental concerns and wealth inequities especially in this century. CSR discourse is reconfigured within the two articles, presenting turns that are recent innovations in the business ethics literature, and that are generally unfamiliar within discussion of global ethics. Michael Aßländer, in 'Subsidiarity, wicked problems and the matter of failing states', and Juliette Schwak, in 'Foreign aid and discourses of National Social Responsibility: evidence from South Korea', both apply the approach of CSR to governance, rather than to business management, and each takes the conversation in a very different direction. Michael Aßländer applies concerns of social organization to business entities, extending the corporate objective to the ideal of a 'corporate citoyen'/citizen. The ideal of subsidiarity is embodied in the principle that 'societal tasks should be solved by subordinate entities in society if these entities have the competencies to solve such problems,' and Aßländer hazards that the ideal may be applied to corporations as responsible problem-solvers. Aßländer continues a discussion begun in the pages of this journal by Tjidde Tempels, Vincent Blok, and Marcel Verweij in 2017 (13:1). Aßländer notes that 'subsidiary responsibilities are often task-related and not always predefined by clearly classified competences,' and considers the extreme case of failed states, which present conditions of compromised governance in which corporate citizens may even have a generative role in producing order. In this context and in others, the competitive characteristic of business activity may be applied: as Aßländer suggests, 'actors having similar problems may test different solutions and, thus, compete with each other for the best solutions, which then can serve as models for other cases.'


The effects of underwater friction stir welding (UFSW) on mechanical properties, strain hardening behavior, and formability of dissimilar materials of AA5052-O and AA6061-T6 welded joints were investigated. The mechanical properties of the UFSW joints exhibited higher strength and higher joint efficiency than the conventional friction stir welded joints (CFSW). The maximum joint efficiency of 73% has been attained for UFSW joints, which is due to the effect of welding atmosphere. The hardness of the stir zone (SZ) and heat affected zone (HAZ) are also obtained higher for the UFSW joints. Moreover, the hardening capacity, strain hardening exponent and formability of the UFSW joints were greatly improved over the CFSW joints. The improvement in mechanical properties of the UFSW joints is mainly due to faster cooling rate during welding. The microstructural characteristics revealed the formation of fine grains in the UFSW joints compared to the CFSW joints.


Water quality regulations are always expanding especially in the field of water quality monitoring; however, threats to our water distribution systems still remain. Components of water distribution systems are susceptible to intentional and accidental contamination; therefore, they represent highly vulnerable aspects of our infrastructure. An analysis was performed on a city in California with a population of 30,000 to 40,000 residents. The analysis is performed to determine the optimal locations of monitoring stations throughout the water distribution system. The method presented by Liu and colleagues (Liu et al, 2012) selects the optimal monitoring locations for the virtual California city using the Demand Coverage Index (DCI) method. In order to study small scale systems which are typically more vulnerable to tampering, the method attempts to use the virtual city to show the effectiveness of the DCI method and how it can be implemented on smaller water distribution systems (WDS). The analysis results lay out a number of monitoring stations that should be used to prevent a large scale contamination event from occurring. The number of monitoring stations will vary depending on funding for water infrastructure and coverage requirements. The results represent an outline for improving the effectiveness of the monitoring capabilities in the WDS. The monitoring stations increase the resilience of the WDS from potential terrorist sabotage and mitigate potential outbreaks due to microorganisms, pipeline leaks, or hazardous chemicals entering the WDS. v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank all the teachers and staff at Cal Poly for their dedication and willingness to help. The teachers are the heart of Cal Poly and I cannot thank them enough for their support. I'd like to thank my committee members for taking time to guide me through the thesis process and especially my thesis advisor, Shikha Rahman, for always being able to help me. Dr. Rahman has been very influential in my college life due to the many classes and projects that we have been involved with. I also want to thank my fellow students in the civil and environmental engineering department for always being willing to stay up late to work on projects or study for finals. Finally, I'd like to thank my family for always being supportive in my life. Your guys unrelenting encouragements have gone so far in helping me accomplish my goals.


The overall objective of this work is to provide maps based on the spatial organization of built-up areas and to achieve the comparative spatial analysis of built-up areas on east of Algiers in 1985 and 1996. Landsat TM images from both dates are processed here in order to characterize spatial and temporal change in built-up areas. Contextual supervised classification method is used for built-up areas extraction. Built-up density mapping is provided by local granulometric analysis, based on binary mathematical morphology. This method enables the classification of entities according to their granulometric descriptors generated by opening granulometries.


