Korean net lingo is a kind of variant caused by PC communication, internet and mobile communication devices. It has several properties that general languages don"t have, and one of them is the reducing phenomena. In this paper, I studied the phonology of the phenomena on many words plus a few phrases and clauses. On the purpose of this I collected and classified the related data, firstly. And I surveyed the differences between these and the general ones. Lastly, the phonological mechanisms which operates on the generation process were researched. The results are as follows: (1) There are two kinds of junmal(reduced word) in the net lingo. One is based on the spoken language(=spoken junmal), and the other is generated only in net lingo without relation to spoken or written languages(=net junmal). (2) 'Net junmal' is defined as 'lingustic form made by phonological or morphological reduction of word, phrase, clause or dependent form in the net lingo'. (3) Net junmal exists only in the written form, but phonetic and phonological principles as well as visual considerations can be reflected in the generation. (4) Characteristically, one of consonants between onset and coda in source word may remain in the net junmal as an identification mark. (5) There a few data that could be explained by analogy. I guess there may be psychological motivation in the generation of net junmal as well as phonetic and phonological ones. We will learn better net lingo through synthetic understanding which can be achieved by interdisciplinary cooperations. And I believe this will give us more insights on human language and ourselves.


In the present study, effects of edible coatings using sodium alginate (SA) and sodium alginate in combination with ascorbic acid (AA) on the shelf-life extension of strawberries at 4±1°C was studied. A factorial experiment was performed based on a randomized complete block design with four replications. The treatments included control (distilled water), SA (1%, 2%, 3% w/v), SA in combination with AA (1% w/v) and the storage periods (7 and 14 days). The results showed that lightness (L*), chroma, firmness, total acidity, vitamin C, phenols, and antioxidant activity decreased during storage, but coating improved them in the sold-stored strwberries. SA2%+AA1% coating was the best treatment in maintaining the fruit quality. Firmness, weight loss, fruit L*, fruit chroma, sepal L*, sepal chroma, total phenolics, and polyphenol oxidase activity were decreased by 15%, 1.95%, 16.7%, 2.66%, 10.23%, 16%, 19.47% and 2.5%, respectively for SA2%+AA1% samples at the end of the 14th day, which was lower than the untreated fruits. The results suggested that postharvest application of SA2%+AA1% has the potential to extend the storage life of strawberry fruits by reducing water loss and maintaining fruit quality.


The 2nd Latin American Population Conference took place in Mexico City in March of 1975 at which time Latin America took a new approach to population - a conscious assumption of responsibility for its own destiny. Stress is laid on national autonomy and responsibility in dealing with problems of population as with all other aspects of development. Ideally, development and population policies in Latin America are guided by the following principles: 1) the aim of all economic and social development is human well-being; 2) the family must be protected; 3) each couple should be able to decide the number of children they want to have; 4) improvement should be made in the condition of women. The conference agreed that each country should establish an appropriate organization to carry out population policy. Recommendations were made too for enabling the national population agencies to carry out their objectives. The countries represented in Mexico City all supported measures for reducing mortality but not all agreed that natality should also be reudced. Another demographic variable that received special attention was international migration. In general, the Latin Americans have agreed on the basic principles underlying population policy, established a framework for analysis, and isolated the most important population-related issues.


We present an automatic recognition system applied to handwritten numeral chec k
amounts which is based on a segmentation–by–recognition probabilistic model .
This system is descrided from the amount field localization on the document image
to the generation ofhypotheses. An explicit segmentation algorithm determines potential
cuts between characters and provides a spatial representation ofsegmented
components . The best path for the segmentation is determined by the combinatio n
of recognition scores, of segmentation likelihoods and of a priori probabilities of
amounts. Training is done through a bootstrapping technique, which significantly
improves the performances of the different algorithms . It also allows the use of a
reject class at the recognition step . The robustness of the system was assessed on
a database of 10,000 real cheques images.


ABSTRACT Visa policies have been important instruments of control for the movement of people and what they effectuate depends on their character. They impede the flow of people when they are restrictive; they facilitate the entry and admission of people when they are liberal. Turkey has been using visa policies liberally for long to stimulate tourism growth. In this paper, the log-linearized version of gravity-type models is used to analyze Turkey's tourism demand relating inbound travel to visa requirements, macroeconomic variables, distance and regional contiguity. The countries are segmented into clusters according to travel freedom their citizens enjoy using the Henley & Partners Visa Restrictions Index by employing the two-step cluster analysis. It is found that the visa restrictions imposed on a country has a detrimental impact of 29 percent on average on inward mobility and this impact is on the higher side for countries with almost visa-free travel.


The underwater streamer discharges have a variety of potential applications in environmental science and technology. The electrical characteristics of the plasma filament generated by underwater streamer discharges play an important role in its propagation through water and influence the production of the chemical reactive species and the energy injected into the plasma filament. In this paper, we studied the electric field inside the plasma filament, the electric field at the head of the plasma filament, and the electrical conductivity of the plasma filament. By measuring the maximum length and the radius of the plasma filament, we found that the linear relation between the maximum length of the plasma filament and the applied voltage is not affected by the water conductivity within the range of 60–540 μS/cm. Based on such kind of linear relation, the electric field inside the plasma filament and the electric field at the head of the plasma filament were estimated as 26.0 ± 1.2 and 372 ± 52 kV/cm on average, respectively, being independent of the water conductivity within the range of 60–540 μS/cm. The electrical conductivity of the plasma filament was 0.4–3.7 S/cm within the range studied, being 3–4 orders of magnitude greater than that of the ambient water and depending significantly on the water conductivity. The experimental data obtained in the present work will be beneficial for the design of the reactor of pulsed underwater discharges.


Duliang tunnel of Sichuan Yixu highway must be through the coal seam and mined out area,by adopting the method of advance geological forecasthis,introduces the construction process of the tunnel through the coal seam and the goaf gas section and the corresponding prevention and treatment measures,for the construction of the different geological treatment scheme is put forward.


The paper studies multivariate non linear economic dynamical systems with an expectations feedback subjected to exogenous perturbations. In these systems, agents form expectations on future variables based on subjective transition probabilities given by a Markov kernel. The notion of a perfect Markov kernel that generates rational expectations along all orbits of the system is proposed. Conditions are provided under which perfect Markov kernels exist. Applications are given to models of the Cobweb type, to multivariate affine-linear systems, and to the stochastic OLG model of economic growth. For the latter two models, it is shown when a globally attracting random fixed point with rational expectations exists.


Introduction: Pituitary adenomas are commonly benign, slow-growing tumors that arise from cells in the pituitary gland and consist of a common type of intracranial space-occupying lesions. Based on the functionality and size of the adenoma, both medical and surgical approaches have been described. In this study, the authors aim to determine the effects of contributing factors of patients with pituitary adenoma undergoing trans-sphenoidal endoscopic surgery to their postoperative clinical status. Material and Methods: From March 2015 to November 2016, 100 patients diagnosed with pituitary adenoma confirmed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) underwent a trans-sphenoidal endoscopic approach in the department of Neurosurgery of Shohada Tajrish Hospital. Demographic data, as well as pre-defined relevant contributing factors regarding clinical status, were recorded. All patients underwent neuroimaging and neurological examination before surgery and were followed in the postoperative period by repeated neurological examination, imaging surveys, and histopathological studies. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS program version 23. Results: This study consisted of 59 males and 41 females with a mean age of 45.2 (24-63 years). Visual field defect (48%) was the most frequent finding, while asymptomatic status (36%) was the second major clinical finding in the patients. Neuroimaging survey revealed small tumor size and low extension type in 39 and 40 patients, respectively. Following the trans-sphenoid surgical approach, intact adrenal, gonadal, and thyroid function was found in 92%, 92%, and 89% of the postoperative phase cases. In the postoperative period, visual field defects, need for re-operation, diabetes insipidus (DI), focal neurological deficits (FND), diplopia, post-operative hemorrhagic event, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak and meningitis were observed in 15%, 6%, 5%, 4%, 3%, 3%, 2% and 1% respectively. Moreover, three patients expired in the postoperative period. Our statistical analysis identified the presence of headache (P-value 0.039), functional pituitary adenoma(P-value 0.031), abnormal adrenal gland function(P-value 0.028), abnormal thyroid function (P-value 0.003), and abnormal growth hormone (GH) levels (P-value 0.008) as the major relevant contributing factors in determining the clinical status such as radiological imaging studies of the pituitary region, and hormonal profiles of these groups of patients. Conclusion: In general, the current study revealed that headache, as well as the presence of functional pituitary adenoma and abnormal adrenal, thyroid, and growth hormone levels, are among the major contributing factors in the determination of the postoperative clinical status of patients diagnosed with pituitary adenomas underwent trans-sphenoid surgery.


