Methods: This was a controlled, prospective, multicentre, cohort study. Thirty patients with advanced colorectal cancer were enrolled into this study. Bevacizumab was applied with oxaliplatin-, irinotecan-, 5FU- or capecitabine -based chemotherapy in the first-, second- or third-therapy lines. Totally 261 cycles were applied. The median number of applied cycles per patient was 8 (range 2-16). Results: Objective tumor response (RR) was seen in 11 patients 37% (95%CI 19-69%) calculated on an intention-to-treat basis. The median duration of response was 12 months. Three of 11 patients (27%) with PR had secondary surgery. RR was seen in 9 of 16 patients (56%) who received bevacizumab in the first-line treatment and in 2 of 14 patients (14%) who received therapy in the second+ lines (p=0.02). Clinical benefit (PR+SD) was seen in 22 (74%) patients. 75% of patients achieved clinical benefit in the first-line and 74% in the second+ chemotherapy lines. The median time to progression (TTP) of the patients is was 9 + months (95%CI 7 - + ∞) at the moment of this analysis. The median TTP of patients who received bevacizumab in the first line was 11 months (95%CI 8 - + ∞). The median TTP of patients who received bevacizumab in the second+ lines was 5.5 months (95%CI 4 - + ∞) (p=0.015). The median survival time (OS) for all patients was 9 + months (95%CI 7 - + ∞). The median OS at the moment of analysis was 11 months (95%CI 9 - + ∞) for patients receiving bevaci- zumab in the first line, and 7 months for patients receiving the drug in the second+ lines (95%CI 6 - + ∞) (p=0.024). The incidence of any toxicity grade 3-4 was less than 10%. Bevacizumab associated incidence of grade 3-4 side effects did not exceed 5%. Hypertension 5% and thromboembolism 5% were the most frequent events. Gastrointestinal perforation did not occur. There was one toxic death due to sepsis and not directly associated with bevacizumab toxicity. Conclusion: Bevacizumab can safely be added to different chemotherapeutic regimens in first- and second+ line. The con- ferred benefit in overall survival, TTP and response rate obviously requires randomized trials.


Citation: Grieco-Page H, Black CJ, Berent JM, Gautam B and Betancourt TS (2021) Beyond the Pandemic: Leveraging Rapid Expansions in U.S. Telemental Health and Digital Platforms to Address Disparities and Resolve the Digital Divide. Front. Psychiatry 12:671502. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.671502 Beyond the Pandemic: Leveraging Rapid Expansions in U.S. Telemental Health and Digital Platforms to Address Disparities and Resolve the Digital Divide


Abstract Background Esophageal perforation is a rare and life-threatening condition with several treatment options. The aim was to assess the incidence, type of treatment and mortality of esophageal perforations in Sweden and to identify risk factors for 90-day mortality. Method All patients admitted with an esophageal perforation from 2007 to 2017 were identified from the National Patient Register. Mortality was assessed by linkage with the Cause of Death Registry. We analyze the incidence and the impact of age, sex, comorbidities on mortality. Results 879 patients with esophageal perforation were identified, giving an incidence rate of 1.09 per 100,000 person-years. The median age at diagnosis was 68.8 years and 60% were men. The mortality was 26% at 90 days. Independent risk factors for death within 90 days were age (odds ratio (OR): 6.20; 95% (confidence interval) CI: 2.16–17.79 at 60–74 years and OR: 11.58; 95% CI: 4.04–33.15 at 75 years or older), peripheral vascular disease (OR: 2.92; 95% CI: 1.44–5.92) and underlying malignant disease (OR: 5.91; 95% CI: 3.86–9.03). In patients younger than 45 years, survival was lower among women than among men (at 5 years 73 and 93%, respectively). The cause of death among young women was often drug-related or suicide. Conclusions 90-day mortality was 26%, old age, vascular disease and underlying malignant disease were risk factors.


This article described the common faults of belt conveyors,which were found in the application,investigated and analyzed the common faults of the conveyors used in a mine in Shanxi province according to the production record.The reasons for conveyor belt running deviation were analyzed in detail.A fault diagnosis method based on PCA and SVM for belt running deviation was proposed by collection and analysis of the position,frequentness and quantity of running deviation of ncharacteristic points on the belt conveyor.By using SVM to classify the fault,the running deviation fault of belt conveyor could be immediately identified.The method is simple and convenient,and it has guiding significance to prevent,diagnose and deal with the fault of the transfer line.


Photoelectron spectra of single crystals of eight aromatic compounds were measured at several UV wavelengths. Useful results were obtained when sample charging was eliminated by inducing photoconduction through subsidiary illumination of the sample crystal with low energy light, and/or by a vapor‐deposited gold grid on the sample surface. The threshold ionization potential obtained for a single crystal was found always to be lower than that for the corresponding polycrystalline film.


Paydirt recently accompanied the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia on a media tour of the Pilbara region. The expedition to WA's leading mining hub included site visits to Rio Tinto Ltd's Cape Lambert iron ore operation and Yara Pilbara's burgeoning technical ammonium nitrate plant, as well as stops at Woodside Petroleum Ltd's North West Shelf gas project, the world-class Port Hedland Port -specifically Fortescue Metals Group Ltd's port operations - and a flyover of Chevron Corp's budding Gorgon project. The tour also featured visits to the ever-evolving Karratha township and fast-developing Wickham mining community. Designed to offer the mining media a better insight of the region's development and many projects propping up the Australian economy, the three-day tour also highlighted companies' efforts to provide a better standard of living to staff while navigating the travails of a rollercoaster market, in which iron ore prices have plummeted and investment dollars dried up.


This paper discusses the professional role of social workers in the new Norwegian Nav system. The Nav reform merged the state social insurance office, the state employment office and components of municipal social services. The aim is to include clients in the work force by making the services more holistic and efficient. The paper presents a discussion of the introduction of the 'Nav reform', drawing on a qualitative multi-method study. The material sheds light on a social worker's role under pressure to work in a more standardised and 'simplified' way. Social workers at the Nav offices must adjust to expectations that require a general, basic and common competence for all employees, as one type of comprehensive, but simplified and non-specialised, approach. The study describes the dilemma of how to combine one-stop service and specialist principles. The paper attempts to criticise 'the flexible system' related to Whole of Government perspectives and one-stop service principles as a generalist 'light' approach, as opposed to the generalist approach in social work. The findings provide a basis for raising questions about the development of the social worker's role in light of the post-New Public Management (NPM) reforms and the potential threat to the professional basis of social work.


constructed with an initial capacity of 5 mgd and is designed for future expansion in increments of 5 mgd to an ultimate capacity of 20 mgd. The plant is designed to operate as an unattended station with control of distribution pumps from the present plant and the utilization of telemetered signals to the present plant to indicate operation and flows. The water supply comes from three wells in the Stiefel Well Field located


Axial compression short column with round cross-section is reinforced by enlarging cross-section method,for it is short of bearing capacity.In order to study the destruction limits and the bearing capability of normal cross-section of reinforced column,the radical stress of the reinforced column is obtained through the iterative numerical solution,according to the force balance of concrete at the junction of old concrete and new concrete.The vertical compressive strength of old concrete is calculated by tri-axial stress;the compressive strength of new concrete is calculated by pulling in ring and pressing in longitude.When pulling-strain of the new enclosed concrete reaches the strain limits,the new concrete rips;meanwhile,the strengthened column reaches the destruction limits.


Abstract : This research aimed to produce and describe the process and the result of the development of Mathematics learning set in English, based on the multiple intelligences theory on topic of cuboid and cube. This research was conducted in seventh grade of SMPN 1 Ngadirojo, SMP N 3 Ngadirojo, and SMPN 2 Ngadirojo that each of those has 32 students. This research was developmental study, i.e. the development of learning set based on the multiple intelligences theory as mentioned above. The development model that's used refers to the Tjeerd Plomp one. Based on the conducted research, there were some conclusions as the followings (1) The process of the development of Mathematics learning set in English, based on the multiple intelligence theory: (a) The initial investigation phase obtained supporting theories for learning set development such as multiple intelligence theory by Gardner, Armstrong, and Bellanca, 2013 curriculum investigation that mandates to involve the multiple intelligences in Mathematics learning, students' condition investigation that have various dominant intelligent. (b) The design phase obtained the developed learning set, i.e. lesson plan, student text book, student work sheet, and assessment sheet arranged in English, research instrument plan that consists of learning equipment validation sheet, observation sheet of learning implementation, observation sheet of students' multiple intelligences involvement activity, and students' response questionnaire. (c) On the realization phase, it's arranged the learning set and research instrument. (d) On the test, evaluation, and revision phase, the learning set and limited trial were validated. (2) The result of development of Mathematics learning set in English, based on multiple intelligences theory: (a) The validity of learning set on lesson plan was 3.96, student text book 3.72, student work sheet 4.02, and assessment sheet 3.86. (b) The developed learning set could be used with a little revision and the average of learning implementation was 4.22. (c) This developed learning set could be said that it has been effective because the students' multiple intelligences involvement activity reached 89,46% and the students' responses were positive. Although the classical thoroughness was not achieved because only 35.42% of students met the minimal achievement criteria. Keywords : Mathematics Learning Set in English Based, Multiple  Intelligences, cube and  cuboid.


Mobile Banking (M-Banking) is an application of Information Communication and Technology and banking area to improve the service in term of rapidness, security, and simplicity.Many of banking companies have been run this technology to improve their performance to assist customers. The paper aims to discover how the Generation Y's behavior in using M-Banking for various banking purposes. Theory of Planned Behavior was applied as the underpinning theory and model to explain the attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control towards the behavioral intention. A total of 300 citizens from Medan, Indonesia with different age range, occupation, and education level were selected as the respondent and Multiple Regression Analysis is employed as the data technique analysis. The result pointed out that all of the independent variables are influencing the dependent variable. Attitude is the most dominant factor in impacting the behavioral intention. As the conclusion, the study claimed that Theory of Planned Behavior is the proper theory to explain the behavioral intention in using M-Banking.


