Many consumers do not read privacy notices despite the fact that websites post privacy notices to address consumers' long-standing concerns about privacy protection on the internet. To understand why consumers do not read privacy notices and the impact of reading (or not reading) privacy notices on the found effect of privacy notices, data were collected from 137 readers of privacy notices and 97 non-readers of privacy notices. This research's test of the moderating effects of reading (or not reading) privacy notices found that perceived privacy protection positively affected trust and negatively affected perceived information risk and that the negative effect of perceived privacy protection on perceived information risk became stronger for privacy notice readers. This research also developed a typology of reasons why consumers read and do not read privacy notices.


This paper present a new method for detection of the edges.The image's gradient magnitude mean and the variance of every pixel in the image relative to the gradient magnitude mean are calculated according to the method proposed in the paper.The best threshold value is calculated basing on the the gradient magnitude mean and the variance of the image.Then,the noise is eliminated by the method of eliminating noise proposed in the paper.The experimental results show that the new method could locate the edge accurately,and restrain noise of the images at the same time.


In this paper, we adopted AFLP molecular marker technique to analyze the genetic differences of 85 individuals of Channa maculata , Channa algus and their hybrid ( C. maculata ♀× C. argus ♂), among which Channa maculata and Chonna argus was 30 respectively, their hybrid was 25. The results showed that tota1 of 459 bands were obtained by 11 primer combinations, of which 350 were polymorphic bands, the percentage of polymorphic loci was 76.25%, the average of polymorphic bands per primer combination was 31.8. There were 169 discrepant bands could be distinguished C. maculata and C. argus steadily, 78 of those were paternal ( C. argus ) specific bands and 72 were entailed on hybrid, 89 of those were maternal ( C. maculata ) specific bands and 71 were entailed on hybrid. In addition, there were 3 nonparental bands in hybrid. The results of analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) found that the Nei's unbiased measures of genetic identity between C. maculata and C. argus was 0.516 1, while those between hybrid and C. maculata , hybrid and C. argus was 0.718 9 and 0.747 6. And their Nei's unbiased measures of genetic distance were respectively 0.661 5, 0.330 0 and 0.290 9, respectively, the analysis of molecular variance analysis (AMOVA) displayed that. There was significantly genetic differentiation among C. maculata , C. argus and the hybrid. On the other hand, the UPGMA cluster analysis revealed that, individuals of C. maculata and C. argus could be distinguished into two populations, but most individuals of hybrid scattered in populations of C. maculata and C. argus . In populations cluster analysis hybrid and C. argus populations were cluster firstly, then clustered with C. maculata . The preliminary analysis result indicated that the hybrid was supposed to be isolation cultivated because of high promiscuous possibility among C. maculata, C. argus and their hybrid. The results of this article would provide experimental evidence for genetic assaying of C. maculata , C. argus and their hybrid and the refference for reasonable utilization of their germplasms.


The capital market is an integral part of the development of a nation. Thus, several studies have been carried out to determine the pricing mechanism and efficient market test of capital markets in both advanced and developing countries (Nigeria inclusive). This paper sets to determine the type of efficiency in the Nigerian Capital Market. The study adopted a desk research approach and reviewed several empirical works on the subject to provide theoretical evidence in the Nigerian Capital Market. The findings revealed that the Nigerian Capital Market is efficient in the weak form due to the ability of investors to decode a whole lot of information concerning the entire operations of the organizations listed in the exchange. It also emerged that the share prices in the NSE are not random and thus not efficient in the weak form. The findings are obviously antagonizing. Reason being that, the studies reviewed lacks clear cut demarcation between information, operation, and allocation efficiency in the capital market as one cannot assume the place of the other. We therefore suggest the creation of a real time channel for speedy dissemination of information concerning corporations in the exchange. For the researchers, we strongly suggest that more probing studies should be carried out to ascertain the operational, allocation and informational efficiency of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.


The development of telecommunication and information infrastructures in the remote area as part of UniversalService Obligation program has enabled its inhabitant to have equal opportunity to participate in theglobal communication. This study focused on how rural people used information and communication technology.Quantitative and qualitative methods were selected to describe the internet usage in the remote areas in East Java.Quantitative research method was used to describe variables in numerical data while qualitative research methodwas used to give narrative description. The result showed that there was a digital divide among the users ofinformation and communication technology, with male users being more dominant than female. Besides, internet,innovation program was mostly used by students and young people. The introduction of internet in the rural areashad given the people access to the information and communication and had become a means of learning theinternet. The utilization of communication and information facilities, however, had not been optimized.


When moderately steep waves travel over a periodic rippled bed, class III Bragg resonance may occur due to the third-order quartet wave-bottom interaction among one bottom and three surface wave components. The theory, however, has not been experimentally confirmed. To verify the existence of class III Bragg resonance, we consider the simplest possible case involving a single incident wave and conduct a series of physical experiments. The experiments show that as the theory predicts, class III Bragg resonance could generate not only the reflected waves (from subharmonic resonance) but also the transmitted waves (from superharmonic resonance), and the reflection and transmission coefficients vary linearly along the rippled bottom patch. Furthermore, the experimental data of the reflected and transmitted waves (due to class III resonance) agree quantitatively well with the prediction by high-order spectral (HOS) method computations. To further understand the characteristics of class III resonance, we apply HOS simulations to study the more general cases including the presence of two incident waves of different frequencies as well as the presence of an incident wave group with Gaussian envelope. The results show that in addition to class I and class II Bragg resonances, class III Bragg resonance can significantly influence the evolution of surface wave fields passing over a rippled bottom, especially in the case of shallow water.When moderately steep waves travel over a periodic rippled bed, class III Bragg resonance may occur due to the third-order quartet wave-bottom interaction among one bottom and three surface wave components. The theory, however, has not been experimentally confirmed. To verify the existence of class III Bragg resonance, we consider the simplest possible case involving a single incident wave and conduct a series of physical experiments. The experiments show that as the theory predicts, class III Bragg resonance could generate not only the reflected waves (from subharmonic resonance) but also the transmitted waves (from superharmonic resonance), and the reflection and transmission coefficients vary linearly along the rippled bottom patch. Furthermore, the experimental data of the reflected and transmitted waves (due to class III resonance) agree quantitatively well with the prediction by high-order spectral (HOS) method computations. To further understand the characteristics of class III resonance, we apply ...


The parallel iterative method was proposed for flexible multibody dynamic equations. With the proposed method the index-1DAEs were treated. Such systems are frequently encountered in flexible mechanism dynamics. The new dynamic iteration process has been developed, which it is a considerable improvement over the waveform relaxation algorithms. The inner-outer step parallel iterative process has been raised, and further proved the convergence of the iterative algorithm, as well as the error estimate has been accomplished.


Objective To investigate the preventive education and foot care of diabetic patients with early measures to reduce the incidence of diabetic foot. Methods Xuanwei City People's Hospital in May 2007 to May 2012, 127 cases of patients with diabetes treated health knowledge missionaries and foot care and psychological care, tracking the occurrence observed in patients with dia-betic foot, and to evaluate the control effect. Results 127 cases of diabetes in the implementation of early prevention education and foot care, and 109 cases of the condition of patients suffering from diabetic foot control and stability, did not occur diabetic foot. 18 cases have been suffering from diabetic foot patients, 0, 1 patients were cured, 2, 3 feet dry in patients with wound narrow, with good results. Conclusion Diabetic foot prevention is better than cure, good preventive education and care of diabetes patients with early, lowering the rate of patients with diabetic foot amputations and improve the quality of life of patients has important significance.


Vocal learning in songbirds is guided by experience and experience-independent factors. Previously, lineages of zebra finches founded by isolate-reared tutors showed cultural evolution to wild-type song. This suggests that experience-independent biases affect song development even in the absence of wild-type song. We hypothesized that cultural evolution of song depends on both experience-independent biases and tutor songs available. We predicted that songs more distant from wild-type would take longer to culturally evolve toward wild-type features. We bred zebra finches in three groups of lineages in which offspring of each generation served as tutors for the next. Lineages were founded with males singing wild-type song, isolate song, or heterospecific song. The two experimental lineages exhibited rapid cultural evolution of song with many temporal and spectral features converging to wild-type within two generations. However the rate of change differed depending on song features measured, and took longer for lineages founded with heterospecific song.


This paper tangibly reflects paradigm shift emerging from technological developments required for effective and efficient services by the academic libraries of 21 st Century. The open information culture has shifted focus from subject experts and limited modes to common man's participative domain where inputs can be simultaneously added and accessed and new modes of wikis, blogs, Web 2.0, information commons, instant messaging are in vogue, where academic libraries has great onus of quenching the quests of information seekers by incorporating the revolutionary technological changes to provide state of the art services. The challenges associated with acquiring, organizing, making available, and preserving the information. The remarkable growth of Internet has made significant revolution in all the areas of science and technology. Libraries and librarians have to be change otherwise it is difficult to provide good service to students and researcher.


Project ACTION has launched Phase II of its national research and local demonstration effort by funding 22 local demonstration projects and two research initiatives. These 22 projects are aimed at broadening the scope of Project ACTION's mission: developing and demonstrating tools, techniques and strategies promoting cooperation among transit disability interests and improving the delivery of accessible transportation services to people with disabilities. This new round of projects involves initiatives focusing on Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) implementation. The article provides a brief description of each of the approved projects.