As the value of computer generated artefacts increases, we need to question how creative software will fit into human culture, both as creative collaborators and autonomously creative entities. We hypothesise that, in certain contexts where creative software has increased or total autonomy, lack of authenticity will be a major limiting factor for creative systems in the arts and possibly elsewhere. After explaining and motivating this hypothesis, we study notions of authenticity in the human context and use this to raise issues of computational authenticity. We propose a number of ways to address these issues, including influencing public perception of creative software, practical approaches to software recording and using its life experiences, and employing alternative methodologies for building creative systems. We believe that identifying, exploring and addressing issues of authenticity will help to maximise the beneficial contributions that autonomously creative software can bring to society. Introduction and Motivation As with many other areas of AI research and practice, there has recently been somewhat of a step change in the quality of artefacts generated through the employment of advanced techniques such as deep learning, and in some cases similar advances in the ease of use in deploying generative systems. As an example, looking at artistic/textural style transfer, the process previously involved writing a bespoke program to apply a certain visual texture to an image, or to generate art in the style of a particular artist or movement. Now style transfer merely involves supplying a style image and target image and waiting while a generative artificial neural network is trained and employed, which captures aspects of both style and target in a new image (Gatys, Ecker, and Bethge 2016), with remarkably good results. While pastiche generation is not normally seen as particularly creative, deep learning researchers are beginning to advance the creative autonomy of their generative systems, for instance through so-called Creative Adversarial Networks (Elgammal et al. 2017), and Computational Creativity researchers are employing such techniques in existing autonomous systems such as The Painting Fool (Colton 2012). As the ubiquity of creative systems and the quality of their output increases, we have to consider how it will fit into human society. Like any advance in technology or change in societal values, there will be pros and cons to having truly autonomous, creative, software embedded in human culture. We start from the position that the advantages of having such software will far outweigh any difficulties that it would bring. The Computational Creativity community is somewhat split over the question of whether effort should be spent in advancing software to fully autonomous levels of creativity, or whether it would be better to concentrate on building co-creative tools for mixed initiative usage. We focus here on future scenarios where software can exhibit the same level of creative autonomy as people in the arts and sciences. In this context, we question whether opportunities for creative systems (and attendant advantages to human society) will be missed through a lack of authenticity in software, due to fundamental differences between people and machines, including a lack of life experiences to draw upon. To motivate studying authenticity as an issue, consider the following demonstration, which has been carried out at more than a dozen talks by the first author, known hereafter as the presenter. The poem in figure 1 is presented as a wellknown piece by female poet Maureen Q. Smith. There is then some joint discussion around what the author may have meant with this short poem about childbirth, for instance: the poem may be about her own experience, as per the 'My boy' sentence; the 'begin again' phrase may have been a reference to a literal beginning (of life), or a re-boot for the family; the 'joy', 'pain' and 'tears' are probably literal; the 'fears' may be about the birth process, but equally about the future of the world the baby is born into. The presenter then points out that he has made a mistake: in fact, the author was a man, called Maurice Q. Smith. A re-evaluation is then undertaken, with the 'pain' perhaps now being projected, or expressing a painful worry about the Figure 1: Poem about childbirth used in a demonstration addressing authorial intent and authenticity. birth process. The presenter then points out that Maurice Q. Smith was actually a convicted child molester when he wrote the poem, and that it was widely regarded as depicting the process of grooming a child. The following re-evaluation highlights the suddenly much darker interpretation of 'Born of me, for me' with aspects such as 'The joy, the pain' becoming disturbing if taken literally, and 'fears' perhaps portraying worries about being caught in a criminal act. The presenter then says that the poem was actually generated by a computer program using texts about childbirth, and suggest that – with no concerns of an unsettling backstory – another re-evaluation can take place. At this point, the demonstrator attempts to hypothesise what the software meant when it wrote about 'joy' and 'pain', but realises there was no further valuable meaning to be gleaned from an understanding of the generative process. Similarly, while the 'tears' are obviously not literal, it's seems impossible to project any further meaning onto the usage of this term. The presenter then invites the audience to question whether the poem has now lost some or all of its meaning, whether – now we can't indulge in projecting thoughts/experiences/intentions onto the author – the value of the poem has decreased or not. There tends to be agreement that people project more value onto the poem when they believed it was written by a person. For full disclosure, the presenter ends by revealing that he wrote the poem for the purposes of the demonstration. Of course, poems can be – and often are – written, and read from third party perspectives. Well-intentioned ideals such as Death of the Author (Barthes 1967) and the intentional fallacy (Wimsatt and Beardsley 1954), advocate taking poetry and literature at face value, without inferring authorial intention and actively ignoring any knowledge of the author. It is not clear how easy such ideals are to implement in practice. The childbirth example shows how knowledge of merely the author's name naturally affects the reading of the poem, providing much context. Also, poetry is often enjoyed as a performance art, e.g., in poetry slams, where the personality and intentions of the poet shape the performance, and are explicitly included in commentaries. In a more reasonable appreciation of poetry, where at least some people infer authorial backgrounds and intentions – as highlighted by the childbirth poem – there may be an uncanny valley effect (Seyama and Nagayama 2007), e.g., if software autonomously wrote a beautiful ballad about teenage love, audiences would question what the software really knows about this topic, and hence what value the song really has. We believe that many issues around lack of meaning and authorial intention can be understood via the lens of authenticity, or lack thereof, in computational systems. In the next section, we study authenticity from various perspectives in a human context. Following this, we use the study to raise certain issues about software authenticity, and suggest ways to address some of the issues, broadly in three areas: managing public perception of software authenticity; enabling software to use its life experiences in the creative process; and employing alternative methodologies for building creative systems. We conclude by discussing what these issues may mean for the future of Computational Creativity research. Authenticity in the Human Context A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (2003) is an autobiography about a struggle with drug addiction and rehabilitation. Published in twenty-nine languages, it has sold over 5 million copies, was on Oprah Winfrey's Book Club selection and number one on the New York Times Best Seller list. In 2006, The Smoking Gun published an article (thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/million-littlelies) claiming that many events in (Frey 2003) had not happened and that Frey had fictionalized his life. The public took this hard: Oprah Winfrey said she felt "duped" and publically rebuked him for "fabricating" and "lying" and the public felt "betrayed" (Wyatt 2006). More than 10 class action lawsuits were filed on the grounds of negligent misrepresentation and consumer fraud, with readers asking for compensation for the time they "wasted" reading a book they thought was non-fiction. Publisher Random House withdrew from a deal with Frey and offered full refunds to readers, and some libraries re-catalogued Frey's book as fiction. Post-2006 editions come with disclaimers by both publisher and author, in which Frey writes: "My mistake, and it is one I deeply regret, is writing about the person I created in my mind to help me cope, and not the person who went through the experience. . . . I believe, and I understand others strongly disagree, that memoir allows the writer to work from memory instead of from a strict journalistic or historical standard. It is about impression and feeling, about individual recollection . . . It is a subjective truth, altered by the mind of a recovering drug addict and alcoholic. Ultimately, it's a story . . . that I could not have written without having lived the life I've lived." (Frey 2006, p2) The debate and strong feelings about A Million Little Pieces centre on our modern notion of authenticity. This is an ethical characteristic, an ideal which shapes our worldview – "that one should be true to oneself and lead a life that is expressive of what the person takes herself to be" (Varga 2013, p.5). Authenticity is particul


In this paper, I aim to discuss the cutural theories in the transition period, to wish to probe into sensible Christian cultural theories faced with...


The present invention relates to a novel antibody capable of specifically binding to insulin-like growth factor I receptor of human (IGF-IR). The present invention also provides for any condition of prophylactic and / or therapeutic treatment associated with overexpression of cancer or the receptor overexpressing IGF-IR stimulated with either IGF1 and / or IGF2 the use of these antibodies as a medicament for, and the use of a method or kit for the diagnosis of diseases associated with over-expression of IGF-IR and / or IGF-I / insulin hybrid receptors. .BACKGROUND


. The growing sector of business related to the turnover of digital financial assets, utilitarian digital rights and cryptocurrencies leads to the fact that in most countries of the world administrative, financial, legal and other measures are taken aimed at protecting investors, countering fraud, collecting taxes and other tasks. However, until now, in the scientific legal literature, insufficient attention is paid to considering the degree of influence of certain measures on the development of the crypto industry as a whole. In this regard, the author of the article conducted a study of the influence of legal factors on the number of active ICO (Initial Coin Offering) companies in some jurisdictions. For the purpose of the study, methods of data collec tion and analysis were used to obtain information about the number of active ICO projects at a particular time in different states, comparative legal meth -ods, as well as visualization of the results obtained through the construc tion of time series graphs. The constructed graphs reflect the change in the number of ICO projects in some states before and after the appearance of legal acts regulating various areas of ICO companies ' activities. Also, the main characteristics of legal acts that have most influenced the change in the number of new ICO projects in different jurisdictions were described. The result of the work was the visualization of the relationship between the legal regulation of the turnover of digital financial assets, utilitarian digital rights, cryptocurrencies and the number of new ICO projects. The author also pro vides a justification for the position of the significant influence of law on the trends of further development of the crypto industry in specific jurisdictions. ICO-проектов. Здесь мы видим два наиболее значимых правовых акта. вый


Zapping off tiny regions of samples removes the need for more tedious extraction methods. Zapping off tiny regions of samples removes the need for more tedious extraction methods.


Authors present a rare case of primary ovarian leiomyoma in a young female with premature ovarian failure. A 39-year-old female with premature ovarian failure presented with large unilateral adnexal mass, with mildly elevated CA-125 levels, underwent staging laparotomy where the left ovarian mass along with tubes was removed. Contralateral ovary and uterus were preserved.  Final diagnosis was Primary ovarian leiomyoma on histopathology and immunohistochemical analysis. Preoperative diagnosis is difficult with solid ovarian tumors. In presence of mildly elevated CA-125 and negative tumor markers, ovarian leiomyoma must be considered as a differential diagnosis and conservative surgery be planned as these patients are desirous of future fertility options. Definitive diagnosis is confirmed by histopathology and immunohistochemical analysis.


Far out-of-equilibrium many-body quantum dynamics in isolated systems necessarily generates interferences beyond an Ehrenfest timescale, where quantum and classical expectation values diverge. Of great recent interest is the role these interferences play in the spreading of quantum information across the many degrees of freedom, i.e., scrambling. Ultracold atomic gases provide a promising setting to explore these phenomena. Theoretically speaking, the heavily-relied-upon truncated Wigner approximation leaves out these interferences. We develop a semiclassical theory which bridges classical and quantum concepts in many-body bosonic systems and properly incorporates such missing quantum effects. For mesoscopically populated Bose-Hubbard systems, it is shown that this theory captures post-Ehrenfest quantum interference phenomena very accurately, and contains relevant phase information to perform many-body spectroscopy with high precision.