The Code of Practice for General Structural Design and Design Loadings for Buildings (NZS 4203) contains information on the maximum three-second gust speeds with return periods of 5, 25 and 50 years.


Summary An extensive Russian manuscript containing the iconographer's manual (The Royal Library, Stockholm, Acc. No. 1975–116) presents on 502 pages more than 1400 descriptions of saints along with a great number of motives connected to the church feasts. According to linguistic features, orthography, watermarks and content it was written about 1831 in Northern Russia, probably near Tikhvin. The present article contains a short paleographic description of the manuscript and an analysis of its age and geographic attachment. Such manuals including the textual description of the motives are called iconographer's manuals or iconographie guides in literature. The second type of the manuals, the one with patterns, or figures, is also called iconographie guide, or figurative iconographic patternbook, or podlinnik in Russian. However, in the Russian tradition podlinnik means any kind of manual, with textual description or with patterns. The most clear terminology is to use the term iconographer's manual on both t...


Nicos Poulantzas was a Greek Marxist who worked in Paris until his death in 1979 at the age of 43. With the English publication of Political Power and Social Classes in 1973, he became an instant superstar in the world of Western Marxism. Four other books followed quickly, securing his reputation as a major contributor to the radical industry of the 1970s, the development of a Marxist theory of the state. State, Power, Socialism is a series of essays meant to be read as Poulantzas's ruminations on contemporary Marxist writings on the state and power and on the strategies for achieving democratic socialism in the West. The author himself says in the preface, "The text . . . has no systematic order" (p. 7), and this is certainly true. But one can cull an underlying argument from among the pages: the state apparatus within capitalism is organized so as to perpetuate bourgeois dominance and, more importantly, capitalist relations of production (that is, the social organization of labor); thus, the state apparatus itself has to be transformed before socialism is possible. He reaches this conclusion through a critique of contemporary Marxist theorists, an analysis of what he calls "authoritarian statism" and of the decline of democracy that accompanies administrative centralization, and an elaboration of the pitfalls along the route to democratic socialism. His aim is to debunk Michel Foucault, the nouvelles philosophes, the German derivationists, Western European Communist party leaders, and others who he believes misguide the socialist movement. Towards this end he criticizes the argument that all liberal democratic states are fascist, attacks the traditional base/superstructure distinction, and describes a more conflictual and heterogeneous state structure than most Marxists admit. Some of Poulantzas's normative arguments are remarkably close to those of American political scientists of the 1960s and early 1970s writing about democracy. Poulantzas is not to be tempted by the "dictatorship of the proletariat" or some other mechanism for the continued rule of technocrats, experts, and elitists. Indeed, his vision of democracy is entirely consistent with that of Robert Dahl in Polyarchy and After the Revolution. Both the European Marxist and the American pluralist seek the institutionalization of self-management side by side with procedural protections of the right to participate in governance. Where they differ is over their evaluations of the current system and over strategies for the achievement of democracy. Dahl believes the liberal democratic states are democratic; Poulantzas does not. Dahl abjures violence; Poulantzas regards it as necessary for the transformation of the state. For Poulantzas's claims to be convincing, he would have to demonstrate the superiority of his approach to all others. But Poulantzas fails to do any such thing. He never directly addresses Dahl or other "bourgeois" theorists. Rather, he engages in endless, arcane debate with all the Marxists he has read, many of whom are trivial and minor writers unknown even to those, including myself, familiar with all the important (and even some not so important) Marxist writers. To make matters worse, he devises his own language filled with such inaccessible phrases as "the institutional materiality of the state," "power bloc," and "the condensation of a relationship of forces." Moreover, Poulantzas refuses to abide by the canons of normal social science. His decision to use footnotes only in the rarest of cases and then to cite a person's name without reference to the relevant article or book makes State, Power, and Socialism comprehensible to only the tiniest of audiences. The fact that his claims are seldom articulated as hypotheses or supported by concrete evidence makes his insights difficult to use. As a consequence of these flaws, which mark his last book as severely (if not more severely) than his earlier work, the intelligence of Nicos Poulantzas remains obscured. His contribution to social science rests more in his role as a leader in the revival of Marxist political analysis than as a theorist of the state, power, or socialism.


After the train injury, such as the commuter train derailment in New York that occurred in December 2013 the past, there is an argument that attempts to apply the seat belt also train as automobiles and airplanes always. There is also opinion to counter this, the seat belt would not have been helpful to ensure the safety of the train for the physical characteristics train has. US FRA 2002 years , to see the effect of the seat belt through the collision experiments of the actual train, In UK RSSB 2007 year to check the effectiveness of the seat belt by using the human body model and trains the model of actual size and analyzed past major accidents. We discuss the application effect of the seat belt in the car through the analysis of case studies overseas.


This paper considers a two-level and a dual-channel supply chain, where a manufacturer sells products through both her own online channel and a traditional retail channel. Both them provide customers with some pre-sales services by brick store and online consulting, which have positive impact on the market demand and lead to bi-direction free-riding.in order to improving supply chain performance, we investigate the coordination of the retailer channel and online channel by revenue-sharing contract. Our study presents the following findings. (i) Under the non-differential pricing scenario, retailer do not exist the optimal free-riding level, however the manufacturer have always the optimal free-riding level. The results are just reversed our intuition. (ii) Under each of the two pricing scenarios, the revenue-sharing contract can effectively stimulate the retailer to improve his service level while free riding occurred. (iii) Even if under the revenue-sharing contract, free riding has always a negative effect on the retailer's profit.


The article deals with the features of vocational guidance work of the leaders of the united territorial communities aimed at selecting the youth of the pedagogical profession (on the example of Bila Tserkva Village and Semyonovskaya settlement HTE), developed advice and recommendations to local self-government bodies in order to stimulate the work of the leaders. The need was identified: the leaders of the united territorial communities Poltava region take into account the feedback and comments of schoolchildren, their parents and teachers in the organization of vocational guidance directed at you a pedagogical profession. The Department of Education and Science of the Poltava Regional State Administration to intensify vocational guidance work aimed at the young people in the pedagogical profession. On the basis of the united territorial community, to create a pedagogical circle "Everything starts with a teacher" that will help to reveal the pupil's pedagogical potential, namely, will enable pupils to show themselves in organizing thematic events, conducting lessons with junior pupils and directing the choice of a teacher's profession, and so on.


"P. Rabbitt, "Introduction. "K.J. Anstey, K. Dear, H. Christensen, A.F. Jorm, "Biomarkers, Health, Lifestyle and Demographic Variables as Correlates of Reaction Time Performance in Early, Middle and Late Adulthood. "S.L. McCoy, P.A. Tun, L. Clarke Cox, M. Colangelo, R.A. Stewart, A. Wingfield, "Hearing Loss and Perceptual Effort: Downstream Effects on Older Adults' Memory for Speech. "H.J. Haarmann, G.E. Ashling, E.J. Davelaar, M. Usher, "Age-related Declines in Context Maintenance and Semantic Short-term Memory. "P.G. Rendell, A.D. Castel, F.I.M. Craik, "Memory for Proper Names in Old Age: A Disproportionate Impairment? "W.L. Whiting, D.J. Madden, T.W. Pierce, P.A. Allen, "Searching from the Top Down: Aging and Attentional Guidance during Singleton Detection. "G. Ward, E.A. Maylor, "Age-related Deficits in Free Recall: The Role of Rehearsal. "S. Kim, L. Hasher, "The Attraction Effect in Decision Making: Superior Performance by Older Adults. "P.Verhaeghen, C. Basak, "Aging and Switching of the Focus of Attention in Working Memory: Results from a Modified N-Back test. "D. Bunce, A. Macready, "Processing Speed, Executive Function, and Age Differences in Remembering and Knowing. "T. Hedden, G. Lautenschlager, D.C. Park, "Contributions of Processing Ability and Knowledge to Verbal Memory Tasks across the Adult Lifespan.


1. Photic driving of the EEG and the average evoked response to photicstimulation were studied on 42 normal subjects between the ages of 17 and57. Photic stimulation was applied during the period of suppressed EEG, while the subjects kept their eyes open.2. Marked photic driving was observed in 15 subjects (35.7%). The frequencyresponse curve, showed two types of response pattern. The one was "sum-mation type" which showed the maximum amplitude at the stimulus frequencyof 7-8c/sec. The other was "non-summation type" which showed a gradualdecrease in parallel with frequency increase.3. The frequency response of the average evoked response produced thesame course of events as that of photic driving.4. The negative component of the evoked response with the peak latencyof 170 msec showed maximal percent recovery at 120-190 msec. interval ofpaired stimuli.5. It was suggested that the most indispensable component of the evokedresponse was VII, one of the secondary response, for the generation of photicdriving in the eye-opened state.


Nanochromis wickleri, a new cichlid species from Lake Mai Ndombe in the central Congo basin, is described. The large, deep-bodied species differs from all congeners in the possession of an elevated soft dorsal fin ray count (10–11 vs. 5–8) and by the presence, in adults, of strongly produced membranous fin lappets on the second and third dorsal fin spines. Pending comprehensive phylogenetic analysis Nanochromis wickleri is tentatively placed within a morphologically diagnosable subclade of Nanochromis, herein named the "nudiceps group".