The invention relates to an elder falling detection method and system based on multiple classifier integration. The method includes acquiring information from sensors; performing falling direction, pressure, sound and misjudgment predictions; establishing falling characteristic vectors composed of the four prediction results; calling classifiers to implement integral falling prediction; outputting a falling judgment result. The system is characterized by comprising a sensor information acquisition module, a falling direction prediction module, a falling pressure prediction module, a falling sound prediction module, a falling misjudgment prediction module, a falling characteristic vector establishing module, an integral fall predicting module, an integral falling prediction model learning module, a falling early warning module and a falling file management module. The method and system has the advantages of high falling detection accuracy, low cost and convenience for carrying, and the alarming is performed timely when falling.


We report the discovery of the first spectroscopically resolved C II /C II* 1334, 1335A doublet in the Lyman-break galaxy J0215-0555 at z = 5.754. The separation of the resonant and fluorescent emission channels was possible thanks to the large redshift of the source and long integration time, as well as the small velocity width of the feature, 0.6 +- 0.2A. We model this emission and find that at least two components are required to reproduce the combination of morphologies of C II* emission, C II absorption and emission, and Lyman-alpha emission from the object. We suggest that the close alignment between the fluorescence and Lyman-alpha emission could indicate an ionisation escape channel within the object. While the faintness of such a C II /C II* doublet makes it prohibitively difficult to pursue for similar systems with current facilities, we suggest it can become a valuable porosity diagnostic in the era of JWST and the upcoming generations of ELTs.


One of the popular policies for rural entrepreneurships in Mexico is the Program for Women in the Agricultural Sector, or PROMUSAG, whose objective is to contribute to the generation of employment and income of women entrepreneurs with 18 years or more living in agrarian centers by funding and training for implementation of productive projects. The aim of the chapter is to analyze the case of a joint venture stage to determine the successes and failures to undertake this business based on the theory of resources and skills of entrepreneurship and business in general and budget study of PROMUSAG in particular. The analysis concludes that the empirical knowledge of entrepreneurs in this case were not sufficient to direct the business to success, and structured knowledge strongly directed towards the non-permanence on the market is still lacking to serve the targeted population. However, based on CONEVAL Report, we can say something about the increase in women empowerment as far as the budget program is concerned.


This paper introduces the concept of Partial ic-cone-convexlike Maps in local convex topology spaces,and establishes a Partial Alternative theorem.Under the conditions of Partial ic-convexlike Maps,optimality necessary conditions of weak efficient solutions for vector optimization problems with equality and inequality constraints are obtained.


This is the first study which estimates costs and benefits of overall policy reform for implementation of performance based budgeting. Costs estimation is based on a phased implementation, where we consult the Regulatory Impact Assessment methodology. In order to estimate benefits, we use a microeconomic approach to assess technical efficiency (Data Envelopment Analysis-DEA and Stochastic Frontier Analysis-SFA) of the budget users. The estimated benefits are higher than the estimated costs, or for every Macedonian denar invested in this reform an additional 2,600-8,000 Macedonian denars of gross value added in the Macedonian GDP are expected.


The present report is concerned with various mixtures involving polybutadiene (both the 1,2- and 1,4-isomers) and cis-1,4-polyisoprene. While in all cases associated with positive excess enthalpies reflecting an absence of specific interactions, these mixtures exhibit marked differences in their phase behavior


Introduction: Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women worldwide. Recently, the focus of research has shifted from psychiatric, psychological, and social consequences on the woman who gets sick from breast cancer to the impact on the couple. Indeed, the psychosocial perspective has developed the construct of the Quality of Relationship (QoR) that affects the quality of life of both members of the dyad. Objective: The aim of this study was to extend knowledge in this field by identifying and analyzing what dimensions of QoR may impact couples' psychosocial adjustment to breast cancer and related treatments. Patients and Methods: Semistructured interviews explored couples' experiences of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. Transcripts were analyzed using inductive thematic analysis. Results: Twelve couples were interviewed. Results showed how the dimensions of psychosocial support, dyadic coping, communication, and intimacy are associated and define the construct of QoR, thus affecting the couples' adjustment to breast cancer diagnosis and to the disease pathway. Conclusion: Assessment procedures of couple functioning since and after diagnosis could increase the appropriateness and benefits of integrating existing clinical practice in oncological settings.