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This paper presents an incipient machine degradation assessment method based on multifractal theory and Mahalanobis-Taguchi system (MTS), which help to differentiate the incipient fault stage and assess the degradation degree as well. According to different machine degradation states, the feature parameters from multifractal aspects are first calculated and further optimized by a MTS statistical method, based on which incipient faults can be subsequently identified and diagnosed accurately. A comparative application study of the effectiveness of the proposed method is carried out through case study of bearings. It is also proved to be a powerful and comprehensive tool for machine's elaborate condition monitoring management which combines a unified representation in both current and predictive perspectives of the fault degradation behavior.


When Thomas Pynchon's novel Mason & Dixon was published in 1997, it marked a deep shift in Pynchon's career and in American letters in general. All of Pynchon's novels had been socially and politically aware: V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, and Vineland are all marked by social criticism and a profound questioning of American values. They have carried the labels of satire and black humor; "Pynchonesque" has come to be associated with erudition, a playful style, anachronisms and puns - and an interest in scientific theories, popular culture, paranoia, and the "military-industrial complex," which may or may not, according to Pynchon's wild and widely populated casts of characters, be the definitive feature of "America." In short, Pynchon's novels were preeminently postmodern. Mason & Dixon moved beyond postmodernism to use the same style, wit, and erudition to re-create an eighteenth century when "America" was being formed as both the place and the idea we have come to know. Pynchon's focus on the creation of the Mason-Dixon Line and the governmental and scientific entities responsible for it makes a clearer statement than any of his previous novels about the slavery and imperialism at the heart of the Enlightenment, and Mason & Dixon levels a dark and hilarious critique at this "America." The novel was a New York Times bestseller. ~~ This volume of new essays studies the interface between eighteenth- and twentieth-century culture both in Pynchon's novel and in the historical past. It offers fresh thinking about Pynchon's work, not only because it deals with his most recent novel, but also because the contributors take up the linkages between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries in studies that are as concerned with culture as with the literary text itself. ~~ The scope of the volume is indicated by its four sections: "The Rounds of History," about historiography and narrative temporality; "Consumption Then and Now," which deals with slavery, trade, and consumption; "Space and Power," which confronts the connections between "place" and imperial power in the eighteenth century; and "Enlightenment Microhistories," which studies in detail three specific eighteenth-century incidents. ~~~~~~~ ELIZABETH JANE WALL HINDS is Professor of English at The College at Brockport, State University of New York.


321 honey samples from Switzerland were collected. The botanical authenticity of 176 honey samples was confirmed by the determination of electrical conductivity, sugar composition, pH-value, free acidity, and microscopical pollen analysis [2], as well as the sensory evaluation by three experts. The honey samples were assigned to one of the following groups: floral honeys from acacia (Robinia sp.), alpine rose (Rhododendron sp.), chestnut (Castanea sp.), dandelion (Taraxacum spp.), lime (Tilia spp.), rape (Brassica spp.), two types of honeydew honeys (fir and mixed honeydew), as well as polyfloral and alpine polyfloral honeys.


DR BURNS: Mr C is a 58-year-old man diagnosed as having chronic Lyme disease. He lives in a suburb of Boston and works as a consultant. He has managed care insurance. Mr C had an episode of Bell's palsy on the left side of his face in August 1992 and reported that he spent a lot of time on Martha's Vineyard, an endemic area for Lyme disease. Subsequently, he noticed that he became less competent mentally. He could not do simple math and he became depressed. In 1994, he was diagnosed as having Lyme disease. At that time, he complained of neck pain radiating to his left shoulder and hand, with numbness and tingling in his hand; back pain that radiated down his left leg; bilateral joint aches in both elbows and, to a lesser extent, his shoulders; bilateral tinnitus; periodic blurred vision (worse in the right eye than the left); difficulty concentrating and word finding; and periodic sweats. Results of his physical examination were normal with the exception of having difficulty spelling "world" backward and subtracting 7 serially. In October 1994, his Lyme (IgM/IgG) antibody titer was positive at 1:4. He was treated with tetracycline, 500 mg 3 times daily for 1 year. Following the initial course of tetracycline, his symptoms improved. However, in July 1996, Mr C restarted tetracycline 500 mg 3 times daily, for complaints of generalized aches and pains, hot flashes, nausea, sweats, dizziness, and a general uneasy feeling. Since then, persistent symptoms have included fatigue, sweats, slight memory loss, generalized aches and pains, headache, facial flushing, numbness of his left thumb, altered sensation on the left side of his face, and weight gain. Mr C was treated with repeated courses of tetracycline as well as several courses of clarithromycin, 500 mg twice daily, combined with hydroxychloroquine, 200 mg twice daily. His last course of tetracycline was in early 1999, at which time a Lyme Western blot assay showed an IgM reaction to the 83-kd protein and IgG reactions to the 41and 62-kd proteins. In the fall of 1999, due to a change in his insurance, Mr C transferred to a new primary care physician, Dr N. His new physician was not convinced of the benefit of recurrent courses of antibiotics. In the fall of 2001, Mr C returned with multiple concerns including difficulty sleeping, forgetfulness, cognitive difficulties especially with calculations, decreased libido, anxious feelings, facial stiffness, puffy eyes, and cracking in his neck and shoulder. Mr C was concerned that some of his symptoms may be related to Lyme disease. At that time, physical examination findings were normal. Dr N thought that Mr C might have a mild depression and prescribed paroxetine, 10 mg/d, which was later increased to 20 mg/d. With this regimen, Mr C reported that he noticed less anxiety, less joint pain, and improved cognition. He also was sleeping better. His current medications include paroxetine, 20 mg/d, quinapril, 10 mg/d, and atorvastatin, 10 mg/d. Mr C has no known drug allergies. He exercises regularly and rarely drinks. He previously smoked about 1 pack per day but quit smoking about 7 years ago. Mr C has a past medical history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, seborrheic dermatitis, and chronic Lyme disease. His father died of "natural causes" and his mother of ovarian cancer. He has one brother who recently underwent coronary artery bypass graft surgery.


It is a pleasure to write an Editorial for the Journal of Spine Surgery on the recently published study "OP-1 compared with Iliac Crest Autograft in Instrumented Posterolateral Fusion. A Randomized, Multicenter Non-Inferiority Trial" by Delawi et al . 2016 (1).


The article provides a comprehensive assessment of the psychophysiological factors affecting the professional adaptation of cadets. It emphasizes that professional development entails the formation of professional orientation, competence, socially significant and professionally important qualities, their integration, readiness for continuous professional growth, and the search for optimal methods to perform activities of high quality and creativity in accordance with individual psychological characteristics. Various approaches to specialist development have been examined by researchers and practitioners, including professional self-determination, stages of specialization, development of professionally important qualities, motivation in work activities, and the fundamentals of labor activity. The main theories that unify these approaches are the theory of types of professional life (structural concepts), motivational theories, and theories of individuality. The study highlights that the adaptation process is influenced by personal factors such as stress resistance, personality type, and emotional perception. The research utilized data obtained through a rhythmograph system, which monitors ECG signals and heart rate variability in the first standard lead, allowing for statistical time and spectral analysis of heart rate. In the initial stage, the assessment of nonverbal and general intelligence development levels was analyzed using the "Color Progressive Matrices" test by J. C. Raven. In the subsequent stage, the correlation between intelligence level and LF norm, HF norm, and LnLF/HF under load was determined. Finally, the adaptability level of the respondents to modern functioning conditions was assessed using the multi-level personality questionnaire "Adaptability" by A. Maklakov and S. Chermianin. The obtained data indicate an inverse proportional relationship between these indicators: "high stress - low adaptability" and vice versa. The article also highlights the significance of nervous-psychic tension, in addition to stress, as an unfavorable factor affecting performance. It lists the main causes contributing to the development of nervous-psychic tension. Furthermore, the works of M. Agadzhanyan, V. Kaznacheev, and S. Kaznacheev identify three qualitatively different types of adaptive human response: "sprinter," "stayer," and "intermediate" types (based on the criterion of time to perform submaximal work). To enhance adaptive abilities, the article proposes the utilization of the bioactivation optimization technique, which effectively enhances a person's psychophysiological functions and meets the requirements for psychophysiological support in military professional activities.


The invention discloses a multi-effect acupuncture point application ointment and a preparation method. The ointment is prepared from the following components in part by weight: 20-50 parts of radix aconite lateralis preparata, 20-50 parts of dried ginger, 10-30 parts of angelica dahurica, 5-25 parts of clove, 5-25 parts of evodia rutaecarpa, 10-30 parts of borneo camphor, and 0.5-3 parts of cabardine. The preparation method comprises the steps as follows: weighing borneo camphor and cabardine, mixing and crushing to obtain powder; weighing radix aconite lateralis preparata, dried ginger, angelica dahurica, clove and evodia rutaecarpa, adding the mixture into water, the weigh of which is 8-10 times of the total weight of the mixture, merging decoction, filtering with gauze to remove impurities, and condensing again to obtain extractum; and after cooling, mixing uniformly to obtain the extractum finished product. The ointment can replace acupuncture therapy of acupuncture needles, is suitable for patients fear acupuncture and faint during acupuncture treatment, has a good compromise, has good treatment effects on a variety of symptoms, can not cause iatrogenic infections, has no toxic or side effects, is safe to use by patients, is very convenient to carry and use, is low in preparation cost, and brings good news for patients having financial difficulties.