We use cognitive economics tools, never mentioned before in Information systems studies, to provide an economic reinterpretation of case studies about coupling business process reengineering and ERP implementation. We set out its specificities and show the crucial significance of organizational uncertainty and knowledge management. We explain that economic coordination and complex reliability issues in firm strategies can be simulated by experimental economics and exhaustively explained by a simple and general economic model based on bounded rationality


The active impedance of each element in a phased array changes substantially with scan angle due to mutual coupling. Therefore, a key challenge in the design of wide-angle scanning phased array is to achieve wide-angle impedance matching (WAIM). In this communication, an efficient decoupling network is developed to reduce the mutual coupling between adjacent elements for this purpose. A complete scattering matrix analysis of the decoupling network is given and the design procedure is summarized. A 1 × 16 linear microstrip phased array has been designed and fabricated for experimental verification. Good agreement is obtained between measured and simulated results. The measured mutual coupling between adjacent elements is reduced to lower than -35 dB at the center frequency. Due to the reduced mutual coupling, the array can experimentally scan to 66° with a gain reduction of only 3.04 dB.


Seventy-two male Israeli students were exposed to a violent crime in the course of a bogus discussion. Their awareness of other bystanders' lack of reaction to the emergency (social influence) and others' awareness of their actions (evaluation apprehension) were crossed in a 2 X 2 factorial design. An "alone" condition in which the subject was the only bystander controlled for the effects of others' mere presence (diffusion of responsibilit y). Helping was reduced by diffusion of responsibilit y and slowed by negative social influence but was increased by evaluation apprehension. Differences traceable to social influence appeared prior to those from the other processes. Implications of these findings for the measurement of helping and the interpretation of bystander decision making are discussed. The widely decried unresponsiveness of 38 witnesses during the violent murder of Kitty Genovese (Rosenthal, 1964) was the major stimulus to social-psycho logical research on bystander behavior in emergencies. Yet none of this research has confronted subjects with an emergency caused by a violent crime. The victims' need has commonly been generated by impersonally caused accidents (e.g., falling bookcases, Latane & Rodin, 1969), physical illness (e.g., nervous seizures, Darley & Latane, 1968), or nonviolent crimes (e.g., theft, Moriarty, 1975). Bystanders have been exposed to some violence, but only in the form of fighting between children (Latane & Darley, 1970) and between participants in a psychodrama (Borofsky, Stollak, & Messe, 1971).


Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide a ready transistor arrangement with reduced charge. The capacitance and / or the charge of a transistor structure can be reduced by minimizing an overlap of a top gate (120) with respect to a drain (120) of the transistor.


In this note we survey some topics in random walks on countable groups. The main focus is on quantitative estimates for random walk characteristics on amenable groups, in connections to geometric and algebraic properties of the underlying groups.


Abstract Bio-based adhesives have attracted much attention due to its renewable and environment-friendly properties. This study describes a route for the preparation of a new bio-based adhesive from peanut meal. For this purpose, different types of raw materials (hot-pressed peanut meal and cold-pressed peanut meal) were compared. Moreover, the crushing methods and modification agents were investigated in great details. Furthermore, response surface methodology was applied to optimize the preparation conditions of peanut meal adhesive. The apparent viscosity and the Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FITR) of peanut meal adhesives were also evaluated to confirm the validity of the optimal preparation conditions. These results showed that hot-pressed peanut meal is a good candidate for adhesive materials and the addition of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) improves the adhesive bonding strength. In addition, the regression model for the peanut meal adhesive preparation revealed statistical significance. Modification time and material liquid ratio had a significant effect on wet strength while the variables of modification temperature and the addition amount of modifier were insignificant. The optimal preparation conditions were determined as follows: modification temperature of 60 °C, modification time of 3 h, ratio of material to liquid of 1:3 and the addition amount of modifier of 3.2%. The average value of the adhesive bonding strength of 1.05 ± 0.07 MPa was obtained, which is close to the predicted value. Under these conditions, the best wet strength and adhesive performance were achieved for the plywood.


The lycopene content of 44 cultivars and lines of watermelons in center and edge position were determined.The correlation of the lycopene content and flesh color,the soluble solids content were anglicized,in order to provide the basis for quality of watermelon breeding parent matching and high lycopene watermelon breeding.The results showed that red and yellow-fleshed cultivars varied greatly in lycopene content,ranging from 3.687 to 4.039 mg/100gFW in red-fleshed center position,3.473~3.953 mg/100gFW in edge position.Total lycopene content varied from 0.518 to 0.955 mg/100gFW among yellow-fleshed watermelons in center position,from 0.435 to 0.905 mg/100gFW in edge position.The lycopene content in center position had very significant positive correlation with in edge position.Correlation coefficient was 0.987.The lycopene content in center and edge position had very significant positive correlation with the flesh color.Correlation coefficient was 0.8135,0.8044,respectively.The lycopene content in center and edge position had no correlation with the soluble solids content.


We present analytic solutions to the Teukolsky equation for massless perturbations of any spin in the 4-dimensional de Sitter background. The angular part of the equation fixes the separation constant to a discrete set and its solution is given by hypergeometric polynomials. For the radial part, we derive analytic power series solution which is regular at the poles and determine a transcendental function whose zeros give the characteristic values of the wave frequency. We study the existence of explicit polynomial solutions to the radial equation and obtain two classes of singular closed-form solutions, one with discrete wave frequencies and the other with continuous frequency spectra.


Using wireless sensors placed on a person to continuously monitor health information is a promising new application. In developing these sensors, detailed knowledge of the communication channel is essential. However, there are currently very few measurements describing propagation around the body. To address this problem, we have measured electromagnetic waves traveling near the torso to derive a simple pathless law. The pathless law is then extended to include the influence of arm movements and a surrounding office environment. This paper describes our measurement campaign and the basic characteristics of the body area radio channel.


This paper presents two models of multidimensional auctions to improve an international NGO process procurement efficiency by reducing the procurement costs and the decision process time. These modest models have the advantage to be easily implementable. The first one uses combinatorial auctions and is suited for procurement where suppliers can benefit from cost complementarities. The second one uses volume-discount auctions and is suited for volumetric purchases where discounts for large quantities are common. Several design considerations for this type of auction will be reviewed, as well as the mathematical formulation of the winner determination problem which can be solved under Excel.


Abstract The five modes are a list of tools used by ancient sceptics to guide dogmatic people towards suspending their judgement. Attributed to Agrippa (of uncertain date) and used extensively by Sextus Empiricus (2nd or 3rd century CE), these modes are still widely discussed today by epistemologists and specialists in ancient philosophy. Scholars disagree, however, on how to understand the way the five modes are used together and what the logical form of the sceptical strategy behind their deployment is. This paper offers a reconstruction of the system of the five modes that avoids these problems. In specific, unlike previous reconstructions, (a) it includes a non-trivial version of the mode of relativity, (b) avoids committing the sceptic to a normative principle and (c) follows the textual evidence more closely. Moreover, I argue that the system can be better understood as a list of steps in a process, whose underlying logic can be expressed by a single algorithm.


Plant peroxisomes are dynamic organelles involved in a wide range of functions. In the seedlings of oil-rich seeds such as Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), peroxisomes are mainly involved in the breakdown of fatty acids derived via b-oxidation during germination. In leaves, peroxisomes play another major role in photorespiration. Plant peroxisomes are also involved in the production of signaling compounds and hormones such as jasmonic acid and in the conversion of indole-3-butyric acid into indole3-acetic acid. Due to the diversity of plant peroxisome functions, the proteome of the plant peroxisome may be quite different from that of its mammalian or fungal counterparts. The main obstacle to studying the proteomics of plant peroxisomes has been the ability to obtain purified organelles from model plants. The purification of peroxisomes from Arabidopsis has proven to be especially difficult due to the low yield of intact organelles and contamination with other cell organelles. To better elucidate the proteome of Arabidopsis peroxisomes, Eubel et al. (pp. 1809–1829) combined conventional centrifugation-based organelle isolation techniques with freeflow electrophoresis. They also used quantitative proteomics to identify proteins enriched in the peroxisome fractions relative to mitochondrial fractions. They provide evidence for the peroxisomal localization of 89 proteins, 36 of which have not previously been identified in other analyses of Arabidopsis peroxisomes. Chimeric GFP constructs of 35 proteins were used to confirm their localization in peroxisomes or to identify endoplasmic reticulum contaminants. A metabolic mapping approach was adopted to gauge the completeness of this peroxisomal proteome. By focusing on the metabolites representing the substrates, reactants, and products of the network, the authors were able to identify points of contact between the different functional categories of proteins, and also to predict the need for specific transporters in the peroxisomal membrane.


Zika virus is an RNA virus whose infection can have as complications congenital syndrome and Guillain Barre syndrome. As there are other arboviruses that present with fever and rash it is important to have a syndromic approach for testing and laboratory diagnosis. Currently real time RT-PCR and virus isolation are available as standards for confirmatory diagnosis in the early days of infection. The serological tests (ELISA, NP) to determine IgM antibodies have the disadvantage of cross-reactions with other flaviviruses, though they may be used in certain circumstances where it is not possible to have RT-PCR and a proper interpretation.


At one time or another we have been inpatients, outpatients or visitors to loved ones whether on joyous or sad occasions. I personally can recall my early days as a child in the childrens ward, and in 1977 the loss of my dear mother in the Coronary Care Unit. At any time we can remember the quieter, more private times when the rooms held no more than two beds. With the addition in the I 970's the feeling in the wards were similar to being stabled in a barn, losing the homely effect of hospitalisation. Let us tum back the clock when the expansion program began at Wollongong Hospital eventually leading to the construction of the new Hickman House opened in 1951.


Two peaks are observed in tan delta against frequency isothermals in cobalt doped potassium chloride crystals in the temperature range 100 degrees C to 200 degrees C and frequency range 102 Hz to 105 Hz. The low and high frequency peaks have been labelled as A and B, respectively. The logarithm of peak frequencies plotted against 1/T gave straight lines for both the peaks. The values of the activation energy calculated from the slope of the straight lines are 0.83+or-0.06 eV and 0.85+or-0.06 eV for the A and B peaks respectively. None of the A and B peaks were found to be due to Maxwell-Wagner losses or interfacial polarization.