Skull defect is one of the major sequelae of traumatic brain injury and decompressive craniectomy, which affects the prognosis of neurological function. Cranioplasty is the main method to treat skull defect. The surgical technique is relatively simple and has been widely performed in neurosurgical departments. Although the optimal timing of cranioplasty is still controversial, the author advocates early cranioplasty when the patent's condition permits. Different cranioplasty materials have their own advantages and disadvantages, so we should choose appropriate materials according to the specific conditions of patients. Full preoperative evaluation, reasonable operation and proper postoperative management are important means to prevent complications related to cranioplasty. In view of these problems, the author reviews the latest literature and progress in order to provide reference for standardizing clinical treatment.

Key words:
Skull; Decompressive craniectomy; Repair


Miners around Zimbabwe used to supply gold concentrates from sulphide flotation to the Kwekwe Roasting Plant (Zimbabwe) for toll treatment. The concentrates were roasted in Edward's roasters and the calcine product was leached by cyanidation. Due to inefficient roasting, overall gold recoveries of 75–80% left behind a rich calcine leach residue at the Kwekwe Roasting Plant. The characterization performed to establish a potential process route involved several techniques, such as X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), fire assaying and inductively coupled plasma (ICP). Assays conducted on samples from the 350,000 tons tailings dam residue, created over the operational years, gave an average Au grade of 8.58 g/t and 12.54 g/t for Ag. The base metals assayed—0.11% Cu, 0.10% Pb, 0.17% Zn and 26.05% Fe. SiO2 (36.1%), Fe2O3 (36.9%), Mg3Si4O10 (OH)2 (8.9%), NaAlSi3O8 (6.9%), and Fe3O4 (6.4%)—were the major mineral phases in the cyanide leach residue. SEM gold scans on 24 polished sections showed only 2 discrete gold particles of less than 5 µm, with one partially liberated and associated with quartz, while the other was fully liberated. Therefore, the particulate gold in the calcine leach residue was negligible. It was deduced from the analysis after ultrafine milling (P80 < 5 µm) followed by cyanidation that 68.53% of the gold was sub-microscopic. Direct cyanidation using bottle roll resulted in only 2.33% of the total gold being leachable, indicating that the calcine leach residue was highly refractory. Diagnostic leaching by sequential use of acids in order of their strength resulted in HCl leachable phases (CaCO3, CaMg(CO3)2, PbS, Fe1-XS, and Fe2O3) freeing 4.2% of the total Au during subsequent cyanidation leach. H2SO4 leachable phases (Cu–Zn sulphides, labile FeS2) released an additional 26.57% during cyanidation, whereas HNO3 leachable phases (FeS2, FeAsS) released a further 20.98% of Au. After acid treatment and subsequent cyanidation, hot caustic leach of the residue followed by carbon in pulp resulted 4.43% of the total gold being eluted. Therefore, 4.43% of the total gold was surface bound. From the analysis after diagnostic acid leaching, it was deduced that a total of 54.08% of the gold was in the acid-leachable phase. Due to cost and environmental considerations, H2SO4 was selected for the evaluation of acid digestion as a pretreatment stage followed by cyanidation. Increasing the H2SO4 strength for the pretreatment of the calcine leach residue increased gold recoveries during cyanidation.


The EAP (Electro-Active Polymer) actuators have created an unique opportunity to design the robots that mimic the motion of biological systems due to its soft structure and operation at a low voltage. Although this polymer actuator has a strong potential for a next-generation artificial muscle actuator, it has been observed by many researchers that supplying actuation voltages in multiple location is challenging especially for small-scale robots. In many robotic applications, a tethered operation is prohibited and the weight of battery can be critical for actual implementation. In this research the remote unit can provide necessary power and control signals to the target mobile robot units actuated by EAPs. This research addresses a novel approach of using a wireless power link between the ionic polymer metal composite (IPMC) actuator and a remote control/power unit. In this study, microstrip patch antenna patterns are designed on the surface electrode of the IPMC for wireless transmission of the required power to actuate the IPMC. Also, frequency modulation of the microwave is proposed to selectively actuate the particular portion of the IPMC actuator where matching patch antenna pattern is located. This approach can be especially useful for a long-term operation of small scale locomotion units and avoids problems caused by complex internal wiring often observed in various types of biologically inspired robots. Several experiments are performed and show that the proposed approach can be useful for various remote power and control applications.