[Objective] To probe in to the possibility utilizing of application of double-route nasal endoscope in adenoidectomy. [Methods] 60 cases with children chronic nasosinusitis, sleep respiratory disorder, hearing loss caused by adenoid hypertrophy were operated through double-route nasal endoscopy in adenoidectomy, with the one year′s follow-up. [Results] The adenoid gland was removed completely without of destroying the normal anatomic character. [Conclusions] The application of double-route nasal endoscopy provides a direct and clear view that allows the surgeon to remove adenoie tissue more accurately and effectively with less complications.


To correct the errors in eye-glasses, arising from their spherical figure, and also from the different refrangibility of light, it has been held absolutely necessary to have two, placed in such manner, that the image formed by the object-glass of the telescope should be between them


The Enterprise Law and Investment Law, two key reforms which were promulgated last November, came into effect this July. Major objectives of these laws include expanding the freedom for people to conduct business, promoting private investment, strengthening the system that monitors business compliance, and creating a level playing field for businesses across all economic sectors. To achieve these ends, the government has recently issued implementing decrees and set up a task force to oversee their implementation. However, the business community continues to be concerned that, as is often the case in Vietnam, the practical implementation of laws and decrees can be inconsistent from the laws themselves. This bulletin discusses a number of concerns that remains among the business community, and discusses their recommendations on how the government can more effectively implement the two laws to achieve their objectives. This paper contains the following headings: business freedom; investor entry and compliance; encouraging private investment; and a level playing field for all businesses.


Chemokines are secreted proteins that function as chemoattractants, mediating the recruitment of specific subsets of leukocytes to sites of tissue damage and immunological reactions. Chemokines may also function as antiviral agents, since viruses such as human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV‐1) use chemokine receptors as co‐receptors for viral entry. This study examines whether virus‐induced interferon, IFNβ, or immune‐related interferon, IFNγ, affects the production of β‐chemokines by CNS microglia and peripheral monocytes. When IFNβ was used as the stimulus, induction of MIP‐1α, MIP‐1β, MCP‐1, and RANTES mRNA and protein was observed within 12 h of stimulation in microglia. By contrast, when IFNγ was used as the stimulus, only MCP‐1 was induced. IFNβ stimulation of blood monocytes resulted in upregulation of MIP‐1α, MIP‐1β, and MCP‐1. Thus, type I and II interferons differentially regulate β‐chemokines in human fetal microglia and peripheral blood monocytes. These observations may have relevance for the therapeutic activity of IFNβ in multiple sclerosis and for the antiviral effects of IFNβ for HIV‐1 infection of monocytes and microglia. GLIA 29:273–280, 2000. © 2000 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


We have designed a methodology to achieve treatment-actuated modifications in a tumor microenvironment by utilizing synergistic activity between two potential anticancer drugs. Dual drug delivery of Sorafenib (Sf) along with Cisplatin (Pt) exhibits a great anti-cancer potential, as
 Sf enhances the effect of Pt treatment of human osteosarcoma cells by providing microenvironment stability. However, encapsulation of Sf and Pt obsessed by poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid (PLGA)-based nanoparticles (PLGA-NPs) is incompetent owing to unsuitability between the binary free Sf and
 Pt moieties and the polymeric system. Now, we display that Pt can be prepared by hydrophobic covering of the drug centers with dioleoylphosphatidic acid (DOPA). The DOPA-covered Pt centers can be co-encapsulated in PLGA NPs alongside Sf to stimulate excellent anticancer property. The occurrence
 of the Pt centers suggestively enhanced the encapsulations of Sf into PLGA-NPs. Formation of the nanocomposite (Pt-Sf@PLGA-NPs) was confirmed by FTIR and X-ray spectroscopic techniques. Further, the morphology of Pt-Sf@PLGA-NPs and nanoparticle size was examined by scanning electron microscopic
 and transmission microscopy, respectively. Furthermore, Pt-Sf@PLGA-NPs induced significant apoptosis in human osteosarcoma MG-63 and U2OS cancer cells in vitro. The results suggest that Pt-Sf@PLGA-NPs are one of the promising human osteosarcoma cancer therapeutic candidates worthy of
 further investigations.


The Holarctic genus of Plemyria comprising two species, rubiginata (Denis et Schiffermiiller) and georgii (Hulst), is revised. Redescriptions of adults in cluding the genitalia as well as larvae and pupae are given. The monophyly of the genus is discussed.


The overhead crane is the important processing equipment of industrial production,widely applied in manufacturing,building,metallurgy,electric power,material circulation.With the increase of service period and use frequency,the car-rail and crane-rail of overhead cranes will have different degrees of gnawed rail phenomenon.With the method of quantitative analysis by different detection instruments,reasonable repair,quality control of maintenance,installation,debugging process,and appropriate follow-up service,we can improve the operating condition of gnawed car-rail and crane-rail of overhead cranes,prolong the service life of the cranes,give full play to its use efficiency.The paper presents the analysis to the principle theory of gnawed rail phenomenon,and the advices about the construction scheme and rectification measures of mainte nance and repair.


The Applied Meteorology Unit (AMU) acts as a bridge between research and operations by transitioning technology to improve weather support to the Shuttle and American space program. It is a NASA entity operated under a tri-agency agreement by NASA, the US Air Force, and the National Weather Service (NWS). The AMU contract is managed by NASA, operated by ENSCO, Inc. personnel, and is collocated with Range Weather Operations at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The AMU is tasked by its customers in the 45th Weather Squadron, Spaceflight Meteorology Group, and the NWS in Melbourne, FL with projects whose results help improve the weather forecast for launch, landing, and ground operations. This presentation describes the history behind the formation of the AMU, its working relationships and goals, how it is tasked by its customers, and examples of completed tasks.


Cost management has become a major strategic issue in world banking as revenues become harder to earn and loss provisions erode a large proportion of banks' net interest income. This article summarises a recent, extensive study on cost management in global banking that was conducted by Salomon Brothers and published in October 1993. The study covered 50 major banks in 11 countries.


Salome is one-act tragedy of Wilde written in French.It shows some kind of innovation in the aspect of theme,structure,imagery,stage effect as well as language style,which embodies Wilde's aesthetic ideas.Salome,as a sad and moving aesthetic song,shows Wilde's high sense of aestheticism.It is considerd the summit of Wilde's writing of tragedies.


During NATO operation "Allied Force" in the spring of 1999 a lot of industrial and military targets were burnt and damaged or destroyed, which resulted in the release of a huge amount of different toxic chemicals into atmosphere. The releases contained not only conventional air pollutants, but also persistent organic pollutants, hazardous to health. Under suitable meteorological conditions, these chemicals can be transported across the borders over large distances and lead to the long-range transport of these pollutants. It could be long-term source of pollution. Locations heavily targeted in the attacks were later defined by UNEP as four "hot spots": Kragujevac, Novi Sad, Pancevo and Bor. In 2000, UNEP/UNOPS Clean-up Project YUG 00-R71 was performed in "Zastava" car factory in Kragujevac. The aim of this work is to determine and define the content of POPs in air samples in gaseous phase in the town of Kragujevac, the zone potentially impacted by the POPs, using active sampling method. Paper presents selected original results obtained during air sampling campaign conducted in July 2004. This type of air analysis on presence of PCBs, HCHs, DDT/metabolites and PAHs was performed for the first time in Serbia.


Stochastic modeling suftware RMS/STORM is used in turbidite fan reservoir in Shanan oilfield. Turbidite fan model is built using the methods of truncation Gauss ,general marked point ,etc ,on the basis of the sedimentary feature of turbidite fan .The models of porosity,permeability and oil saturation are made with the log interpreted parameters of 60 development wells ,through data analysis ,data nomal transformation,variate difference analysis,under the control of microfacies of turbidite fan.The 3D geological model is trasformated for numerical simulator VIP ,using the function provided by RMS/STORM,and complete the model test ,so the numerical modeling result has the more reliable geological basis,and the integration from geological to numerical simulation is obtained.


Simple Summary Neuroblastoma is a pediatric cancer that arises in the sympathetic nervous system. High-risk neuroblastoma is clinically challenging and identification of novel therapies, particularly those that offer a reduction in morbidity for these patients, is a high priority. Combining genetic analyses with investigation of molecular mechanisms, while considering recent advances in our understanding of key developmental events, provides avenues for future treatment. Here we review and highlight several recently published articles that address novel molecular mechanisms arising from chromosome 1p, 2p, and 11q aberrations, which likely contribute to high-risk neuroblastoma, and discusses their potential impact on treatment options. Abstract Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid pediatric tumor, with around 15% childhood cancer-related mortality. High-risk neuroblastomas exhibit a range of genetic, morphological, and clinical heterogeneities, which add complexity to diagnosis and treatment with existing modalities. Identification of novel therapies is a high priority in high-risk neuroblastoma, and the combination of genetic analysis with increased mechanistic understanding—including identification of key signaling and developmental events—provides optimism for the future. This focused review highlights several recent findings concerning chromosomes 1p, 2p, and 11q, which link genetic aberrations with aberrant molecular signaling output. These novel molecular insights contribute important knowledge towards more effective treatment strategies for neuroblastoma.