This paper expounds the significance of the rope creep protection, introduces the traditional method for realizing the rope creep protection, analyzes the problems existing in the rope creep protection by using the position switch, and puts forward some methods for realizing the rope creep protection of the winch by using the counting/comparing function of the PLC.


The effect of 5 carbon sources and 5 nitrogen sources on the mycelium growth of New-831 in Pleurotus ostreatus was studied.The results showed that the different C-sources and N-sources had remarkable effects on mycelium growth rate and growth vigor of the P.ostreatus,also there was a greater difference in the ability of assimilating the different carbon and nitrogen sources.The experiment revealed that the optimum carbon sources were glucose,starch and CMCNa,the sucrose took second place and the maltose was the worst;The optimum nitrogen sources were yeast powder and peptone,the(NH4)2SO4 was secondary,NaNO3 was relatively poorer and the urea was the worst.


This paper examines the U.S. Department of Defense's (DOD) support for the business of Hollywood and Hollywood's engineering of public support for war in the 1950s and up until the late 1960s. After a brief discussion of the post-WWII consolidation of a DOD-Hollywood complex, it examines a series of war films that resulted from the DOD-Hollywood complex in the 1950s and 1960s. It explains why Hollywood studios supported the DOD's efforts to influence war films, considers the consequences of this influencing and discusses how the concept of the DOD-Hollywood complex enables a critical study of the DOD as an inadvertent yet influential film policy agency. The paper explains the existence of Hollywood war film commodities in the 50s and 60s with reference to a structural and ideological symbiosis of the U.S. state's geopolitical goals and Hollywood's profit interests. In this respect, it forwards a geopolitical-economic analysis of the DOD-Hollywood complex's war films.


Compliant gas foil bearings are composed of two layers of thin metallic foil and a thin film of gas to support the journal. The bottom foil creates an elastic structure which supports the top foil. This support structure can take a variety of shapes that range from a series of bumps around the circumference to a series of overlapping leaves. The top foil and the rotation of the rotor create a wedge of air that supports the rotor. The complaint foil structure deforms in response to the pressure developed within the gas film. These bearings have several advantages over conventional fluid film bearings. These advantages include reduced weight due to the elimination of the oil system, stable operation at higher speeds and temperatures, low power loss at high speeds and long life with little maintenance. Some disadvantages of gas foil bearings are low load capacities at low speed and modest stiffness and damping values. Due to these properties, compliant gas foil bearings are commonly used in specialized applications such as compressors for aircraft pressurization, engines for turboshaft propulsion, air cycle machines, turboexpanders, and small micro turbines. The ability to predict the behavior of these bearings and design them to meet the needs of the application is invaluable to the design process. This behavior can include things such as bearing stiffness, damping, and load capacity. Currently most foil bearing analysis tools involve some sort of coupling between hydrodynamics and structural analyses. These analysis tools can often have convergence issues and can require the use of empirically derived characteristics. This paper reviews the current status of the compliant gas foil bearings research, focusing mainly on the journal bump-type gas foil bearings and the development of the analysis tools for these bearings. This paper contributes to the field by making recommendations of the future developments of the analytical tools of journal bump-type gas foil bearings.Copyright © 2015 by ASME


Objective To understand the application of antibiotics in our hospital's and improve the level of clinical rational application of antibiotics. Methods Snap check 180 archive records of 3rd quarter, and analysis the examples of irrational use of antibiotics. Results Antimicrobial agents usage was 67.36%; Low pathogenic submission rate, and most medicine applied based on experience. There was premature delivery before operation and prolonged prophylaxis after operation. There were many problems including higher starting dosage, larger amount, longer time drug application and replacement is not timely. Conclusions Antimicrobial drug application was more widespread, while lacking the susceptibility test basis during the process. And it need to be further improved.


Slavery was not the most important issue for which George Washington is remembered; nor were his views on the institution as revealing as those of some of his fellow Founding Fathers. But Washington was a slaveowner for all of his adult life and he lived in Virginia, which was dominated by tobacco plantations based on slave labour. Slavery was central to the socio-economic life of the Old Dominion: after 1750 40 per cent of the North American slave population lived there and the first United States census of 1790 showed 300,000 slaves in Virginia. The tobacco they produced was the most valuable staple crop grown in North America. At his home Mount Vernon, situated on the upper Potomac river overlooking the Maryland shore, Washington created an estate, based on the latest agricultural practice, that was also a set of plantation farms centred around the work of enslaved Africans. Slavery, then, was clearly a persistent part of Washington's life and career. Because of this and his pre-eminent position in American public life, Washington's use of slave labour and his views on an important paradox of American history in the revolutionary era – the coexistence of slavery and liberty – deserve close attention. One man's dilemma in dealing with the morality of his own slaveholding was mirrored in the broader context of what the United States could or would do about the problem of slavery.


Exposure of freshly activated Fe-, Mn-promoted sulfated zirconia (SFMZ) to carbon monoxide at temperatures up to 50°C induced permanent loss of activity, while the addition of CO after the beginning of the reaction had a reversible effect, regardless of whether the butane flow has been interrupted or not. Similar experiments using dissociated hydrogen instead of CO led to irreversible poisoning in all cases. These finding were interpreted based on (i) the occurrence of initiation sites that are consumed stoichiometrically and very rapidly upon exposure to butane, (ii) such initiation sites which are also consumed by CO or dissociated hydrogen, (iii) CO which competes effectively for adsorption sites without affecting accumulated reaction intermediates, and (iv) such intermediates that are removed in the presence of dissociated hydrogen.


ABSTRACT Studies showed that rapid urbanization creates encumbrance for affordable housing in many developing world cities. Community participation has been proved as a successful platform of infrastructural facilities provision in developing cities but how far regarding affordable housing provision is yet to receive in-depth studies in Nigeria. Therefore, the study investigated the role of community in the provision of affordable housing and proffer possible solutions to enhance home ownership. Five communities in Benin City were engaged as the case study to achieve the study's objectives via a phenomenology type of qualitative research design. The study combined MAXQDA 2018 with thematic analysis to explain the data. Absence of recognition by government, inadequate infrastructural facilities, housing finance inaccessibility, lax policy to engage community leaders, and high cost of available land emerged as the root cause of factors impeding community participation in housing provision. Findings show that addressing the root cause will determine the success or failure of community within Benin and in other developing cities (with related cultural, economic, and social attributes) to participate in affordable housing provision. As part of this paper's implications, findings will enhance policymakers and lawmakers in decision-making concerning community-based housing policy toward achieving urban futures for Nigerian cities.


• Do not argue or get defensive with your child, it creates bad feelings and is not likely to change his/her mind. • Let your child know that you have a dierent understanding of the situation and you would be willing to share your perspective if and when the child is interested. • Continue, in any possible way, to let the child know that he/she is loved. • Control your own anger and stay calm, even when hurt or frustrated. • Hold yourself to the highest possible standard of behavior (do not give the alienating parent ammunition). • Work on improving your own parenting skills. • Always call/pick up the child at scheduled times, and be there even if you know the child won't be available. • Create positive experiences/memories with your child. • Provide mental health treatment for yourself and your child with professionals experienced with parental alienation. • Build a support network with friends, family, community resources, and support groups. • Become educated and help others involved with your child to learn more about parental alienation. • Attempt to work constructively with the other parent, either directly or through mediation. • Continue to attempt positive communication, on a regular basis, even if the child rejects or ignores it. • Do not ignore the problem–it will not go away. • Never give up hope and never give up on your child. • Listen to the child, without negating what the child is saying, regardless of how outlandish it may be (that is the child's reality) and then encourage the child to hear the rejected parent's point of view. Appeal to the child's maturity by saying that is the way mature people handle conicts. • Appeal to the child's intellect by encouraging him/her to carefully consider ideas or statements that are blatantly false or outlandish. • Point out to the child how persuasive advertising can inuence a person's thinking and try to relate that to the child's thinking about the rejected parent. • Look for books or movies that can stimulate discussion about the importance of two parents and the sadness of having only one parent. • If appropriate, invite both the child and rejected parent to the same function, making the child aware that the rejected parent is valued and appreciated. • Look for opportunities to provide positive input about the targeted parent. Divorce poison: Protecting the parent-child bond …


In the fact, all reproductive specialists know that there are many challenges to reproduction in farm animals. Now, there are many challenges affecting fertility in farm animals. Among these challenges are microbial infections that affect the animal during pregnancy, during or after parturition. Stress could be one important cause of decreasing fertility and is considered an important challenge affecting reproduction. This challenge requires the creation of research ideas characterized by scientific creativity and practical application. Veterinarians today are playing a more significant role and having a more substantial impact on the world than ever before. This is through innovation research that has changed the understanding of a lot of false knowledge in the field of veterinary medicine, especially in reproduction. The aim of this article is not to cite all research conducted so far on livestock fertility, but to highlight the scientific innovative research that deserves attention to overcoming the infertility problems in livestock.


Abstract The synthesis and characterization of a new series of organo-sulfur compounds which contain the tetrathioethylene unit are reported. A single crystal structure study of one of these compounds, 2-(1,3-dithiolan-2-ylid-ene)-1,3-dithiepin was carried out. The crystals belong to space group P1 with α=8.634(2) A, b=15.658(4) A, c=8.196(2) A, α=75.79(2)°, β=103.11(2)°, δ=102.70(2)°, R=0.058 for 1886 reflections I > 3 [sgrave](I), and D x=1.493, D m=1.46, for Z=4. The packing of molecules does show stacking with three close contacts between sulfurs having the following distances: 3.6477 A, 3.5860 A, and 3.5782 A. Further characterization by 1H and 13C NMR, electrochemistry, and MO calculations show these compounds to be quite different from the parent TTF in many aspects.