This study aims to analyze how caregivers working at shelters for youth suffering from psychiatric or neurological disorders express their grief. The data come from the research project titled "Violence, Youth, and Mental Health," which was carried out from 2008 to 2010 by the Institute of Psychiatry at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and was based on 26 interviews and field observations made with professionals at one of the surveyed shelters. The study method was that of oral stories using a semi-structured script. These narratives were analyzed based on the theory of communications, which allowed categories to be defined. It was found that the conditions, organization, and work processes at the shelters are adverse and cause risks to the professionals' mental health, since they are unprepared to perform this work, in particular with patients suffering from psychiatric and neurological disorders, conditions that cause great distress among caregivers. Finally, it was fund that there is a need to provide training and permanent clinical supervision at the shelters based on the principles of psychosocial rehabilitation. Additionally, it is also necessary to drive greater integration among the tasks carried out at the shelters and those of the remaining special protection networks created for these adolescents.


The Cl - -L II,III absorption in KCl-RbCl and KCl-NaCl solid solutions has been studied at liquid nitrogen temperature in the energy region 200-235 eV using the synchrotron orbital radiation (SOR) at INS-Tokyo. From the change of the profiles of the absorption peaks around 200 eV with the change in concentration, it is suggested that the conduction band of KCl above the \(\varGamma_{1}\) state is similar to that of RbCl, but fairly different from that of NaCl. The spin-orbit partner of the first peak in NaCl is identified. The structure above 210 eV can be explained more reasonably by the delayed band in the core transition in solids than by the mechanism of two-electron excitation. The dependence of the position of the first peak upon concentration shows that the fluctuation of the crystal potential (randomness) in solid solutions is small in KCl-RbCl system, while large in KCl-NaCl system. In KCl-NaCl system, the randomness influences mainly conduction band rather than valence band, causing a downward b...


BACKGROUND: There is considerable lack of scientific estimate of depressive disorder among cancer patients in India. OBJECTIVES: (1) To associate the depressive disorders between the cervical cancer and breast cancer patients and (2) to compare the level of depression score among cervical and breast cancer patients, and with medically ill inpatient population with some other medical illnesses. SETTING AND DESIGN: A cross-sectional study at inpatient Department of Bharath Cancer Hospital and JSS Medical College Hospital, Mysore. MATERIAL AND METHOD: The study was conducted on admitted thirty breast and thirty cervical cancer inpatients in medical ward of JSS Hospital and Bharath Cancer Hospital, Mysore from December 2007 to august 2009. Data analysis was done for the both groups of cancer and with thirty control group of medically ill inpatient population with some other medical illnesses. Detailed psychological, sociodemographic characteristics were recorded in proforma specially designed for the study. Depression was assessed using MINI plus, HAMD scale and scoring was done. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: Descriptive statistics, Cross tabs procedure, repeated measure ANOVA statistical methods were carried out through the SPSS for Windows (version 16.0). RESULTS: Major depressive disorder was present in 16.7% of breast cancer and 23.3% of cervical cancer patients.. There was no significant association between type of cancer (Breast cancer and cervical cancer) and depressive disorder. Depression score was found high in cervical cancer cases compare to breast cancer cases though difference in these scores were not statistically significant in between two cancer groups. Depression score was high and significant in both cancer groups as compare to control group. CONCLUSION: Depression is more prevalent in cancer patients than in other several medical illneses and adequate knowledge is required for psychosocial interventions and designing programs aimed at improving the quality of life of cancer patients.


We examined the constituents of tea that had an inhibitory effect on the degranulation process in the human basophilic cell line, KU812. Among the constituents purified from a extract of 'Benihomare' oolong tea by column chromatography, a methylated (-)-epigallocatechin gallate ((-)-epigallocatechin 3-O-(3-O-methyl) gallate) was found to inhibit the degranulation of KU812 cells that had been stimulated with calcium ionophore A23187. The inhibitory effect of this methylated (-)-epigallocatechin gallate on degranulation was greater than that of (-)-epigallocatechin gallate. This result indicates that methylation of (-)-epigallocatechin gallate may be an effective modification for the catechin to inhibit degranulation from human basophils.