● Models are essential to the deliberation to make complexity comprehensible & manageable ● Deliberation is essential to the construction & use of models for setting priorities & goals, and resolving trade-offs in outcomes ● We need to manage stakeholder expectations & build trust in models ● We need to be able to incorporate stakeholder knowledge The analytic-deliberative approach to catchment management


The sky region including the Chandra position of SGR 1806-20 was monitored in the IR band during 2004, following its increased high energy bursting activity. Observations were performed using NAOS-CONICA, the adaptive optics IR camera mounted on Yepun VLT, which provided images of unprecedented quality (FWHM better than 0.1). After the 2004 December 27th giant flare, the source position has been nailed by VLA observations of its radio counterpart, reducing the positional uncertainty to 0.04. Using IR data from our monitoring campaign, we discovered the likely IR counterpart to SGR 1806-20 based on positional coincidence with the Chandra and VLA uncertainty regions and flux variability of a factor of about 2 correlated with that at higher energies. We compare our findings with other isolated neutron star classes thought to be related, at some level, with SGRs.


Through determining the contents of five active constituents (secondary metabolites) in Eucommia ulmoides leaves from seven regions, the author concluded that the ecological factors were important in regulating the synthesis and accumulation of active constituents of medicinal plant. Stepwise regression analysis and path analysis indicated that the major factor influencing the synthesis and accumulation of active constituents was the contents of trace elements in the soil. Meteorological factors, however, showed little influence.


Investigation of scattering in optical coatings has been considerably extended in the last several years, and numerous factors (e.g., substrate and residual roughness, correlation and cut-off frequency, autocorrelation length and isotropy degree) have been studied in detail. Previous results have shown that residual roughness owing to TiO2/SiO2 and Ta2O5/SiO2 materials produced by ion-assisted deposition and ion plaitng is negligible compared to the roughness produced by a 0.5 nm substrate defect reproduction. In these conditions, measurement of scattering before coating is sufficient to permit an accurate prediction of angular and total scattering. In calculation, interface roughnesses are identical and are perfectly correlated to the substrate surface. We show that prediction of scattering remains valid over a large spectral range, but the deposition conditions of materials must be carefully defined. For example, one can show how the correlation between interfaces is modified by using an oblique incidence deposition. Moreover, by determining the isotropy degree of scattering, we can point out the consequences of local defects in the multilayers, especially for large scattering angles. For substrate roughnesses less than 0.5 nm, structural information on the coatings can be deduced from the residual scattering and is useful for the study of optimal conditions of deposition by such techniques as ion-assisted deposition and ion plating.


Geared Rotary Actuators are mechanically operable devices widely used in the aerospace industry so that controlled motion can be provided to secondary flight control surfaces. Their usage can be seen in a variety of applications including powered hinges for aircraft structural movements, they support aerodynamic loads in addition to the surface hinge moment, as an actuator in a linked mechanism where they supply actuation torque. Mostly GRAs are situated along with the bay door drives, and also can be used for controlling leading or trailing edge movements of the aircraft. They receive Power Drive Unit (PDU) torque via assembly of shafts and joints. From a mechanical standpoint, the GRAs can be termed as epicyclical gear reducer or compound planetary gearbox. In this work, the governing criteria and mathematical equations used to characterize GRA are discussed. SOLIDWORKS is used for part modeling of GRA. More focus will be on the speed reduction ratio calculation, determination of strength, and overall Factor of Safety (FOS) of the torque transmission unit. Thus an attempt is made to obtain the best performance parameters to meet the desired requirements of Geared Rotary Actuator.


4068 Background: Bevacizumab (BEV) is a monoclonal antibody that inhibits tumour angiogenesis by targeting VEGF. In a phase III trial (AVF2107g), BEV significantly improved overall (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) when combined with first-line irinotecan plus bolus 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)/leucovorin (LV) (IFL) in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). A multicentre, open-label trial is being conducted to evaluate the efficacy and safety of first-line BEV in combination with irinotecan and infusional 5-FU (FOLFIRI), a widely used first-line chemotherapy (CT) regimen. Methods: Patients had to have: mCRC; no surgery within 28 days; no prior CT for metastatic disease; ECOG PS 0/1, adequate organ function; no CNS metastases. CT consisted of a minimum of six cycles of irinotecan plus infusional 5-FU/LV according to the classical FOLFIRI regimen; variations like the simplified FOLFIRI and the weekly regimen were also allowed. BEV 5mg/kg was given on day 1 with CT and then every 2 weeks until di...


n o v i e m b r e 2 0 0 4 At present the terrestrial heat flux is 45-50 TW, and most seems to emanate from the crust and mantle. The radioactive decay from uranium and thorium series and the potassium 40 can explain 30-35 TW ; however, there is still a "hidden" source of heat. A natural nuclear reactor, called the georeactor, with a power output of 310 TW at the centre of the Earth inner core could be the answer. It could also be the solution of the earth's magnetic field puzzle. It can be tested using an antineutrinos detector. If the georeactor is detected, the standard planetary hypothesis about the origin of the Solar System perhaps should be modified.


Disclosed are turbine blades (43) for a turbine portion segment (14) of a gas turbine engine (10). The turbine blade (43) each comprises a wing surface (28), a platform (60) extending from one side of the wing surface (28), a root portion (64) extending from the platform (60) and at least one removing fin (50, 52). The at least one removing fin (50, 52) is connected to the root portion (64) and a lower side (61) of the platform (60); and the at least one removing fin (50, 52) extends along a wall (59, 65) of the root portion (64).


Abstract : Weapons of mass destruction pose an enormous threat to security and stability in the world as articulated in the Bush administration's recently published National Security Strategy. They constitute the greatest threat in the hands of terrorist groups and rogue states, sources which nonproliferation policies are designed to counter. However, weapons of mass destruction materials are also a threat from rational, non-rogue states including traditional world powers and states seeking prestige through the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction. Unless reduced and controlled, these materials may find their way into the hands of those willing to use them. To counter weapons of mass destruction proliferation and strengthen relations with allies and partners, the United States must engage the international community, adopt the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and charge the Department of Defense to provide trained and ready forces of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's On-Site Inspection Directorate to implement adversarial; reciprocal and cooperative nuclear inspection regimes.


Military euphemism is not just a rhetorical but rather a social phenomenon.It mostly serves the specific political purpose.It is helpful in uncovering the presentation and cognizing the true meaning to fully know its structural patterns,semantic feature,pragmatic principles and functions.Such holds an important and realistic significance in knowing its social effects.


It is necessary to analyze on the compressive strength among material properties of concrete for confirming damages of architectures due to large explosion. A non destructive test is known as the representative methods estimating compressive strength and ultrasonic pulse velocity, rebound hardness test are widely used because of their simplicity, convenience. But combined method supplementing two types is applied at now as they are affected by the characteristics of test specimen. In this research to check damages on the members of structure before and after explosion, the characteristics of compressive strength are compared and analyzed through a real explosion test prior to full scale structures. The test results showed that the larger the TNT powder and the shorter the distance, the greater the decrease in strength before and after the explosion and that the largest displacement and moment for the explosive load and the greatest decrease in the strength at the central part. Due to the surface condition and the thickness variation of the concrete specimens, the standard deviation value is the smallest in the combining method of fusion of the ultrasonic method and rebound hardness method. Thus, the combining method can be one of appropriate methods to evaluate the strength in the reinforced concrete structures damaged by the explosion.


Particle damping is an effective method of passive vibration control. Although it has been widely used in various structural damping applications, there are some points to be examined. Few studies have focused on the difference in the effectiveness of particle dampers for systems with different natural frequencies. Also, a computational scheme for conducting large-scale simulations has not been established. The authors previously presented some computational methods for predicting large-scale particle damping. The calculations are performed using equivalent large particles instead of the original-size particles. However, the range of the radius of the equivalent large particles for which these methods are effective is still incompletely understood. The objective of this study is to experimentally examine the difference in the effectiveness of particle dampers for systems with different natural frequencies and to investigate the relationship between the radius of the equivalent large particles and the validity of the computational methods.


The range of a previously developed capillary‐flow viscometer has been extended to − 100°C, and the techniques of obtaining and determining the attainment of steady state have been improved. The viscosities of nitrogen, helium, hydrogen, and argon have been measured by an absolute method from − 100 or − 90° to 25°C and up to 150–175 atm (250 atm for N2 at 25°C). The accuracy is estimated to be 0.1%–0.2%, but is somewhat worse for Ar at − 100°C. A number of empirical and theoretical analyses of the viscosity–density dependence have been made; the evidence is inconclusive as to the presence of a logarithmic term in the density expansion. Correlations of the second and the third virial coefficients of viscosity have been made.


As this article develops, it will become clear that we still do not know the factors that regulate lymph flow, but newly gathered information yields some clues as to what experiments need to be done to improve our understanding of the complexities os lymphatic function in regard to removing fluid from normal and edematous tissues


Tracking multiple moving objects of interest (OOI) with multiple robot systems (MRS) has been addressed by active sensing that maintains a shared belief of OOIs and plans the motion of robots to maximize the information quality. Mobility of robots enables the behavior of pursuing better visibility, which is constrained by sensor field of view (FoV) and occlusion objects. We first extend prior work to detect, maintain and share occlusion information explicitly, allowing us to generate occlusion-aware planning even if a priori semantic occlusion information is unavailable. The efficacy of active sensing approaches is often evaluated according to estimation error and information gain metrics. However, these metrics do not directly explain the level of cooperative behavior engendered by the active sensing algorithms. Next, we extract different emergent cooperative behaviors that stem from the same underlying algorithms but manifest differently under differing scenarios. In particular, we highlight and demonstrate three emergent behavior patterns in active sensing MRS: (i) Change of tracking responsibility between agents when tracking trajectories with divergent directions or due to a re-allocation of the resource among heterogeneous agents; (ii) Awareness of occlusions to a trajectory and temporal leave-and-return of the sensing agent; (iii) Sharing of local occlusion objects in MRS that subsequently improves the awareness of occlusion.