Causes of psychological and social harm in common ward have been studied by case-study analysis,which included the patients' condition,nurses' inadequate understanding of diseases and preventive strategies and the limited preventive equipments in the ward.Thus,it is very important to explore the effective preventive strategies,increase nurses' abilities of prevention and protection,and administrate the ward prevention to avoid the occurrence of harm which threats nurses' physical and psychological health.


The problem of Transbaikal territory pollution by wastes of mining processing is revealed. The technology of recultivation tailing dumps under the conditions of Transbaikal cryolite zone is described. This technology consists in combined using of agronomical and mining techniques with the purposes of disturbed soil recultivation and obtaining of sustainable herbage on the man-caused formations surface.


Using CTL-12 types expedite testing apparatus analyses chemo oxybiontic quantity of wastewater. It absolutely accord technique claim of environmental monitoring, and it is simple and expeditiousness.


We consider prediction problems in which each of a countably infinite set of agents tries to guess his own hat color based on the colors of the hats worn by the agents he can see, where who can see whom is specified by a graph V on ω. Our interest is in the case in which U is an ultrafilter on the set of agents, and we seek conditions on U and V ensuring the existence of a strategy such that the set of agents guessing correctly is of U-measure one. A natural necessary condition is the absence of a set of agents in U for which no one in the set sees anyone else in the set. A natural sufficient condition is the existence of a set of U-measure one so that everyone in the set sees a set of agents of U-measure one. We ask two questions: (1) For which ultrafilters is the natural sufficient condition always necessary? (2) For which ultrafilters is the natural necessary condition always sufficient? We show that the answers are (1) p-point ultrafilters, and (2) Ramsey ultrafilters.


Abstract : The author review various aspects of the control theory of hyperbolic systems, including controllability, stabilization, control canonical form theory, etc. To allow a unified and not excessively technical treatment, attention is restricted to the case of a single space variable; the multi-dimensional case is treated in another work. The paper concludes with a short discussion of the newly developed procedure of canonical augmentation. (Author)


Soluble CD40L and agonistic anti-CD40 monoclonal antibody are adjuvants used in vaccination settings. Vaccines based on anti-CD40 antibodies fused to HIV-1 antigens are in clinical development. Studies with current anti-CD40-based dendritic cell (DC) targeting vaccines show that co-administration of an adjuvant is needed for maximal immune responses. We show that by fusing CD40L to CD40-targeting antibodies, activation of DCs concomitant with antigen uptake and processing is maximized, and this provides a context CD40-targeting vaccines with intrinsic adjuvant activity. Direct fusion of CD40L to L or H chain C-termini results in CD40 agonists with 'superagonist' properties. Especially on DCs, both potency and efficacy for induction of cytokine secretion and activation markers is greatly enhanced compared to known strong agonists like Pfizer's anti-CD40 CP-870-89 antibody. This potency was maintained by anti-CD40-CD40L constructs fused to HIV-1 antigens from Gag, Nef, and Pol regions (HIV5pep). Anti-CD40-CD40L-HIV5pep preferentially expanded CD8+ T cells from HIV-1+ donor PBMCs compared to the same antibody-antigen fusions without attached CD40L. Anti-CD40-CD40L-TEα and anti-CD40-TEα both evoked robust proliferation of TEα-specific CD4+ T cells in human CD40 transgenic mice, but only anti-CD40-CD40L-TEα vaccine elicited TEα-specific CD4+ T cells producing IFNγ. Also, anti-CD40-CD40L-Env gp140 vaccine without adjuvant in human CD40 transgenic mice elicited stronger anti-Env gp140 antibody responses than anti-CD40-Env gp140 vaccine. Thus superagonist anti-CD40 antibodies directly fused to the natural ligand show great advantage in inducing immune responses without the use of an extrinsic adjuvant.


Work of development of multiscale models for chemical systems which won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013is introduced briefly,including inquiry process,model building, specific application and future development.


The interactions between acrylamide(AM)/ sodium acrylate(AA)/2-acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propanesulphonate sodium(AMPS) copolymer with super-high molecular mass(AM-AA-AMPS) and sodium dodecylbenzene sulphonate(SDBS) in aqueous solution were studied in the presence of NaCl.The results indicated that the AM-AA-AMPS-SDBS complex with cross-linked networks was formed in the solution,and the particle diameter of the complex was about 0.2 μm.The presence of NaCl facilitated the interactions between AM-AA-AMPS and SDBS causing that the solution exhibited special viscosity behavior.With the SDBS concentration of 0.015 mol/L,as the NaCl mass concentration reached 10 g/L,the apparent viscosity of the solution increased about 25%,while the apparent viscosity of the solution increased about sevenfold at NaCl mass concentration of 15 g/L and SDBS concentration exceeding 0.015 mol/L.With the temperature rising,the apparent viscosity decreased due to the break of the complex,at the same time,the amount of SDBS dissolving in the solution increased,which increased the interaction area between the AM-AA-AMPS and SDBS,resulting in the increase of viscosity in a narrow temperature range.


Background and Aim: Type‐2 diabetes (T2D) is a highly prevalent, progressive disease constituting the major challenge to global health. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play an important role in regulating physiological processes in diabetes through binding multiple target mRNAs, resulting in gene silencing. In the present study, the primary objective is to explore the role of miR221/222 and miR103/107 in diabetes.


The refractive index dispersion and infrared (IR) reflection spectra of soda magnesium silicate glasses with low Rayleigh scattering were measured to evaluate their potential for use in fabricating ultralow-loss fibers. The zero-material dispersion wavelength (λ 0 ) was found to be around 1.5 μm, which is one of the key wavelengths in the present telecommunication system. The compositional dependence of λ 0 was found to relate to the population of nonbridging oxygen. Since the oscillation strength and frequency of the Si-O stretching vibrations of the glasses were found to be smaller than those of silica glass, their IR absorption loss was considered to be less than that of silica glass. The minimum loss due to the intrinsic factors, Rayleigh scattering and IR absorption, was estimated to be 0.06 dB/km at 1.6 μm.


Baton Rouge, Louisiana (firstname.lastname@example.com) 2. Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (firstname.lastname@example.com) 3. Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (email@example.com) Revisiting Farm Efficiency of Rice-Crawfish Farmers: Accounting for the H-2A Program


To explain the policy on value-added tax transformation of fixed-assets.To propose detailed calculation ways concerned in the investment estimation of feasibility study report.To analyze the impact of value-added tax transformation on different industries,different investment project and financial analysis in the feasibility study report.The way on set-off taxation in financing method and the way on financial statement are also put forward.


The structure of aristololactam Ⅳ isolated fromSaruma henryi Oliv.was elucidated via NMR.The 13C NMR data and complete assigment of the 1H and 13C chemical shifts of the compound by 2DNMR(HSQC,HMBC)was firstly obtained,and the assignments of H-2and H-5 of the compound were also corrected.


Bargara Pasturage Reserve: Future Visions
This exhibition showcases the work of Postgraduate Landscape Architecture and final year Undergraduate Civil and Environmental Engineering students in response to issues of sustainability in a coastal wetland known as the Bargara Pasturage Reserve; an exemplar of the many issues facing sensitive coastal places in Queensland today.

The 312ha Pasturage Reserve at Bargara is the only biofilter between the pressures of Bargara's urban and tourism expansion, surrounding sugarcane farming, and the Great Sandy Marine Park, including the largest concentration of nesting marine turtles on the eastern Australian mainland. This ephemeral wetland, while struggling to fulfil its coastal biofiltration function, is also in high demand for passive recreation, and the project partners' priorities were to meet both of these challenges. The students were required to plan and design for the best balance possible amongst, but not limited to: wetland and coastal ecological health, enhancement of cultural heritage and values, sustainable urban development, and local economic health.

To understand these challenges, QUT staff and students met with partners, visited and analysed the Pasturage Reserve, spent time in and around Bargara talking to locals and inviting dialogue with Indigenous representatives and the South Sea Islander community. We then went home to Brisbane to undertake theoretical and technical research, and then worked to produce 11 Strategic Plans, 2 Environmental Management Plans and 33 Detailed Designs.

One group of students analysed the Bargara coastal landscape as an historical and ongoing series of conversations between ecological systems, cultural heritage, community and stakeholders. Another group identified the landscape as neither 'urban,' 'rural,' nor 'natural,' instead identifying it metaphorically as a series of layered thematic 'fields' such as water, conservation, reconciliation, and educational fields. These landscape analyses became the organising mechanisms for strategic planning.

An outstanding Strategic Plan was produced by Zhang, Lemberg and Jensen, entitled Metanoia, which means to 'make a change as the result of reflection on values'. Three implementation phases of "flow", "flux", and "flex" span twenty-five years, and present a vision a coastal and marine research and conservation hub, with a focus on coastal wetland function, turtle habitat and coral reef conservation. An Environmental Management Plan by Brand and Stickland focuses on protecting and improving wetland biodiversity and habitat quality, and increasing hydrological and water quality function; vital in a coastal area of such high conservation value.

After the planning phase, students individually developed detailed design proposals responsive to their plans. From Metanoia, Zhang concentrated on wetland access and interpretation, proposing four focal places to form the nucleus of a wider pattern of connectivity, and to encourage community engagement with coastal environmental management and education. Jensen tackled the thorny issue of coastal urban development, proposing a sensitive staged eco-village model which maintains both ecological and recreational connectivity between the wetland and the marine environment.

This project offered QUT's partners many innovative options to inform their future planning. BSC, BMRG and Oceanwatch Australia are currently engaged in the investigation of on-ground opportunities drawing on these options.