We characterized the nondust aerosol having the strongest spectral dependance of light absorption (as indicated by the Absorption Ångström Exponent, AAE) at visible wavelengths in the urban ambient atmosphere of the Po Valley (Bologna). We defined "brown" this bulk aerosol with brown color (it does not necessarily equate to brown carbon). In situ ground measurements of aerosol spectral optical properties, PM1 chemical composition (HR-ToF-AMS), and coarse and fine 5 size distributions, were carried out in Bologna, and data statistically analysed. Findings prove that "brown" aerosol is a secondary aerosol with AAE values from 2.5 to 6, containing large concentrations of organic aerosol (OA) in the larger accumulation mode particles previously referred to as droplet mode particles. Nitrate is an additional likely component. Its spectral optical signature, and possible sources, are investigated. To our knowledge, no previous work has considered these issues 10 in the ambient atmosphere. We compared to literature to put findings in a broader perspective. There is consistency with recent "diluted" urban observations (airborne, and AERONET), and combustion chamber observations. Our study adds to these previous ones that the high AAE values featuring the "brown" aerosol depend on the OA to Black Carbon (BC) ratio more than on OA, and that the link between AAE and OA-to-BC (already observed for freshly emitted primary aerosols from biomass 15 burning) does exist in the ambient atmosphere for this aged "brown" aerosol, as well. The comparison with studies on the composition evolution of OA in the atmosphere strengthens the result that this "brown" aerosol contains aged OA, and give insights into aged brown OA formation processes. Findings will have important atmospheric implications for modeling studies, and remote sensing observations, as regards parametrization and identification of brown OA, and brown carbon in the 20


A father cradling his seemingly lifeless daughter-a viscerally powerful image (see Fig. 1). Many would insist that a favourite moment in all of the Ring-and one frequently excerpted in concert and on CD-is Wotan's farewell to Br nnhilde as he places his sleeping daughter within the ring of magic fire he has summoned up from the God of fire, Loge, at the end of Die Walk re. The music that accompanies this scene is of profound beauty and emotion, and for many is an iconic moment in the Ring. But it is an image that is somehow familiar outside of Wagner's work. Wagner is often portrayed, largely through his own mythmaking, as the great individualist and reformer, but his operas arise out of a very particular Zeitgeist and the formative influences on his work are many. So where has one seen this image before? Shakespeare's King Lear of course, where the father-daughter relationship is at its most poignant and tragic as Lear bears the lifeless body of his daughter Cordelia.


With the introduction to the transfer of native language, the present paper analyses the Chinese positive/negative transfer in the English acquisition, and puts forward two sides for attention-the strategies of Chinese transfer on different stages, and focus on the Chinese social and cultural transfer.


This article is devoted to the development of the national data network of Uznet and Tas-IX, the history and development of Tas-IX, to improve the efficiency of using international communication channels, by excluding the transfer of local traffic over them. Strengthening the economic state of small and medium-sized businesses in the telecommunications sector by reducing their production costs for traffic transmission.
The aim of the work is to directly contribute to the development of information and communication technologies in the telecommunications market of Uzbekistan. Promotes the development of the Uzbek Internet segment as a factor in the overall development of the society and raising the level of education in it, including by accessing the Internet resources of scientific, educational, state and business institutions


The present paper considers the operation of an implemented original PLC control system for domestic hot water supply in a recreational facility. A description of the system, its principle of operation, its features and advantages are presented.


Widespread coverage of vulnerable populations with insecticide‐treated nets (ITNs) constitutes an important component of the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) strategy to control malaria. The Abuja Targets call for 60% coverage of children under 5 years of age and pregnant women by 2005; but current coverage in Africa is unacceptably low. The RBM 'Strategic Framework for Coordinated National Action in Scaling‐up Insecticide‐Treated Netting Programmes in Africa' promotes coordinated national action and advocates sustained public provision of targeted subsidies to maximise public health benefits, alongside support and stimulation of the private sector. Several countries have already planned or initiated targeted subsidy schemes either on a pilot scale or on a national scale, and have valuable experience which can inform future interventions. The WHO RBM 'Workshop on mapping models for delivering ITNs through targeted subsidies' held in Zambia in 2003 provided an opportunity to share and document these country experiences. This paper brings together experiences presented at the workshop with other information on experiences of targeting subsidies on ITNs, net treatment kits and retreatment services (ITN products) in order to describe alternative approaches, highlight their similarities and differences, outline lessons learnt, and identify gaps in knowledge. We find that while there is a growing body of knowledge on different approaches to targeting ITN subsidies, there are significant gaps in knowledge in crucial areas. Key questions regarding how best to target, how much it will cost and what outcomes (levels of coverage) to expect remain unanswered. High quality, well‐funded monitoring and evaluation of alternative approaches to targeting ITN subsidies is vital to develop a knowledge base so that countries can design and implement effective strategies to target ITN subsidies.


—Its un-obtrusiveness and its inherent safety make breath analysis a very promising technique in healthcare diag-nostics. On one hand, it enables the monitoring of biochemical processes: the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from the metabolic processes are generated within the body, travel via the blood, participate to the alveolar exchanges and appear in exhaled breath; on the other hand, breath is easily and non-invasively accessible. Nevertheless, despite its great potential, breath analysis is not widely used in clinical practice: the high costs for standard analytical instrumentation (i.e., gas chromatograph-mass spec-trometer), the need for specialized personnel able to read the results and the lack of standardized protocols to collect breath samples, set limits to its exploitation. Here, we describe the Wize Sniffer (WS), a portable device based on low cost technology, able to collect and analyze in real time the composition of the breath. In particular, by means of the WS, the user can evaluate his/her own cardio-metabolic risk score by self-monitoring the composition of the breath. Indeed, the presented device is able to detect, in real time, all those VOCs related to the noxious habits for cardio-metabolic risk. Nonetheless, the modular configuration of the WS, makes it usable also for other applications by changing the type of the gas sensors according to the molecules to be detected.


We report laboratory experiments on intense bed‐load driven by turbulent open‐channel flows. Using high‐speed cameras and a laser light sheet, we measured detailed profiles of granular velocity and concentration near the sidewall. The profiles provide new information on transport layer structure and its relation to the applied Shields stress. Contrary to expectations, we find that intense bed‐load layers respond to changes in flow conditions by adjusting their granular concentration at the base, slightly above the bed. Two mechanisms account for the resulting behavior: stresses generated by immersed granular collisions, and equilibration of the otherwise unstable shear layer by density stratification. Without parameter adjustment, the deduced constitutive relations capture the responses of velocity, concentration, and layer thickness to a ten‐fold increase in Shields stress.


Charles Gelso has had a major influence in counseling psychology with his contributions to the literature in many areas such as research methodology, research training, psychotherapy outcome, and the therapeutic relationship as well as in his work as an editor and as a teacher and mentor. This interview with Gelso highlights the early experiences, relationships, and ideas that have influenced him over his prolific career.


We present a theory of existence and uniqueness of μ-pseudo almost periodic solution for a delayed non-autonomous partial functional differential equation in the exponential dichotomic case, where the nonlinear operator F satisfies the ϕ-Lipschitz condition and ϕ belongs to some admissible spaces. Moreover, we prove the existence of an invariant stable manifold around the μ-pseudo almost periodic solution in that case. We give finally an application to illusrate our results.


The process of simultaneously mapping the environment in three dimensional (3D) space and localizing a moving vehicle's pose (orientation and position) is termed Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). SLAM is a core task in robotics applications. In the SLAM problem, each of the vehicle's pose and the environment are assumed to be completely unknown. This paper takes the conventional SLAM design as a basis and proposes a novel approach that ensures fast adaptation of the nonlinear observer for SLAM. Due to the fact that the true SLAM problem is nonlinear and is modeled on the Lie group of $\mathbb{S}\mathbb{L}\mathbb{A}{\mathbb{M}_n}$ (3), the proposed observer for SLAM is nonlinear and modeled on $\mathbb{S}\mathbb{L}\mathbb{A}{\mathbb{M}_n}$ (3). The proposed observer compensates for unknown bias attached to velocity measurements. The results of the simulation illustrate the robustness of the proposed approach.


[1] Energetic neutral atom (ENA) images in the 10–60 keV range show the substorm dynamics of the ion distribution out to 14 RE in the plasma sheet. The images were obtained during two substorms in the mainphase of the 4 October 2000 storm by the high-energy energetic neutral atom (HENA) imager on board the IMAGE satellite. During the two substorm sequences the edge of the most tailward ENA emissions appears to move earthward in association with dipolarization observed at geosynchronous distance by the GOES satellite. At the time of geosynchronous dipolarization, the auroral onset was observed by the far ultra violet (FUV) imager onboard IMAGE. Preliminary equatorial ion distributions derived from the individual ENA images in the substorm sequences have been obtained through a constrained linear inversion technique. The results show that the ion fluxes in the >8 RE plasma sheet suddenly decrease around dipolarization during approximately 30 min. About 12–20 min after the start of the plasma sheet flux decrease, ion injections are seen by the geosynchronous satellites. The peak of the ring current flux is pushed in from geosynchronous to L = 4 over the substorm sequences. Two exospheric models are used in the inversion. We find that more realistic plasma sheet fluxes are obtained with an exospheric model that contains enhanced exospheric hydrogen densities on the nightside. Implications for earthward propagation of the plasma sheet ion distribution during dipolarization are discussed.


The final weeks and days of a dying patient's life arouse deep emotions in all those concerned. Invariably, doctor and relative speculate on what the patient feels and knows. This paper explores the area, particularly from the point of view of the English general practitioner caring for his patient in the home environment in cooperation with community nurses. The doctor rated the suffering severe in 19.2 percent of the cases; the relative in 33.3 percent. The doctor found there was direct communication about the outcome with 19 percent of the patients; the relative's estimate was 30.7 percent. Among this group the doctor believed 60.5 percent were completely aware of the situation; the relative 73.7 percent. These are statistically significant differences, though surprisingly doctor and relative found an equal degree of patient acceptance of impending death among those who showed awareness of the outcome. There was another field of significant difference in the frequency of reporting major symptoms.