Spinal cord and other lo cal injuries ofte n lea d to partial paralysis while the brain stays fully functional. When this partial paralysis occurs in the hand, these individuals are not able to execute daily activities on their own even if their a rms are func tional. To remedy this problem, a lightweight, low-profile orthotic exoskeleton has been designed to restore dexterity to paralyzed hands. The exoskeleton's movements are controlled by the user's available electromyography (EMG) signals. The device has two actuators controlling the index finger flexion that can be used to perform a pinching motion against a fixed thumb. Using this orthotic device, a new control technique was developed to allow for a natur al reaching and pinching sequence by utilizing the natural residual muscle activation patterns. To design this controller, two actuator control algorithms were explored with a qua driplegic (C5/ C6) subject and it was determined that a simple bina ry c ontrol algorithm allowed for faster interaction with objects over a variabl e cont rol algorithm. The binary algorithm was then used as an enabling algorithm to activate the exoskeleton movements when the natural sequence of muscle activities found a pattern related to a pinch. This natural pinching technique has shown significant promise toward realistic neural control of wearable robotic devices to assist paralyzed individuals.


English teaching is a special dialogical activity,it involves multiple dialogical relationship under the guide of teacher between teacher and students,students and texts,students and students.In college English teaching,the teacher should manage to construct a dialogical platform,direct the students' autonomous learning,provide them independent thinking room through the dialogue pattern of teaching,and thus develop their diverging thoughts and autonomous learning ability.


As is well known, Schoenberg was not only a prominent composer but also a comprehensive theorist who addressed both aesthetic and philosophical issues. In his writings, one can find unambiguous yet not always consistent positions relating to the meaning and purpose of art, as well as definitions for terms such as artistic form, musical logic, unity and more. Closely related to this are Schoenberg's deliberations on the historical development of Western Music and, in this context, the status of several specific composers, including himself. Schoenberg, who began to deal in his earliest writings with the historical evolution of music and its significance for the work of contemporary composers, continued to explore these issues throughout his career, leaving no doubt as to the significance of categories of historical change as a vital part of his musical thinking. This paper deals with Schoenberg's notion of progress in music. The focus is on the intellectual sources of this notion in nineteenth-century discourses and its role as ideological construct in early twentieth-century musical thinking. My concern is not whether Schoenberg was indeed a progressive composer according to some historical-stylistic criteria, but rather the extent to which the notion of progress informs his work and its reception. Schoenberg's best-known ideas on the development of music are probably those having to do with the expansion of chromaticism during the nineteenth century and the "emancipation of the dissonance" in the twentieth. In his Harmonielehre of 1911, he presented the view that consonance and dissonance do not constitute contradictory qualities, as had been thought by many generations of theorists, but rather different gradations on a continuum of "comprehensibility." The dissonances are not essentially different from the consonant intervals, except for being at a further distance in the series of overtones and therefore more difficult to grasp. Consequently, they required special care and were later to evolve as independent sonorities. Though Schoenberg presented this hypothesis during the period of his first experiments with non-traditional harmonies, its implications for his later compositional developments did not elude the eyes of scholars. William Thomson went so far as to propose that Schoenberg's argument in favor of the "emancipation of the dissonance" as an inevitable development was nothing but a strategy of public relations, an act of defense aiming to avoid legitimate judgment of his atonal works on the basis of their aesthetic merit.


In what follows we prove that a finite graph of n nodes in which each node has degree ≥ 1 but ≤ possesses a set of at least n/(1 + ) pairwise disjoint edges. Our principal theorem states an analogue of this result for the case when each node has degree ≥2: we show that in this case the graph possesses a set of at least 2n/(2 + max(4, )) mutually disjoint edges.


Effect of shading on biomass allocation and chlorophyll content in leaf of Triticum aestivum L. at different developmental stages was researched using T. aestivum 'Yangmai 12' as experimental material. The results show that from jointing stage to ripe stage,the dry weight of above-ground and under-ground parts,whole plant of T. aestivum 'Yangmai 12' increases under different shading conditions (control:natural light with 100% available light; T1:available light about 80%; T2:available light about 60%; T3:available light about 20%) with developmental stage postponing. The dry weight of above-ground and under-ground parts under shading conditions is lower than that under control with different degrees. The effect of shading on dry weight of above-ground part is stronger than that on dry weight of under-ground part,and root/shoot ratio increases with shading degree increasing. From flowering stage,root/shoot ratio of 'Yangmai 12' in T3 treatment group at each developmental stage is all the biggest and that in control is the smallest. Allometric growth relationship of above-ground and under-ground parts of 'Yangmai 12' is a simple linear allometric model,and allometric growth of 'Yangmai 12' decreases after shading. According to allometric growth of above-ground and under-ground parts from big to small,the order is control,T1,T2,T3,successively. From heading stage to milky stage,contents of chla,chlb and chla+chlb in 'Yangmai 12' leaf in control and three treatment groups all are the highest at filling or milky stages. Different shading treatments have different effects on contents of chla,chlb and chla+chlb in 'Yangmai 12' leaf at different developmental stages,and with shading degree increasing,chla/chlb ratio in shading conditions is lower than that in control with different degrees.