Homogenous (Bi3Pb)Sr3Ca3(Cu4i nMn)Ox type glassy precursors (M = Li, K, Cr, Mn, Zn, Ti, Ag; and n = 0-0.5) show high Tc superconducting behavior when they are annealed at 840℃ for 24 hrs in air. The superconducting behavior of a typical Cr doped sample is only discussed in this paper. Samples doped with other atoms also behave similarly. All these glasses contain nanocrystalline particles or clusters which grows into the superconducting or other phases by annealing. Single phase high Tc superconductors are obtained from the glasses having nanocrystals size < 20 nm. The suppression of transition temperature supports the pairbreaking mechanism of Abrikosov and Gor'kov. Depending on the measuring temperature, both positive and negative values of the Seebeck coefficients (S) are exhibited by the annealed superconducting samples. Interestingly, small positive peaks were shown by the thermoelectric power (TEP) data of all the doped samples just above Tc. This peak was considered to be associated with the phonon-drag effect. Similar behavior is also exhibited by the correspondingsuperconductors doped with Mn, Fe and Ti. The linear part of the temperature vs. TEP data (above Tc) can be well fitted with the two band model.


A panel of fuel specialists met with Power Engineering editors to discuss the energy options for industrial users of fuels for process heat and the generation of electricity. The panel members were G. C. Gambs, Ford, Bacon, and Davis; H. I. Hollander, Gilbert Associates, Inc.; D. L. Knippen, Corn Products Unit of CPC, Int'l.; Alexis W. Lemmon, Jr., Battelle-Columbus Laboratories; and Harold Richardson, U.S. Steel, South Works. Energy R and D programs have added some new fuel options to the traditional coal, oil, and natural gas and are promising still more possibilities. All options, both new and traditional, are encountering political and social forces and economic uncertainties. Mr. Olds stated that the three main fossil fuels are ''in trouble at the same time.'' This complicates the situation, since it has never occurred before. The panel then discussed some of the proposed solutions--new energy sources, economy measures, more coal, more efficient machines and plants, better management, fuel allocations, and curtailments. (MCW)


It often takes place that the transfer price of net business property of merged business during annex,thus there will appear commercial or negative commercial credits.Commercial credit can be confirmed among anticipated years,while negative commercial credit is confirmed as postponable profit,and as reducible item of property,which will be apportioned among later years.


A numerical model has been developed for simulation of gas injection processes for enhanced oil recovery in a sector model of Eastern Paydar reservoir, located in a central oil field in Iran. The model incorporates two main elements. The first one is a fl


Hepatitis C virus infections in medical personnel after needlestick accidents have been documented generally by detection of seroconversion to a hepatitis C virus nonstructural region antigen, c100‐3 (a marker of infection). We tested for hepatitis C virus core‐derived antibodies and genomic RNA in addition to c100‐3 antibody in 159 cases of needlestick exposure that did not involve patients positive for HBsAg. Of these we found 68 cases with index patients positive for both hepatitis C virus RNA and antibodies and members negative for antibodies to HCV core or c100‐3 before the needlestick accidents. Seven of these medical personnel became infected with hepatitis C virus after the accidents. Their hepatitis was generally subclinical or self‐limited and transient, except for one patient in whom liver enzyme elevation persisted along with the antibodies. In our study, the risk of hepatitis C virus transmission from a single needlestick accident with hepatitis C virus RNA–positive blood was 10%, considerably higher than the 4% estimated in a previous study. We found that donor blood with antibody to an hepatitis C virus core‐derived peptide with enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay optical densities greater than 2.0 carried a significant risk of transmitting hepatitis C virus to needlestick victims. No hepatitis C virus seroconversions occurred in medical personnel exposed to hepatitis C virus antibody– negative or hepatitis C virus RNA–negative blood; however, one such exposure resulted in a very mild non‐A, non‐B, non‐C hepatitis. (HEPATOLOGY 1992;16:1109–1114.)


The article provides an analysis of the educational performance of teaching students of the extramural department with synchronous-asynchronous interaction in the environment of the educational portal of the university. The effectiveness of training was assessed according to the following criteria: academic performance, quality of knowledge, training. The main difficulties of interaction between students and teachers in synchronous and asynchronous learning formats, identified by the analysis of the results of the questionnaire of students, are shown.


Article History Published Online: 14 December 2020 The aims was Effect of Plyometric and Circuit Training on Speedon School Children. School Children (50, 50, 50, boys students) 14 to 16 years from the schools of Vasda, Dist Navsari. Total 150 School Children were selected as subjects for the sample of the present study, in which 50 Children were included in the plyometric training group, 50 Children in circuit training group and 50 Children were included in the control group. The 50 Children of 14 to 16 years age group were included in the present study. The Criterion measurement of Speed through 50 Yard Dash. Statistical technique such as analysis of covariance was applied to know the effects on plyometric training group and circuit training group. Mean difference was examined at 0.05 levels by using Least Significant Difference (Post Hoc) Test.It is hereby clear that, due to Plyometric and Circuit training, significant improvement is seen in the performance of subjects of Plyometric Training Group and Circuit Training Group in Speed Test Test with comparison to the Control Group. Noteworthy improvement is seen in Speed Test of the subjects selected through 12 weeks training.


Vigorous development briquette industrial is an important route for decreasing environmental pollution and effective utilization coal resource in Shanxi province. It is an effective route to obtain a new economic increasing point through coal deep processing and utilization local coal resource superiority. Also it is one of the effective measures for the coordinate development of economic and environment, and promoting sustainable development strategy implement. Therefore the briquette industrial has a wide development foreground. Some of the problems should be resolved before to develop the briquette industrial. The suggestion is provided for reference.


A computer cushion has a foam frame defining a window through which a computer can be placed to rest on supports that are glued to the frame and that span the window. Hinged flaps are provided on theinside of each side of the frame, and the flaps are biased against the frame inside the window to reduce its size for smaller computers. When a larger computer is pushed through the window, it can pivot one or more of the flaps outwardly from the window so the computer will fit into the now-larger window.


This study examines Chinese netizens' use of Electronic Bulletin Boards (BBS) for public opinion expression through a case study. It focuses on the dynamic interaction between online public opinion and official media discourse within the framework of agenda setting theory and framing theory. Time series cross-correlations and regression models are used to capture the transfer of issue salience from public discourse onto the media agenda during the agenda building phase, and from the media agenda into public during the agenda setting phase. A content analysis further demonstrates that the public differ from the media in its framing of the case. Interaction between online public opinion and the media in the agenda-setting process is accompanied and perhaps explained by the fragmented authoritarian system and the commercialization of the media industry in China.


In process of QCr0.5 hot inverted extrusion,hollow angle,the ratio of aera reduction,temperature are the important factors which impact the press.A BP neural network model has been built by use of the experiment data to predict the pressure,resulting in a rather satisfactory method to be used as a good prediction model.


Technology of contact body measurement was employed to collect the body data of 190 aged 60 to 75 males in Shaanxi province,and SPSS software was utilized to conduct a series of study to these data including principal component analysis,factor analysis as well as correlation analysis etc.6 factors such as the length factor and the width factor that are able to comprehensively reflect the body features of the upper part was extracted.Reasonable and applicable reference information has been provided for the elders′ coat structure designing with 10 indexes,such as bust,waist circumference,abdominal circumference,height,back length,front-half waist in length,shoulder angle,shoulder width,lumbar section length,neck circumference and four body shapes,AX,BX,CY and BY.


The purpose of the paper is to present the steps that have been taken towards an algorithm theory of stability and robustness.


Space and art may seem separate – in the same ways that humans seem to be. Furthermore, both space and art are usually not easily accessed by the public. This paper proposes that through the practices of creating public installations, space and art can be much better integrated. Aiming to create this in an accessible form for anyone, 'local co-operation' between experts and the public – making an installation together – becomes a fundamental methodology. In this paper, the author will discuss two cases: Moons of Naoshima (2013-2014) in Naoshima, and Uy-uni-verse≒Multiverse (2014) in Tanegashima Space Center. In summary, these cases show how this methodology works for the public collaborators to deepen their mental connections with space and art.


On the basis of available evidence, it appears that a majority of Americans view population growth in the United States with considerable concern. A national survey conducted in the Fall of 1967 found that 54 per cent felt the growth rate of the United States population to be a "serious problem" (Kantner, 1968). A probability sample survey of women 18 years of age and over living in a relatively isolated city of 27,500 in the Fall of 1967 found 56 per cent of the respondents agreeing with the statement that "America is rapidly reaching a point where she'll have too many people, and this coming overpopulation is one of the greatest threats today to the future social and economic wellbeing of the country" (Barnett, 1968a: p. 5). Thus, the evidence would seem to require a revision of the allegation made in 1964 by Lincoln and Alice Day in their book, Too Many Americans, that "arguments in favor of continued population increase [in the United States] predominate to such an extent that they suggest the existence of an 'American Fertility Cult' [p. 133]." Unfortunately, there is no systematic research allowing one to determine if an unfavorable view toward continued population growth in the United States has become increasingly prevalent during the past 10 years. Personal impression suggests that it has and, moreover, that it will become even more widespread in the next decade.1 Yet, even though such a view presumably has and will become more prevalent, there is, and will probably continue to be, a substantial body of persons who are neutral or opposed to the view. The present study is based on the assumption that there are general behavior patterns which can explain the existence of the view that additional population growth is undesirable and unnecessary in the United States. Following on that asumption, two such patterns that have received considerable attention and interest in social science literature were examined for their


OPERATIONS FOR FUTURE LUNAR GEOSCIENCE. Brad Jolliff, Sam Lawrence, Noah Petro, Ryan Clegg, Amanda Stadermann, and Michael Zanetti, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University, One Brookings Dr., St. Louis, MO 63130; School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ; Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (email@example.com)


This study aims to determine and analyze the effect of wages, education and health on labor produkctivity. Wage are measured using the provincial minimum wage data, education is measured using data on the percentafe of the populationaged 15 years and over who have a high school/vocational education and Indonesia tertiary education and health is measured using data on the percentage of the population experiencing pain complaints. This type of research is descriptive and associative research that describes the research variales amd find out whether there is influencer between the independent variable and the dependent variabel. The type of data in this research is panel power from 2013-2017 in Indonesia. Analysis of the data used in this study is the Panel Regression Analysis. The results of this study indicate that (1) Wage have significant effect on the productivity of Indonesia workers, (2) Education does not  have a significant effect on the productivity of Indonesia workers, (3) Health has a significant effect on the productivity of Indonesia workers, (4) Together education and health wages have a significant effect on the productivity of the Indonesia workforce.