This study examines the lifting of sheared environmental air by gravity currents, focusing primarily on the theoretical ''optimal state'' in which near-surface flow is turned into a vertically oriented jet. Theoretical models are presented from multiple perspectives, including the vorticity perspective that was first presented by Rotunno, Klemp, and Weisman and a flow-force balance perspective based on conservation of mass and momentum. The latter approach reveals a constrainton the depth of the environmental shearlayer relative to the depth of the cold pool. Based on these control-volume constraints, a numerical solution for steady, inviscid, isentropic flow is obtained that shows how the cold-pool interface has a slightly concave shape and is nearly (although not strictly) vertical. Then, by initializing a time-dependent numerical model with a stagnant cold pool in an environment with low-level shear, it is shown that a statistically steady flow can be maintained with all the important elements of the analytic solution. Most notably, the front-relative flow is negligible behind the surface gust front at all levels, the interface of the cold pool maintains a predominantly vertical structure, and the net generation of vorticity by buoyancy within a control volume closely matches the horizontal flux of environmental vorticity on the side of the control volume. Sensitivity simulations confirm that the constraints identified by the analytic study must be met for the optimal state to be realized and that lifting of near-surface environmental air is optimized when a vertically oriented jet is created and maintained.


Di-Mannich bases have been prepared by the reaction of 2-nitrophenol and formaldehyde with dimethylamine, diethylamine, dipropylamine, pyrrolidine, piperidine, 2-, 3- and 4-methylpiperidine, 3,5-dimethylpiperidine and morpholine. The nitro compounds were reduced catalytically to the corresponding 2-aminophenols which with 4-chloro-7-trifluoromethylquinoline gave the di-Mannich bases of 2-(7′-trifluoromethylquinolin-4′-ylamino)phenol. Analogous compounds were synthesized from 3-and 5-methyl-2-nitrophenols, and pyrrolidine. The mono-Mannich compounds, 6-(3′-methylpiperidin-1′-ylmethyl)- and 6-(pyrrolidin-1′- ylmethyl)-2-(7″-trifluoromethylquinolin-4″-ylamino)pheno, were also prepared. The results for tests against a chloroquine-sensitive isolate (FCQ-27) and chloroquine-resistant isolate (K-1) of Plasmodium falciparum are reported.


The field of research training (for students and supervisors) is becoming more heavily regulated by the Federal Government. At the same time, quality improvement imperatives are requiring staff across the University to have better access to information and knowledge about a wider range of activities each year. Within the Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), the training provided to academic and research staff is organised differently and individually. This session will involve discussion of the dichotomies found in this differentiated approach to staff training, and begin a search for best practice through interaction and input from the audience.


This work is aimed at assessment of content quality of lesson scenarios in Moscow e-school, comparison of expert data with the features of application of these scenarios in order to reveal strong points and deficiencies in content of lesson scenarios. The considered lesson scenarios are characterized by high quality of material component of educational content. The lesson scenarios substantiate forms and types of control of educational results. Methodological support of the lessons, differentiation and individualization of the content, existence of nonstandard situations stimulating personal participation of students, instructions for a student have been manifested least in the lesson scenarios. High expert quality appraisals of lesson scenarios mostly do not coincide with the popularity of lesson scenarios among the users.


In this paper we refer to the combination of BLAST and space-time coding (STC) for multi-input multi-output systems as generalized layered space-time coding (GLST). A post-ordered decoding algorithm is introduced based on the generalization of the original BLAST ordering detection algorithm. The performance is analyzed through comparison to that of pre-ordered decoding with and without power allocation. Interleavered GLST with a new iterative process is also proposed. It can efficiently exploit full receive antenna diversity and thus significantly improve the system overall performance. Due to hard interference cancellation (IC) and ML decoder in the iterations, the new iterative decoding is much less complex than conventional turbo processing where soft IC and MAP decoder were applied.


Module and function of Intranet Office Automatic System(IOAS) are described.The design of security in network layer and network application layer applying to IOAS based on Lotus Domino/Notes is introduced in detail.


In a new approach to develop high current beams for heavy ion fusion, beam current at about 0.5 ampere per channel can be obtained by merging an array of high current density beamlets of 5 mA each. We have done computer simulations to study the transport of high current density beamlets and the emittance growth due to this merging process. In our RF multicusp source experiment, we have produced a cluster of 61 beamlets using minimum gas flow. The current density from a 0.25 cm diameter aperture reached 100 mA/cm. The normalized emittance of 0.02 p-mm-mrad corresponds to an equivalent ion temperature of 2.4 eV. These results showed that the RF argon plasma source is suitable for producing high current density beamlets that can be merged to form a high current high brightness beam for HIF application. Paper presented at the 10 International Conference on Ion Sources, Dubna, Russia, Sept. 8-13 (2003), and to be published in Rev. Sci. Instrum.


War reparations was a inevitable problem in the evolution of relations between Philippines and Japan after WWⅡ. the United States held the initiative in the Japanese policy of reparation before the San Francisco meeting. As for the initial policy of demolition's reparation, Philippines expressed support. But with the Cold War intensified, the United States' policy of reparation shift to reduce or even abandon to Japan, which was the opposition of the Philippines and other countries. Out of strategic thinking, the United States put forward "labor reparation". After the San Francisco meeting, reparation shift to bilateral orbits in two countries. Due to the Philippines domestic partisan struggle, solution to the issue of reparation became a prerequisite for ratifying the San Francisco peace treaty. After continuous negotiations, the two sides eventually concluded the reparation agreement for clearing the obstacle to the normalization of relations between Philippines and Japan.


The influence of electron inertia, ion streaming and weak relativistic effects on the modulational instability of ion-acoustic waves in a collisionless unmagnetized plasma is investigated. The derivative expansion method is used to derive a nonlinear Schrödinger equation, from which an instability criterion is deduced. When electron inertia is ignored, ion streaming and weak relativistic effects have little effect on the instability criterion. It is shown that when electron inertia is taken into account, the instability criterion is sensitive to weakly relativistic ion streaming, but not to the ratio of electron mass to ion mass.


The sudden fall of blood pressure (hypotension — HT) is a common complication in medical care. In critical care patients, HT may cause serious neurological, heart, or endocrine disorders, inducing severe or even lethal events. Recent studies report an increase of mortality in HT prone hemodialysis patients in need of critical care. Predicting HT episodes in advance is crucial to enable medical staff to minimize its effects or even avoid its occurrence. Most medical systems have focused on monitoring and detecting current patient status, rather than determining biosignal trends or predicting the patient's future status. Therefore, predicting HT episodes in advance remains a challenge. In this paper, we present a solution for continuous monitoring and efficient prediction of HT episodes. We propose an architecture for a HT Predictor (HTP) Tool, capable of continuously storing and real-time monitoring all patient's heart rate and blood pressure biosignal data, alerting probable occurrences of each patient's HT episodes for the following 60 minutes, based on non-invasive hemodynamic variables. Our system also promotes medical staff mobility, taking advantage of using mobile personal devices such as cell phones and PDA's. An experimental evaluation on real-life data from the well-known Physionet database shows the tool's efficiency, outperforming the winning proposal of the Physionet 2009 Challenge.


The thesis classified the views of intellects in modern China on agricultural important status in the national economy and social development first,and then made a probe into their causes of attaching importance to agriculture,put forward several distinguish features in the end.


The purpose of this study to determine the development of visiting archipelago tourists from Jambi City to TNKS, factors that influence, and willingness to pay. The data used are secondary from BPS and primary data from questionnaires and direct interviews with a sample of 39. The sampling methods used was purposive sampling. The data an analysis tools are used is descriptive and quantitave analysis's with multiple linear analysis. The resulth of this study indicate, the average development of tourists visiting the archipelago is 24,82%, the average hotel rates is 5,70%, the average number of private vehicles in Jambi City is 22,64%, the average productive populasi of Jambi City is 1,8%. The simultaneous all variables have a positive and signifikan effect. While partially the average hotel rates in Kerinci has a negative and insignificant effect, while the number of private vehicles in Jambi City and productive populasi of Jambi City have a positive and significant. Willingness to pay/WTP recorded at Rp. 4.026.375,- with an average of Rp. 2.647,- per person.
Keywords: Average Hotel Rates, Number of Private Vehicles, Productive Population, Number of Nusantara Tourist Visits (WTP).


Dielectric properties of material are important properties because it describes the interaction of material with electromagnetic waves. The complex permittivity value of material is interesting because it can represent on how much energy savings and dissipation when the material gets exposed to electromagnetic waves. The aim of this paper was to determine complex permittivity by Nicolson-Ross-Weir (NWR) method. The NWR method was based on the phenomenon of reflection and transmission of electromagnetic wave that drip on materials. The values of the reflection coefficient () and the transmission coefficient (T) were derived from reflection (S11) and transmission (S12) parameters. Determination of real permittivity in the frequency range of 10 GHz to 15 GHz of BaFe12O19 material was e ' = 4.36 and e " = 6.23. The second sample was BaFe9 (MnCo)1,5Ti1,5O19, the values of e ' = 5.49, while e " = 9.35. From the two test materials, it was revealed that in the frequency range of 10 GHz to 15 GHz, absorption did not occur in BaFe12O19, while in BaFe9 (MnCo)1.5Ti1,5O19 absorption occured at 13.0 GHz. Keywords : Ferromagnetic, S-parameter, complek permittivity


The invention provides a method and a device for outputting a user interface of a client. The method mainly comprises the following steps: providing a plurality of theme skins to the client, wherein each theme skin comprises a plurality of shading patterns and red-green-blue (RGB) color values; and outputting the user interface of the client according to the theme skin selected by a user, and information on shadings and the RGB color values selected by the user in the theme skins. By using the method and the device, the user can select the information of the shadings, the RGB color values and the like under the theme skins at will according to personal wishes, and can define the RGB color values under the theme skins by self. Thus, the user can flexibly change the appearance of the user interface of the client, and the personalized experience requirements of the user are better satisfied.