Thousand years of its development has made Chinese diet become a resplendent culture.It not only accumulates the national characteristics but also reflects people's creativity.But during the process of carrying forward the national catering culture,the obligees' contributions to diet culture innovation have not been legally protected.In addition,illicit competition in this field also exists.It's necessary to complete the existing laws and regulations and protect intellectual property rights in order to change conditions of this kind and promote Chinese dietetic culture.


Allylic trialkylstannanes (1) regioselectively react with allylic halides (2) at room temperature under high pressure (10 kbar) to give head-to-tail coupling products (3) in high yields.


Remote monitor of operating conditions for water system of oil well is a goal of people who monitor the oil well in the site. It costs too much for transmitting wirelessly data by satellite. But remote monitor of operating conditions for water system of oil well would be possible for the low cost and low technical threshold of GPRS. This paper mainly introduces remote-monitor system of water system of oil well based on GPRS. The terminals of this system gather the effective data dispersedly. The central computer receives and processes these data through GPRS communication, and publishes those data in the web servers. This system can monitor conveniently and real-timely operating conditions for water system of oil well. The stability of system is high. So the system has good practical value and broad prospect.


The components of electrocardiograms (ECG) of 253 workers exposed to carbon dilfide (CDS) and those of 99 controls were quantitatively measured and evaluated. ECG of the exposed workers showed a statisticplly significant higher prevalence of ECG pathological changes, higher P amplitude and Macruz index, longer P dut , longer both crude and corrected Q-T intervals and R-R intervals and shorter P-R segments and QRS intervals than that of the controls On the other hand, P-R intervals and heart rates of the two groups were not iificantl y different. Among both the the exposed and control groups, values of P duration were gniicanly negatively correlated with that of P-R segment: r = -216 and -0132, respectively, p > 005. Vhes of the ECG components were not related to duration of expoure to CDS. Moreover, no significant difference was observed between durtion of eposue of the exposed workers with and ofthose without pathological ECG changes The method used in our study may be usefu in evluting the ECG ofexposed workers before the appearance of the known pathological abnormalities.


Background : the consequences generated by the massive and unjustified use of antimicrobials currently represent serious problems in the context of public health on a worldwide scale. Objective : to describe the adverse reactions produced by antimicrobials, reported to the pharmacovigilance database in the province of Las Tunas, from January to June 2017. Methods : a pharmacovigilance, observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out at the aforementioned place and during the period herein declared. The study universe consisted of 460 reports of adverse reactions and the sample was made up of the 111 reports corresponding to antimicrobials. Descriptive statistics techniques were applied to analyze the information. The measures of summary statistics were absolute frequency and percentile. Results : the report of adverse reactions to antimicrobials remained similar in most of the studied months, reports of adverse reactions to antimicrobials in female patients predominated for 61,2 %, in the 19 to 59 age group, 42,3 %. The most affected organ system was the skin in 33,3 %, followed by the general system in 26,2 %. Mild adverse reactions predominated in 58,5 %, probable adverse reactions in 88,2 % and frequent adverse reactions in 58,5 %. The majority of the reactions were reported by physicians, 67,5 %. According to the drug class, cephalosporins and penicillins had higher reports (30,6 and 28,8 %, respectively). Conclusions : the adverse reactions produced by antimicrobial agents in patients from Las Tunas were described, in the first semester of 2017.


The high-dimensional generalization of the one-dimensional Kuramoto paradigm has been an essential step in bringing about a more faithful depiction of the dynamics of real-world systems. Despite the multi-dimensional nature of the oscillators in these generalized models, the interacting schemes so far have been dominated by a scalar factor unanimously between any pair of oscillators that leads eventually to synchronization on all dimensions. As a natural extension of the scalar coupling befitting for the one-dimensional case, we take a tentative step in studying numerically and theoretically the coupling mechanism of 2 × 2 real matrices on two-dimensional Kuramoto oscillators. One of the features stemmed from this new mechanism is that the matrix coupling enables the two dimensions of the oscillators to separate their transitions to either synchronization or desynchronization which has not been seen in other high-dimensional generalizations. Under various matrix configurations, the synchronization and desynchronization of the two dimensions combine into four qualitatively distinct modes of position and motion of the system. We demonstrate that as one matrix is morphed into another in a specific manner, the system mode also switches correspondingly either through continuous or explosive transitions of the order parameters, thus mimicking a range of behaviors in information science and biology.


Introduction/Hypothesis: Rapid response (RR) teams have resulted in decreased pediatric hospital mortality and out of ICU cardiopulmonary arrest (CPA). ICU readmissions are associated with increased mortality. Patients with RRs resulting in index ICU admission (RR-I) have worse outcomes than with elective admission. Patients with RRs resulting in ICU readmissions (RR-Re) has not been studied. We hypothesized that outcomes for this subset of patients are worse compared to index RR-I events and PICU readmissions (ICU-Re). Methods: A retrospective single-center study over a 3-year period. EMR and RR databases were reviewed for demographic, clinical, and outcomes data. Clinical deterioration (CD) was defined as requirement of advanced cardiorespiratory support (non-invasive or invasive ventilation or vasoactive infusion) within 24 hours of ICU admission. RR-Re was defined as RR resulting in ICU readmission less than 48 hours after discharge. Results: 168 RR events (152 patients) occurred in the study period, of which 136 (81%) were RRRe. The majority (74%) occurred within 24 hours of ICU discharge. Median patient age was 3.5 years (IQR 0.5-12 yrs). Median Pediatric Advanced Warning Score (PAWS) and Clinical Respiratory Score (CRS) were both 3 (PAWS IQR 2-4, CRS IQR 2-5). For RR-Re the most common RR triggers were respiratory (29%) and neurologic (28%) deterioration. RR-Re mostly occurred during the day (60%). RR-Re are associated with more ICU transfers than RR-I (81% vs 47%). RR-Res had higher rates of CD and acute respiratory compromise (ARC) than RR-I (CD 37% vs 18%, ARC 4% vs <1%); none had CPA. Median LOS was longer for RR-Re compared to RR-I, ICU-Re, and historical PICU (ICU-I) rates: hospital (18 RR-Re vs 12 RR-I vs 9 ICU-Re vs 5 ICU-I days) and ICU (6 RR-Re vs 3.5 RR-I vs 3 ICU-Re vs 1 ICU-I days). Mortality at hospital discharge in RR-Re patients was higher (7.7% RR-Re vs 4.4% RR-I vs 4% ICU-Re vs 1.3-2.5% ICU-I), and higher than reported by the AHA for pediatric events (6.7%). Conclusions: RR activation within 48 hours of ICU discharge is common and results in need for ICU intervention. Outcomes were worse for this cohort, including ICU admission, CD, LOS, and mortality. Further studies are required to identify modifiable risk factors of ICU readmission after RR.


Guilford's Alternate Uses Test (ALTU) measures a person's spontaneous flexibility, a propensity for generating many varied responses to a situation, by requiring them to list six possible uses for a given object. Shah's metrics of ideation effectiveness measure the innovative qualities of engineering concepts with similar scales. The study presented in this paper explores the relationship between spontaneous flexibility and engineering concept generation through a research study. Fifty-two participants generated ideas for three items on a spontaneous flexibility test (SFT) and three problems on an engineering ideation test (EIT). The participants' responses were analyzed for fluency and flexibility. Correlations between the SFT and EIT were identified in order to better understand the role of spontaneity and divergent thinking in an engineering environment. It was found that both fluency and flexibility of responses were strongly correlated between the two test types. It is hypothesized that the EIT complements the SFT in measuring spontaneous flexibility in engineering design.Copyright © 2015 by ASME


PURPOSE: A press button switch is provided to improve design, by arranging illumination along the frame of a press button. CONSTITUTION: A press button switch(1') operates a switch body(6) arranged in a base member(8') by pressing an operating plunger(3') interlocked with a press member. The press button switch includes a light source for illumination, and a light guide member for guiding light emitted from the light source. The light guide member has a frame part(3d) surrounding the outer periphery of the operating surface of the press member. The light guide member guides light emitted from the light source to the frame part.