The classical Bj\"orling problem is to find the minimal surface containing a given real analytic curve with tangent planes prescribed along the curve. We consider the generalization of this problem to non-minimal constant mean curvature (CMC) surfaces, and show that it can be solved via the loop group formulation for such surfaces. The main result gives a way to compute the holomorphic potential for the solution directly from the Bj\"orling data, using only elementary differentiation, integration and holomorphic extensions of real analytic functions. Combined with an Iwasawa decomposition of the loop group, this gives the solution, in analogue to Schwarz's formula for the minimal case. Some preliminary examples of applications to the construction of CMC surfaces with special properties are given.


The growing push for open data resulted in an abundance of data for coastal researchers, which can lead to problems for individual researchers related to data discoverability. One solution is to explicitly develop services for coastal researchers to help curate data for discovery, hosting discussions around reuse, community building, and finding collaborators. To develop the idea of a coastal data curation service, we investigate aspects of the UNESCO International Coastal Atlas Network member sites that could be used to build a curation service. We develop a minimal example of a coastal data curation service, deploy this as a website, and describe the next steps to move beyond the prototype phase. We envision a coastal data curation service as a way to cultivate a community focused on coastal data discovery and reuse.


Accurate prediction of available power in battery packs is crucial for managing performance in automotive and grid storage applications. A battery pack is composed of many cells, which have inherent cell-to-cell variation. This not only complicates the power estimation problem, but also adds complexity in ensuring that all cells remain in a safe operating regime. This paper presents a methodology to estimate the state of power (SOP) of a battery pack, composed of series connected heterogeneous cells. The presented SOP framework combines an interval prediction algorithm, with a modified reference governor. The concept of interval prediction accounts for cell-to-cell variability by predicting bounds that enclose all the states of all the cells at any given time. The proposed algorithm accurately predicts pack power without fixating on any individual cell. This makes the presented methodology computationally efficient and scalable to any number of heterogeneous cells.


Objective To study the effect of early intervention (enzyme inducer) on bilirubin contents and brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEP) in high risk infants. Methods Eighty six high risk infants were randomly assigned to the treated group (Group Ⅲ) and untreated group (Group Ⅱ). Thirty seven normal neonates were used as the control group (Group Ⅰ). Group Ⅲ neonates were given phenobarbital and nikethamide at 24 h of birth. The total bilirubin contents were assayed in Group Ⅱ and Group Ⅲ. The BAEP was tested in the 3 groups. Results ① The mean total bilirubin content of Group Ⅱ [( 249.0 ± 75.2 ) μmol/L] was much higher than that of Group Ⅲ [( 181.0 ± 54.1 ) μmol/L] at 96 h of birth (t= 4.829 ,P 0.01 ), and at 144 h the differences were even more significant [( 308.0 ± 93.1 ) μmol/L vs ( 146.0 ± 52.7 ) μmol/L](t= 9.985 ,P 0.01 ). ② The incidence rate of abnormal BAEP was 69.1% in Group Ⅱ and 18.2% in Group Ⅲ. There was significant difference between the two groups (χ 2= 22.68 ,P 0.01 ). Conclusions Early intervention using liver enzyme inducer may reduce bilirubin contents and the rate of abnormal BAEP in high risk infants.


Artificial criteria included in speech evaluation forms in the basic communication classroom to assess students' communication competencies fail to reflect what is known about communication as a transaction and about communication competence. Communication competence is most commonly defined from the action perspective which focuses on the performance of specific communication skills. The reaction approach focuses on the perceptions of the listener who makes the ultimate judgment of competence. Whether viewed as a property of the speaker or a characteristic of the listener, the action and reaction approaches lead to inappropriate and/or incomplete criteria for evaluating competence. The transactional approach, however, changes the focus to the creation of shared meaning. If communication is transactional, then communication competence is also mutually created. S. Morreale's "Competent Speaker Speech Evaluation Form" is an assessment instrument designed to evaluate/rate observable public speaking skills/behaviors of college students and consists of eight competencies. Criticisms of the evaluation form include: the discriminations needed to determine the levels of competence are not clearly defined; the competencies are based on generalizations from the teacher's point of view to the audience as a whole; and the competencies are culturally narrow. Communication teachers should not proclaim a student competent or incompetent based on a few weeks of lessons and a limited number of performances in an artificial environment. (Contains 40 references.) (RS) *****************************************************************. i** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** COMMUNICATION COMPETENCE: A REACTION TO THE "COMPETENT SPEAKER SPEECH EVALUATION FORM" Lawrence W. Hugcnberg, Youngstown State University