High-speed milling tests were carried out on the SiCp/2009Al composites with different volume fractions of SiC particles using polycrystalline diamond(PCD) tools through the method of orthogonal experiments design.The empirical formulas of tool life and surface roughness were established.In order to obtain lowest unit cost,lowest surface roughness and longest tool life,genetic algorithm had been used to optimize the processing parameters.The results show that volume fraction φ of SiC particles had the most remarkable effect on tool life,cutting speed v was the second significant factor,fz and radial aw had no significant effects on tool life.The significance of factors for effecting surface roughness was in sequence of fz,v and aw.The optimized process parameters was v=760 m·min-1,fz=0.08 mm,aw=3 mm,φ=17%.


People often cling to beliefs even in the face of disconfirming evidence and interpret ambiguous information in a manner that bolsters strongly held attitudes. The authors tested a motivational account suggesting that these defensive reactions would be ameliorated by an affirmation of an alternative source of self-worth. Consistent with this interpretation, participants were more persuaded by evidence impugning their views toward capital punishment when they were self-affirmed than when they were not (Studies 1 and 2). Affirmed participants also proved more critical of an advocate whose arguments confirmed their views on abortion and less confident in their own attitudes regarding that issue than did unaffirmed participants (Study 3). Results suggest that assimilation bias and resistance to persuasion are mediated, in part, by identity-maintenance motivations.


At the present paper, the strength design method of explosion insulation electric equipment was analysised, and the characteristic of cylinder shell and square shell was compared.


Van der Waals heterostructures have recently emerged as an exciting platform for investigating the effects of strong electronic correlations, including various forms of magnetic or electrical orders. Here, we perform an unbiased exact diagonalization study of the effects of interactions on topological flat bands of twisted transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) at odd integer fillings. We find that Chern insulator phases, expected from interaction-induced spin and valley polarization of the bare band structure, are quite fragile, and give way to spontaneous multiferroic order — coexisting ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism, in presence of long-range Coulomb repulsion. We provide a simple real-space picture to understand the phase diagram as a function of interaction range and strength. Our findings establish twisted TMDs as a novel and highly tunable platform for multiferroicity, with potential applications to electrical control of magnetism.


Objective To study the efficacy of percutaneous embolization therapy on venous malformations(VM).Methods A retrospective study of percutaneous embolization therapy was conducted in 33 patients with VM.The distal lesions of 33 VMs were chosen as puncture points,and 16~20G trocars were stabbed into the VMs.The digital subtraction angiography was done and embolic agents were injected into the lesions.The patients were followed up for 1~11 years and the results compared before and after treatment.Results 18 patients were cured,and 15 cases were effective.Conclusion Percutaneous embolization is a simple and effective treatment for venous malformations.


This study compares a linear keyword language interface and a restricted natural language interface for data retrieval by a novice user. The comparison focuses on the effect of different data base interfaces on user performance as measured by query correctness and query writing time in a query writing task across varying query types and training levels. To accomplish this objective, a laboratory experiment was conducted using a split-plot factorial design using two between-subjects factors and one within-subjects factor. The results indicate that the restricted natural language subjects performed significantly better than the linear keyword language subjects in terms of both query correctness and query writing time.


PGC-1α is a transcription coactivator centrally involved in the regulation of energy balance and metabolism. A recent study in Cell Metabolism adds another role for Pgc-1α, namely gene regulation in mitochondrial maintenance and metabolic homeostasis. The latest findings indicate significant increases in levels of DNA methylation within the promoter region of the Pgc-1α gene within human skeletal muscles from subjects with impaired glucose tolerance or type 2 diabetes. The significance and implications of this discovery are discussed.


Abstract This article deals with the preparation of Chitosan (CS) coated Zinc Oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles modified with Folic Acid (FA) via the simple solvothermal method. The physicochemical properties were evaluated through characterization studies such as X-ray diffraction spectroscopy (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDAX), UV-Visible spectroscopy (UV-Vis), and Thermogravimetric and differential thermal analysis (TG/DTA). The crystalline size of the nanoparticles examined was 21.45 nm and 16.57 nm. The samples were subjected to antibacterial test (Gram-positive S. aureus, B. subtilis, and Gram-negative E. coli, P. aerugenosa) by the modified Kirby- Bauer well diffusion method and minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) by using the broth dilution method in 96-well microtiter plate. This method was used to test the susceptibility of microorganisms. At high concentrations, CS-ZnO nanoparticles were found to have the highest zone of inhibition against S. aureus (20 mm) and B. subtilis (20 mm) and the lowest against E. coli (18 mm) and P. aeruginosa (10 mm). The MIC results were determined to be in the order CS-ZnO ˂ FA-CS-ZnO. The zeta potential of nanoparticles was estimated to be −19.1 ± 6.60 mV (CS-ZnO) and −29.3 ± 5.56 mV (FA-CS-ZnO), respectively.


The Prestes Column was a rebel movement which from 1924 to 1927 protested against the governments of the presidents Artur Bernardes and Washington Luis and in Santo Ângelo/RS decisive moments occurred under the leadership of Luis Carlos Prestes, which made this Column run through Brazil during two years and three months. Based on this history, between 1994 and 1996 it was idealized and it was implemented in an initiative of the public power of Santo Ângelo city, a Memorial to the Column Prestes. The problem which delineates this work is about the social representation produced in Santo Ângelo against and in favor of the space which was built, establishing it, or not, as an expression of the santoangelenses cultural heritage. This work uses as methodology bibliographical and documental researches, the use of Oral History techniques, based on the direct contact with the people who created the Memorial, adding to that, the application of a questionnaire with students from the Basic Education checking their perceptions in relation to the Prestes Column Memorial, understanding it or not, as the expression of the cultural heritage of Santo Ângelo. The main objective of this investigation is to analyze and to evidence the social representation produced by social groups from Santo Ângelo in favor and against the creation of the Memorial, as well as trying to verify the motivations, the objectives and interests to create a place of memory in relation to the past of Prestes Column in Santo Ângelo, showing all the repercussion that this project had in the local community. Besides, it also has the objective of proposing a project to Santo Ângelo city of Patrimonial Education in the Prestes Column Memorial, which is going to allow students of the Basic Education from the city to know a little bit more about the history that it portrays and all the importance of its heap and preservation, allowing from this research on the reflection in relation to the conditions of infrastructure, heap and location of the Prestes Column Memorial, aiming its maintenance while a place of memory and expression of Santo Ângelo heritage. Therein, it is considered as main result of this work the elaboration of a primer which is going to give data to the teachers of the Basic Education from Santo Ângelo city, mainly from the municipal system, in order to the work in relation to the history of Prestes Column and the Prestes Column Memorial, having in view the students appropriation for the history as well as the space while expression of the cultural heritage of Santo Ângelo.%%%%A Coluna Prestes foi um movimento rebelde que entre os anos de 1924 e 1927 protestou contra os governos dos presidentes Artur Bernardes e Washington Luis, e teve em Santo Ângelo/RS momentos decisivos sob a lideranca de Luiz Carlos Prestes possibilitando a esta Coluna percorrer o Brasil durante dois anos e tres meses. Com base nessa historia, entre 1994 e 1996 se idealizou e se implantou, em uma iniciativa do poder publico municipal de Santo Ângelo, um Memorial a Coluna Prestes. O…


The invention discloses a bill image inversion detection system, for solving the problems of quite low detection efficiency and quite intensive computation of a conventional system for correcting cheque inversion positioning. The system is composed of a bill image acquisition unit, a bill inversion detection unit and an inversion bill correction unit. The bill image acquisition unit scans a bill through an image scanning tool to obtain a bill color image; the bill inversion detection unit processes the bill color image sent to a computer through the computer and determines whether the bill image is inverted, i.e., whether the bill is inversely transmitted; and the function of the inversion bill correction unit is that if the bill inversion detection unit detects that the bill color image is inverted, i.e., the bill is inversely transmitted, inversion correction is performed on the inverted bill through the computer, and if the bill is not inversely transmitted, the processing is finished.


Background and Objective: BMI and WHR are most widely used measures to define obesity and predict its complications, such as diabetes and hypertension. Hence study emphasized to know correlation among above parameters. Methods: A Cross sectional study conducted among 240 adults who screened for Hypertension, DM based on history and examination or both. Anthropometric measurements, Blood pressure, random blood glucose levels and ECG was recorded for individuals with suspected complications of cardiovascular diseases. Data was analyzed using SPSS 18 for descriptive, analytical statistics χ 2 (P value) and Pearson's correlation co-efficient. Results: 240 individuals attendant health checkup, 87 of them found to be hypertensives and/ or diabetic. Obesity was significantly high in females (65.2%, 95.6%) as compared to males (41.5%, 61%) with respect to both BMI and W/H ratio respectively. There was a statistical difference in obesity by BMI and WHR, where in 79% of the subjects showed high WHR as compared to only 54% by BMI. Similarly significant association was observed between Hypertension (X2= 4.09, P=0.04) and Waist Hip Ratio (X 2 =6.35,P=0.01). Complications were more common among obese patients as compared to non-obese patients. Conclusion: That there is correlation between WHR, BMI with hypertension and DM type 2 and also with cardiovascular complications. The significant association of WHR with HTN is an indication of importance of central adipose tissue in study population.