On a Thursday afternoon in early June 2006, I stood in our branch library's windowless large conference room before a very diverse group of young people ages eleven to fifteen. They sat at tables arranged in a large U shape. They studied me, looking a little like an unconvinced jury. This didn't worry me too much. I had led library instruction sessions for college freshmen in a previous job and had seen these looks many times before, both the self-conscious, quick-eye averting glances and the deliberately nonchalant slightly raised eyebrows coupled with peeks at the ceiling and room corners. I knew nothing about these particular young people other than they were interested enough in writing stories and poems to show up at a library on a nice summer day. That's quite enough. Over the next eight weeks I would be struck at how creative and thoughtful they each were. I would be amazed when they wrote very poignant stories about such topics as the current war, hopes, relationships, losses, and family dynamics. Interacting with them stripped away some of my own preconceived notions of their age group. Their seriousness amazed me. Hopefully, their notions of thirty-something reference librarians were also positively altered. On that first day, after briefly introducing myself and getting them to introduce themselves so I could begin to learn their names, I got down to business. "Let's come up with some ground rules," I said to the group. I kept a flip chart and marker ready. Collectively, the group watched me, quietly waiting. No one wanted to be the first to speak. "Okay, I have the first one," I said. "Don't interrupt when someone is talking or reading." Then, after a few moments, I gestured to a girl of about twelve with long dark hair who was sitting in the middle of the U-shaped arrangement. She was thoughtful for a moment before saying quietly, "Don't laugh." I wrote it down. The group began to stir and then they were all raising their hands with other rules. They made more rules about showing respect and being nice to each other. I wrote down all of their rules because I wanted them to know their opinions would be respected and valued. Sharing one's personal writing and creativity with a group who may be waiting to mock you is a scary proposition for any age group. I wanted them to feel as though they were part of a community of like-minded individuals. One of the plusses of voluntary extracurricular programs such as this is that, as a leader, you probably won't see many behavioral problems. The biggest challenge will be just getting the participants to open up. Most 12-15-year-olds possess incredible imaginations, but accessing those imaginations may be difficult because they are constantly being drilled to conform in school and at home. "This is not going to be like school," I told them. "Here, we're just interested in having fun and being creative." Over the next two months we met for a couple of hours every other week. They wrote stories and poems, read them aloud to each other, and, at my coaxing, gave each other feedback. Trust began to develop between the group members in a very organic way. In his May 2005 article, writing teacher Chris Street addressed this phenomenon: If students see themselves as contributing members of a writing community, then the motivation to sustain and enhance that community may well cause students to value and contribute to their newfound identity. Students will likely begin to identify with other writers, thus adding to the classroom community in productive ways. (1) Long-term adult writing groups are built this way, but none of my workshop participants had driver's licenses, much less expectations of creating a group that would meet without me past the eight weeks of our workshop. This workshop would be a success as long as the participants feel it is a Success. In that summer of 2006, I had been a reference librarian for just six months. …


A better understanding of the effects of zero tillage on microbial activity and abundance is necessary if nutrient availability, soil structure, and water availability are to be balanced. There are various global issues calling for reform. Soil erosion and degradation, biodiversity loss and pollution of adjacent natural systems all call into question current practises in agricultural management. In order to satisfy sustainability criteria, there is a particular need to build alternative systems that take into account the surrounding environment, beyond individual technologies. The world population is expected to be about 9.8 billion by 2050 and 37 percent of them will live in China and India (UN, 2017), requiring an estimated 59-98 percent increase in food demand (Valin et al., 2014), putting more strain on natural resources. The world is facing a population boom today and there is an immediate need to sustainably improve agricultural productivity and overall food International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 9 Number 11 (2020) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com


Medicinal plants that are native to India and their use in various traditional system of medicine are induced awe- inspiring. The ethnobotany and ubiquitous plants provide a rich resource for natural drug research and development. In the present study, we evaluated the bioactivity of various medicinal plants like Adathoda vasika, Aegle marmelos, Baliospermum montanum, Citrus limon, Clerodendron inerm, Euphorbia hirta, Ficucs benganlensis, Hyptis suaveolens, Physalis minima Melothira medaraspatensis and Solanum torvum.. The antimicrobial potentials were observed with the extracts of Adathoda vasika, Ficus bengalensis and Solanum torvum The LD50 value of all the plant extracts were determined against Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and the concentration below LD 50 was taken for further study to determine the antioxidant property. The antioxidant activity was highly observed in Euphorbia hirta, Hyptis suaveolens and Physalis minima. The phytochemical analysis of methanolic extracts of all the plants revealed the presence of secondary metabolites.


SUMMARY As technology scales to 45nm and below, the reliability of VLSI declines due to small delay defects, which are hard to detect by functional clock frequency. To detect small delay defects, a method which measures the delay time of path in circuit under test (CUT) was proposed. However, because a large number of FFs exist in recent VLSI, the proba- bility that the resistive defect occurs in the FFs is increased. A test method measuring path delay time including the transmission time of FFs is neces- sary. However, the path measured by the conventional on-chip path delay time measurement method does not include a part of a master latch. Thus, testing using the conventional measurement method cannot detect defects occurring on the part. This paper proposes an improved on-chip path delay time measurement method. Test coverage is improved by measuring the path delay time including transmission time of a master latch. The pro- posed method uses a duty-cycle-modified clock signal. Evaluation results show that, the proposed method improves test coverage 5.25 ∼ 11.28% with the same area overhead as the conventional method.


Human herpes virus-8 (HHV-8)-associated Castleman′s disease (CD) is a rare non-cancerous B-cell lymphoproliferative disorder in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients. We report a case of HHV-8-associated CD in an HIV-positive patient with a previous history of Kaposi′s sarcoma (KS). The patient presented with progressive splenomegaly and diffuse lymphadenopathy, which can be seen in multicentric CD, KS, and HIV-associated lymphoma. There are no reliable clinical or imaging features to differentiate these diseases. Lymph node biopsy confirmed HHV-8-associated CD and excluded KS and lymphoma. Due to differences in treatment options and prognosis between the three etiologies, it is important for radiologists to include HHV-8-associated CD in the differential diagnosis when encountering HIV-positive patients that present with diffuse lymphadenopathy.


Existing methods for video-based person re-identification (ReID) mainly learn the appearance feature of a given pedestrian via a feature extractor and a feature aggregator. However, the appearance models would fail when different pedestrians have similar appearances. Considering that different pedestrians have different walking postures and body proportions, we propose to learn the discriminative pose feature beyond the appearance feature for video retrieval. Specifically, we implement a two-branch architecture to separately learn the appearance feature and pose feature, and then concatenate them together for inference. To learn the pose feature, we first detect the pedestrian pose in each frame through an off-the-shelf pose detector, and construct a temporal graph using the pose sequence. We then exploit a recurrent graph convolutional network (RGCN) to learn the node embeddings of the temporal pose graph, which devises a global information propagation mechanism to simultaneously achieve the neighborhood aggregation of intra-frame nodes and message passing among inter-frame graphs. Finally, we propose a dual-attention method consisting of node-attention and time-attention to obtain the temporal graph representation from the node embeddings, where the self-attention mechanism is employed to learn the importance of each node and each frame. We verify the proposed method on three video-based ReID datasets, i.e., Mars, DukeMTMC and iLIDS-VID, whose experimental results demonstrate that the learned pose feature can effectively improve the performance of existing appearance models.


Microtransglutaminase is a new type of food processing enzyme.The property and mechanism of microtransglutaminase were introduced.At the same time,the application to food industries and the developments and the prospect of microtransglutaminase were also introduced.


This study was performed to assess the adequacy of the downdraft fixed bed gasification process in burning radioactively contaminated biomas . A gasification test was carried out in a realistic process unit rig in order to characterise the possible radiocaesium and radiostrontium particulate removal and redistribution into ash and effluents. In our experimental conditions, the biomass conversion rate was 94.5 %. A particulates mass equivalent to 0.2 % of initial biomass escaped with gaseous effluents. Most of the residual matter was recovered in the gasifier reduction zone as bed materials (84.5 % of recovered dried mass) and with ashes (7.61 % of recovered dried mass). After vaporisation, the compounds Cs is likely to form during subsequent reaction are however less stable than those of Sr. Compared to Sr, the higher mobility of Cs is shown by lower enrichment factor values characterising bed materials and increasing values in next compartments. 5.74 % of Cs escaped from the installation while only 0.007 % of Sr is loosed with gaseous effluents. This is partly due to a prevalent Cs condensation on finest particles which contributes to its dissemination with gas stream.


These three texts offer three levels of engagement with the issue of globalization: Aneesh's study is based on fieldwork with a particular group of workers in a global network economy; Cohen's collection of essays deals with labour migration as one sphere in which globalization may or may not be effective; and Held's volume ranges over some high-level debates as to the nature of, and prospects for, a global economy and polity. There are two rather basic questions involved in the broader scheme of 'debating globalization': first, whether globalization is actually what is occurring; and second, whether it's a good or a bad thing. There is a simple answer to both of these questions: it is and it isn't. Globalization may be the biggest thing happening on the economic and political stage, but it is partial, heavily skewed regionally, not always distinguishable from very long-run processes in the world economy, and not inevitable. And it is good for a few people all of the time; good for some people some of the time; bad for quite a lot of people some of the time; and of questionable relevance to many, many people nearly all of the time. Two of the secondary lines of debate that trail out of these first two are germane to the Held collection: the first concerns just what


Isotactic polypropylene grafted with maleic anhydride(PP-g-MAH) and PP-g-MAH filled with Nd_2O_3 or CeO_2(REOs) were prepared by means of reactive extrusion. The crystallization behavior and crystal structure of PP, PP-g-MAH and PP-g-MAH filled with REOs were studied by DSC, PLM and WAXD techniques. The results show that the crystallization rate of the grafted polypropylene is higher than that of blank polypropylene. Furthermore, the addition of the REO can accelerate the crystallization rate of the grafted polypropylene. After introducing the REO into PP-g-MAH, the heterogeneous nucleation dominates the process of crystallization, and the low active energy for crystallization increases the crystallization rate. In particular, PP-g-MAH filled with CeO_2 has the lowest active energy and the highest crystallization rate. The addition of REOs does not influence notably the nucleation mechanism and growth mode of the crystallization of i-PP, whereas it enhances the equilibrium melting point and equilibrium melting enthalpy of PP-g-MAH. The WAXD analysis indicates that the addition of the REO can increase the crystallite size of the α-form crystal.


The purpose of this guidebook is to provide general information about rules and regulations that directly relate to the Wisconsin trucking industry. The contents are organized as follows: (1) General Information; (2) Carrier Requirements; (3) Driver Requirements; (4) Vehicle Requirements; (5) Size/Weight Requirements; and (6) Hazardous Materials.