In this study, profiles of temperature and humidity (<250 cm above the road and 5 m into the surroundings) have been used to examine the development of temperature differences in the air layer close to the road. Temperature, humidity and wind profiles were measured, together with net radiation and observations of road surface state, at a test site at Road 45, Surte, Sweden. Measured temperature differences were compared with present weather, preceding weather, surface status, wind direction and other parameters thought to be important for the development of temperature differences. The results showed that large temperature differences (1–3°C between 250 cm and 10 cm above the road) occurred when there was a high risk of slipperiness caused by hoarfrost, snow or ice on the road. The temperature differences between different levels were associated with the exchange of humidity and temperature between the air layer and the road surface. The 10 cm level reflected the surface processes well. Higher levels were influenced by the surroundings because of turbulence and advection. This study emphasises the need for measurements to be taken at a height and place that reflects the processes at the road surface. Copyright © 2001 Royal Meteorological Society


Synesthetic interfaces—interfaces that enact a sensory substitution by translating information normally accessed through one sense modality into the phenomenal forms associated with another—constitute a fascinating and little-theorized corner of videogame UI design. Frustrating the distinctions laid out in dichotomies of "diegetic" versus "nondiegetic" UI elements, or "ecological" versus "emphatic" elements, synesthetic interfaces have been poorly served by the terminological frameworks that have typically dominated discussions of the functional and fictional status of game UI. This paper examines two employments of synesthetic interfaces—to communicate human perceptual expertise, and to depict the experience of nonhuman organisms—as a way of illuminating aspects of synesthetic interfaces that evade more terminologically rigid approaches.


The broadcast nature of wireless network leads to significant challenges to its information security. Recently,artificial noise(AN) is proposed to be injected into the wiretap channel to interfere the eavesdropper for secret communication at the physical-layer. In this paper,we investigate the necessary condition for this AN-aided scheme to ensure communication security,and further propose an effective wiretap algorithm to counteract such a security scheme. When the eavesdropper equips more antennas than the transmitter,it is able to cancel artificial interference and extract the secret information by complex-valued independent component analysis(ICA). Numerical simulation results verify that our proposed algorithm can defeat the AN-aided security scheme and implement eavesdropping effectively.


Abstract A 72-year-old female was found to have symptomatic hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy associated with significant aortic stenosis. She was found to have severe left ventricular outflow tract obstruction, asymmetric septal hypertrophy, significant systolic anterior motion of the anterior mitral valve leaflet, and mitral regurgitation. She was also found to have moderate aortic stenosis that made the obstruction even worse which made the patient progressively symptomatic not responding to medical therapy. She eventually underwent cardiac surgery in form of left ventricular septal myomectomy and bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement (tissue AVR) with a size 23 tissue valve, aortic root enlargement with bovine pericardial patch. She is currently stable on optimal medical therapy, feels much better and stable cardiac-wise with much better quality of life.


Particulate absorption, particle size distributions and HPLC-derived
pigments were used in combination with particle scattering
models to examine the optical properties of natural algal assemblages
in the southern Benguela. Inverse anomalous diffraction
(IAD) models were used to derive the real and imaginary parts of the
mean spherical equivalent particulate refractive index from absorption
and particle size measurements. Such data were utilized with
an homogeneous sphere Mie model to calculate particulate backscattering
coefficients. The influence of natural particle size distributions
on the ability of the IAD model to return unique refractive
index values was assessed. Measured absorption and modelled
backscattering coefficients, in addition to derived optical efficiency
factors, were examined with regard to the influence of size, refractive
index parameters and the variability of algal assemblages in
the southern Benguela. The real part of the refractive index, as
determined by the IAD model, was demonstrated to be a useful
descriptor of algal assemblage structure. Significant non-linear
relationships were established between the algal backscattering:
absorption ratio and the real part of the particulate refractive index,
indicating the potential to calculate the real part of the particulate
refractive index from ocean colour data.