Because the phenomenon of ordering in Ga[sub 0.52]In[sub 0.48]P reduces the optical band gap, the amount of band gap reduction is often taken as an indicator of the extent of ordering. For such an association to be meaningful, the band gap of the perfectly disordered'' material must be known. Values have been reported which vary by as much as 40 meV, whereas the total ordering-induced band gap reduction measured to date is less than 135 meV. In this paper we report that studies of Ga[sub 0.52]In[sub 0.48]P grown by a variety of techniques and, in some cases, subsequently subjected to disordering conditions lead to a value of the low temperature band gap of 2.015[plus minus]0.007 eV.


Aspergillus species is a fungus that causes invasive diseases with high mortality in immunosuppressed patients. We present a case of the central nervous system aspergillosis in an immunocompetent patient. A 27-year-old man was admitted to the hospital with complaints of headache and visual disturbance. He was a known case of fungal sinusitis and used to inhale opium. In cranial magnetic resonance imaging, a mass lesion in the right frontal lobe was observed. The pathology result was in favor of the aspergillus infection. The substance abuse by inhalation is considered a possible route of fungal entry, especially in the immunocompetent patient.


The work is dedicated to increase the efficiency of the processing of Fusarium contaminated barley biomass by using pretreatment of grains with antimicrobial lactic acid bacteria in combination with special selected strains of yeast for alcoholic fermentation. Bacteriocins producing lactic acid bacteria (LAB) have been isolated from Lithuanian spontanious rye sourdoughs. These LAB's were attributing to Lactobacillus and Pediococcus genotypes and Lactobacillus sakei KTU05-06, Pediococcus acidilactici KTU05-07 and P. pentosaceus KTU05-08 species, PCR detection of LAB structural genes has been carried out. The contamination of barley with Fusarium spp. decrease the amount of ethanol during fermentation processes ( R 2 = 0.868) and, contrary, increase the concentrations of higher alkohols ( R 2 = 0.867). The efficiency of fermentation process could be increased by selecting yeast strains: a higher ethanol yield and a lower amount of higher alkohols was observed by using K. marxianus var. Bulgaricus. Other yeast strains – K. Marxianus show the same effect on fermentation processes as S. cerevisae . The treatment of contaminated barley with selected LAB has not a significant influence on bioethanol yield. But by using some LAB strains such as P. acidilactici and P. pentosaceus a higher amount of higher alkohols has been developed. Furthermore in all cases this biotechnological solution has positive influence on dried grains with solubles (DDGS) detoxification by decreasing the amount of DON in important raw material for feed production. The best detoxification effect has been achieved by using P. acidilactici or L. sakei for contaminated barley treatment and S. cerevisiae – for fermentation processes. So, by selecting LAB with antimicrobial activity in combiantion with yeast, the efficiency of the processing of Fusarium cantaminated barley can be significantly increased: biomass could be used for bioethanol production and DDGS – for feed. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ct.60.2.1617


In the context of Western Europe, we see two prominent shifts in the arena of planning. The first one is that the city planning authorities have embraced strategic spatial planning as an overarching instrument to construct visions for the future and to pave the way to reach there. Secondly, there is an increasing awareness of the multi-functionality of agriculture which reveals that agriculture holds benefit for urban dwellers. This research is built from the convergence of these two debates and investigates the place of agriculture in strategic spatial planning documents of Western Europe. Exploring the documents of three cities to identify the reasons why agriculture has been included and the extent to which it has been integrated, this research evaluates these findings against evidence from a thorough literature review on the subject. Conclusions are drawn for each individual case and then widened to the larger context of Western Europe.


fitmacro calculates N, prob, AIC, BIC, and "critical N" for loglinear models estimated using glm with the poisson family. For other estimation commands, fitstat by Jeremy Freese and J. Scott Long will be a better solution. Use after estimating a model with glm. No further specifications are required. This version is compatible with Stata version 7.


Thin films of superconducting BiCaSrCuO have been grown by molecular beam epitaxy depositions of Bi, Cu, and CaF2/SrF2 on MgO and SrTiO3 followed by a high‐temperature oxygen anneal. The films showed a fairly wide transition of 20 K at a Tc of 80 K. Residual amounts of fluorine, detected with secondary‐ion mass spectrometry, are believed to cause the broad superconducting transition. X‐ray diffraction analysis of the superconducting films revealed strongly c‐axis oriented films consisting of Bi2CaSr2Cu2O8 and Bi2Sr2Cu1O6 phase. Surface structure studies, with scanning electron microscopy and scanning tunneling microscopy, show oriented 1 μm sized very smooth flat grains of superconducting phase in the plane of the film with islands of CuOx scattered on top of these.


An account of the importance of the photographic documentation of the Nazi concentration camps for the reaction to and understanding of Nazism and the Holocaust.


Growing demand in sustainable high‐rise timber structures is satisfied by proposing innovative structural systems that enhance the building's stiffness, strength, and energy‐dissipation capacity. This study propose and develop the performance‐based design (PBD) guideline for balloon type cross‐laminated timber (CLT) coupled wall (CLT‐CW) structure. In this system, the CLT shear‐walls are connected with energy dissipation coupling beams that comprise shear‐links and in return reduce the seismic demand of the system. To facilitate the desired rocking deformation mode of CLT shear‐wall panels, buckling‐restrained brace (BRB) hold‐downs are used. Utility of the proposed system and design is applied on a 20‐story balloon CLT‐CW system. To investigate the effect of coupling ratio ( CR$CR$ ) on the behavior of the system, five CR$CR$ values (10%–50%) are used. Nonlinear and incremental dynamic analyses (IDAs) are performed using suitable set of 30 ground motion (GM) records that reflects the seismicity of Vancouver, Canada. Fragility curves are developed and compared considering both the collapse and non‐collapse limit states. The results show that, for a given CLT‐CW system, a system with higher CR$CR$ value exhibits better seismic performance.


In this paper, the classification process of land use in Guangzhou was described by using Landsat TM data between 1997 and 2003. After being geometrically corrected, subseted and enhanced, the images were classified into 9 classes as farmland, orchard, forest, disk-pond, urban and rural land, developing area, river, lake and unused land by using maximum likelihood classifier. The total classification accuracy was also reported in this paper. A mathematic method was used to analyze the change of land use by the conversion matrix of land use from 1997 to 2003, including the change-amount, the change-rate, the change-transition and the regional difference. Two important results were obtained by this research: (1) There was no significant change on land use of Guangzhou during 1997~2003; (2) a distinct difference was found on spatial distributing of land use of Guangzhou from 1997 to 2003.


Marketing management in the minimarket business needs to implement the target market and marketing mix to influence consumer purchasing decisions. Companies must have the ability to know what is needed by consumers. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of Price, Product Quality, and Location on Decision Purchase of products at the General Store Putra RahayuKaranganyar. In this research data collection method is done with several instruments, namely: observation, interview, and a questionnaire. The main instrument used is the questionnaire supported by observation and interview. The result of multiple linear analysis shows that the most influential independent variable to the dependent variable is the location variable. Result of t test have result that all variable have positive effect to purchasing decision. The result of F test analysis is known together there is significant influence on price variable, product quality, and location of product purchase at Toserba Putra RahayuKaranganyar. It is known from the results of F, F calculate F table and significance value <limit of significance. To test the coefficient of determination, the variable has a percentage of 49.6% influence purchase decision while the rest is influenced by other variables outside the variables in this study.

Keywords: Purchase Decision, Price, Product Quality, and Location


The purpose of this paper is to examine the possibilities for Northeast Asian economic cooperation made manifest by plans for the development of the Russian Far East being pursued by the Putin and Medvedev administrations, along with strategies that should be pursued afterwards by Northeast Asian countries to promote cooperation. The plan for the development of the Russian Far East during the Putin administration was made an exclusive purview of the federal government, and Northeast Asian countries looking to participate were deliberately excluded. When the weaknesses of the Russian government that was not readily apparent were laid bare as a result of the financial crisis in 2008, the Russians realized the necessity of cooperation with countries in Northeast Asia to procure capital and technology that was found lacking. Yet despite positive impetus such as the end of the Cold War and plans for development of the Far East, multilateral cooperation was made impossible by path dependencies formed among Northeast Asian countries as a result of differences in perspectives concerning the development of the Russian Far East. In the case of Japan, the development of the Russian Far East is intimately linked with the return of four islands to the north of Japan. The concomitant issue for Korea would be Inter-Korean relations, while China`s path dependency concerns the need to `balance` Russia. Therefore, instead of bilateral reciprocation between Russia and China, Russia and Japan, and Russia and Korea; this paper seeks to examine the potential for more effective economic cooperation in Northeast Asia that would be presented by a multilateral/pragmatic approach.


Inspired by the regulation mechanism of biological neuro-endocrine system,a neuron-endocrine computation model is proposed.In the model,the endocrine system regulates the learning and memorization behaviors of the neural system by feedback control,which could adjust the agent's behavior in time and improve its ability to learn and adapt to the unknown environment.To verify the validity of the model,we performed a simulation experiment,in which the proposed model and Q-learning with discrete states were utilized respectively to help a robot learn the ability of obstacle avoidance.Experimental results show that the proposed model is more effective than the Q-learning with discrete states.