Besides being the economically most developed country of the world, Japan is also one of the safest countries with a relatively .small number of persons convicted for crimes and with a high rate of discovered criminality. The most important features the Japanese criminal legislation, besides the intensification of the protection of rights of the accused, are the issuing of criminal sanctions for special Violations of traffic regulations and the special authority of the police and the public prosecutor to decide, according to the circumstances of the case, whether to bring criminal charges or not. The Japanese criminal judiciary excludes the laymen from criminal proceedings and the cases of juvenile delinquents are. decided by family courts.


The existing problems of the image restoration algorithm were analyzed,and a new image restoration algorithm based on particle swarm optimization was presented.Combining with the characteristics of image restoration algorithm,the fitness function,searching space and the selecting of parameters were introduced.The strategies of speeding up the convergence rate with the influenced of the optinal neighbor swarm and reducing searching space with opening window randomly were proposed.


Background:
The role of health students in providing information about reproductive health is very important, especially regarding reproductive health rights for women with disabilities. This is crucial to do because women with disabilities are very vulnerable to violence and discrimination, especially in terms of reproductive health.
Objectives:
This study aimed to analyze the influence of knowledge and intention toward behavior of female health students in accessing information on reproductive health rights for women with disabilities.
Research Methods:
This was a quantitative study with a cross-sectional design. This study was conducted at the Midwifery Study Program at Tribhuwana Tunggadewi University Malang in October 2020. The sample size was 50 subjects, selected by simple random sampling technique. The dependent variable is the behavior of health female students in accessing information. The independent variables were knowledge and intention in access to information. Data collection using an online questionnaire. The data analysis technique used multiple linear regression.
Results:
The behavior of health female students in access to information was influenced by knowledge (b= 0.36, CI 95% = 0.12 to 0.60, p= 0.005), and intention in access to information (b= 0.45, CI 95% = 0.10 to 0.80, p= 0.014).
Conclusion:
Participants with good knowledge and high intention in access to information affect behavior in accessing information


Ao Zhong's realistic idea about literature and art originates from two:one is Marxist dialectical materialism and the other is Lu Xun's "most clear-headed realism".The main feature of his idea is firm belief of Marxist theories and adherence to Lu Xun's most clear-headed realistic spirits.Meanwhile, his idea is compatible with revolutionary romanticism and western modern literary trend of thought, resists the feudal aristocratic literature which was characteristic of "concealing and cheating" and is the transitional realism typical of Chinese style in the transitional period of culture for thousands of years.


In this paper, we present the design and performance evaluation of an enhanced crypto-watermarking model of secured electronic voting. This design was accomplished through adoption of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cryptosystems for the encryption of electorates ballot integrity. The encrypted vote was further hidden in a cover image using our developed wavelet based invisible watermarking algorithm in the 3-level horizontal components of the cover image to preserve vote confidentiality. The model performance was qualitatively assessed by using Invisible ink and Invisible secrets detectors for perceiving presence of hidden content in a watermarked objects and quantitatively evaluated using Mean Square Error (MSE), Peak Signal to Noise ratio (PSNR) and Structural Similarity Index Metric (SSIM) Image quality assessment metrics. The results of both qualitative and quantitative analysis of the developed enhanced model of secure e-voting showed that the model is robust and imperceptible, hence can serve as vehicle for achieving dependable, transparent, and reliable electioneering dispensationin developing countries.


Abstract : Brazil is an emerging country that has made important strides in consolidating its democracy, constructing a diversified and financially sound economy, and enhancing its diplomatic participation on the world stage. Brazilians have always dreamed of achieving what they believe to be their destiny of greatness. Continuing problems of social inequalities, weak political and social institutions, inadequate education and health systems, and widespread corruption inhibit attainment of that destiny. This paper uses a strategy formulation model to examine Brazil's national interests and grand strategies. A fundamental debate among Brazilians is whether the grand strategy should be pursuit of leadership of the developing world, or of junior membership in the developed world. The strengths and weaknesses of Brazil's national elements of power also are analyzed. Although Brazil's quest for greatness has often strained relations with the United States, productive bilateral relations can best be nurtured by giving Brazil its international space and maximizing shared interests while minimizing differences.


C. Pa~ameter d—Refeyence Plane Shift in Main .4 ~m Here the recommendation to be made is a hybrid one. The IBM experimental data is considered the most reliable. The MRI experimental data appears to yield a value somewhat smaller than expected. For ZoI/Zoz 1.0 and for all values of 2D@ use "lVfodified M RI Theory, " which requires that d be computed from equivalence relation 4a) of Table II 1, where XJZO is given by (3). A fair prediction of the value of this parameter should be obtained by utilizing the above procedure except possibly in the particular region where 2D1/h >0.7 and ZO1/ZOZ >1.0. In this region only a helpful upper bound is available.


A108 Introduction: Breast cancer is the most common cancer and the second cause of cancer death in Chinese-American women who are the largest Asian population in the US and 70% are immigrants. Chinese women, especially recent immigrants have much lower rates of mammography use than the general population; these women also may lack a regular source of care.
 Objectives: This study examined factors affecting Chinese women's use of mammography and how presence of a regular provider mediated the impact of cultural and attitudinal barriers to screening.
 Methods: Cross-sectional data from a community-based longitudinal intervention study was used to examine the aims of this study. Two hundred and ten Chinese-American women from the Metropolitan DC and NY areas who were over age 40 and non-adherent to the ACS recommended mammography screening guidelines completed a telephone interview. Sociodemographics, acculturation, medical access factors (including health insurance, presence of a regular medical doctor, and physician recommendation), perception of breast cancer risk, and future intention for screening mammography were assessed. Eastern view of health care was measured by a 5-point Likert scale with a reliability of .76.
 Results: Of 210 non-adherent women, only 36% had an intention to obtain a mammogram in the future. Logistic regression results showed that presence of a regular doctor (OR=4.47, p


tool that creates a community of individuals assembled around a clear well-articulated clinical pro-blem with the goal of improving the patient experience. To the interested few, we must make available pro-gressive tiers of education in this specialized skill set. Participation in QI remains a highly personal cost-bene fi t calculation. Without clear incentives outside continuing medical education (CME) credits and publication, many will choose not to participate. Despite this, others, i.e., early adopters, will want to explore QI as a fi eld, and we should make opportunities available to our colleagues who may eventually make the long sought-after changes in their practice environment. We cannot shirk our role as in fl uencers in the delivery of health care as we are an essential component of all QI initiatives. The fi rst step is admitting there is a problem: that the process of delivering of health care might contribute as much to outcomes as the therapies provided. To this end, we must agree that carefully calculated process experimentation in the clinical setting may have the greatest potential to change the patient experience and the quality of care we provide. Competing interests: None to declare.


Historical and mythological figures from different periods and backgrounds, together with biblical ones, make their appearance in a significant number of medieval works as exempla -a common feature in Byzantine as well as early modem Greek literature. Their names are often used by writers in similes and other figures of speech to highlight the deeds, accomplishments, reactions or personality traits of a character, and it is assumed that the audience/readers are familiar with what they signify. In this paper I will focus solely on the Homeric hero Achilles, investigating what he represents to the medieval Greek world in works that use him as an exemplum or in a similar manner.2


Virtual machine live migration, which migrates a virtual machine between data centers, is studied as a way to improve quality of services hosted on clouds. Meanwhile, traffic engineering is performed in networks that connect geographically-dispersed data centers. Since virtual machine live migration and traffic engineering are performed simultaneously with different objectives, the coexistence of these two operations may result in the instability of network state due to the interference between their control objectives. In this paper, we investigate that the coexistence of virtual machine live migration and traffic engineering causes the network instability through simulation experiments. To overcome this instability, we apply hysteresis to traffic engineering and show that our approach suppresses the network instability.


A field experiment carried out in Yuxi, Yunnan showed that Mg supply improved the yield and apparent quality of flue-cured tobacco, increased the percentage of high- and mid-class tobacco leaf, its mean value and per-unit-area output, enhanced the content of chlorophyll and other photosynthetic pigments, thus increasing the photosynthetic intensity, and reduced Schmuck's value and sugar/nicotine ratio. Therefore, proper supply of Mg will help to bring about harmonious relations among various chemical components and improve the quality of flue-cured tobacco. The rate of 265 kg MgSO 4 per hectare gave the best result.


This study investigated the impact of origin-specific factors on Uganda's tourist arrivals. Of the countries with visitors to Uganda, tourist numbers were as low as 28 from the Czech Republic in 2000, and as high as 220,000 from Kenya in 2004. Using panel data (2000-2004) and the gravity trade model, we estimated Uganda's inbound tourist flows. According to results, Real GDP in the visitor's country, distance, trade with Uganda, and exchange rates explained 73 percent of the variation in tourist arrivals. The greatest impact on tourist arrivals was distance (negative impact). Neighboring countries had significantly more visitors to Uganda, ceteris peribus. The number of visitors was significantly greater for countries with higher GDP. A country's exports to Uganda (Uganda's imports) had a positive effect on tourist arrivals. The effect of Uganda's exports was smaller but still significantly positive. A relatively strong Ugandan shilling had a negative effect on tourist arrivals.