This paper will investigate the feasibility of adopting innovative design concepts that could decrease the dependence on bonded insulated joints for railway track monitoring. First, the purpose of insulated joints and their historical usage are examined. Next, designs that utilize track circuits are discussed. This will be followed by a section on acoustic methods, reflectometry, and robotics.Copyright © 2005 by ASME


The role of the optical model in a text recognition system is to model the textual information written in image documents. This paper compares the performance of four Arabic optical modeling units in a Multi-Dimensional Long Short-Term Memory based state-of-the-art Arabic text recognition system. These units are: 1) The isolated characters, 2) Extended isolated characters with the different shapes of Lam-Alef (), 3) The character shapes within their contexts and, 4) The recently proposed sub-character units that allow sharing similar patterns in the different character shapes. Experiments are conducted on six tasks using Maurdor and Khatt databases. For a fair comparison, optical models are trained from scratch. The decoding is performed using 1) the predictions of the optical model only and, 2) combined with a 3-gram hybrid word/part-of-Arabic word language model. Results in terms of Word Error Rate show that best results are generally obtained with systems using isolated characters as the basic modeling units, although differences in the performance among different systems are negligible.


Germination and seedling growth of chinese milkyetch (Astragalus sinicus L. Line A) seeds were measured at four temperatures (15. 25. 30, and 35), three polyethylene glycol (PEG) 10.000 (MW) solutions (0, 20 and 25 g/100 HO), and five sulfuric acid treatments (conc, HSO: Seeds/weight base: 0, 1:1 10min.. 1:1 20min.. 1:1.5 10min. and 1:1.5 20min, immersion), Adjustments of PEG 10.000 solutions were based on water potentials of 0.0, -0,5 and -0.8 ㎫ at room temperature. Observations were taken at 7 days for each treatment combinations. Germination percent of chinese mikvetch seeds was the highest at 15 and seeding length was the longest at 25. Both germination percent and seedling length were rapidly decreased as PEG concentration increased from 0 to 25g/100 HO. The highest germination percent was found at PEG 20 and 25 of 15 among those of four temperatures, Sulfuric acid treatments showed little effect on germination percent and seedling length compared to untreated control, However. in the case of PEG 0, greater germination perccent was obtained at the treatment of 1:1.5 for 10 minutes immersion, The result of this study-indicated that germination of chinese milkvetch seeds was affected mostly by moisture stress conditions.


Quantum field theory (QFT) on non-stationary spacetimes is well understood from the side of the algebra of observables. The state space, however, is largely unexplored, due to the non-existence of distinguished states (vacuum, scattering states, thermal states). Project C7 of the SFB 676 was focused on characterisations of states by asymptotic conditions, e.g. holography (in case the boundary has sufficiently many symmetries), on a precise version of an approximate particle interpretation (for instance in Robertson--Walker spacetimes) and on the determination in terms of expectation values of locally covariant fields. Additionally, the backreaction of quantum matter fields on the curvature as well as the perturbative quantisation of the Einstein--Klein--Gordon system in the case of a cosmological background have been investigated. Finally, a detailed analysis and construction of equilibrium states for interacting field theories has been performed.


July/August 2016 326 In the last several years, technologies have become ubiquitous in most academic disciplines. Collaborations between the engineers and computer scientists that create these technologies and the humanists, social scientists, scientists, and other practitioners that use and add meaning to them have grown. Despite growing collaboration, the need for an information scientist at the intersection of construction and practice is very clear. Patrons routinely visit the library for assistance navigating databases, evaluating online resources, using citation management software, and creating multimedia projects. And as these technologies evolve at a clipping rate, the mode and frequency in which librarians learn and teach the skills sought by patrons is changing. Whereas we were once able to derive skills from static workshops or webinars to provide patron assistance in standard unilateral formats, many of us now partner with peers across campus units, even external to our institutions, to remain adept with the array of tools supportive of scholarship. As librarians become increasingly interdependent on the technical knowledge and skills of one another, we are capable of playing more customizable roles for our patrons. Many of us transfer the style used when learning from peers into the classroom environment, thereby facilitating active learning with new technologies among students. Formal channels should be routinely strengthened to encourage these deep sharing networks among colleagues.


Both the dynamics and the observational properties of relativistic jets are determined by their interaction with the ambient medium. A crucial role is played by the contact discontinuity at the jet boundary, which in the presence of jet collimation may become subject to Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) and Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI). Here, we study the evolution of these instabilities in non-magnetized relativistic jets using special relativistic three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations. We show that the growth of initial perturbations is consistent with relativistic RTI operating in the jet collimation region. The contribution of RMI becomes important downstream from the collimation shock in agreement with the theoretical expectations. Both instabilities reach non-linear scales above the shock convergence point and trigger strong turbulence, mixing the jet the with ambient matter. We devise an analytic solution for the mixing rate and show that it is sensitive to the external density gradients. Our results may be applied to different types of astrophysical objects. In particular, different contribution of interface instabilities is a natural explanation for the observed dichotomy between FR-I and FR-II radiogalaxies. The rapid slow-down in the jet of M87 is consistent with baryon entrainment from the circumnuclear matter with the observed density distribution. In microquasars, baryon loading triggered by interface instabilities is a probable reason for the low observed Lorentz factors. We show that the observed variability in gamma-ray bursts cannot come from mixing driven by interface instabilities and likely originates from the engine, suggesting the presence of magnetic fields in the jet.


Semiconductor industry is advancing day by day to meet the needs of society. As technology grows, the transistor density in an IC increases to augment the performance keeping down the size. Due to the miniaturization of transistors over the past decades, technological progress is in great demand. Vigorous scaling of a planar MOSFET has outaged its nanoscale era due to significant complications associated with increased parasitic capacitance, subthreshold leakage current, thinner gate oxides, which led the researchers to develop and innovate new devices with improved efficiency at low power parameters and reduced short channel effects (SCEs). In this review article, recent technological demand for FETs with multiple gates has been explored and reviewed with advancements. Devices with multiple gates show better performance than conventional FETs due to their steep subthreshold slope, lower leakage current and excellent electrostatic properties even in nanometer regime channel lengths. A triple gate FET and a gate all around FET further improve gate control over the channel. Using FinFET based multi-gate technology, gate control over the channel charge could be increased along with a reduction in parasitic capacitances. To explore the discontinuity of research, the challenges of FinFET technologies have also been addressed along with the introduction of emerging devices. Nanosheets and forksheets address these problems well, as gate structures are stacked on top of each other to form a multiple gate structure that supports enhanced gate control over the channel, whereas C-FET introduces 3D scaling by "folding" the nFET on top of the pFET by exploiting the full edge possibilities of device scaling in 3D.


Insulin binding, insulin degradation, and 2-deoxyglucose uptake were examined at 18 and 37 °C in soleus and extensor digitorum longus muscles of mice. Insulin binding and degradation were greater in the soleus than in the extensor digitorum longus at both temperatures (p < 0.05). At 37 °C, binding was decreased in both muscles while percentage degradation was increased in comparison with 18 °C (p < 0.05). Dose–response curves (percentage of binding at 4 nM of insulin) remained the same for both muscles at the two temperatures. Basal (no insulin) 2-deoxyglucose uptake was increased at 37 °C in the extensor digitorum longus but not the soleus. Insulin responsiveness in terms of the amount of 2-deoxyglucose taken up per femtomole of insulin bound was almost identical for the two muscles at 18 °C, whereas at 37 °C it was increased more in the soleus than in the extensor digitorum longus. The results indicate that in the presence of physiological concentrations of insulin (0.2–4 nM), insulin binding trends are...


The urgency of development high-speed spindle units on gas bearings which increases their performance, is offered in the article. The method is proposed to increase performance spindle units for improving product quality. A research object is high-speed spindle units and gas-bearing. A purpose of work is determining of the effect of the construction of gas bearings for improving the performance of spindle units. Analysis of modern advances in engineering has led to the need for the development and widespread use of gas bearings with lubrication. Changing the design parameters of the gas bearing leads to improve the performance of spindle unit, the improved product quality. Further research needs and improving the design problem of low load capacity and significant costs of gas.


confusing instances of misreading or misquotation of the work of other scholars; a couple of examples must suffice here, but cf. e.g. the review by E. Christian Kopff in AJP 114 (1993) 159. On Aj. 177 the note in Sophoclea begins 'As Lobeck saw the transmitted f| pa cannot be right; coming as it does after f| Ttou it gives a sense that is too positive'. But as the apparatus to OCT makes clear what is transmitted at 177 is not f| pec but f| pa; and what Lobeck actually says is 'f| pa suum et proprium locum obtinet in exordio enuntiati secundarii f| (ia KA-UTWV'. What he is arguing for (correctly) is r| 7ioi) at 176, where the manuscripts have f| ran). (At 177 the editors follow Hermann and read f|pa the noun, but after viicat; aKapJtwrov [or aKapJt6nox>] x6piv this looks unconvincing.) On Jr. 192 I am correctly quoted as responding to Ll.-J.'s view of the passage (viz. that Deianeira misunderstands Lichas) with the objection that 'this kind of unexplained misunderstanding is hard to parallel'. It does not answer my point to say, as the editors go on to do, 'See Aj. 339-43, where Tecmessa's misunderstanding of the words is quite explicit'. On Phil. 385-8 the argumentation is unclear: the reason given for deleting 385 (with Barrett) as well as 386-8 (with Barrett and Fraenkel) is that 'on its own the line is feeble', which is fair enough, but one wonders what is the relevance of the comment by Holford-Strevens which the editors then quote with approval: 'Elsewhere in the play Philoctetes seems to hate the Atreidae and Odysseus equally; and the distribution of responsibility between them is not an issue'. It is Neoptolemus, after all, not Philoctetes, who is speaking here, and we need to know what it might imply to an audience if he chose to draw a line between Odysseus and the Atreidae.