Nowadays, 81 species and 56 genera of arachnids belonging to 4 orders (Pseudoscorpionida, Trombidiformes, Opiliones and Aranei) and 19 families have been recorded in apple orchards of southeastern Kazakhstan. The order of spiders (Aranei) is dominant in diversity – 16 families, 54 genera and 73 species, the remaining orders include one family and 1-2 genera and species. According to the number of genera and species, the Araneidae family is dominant – 11 species and 9 genera. It is followed by the families Thomisidae (9 genera and 10 species), Salticidae (8 genera and 9 species), Lycosidae (5 genera and 9 species), Philodromidae (4 genera and 9 species), Theridiidae (3 genera and 5 species) and Gnaphosidae (4 genera and 4 species). Other families are represented by 1-2 genera and species. In general, the fauna of arachnid apple plantations, in which chemical pesticide treatments are used, is much more depleted (by 2 or more times) compared to gardens without such treatments and natural biotopes. Data on the consumption of pest caterpillars by different types of spiders in laboratory maintenance are given. Amaurobius erberi (Keyserling, 1863) ate up to 10 caterpillars of the codling moth Cydia pomonella (Linnaeus, 1758) or up to 5 caterpillars of the clouded drab Orthosia incerta (Hufnagel, 1766) per day. Steatoda paykulliana (Walckenaer, 1806) destroyed an average of 5 caterpillars of the codling moth or 3 caterpillars of the clouded drab per day. Smaller species, such as Diaea suspiciosa O.P.-Cambridge, 1885, Xysticus pseudocristatus Azarkina & Logunov, 2001 and Evarcha arcuata (Clerck, 1758), ate 2-3 caterpillars per day. For the first time in the apple orchard, the spider Olios sericeus (Kroneberg, 1875) was recorded, in Kazakhstan this species was previously noted as synanthropic.


The invention relates to a mobile communication region user identification module, particularly relating to a process that a mobile terminal device operates the database on an intelligent card through an STK way. A process of interactively managing the database by the intelligent card and the mobile terminal service comprises the following steps gaining the data operation information of users through the interact the SIK active command and the mobile terminal device, deciding the expanding STK database command according to the data operation information, and modulating the relative database API function to execute the data operations in the database according to the expanding STK database command. The invention also provides an intelligent card of the mobile terminal. The intelligent card executes the expanding STK database command and modulates the database API function after the operation information of the mobile terminal device user for the data, thereby realizing the function that the mobile terminal device manages the database on the intelligent card through the operation of the STK way, and supporting the function for fast maintaining and searching of users to the database with large size.


This letter proposes an efficient compression scheme for the copyrightand privacy-protected image trading system. The proposed scheme multiplies pseudo random signs to amplitude components of discrete cosine transformed coefficients before the inverse transformation is applied. The proposed scheme efficiently compresses amplitude-only image which is the inversely transformed amplitude components, and the scheme simultaneously improves the compression efficiency of phase-only image which is the inversely transformed phase components, in comparison with the conventional systems. key words: digital fingerprinting, trusted third party, random phase flipping, quantization, JPEG 2000


In the South African context, small private training institutions are arguably one of the crucial stakeholders supplying e-skills. However, researchers have devoted little attention in prior e-skills research to examine this stakeholder group. In particular, a description of the current e-skill training programmes and projects offered by these providers is almost non-existent. The purpose of this exploratory field study is to survey trends in e-skill training offered by small private providers in Gauteng. Findings from 72 training firms' show that e-Business, e-Literacy, and e-User related training are the most popular. The study also indicates that e-Practitioner courses are receiving only moderate attention, while e-Government and e-Participation offerings are almost non-existent. Training offered in the various skill categories do not vary greatly tending to be specialised vendorspecific training, many of which are organisational and not social in their focus. The paper concludes with some implications for the national e-skill action plan to address how these small training providers can assist in matching the training needs of a broader society.


This paper addresses the methodological issue of conceptualising patron deities of maritime life in the context of a local Greek religious system. Should we expect that all members of an island community shared in the worship of the same maritime patrons? We may wish to distinguish those locals who rarely travel by sea from those who engage with the sea on a daily basis close to home (fishermen) and further from those who engage with the sea periodically but on long-distance journeys (merchants). I argue that a variety of deities are likely to emerge as relevant to local worshippers in different contexts of their engagement with the sea, and that we may expect to find various locals of the same community sailing 'with' different gods.


REVIEWER JUDITH HORCHLER is a Graduate Student in the Doctor of Education program at Ashland University, Ashland, OH. Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace provides a framework for developing a postsecondary level online course. Communication and constructivist pedagogy are the key elements that allow students and instructors to develop a sense of community online reflective of the traditional classroom. A strong learning environment can be achieved using two major components of technology, hardware and software. Successful learning communities are achievable in today's electronic classrooms. Palloff and Pratt divide the book into two sections: The learning community in cyberspace and building an electronic community. The authors present their strategies for an online classroom in a very logical and easy to read format. Part One addresses the theoretical as well as ethical issues associated with web-based instruction (WBI). Part Two provides the framework on how to actually achieve a strong learning community through the use of specific examples. This "how-to" section of the book gives a variety of examples for prospective WBI educators from what to include in the course syllabus to how to use e-mail and chat sessions effectively. Examples of a constructivist approach to education are provided and explained in this work. The use of diagrams, outlines, samples, and student comments add to the reliability of the book. Added features of the book are the resource sections. These provide examples of course syllabi, a glossary of terms used primarily in computer-based instruction, and Internet resources for distance education. The bibliography is extensive, including sources covering theory as well as application. With the exception of three of the references, all of the resources cited in the bibliography were published since 1990. In Part One, the authors state that there are six keys to the creation of a learning community: honesty, responsiveness, relevance, respect, openness, and empowerment (italic in original). Included is a chapter on what makes a community and how these elements can be replicated in a web-based instruction course. Psychological, ethical, and privacy issues associated with electronic learning are often reported as being negative factors associated with WBI. The authors do not disagree, but provide ways in which instructors could over come the negative and create a positive experience for online students. Part One also provides the reader with guidelines as to time and class size. Time is a major concern to instructors and students. How much time is required to be devoted to online work and how much to offline work? How much time is the instructor required to set aside for basic class management tasks and in direct communication with students? These questions are addressed and guidelines provided by the authors. Class size, like in most electronic mediums, should be fairly small, around twenty to twenty-five, depending on the performance outcomes associated with the specific course. The last chapter in Part One is managing the technology. The need for students and instructors to have technical support available for them by the institution is critical according to Falloff and Pratt. Every student will enter the class with a wide variety of technical skills and computer limitations. Having the proper technical support in the form of human assistance and the appropriate software will lead to greater success. …


(51) International Patent Classification: (74) Agent: MAYER, Nancy, S.; E. I. du Pont de Nemours and C09D 5/00 (2006.01) C09D 7/12 (2006.01) Company, Legal Patent Records Center, 4417 Lancaster Pike, Wilmington, Delaware 19805 (US). (21) International Application Number: PCT/US2007/005935 (81) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every kind of national protection available): AE, AG, AL, AM,


Modern times leave us deprived of truth, but still thirsty for meaning. We suffer from a « sickness of belief » because we have lost the strength to doubt. After Paul Ricœur, it is possible to bear « a post-religious faith ».


Electrochemical methods have been used to show that the radical anions of tetraphenylallene and tetraphenylpropene undergo rapid protonation under conditions in which the radical anions of planar aromatic hydrocarbons are stable. Further reduction occurs to the tetraphenylallyl carbanion which was identified by visible and electron spin resonance spectroscopy and chemical methods. Aspects of the reduction are discussed in terms of molecular orbital theory.


Abstract The few existing studies on the pharmacological treatment of major depression in adolescents indicate that most patients respond partially or not at all to a tricyclic antidepressant (TCA). Information from a retrospective chart review of 14 adolescents diagnosed with nonbipolar depression who were treated openly with a TCA/lithium combination after an inadequate response to a TCA alone is presented here. The clinical course, including TCA choice and dosage, lithium dosage and serum levels, clinical response, and side effects, is detailed. Six of the 14 patients achieved a good response on this combination. All patients tolerated the TCA/lithium combination well. Results are contrasted with those presented in the adult literature, which is reviewed.


US utility PacifiCorp has implemented an innovative load programme to manage air conditioning load during peak periods. The Cool Keeper programme enables it to address peak demand and grid congestion issues.


Through chemical composition analysis of different grades casting intermixing slab with 0.40% carbon difference, a general law of molten steel mutual mixing has been drawn out. It reveals that different grades casting has a little effect on the tail-slab of former heat, but has a sever effect on the head slab of later heat.


Elizabeth W. Fernea (1927–2008) left an impressive body of writing on Arab social structures and cultural practices. Her studies involve a fascinating amalgam of biographical narrative and shrewd ethnographic observations. This paper focuses on her experience in Morocco as reflected in A Street in Marrakech (1975). The salient quality of Fernea's writings on Morocco is her sensitive and highly complex construction of Moroccan female identity not so much as a fixed and pure category perceived as alien and irreconcilable with 'Western values', as a nebulous entity always in the making. Fernea's term 'encounter' is symbolic of this phenomenon. While writing about Moroccans she demonstrates a high degree of awareness of her problematic position as a foreign scholar. In her lived experience as in her writing she assumes the posture of a curious subject who resists the lure of Manichean divisions of Self and Other, and shuns the ideological rhetoric in which these fixed and disparate identities are often couched. While she perceives her encounter with Moroccans as a form of contestation and discovery, she ultimately appeals to an all-encompassing, humanistic vision that transcends spatial and ethnic divisions. The subjective quality which dominates her writing and her distinct interest in female subjects emanates from the conviction that knowledge and understanding of foreign cultures comes at best through a considerable degree of sympathy and deep, personal involvement.