The study investigates the causal relationship between energy consumption and economic growth in South Africa, covering the period of 1980-2014. In a trivariate framework which includes electricity and inflation as additional variables by applying the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) integration method. First unit root test was employed; results indicated that all variables were non-stationary at the level and stationary at their first differences, using the Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) and Phillips-Perron (PP). The results show a long-run relationship among the variables using the ARDL integration approach. The Granger causality test indicates a unidirectional running from inflation to economic growth, which supports the growth hypothesis as documented in the literature and there was no causality between electricity consumption and economic growth, supporting the neutrality hypothesis. Any policies concerning energy consumption should be re-evaluated to confirm that it will not disturb economic growth. Keywords: ARDL, Economic Growth, Energy Consumption, Granger Causality, and South Africa. DOI : 10.7176/JESD/10-8-12 Publication date : April 30 th 2019


Optic nerve neuropathy due to dental lesions is rare but causes complex persistent functional disorders that are difficult to diagnose. The aim of this case report is to show odontogenic optic neuropathy through treatment tactics and observation of structural dynamics and functional changes of the optic nerve with the help of a clinical case. The consultation of the patient was done as per the Department of Ophthalmology, Ivano-Frankivsk National University, Ukraine. Tests such as computed perimetry, Optically Coherent Tomography (OCT) of the optic nerve, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the brain, Computed Tomography (CT) of the paranasal sinuses and immunological blood tests were performed. The patient gave informed consent to access personal data and use it for scientific purposes. In the case of patient S., the combination of neuritis with lesions of the anterior part of the vascular tract is attributed to the background of multiple caries and prolapse of the teeth of the upper jaw in the sinus. Treatment includes a regimen by a dentist for caries and pulse therapy with corticosteroids. From the result, it was possible to reduce the swelling in the nerve fibers of the right eye by 35% and the left eye by 19%. The average sensitivity threshold in the right eye increased by 79% and in the left eye by 90%. In conclusion, we confirm that odontogenic optic neuropathy is a rare form of optic nerve damage. Two-stage treatment (dental and corticosteroids) reduces the nerve fibers swelling and increases retinal ganglion cells sensitivity.


The application of group method of data handling (GMDH) to pavement performance evaluation is relatively new. This paper demonstrates the development of pavement rutting prediction model by using GMDH method. Results from 7 test pavements (264 records) from CRREL's HVS, a closely controlled full-scale Accelerated Pavement Testing (APT), were employed to establish a rutting prediction model. Additional 2 test pavements (81 records) from CRREL's HVS were utilized for model verification purposes. GMDH was applied successfully to develop a rutting prediction model that uses wheel load, load repetitions and the pavement Structural Number (SN) as inputs. The R2 for training data (264 records) and verification data (81 records) are 0.6455 and 0.6288, respectively. The model and algorithms proposed in this study provide a good foundation for further refinement when additional data is available.


CuAl10Ni5Fe4 aluminum bronzes have better corrosion resistance and higher wear resistance at high temperatures compared to other copper alloys. In this study, the effect of cobalt (Co) and titanium (Ti), which were added in the amount of 0.5 % as a grain refiner, on the properties of nickel-containing aluminum bronze (CuAl10Ni5Fe4 alloy) was investigated in cast and forged conditions. The alloys were produced by melting scrap in a metal induction furnace, pouring molten metal into a mould made of steel and hot forging processes. In order to examine the effect of grain refiners on the phase structure of the alloys, microstructural examination was also conducted. Microhardness and mechanical properties were measured using the relevant test devices. Potentiodynamic corrosion tests were performed in a neutral NaCl solution to determine the corrosion rates of the forged alloys. Furthermore, wear behaviour of alloys under a 40 N load was investigated. It has emerged from the general results that cobalt and titanium elements are highly effective in grain size reduction, leading to an improvement in the mechanical properties, corrosion and wear resistance of the CuAl10Ni5Fe4 alloy.


In this article the question of the direction of use of jig-time and navigation providing the motor transport in the field of steering of transportation process is considered. The solution of transport tasks demand existence of jig-time and navigation providing (JTNP) based on use of the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), geographical information systems (GIS), means and technologies of telematics.


The Russian language is one of the richest languages of our time. Currently, more than 200 million people speak Russian. It is also one of the ten working languages of the United Nations. The Russian language is one of the most difficult for foreign students to learn, which necessitates a better approach to the educational process. The article examines the study of the problem of increasing the effectiveness of teaching Chinese students Russian as a foreign language. A solution to the problem in the auxiliary application of video tutorials is proposed. An analysis of several existing video tutorials available online is being carried out. The article deals with the comparative method of difficult moments that may arise for Chinese students studying Russian. It is confirmed that the creation of a new video lesson and the linguo-methodological foundations of its implementation in the educational process are new and relevant.


Grand View Garden is an important prop of A Dream of Red Mansions. It emerged with the mothering of Jia Yuanchun,and in practice,it has been the main stage for characters' activities. Hence,it is endowed with multiple sociological meaning. On the one hand,this structure with the harmony of man with nature has become a paradise for boys and girls,a pure castle of their spiritual home; on the other hand,it is also the central origin of the new generation,similar to the modern public spaces. For deeper social significance,Grand View Garden can be seen as a mirror to observe the life of upper class and the medium to connect the upper with the lower.


The generation of network traffic,designs velocity control algorithm of the simulation of network traffic,implements velocity control of the simulation of network traffic,and generates network traffic provided with real network characteristic in outside insulated network is analysed.


1. A method for preparing a foamed or creamy instant drink, comprising the steps of: (A) injecting a certain amount of cold water, at least one capsule comprising a composition designed to provide pricing during injection of cold water, and! (B) issuing instant drink being the result of the interaction of cold water with the content of the capsule! wherein said interaction results both in dissolving under pressure the contents of the capsule in the cold water without mechanical stirring and in the formation of foam in a finished beverage! in which cold water is injected sequentially, at least two capsules in an extraction device for preparing an instant beverage based on milk,! wherein the first capsule into which water is injected comprises milk powder, creamer component and sugar, and wherein a second capsule to which the water injected comprises milk powder, a soluble main flavoring component, and sugar. ! 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the ratio of milk powder between the first and second capsules is from 1:10 to 1: 2. ! 3. The method of claim 1, wherein the ratio of milk powder in the creamer in the first capsule is from 1: 6 to 1: 3. ! 4. The method of claim 3, wherein the first capsule comprises: from 10 to 25% sugar! from 5 to 15% dry milk! between 10 and 60% creamer. ! 5. The method of claim 1, wherein the second capsule comprises: from 10 to 40% sugar! from 20 to 50% dry milk! from 5 to 20% main flavoring component. ! 6. The method of claim 1, wherein each capsule comprises a closed chamber containing said dry milk, and means secu


The development of modern technologies has led to the creation of a new way to conclude agreements through automated systems — smart contracts, the emergence of which was largely due to the development of distributed ledger technology (Blockchain). The advantage of the system of "smart contracts" is the ability to make transactions directly with counterparties, without resorting to the services of banks, payment system operators and other transaction operators, which, in turn, reduces costs. Smart contracts can also be used during remote electronic voting, allowing you to solve problems related to security, reliability of data and their protection. Many states have managed to assess the advantages of this technology, having decided to implement it in the digital economy. But before implementing the achievements of scientific and technological progress, it is necessary to understand their technical and legal nature in order to form proper legislation regulating their application. Within the framework of this work, the technical and legal features of smart contract technology are considered in comparison with the traditional form of concluding contracts, and it is also proposed to use it in economic turnover within a special platform.


Background  Probiotics, defined as live micro‐organisms with beneficial effects for the host, are widely applied in gastrointestinal and liver diseases.


We have cloned part of the genes encoding two antigens of 71 and 72 Kd froi P. falciparua (1,2). These polypeptides differ in their cellular location, expression during the parasite's erythrocytic cycle , isoeletric point in bi-dimensiona 1 gel electrophoresis and reaction with rabbit immune sera (1-3). The sequence of the 72 Kd gene identified it as a member of the P. falciparua heat-shock family (4-6, D. Mattel, unpublished data). Interestingly, the deduced anino acid sequence of the clone encoding the 71 kd antigen also shows 55% of horaology with that of a heat shock protein (Hsp70) of P. falciparua (6) and an even higher honology (72S) with the rat 78 kd glucose-regulated proteinGRP78 (Fig. 1) (7). The GRP78 (a Hsp70-like protein) has been shown to be identical to the immunog1obu1 in heavy chain binding protein (BiP) found in antibody secreting cells (8). The 71 kd antigen thus represents a second P. falciparua Hsp70-like protein.


e12044 Background: The 2015 colorectal cancer control goals are to reduce age-adjusted incidence to 34.8/100,000 and mortality to 12.0/100,000 and to increase the number of 50 year and older undergoing screening per national guidelines up to 75%. Methods: In order to determine progress and trends toward meeting the 2015 objectives we have reviewed Texas Cancer Registry 2000 – 2009 data for incidence, 1999 – 2008 data for mortality, and BRFSS 2002 0 2010 data for screening rates. Results: 91,260 Texans were diagnosed with CRC and 32,840 died from it. Non-Hispanics represent 50.1% of population they account for 66.4% of cases diagnosed with it. Hispanics account for 34.7% of population and contribute to 18.7% of diagnoses. Blacks, 12.1% of population contribute 12.6% of cases. Male and female contribution to diagnosed CRC was 53.5 % and 46.% of cases. Black male incidence rates were highest 74.7 and Hispanic females lowest 32.7/100,000. While NH White and Blacks reduced incidence rates by about 1% per year,...