As cancer treatments are developed, cancer survivors are increasing very rapidly. It is assumed that there are now more than 1,000,000 cancer survivors in Korea. Cancer survivor was historically defined as someone who had remained disease-free for 5 years, but the definition has been changed to a person who had experienced cancer from diagnosis. This transition reflects the necessity for long-term care planning as life years beyond cancer diagnosis gets longer. Cancer survivors are newly-appeared patient population who need comprehensive care. They are vulnerable to second-primary cancers, have to be educated for healthy behaviors, and have many comorbidities and psychosocial problems. For the comprehensive approach to cancer survivorship, 'Shared care model' has been suggested, and it has been applied to some hospitals in Korea. In this model, oncologists and primary-care physicians care cancer survivors together since cancer diagnosis. During active cancer treatment, the oncologist takes main role for care but the primary-care physician maintains the routine health care. And after active cancer treatment, primary-care physician assumes more responsibility for survivorship care. The oncologist and the primary-care physician have regular communication for effective care. Based on this model, the cancer survivorship is expected to be improved.


Coming right after the launch of the ESEO spacecraft, uHETsat will be the second mission based on the use of SITAEL S-50/75 microsatellite platform for IOV/IOD purposes. In this case the subject of the In Orbit Validation will be SITAEL HT100 Hall Effect Thruster (HET) -one of the smallest of its kind-that for the first time will be embarked and operated onboard a small platform. Starting from its predecessor, the spacecraft has undergone a series of updates and upgrades necessary to comply with the new set of mission requirements. Although some of the AODCS equipment has changed compared to ESEO [1], most of the efforts in the adaptation of the Power System (PS) were spent to handle the power required by the propulsion subsystem for its proper functioning. The PS re-design included a new set of deployable Solar Arrays (SA), a revised Power Management Board (PMB) and Power Distribution Unit (PDU), and a larger battery that will allow the mission to accomplish its goals: 2000 ignitions and 1000 hours of firing for the propulsion subsystem. Main objectives for this re-design activity have been the improvement of the overall reliability through a meticulous review of the components selection, at the same time preserving the single failure tolerance and the low cost approach (hybrid automatic-manual) in terms of manufacturing. The uHETsat PS is currently being accepted for flight and all its components have been tested as EQM showing the capability of the system to support both platform and payload operations. After a brief overview of the uHETsat mission, the focus will be moved to the PS architecture description, redundancies strategy and the single point failure free design approach.


OBJECTIVE:To provide reference for the management of narcotic drugs and psychotropic drugs Ⅰ in medical institutions.METHODS:The on-site inspection of Fuzhou medical institution was carried out in respect of management system,event record,personnel qualification,training record,specific prescription,management tablet,storage condition and safety measure.The analysis of data and information was also carried out.RESULTS:There were some problems in some medical institutions,such as inadequate implementation of regulations,loose management organization,bad safety consciousness,non-standard prescription.CONCLUSIONS:Medical institutions should strengthen the implementation of regulations,establish and improve the management organization,enhance safety measure and personnel training,simplify management procedures,play the advantage of computers management.


A Study on the Relationships among Elementary School Principal's Positive Leadership, School's Organizational Health and Teacher Efficacy:Taoyuan County as an Example Abstract This study is aimed to explore the relationships among elementary school principals positive leadership, school's organizational health and teacher efficacy: Taoyuan County as an example. The approach adopted questionnaires and using stratified random sampling to investigate 1036 samples that include teachers from 112 schools. Collecting data were analyzed by the statistical methods of descriptive statistics, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation, canonical correlation, and SEM and cluster analysis. In order to strengthen the research, selecting eight people to interview. The conclusions are as follows: 1.The principals positive leadership, schools' organizational health and teacher efficacy perceived by the teachers from elementary schools in Taoyuan County are all significantly above theoretical average. 2.Teachers with different background variables have significantly different perception in principal's positive leadership, school's organizational health and teacher efficacy. 3.There is a positive correlation between every two variables of principal's positive leadership, school's organizational health and teacher efficacy. 4.Principal's positive leadership, school's organizational health has the significant prediction toward teacher efficacy. 5.School's organizational health is a moderate variable between principal's positive leadership and teacher efficacy. 6.In Taoyuan County, every county city, township and town presents in different groups in this research with fore variable scores.