As an excellent insulating medium, Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) has been widely used in gas-insulated equipment. With the increase of SF6-insulated equipment applying in ultra-high voltage or extra-high voltage power grids, the tools that can efficiently diagnosis electrical insulation faults are explored. Previous researches and actual operation experiences have shown that SF6 gaseous decomposition byproducts are directly related to the insulation faults. Therefore, nowadays the analysis on gaseous decomposition by-products has been regarded as a powerful tool in diagnosing the internal condition of SF6-insulated equipment. In this paper, the experiments regarding to two different types of insulation faults are carried out, including corona discharge and flashover. In the experiments, the electrode was set to point-plane electrode, and the total gas pressure was set to 200kPa. In addition, eight gaseous decomposition by-products are taken into account, that is, SOF2, SO2F2, SO2, H2S, COS, CS2, CF4 and CO2. As a source of information on identification of discharges, the contents of the gaseous decomposition by-products were measured by gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer system (GCMS). The results of the experiments show that the contents are apparently different, though the gaseous decomposition by-products under the two discharge types are similar. Based on the results of phenomenological observations, the decomposition mechanisms leading to the formation of decomposition by-products in various modes of electrical discharges are analyzed. In particular, applied voltage and corona inception voltage are proposed to assess electrical field intensity in the glow region of corona discharge. Finally, the identification criteria under two discharge types are introduced, which can effectively distinguish the two discharge types.


Following the 2 years of COVID-19 pandemic, Project Edubot had to face the challenge to remodel classroom methodologies for post pandemic conditions. To assess the effectiveness of this adaptation a survey was developed in which new students, who had never studied with Edubot before, could give their opinion on affinity and quality regarding the new classes. The answers indicate that although difficulties were found in the re-adaptation phase of in-person lessons, all of the students interviewed had a preference for this approach of teaching.


We report for several solar energetic particle events intensity and anisotropy measurements of energetic electrons in the energy range ~ 27 to ~ 500 keV as observed with the Wind and ACE spacecraft in June 2000. The observations onboard Wind show bimodal pitch angle distributions (PAD), whereas ACE shows PADs with one peak, as usually observed for impulsive injection of electrons at the Sun. During the time of observation Wind was located upstream of the Earth's bow shock, in the dawn - noon sector, at distances of ~ 40 to ~ 70 Earth radii away from the Earth, and magnetically well connected to the quasi-parallel bow shock, whereas ACE, located at the libration point L1, was not connected to the bow shock. The electron intensity-time profiles and energy spectra show that the backstreaming electrons observed at Wind are not of magnetospheric origin. The observations rather suggest that the bi-modal electron PADs are due to reflection or scattering at an obstacle located at a distance of less than ~ 150 Earth radii in the anti-sunward direction, compatible with the bow shock or magnetosheath of the magnetosphere of the Earth.


The great availability of measurement systems permits to acquire quite easily data related to structural oscillations in operational conditions. This occurrence may permit to enhance our capability to data-driven computing using directly experimental data and pertinent constraints and conservation laws, such as compatibility and equilibrium, surely certain. In the paper, a methodology will be presented to furnish an analytical mechanical model of a suspension bridge in which the main parameters can be derived from vibration measurements. In this respect, Polymax and Enhanced Frequency Domain Decomposition identification procedures are used to determine a complete modal model which is used to evaluate an error function. Optimization algorithms are used to evaluate the function minima in the fundamental parameter space. The procedure will be validated by results coming from a sophisticated finite element model for which geometric measurements are included through a 3D point cloud geometrical model and a consequent Building Information model (BIM) constructed with images acquired by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The case study of the pedestrian cable suspension Polvorines bridge (100 meters of span) is considered to demonstrate the procedure, due the test campaign conducted on March 2020.


Control system power consumption in user installations, formed by a computer that periodically records data related to power consumption of an installation and partial lines components thereof, comprising a microcontroller (1) which interacts with a module (3) of electrical measurements to take the control data, and a module (2) wireless communications, through which bidirectional communication is established with a remote computer that processes the data to make them available to user facility subject to control.


Semi-natural grasslands are threatened biotopes in the landscape and without conservation measures high values of nature will be lost. Meanwhile, the biological values associated with cultural valu ...


The violation of scaling in the function for fragmentation of the charmed c quark into the D meson in the reaction e/sup +/e/sup -/..-->..D*+X at (s)/sup 1/2/ = 29 GeV is calculated in the framework of the leading logarithmic approximation of QCD. Besides direct production of charm, consideration is given to production of ''beauty'' B mesons with subsequent decays into the D meson. It is shown that for z> or approx. =0.6 the variation of the c-quark fragmentation function is due mainly to the violation of scaling, but that for z< or approx. =0.6 the effect is ''shadowed'' by a substantial contribution from B-meson production.


In this paper the extraction method of essential oil from thyme with the distillation of the material mixed with water was studied.With the yield of essential oil as an indicator and the proportion of water to thyme,distilling time,soaking temperature,soaking time as affecting factor,the orthogonal experiment was conducted.The optimized extraction process was as follows: the proportion of water to thymes was 30∶1,distilling time was 2?h,soaking temperature was 30?℃ and soaking time was 2?h.


Equity and efficiency is a basic contradiction in human's life,with which domestic and foreign scholars had a lot of different expositions.Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China points out:"A proper balance will be struck between efficiency and equity in both primary distribution and redistribution,with particular emphasis on equity in redistribution." According to reform and different stages of economic life development,Central Party Committee has changed the reference many times.This interpretation is the new summary of current income distribution theory and new development of the Marxism's principle that production relations decide distribution relations.It is also conductive to thoroughly apply the Scientific Outlook on Development which putting people first as its core and promote China's economic and social development.


FIELD: food industry. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to a beverage dispensing machine such as a coffee machine equipped with a cooking valve chamber for complete and/or partial locking of beverage leaking from the chamber. The valve represents a solenoid-operated valve, in particular - a piezoelectric valve that is continuously controllable to regulate the rate of beverage flow from the chamber. EFFECT: with the help of the said chamber one implements the possibility of regulation to the required back pressure degree to compensate for other operational parameters of the machine. 10 cl, 7 dwg


Abstract : Monte Carlo calculations were run to determine the effect of multiple scattering in the atmosphere on the return signal measured by a Mark VIII ruby lidar system for fogs with meteorological ranges of 80, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 2100 meters. The multiple scattering calculations were made using the TPART-3 Monte Carlo procedure which treats time-dependent light scattering in the atmosphere for collimated sources and receivers. The TPART-3 procedure is described and the results of calculations run to determine time-dependent single and multiple scattered fluxes at the receiver for a ruby lidar are presented for fogs with meteorological ranges between 80 and 2100 meters. (Modified author abstract)


Objective: Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery has been shown to be transferable through proctoring and careful analysis of surgeons' performance. Totally endoscopic mitral valve surgery without rib spreading represents an advancement in the mitral surgery field. As invasiveness decreases, technical demand increases and careful proctoring and monitoring is required. We use the CUSUM analysis to elucidate the performance and the learning curve of our group switching from standard minimally invasive mitral valve surgery to totally endoscopic approach.


We study a differential game of many pursuers and single evader in nonempty closed bounded convex subset of ℝn. In this game, all players cannot leave the given set. Control parameters of all players are subjected to geometric constraints. Maximum speeds of all players are equal to 1. Pursuit is said to be completed if geometric position of at least one pursuer coincides with that of the evader. Pursuers try to complete the pursuit. Problem is to find estimate for guaranteed pursuit time. To solve the problem, first, we study the same problem in an n-dimensional cube. Then, we reduce the main problem to the game in the cube. To this end, we use method of fictitious pursuers. In this paper, we improve the estimate for guaranteed pursuit time from O(n3) to O(n2).


The article reflects important issues of the improvement of business valuation of management financial company with the functions of general investor developer. It is important for management decision-making in case of credit security by promissory note and pledge, for issuing of housing certificates, securities etc. It is also important for the clients (contributors) and commercial banks while giving credit etc. to know the state of investor developer business. Methodic peculiarities are demonstrated with the concrete example and calculations of market value of investor developer business are performed.


It is difficult to distinguish schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder with psychosis (BPP) due to their overlapping symptoms. Indeed, there has been evidence supporting different subtypes within them. Data-driven clustering approaches are commonly used to explore biologically meaningful biotypes using neuroimaging features. However, previous studies typically consider pair-wise subject relationships. Here, we propose a hypergraph clustering method to explore biotypes. Our method extracts high-order features via hyperedges sampling, measures similarity and then regroups subjects using community detection. We applied it to identify biotypes of 100 BPP and 100 SZ patients using brain functional connectivity estimated from resting-state fMRI data, and compared with solutions from K-means and normalized cut (Ncut). Two reliable biotypes were identified and had greater differences in functional connectivity than groups determined by clinical diagnosis. Our method also outperformed K-means and Ncut for the clustering ability and computation efficiency. In summary, the proposed method is promising for developing biotypes, targeting accurate clinical diagnosis for psychosis.


Background: The purpose of the present study was to investigate correlative and predictive relationship of lower extremity anatomical alignment, isometric hip abduction and external rotation strength with jump-landing biomechanics using Landing Error Scoring System (LESS).
Methods: Anatomical alignment and isometric lower extremity muscle strength of 30 active men (mean age of 21.27±2.12 years) have been assessed through goniometry and dynamometry tests, respectively. Then, subjects have performed LESS test for the analysis of their jump-landing biomechanics.
Results: There was no significant correlative or predictive relationship between overall LESS score and femoral anteversion angle, tibiofemoral angle, Q angle, navicular drop, tibial torsion, abduction and external rotation isometric strength (P>.05). However, statistically significant negative correlation has been found between knee hyperextension angle and LESS score (P= .01, r= -.4).
Conclusion: The findings of the present study showed that lower extremity anatomical alignment and isometric strength measurements has no significant relationship with dynamic biomechanics of jump-landing. This is probably due to the difference in nature of static and isometric measurements and dynamic functional movements.


from its introductory beginning and across its 446 pages, centered around the notion that computer simulations and games are not at all disparate but very much aligning concepts. This not only makes for an interesting premise but also an engaging book overall which offers a resource into an educational subject (for it is educational simulations that the authors predominantly address) which is not overly saturated. The aim of the book as a result of this decision, which is explained early on, but also because of its subsequent structure, is to enlighten its intended audience in the way that effective and successful simulations/games operate (on a theoretical/conceptual and technical level, although in the case of the latter the book intentionally never delves into the realms of software programming specifics per se), can be designed, built and, finally, evaluated. The book is structured in three different and distinct parts, with four chapters in the first, six chapters in the second and six chapters in the third and final one. The first chapter is essentially a " teaser " , according to the authors. There are a couple of more traditional simulations described, a couple of well-known mainstream games (Mario Kart and Portal 2, interesting choices, especially the first one) and then the authors proceed to present applications which show the simulation and game convergence. These applications have a strong educational outlook (covering on this occasion very diverse topics, from flood prevention to drink driving awareness, amongst others). This chapter works very well in initiating the audience in the subject matter and drawing the necessary parallels. With all of the simula-tions/games/educational applications included BOOK REVIEW


Maruti Suzuki India Limited or simply Maruti Suzuki was formerly known as Maruti Udyog Limited. It is an automotive industry that was established in 1983 in Gurgaon (Udyog Vihar) of Haryana state. It has the distinction of India's largest carmaker. It is a subsidiary of Japanese automobile and motorcycle manufacturer Suzuki Motor Corporation. Its headquarter is located at New Delhi and is looked after by Mr. R.C Bhargava as its chairman. Its estimated revenue is about US $ 6.4 billion (about Rs. 43272 crore), and it employs over 12, 900 employees. It started with its most widely acclaimed branded car Maruti 800. Presently it is producing a variety of cars both in hatchback and sedan category. In February 2012, the company obtained the distinction of selling its ten millionth vehicles in India.


Today's hypercompetitive worldwide market, demanding customers, and technological advances force corporations who develop new products to look into all the possible areas of improvement throughout the entire product life cycle management process. One of the research areas that have been overlooked in the past is engineering change management (ECM). This paper presents a simulation model for investigating the mutual impacts of ECM process and new product development (NPD) process on each other. The discrete event simulation model investigates how different NPD and ECM process characteristics are interrelated, and how these interactions eventually affect the lead time, cost, and quality of an NPD project. This model has the capacity to account for three different levels of uncertainties, namely activity uncertainty, design solution uncertainty, and environment uncertainty, and their effects on the probabilities of NPD rework. Decisions to be made by considering EC impacts are drawn from an enterprise level system perspective.


Harmonics generated by nonlinear critical loads are major anxiety for the industries. A control technique for dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) is described to limit voltage harmonics introduced by adjustable speed drive (ASD) in the utility. Moreover, this control technique maintains constant dc-link voltage of ASD during any disturbances occurring at point of common coupling. Mathematical description to limit ASD voltage harmonics and to generate reference dc-link voltage of ASD is illustrated in the dq0 frame. Transistor clamped H-bridge (TCHB) multilevel inverter (MLI) is used as a voltage source inverter of DVR. An enhanced capacitor voltage balancing (ECVB) method for TCHB MLI for the fast dynamic performance of DVR is also discussed. The proposed control technique of DVR to limit ASD voltage harmonics is simulated using MATLAB software. Furthermore, a simulation for DVR protecting ASD during source harmonics, unbalance, sag, and swell is carried out and results of ASD performances are demonstrated. The working of the proposed controller of DVR with ECVB strategy based TCHB is reverified using experimental results. ASD voltage harmonics mitigation and fast dynamic response of ECVB based TCHB are the highlights of this article. The performance of the proposed strategy shows satisfactory results with a less complex control system.


It is explicitly shown in quantum gravity that given a Lagrangian density apart from a total diver gence, the equal-time commutators between field operators can depend on the choice of canonical variables. It isshown, however, that canonical quantizations which do not reproduce the equal·time commutators of the manifestly covariant canonical formalism of quantum gravity are not physically acceptable.


The heterocyclic compounds have a great significance in medicinal chemistry because
they have extensive biological activities. Cancer is globally the leading cause of death
and it is a challenge to develop appropriate treatment for the management of cancer. Continuous
efforts are being made to find a suitable medicinal agent for cancer therapy. Nitrogencontaining
heterocycles have received noteworthy attention due to their wide and distinctive
pharmacological activities. One of the most important nitrogen-containing heterocycles in
medicinal chemistry is 'quinazoline' that possesses a wide spectrum of biological properties.
This scaffold is an important pharmacophore and is considered a privileged structure. Various
substituted quinazolines displayed anticancer activity against different types of cancer. This
review highlights the recent advances in quinazoline based molecules as anticancer agents.
Several in-vitro and in-vivo models used along with the results are also included. A subpart briefing natural quinazoline
containing anticancer compounds is also incorporated in the review.


This paper describes the major issues in the clearing of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives and the current regulative initiatives aimed at removing the market opaqueness. The core of the paper is the comparison of the US Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). The similarities and the major differences of these two regulative approaches are emphasized. The major similarities between EMIR and the Dodd-Frank Act relate to the mandatory clearing for standardized contracts, the scope of the derivatives covered, the exemptions from clearing for end-users and the reporting of cleared and uncleared derivative transactions by nearly all financial counterparties. The major differences arise with the restrictions on bank proprietary trading, with separation of derivative trading activities from commercial banking activities, with central counterparties (CCP) ownership rules and with the establishment of mandatory exchange trading requirement.


Purpose Antimalarial drug resistance is one of the major challenges in global efforts to control and eliminate malaria. In 2006, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) replaced with artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, in response to increasing SP resistance, which is associated with mutations in the dihydrofolate reductase (Pfdhfr) and dihydropteroate synthase (Pfdhps) genes. Patients and Methods To evaluate the trend of molecular markers associated with SP resistance on Bioko Island from 2011 to 2017, 179 samples collected during active case detection were analysed by PCR and DNA sequencing. Results Pfdhfr and Pfdhps gene sequences were obtained for 90.5% (162/179) and 77.1% (138/179) of the samples, respectively. For Pfdhfr, 97.5% (158/162), 95.7% (155/162) and 98.1% (159/162) of the samples contained N51I, C59R and S108N mutant alleles, respectively. And Pfdhps S436A, A437G, K540E, A581G, and A613S mutations were observed in 25.4% (35/138), 88.4% (122/138), 5.1% (7/138), 1.4% (2/138), and 7.2% (10/138) of the samples, respectively. Two classes of previously described Pfdhfr-Pfdhps haplotypes associated with SP resistance and their frequencies were identified: partial (IRNI-SGKAA, 59.4%) and full (IRNI-SGEAA, 5.5%) resistance. Although no significant difference was observed in different time periods (p>0.05), our study confirmed a slowly increasing trend of the frequencies of these SP-resistance markers in Bioko parasites over the 7 years investigated. Conclusion The findings reveal the general existence of SP-resistance markers on Bioko Island even after the replacement of SP as a first-line treatment for uncomplicated malaria. Continuous molecular monitoring and additional control efforts in the region are urgently needed.


Letter from Ben Ledbetter to Linnet Moore in which he congratulates her on her choice for a husband. He asks her to return the ring that he gave her. He has promised to marry a girl in Van Alstyn.


withauthentic cyclic CMP ont.l.c. and high-pressure liquid chromatography andwaspositive inacyclic CMP radioimmunoassay. Theu.v., i.r. andp.m.r. spectra wereeachessentially identical with those ofauthentic cyclic CMP.Fast-atom bombardment ofauthentic cyclic CMP yielded amassspectrum containing amolecular protonated ion:mass-ion-kineticenergy scanning ofthis ionproduced aspectrum unique to3',5'-cyclic CMP.The extracted nucleotide produced anidentical mass-ion-kinetic-energy spectrum.


Functionalization of gold cysteamine (AuCA) self-assembled monolayer with 4-formylphenylboronic acid (BA) via Schiff's base formation, through in situ method to fabricate Au-CA-BA electrode is presented and described. The fabricated electrode was used as a novel sensor for accumulation and determination of dopamine (DA). The accumulation of DA as a diol on the topside of Au-CA-BA as a Lewis acid, was performed via esterification (AuCABADA), and followed for determination of DA. Functionalization, characterization, and determination steps were probed by electrochemical methods like cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. The data will be presented and discussed from which a new sensor for DA is introduced.


Density value is one of the most important parameters characterizing the physical properties of PE (Polyethylene). This value is closely related to the type and consistency of branch. 13 C NMR is the most reliable method to observe PE branch. Presented in this paper is a quantitative measurement result of HDPE branch, which is relatively more precise compared with other methods. An equation between density and branch is established. Also the microstructural factor attecting the PE density and crystallinity is tentatively discussed.


Pro-environmental behavior is a variety of human actions that aim to minimize negative impacts on the environment. The religious tourism area of Sunan Muria is a place that is never empty of visitors every day. As a tourist area, pro-environmental behavior should be implemented by the community in order to maintain the surrounding environment and the comfort of visitors. This study aims to look at aspects of pro-environmental behavior in the religious tourism area of Sunan Muria. This study uses a qualitative method. Observation and interviews are techniques in data collection methods. While coding is a method of data analysis in this study. The results in this study are informants that awareness of pro-environmental behavior has actually been implemented by the Sunan Muria foundation such as saving electricity, mobility and transportation by making special regulations. But the community is still difficult to carry out, especially related to recycling and conservation in maintaining environmental preservation.